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-%title Reaper Man (4)
+%title Reaper Man (15)
+# pp. 301-302 (ROC edition)
%passage 1
-No one is actually dead until the ripples they cause in the world die
-away...
+It was later that the story of Windle Poons really came to an end, if
+"story" means all that he did and caused and set in motion. In the Ramtop
+villages where they dance the real Morris dance, for example, they believe
+that no one is finally dead until the ripples they cause in the world die
+away--until the clock he wound up winds down, until the wine she made has
+finished its ferment, until the crop they planted is harvested. The span
+of someone's life, they say, is only the core of their actual existance.
[Reaper Man, by Terry Pratchett]
%e passage
+# p. 251 (passage starts mid-paragraph)
%passage 2
Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind.
[Reaper Man, by Terry Pratchett]
%e passage
+# p. 305 (passage starts mid-paragraph)
%passage 3
-Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how
- fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and
-is waiting for it.
+Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter
+how fast light travels it finds the darkness has always got there first,
+and is waiting for it.
[Reaper Man, by Terry Pratchett]
%e passage
+# p. 245
%passage 4
-"That's not fair, you know. If we knew when we were going to die, people
-would lead better lives."
+"That's not fair, you know. If we knew when we were going to die, people
+would lead better lives."
IF PEOPLE KNEW WHEN THEY WERE GOING TO DIE, I THINK THEY PROBABLY WOULDN'T
-LIVE AT ALL.
+LIVE AT ALL.
+
+ [Reaper Man, by Terry Pratchett]
+%e passage
+# p. 19
+%passage 5
+YOU FEAR TO DIE?
+
+"It's not that I don't want... I mean, I've always... it's just that life
+is a habit that's hard to break..."
+
+ [Reaper Man, by Terry Pratchett]
+%e passage
+# pp. 30-31
+%passage 6
+Wizards don't believe in gods in the same way that most people don't find it
+necessary to believe in, say, tables. They know they're there, they know
+they're there for a purpose, they'd probably agree that they have a place in
+a well-organized universe, but they wouldn't see the point of /believing/,
+of going around saying, "O great table, without whom we are as naught".
+Anyway, either the gods are there whether you believe or not, or exist only
+as a function of the belief, so either way you might as well ignore the
+whole business and, as it were, eat off your knees.
+
+Nevertheless, there is a small chaple off the University's Great Hall,
+because while the wizards stand right behind the philosophy as outlined
+above, you don't become a successful wizard by getting up gods' noses even
+if those noses only exist in an ethereal or metaphorical sense. Because
+while wizards don't belive in gods they know for a fact that /gods/ believe
+in gods.
+
+ [Reaper Man, by Terry Pratchett]
+%e passage
+# p. 50 (Dibbler is so low because he's on steps leading down to a cellar)
+%passage 7
+"Sergeant!"
+
+Colon froze. Then he looked down. A face was staring up at him from ground
+level. When he'd got a grip on himself, he made out the sharp features of
+his old friend Cut-Me-Own-Throat Dibbler, the Discworld's walking, talking
+argument in favour of the theory that mankind had descended from a species
+of rodent. C. M. O. T. Dibbler like to describe himself as a merchant
+adventurer; everyone else liked to describe him as itinerant pedlar whose
+moneymaking schemes were always let down by some small but vital flaw, such
+as trying to sell things he didn't own or which didn't work or, sometimes,
+didn't even exist. Fairy gold is well known to evaporate by morning, but
+it was a reinforced concrete slab by comparison to some of Dibbler's
+merchandise.
+
+ [Reaper Man, by Terry Pratchett]
+%e passage
+# pp. 58-59
+%passage 8
+Over the fireplace was an ornamental candlestick, fixed to a bracket on the
+wall. It was such a familiar piece of furniture that Windle hadn't really
+seen it for fifty years.
+
+It was coming unscrewed. It spun around slowly, squeaking once a turn.
+After half a dozen turns it fell off and clattered to the floor.
+
+Inexplicable phenomena were not in themselves unusual on the Discworld.(1)
+It was just that they normally had more point, or at least were a bit more
+interesting.
+
+(1) Rains of fish, for example, were so common in the little land-locked
+village of Pine Dressers that it had a flourishing smoking, canning and
+kipper filleting industry. And in the mountain regions of Syrrit many
+sheep, left out in the fields all night, would be found in the morning to
+/be facing the other way/, without the apparent intervention of any human
+agency.
+
+ [Reaper Man, by Terry Pratchett]
+%e passage
+# pp. 68-69 (130 year old wizard Windle Poon has become a zombie after dying)
+%passage 9
+"And now let's put the lid on and go and have some lunch," said Ridcully.
+"Don't worry, Windle. It's bound to work. Today is the last day of the
+rest of your life."
+
+Windle lay in the darkness, listening to the hammering. There was a thump
+and a muffled imprecation against the Dean for not holding the end properly.
+And then the patter of soil on the lid, getting fainter and more distant.
+
+After a while a distant rumbling suggested that the commerce of the city
+was being resumed. He could even hear muffled voices.
+
+He banged on the coffin lid.
+
+"Can you keep it down?" he demanded. "There's people down here trying to
+be dead!"
+
+He heard the voices stop. There was the sound of feet hurrying away.
+
+ [Reaper Man, by Terry Pratchett]
+%e passage
+# p. 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
+evolution. Everything tries to inch its way up the tree, clawing or
+tentacling or sliming its way up to the next niche until it gets to the
+very top--which, on the whole, never seems to have been worth all the
+effort.
+
+Everything that exists, yearns to live. Even things that are not alive.
+Things that have a kind of sub-life, a metaphorical life, an /almost/ life.
+And now, in the same way that a sudden hot spell brings forth unnatural and
+exotic blooms...
+
+ [Reaper Man, by Terry Pratchett]
+%e passage
+# p. 101
+%passage 11
+Dead. That was the point. All the religions had very strong views about
+talking to the dead. And so did Mrs Cake. They held that it was sinful.
+Mrs Cake held that it was only common courtesy.
+
+This usually led to a fierce ecclesiastical debate which resulted in Mrs
+Cake giving the chief priest what she called "a piece of her mind". There
+were so many pieces of Mrs Cake's mind left around the city now that it
+was quite surprising that there was enough left to power Mrs Cake but,
+strangely enough, the more pieces of her mind she gave away the more there
+seemed to be left.
+
+ [Reaper Man, by Terry Pratchett]
+%e passage
+# p. 222
+%passage 12
+"No--" Ridcully began, and realised that it was hopeless. And he was losing
+the initiative. He carefully formulated the most genteel battle cry in the
+history of bowdlerism,
+
+"Darn them to Heck!" he yelled, and ran after the Dean.
+
+ [Reaper Man, by Terry Pratchett]
+%e passage
+# p. 226
+%passage 13
+Miss Flitworth disappeared into the scullery. There was the creaking of a
+pump. She returned with a damp flannel and a glass of water.
+
+THERE'S A NEWT IN IT!
+
+"Shows it's fresh," said Miss Flitworth,(1) fishing the amphibian out and
+releasing it on the flagstones, where it scuttled away into a crack.
+
+(1) People have believed for hundreds of years that newts in a well mean
+that the water's fresh and drinkable, and /in all that time/ never asked
+themselves whether the newts got out to go to the lavatory.
+
+ [Reaper Man, by Terry Pratchett]
+%e passage
+# p. 247
+%passage 14
+"Have you got any last words?"
+
+YES. I DON'T WANT TO GO.
+
+"Well. Succinct, anyway."
+
+ [Reaper Man, by Terry Pratchett]
+%e passage
+# pp. 249-250
+%passage 15
+"Where's everyone gone, Librarian?"
+
+"Oook oook."
+
+"Just like them. I'd have done that. Rush off without thinking. May the
+gods bless them and help them, if they can find the time from their family
+squabbles."
+
+And then he thought: well, what now? I've thought, and what am I going to
+do?
+
+Rush off, or course, But slowly.
[Reaper Man, by Terry Pratchett]
%e passage
# Death Quotes are always one line, and '%e passage' can be omitted.
#
%section Death
-%title Death Quotes (25)
+%title Death Quotes (30)
%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
# Moving Pictures, p. 260 (ROC edition)
%passage 25
I KNOW WHEN EVERYONE'S HAD ENOUGH.
+# Reaper Man, p. 10 (ROC edition)
+%passage 26
+I HAVE ALWAYS DONE MY DUTY AS I SAW FIT.
+# p. 18
+%passage 27
+I AM NOT KNOWN FOR MY SENSE OF FUN.
+# p. 160
+%passage 28
+I MEAN THAT THERE IS A TIME FOR EVERYONE TO DIE.
+# p. 227
+%passage 29
+JUST BECAUSE SOMETHING IS A METAPHORE DOESN'T MEAN IT CAN'T BE REAL.
+# p. 334
+%passage 30
+I AM ALWAYS ALONE. BUT JUST NOW I WANT TO BE ALONE BY MYSELF.
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%e section
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