From c86ae780c46cf2751efc60f48db8469ce0af82d8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: PatR Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2015 02:06:23 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] tribute: more Raising Steam The number of passages felt a bit light, so add a few more. --- dat/tribute | 89 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------- doc/fixes36.1 | 1 + 2 files changed, 79 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) diff --git a/dat/tribute b/dat/tribute index 0ec728092..f73ff0787 100644 --- a/dat/tribute +++ b/dat/tribute @@ -5283,18 +5283,19 @@ that moment you had never known that you always wanted to do it... # # # -%title Raising Steam (8) +%title Raising Steam (13) +# p. 281 (Anchor Books edition; passage starts mid-paragraph) %passage 1 -Yesterday you never thought about it and after today you -don't know what you would do without it. - -That was what the technology was doing. +[...] And yesterday you never thought about it and after today you don't +know what you would do without it. That was what the technology was doing. It was your slave but, in a sense, it might be the other way round. [Raising Steam, by Terry Pratchett] %e passage +# p. 358 (passage starts mid-paragraph and ends mid-paragraph; quote is +# attributed to Lord Vetinari but he's not present in the scene) %passage 2 -If you take enough precautions, you never need to take precautions. +"If you take enough precautions, you never need to take precautions." [Raising Steam, by Terry Pratchett] %e passage @@ -5388,22 +5389,88 @@ looking at. [Raising Steam, by Terry Pratchett] %e passage +## +# passages 9..13 added after 3.6.0's release +## +# pp. 20-21 +%passage 9 +Moist Von Lipwig had done some heavy work once and couldn't see any future +in it, but he could look at it for hours, provided other people were doing +it, of course, and clearly some of them liked what they were doing, and so +he shrugged and felt happy that Crisp was happy being a handyman whilst +Moist was happy not picking up anything that was heavier than a glass. +After all, his work was unseen and depended on words, which were +fortunately not very heavy and didn't need grease. In his career as a +crook they had served him well and now he felt somewhat smug at using them +to the benefit of the citizenry. + +There was a difference between a banker and a crook, there really was, and +although it was very, very teeny Moist felt that he should point out that +it did exist and, besides, Lord Vetinari always had his eye on him. + +So everybody was happy and Moist went to work in very clean clothes and +with a very clean conscience. + + [Raising Steam, by Terry Pratchett] +%e passage +# p. 22 +%passage 10 +Harry, red-faced and impatient, looked over his desk and said to him, "Lad, +time is money and I'm a busy man. You told Nancy down on reception that +you've got something I might like. Now stop fidgeting and look me in the +face square like. If you're another chancer wanting to bamboozle me I'll +have you down the Effing stairs(1) before you know it." + +(1) The wonderfully colored oak wood of the Effing Forest was much in +demand for high-class joinery. + + [Raising Steam, by Terry Pratchett] +%e passage +# p. 80 +%passage 11 +Moist knew about the zeitgeist, he tasted it in the wind, and sometimes it +allowed him to play with it. He understood it, and now it hinted at speed, +escape, something wonderfully new, the very bones of the land awakening, +and suddenly it seemed to cry out for motion, new horizons, faraway places, +/anywhere that is not here/! No doubt about it, the railway was going to +turn coal into gold. + + [Raising Steam, by Terry Pratchett] +%e passage +# p. 195 (passage starts mid-paragraph and ends mid-paragraph) +%passage 12 +And the trouble with madness was that the mad didn't know they were mad. + + [Raising Steam, by Terry Pratchett] +%e passage +# p. 284 (passage starts mid-paragraph; speaker is Cmdr Vimes of the Watch) +%passage 13 +"[...] That's the trouble, you see. When you've had hatred on your tongue +for such a long time, you don't know how to spit it out." + + [Raising Steam, by Terry Pratchett] +%e passage %e title +# +# +# %title The Shepherd's Crown (1) %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?' -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 -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. . . +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 +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... [The Shepherd's Crown, by Terry Pratchett] %e passage %e title +# %e section +# #----------------------------------------------------- # Used for interaction with Death. # diff --git a/doc/fixes36.1 b/doc/fixes36.1 index 9d5d81175..b3dd4b19d 100644 --- a/doc/fixes36.1 +++ b/doc/fixes36.1 @@ -76,6 +76,7 @@ wizard mode #wizintrinsic reading non-cursed scroll of enchant weapon uncurses welded tin opener if hero has no jumping ability but knows the jumping spell, the #jump command will attempt to cast the spell +additional passages for Raising Steam Platform- and/or Interface-Specific New Features -- 2.40.0