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-%title The Truth (8)
+%title The Truth (13)
+# p. 21 (Harper Torch edition)
%passage 1
There are, it has been said, two types of people in the world. There are
those who, when presented with a glass that is exactly half full, say: this
glass is half full. And then there are those who say: this glass is half
empty.
-The world belongs, however, to those who can look at the glass and say:
-What's up with this glass? Excuse me? Excuse me? This is my glass? I
-don't think so. My glass was full! And it was a bigger glass! Who's been
-pinching my beer?
+The world /belongs/, however, to those who can look at the glass and say:
+What's up with this glass? Excuse me? Excuse /me/? /This/ is my glass?
+I don't /think/ so. My glass was full! /And/ it was a bigger glass!
+Who's been pinching my beer?
[The Truth, by Terry Pratchett]
%e passage
+# p. 5
%passage 2
-The world is made up of four elements: Earth, Air, Fire and Water.
-This is a fact well known even to Corporal Nobbs. It's also wrong.
-There's a fifth element, and generally it's called Surprise.
+The world is made up of four elements: Earth, Air, Fire and Water. This
+is a fact well known even to Corporal Nobbs. It's also wrong. There's a
+fifth element, and generally it's called Surprise.
[The Truth, by Terry Pratchett]
%e passage
[The Truth, by Terry Pratchett]
%e passage
+#
+# 5 new passages added for 3.7
+#
+# p. 3 (two paragraphs in the middle skipped)
+%passage 9
+And the rumor came to the ears of William de Worde, and in a sense it
+stopped there, because he dutifully wrote it down.
+
+It was his job. Lady Margolotta of Uberwald sent him five dollars a month
+to do it. The Dowager Duchess of Quirm also sent him five dollars. So
+did King Verence of Lancre, and a few other Ramtop notables. So did the
+Seriph of Al-Khali, although in this case the payment was half a cartload
+of figs, twice a year.
+
+[...]
+
+A young man without too many responsibilities could live modestly in
+Ankh-Morpork on thirty or forty dollars a month; he always sold the figs,
+because although it was possible to live on figs you soon wished you
+didn't.
+
+ [The Truth, by Terry Pratchett]
+%e passage
+# p. 31
+%passage 10
+"And these are your reasons, my lord?"
+
+"Do you think I have others?" said Lord Vetenari. "My motives, as ever,
+are entirely transparent."
+
+Hughnon reflected that "entirely transparent" meant either that you could
+see right through them or couldn't see them at all.
+
+ [The Truth, by Terry Pratchett]
+%e passage
+# p. 59-60 (passage ends mid-paragraph)
+%passage 11
+The Firm had, indeed, not operated in Ankh-Morpork before. Mr. Pin had
+kept away because, well, there were plenty of other cities, and an
+instinct for survival had told him that the Big Wahooni(1) should wait
+a while. [...]
+
+(1) The world's rarest and most evil-smelling vegetable, and consequently
+much prized by connoisseurs (who seldom prize anything cheap and common).
+Also a slang term for Ankh-Morpork, although it does not smell as bad as
+that.
+
+ [The Truth, by Terry Pratchett]
+%e passage
+# p. 87-88 ('it' is an imp inside the PDA; warranty text is in a smaller font
+# than the rest of text; page 297 has more conditions, effectively
+# impossible to comply with, applying to transfer of ownership)
+%passage 12
+"Good for you!" it said. "You have wisely purchased the Dis-organizer
+Mk II, the latest in biothaumaturgic design, with a host of useful
+features and no resemblance whatsoever to the Mk I, which you may have
+inadvertently destroyed by stamping on it heavily!" it said, adding,
+"This device is provided without warranty of any kind as to reliability,
+accuracy, existence or otherwise or fitness for any particular purpose
+and Bioalchemic Products specifically does not warrant, guarantee, imply
+or make any representations as to its merchantability for any particular
+purpose and furthermore shall have no liability for or responsibility to
+you or any other person, entity or deity with respect to any loss or
+damage whatsoever caused by this device or object or by any attempts to
+destroy it by hammering it against a wall or dropping it into a deep well
+or by any other means whatsoever and moreover asserts that you indicate
+your acceptance of this agreement or any other agreement that may be
+substituted at any time by coming within five miles of the product or
+observing it through large telescopes or by any other means because you
+are such an easily cowed moron who will happily accept arrogant and
+unilateral conditions on a piece of highly priced garbage that you would
+not dream of accepting on a bag of dog biscuits and is used solely at
+your own risk."
+
+ [The Truth, by Terry Pratchett]
+%e passage
+# p. 168
+%passage 13
+It looked to Sacharissa that the only tools a dwarf needed was his ax and
+some means of making fire. That'd eventually get him a forge, and with
+that he could make simple tools, and with those he could make /complex/
+tools, and with complex tools a dwarf could more or less make anything.
+
+ [The Truth, by Terry Pratchett]
+%e passage
%e title
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line, passage #11 both in footnote: "genious" -> "genius",
"was, oddly enough, was one [...]" -> "was, oddly enough, one [...]"
The Fifth Elephant #1, italicize /always/, #9, "dublet" -> "doublet"
+ The Truth #1, italicize several words
Thief of Time #2, "gold starts" -> "gold stars"
A Hat Full of Sky passage #9 "though" -> "thought"
various, including Death quotes: use two spaces to separate sentences
3.6's tribute: add one new passage to Sourcery, three to Small Gods, one to
Lords and Ladies, two to Soul Music, three to Interesting Times, four
to Maskerade, three to Hogfather, two to Jingo, four to The Last
- Continent, four to Carpe Jugulum, three to The Fifth Elephant
+ Continent, four to Carpe Jugulum, three to The Fifth Elephant, five
+ to The Truth
monsters can see and remember hero resistances
monsters can gain resistances by eating corpses
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