tribute: The Amazing Maurice

and His Educated Rodents.  The last Discworld book with only one or
two passages to choose from when reading.

dat/tribute

@@ -5907,13 +5907,231 @@ betray 'em, quick as a wink.  'Cos that's villaining.'
 %e title
 #
 #
+# _The_Amazing_Maurice_and_His_Educated_Rodents_ (sometimes spelled with
+# "his" uncapitalized--the book itself uses all uppercase on both the
+# cover and the title page so doesn't help resolve which is correct...)
+# was the first of six Discworld books marketed for "Young Adults" (at
+# least in the US), ages 12 to 16 give or take, so tended to be stocked
+# on different shelves from the rest of Discworld in book stores and
+# libraries.  In the UK, _The_Amazing_Maurice..._ won the Carnegie Medal
+# which is awarded for best children's book of the year.
+# (The other Young Adult Discworld books are the five Tiffany Aching ones.)
 #
-%title The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents (1)
+# _The_Amazing_Maurice..._ may well be the most serious Discworld book.
+# (Don't worry, it has lots of humor/humour in it....)
+#
+%title The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents (10)
+# p. 68 (Harperteen edition; _Mr._Bunnsy_Has_an_Adventure_ is a book
+#        within the book, and a brief quote is shown at the beginning
+#        of each chapter.  This one is from the start of chapter 4.)
 %passage 1
-The important thing about adventures, thought Mr Bunnsy, was that they
+The important thing about adventures, thought Mr. Bunnsy, was that they
 shouldn't be so long as to make you miss mealtimes.
 
-  [The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents, by Terry Pratchett]
+  [The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents, by Terry Pratchett]
+%e passage
+# p. 9 (passage starts mid-paragraph)
+%passage 2
+"Stealing from a thief isn't stealing, 'cos it cancels out."
+
+  [The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents, by Terry Pratchett]
+%e passage
+# pp. 11-12 (rats became intelligent from eating wizards' trash just outside
+#            one of the walls of Unseen University; Maurice insists that he
+#            never did that, implying that he'd eaten some of the rats instead
+#            [never explicitly stated] before he became intelligent himself)
+%passage 3
+They said he was amazing.  The Amazing Maurice, they said.  He'd never
+meant to be amazing.  It just happened.
+
+He's realized something was odd that day, just after lunch, when he'd
+looked into a reflection in a puddle and thought, /that's me/.  He'd never
+been /aware/ of himself before.  Of course it was hard to remember /how/
+he'd thought before becoming amazing.  It seemed to him that his mind had
+been just a kind of soup.
+
+And then there had been the rats, who lived under the rubbish heap in one
+corner of his territory.  He'd realized there was something educated
+about the rats when he'd jumped on one and it'd said, "Can we talk about
+this?" and part of his amazing new brain had told him you couldn't eat
+someone who could talk.  At least, not until you'd heard what it'd got
+to say.
+
+  [The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents, by Terry Pratchett]
+%e passage
+# p. 32 (Maurice the cat, Keith the human boy, and the intelligent rat clan are
+#        in the town of Bad Blintz; people are queuing up for rationed food)
+%passage 4
+"Shall we line up too?" asked the kid.
+
+"I shouldn't think so," said Maurice carefully.
+
+"Why not?"
+
+"See those men on the door?  They look like the Watch.  They've got big
+truncheons.  And everyone's showing them a bit of paper as they go past.
+I don't like the look of that," said Maurice.  "That looks like
+/government/ to me."
+
+"We haven't done anything wrong," said the kid.  "Not here, anyway."
+
+"You never know, with governments," said Maurice.  "Just stay here kid.
+I'll take a look."
+
+  [The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents, by Terry Pratchett]
+%e passage
+# p. 52 (speaker is Darktan, the traps expert; "Number One" platoon seems
+#        like an obvious joke here--missed deliberately or accidentally?)
+%passage 5
+"All right, Number Three platoon, you're on widdling duty," he said.  "Go
+and have a good drink."
+
+  [The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents, by Terry Pratchett]
+%e passage
+# p. 110 (opening quote for chapter 6)
+%passage 6
+There were big adventures and small adventures, Mr. Bunnsy knew.  You
+didn't get told what size they were going to be before you started.
+Sometimes you could have a big adventure even when you were standing
+still.
+
+  [The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents, by Terry Pratchett]
+%e passage
+# pp. 127-128 (searching for a secret door...)
+%passage 7
+Malicia leaned against the wall with incredible nonchalance.
+
+There was not a click.  A panel in the floor did not slide back.
+
+"Probably the wrong place," she said.  "I'll just rest my arm innocently
+on this coat hook."
+
+A sudden door in the wall completely failed to happen.
+
+"Of course, it'd help if there was an ornate candlestick," said Malicia.
+"They're always a surefire secret-passage lever.  Every adventurer knows
+that."
+
+"There isn't a candlestick," said Maurice.
+
+"I know.  Some people totally fail to have any /idea/ of how to design a
+proper secret passage," said Malicia.  She leaned against another piece
+of wall, which had no affect whatsoever.
+
+"I don't think you'll find it that way," said Keith, who was carefully
+examining a trap.
+
+"Oh?  Won't I?" said Malicia.  "Well at least I'm being /constructive/
+about things!  Where would you look, if you're such an expert?"
+
+"Why is there a rat hole in a rat catcher's shed?" said Keith.  "It smells
+of dead rats and wet dogs and poison.  I wouldn't come near this place,
+if I was a rat."
+
+Malicia glared at him.  Then her face wrapped itself in an expression of
+acute concentration, as if she was trying out several ideas in her head.
+
+"Ye-es," she said.  "That usually works, in stories.  It's often the stupid
+person who comes up with the good idea by accident."
+
+She crouched down and peered into the hole.
+
+"There's a sort of little lever," she said.  "I'll just give it a little
+push...."
+
+There was a /clonk/ under the floor, part of it swung back, and Keith
+dropped out of sight.
+
+"Oh, yes," said Malicia.  "I thought something like that would probably
+happen."
+
+  [The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents, by Terry Pratchett]
+%e passage
+# p. 231 (passage ends mid-paragraph)
+%passage 8
+He had to admit that he was cleverer at plans than at underground
+navigation.  He wasn't exactly lost, because cats never get lost.  He
+merely didn't know where everything else was.
+
+  [The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents, by Terry Pratchett]
+%e passage
+# pp. 298-300 (Keith has challanged the professional rat piper and offered
+#              to rid the town of rats for a much lower price; Sardines is
+#              one of the Educated Rodents, known for dancing all the time;
+#              "hwun/two/three/four/" is run-together "one /two/ three /four/";
+#              quite a long passage primarily for the 'a bit more grimy' gag)
+%passage 9
+[...]
+"But first I shall need to borrow a pipe," Keith went on.
+
+"You haven't got one?" asked the mayor.
+
+"It got broken."
+
+Corporal Knopf nudged the mayor.  "I've got a trombone from when I was in
+the army," he said.  "It won't take a moment to get it."
+
+The rat piper burst out laughing.
+
+"Doesn't that count?" asked the mayor, as Corporal Knopf hurried off.
+
+"What?  A trombone for charming rats?  No, no, let him try.  Can't blame
+a kid for trying.  Good with a trombone, are you?"
+
+"I don't know," said Keith.
+
+"What do you mean, you don't know?"
+
+"I meant I've never played one.  I'd be a lot happier with a flute,
+trumpet, piccolo, cornet, or Lancre bagpipe, but I've seen people playing
+the trombone, and it doesn't look too difficult.  It's only an overgrown
+trumpet, really."
+
+"Hah!" said the piper.  "This I'd like to see--but not hear."
+
+The Watch came running back, rubbing a battered trombone with his sleave
+and therefore making it just a bit more grimy.  Keith took it, wiped the
+mouthpiece, put it to his mouth, moved the slide a few times, and then
+blew one long note.
+
+"Seems to work," he said.  "I expect I can learn as I go along."  He gave
+the rat piper a brief smile.  "Do you want to go first?"
+
+"You won't charm one rat with that mess, kid," said the piper, "but I'm
+glad I'm here to see you try."
+
+Keith gave him a smile again, took a breath, and played.
+
+There was a tune there.  The instrument squeaked and wheezed, because
+Corporal Knopf had occasionally used the thing as a hammer, but there was
+a tune, quite fast, almost jaunty.  You could tap your feet to it.
+
+Someone tapped his feet to it.
+
+Sardines emerged from a crack in a nearby wall, going "hwun/two/three/four/"
+under his breath.  The crowd watched him dance ferociously across the
+cobbles until he disappeared into a drain.  Then they broke into applause.
+
+The piper looked at Keith.
+
+"Did that one have a /hat/ on?" he asked.
+
+"I didn't notice," said Keith.  "Your go."
+
+  [The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents, by Terry Pratchett]
+%e passage
+# pp. 309-310
+%passage 10
+"You really /can/ talk?  You can think?" asked the mayor.
+
+Darktan looked up at him.  It had been a long night.  He didn't want to
+remember any of it.  And now it was going to be a longer, harder day.
+He took a deep breath.
+
+"Here's what I suggest," he said.  "You pretend that rats can think, and
+I'll promise to pretend that humans can think, too."
+
+  [The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents, by Terry Pratchett]
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src/do_name.c

@@ -1880,7 +1880,7 @@ static const char *const sir_Terry_novels[] = {
     "Lords and Ladies", "Men at Arms", "Soul Music", "Interesting Times",
     "Maskerade", "Feet of Clay", "Hogfather", "Jingo", "The Last Continent",
     "Carpe Jugulum", "The Fifth Elephant", "The Truth", "Thief of Time",
-    "The Last Hero", "The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents",
+    "The Last Hero", "The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents",
     "Night Watch", "The Wee Free Men", "Monstrous Regiment",
     "A Hat Full of Sky", "Going Postal", "Thud!", "Wintersmith",
     "Making Money", "Unseen Academicals", "I Shall Wear Midnight", "Snuff",