tribute update: Night Watch and The Wee Free Men

Add a page citation to passage #1 of Night Watch, and add five new
passages, briging the total to 12.

Add four new passages to The Wee Free Men, bringing the total to 13.
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%title Night Watch (7)
%title Night Watch (12)
# p. 393
%passage 1
When Mister Safety Catch Is Not On, Mister Crossbow Is Not Your Friend.
@@ -7213,11 +7214,102 @@ And they had to give the target a chance.
[Night Watch, by Terry Pratchett]
%e passage
# p. 51
%passage 8
"We are here, and this is now." Constable Visit, a strict believer in
the Omnian religion, occasionally quoted from their holy book. Vimes
understood it to mean, in less exalted copperspeak, that you have to do
the job that is in front of you.
[Night Watch, by Terry Pratchett]
%e passage
# p. 85 (Vimes fell through the roof of Unseen University's Library during
# a thunderstorm and ended up 30 years in the past; the Discworld's
# "history monks" aren't just observers and Lu-Tze wants to help
# Vimes get back to same time and circumstances that he came from)
%passage 9
"Oh, for heavens' sake, Lu-Tze! This is completely unauthorized, you
know! We're supposed to prune out rogue history loops, not expend vast
amounts of time keeping them going!"
"This one's important. We owe it to the man. It wasn't his fault we had
a temporal shattering just as he fell through the dome."
"Two timelines running side by side," moaned Qu. "That's quite
unacceptable, you know. I'm having to use techniques that are completely
untried."
"Yes, but it's only a few days."
"What about Vimes? Is he strong enough? He's got no training for this!"
"He defaults to being a copper. A copper's a copper, wherever he is."
[Night Watch, by Terry Pratchett]
%e passage
# p. 198 (young assassin is Vetinari, well before he eventually becomes
# Patrician; Sam Vimes is living as John Keel, a Watch sergeant,
# and among other things, training his younger self to be a Watchman)
%passage 10
"Really? That doesn't sound like Swing. How much do I owe you."
The young man called Havelock gave a shrug. "Call it a dollar," he said.
"That's very cheap."
"He wasn't worth more. I should warn you, though. Soon you may want me
to deal with Keel."
"Surely someone like him wouldn't side with people like Winder and Swing?"
"He's a side all by himself. He's a complication. You may think it best
if he... ceased to complicate."
The rattling of the coach underlined the silence this remark caused. It
was moving through a richer part of the city now, where there was more
light and the curfew, being for poorer people, was less rigorously
observed. The figure opposite the Assassin stroked the cat on her lap.
"No. He'll serve some purpose," said Madam. "Everyone is telling me
about Keel. In a world where we all move in curves he proceeds in a
straight line. And going straight in a world of curves makes things
happen."
[Night Watch, by Terry Pratchett]
%e passage
# p. 199 (this is a continuation of the conversation in passage 10, with
# several paragraphs leading to it skipped; topic is now about a
# rare book that has callously been destroyed; a sentence about
# "dark green" is omitted)
%passage 11
"Ah. It contained information of value. [...] Will you tell me?"
"I /could/ tell you." Havelock smiled again. "But then I would have to
find someone to pay me to kill you."
[Night Watch, by Terry Pratchett]
%e passage
# p. 250
%passage 12
People on the side of The People always ended up disappointed, in any
case. They found that The People tended not to be grateful or
appreciative or forward-thinking or obedient. The People tended to
be small-minded and conservative and not very clever and were even
distrustful of cleverness. And so, the children of the revolution
were faced with the age-old problem: it wasn't that you had the wrong
kind of government, which was obvious, but that you had the wrong kind
of people.
As soon as you saw people as things to be measured, they didn't measure
up.
[Night Watch, by Terry Pratchett]
%e passage
%e title
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%title The Wee Free Men (9)
%title The Wee Free Men (13)
# 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!/",
@@ -7380,6 +7472,75 @@ Anybody. "I want to make that point perfectly clear!"
[The Wee Free Men, by Terry Pratchett]
%e passage
# pp. 2-3 (passage begins mid-paragraph)
%passage 10
The lowlands weren't good to witches. Miss Tick was making pennies by
doing bits of medicine and misfortune-telling,(1) and slept in barns
most nights. She'd twice been thrown into ponds.
(1) Ordinary fortune-tellers tell you what you /want/ to happen; witches
tell you what's going to happen whether you want it to or not. Strangely
enough, witches tend to be more accurate but less popular.
[The Wee Free Men, by Terry Pratchett]
%e passage
# pp. 103-104 (passage ends mid-paragraph; the talking toad has been loaned
# from Miss Tick to Tiffany; it is apparently a transformed human
# lawyer [Feegles' swords don't glow in its presence though :-]
# 'ye', 'agin', 'distrainment', and hyphenated 'comp-li-cated'
# are all accurate)
%passage 11
"I'm the Big Man o' the clan, mistress," he said. "An' my name it is..."
he swallowed. "Rob Anybody Feegle, mistress. But I beg ye not to use it
agin me!"
The toad was ready for this.
"They think names have magic in them," he murmured. "They don't tell them
to people in case they are written down."
"Aye, an' put upon comp-li-cated documents," said a Feegle.
"An' summonses and such things," said another.
"Or 'Wanted' posters," said another.
"Aye, an' bills an' affidavits," said another.
"Writs of distrainment, even!" The Feegles looked around in panic at the
very thought of written-down things.
"They think written words are even more powerful," whispered the toad.
"They think all writing is magic. Words worry them. See their swords?
They glow in the presense of lawyers."
"All /right/," said Tiffany. "We're getting somewhere. I promise not
to write his name down. [...]"
[The Wee Free Men, by Terry Pratchett]
%e passage
# p. 130 ('whut' for 'what' is accurate)
%passage 12
"Whut's the plan, Rob?" said one of them.
"Okay, lads, this is what we'll do. As soon as we see somethin', we'll
attack it. Right?"
This caused a cheer.
"Ach, 'tis a good plan," said Daft Wullie.
[The Wee Free Men, by Terry Pratchett]
%e passage
# p. 145 (passage ends mid-paragraph)
%passage 13
"On your honor as a drunken rowdy thief?" said Tiffany.
Rob Anybody beamed. "Aye!" he said. "An' I got a lot of good big
reputation to protect there! [...]"
[The Wee Free Men, by Terry Pratchett]
%e passage
%e title
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