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 $
# NetHack 3.7 tribute $NHDT-Date: 1614206487 2021/02/24 22:41:27 $ $NHDT-Branch: NetHack-3.7 $:$NHDT-Revision: 1.94 $
# 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:
@@ -1094,8 +1094,10 @@ MANY HAVE, said Death evenly.
[Sourcery, by Terry Pratchett]
%e passage
# pp. 40-41 (text has 'the moment and the words' which is obviously a typo;
# it might have intended 'that' for 'and'; we just drop 'and')
# pp. 40-41 (this used to have a correction for "an obvious typo" in the last
# sentence [before the footnote] which was actually a transciption
# error, with "were" erroneously inserted [causing the sentence to
# parse oddly] but not present in the original text; fixed now)
%passage 4
The thief, as will become apparent, was a special type of thief. This
thief was an artist of theft. Other thieves merely stole everything that
@@ -1113,8 +1115,8 @@ while it was in the process of winning a race. When Gritoller Mimpsey,
vice-president of the Thieves' Guild, was jostled in the marketplace and
then found on returning home that a freshly-stolen handful of diamonds
had vanished from their place of concealment, he knew who to blame.(1)
This was the type of thief that could steal the initiative, the moment the
words were out of your mouth.
This was the type of thief that could steal the initiative, the moment
and the words out of your mouth.
(1) This was because Gritoller had swallowed the jewels for safe keeping.