It's not, though. The titular character originally referred to a cannon at the Siege of Colchester. The origin of Humpty being an egg came a couple centuries later, from an illustration in Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass.
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On a side note, I always wondered why it's specified that the kings horses couldn't put him back together. Seems like horses would have a hard time with such a thing.
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Rats! I much preferred my sudden thought that Humpty Dumpty was expressing a profound metaphysical truth. This cannon story just sounds so... literal.
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The illustrated adult version is slightly more grotesque...
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It's a canon. Seriously.
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It’s a riddle, I believe. The answer is highly subjective.
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