tribute: The Truth

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@@ -2658,7 +2658,7 @@ into this huge pit of spikes" were there for a purpose.  [...]
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 # p. 133
 %passage 4
-Things were not what the seemed.  But then, as Granny always said, they
+Things were not what they seemed.  But then, as Granny always said, they
 never were.
 
   [Carpe Jugulum, by Terry Pratchett]
@@ -2857,27 +2857,133 @@ Been there, done that, bought the dublet...
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-%title The Truth (2)
+%title The Truth (8)
 %passage 1
-There are, it has been said, two types of people in the world. There are
+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. 
+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? 
+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]
 %e passage 1
 %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. 
+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]
 %e passage 2
+# pp. 1-2 (Harper Torch edition)
+%passage 3
+The rumor spread through the city like wildfire (which had quite often
+spread through Ankh-Morpork since its citizens had learned the words "fire
+insurance").
+
+/The dwarfs can turn lead into gold.../
+
+[...]
+
+It reached the pointy ears of the dwarfs.
+
+"Can we?"
+
+"Damned if I know.  /I/ can't."
+
+"Yeah, but if you could, you wouldn't say.  /I/ wouldn't say, if /I/ could.
+
+"Can you?"
+
+"No."
+
+"/Ah-ha!/"
+
+  [The Truth, by Terry Pratchett]
+%e passage
+# p. 10 ('mucky' is accurate)
+%passage 4
+It would seem quite impossible, on such a mucky night, that there could
+have been anyone to witness this scene.
+
+But there was.  The universe requires everything to be observed, lest it
+cease to exist.
+
+  [The Truth, by Terry Pratchett]
+%e passage
+# p. 19
+%passage 5
+Very occasionally, a frog was removed from the vivarium and put into a
+rather smaller jar where it briefly became a very happy frog indeed, and
+then went to sleep and woke up in that great big jungle in the sky.
+
+And thus the university got the active ingredient that it made up into
+pills and fed to the Bursar, to keep him sane.  At least, /apparently/
+sane, because nothing was that simple at good old UU.  In fact he was
+incurably insane and hallucinated more or less continually, but by a
+remarkable stroke of lateral thinking his fellow wizards had reasoned, in
+that case, that the whole business could be sorted out if only they could
+find a formula that caused him to /hallucinate that he was completely
+sane/.(1)
+
+This had worked well.  [...]
+
+(1) This is a very common hallucination, shared by most people.
+
+  [The Truth, by Terry Pratchett]
+%e passage
+# pp. 107-108 ('zis', 'zat', 'vhich', 'Latation' are all accurate)
+%passage 6
+"Er ... why do you need to work in a darkroom, though?" he said.  "The imps
+don't need it, do they?"
+
+"Ah, zis is for my experiment," said Otto proudly.  "You know zat another
+term for an iconographer would be 'photographer'?  From the old word
+'photus' in Latation, vhich means--"
+
+"To prance around like an idiot ordering everyone about as if you owned the
+place," said William.
+
+"Ah, you know it!"
+
+  [The Truth, by Terry Pratchett]
+%e passage
+# p. 100
+%passage 7
+"Vy are ve stoppink?" said Otto.
+
+"That's Sergeant Detritus on the gate," said William.
+
+"Ah.  A troll.  Very stupid," opined Otto.
+
+"But hard to fool.  I'm afraid we shall have to try the truth."
+
+"Vy vill that vork?"
+
+"He's a policeman.  The truth usually confuses them.  They don't often
+hear it."
+
+  [The Truth, by Terry Pratchett]
+%e passage
+# p. 290
+%passage 8
+Mr. Tulip raised a trembling hand.
+
+"Is this the bit where my whole life passes in front of my eyes?" he said.
+
+NO, THAT WAS THE BIT JUST NOW.
+
+"Which bit?"
+
+THE BIT, said Death, BETWEEN YOU BEING BORN AND YOU DYING.  NO, THIS...
+MR. TULIP, THIS IS YOUR WHOLE LIFE AS IT PASSED BEFORE /OTHER PEOPLE'S/
+EYES...
+
+  [The Truth, by Terry Pratchett]
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