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-%title Moving Pictures (4)
+%title Moving Pictures (16)
+# p. 7 (ROC Edition)
%passage 1
-This is space. It's sometimes called the final frontier.
+This is space. It's sometimes called the final frontier.
+
(Except that of course you can't have a /final/ frontier, because there'd
- be nothing for it to be a frontier /to/, but as frontiers go, it's pretty
-penultimate...)
+be nothing for it to be a frontier /to/, but as frontiers go, it's pretty
+penultimate...)
[Moving Pictures, by Terry Pratchett]
%e passage
+# pp. 22-23 (very short but happens to span a page boundary...)
%passage 2
By and large, the only skill the alchemists of Ankh-Morpork had discovered
-so far was the ability to turn gold into less gold.
+so far was the ability to turn gold into less gold.
[Moving Pictures, by Terry Pratchett]
%e passage
+# pp. 44, 45, 46 (multiple paragraphs skipped in the first two gaps)
%passage 3
-There was a dog sitting by his feet.
+He looked down. There was a dog sitting by his feet.
+
It was small, bow-legged and wiry, and basically grey but with patches of
-brown, white, and black in outlying areas... It looked up slowly, and
-said 'Woof?' Victor poked an exploratory finger in his ear. It must have
- been a trick of an echo, or something. It wasn't that the dog had gone
- 'woof!', although that was practically unique in itself; most dogs in the
- universe /never/ went 'woof!', they had complicated barks like 'whuuugh!'
- and 'hwhoouf!'. No, it was that it hadn't in fact /barked/ at all. It had
-/said/ 'woof'. 'Could have bin worse, mister. I could have said "miaow".'
+brown, white, and black in outlying areas, and it was staring.
+
+It was certainly the most penetrating stare Victor had ever seen. It
+wasn't menacing, or fawning. It was just very slow and very thorough, as
+though the dog was memorising details so that it could give a full
+description to the authorities later.
+
+[...]
+
+Victor let his gaze slide downwards. There was nothing there but the little
+dog, industriously scratching itself. It looked up slowly, and said "Woof?"
+
+[...]
+
+Victor poked an exploratory finger in his ear. It must have been a trick
+of an echo, or something. It wasn't that the dog had gone "woof!?, although
+that was practically unique in itself; most dogs in the universe /never/
+went "woof!", they had complicated barks like "whuuugh!" and "hwhoouf!".
+No, it was that it hadn't in fact /barked/ at all. It had /said/ "woof".
+
+[...]
+
+One of the last things Victor remembered was a voice beside his knee saying,
+"Could have bin worse, mister. I could have said 'miaow'."
[Moving Pictures, by Terry Pratchett]
%e passage
+# p. 322
%passage 4
-''Twas beauty killed the beast,' said the Dean, who liked to say things
-like that. 'No it wasn't,' said the Chair. 'It was it splatting into the
-ground like that.'
+"'Twas beauty killed the beast," said the Dean, who liked to say things
+like that.
+
+"No it wasn't," said the Chair. "It was it splatting into the ground like
+that."
+
+ [Moving Pictures, by Terry Pratchett]
+%e passage
+# p. 12
+%passage 5
+There's a saying that all roads lead to Ankh-Morpork, greatest of Discworld
+cities.
+
+At least, there's a /saying/ that there's a saying that all roads lead to
+Ankh-Morpork.
+
+And it's wrong. All roads lead /away/ from Ankh-Morpork, but sometimes
+people just walk along them the wrong way.
+
+ [Moving Pictures, by Terry Pratchett]
+%e passage
+# p. 34 (Victor Tugelbend and Ponder Stibbons are students at Unseen Uni.)
+%passage 6
+"Rain's stopped. Let's go over the wall," he said. "We deserve a drink."
+
+Victor waggled a finger. "Just one drink, then. Got to keep sober," he
+said. "It's Finals tomorrow. Got to keep a clear head!"
+
+"Huh!", said Ponder.
+
+Of course, it's very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many
+worthwhile careers in the street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-
+playing industries have been founded on a lack of understanding of this
+simple fact.
+
+ [Moving Pictures, by Terry Pratchett]
+%e passage
+# p. 37
+%passage 7
+In a sense which his tutors couldn't quite define, much to their annoyance,
+Victor Tugelbend was also the laziest person in the history of the world.
+
+Not simply, ordinarily lazy. Ordinary laziness was merely the absence of
+effort. Victor had passed through there a long time ago, had gone straight
+through commonplace idleness and out on the far side. He put more effort
+into avoiding work than most people put into hard labour.
+
+ [Moving Pictures, by Terry Pratchett]
+%e passage
+# p. 60
+%passage 8
+Cut-me-own-Throat Dibbler was one of those rare people with the ability to
+think in straight lines.
+
+Most people think in curves and zig-zags. For example, they start with a
+thought like: I wonder how I can become very rich, and then proceed along
+an uncertain course which includes thoughts like: I wonder what's for
+supper, and: I wonder who I know that can lend me five dollars?
+
+Whereas Throat was one of those people who could identify the thought at the
+other end of the process, in this case /I am now very rich/, draw a line
+between the two, and then think his way along it, slowly and patiently,
+until he got to the other end.
+
+Not that it worked. There was always, he found, some small but vital flaw
+in the process. It generally involved a strange reluctance on the part of
+people to buy what he had to sell.
+
+ [Moving Pictures, by Terry Pratchett]
+%e passage
+# pp. 71-72
+%passage 9
+"Tell me, Mr Dibbler." said Silverfish, "what exactly is your profession?"
+
+"I sell merchandise," said Dibbler.
+
+"Mostly sausages," Victor volunteered.
+
+"/And/ merchandise," said Dibbler, sharply. "I only sell sausages when the
+merchandising trade is a bit slow."
+
+"And the sale of sausages leads you to believe you can make better moving
+pictures?" said Silverfish. "Anyone can sell sausages! Isn't that so,
+Victor?"
+
+"Well..." said Victor, reluctantly. No-one except Dibbler could possibly
+sell Dibbler's sausages.
+
+"There you are then," said Silverfish.
+
+"The thing is," said Victor, "that Mr Dibbler can even sell sausages to
+people who have bought them off him /before/."
+
+"That's right!" said Dibbler. He beamed at Victor.
+
+"And a man who could sell Mr Dibbler's sausages twice could sell anything,"
+said Victor.
+
+ [Moving Pictures, by Terry Pratchett]
+%e passage
+# p. 111-112 ('dis', 'ort', 'yore', 'finking', 'mayonnaisey', 'specialitay',
+# 'de lar mayson' all accurate)
+%passage 10
+Borgle's commissary had decided to experiment with salads tonight. The
+nearest salad growing district was thirty slow miles away.
+
+"What dis?" demanded a troll, holding up something limp and brown.
+
+Fruntkin the short-order chef hazarded a guess.
+
+'Celery?" he said. He peered closer. "Yeah, celery."
+
+"It /brown/."
+
+"'S'right. 'S'right! Ripe celery ort to be brown," said Fruntkin, quickly.
+"Shows it's ripe," he added.
+
+"It should be /green/."
+
+"Nah. Yore finking about the tomatoes," said Fruntkin.
+
+"Yeah, and what's this runny stuff?" said a man in the queue.
+
+Fruntkin drew himself up to his full height.
+
+"That," he said, "is the mayonnaisey. Made it myself. Out of a /book/, he
+added proudly.
+
+"Yead, I expect you did," said the man, prodding it. "Clearly oil, eggs
+and vinegar were not involved, right?"
+
+"Specialitay de lar mayson," said Fruntkin.
+
+"Right, right," said the man. "Only it's attacking my lettuce."
+
+Fruntkin grasped his ladle angrily.
+
+"Look--" he began.
+
+"No, it's all right," said the prospective diner. "The slugs have formed a
+defensive ring."
+
+ [Moving Pictures, by Terry Pratchett]
+%e passage
+# p. 137 (CMOT Dibbler has become a director, Rock is a troll actor)
+%passage 11
+"Er, I was just wondering, Mr Dibbler... what is my motivation for this
+scene?"
+
+"Motivation?"
+
+"Yes. Er. I got to know, see," said Rock.
+
+"How about: I'll fire you if you don't do it properly?"
+
+Rock grinned. "Right you are, Mr Dibbler," he said.
+
+ [Moving Pictures, by Terry Pratchett]
+%e passage
+# p. 189
+%passage 12
+Magic wasn't difficult. That was the big secret that the whole baroque
+edifice or wizardry had been set up to conceal. Anyone with a bit of
+intelligence and enough perseverance could do magic, which was why the
+wizards cloaked it with rituals and the whole pointy-hat business.
+
+The trick was to do magic and /get away with it/.
+
+Because it was as if the human race was a field of corn and magic helped
+the users grow just that bit taller, so that they stood out. That
+attracted the attention of gods and--Victor hesitated--other Things outside
+this world. People who used magic without knowing what they were doing
+usually came to a sticky end.
+
+All over the entire room, sometimes.
+
+ [Moving Pictures, by Terry Pratchett]
+%e passage
+# p. 204 (passage ends mid-paragraph; musings are by Gaspode the dog)
+%passage 13
+Sunnink dreadful in there, he thought. Prob'ly tentacled fings that rips
+your face off. I mean, when you finds mysterious doors in old hills, it
+stands to reason wot comes out ain't going to be pleased to see you. Evil
+creatures wot Man shouldn't wot of, and here's one dog wot don't want to
+wot of them either.
+
+ [Moving Pictures, by Terry Pratchett]
+%e passage
+# pp. 206-207 (passage starts mid-paragraph; Dibbler now controls Silverfish's
+# moving pictures studio; Detritus isn't part of the Watch yet)
+%passage 14
+"[...] Detritus, throw this bum out!"
+
+"Right you are, Mr Dibbler," rumbled the troll, gripping Silverfish's
+collar.
+
+"You haven't heard the last of this, you--you scheming, devious
+megalomaniac!"
+
+Dibbler removed his cigar.
+
+"That's /Mister/ Megalomanic to you," he said.
+
+ [Moving Pictures, by Terry Pratchett]
+%e passage
+# p. 274 (passage starts mid-sentence; senior wizards of the University are
+# attending a 'click' and have decided to take their hats off...)
+%passage 15
+[...] inside every old person is a young person wondering what happened.
+
+ [Moving Pictures, by Terry Pratchett]
+%e passage
+# p. 295 (passage starts mid-sentence; the movie theater owner's daughter
+# is playing a pipe organ to accompany the silent movie)
+%passage 16
+[...] whatever piece of music she was playing, it was definitely losing.
[Moving Pictures, by Terry Pratchett]
%e passage
# Death Quotes are always one line, and '%e passage' can be omitted.
#
%section Death
-%title Death Quotes (24)
+%title Death Quotes (25)
%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
# Pyramids, p. 57 (ROC edition)
%passage 23
I CAN SEE THAT YOU HAVE GOT A LOT TO THINK ABOUT.
-# Eric, p. 134
+# Eric, p. 134 (Harper Torch edition)
%passage 24
PERHAPS IT'S TIME TO CALL IT A DAY.
+# Moving Pictures, p. 260 (ROC edition)
+%passage 25
+I KNOW WHEN EVERYONE'S HAD ENOUGH.
%e title
%e section
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