From: PatR Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2015 08:37:31 +0000 (-0700) Subject: tribute: The Wee Free Men X-Git-Tag: NetHack-3.6.0_RC01~135 X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=e15f6cc9656551e3d3a5fb5b04e191ac5746a860;p=nethack tribute: The Wee Free Men --- diff --git a/dat/tribute b/dat/tribute index 43a2aad37..4a17b2079 100644 --- a/dat/tribute +++ b/dat/tribute @@ -3464,10 +3464,166 @@ And they had to give the target a chance. # # # -%title The Wee Free Men (1) +%title The Wee Free Men (9) +# p. 100 (HarperTempest edition; quin==queen; +# this rallying cry occurs multiple times; p. 167 has "/Nae quin! +# Nae king! Nae laird! Nae master! We willna be fooled again!/", +# p. 193 has same except that King and Quin are reversed and +# capitalized, p. 287 has "/Nae Quin! Nae Laird! Wee Fee Men!/") %passage 1 -"Nac Mac Feegle! The Wee Free Men! Nae king! Nae quin! Nae laird! We willna -be fooled again!" +"Nac Mac Feegle! The Wee Free Men! Nae king! Nae quin! Nae laird! Nae +master! /We willna be fooled again!/" + + [The Wee Free Men, by Terry Pratchett] +%e passage +# pp. 18-19 (unlike in Lancre and its surrounding Ramtop mountains, witches +# are unwelcome in the Chalk; the first paragraph continues with +# mention of things Miss Tick doesn't carry, then things she does, +# ending with 'and, of course, a lucky charm.') +%passage 2 +Miss Tick did not look like a witch. Most witches don't, at least the ones +who wander from place to place. Looking like a witch can be dangerous when +you walk among the uneducated. [...] + +Everyone in the country carried lucky charms, and Miss Tick had worked out +that if you didn't have one, people would suspect that you /were/ a witch. +You had to be a bit cunning to be a witch. + +Miss Tick did have a pointy hat, but it was a stealth hat and pointed only +when she wanted it to. + +The one thing in her bag that might have made anyone suspicious was a very +small, grubby booklet entitled /An Introduction to Escapology, by the +Great Williamson/. If one of the risks of your job is being thrown into a +pond with your hands tied together, then the ability to swim thirty yards +underwater, fully clothed, plus the ability to lurk under the weeds +breathing air through a hollow reed, count as nothing if you aren't also +/amazingly/ good at knots. + + [The Wee Free Men, by Terry Pratchett] +%e passage +# pp. 29-30 ('pune' is accurate; a mispronunciation of 'pun', as indicated +# by the footnote; one wonders how a nine year old farm girl knows +# how to pronounce 'mystique'...) +%passage 3 +"My name," she said at last, "is Miss Tick. And I /am/ a witch. It's a +good name for a witch, of course." + +"You mean blood-sucking parasite?" said Tiffany, wrinkling her forehead. + +"I'm sorry," said Miss Tick, coldly. + +"Ticks," said Tiffany. "Sheep get them. But if you use turpentine--" + +"I /meant/ that it /sounds/ like 'mystic,'" said Miss Tick. + +"Oh, you mean a pune, or play on words," said Tiffany.(1) "In that case it +would be even better if you were Miss /Teak/, a dense foreign wood, because +that would sound like 'mystique,' or you could be Miss Take, which would--" + +"I can see we're going to get on like a house on fire," said Miss Tick. +"There may be no survivors." + +(1) Tiffany had read lots of words in the dictionary that she'd never heard +spoken, so she had to guess at how they were pronounced. + + [The Wee Free Men, by Terry Pratchett] +%e passage +# pp. 64-65 +%passage 4 +There was a lot of mist around, but a few stars were visible overhead and +there was a gibbous moon in the sky. Tiffany knew it was gibbous because +she'd read in the Almanack that /gibbous/ means what the moon looked like +when it was just a bit fatter than half full, and so she made a point of +paying attention to it around those times just so that she could say to +herself, "Ah, I see the moon's very gibbous tonight." + +It's possible that this tells you more about Tiffany than she would want +you to know. + + [The Wee Free Men, by Terry Pratchett] +%e passage +# p. 159 (bigjob: pictsie term for human; 'heid', 'dinna', 'canna', 'noo', +# 'aroound', and 'Tiffan' are accurate) +%passage 5 +"[...] Ye have the First Sight and the Second Thoughts, just like yer +Granny. That's rare in a bigjob." + +"Don't you mean Second Sight?" Tiffany asked. "Like people who can see +ghosts and stuff?" + +"Ach, no. That's typical bigjob thinking. /First Sight/ is when you can +see what's really there, not what your heid tells you /ought/ to be there. +Ye saw Jenny, ye saw the horseman, ye saw them as real thingies. Second +sight is dull sight, it's seeing only what you expect to see. Most bigjobs +ha' that. Listen to me, because I'm fadin' noo and there's a lot you dinna +ken. Ye think this is the whole world? That is a good thought for sheep +and mortals who dinna open their eyes. Because in truth there are more +worlds than stars in the sky. Understand? They are everywhere, big and +small, close as your skin. They are /everywhere/. Some ye can see an' +some ye canna, but there are doors, Tiffan. They might be a hill or a +tree or a stone or a turn in the road, or they might e'en be a thought in +yer heid, but they are there, all aroound ye. You'll have to learn to see +'em, because you walk among them and dinna know it. And some of them... +is poisonous." + + [The Wee Free Men, by Terry Pratchett] +%e passage +# p. 193 (source text is all italics here; passage continues with the speakers +# getting in synch and shouting the cry from passage 1) +%passage 6 +"They can tak' oour lives but they canna tak' oour troousers!" + +"Ye'll tak' the high road an' I'll tak' yer wallet!" + +"There can only be one t'ousand!" + +"Ach, stick it up yer trakkans!" + + [The Wee Free Men, by Terry Pratchett] +%e passage +# p. 227 (also all italics; end of a reminiscence of Granny Aching by Tiffany) +%passage 7 +"Them as can do has to do for them as can't. And someone has to speak up +for them as has no voices." + + [The Wee Free Men, by Terry Pratchett] +%e passage +# p. 287 (like passage 6, this ties back to passage 1; the cry there is +# one of the things Tiffany hears) +%passage 8 +Tiffany might have been the only person, in all the worlds that there are, +to be happy to hear the sound of the Nac Mac Feegle. + +They poured out of the smashed nut. Some were still wearing bow ties. +Some were back in their kilts. But they were all in a fighting mood and, +to save time, were fighting with one another to get up to speed. + + [The Wee Free Men, by Terry Pratchett] +%e passage +# pp. 313-314 (passage starts mid-paragraph; 'mebbe' and 'oour' are accurate) +%passage 9 +"[...] Can you bring Wentworth?" + +"Aye." + +"And you won't get lost or--or drunk or anything?" + +Rob Anybody looked offended. "We ne'er get lost!" he said. "We always ken +where we are! It's just sometimes mebbe we aren't sure where everything +else is, but it's no' our fault if /everything else/ gets lost! The Nac +Mac Feegle never get lost!" + +"What about drunk?" said Tiffany, dragging Roland toward the lighthouse. + +"We've ne'er been lost in oour lives! Is that no' the case, lads?" said +Rob Anybody. There was a murmur of resentful agreement. "The words /lost/ +and /Nac Mac Feegle/ shouldna turn up in the same sentence!" + +"And drunk?" said Tiffany again, laying Roland down on the beach. + +"Gettin' lost is something that happens to other people!" declared Rob +Anybody. "I want to make that point perfectly clear!" [The Wee Free Men, by Terry Pratchett] %e passage