diff --git a/dat/tribute b/dat/tribute index 76fdd163a..9fd099653 100644 --- a/dat/tribute +++ b/dat/tribute @@ -3774,16 +3774,159 @@ girls of seven are magnetically attracted to the color pink. # # # -%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