diff --git a/dat/tribute b/dat/tribute index 78f7c3f1c..c4cce10fe 100644 --- a/dat/tribute +++ b/dat/tribute @@ -2658,7 +2658,7 @@ into this huge pit of spikes" were there for a purpose. [...] %e passage # 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... # # # -%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] +%e passage %e title # #