tribute: A Hat Full of Sky

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-%title A Hat Full of Sky (1)
+%title A Hat Full of Sky (11)
+# p. 405 (HarperTempest edition)
 %passage 1
+Why do you go away?  So that you can come back.  So that you can see the
+place you came from with new eyes and extra colors.  And the people there
+see you differently, too.  Coming back to where you started is not the
+same as never leaving.
 
-Why do you go away?
+  [A Hat Full of Sky, by Terry Pratchett]
+%e passage
+# pp. 11-12
+%passage 2
+Miss Tick was a sort of witch finder.  That seemed to be how witchcraft
+worked.  Some witches kept a magical lookout for girls who showed promise,
+and found them an older witch to help them along.  They didn't teach you
+how to do it.  They taught you how to know what you were doing.
 
-So that you can come back. So that you can see the place 
-you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people 
-there see you differently, too. 
+Witches were a bit like cats.  They didn't much like one another's company,
+but they /did/ like to know where all the other witches were, just in case
+they needed them.  And what you might need them for was to tell you, as a
+friend, that you were beginning to cackle.
 
-Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.
+  [A Hat Full of Sky, by Terry Pratchett]
+%e passage
+# p. 31
+%passage 3
+"Oh," said Miss Tick.  But because she was a teacher as well as a witch,
+and probably couldn't help herself, she added, "The funny thing is, of
+course, that officially there is no such thing as a white horse.  They're
+called gray."(1)
+
+(1) She had to say that because she was a witch and a teacher, and that's
+a terrible combination.  They want things to be /right/.  They like things
+to be /correct/.  If you want to upset a witch, you don't have to mess
+around with charms and spells--you just have to put her in a room with a
+picture that's hung slightly crooked and watch her squirm.
+
+  [A Hat Full of Sky, by Terry Pratchett]
+%e passage
+# p. 51
+%passage 4
+"Oh," she said.  "It's like cat's cradle."
+
+"You've played that, have you?" said Miss Tick vaguely, still
+concentrating.
+
+"I can do all the common shapes," said Tiffany.  "The Jewels and the
+Cradle and the House and the Flock and the Three Old Ladies, One With a
+Squint, Carrying the Bucket of Fish to Market When They Meet the Donkey,
+although you need two people for that one, and I only ever did it once,
+and Betsy Tupper scratched her nose at the wrong moment and I had to get
+some scissors to to cut her loose..."
+
+  [A Hat Full of Sky, by Terry Pratchett]
+%e passage
+# p. 106 (passage starts mid-paragraph; 'doon' is accurate)
+%passage 5
+"[...]  It's a bad case o' the thinkin' he's caught, missus.  When a man
+starts messin' wi' the readin' and the writin', then he'll come doon with
+a dose o' the thinkin' soon enough.  I'll fetch some o' the lads and we'll
+hold his head under water until he stops doin' it--'tis the only cure.  It
+can kill a man, the thinkin'."
+
+  [A Hat Full of Sky, by Terry Pratchett]
+%e passage
+# p. 107 ('braked', 'Polis'men', 'dinna' all accurate)
+%passage 6
+"I never braked my word yet," said Rob.  "Except to Polis'men and other o'
+that kidney, ye ken, and they dinna count."
+
+  [A Hat Full of Sky, by Terry Pratchett]
+%e passage
+# p. 111 (passage starts mid-paragraph; 'land o' the living': the Nac Mac
+#         Feegle believe that they're dead and are on Discworld because it
+#         is heaven, also that if they die on Discworld they'll be reborn
+#         on their "real world"; 'big wee hag': Tiffany, apprentice witch
+#	  [big: she's human, wee: she's still a child, hag: she's a witch])
+%passage 7
+"[...]  Now lads, ye ken all about hivers.  They cannae be killed!  But
+'tis oor duty to save the big wee hag, so this is, like, a sooey-side
+mission and ye'll probably all end up back in the land o' the living
+doin' a borin' wee job.  So... I'm askin' for volunteers!"
+
+Every Feegle over the age of four automatically put his hand up.
+
+"Oh, come /on/," said Rob.  "You canna /all/ come!  Look, I'll tak'...
+Daft Wullie, Big Yan, and you... Awf'ly Wee Billy Bigchin.  An' I'm takin'
+no weans, so if yez under three inches high, ye're not comin'!  Except
+for ye, o' course, Awf'ly Wee Billy.  As for the rest of youse, we'll
+settle this the traditional Feegle way.  I'll tak' the last fifty men
+still standing!"
+
+He beckoned the chosen three to a place in the corner of the mound while
+the rest of the crowd squared up cheerfully.  A Feegle liked to face
+enormous odds all by himself, because it meant you didn't have to look
+where you were hitting.
+
+  [A Hat Full of Sky, by Terry Pratchett]
+%e passage
+# p. 114 (passage starts mid-paragraph)
+%passage 8
+[...]  It was a mad, desperate plan, which was very dangerous and risky
+and would require tremendous strength and bravery to make it work.
+
+Put like that, they agreed to it instantly.
+
+  [A Hat Full of Sky, by Terry Pratchett]
+%e passage
+# p. 225 (last paragraph continues--they didn't understand the contents
+#         since most pictsies can't read)
+%passage 9
+"Oh, aye?" he said.  "We looked at her diary loads o' times.  Nae harm
+done."
+
+"You /looked/ at her /diary/?" said Miss Level, horrified.  "Why?"
+
+Really, she though later, she should have expected the answer.
+
+"Cuz it wuz locked," said Daft Wullie.  "If she didna want anyone tae look
+at it, why'd she keep it at the back o' her sock drawer?  [...]"
+
+  [A Hat Full of Sky, by Terry Pratchett]
+%e passage
+# p. 240 (passage starts mid-paragraph; 'frannit' is accurate)
+%passage 10
+"[...]  All we need tae do is frannit a wheelstone on it and it'll tak' us
+right where she is."(1)
+
+(1) If anyone knew what this meant, they'd know a lot more about the Nac
+Mac Feegle's way of traveling.
+
+  [A Hat Full of Sky, by Terry Pratchett]
+%e passage
+# p. 351 (the hiver's dialog is telepathic--internal would be more
+#         accurate--and occurs in italics without quote marks)
+%passage 11
+Tiffany took a deep breath.  This was about words, and she knew about
+words.  "Here is a story to believe," she said.  "Once we were blobs in
+the sea, and then fishes, and then lizards and rats, and then monkeys,
+and hundreds of things in between.  This hand was once a fin, this hand
+once had claws!  In my human mouth I have the pointy teeth of a wolf and
+the chisel teeth of a rabbit and the grinding teeth of a cow!  Our blood
+is as salty as the sea we used to live in!  When we're frightened, the
+hair on our skin stands up, just like it did when we had fur.  We /are/
+history!  Everything we've ever been on the way to becoming us, we still
+are.  Would you like to hear the rest of the story?"
+
+/Tell us/, said the hiver.
+
+"I'm made up of the memories of my parents and grandparents, all my
+ancestors.  They're in the way I look, in the color of my hair.  And I'm
+made up of everyone I've ever met who's changed the way I think.  So who
+is 'me'?"
 
   [A Hat Full of Sky, by Terry Pratchett]
 %e passage