[The Colour of Magic, by Terry Pratchett]
%e passage
-# p. 228-229 (passage starts mid-paragraph)
+# pp. 228-229 (passage starts mid-paragraph)
%passage 14
[...] She was the Goddess Who Must Not Be Named; those who sought her
never found her, yet she was known to come to the aid of those in greatest
[Mort, by Terry Pratchett]
%e passage
-# p. 139-140 (passage ends mid-sentence)
+# pp. 139-140 (passage ends mid-sentence)
%passage 7
"You don't know much about monarchy, do you?" said Keli.
[Mort, by Terry Pratchett]
%e passage
-# p. 159-160 (Death has come to an employment agency--a new concept in
-# Ankh-Morpork--looking for a job)
+# pp. 159-160 (Death has come to an employment agency--a new concept in
+# Ankh-Morpork--looking for a job)
%passage 9
"And what was your previous position?"
[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')
+# pp. 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
[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...)
+# pp. 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
[Sourcery, by Terry Pratchett]
%e passage
-# p. 71-72
+# pp. 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.
[Sourcery, by Terry Pratchett]
%e passage
-# p. 141-142 (Rincewind and Nijel have just entered a harem)
+# pp. 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
[Sourcery, by Terry Pratchett]
%e passage
-# p. 198-199
+# pp. 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
[Guards! Guards!, by Terry Pratchett]
%e passage
-# p. 299-300 + 325 (final part comes quite a bit later; Carrot is trying to
-# alert oblivious Sergeant Colon that the dragon is coming)
+# pp. 299-300 + 325 (final part comes quite a bit later; Carrot is trying to
+# alert oblivious Sergeant Colon that the dragon is coming)
%passage 14
"This is what it comes to!" muttered Colon. "Decent women can't walk down
the street without being eaten! Right, you bastards, you're... you're
[Moving Pictures, by Terry Pratchett]
%e passage
-# p. 111-112 ('dis', 'ort', 'yore', 'finking', 'mayonnaisey', 'specialitay',
-# 'de lar mayson' all accurate)
+# pp. 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.
[Reaper Man, by Terry Pratchett]
%e passage
-# p. 81-82 (things have stopped dying because Death is no longer on the job)
+# pp. 81-82 (things have stopped dying because Death is no longer on the job)
%passage 10
Everything that exists, yearns to live. That's what the cycle of life is
all about. That's the engine that drives the great biological pumps of
#
#
#
-%title Witches Abroad (1)
+%title Witches Abroad (14)
+# p. 92 (ROC edition)
%passage 1
Vampires have risen from the dead, the grave and the crypt, but have never
managed it from the cat.
[Witches Abroad, by Terry Pratchett]
%e passage
+# pp. 12-13
+%passage 2
+Desiderata Hollow was making her will.
+
+When Desiderata Hollow was a girl, her grandmother had given her four
+important pieces of advice to guide her young footsteps on the unexpectedly
+twisting pathway of life.
+
+They were:
+
+Never trust a dog with orange eyebrows,
+
+Always get the young man's name and address,
+
+Never get between two mirrors,
+
+And always wear completely clean underwear every day because you never knew
+when you were going to be knocked down and killed by a runaway horse and if
+people found you had unsatisfactory underwear on, you'd die of shame.
+
+And then Desiderata grew up to become a witch. And one of the minor
+benefits of being a witch is that you know exactly when you're going to die
+and can wear what underwear you like.(1)
+
+That had been eighty years earlier, when the idea of knowing exactly when
+you were going to die had seemed quite attractive because secretly, of
+course, you knew you were going to live forever.
+
+That was then.
+
+And this was now.
+
+Forever didn't seem to last as long these days as once it did.
+
+(1) Which explains a lot about witches.
+
+ [Witches Abroad, by Terry Pratchett]
+%e passage
+# p. 64 (passage ends mid-paragraph)
+%passage 3
+"You know," said Nanny, investigating the recesses of the basket, "whenever
+I deals with dwarfs, the phrase 'Duck's arse' swims across my mind."
+
+"Mean little devils. You should see the prices they tries to charge me
+when I takes my broom to be repaired," said Granny.
+
+"Yes, but you never pay," said Magrat.
+
+"That's not the point," said Granny Weatherwax. "They shouldn't be allowed
+to charge that sort of money. That's thievin', that is."
+
+"I don't see how it can be thieving if you don't pay anyway," said Magrat.
+
+"I never pay for anything," said Granny. [...]
+
+ [Witches Abroad, by Terry Pratchett]
+%e passage
+# p. 93 (passage is a footnote)
+%passage 4
+Nanny Ogg sent a number of cards home to her family, not a single one of
+which got back before she did. This is traditional, and happens everywhere
+in the universe.
+
+ [Witches Abroad, by Terry Pratchett]
+%e passage
+# pp. 118-119 (Magrat has been teaching herself martial arts via books)
+%passage 5
+"Lobsang Dibbler says sometimes you have to lose in order to win," said
+Magrat.
+
+"Sounds daft to me," said Nanny. "That's Yen Buddhism, is it?"
+
+"No. They're the ones who say you have to have lots of money to win," said
+Magrat.(1) "In the Path of the Scorpion, the way to win is to lose every
+fight except the last one. You use the enemy's strength against himself."
+
+"What, you get him to hit himself, sort of thing?" said Nanny. "Sounds
+daft."
+
+(1) The Yen Buddhists are the richest religious sect in the universe. They
+hold that the accumulation of money is a great evil and burden to the soul.
+They therefore, regardless of personal hazard, see it as their unpleasant
+duty to acquire as much as possible to reduce the risk to innocent people.
+
+ [Witches Abroad, by Terry Pratchett]
+%e passage
+# p. 131
+%passage 6
+They had breakfast in a forest clearing. It was grilled pumpkin. The dwarf
+bread was brought out for inspection. But it was miraculous, the dwarf
+bread. No one ever went hungry when they had some dwarf bread to avoid.
+You only had to look at it for a moment, and instantly you could think of
+dozens of things you'd rather eat. Your boots for example. Mountains. Raw
+sheep. Your own foot.
+
+ [Witches Abroad, by Terry Pratchett]
+%e passage
+# pp. 194-195 ("he just" is accurate; cockerel == adolescent rooster)
+%passage 7
+"This is Legba, a dark and dangerous spirit," said Mrs. Gogol. She leaned
+closer and spoke out of the corner of her mouth. "Between you and me, he
+just a big black cockerel. But you know how it is."
+
+"It pays to advertise," Nanny agreed. "This is Greebo. Between you and me,
+he's a fiend from hell."
+
+"Well, he's a cat," said Mrs. Gogol, generously. "It's only to be expected."
+
+ [Witches Abroad, by Terry Pratchett]
+%e passage
+# p. 218
+%passage 8
+"/And/ still a bit of the wedding cake," said the first coachman. "Ain't
+you et that up yet?"
+
+"We have it every night," said the undercoachman.
+
+The shed shook with the ensuing laughter. It is a universal fact that any
+innocent comment made by any recently married young member of any workforce
+is an instant trigger for coarse merriment among his or her older and more
+cynical colleagues. This happens even if everyone concerned has nine legs
+and lives at the bottom of an ocean of ammonia on a huge cold planet. It's
+just one of those things.
+
+ [Witches Abroad, by Terry Pratchett]
+%e passage
+# p. 228
+%passage 9
+"You ought to be more adventurous, Granny," said Magrat.
+
+"I ain't against adventure, in moderation," said Granny, "but not when I'm
+eatin'."
+
+ [Witches Abroad, by Terry Pratchett]
+%e passage
+# pp. 263-264 (Nanny is trying to stop an elaborate clock; despite damage
+# inflicted on it, it goes on to announce midnight [early])
+%passage 10
+Let's see thought Nanny. This bit is connected to that bit, this one turns,
+that one turns /faster/, this spiky bit wobbles backwards and forwards...
+
+Oh, well. Just twist the first thing you can grab, as the High Priest said
+to the vestal virgin.(1)
+
+Nanny Ogg spat on her hands, gripped the largest cog-wheel, and twisted.
+
+It carried on turning, pulling her with it.
+
+Blimey. Oh, well...
+
+Then she did was neither Granny Weatherwax nor Magrat would have dreamed of
+doing in the circumstances. But Nanny Ogg's voyages on the sea of
+intersexual dalliance had gone rather further than twice around the
+lighthouse, and she saw nothing demeaning in getting a man to help her.
+
+She simpered at Casanunda.
+
+"Things would be a lot more comfortable in our little /pie-de-terre/ if you
+could just push this little wheel around a bit," she said. "I'm sure /you/
+could manage it," she added.
+
+"Oh, no problem, good lady," said Casanunda. He reached up with one hand.
+Dwarfs are immensely strong for their size. The wheel seemed to offer him
+no resistance at all.
+
+Somewhere in the mechanism something resisted for a moment and then went
+/clonk/. Big wheels turned reluctantly. Little wheels screamed on their
+axles. A small important piece flew out and pinged off of Casanunda's
+small bullet head.
+
+And must faster than nature had ever intended, the hands sped around the
+face.
+
+(1) This is the last line to a Discworld joke lost, alas, to posterity.
+
+ [Witches Abroad, by Terry Pratchett]
+%e passage
+# p. 265 ('pate' has a couple of accent marks which can't be rendered in ascii)
+%passage 11
+There are various forms of voodoo in the multiverse, because it's a
+religion that can be put together from any ingredients that happen to be
+lying around. And all of them try, in some way, to call a god into the body
+of a human being.
+
+That was stupid, Mrs. Gogol thought. That was dangerous.
+
+Mrs. Gogol's voodoo worked the other way about. What was a god? A focus of
+belief. If people believed, a god began to grow. Feebly at first, but if
+the swamp taught anything, it taught patience. Anything could be the focus
+of a god. A handful of feathers with a red ribbon around them, a hat and
+coat on a couple of sticks... anything. Because when all people had was
+practically nothing, then anything could be almost everything. And then you
+fed it, and lulled it, like a goose heading for pate, and let the power grow
+very slowly, and when the time was ripe you opened the path... backwards.
+A human could ride the god, rather than the other way around. There would
+be a price to pay later, but there always was. In Mrs. Gogol's experience,
+everyone ended up dying.
+
+ [Witches Abroad, by Terry Pratchett]
+%e passage
+# p. 270 (Greebo has been temporarily transformed--polymorphed?--into a human)
+%passage 12
+Greebo wasn't a happy cat. [...]
+
+Then he'd smelled the kitchen. Cats gravitate to kitchens like rocks
+gravitate to gravity.
+
+ [Witches Abroad, by Terry Pratchett]
+%e passage
+# p. 282 (Casanunda the dwarf is Discworld's Casanova; he appears again in
+# /Lords and Ladies/)
+%passage 13
+"How come you're in the palace guard, Casanunda?"
+
+"Soldier of fortune takes whatever jobs are going, Mrs. Ogg," said Casanunda
+earestly.
+
+"But all the rest of 'em are six foot tall and you're--of the shorter
+persuasion."
+
+"I lied about my height, Mrs. Ogg. I'm a world-famous liar."
+
+"Is that true?"
+
+"No."
+
+"What about you being the world's greatest lover?"
+
+There was silence for a while.
+
+"Well, maybe I'm only No. 2," said Casanunda. "But I try harder."
+
+ [Witches Abroad, by Terry Pratchett]
+%e passage
+# pp. 285-286 (Greebo is still in human form)
+%passage 14
+Greebo leapt.
+
+Cats are like witches. They don't fight to kill, but to win. There is a
+difference. There's no point in killing an opponent. That way, they won't
+know they've lost, and to be a real winner you have to have an opponent who
+is beaten and knows it. There's no triumph over a corpse, but a beaten
+opponent, who will remain beaten every day for the remainder of their sad
+and wretched life, is something to treasure.
+
+Cats do not, of course, rationise this far. They just like to send someone
+limping off minus a tail and a few square inches of fur.
+
+Greebo's technique was unscientific and wouldn't have stood a chance against
+any decent swordsmanship, but on his side was the fact that it is almost
+impossible to develop decent swordsmanship when you seem to have run into a
+food mixer that is biting your ear off.
+
+The witches watched with interest.
+
+"I think we can leave him now," said Nanny. "I think he's having fun."
+
+ [Witches Abroad, by Terry Pratchett]
+%e passage
%e title
#
#
[Carpe Jugulum, by Terry Pratchett]
%e passage
-# p. 336-337 (the plot is driven by the actions of a family of vampyres
-# who do mostly cooperate with each other)
+# pp. 336-337 (the plot is driven by the actions of a family of vampyres
+# who do mostly cooperate with each other)
%passage 7
Vampires are not naturally cooperative creatures. It's not in their nature.
Every other vampire is a rival for the next meal. In fact, the ideal
[Thief of Time, by Terry Pratchett]
%e passage
-# p. 74-75 (the novices didn't know that the little old man known as Sweeper
-# is actually Lu-Tze; see passage 3 regarding Rule One)
+# pp. 74-75 (the novices didn't know that the little old man known as Sweeper
+# is actually Lu-Tze; see passage 3 regarding Rule One)
%passage 4
One day a group of senior novices, for mischief, kicked over the little
shrine that Lu-Tze kept beside his sleeping mat.
[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...])
+# pp. 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
[Wintersmith, by Terry Pratchett]
%e passage
-# p. 55-56
+# pp. 55-56
%passage 7
Working quickly, she emptied her pockets and started a shamble.
[Wintersmith, by Terry Pratchett]
%e passage
-# p. 126-127 (passage starts mid-paragraph;
-# witches know in advance when they're going to die)
+# pp. 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."
[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)
+# pp. 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."
[Wintersmith, by Terry Pratchett]
%e passage
-# p. 360-361 ('wurds' is accurate)
+# pp. 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
[Wintersmith, by Terry Pratchett]
%e passage
-# p. 398-399 ("Chumsfanleigh" is pronounced "Chuffley")
+# pp. 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.
[Unseen Academicals, by Terry Pratchett]
%e passage
-# p. 192-193 ('pants': underpants; 'football': soccer ;-)
+# pp. 192-193 ('pants': underpants; 'football': soccer ;-)
%passage 9
"You will arrange yourself into two teams, set up goals, and strive to win!
No man will leave the field of play unless injured! The hands are not to
# Death Quotes are always one line, and '%e passage' can be omitted.
#
%section Death
-%title Death Quotes (30)
+%title Death Quotes (31)
%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. 334
%passage 30
I AM ALWAYS ALONE. BUT JUST NOW I WANT TO BE ALONE BY MYSELF.
+# Witches Abroad, p. 298 (Death's explanation why he didn't come for zombie 12
+# years earlier: YOU STOPPED LIVING. YOU NEVER DIED.)
+%passage 31
+I HAD AN APPOINTMENT WITH YOU TONIGHT.
%e title
%e section
#
projects / nethack / commitdiff