Cora Diamond : Riddles and Anselm's Riddle
notes, p.273
On riddle phrases
1. Riddle phrase: a linguistic expression put together by continuing familiar patterns, so the question or request looks like those we know how to use;
2. to solve it, though, what we need is not somethingof which we have been given a description, but something which it willstrike us as right to call by the phrase.
3. And it is the familiarity of the pattern which makes it possible for us not to see the kind of quest we are engaged in.
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