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-%title Thief of Time (8)
+%title Thief of Time (14)
+# p. 97 (Harper Torch edition)
%passage 1
"No running with scythes!"
[Thief of Time, by Terry Pratchett]
%e passage
+#
+# 6 new passages added for 3.7
+#
+# p. 80 (passage ends mid-paragraph)
+%passage 9
+Well, she was partly immortal, and that was all there was to it. She could
+see things that were really there(1) [...]
+
+(1) Which is much harder than seeing things that /aren't/ there. /Everyone/
+does that.
+
+ [Thief of Time, by Terry Pratchett]
+%e passage
+# p. 82 (passage starts mid-paragraph)
+%passage 10
+[...] Some humans would do anything to see if it was possible to do it.
+If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, with a sign on it saying
+"End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH," the paint wouldn't even
+have time to dry.
+
+ [Thief of Time, by Terry Pratchett]
+%e passage
+# p. 115 (passage ends mid-paragraph; Lobsang's "there" is inside the area
+# below, where a hole in the wall leads; Lu-Tze is already inside and
+# his "there" is outside where he just was and Lobsang still is)
+%passage 11
+"But novices aren't allowed in there under pain of death!"
+
+"That's a coincidence," said Lu-Tze, lowering himself to the tips of his
+fingers. "Because death is what awaits you if you stay out there, too."
+
+He dropped into the darkness. A moment later there was an unenlightened
+curse from below.
+
+Lobsang climbed in, hung by his fingertips, dropped, and rolled when he hit
+the floor below.
+
+"Well done," said Lu-Tze in the gloom. "When in doubt, choose to live."
+
+ [Thief of Time, by Terry Pratchett]
+%e passage
+# p. 132 (passage starts mid-paragraph; the abbot's recent reincarnation is
+# still an infant)
+%passage 12
+"[...] I mean, mentally he's nine hundred years old."
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+"That must make him very wise."
+
+"Pretty wise, pretty wise. But age and wisdom don't necessarily go
+together, I've always found," said Lu-Tze, as they approached the abbot's
+rooms. "Some people just become stupid with more authority. Not his
+Reverence, of course."
+
+ [Thief of Time, by Terry Pratchett]
+%e passage
+# p. 144 (two instances of singular "Igor" for the person then two plural
+# "Igors" for his clan is accurate)
+%passage 13
+Igor didn't much like the clock. He was a /people/ person. He preferred
+things that bled. And as the clock grew, with its shimmering crystal parts
+that didn't seem entirely all /here/, so Jeremy grew more absorbed and Igor
+grew more tense. There was definitely something new happening here, and
+Igors were avid to learn new things. But there were limits. Igors did not
+believe in "Forbidden Knowledge" and "Things Man Was Not Meant to Know" but
+obviously there were /some/ things a man was not meant to know, such as
+what it felt like to have every single particle of your body sucked into a
+little hole, and that seemed to be one of the options available in the
+immediate future.
+
+ [Thief of Time, by Terry Pratchett]
+%e passage
+# p. 170 ('spake' is accurate, as is ending the first paragraph with a colon)
+%passage 14
+/In the Second Scroll of Wen the Eternally Surprised/, a story is written
+concerning one day when the apprentice Clodpool, in a rebellious mood,
+approached Wen and spake thusly:
+
+"Master, what is the difference between a humanistic, monastic system of
+belief in which wisdom is sought by means of an apparently nonsensical
+system of questions and answers, and a lot of mystic gibberish made up on
+the spur of the moment?"
+
+Wen considered this for some time, and at last said: "A fish!"
+
+And Clodpool went away, satisfied.
+
+ [Thief of Time, by Terry Pratchett]
+%e passage
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