From: PatR Date: Thu, 20 May 2021 10:04:31 +0000 (-0700) Subject: tribute: Interesting Times X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=2c92049821a7052eb595de05fb9df895d283fb3f;p=nethack tribute: Interesting Times Add missing italics to several words in passage 1. Add three new passages, bringing the total to 13. The third one ended up being fairly long. I made note of it intending just the bacon joke but when transcribing I backed up quite a ways. The context is fairly unusual for a Discworld story. --- diff --git a/dat/tribute b/dat/tribute index e717b2c37..d67bce0dd 100644 --- a/dat/tribute +++ b/dat/tribute @@ -3986,16 +3986,16 @@ The fastest way to travel is to be there already. # # # -%title Interesting Times (10) +%title Interesting Times (13) # p. 1 (Harper Torch edition; passage is a footnote) %passage 1 Whatever happens, they say afterwards, it must have been fate. People are always a little confused about this, as they are in the case of miracles. When someone is saved from certain death by a strange concatenation of circumstances, they say that's a miracle. But of course if someone is -killed by a freak chain of events--the oil spilled just there, the safety -fence broken just there--that must also be a miracle. Just because it's -not nice doesn't mean it's not miraculous. +/killed/ by a freak chain of events--the oil spilled just /there/, the +safety fence broken just /there/--that must /also/ be a miracle. Just +because it's not nice doesn't mean it's not miraculous. [Interesting Times, by Terry Pratchett] %e passage @@ -4134,6 +4134,74 @@ followed by long periods of being dead." [Interesting Times, by Terry Pratchett] %e passage +# +# 3 new passages for 3.7 +# p. 45 +%passage 11 +Adventure! People talked about the idea as if it was something worthwhile, +rather than a mess of bad food, no sleep, and strange people inexplicably +trying to stick pointed objects in bits of you. + + [Interesting Times, by Terry Pratchett] +%e passage +# p. 52 +%passage 12 +"How /will/ I get back?" he said. + +"Same way you went. We'll find you and bring you out. With surgical +precision." + +Rincewind groaned. He knew what surgical precision meant in Ankh-Morpork. +It meant "to within an inch or two, accompanied by a lot of screaming, and +then they pour hot tar on you just where your leg was." + +But... if you put aside for the moment the certainty that something would +definitely go horribly wrong, it looked foolproof. The trouble was that +wizards were such ingenious fools. + + [Interesting Times, by Terry Pratchett] +%e passage +# pp. 272-274 (most of page 273, is omitted: War introduces his children and +# Rincewind asks Death about the outcome of a battle which is +# imminent; Death's response is that he wouldn't answer even if +# he knew, and Rincewind is astonished that he might not know; +# Death holds a finger up and a butterfly--as a symbol of chaos +# theory--briefly lands on it, then flies away) +%passage 13 +RINCEWIND, ISN'T IT? said Death. YES. GOOD EVENING. I DON'T BELIEVE YOU +HAVE MET WAR. RINCEWIND, WAR. WAR, RINCEWIND. + +[...] + +ON A NIGHT LIKE THIS, said Death, THE ONLY CERTAIN THING IS UNCERTAINTY. +TRITE, I KNOW, BUT TRUE. + +Somewhere on the horizon, thunder rumbled. + +"I'll, er, just be sort of going, then," said Rincewind. + +DON'T BE A STRANGER, said Death, as the wizard hurried off. + +"Odd person," said War. + +WITH HIM HERE, EVEN UNCERTAINTY IS UNCERTAIN. AND I'M NOT SURE EVEN +ABOUT THAT. + +War pulled a large paper-wrapped package out of his saddlebag. + +"We've got... let's see now... Egg and Cress, Chicken Tikka, and Mature +Cheese with Chunky Pickle, I think." + +THEY DO SUCH MARVELOUS THINGS WITH SANDWICHES THESE DAYS. + +"Oh... and Bacon Surpise." + +REALLY? WHAT IS SO SURPRISING ABOUT BACON? + +"I don't know. I suppose it comes as something of a shock to the pig." + + [Interesting Times, by Terry Pratchett] +%e passage %e title # # diff --git a/doc/fixes37.0 b/doc/fixes37.0 index 617c8d8f0..c70d80a40 100644 --- a/doc/fixes37.0 +++ b/doc/fixes37.0 @@ -121,6 +121,7 @@ tribute (Discworld snippets) typos, in book order rather than fix order: quote, passage #7 last paragraph, "to" -> "be" Men at Arms passage #1, italicize /for/, passage #2, insert omitted word "had": 'it was /fate/ that _had_ let Edward' + Interesting Times passage #1, italicize several words Hogfather passage #7 missing initial double quote for "Oh, just ...", also #7 insert missing "you" into "Why are you feeling [...]" Soul Music passage #1, italicize /feel/, #8, "fossile" -> "fossil" @@ -995,7 +996,7 @@ using 'f' while quiver is empty and 'autoquiver' is Off when wielding a thrown-and-return weapon will throw that weapon instead of filling the quiver (inspired by xNetHack) 3.6's tribute: add one new passage to Sourcery, three to Small Gods, one to - Lords and Ladies, two to Soul Music + Lords and Ladies, two to Soul Music, three to Interesting Times monsters can see and remember hero resistances