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-%title Night Watch (7)
+%title Night Watch (12)
+# p. 393
%passage 1
When Mister Safety Catch Is Not On, Mister Crossbow Is Not Your Friend.
[Night Watch, by Terry Pratchett]
%e passage
+# p. 51
+%passage 8
+"We are here, and this is now." Constable Visit, a strict believer in
+the Omnian religion, occasionally quoted from their holy book. Vimes
+understood it to mean, in less exalted copperspeak, that you have to do
+the job that is in front of you.
+
+ [Night Watch, by Terry Pratchett]
+%e passage
+# p. 85 (Vimes fell through the roof of Unseen University's Library during
+# a thunderstorm and ended up 30 years in the past; the Discworld's
+# "history monks" aren't just observers and Lu-Tze wants to help
+# Vimes get back to same time and circumstances that he came from)
+%passage 9
+"Oh, for heavens' sake, Lu-Tze! This is completely unauthorized, you
+know! We're supposed to prune out rogue history loops, not expend vast
+amounts of time keeping them going!"
+
+"This one's important. We owe it to the man. It wasn't his fault we had
+a temporal shattering just as he fell through the dome."
+
+"Two timelines running side by side," moaned Qu. "That's quite
+unacceptable, you know. I'm having to use techniques that are completely
+untried."
+
+"Yes, but it's only a few days."
+
+"What about Vimes? Is he strong enough? He's got no training for this!"
+
+"He defaults to being a copper. A copper's a copper, wherever he is."
+
+ [Night Watch, by Terry Pratchett]
+%e passage
+# p. 198 (young assassin is Vetinari, well before he eventually becomes
+# Patrician; Sam Vimes is living as John Keel, a Watch sergeant,
+# and among other things, training his younger self to be a Watchman)
+%passage 10
+"Really? That doesn't sound like Swing. How much do I owe you."
+
+The young man called Havelock gave a shrug. "Call it a dollar," he said.
+
+"That's very cheap."
+
+"He wasn't worth more. I should warn you, though. Soon you may want me
+to deal with Keel."
+
+"Surely someone like him wouldn't side with people like Winder and Swing?"
+
+"He's a side all by himself. He's a complication. You may think it best
+if he... ceased to complicate."
+
+The rattling of the coach underlined the silence this remark caused. It
+was moving through a richer part of the city now, where there was more
+light and the curfew, being for poorer people, was less rigorously
+observed. The figure opposite the Assassin stroked the cat on her lap.
+
+"No. He'll serve some purpose," said Madam. "Everyone is telling me
+about Keel. In a world where we all move in curves he proceeds in a
+straight line. And going straight in a world of curves makes things
+happen."
+
+ [Night Watch, by Terry Pratchett]
+%e passage
+# p. 199 (this is a continuation of the conversation in passage 10, with
+# several paragraphs leading to it skipped; topic is now about a
+# rare book that has callously been destroyed; a sentence about
+# "dark green" is omitted)
+%passage 11
+"Ah. It contained information of value. [...] Will you tell me?"
+
+"I /could/ tell you." Havelock smiled again. "But then I would have to
+find someone to pay me to kill you."
+
+ [Night Watch, by Terry Pratchett]
+%e passage
+# p. 250
+%passage 12
+People on the side of The People always ended up disappointed, in any
+case. They found that The People tended not to be grateful or
+appreciative or forward-thinking or obedient. The People tended to
+be small-minded and conservative and not very clever and were even
+distrustful of cleverness. And so, the children of the revolution
+were faced with the age-old problem: it wasn't that you had the wrong
+kind of government, which was obvious, but that you had the wrong kind
+of people.
+
+As soon as you saw people as things to be measured, they didn't measure
+up.
+
+ [Night Watch, by Terry Pratchett]
+%e passage
%e title
#
#
#
-%title The Wee Free Men (9)
+%title The Wee Free Men (13)
# p. 100 (HarperTempest edition; quin==queen;
# this rallying cry occurs multiple times; p. 167 has "/Nae quin!
# Nae king! Nae laird! Nae master! We willna be fooled again!/",
[The Wee Free Men, by Terry Pratchett]
%e passage
+# pp. 2-3 (passage begins mid-paragraph)
+%passage 10
+The lowlands weren't good to witches. Miss Tick was making pennies by
+doing bits of medicine and misfortune-telling,(1) and slept in barns
+most nights. She'd twice been thrown into ponds.
+
+(1) Ordinary fortune-tellers tell you what you /want/ to happen; witches
+tell you what's going to happen whether you want it to or not. Strangely
+enough, witches tend to be more accurate but less popular.
+
+ [The Wee Free Men, by Terry Pratchett]
+%e passage
+# pp. 103-104 (passage ends mid-paragraph; the talking toad has been loaned
+# from Miss Tick to Tiffany; it is apparently a transformed human
+# lawyer [Feegles' swords don't glow in its presence though :-]
+# 'ye', 'agin', 'distrainment', and hyphenated 'comp-li-cated'
+# are all accurate)
+%passage 11
+"I'm the Big Man o' the clan, mistress," he said. "An' my name it is..."
+he swallowed. "Rob Anybody Feegle, mistress. But I beg ye not to use it
+agin me!"
+
+The toad was ready for this.
+
+"They think names have magic in them," he murmured. "They don't tell them
+to people in case they are written down."
+
+"Aye, an' put upon comp-li-cated documents," said a Feegle.
+
+"An' summonses and such things," said another.
+
+"Or 'Wanted' posters," said another.
+
+"Aye, an' bills an' affidavits," said another.
+
+"Writs of distrainment, even!" The Feegles looked around in panic at the
+very thought of written-down things.
+
+"They think written words are even more powerful," whispered the toad.
+"They think all writing is magic. Words worry them. See their swords?
+They glow in the presense of lawyers."
+
+"All /right/," said Tiffany. "We're getting somewhere. I promise not
+to write his name down. [...]"
+
+ [The Wee Free Men, by Terry Pratchett]
+%e passage
+# p. 130 ('whut' for 'what' is accurate)
+%passage 12
+"Whut's the plan, Rob?" said one of them.
+
+"Okay, lads, this is what we'll do. As soon as we see somethin', we'll
+attack it. Right?"
+
+This caused a cheer.
+
+"Ach, 'tis a good plan," said Daft Wullie.
+
+ [The Wee Free Men, by Terry Pratchett]
+%e passage
+# p. 145 (passage ends mid-paragraph)
+%passage 13
+"On your honor as a drunken rowdy thief?" said Tiffany.
+
+Rob Anybody beamed. "Aye!" he said. "An' I got a lot of good big
+reputation to protect there! [...]"
+
+ [The Wee Free Men, by Terry Pratchett]
+%e passage
%e title
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