Annotation - Chapter 12, Page 96
From Riddley Walker Annotations
- (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 folk are "accelerated round the circle" (see 19:27 and 90:7) their increasing numbers add up to 45, whose digits in turn add up to 9. Among other mystical significances attached to the number 9 (see Numbers), it is the number of the Muses—guiding spirits of the arts and daughters of Mnemosyne, the goddess of memory. BF