From: nhmall Date: Thu, 28 May 2015 23:04:37 +0000 (-0400) Subject: more tribute quotes X-Git-Tag: NetHack-3.6.0_RC01~338 X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=777038d11021b4bda0612b19a9884e0dda4b2bdd;p=nethack more tribute quotes Changes to be committed: modified: dat/tribute --- diff --git a/dat/tribute b/dat/tribute index 632e63d83..1a013c697 100644 --- a/dat/tribute +++ b/dat/tribute @@ -338,11 +338,19 @@ Interesting Times, by Terry Pratchett # # # -%title Feet of Clay (1) +%title Feet of Clay (2) %passage 1 -Feet of Clay, by Terry Pratchett +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. + [Feet of Clay, by Terry Pratchett] +%e passage +%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 wrong place and guess who's back? +They returned more times than raw broccoli. + [Feet of Clay, by Terry Pratchett] %e passage %e title # @@ -350,9 +358,11 @@ Feet of Clay, by Terry Pratchett # %title Hogfather (1) %passage 1 -Hogfather, by Terry Pratchett - +Everything starts somewhere, though many physicists disagree. +But people have always been dimly aware of the problem with the start of things. +They wonder how the snowplough driver gets to work, or how the makers of dictionaries look up the spelling of words. + [Hogfather, by Terry Pratchett] %e passage %e title # @@ -360,19 +370,28 @@ Hogfather, by Terry Pratchett # %title Jingo (1) %passage 1 -Jingo, by Terry Pratchett - +It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. +If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? +After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. +No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. +It's Them that do the bad things. + [Jingo, by Terry Pratchett] %e passage %e title # # # -%title The Last Continent (1) +%title The Last Continent (2) %passage 1 -The Last Continent, by Terry Pratchett +PEOPLE'S WHOLE LIVES DO PASS IN FRONT OF THEIR EYES BEFORE THEY DIE. THE PROCESS IS CALLED 'LIVING'. + [The Last Continent, by Terry Pratchett] +%e passage +%passage 2 +"When You're Up to Your Ass in Alligators, Today Is the First Day of the Rest of Your Life." + [The Last Continent, by Terry Pratchett] %e passage %e title # @@ -380,9 +399,11 @@ The Last Continent, by Terry Pratchett # %title Carpe Jugulum (1) %passage 1 -Carpe Jugulum, by Terry Pratchett - +Perdita thought that not obeying rules was somehow cool. +Agnes thought that rules like "Don't fall into this huge pit of spikes" +were there for a purpose. + [Carpe Jugulum, by Terry Pratchett] %e passage %e title # @@ -390,18 +411,18 @@ Carpe Jugulum, by Terry Pratchett # %title The Fifth Elephant (1) %passage 1 -The Fifth Elephant, by Terry Pratchett - +You did something because it had always been done, +and the explanation was "but we've always done it this way." +A million dead people can't have been wrong, can they? + [The Fifth Elephant, by Terry Pratchett] %e passage %e title # # # -%title The Truth (1) +%title The Truth (2) %passage 1 -The Truth, by Terry Pratchett - There are, it has been said, two types of people in the world. There are those who, when presented with a glass that is exactly half full, say: this glass is half full. And then there are those who say: this glass is half empty. @@ -409,16 +430,25 @@ half full. And then there are those who say: this glass is half empty. The world belongs, however, to those who can look at the glass and say: What's up with this glass? Excuse me? Excuse me? This is may glass? I don't think so. My glass was full! And it was a bigger glass! Who's been pinching my beer? + + [The Truth, by Terry Pratchett] %e passage 1 +%passage 2 +The world is made up of four elements: Earth, Air, Fire and Water. +This is a fact well known even to Corporal Nobbs. It's also wrong. +There's a fifth element, and generally it's called Surprise. + + [The Truth, by Terry Pratchett] +%e passage 2 %e title # # # %title Thief of Time (1) %passage 1 -Thief of Time, by Terry Pratchett - +"No running with scythes!" + [Thief of Time, by Terry Pratchett] %e passage %e title # @@ -426,9 +456,10 @@ Thief of Time, by Terry Pratchett # %title The Last Hero (1) %passage 1 -The Last Hero, by Terry Pratchett - +Too many people, when listing all the perils to be found in the search for lost treasure or ancient wisdom, +had forgotten to put at the top of the list 'the man who arrived just before you'. + [The Last Hero, by Terry Pratchett] %e passage %e title # @@ -436,9 +467,9 @@ The Last Hero, by Terry Pratchett # %title The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents (1) %passage 1 -The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents, by Terry Pratchett - +The important thing about adventures, thought Mr Bunnsy, was that they shouldn't be so long as to make you miss mealtimes. + [The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents, by Terry Pratchett] %e passage %e title # @@ -446,9 +477,9 @@ The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents, by Terry Pratchett # %title Night Watch (1) %passage 1 -Night Watch, by Terry Pratchett - +When Mister Safety Catch Is Not On, Mister Crossbow Is Not Your Friend. + [Night Watch, by Terry Pratchett] %e passage %e title # @@ -456,9 +487,9 @@ Night Watch, by Terry Pratchett # %title The Wee Free Men (1) %passage 1 -The Wee Free Men, by Terry Pratchett - +"Nac Mac Feegle! The Wee Free Men! Nae king! Nae quin! Nae laird! We willna be fooled again!" + [The Wee Free Men, by Terry Pratchett] %e passage %e title #