From: PatR Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2021 21:53:42 +0000 (-0700) Subject: tribute: Small Gods X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=3aacb380069b2c8cd5f29edd6e15acd760ae5abc;p=nethack tribute: Small Gods Add page number citations for the first two passages and add three new passages. That brings the total for Small Gods up to 15 which is a bit on the high side, but they all seemed worthy. While in there, fix a transcription mistake in Lords and Ladies #7: "to" should be "be". And two fixes for Jingo #11's footnote, change "genious" to "genius", remove second "was" from "was, oddly enough, was one [...]". Also, add a comment about the Amazing Maurice. I've tried to bring the fixes37.0 entries about tribute fixes up to date. They're mostly minor and mostly neglected to include updates for that. --- diff --git a/dat/tribute b/dat/tribute index e71670578..28c072240 100644 --- a/dat/tribute +++ b/dat/tribute @@ -2984,15 +2984,22 @@ The witches watched with interest. # # # -%title Small Gods (12) +%title Small Gods (15) +# p. 174 (Harper Torch edition; passage starts mid-paragraph; speaker is +# the blind philosopher Didactylos referring to a book in scroll +# form called /On Religion/ by another philosopher, Abraxas; +# Didactylos mentions that Old 'Charcoal' Abraxas had been hit by +# lightning 15 times) %passage 1 -He says gods like to see an atheist around. Gives them something to aim at. +"[...] He says gods like to see an atheist around. Gives them something +to aim at." [Small Gods, by Terry Pratchett] %e passage +# p. 79 (passage starts mid-paragraph; speaker is Cut-Me-Own-Hand-Off Dhblah) %passage 2 -Pets are always a great help in times of stress. And in times of starvation -too, o'course. +[...] "Pets are always a great help in times of stress. And in times of +starvation too, o'course." [Small Gods, by Terry Pratchett] %e passage @@ -3191,6 +3198,35 @@ But, on the whole, there are worse places to be buried than inside a lion. [Small Gods, by Terry Pratchett] %e passage +# +# 3 more passages added for 3.7 +# +# p. 7 (Brother Nhumrod is in charge of a group of novices; he's thinking +# about one of them, Brutha, the main character of the story) +%passage 13 +There was something creepy about the boy, Nhumrod thought. It was the way +he looked at you when you were talking, as if he was /listening/. + + [Small Gods, by Terry Pratchett] +%e passage +# p. 11 (musing by the Great God Om) +%passage 14 +The trouble with being a god is that you've got no one to pray to. + + [Small Gods, by Terry Pratchett] +%e passage +# p. 210 (speaker is Didactylos the Ephebian philosopher) +%passage 15 +"Life in this world," he said, "is, as it were, a sojourn in a cave. What +can we know of reality? For all we see of the true nature of existence +is, shall we say, no more than bewildering and amusing shadows cast upon +the inner wall of the cave by the unseen blinding light of absolute truth, +from which we may or may not deduce some glimmer of veracity, and we as +troglodyte seekers of wisdom can only lift our voices to the unseen and +say, humbly, 'Go on, do Deformed Rabbit... it's my favorite.'" + + [Small Gods, by Terry Pratchett] +%e passage %e title # # @@ -3215,7 +3251,7 @@ Elves are bad. [Lords and Ladies, by Terry Pratchett] %e passage -# p. 32 +# p. 32 (talking about Magrat who has married Verence, Lancre's new king) %passage 2 "Hope she does all right as queen," said Nanny. @@ -3326,7 +3362,7 @@ Younger witches, on the other hand, talk about it all the time and believe it involves crystals, mystic forces, and dancing about without yer drawers on. -Everyone may to right, all at the same time. That's the thing about +Everyone may be right, all at the same time. That's the thing about quantum. [Lords and Ladies, by Terry Pratchett] @@ -5061,8 +5097,8 @@ Patrician up the ladder. called it the Going-Under-the-Water-Safely Device," said Leonard, behind him.(1) "But usually I just think of it as the boat." -(1) Thinking up good names was, oddly enough, was one area where Leonard -of Quirm's genious tended to give up. +(1) Thinking up good names was, oddly enough, one area where Leonard of +Quirm's genius tended to give up. [Jingo, by Terry Pratchett] %e passage @@ -5975,6 +6011,12 @@ betray 'em, quick as a wink. 'Cos that's villaining.' # which is awarded for best children's book of the year. # (The other Young Adult Discworld books are the five Tiffany Aching ones.) # +# "Mr so-called Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents!" (the characters +# rather than the book named for them) were first mentioned--in passing +# rather than part of the story--about 1/3 of the way through _Reaper_Man_. +# (p. 115, ROC edition; the text there does capitalize 'His'; 'Mr' without +# period is accurate; the exclamation is derogatory). +# # _The_Amazing_Maurice..._ may well be the most serious Discworld book. # (Don't worry, it has lots of humor/humour in it....) # diff --git a/doc/fixes37.0 b/doc/fixes37.0 index 3f655dcb4..91af31f7a 100644 --- a/doc/fixes37.0 +++ b/doc/fixes37.0 @@ -110,7 +110,23 @@ correctly account for fuel remaining when lit candles are attached there were 15 or fewer turns remaining) praying on an unaligned altar outside of Gehennom behaved like an ordinary prayer; make that always fail -Discworld typo: Moving Pictures passage 12 "or" -> "of" +tribute (Discworld snippets) typos, in book order rather than fix order: + Sourcery passage #4 "the moment the words were out of your mouth" -> + "the moment and the words out of your mouth" where "were" didn't + belong and awkward phrasing because of it caused "and" to be removed + (would be much clearer if optional comma after "moment" was included) + Moving Pictures passage #10 initial single quote should be double, + #12 "or" -> "of", #14 second instance of "megalomaniac" misspelled + Lords and Ladies passage #5, near end add missing opening double + quote, passage #7 last paragraph, "to" -> "be" + Hogfather passage #7 missing initial double quote for "Oh, just ...", + also #7 insert missing "you" into "Why are you feeling [...]" + Jingo passage #2 "Vines" -> "Vimes", "profferred" -> "proffered", + missing opening single quote on second sentence of Lord Downey's + line, passage #11 both in footnote: "genious" -> "genius", + "was, oddly enough, was one [...]" -> "was, oddly enough, one [...]" + A Hat Full of Sky passage #9 "though" -> "thought" + various, including Death quotes: separate sentences by two spaces unicorn corpses and wraith corpses could be sacrificed even if "too old" hero polymorphed into a hider and hiding was not unhidden when teleporting impose tighter restraints on 'summon nasties', both for spellcasting monsters @@ -925,6 +941,7 @@ menu_shift_left, menu_shift_right menu command keys; default '{' and '}' 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 Platform- and/or Interface-Specific New Features