Special:Contributions/Eli Bishop
- 00:08, 29 July 2013 diff hist +242 N A 83 17 Created page with "* {{PP|83|17}} "they myndit me of gulls {{Ix|eyes}}. Eyes so fearce they cudnt even be sorry for the naminal they wer in" Pitiless seagull eyes also appear in {{Bibliocite|Tur..." current
- 00:07, 29 July 2013 diff hist +455 N A 82 9 Created page with "* {{PP|82|9}} "from Reakys Over down to Roaming Rune ... that wer the day the Ram be come a nylan" Technically, Ramsgate is already on an island, the Isle of Thane..." current
- 23:51, 28 July 2013 diff hist +291 N A 81 36 Created page with "* {{PP|81|36}} "they beat him to death with col {{Ix|iron}}" In European and British tradition, cold iron keeps away witches and fairies. See also Kipling's "Cold Iron": "As m..." current
- 23:50, 28 July 2013 diff hist +118 N A 81 21 Created page with "* {{PP|81|21}} "Eusa stood at the gate" The Ram was originally Ramsgate (and nearby Margate). Category:Chapter 11" current
- 23:50, 28 July 2013 diff hist +1,779 N A 80 26 Created page with "* {{PP|80|26}} "Who run the Power Ring who ben too close to Power who gone Badstock crookit and seed of the crookit? Us the same the Eusa folk." This is one of the points wher..."
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- 23:48, 28 July 2013 diff hist +121 N A 79 27 Created page with "* {{PP|79|27}} "{{Ix|chopping|Chops}} your {{Ix|Aunty}}" A pun on "Blobs yer nunkel". Category:Chapter 11" current
- 23:47, 28 July 2013 diff hist +366 N A 79 26 Created page with "* {{PP|79|26}} "1st the easy askings then its {{Ix|helping the qwirys}}" I.e., torture. In the UK, "helping the police with their inquiries" is the standard euphemism for desc..."
- 23:34, 28 July 2013 diff hist +90 N A 78 25 Created page with "* {{PP|78|25}} "plot the parbeltys of it" Plot the probabilities. Category:Chapter 11" current
- 23:33, 28 July 2013 diff hist +139 N A 78 10 Created page with "* {{PP|78|10}} "Pontsery is what he come out of" ''Ponce'' is British for homosexual or sissy, or sometimes pimp. Category:Chapter 11" current
- 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 ..." current
- 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
