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%title Reaper Man (4)
%title Reaper Man (15)
# pp. 301-302 (ROC edition)
%passage 1
No one is actually dead until the ripples they cause in the world die
away...
It was later that the story of Windle Poons really came to an end, if
"story" means all that he did and caused and set in motion. In the Ramtop
villages where they dance the real Morris dance, for example, they believe
that no one is finally dead until the ripples they cause in the world die
away--until the clock he wound up winds down, until the wine she made has
finished its ferment, until the crop they planted is harvested. The span
of someone's life, they say, is only the core of their actual existance.
[Reaper Man, by Terry Pratchett]
%e passage
# p. 251 (passage starts mid-paragraph)
%passage 2
Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind.
[Reaper Man, by Terry Pratchett]
%e passage
# p. 305 (passage starts mid-paragraph)
%passage 3
Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how
fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and
is waiting for it.
Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter
how fast light travels it finds the darkness has always got there first,
and is waiting for it.
[Reaper Man, by Terry Pratchett]
%e passage
# p. 245
%passage 4
"That's not fair, you know. If we knew when we were going to die, people
would lead better lives."
"That's not fair, you know. If we knew when we were going to die, people
would lead better lives."
IF PEOPLE KNEW WHEN THEY WERE GOING TO DIE, I THINK THEY PROBABLY WOULDN'T
LIVE AT ALL.
LIVE AT ALL.
[Reaper Man, by Terry Pratchett]
%e passage
# p. 19
%passage 5
YOU FEAR TO DIE?
"It's not that I don't want... I mean, I've always... it's just that life
is a habit that's hard to break..."
[Reaper Man, by Terry Pratchett]
%e passage
# pp. 30-31
%passage 6
Wizards don't believe in gods in the same way that most people don't find it
necessary to believe in, say, tables. They know they're there, they know
they're there for a purpose, they'd probably agree that they have a place in
a well-organized universe, but they wouldn't see the point of /believing/,
of going around saying, "O great table, without whom we are as naught".
Anyway, either the gods are there whether you believe or not, or exist only
as a function of the belief, so either way you might as well ignore the
whole business and, as it were, eat off your knees.
Nevertheless, there is a small chaple off the University's Great Hall,
because while the wizards stand right behind the philosophy as outlined
above, you don't become a successful wizard by getting up gods' noses even
if those noses only exist in an ethereal or metaphorical sense. Because
while wizards don't belive in gods they know for a fact that /gods/ believe
in gods.
[Reaper Man, by Terry Pratchett]
%e passage
# p. 50 (Dibbler is so low because he's on steps leading down to a cellar)
%passage 7
"Sergeant!"
Colon froze. Then he looked down. A face was staring up at him from ground
level. When he'd got a grip on himself, he made out the sharp features of
his old friend Cut-Me-Own-Throat Dibbler, the Discworld's walking, talking
argument in favour of the theory that mankind had descended from a species
of rodent. C. M. O. T. Dibbler like to describe himself as a merchant
adventurer; everyone else liked to describe him as itinerant pedlar whose
moneymaking schemes were always let down by some small but vital flaw, such
as trying to sell things he didn't own or which didn't work or, sometimes,
didn't even exist. Fairy gold is well known to evaporate by morning, but
it was a reinforced concrete slab by comparison to some of Dibbler's
merchandise.
[Reaper Man, by Terry Pratchett]
%e passage
# pp. 58-59
%passage 8
Over the fireplace was an ornamental candlestick, fixed to a bracket on the
wall. It was such a familiar piece of furniture that Windle hadn't really
seen it for fifty years.
It was coming unscrewed. It spun around slowly, squeaking once a turn.
After half a dozen turns it fell off and clattered to the floor.
Inexplicable phenomena were not in themselves unusual on the Discworld.(1)
It was just that they normally had more point, or at least were a bit more
interesting.
(1) Rains of fish, for example, were so common in the little land-locked
village of Pine Dressers that it had a flourishing smoking, canning and
kipper filleting industry. And in the mountain regions of Syrrit many
sheep, left out in the fields all night, would be found in the morning to
/be facing the other way/, without the apparent intervention of any human
agency.
[Reaper Man, by Terry Pratchett]
%e passage
# pp. 68-69 (130 year old wizard Windle Poon has become a zombie after dying)
%passage 9
"And now let's put the lid on and go and have some lunch," said Ridcully.
"Don't worry, Windle. It's bound to work. Today is the last day of the
rest of your life."
Windle lay in the darkness, listening to the hammering. There was a thump
and a muffled imprecation against the Dean for not holding the end properly.
And then the patter of soil on the lid, getting fainter and more distant.
After a while a distant rumbling suggested that the commerce of the city
was being resumed. He could even hear muffled voices.
He banged on the coffin lid.
"Can you keep it down?" he demanded. "There's people down here trying to
be dead!"
He heard the voices stop. There was the sound of feet hurrying away.
[Reaper Man, by Terry Pratchett]
%e passage
# p. 81-82 (things have stopped dying because Death is no longer on the job)
%passage 10
Everything that exists, yearns to live. That's what the cycle of life is
all about. That's the engine that drives the great biological pumps of
evolution. Everything tries to inch its way up the tree, clawing or
tentacling or sliming its way up to the next niche until it gets to the
very top--which, on the whole, never seems to have been worth all the
effort.
Everything that exists, yearns to live. Even things that are not alive.
Things that have a kind of sub-life, a metaphorical life, an /almost/ life.
And now, in the same way that a sudden hot spell brings forth unnatural and
exotic blooms...
[Reaper Man, by Terry Pratchett]
%e passage
# p. 101
%passage 11
Dead. That was the point. All the religions had very strong views about
talking to the dead. And so did Mrs Cake. They held that it was sinful.
Mrs Cake held that it was only common courtesy.
This usually led to a fierce ecclesiastical debate which resulted in Mrs
Cake giving the chief priest what she called "a piece of her mind". There
were so many pieces of Mrs Cake's mind left around the city now that it
was quite surprising that there was enough left to power Mrs Cake but,
strangely enough, the more pieces of her mind she gave away the more there
seemed to be left.
[Reaper Man, by Terry Pratchett]
%e passage
# p. 222
%passage 12
"No--" Ridcully began, and realised that it was hopeless. And he was losing
the initiative. He carefully formulated the most genteel battle cry in the
history of bowdlerism,
"Darn them to Heck!" he yelled, and ran after the Dean.
[Reaper Man, by Terry Pratchett]
%e passage
# p. 226
%passage 13
Miss Flitworth disappeared into the scullery. There was the creaking of a
pump. She returned with a damp flannel and a glass of water.
THERE'S A NEWT IN IT!
"Shows it's fresh," said Miss Flitworth,(1) fishing the amphibian out and
releasing it on the flagstones, where it scuttled away into a crack.
(1) People have believed for hundreds of years that newts in a well mean
that the water's fresh and drinkable, and /in all that time/ never asked
themselves whether the newts got out to go to the lavatory.
[Reaper Man, by Terry Pratchett]
%e passage
# p. 247
%passage 14
"Have you got any last words?"
YES. I DON'T WANT TO GO.
"Well. Succinct, anyway."
[Reaper Man, by Terry Pratchett]
%e passage
# pp. 249-250
%passage 15
"Where's everyone gone, Librarian?"
"Oook oook."
"Just like them. I'd have done that. Rush off without thinking. May the
gods bless them and help them, if they can find the time from their family
squabbles."
And then he thought: well, what now? I've thought, and what am I going to
do?
Rush off, or course, But slowly.
[Reaper Man, by Terry Pratchett]
%e passage
@@ -7856,7 +8040,7 @@ 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 (25)
%title Death Quotes (30)
%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
@@ -7946,6 +8130,21 @@ PERHAPS IT'S TIME TO CALL IT A DAY.
# Moving Pictures, p. 260 (ROC edition)
%passage 25
I KNOW WHEN EVERYONE'S HAD ENOUGH.
# Reaper Man, p. 10 (ROC edition)
%passage 26
I HAVE ALWAYS DONE MY DUTY AS I SAW FIT.
# p. 18
%passage 27
I AM NOT KNOWN FOR MY SENSE OF FUN.
# p. 160
%passage 28
I MEAN THAT THERE IS A TIME FOR EVERYONE TO DIE.
# p. 227
%passage 29
JUST BECAUSE SOMETHING IS A METAPHORE DOESN'T MEAN IT CAN'T BE REAL.
# p. 334
%passage 30
I AM ALWAYS ALONE. BUT JUST NOW I WANT TO BE ALONE BY MYSELF.
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%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, Moving Pictures, Snuff, and Raising Steam
Eric, Moving Pictures, Reaper Man, 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