Annotation - Chapter 9, Page 60
From Riddley Walker Annotations
- (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)
"Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savor, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men." (Matthew 5:13)
"Salt [is] good: but if the salt have lost his savor, wherewith shall it be seasoned?" (Luke 14:34) BJB