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%title I Shall Wear Midnight (2)
%title I Shall Wear Midnight (13)
# p. 447 (Harper edition; this passage is a quote from the "Authur's Note",
# three extra pages after the conclusion of the story; there is a
# similar, slightly shorter version of this in the text on p. 236,
# where it's preceded by "The past needs to be remembered." but
# lacks the final 'going wrong' sentence)
%passage 1
It is important that we know where we come from,
because if you do not know where you come from,
then you don't know where you are,
and if you don't know where you are,
you don't know where you're going.
And if you don't know where you're going, you're probably going wrong.
It is important that we know where we come from, because if you do not
know where you come from, then you don't know where you are, and if you
don't know where you are, you don't know where you're going. And if you
don't know where you're going, you're probably going wrong.
[I Shall Wear Midnight, by Terry Pratchett]
%e passage
# pp. 429-430 (passage starts mid-paragraph and ends mid-paragraph)
%passage 2
There have been times, lately, when I dearly wished that I
could change the past. Well, I can't, but I can change the
present, so that when it becomes the past it will turn out
to be a past worth having.
"[...] There have been times, lately, when I dearly wished that I could
change the past. Well, I can't, but I can change the present, so that
when it becomes the past it will turn out to be a past worth having. [...]"
[I Shall Wear Midnight, by Terry Pratchett]
%e passage
# p. 2 (passage starts mid-paragraph; scene is a village fair)
%passage 3
[...] And so here, [...], you heard the permanent scream of, well,
everyone. It was called having fun. The only people not making any noise
were the thieves and pickpockets, who went about their business with
commendable silence, and they didn't come near Tiffany; who would pick a
witch's pocket? You would be lucky to get all your fingers back. At
least, that's what they feared, and a sensible witch would encourage them
in this fear.
[I Shall Wear Midnight, by Terry Pratchett]
%e passage
# p. 61
%passage 4
/The hare runs into the fire./
Had she seen that written down anywhere? Had she heard it as part of a
song? A nursery rhyme? What had the hare got to do with anything? But
she was a witch, after all, and there was a job to do. Mysterious omens
could wait. Witches knew that mysterious omens were around all the time.
The world was always very nearly drowning in mysterious omens. You just
had to pick the one that was convenient.
[I Shall Wear Midnight, by Terry Pratchett]
%e passage
# p. 64
%passage 5
That was the thing about thoughts. They thought themselves, and then
dropped into your head in the hope that you would think so too. You had
to slap them down, thoughts like that; they would take a witch over if she
let them. And then it would all break down, and nothing would be left but
the cackling.
[I Shall Wear Midnight, by Terry Pratchett]
%e passage
# p. 65 (passage starts mid-paragraph)
%passage 6
"[...] It just so happens that I was passing by, ye ken, and not
following ye at all. One of them coincidences."
"There have been a lot of those coincidences lately," said Tiffany.
"Aye," said Rob, grinning, "it must be another coincidence."
[I Shall Wear Midnight, by Terry Pratchett]
%e passage
# pp. 179-180
%passage 7
Tiffany cleared her throat. "Well," she said, "I suppose Rob Anybody would
tell you that there are times when promises should be kept and times when
promises should be broken, and it takes a Feegle to know the difference."
Mrs. Proust grinned hugely. "You could almost be from the city, Miss
Tiffany Aching."
[I Shall Wear Midnight, by Terry Pratchett]
%e passage
# p. 183 (Wee Mad Arthur is a member of the Ankh-Morpork Watch; he was a
# foundling raised by gnomes and didn't know he was a Feegle until
# he met with the ones accompanying Tiffany)
%passage 8
Despite himself, Wee Mad Arthur was grinning. "Have you boys got no shame?"
Rob Anybody matched him grin for grin. "I couldna say," he replied, "but
if we have, it probably belonged tae somebody else."
[I Shall Wear Midnight, by Terry Pratchett]
%e passage
# p. 219 (footnote)
%passage 9
There is a lot of folklore about equestrian statues, especially the ones
with riders on them. There is said to be a code in the number and
placement of the horse's hooves: If one of the horse's hooves is in the
air, the rider was wounded in battle; two legs in the air means that the
rider was killed in battle; three legs in the air indicates that the
rider got lost on the way to the battle; and four legs in the air means
that the sculptor was very, very clever. Five legs in the air means that
there's probably at least one other horse standing behind the one you're
looking at; and the rider lying on the ground with his horse lying on top
of him with all four legs in the air means that the rider was either a
very incompetent horseman or owned a very bad-tempered horse.
[I Shall Wear Midnight, by Terry Pratchett]
%e passage
# p. 318 (passage starts mid-paragraph and ends mid-paragraph)
%passage 10
[...] "Knowledge is power, power is energy, energy is matter, matter is
mass, and mass changes time and space." [...]
[I Shall Wear Midnight, by Terry Pratchett]
%e passage
# p. 362 (passage starts mid-paragraph; speaker is Preston, a castle guard;
# quote is a parody of J.R.R.Tolkien's "Do not meddle in the affairs
# of wizards, for they are subtle, and quick to anger.")
%passage 11
[...] "My granny said, 'Don't meddle in the affairs of witches because
they clout you around the ear.'"
[I Shall Wear Midnight, by Terry Pratchett]
%e passage
# pp. 386-387 (Tiffany is trying to rescue some witches from a castle roof)
%passage 12
Tiffany crawled a little farther, well aware of the sheer drop an inch
away from her hand. "Preston has gone to fetch a rope. Do you have a
broomstick?"
"A sheep crashed into it," said Mrs. Proust.
Tiffany could just make her out now. "You crashed into a sheep in
/the air/?"
"Maybe it was a cow, or something. What are those things that go
/snuffle snuffle/?"
"You ran into a flying hedgehog?"
"No, as it happened. We were down low, looking for a bush for Mrs.
Happenstance." There was a sigh in the gloom. "It's because of her
trouble, poor soul. We've stopped at a lot of bushes on the way here,
believe me! And do you know what? Inside every single one of them is
something that stings, bites, kicks, screams, howls, squelches, farts
enormously, goes all spiky, tries to knock you over, or does an enormous
pile of poo! Haven't you people up here ever heard of porcelain?"
Tiffany was taken aback. "Well, yes, but not in the fields!"
"They would be all the better for it," said Mrs. Proust. "I've ruined
a decent pair of boots, I have."
[I Shall Wear Midnight, by Terry Pratchett]
%e passage
# p. 442 (passage starts mid-paragraph; see /The Wee Free Men/;
# 'underrr' and 'ag-rreeeed' are accurate; 'arr-angement' is
# hyphenated to span lines--it's just a guess that it would have
# been hyphenated anyway)
%passage 13
"Nae king, nae quin, nae laird! One baron--and underrr mutually
ag-rreeeed arr-angement, ye ken!"
[I Shall Wear Midnight, by Terry Pratchett]
%e passage