From: PatR Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2021 22:41:51 +0000 (-0800) Subject: tribute bit: Sourcery passage 4 X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=98703994353fd59ee7c96985e5936f179dae296f;p=nethack tribute bit: Sourcery passage 4 Fix a mistake that led to a bad fix for a perceived mistake that wasn't really there. I think having a comma after "moment" would make things clearer, but style-wise that's optional and leaving it out restores the book's original wording. --- diff --git a/dat/tribute b/dat/tribute index 083464a8e..658f3071a 100644 --- a/dat/tribute +++ b/dat/tribute @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -# NetHack 3.7 tribute $NHDT-Date: 1610152952 2021/01/09 00:42:32 $ $NHDT-Branch: NetHack-3.7 $:$NHDT-Revision: 1.93 $ +# NetHack 3.7 tribute $NHDT-Date: 1614206487 2021/02/24 22:41:27 $ $NHDT-Branch: NetHack-3.7 $:$NHDT-Revision: 1.94 $ # Copyright (c) 2017 by Robert Patrick Rankin # NetHack may be freely redistributed. See license for details. # A tribute introduced in NetHack 3.6.0 to: @@ -1094,8 +1094,10 @@ MANY HAVE, said Death evenly. [Sourcery, by Terry Pratchett] %e passage -# pp. 40-41 (text has 'the moment and the words' which is obviously a typo; -# it might have intended 'that' for 'and'; we just drop 'and') +# pp. 40-41 (this used to have a correction for "an obvious typo" in the last +# sentence [before the footnote] which was actually a transciption +# error, with "were" erroneously inserted [causing the sentence to +# parse oddly] but not present in the original text; fixed now) %passage 4 The thief, as will become apparent, was a special type of thief. This thief was an artist of theft. Other thieves merely stole everything that @@ -1113,8 +1115,8 @@ while it was in the process of winning a race. When Gritoller Mimpsey, vice-president of the Thieves' Guild, was jostled in the marketplace and then found on returning home that a freshly-stolen handful of diamonds had vanished from their place of concealment, he knew who to blame.(1) -This was the type of thief that could steal the initiative, the moment the -words were out of your mouth. +This was the type of thief that could steal the initiative, the moment +and the words out of your mouth. (1) This was because Gritoller had swallowed the jewels for safe keeping.