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- 22:34, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (0) . . N File:Mapdetail5.jpg (current)
- 22:33, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+3) . . A 176 2 (current)
- 22:33, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+187) . . N A 195 7 (Created page with "* {{PP|195|7}} "What can I do then aswl be my oan doing?" Riddley returns to the theme of fate and the "other thing whats looking out thru your eye hoals" (6:11). [[Category:...") (current)
- 22:32, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+248) . . N A 193 28 (Created page with "* {{PP|193|28}} "I aint saying them words wylst youre lissening thems the fissional seakerts of the act" A pun between nuclear fission and the Official Secrets Act, the Britis...") (current)
- 22:32, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+431) . . N A 189 17 (Created page with "* {{PP|189|17}} "The {{Ix|numbers|3}} of the 1 Littl 1 is yellerboy stoan and Saul & Peter and chard coal" Besides the family trios already mentioned (Eusa and his sons, P...") (current)
- 22:32, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+1,078) . . N A 187 21 (Created page with "* {{PP|187|21}} "Mort your clof with Saul & Peter (Dy it red)" A ''mordant'' is a substance used by dyers to fix a color in a fiber. The word comes from the French word ''...") (current)
- 22:31, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+311) . . N A 177 3 (Created page with "* {{PP|177|3}} "In my head I wer singing .... hard as I cud hoaping he wunt lissen nothing only that" Catchy songs as a defense against mind-reading are a staple of science fi...") (current)
- 22:31, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+1,274) . . N A 176 2 (Created page with "* {{PP|176|2}} "the arper sitting in the Mincery ... it ben past down 1 shadder mincer to the nex" ''Arper sitting'': Opposition. ''Shadder mincer'': Shadow minister. A ...")
- 22:30, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+366) . . N A 175 34 (Created page with "* {{PP|175|34}} "theres hoap of a {{Ix|tree}} if its cut down yet itwl sprout agen ... Tho the root of it works old in the earf and the stick of it dead on the groun yet even ...") (current)
- 22:30, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (-2) . . A 175 30 (current)
- 22:29, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+878) . . N A 175 30 (Created page with "* {{PP|175|30}} "the Ardships no {{Ix|eyes}} face staring like a blyn {{Ix|owl}}" Hoban's interest in Middle Eastern mysticism -- and the many mentions of {{Ix|shadder|shadows...")
- 22:26, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+341) . . N A 168 16 (Created page with "* {{PP|168|16}} "Becaws a woman is a wooman aint she. Shes the 1 with the woom" Another use of deliberately false etymology. ''Woman'' really comes from the Old English ''wi...") (current)
- 22:26, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+288) . . N A 167 36 (Created page with "* {{PP|167|36}} "It were Greanvine. Carvit out of wood ... The back of it flat and the front of it ful roundit" Green Man designs are often found ornamenting the ends of wood...") (current)
- 22:26, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+532) . . N A 165 18 (Created page with "* {{PP|165|18}} "that face with the vines and leaves growing out of the mouf" thumb|140x137px|frame|left A Green Man, and although Riddley doesn't...")
- 22:25, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (0) . . N File:Cryptvines.jpg (current)
- 22:25, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (0) . . File:Cryptcolumn.jpg (uploaded a new version of "File:Cryptcolumn.jpg") (current)
- 22:23, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+213) . . N A 164 29 (Created page with "* {{PP|164|29}} "Its jus only stoan men walking unner the groun like that. Women have some thing else" Another instance of Riddley referring to women's secrets with no appare...") (current)
- 22:23, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+188) . . N A 164 12 (Created page with "* {{PP|164|12}} "theres a stoan self of your self in the groun and walking foot to foot with you" The same image occurs in Hoban's earlier novel ''Kleinzeit''. [[Category...")
- 22:22, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (-12) . . A 163 11
- 22:22, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+1,141) . . N A 163 11 (Created page with "* {{PP|163|11}} "Stoan" This is the last story with a title in the book. Riddley started the book by repeating shared myths about humanity; this is something very different. ...")
- 22:21, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+296) . . N A 162 26 (Created page with "* {{PP|162|26}} "Fealing the carving unner my hans it wer like shaller runnels cut in the stoan" thumb|70x161px|frame|left This drawing from the cryp...")
- 22:20, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (0) . . N File:Cryptcolumn.jpg
- 22:20, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+483) . . N A 161 15 (Created page with "* {{PP|161|15}} "it wer stoan trees growing unner the groun .... Roun trunks of stoan and each 1 had 4 stoan branches curving up and over" [[File:Canterburycrypt.jpg|thumb|15...")
- 22:19, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (0) . . N File:Canterburycrypt.jpg (current)
- 22:18, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+403) . . N A 160 12 (Created page with "* {{PP|160|12}} "its a littl to the Wes of that which its unner neath the groun" This is the cathedral's western crypt. It was built by the Normans in the 12th century, and l...") (current)
- 22:18, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+530) . . N A 160 3 (Created page with "* {{PP|160|3}} "Shes what she is ..." This paragraph is a quote from Lorna's "Why the Dog Wont Show Its Eyes". frame|left [[File:Cryptshape.jpg|frame|...")
- 22:17, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (0) . . N File:Cryptshape.jpg (current)
- 22:16, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (0) . . N File:Dolly.jpg (current)
- 22:15, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+465) . . N A 159 28 (Created page with "* {{PP|159|28}} "the woman dollys they hang over where a womans bearthing. Which them dollys theyre the same shape as the woman cakes they bake" This is one of the few refere...") (current)
- 22:14, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+286) . . A 158 33 (current)
- 22:13, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+571) . . N A 159 6 (Created page with "* {{PP|159|6}} "I knowit Cambry Senter ben flattent the werst of all the dead town senters it ben Zero Groun it ben where the wite shadderd stood up over every thing" Given th...") (current)
- 22:13, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+571) . . N A 158 33 (Created page with "* {{PP|159|6}} "I knowit Cambry Senter ben flattent the werst of all the dead town senters it ben Zero Groun it ben where the wite shadderd stood up over every thing" Given th...")
- 22:12, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+471) . . N A 155 16 (Created page with "* {{PP|155|16}} "When we come to the Ring Ditch the stannings of the Power Ring stood up wite agenst the dark like broakin teef" Whatever made the {{Ix|Ring Ditch}} was presum...") (current)
- 22:12, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+125) . . N A 155 3 (Created page with "* {{PP|155|3}} "Wo Jooper! Go roun Klisto!" The oxen are named after Jupiter and its moon Callisto. Category:Chapter 15") (current)
- 22:12, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+163) . . A 154 30
- 22:11, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+237) . . N A 154 30 (Created page with "* {{PP|154|30}} "the way the lite come acrost the feal you cud see some kynd of old pattren unner neath of the new furrows. Strait lines and circles from time back way back." ...")
- 22:07, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (0) . . N File:Barrows.jpg (current)
- 22:06, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+77) . . N A 154 27 (Created page with "* {{PP|154|27}} "Pig Sweet Form" See Places. Category:Chapter 15") (current)
- 22:06, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+159) . . N A 153 27 (Created page with "* {{PP|153|27}} "Cheer up it may never happen" def: This is a traditional British way of telling someone to stop looking so depressed. Category:Chapter 15")
- 22:04, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+154) . . Chapter 14
- 22:03, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (0) . . N File:Mapdetail4.jpg (current)
- 22:03, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+380) . . N A 142 14 (Created page with "* {{PP|142|14}} "Iwd have to wait a nother year before I begun to man for my self becaws I ben boying on my 12th naming day" In context it seems that Abel and Riddley use the ...") (current)
- 22:02, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+76) . . N A 142 1 (Created page with "* {{PP|142|1}} "Bollock Stoans" See Places. Category:Chapter 14") (current)
- 22:02, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+78) . . N A 141 37 (Created page with "* {{PP|141|37}} "Good Mercy Form" See Places. Category:Chapter 14") (current)
- 22:02, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+157) . . N A 141 22 (Created page with "* {{PP|141|22}} "he done deacon terminations .... national healfing" Decontamination; National Health (the U.K. state medical plan). Category:Chapter 14") (current)
- 22:02, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+212) . . N A 138 35 (Created page with "* {{PP|138|35}} "Punch has done for Mr On The Levvil now every 1 can do as they like" "Now everyone can do as they like" is a traditional line for Mr. Punch after he has kille...") (current)
- 22:01, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+2) . . A 137 30 (current)
- 22:01, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+363) . . N A 137 30 (Created page with "* {{PP|137|30}} "Drop John the Foller Man which they call me Mr On The Levvil as wel" Hoban says Drop John was named after "Knock John," the location of a World War Two offsho...")
- 22:01, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+258) . . N A 136 30 (Created page with "* {{PP|136|30}} "Jack Ketch is who I am which Im the Loakel Tharty" Local authority. Jack Ketch was a real hangman in 17th-century Tyburn, subject of the ballad "Hanging John...") (current)
- 22:01, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+543) . . N A 134 25 (Created page with "* {{PP|134|25}} "Swossage!" Mr. Punch traditionally craves sausages (as do all of his rivals) and steals them whenever he gets a chance. The strange sausage or "banger" descr...")
- 22:00, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+370) . . N A 132 37 (Created page with "* {{PP|132|37}} "Now you ask Mr Punch if hes ready" This is a fairly traditional Punch and Judy introduction, and the show that follows sticks closely to the usual story (Punc...") (current)
- 22:00, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+509) . . N A 131 12 (Created page with "* {{PP|131|12}} "A border fents it were Bad Mercy {{Ix|Fents}} you wont fynd it now its long gone .... Weaping {{Ix|Form}} is what it is now" See Places....")
- 21:59, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+200) . . N A 131 3 (Created page with "* {{PP|131|3}} "Hes so old he cant dy is what Granser tol me" This is also what Hoban was told by a famous Punch showman, who one hopes did not otherwise resemble Granser....") (current)
- 21:59, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+1,578) . . N A 129 10 (Created page with "* {{PP|129|10}} "The wife is the sof and the sweet you see which is took off by the sharp and the salty" Goodparley is now talking alchemical allegory. Medieval European alch...")
- 21:57, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+730) . . N A 125 15 (Created page with "* {{PP|125|15}} "by the time they done 1997 years they had boats in the air and all them things and here we are weve done 2347 years and mor and stil slogging in the mud?" Of ...") (current)
- 21:57, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+496) . . N A 124 32 (Created page with "* {{PP|124|32}} "some kynd of paint callit fidelity" Goodparley's inability to understand the word ''fidelity'' is ironic: besides the altered sexual mores of the ...") (current)
- 21:57, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (-4) . . A 123 14 (current)
- 21:56, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+248) . . N A 123 14 (Created page with "* {{PP|123|14}} "The Legend of St Eustace" This text is taken verbatim from the handwritten commentary that is displayed next to E.W. Tristram's reconstruction of the pain...")
- 21:56, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+153) . . N A 122 5 (Created page with "* {{PP|122|5}} "the head wer swimming then agenst the tide" Eusa's oracular {{Ix|head}} here follows the same course as Orpheus. Category:Chapter 14") (current)
- 21:56, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+225) . . N A 121 33 (Created page with "* {{PP|121|33}} "the Ram which is the head of Inland" Apparently the government has indulged in some wishful reconstruction of history, believing that Ramsgate has always ...") (current)
- 21:55, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+108) . . N A 119 13 (Created page with "* {{PP|119|13}} "Spare the mending and tryl narrer" Experimenting, trial and error. Category:Chapter 14") (current)
- 21:55, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (-2) . . A 119 6
- 21:55, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+1,512) . . N A 119 6 (Created page with "* {{PP|119|6}} "the yellerboy stoan the Salt 4" This is of course sulfur, which is not found in England; the nearest source for it would be southern Europe. {{By|EB}} Sulfur ...")
- 21:52, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+322) . . N A 115 37 (Created page with "* {{PP|115|37}} "the terbel sharp {{Ix|pong}} from the dy working where they boyl up the {{Ix|pig shit}} earf" Composting manure is one way to get ammonia and nitrates such as...") (current)
- 21:51, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+355) . . N A 114 5 (Created page with "* {{PP|114|5}} "there ben the goast of a batcherd living there ... where he use to play with his cubs" Badgers are native to the area; also, Hoban's best-known work before ''R...") (current)
- 21:51, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+137) . . N A 113 35 (Created page with "* {{PP|113|35}} "its like a short valley its that place they call Mr Clevvers Roaling Place" See Places. Category:Chapter 13") (current)
- 21:50, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+311) . . N A 107 29 (Created page with "* {{PP|107|29}} "The strong and the weak inner acting" The strong and the weak interaction are two of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_force fundamental forces] i...") (current)
- 21:49, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+136) . . N A 107 18 (Created page with "* {{PP|107|18}} "We do some poasyum" Symposium. (This word is derived from the Greek for "drinking together.") Category:Chapter 13") (current)
- 21:48, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+5) . . Chapter 12
- 21:47, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+109) . . Chapter 12
- 21:47, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (0) . . N File:Mapdetail3.jpg (current)
- 21:45, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+342) . . N A 105 4 (Created page with "* {{PP|105|4}} "and the bow and {{Ix|arrows|arrers}} for Lissener" Why is it the blind Lissener who takes the bow and arrows? {{By|SW}} Riddley has reason to be confident in L...") (current)
- 21:44, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+433) . . N A 104 24 (Created page with "* {{PP|104|24}} "Hol it in your hans and you can feal it in them stoans and scrabbling to get out you can hear it hispering to its self and clacking like a skelter of crabs" {...") (current)
- 21:43, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+132) . . N A 103 19 (Created page with "* {{PP|103|19}} "His dad ben 1 Stoan Phist" "One stone" is the English translation of "Einstein." {{By|EE}} Category:Chapter 12") (current)
- 21:43, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+578) . . N A 100 10 (Created page with "* {{PP|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...")
- 21:42, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+577) . . N A 99 7 (Created page with "* {{PP|99|7}} "we come in unner some thing and out of the rain" The main railway line in Folkestone enters a tunnel near the section of cliff-bordered shoreline that Riddley c...")
- 21:42, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+556) . . N A 96 28 (Created page with "* {{PP|96|28}} "45 counting me. Which they axel rate it roun the circel you see .... They all ways breed us up to moren a nuff and then they kul us down to that" As the Eusa f...")
- 21:41, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (-13) . . A 96 4 (current)
- 21:41, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+109) . . N A 96 4 (Created page with "* {{PP|96||4}} "the place they callit Rose & Power" See Places. Category:Chapter 12")
- 21:33, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+95) . . N A 95 13 (Created page with "* {{PP|95|13}} "<font size="-1">MANY COOLS OF ADDOM</font>" Molecules. Category:Chapter 12") (current)
- 21:33, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+415) . . N A 94 34 (Created page with "* {{PP|94|34}} "its a fealing comes on you when youre falling a sleap. Youre jus going off easy when suddn its like a bersting in you like youre bersting in 1000 peaces then ...") (current)
- 21:32, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+86) . . N A 94 8 (Created page with "* {{PP|94|8}} "We come on to the A20" See Places. Category:Chapter 12") (current)
- 21:30, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+230) . . N A 90 7 (Created page with "* {{PP|90|7}} "keaping the circel which thatwl be axel rating the Inner G" Accelerating the energy. G is also the symbol for the force of gravity, or "{{Ix|hevvy|hevvyness}}"...") (current)
- 21:29, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+265) . . N A 89 14 (Created page with "* {{PP|89|14}} "a mynd flash of colourt lites with clicking and bleaping .... a line of grean lite sweaping roun that circel from the senter" One of the few cases where Riddle...") (current)
- 21:29, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+365) . . N A 89 4 (Created page with "* {{PP|89|4}} "Blobs your nunkel" From the British slang "Bob's your uncle," meaning "you've got it made" or "it's as simple as that." Hoban points out that "Blobs" is also s...") (current)
- 01:04, 29 July 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+1) . . Index (→A)
- 01:03, 29 July 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+2) . . Index (→A)
- 01:03, 29 July 2013 (diff | hist) . . (-2) . . Index (→A)
- 00:55, 29 July 2013 (diff | hist) . . (-2) . . A 5 2 b
- 00:54, 29 July 2013 (diff | hist) . . (-17) . . A 1 29 (current)
- 00:51, 29 July 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+19) . . Main Page
- 00:48, 29 July 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+4) . . Fathers Ham
- 00:46, 29 July 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+482) . . N Littl Salting (Created page with "'''Seasalter''' {{By|TH}}, a north Kent town which, as its name suggests, was a long-time center of salt harvesting: seawater was collected there in tidal troughs called salt ...") (current)
- 00:43, 29 July 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+929) . . N Inland (Created page with "'''England''' (or what's left of it). See also {{Ix|Outland}}. Though Riddley's map only shows a small area, the general geography is consistent with a rise...") (current)
- 00:41, 29 July 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+478) . . N Fork Stoan (Created page with "Modern '''Folkestone''' is a small hilly seaside town, slightly larger than Dover. It is now known for the Channel Tunnel terminal—a long scar of bewildering ...") (current)
- 00:40, 29 July 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+11) . . Fathers Ham
- 00:40, 29 July 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+668) . . N Fathers Ham (Created page with "'''Faversham''' has a long industrial history reflected in its name, which comes from the Old English for "blacksmith's village". It was a major center of gunpowder manufactur...")
- 00:37, 29 July 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+57) . . N Dunk Your Arse (Created page with "'''Dungeness''', the site of Kent's two nuclear reactors.") (current)
- 00:37, 29 July 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+1) . . Crippel the Farn (current)
- 00:37, 29 July 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+1) . . Cambry (current)
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