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  • (1:5) "getting the tel of the head"

Riddley uses tel to mean a divination or prophecy; see connexion man and tel woman. Besides "tell," the word suggests telly or TV (an interpretation that was made literal in the peculiar Hoban homage of Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome).

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