Tribute: Feet of Clay

Add a page citation for passage #1 and change the wording of that
passage to match the book:  the second "does not need" should be
"doesn't even need".

Also make the comments about various added passages (for other
books) be more consistent.
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@@ -1262,7 +1262,9 @@ They are not necessarily very good at it.
[Sourcery, by Terry Pratchett]
%e passage
# additional passage added for 3.7.0
#
# additional passage added for 3.7
#
# p. 164 (passage begins mid-sentence)
%passage 11
[...] killing a brother wizard with magic was well-nigh impossible on
@@ -3462,6 +3464,7 @@ kingdom.
%e passage
#
# passage added for 3.7
#
# p. 60 (passage starts mid-paragraph; "paddlin'" is accurate but unclear;
# "ooh-jar" is accurate for ouija after having been butchered by
# Nanny Ogg's previously established 'mastery' of foreign languages)
@@ -4136,6 +4139,7 @@ followed by long periods of being dead."
%e passage
#
# 3 new passages for 3.7
#
# p. 45
%passage 11
Adventure! People talked about the idea as if it was something worthwhile,
@@ -4462,6 +4466,9 @@ Come on. I want to try a leg of the elephant that bit me."
[Maskerade, by Terry Pratchett]
%e passage
#
# 4 new passages added for 3.7
#
# pp. 51-52 (Granny Weatherwax and Nanny Ogg are traveling to Ankh-Morpork
# and Nanny feels that the weather is too chilly for flying;
# Cando Cutoff is a bystander who has told them that the next
@@ -4536,15 +4543,16 @@ reincarnation believes in /you/.
#
#
%title Feet of Clay (14)
# pp. 66-67 (Harper Torch edition)
%passage 1
Rumour is information distilled so finely that it can filter through
anything. It does not need doors and windows -- sometimes it does not need
people. It can exist free and wild, running from ear to ear without ever
touching lips.
anything. It does not need doors and windows--sometimes it doesn't even
need people. It can exist free and wild, running from ear to ear without
ever touching lips.
[Feet of Clay, by Terry Pratchett]
%e passage
# p. 337 (Harper Torch edition)
# p. 337
%passage 2
It was hard enough to kill a vampire. You could stake them down and turn
them into dust and ten years later someone drops a drop of blood in the

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@@ -122,6 +122,7 @@ tribute (Discworld snippets) typos, in book order rather than fix order:
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
Feet of Clay passage #1, "does not need" -> "doesn't even need"
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"