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