diff --git a/dat/tribute b/dat/tribute index 9ee423df2..ec0e79196 100644 --- a/dat/tribute +++ b/dat/tribute @@ -1215,7 +1215,7 @@ followed by long periods of being dead." # # # -%title Maskerade (4) +%title Maskerade (9) # pp. 81-82, continued on pp. 87-89 (Harper Torch edition; apparently # transcribed from some other edition based on quote marks used; # a great number of very short paragraphs--it stretches a long way @@ -1386,6 +1386,89 @@ with the city Watch whatsoever.' [Maskerade, by Terry Pratchett] %e passage +# p. 27 (Harper Torch edition) +%passage 5 +Lancre had always bred strong, capable women. A Lancre farmer needed a +wife who'd think nothing of beating a wolf to death with her apron when +she went out to get some firewood. And, while kissing initially seemed to +have more charms than cookery, a stolid Lancre lad looking for a bride +would bear in mind his father's advice that kisses eventually lost their +fire but cookery tended to get even better over the years, and direct his +courting to those families that clearly showed a tradition of enjoying +their food. + + [Maskerade, by Terry Pratchett] +%e passage +# p. 28 +%passage 6 +Music and magic had a lot in common. They were only two letters apart, +for one thing. And you couldn't to both. + + [Maskerade, by Terry Pratchett] +%e passage +# p. 31 +%passage 7 +She'd caught herself saying "poot!" and "dang!" when she wanted to swear, +and using pink writing paper. + +She'd got a reputation for being calm and capable in a crisis. + +Next thing she knew she'd be making shortbread and apple pies as good as +her mother's, and then there'd be no hope for her. + +So she'd introduced Perdita. She'd heard somewhere that inside every fat +woman was a thin woman trying to get out,(1) so she'd named her Perdita. +She was a good repository for all those thoughts that Agnes couldn't think +on account of her wonderful personality. Perdita would use black writing +paper if she could get away with it, and would be beautifully pale instead +of embarassingly flushed. Perdita wanted to be an interestingly lost soul +in plum-colored lipstick. Just occasionally, though, Agnes thought +Perdita was as dumb as she was. + +(1) Or, at least, dying for chocolate. + + [Maskerade, by Terry Pratchett] +%e passage +# p. 197 (dress shop proprietor has just sold an expensive dress to Granny) +%passage 8 +She looked down at the money in her hand. + +She knew about old money, which was somehow hallowed by the fact that +people had hung on to it for years, and she knew about new money, which +seemed to be being made by all these upstarts that were flooding into the +city these days. But under her powdered bosom she was an Ankh-Morpork +shopkeeper, and knew that the best kind of money was the sort that was in +her hand rather than someone else's. The best kind of money was mine, +not yours. + +Besides, she was also enough of a snob to confuse rudeness with good +breeding. In the same way that the really rich can never be mad (they're +eccentric), so they can also never be rude (they're outspoken and +forthright). + + [Maskerade, by Terry Pratchett] +%e passage +# pp. 288-289 +%passage 9 +Detritus reached down and picked up an eye patch. + +"What d'you think, then?" said Nobby scornfully. "You think he turned into +a bat and flew away?" + +"Ha! I do not t'ink that 'cos it is in ... consist .. ent with modern +policing," said Detritus. + +"Well, /I/ think," said Nobby, "that when you have ruled out the impossible, +what is left, however improbable, ain't worth hanging around on a cold night +wonderin' about when you could be getting on the outside of a big drink. +Come on. I want to try a leg of the elephant that bit me." + +"Was dat irony?" + +"That was metaphor." + + [Maskerade, by Terry Pratchett] +%e passage %e title # #