From: PatR Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2015 10:47:05 +0000 (-0800) Subject: tribute: Wintersmith X-Git-Tag: NetHack-3.6.0_RC01~54^2~4 X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=9645eeef827e7a4bf3f8cbbb69808d4645376727;p=nethack tribute: Wintersmith --- diff --git a/dat/tribute b/dat/tribute index d859375d6..a4e90cb26 100644 --- a/dat/tribute +++ b/dat/tribute @@ -4264,18 +4264,265 @@ enough, yes? A sheep can look like a cow, right? Ha! # # # -%title Wintersmith (2) +%title Wintersmith (16) +# p. 82 (HarperTeen edition--presumably HarperTempest suffered a name change) %passage 1 -That's Third Thoughts for you. -When a huge rock is going to land on your head, -they're the thoughts that think: -Is that an igneous rock, such as granite, or is it sandstone? +That's Third Thoughts for you. When a huge rock is going to land on your +head, they're the thoughts that think: Is that an igneous rock, such as +granite, or is it sandstone? [Wintersmith, by Terry Pratchett] %e passage +p. 113 %passage 2 They say that there can never be two snowflakes that are exactly alike, but -has anyone checked lately? +has anyone checked lately? + + [Wintersmith, by Terry Pratchett] +%e passage +# pp. 32-33 +%passage 3 +All witches are a bit odd. Tiffany had got used to odd, so that odd seemed +quite normal. There was Miss Level, for example, who had two bodies, +although one of them was imaginery. Mistress Pullunder, who bred pedigreed +earthworms and gave them all names... well, she was hardly odd at all, just +a bit peculiar, and anyway earthworms were quite interesting in a basically +uninterestng kind of way. And there had been Old Mother Dismass, who +suffered from bouts of temporal confusion, which can be quite strange when +it happens to a witch; her mouth never moved in time with her words, and +sometimes her footsteps came down the stairs ten minutes before she did. + +But when it came to odd, Miss Treason didn't just take the cake, but a +packet of biscuits too, with sprinkles on the top, and also a candle. + + [Wintersmith, by Terry Pratchett] +%e passage +# p. 34 ('villages': plural is accurate; 'clonk-clank' is rendered bold) +%passage 4 +Then there was her clock. It was heavy and made of rusty iron by someone +who was more blacksmith than watchmaker, which was why it went +*clonk-clank* instead of /tick-tock/. She wore it on her belt and could +tell the time by feeling the stubby little hands. + +There was a story in the villages that the clock was Miss Treason's heart, +which she'd used ever since her first heart died. But there were lots of +stories about Miss Treason. + + [Wintersmith, by Terry Pratchett] +%e passage +# p. 40 (Boffo) +%passage 5 +First Sight and Second Thoughts, that's what a witch had to rely on: First +Sight to see what's really there, and Second Thoughts to watch the First +Thoughts to check that they were thinking right. Then there were the +Third Thoughts, which Tiffany had never heard discussed and therefore kept +quiet about; they were odd, seemed to think for themselves, and didn't +turn up very often. And they were telling her that there was more to Miss +Treason than met the eye. + + [Wintersmith, by Terry Pratchett] +%e passage +# p. 53-54 (in Carpe Jugulum, most of the lore [for humans] about how to kill +# vampires had been written by long-lived/long-not-defunct vampires +# [meaning that it was deliberately full of inaccuracies...]) +%passage 6 +It was in fact Miss Tick who had written /Witch Hunting for Dumb People/, +and she made sure that copies of it found their way into those areas where +people still believed that witches should be burned or drowned. + +Since the only witch ever likely to pass through these days was Miss Tick +herself, it meant that if things did go wrong, she'd get a good night's +sleep and a decent meal before being thrown into the water. The water was +no problem at all for Miss Tick, who had been to the Quirm College for +Young Ladies, where you had to have an icy dip every morning to build Moral +Fiber. And a No. 1 Bosun's knot was very easy to undo with your teeth, +even underwater. + + [Wintersmith, by Terry Pratchett] +%e passage +# p. 55-56 +%passage 7 +Working quickly, she emptied her pockets and started a shamble. + +Shambles worked. That was about all you could say about them for certain. +You made them out of some string and a couple of sticks and anything you +had in your pocket at the time. They were a witch's equivalent of those +knives with fifteen blades and three screwdrivers and a tiny magnifying +glass and a thing for extracting earwax from chickens. + +You couldn't even say precisely what they did, although Miss Tick thought +that they were a way of finding out what things the hidden bits of your +own mind already knew. You had to make a shamble from scratch every time, +and only from things in your pockets. There was no harm in having +interesting things in your pockets, though, just in case. + + [Wintersmith, by Terry Pratchett] +%e passage +# p. 69 +%passage 8 +A witch didn't do things because they seemed like a good idea at the time! +That was practically cackling! You had to deal every day with people who +were foolish and lazy and untruthful and downright unpleasant, and you +could certainly end up thinking that the world would be considerably +improved if you gave them a slap. But you didn't because, as Miss Tick +had once explained: a) it would make the world a better place for only a +very short period of time; b) it would then make the world a slightly +worse place; and c) you're not supposed to be as stupid as they are. + + [Wintersmith, by Terry Pratchett] +%e passage +# p. 106 (Rob Anybody is married to their kelda, ruler of the clan; +# passage continues with three or so pages about Explaining +# [focusing on the reactions of the recipient of the explanation: +# Pursin' o' the Lips; Foldin' o' the Arms; Tappin' o' the Feets; +# and also the reactions of the listening Feegles as they hear +# about them] but would end up on the long side if included here) +%passage 9 +"Aye, but the boy willna be interested in marryin'," said Slightly Mad +Angus. + +"He might be one day," said Billy Bigchin, who'd made a hobby of watching +humans. "Most bigjob men get married." + +"They do?" said a Feegle in astonishment. + +"Oh, aye." + +"They want tae get married?" + +"A lot o' them do, aye," said Billy. + +"So there's nae more drinkin', and stealin', and fightin'?" + +"Hey, ah'm still allowed some drinkin' and stealin' and fightin'!" said +Rob Anybody. + +"Aye, Rob, but we canna help noticin' ye also have tae do the Explainin', +too." said Daft Wullie. + +There was a general nodding from the crowd. To Feegles, Explaining was a +dark art. It was just so /hard/. + + [Wintersmith, by Terry Pratchett] +%e passage +# p. 126-127 (passage starts mid-paragraph; +# witches know in advance when they're going to die) +%passage 10 +"[...] We shall hold the funeral tomorrow afternoon." + +"Sorry? You mean /before/ you die?" said Tiffany. + +"Why, of course! I don't see why I shouldn't have some fun!" + +"Good thinkin'!" said Rob Anybody. "That's the kind o' sensible detail +people usually fails tae consider." + +"We call it a going-away party," said Miss Treason. "Just for witches, of +course. Other people tend to get a bit nervous--I can't think why. And +on the bright side, we've got that splendid ham that Mr. Armbinder gave us +last week for settling the ownership of the chestnut tree, and I'd love to +try it." + + [Wintersmith, by Terry Pratchett] +%e passage +# p. 129 +%passage 11 +Some people think that "coven" is a word for a group of witches, and it's +true that's what the dictionary says. But the real word for a group of +witches is an "argument." + + [Wintersmith, by Terry Pratchett] +%e passage +# p. 174-175 (passage starts mid-paragraph; last paragraph continues, but +# changes topic so abruptly Tiffany gasps; 'rumbustious' is accurate) +%passage 12 +"[...] And now I shall tell you something vitally important. It is the +secret of my long life." + +Ah, thought Tiffany, and she leaned forward. + +"The important thing," said Miss Treason, "is to stay the passage of the +wind. You should avoid rumbustious fruits and vegetables. Beans are the +worst, take it from me." + +"I don't think I understand--" Tiffany began. + +"Try not to fart, in a nutshell." + +"In a nutshell, I imagine it would be pretty unpleasant!" said Tiffany +nervously. She couldn't believe she was being told this. + +"This is no joking matter," said Miss Treason. "The human body has only +so much air in it. You have to make it last. One plate of beans can take +a year off your life. I have avoided rumbustiousness all my days. I am +an old person and that means what I say is wisdom!" She gave the +bewildered Tiffany a stern look. "Do you understand, child?" + +Tiffany's mind raced. Everything is a test! "No," she said. "I'm not a +child and that's nonsense, not wisdom!" + +The stern look cracked into a smile. "Yes," said Miss Treason. "Total +gibberish. But you've got to admit it's a corker, all the same, right? +You definitely believed it, just for a moment? The villagers did last +year. You should have seen the way they walked about for a few weeks! +The strained looks on their faces quite cheered me up! [...]" + + [Wintersmith, by Terry Pratchett] +%e passage +# p. 185 (Miss Treason tells people she's 113, but she's actually /only/ 111) +%passage 13 +MISS EUMENIDES TREASON, AGED ONE HUNDRED AND ELEVEN? + +Tiffany heard the voice inside her head. It didn't seem to have come +through her ears. And she'd heard it before, making her quite unusual. +Most people hear the voice of Death only once. + + [Wintersmith, by Terry Pratchett] +%e passage +# p. 229 +%passage 14 +Tiffany had looked up "strumpet" in the Unexpurgated Dictionary, and found +it meant "a woman who is no better than she should be" and "a lady of easy +virtue." This, she decided after some working out, meant that Mrs. Gytha +Ogg, known as Nanny, was a very respectable person. She found virtue easy, +for one thing. And if she was no better than she should be, she was just +as good as she ought to be. + + [Wintersmith, by Terry Pratchett] +%e passage +# p. 360-361 ('wurds' is accurate) +%passage 15 +"An heroic effect, Mr. Anybody," said Granny. "The first thing a hero must +conquer is his fear, and when it comes to fightin', the Nac Mac Feegle +don't know the meanin' of the word." + +"Aye, true enough," Rob grunted. "We dinna ken the meanin' o' thousands +o' wurds!" + + [Wintersmith, by Terry Pratchett] +%e passage +# p. 398-399 ("Chumsfanleigh" is pronounced "Chuffley") +%passage 16 +At the back of the Feegles' chalk pit, more chalk had been carved out of +the wall to make a tunnel about five feet high and perhaps as long. + +In front of it stood Roland de Chumsfanleigh (it wasn't his fault). His +ancestors had been knights, and they had come to own the Chalk by killing +the kings who thought they did. Swords, that's what it had all been about. +Swords and cutting off heads. That was how you got land in the old days, +and then the rules were changed so that you didn't need a sword to own +land anymore, you just needed the right piece of paper. But his ancestors +had still hung on to their swords, just in case people thought that the +whole thing with the bits of paper had been unfair, it being a fact that +you can't please everybody. + +He'd always wanted to be good with a sword, and it had come as a shock to +find that they were so /heavy/. He was great at air sword. In front of a +mirror he could fence against his reflection and win nearly all the time. +Real swords didn't allow that. You tried to swing them and they ended up +swinging you. He'd realized that maybe he was more cut out for bits of +paper. Besides, he needed glasses, which could be a bit tricky under a +helmet, especially if someone was hitting /you/ with a sword. [Wintersmith, by Terry Pratchett] %e passage @@ -4291,7 +4538,7 @@ Making Money, by Terry Pratchett 'I don't know, thur. I didn't athk.' [Making Money, by Terry Pratchett] -%e pasasge +%e passage %passage 2 The Watch armour fitted like a glove. He'd have preferred it to fit like a helmet and breastplate. It was common knowledge that the Watch's approach @@ -4500,7 +4747,7 @@ IF YOU ASK ME, said Death, NOBODY COULD DO ANY BETTER THAN THAT. . . # Used for interaction with Death. # %section Death -%title Death Quotes (8) +%title Death Quotes (10) %passage 1 WHERE THE FIRST PRIMAL CELL WAS, THERE WAS I ALSO. WHERE MAN IS, THERE AM I. WHEN THE LAST LIFE CRAWLS UNDER FREEZING STARS, THERE WILL I BE. %e passage @@ -4533,5 +4780,12 @@ THERE IS A LITTLE CONFUSION AT FIRST. IT IS ONLY TO BE EXPECTED. # time and space) %passage 8 THERE IS ALWAYS TIME FOR ANOTHER LAST MINUTE. +# Wintersmith, p. 187 (HarperTeen edition; dying Miss Treason takes a ham +# [too silly?] sandwich with her to the grave, and it accompanies +# her to the afterlife, but its condiments don't) +%passage 9 +MUSTARD IS ALWAYS TRICKY. +%passage 10 +PICKLES OF ALL SORTS DON'T SEEM TO MAKE IT. I'M SORRY. %e title %e section