Annotation - Chapter 12, Page 100
From Riddley Walker Annotations
- (100:10) "they wer some kynd of iron dint rot it wer all shyning ... you cud see girt shyning weals"
It has been suggested that this is digging machinery left over from an old, unfinished Channel tunnel project. However, Hoban has denied having any particular structure in mind: "The broken shining machines at Fork Stoan don't come from anything I've seen. I imagined big flywheels that originally spun at high velocities. Maybe parts of turbines, but the ones in my mind are smooth. No edifice was the source for this." RH