diff --git a/dat/tribute b/dat/tribute index 57ada0605..fdda4ab19 100644 --- a/dat/tribute +++ b/dat/tribute @@ -358,7 +358,8 @@ too, o'course. # # # -%title Lords and Ladies (1) +%title Lords and Ladies (12) +# p. 122 (Harper Torch edition) %passage 1 Elves are wonderful. They provoke wonder. Elves are marvellous. They cause marvels. @@ -366,15 +367,226 @@ Elves are fantastic. They create fantasies. Elves are glamorous. They project glamour. Elves are enchanting. They weave enchantment. Elves are terrific. They beget terror. + The thing about words is that meanings can twist just like a snake, and if you want to find snakes look for them behind words that have changed their meaning. No one ever said elves are nice. + Elves are bad. [Lords and Ladies, by Terry Pratchett] %e passage +# p. 32 +%passage 2 +"Hope she does all right as queen," said Nanny. + +"We taught her everything she knows," said Granny Weatherwax. + +"Yeah," said Nanny Ogg, as they disappeared into the bracken. "D'you +think... maybe... ?" + +"What?" + +"D'you think maybe we ought to have taught her everything /we/ know?" + + [Lords and Ladies, by Terry Pratchett] +%e passage +# p. 36 +%passage 3 +It was very hard, being a reader in Invisible Writings.(1) + +(1) The study of invisible writings was a new discipline made available by +the discovery of the bi-directional nature of Library-Space. The thaumic +mathematics are complex, but boil down to the fact that all books, +everywhere, affect all other books. This is obvious: books inspire +other books written in the future, and cite books written in the past. +But the General Theory(2) of L-Space suggests that, in that case, the +contents of books /as yet unwritten/ can be deduced from books now in +existence. + +(2) There's a Special Theory as well, but no one bothers with it much +because it's self-evidently a load of marsh gas. + + [Lords and Ladies, by Terry Pratchett] +%e passage +# p. 51 +%passage 4 +"Don't hold with schools," said Granny Weatherwax. "They get in the way +of education. All them books. Books? What good are they? There's too +much reading these days. We never had time to read when we was young, I +know that." + + [Lords and Ladies, by Terry Pratchett] +%e passage +# pp. 79-80 +%passage 5 +The highwayman stepped over the groaning body of the driver and marched +toward the door of the coach, dragging his stepladder behind him. + +He opened the door. + +"Your money or, I'm sorry to say, your--" + +A blast of octarine fire blew his hat off. + +The dwarf's expression did not change. + +"I wonder if I might be allowed to rephrase my demands?" + +Ridcully looked the elegantly dressed stranger up and down, or rather +down and further down. + +"You don't look like a dwarf," he said, "apart from the height, that is." + +"Don't look like a dwarf apart from the height?" + +I mean, the helmet and iron boots department is among those you are lacking +in," said Ridcully. + + [Lords and Ladies, by Terry Pratchett] +%e passage +# p. 95 +%passage 6 +What is magic? + +There is the wizards' explanation, which comes in two forms, depending on +the age of the wizard. Older wizards talk about candles, circles, planets, +stars, bananas, chants, runes, and the importance of having at least four +good meals every day. Younger wizards, particularly the pale ones who +spend most of their time in the High Energy Magic building,(1) chatter at +length about fluxes in the morphic nature of the universe, the essentially +impermanent quality of even the most apparently rigid time-space framework, +the impossibility of reality, and so on: what this means is that they have +got hold of something hot and are gabbling the physics as they go along. + +(1) It was here that the thaum, hitherto believed to be the smallest +possible particle of magic, was successfully demonstrated to made up of +/resons/(2) or reality fragments. Currently research indicates that each +reson is itself made up of a combination of at least five "flavors," +known as "up," "down," "sideways," "sex appeal," and "peppermint." + +(2) Lit: "Thing-ies." + + [Lords and Ladies, by Terry Pratchett] +%e passage +# p. 107 +%passage 7 +What is magic? + +Then there is the witches' explanation, which comes in two forms, depending +on the age of the witch. Older witches hardly put words to it at all, but +may suspect in their hearts that the universe really doesn't know what the +hell is going on and consists of a zillion trillion billion possibilities, +and could become any of them if a trained mind rigid with quantum certainty +was inserted in the crack and /twisted/; that, if you really had to make +someone's hat explode, all you needed to do was /twist/ into the universe +where a large number of hat molecules all decide at the same time to bounce +off in different directions. + +Younger witches, on the other hand, talk about it all the time and believe +it involves crystals, mystic forces, and dancing about without yer drawers +on. + +Everyone may to right, all at the same time. That's the thing about +quantum. + + [Lords and Ladies, by Terry Pratchett] +%e passage +# p. 114; 'colorful' & 'humor' are spelled the American way, 'or' not 'our' +%passage 8 +He knocked on the coach door. The window slid down. + +"I wouldn't like you to think of this as a robbery," he said. "I'd like +you to think of it more as a colorful anecdote you might enjoy telling your +grandchildren about." + +A voice from within said, "That's him! He stole my horse!" + +A wizard's staff poked out. The chieftain saw the knob on the end. + +"Now then," he said pleasantly. "I know the rules. Wizards aren't allowed +to use magic against civilians except in genuine life-threatening situa--" + +There was a burst of octarine light. + +"Actually, it's not a rule," said Ridcully. "It's more a guideline." He +turned to Ponder Stibbons. "Interestin' use of Stacklady's Morphic +Resonator here, I hoped you noticed." + +Ponder lookd down. + +The chieftain had been turned into a pumpkin, although, in accordance with +the rules of universal humor, he still had his hat on. + + [Lords and Ladies, by Terry Pratchett] +%e passage +# p. 149 (second half of a paragraph) +%passage 9 +Things had to balance. You couldn't set out to be a good witch or a bad +witch. It never worked for long. All you could try to be was a /witch/, +as hard as you could. + + [Lords and Ladies, by Terry Pratchett] +%e passage +# p. 162 (mid-paragraph) +%passage 10 +"I'm the head wizard now. I've only got to give an order and a thousand +wizards will... uh... disobey, come to think of it, or say 'What?', or +start to argue. But they have to take notice. + +"I've been to that University a few times," said Granny. "A bunch of fat +old men in beards." + +"That's right! That's /them/!" + + [Lords and Ladies, by Terry Pratchett] +%e passage +# p. 190 +%passage 11 +The window was no escape this time. There was the bed to hide under, and +that'd work for all of two seconds, wouldn't it? + +Her eye was drawn by some kind of horrible magic back to the room's +garderobe, lurking behind its curtain. + +Margrat lifted the lid. The shaft was definitely wide enough to admit a +body. Garderobes were notorious in that respect. Several unpopular kings +met their end, as it were, in the garderobe, at the hands of an assassin +with good climbing ability, a spear, and a fundamental approach to politics. + + [Lords and Ladies, by Terry Pratchett] +%e passage +# p. 191 ('a' historian, not 'an'; 'Ynci' is correct) +%passage 12 +Some shape, some trick of moonlight, some expression on a painted face +somehow cut through her terror and caught her eye. + +That was a portrait she'd never seen before. She'd never walked down this +far. The idiot vapidity of the assembled queens had depressed her. But +this one... + +Ths one, somehow, reached out to her. + +She stopped. + +It couldn't have been done from life. In the days of /this/ queen, the +only paint known locally was a sort of blue, and generally used on the body. +But a few generations ago King Lully I had been a bit of a historian and a +romantic. He'd researched what was known of the early days of Lancre, and +where actual evidence had been a bit sparse he had, in the best traditions +of the keen ethnic historian, inferred from revealed self-evident wisdom(1) +and extrapolated from associated sources(2). He'd commissioned the +portrait of Queen Ynci the Short-Tempered, one of the founders of the +kingdom. + +(1) Made it up. + +(2) Had read a lot of stuff that other people had made up, too. + + [Lords and Ladies, by Terry Pratchett] +%e passage %e title # #