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21:34, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (0)‎ . . N File:Mapdetail5.jpg ‎ (current)
21:33, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+3)‎ . . A 176 2 ‎ (current)
21:33, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+187)‎ . . N A 195 7 ‎ (Created page with "* {{PP|195|7}} "What can I do then aswl be my oan doing?" Riddley returns to the theme of fate and the "other thing whats looking out thru your eye hoals" (6:11). [[Category:...") (current)
21:32, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+248)‎ . . N A 193 28 ‎ (Created page with "* {{PP|193|28}} "I aint saying them words wylst youre lissening thems the fissional seakerts of the act" A pun between nuclear fission and the Official Secrets Act, the Britis...") (current)
21:32, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+431)‎ . . N A 189 17 ‎ (Created page with "* {{PP|189|17}} "The {{Ix|numbers|3}} of the 1 Littl 1 is yellerboy stoan and Saul & Peter and chard coal" Besides the family trios already mentioned (Eusa and his sons, P...") (current)
21:32, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+1,078)‎ . . N A 187 21 ‎ (Created page with "* {{PP|187|21}} "Mort your clof with Saul & Peter (Dy it red)" A ''mordant'' is a substance used by dyers to fix a color in a fiber. The word comes from the French word ''...") (current)
21:31, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+311)‎ . . N A 177 3 ‎ (Created page with "* {{PP|177|3}} "In my head I wer singing .... hard as I cud hoaping he wunt lissen nothing only that" Catchy songs as a defense against mind-reading are a staple of science fi...") (current)
21:31, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+1,274)‎ . . N A 176 2 ‎ (Created page with "* {{PP|176|2}} "the arper sitting in the Mincery ... it ben past down 1 shadder mincer to the nex" ''Arper sitting'': Opposition. ''Shadder mincer'': Shadow minister. A ...")
21:30, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+366)‎ . . N A 175 34 ‎ (Created page with "* {{PP|175|34}} "theres hoap of a {{Ix|tree}} if its cut down yet itwl sprout agen ... Tho the root of it works old in the earf and the stick of it dead on the groun yet even ...") (current)
21:30, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (-2)‎ . . A 175 30 ‎ (current)
21:29, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+878)‎ . . N A 175 30 ‎ (Created page with "* {{PP|175|30}} "the Ardships no {{Ix|eyes}} face staring like a blyn {{Ix|owl}}" Hoban's interest in Middle Eastern mysticism -- and the many mentions of {{Ix|shadder|shadows...")
21:26, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+341)‎ . . N A 168 16 ‎ (Created page with "* {{PP|168|16}} "Becaws a woman is a wooman aint she. Shes the 1 with the woom" Another use of deliberately false etymology. ''Woman'' really comes from the Old English ''wi...") (current)
21:26, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+288)‎ . . N A 167 36 ‎ (Created page with "* {{PP|167|36}} "It were Greanvine. Carvit out of wood ... The back of it flat and the front of it ful roundit" Green Man designs are often found ornamenting the ends of wood...") (current)
21:26, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+532)‎ . . N A 165 18 ‎ (Created page with "* {{PP|165|18}} "that face with the vines and leaves growing out of the mouf" thumb|140x137px|frame|left A Green Man, and although Riddley doesn't...")
21:25, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (0)‎ . . N File:Cryptvines.jpg ‎ (current)
21:25, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (0)‎ . . File:Cryptcolumn.jpg ‎ (uploaded a new version of "File:Cryptcolumn.jpg") (current)
21:23, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+213)‎ . . N A 164 29 ‎ (Created page with "* {{PP|164|29}} "Its jus only stoan men walking unner the groun like that. Women have some thing else" Another instance of Riddley referring to women's secrets with no appare...") (current)
21:23, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+188)‎ . . N A 164 12 ‎ (Created page with "* {{PP|164|12}} "theres a stoan self of your self in the groun and walking foot to foot with you" The same image occurs in Hoban's earlier novel ''Kleinzeit''. [[Category...")
21:22, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (-12)‎ . . A 163 11 ‎
21:22, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+1,141)‎ . . N A 163 11 ‎ (Created page with "* {{PP|163|11}} "Stoan" This is the last story with a title in the book. Riddley started the book by repeating shared myths about humanity; this is something very different. ...")
21:21, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+296)‎ . . N A 162 26 ‎ (Created page with "* {{PP|162|26}} "Fealing the carving unner my hans it wer like shaller runnels cut in the stoan" thumb|70x161px|frame|left This drawing from the cryp...")
21:20, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (0)‎ . . N File:Cryptcolumn.jpg ‎
21:20, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+483)‎ . . N A 161 15 ‎ (Created page with "* {{PP|161|15}} "it wer stoan trees growing unner the groun .... Roun trunks of stoan and each 1 had 4 stoan branches curving up and over" [[File:Canterburycrypt.jpg|thumb|15...")
21:19, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (0)‎ . . N File:Canterburycrypt.jpg ‎ (current)
21:18, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+403)‎ . . N A 160 12 ‎ (Created page with "* {{PP|160|12}} "its a littl to the Wes of that which its unner neath the groun" This is the cathedral's western crypt. It was built by the Normans in the 12th century, and l...") (current)
21:18, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+530)‎ . . N A 160 3 ‎ (Created page with "* {{PP|160|3}} "Shes what she is ..." This paragraph is a quote from Lorna's "Why the Dog Wont Show Its Eyes". frame|left [[File:Cryptshape.jpg|frame|...")
21:17, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (0)‎ . . N File:Cryptshape.jpg ‎ (current)
21:16, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (0)‎ . . N File:Dolly.jpg ‎ (current)
21:15, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+465)‎ . . N A 159 28 ‎ (Created page with "* {{PP|159|28}} "the woman dollys they hang over where a womans bearthing. Which them dollys theyre the same shape as the woman cakes they bake" This is one of the few refere...") (current)
21:14, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+286)‎ . . A 158 33 ‎ (current)
21:13, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+571)‎ . . N A 159 6 ‎ (Created page with "* {{PP|159|6}} "I knowit Cambry Senter ben flattent the werst of all the dead town senters it ben Zero Groun it ben where the wite shadderd stood up over every thing" Given th...") (current)
21:13, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+571)‎ . . N A 158 33 ‎ (Created page with "* {{PP|159|6}} "I knowit Cambry Senter ben flattent the werst of all the dead town senters it ben Zero Groun it ben where the wite shadderd stood up over every thing" Given th...")
21:12, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+471)‎ . . N A 155 16 ‎ (Created page with "* {{PP|155|16}} "When we come to the Ring Ditch the stannings of the Power Ring stood up wite agenst the dark like broakin teef" Whatever made the {{Ix|Ring Ditch}} was presum...") (current)
21:12, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+125)‎ . . N A 155 3 ‎ (Created page with "* {{PP|155|3}} "Wo Jooper! Go roun Klisto!" The oxen are named after Jupiter and its moon Callisto. Category:Chapter 15") (current)
21:12, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+163)‎ . . A 154 30 ‎
21:11, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+237)‎ . . N A 154 30 ‎ (Created page with "* {{PP|154|30}} "the way the lite come acrost the feal you cud see some kynd of old pattren unner neath of the new furrows. Strait lines and circles from time back way back." ...")
21:07, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (0)‎ . . N File:Barrows.jpg ‎ (current)
21:06, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+77)‎ . . N A 154 27 ‎ (Created page with "* {{PP|154|27}} "Pig Sweet Form" See Places. Category:Chapter 15") (current)
21:06, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+159)‎ . . N A 153 27 ‎ (Created page with "* {{PP|153|27}} "Cheer up it may never happen" def: This is a traditional British way of telling someone to stop looking so depressed. Category:Chapter 15")
21:04, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+154)‎ . . Chapter 14 ‎
21:03, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (0)‎ . . N File:Mapdetail4.jpg ‎ (current)
21:03, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+380)‎ . . N A 142 14 ‎ (Created page with "* {{PP|142|14}} "Iwd have to wait a nother year before I begun to man for my self becaws I ben boying on my 12th naming day" In context it seems that Abel and Riddley use the ...") (current)
21:02, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+76)‎ . . N A 142 1 ‎ (Created page with "* {{PP|142|1}} "Bollock Stoans" See Places. Category:Chapter 14") (current)
21:02, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+78)‎ . . N A 141 37 ‎ (Created page with "* {{PP|141|37}} "Good Mercy Form" See Places. Category:Chapter 14") (current)
21:02, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+157)‎ . . N A 141 22 ‎ (Created page with "* {{PP|141|22}} "he done deacon terminations .... national healfing" Decontamination; National Health (the U.K. state medical plan). Category:Chapter 14") (current)
21:02, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+212)‎ . . N A 138 35 ‎ (Created page with "* {{PP|138|35}} "Punch has done for Mr On The Levvil now every 1 can do as they like" "Now everyone can do as they like" is a traditional line for Mr. Punch after he has kille...") (current)
21:01, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+2)‎ . . A 137 30 ‎ (current)
21:01, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+363)‎ . . N A 137 30 ‎ (Created page with "* {{PP|137|30}} "Drop John the Foller Man which they call me Mr On The Levvil as wel" Hoban says Drop John was named after "Knock John," the location of a World War Two offsho...")
21:01, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+258)‎ . . N A 136 30 ‎ (Created page with "* {{PP|136|30}} "Jack Ketch is who I am which Im the Loakel Tharty" Local authority. Jack Ketch was a real hangman in 17th-century Tyburn, subject of the ballad "Hanging John...") (current)
21:01, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+543)‎ . . N A 134 25 ‎ (Created page with "* {{PP|134|25}} "Swossage!" Mr. Punch traditionally craves sausages (as do all of his rivals) and steals them whenever he gets a chance. The strange sausage or "banger" descr...")

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