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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)
- 00:36, 29 July 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+1) . . Bundel Downs (current)
- 00:36, 29 July 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+1) . . Bollock Stoans (current)
- 00:36, 29 July 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+1) . . Bernt Arse (current)
- 00:36, 29 July 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+1) . . Bad Mercy (current)
- 00:35, 29 July 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+1) . . A20
- 00:35, 29 July 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+1) . . Dog Et (current)
- 00:35, 29 July 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+1) . . Do It Over (current)
- 00:34, 29 July 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+12) . . Bernt Arse
- 00:34, 29 July 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+12) . . Cambry
- 00:34, 29 July 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+12) . . Do It Over
- 00:33, 29 July 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+49) . . N Do It Over (Created page with "''({{Ixp|5|2}}, 102, 120, 140-141)'' '''Dover'''.")
- 00:32, 29 July 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+1) . . Dog Et
- 00:32, 29 July 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+69) . . N Dog Et (Created page with "''({{Ix|56|22}})'' '''Dargate'''. The new name means "eaten by dogs".")
- 00:31, 29 July 2013 (diff | hist) . . (0) . . N File:A20b.jpg (current)
- 00:30, 29 July 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+58) . . A20
- 00:29, 29 July 2013 (diff | hist) . . (0) . . N File:A20b-small.jpg (current)
- 00:29, 29 July 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+348) . . N Crippel the Farn (Created page with "''({{Ixp|56|24}}, 60)'' '''Capel-le-Ferne''', just west of Folkestone. {{By|TH}} The name originally meant a chapel with ferns nearby. What is it that the new n...")
- 00:27, 29 July 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+170) . . N Cambry (Created page with "''({{Ixp|5|2}}, 15, 80-81, 88, 105, 106, 110-112, 148-150, 157, 159-161, 184)'' '''Canterbury''', the setting of Chapter 15 and part of Chapter 17.")
- 00:26, 29 July 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+529) . . N Bundel Downs (Created page with "''({{Ixp|1|2}}, 15, 184, 186)'' '''Crundale'''. The Crundale Downs, part of the area surrounding Wye, are a chalk grassland—a hilly area of dense and diverse herbs o...")
- 00:25, 29 July 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+26) . . N Brabbas Horn (Created page with "'''Brabourne'''. {{By|TH}}") (current)
- 00:25, 29 July 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+238) . . N Bollock Stoans (Created page with "''({{Ixp|142|1}})'' '''Bullockstone'''. {{By|TH}} Note for American readers, "bollocks" = "{{Ix|balls}}"—a double pun, because "stones" are also testicles ([http://www.ccel....")
- 00:24, 29 July 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+4) . . Bernt Arse
- 00:24, 29 July 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+4) . . Bad Mercy
- 00:23, 29 July 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+10) . . A20
- 00:23, 29 July 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+143) . . N Bernt Arse (Created page with "(1, {{Ixp|5|2}}, 15, 74, 120) '''Ashford'''. "Bernt" is a double pun, as the town has been burned to cinders but already had "ash" in its name.")
- 00:22, 29 July 2013 (diff | hist) . . (-1) . . Bad Mercy
- 00:22, 29 July 2013 (diff | hist) . . (-1) . . A20
- 00:21, 29 July 2013 (diff | hist) . . (-28) . . Places (current)
- 00:21, 29 July 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+458) . . N Bad Mercy (Created page with "({{Ixp|131|12}}, 207) '''Badlesmere''', a small town south of Faversham. It was named for a line of Kentish noblemen, the first of whom, Baron Bartholomew Bad...")
- 00:15, 29 July 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+224) . . N A 85 35 (Created page with "* {{PP|85|35}} "his other voyce wer saying the sylents. He had a way of saying them" Note that the word ''{{Ix|silence|sylents}}'' is used in the plural, as if a "sylent" is t...") (current)
- 00:15, 29 July 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+119) . . A 85 33 (current)
- 00:14, 29 July 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+224) . . N A 85 33 (Created page with "* {{PP|85|35}} "his other voyce wer saying the sylents. He had a way of saying them" Note that the word ''{{Ix|silence|sylents}}'' is used in the plural, as if a "sylent" is t...")
- 00:13, 29 July 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+1,135) . . N A 85 32 (Created page with "* {{PP|85|32}} "The Lissener and the Other Voyce Owl of the Worl" This story slightly recalls an American Indian myth in which Owl tries to maintain a permanent night by repea...") (current)
- 00:12, 29 July 2013 (diff | hist) . . (-30) . . A 5 2 a (current)
- 00:11, 29 July 2013 (diff | hist) . . (-32) . . Chapter 6
- 00:11, 29 July 2013 (diff | hist) . . (0) . . A 75 6 (current)
- 00:10, 29 July 2013 (diff | hist) . . (-78) . . Heads
- 00:09, 29 July 2013 (diff | hist) . . (-24) . . A 28 29 (current)
- 00:09, 29 July 2013 (diff | hist) . . (-50) . . A 80 26
- 00:08, 29 July 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+37) . . N Template:Bibliocite (Created page with "''{{{1}}}''") (current)
- 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...")
- 23:48, 28 July 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+183) . . A 79 26 (current)
- 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)
- 23:29, 28 July 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+7) . . A 72 31 (current)
- 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...")
- 23:25, 28 July 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+319) . . A 67 31
- 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)
- 23:22, 28 July 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+4) . . A 60 6 (current)
- 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)
- 23:20, 28 July 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+1) . . A 56 22 (current)
- 23:20, 28 July 2013 (diff | hist) . . (0) . . N File:Mapdetail2.jpg (current)
- 23:19, 28 July 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+1) . . A 56 22
- 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)
- 23:16, 28 July 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+4) . . A 48 3 (current)
- 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)
- 23:09, 28 July 2013 (diff | hist) . . (0) . . A 39 1 (current)
- 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)
- 23:04, 28 July 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+1) . . A 2 17 (current)
- 22:08, 28 July 2013 (diff | hist) . . (0) . . N File:A20.jpg (current)
- 22:06, 28 July 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+58) . . A20
- 22:06, 28 July 2013 (diff | hist) . . (0) . . N File:A20-small.jpg (current)
- 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
- 22:04, 28 July 2013 (diff | hist) . . (0) . . N File:Inland.jpg (current)
- 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...")
- 22:02, 28 July 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+1) . . How
- 22:01, 28 July 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+778) . . N How (Created page with "(14, {{Ixp|15|18}}, 26, 29, 60, 147, 186) '''Wye'' {{By|TH}} is currently a small college town between Ashford and Canterbury on the [[Rivver Sour|R...")
- 21:59, 28 July 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+2,604) . . N Eustace (Created page with "This legendary 2nd-century Christian martyr's story is told in Chapter 14. Also known as Eustatius or Eustachio, he reportedly began as a Roman soldier named Placidus, who con...")
- 21:53, 28 July 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+3) . . Chapter 6
- 21:53, 28 July 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+39) . . Chapter 6
- 21:52, 28 July 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+334) . . N A 35 27 (Created page with "* {{PP|35|27}} "Yul fyn me in the wud yul fyn me on the water lyk yu foun me in the {{Ix|stone|stoan}}." Compare Jesus's 77th saying in the [http://www.gospelthomas.com/ Gospe...")
- 21:51, 28 July 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+346) . . N A 34 8 (Created page with "* {{PP|34|8}} "The Right syd uv him had the nek & {{Ix|heads|hed}} the Left syd uv him had his {{Ix|cock|cok}} & {{Ix|balls|bauls}}" Not only is the Shining Man torn apart, b...") (current)
- 21:50, 28 July 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+168) . . N A 33 4 (Created page with "* {{PP|33|4}} "He run them thru the Power Ring he mayd the 1 Big 1" Compare to the previous mention of the Power Ring in Chapter 3. Category:Chapter 6") (current)
- 21:49, 28 July 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+553) . . N A 32 11 (Created page with "* {{PP|32||11}} "I wan tu dark I wan tu lyt I wan tu day I wan tu nyt .... I wan tu woman I wan tu man .... I wan tu plus I wan tu minus I wan tu big I wan tu littl I want tu ...") (current)
- 21:49, 28 July 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+7) . . A 32 7 (current)
- 21:48, 28 July 2013 (diff | hist) . . (0) . . N File:Figures-small.jpg (current)
- 21:48, 28 July 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+420) . . N A 32 7 (Created page with "* {{PP|32|7}} "Eusa wuz angre he wuz in rayj & he kep pulin on the Littl Man the Addoms owt strecht arms" [[File:figures-small.jpg|frame|right|link=Carving of two figures in C...")
- 21:47, 28 July 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+159) . . N A 31 30 (Created page with "* {{PP|31|30}} "holdin him lyk twichin for water with a hayzel" Dowsing or divining for water, traditionally done with a forked stick. Category:Chapter 6") (current)
- 21:46, 28 July 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+4) . . A 31 20 (current)
- 21:46, 28 July 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+262) . . N A 31 20 (Created page with "* {{PP|31|20}} "The Littl Man sed, I mus be wut I mus be" An echo of the voice from the burning bush in Exodus—"I am that I am"—but in keeping with the theme of fate or th...")
- 21:46, 28 July 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+351) . . N A 31 16 (Created page with "* {{PP|31|16}} "On the stags hed stud the Littl Shynin Man the Addom in be twean thay horns with arms owt strecht & each han holdin tu a horn" Not only a crucifixion pose, but...") (current)
- 21:45, 28 July 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+680) . . N A 31 5 (Created page with "* {{PP|31|5}} "Sum tyms bytin sum tyms bit" Computer terms again: a bit is a binary digit (a single 1 or 0) and a byte is a series of eight bits corresponding to a single char...") (current)
- 21:44, 28 July 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+71) . . N A 31 2 (Created page with "* {{PP|31|2}} "menne cools uv stoan" Molecules. Category:Chapter 6") (current)
- 21:44, 28 July 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+130) . . N A 31 1 (Created page with "* {{PP|31|1}} "hot & clikkin & countin thay gygers" The clicking of a Geiger counter detecting radiation. Category:Chapter 6") (current)
- 21:44, 28 July 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+503) . . N A 30 23 (Created page with "* {{PP|30|23}} "He tuk 2 gray dogs with him thear nayms wer Folleree & Folleroo" Two dogs with half-rhyming names also appear in Norse myth, as Odin's constant companions, the...") (current)
- 21:43, 28 July 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+340) . . N A 30 18 (Created page with "* {{PP|30|18}} "the dansing in the stoan & thay partickler tracks" The first of many allusions to {{Ix|stone}} and the life within it. Partickler tracks suggests a [http://www...") (current)
- 21:41, 28 July 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+312) . . N A 29 15 (Created page with "* {{PP|29|15}} "No 1 else is allowit to have it wrote down the same which that dont make no odds becaws no 1 else knows how to read" If no one is literate but the Ram and the ...") (current)
- 21:41, 28 July 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+437) . . N A 29 9 (Created page with "* {{PP|29|9}} "Its all ways wrote down in the old spel" Here we're reminded that Riddley's fanciful {{Ix|spelling}} and grammar are not signs of illiteracy, but are part of a ...") (current)
- 21:40, 28 July 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+238) . . N A 29 5 (Created page with "* {{PP|29|5}} "Orfing had a face like a limpit" A ''limpet'' is a kind of sea snail. {{By|EB}} A ''lime pit'' is a pit containing corrosive quicklime (burnt limestone), often ...") (current)
- 21:40, 28 July 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+160) . . N A 29 1 (Created page with "* {{PP|29|1}} "Goodparley had a big face with littl eyes like lookouts" One of several prominent references to characters' {{Ix|eyes}}. Category:Chapter 5") (current)
- 21:39, 28 July 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+108) . . N A 28 35 (Created page with "* {{PP|28|35}} "he carrit the {{Ix|fit up}}" A fit-up is a portable puppet theater. Category:Chapter 5") (current)
- 21:39, 28 July 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+905) . . N A 28 29 (Created page with "* {{PP|28|29}} "therewl all ways be a nother Goodparley & Orfing" If the Eusa show had been created purely for propagandistic purposes, there would be no need to ensure that t...")
- 21:38, 28 July 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+286) . . N A 28 12 (Created page with "* {{PP|28|12}} "they all ready ben Shorsday Week with the sess men which they revver newit the fraction for the Ram" ''Shorsday'' is the shortest day of the year; ''sess men''...") (current)
- 21:37, 28 July 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+1,148) . . N A 28 10 (Created page with "* {{PP|28|10}} "the {{Ix|Big 2}} down from the Ram. Abel {{Ix|Goodparley, Abel|Goodparley}} & Erny {{Ix|Orfing, Erny|Orfing}} the {{Ix|Pry Mincer}} and the {{Ix|Wes Mincer}}" ...")
- 21:36, 28 July 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+416) . . N A 27 13 (Created page with "* {{PP|27|13}} "Belnot {{Ix|Phist, Belnot|Phist}} from the {{Ix|Mincery}}" The Mincery (Ministry) is the central government, such as it is. [http://www.ocelotfactory.com/hoban...") (current)
- 21:34, 28 July 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+225) . . N A 26 25 (Created page with "* {{PP|26|25}} "Witey hair and pinky eyes" In Riddley's devastated world, we might expect to see much worse deformities than albinism. An explanation for why we haven't seen a...") (current)
- 21:22, 28 July 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+214) . . N A 25 23 (Created page with "* {{PP|25|23}} "his front legs wer like out stretcht {{Ix|arms}} it took me strange to see that" We will see a particular image of outstretched arms a bit later in...") (current)
- 21:22, 28 July 2013 (diff | hist) . . (0) . . N File:Rrwolf-small.jpg (current)
- 21:21, 28 July 2013 (diff | hist) . . (-1) . . A 24 22
- 21:21, 28 July 2013 (diff | hist) . . (-1) . . A 24 22
- 21:21, 28 July 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+1,022) . . N A 24 22 (Created page with "* {{PP|24||22}} "{{Ix|Aunty}} come for him. Stoan boans and iron tits and teef be twean her legs ... she come down on top of him" This is the first reference to just how the a...")
- 21:19, 28 July 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+778) . . N A 22 24 (Created page with "* {{PP|22|24}} "Thine the han what shapit the black" .... "We all thinet hands" "Thine" in the second sense seems to mean clasp or entwine; so the song is both speaking to the...") (current)
- 21:18, 28 July 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+153) . . N A 22 12 (Created page with "* {{PP|22|12}} "sarvering gallack seas and flaming nebyul eye" A reference to space travel (sovereign galaxies, flaming nebulae). Category:Chapter 4") (current)
- 21:16, 28 July 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+162) . . Index
- 21:09, 28 July 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+57) . . Places
- 21:08, 28 July 2013 (diff | hist) . . (0) . . N File:Inland-small.jpg (current)
- 21:08, 28 July 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+2,064) . . N Places (Created page with "Real locations mentioned in ''Riddley Walker''. Riddley's country, as shown in the [http://www.bloomsburymagazine.com/Ezine/Articles/Articles.asp?ezine%5Farticle%5Fid=646 or...")
- 21:00, 28 July 2013 (diff | hist) . . (-1) . . Related works (→Current 93)
- 21:00, 28 July 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+6,167) . . N Related works (Created page with "Books and other works that meet at some point with ''Riddley Walker''. __NOTOC__ == Books == === ''Doctor Mirabilis'' === By James Blish (1964). Historical novel about the l...")
- 20:47, 28 July 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+1,025) . . N About this site (Created page with "These annotation pages are maintained and edited by Eli Bishop, who wrote about two-thirds of the text. Other contributors are listed on the [[contributors...")
- 20:44, 28 July 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+3,776) . . N Job (Created page with "The Book of Job, part of the Hebrew Bible and Christian Old Testament, is one of the oldest known narrative poems. The main story is thought to have been written between 3000 ...") (current)
- 20:37, 28 July 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+2,784) . . N Heads (Created page with "Riddley's people follow a timeless human tradition of displaying their enemies' severed {{Ix|heads}} on a stick, not only as a warning to others but as a source of mystical kn...")
- 20:32, 28 July 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+4) . . Gunpowder
- 20:32, 28 July 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+1,747) . . N Gunpowder (Created page with "Mixing {{Ix|Salt 4|sulfur}}, {{Ix|Saul & Peter|saltpeter}}, and {{Ix|charcoal}} makes a black explosive powder. This was likely known at least a thousand years ago, although p...")
- 20:30, 28 July 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+3,292) . . N Diana and Aunty (Created page with "Although a figure whose primary function appears to be bringing death is an unlikely candidate for a fertility goddess, several of {{Ix|Aunty}}'s characteristics make her simi...")
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