[The Light Fantastic, by Terry Pratchett]
%e passage 2
-# p. 7 (passage starts mid-paragraph; the too-long-to-answer question is
+# p. 7 (passage starts mid-sentence; the too-long-to-answer question is
# "Why have Rincewind and Twoflower fallen off the Disc's rim?",
# alluding to the conclusion of /The Colour of Magic/;
# in /Sourcery/ and /Interesting Times/ and probably others, the
# famous philosohper's name is spelled "Ly Tin Wheedle")
%passage 3
-[...] such questions take time and could be more trouble than they are
+[...] such questions take time and could be more trouble than they are
worth. For example, it is said that someone at a party once asked the
famous philosopher Ly Tin Weedle "Why are you here?" and the reply took
three years.
#
#
#
-%title Equal Rites (3)
+%title Equal Rites (9)
+# p. 118 (Signet edition; passage starts mid-sentence and ends mid-paragraph)
%passage 1
-...it is well known that a vital ingredient of success is not knowing that
-what you're attempting can't be done.
+[...] it is well known that a vital ingredient of success is not knowing
+that what you're attempting can't be done. [...]
[Equal Rites, by Terry Pratchett]
%e passage
+# p. 218 (speaker is Granny Weatherwax)
%passage 2
-Million-to-one chances...crop up nine times out of ten.
+"Million-to-one chances," she said, "crop up nine times out of ten."
[Equal Rites, by Terry Pratchett]
%e passage
+# pp. 96-97 ('Tannoy': public address speaker)
%passage 3
-Animal minds are simple, and therefore sharp. Animals never spend time
-dividing experience into little bits and speculating about all the bits
-they've missed. The whole panoply of the universe has been neatly
-expressed to them as things to (a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) run away from,
-and (d) rocks. This frees the mind from unnecessary thoughts and gives
-it a cutting edge where it matters. Your normal animal, in fact, never
-tries to walk and chew gum at the same time.
-
-The average human, on the other hand, thinks about all sorts of things
+Animal minds are simple, and therefore sharp. Animals never spend time
+dividing experience into little bits and speculating about all the bits
+they've missed. The whole panoply of the universe has been neatly
+expressed to them as things to (a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) run away from,
+and (d) rocks. This frees the mind from unnecessary thoughts and gives
+it a cutting edge where it matters. Your normal animal, in fact, never
+tries to walk and chew gum at the same time.
+
+The average human, on the other hand, thinks about all sorts of things
around the clock, on all sorts of levels, with interruptions from dozens
-of biological calendars and timepieces. There's thoughts about to be said,
-and private thoughts, and real thoughts, and thoughts about thoughts, and
-a whole gamut of subconscious thoughts. To a telepath the human head is
-a din. It is a railway terminus with all the Tannoys talking at once.
-It is a complete FM waveband- and some of those stations aren't reputable,
+of biological calendars and timepieces. There's thoughts about to be said,
+and private thoughts, and real thoughts, and thoughts about thoughts, and
+a whole gamut of subconscious thoughts. To a telepath the human head is
+a din. It is a railway terminus with all the Tannoys talking at once.
+It is a complete FM waveband--and some of those stations aren't reputable,
they're outlawed pirates on forbidden seas who play late-night records with
limbic lyrics.
[Equal Rites, by Terry Pratchett]
%e passage
+# pp. 18-19
+%passage 4
+Smith took a spade from beside the back door and hesitated.
+
+"Granny."
+
+"What?"
+
+"Do you know how wizards like to be buried?"
+
+"Yes!"
+
+"Well, how?"
+
+Granny paused at the bottom of the stairs.
+
+"Reluctantly."
+
+ [Equal Rites, by Terry Pratchett]
+%e passage
+# p. 70
+%passage 5
+Granny sighed. "You have learned something," she said, and thought it
+was safe to insert a touch of sternness into her voice. "They say that a
+little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it is not one half so bad as a
+lot of ignorance."
+
+ [Equal Rites, by Terry Pratchett]
+%e passage
+# pp. 113-114 (Esk is a young girl)
+%passage 6
+The barges stopped at some of the towns. By tradition only the men went
+ashore, and only Amschat, wearing his ceremonial Lying hat, spoke to
+non-Zoons. Esk usually went with him. He tried hinting that she should
+obey the unwritten rules of Zoon life and stay afloat, but a hint was to
+Esk what a mosquito bite was to the average rhino because she was already
+learning that if you ignore the rules people will, half the time, quietly
+rewrite them so that they don't apply to you.
+
+ [Equal Rites, by Terry Pratchett]
+%e passage
+# pp. 119-120 ("what is happening here?" actually omits "is" but
+# must be a typo--fixed here to avoid bug reports;
+# 'broomstick' is Esk's disguised wizard's staff;
+# passage continues with questions about destination and
+# why go overland when the river goes to the same place)
+%passage 7
+The town was smaller than Ohulan, and very different because it lay on the
+junction of three trade routes quite apart from the river itself. It was
+built around one enormous square which was a cross between a permanent
+exotic traffic jam and a tent village. Camels kicked mules, mules kicked
+horses, horses kicked camels and they all kicked humans; there was a riot
+of colours, a din of noise, a nasal orchestration of smells and the steady,
+heady sound of hundreds of people working hard at making money.
+
+One reason for the bustle was that over large parts of the continent other
+people preferred to make money without working at all, and since the Disc
+had yet to develop a music recording industry they were forced to fall back
+on older, more traditional forms of banditry.
+
+Strangely enough these often involved considerable effort. Rolling heavy
+rocks to the top of cliffs for a decent ambush, cutting down trees to
+block the road, and digging a pit lined with spikes while still keeping a
+wicked edge on a dagger probably involved a much greater expenditure of
+thought and muscle than more socially-acceptable professions but,
+nevertheless, there were still people misguided enough to endure all this,
+plus long nights in uncomfortable surroundings, merely to get their hands
+on perfectly ordinary large boxes of jewels.
+
+So a town like Zemphis was the place where caravans split, mingled and
+came together again, as dozens of merchants and travellers banded together
+for protection against the socially disadvantaged on the trails ahead.
+Esk, wandering unregarded amidst the bustle, learned all this by the simple
+method of finding someone who looked important and tugging on the hem of
+his coat.
+
+This particular man was counting bales of tobacco and would have succeeded
+but for the interruption.
+
+"What?"
+
+"I said, what is happening here?"
+
+The man meant to say: "Push off and bother someone else." He meant to
+give her a light cuff about the head. So he was astonished to find himself
+bending down and talking seriously to a small, grubby-faced child holding
+a large broomstick (which also, it seemed to him later, was in some
+indefinable way /paying attention/).
+
+He explained about the caravans. The child nodded.
+
+"People all get together to travel?"
+
+"Precisely."
+
+ [Equal Rites, by Terry Pratchett]
+%e passage
+# pp. 127-128 (this time broomstick is Granny's defective witch's broomstick)
+%passage 8
+The broomstick lay between two trestles. Granny Weatherwax sat on a rock
+outcrop while a dwarf half her height, wearing an apron that was a mass of
+pockets, walked around the broom and occasionally poked it.
+
+Eventually he kicked the bristles and gave a long intake of breath, a sort
+of reverse whistle, which is the secret sign of craftsman across the
+universe and means that something expensive is about to happen.
+
+"Weellll," he said. "I could get the apprentices in to look at this, I
+could. It's an education in itself. And you say it actually managed to
+get airborne?"
+
+"It flew like a bird," said Granny.
+
+The dwarf lit a pipe. "I should very much like to see that bird," he said
+reflectively. "I should imagine it's quite something to watch, a bird like
+that."
+
+"Yes, but can you repair it?" said Granny. "I'm in a hurry."
+
+The dwarf sat down, slowly and deliberately.
+
+"As for /repair/," he said, "well, I don't know about /repair/. Rebuild,
+maybe. Of course, it's hard to get the bristles these days even if you can
+find people to do the proper binding, and the spells need--"
+
+"I don't want it rebuilt, I just want it to work properly," said Granny.
+
+"It's an early model, you see," the dwarf plugged on. "Very tricky, those
+early models. You can't get the wood--"
+
+He was picked up bodily until his eyes were level with Granny's. Dwarves,
+being magical in themselves as it were, are quite resistant to magic but
+her expression looked as though she was trying to weld his eyeballs to the
+back of his skull.
+
+"Just repair it," she hissed. "Please?"
+
+"What, make a bodge job?" said the dwarf, his pipe clattering to the floor.
+
+"Yes."
+
+"Patch it up, you mean? Betray my training by doing half a job?"
+
+"Yes," said Granny. Her pupils were two little black holes.
+
+"Oh," said the dwarf. "Right, then."
+
+ [Equal Rites, by Terry Pratchett]
+%e passage
+# p. 185 (actually uses four periods to mark a sentence ending in a elipsis)
+%passage 9
+There may be universes where librarianship is considered a peaceful sort of
+occupation, and where the risks are limited to large volumes falling off
+the shelves on to one's head, but the keeper of a /magic/ library is no job
+for the unwary. Spells have power, and merely writing them down and
+shoving them between covers doesn't do anything to reduce it. The stuff
+leaks. Books tend to react with one another, creating randomized magic
+with a mind of its own. Books of magic are usually chained to their
+shelves, but not to prevent them being stolen....
+
+ [Equal Rites, by Terry Pratchett]
+%e passage
%e title
#
#
# Used for interaction with Death.
#
%section Death
-%title Death Quotes (13)
+%title Death Quotes (17)
%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
# including them here wouldn't fit with the rest)
%passage 14
DARK IN HERE, ISN'T IT?
+# p. 14 (Equal Rites; 2nd sentence continues 'said the deep, heavy voice...')
+%passage 15
+THERE IS NO GOING BACK. THERE IS NO GOING BACK.
+# p. 15 (contradicts later descriptions of Death as existing outside of time;
+# presumably it's just intended as a colloquial expression)
+%passage 16
+I HAVEN'T GOT ALL DAY, YOU KNOW.
+# p. 15 (same page)
+%passage 17
+LIFE IS FOR THE LIVING.
%e title
%e section
#
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