tribute: Small Gods

Add page number citations for the first two passages and add three
new passages.  That brings the total for Small Gods up to 15 which
is a bit on the high side, but they all seemed worthy.

While in there, fix a transcription mistake in Lords and Ladies #7:
"to" should be "be".

And two fixes for Jingo #11's footnote, change "genious" to "genius",
remove second "was" from "was, oddly enough, was one [...]".

Also, add a comment about the Amazing Maurice.

I've tried to bring the fixes37.0 entries about tribute fixes up to
date.  They're mostly minor and mostly neglected to include updates
for that.

diff --git a/dat/tribute b/dat/tribute
index e71670578ece1cae2e0f7a2490232ac9ba7902f4..28c072240a83ded793bff9d92f3581cb19e37066 100644 (file)
--- a/dat/tribute
+++ b/dat/tribute
@@ -2984,15 +2984,22 @@ The witches watched with interest.
 #
 #
 #
-%title Small Gods (12)
+%title Small Gods (15)
+# p. 174 (Harper Torch edition; passage starts mid-paragraph; speaker is
+#         the blind philosopher Didactylos referring to a book in scroll
+#         form called /On Religion/ by another philosopher, Abraxas;
+#         Didactylos mentions that Old 'Charcoal' Abraxas had been hit by
+#         lightning 15 times)
 %passage 1
-He says gods like to see an atheist around.  Gives them something to aim at.
+"[...]  He says gods like to see an atheist around.  Gives them something
+to aim at."
 
   [Small Gods, by Terry Pratchett]
 %e passage
+# p. 79 (passage starts mid-paragraph; speaker is Cut-Me-Own-Hand-Off Dhblah)
 %passage 2
-Pets are always a great help in times of stress.  And in times of starvation
-too, o'course.
+[...]  "Pets are always a great help in times of stress.  And in times of
+starvation too, o'course."
 
   [Small Gods, by Terry Pratchett]
 %e passage
@@ -3191,6 +3198,35 @@ But, on the whole, there are worse places to be buried than inside a lion.
 
   [Small Gods, by Terry Pratchett]
 %e passage
+#
+# 3 more passages added for 3.7
+#
+# p. 7 (Brother Nhumrod is in charge of a group of novices; he's thinking
+#       about one of them, Brutha, the main character of the story)
+%passage 13
+There was something creepy about the boy, Nhumrod thought.  It was the way
+he looked at you when you were talking, as if he was /listening/.
+
+  [Small Gods, by Terry Pratchett]
+%e passage
+# p. 11 (musing by the Great God Om)
+%passage 14
+The trouble with being a god is that you've got no one to pray to.
+
+  [Small Gods, by Terry Pratchett]
+%e passage
+# p. 210 (speaker is Didactylos the Ephebian philosopher)
+%passage 15
+"Life in this world," he said, "is, as it were, a sojourn in a cave.  What
+can we know of reality?  For all we see of the true nature of existence
+is, shall we say, no more than bewildering and amusing shadows cast upon
+the inner wall of the cave by the unseen blinding light of absolute truth,
+from which we may or may not deduce some glimmer of veracity, and we as
+troglodyte seekers of wisdom can only lift our voices to the unseen and
+say, humbly, 'Go on, do Deformed Rabbit... it's my favorite.'"
+
+  [Small Gods, by Terry Pratchett]
+%e passage
 %e title
 #
 #
@@ -3215,7 +3251,7 @@ Elves are bad.
 
   [Lords and Ladies, by Terry Pratchett]
 %e passage
-# p. 32
+# p. 32 (talking about Magrat who has married Verence, Lancre's new king)
 %passage 2
 "Hope she does all right as queen," said Nanny.
 
@@ -3326,7 +3362,7 @@ Younger witches, on the other hand, talk about it all the time and believe
 it involves crystals, mystic forces, and dancing about without yer drawers
 on.
 
-Everyone may to right, all at the same time.  That's the thing about
+Everyone may be right, all at the same time.  That's the thing about
 quantum.
 
   [Lords and Ladies, by Terry Pratchett]
@@ -5061,8 +5097,8 @@ Patrician up the ladder.
 called it the Going-Under-the-Water-Safely Device," said Leonard, behind
 him.(1)  "But usually I just think of it as the boat."
 
-(1) Thinking up good names was, oddly enough, was one area where Leonard
-of Quirm's genious tended to give up.
+(1) Thinking up good names was, oddly enough, one area where Leonard of
+Quirm's genius tended to give up.
 
   [Jingo, by Terry Pratchett]
 %e passage
@@ -5975,6 +6011,12 @@ betray 'em, quick as a wink.  'Cos that's villaining.'
 # which is awarded for best children's book of the year.
 # (The other Young Adult Discworld books are the five Tiffany Aching ones.)
 #
+# "Mr so-called Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents!" (the characters
+# rather than the book named for them) were first mentioned--in passing
+# rather than part of the story--about 1/3 of the way through _Reaper_Man_.
+# (p. 115, ROC edition; the text there does capitalize 'His'; 'Mr' without
+# period is accurate; the exclamation is derogatory).
+#
 # _The_Amazing_Maurice..._ may well be the most serious Discworld book.
 # (Don't worry, it has lots of humor/humour in it....)
 #

diff --git a/doc/fixes37.0 b/doc/fixes37.0
index 3f655dcb4b3cb678a82ba56bdf73820536491c33..91af31f7ac759ade8bba9df373e5cea742fc475d 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/fixes37.0
+++ b/doc/fixes37.0
@@ -110,7 +110,23 @@ correctly account for fuel remaining when lit candles are attached
        there were 15 or fewer turns remaining)
 praying on an unaligned altar outside of Gehennom behaved like an ordinary
        prayer; make that always fail
-Discworld typo: Moving Pictures passage 12 "or" -> "of"
+tribute (Discworld snippets) typos, in book order rather than fix order:
+       Sourcery passage #4 "the moment the words were out of your mouth" ->
+        "the moment and the words out of your mouth" where "were" didn't
+        belong and awkward phrasing because of it caused "and" to be removed
+        (would be much clearer if optional comma after "moment" was included)
+       Moving Pictures passage #10 initial single quote should be double,
+        #12 "or" -> "of", #14 second instance of "megalomaniac" misspelled
+       Lords and Ladies passage #5, near end add missing opening double
+        quote, passage #7 last paragraph, "to" -> "be"
+       Hogfather passage #7 missing initial double quote for "Oh, just ...",
+        also #7 insert missing "you" into "Why are you feeling [...]"
+       Jingo passage #2 "Vines" -> "Vimes", "profferred" -> "proffered",
+        missing opening single quote on second sentence of Lord Downey's
+        line, passage #11 both in footnote:  "genious" -> "genius",
+        "was, oddly enough, was one [...]" -> "was, oddly enough, one [...]"
+       A Hat Full of Sky passage #9 "though" -> "thought"
+       various, including Death quotes:  separate sentences by two spaces
 unicorn corpses and wraith corpses could be sacrificed even if "too old"
 hero polymorphed into a hider and hiding was not unhidden when teleporting
 impose tighter restraints on 'summon nasties', both for spellcasting monsters
@@ -925,6 +941,7 @@ menu_shift_left, menu_shift_right menu command keys; default '{' and '}'
 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
 
 
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