From: PatR Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2016 10:39:46 +0000 (-0800) Subject: tribute: Equal Rites X-Git-Tag: NetHack-3.6.1_RC01~1065^2~1 X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=1d097bf0dd08fdd6072e0cb49d3fe232fc82edb4;p=nethack tribute: Equal Rites --- diff --git a/dat/tribute b/dat/tribute index 37eb2d374..6a7f63b31 100644 --- a/dat/tribute +++ b/dat/tribute @@ -384,13 +384,13 @@ GET TO THE BOTTOM OF THIS IF IT KILLS ME. FIGURATIVELY SPEAKING OF COURSE.' [The Light Fantastic, by Terry Pratchett] %e passage 2 -# p. 7 (passage starts mid-paragraph; the too-long-to-answer question is +# p. 7 (passage starts mid-sentence; the too-long-to-answer question is # "Why have Rincewind and Twoflower fallen off the Disc's rim?", # alluding to the conclusion of /The Colour of Magic/; # in /Sourcery/ and /Interesting Times/ and probably others, the # famous philosohper's name is spelled "Ly Tin Wheedle") %passage 3 -[...] such questions take time and could be more trouble than they are +[...] such questions take time and could be more trouble than they are worth. For example, it is said that someone at a party once asked the famous philosopher Ly Tin Weedle "Why are you here?" and the reply took three years. @@ -573,39 +573,204 @@ according its victims the dignity of hatred. It wouldn't even notice them. # # # -%title Equal Rites (3) +%title Equal Rites (9) +# p. 118 (Signet edition; passage starts mid-sentence and ends mid-paragraph) %passage 1 -...it is well known that a vital ingredient of success is not knowing that -what you're attempting can't be done. +[...] it is well known that a vital ingredient of success is not knowing +that what you're attempting can't be done. [...] [Equal Rites, by Terry Pratchett] %e passage +# p. 218 (speaker is Granny Weatherwax) %passage 2 -Million-to-one chances...crop up nine times out of ten. +"Million-to-one chances," she said, "crop up nine times out of ten." [Equal Rites, by Terry Pratchett] %e passage +# pp. 96-97 ('Tannoy': public address speaker) %passage 3 -Animal minds are simple, and therefore sharp. Animals never spend time -dividing experience into little bits and speculating about all the bits -they've missed. The whole panoply of the universe has been neatly -expressed to them as things to (a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) run away from, -and (d) rocks. This frees the mind from unnecessary thoughts and gives -it a cutting edge where it matters. Your normal animal, in fact, never -tries to walk and chew gum at the same time. - -The average human, on the other hand, thinks about all sorts of things +Animal minds are simple, and therefore sharp. Animals never spend time +dividing experience into little bits and speculating about all the bits +they've missed. The whole panoply of the universe has been neatly +expressed to them as things to (a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) run away from, +and (d) rocks. This frees the mind from unnecessary thoughts and gives +it a cutting edge where it matters. Your normal animal, in fact, never +tries to walk and chew gum at the same time. + +The average human, on the other hand, thinks about all sorts of things around the clock, on all sorts of levels, with interruptions from dozens -of biological calendars and timepieces. There's thoughts about to be said, -and private thoughts, and real thoughts, and thoughts about thoughts, and -a whole gamut of subconscious thoughts. To a telepath the human head is -a din. It is a railway terminus with all the Tannoys talking at once. -It is a complete FM waveband- and some of those stations aren't reputable, +of biological calendars and timepieces. There's thoughts about to be said, +and private thoughts, and real thoughts, and thoughts about thoughts, and +a whole gamut of subconscious thoughts. To a telepath the human head is +a din. It is a railway terminus with all the Tannoys talking at once. +It is a complete FM waveband--and some of those stations aren't reputable, they're outlawed pirates on forbidden seas who play late-night records with limbic lyrics. [Equal Rites, by Terry Pratchett] %e passage +# pp. 18-19 +%passage 4 +Smith took a spade from beside the back door and hesitated. + +"Granny." + +"What?" + +"Do you know how wizards like to be buried?" + +"Yes!" + +"Well, how?" + +Granny paused at the bottom of the stairs. + +"Reluctantly." + + [Equal Rites, by Terry Pratchett] +%e passage +# p. 70 +%passage 5 +Granny sighed. "You have learned something," she said, and thought it +was safe to insert a touch of sternness into her voice. "They say that a +little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it is not one half so bad as a +lot of ignorance." + + [Equal Rites, by Terry Pratchett] +%e passage +# pp. 113-114 (Esk is a young girl) +%passage 6 +The barges stopped at some of the towns. By tradition only the men went +ashore, and only Amschat, wearing his ceremonial Lying hat, spoke to +non-Zoons. Esk usually went with him. He tried hinting that she should +obey the unwritten rules of Zoon life and stay afloat, but a hint was to +Esk what a mosquito bite was to the average rhino because she was already +learning that if you ignore the rules people will, half the time, quietly +rewrite them so that they don't apply to you. + + [Equal Rites, by Terry Pratchett] +%e passage +# pp. 119-120 ("what is happening here?" actually omits "is" but +# must be a typo--fixed here to avoid bug reports; +# 'broomstick' is Esk's disguised wizard's staff; +# passage continues with questions about destination and +# why go overland when the river goes to the same place) +%passage 7 +The town was smaller than Ohulan, and very different because it lay on the +junction of three trade routes quite apart from the river itself. It was +built around one enormous square which was a cross between a permanent +exotic traffic jam and a tent village. Camels kicked mules, mules kicked +horses, horses kicked camels and they all kicked humans; there was a riot +of colours, a din of noise, a nasal orchestration of smells and the steady, +heady sound of hundreds of people working hard at making money. + +One reason for the bustle was that over large parts of the continent other +people preferred to make money without working at all, and since the Disc +had yet to develop a music recording industry they were forced to fall back +on older, more traditional forms of banditry. + +Strangely enough these often involved considerable effort. Rolling heavy +rocks to the top of cliffs for a decent ambush, cutting down trees to +block the road, and digging a pit lined with spikes while still keeping a +wicked edge on a dagger probably involved a much greater expenditure of +thought and muscle than more socially-acceptable professions but, +nevertheless, there were still people misguided enough to endure all this, +plus long nights in uncomfortable surroundings, merely to get their hands +on perfectly ordinary large boxes of jewels. + +So a town like Zemphis was the place where caravans split, mingled and +came together again, as dozens of merchants and travellers banded together +for protection against the socially disadvantaged on the trails ahead. +Esk, wandering unregarded amidst the bustle, learned all this by the simple +method of finding someone who looked important and tugging on the hem of +his coat. + +This particular man was counting bales of tobacco and would have succeeded +but for the interruption. + +"What?" + +"I said, what is happening here?" + +The man meant to say: "Push off and bother someone else." He meant to +give her a light cuff about the head. So he was astonished to find himself +bending down and talking seriously to a small, grubby-faced child holding +a large broomstick (which also, it seemed to him later, was in some +indefinable way /paying attention/). + +He explained about the caravans. The child nodded. + +"People all get together to travel?" + +"Precisely." + + [Equal Rites, by Terry Pratchett] +%e passage +# pp. 127-128 (this time broomstick is Granny's defective witch's broomstick) +%passage 8 +The broomstick lay between two trestles. Granny Weatherwax sat on a rock +outcrop while a dwarf half her height, wearing an apron that was a mass of +pockets, walked around the broom and occasionally poked it. + +Eventually he kicked the bristles and gave a long intake of breath, a sort +of reverse whistle, which is the secret sign of craftsman across the +universe and means that something expensive is about to happen. + +"Weellll," he said. "I could get the apprentices in to look at this, I +could. It's an education in itself. And you say it actually managed to +get airborne?" + +"It flew like a bird," said Granny. + +The dwarf lit a pipe. "I should very much like to see that bird," he said +reflectively. "I should imagine it's quite something to watch, a bird like +that." + +"Yes, but can you repair it?" said Granny. "I'm in a hurry." + +The dwarf sat down, slowly and deliberately. + +"As for /repair/," he said, "well, I don't know about /repair/. Rebuild, +maybe. Of course, it's hard to get the bristles these days even if you can +find people to do the proper binding, and the spells need--" + +"I don't want it rebuilt, I just want it to work properly," said Granny. + +"It's an early model, you see," the dwarf plugged on. "Very tricky, those +early models. You can't get the wood--" + +He was picked up bodily until his eyes were level with Granny's. Dwarves, +being magical in themselves as it were, are quite resistant to magic but +her expression looked as though she was trying to weld his eyeballs to the +back of his skull. + +"Just repair it," she hissed. "Please?" + +"What, make a bodge job?" said the dwarf, his pipe clattering to the floor. + +"Yes." + +"Patch it up, you mean? Betray my training by doing half a job?" + +"Yes," said Granny. Her pupils were two little black holes. + +"Oh," said the dwarf. "Right, then." + + [Equal Rites, by Terry Pratchett] +%e passage +# p. 185 (actually uses four periods to mark a sentence ending in a elipsis) +%passage 9 +There may be universes where librarianship is considered a peaceful sort of +occupation, and where the risks are limited to large volumes falling off +the shelves on to one's head, but the keeper of a /magic/ library is no job +for the unwary. Spells have power, and merely writing them down and +shoving them between covers doesn't do anything to reduce it. The stuff +leaks. Books tend to react with one another, creating randomized magic +with a mind of its own. Books of magic are usually chained to their +shelves, but not to prevent them being stolen.... + + [Equal Rites, by Terry Pratchett] +%e passage %e title # # @@ -6200,7 +6365,7 @@ IF YOU ASK ME, said Death, NOBODY COULD DO ANY BETTER THAN THAT... # Used for interaction with Death. # %section Death -%title Death Quotes (13) +%title Death Quotes (17) %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 @@ -6253,6 +6418,16 @@ I HAVE COME FOR THEE. # including them here wouldn't fit with the rest) %passage 14 DARK IN HERE, ISN'T IT? +# p. 14 (Equal Rites; 2nd sentence continues 'said the deep, heavy voice...') +%passage 15 +THERE IS NO GOING BACK. THERE IS NO GOING BACK. +# p. 15 (contradicts later descriptions of Death as existing outside of time; +# presumably it's just intended as a colloquial expression) +%passage 16 +I HAVEN'T GOT ALL DAY, YOU KNOW. +# p. 15 (same page) +%passage 17 +LIFE IS FOR THE LIVING. %e title %e section # diff --git a/doc/fixes36.1 b/doc/fixes36.1 index 0ab9f3a43..e531f6e1d 100644 --- a/doc/fixes36.1 +++ b/doc/fixes36.1 @@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ reading non-cursed scroll of enchant weapon uncurses welded tin opener if hero has no jumping ability but knows the jumping spell, the #jump command will attempt to cast the spell additional tribute passages for The Colour of Magic, The Light Fantastic, - Snuff, and Raising Steam + Equal Rites, Snuff, and Raising Steam compile-time options SIMPLE_MAIL and SERVER_ADMIN_MSG for public server use