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%title Moving Pictures (4)
%title Moving Pictures (16)
# p. 7 (ROC Edition)
%passage 1
This is space. It's sometimes called the final frontier.
This is space. It's sometimes called the final frontier.
(Except that of course you can't have a /final/ frontier, because there'd
be nothing for it to be a frontier /to/, but as frontiers go, it's pretty
penultimate...)
be nothing for it to be a frontier /to/, but as frontiers go, it's pretty
penultimate...)
[Moving Pictures, by Terry Pratchett]
%e passage
# pp. 22-23 (very short but happens to span a page boundary...)
%passage 2
By and large, the only skill the alchemists of Ankh-Morpork had discovered
so far was the ability to turn gold into less gold.
so far was the ability to turn gold into less gold.
[Moving Pictures, by Terry Pratchett]
%e passage
# pp. 44, 45, 46 (multiple paragraphs skipped in the first two gaps)
%passage 3
There was a dog sitting by his feet.
He looked down. There was a dog sitting by his feet.
It was small, bow-legged and wiry, and basically grey but with patches of
brown, white, and black in outlying areas... It looked up slowly, and
said 'Woof?' Victor poked an exploratory finger in his ear. It must have
been a trick of an echo, or something. It wasn't that the dog had gone
'woof!', although that was practically unique in itself; most dogs in the
universe /never/ went 'woof!', they had complicated barks like 'whuuugh!'
and 'hwhoouf!'. No, it was that it hadn't in fact /barked/ at all. It had
/said/ 'woof'. 'Could have bin worse, mister. I could have said "miaow".'
brown, white, and black in outlying areas, and it was staring.
It was certainly the most penetrating stare Victor had ever seen. It
wasn't menacing, or fawning. It was just very slow and very thorough, as
though the dog was memorising details so that it could give a full
description to the authorities later.
[...]
Victor let his gaze slide downwards. There was nothing there but the little
dog, industriously scratching itself. It looked up slowly, and said "Woof?"
[...]
Victor poked an exploratory finger in his ear. It must have been a trick
of an echo, or something. It wasn't that the dog had gone "woof!?, although
that was practically unique in itself; most dogs in the universe /never/
went "woof!", they had complicated barks like "whuuugh!" and "hwhoouf!".
No, it was that it hadn't in fact /barked/ at all. It had /said/ "woof".
[...]
One of the last things Victor remembered was a voice beside his knee saying,
"Could have bin worse, mister. I could have said 'miaow'."
[Moving Pictures, by Terry Pratchett]
%e passage
# p. 322
%passage 4
''Twas beauty killed the beast,' said the Dean, who liked to say things
like that. 'No it wasn't,' said the Chair. 'It was it splatting into the
ground like that.'
"'Twas beauty killed the beast," said the Dean, who liked to say things
like that.
"No it wasn't," said the Chair. "It was it splatting into the ground like
that."
[Moving Pictures, by Terry Pratchett]
%e passage
# p. 12
%passage 5
There's a saying that all roads lead to Ankh-Morpork, greatest of Discworld
cities.
At least, there's a /saying/ that there's a saying that all roads lead to
Ankh-Morpork.
And it's wrong. All roads lead /away/ from Ankh-Morpork, but sometimes
people just walk along them the wrong way.
[Moving Pictures, by Terry Pratchett]
%e passage
# p. 34 (Victor Tugelbend and Ponder Stibbons are students at Unseen Uni.)
%passage 6
"Rain's stopped. Let's go over the wall," he said. "We deserve a drink."
Victor waggled a finger. "Just one drink, then. Got to keep sober," he
said. "It's Finals tomorrow. Got to keep a clear head!"
"Huh!", said Ponder.
Of course, it's very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many
worthwhile careers in the street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-
playing industries have been founded on a lack of understanding of this
simple fact.
[Moving Pictures, by Terry Pratchett]
%e passage
# p. 37
%passage 7
In a sense which his tutors couldn't quite define, much to their annoyance,
Victor Tugelbend was also the laziest person in the history of the world.
Not simply, ordinarily lazy. Ordinary laziness was merely the absence of
effort. Victor had passed through there a long time ago, had gone straight
through commonplace idleness and out on the far side. He put more effort
into avoiding work than most people put into hard labour.
[Moving Pictures, by Terry Pratchett]
%e passage
# p. 60
%passage 8
Cut-me-own-Throat Dibbler was one of those rare people with the ability to
think in straight lines.
Most people think in curves and zig-zags. For example, they start with a
thought like: I wonder how I can become very rich, and then proceed along
an uncertain course which includes thoughts like: I wonder what's for
supper, and: I wonder who I know that can lend me five dollars?
Whereas Throat was one of those people who could identify the thought at the
other end of the process, in this case /I am now very rich/, draw a line
between the two, and then think his way along it, slowly and patiently,
until he got to the other end.
Not that it worked. There was always, he found, some small but vital flaw
in the process. It generally involved a strange reluctance on the part of
people to buy what he had to sell.
[Moving Pictures, by Terry Pratchett]
%e passage
# pp. 71-72
%passage 9
"Tell me, Mr Dibbler." said Silverfish, "what exactly is your profession?"
"I sell merchandise," said Dibbler.
"Mostly sausages," Victor volunteered.
"/And/ merchandise," said Dibbler, sharply. "I only sell sausages when the
merchandising trade is a bit slow."
"And the sale of sausages leads you to believe you can make better moving
pictures?" said Silverfish. "Anyone can sell sausages! Isn't that so,
Victor?"
"Well..." said Victor, reluctantly. No-one except Dibbler could possibly
sell Dibbler's sausages.
"There you are then," said Silverfish.
"The thing is," said Victor, "that Mr Dibbler can even sell sausages to
people who have bought them off him /before/."
"That's right!" said Dibbler. He beamed at Victor.
"And a man who could sell Mr Dibbler's sausages twice could sell anything,"
said Victor.
[Moving Pictures, by Terry Pratchett]
%e passage
# p. 111-112 ('dis', 'ort', 'yore', 'finking', 'mayonnaisey', 'specialitay',
# 'de lar mayson' all accurate)
%passage 10
Borgle's commissary had decided to experiment with salads tonight. The
nearest salad growing district was thirty slow miles away.
"What dis?" demanded a troll, holding up something limp and brown.
Fruntkin the short-order chef hazarded a guess.
'Celery?" he said. He peered closer. "Yeah, celery."
"It /brown/."
"'S'right. 'S'right! Ripe celery ort to be brown," said Fruntkin, quickly.
"Shows it's ripe," he added.
"It should be /green/."
"Nah. Yore finking about the tomatoes," said Fruntkin.
"Yeah, and what's this runny stuff?" said a man in the queue.
Fruntkin drew himself up to his full height.
"That," he said, "is the mayonnaisey. Made it myself. Out of a /book/, he
added proudly.
"Yead, I expect you did," said the man, prodding it. "Clearly oil, eggs
and vinegar were not involved, right?"
"Specialitay de lar mayson," said Fruntkin.
"Right, right," said the man. "Only it's attacking my lettuce."
Fruntkin grasped his ladle angrily.
"Look--" he began.
"No, it's all right," said the prospective diner. "The slugs have formed a
defensive ring."
[Moving Pictures, by Terry Pratchett]
%e passage
# p. 137 (CMOT Dibbler has become a director, Rock is a troll actor)
%passage 11
"Er, I was just wondering, Mr Dibbler... what is my motivation for this
scene?"
"Motivation?"
"Yes. Er. I got to know, see," said Rock.
"How about: I'll fire you if you don't do it properly?"
Rock grinned. "Right you are, Mr Dibbler," he said.
[Moving Pictures, by Terry Pratchett]
%e passage
# p. 189
%passage 12
Magic wasn't difficult. That was the big secret that the whole baroque
edifice or wizardry had been set up to conceal. Anyone with a bit of
intelligence and enough perseverance could do magic, which was why the
wizards cloaked it with rituals and the whole pointy-hat business.
The trick was to do magic and /get away with it/.
Because it was as if the human race was a field of corn and magic helped
the users grow just that bit taller, so that they stood out. That
attracted the attention of gods and--Victor hesitated--other Things outside
this world. People who used magic without knowing what they were doing
usually came to a sticky end.
All over the entire room, sometimes.
[Moving Pictures, by Terry Pratchett]
%e passage
# p. 204 (passage ends mid-paragraph; musings are by Gaspode the dog)
%passage 13
Sunnink dreadful in there, he thought. Prob'ly tentacled fings that rips
your face off. I mean, when you finds mysterious doors in old hills, it
stands to reason wot comes out ain't going to be pleased to see you. Evil
creatures wot Man shouldn't wot of, and here's one dog wot don't want to
wot of them either.
[Moving Pictures, by Terry Pratchett]
%e passage
# pp. 206-207 (passage starts mid-paragraph; Dibbler now controls Silverfish's
# moving pictures studio; Detritus isn't part of the Watch yet)
%passage 14
"[...] Detritus, throw this bum out!"
"Right you are, Mr Dibbler," rumbled the troll, gripping Silverfish's
collar.
"You haven't heard the last of this, you--you scheming, devious
megalomaniac!"
Dibbler removed his cigar.
"That's /Mister/ Megalomanic to you," he said.
[Moving Pictures, by Terry Pratchett]
%e passage
# p. 274 (passage starts mid-sentence; senior wizards of the University are
# attending a 'click' and have decided to take their hats off...)
%passage 15
[...] inside every old person is a young person wondering what happened.
[Moving Pictures, by Terry Pratchett]
%e passage
# p. 295 (passage starts mid-sentence; the movie theater owner's daughter
# is playing a pipe organ to accompany the silent movie)
%passage 16
[...] whatever piece of music she was playing, it was definitely losing.
[Moving Pictures, by Terry Pratchett]
%e passage
@@ -7620,7 +7856,7 @@ IF YOU ASK ME, said Death, NOBODY COULD DO ANY BETTER THAN THAT...
# Death Quotes are always one line, and '%e passage' can be omitted.
#
%section Death
%title Death Quotes (24)
%title Death Quotes (25)
%passage 1
WHERE THE FIRST PRIMAL CELL WAS, THERE WAS I ALSO. WHERE MAN IS, THERE AM I. WHEN THE LAST LIFE CRAWLS UNDER FREEZING STARS, THERE WILL I BE.
%e passage
@@ -7704,9 +7940,12 @@ DON'T LET IT UPSET YOU.
# Pyramids, p. 57 (ROC edition)
%passage 23
I CAN SEE THAT YOU HAVE GOT A LOT TO THINK ABOUT.
# Eric, p. 134
# Eric, p. 134 (Harper Torch edition)
%passage 24
PERHAPS IT'S TIME TO CALL IT A DAY.
# Moving Pictures, p. 260 (ROC edition)
%passage 25
I KNOW WHEN EVERYONE'S HAD ENOUGH.
%e title
%e section
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wizard mode #wizintrinsic command
additional tribute passages for The Colour of Magic, The Light Fantastic,
Equal Rites, Mort, Sourcery, Wyrd Sisters, Pyramids, Guards! Guards!,
Eric, Snuff, and Raising Steam
Eric, Moving Pictures, Snuff, and Raising Steam
compile-time options SIMPLE_MAIL and SERVER_ADMIN_MSG for public server use
database entries for Cleaver, Sunsword, Frost and Fire brands, and
polymorph trap