tribute: Small Gods

Add page number citations for the first two passages and add three
new passages.  That brings the total for Small Gods up to 15 which
is a bit on the high side, but they all seemed worthy.

While in there, fix a transcription mistake in Lords and Ladies #7:
"to" should be "be".

And two fixes for Jingo #11's footnote, change "genious" to "genius",
remove second "was" from "was, oddly enough, was one [...]".

Also, add a comment about the Amazing Maurice.

I've tried to bring the fixes37.0 entries about tribute fixes up to
date.  They're mostly minor and mostly neglected to include updates
for that.
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@@ -2984,15 +2984,22 @@ The witches watched with interest.
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%title Small Gods (12)
%title Small Gods (15)
# p. 174 (Harper Torch edition; passage starts mid-paragraph; speaker is
# the blind philosopher Didactylos referring to a book in scroll
# form called /On Religion/ by another philosopher, Abraxas;
# Didactylos mentions that Old 'Charcoal' Abraxas had been hit by
# lightning 15 times)
%passage 1
He says gods like to see an atheist around. Gives them something to aim at.
"[...] He says gods like to see an atheist around. Gives them something
to aim at."
[Small Gods, by Terry Pratchett]
%e passage
# p. 79 (passage starts mid-paragraph; speaker is Cut-Me-Own-Hand-Off Dhblah)
%passage 2
Pets are always a great help in times of stress. And in times of starvation
too, o'course.
[...] "Pets are always a great help in times of stress. And in times of
starvation too, o'course."
[Small Gods, by Terry Pratchett]
%e passage
@@ -3191,6 +3198,35 @@ But, on the whole, there are worse places to be buried than inside a lion.
[Small Gods, by Terry Pratchett]
%e passage
#
# 3 more passages added for 3.7
#
# p. 7 (Brother Nhumrod is in charge of a group of novices; he's thinking
# about one of them, Brutha, the main character of the story)
%passage 13
There was something creepy about the boy, Nhumrod thought. It was the way
he looked at you when you were talking, as if he was /listening/.
[Small Gods, by Terry Pratchett]
%e passage
# p. 11 (musing by the Great God Om)
%passage 14
The trouble with being a god is that you've got no one to pray to.
[Small Gods, by Terry Pratchett]
%e passage
# p. 210 (speaker is Didactylos the Ephebian philosopher)
%passage 15
"Life in this world," he said, "is, as it were, a sojourn in a cave. What
can we know of reality? For all we see of the true nature of existence
is, shall we say, no more than bewildering and amusing shadows cast upon
the inner wall of the cave by the unseen blinding light of absolute truth,
from which we may or may not deduce some glimmer of veracity, and we as
troglodyte seekers of wisdom can only lift our voices to the unseen and
say, humbly, 'Go on, do Deformed Rabbit... it's my favorite.'"
[Small Gods, by Terry Pratchett]
%e passage
%e title
#
#
@@ -3215,7 +3251,7 @@ Elves are bad.
[Lords and Ladies, by Terry Pratchett]
%e passage
# p. 32
# p. 32 (talking about Magrat who has married Verence, Lancre's new king)
%passage 2
"Hope she does all right as queen," said Nanny.
@@ -3326,7 +3362,7 @@ Younger witches, on the other hand, talk about it all the time and believe
it involves crystals, mystic forces, and dancing about without yer drawers
on.
Everyone may to right, all at the same time. That's the thing about
Everyone may be right, all at the same time. That's the thing about
quantum.
[Lords and Ladies, by Terry Pratchett]
@@ -5061,8 +5097,8 @@ Patrician up the ladder.
called it the Going-Under-the-Water-Safely Device," said Leonard, behind
him.(1) "But usually I just think of it as the boat."
(1) Thinking up good names was, oddly enough, was one area where Leonard
of Quirm's genious tended to give up.
(1) Thinking up good names was, oddly enough, one area where Leonard of
Quirm's genius tended to give up.
[Jingo, by Terry Pratchett]
%e passage
@@ -5975,6 +6011,12 @@ betray 'em, quick as a wink. 'Cos that's villaining.'
# which is awarded for best children's book of the year.
# (The other Young Adult Discworld books are the five Tiffany Aching ones.)
#
# "Mr so-called Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents!" (the characters
# rather than the book named for them) were first mentioned--in passing
# rather than part of the story--about 1/3 of the way through _Reaper_Man_.
# (p. 115, ROC edition; the text there does capitalize 'His'; 'Mr' without
# period is accurate; the exclamation is derogatory).
#
# _The_Amazing_Maurice..._ may well be the most serious Discworld book.
# (Don't worry, it has lots of humor/humour in it....)
#