Annotation - Chapter 16, Page 175
From Riddley Walker Annotations
- (175:34) "theres hoap of a 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 jus only the smel of water and itwl bud and bring forit bowing like the plan"
This is the most direct Biblical quotation in the novel, from Job 14:7-9. BJB