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-%title Sourcery (2)
+%title Sourcery (10)
+# p. 9 (Signet edition; passage starts mid-paragraph and ends mid-paragraph)
%passage 1
-And what would humans be without love?
-RARE, said Death.
+"[...] And what would humans be without love?"
+
+RARE, said Death. [...]
[Sourcery, by Terry Pratchett]
%e passage
%passage 2
-They suffered from the terrible delusion that something could be done.
+They suffered from the terrible delusion that something could be done.
They seemed prepared to make the world the way they wanted it or die in the
-attempt, and the trouble with dying in the attempt was that you died in
-the attempt.
+attempt, and the trouble with dying in the attempt was that you died in
+the attempt.
+
+ [Sourcery, by Terry Pratchett]
+%e passage
+# p. 11 ('worth while': two words is accurate, although strange)
+%passage 3
+"I meant," said Ipslore, bitterly, "what is there in this world that makes
+living worth while?"
+
+CATS, he said eventually, CATS ARE NICE.
+
+"Curse you!"
+
+MANY HAVE, said Death evenly.
+
+ [Sourcery, by Terry Pratchett]
+%e passage
+# p. 40-41 (text has 'the moment and the words' which is obviously a typo;
+# it might have intended 'that' for 'and'; we just drop 'and')
+%passage 4
+The thief, as will become apparent, was a special type of thief. This
+thief was an artist of theft. Other thieves merely stole everything that
+was not nailed down, but this thief stole the nails as well. This thief
+had scandalised Ankh by taking a particular interest in stealing, with
+astonishing success, things that were in fact not only nailed down but
+also guarded by keen-eyed guards in inaccessible strongrooms. There are
+artists that will paint an entire chapel ceiling; this was the kind of
+thief that could steal it.
+
+This particular thief was credited with stealing the jeweled disemboweling
+knife from the temple of Offler the Crocodile God during the middle of
+Evensong, and the silver shoes from the Patrician's finest racehorse
+while it was in the process of winning a race. When Gritoller Mimpsey,
+vice-president of the Thieves' Guild, was jostled in the marketplace and
+then found on returning home that a freshly-stolen handful of diamonds
+had vanished from their place of concealment, he knew who to blame.(1)
+This was the type of thief that could steal the initiative, the moment the
+words were out of your mouth.
+
+(1) This was because Gritoller had swallowed the jewels for safe keeping.
+
+ [Sourcery, by Terry Pratchett]
+%e passage
+# p. 63-64 ('Compleet', 'Majik', 'enterr', 'physycal', 'hys', 'bodie',
+# 'Destinie', 'Deathe', 'werre', 'nowe', 'menne', 'Ende',
+# 'Worlde', 'hadd', 'bee', 'goddes', 'ould', 'Apocralypse',
+# 'legende', 'thee': all accurate; 'ould' may be a typo...)
+%passage 5
+It was deathly quiet in the Library. The books were no longer frantic.
+They'd passed through their fear and out into the calm waters of abject
+terror, and they crouched on their shelves like so many mesmerised rabbits.
+
+A long hairy arm reached up and grabbed /Casplock's Compleet Lexicon of
+Majik and Precepts for the Wise/ before it could back away, soothed its
+terror with a long-fingered hand, and opened it under 'S'. The Librarian
+smoothed the trembling page gently and ran a horny nail down the entries
+until he came to:
+
+ *Sourceror*, /n. (mythical). A proto-wizard, a doorway through/
+ /which new majik may enterr the world, a wizard not limited by/
+ /the physycal capabilities of hys own bodie, not by Destinie,/
+ /nor by Deathe. It is written that there once werre sourcerors/
+ /in the youth of the world but not may there by nowe and blessed/
+ /be, for sourcery is not for menne and the return of sourcery/
+ /would mean the Ende of the Worlde... If the Creator hadd meant/
+ /menne to bee as goddes, he ould have given them wings./
+ /SEE ALSO: thee Apocralypse, the legende of thee Ice Giants,/
+ /and thee Teatime of the Goddes./
+
+The Librarian read the cross-references, turned back to the first entry,
+and stared at it through deep dark eyes for a long time. Then he put the
+book back carefully, crept under his desk, and pulled the blanket over
+his head.
+
+ [Sourcery, by Terry Pratchett]
+%e passage
+# p. 71-72
+%passage 6
+The current Patrician, head of the extremely rich and powerful Vetinari
+family, was thin, tall and apparently as cold-blooded as a dead penguin.
+Just by looking at him you could tell he was the sort of man you'd expect
+to keep a white cat, and caress it idly while sentencing people to death
+in a piranha tank; and you'd hazard for good measure that he probably
+collected rare, thin porcelain, turning it over and over in his blue-white
+fingers while distant screams echoed from the depths of the dungeons. You
+wouldn't put it past him to use the word "exquisite" and have thin lips.
+He looked the kind of person who, when they blinked, you mark it off on
+the calendar.
+
+Practically none of this was in fact the case, although he did have a small
+and exceedingly elderly wire-haired terrior called Wuffles that smelled
+badly and wheezed at people. It was said to be the only thing in the
+entire world he truly cared about. He did of course sometimes have people
+horribly tortured to death, but this was considered to be perfectly
+acceptable behaviour for a civic ruler and generally approved of by the
+overwhelming majority of citizens.(1) The people of Ankh are of a
+practical persuasion, and felt that the Patrician's edict forebidding all
+street theatre and mime artists made up for a lot of things. He didn't
+administer a reign of terror, just the occasional light shower.
+
+(1) The overwhelming majority of citizens being defined in this case as
+everyone not currently hanging upside down over a scorpion pit.
+
+ [Sourcery, by Terry Pratchett]
+%e passage
+# p. 75
+%passage 7
+"What exactly /is/ the Aprocralypse?"
+
+Rincewind hesitated. "Well," he said, "it's the end of the world. Sort
+of."
+
+"Sort of? /Sort of/ the end of the world? You mean we won't be certain?
+We'll all look around and say 'Pardon me, did you hear something?'?"
+
+"It's just that no two seers have ever agreed about it. There have been
+all kinds of vague predictions. Quite mad, some of them. So it was
+called the Apocralypse." He looked embarrassed. "It's a sort of
+apocryphal Apocalypse. A kin of pun, you see."
+
+ [Sourcery, by Terry Pratchett]
+%e passage
+# p. 110
+%passage 8
+"You're very quiet, Spelter. Do you not agree?"
+
+No. The world had sourcery once, and gave it up for wizardry. Wizardry is
+magic for men, not gods. It's not for us. There was something wrong with
+it, and we have forgotten what it was. I liked wizardry. It didn't upset
+the world. It fitted. It was right. A wizard was all I wanted to be.
+
+He looked down at his feet.
+
+"Yes," he whispered.
+
+ [Sourcery, by Terry Pratchett]
+%e passage
+# p. 141-142 (Rincewind and Nijel have just entered a harem)
+%passage 9
+Rincewind had eyes for none of this. [...] they were swamped by the
+considerably bigger flood of panic at the sight of four guards turning
+towards him with scimitars in their hands and the light of murder in their
+eyes.
+
+Without hesitation, Rincewind took a step backwards.
+
+"Over to you, friend," he said.
+
+"Right!"
+
+Nijel drew his sword and held it out in front of him, his arms trembling at
+the effort.
+
+There were a few seconds of total silence as everyone waited to see what
+would happen next. And then Nijel uttered the battle cry that Rincewind
+would never quite forget to the end of this life.
+
+"Erm," he said, "excuse me...."
+
+ [Sourcery, by Terry Pratchett]
+%e passage
+# p. 198-199
+%passage 10
+The astro-philosophers of Krull once succeeded in proving conclusively
+that all places are one place and that the distance between them is an
+illusion, and this news was an embarrassment to all thinking philosophers
+because it did not explain, among other things, signposts. After years of
+wrangling the whole thing was then turned over to Ly Tin Wheedle, arguably
+the Disc's greatest philosopher,(1) who after some thought proclaimed that
+although it was indeed true that all places were one place, that place was
+/very large/.
+
+And so psychic order was restored. Distance is, however, an entirely
+subjective phenomenon and creatures of magic can adjust it to suit
+themselves.
+
+They are not necessarily very good at it.
+
+(1) He always argued that he was.
[Sourcery, by Terry Pratchett]
%e passage
# Used for interaction with Death.
#
%section Death
-%title Death Quotes (19)
+%title Death Quotes (20)
%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
# p. 149
%passage 19
I HAVEN'T GOT A SINGLE FRIEND. EVEN CATS FIND ME AMUSING.
+# Sourcery, p. 12 (Signet edition)
+%passage 20
+YOU'RE ONLY PUTTING OFF THE INEVITABLE.
%e title
%e section
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