From: PatR Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2016 00:08:16 +0000 (-0700) Subject: tribute: The Shepherd's Crown X-Git-Tag: NetHack-3.6.1_RC01~591 X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=d0783facdc2793824c5f016ea68d85268e6bd5d8;p=nethack tribute: The Shepherd's Crown --- diff --git a/dat/tribute b/dat/tribute index 10b29a582..3bdb540a9 100644 --- a/dat/tribute +++ b/dat/tribute @@ -8277,17 +8277,141 @@ for such a long time, you don't know how to spit it out." %e title # # +# Sir Terry Pratchett's final book, published posthumously. +# The story is complete, but the length is substantially shorter than +# other recent Discworld novels. Presumably it would have been expanded +# if he had had more time to work on it.... # -%title The Shepherd's Crown (1) +%title The Shepherd's Crown (7) +# pp. 29-30 (Harper edition) %passage 1 -'It's an inconvenience, true enough, and I don't like it at all, but I -know that you do it for everyone, Mister Death. Is there any other way?' +"It's an inconvenience, true enough, and I don't like it at all, but I +know that you do it for everyone, Mr. Death. Is there any other way?" -NO, THERE ISN'T, I'M AFRAID. WE ARE ALL FLOATING IN THE WINDS OF TIME. +NO, THERE ISN'T, I'M AFRAID. WE ARE ALL FLOATING IN THE WINDS OF TIME. BUT YOUR CANDLE, MISTRESS WEATHERWAX, WILL FLICKER FOR SOME TIME BEFORE -IT GOES OUT -- A LITTLE REWARD FOR A LIFE WELL LIVED. FOR I CAN SEE THE +IT GOES OUT--A LITTLE REWARD FOR A LIFE WELL LIVED. FOR I CAN SEE THE BALANCE AND YOU HAVE LEFT THE WORLD MUCH BETTER THAN YOU FOUND IT, AND -IF YOU ASK ME, said Death, NOBODY COULD DO ANY BETTER THAN THAT... +IF YOU ASK ME, said Death, NOBODY COULD DO ANY BETTER THAN THAT.... + + [The Shepherd's Crown, by Terry Pratchett] +%e passage +# p. 30 ('she' is Miss Tick, a travelling witch who finds new witches; +# 'under water' is spelled as two words; 'ducking' is accurate) +%passage 2 +She sighed. It was such a shame when old customs disappeared. A good +witch-ducking was something she had liked doing in the bad old days--she +had even /trained/ for it. All those swimming lessons, and practice with +knots at the Quirm College for Young Ladies. She had been able to defeat +the mobs under water if necessary. Or at least work at breaking her own +record for untying the simple knots they all thought worked on the nasty +witch. + +Now, a bit of pond-dipping had become more like a hobby, and she had a +nasty feeling that others were copying her after she passed through their +villages. She'd even heard talk of a swimming club being started in one +small hamlet over by Ham-on-Rye.(1) + +(1) A popular idea among the young lads, since they felt that everyone-- +and "everyone" definitely included the young ladies--should swim without +their clothes. + + [The Shepherd's Crown, by Terry Pratchett] +%e passage +# p. 37 (passage starts mid-paragraph; 'she' is Tiffany Aching) +%passage 3 +Not for the first time, she wondered how it was that cats seemed to be +able to be in one place one moment, and then /almost at the same time/, +reappear somewhere else.(1) + +(1) She did not know it, but a keen young philosopher in Ephebe had +pondered exactly that same conumdrum, until he was found one morning-- +most of him, anyway--surrounded by a number of purring, and very well fed, +cats. No one had seemed keen to continue his experiments after that. + + [The Shepherd's Crown, by Terry Pratchett] +%e passage +# pp. 112-113 (the footnote has a misprint of mismatched quotes: "Chuffley') +%passage 4 +Roland de Chumsfanleigh,(1) the young Baron on the Chalk /did/ want to be +like his father in many ways. He knew the old man had been popular--what +was known as an "old-school Baron," which meant that everyone knew what +to expect and the guards polished up their armor and saluted, and did +what was expected of /them/, while the Baron did what was expected of him, +and pretty much left them alone. + +But his father had also been a bit of a bad-tempered bully at times. And +/that/ bit Roland wanted to forget about. He particularly wanted to sound +the right note when he called round to see Tiffany Aching at Home Farm. +For they had once been good friends, and to Roland's alarm, Tiffany was +thought of as a good friend by his wife Letitia. Any man with sense was +wise to be fearful of a wife's best friends. For who knew what ... little +secrets might be shared. Roland, having been educated at home and with +limited knowledge of the world outside the Chalk, feared that "little" +might be /exactly/ the kind of comment Letitia might share with Tiffany. + +(1) Pronounced "Chuffley" under the strange rule that the more gentrified +a family is, the more peculiar the pronunciation of their name becomes. +Tiffany had once heard a high-born visitor named Ponsonby-Macklewright +(/Pwt/) refer to Roland as /Chf/. She wondered how they managed at dinner +when /Pwt/ introduced /Chf/ to /Wm/ or /Hmpfh/. Surely it could lead to +misunderstandings? + + [The Shepherd's Crown, by Terry Pratchett] +%e passage +# p. 158 +%passage 5 +He kicked the helmet of his chief, the Big Man of the clan, and shouted, +"There's elves here! I can smell it, ye ken!" + +And from every hole in turn, the clan of the Nac Mac Feegle poured out in +their hundreds to deal with the ancient enemy, waving claymores and swords, +yodeling their war cries: + +"Ach, stickit yer trakkans!" + +"Nac Mac Feegle wha hae!" + +"Gae awa' wi' ye, yer bogle!" + +"Gi'e you sich a guid kickin'!" + +"Nae king! Nae quin! We will nae be fooled agin!" + +There is a concept known as a hustle and bustle, and the Feegles were very +good at it, cheerfully getting in one another's way in the drive to be the +first into battle, and it seemed as if each small warrior had a battle cry +of his own--and he was very ready to fight anyone who tried to take it +away from him. + +"How many elves?" asked Rob Anybody, trying to adjust his spog. + +There was a pause. + +"One," said Big Yan sheepishly. + + [The Shepherd's Crown, by Terry Pratchett] +%e passage +# p. 159 (passage starts mid-paragraph. 'oor' is accurate) +%passage 6 +"This elf is oor prisoner. A hostage, ye ken. That means ye are nae tae +kill it until ye are told." He ignored the grumbles from the clan. "As +tae the rest o' ye, tak guard around yon stones. And if they come in +force, show them what the Feegles can dae!" + +Daft Wullie said, "I can play the harmonica." + +Rob Anybody sighed. "Aye, weel, I suppose that puts the willies up me, +so wud likely keep them awa'." + + [The Shepherd's Crown, by Terry Pratchett] +%e passage +# p. 202 +%passage 7 +Sometimes, Tiffany thought, I am so /fed up/ with being young.(1) + +(1) A thought that she would most certainly grow out of, assuming she +survived long enough. [The Shepherd's Crown, by Terry Pratchett] %e passage diff --git a/doc/fixes36.1 b/doc/fixes36.1 index 1ab4b2566..9114150f3 100644 --- a/doc/fixes36.1 +++ b/doc/fixes36.1 @@ -441,8 +441,8 @@ allow knife and stiletto as possible tin opening tools wizard mode #wizintrinsic command additional tribute passages for The Colour of Magic, The Light Fantastic, Equal Rites, Mort, Sourcery, Wyrd Sisters, Pyramids, Guards! Guards!, - Eric, Moving Pictures, Reaper Man, Witches Abroad, Snuff, and - Raising Steam + Eric, Moving Pictures, Reaper Man, Witches Abroad, Snuff, + Raising Steam, and The Shepherd's Crown compile-time options SIMPLE_MAIL and SERVER_ADMIN_MSG for public server use database entries for Cleaver, Sunsword, Frost and Fire brands, and polymorph trap