From: PatR Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2015 11:33:27 +0000 (-0800) Subject: tribute: I Shall Wear Midnight X-Git-Tag: NetHack-3.6.0_RC01~3 X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=99fb8121018ddb0ef710ffd85d6f8f09ba4c806d;p=nethack tribute: I Shall Wear Midnight --- diff --git a/dat/tribute b/dat/tribute index eec0e654b..4664c639d 100644 --- a/dat/tribute +++ b/dat/tribute @@ -5096,23 +5096,166 @@ thee.'" he began. # # # -%title I Shall Wear Midnight (2) +%title I Shall Wear Midnight (13) +# p. 447 (Harper edition; this passage is a quote from the "Authur's Note", +# three extra pages after the conclusion of the story; there is a +# similar, slightly shorter version of this in the text on p. 236, +# where it's preceded by "The past needs to be remembered." but +# lacks the final 'going wrong' sentence) %passage 1 -It is important that we know where we come from, -because if you do not know where you come from, -then you don't know where you are, -and if you don't know where you are, -you don't know where you're going. - -And if you don't know where you're going, you're probably going wrong. +It is important that we know where we come from, because if you do not +know where you come from, then you don't know where you are, and if you +don't know where you are, you don't know where you're going. And if you +don't know where you're going, you're probably going wrong. [I Shall Wear Midnight, by Terry Pratchett] %e passage +# pp. 429-430 (passage starts mid-paragraph and ends mid-paragraph) %passage 2 -There have been times, lately, when I dearly wished that I -could change the past. Well, I can't, but I can change the -present, so that when it becomes the past it will turn out -to be a past worth having. +"[...] There have been times, lately, when I dearly wished that I could +change the past. Well, I can't, but I can change the present, so that +when it becomes the past it will turn out to be a past worth having. [...]" + + [I Shall Wear Midnight, by Terry Pratchett] +%e passage +# p. 2 (passage starts mid-paragraph; scene is a village fair) +%passage 3 +[...] And so here, [...], you heard the permanent scream of, well, +everyone. It was called having fun. The only people not making any noise +were the thieves and pickpockets, who went about their business with +commendable silence, and they didn't come near Tiffany; who would pick a +witch's pocket? You would be lucky to get all your fingers back. At +least, that's what they feared, and a sensible witch would encourage them +in this fear. + + [I Shall Wear Midnight, by Terry Pratchett] +%e passage +# p. 61 +%passage 4 +/The hare runs into the fire./ + +Had she seen that written down anywhere? Had she heard it as part of a +song? A nursery rhyme? What had the hare got to do with anything? But +she was a witch, after all, and there was a job to do. Mysterious omens +could wait. Witches knew that mysterious omens were around all the time. +The world was always very nearly drowning in mysterious omens. You just +had to pick the one that was convenient. + + [I Shall Wear Midnight, by Terry Pratchett] +%e passage +# p. 64 +%passage 5 +That was the thing about thoughts. They thought themselves, and then +dropped into your head in the hope that you would think so too. You had +to slap them down, thoughts like that; they would take a witch over if she +let them. And then it would all break down, and nothing would be left but +the cackling. + + [I Shall Wear Midnight, by Terry Pratchett] +%e passage +# p. 65 (passage starts mid-paragraph) +%passage 6 +"[...] It just so happens that I was passing by, ye ken, and not +following ye at all. One of them coincidences." + +"There have been a lot of those coincidences lately," said Tiffany. + +"Aye," said Rob, grinning, "it must be another coincidence." + + [I Shall Wear Midnight, by Terry Pratchett] +%e passage +# pp. 179-180 +%passage 7 +Tiffany cleared her throat. "Well," she said, "I suppose Rob Anybody would +tell you that there are times when promises should be kept and times when +promises should be broken, and it takes a Feegle to know the difference." + +Mrs. Proust grinned hugely. "You could almost be from the city, Miss +Tiffany Aching." + + [I Shall Wear Midnight, by Terry Pratchett] +%e passage +# p. 183 (Wee Mad Arthur is a member of the Ankh-Morpork Watch; he was a +# foundling raised by gnomes and didn't know he was a Feegle until +# he met with the ones accompanying Tiffany) +%passage 8 +Despite himself, Wee Mad Arthur was grinning. "Have you boys got no shame?" + +Rob Anybody matched him grin for grin. "I couldna say," he replied, "but +if we have, it probably belonged tae somebody else." + + [I Shall Wear Midnight, by Terry Pratchett] +%e passage +# p. 219 (footnote) +%passage 9 +There is a lot of folklore about equestrian statues, especially the ones +with riders on them. There is said to be a code in the number and +placement of the horse's hooves: If one of the horse's hooves is in the +air, the rider was wounded in battle; two legs in the air means that the +rider was killed in battle; three legs in the air indicates that the +rider got lost on the way to the battle; and four legs in the air means +that the sculptor was very, very clever. Five legs in the air means that +there's probably at least one other horse standing behind the one you're +looking at; and the rider lying on the ground with his horse lying on top +of him with all four legs in the air means that the rider was either a +very incompetent horseman or owned a very bad-tempered horse. + + [I Shall Wear Midnight, by Terry Pratchett] +%e passage +# p. 318 (passage starts mid-paragraph and ends mid-paragraph) +%passage 10 +[...] "Knowledge is power, power is energy, energy is matter, matter is +mass, and mass changes time and space." [...] + + [I Shall Wear Midnight, by Terry Pratchett] +%e passage +# p. 362 (passage starts mid-paragraph; speaker is Preston, a castle guard; +# quote is a parody of J.R.R.Tolkien's "Do not meddle in the affairs +# of wizards, for they are subtle, and quick to anger.") +%passage 11 +[...] "My granny said, 'Don't meddle in the affairs of witches because +they clout you around the ear.'" + + [I Shall Wear Midnight, by Terry Pratchett] +%e passage +# pp. 386-387 (Tiffany is trying to rescue some witches from a castle roof) +%passage 12 +Tiffany crawled a little farther, well aware of the sheer drop an inch +away from her hand. "Preston has gone to fetch a rope. Do you have a +broomstick?" + +"A sheep crashed into it," said Mrs. Proust. + +Tiffany could just make her out now. "You crashed into a sheep in +/the air/?" + +"Maybe it was a cow, or something. What are those things that go +/snuffle snuffle/?" + +"You ran into a flying hedgehog?" + +"No, as it happened. We were down low, looking for a bush for Mrs. +Happenstance." There was a sigh in the gloom. "It's because of her +trouble, poor soul. We've stopped at a lot of bushes on the way here, +believe me! And do you know what? Inside every single one of them is +something that stings, bites, kicks, screams, howls, squelches, farts +enormously, goes all spiky, tries to knock you over, or does an enormous +pile of poo! Haven't you people up here ever heard of porcelain?" + +Tiffany was taken aback. "Well, yes, but not in the fields!" + +"They would be all the better for it," said Mrs. Proust. "I've ruined +a decent pair of boots, I have." + + [I Shall Wear Midnight, by Terry Pratchett] +%e passage +# p. 442 (passage starts mid-paragraph; see /The Wee Free Men/; +# 'underrr' and 'ag-rreeeed' are accurate; 'arr-angement' is +# hyphenated to span lines--it's just a guess that it would have +# been hyphenated anyway) +%passage 13 +"Nae king, nae quin, nae laird! One baron--and underrr mutually +ag-rreeeed arr-angement, ye ken!" [I Shall Wear Midnight, by Terry Pratchett] %e passage