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-%title Wintersmith (2)
+%title Wintersmith (16)
+# p. 82 (HarperTeen edition--presumably HarperTempest suffered a name change)
%passage 1
-That's Third Thoughts for you.
-When a huge rock is going to land on your head,
-they're the thoughts that think:
-Is that an igneous rock, such as granite, or is it sandstone?
+That's Third Thoughts for you. When a huge rock is going to land on your
+head, they're the thoughts that think: Is that an igneous rock, such as
+granite, or is it sandstone?
[Wintersmith, by Terry Pratchett]
%e passage
+p. 113
%passage 2
They say that there can never be two snowflakes that are exactly alike, but
-has anyone checked lately?
+has anyone checked lately?
+
+ [Wintersmith, by Terry Pratchett]
+%e passage
+# pp. 32-33
+%passage 3
+All witches are a bit odd. Tiffany had got used to odd, so that odd seemed
+quite normal. There was Miss Level, for example, who had two bodies,
+although one of them was imaginery. Mistress Pullunder, who bred pedigreed
+earthworms and gave them all names... well, she was hardly odd at all, just
+a bit peculiar, and anyway earthworms were quite interesting in a basically
+uninterestng kind of way. And there had been Old Mother Dismass, who
+suffered from bouts of temporal confusion, which can be quite strange when
+it happens to a witch; her mouth never moved in time with her words, and
+sometimes her footsteps came down the stairs ten minutes before she did.
+
+But when it came to odd, Miss Treason didn't just take the cake, but a
+packet of biscuits too, with sprinkles on the top, and also a candle.
+
+ [Wintersmith, by Terry Pratchett]
+%e passage
+# p. 34 ('villages': plural is accurate; 'clonk-clank' is rendered bold)
+%passage 4
+Then there was her clock. It was heavy and made of rusty iron by someone
+who was more blacksmith than watchmaker, which was why it went
+*clonk-clank* instead of /tick-tock/. She wore it on her belt and could
+tell the time by feeling the stubby little hands.
+
+There was a story in the villages that the clock was Miss Treason's heart,
+which she'd used ever since her first heart died. But there were lots of
+stories about Miss Treason.
+
+ [Wintersmith, by Terry Pratchett]
+%e passage
+# p. 40 (Boffo)
+%passage 5
+First Sight and Second Thoughts, that's what a witch had to rely on: First
+Sight to see what's really there, and Second Thoughts to watch the First
+Thoughts to check that they were thinking right. Then there were the
+Third Thoughts, which Tiffany had never heard discussed and therefore kept
+quiet about; they were odd, seemed to think for themselves, and didn't
+turn up very often. And they were telling her that there was more to Miss
+Treason than met the eye.
+
+ [Wintersmith, by Terry Pratchett]
+%e passage
+# p. 53-54 (in Carpe Jugulum, most of the lore [for humans] about how to kill
+# vampires had been written by long-lived/long-not-defunct vampires
+# [meaning that it was deliberately full of inaccuracies...])
+%passage 6
+It was in fact Miss Tick who had written /Witch Hunting for Dumb People/,
+and she made sure that copies of it found their way into those areas where
+people still believed that witches should be burned or drowned.
+
+Since the only witch ever likely to pass through these days was Miss Tick
+herself, it meant that if things did go wrong, she'd get a good night's
+sleep and a decent meal before being thrown into the water. The water was
+no problem at all for Miss Tick, who had been to the Quirm College for
+Young Ladies, where you had to have an icy dip every morning to build Moral
+Fiber. And a No. 1 Bosun's knot was very easy to undo with your teeth,
+even underwater.
+
+ [Wintersmith, by Terry Pratchett]
+%e passage
+# p. 55-56
+%passage 7
+Working quickly, she emptied her pockets and started a shamble.
+
+Shambles worked. That was about all you could say about them for certain.
+You made them out of some string and a couple of sticks and anything you
+had in your pocket at the time. They were a witch's equivalent of those
+knives with fifteen blades and three screwdrivers and a tiny magnifying
+glass and a thing for extracting earwax from chickens.
+
+You couldn't even say precisely what they did, although Miss Tick thought
+that they were a way of finding out what things the hidden bits of your
+own mind already knew. You had to make a shamble from scratch every time,
+and only from things in your pockets. There was no harm in having
+interesting things in your pockets, though, just in case.
+
+ [Wintersmith, by Terry Pratchett]
+%e passage
+# p. 69
+%passage 8
+A witch didn't do things because they seemed like a good idea at the time!
+That was practically cackling! You had to deal every day with people who
+were foolish and lazy and untruthful and downright unpleasant, and you
+could certainly end up thinking that the world would be considerably
+improved if you gave them a slap. But you didn't because, as Miss Tick
+had once explained: a) it would make the world a better place for only a
+very short period of time; b) it would then make the world a slightly
+worse place; and c) you're not supposed to be as stupid as they are.
+
+ [Wintersmith, by Terry Pratchett]
+%e passage
+# p. 106 (Rob Anybody is married to their kelda, ruler of the clan;
+# passage continues with three or so pages about Explaining
+# [focusing on the reactions of the recipient of the explanation:
+# Pursin' o' the Lips; Foldin' o' the Arms; Tappin' o' the Feets;
+# and also the reactions of the listening Feegles as they hear
+# about them] but would end up on the long side if included here)
+%passage 9
+"Aye, but the boy willna be interested in marryin'," said Slightly Mad
+Angus.
+
+"He might be one day," said Billy Bigchin, who'd made a hobby of watching
+humans. "Most bigjob men get married."
+
+"They do?" said a Feegle in astonishment.
+
+"Oh, aye."
+
+"They want tae get married?"
+
+"A lot o' them do, aye," said Billy.
+
+"So there's nae more drinkin', and stealin', and fightin'?"
+
+"Hey, ah'm still allowed some drinkin' and stealin' and fightin'!" said
+Rob Anybody.
+
+"Aye, Rob, but we canna help noticin' ye also have tae do the Explainin',
+too." said Daft Wullie.
+
+There was a general nodding from the crowd. To Feegles, Explaining was a
+dark art. It was just so /hard/.
+
+ [Wintersmith, by Terry Pratchett]
+%e passage
+# p. 126-127 (passage starts mid-paragraph;
+# witches know in advance when they're going to die)
+%passage 10
+"[...] We shall hold the funeral tomorrow afternoon."
+
+"Sorry? You mean /before/ you die?" said Tiffany.
+
+"Why, of course! I don't see why I shouldn't have some fun!"
+
+"Good thinkin'!" said Rob Anybody. "That's the kind o' sensible detail
+people usually fails tae consider."
+
+"We call it a going-away party," said Miss Treason. "Just for witches, of
+course. Other people tend to get a bit nervous--I can't think why. And
+on the bright side, we've got that splendid ham that Mr. Armbinder gave us
+last week for settling the ownership of the chestnut tree, and I'd love to
+try it."
+
+ [Wintersmith, by Terry Pratchett]
+%e passage
+# p. 129
+%passage 11
+Some people think that "coven" is a word for a group of witches, and it's
+true that's what the dictionary says. But the real word for a group of
+witches is an "argument."
+
+ [Wintersmith, by Terry Pratchett]
+%e passage
+# p. 174-175 (passage starts mid-paragraph; last paragraph continues, but
+# changes topic so abruptly Tiffany gasps; 'rumbustious' is accurate)
+%passage 12
+"[...] And now I shall tell you something vitally important. It is the
+secret of my long life."
+
+Ah, thought Tiffany, and she leaned forward.
+
+"The important thing," said Miss Treason, "is to stay the passage of the
+wind. You should avoid rumbustious fruits and vegetables. Beans are the
+worst, take it from me."
+
+"I don't think I understand--" Tiffany began.
+
+"Try not to fart, in a nutshell."
+
+"In a nutshell, I imagine it would be pretty unpleasant!" said Tiffany
+nervously. She couldn't believe she was being told this.
+
+"This is no joking matter," said Miss Treason. "The human body has only
+so much air in it. You have to make it last. One plate of beans can take
+a year off your life. I have avoided rumbustiousness all my days. I am
+an old person and that means what I say is wisdom!" She gave the
+bewildered Tiffany a stern look. "Do you understand, child?"
+
+Tiffany's mind raced. Everything is a test! "No," she said. "I'm not a
+child and that's nonsense, not wisdom!"
+
+The stern look cracked into a smile. "Yes," said Miss Treason. "Total
+gibberish. But you've got to admit it's a corker, all the same, right?
+You definitely believed it, just for a moment? The villagers did last
+year. You should have seen the way they walked about for a few weeks!
+The strained looks on their faces quite cheered me up! [...]"
+
+ [Wintersmith, by Terry Pratchett]
+%e passage
+# p. 185 (Miss Treason tells people she's 113, but she's actually /only/ 111)
+%passage 13
+MISS EUMENIDES TREASON, AGED ONE HUNDRED AND ELEVEN?
+
+Tiffany heard the voice inside her head. It didn't seem to have come
+through her ears. And she'd heard it before, making her quite unusual.
+Most people hear the voice of Death only once.
+
+ [Wintersmith, by Terry Pratchett]
+%e passage
+# p. 229
+%passage 14
+Tiffany had looked up "strumpet" in the Unexpurgated Dictionary, and found
+it meant "a woman who is no better than she should be" and "a lady of easy
+virtue." This, she decided after some working out, meant that Mrs. Gytha
+Ogg, known as Nanny, was a very respectable person. She found virtue easy,
+for one thing. And if she was no better than she should be, she was just
+as good as she ought to be.
+
+ [Wintersmith, by Terry Pratchett]
+%e passage
+# p. 360-361 ('wurds' is accurate)
+%passage 15
+"An heroic effect, Mr. Anybody," said Granny. "The first thing a hero must
+conquer is his fear, and when it comes to fightin', the Nac Mac Feegle
+don't know the meanin' of the word."
+
+"Aye, true enough," Rob grunted. "We dinna ken the meanin' o' thousands
+o' wurds!"
+
+ [Wintersmith, by Terry Pratchett]
+%e passage
+# p. 398-399 ("Chumsfanleigh" is pronounced "Chuffley")
+%passage 16
+At the back of the Feegles' chalk pit, more chalk had been carved out of
+the wall to make a tunnel about five feet high and perhaps as long.
+
+In front of it stood Roland de Chumsfanleigh (it wasn't his fault). His
+ancestors had been knights, and they had come to own the Chalk by killing
+the kings who thought they did. Swords, that's what it had all been about.
+Swords and cutting off heads. That was how you got land in the old days,
+and then the rules were changed so that you didn't need a sword to own
+land anymore, you just needed the right piece of paper. But his ancestors
+had still hung on to their swords, just in case people thought that the
+whole thing with the bits of paper had been unfair, it being a fact that
+you can't please everybody.
+
+He'd always wanted to be good with a sword, and it had come as a shock to
+find that they were so /heavy/. He was great at air sword. In front of a
+mirror he could fence against his reflection and win nearly all the time.
+Real swords didn't allow that. You tried to swing them and they ended up
+swinging you. He'd realized that maybe he was more cut out for bits of
+paper. Besides, he needed glasses, which could be a bit tricky under a
+helmet, especially if someone was hitting /you/ with a sword.
[Wintersmith, by Terry Pratchett]
%e passage
'I don't know, thur. I didn't athk.'
[Making Money, by Terry Pratchett]
-%e pasasge
+%e passage
%passage 2
The Watch armour fitted like a glove. He'd have preferred it to fit like a
helmet and breastplate. It was common knowledge that the Watch's approach
# Used for interaction with Death.
#
%section Death
-%title Death Quotes (8)
+%title Death Quotes (10)
%passage 1
WHERE THE FIRST PRIMAL CELL WAS, THERE WAS I ALSO. WHERE MAN IS, THERE AM I. WHEN THE LAST LIFE CRAWLS UNDER FREEZING STARS, THERE WILL I BE.
%e passage
# time and space)
%passage 8
THERE IS ALWAYS TIME FOR ANOTHER LAST MINUTE.
+# Wintersmith, p. 187 (HarperTeen edition; dying Miss Treason takes a ham
+# [too silly?] sandwich with her to the grave, and it accompanies
+# her to the afterlife, but its condiments don't)
+%passage 9
+MUSTARD IS ALWAYS TRICKY.
+%passage 10
+PICKLES OF ALL SORTS DON'T SEEM TO MAKE IT. I'M SORRY.
%e title
%e section
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