tribute: more Raising Steam

The number of passages felt a bit light, so add a few more.
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%title Raising Steam (8)
%title Raising Steam (13)
# p. 281 (Anchor Books edition; passage starts mid-paragraph)
%passage 1
Yesterday you never thought about it and after today you
don't know what you would do without it.
That was what the technology was doing.
[...] And yesterday you never thought about it and after today you don't
know what you would do without it. That was what the technology was doing.
It was your slave but, in a sense, it might be the other way round.
[Raising Steam, by Terry Pratchett]
%e passage
# p. 358 (passage starts mid-paragraph and ends mid-paragraph; quote is
# attributed to Lord Vetinari but he's not present in the scene)
%passage 2
If you take enough precautions, you never need to take precautions.
"If you take enough precautions, you never need to take precautions."
[Raising Steam, by Terry Pratchett]
%e passage
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[Raising Steam, by Terry Pratchett]
%e passage
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# passages 9..13 added after 3.6.0's release
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# pp. 20-21
%passage 9
Moist Von Lipwig had done some heavy work once and couldn't see any future
in it, but he could look at it for hours, provided other people were doing
it, of course, and clearly some of them liked what they were doing, and so
he shrugged and felt happy that Crisp was happy being a handyman whilst
Moist was happy not picking up anything that was heavier than a glass.
After all, his work was unseen and depended on words, which were
fortunately not very heavy and didn't need grease. In his career as a
crook they had served him well and now he felt somewhat smug at using them
to the benefit of the citizenry.
There was a difference between a banker and a crook, there really was, and
although it was very, very teeny Moist felt that he should point out that
it did exist and, besides, Lord Vetinari always had his eye on him.
So everybody was happy and Moist went to work in very clean clothes and
with a very clean conscience.
[Raising Steam, by Terry Pratchett]
%e passage
# p. 22
%passage 10
Harry, red-faced and impatient, looked over his desk and said to him, "Lad,
time is money and I'm a busy man. You told Nancy down on reception that
you've got something I might like. Now stop fidgeting and look me in the
face square like. If you're another chancer wanting to bamboozle me I'll
have you down the Effing stairs(1) before you know it."
(1) The wonderfully colored oak wood of the Effing Forest was much in
demand for high-class joinery.
[Raising Steam, by Terry Pratchett]
%e passage
# p. 80
%passage 11
Moist knew about the zeitgeist, he tasted it in the wind, and sometimes it
allowed him to play with it. He understood it, and now it hinted at speed,
escape, something wonderfully new, the very bones of the land awakening,
and suddenly it seemed to cry out for motion, new horizons, faraway places,
/anywhere that is not here/! No doubt about it, the railway was going to
turn coal into gold.
[Raising Steam, by Terry Pratchett]
%e passage
# p. 195 (passage starts mid-paragraph and ends mid-paragraph)
%passage 12
And the trouble with madness was that the mad didn't know they were mad.
[Raising Steam, by Terry Pratchett]
%e passage
# p. 284 (passage starts mid-paragraph; speaker is Cmdr Vimes of the Watch)
%passage 13
"[...] That's the trouble, you see. When you've had hatred on your tongue
for such a long time, you don't know how to spit it out."
[Raising Steam, by Terry Pratchett]
%e passage
%e title
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%title The Shepherd's Crown (1)
%passage 1
'It's an inconvenience, true enough, and I don't like it at all, but I
know that you do it for everyone, Mister Death. Is there any other way?'
NO, THERE ISN'T, I'M AFRAID. WE ARE ALL FLOATING IN THE WINDS OF TIME.
BUT YOUR CANDLE, MISTRESS WEATHERWAX, WILL FLICKER FOR SOME TIME BEFORE
IT GOES OUT -- A LITTLE REWARD FOR A LIFE WELL LIVED. FOR I CAN SEE THE
BALANCE AND YOU HAVE LEFT THE WORLD MUCH BETTER THAN YOU FOUND IT, AND
IF YOU ASK ME, said Death, NOBODY COULD DO ANY BETTER THAN THAT. . .
NO, THERE ISN'T, I'M AFRAID. WE ARE ALL FLOATING IN THE WINDS OF TIME.
BUT YOUR CANDLE, MISTRESS WEATHERWAX, WILL FLICKER FOR SOME TIME BEFORE
IT GOES OUT -- A LITTLE REWARD FOR A LIFE WELL LIVED. FOR I CAN SEE THE
BALANCE AND YOU HAVE LEFT THE WORLD MUCH BETTER THAN YOU FOUND IT, AND
IF YOU ASK ME, said Death, NOBODY COULD DO ANY BETTER THAN THAT...
[The Shepherd's Crown, by Terry Pratchett]
%e passage
%e title
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%e section
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# Used for interaction with Death.
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@@ -76,6 +76,7 @@ wizard mode #wizintrinsic
reading non-cursed scroll of enchant weapon uncurses welded tin opener
if hero has no jumping ability but knows the jumping spell, the #jump command
will attempt to cast the spell
additional passages for Raising Steam
Platform- and/or Interface-Specific New Features