tribute bit: Sourcery passage 4
Fix a mistake that led to a bad fix for a perceived mistake that wasn't really there. I think having a comma after "moment" would make things clearer, but style-wise that's optional and leaving it out restores the book's original wording.
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# NetHack 3.7 tribute $NHDT-Date: 1610152952 2021/01/09 00:42:32 $ $NHDT-Branch: NetHack-3.7 $:$NHDT-Revision: 1.93 $
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# NetHack 3.7 tribute $NHDT-Date: 1614206487 2021/02/24 22:41:27 $ $NHDT-Branch: NetHack-3.7 $:$NHDT-Revision: 1.94 $
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# Copyright (c) 2017 by Robert Patrick Rankin
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# NetHack may be freely redistributed. See license for details.
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# A tribute introduced in NetHack 3.6.0 to:
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@@ -1094,8 +1094,10 @@ MANY HAVE, said Death evenly.
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[Sourcery, by Terry Pratchett]
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%e passage
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# pp. 40-41 (text has 'the moment and the words' which is obviously a typo;
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# it might have intended 'that' for 'and'; we just drop 'and')
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# pp. 40-41 (this used to have a correction for "an obvious typo" in the last
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# sentence [before the footnote] which was actually a transciption
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# error, with "were" erroneously inserted [causing the sentence to
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# parse oddly] but not present in the original text; fixed now)
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%passage 4
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The thief, as will become apparent, was a special type of thief. This
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thief was an artist of theft. Other thieves merely stole everything that
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@@ -1113,8 +1115,8 @@ while it was in the process of winning a race. When Gritoller Mimpsey,
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vice-president of the Thieves' Guild, was jostled in the marketplace and
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then found on returning home that a freshly-stolen handful of diamonds
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had vanished from their place of concealment, he knew who to blame.(1)
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This was the type of thief that could steal the initiative, the moment the
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words were out of your mouth.
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This was the type of thief that could steal the initiative, the moment
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and the words out of your mouth.
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(1) This was because Gritoller had swallowed the jewels for safe keeping.
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