From f7c9a1fa31bb5dec7fe66d38855fc99b6b38e1eb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: PatR Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2016 14:02:51 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] tribute: Reaper Man --- dat/tribute | 219 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--- doc/fixes36.1 | 2 +- 2 files changed, 210 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) diff --git a/dat/tribute b/dat/tribute index 82da5f9fb..d841095d2 100644 --- a/dat/tribute +++ b/dat/tribute @@ -2438,31 +2438,215 @@ Dibbler removed his cigar. # # # -%title Reaper Man (4) +%title Reaper Man (15) +# pp. 301-302 (ROC edition) %passage 1 -No one is actually dead until the ripples they cause in the world die -away... +It was later that the story of Windle Poons really came to an end, if +"story" means all that he did and caused and set in motion. In the Ramtop +villages where they dance the real Morris dance, for example, they believe +that no one is finally dead until the ripples they cause in the world die +away--until the clock he wound up winds down, until the wine she made has +finished its ferment, until the crop they planted is harvested. The span +of someone's life, they say, is only the core of their actual existance. [Reaper Man, by Terry Pratchett] %e passage +# p. 251 (passage starts mid-paragraph) %passage 2 Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind. [Reaper Man, by Terry Pratchett] %e passage +# p. 305 (passage starts mid-paragraph) %passage 3 -Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how - fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and -is waiting for it. +Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter +how fast light travels it finds the darkness has always got there first, +and is waiting for it. [Reaper Man, by Terry Pratchett] %e passage +# p. 245 %passage 4 -"That's not fair, you know. If we knew when we were going to die, people -would lead better lives." +"That's not fair, you know. If we knew when we were going to die, people +would lead better lives." IF PEOPLE KNEW WHEN THEY WERE GOING TO DIE, I THINK THEY PROBABLY WOULDN'T -LIVE AT ALL. +LIVE AT ALL. + + [Reaper Man, by Terry Pratchett] +%e passage +# p. 19 +%passage 5 +YOU FEAR TO DIE? + +"It's not that I don't want... I mean, I've always... it's just that life +is a habit that's hard to break..." + + [Reaper Man, by Terry Pratchett] +%e passage +# pp. 30-31 +%passage 6 +Wizards don't believe in gods in the same way that most people don't find it +necessary to believe in, say, tables. They know they're there, they know +they're there for a purpose, they'd probably agree that they have a place in +a well-organized universe, but they wouldn't see the point of /believing/, +of going around saying, "O great table, without whom we are as naught". +Anyway, either the gods are there whether you believe or not, or exist only +as a function of the belief, so either way you might as well ignore the +whole business and, as it were, eat off your knees. + +Nevertheless, there is a small chaple off the University's Great Hall, +because while the wizards stand right behind the philosophy as outlined +above, you don't become a successful wizard by getting up gods' noses even +if those noses only exist in an ethereal or metaphorical sense. Because +while wizards don't belive in gods they know for a fact that /gods/ believe +in gods. + + [Reaper Man, by Terry Pratchett] +%e passage +# p. 50 (Dibbler is so low because he's on steps leading down to a cellar) +%passage 7 +"Sergeant!" + +Colon froze. Then he looked down. A face was staring up at him from ground +level. When he'd got a grip on himself, he made out the sharp features of +his old friend Cut-Me-Own-Throat Dibbler, the Discworld's walking, talking +argument in favour of the theory that mankind had descended from a species +of rodent. C. M. O. T. Dibbler like to describe himself as a merchant +adventurer; everyone else liked to describe him as itinerant pedlar whose +moneymaking schemes were always let down by some small but vital flaw, such +as trying to sell things he didn't own or which didn't work or, sometimes, +didn't even exist. Fairy gold is well known to evaporate by morning, but +it was a reinforced concrete slab by comparison to some of Dibbler's +merchandise. + + [Reaper Man, by Terry Pratchett] +%e passage +# pp. 58-59 +%passage 8 +Over the fireplace was an ornamental candlestick, fixed to a bracket on the +wall. It was such a familiar piece of furniture that Windle hadn't really +seen it for fifty years. + +It was coming unscrewed. It spun around slowly, squeaking once a turn. +After half a dozen turns it fell off and clattered to the floor. + +Inexplicable phenomena were not in themselves unusual on the Discworld.(1) +It was just that they normally had more point, or at least were a bit more +interesting. + +(1) Rains of fish, for example, were so common in the little land-locked +village of Pine Dressers that it had a flourishing smoking, canning and +kipper filleting industry. And in the mountain regions of Syrrit many +sheep, left out in the fields all night, would be found in the morning to +/be facing the other way/, without the apparent intervention of any human +agency. + + [Reaper Man, by Terry Pratchett] +%e passage +# pp. 68-69 (130 year old wizard Windle Poon has become a zombie after dying) +%passage 9 +"And now let's put the lid on and go and have some lunch," said Ridcully. +"Don't worry, Windle. It's bound to work. Today is the last day of the +rest of your life." + +Windle lay in the darkness, listening to the hammering. There was a thump +and a muffled imprecation against the Dean for not holding the end properly. +And then the patter of soil on the lid, getting fainter and more distant. + +After a while a distant rumbling suggested that the commerce of the city +was being resumed. He could even hear muffled voices. + +He banged on the coffin lid. + +"Can you keep it down?" he demanded. "There's people down here trying to +be dead!" + +He heard the voices stop. There was the sound of feet hurrying away. + + [Reaper Man, by Terry Pratchett] +%e passage +# p. 81-82 (things have stopped dying because Death is no longer on the job) +%passage 10 +Everything that exists, yearns to live. That's what the cycle of life is +all about. That's the engine that drives the great biological pumps of +evolution. Everything tries to inch its way up the tree, clawing or +tentacling or sliming its way up to the next niche until it gets to the +very top--which, on the whole, never seems to have been worth all the +effort. + +Everything that exists, yearns to live. Even things that are not alive. +Things that have a kind of sub-life, a metaphorical life, an /almost/ life. +And now, in the same way that a sudden hot spell brings forth unnatural and +exotic blooms... + + [Reaper Man, by Terry Pratchett] +%e passage +# p. 101 +%passage 11 +Dead. That was the point. All the religions had very strong views about +talking to the dead. And so did Mrs Cake. They held that it was sinful. +Mrs Cake held that it was only common courtesy. + +This usually led to a fierce ecclesiastical debate which resulted in Mrs +Cake giving the chief priest what she called "a piece of her mind". There +were so many pieces of Mrs Cake's mind left around the city now that it +was quite surprising that there was enough left to power Mrs Cake but, +strangely enough, the more pieces of her mind she gave away the more there +seemed to be left. + + [Reaper Man, by Terry Pratchett] +%e passage +# p. 222 +%passage 12 +"No--" Ridcully began, and realised that it was hopeless. And he was losing +the initiative. He carefully formulated the most genteel battle cry in the +history of bowdlerism, + +"Darn them to Heck!" he yelled, and ran after the Dean. + + [Reaper Man, by Terry Pratchett] +%e passage +# p. 226 +%passage 13 +Miss Flitworth disappeared into the scullery. There was the creaking of a +pump. She returned with a damp flannel and a glass of water. + +THERE'S A NEWT IN IT! + +"Shows it's fresh," said Miss Flitworth,(1) fishing the amphibian out and +releasing it on the flagstones, where it scuttled away into a crack. + +(1) People have believed for hundreds of years that newts in a well mean +that the water's fresh and drinkable, and /in all that time/ never asked +themselves whether the newts got out to go to the lavatory. + + [Reaper Man, by Terry Pratchett] +%e passage +# p. 247 +%passage 14 +"Have you got any last words?" + +YES. I DON'T WANT TO GO. + +"Well. Succinct, anyway." + + [Reaper Man, by Terry Pratchett] +%e passage +# pp. 249-250 +%passage 15 +"Where's everyone gone, Librarian?" + +"Oook oook." + +"Just like them. I'd have done that. Rush off without thinking. May the +gods bless them and help them, if they can find the time from their family +squabbles." + +And then he thought: well, what now? I've thought, and what am I going to +do? + +Rush off, or course, But slowly. [Reaper Man, by Terry Pratchett] %e passage @@ -7856,7 +8040,7 @@ 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 (25) +%title Death Quotes (30) %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 @@ -7946,6 +8130,21 @@ PERHAPS IT'S TIME TO CALL IT A DAY. # Moving Pictures, p. 260 (ROC edition) %passage 25 I KNOW WHEN EVERYONE'S HAD ENOUGH. +# Reaper Man, p. 10 (ROC edition) +%passage 26 +I HAVE ALWAYS DONE MY DUTY AS I SAW FIT. +# p. 18 +%passage 27 +I AM NOT KNOWN FOR MY SENSE OF FUN. +# p. 160 +%passage 28 +I MEAN THAT THERE IS A TIME FOR EVERYONE TO DIE. +# p. 227 +%passage 29 +JUST BECAUSE SOMETHING IS A METAPHORE DOESN'T MEAN IT CAN'T BE REAL. +# p. 334 +%passage 30 +I AM ALWAYS ALONE. BUT JUST NOW I WANT TO BE ALONE BY MYSELF. %e title %e section # diff --git a/doc/fixes36.1 b/doc/fixes36.1 index d71f1e288..c3d712dcf 100644 --- a/doc/fixes36.1 +++ b/doc/fixes36.1 @@ -210,7 +210,7 @@ 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, Moving Pictures, Snuff, and Raising Steam + Eric, Moving Pictures, Reaper Man, 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