tribute update: The Truth

Add page citations to passages 1 and 2 and missing italics to #1.

Add five new pssages, bringing total to 13.
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%title The Truth (8)
%title The Truth (13)
# p. 21 (Harper Torch edition)
%passage 1
There are, it has been said, two types of people in the world. There are
those who, when presented with a glass that is exactly half full, say: this
glass is half full. And then there are those who say: this glass is half
empty.
The world belongs, however, to those who can look at the glass and say:
What's up with this glass? Excuse me? Excuse me? This is my glass? I
don't think so. My glass was full! And it was a bigger glass! Who's been
pinching my beer?
The world /belongs/, however, to those who can look at the glass and say:
What's up with this glass? Excuse me? Excuse /me/? /This/ is my glass?
I don't /think/ so. My glass was full! /And/ it was a bigger glass!
Who's been pinching my beer?
[The Truth, by Terry Pratchett]
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# p. 5
%passage 2
The world is made up of four elements: Earth, Air, Fire and Water.
This is a fact well known even to Corporal Nobbs. It's also wrong.
There's a fifth element, and generally it's called Surprise.
The world is made up of four elements: Earth, Air, Fire and Water. This
is a fact well known even to Corporal Nobbs. It's also wrong. There's a
fifth element, and generally it's called Surprise.
[The Truth, by Terry Pratchett]
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[The Truth, by Terry Pratchett]
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# 5 new passages added for 3.7
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# p. 3 (two paragraphs in the middle skipped)
%passage 9
And the rumor came to the ears of William de Worde, and in a sense it
stopped there, because he dutifully wrote it down.
It was his job. Lady Margolotta of Uberwald sent him five dollars a month
to do it. The Dowager Duchess of Quirm also sent him five dollars. So
did King Verence of Lancre, and a few other Ramtop notables. So did the
Seriph of Al-Khali, although in this case the payment was half a cartload
of figs, twice a year.
[...]
A young man without too many responsibilities could live modestly in
Ankh-Morpork on thirty or forty dollars a month; he always sold the figs,
because although it was possible to live on figs you soon wished you
didn't.
[The Truth, by Terry Pratchett]
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# p. 31
%passage 10
"And these are your reasons, my lord?"
"Do you think I have others?" said Lord Vetenari. "My motives, as ever,
are entirely transparent."
Hughnon reflected that "entirely transparent" meant either that you could
see right through them or couldn't see them at all.
[The Truth, by Terry Pratchett]
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# p. 59-60 (passage ends mid-paragraph)
%passage 11
The Firm had, indeed, not operated in Ankh-Morpork before. Mr. Pin had
kept away because, well, there were plenty of other cities, and an
instinct for survival had told him that the Big Wahooni(1) should wait
a while. [...]
(1) The world's rarest and most evil-smelling vegetable, and consequently
much prized by connoisseurs (who seldom prize anything cheap and common).
Also a slang term for Ankh-Morpork, although it does not smell as bad as
that.
[The Truth, by Terry Pratchett]
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# p. 87-88 ('it' is an imp inside the PDA; warranty text is in a smaller font
# than the rest of text; page 297 has more conditions, effectively
# impossible to comply with, applying to transfer of ownership)
%passage 12
"Good for you!" it said. "You have wisely purchased the Dis-organizer
Mk II, the latest in biothaumaturgic design, with a host of useful
features and no resemblance whatsoever to the Mk I, which you may have
inadvertently destroyed by stamping on it heavily!" it said, adding,
"This device is provided without warranty of any kind as to reliability,
accuracy, existence or otherwise or fitness for any particular purpose
and Bioalchemic Products specifically does not warrant, guarantee, imply
or make any representations as to its merchantability for any particular
purpose and furthermore shall have no liability for or responsibility to
you or any other person, entity or deity with respect to any loss or
damage whatsoever caused by this device or object or by any attempts to
destroy it by hammering it against a wall or dropping it into a deep well
or by any other means whatsoever and moreover asserts that you indicate
your acceptance of this agreement or any other agreement that may be
substituted at any time by coming within five miles of the product or
observing it through large telescopes or by any other means because you
are such an easily cowed moron who will happily accept arrogant and
unilateral conditions on a piece of highly priced garbage that you would
not dream of accepting on a bag of dog biscuits and is used solely at
your own risk."
[The Truth, by Terry Pratchett]
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# p. 168
%passage 13
It looked to Sacharissa that the only tools a dwarf needed was his ax and
some means of making fire. That'd eventually get him a forge, and with
that he could make simple tools, and with those he could make /complex/
tools, and with complex tools a dwarf could more or less make anything.
[The Truth, by Terry Pratchett]
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@@ -131,6 +131,7 @@ tribute (Discworld snippets) typos, in book order rather than fix order:
line, passage #11 both in footnote: "genious" -> "genius",
"was, oddly enough, was one [...]" -> "was, oddly enough, one [...]"
The Fifth Elephant #1, italicize /always/, #9, "dublet" -> "doublet"
The Truth #1, italicize several words
Thief of Time #2, "gold starts" -> "gold stars"
A Hat Full of Sky passage #9 "though" -> "thought"
various, including Death quotes: use two spaces to separate sentences
@@ -1072,7 +1073,8 @@ using 'f' while quiver is empty and 'autoquiver' is Off when wielding a
3.6's tribute: add one new passage to Sourcery, three to Small Gods, one to
Lords and Ladies, two to Soul Music, three to Interesting Times, four
to Maskerade, three to Hogfather, two to Jingo, four to The Last
Continent, four to Carpe Jugulum, three to The Fifth Elephant
Continent, four to Carpe Jugulum, three to The Fifth Elephant, five
to The Truth
monsters can see and remember hero resistances
monsters can gain resistances by eating corpses
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