tribute: The Shepherd's Crown

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# Sir Terry Pratchett's final book, published posthumously.
# The story is complete, but the length is substantially shorter than
# other recent Discworld novels. Presumably it would have been expanded
# if he had had more time to work on it....
#
%title The Shepherd's Crown (1)
%title The Shepherd's Crown (7)
# pp. 29-30 (Harper edition)
%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?'
"It's an inconvenience, true enough, and I don't like it at all, but I
know that you do it for everyone, Mr. Death. Is there any other way?"
NO, THERE ISN'T, I'M AFRAID. WE ARE ALL FLOATING IN THE WINDS OF TIME.
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
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...
IF YOU ASK ME, said Death, NOBODY COULD DO ANY BETTER THAN THAT....
[The Shepherd's Crown, by Terry Pratchett]
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# p. 30 ('she' is Miss Tick, a travelling witch who finds new witches;
# 'under water' is spelled as two words; 'ducking' is accurate)
%passage 2
She sighed. It was such a shame when old customs disappeared. A good
witch-ducking was something she had liked doing in the bad old days--she
had even /trained/ for it. All those swimming lessons, and practice with
knots at the Quirm College for Young Ladies. She had been able to defeat
the mobs under water if necessary. Or at least work at breaking her own
record for untying the simple knots they all thought worked on the nasty
witch.
Now, a bit of pond-dipping had become more like a hobby, and she had a
nasty feeling that others were copying her after she passed through their
villages. She'd even heard talk of a swimming club being started in one
small hamlet over by Ham-on-Rye.(1)
(1) A popular idea among the young lads, since they felt that everyone--
and "everyone" definitely included the young ladies--should swim without
their clothes.
[The Shepherd's Crown, by Terry Pratchett]
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# p. 37 (passage starts mid-paragraph; 'she' is Tiffany Aching)
%passage 3
Not for the first time, she wondered how it was that cats seemed to be
able to be in one place one moment, and then /almost at the same time/,
reappear somewhere else.(1)
(1) She did not know it, but a keen young philosopher in Ephebe had
pondered exactly that same conumdrum, until he was found one morning--
most of him, anyway--surrounded by a number of purring, and very well fed,
cats. No one had seemed keen to continue his experiments after that.
[The Shepherd's Crown, by Terry Pratchett]
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# pp. 112-113 (the footnote has a misprint of mismatched quotes: "Chuffley')
%passage 4
Roland de Chumsfanleigh,(1) the young Baron on the Chalk /did/ want to be
like his father in many ways. He knew the old man had been popular--what
was known as an "old-school Baron," which meant that everyone knew what
to expect and the guards polished up their armor and saluted, and did
what was expected of /them/, while the Baron did what was expected of him,
and pretty much left them alone.
But his father had also been a bit of a bad-tempered bully at times. And
/that/ bit Roland wanted to forget about. He particularly wanted to sound
the right note when he called round to see Tiffany Aching at Home Farm.
For they had once been good friends, and to Roland's alarm, Tiffany was
thought of as a good friend by his wife Letitia. Any man with sense was
wise to be fearful of a wife's best friends. For who knew what ... little
secrets might be shared. Roland, having been educated at home and with
limited knowledge of the world outside the Chalk, feared that "little"
might be /exactly/ the kind of comment Letitia might share with Tiffany.
(1) Pronounced "Chuffley" under the strange rule that the more gentrified
a family is, the more peculiar the pronunciation of their name becomes.
Tiffany had once heard a high-born visitor named Ponsonby-Macklewright
(/Pwt/) refer to Roland as /Chf/. She wondered how they managed at dinner
when /Pwt/ introduced /Chf/ to /Wm/ or /Hmpfh/. Surely it could lead to
misunderstandings?
[The Shepherd's Crown, by Terry Pratchett]
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# p. 158
%passage 5
He kicked the helmet of his chief, the Big Man of the clan, and shouted,
"There's elves here! I can smell it, ye ken!"
And from every hole in turn, the clan of the Nac Mac Feegle poured out in
their hundreds to deal with the ancient enemy, waving claymores and swords,
yodeling their war cries:
"Ach, stickit yer trakkans!"
"Nac Mac Feegle wha hae!"
"Gae awa' wi' ye, yer bogle!"
"Gi'e you sich a guid kickin'!"
"Nae king! Nae quin! We will nae be fooled agin!"
There is a concept known as a hustle and bustle, and the Feegles were very
good at it, cheerfully getting in one another's way in the drive to be the
first into battle, and it seemed as if each small warrior had a battle cry
of his own--and he was very ready to fight anyone who tried to take it
away from him.
"How many elves?" asked Rob Anybody, trying to adjust his spog.
There was a pause.
"One," said Big Yan sheepishly.
[The Shepherd's Crown, by Terry Pratchett]
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# p. 159 (passage starts mid-paragraph. 'oor' is accurate)
%passage 6
"This elf is oor prisoner. A hostage, ye ken. That means ye are nae tae
kill it until ye are told." He ignored the grumbles from the clan. "As
tae the rest o' ye, tak guard around yon stones. And if they come in
force, show them what the Feegles can dae!"
Daft Wullie said, "I can play the harmonica."
Rob Anybody sighed. "Aye, weel, I suppose that puts the willies up me,
so wud likely keep them awa'."
[The Shepherd's Crown, by Terry Pratchett]
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# p. 202
%passage 7
Sometimes, Tiffany thought, I am so /fed up/ with being young.(1)
(1) A thought that she would most certainly grow out of, assuming she
survived long enough.
[The Shepherd's Crown, by Terry Pratchett]
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