tribute: Interesting Times

Add missing italics to several words in passage 1.

Add three new passages, bringing the total to 13.

The third one ended up being fairly long.  I made note of it
intending just the bacon joke but when transcribing I backed up
quite a ways.  The context is fairly unusual for a Discworld story.

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@@ -3986,16 +3986,16 @@ The fastest way to travel is to be there already.
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-%title Interesting Times (10)
+%title Interesting Times (13)
 # p. 1 (Harper Torch edition; passage is a footnote)
 %passage 1
 Whatever happens, they say afterwards, it must have been fate.  People are
 always a little confused about this, as they are in the case of miracles.
 When someone is saved from certain death by a strange concatenation of
 circumstances, they say that's a miracle.  But of course if someone is
-killed by a freak chain of events--the oil spilled just there, the safety
-fence broken just there--that must also be a miracle.  Just because it's
-not nice doesn't mean it's not miraculous.
+/killed/ by a freak chain of events--the oil spilled just /there/, the
+safety fence broken just /there/--that must /also/ be a miracle.  Just
+because it's not nice doesn't mean it's not miraculous.
 
   [Interesting Times, by Terry Pratchett]
 %e passage
@@ -4134,6 +4134,74 @@ followed by long periods of being dead."
 
   [Interesting Times, by Terry Pratchett]
 %e passage
+#
+# 3 new passages for 3.7
+# p. 45
+%passage 11
+Adventure!  People talked about the idea as if it was something worthwhile,
+rather than a mess of bad food, no sleep, and strange people inexplicably
+trying to stick pointed objects in bits of you.
+
+  [Interesting Times, by Terry Pratchett]
+%e passage
+# p. 52
+%passage 12
+"How /will/ I get back?" he said.
+
+"Same way you went.  We'll find you and bring you out.  With surgical
+precision."
+
+Rincewind groaned.  He knew what surgical precision meant in Ankh-Morpork.
+It meant "to within an inch or two, accompanied by a lot of screaming, and
+then they pour hot tar on you just where your leg was."
+
+But... if you put aside for the moment the certainty that something would
+definitely go horribly wrong, it looked foolproof.  The trouble was that
+wizards were such ingenious fools.
+
+  [Interesting Times, by Terry Pratchett]
+%e passage
+# pp. 272-274 (most of page 273, is omitted:  War introduces his children and
+#              Rincewind asks Death about the outcome of a battle which is
+#              imminent; Death's response is that he wouldn't answer even if
+#              he knew, and Rincewind is astonished that he might not know;
+#              Death holds a finger up and a butterfly--as a symbol of chaos
+#              theory--briefly lands on it, then flies away)
+%passage 13
+RINCEWIND, ISN'T IT? said Death.  YES.  GOOD EVENING.  I DON'T BELIEVE YOU
+HAVE MET WAR.  RINCEWIND, WAR.  WAR, RINCEWIND.
+
+[...]
+
+ON A NIGHT LIKE THIS, said Death, THE ONLY CERTAIN THING IS UNCERTAINTY.
+TRITE, I KNOW, BUT TRUE.
+
+Somewhere on the horizon, thunder rumbled.
+
+"I'll, er, just be sort of going, then," said Rincewind.
+
+DON'T BE A STRANGER, said Death, as the wizard hurried off.
+
+"Odd person," said War.
+
+WITH HIM HERE, EVEN UNCERTAINTY IS UNCERTAIN.  AND I'M NOT SURE EVEN
+ABOUT THAT.
+
+War pulled a large paper-wrapped package out of his saddlebag.
+
+"We've got... let's see now... Egg and Cress, Chicken Tikka, and Mature
+Cheese with Chunky Pickle, I think."
+
+THEY DO SUCH MARVELOUS THINGS WITH SANDWICHES THESE DAYS.
+
+"Oh... and Bacon Surpise."
+
+REALLY?  WHAT IS SO SURPRISING ABOUT BACON?
+
+"I don't know.  I suppose it comes as something of a shock to the pig."
+
+  [Interesting Times, by Terry Pratchett]
+%e passage
 %e title
 #
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@@ -121,6 +121,7 @@ tribute (Discworld snippets) typos, in book order rather than fix order:
         quote, passage #7 last paragraph, "to" -> "be"
        Men at Arms passage #1, italicize /for/, passage #2, insert omitted
         word "had": 'it was /fate/ that _had_ let Edward'
+       Interesting Times passage #1, italicize several words
        Hogfather passage #7 missing initial double quote for "Oh, just ...",
         also #7 insert missing "you" into "Why are you feeling [...]"
        Soul Music passage #1, italicize /feel/, #8, "fossile" -> "fossil"
@@ -995,7 +996,7 @@ using 'f' while quiver is empty and 'autoquiver' is Off when wielding a
        thrown-and-return weapon will throw that weapon instead of filling
        the quiver (inspired by xNetHack)
 3.6's tribute: add one new passage to Sourcery, three to Small Gods, one to
-       Lords and Ladies, two to Soul Music
+       Lords and Ladies, two to Soul Music, three to Interesting Times
 monsters can see and remember hero resistances