tribute update: The Fifth Elephant

Add three new passages, bringing total to 12.

Also, fix a typo in Thief of Time #2:  had "starts" where "stars"
was intended.
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# NetHack 3.7 tribute $NHDT-Date: 1625796801 2021/07/09 02:13:21 $ $NHDT-Branch: NetHack-3.7 $:$NHDT-Revision: 1.107 $
# NetHack 3.7 tribute $NHDT-Date: 1626142354 2021/07/13 02:12:34 $ $NHDT-Branch: NetHack-3.7 $:$NHDT-Revision: 1.108 $
# Copyright (c) 2017 by Robert Patrick Rankin
# NetHack may be freely redistributed. See license for details.
# A tribute introduced in NetHack 3.6.0 to:
@@ -5850,7 +5850,7 @@ sentence read "Endeavor to be the one inside" he'd rather lost heart.
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%title The Fifth Elephant (9)
%title The Fifth Elephant (12)
# p. 25 (Harper Torch edition) [passage starts mid-paragraph]
%passage 1
You did something because it had always been done, and the explanation
@@ -5986,6 +5986,59 @@ Been there, done that, bought the doublet...
[The Fifth Elephant, by Terry Pratchett]
%e passage
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# 3 new passages added for 3.7
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# pp. 34-35 (a footnote about Cpl Nobbs lately dressing as a woman omitted)
%passage 10
Corporal Cheery Littlebottom pronounced her name "Cheri." She was a she,
and therefore a rare bloom in Ankh-Morpork.
It wasn't that dwarfs weren't interested in sex. They saw the vital need
for fresh dwarfs to leave their goods to and continue the mining work
after they had gone. It was simply that they also saw no point in
distinguishing between the sexes anywhere but in private. There was no
such thing as a Dwarfish female pronoun or, once the children were on
solids, any such thing as women's work.
Then Cheery Littlebottom had arrived in Ankh-Morpork, and had seen that
there were men out there who did /not/ wear chain mail or leather
underwear(1), but /did/ wear interesting colors and exciting makeup, and
these men were called "women."
And in the little bullet head the thought had arisen: "Why not me?"
Now she was being denounced in cellars and dwarf bars across the city as
the first dwarf in Ankh-Morpork to wear a skirt. It was hard-wearing
brown leather and as objectively erotic as a piece of wood but, as some
older dwarfs would point out, somewhere under there were his /knees/.(2)
(1) At least of the sort /she/ normally wore.
(2) They couldn't bring themselves to utter the word "her."
[The Fifth Elephant, by Terry Pratchett]
%e passage
# p. 38 (omitted portion spans two separate sentences; pasg ends mid-paragraph)
%passage 11
Uberwald [...] was mostly so thickly forested, so creased by little
mountain ranges and beset by rivers, that it was largely unmapped. It
was mostly unexplored, too.(1)
(1) At least, by proper explorers. Just living there doesn't count.
[The Fifth Elephant, by Terry Pratchett]
%e passage
# p. 219 (passage begins mid-sentence)
%passage 12
[...] Sam Vines had learned a lot from watching Lady Sybil. She didn't
mean to act like that, but she'd been born to it, into a class which had
always behaved this way: You went through the world as if there was
/no possibility/ that anyone would stop you or question you, and most of
the time that's exactly what didn't happen.
[The Fifth Elephant, by Terry Pratchett]
%e passage
%e title
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%e passage
# p. 24 (Harper Torch edition)
%passage 2
Silver stars weren't awarded frequently, and gold starts happened less
Silver stars weren't awarded frequently, and gold stars happened less
than once a fortnight, and were vied for accordingly. Right now, Miss
Susan selected a silver star. Pretty soon Vincent the Keen would have a
galaxy of his very own. To give him his due, he was quite disinterested