%title The Colour of Magic (14)
# p. 67 (Signet edition; 'Morpork': initially Ankh and Morpork were twin
# cities with distinct characteristics on opposite sides of the Ankh
-# river--they were soon consolidated into Ankh-Morpork without regard
-# to which area was where)
+# river--they were eventually consolidated into Ankh-Morpork without
+# regard to which area was where)
%passage 1
It has been remarked before that those who are sensitive to radiations in
the far octarine--the eighth colour, the pigment of the Imagination--can
#
#
#
-%title Wyrd Sisters (2)
+%title Wyrd Sisters (15)
+# p. 318 (ROC edition; passage starts mid-paragraph;
+# speaker is Granny Weatherwax)
%passage 1
-
-Destiny is important, see, but people go wrong when they think it controls
-them. It's the other way around.
+"[...] Destiny /is/ important, see, but people go wrong when they think it
+controls them. It's the other way around."
[Wyrd Sisters, by Terry Pratchett]
%e passage
+# pp. 105-106
%passage 2
-#submitted by Boudewijn
-Verence tried to avoid walking through walls. A man had his dignity.
+Verence tried to avoid walking through walls. A man had his dignity.
+
He became aware that he was being watched.
+
He turned his head.
-There was a cat sitting in the doorway, subjecting him to a slow blink.
-It was a mottled grey and extremely fat...
-No. It was extremely /big/. It was covered with so much scar tissue
-that it looked like a fist with fur on it. Its ears were a couple of
-perforated stubs, its eyes two yellow slits of easy-going malevolence,
-its tail a twitching series of question marks as it stared at him.
+
+There was a cat sitting in the doorway, subjecting him to a slow blink. It
+was a mottled grey and extremely fat...
+
+No. It was extremely /big/. It was covered with so much scar tissue that
+it looked like a fist with fur on it. Its ears were a couple of perforated
+stubs, its eyes two yellow slits of easy-going malevolence, its tail a
+twitching series of question marks as it stared at him.
+
Greebo had heard that Lady Felmet had a small white female cat and had
-strolled up to pay his respects. Verence had never seen an animal with
-so much built-in villainy. He didn't resist as it waddled across the
-floor and dried to rub itself against his legs, purring like a
-waterfall.
-
-'Well, well,' said the king, vaguely. He reached down and made an
-effort to scratch it behind the two ragged bits on top of its head.
-It was a relief to find someone else besides another ghost who could
-see him, and Greebo, he couldn't help feeling, was a distinctly unusual
-cat. Most of the castle cats were either pampered pets or flat-eared
-kitchen and stable habitues who generally resembled the very rodents
-they lived on. This cat, on the other hand, was its own animal. All
-cats give that impression, of course, but instead of the mindless
-animal self-absorption that passes for secret wisdom in the creatures,
-Greebo radiated genuime intelligence. He also radiated a smell that
-would have knocked over a wall and caused sinus trouble in a dead fox.
+strolled up to pay his respects.
+
+Verence had never seen an animal with so much built-in villainy. He didn't
+resist as it waddled across the floor and dried to rub itself against his
+legs, purring like a waterfall.
+
+"Well, well," said the king, vaguely. He reached down and made an effort
+to scratch it behind the two ragged bits on top of its head. It was a
+relief to find someone else besides another ghost who could see him, and
+Greebo, he couldn't help feeling, was a distinctly unusual cat. Most of
+the castle cats were either pampered pets or flat-eared kitchen and stable
+habitues who generally resembled the very rodents they lived on. This cat,
+on the other hand, was its own animal. All cats give that impression, of
+course, but instead of the mindless animal self-absorption that passes for
+secret wisdom in the creatures, Greebo radiated genuime intelligence. He
+also radiated a smell that would have knocked over a wall and caused sinus
+trouble in a dead fox.
+
+ [Wyrd Sisters, by Terry Pratchett]
+%e passage
+# pp. 14-15
+%passage 3
+He wondered if ghosts hunted. Almost certainly not, he imagined. Or ate,
+or drank either for that matter, and that was really depressing. He liked
+a big noisy banquet and had quaffed(1) many a pint of good ale. And bad
+ale, come to that. He'd never been able to tell the difference till the
+following morning, usually.
+
+(1) Quaffing is like drinking, but you spill more.
+
+ [Wyrd Sisters, by Terry Pratchett]
+%e passage
+# pp. 60-61 (dwarfish mechanics: see /Equal Rites/)
+%passage 4
+Granny Weatherwax milked and fed the goats, banked the fire, and put a
+cloth over the mirror and pulled her broomstick out from behind the door.
+She went out, locked the door behind her, and hung the key on its nail in
+the privy.
+
+This was quite sufficient. Only once, in the entire history of witchery
+in the Ramtops, had a thief broken into a witch's cottage. The witch
+concerned visited the most terrible punishment on him.(1)
+
+Granny sat on the broom and muttered a few words, but without much
+conviction. After a further couple of tries, she got off, fiddled with
+the binding, and had another go. There was a suspicion of glitter from
+one end of the stick, which quickly died away.
+
+"Drat," she said, under her breath.
+
+She looked around carefully, in case anyone was watching. In fact it was
+only a hunting badger who, hearing the thumping of running feet, poked its
+head out from the bushes and saw Granny hurtling down the path with the
+broomstick held stiff-armed beside her. At last the magic caught, and she
+managed to vault clumsily on to it before it trundled into the night sky
+as gracefully as a duck with one wing missing.
+
+From above the trees came a muffled cursd against all dwarfish mechanics.
+
+(1) She did nothing, although sometimes when she saw him in the village
+she'd smile in a faint, puzzled way. After three weeks of this the
+suspense was too much for him and he took his own life; in fact he took it
+all the way across the continent, where he became a reformed character and
+never went home again.
+
+ [Wyrd Sisters, by Terry Pratchett]
+%e passage
+# p. 76 (passage starts mid-paragraph)
+%passage 5
+And, with alarming suddenness, nothing happened.
+
+ [Wyrd Sisters, by Terry Pratchett]
+%e passage
+# p. 82 ('/Good/ fool': lowercase 'fool' is accurate)
+%passage 6
+"Is this a dagger I see before me?" he mumbled.
+
+"Um. No, my lord. It's my hankerchief, you see. You can sort of tell the
+difference if you look closely. It doesn't have as many sharp edges."
+
+"/Good/ fool," said the duke, vaguely.
+
+Totally mad, the Fool thought. Several bricks short of a bundle. So far
+round the twist you could use him to open wine bottles.
+
+"Kneel beside me," my Fool.
+
+The Fool did so. The duke laid a soiled bandage on his shoulder.
+
+"Are you loyal, Fool?" he said. "Are you trustworthy?"
+
+"I swore to follow my lord until death," said the Fool hoarsely.
+
+The duke pressed his mad face close to the Fool, who looked up into a pair
+of bloodshot eyes.
+
+"I didn't want to," he hissed conspiratorially. "They made me do it. I
+didn't want--"
+
+The door swung open. The dutchess filled the doorway. In fact, she was
+nearly the same shape.
+
+"Leonal!" she barked.
+
+The fool was fascinated by what happened to the duke's eyes. The mad red
+flame vanished, was sucked backwards, and replaced by the hard blue stare
+he had come to recognize. It didn't mean, he realized, that the duke was
+any less mad. Even the coldness of his sanity was madness in a way. The
+duke had a mind that ticked like a clock and, like a clock, it regularly
+went cuckoo.
+
+ [Wyrd Sisters, by Terry Pratchett]
+%e passage
+# p. 85
+%passage 7
+On the crest of the moor, where in the summer partridges lurked among the
+bushes like small, whirring idiots, was a standing stone. It stood roughly
+where the witches' territories met, although the boundaries were never
+formally marked out.
+
+The stone was about the same height as a tall man, and made of a bluish
+tinted rock. It was considered intensely magical because, although there
+was only one of it, /no-one had ever been able to count it/; if it saw
+anyone looking at it speculatively, it shuffled behind them. It was the
+most self-effacing monolith ever discovered.
+
+ [Wyrd Sisters, by Terry Pratchett]
+%e passage
+# p. 92 (passage starts mid-paragraph)
+%passage 8
+Demons were like genies or philosophy professors--if you didn't word things
+/exactly/ right, they delighted in giving you absolutely accurate and
+completely misleading answers.
+
+ [Wyrd Sisters, by Terry Pratchett]
+%e passage
+# p. 121
+%passage 9
+Nanny Ogg was also out early. She hadn't been able to get any sleep
+anyway, and besides, she was worried about Greebo. Greebo was one of her
+few blind spots. While intellectually she would concede that he was
+indeed a fat, cunning, evil-smelling multiple rapist, she nevertheless
+instinctively pictured him as the small fluffy kitten he had been decades
+before. The fact that he had once chased a female wolf up a tree and
+seriously surprised a she-bear who had been innocently digging for roots
+didn't stop her worrying that something bad might happen to him. It was
+generally considered by everyone else in the kingdom that the only thing
+that might slow Greebo down was a direct meteorite strike.
+
+ [Wyrd Sisters, by Terry Pratchett]
+%e passage
+# p. 133 (the duke has locked Nanny Ogg in the castle dungeon)
+%passage 10
+"I really advise you all to return home," said Granny Weatherwax. "There
+has probably been a misunderstanding. Everyone knows a witch cannot be
+held against her will."
+
+"It's gone too far this time," said a peasant. "All this burning and
+taxing and now this. I blame you witches. It's got to stop. I know my
+rights."
+
+"What rights are they?" said Granny.
+
+"Dunnage, cowhage-in-ordinary, badinage, leftovers, scrommidge, clary and
+spunt." said the peasant promptly. "And acornage, every other year, and
+the right to keep two-thirds of a goat on the common. Until he set fire to
+it. It was a bloody good goat, too."
+
+"A man could go far, knowing his rights like you do," said Granny. "But
+right now he should go home."
+
+ [Wyrd Sisters, by Terry Pratchett]
+%e passage
+# p. 164
+%passage 11
+"Whatever happened to the rule about not meddling in politics?" said Magrat,
+watching her retreating back.
+
+Nanny Ogg massaged some like back into her fingers.
+
+"By Hoki, that woman's got a jaw like an anvil," she said. "What was that?"
+
+"I said, what about this rule about not meddling?" said Magrat.
+
+"Ah," said Nanny. She took the girl's arm. "The thing is," she explained,
+"as you advance in the Craft, you'll learn there is another rule. Esme's
+obeyed it all her life."
+
+"And what's that?"
+
+"When you break rules, break 'em good and hard," said Nanny, and grinned a
+set of gums that were more menacing than teeth.
+
+ [Wyrd Sisters, by Terry Pratchett]
+%e passage
+# p. 238
+%passage 12
+"I mean it. Look at me. I wasn't supposed to be writing plays. Dwarfs
+aren't even supposed to be able to /read/. I shouldn't worry too much
+about destiny, if I was you. I was destined to be a miner. Destiny gets
+it wrong half the time."
+
+"But you said he looks like the Fool person. I can't see it myself, mark
+you."
+
+"The light's got to be right."
+
+"Could be some destiny at work there."
+
+Hwel shrugged. Destiny was funny stuff, he knew. You couldn't trust it.
+Often you couldn't even see it. Just when you knew you had it cornered, it
+turned out to be something else--coincidence, maybe, or providence. You
+barred the door against it, and it was standing behind you. Then just when
+you thought you had it nailed down it walked away with the hammer.
+
+He used destiny a lot. As a tool for his plays it was even better than a
+ghost. There was nothing like a bit of destiny to get the old plot rolling.
+But it was a mistake to think you could spot the shape of it. And as for
+thinking it could be controlled...
+
+ [Wyrd Sisters, by Terry Pratchett]
+%e passage
+# p. 242 (passage starts mid-paragraph; Lancre has recently come out of a
+# magic-induced 15-year stasis; 'things ... is': 'things' plural is
+# accurate, though probably a typo)
+%passage 13
+On top of the general suspicion of witches, it was dawning on the few people
+in Lancre who had any dealings with the outside world that a) either more
+things had been happening than they had heard about before or b) time was
+out of joint. It wasn't easy to prove(1) but the few traders who came along
+the mountain tracks after the winter seemed to be rather older than they
+should have been. Unexplained happenings were always more or less expected
+in the Ramtops because of the high magical potential, but several years
+disappearing overnight was a bit of a first.
+
+(1) Because of the way time was recorded among the various states, kingdoms
+and cities. After all, when over an area of a hundred square miles the same
+year is variously the Year of the Small Bat, the Anticipated Monkey, the
+Hunting Cloud, Fat Cows, Three Bright Stallions and at least nine numbers
+recording the time since(2) assorted kings, prohets, and strange events were
+either crowned, born or happened, and each year was a different number of
+months, and some of them don't have weeks, and one of them refuses to accept
+the day as a measure of time, the only things it is possible to be sure of
+is that good sex doesn't last long enough.(3)
+
+(2) The calendar of the Theocracy of Muntab counts /down/, not up. No-one
+knows why, but it might not be a good idea to hang around and find out.
+
+(3) Except for the Zapingo tribe of the Great Nef, of course.
+
+ [Wyrd Sisters, by Terry Pratchett]
+%e passage
+# p. 250 (passage starts mid-paragraph)
+%passage 14
+It was a land of describable beauty.
+
+ [Wyrd Sisters, by Terry Pratchett]
+%e passage
+# p. 265 (passage starts mid-paragraph)
+%passage 15
+The past used to be a lot better than it is now.
[Wyrd Sisters, by Terry Pratchett]
%e passage
#-----------------------------------------------------
# Used for interaction with Death.
#
+# Death Quotes are always one line, and '%e passage' can be omitted.
+#
%section Death
-%title Death Quotes (20)
+%title Death Quotes (22)
%passage 1
WHERE THE FIRST PRIMAL CELL WAS, THERE WAS I ALSO. WHERE MAN IS, THERE AM I. WHEN THE LAST LIFE CRAWLS UNDER FREEZING STARS, THERE WILL I BE.
%e passage
# p. 177
%passage 12
SHALL WE GO?
-# p. 251
+# p. 251 (speaker is actually a demon named 'Scrofula' filling in for Death)
%passage 13
I HAVE COME FOR THEE.
# The Light Fantastic, p. 52 (Signet edition; quote has quotation marks but
-# including them here wouldn't fit with the rest)
+# including them here wouldn't fit with the rest;
+# Death is addressing an elderly wizard who went
+# to extreme measures to hide himself [from Death])
%passage 14
DARK IN HERE, ISN'T IT?
# Equal Rites, p. 14 (Signet edition; second sentence continues
# Sourcery, p. 12 (Signet edition)
%passage 20
YOU'RE ONLY PUTTING OFF THE INEVITABLE.
+# Wyrd Sisters, p. 11 (ROC edition)
+%passage 21
+I SAID WAS. IT'S CALLED THE PAST TENSE. YOU'LL SOON GET USED TO IT.
+# p. 13
+%passage 22
+DON'T LET IT UPSET YOU.
%e title
%e section
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