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Latest revision as of 23:28, 9 August 2017
- (parting ways; back to Widders Dump)
- Lissener heads for Cambry—where he hopes to divine the Nos. of the 1 Big 1 by uniting with the other Eusa folk—while Riddley turns back to Widders Dump to look for Belnot.
- (107:18) "We do some poasyum"
Symposium. (This word is derived from the Greek for "drinking together.")
- (107:29) "The strong and the weak inner acting"
The strong and the weak interaction are two of the fundamental forces in particle physics. There is a great deal of "inner action" in Riddley as well, particularly in Chapter 15.
- (113:35) "its like a short valley its that place they call Mr Clevvers Roaling Place"
See Places.
- (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 RW was a series of children's books, illustrated by his former wife Lillian Hoban, about Frances the Badger and her family.
Composting manure is one way to get ammonia and nitrates such as saltpeter. Nitrate compounds are also used in dye-making, so the dyers would have an interest in pig shit.