From: PatR Date: Sun, 1 Nov 2015 01:37:16 +0000 (-0700) Subject: tribute: Monstrous Regiment X-Git-Tag: NetHack-3.6.0_RC01~109 X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=561ab1cb1e5917f67cff00b89fbb6b9f39be897e;p=nethack tribute: Monstrous Regiment --- diff --git a/dat/tribute b/dat/tribute index 4a17b2079..76fdd163a 100644 --- a/dat/tribute +++ b/dat/tribute @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ # NetHack 3.6.0 tribute to: # # Sir Terence David John "Terry" Pratchett -# April 28, 1948 - March 12, 2015 +# April 28, 1948 - March 12, 2015 # ("or until the ripples he caused in the world die away...") # # @@ -301,8 +301,8 @@ ground like that.' # %title Reaper Man (4) %passage 1 -No one is actually dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away.. -. +No one is actually dead until the ripples they cause in the world die +away... [Reaper Man, by Terry Pratchett] %e passage @@ -3631,20 +3631,142 @@ Anybody. "I want to make that point perfectly clear!" # # # -%title Monstrous Regiment (1) +%title Monstrous Regiment (8) %passage 1 -'How can you protect yourself by carrying a sword if -you don't know how to use it?' +'How can you protect yourself by carrying a sword if you don't know how +to use it?' -'Not me, sir. Other people. They see the sword and -don't attack me,' said Maladict patiently. +'Not me, sir. Other people. They see the sword and don't attack me,' +said Maladict patiently. 'Yes, but if they did, lad, you wouldn't be any good with it,' said the -sergeant. +sergeant. -'No, sir. I'd probably settle for just ripping their heads off, sir. -That's what I mean by protection, sir. Theirs, not mine. -And I'd get hell from the League if I did that, sir' +'No, sir. I'd probably settle for just ripping their heads off, sir. +That's what I mean by protection, sir. Theirs, not mine. And I'd get +hell from the League if I did that, sir.' + + [Monstrous Regiment, by Terry Pratchett] +%e passage +# p. 6 (Harper Torch edition) +%passage 2 +/There was always a war./ Usually they were border disputes, the national +equivalent of complaining that the neighbor was letting their hedge grow +too long. Sometimes they were bigger. Borogravia was a peace-loving +country in the midst of treacherous, devious, warlike enemies. They had +to be treacherous, devious, and warlike, otherwise we wouldn't be fighting +them, eh? There was always a war. + + [Monstrous Regiment, by Terry Pratchett] +%e passage +# pp. 115-116 (plural 'forests' is odd but accurate [1st sentence]; +# so is 'knew' which ought to be 'known' [4th paragraph]; +# 9 '0's and 7 '0's are accurate too) +%passage 3 +A pigeon rose over the forests, banked slightly, and headed straight for +the valley of the Kneck. + +Even from here, the black stone bulk of the Keep was visible, rising above +the sea of trees. The pigeon sped on, one spark of purpose in the fresh +new morning-- + +--and squawked as darkness dropped from the sky, gripping it in talons of +steel. Buzzard and pigeon tumbled for a moment, and then the buzzard +gained a little height and flapped onwards. + +The pigeon thought: 000000000. But had it been more capable of coherent +thought, and knew something about how birds of prey caught pigeons,(1) it +might have wondered why it was being gripped so... kindly. It was being +held, not squeezed. As it was, all it could think was 0000000! + +(1) And allowing for the fact that all pigeons who knew how birds of prey +catch pigeons are dead, and therefore capable of slightly less thought +than a living pigeon. + + [Monstrous Regiment, by Terry Pratchett] +%e passage +# p. 131 +%passage 4 +"All the food's been taken but there's carrots and parsnips in a little +garden down the hill a bit," Shufti said as they walked away. + +"It'd be s-stealing from the dead," said Wazzer. + +"Well, if they object they can hold on, can't they?" said Shufti. "They're +underground already!" + + [Monstrous Regiment, by Terry Pratchett] +%e passage +# p. 160 +%passage 5 +"And there you have it, Sergeant Towering," said the lieutenant, turning +to the prisoner. "Of course, we all know there is some atrocious behavior +in times of war, but it is not the sort of thing we would expect of a +royal prince.(1) If we are to be pursued because a gallant young soldier +prevented matters from becoming even more disgusting, then so be it." + +(1) Lieutenant Blouse read only the more technical history books. + + [Monstrous Regiment, by Terry Pratchett] +%e passage +# p. 176 (fire: almost certainly to make tea) +%passage 6 +There are three things a soldier wants to do when there's a respite on the +road. One involves lighting a cigarette, one involves lighting a fire, +and the other involves no flames at all but does, generally, require a +tree.(1) + +(1) Technically, a tree is not required, but seems to be insisted upon for +reasons of style. + + [Monstrous Regiment, by Terry Pratchett] +%e passage +# p. 179 ('humor': American spelling is accurate) +%passage 7 +Maladict dropped his crossbow, which fired straight up into the air,(1) +and sat down with his head in his hands. + +(1) And failed to hit anything, especially a duck. This is so unusual +in situations like this that it must be reported under the new humor +regulations. If it had hit a duck, which quacked and landed on somebody's +head, this would, of course, have been very droll and would certainly have +been reported. Instead, the arrow drifted in the breeze a little on the +way and landed in an oak tree some thirty feet away, where it missed a +squirrel. + + [Monstrous Regiment, by Terry Pratchett] +%e passage +# p. 284 (soldiers disguised as washerwomen in order to sneak into an +# enemy-controlled castle have been put to work doing the laundry) +%passage 8 +"Look at this, will you?" said Shufti, waving a sodden pair of men's long +pants at her. "They keep putting the colors in with the whites." + +"Well, so what? These are /enemy/ long johns," said Polly. + +"Yes, but there's such a thing as doing it properly! Look, they put in +this red pair and all the others are going pink." + +"And? I used to love pink when I was about seven."(1) + +"But pale pink? On a man?" + +Polly looked at the next tub for a moment and patted Shufti on the shoulder. + +"Yes. It is /very/ pale, isn't it? You'd better find a couple more red +items," she said. + +"But that'll make it even worse--" Shufti began. + +"That was an /order/, soldier," Polly whispered in her ear. "And add some +starch." + +"How much?" + +"All you can find." + +(1) It is an established fact that, despite everything society can do, +girls of seven are magnetically attracted to the color pink. [Monstrous Regiment, by Terry Pratchett] %e passage