tribute update: The Amazing Maurice

Add four new passages to The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents,
bringing total to 14.

When wishing, accept truncated title "The Amazing Maurice" as well as
the full title.
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2021-08-05 17:44:04 -07:00
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@@ -6799,7 +6799,7 @@ Carrot sighed and straightened up. 'I wish you weren't right.'
# _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)
%title The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents (14)
# 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.)
@@ -7012,6 +7012,77 @@ I'll promise to pretend that humans can think, too."
[The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents, by Terry Pratchett]
%e passage
#
# 4 new passages added for 3.7
#
# p. 19 (passage begins mid-paragraph)
%passage 11
If you knew what it was that people really, /really/ wanted, you very
nearly controlled them.
[The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents, by Terry Pratchett]
%e passage
# p. 78
%passage 12
Sardines had pulled his straw hat out of his knapsack and was holding a
small walking stick.
It was a /good/ routine, even Maurice had to admit. Some towns had
advertised for a rat piper the very first time he'd done it. People could
tolerate rats in the cream, and rats in the roof, and rats in the teapot,
but they drew the line at tap dancing. If you saw tap dancing-rats, you
were in big trouble. Maurice had reckoned that if only the rats could
play an accordion as well, they could do two towns a day.
[The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents, by Terry Pratchett]
%e passage
# p. 113-114 (mentioned earlier, when Malicia's parents punish her, she's
# locked out of her bedroom to deny her access to her books)
%passage 13
"Luckily I'm prepared for every eventuality," said Malicia, and reached
into her bag. There was a sound as of lumps of metal and bottles being
moved around.
"What have you got in here?" said Maurice. "Everything?"
"The grapnel and rope ladder take up a lot of room," said Malicia still
feeling around. "And then there's the big medicine kit, and the small
medicine kit, and the knife, and the other knife, and the sewing kit, and
the mirror for sending signals, and... these."
She pulled out a small bundle of black cloth. When she unrolled it,
Maurice saw the gleam of metal.
"Ah," he said. "Lock picks, right? I've seen burglars at work--"
"Hairpins," said Malicia, selecting one. "Hairpins always work in the
books I've read. You just push one into the keyhole and twiddle. I have
a selection of prebent ones."
Once again Maurice felt a little chill at the back of his head. They work
in /stories/, he thought. Oh dear me.
"And how come you know so much about picking locks?" he said.
"I told you, they lock me out of my room to punish me," said Malicia,
twiddling.
Maurice /had/ seen thieves at work. Men breaking into buildings at night
hated to see dogs, but they didn't mind cats. Cats never attempted to
tear their throats out. And what thieves tended to have, he knew, were
complicated little tools that were used with great care and precision.
They didn't use stu--
/Click!/
[The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents, by Terry Pratchett]
%e passage
# p. 243
%passage 14
Bloodthirsty rats right behind you can give you wings.
[The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents, by Terry Pratchett]
%e passage
%e title
#
#

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@@ -1102,7 +1102,8 @@ using 'f' while quiver is empty and 'autoquiver' is Off when wielding a
Lords and Ladies, two to Soul Music, three to Interesting Times, four
to Maskerade, three to Hogfather, two to Jingo, four to The Last
Continent, four to Carpe Jugulum, three to The Fifth Elephant, five
to The Truth, six to Thief of Time, six to The Last Hero
to The Truth, six to Thief of Time, six to The Last Hero, four to
The Amazing Maurice
monsters can see and remember hero resistances
monsters can gain resistances by eating corpses
menu for what-is command supports /^ and /" to view a list of nearby or whole

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@@ -2427,6 +2427,8 @@ lookup_novel(const char *lookname, int *idx)
lookname = "Sourcery"; /* [4] */
else if (!strcmpi(lookname, "Masquerade"))
lookname = "Maskerade"; /* [17] */
else if (!strcmpi(The(lookname), "The Amazing Maurice"))
lookname = "The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents"; /* [27] */
else if (!strcmpi(lookname, "Thud"))
lookname = "Thud!"; /* [33] */