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- 22:33, 28 July 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+126) . . N A 78 9 (Created page with "* {{PP|78|9}} "He never ben the Puter Leat he never been the Power Leat" Computer elite, power elite. Category:Chapter 11") (current)
- 22:33, 28 July 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+403) . . N A 76 10 (Created page with "* {{PP|76|10}} "a wite {{Ix|shadder}} on that old conkreat wall" White shadows or "Hiroshima shadows" are produced when a surface is darkened by the heat flash of a nuclear ex...") (current)
- 22:32, 28 July 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+506) . . N A 75 32 (Created page with "* {{PP|75|32}} "a woodin trap doar I liffit up and gone down some conkreat steps. Come to a nother doar then with 2 bars" {{By|BJB}} proposes that Lissener's chamber may be pa...") (current)
- 22:31, 28 July 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+657) . . N A 75 6 (Created page with "* {{PP|75|6}} "Grean rot and number creaper on the stumps and stannings" There seems to be no vine or moss whose name sounds like "number." What kind of creeper is it? {{By|EB...")
- 22:30, 28 July 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+133) . . N A 75 2 (Created page with "* {{PP|75|2}} "them dogs {{Ix|pong}} hevvy even when theyre dry" ''Pong'' is a Britishism for a nasty smell. Category:Chapter 11") (current)
- 22:29, 28 July 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+7) . . A 72 31 (current)
- 22:29, 28 July 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+378) . . N A 72 31 (Created page with "(72:31) "it wernt like no other figger I ever seen. It were {{Ix|crooked|crookit}} .... I cudnt hardly beleave it .... It wer a hump and it wer meant to be a hump" As we see [...")
- 22:29, 28 July 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+392) . . N A 72 17 (Created page with "* {{PP|72|17}} "some times in that kynd of muck in stead of rotting a way they got like old dark levver" Acidic peat bogs can in fact preserve corpses for thousands of years. ...") (current)
- 22:28, 28 July 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+123) . . N A 69 4 (Created page with "* {{PP|69|4}} "keap it in memberment" I.e., remember it, after Durster has just been dismembered. Category:Chapter 10") (current)
- 22:27, 28 July 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+340) . . N A 68 34 (Created page with "{{PP|68|34}} "made the Bad {{Ix|Luck}} go a way {{Ix|syn}}" Riddley never explains what the "bad-luck-go-away sign" looks like, but it might be the traditional European gestur...")
- 22:25, 28 July 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+319) . . A 67 31
- 22:25, 28 July 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+651) . . N A 67 31 (Created page with "* {{PP|67|31}} "I bes put the red cord strait" Put the record straight. This is a particularly good example of Hoban's deftness at puns that accurately reflect how idioms real...")
- 22:24, 28 July 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+401) . . N A 66 29 (Created page with "* {{PP|66|29}} "3 black dogs and 1 says, 'The Pry Mincers dead'..." This is an inverted version of an English folk tale, "The King of the Cats," in which a bemused wanderer st...") (current)
- 22:24, 28 July 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+294) . . N A 64 27 (Created page with "* {{PP|64|27}} "it ben a diffrent time ... this ben stil a moving crowd back then" We have already heard that Riddley's settlement lived at Crippel the Farn before it came...") (current)
- 22:23, 28 July 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+168) . . N A 64 3 (Created page with "* {{PP|64|3}} "sqwinting at me with his littl sharp blue eyes" The only other character described as having "little {{Ix|eyes}}" is Goodparley. Category:Chapter 10") (current)
- 22:22, 28 July 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+4) . . A 60 6 (current)
- 22:22, 28 July 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+504) . . N A 60 6 (Created page with "* {{PP|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)<br> "Ye are the ...")
- 22:21, 28 July 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+396) . . N A 56 33 (Created page with "* {{PP|56|33}} "the {{Ix|Pry Mincer}} and the {{Ix|Wes Mincer}} done 1 of ther specials" Here we see a much clumsier Eusa show, which has almost nothing in common with the pre...") (current)
- 22:21, 28 July 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+124) . . N A 56 26 (Created page with "* {{PP|56|26}} "a Outland raid from over water" ''Outland'' is everything outside of Inland. Category:Chapter 9")
- 22:21, 28 July 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+122) . . N A 56 24 (Created page with "* {{PP|56|24}} "we ben down by Fork Stoan then in Crippel the Farn Fents" See Places. Category:Chapter 9") (current)
- 22:20, 28 July 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+1) . . A 56 22 (current)
- 22:20, 28 July 2013 (diff | hist) . . (0) . . N File:Mapdetail2.jpg (current)
- 22:19, 28 July 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+1) . . A 56 22
- 22:19, 28 July 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+1,024) . . N A 56 22 (Created page with "* {{PP|56|22}} "when Littl Salting {{Ix|Fents}} got largent in by Dog Et {{Ix|Form}}" [[File:mapdetail2.jpg|frame|right|link=Map of Inland|map detail: Littl Salting, ...")
- 22:17, 28 July 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+116) . . N A 55 26 (Created page with "* {{PP|55|26}} "How is it with you? On or off?" Binary again—see Chapter 6. Category:Chapter 9") (current)
- 22:16, 28 July 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+4) . . A 48 3 (current)
- 22:16, 28 July 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+359) . . N A 51 16 (Created page with "* {{PP|51|16}} "Eusa you know what the Eusa Story says. Every body knows it even them as cant read" Again, although Orfing is arguing against Goodparley's reinterpretation of ...") (current)
- 22:15, 28 July 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+481) . . N A 50 36 (Created page with "* {{PP|50|36}} "Eusas face cant change its all ways the same but when youre watching him move a roun ... the torch fires shimmying and all hewl look pernear any way hes talkin...") (current)
- 22:15, 28 July 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+256) . . N A 48 20 (Created page with "* {{PP|48|20}} "the E qwations and the low cations weve got to comb the nations of it" Equations, locations, combinations; ''cations'' is also a word for positively charged pa...") (current)
- 22:14, 28 July 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+1,422) . . N A 48 3 (Created page with "* {{PP|48|3}} "the Nos. of the rain bow and the fire qwanter" ''Qwanter'' = quanta. Quantum physics gets its name from the notion that particles and waves change from one ener...")
- 22:13, 28 July 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+471) . . N A 47 13 (Created page with "* {{PP|47|13}} "hes got like a iron hat on his head" Primitive science fiction: Eusa's knowledge is sucked out of his head into a computer. Riddley's people don't seem to have...")
- 22:12, 28 July 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+392) . . N A 46 19 (Created page with "* {{PP|46|19}} "Trufax is it. This heres going to be the parper stablisht men story is it" Orfing may be expressing skepticism about the "establishment story" (and ''trufax'' ...") (current)
- 22:12, 28 July 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+282) . . N A 45 19 (Created page with "* {{PP|45|19}} "its the same with all us bloaks we all do our bes work with that same part dont we .... [Dont] be talking so stupid. Its my head I'm talking about thats my mai...") (current)
- 22:10, 28 July 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+206) . . N A 43 3 (Created page with "* {{PP|43|3}} "3 stroaks for Eusa" One of many significant appearances of the number {{Ix|No.|three}}. As shown in Chapter 16, adding one stroke changes the E ...") (current)
- 22:09, 28 July 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+352) . . N A 41 6 (Created page with "* {{PP|41|6}} "Now weare coming to the curse {{Ix|road|roads}} of it Erny now weare getting down to terpitation" In a typical example of puns serving to convey the story under...") (current)
- 22:09, 28 July 2013 (diff | hist) . . (0) . . A 39 1 (current)
- 22:08, 28 July 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+479) . . N A 39 1 (Created page with "* {{PP|39|1}} "the time for moving crowds is past .... You just cant have all of {{Inland}} for your {{Ix|foraging|forage}} groun no mor" The conflict between hunter-gatherer ...")
- 22:07, 28 July 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+242) . . N A 38 32 (Created page with "* {{PP|38|32}} "looking a head" Another pun due to Riddley's habit of splitting up words into smaller words: the connexion man looks ahead to the future, and one way to divine...") (current)
- 22:07, 28 July 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+531) . . N A 38 14 (Created page with "* {{PP|38|14}} "2 cuts hash and 50 rizlas each" The other common currency besides {{Ix|iron}}: cannabis and cigarette papers (Rizla is the most popular British brand of rollin...") (current)
- 22:06, 28 July 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+165) . . N A 37 27 (Created page with "* {{PP|37|27}} "wotcher" A British greeting, from "what cheer" (i.e., "how's it going?"). In this case it's a more formal welcoming ceremony. Category:Chapter 7") (current)
- 22:05, 28 July 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+315) . . N A 37 21 (Created page with "* {{PP|37|21}} "No rumpa no dum / No zantigen Eusa cum" One of the more indecipherable pieces of ritual language in the book; derived from (in an earlier draft of the novel) "...") (current)
- 22:05, 28 July 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+118) . . N A 37 6 (Created page with "* {{PP|37|6}} "the divvy roof" Apparently a designated area for dividing up the day's hunting. Category:Chapter 7") (current)
- 22:04, 28 July 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+1) . . A 2 17 (current)
- 21:08, 28 July 2013 (diff | hist) . . (0) . . N File:A20.jpg (current)
- 21:06, 28 July 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+58) . . A20
- 21:06, 28 July 2013 (diff | hist) . . (0) . . N File:A20-small.jpg (current)
- 21:05, 28 July 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+969) . . N A20 (Created page with "({{Ixp|94|8}}) The A20 connects Folkestone and Ashford. The "A" roads are national routes or what would be called state roads in the U.S., thoug...")
- 21:04, 28 July 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+7) . . Map of Inland
- 21:04, 28 July 2013 (diff | hist) . . (0) . . N File:Inland.jpg (current)
- 21:03, 28 July 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+315) . . N Map of Inland (Created page with "The map from the beginning of the book (illustration by Russell Hoban, used by permission) superimposed on the outlines of present-day southeast England. The area is about for...")
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