From: PatR <rankin@nethack.org>
Date: Mon, 31 May 2021 14:59:12 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: Tribute: Feet of Clay
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Tribute: Feet of Clay

Add a page citation for passage #1 and change the wording of that
passage to match the book:  the second "does not need" should be
"doesn't even need".

Also make the comments about various added passages (for other
books) be more consistent.
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diff --git a/dat/tribute b/dat/tribute
index 26f8b89f7..1ab6a57a6 100644
--- a/dat/tribute
+++ b/dat/tribute
@@ -1262,7 +1262,9 @@ They are not necessarily very good at it.
 
   [Sourcery, by Terry Pratchett]
 %e passage
-# additional passage added for 3.7.0
+#
+# additional passage added for 3.7
+#
 # p. 164 (passage begins mid-sentence)
 %passage 11
 [...] killing a brother wizard with magic was well-nigh impossible on
@@ -3462,6 +3464,7 @@ kingdom.
 %e passage
 #
 # passage added for 3.7
+#
 # p. 60 (passage starts mid-paragraph; "paddlin'" is accurate but unclear;
 #        "ooh-jar" is accurate for ouija after having been butchered by
 #        Nanny Ogg's previously established 'mastery' of foreign languages)
@@ -4136,6 +4139,7 @@ followed by long periods of being dead."
 %e passage
 #
 # 3 new passages for 3.7
+#
 # p. 45
 %passage 11
 Adventure!  People talked about the idea as if it was something worthwhile,
@@ -4462,6 +4466,9 @@ Come on.  I want to try a leg of the elephant that bit me."
 
   [Maskerade, by Terry Pratchett]
 %e passage
+#
+# 4 new passages added for 3.7
+#
 # pp. 51-52 (Granny Weatherwax and Nanny Ogg are traveling to Ankh-Morpork
 #            and Nanny feels that the weather is too chilly for flying;
 #            Cando Cutoff is a bystander who has told them that the next
@@ -4536,15 +4543,16 @@ reincarnation believes in /you/.
 #
 #
 %title Feet of Clay (14)
+# pp. 66-67 (Harper Torch edition)
 %passage 1
 Rumour is information distilled so finely that it can filter through
-anything.  It does not need doors and windows -- sometimes it does not need
-people.  It can exist free and wild, running from ear to ear without ever
-touching lips.
+anything.  It does not need doors and windows--sometimes it doesn't even
+need people.  It can exist free and wild, running from ear to ear without
+ever touching lips.
 
   [Feet of Clay, by Terry Pratchett]
 %e passage
-# p. 337 (Harper Torch edition)
+# p. 337
 %passage 2
 It was hard enough to kill a vampire.  You could stake them down and turn
 them into dust and ten years later someone drops a drop of blood in the
diff --git a/doc/fixes37.0 b/doc/fixes37.0
index 7d6ca7349..f3b1e3754 100644
--- a/doc/fixes37.0
+++ b/doc/fixes37.0
@@ -122,6 +122,7 @@ tribute (Discworld snippets) typos, in book order rather than fix order:
 	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
+	Feet of Clay passage #1, "does not need" -> "doesn't even need"
 	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"