tribute: Interesting Times

Add missing italics to several words in passage 1.

Add three new passages, bringing the total to 13.

The third one ended up being fairly long.  I made note of it
intending just the bacon joke but when transcribing I backed up
quite a ways.  The context is fairly unusual for a Discworld story.
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@@ -3986,16 +3986,16 @@ The fastest way to travel is to be there already.
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%title Interesting Times (10)
%title Interesting Times (13)
# p. 1 (Harper Torch edition; passage is a footnote)
%passage 1
Whatever happens, they say afterwards, it must have been fate. People are
always a little confused about this, as they are in the case of miracles.
When someone is saved from certain death by a strange concatenation of
circumstances, they say that's a miracle. But of course if someone is
killed by a freak chain of events--the oil spilled just there, the safety
fence broken just there--that must also be a miracle. Just because it's
not nice doesn't mean it's not miraculous.
/killed/ by a freak chain of events--the oil spilled just /there/, the
safety fence broken just /there/--that must /also/ be a miracle. Just
because it's not nice doesn't mean it's not miraculous.
[Interesting Times, by Terry Pratchett]
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@@ -4134,6 +4134,74 @@ followed by long periods of being dead."
[Interesting Times, by Terry Pratchett]
%e passage
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# 3 new passages for 3.7
# p. 45
%passage 11
Adventure! People talked about the idea as if it was something worthwhile,
rather than a mess of bad food, no sleep, and strange people inexplicably
trying to stick pointed objects in bits of you.
[Interesting Times, by Terry Pratchett]
%e passage
# p. 52
%passage 12
"How /will/ I get back?" he said.
"Same way you went. We'll find you and bring you out. With surgical
precision."
Rincewind groaned. He knew what surgical precision meant in Ankh-Morpork.
It meant "to within an inch or two, accompanied by a lot of screaming, and
then they pour hot tar on you just where your leg was."
But... if you put aside for the moment the certainty that something would
definitely go horribly wrong, it looked foolproof. The trouble was that
wizards were such ingenious fools.
[Interesting Times, by Terry Pratchett]
%e passage
# pp. 272-274 (most of page 273, is omitted: War introduces his children and
# Rincewind asks Death about the outcome of a battle which is
# imminent; Death's response is that he wouldn't answer even if
# he knew, and Rincewind is astonished that he might not know;
# Death holds a finger up and a butterfly--as a symbol of chaos
# theory--briefly lands on it, then flies away)
%passage 13
RINCEWIND, ISN'T IT? said Death. YES. GOOD EVENING. I DON'T BELIEVE YOU
HAVE MET WAR. RINCEWIND, WAR. WAR, RINCEWIND.
[...]
ON A NIGHT LIKE THIS, said Death, THE ONLY CERTAIN THING IS UNCERTAINTY.
TRITE, I KNOW, BUT TRUE.
Somewhere on the horizon, thunder rumbled.
"I'll, er, just be sort of going, then," said Rincewind.
DON'T BE A STRANGER, said Death, as the wizard hurried off.
"Odd person," said War.
WITH HIM HERE, EVEN UNCERTAINTY IS UNCERTAIN. AND I'M NOT SURE EVEN
ABOUT THAT.
War pulled a large paper-wrapped package out of his saddlebag.
"We've got... let's see now... Egg and Cress, Chicken Tikka, and Mature
Cheese with Chunky Pickle, I think."
THEY DO SUCH MARVELOUS THINGS WITH SANDWICHES THESE DAYS.
"Oh... and Bacon Surpise."
REALLY? WHAT IS SO SURPRISING ABOUT BACON?
"I don't know. I suppose it comes as something of a shock to the pig."
[Interesting Times, by Terry Pratchett]
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@@ -121,6 +121,7 @@ tribute (Discworld snippets) typos, in book order rather than fix order:
quote, passage #7 last paragraph, "to" -> "be"
Men at Arms passage #1, italicize /for/, passage #2, insert omitted
word "had": 'it was /fate/ that _had_ let Edward'
Interesting Times passage #1, italicize several words
Hogfather passage #7 missing initial double quote for "Oh, just ...",
also #7 insert missing "you" into "Why are you feeling [...]"
Soul Music passage #1, italicize /feel/, #8, "fossile" -> "fossil"
@@ -995,7 +996,7 @@ using 'f' while quiver is empty and 'autoquiver' is Off when wielding a
thrown-and-return weapon will throw that weapon instead of filling
the quiver (inspired by xNetHack)
3.6's tribute: add one new passage to Sourcery, three to Small Gods, one to
Lords and Ladies, two to Soul Music
Lords and Ladies, two to Soul Music, three to Interesting Times
monsters can see and remember hero resistances