From cbe7983c4c19e77828e3302c91c0113361562dcf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: PatR Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2016 18:22:38 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] tribute: Moving Pictures --- dat/tribute | 275 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---- doc/fixes36.1 | 2 +- 2 files changed, 258 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-) diff --git a/dat/tribute b/dat/tribute index a77126f8b..82da5f9fb 100644 --- a/dat/tribute +++ b/dat/tribute @@ -2163,38 +2163,274 @@ than most of the denizens. # # # -%title Moving Pictures (4) +%title Moving Pictures (16) +# p. 7 (ROC Edition) %passage 1 -This is space. It's sometimes called the final frontier. +This is space. It's sometimes called the final frontier. + (Except that of course you can't have a /final/ frontier, because there'd - be nothing for it to be a frontier /to/, but as frontiers go, it's pretty -penultimate...) +be nothing for it to be a frontier /to/, but as frontiers go, it's pretty +penultimate...) [Moving Pictures, by Terry Pratchett] %e passage +# pp. 22-23 (very short but happens to span a page boundary...) %passage 2 By and large, the only skill the alchemists of Ankh-Morpork had discovered -so far was the ability to turn gold into less gold. +so far was the ability to turn gold into less gold. [Moving Pictures, by Terry Pratchett] %e passage +# pp. 44, 45, 46 (multiple paragraphs skipped in the first two gaps) %passage 3 -There was a dog sitting by his feet. +He looked down. There was a dog sitting by his feet. + It was small, bow-legged and wiry, and basically grey but with patches of -brown, white, and black in outlying areas... It looked up slowly, and -said 'Woof?' Victor poked an exploratory finger in his ear. It must have - been a trick of an echo, or something. It wasn't that the dog had gone - 'woof!', although that was practically unique in itself; most dogs in the - universe /never/ went 'woof!', they had complicated barks like 'whuuugh!' - and 'hwhoouf!'. No, it was that it hadn't in fact /barked/ at all. It had -/said/ 'woof'. 'Could have bin worse, mister. I could have said "miaow".' +brown, white, and black in outlying areas, and it was staring. + +It was certainly the most penetrating stare Victor had ever seen. It +wasn't menacing, or fawning. It was just very slow and very thorough, as +though the dog was memorising details so that it could give a full +description to the authorities later. + +[...] + +Victor let his gaze slide downwards. There was nothing there but the little +dog, industriously scratching itself. It looked up slowly, and said "Woof?" + +[...] + +Victor poked an exploratory finger in his ear. It must have been a trick +of an echo, or something. It wasn't that the dog had gone "woof!?, although +that was practically unique in itself; most dogs in the universe /never/ +went "woof!", they had complicated barks like "whuuugh!" and "hwhoouf!". +No, it was that it hadn't in fact /barked/ at all. It had /said/ "woof". + +[...] + +One of the last things Victor remembered was a voice beside his knee saying, +"Could have bin worse, mister. I could have said 'miaow'." [Moving Pictures, by Terry Pratchett] %e passage +# p. 322 %passage 4 -''Twas beauty killed the beast,' said the Dean, who liked to say things -like that. 'No it wasn't,' said the Chair. 'It was it splatting into the -ground like that.' +"'Twas beauty killed the beast," said the Dean, who liked to say things +like that. + +"No it wasn't," said the Chair. "It was it splatting into the ground like +that." + + [Moving Pictures, by Terry Pratchett] +%e passage +# p. 12 +%passage 5 +There's a saying that all roads lead to Ankh-Morpork, greatest of Discworld +cities. + +At least, there's a /saying/ that there's a saying that all roads lead to +Ankh-Morpork. + +And it's wrong. All roads lead /away/ from Ankh-Morpork, but sometimes +people just walk along them the wrong way. + + [Moving Pictures, by Terry Pratchett] +%e passage +# p. 34 (Victor Tugelbend and Ponder Stibbons are students at Unseen Uni.) +%passage 6 +"Rain's stopped. Let's go over the wall," he said. "We deserve a drink." + +Victor waggled a finger. "Just one drink, then. Got to keep sober," he +said. "It's Finals tomorrow. Got to keep a clear head!" + +"Huh!", said Ponder. + +Of course, it's very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many +worthwhile careers in the street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar- +playing industries have been founded on a lack of understanding of this +simple fact. + + [Moving Pictures, by Terry Pratchett] +%e passage +# p. 37 +%passage 7 +In a sense which his tutors couldn't quite define, much to their annoyance, +Victor Tugelbend was also the laziest person in the history of the world. + +Not simply, ordinarily lazy. Ordinary laziness was merely the absence of +effort. Victor had passed through there a long time ago, had gone straight +through commonplace idleness and out on the far side. He put more effort +into avoiding work than most people put into hard labour. + + [Moving Pictures, by Terry Pratchett] +%e passage +# p. 60 +%passage 8 +Cut-me-own-Throat Dibbler was one of those rare people with the ability to +think in straight lines. + +Most people think in curves and zig-zags. For example, they start with a +thought like: I wonder how I can become very rich, and then proceed along +an uncertain course which includes thoughts like: I wonder what's for +supper, and: I wonder who I know that can lend me five dollars? + +Whereas Throat was one of those people who could identify the thought at the +other end of the process, in this case /I am now very rich/, draw a line +between the two, and then think his way along it, slowly and patiently, +until he got to the other end. + +Not that it worked. There was always, he found, some small but vital flaw +in the process. It generally involved a strange reluctance on the part of +people to buy what he had to sell. + + [Moving Pictures, by Terry Pratchett] +%e passage +# pp. 71-72 +%passage 9 +"Tell me, Mr Dibbler." said Silverfish, "what exactly is your profession?" + +"I sell merchandise," said Dibbler. + +"Mostly sausages," Victor volunteered. + +"/And/ merchandise," said Dibbler, sharply. "I only sell sausages when the +merchandising trade is a bit slow." + +"And the sale of sausages leads you to believe you can make better moving +pictures?" said Silverfish. "Anyone can sell sausages! Isn't that so, +Victor?" + +"Well..." said Victor, reluctantly. No-one except Dibbler could possibly +sell Dibbler's sausages. + +"There you are then," said Silverfish. + +"The thing is," said Victor, "that Mr Dibbler can even sell sausages to +people who have bought them off him /before/." + +"That's right!" said Dibbler. He beamed at Victor. + +"And a man who could sell Mr Dibbler's sausages twice could sell anything," +said Victor. + + [Moving Pictures, by Terry Pratchett] +%e passage +# p. 111-112 ('dis', 'ort', 'yore', 'finking', 'mayonnaisey', 'specialitay', +# 'de lar mayson' all accurate) +%passage 10 +Borgle's commissary had decided to experiment with salads tonight. The +nearest salad growing district was thirty slow miles away. + +"What dis?" demanded a troll, holding up something limp and brown. + +Fruntkin the short-order chef hazarded a guess. + +'Celery?" he said. He peered closer. "Yeah, celery." + +"It /brown/." + +"'S'right. 'S'right! Ripe celery ort to be brown," said Fruntkin, quickly. +"Shows it's ripe," he added. + +"It should be /green/." + +"Nah. Yore finking about the tomatoes," said Fruntkin. + +"Yeah, and what's this runny stuff?" said a man in the queue. + +Fruntkin drew himself up to his full height. + +"That," he said, "is the mayonnaisey. Made it myself. Out of a /book/, he +added proudly. + +"Yead, I expect you did," said the man, prodding it. "Clearly oil, eggs +and vinegar were not involved, right?" + +"Specialitay de lar mayson," said Fruntkin. + +"Right, right," said the man. "Only it's attacking my lettuce." + +Fruntkin grasped his ladle angrily. + +"Look--" he began. + +"No, it's all right," said the prospective diner. "The slugs have formed a +defensive ring." + + [Moving Pictures, by Terry Pratchett] +%e passage +# p. 137 (CMOT Dibbler has become a director, Rock is a troll actor) +%passage 11 +"Er, I was just wondering, Mr Dibbler... what is my motivation for this +scene?" + +"Motivation?" + +"Yes. Er. I got to know, see," said Rock. + +"How about: I'll fire you if you don't do it properly?" + +Rock grinned. "Right you are, Mr Dibbler," he said. + + [Moving Pictures, by Terry Pratchett] +%e passage +# p. 189 +%passage 12 +Magic wasn't difficult. That was the big secret that the whole baroque +edifice or wizardry had been set up to conceal. Anyone with a bit of +intelligence and enough perseverance could do magic, which was why the +wizards cloaked it with rituals and the whole pointy-hat business. + +The trick was to do magic and /get away with it/. + +Because it was as if the human race was a field of corn and magic helped +the users grow just that bit taller, so that they stood out. That +attracted the attention of gods and--Victor hesitated--other Things outside +this world. People who used magic without knowing what they were doing +usually came to a sticky end. + +All over the entire room, sometimes. + + [Moving Pictures, by Terry Pratchett] +%e passage +# p. 204 (passage ends mid-paragraph; musings are by Gaspode the dog) +%passage 13 +Sunnink dreadful in there, he thought. Prob'ly tentacled fings that rips +your face off. I mean, when you finds mysterious doors in old hills, it +stands to reason wot comes out ain't going to be pleased to see you. Evil +creatures wot Man shouldn't wot of, and here's one dog wot don't want to +wot of them either. + + [Moving Pictures, by Terry Pratchett] +%e passage +# pp. 206-207 (passage starts mid-paragraph; Dibbler now controls Silverfish's +# moving pictures studio; Detritus isn't part of the Watch yet) +%passage 14 +"[...] Detritus, throw this bum out!" + +"Right you are, Mr Dibbler," rumbled the troll, gripping Silverfish's +collar. + +"You haven't heard the last of this, you--you scheming, devious +megalomaniac!" + +Dibbler removed his cigar. + +"That's /Mister/ Megalomanic to you," he said. + + [Moving Pictures, by Terry Pratchett] +%e passage +# p. 274 (passage starts mid-sentence; senior wizards of the University are +# attending a 'click' and have decided to take their hats off...) +%passage 15 +[...] inside every old person is a young person wondering what happened. + + [Moving Pictures, by Terry Pratchett] +%e passage +# p. 295 (passage starts mid-sentence; the movie theater owner's daughter +# is playing a pipe organ to accompany the silent movie) +%passage 16 +[...] whatever piece of music she was playing, it was definitely losing. [Moving Pictures, by Terry Pratchett] %e passage @@ -7620,7 +7856,7 @@ IF YOU ASK ME, said Death, NOBODY COULD DO ANY BETTER THAN THAT... # Death Quotes are always one line, and '%e passage' can be omitted. # %section Death -%title Death Quotes (24) +%title Death Quotes (25) %passage 1 WHERE THE FIRST PRIMAL CELL WAS, THERE WAS I ALSO. WHERE MAN IS, THERE AM I. WHEN THE LAST LIFE CRAWLS UNDER FREEZING STARS, THERE WILL I BE. %e passage @@ -7704,9 +7940,12 @@ DON'T LET IT UPSET YOU. # Pyramids, p. 57 (ROC edition) %passage 23 I CAN SEE THAT YOU HAVE GOT A LOT TO THINK ABOUT. -# Eric, p. 134 +# Eric, p. 134 (Harper Torch edition) %passage 24 PERHAPS IT'S TIME TO CALL IT A DAY. +# Moving Pictures, p. 260 (ROC edition) +%passage 25 +I KNOW WHEN EVERYONE'S HAD ENOUGH. %e title %e section # diff --git a/doc/fixes36.1 b/doc/fixes36.1 index feb066182..c083030da 100644 --- a/doc/fixes36.1 +++ b/doc/fixes36.1 @@ -200,7 +200,7 @@ 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, Snuff, and Raising Steam + Eric, Moving Pictures, Snuff, and Raising Steam 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 -- 2.40.0