Special:Contributions/Eli Bishop
- 23:33, 28 July 2013 diff hist +126 N A 78 9 Created page with "* {{PP|78|9}} "He never ben the Puter Leat he never been the Power Leat" Computer elite, power elite. Category:Chapter 11" current
- 23:33, 28 July 2013 diff hist +403 N A 76 10 Created page with "* {{PP|76|10}} "a wite {{Ix|shadder}} on that old conkreat wall" White shadows or "Hiroshima shadows" are produced when a surface is darkened by the heat flash of a nuclear ex..." current
- 23:32, 28 July 2013 diff hist +506 N A 75 32 Created page with "* {{PP|75|32}} "a woodin trap doar I liffit up and gone down some conkreat steps. Come to a nother doar then with 2 bars" {{By|BJB}} proposes that Lissener's chamber may be pa..." current
- 23:31, 28 July 2013 diff hist +657 N A 75 6 Created page with "* {{PP|75|6}} "Grean rot and number creaper on the stumps and stannings" There seems to be no vine or moss whose name sounds like "number." What kind of creeper is it? {{By|EB..."
- 23:30, 28 July 2013 diff hist +133 N A 75 2 Created page with "* {{PP|75|2}} "them dogs {{Ix|pong}} hevvy even when theyre dry" ''Pong'' is a Britishism for a nasty smell. Category:Chapter 11" current
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- 23:29, 28 July 2013 diff hist +378 N A 72 31 Created page with "(72:31) "it wernt like no other figger I ever seen. It were {{Ix|crooked|crookit}} .... I cudnt hardly beleave it .... It wer a hump and it wer meant to be a hump" As we see [..."
- 23:29, 28 July 2013 diff hist +392 N A 72 17 Created page with "* {{PP|72|17}} "some times in that kynd of muck in stead of rotting a way they got like old dark levver" Acidic peat bogs can in fact preserve corpses for thousands of years. ..." current
- 23:28, 28 July 2013 diff hist +123 N A 69 4 Created page with "* {{PP|69|4}} "keap it in memberment" I.e., remember it, after Durster has just been dismembered. Category:Chapter 10" current
- 23:27, 28 July 2013 diff hist +340 N A 68 34 Created page with "{{PP|68|34}} "made the Bad {{Ix|Luck}} go a way {{Ix|syn}}" Riddley never explains what the "bad-luck-go-away sign" looks like, but it might be the traditional European gestur..."
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- 23:25, 28 July 2013 diff hist +651 N A 67 31 Created page with "* {{PP|67|31}} "I bes put the red cord strait" Put the record straight. This is a particularly good example of Hoban's deftness at puns that accurately reflect how idioms real..."
- 23:24, 28 July 2013 diff hist +401 N A 66 29 Created page with "* {{PP|66|29}} "3 black dogs and 1 says, 'The Pry Mincers dead'..." This is an inverted version of an English folk tale, "The King of the Cats," in which a bemused wanderer st..." current
- 23:24, 28 July 2013 diff hist +294 N A 64 27 Created page with "* {{PP|64|27}} "it ben a diffrent time ... this ben stil a moving crowd back then" We have already heard that Riddley's settlement lived at Crippel the Farn before it came..." current
- 23:23, 28 July 2013 diff hist +168 N A 64 3 Created page with "* {{PP|64|3}} "sqwinting at me with his littl sharp blue eyes" The only other character described as having "little {{Ix|eyes}}" is Goodparley. Category:Chapter 10" current
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- 23:22, 28 July 2013 diff hist +504 N A 60 6 Created page with "* {{PP|60|6}} "A littl salting and no saver" "Can that which is unsavory be eaten without salt? or is there [any] taste in the white of an egg?" (Job 6:6)<br> "Ye are the ..."
- 23:21, 28 July 2013 diff hist +396 N A 56 33 Created page with "* {{PP|56|33}} "the {{Ix|Pry Mincer}} and the {{Ix|Wes Mincer}} done 1 of ther specials" Here we see a much clumsier Eusa show, which has almost nothing in common with the pre..." current
- 23:21, 28 July 2013 diff hist +124 N A 56 26 Created page with "* {{PP|56|26}} "a Outland raid from over water" ''Outland'' is everything outside of Inland. Category:Chapter 9"
- 23:21, 28 July 2013 diff hist +122 N A 56 24 Created page with "* {{PP|56|24}} "we ben down by Fork Stoan then in Crippel the Farn Fents" See Places. Category:Chapter 9" current
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- 23:19, 28 July 2013 diff hist +1,024 N A 56 22 Created page with "* {{PP|56|22}} "when Littl Salting {{Ix|Fents}} got largent in by Dog Et {{Ix|Form}}" [[File:mapdetail2.jpg|frame|right|link=Map of Inland|map detail: Littl Salting, ..."
- 23:17, 28 July 2013 diff hist +116 N A 55 26 Created page with "* {{PP|55|26}} "How is it with you? On or off?" Binary again—see Chapter 6. Category:Chapter 9" current
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- 23:16, 28 July 2013 diff hist +359 N A 51 16 Created page with "* {{PP|51|16}} "Eusa you know what the Eusa Story says. Every body knows it even them as cant read" Again, although Orfing is arguing against Goodparley's reinterpretation of ..." current
- 23:15, 28 July 2013 diff hist +481 N A 50 36 Created page with "* {{PP|50|36}} "Eusas face cant change its all ways the same but when youre watching him move a roun ... the torch fires shimmying and all hewl look pernear any way hes talkin..." current
- 23:15, 28 July 2013 diff hist +256 N A 48 20 Created page with "* {{PP|48|20}} "the E qwations and the low cations weve got to comb the nations of it" Equations, locations, combinations; ''cations'' is also a word for positively charged pa..." current
- 23:14, 28 July 2013 diff hist +1,422 N A 48 3 Created page with "* {{PP|48|3}} "the Nos. of the rain bow and the fire qwanter" ''Qwanter'' = quanta. Quantum physics gets its name from the notion that particles and waves change from one ener..."
- 23:13, 28 July 2013 diff hist +471 N A 47 13 Created page with "* {{PP|47|13}} "hes got like a iron hat on his head" Primitive science fiction: Eusa's knowledge is sucked out of his head into a computer. Riddley's people don't seem to have..."
- 23:12, 28 July 2013 diff hist +392 N A 46 19 Created page with "* {{PP|46|19}} "Trufax is it. This heres going to be the parper stablisht men story is it" Orfing may be expressing skepticism about the "establishment story" (and ''trufax'' ..." current
- 23:12, 28 July 2013 diff hist +282 N A 45 19 Created page with "* {{PP|45|19}} "its the same with all us bloaks we all do our bes work with that same part dont we .... [Dont] be talking so stupid. Its my head I'm talking about thats my mai..." current
- 23:10, 28 July 2013 diff hist +206 N A 43 3 Created page with "* {{PP|43|3}} "3 stroaks for Eusa" One of many significant appearances of the number {{Ix|No.|three}}. As shown in Chapter 16, adding one stroke changes the E ..."
- 23:09, 28 July 2013 diff hist +352 N A 41 6 Created page with "* {{PP|41|6}} "Now weare coming to the curse {{Ix|road|roads}} of it Erny now weare getting down to terpitation" In a typical example of puns serving to convey the story under..." current
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- 23:08, 28 July 2013 diff hist +479 N A 39 1 Created page with "* {{PP|39|1}} "the time for moving crowds is past .... You just cant have all of {{Inland}} for your {{Ix|foraging|forage}} groun no mor" The conflict between hunter-gatherer ..."
- 23:07, 28 July 2013 diff hist +242 N A 38 32 Created page with "* {{PP|38|32}} "looking a head" Another pun due to Riddley's habit of splitting up words into smaller words: the connexion man looks ahead to the future, and one way to divine..." current
- 23:07, 28 July 2013 diff hist +531 N A 38 14 Created page with "* {{PP|38|14}} "2 cuts hash and 50 rizlas each" The other common currency besides {{Ix|iron}}: cannabis and cigarette papers (Rizla is the most popular British brand of rollin..." current
- 23:06, 28 July 2013 diff hist +165 N A 37 27 Created page with "* {{PP|37|27}} "wotcher" A British greeting, from "what cheer" (i.e., "how's it going?"). In this case it's a more formal welcoming ceremony. Category:Chapter 7" current
- 23:05, 28 July 2013 diff hist +315 N A 37 21 Created page with "* {{PP|37|21}} "No rumpa no dum / No zantigen Eusa cum" One of the more indecipherable pieces of ritual language in the book; derived from (in an earlier draft of the novel) "..." current
- 23:05, 28 July 2013 diff hist +118 N A 37 6 Created page with "* {{PP|37|6}} "the divvy roof" Apparently a designated area for dividing up the day's hunting. Category:Chapter 7" current
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- 22:05, 28 July 2013 diff hist +969 N A20 Created page with "({{Ixp|94|8}}) The A20 connects Folkestone and Ashford. The "A" roads are national routes or what would be called state roads in the U.S., thoug..."
- 22:04, 28 July 2013 diff hist +7 Map of Inland
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- 22:03, 28 July 2013 diff hist +315 N Map of Inland Created page with "The map from the beginning of the book (illustration by Russell Hoban, used by permission) superimposed on the outlines of present-day southeast England. The area is about for..."
