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1 | =head1 NAME |
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0e6b8110 | 3 | perlepigraphs - list of Perl release epigraphs |
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4 | |
5 | =head1 DESCRIPTION | |
6 | ||
0e6b8110 | 7 | Many Perl release announcements included an I<epigraph>, a short excerpt |
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8 | from a literary or other creative work, chosen by the pumpking or release |
9 | manager. This file assembles the known list of epigraph for posterity, | |
10 | and also links to the release announcements in mailing list archives. | |
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12 | I<Note>: these have also been referred to as <epigrams>, but the |
13 | definition of I<epigraph> is closer to the way they have been used. | |
14 | Consult your favorite dictionary for details. | |
15 | ||
16 | =head1 EPIGRAPHS | |
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18 | =head2 v5.13.8 - Roger Williams, L<"The Fifth Gift"|http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2005/8/19/21304/8493> |
19 | ||
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20 | L<Announced on 2010-12-19 by Zefram|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/12/msg167271.html> |
21 | ||
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22 | The aliens called the box a "matter generator," but we'd be more inclined |
23 | to call it a matter duplicator. By connecting switches and potentiometers | |
24 | between the copper posts it was possible to make the box mark off two | |
25 | cubic rectangular areas of volume. Make a certain contact, and these | |
26 | areas would be isolated within perfectly reflective fields. They could | |
27 | be expanded or contracted by altering resistances between other posts. | |
28 | As I worked out the user interface I built a little control panel for | |
29 | the device. It was actually a clever way for the aliens to do things; | |
30 | instead of trying to build controls we could use, they built us an | |
31 | interface we could attach to controls that made sense to us. It could | |
32 | also be automated. | |
33 | ||
34 | Once you had made the contact that established the shielded volumes, | |
35 | if you made another certain contact the contents of the first volume | |
36 | were copied to the second. The machine copied metal, plastic, steel, | |
37 | and diamond with equal ease. Copies of copies of copies of copies were | |
38 | indistinguishable from the originals at any magnification, even using | |
39 | techniques like X-ray crystallography. | |
40 | ||
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41 | =head2 v5.13.7 - Andy Wachowski and Lana Wachowski, 'The Matrix' |
42 | ||
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43 | L<Announced on 2010-11-20 by Chris 'BinGOs' Williams|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/11/msg166162.html> |
44 | ||
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45 | [Neo sees a black cat walk by them, and then a similar black cat walk by them just like the first one] |
46 | ||
47 | Neo: Whoa. Deja vu. | |
48 | ||
49 | [Everyone freezes right in their tracks] | |
50 | ||
51 | Trinity: What did you just say? | |
52 | Neo: Nothing. Just had a little deja vu. | |
53 | Trinity: What did you see? | |
54 | Cypher: What happened? | |
55 | Neo: A black cat went past us, and then another that looked just like it. | |
56 | Trinity: How much like it? Was it the same cat? | |
57 | Neo: It might have been. I'm not sure. | |
58 | Morpheus: Switch! Apoc! | |
59 | Neo: What is it? | |
60 | Trinity: A deja vu is usually a glitch in the Matrix. It happens when they change something. | |
61 | ||
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62 | =head2 v5.13.6 - Haruki Murakami, "Kafka on the Shore" |
63 | ||
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64 | L<Announced on 2010-10-20 by Tatsuhiko Miyagawa|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/10/msg165183.html> |
65 | ||
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66 | The boy called Crow softly rests a hand on my shoulder, and with that |
67 | he storm vanishes. | |
68 | ||
69 | "From now on -- no matter what -- you've got to be the world's toughest | |
70 | fifteen-year-old. That's the only way you're going to survive. And in order | |
71 | to do that, you've got to figure out what it means to be tough. You following | |
72 | me?" | |
73 | ||
74 | I keep my eyes closed and don't reply. I just want to sink off into sleep | |
75 | like this, his hand on my shoulder. I hear the faint flutter of wings. | |
76 | ||
77 | "You're going to be the world's toughest fifteen-year-old," Crow whispers | |
78 | as I try to fall asleep. Like he was carving the words in a deep blue tattoo | |
79 | on my heart. | |
80 | ||
81 | (Translated from Japanese by Philip Gabriel) | |
82 | ||
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83 | =head2 v5.13.5 - Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, "The Room in the Dragon Volant" |
84 | ||
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85 | L<Announced on 2010-09-19 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/09/msg164238.html> |
86 | ||
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87 | Candle in hand I stepped in. I do not know whether the quality of |
88 | air, long undisturbed, is peculiar; to me it has always seemed so, and | |
89 | the damp smell of the old masonry hung in this atmosphere. My candle | |
90 | faintly lighted the bare stone wall that enclosed the stair, the foot | |
91 | of which I could not see. Down I went, and a few turns brought me to | |
92 | the stone floor. Here was another door, of the simple, old, oak kind, | |
93 | deep sunk in the thickness of the wall. The large end of the key | |
94 | fitted this. The lock was stiff; I set the candle down upon the | |
95 | stair, and applied both hands; it turned with difficulty, and as it | |
96 | revolved, uttered a shriek that alarmed me for my secret. | |
97 | ||
98 | For some minutes I did not move. In a little time, however, I took | |
99 | courage, and opened the door. The night-air floating in puffed out | |
100 | the candle. There was a thicket of holly and underwood, as dense as a | |
101 | jungle, close about the door. I should have been in pitch-darkness, | |
102 | were it not that through the topmost leaves there twinkled, here and | |
103 | there, a glimmer of moonshine. | |
104 | ||
105 | Softly, lest any one should have opened his window at the sound of the | |
106 | rusty bolt, I struggled through this till I gained a view of the open | |
107 | grounds. Here I found that the brushwood spread a good way up the | |
108 | park, uniting with the wood that approached the little temple I have | |
109 | described. | |
110 | ||
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111 | =head2 v5.12.2 - William Gibson, "Pattern Recognition" |
112 | ||
113 | L<Announced on 2919-09-06 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/09/msg163852.html> | |
114 | ||
115 | CPUs. Cayce Pollard Units. That's what Damien calls the clothing | |
116 | she wears. CPUs are either black, white, or gray, and ideally | |
117 | seem to have come into this world without human intervention. | |
118 | ||
119 | What people take for relentless minimalism is a side effect | |
120 | of too much exposure to the reactor-cores of fashion. This | |
121 | has resulted in a remorseless paring-down of what she can and | |
122 | will wear. She is, literally, allergic to fashion. She can | |
123 | only tolerate things that could have been worn, to a general | |
124 | lack of comment, during any year between 1945 and 2000. She's a | |
125 | design-free zone, a one-woman school of and whose very austerity | |
126 | periodically threatens to spawn its own cult. | |
127 | ||
128 | =head2 v5.12.2-RC1 - William Gibson, "Pattern Recognition" | |
129 | ||
130 | L<Announced on 2010-08-31 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/08/msg163670.html> | |
131 | ||
132 | The front page opens, familiar as a friend's living room. A frame-grab | |
133 | from #48 serves as backdrop, dim and almost monochrome, no characters in | |
134 | view. This is one of the sequences that generate comparisons with | |
135 | Tarkovsky. She only knows Tarkovsky from stills, really, though she did | |
136 | once fall asleep during a screening of The Stalker, going under on an | |
137 | endless pan, the camera aimed straight down, in close-up, at a puddle on | |
138 | a ruined mosaic floor. But she is not one of those who think that much | |
139 | will be gained by analysis of the maker's imagined influences. The cult | |
140 | of the footage is rife with subcults, claiming every possible influence. | |
141 | Truffaut, Peckinpah -- The Peckinpah people, among the least likely, are | |
142 | still waiting for the guns to be drawn. | |
143 | ||
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144 | =head2 v5.13.4 - Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" |
145 | ||
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146 | L<Announced on 2010-08-20 by Florian Ragwitz|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/08/msg163150.html> |
147 | ||
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148 | `How the creatures order one about, and make one repeat lessons!' thought Alice; |
149 | `I might as well be at school at once.' However, she got up, and began to repeat | |
150 | it, but her head was so full of the Lobster Quadrille, that she hardly knew what | |
151 | she was saying, and the words came very queer indeed:-- | |
152 | ||
153 | "'Tis the voice of the Lobster; I heard him declare, | |
154 | "You have baked me too brown, I must sugar my hair." | |
155 | As a duck with its eyelids, so he with his nose | |
156 | Trims his belt and his buttons, and turns out his toes.' | |
157 | ||
158 | ||
159 | `That's different from what I used to say when I was a child,' said the Gryphon. | |
160 | ||
161 | `Well, I never heard it before,' said the Mock Turtle; `but it sounds uncommon | |
162 | nonsense.' | |
163 | ||
164 | Alice said nothing; she had sat down with her face in her hands, wondering if | |
165 | anything would ever happen in a natural way again. | |
166 | ||
167 | `I should like to have it explained,' said the Mock Turtle. | |
168 | ||
169 | `She can't explain it,' said the Gryphon hastily. `Go on with the next verse.' | |
170 | ||
171 | `But about his toes?' the Mock Turtle persisted. `How could he turn them out | |
172 | with his nose, you know?' | |
173 | ||
174 | `It's the first position in dancing.' Alice said; but was dreadfully puzzled by | |
175 | the whole thing, and longed to change the subject. | |
176 | ||
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177 | =head2 v5.13.3 - Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, "Good Omens" |
178 | ||
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179 | L<Announced on 2010-07-20 by David Golden|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/07/msg162230.html> |
180 | ||
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181 | Look at Crowley, doing 110 mph on the M40 heading towards |
182 | Oxfordshire. Even the most resolutely casual observer would | |
183 | notice a number of strange things about him. The clenched teeth, | |
184 | for example, or the dull red glow coming from behind his | |
185 | sunglasses. And the car. The car was a definite hint. | |
186 | ||
187 | Crowley had started the journey in his Bentley, and he was | |
188 | dammned if he wasn't going to finish it in the Bentley as well. | |
189 | Not that even the kind of car buff who owns his own pair of | |
190 | motoring goggles would have been able to tell it was a vintage | |
191 | Bentley. Not any more. They wouldn't have been able to tell | |
192 | that it was a Bentley. They would only offer fifty-fifty that it | |
193 | had ever even been a car. | |
194 | ||
195 | There was no paint left on it, for a start. It might still have | |
196 | been black, where it wasn't a rusty, smudged reddish-brown, but | |
197 | this was a dull charcoal black. It traveled in its own ball of | |
198 | flame, like a space capsule making a particularly difficult | |
199 | re-entry. | |
200 | ||
201 | There was a thin skin of crusted, melted rubber left around the | |
202 | metal wheel rims, but seeing that the wheel rims were still | |
203 | somhow riding an inch above the road surface this didn't seem to | |
204 | make an awful lot of difference to the suspension. | |
205 | ||
206 | It should have fallen apart miles back. | |
207 | ||
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208 | =head2 v5.13.2 - Iain M Banks, "Use of Weapons" |
209 | ||
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210 | L<Announced on 2010-06-22 by Matt S Trout|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/06/msg161112.html> |
211 | ||
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212 | We deal in the moral equivalent of black holes, where the normal laws - |
213 | the rules of right and wrong that people imagine apply everywhere else | |
214 | in the universe - break down; beyond those metaphysical event-horizons, | |
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215 | there exist ... special circumstances. |
216 | ||
217 | =head2 v5.13.1 - Miguel de Unamuno, "The Sepulchre of Don Quixote" | |
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219 | L<Announced on 2010-05-20 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/05/msg160275.html> |
220 | ||
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221 | And if anyone shall come to you and say that he knows how to construct |
222 | bridges and that perhaps a time will come when you will wish to avail | |
223 | yourself of his science in order to cross over a river, out with him! Out | |
224 | with the engineer! Rivers will be crossed by wading or swimming them, even | |
225 | if half the crusaders drown themselves. Let the engineer go off and build | |
226 | bridges somewhere else, where they are badly wanted. For those who go in | |
227 | quest of the sepulchre, faith is bridge enough. | |
228 | ||
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229 | =head2 v5.12.1 - Kurt Vonnegut, "Cat's Cradle" |
230 | ||
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231 | L<Announced on 2010-05-16 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/05/msg160109.html> |
232 | ||
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233 | "Now suppose," chortled Dr. Breed, enjoying himself, "that there were |
234 | many possible ways in which water could crystallize, could freeze. | |
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235 | Suppose that the sort of ice we skate upon and put into highballs -- |
236 | what we might call ice-one -- is only one of several types of ice. | |
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237 | Suppose water always froze as ice-one on Earth because it had never |
238 | had a seed to teach it how to form ice-two, ice-three, ice-four | |
239 | ...? And suppose," he rapped on his desk with his old hand again, | |
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240 | "that there were one form, which we will call ice-nine -- a crystal as |
241 | hard as this desk -- with a melting point of, let us say, one-hundred | |
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242 | degrees Fahrenheit, or, better still, a melting point of one-hundred- |
243 | and-thirty degrees." | |
244 | ||
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245 | =head2 v5.12.1-RC2 - Kurt Vonnegut, "Cat's Cradle" |
246 | ||
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247 | L<Announced on 2010-05-13 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/05/msg160066.html> |
248 | ||
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249 | San Lorenzo was fifty miles long and twenty miles wide, I learned from |
250 | the supplement to the New York Sunday Times. Its population was four | |
251 | hundred, fifty thousand souls, "...all fiercely dedicated to the ideals | |
252 | of the Free World." | |
253 | ||
254 | Its highest point, Mount McCabe, was eleven thousand feet above sea | |
255 | level. Its capital was Bolivar, "...a strikingly modern city built on a | |
256 | harbor capable of sheltering the entire United States Navy." The principal | |
257 | exports were sugar, coffee, bananas, indigo, and handcrafted novelties. | |
258 | ||
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259 | =head2 v5.12.1-RC1 - Kurt Vonnegut, "Cat's Cradle" |
260 | ||
261 | L<Announced on 2010-05-09 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/05/msg159971.html> | |
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263 | Which brings me to the Bokononist concept of a wampeter. A wampeter is |
264 | the pivot of a karass. No karass is without a wampeter, Bokonon tells us, | |
265 | just as no wheel is without a hub. Anything can be a wampeter: a tree, | |
266 | a rock, an animal, an idea, a book, a melody, the Holy Grail. Whatever | |
267 | it is, the members of its karass revolve about it in the majestic chaos | |
268 | of a spiral nebula. The orbits of the members of a karass about their | |
269 | common wampeter are spiritual orbits, naturally. It is souls and not | |
270 | bodies that revolve. As Bokonon invites us to sing: | |
271 | ||
272 | Around and around and around we spin, | |
273 | With feet of lead and wings of tin . . . | |
274 | ||
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275 | =head2 v5.13.0 - Jules Verne, "A Journey to the Centre of the Earth" |
276 | ||
277 | L<Announced on 2010-04-20 by LE<0xe9>on Brocard|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/04/msg159275.html> | |
278 | ||
279 | The heat still remained at quite a supportable degree. With an | |
280 | involuntary shudder, I reflected on what the heat must have been | |
281 | when the volcano of Sneffels was pouring its smoke, flames, and | |
282 | streams of boiling lava -- all of which must have come up by the | |
283 | road we were now following. I could imagine the torrents of hot | |
284 | seething stone darting on, bubbling up with accompaniments of | |
285 | smoke, steam, and sulphurous stench! | |
286 | ||
287 | "Only to think of the consequences," I mused, "if the old | |
288 | volcano were once more to set to work." | |
289 | ||
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290 | =head2 v5.12.0 - Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" |
291 | ||
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292 | L<Announced on 2010-04-12 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/04/msg158820.html> |
293 | ||
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294 | 'Please would you tell me,' said Alice, a little timidly, for she was |
295 | not quite sure whether it was good manners for her to speak first, 'why | |
296 | your cat grins like that?' | |
297 | ||
298 | 'It's a Cheshire cat,' said the Duchess, 'and that's why. Pig!' | |
299 | ||
300 | She said the last word with such sudden violence that Alice quite | |
301 | jumped; but she saw in another moment that it was addressed to the baby, | |
302 | and not to her, so she took courage, and went on again:-- | |
303 | ||
304 | 'I didn't know that Cheshire cats always grinned; in fact, I didn't know | |
305 | that cats COULD grin.' | |
306 | ||
307 | 'They all can,' said the Duchess; 'and most of 'em do.' | |
308 | ||
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309 | =head2 v5.12.0-RC5 - Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" |
310 | ||
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311 | L<Announced on 2010-04-09 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/04/msg158720.html> |
312 | ||
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313 | 'Not QUITE right, I'm afraid,' said Alice, timidly; 'some of the words |
314 | have got altered.' | |
315 | ||
316 | 'It is wrong from beginning to end,' said the Caterpillar decidedly, and | |
317 | there was silence for some minutes. | |
318 | ||
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319 | =head2 v5.12.0-RC4 - Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" |
320 | ||
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321 | L<Announced on 2010-04-06 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/04/msg158567.html> |
322 | ||
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323 | 'It was much pleasanter at home,' thought poor Alice, 'when one wasn't |
324 | always growing larger and smaller, and being ordered about by mice and | |
325 | rabbits. I almost wish I hadn't gone down that rabbit-hole--and yet--and | |
326 | yet--it's rather curious, you know, this sort of life! I do wonder what | |
327 | can have happened to me! When I used to read fairy-tales, I fancied that | |
328 | kind of thing never happened, and now here I am in the middle of one! | |
329 | ||
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330 | =head2 v5.12.0-RC3 - Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" |
331 | ||
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332 | L<Announced on 2010-04-02 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/04/msg158346.html> |
333 | ||
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334 | At last the Mouse, who seemed to be a person of authority among them, |
335 | called out, 'Sit down, all of you, and listen to me! I'LL soon make you | |
336 | dry enough!' They all sat down at once, in a large ring, with the Mouse | |
337 | in the middle. Alice kept her eyes anxiously fixed on it, for she felt | |
338 | sure she would catch a bad cold if she did not get dry very soon. | |
339 | ||
340 | 'Ahem!' said the Mouse with an important air, 'are you all ready? This | |
341 | is the driest thing I know. Silence all round, if you please! "William | |
342 | the Conqueror, whose cause was favoured by the pope, was soon submitted | |
343 | to by the English, who wanted leaders, and had been of late much | |
344 | accustomed to usurpation and conquest. Edwin and Morcar, the earls of | |
d517a16a | 345 | Mercia and Northumbria --"' |
4363636d | 346 | |
2831a86c | 347 | =head2 v5.12.0-RC2 - no announcement |
4363636d | 348 | |
2831a86c | 349 | Available on CPAN since 2010-04-01. |
4363636d | 350 | |
3e340399 | 351 | =head2 v5.12.0-RC1 - Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" |
4363636d | 352 | |
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353 | L<Announced on 2010-03-29 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/03/msg158060.html> |
354 | ||
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355 | So she was considering in her own mind (as well as she could, for the |
356 | hot day made her feel very sleepy and stupid), whether the pleasure of | |
357 | making a daisy-chain would be worth the trouble of getting up and | |
358 | picking the daisies, when suddenly a White Rabbit with pink eyes ran | |
359 | close by her. | |
360 | ||
361 | There was nothing so VERY remarkable in that; nor did Alice think it so | |
362 | VERY much out of the way to hear the Rabbit say to itself, 'Oh dear! Oh | |
363 | dear! I shall be late!' (when she thought it over afterwards, it | |
364 | occurred to her that she ought to have wondered at this, but at the time | |
365 | it all seemed quite natural); but when the Rabbit actually TOOK A WATCH | |
366 | OUT OF ITS WAISTCOAT-POCKET, and looked at it, and then hurried on, | |
367 | Alice started to her feet, for it flashed across her mind that she had | |
368 | never before seen a rabbit with either a waistcoat-pocket, or a watch to | |
369 | take out of it, and burning with curiosity, she ran across the field | |
370 | after it, and fortunately was just in time to see it pop down a large | |
371 | rabbit-hole under the hedge. | |
372 | ||
373 | In another moment down went Alice after it, never once considering how | |
374 | in the world she was to get out again. | |
375 | ||
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3e340399 | 380 | =head2 v5.11.5 - Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "Christabel" |
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382 | L<Announced on 2010-02-21 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/02/msg156957.html> |
383 | ||
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384 | A little child, a limber elf, |
385 | Singing, dancing to itself, | |
386 | A fairy thing with red round cheeks, | |
387 | That always finds, and never seeks, | |
388 | Makes such a vision to the sight | |
389 | As fills a father's eyes with light; | |
390 | And pleasures flow in so thick and fast | |
391 | Upon his heart, that he at last | |
392 | Must needs express his love's excess | |
393 | With words of unmeant bitterness. | |
394 | Perhaps 'tis pretty to force together | |
395 | Thoughts so all unlike each other; | |
396 | To mutter and mock a broken charm, | |
397 | To dally with wrong that does no harm. | |
398 | Perhaps 'tis tender too and pretty | |
399 | At each wild word to feel within | |
400 | A sweet recoil of love and pity. | |
401 | And what, if in a world of sin | |
402 | (O sorrow and shame should this be true!) | |
403 | Such giddiness of heart and brain | |
404 | Comes seldom save from rage and pain, | |
405 | So talks as it's most used to do. | |
406 | ||
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407 | =head2 v5.11.4 - Fyodor Dostoevsky, "Crime and Punishment" |
408 | ||
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409 | L<Announced on 2010-01-20 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/01/msg155848.html> |
410 | ||
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411 | And you don't suppose that I went into it headlong like a fool? I went |
412 | into it like a wise man, and that was just my destruction. And you | |
413 | mustn't suppose that I didn't know, for instance, that if I began to | |
414 | question myself whether I had the right to gain power -- I certainly | |
415 | hadn't the right -- or that if I asked myself whether a human being is a | |
416 | louse it proved that it wasn't so for me, though it might be for a man | |
417 | who would go straight to his goal without asking questions.... If I | |
418 | worried myself all those days, wondering whether Napoleon would have | |
419 | done it or not, I felt clearly of course that I wasn't Napoleon. | |
420 | ||
4363636d DG |
421 | =head2 v5.11.3 - Mark Twain, "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" |
422 | ||
2831a86c ZA |
423 | L<Announced on 2009-12-20 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2009/12/msg154838.html> |
424 | ||
4363636d | 425 | "Say -- I'm going in a swimming, I am. Don't you wish you could? But of |
d517a16a | 426 | course you'd druther work -- wouldn't you? Course you would!" |
4363636d DG |
427 | |
428 | Tom contemplated the boy a bit, and said: "What do you call work?" | |
429 | ||
430 | "Why ain't that work?" | |
431 | ||
432 | Tom resumed his whitewashing, and answered carelessly: "Well, maybe it | |
433 | is, and maybe it aint. All I know, is, it suits Tom Sawyer." | |
434 | ||
435 | "Oh come, now, you don't mean to let on that you like it?" | |
436 | ||
437 | The brush continued to move. "Like it? Well I don't see why I oughtn't | |
438 | to like it. Does a boy get a chance to whitewash a fence every day?" | |
439 | ||
440 | That put the thing in a new light. Ben stopped nibbling his apple. Tom | |
441 | swept his brush daintily back and forth -- stepped back to note the effect | |
442 | -- added a touch here and there-criticised the effect again -- Ben | |
443 | watching every move and getting more and more interested, more and more | |
444 | absorbed. Presently he said: "Say, Tom, let me whitewash a little." | |
445 | ||
4363636d DG |
446 | =head2 v5.11.2 - Michael Marshall Smith, "Only Forward" |
447 | ||
2831a86c ZA |
448 | L<Announced on 2009-11-20 by |http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2009/11/msg153646.html> |
449 | ||
4363636d DG |
450 | The streets were pretty quiet, which was nice. They're always quiet here |
451 | at that time: you have to be wearing a black jacket to be out on the | |
452 | streets between seven and nine in the evening, and not many people in | |
453 | the area have black jackets. It's just one of those things. I currently | |
454 | live in Colour Neighbourhood, which is for people who are heavily into | |
455 | colour. All the streets and buildings are set for instant colourmatch: | |
456 | as you walk down the road they change hue to offset whatever you're | |
457 | wearing. When the streets are busy it's kind of intense, and anyone | |
458 | prone to epileptic seizures isn't allowed to live in the Neighbourhood, | |
459 | however much they're into colour. | |
460 | ||
4363636d DG |
461 | =head2 v5.11.1 - Joseph Heller, "Catch-22" |
462 | ||
2831a86c ZA |
463 | L<Announced on 2009-10-20 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2009/10/msg152360.html> |
464 | ||
4363636d DG |
465 | Milo had been caught red-handed in the act of plundering his countrymen, |
466 | and, as a result, his stock had never been higher. He proved good as his | |
467 | word when a rawboned major from Minnesota curled his lip in rebellious | |
468 | disavowal and demanded his share of the syndicate Milo kept saying | |
469 | everybody owned. Milo met the challenge by writing the words "A Share" | |
470 | on the nearest scrap of paper and handing it away with a virtuous disdain | |
471 | that won the envy and admiration of almost everyone who knew him. His | |
472 | glory was at a peak, and Colonel Cathcart, who knew and admired his | |
473 | war record, was astonished by the deferential humility with which Mil | |
474 | presented himself at Group Headquarters and made his fantastic appeal | |
475 | for more hazardous assignment. | |
476 | ||
4363636d DG |
477 | =head2 v5.11.0 - Mikhail Bulgakov, "The Master and Margarita" |
478 | ||
2831a86c ZA |
479 | L<Announced on 2009-10-02 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2009/10/msg151376.html> |
480 | ||
4363636d DG |
481 | Whispers of an "evil power" were heard in lines at dairy shops, in |
482 | streetcars, stores, arguments, kitchens, suburban and long-distance | |
483 | trains, at stations large and small, in dachas and on beaches. Needless | |
484 | to say, truly mature and cultured people did not tell these stories | |
485 | about an evil power's visit to the capital. In fact, they even made fun | |
486 | of them and tried to talk sense into those who told them. Nevertheless, | |
487 | facts are facts, as they say, and cannot simply be dismissed without | |
488 | explanation: somebody had visited the capital. The charred cinders of | |
489 | Griboyedov alone, and many other things besides, confirmed it. Cultured | |
490 | people shared the point of view of the investigating team: it was the | |
491 | work of a gang of hypnotists and ventriloquists magnificently skilled in | |
492 | their art. | |
493 | ||
4363636d DG |
494 | =head2 v5.10.1 - Right Hon. James Hacker MP, "The Complete Yes Minister: The Diaries of a Cabinet Minister" |
495 | ||
2831a86c ZA |
496 | L<Announced on 2009-09-23 by Dave Mitchell|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2009/08/msg150172.html> |
497 | ||
4363636d DG |
498 | 'Briefly, sir, I am the Permanent Under-Secretary of State, known as |
499 | the Permanent Secretary. Woolley here is your Principal Private | |
500 | Secretary. I, too, have a Principal Private Secretary, and he is the | |
501 | Principal Private Secretary to the Permanent Secretary. Directly | |
502 | responsible to me are ten Deputy Secretaries, eighty-seven Under | |
503 | Secretaries and two hundred and nineteen Assistant Secretaries. | |
504 | Directly responsible to the Principal Private Secretaries are plain | |
505 | Private Secretaries. The Prime Minister will be appointing two | |
506 | Parliamentary Under-Secretaries and you will be appointing your own | |
507 | Parliamentary Private Secretary.' | |
508 | ||
509 | 'Can they all type?' I joked. | |
510 | ||
511 | 'None of us can type, Minister,' replied Sir Humphrey smoothly. 'Mrs | |
512 | McKay types - she is your Secretary.' | |
513 | ||
514 | I couldn't tell whether or not he was joking. 'What a pity,' I said. | |
515 | 'We could have opened an agency.' | |
516 | ||
517 | Sir Humphrey and Bernard laughed. 'Very droll, sir,' said Sir | |
518 | Humphrey. 'Most amusing, sir,' said Bernard. Were they genuinely | |
519 | amused at my wit, or just being rather patronising? 'I suppose they | |
520 | all say that, do they?' I ventured. | |
521 | ||
522 | Sir Humphrey reassured me on that. 'Certainly not, Minister,' he | |
523 | replied. 'Not quite all.' | |
524 | ||
0e6b8110 | 525 | =head2 v5.10.1-RC2 - no epigraph |
4363636d | 526 | |
2831a86c | 527 | L<Announced on 2009-08-18 by Dave Mitchell|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2009/08/msg150015.html> |
3e340399 | 528 | |
0e6b8110 | 529 | =head2 v5.10.1-RC1 - no epigraph |
4363636d | 530 | |
2831a86c | 531 | L<Announced on 2009-08-06 by Dave Mitchell|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2009/08/msg149498.html> |
3e340399 | 532 | |
2831a86c | 533 | =head2 5.005_05-RC1 - no epigraph |
4363636d | 534 | |
2831a86c | 535 | L<Announced on 2009-02-16 by LE<0xe9>on Brocard|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2009/02/msg144227.html> |
4363636d | 536 | |
4363636d DG |
537 | =head2 v5.8.9 - Right Hon. James Hacker MP, "The Complete Yes Minister: The Diaries of a Cabinet Minister" |
538 | ||
2831a86c ZA |
539 | L<Announced on 2008-12-14 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2008/12/msg142571.html> |
540 | ||
4363636d DG |
541 | Frank and I, unlike the civil servants, were still puzzled that such a |
542 | proposal as the Europass could even be seriously under consideration by | |
543 | the FCO. We can both see clearly that it is wonderful ammunition for the | |
544 | anti-Europeans. I asked Humphrey if the Foreign Office doesn't realise | |
545 | how damaging this would be to the European ideal? | |
546 | ||
547 | 'I'm sure they do, Minister, he said. That's why they support it.' | |
548 | ||
549 | This was even more puzzling, since I'd always been under the impression | |
550 | that the FO is pro-Europe. 'Is it or isn't it?' I asked Humphrey. | |
551 | ||
552 | 'Yes and no,' he replied of course, 'if you'll pardon the | |
553 | expression. The Foreign Office is pro-Europe because it is really | |
554 | anti-Europe. In fact the Civil Service was united in its desire to make | |
555 | sure the Common Market didn't work. That's why we went into it.' | |
556 | ||
557 | This sounded like a riddle to me. I asked him to explain further. And | |
558 | basically his argument was as follows: Britain has had the same foreign | |
559 | policy objective for at least the last five hundred years - to create a | |
560 | disunited Europe. In that cause we have fought with the Dutch against | |
561 | the Spanish, with the Germans against the French, with the French and | |
562 | Italians against the Germans, and with the French against the Italians | |
563 | and Germans. [The Dutch rebellion against Phillip II of Spain, the | |
564 | Napoleonic Wars, the First World War, and the Second World War - Ed.] | |
565 | ||
566 | In other words, divide and rule. And the Foreign Office can see no | |
567 | reason to change when it has worked so well until now. | |
568 | ||
569 | I was aware of this, naturally, but I regarded it as ancient history. | |
570 | Humphrey thinks that it is, in fact, current policy. It was necessary | |
571 | for us to break up the EEC, he explained, so we had to get inside. We | |
572 | had previously tried to break it up from the outside, but that didn't | |
573 | work. [A reference to our futile and short-lived involvement in EFTA, | |
574 | the European Free Trade Association, founded in 1960 and which the UK | |
575 | left in 1972 - Ed.] Now that we're in, we are able to make a complete | |
576 | pig's breakfast out of it. We've now set the Germans against the French, | |
577 | the French against the Italians, the Italians against the Dutch... and | |
578 | the Foreign office is terribly happy. It's just like old time. | |
579 | ||
580 | I was staggered by all of this. I thought that the all of us who are | |
581 | publicly pro-European believed in the European ideal. I said this to Sir | |
582 | Humphrey, and he simply chuckled. | |
583 | ||
584 | So I asked him: if we don't believe in the European Ideal, why are we | |
585 | pushing to increase the membership? | |
586 | ||
587 | 'Same reason,' came the reply. 'It's just like the United Nations. The | |
588 | more members it has, the more arguments you can stir up, and the more | |
589 | futile and impotent it becomes.' | |
590 | ||
591 | This all strikes me as the most appalling cynicism, and I said so. | |
592 | ||
593 | Sir Humphrey agreed completely. 'Yes Minister. We call it | |
594 | diplomacy. It's what made Britain great, you know.' | |
595 | ||
4363636d DG |
596 | =head2 v5.8.9-RC2 - Right Hon. James Hacker MP, "The Complete Yes Minister: The Diaries of a Cabinet Minister" |
597 | ||
2831a86c ZA |
598 | L<Announced on 2008-12-06 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2008/11/msg142422.html> |
599 | ||
4363636d DG |
600 | There was silence in the office. I didn't know what we were going to do |
601 | about the four hundred new people supervising our economy drive or the | |
602 | four hundred new people for the Bureaucratic Watchdog Office, or | |
603 | anything! I simply sat and waited and hoped that my head would stop | |
604 | thumping and that some idea would be suggested by someone sometime soon. | |
605 | ||
606 | Sir Humphrey obliged. 'Minister... if we were to end the economy drive | |
607 | and close the Bureaucratic Watchdog Office we could issue an immediate | |
608 | press announcement that you had axed eight hundred jobs.' He had | |
609 | obviously thought this out carefully in advance, for at this moment he | |
610 | produced a slim folder from under his arm. 'If you'd like to approve | |
611 | this draft...' | |
612 | ||
613 | I couldn't believe the impertinence of the suggestion. Axed eight | |
614 | hundred jobs? 'But no one was ever doing these jobs,' I pointed out | |
615 | incredulously. 'No one's been appointed yet.' | |
616 | ||
617 | 'Even greater economy,' he replied instantly. 'We've saved eight hundred | |
618 | redundancy payments as well.' | |
619 | ||
620 | 'But...' I attempted to explain '... that's just phony. It's dishonest, | |
621 | it's juggling with figures, it's pulling the wool over people's eyes.' | |
622 | ||
623 | 'A government press release, in fact.' said Humphrey. | |
624 | ||
4363636d DG |
625 | =head2 v5.8.9-RC1 - Right Hon. James Hacker MP, "The Complete Yes Minister: The Diaries of a Cabinet Minister" |
626 | ||
2831a86c ZA |
627 | L<Announced on 2008-11-10 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2008/11/msg141515.html> |
628 | ||
4363636d DG |
629 | A jumbo jet touched down, with BURANDAN AIRWAYS written on the side. I |
630 | was hugely impressed. British Airways are having to pawn their Concordes, | |
631 | and here is this little tiny African state with its own airline, jumbo | |
632 | jets and all. | |
633 | ||
634 | I asked Bernard how many planes Burandan Airways had. 'None,' he said. | |
635 | ||
636 | I told him not to be silly and use his eyes. 'No Minister, it belongs to | |
637 | Freddie Laker,' he said. 'They chartered it last week and repainted it | |
638 | specially.' Apparently most of the Have-Nots (I mean, LDCs) do this - at | |
639 | the opening of the UN General Assembly the runways of Kennedy Airport are | |
640 | jam-packed with phoney flag-carriers. 'In fact,' said Bernard with a sly | |
641 | grin, 'there was one 747 that belonged to nine different African airlines | |
642 | in a month. They called it the mumbo-jumbo.' | |
643 | ||
644 | While we watched nothing much happening on the TV except the mumbo-jumbo | |
645 | taxiing around Prestwick and the Queen looking a bit chilly, Bernard gave | |
646 | me the next day's schedule and explained that I was booked on the night | |
647 | sleeper from King's Cross to Edinburgh because I had to vote in a | |
648 | three-line whip at the House tonight and would have to miss the last | |
649 | plane. Then the commentator, in that special hushed BBC voice used for any | |
650 | occasion with which Royalty is connected, announced reverentially that we | |
651 | were about to catch our first glimpse of President Selim. | |
652 | ||
653 | And out of the plane stepped Charlie. My old friend Charlie Umtali. We | |
654 | were at LSE together. Not Selim Mohammed at all, but Charlie. | |
655 | ||
656 | Bernard asked me if I were sure. Silly question. How could you forget a | |
657 | name like Charlie Umtali? | |
658 | ||
659 | I sent Bernard for Sir Humphrey, who was delighted to hear that we now | |
660 | know something about our official visitor. | |
661 | ||
662 | Bernard's official brief said nothing. Amazing! Amazing how little the FCO | |
663 | has been able to find out. Perhaps they were hoping it would all be on the | |
664 | car radio. All the brief says is that Colonel Selim Mohammed had converted | |
665 | to Islam some years ago, they didn't know his original name, and therefore | |
666 | knew little of his background. | |
667 | ||
668 | I was able to tell Humphrey and Bernard /all/ about his background. | |
669 | Charlie was a red-hot political economist, I informed them. Got the top | |
670 | first. Wiped the floor with everyone. | |
671 | ||
672 | Bernard seemed relieved. 'Well that's all right then.' | |
673 | ||
674 | 'Why?' I enquired. | |
675 | ||
676 | 'I think Bernard means,' said Sir Humphrey helpfully, 'that he'll know how | |
677 | to behave if he was at an English University. Even if it was the LSE.' I | |
678 | never know whether or not Humphrey is insulting me intentionally. | |
679 | ||
680 | Humphrey was concerned about Charlie's political colour. 'When you said | |
681 | that he was red-hot, were you speaking politically?' | |
682 | ||
683 | In a way I was. 'The thing about Charlie is that you never quite know | |
684 | where you are with him. He's the sort of chap who follows you into a | |
685 | revolving door and comes out in front.' | |
686 | ||
687 | 'No deeply held convictions?' asked Sir Humphrey. | |
688 | ||
689 | 'No. The only thing Charlie was committed too was Charlie.' | |
690 | ||
691 | 'Ah, I see. A politician, Minister.' | |
692 | ||
2831a86c ZA |
693 | =head2 v5.10.0 - Laurence Sterne, "Tristram Shandy" |
694 | ||
695 | L<Announced on 2007-12-18 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2007/12/msg131636.html> | |
696 | ||
697 | He would often declare, in speaking his thoughts upon the subject, that | |
698 | he did not conceive how the greatest family in England could stand it | |
699 | out against an uninterrupted succession of six or seven short | |
700 | noses.--And for the contrary reason, he would generally add, That it | |
701 | must be one of the greatest problems in civil life, where the same | |
702 | number of long and jolly noses, following one another in a direct line, | |
703 | did not raise and hoist it up into the best vacancies in the kingdom. | |
704 | ||
705 | =head2 v5.10.0-RC2 - no epigraph | |
706 | ||
707 | L<Announced on 2007-11-25 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2007/11/msg130978.html> | |
708 | ||
709 | =head2 v5.10.0-RC1 - no epigraph | |
710 | ||
711 | L<Announced on 2007-11-17 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2007/11/msg130653.html> | |
712 | ||
713 | =head2 v5.9.5 - no announcement | |
714 | ||
715 | L<Pre-announced on 2007-07-07 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2007/07/msg126358.html>, | |
716 | available on CPAN with same date, but never actually announced. | |
717 | ||
718 | =head2 v5.9.4 - no epigraph | |
719 | ||
720 | L<Announced on 2006-08-15 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2006/08/msg115782.html> | |
721 | ||
4363636d DG |
722 | =head2 v5.8.8 - Joe Raposo, "Bein' Green" |
723 | ||
2831a86c ZA |
724 | L<Announced on 2006-02-01 by Nicholas Clark|http://groups.google.com/group/perl.perl5.porters/msg/28caf52e41ebe723> |
725 | ||
51caa79e DG |
726 | It's not that easy bein' green |
727 | Having to spend each day the color of the leaves | |
4363636d | 728 | When I think it could be nicer being red or yellow or gold |
51caa79e DG |
729 | Or something much more colorful like that |
730 | ||
731 | It's not easy bein' green | |
4363636d | 732 | It seems you blend in with so many other ordinary things |
51caa79e DG |
733 | And people tend to pass you over 'cause you're |
734 | Not standing out like flashy sparkles in the water | |
735 | Or stars in the sky | |
736 | ||
737 | But green's the color of Spring | |
738 | And green can be cool and friendly-like | |
739 | And green can be big like an ocean | |
740 | Or important like a mountain | |
4363636d DG |
741 | Or tall like a tree |
742 | ||
743 | When green is all there is to be | |
744 | It could make you wonder why, but why wonder why? | |
745 | Wonder I am green and it'll do fine, it's beautiful | |
746 | And I think it's what I want to be | |
747 | ||
2831a86c ZA |
748 | =head2 v5.9.3 - no epigraph |
749 | ||
750 | L<Announced on 2006-01-28 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2006/01/msg109086.html> | |
751 | ||
4363636d DG |
752 | =head2 v5.8.8-RC1 - Cosgrove Hall Productions, "Dangermouse" |
753 | ||
2831a86c ZA |
754 | L<Announced on 2006-01-20 by Nicholas Clark|http://groups.google.com/group/perl.perl5.porters/msg/d231fc554af8cc51> |
755 | ||
756 | Greenback: And the world is mine, all mine. Muhahahahaha. See to it! | |
51caa79e | 757 | |
2831a86c | 758 | Stiletto: Si, Barone. Subito, Barone. |
4363636d | 759 | |
4363636d DG |
760 | =head2 v5.8.7 - Sergei Prokofiev, "Peter and the Wolf" |
761 | ||
2831a86c ZA |
762 | L<Announced on 2005-05-31 by Nicholas Clark|http://groups.google.com/group/perl.perl5.porters/msg/9a545704a0062f16> |
763 | ||
4363636d DG |
764 | And now, imagine the triumphant procession: Peter at the head; after him the |
765 | hunters leading the wolf; and winding up the procession, grandfather and the | |
766 | cat. | |
767 | ||
768 | Grandfather shook his head discontentedly: "Well, and if Peter hadn't caught | |
51caa79e | 769 | the wolf? What then?" |
4363636d | 770 | |
4363636d DG |
771 | =head2 v5.8.7-RC1 - Sergei Prokofiev, "Peter and the Wolf" |
772 | ||
2831a86c ZA |
773 | L<Announced on 2005-05-20 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2005/05/msg100711.html> |
774 | ||
4363636d DG |
775 | And now this is how things stood: The cat was sitting on one branch. The |
776 | bird on another, not too close to the cat. And the wolf walked round and | |
777 | round the tree, looking at them with greedy eyes. | |
778 | ||
779 | In the meantime, Peter, without the slightest fear, stood behind the | |
780 | gate, watching all that was going on. He ran home,got a strong rope and | |
781 | climbed up the high stone wall. | |
782 | ||
783 | One of the branches of the tree, around which the wolf was walking, | |
784 | stretched out over the wall. | |
785 | ||
786 | Grabbing hold of the branch, Peter lightly climbed over on to the tree. | |
787 | Peter said to the bird: "Fly down and circle round the wolf's head, only | |
788 | take care that he doesn't catch you!". | |
789 | ||
790 | The bird almost touched the wolf's head with its wings, while the wolf | |
791 | snapped angrily at him from this side and that. | |
792 | ||
793 | How that bird teased the wolf, how that wolf wanted to catch him! But | |
51caa79e | 794 | the bird was clever and the wolf simply couldn't do anything about it. |
4363636d | 795 | |
2831a86c ZA |
796 | =head2 v5.9.2 - Thomas Pynchon, "V" |
797 | ||
798 | L<Announced on 2005-04-01 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=20050401150702.2b4a70d5@grubert.mandrakesoft.com> | |
799 | ||
800 | This word flip was weird. Every recording date of McClintic's he'd | |
801 | gotten into the habit of talking electricity with the audio men and | |
802 | technicians of the studio. McClintic once couldn't have cared less | |
803 | about electricity, but now it seemed if that was helping him reach a | |
804 | bigger audience, some digging, some who would never dig, but all | |
805 | paying and those royalties keeping the Triumph in gas and McClintic | |
806 | in J. Press suits, then McClintic ought to be grateful to | |
807 | electricity, ought maybe to learn a little more about it. So he'd | |
808 | picked up some here and there, and one day last summer he got around | |
809 | to talking stochastic music and digital computers with one | |
810 | technician. Out of the conversation had come Set/Reset, which was | |
811 | getting to be a signature for the group. He had found out from this | |
812 | sound man about a two-triode circuit called a flip-flop, which when | |
813 | it turned on could be one of two ways, depending on which tube was | |
814 | conducting and which was cut off: set or reset, flip or flop. | |
815 | ||
816 | "And that," the man said, "can be yes or no, or one or zero. And | |
817 | that is what you might call one of the basic units, or specialized | |
818 | `cells' in a big `electronic brain.' " | |
819 | ||
820 | "Crazy," said McClintic, having lost him back there someplace. But | |
821 | one thing that did occur to him was if a computer's brain could go | |
822 | flip or flop, why so could a musician's. As long as you were flop, | |
823 | everything was cool. But where did the trigger-pulse come from to | |
824 | make you flip? | |
825 | ||
4363636d DG |
826 | =head2 v5.8.6 - A. A. Milne, "The House at Pooh Corner" |
827 | ||
2831a86c ZA |
828 | L<Announced on 2004-11-28 by Nicholas Clark|http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=20041128000836.GA304@Bagpuss.unfortu.net> |
829 | ||
4363636d | 830 | "Hallo, Pooh," said Piglet, giving a jump of surprise. "I knew it was |
51caa79e | 831 | you." |
4363636d | 832 | |
51caa79e | 833 | "So did I,", said Pooh. "What are you doing?" |
4363636d DG |
834 | |
835 | "I'm planting a haycorn, Pooh, so that it can grow up into an oak-tree, | |
836 | and have lots of haycorns just outside the front door instead of having | |
51caa79e | 837 | to walk miles and miles, do you see, Pooh?" |
4363636d | 838 | |
51caa79e | 839 | "Supposing it doesn't?" said Pooh. |
4363636d DG |
840 | |
841 | "It will, because Christopher Robin says it will, so that's why I'm | |
842 | planting it." | |
843 | ||
844 | "Well," aid Pooh, "if I plant a honeycomb outside my house, then it will | |
51caa79e | 845 | grow up into a beehive." |
4363636d | 846 | |
51caa79e | 847 | Piglet wasn't quite sure about this. |
4363636d DG |
848 | |
849 | "Or a /piece/ of a honeycomb," said Pooh, "so as not to waste too much. | |
850 | Only then I might only get a piece of a beehive, and it might be the | |
51caa79e | 851 | wrong piece, where the bees were buzzing and not hunnying. Bother" |
4363636d | 852 | |
51caa79e | 853 | Piglet agreed that that would be rather bothering. |
4363636d DG |
854 | |
855 | "Besides, Pooh, it's a very difficult thing, planting unless you know | |
856 | how to do it," he said; and he put the acorn in the hole he had made, | |
51caa79e | 857 | and covered it up with earth, and jumped on it. |
4363636d | 858 | |
4363636d DG |
859 | =head2 v5.8.6-RC1 - A. A. Milne, "Winnie the Pooh" |
860 | ||
2831a86c ZA |
861 | L<Announced on 2004-11-11 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/11/msg95786.html> |
862 | ||
4363636d DG |
863 | "Hallo!" said Piglet, "whare are /you/ doing?" |
864 | ||
865 | "Hunting," said Pooh. | |
866 | ||
867 | "Hunting what?" | |
868 | ||
869 | "Tracking something," said Winnie-the-Pooh very mysteriously. | |
870 | ||
871 | "Tracking what?" said Piglet, coming closer. | |
872 | ||
873 | "That's just what I ask myself, I ask myself, What?" | |
874 | ||
875 | "What do you think you'll answer?" | |
876 | ||
877 | "I shall have to wait until I catch up with it," said Winnie-the-Pooh. | |
878 | "Now, look there." He pointed to the ground in front of him. "What do | |
879 | you see there?" | |
880 | ||
881 | "Track," said Piglet. "Paw-marks." He gave a little squeak of | |
882 | excitement. "Oh, Pooh!" Do you think it's a--a--a Woozle?" | |
883 | ||
4363636d DG |
884 | =head2 v5.8.5 - wikipedia, "Yew" |
885 | ||
2831a86c ZA |
886 | L<Announced on 2004-07-19 by Nicholas Clark|http://groups.google.com/group/perl.perl5.porters/msg/68340e2e4c39222c> |
887 | ||
4363636d DG |
888 | Yews are relatively slow growing trees, widely used in landscaping and |
889 | ornamental horticulture. They have flat, dark-green needles, reddish | |
890 | bark, and bear seeds with red arils, which are eaten by thrushes, | |
891 | waxwings and other birds, dispersing the hard seeds undamaged in their | |
892 | droppings. Yew wood is reddish brown (with white sapwood), and very | |
893 | hard. It was traditionally used to make bows, especially the English | |
894 | longbow. | |
895 | ||
896 | In England, the Common Yew (Taxus baccata, also known as English Yew) is | |
897 | often found in churchyards. It is sometimes suggested that these are | |
898 | placed there as a symbol of long life or trees of death, and some are | |
899 | likely to be over 3,000 years old. It is also suggested that yew trees | |
900 | may have a pre-Christian association with old pagan holy sites, and the | |
901 | Christian church found it expedient to use and take over existing sites. | |
902 | Another explanation is that the poisonous berries and foliage discourage | |
903 | farmers and drovers from letting their animals wander into the burial | |
904 | grounds. The yew tree is a frequent symbol in the Christian poetry of | |
51caa79e | 905 | T.S. Eliot, especially his Four Quartets. |
4363636d | 906 | |
4363636d DG |
907 | =head2 v5.8.5-RC2 - wikipedia, "Beech" |
908 | ||
2831a86c ZA |
909 | L<Announced on 2004-07-09 by Nicholas Clark|http://groups.google.com/group/perl.perl5.porters/msg/f92175725af7a5ad> |
910 | ||
4363636d DG |
911 | Beeches are trees of the Genus Fagus, family Fagaceae, including about |
912 | ten species in Europe, Asia, and North America. The leaves are entire or | |
913 | sparsely toothed. The fruit is a small, sharply-angled nut, borne in | |
914 | pairs in spiny husks. The beech most commonly grown as an ornamental or | |
915 | shade tree is the European beech (Fagus sylvatica). | |
916 | ||
917 | The southern beeches belong to a different but related genus, | |
918 | Nothofagus. They are found in Australia, New Zealand, New Guinea, New | |
51caa79e | 919 | Caledonia and South America. |
4363636d | 920 | |
4363636d DG |
921 | =head2 v5.8.5-RC1 - wikipedia, "Pedunculate Oak" (abridged) |
922 | ||
38183302 | 923 | L<Announced on 2004-07-07 by Nicholas Clark|http://groups.google.com/group/perl.perl5.porters/msg/ca6ce4a7ed9f219c?pli=1> |
2831a86c | 924 | |
4363636d DG |
925 | The Pedunculate Oak is called the Common Oak in Britain, and is also |
926 | often called the English Oak in other English speaking countries It is a | |
927 | large deciduous tree to 25-35m tall (exceptionally to 40m), with lobed | |
928 | and sessile (stalk-less) leaves. Flowering takes place in early to mid | |
929 | spring, and their fruit, called "acorns", ripen by autumn of the same | |
930 | year. The acorns are pedunculate (having a peduncle or acorn-stalk) and | |
931 | may occur singly, or several acorns may occur on a stalk. | |
932 | ||
933 | It forms a long-lived tree, with a large widespreading head of rugged | |
934 | branches. While it may naturally live to an age of a few centuries, many | |
935 | of the oldest trees are pollarded or coppiced, both pruning techniques | |
936 | that extend the tree's potential lifespan, if not its health. | |
937 | ||
938 | Within its native range it is valued for its importance to insects and | |
939 | other wildlife. Numerous insects live on the leaves, buds, and in the | |
940 | acorns. The acorns form a valuable food resource for several small | |
941 | mammals and some birds, notably Jays Garrulus glandarius. | |
942 | ||
943 | It is planted for forestry, and produces a long-lasting and durable | |
51caa79e | 944 | heartwood, much in demand for interior and furniture work. |
4363636d | 945 | |
4363636d DG |
946 | =head2 v5.8.4 - T. S. Eliot, "The Old Gumbie Cat" |
947 | ||
2831a86c ZA |
948 | L<Announced on 2004-04-22 by Nicholas Clark|http://groups.google.com/group/perl.perl5.porters/msg/c7333acf03ef4015> |
949 | ||
4363636d DG |
950 | I have a Gumbie Cat in mind, her name is Jennyanydots; |
951 | The curtain-cord she likes to wind, and tie it into sailor-knots. | |
952 | She sits upon the window-sill, or anything that's smooth and flat: | |
953 | She sits and sits and sits and sits -- and that's what makes a Gumbie Cat! | |
954 | ||
955 | But when the day's hustle and bustle is done, | |
956 | Then the Gumbie Cat's work is but hardly begun. | |
957 | She thinks that the cockroaches just need employment | |
958 | To prevent them from idle and wanton destroyment. | |
959 | So she's formed, from that a lot of disorderly louts, | |
960 | A troop of well-disciplined helpful boy-scouts, | |
961 | With a purpose in life and a good deed to do-- | |
962 | And she's even created a Beetles' Tattoo. | |
963 | ||
4363636d DG |
964 | So for Old Gumbie Cats let us now give three cheers -- |
965 | On whom well-ordered households depend, it appears. | |
966 | ||
4363636d DG |
967 | |
968 | =head2 v5.8.4-RC2 - T. S. Eliot, "Macavity: The Mystery Cat" | |
969 | ||
2831a86c ZA |
970 | L<Announced on 2004-04-16 by Nicholas Clark|http://groups.google.com/group/perl.perl5.porters/msg/84f6fdd73cc56a1b> |
971 | ||
4363636d DG |
972 | Macavity's a Mystery Cat: he's called the Hidden Paw -- |
973 | For he's the master criminal who can defy the Law. | |
974 | He's the bafflement of Scotland Yard, the Flying Squad's despair: | |
975 | For when they reach the scene of crime -- /Macavity's not there/! | |
976 | ||
977 | Macavity, Macavity, there's no one like Macavity, | |
978 | He's broken every human law, he breaks the law of gravity. | |
979 | His powers of levitation would make a fakir stare, | |
980 | And when you reach the scene of crime -- /Macavity's not there/! | |
981 | You may seek him in the basement, you may look up in the air -- | |
982 | But I tell you once and once again, /Macavity's not there/! | |
983 | ||
4363636d DG |
984 | =head2 v5.8.4-RC1 - T. S. Eliot, "Skimbleshanks: The Railway Cat" |
985 | ||
2831a86c ZA |
986 | L<Announced on 2004-04-05 by Nicholas Clark|http://groups.google.com/group/perl.perl5.porters/msg/e500353440769ebf> |
987 | ||
4363636d DG |
988 | There's a whisper down the line at 11.39 |
989 | When the Night Mail's ready to depart, | |
990 | Saying 'Skimble where is Skimble has he gone to hunt the thimble? | |
991 | We must find him of the train can't start.' | |
992 | All the guards and all the porters and the stationmaster's daughters | |
993 | They are searching high and low, | |
994 | Saying 'Skimble where is Skimble for unless he's very nimble | |
995 | Then the Night Mail just can't go' | |
996 | At 11.42 then the signal's overdue | |
997 | And the passengers are frantic to a man-- | |
998 | Then Skimble will appear and he'll saunter to the rear: | |
999 | He's been busy in the luggage van! | |
1000 | He gives one flash of his glass-green eyes | |
1001 | And the the signal goes 'All Clear!' | |
1002 | And we're off at last of the northern part | |
1003 | Of the Northern Hemisphere! | |
1004 | ||
2831a86c ZA |
1005 | =head2 v5.9.1 - Tom Stoppard, "Arcadia" |
1006 | ||
1007 | L<Announced on 2004-03-16 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://groups.google.com/group/perl.perl5.porters/msg/8587d77c565f2d43> | |
1008 | ||
1009 | Aren't you supposed to have a pony? | |
1010 | ||
1011 | =head2 5.005_04 - no epigraph | |
1012 | ||
1013 | L<Announced on 2004-03-01 by LE<0xe9>on Brocard|http://groups.google.com/group/perl.perl5.porters/msg/6c240ad0b189cb47> | |
1014 | ||
1015 | =head2 5.005_04-RC2 - Rudyard Kipling, "The Jungle Book" | |
1016 | ||
1017 | L<Announced on 2004-02-19 by LE<0xe9>on Brocard|http://groups.google.com/group/perl.perl5.porters/msg/83e5421124a7b49d> | |
1018 | ||
1019 | The monkeys called the place their city, and pretended to despise | |
1020 | the Jungle-People because they lived in the forest. And yet they | |
1021 | never knew what the buildings were made for nor how to use | |
1022 | them. They would sit in circles on the hall of the king's council | |
1023 | chamber, and scratch for fleas and pretend to be men; or they would | |
1024 | run in and out of the roofless houses and collect pieces of plaster | |
1025 | and old bricks in a corner, and forget where they had hidden them, | |
1026 | and fight and cry in scuffling crowds, and then break off to play up | |
1027 | and down the terraces of the king's garden, where they would shake | |
1028 | the rose trees and the oranges in sport to see the fruit and flowers | |
1029 | fall. | |
1030 | ||
1031 | =head2 5.005_04-RC1 - Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" | |
1032 | ||
1033 | L<Announced on 2004-02-05 by LE<0xe9>on Brocard|http://groups.google.com/group/perl.perl5.porters/msg/6aaeb6ec699bd116> | |
1034 | ||
1035 | Either the well was very deep, or she fell very slowly, for she had | |
1036 | plenty of time as she went down to look about her and to wonder what was | |
1037 | going to happen next. First, she tried to look down and make out what | |
1038 | she was coming to, but it was too dark to see anything; then she looked | |
1039 | at the sides of the well, and noticed that they were filled with | |
1040 | cupboards and book-shelves; here and there she saw maps and pictures | |
1041 | hung upon pegs. She took down a jar from one of the shelves as she | |
1042 | passed; it was labelled 'ORANGE MARMALADE', but to her great | |
1043 | disappointment it was empty: she did not like to drop the jar for fear | |
1044 | of killing somebody, so managed to put it into one of the cupboards as | |
1045 | she fell past it. | |
1046 | ||
4363636d DG |
1047 | =head2 v5.8.3 - Arthur William Edgar O'Shaugnessy, "Ode" |
1048 | ||
2831a86c ZA |
1049 | L<Announced on 2004-01-14 by Nicholas Clark|http://groups.google.com/group/perl.perl5.porters/msg/968fb8d71e23af69> |
1050 | ||
51caa79e DG |
1051 | We are the music makers, |
1052 | And we are the dreamers of dreams, | |
1053 | Wandering by lonely sea-breakers, | |
1054 | And sitting by desolate streams; -- | |
1055 | World-losers and world-forsakers, | |
1056 | On whom the pale moon gleams: | |
1057 | Yet we are the movers and shakers | |
1058 | Of the world for ever, it seems. | |
4363636d | 1059 | |
4363636d DG |
1060 | =head2 v5.8.3-RC1 - Irving Berlin, "Let's Face the Music and Dance" |
1061 | ||
2831a86c ZA |
1062 | L<Announced on 2004-01-07 by Nicholas Clark|http://groups.google.com/group/perl.perl5.porters/msg/5ced50bebcd11c96> |
1063 | ||
4363636d DG |
1064 | There may be trouble ahead, |
1065 | But while there's music and moonlight, | |
1066 | And love and romance, | |
1067 | Let's face the music and dance. | |
1068 | ||
1069 | Before the fiddlers have fled, | |
1070 | Before they ask us to pay the bill, | |
1071 | And while we still have that chance, | |
1072 | Let's face the music and dance. | |
1073 | ||
1074 | Soon, we'll be without the moon, | |
1075 | Humming a different tune, and then, | |
1076 | ||
1077 | There may be teardrops to shed, | |
1078 | So while there's music and moonlight, | |
1079 | And love and romance, | |
1080 | Let's face the music and dance. | |
1081 | ||
2831a86c ZA |
1082 | =head2 v1.0_16 - Johan Vromans, extemporarily |
1083 | ||
1084 | L<Announced on 2003-12-18 by Richard Clamp|http://groups.google.com/group/perl.perl5.porters/msg/9281dc6194d15940> | |
1085 | ||
1086 | =head2 v5.6.2 - Sterne, "Tristram Shandy" | |
1087 | ||
1088 | L<Announced on 2003-11-15 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://groups.google.com/group/perl.perl5.porters/msg/deb8cb9ad918716f> | |
1089 | ||
1090 | When great or unexpected events fall out upon the stage of this | |
1091 | sublunary word--the mind of man, which is an inquisitive kind of | |
1092 | a substance, naturally takes a flight, behind the scenes, to see | |
1093 | what is the cause and first spring of them--The search was not | |
1094 | long in this instance. | |
1095 | ||
1096 | =head2 v5.6.2-RC1 - Sterne, "Tristram Shandy" | |
1097 | ||
1098 | L<Announced on 2003-11-15 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://groups.google.com/group/perl.perl5.porters/msg/e3d4acc7a8dd3ce5> | |
1099 | ||
1100 | "Pray, my dear", quoth my mother, "have you not forgot to wind up the clock?" | |
1101 | ||
4363636d DG |
1102 | =head2 v5.8.2 - Walt Whitman, "Passage to India" |
1103 | ||
2831a86c ZA |
1104 | L<Announced on 2003-11-06 by Nicholas Clark|http://groups.google.com/group/perl.perl5.porters/msg/4714574f93967673> |
1105 | ||
4363636d DG |
1106 | Passage, immediate passage! the blood burns in my veins! |
1107 | Away O soul! hoist instantly the anchor! | |
1108 | Cut the hawsers - hall out - shake out every sail! | |
1109 | Have we not stood here like trees in the ground long enough? | |
1110 | Have we not grovel'd here long enough, eating and drinking like mere brutes? | |
1111 | Have we not darken'd and dazed ourselves with books long enough? | |
1112 | ||
4363636d DG |
1113 | Sail forth - steer for the deep waters only, |
1114 | Reckless O soul, exploring, I with the and thou with me, | |
1115 | For we are bound where mariner has not yet dared to go, | |
1116 | And we will risk the ship, ourselves and all. | |
1117 | ||
1118 | O my brave soul! | |
1119 | O farther farther sail! | |
1120 | O daring job, but safe! are they not all the seas of God? | |
1121 | O farther, farther, farther sail! | |
1122 | ||
4363636d DG |
1123 | =head2 v5.8.2-RC2 - Eric Idle/John Du Prez, "Accountancy Shanty" |
1124 | ||
2831a86c ZA |
1125 | L<Announced on 2003-11-03 by Nicholas Clark|http://groups.google.com/group/perl.perl5.porters/msg/7669de5804b792f6> |
1126 | ||
4363636d DG |
1127 | It's fun to charter an accountant |
1128 | And sail the wide accountan-cy, | |
1129 | To find, explore the funds offshore | |
1130 | And skirt the shoals of bankruptcy. | |
1131 | ||
4363636d DG |
1132 | =head2 v5.8.2-RC1 - Edward Lear, "The Jumblies" |
1133 | ||
2831a86c ZA |
1134 | L<Announced on 2003-10-28 by Nicholas Clark|http://groups.google.com/group/perl.perl5.porters/msg/83680ef3bbf7378d> |
1135 | ||
4363636d DG |
1136 | They went to sea in a Sieve, they did, |
1137 | In a Sieve they went to sea: | |
1138 | In spite of all their friends could say, | |
1139 | On a winter's morn, on a stormy day, | |
1140 | In a Sieve they went to sea! | |
1141 | And when the Sieve turned round and round, | |
1142 | And everyone cried, "You'll all be drowned!" | |
1143 | They cried aloud, "Our Sieve ain't big, | |
1144 | But we don't care a button, we don't care a fig! | |
1145 | In a Sieve we'll go to sea!" | |
1146 | ||
1147 | Far and few, far and few, | |
1148 | Are the lands where the Jumblies live; | |
1149 | Their heads are green, and their hands are blue, | |
1150 | And they went to sea in a Sieve. | |
1151 | ||
2831a86c ZA |
1152 | =head2 v5.9.0 - Doris Lessing, "Martha Quest" |
1153 | ||
1154 | L<Announced on 2003-10-27 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://groups.google.com/group/perl.perl5.porters/msg/63a8c34385de82a1> | |
1155 | ||
1156 | What of October, that ambiguous month | |
1157 | ||
1158 | =head2 v5.8.1 - epigraph same as v5.7.1 | |
1159 | ||
1160 | L<Announced on 2003-09-25 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/09/msg82678.html> | |
1161 | ||
1162 | =head2 v5.8.1-RC5 - Terry Pratchett, "Lords and Ladies" | |
1163 | ||
1164 | L<Announced on 2003-09-22 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/09/msg82476.html> | |
1165 | ||
1166 | No matter what she did with her hair it took about | |
1167 | three minutes for it to tangle itself up again, | |
1168 | like a garden hosepipe in a shed [Footnote: Which, | |
1169 | no matter how carefully coiled, will always uncoil | |
1170 | overnight and tie the lawnmower to the bicycles]. | |
1171 | ||
1172 | =head2 v5.8.1-RC4 - Terry Pratchett, "Interesting Times" | |
1173 | ||
1174 | L<Announced on 2003-08-01 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/08/msg79184.html> | |
1175 | ||
1176 | Grand Viziers were /always/ scheming megalomaniacs. | |
1177 | It was probably in the job description: "Are you a | |
1178 | devious, plotting, unreliable madman? Ah, good, | |
1179 | then you can be my most trusted minister." | |
1180 | ||
1181 | =head2 v5.8.1-RC3 - Terry Pratchett, "Interesting Times" | |
1182 | ||
1183 | L<Announced on 2003-07-30 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/07/msg79048.html> | |
1184 | ||
1185 | Lord Hong had a mind like a knife, although possibly | |
1186 | a knife with a curved blade. | |
1187 | ||
1188 | =head2 v5.8.1-RC2 - Terry Pratchett, "Interesting Times" | |
1189 | ||
1190 | L<Announced on 2003-07-11 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/07/msg78102.html> | |
1191 | ||
1192 | Many an ancient lord's last words had been, "You can't kill | |
1193 | me because I've got magic aaargh." | |
1194 | ||
1195 | =head2 v5.8.1-RC1 - Terry Pratchett, "Interesting Times" | |
1196 | ||
1197 | L<Announced on 2003-07-10 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/07/msg78009.html> | |
1198 | ||
1199 | Cohen was familiar with city gates. He'd broken down a number | |
1200 | in his time, by battering ram, siege gun, and on one occasion | |
1201 | with his head. | |
1202 | ||
1203 | But the gates of Hunghung were pretty damn good gates. They | |
1204 | weren't like the gates of Ankh-Morpork, which were usually wide | |
1205 | open to attract the spending customer and whose concession to | |
1206 | defense was the sign "Thank You For Not Attacking Our City. | |
1207 | Bonum Diem." These things were big and made of metal and there | |
1208 | was a guardhouse and a squad of unhelpful men in black armor. | |
1209 | ||
1210 | =head2 v5.6.2 - Sterne, "Tristram Shandy" | |
1211 | ||
1212 | L<Announced on 2003-11-15 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://groups.google.com/group/perl.perl5.porters/msg/deb8cb9ad918716f> | |
1213 | ||
1214 | When great or unexpected events fall out upon the stage of this | |
1215 | sublunary word--the mind of man, which is an inquisitive kind of | |
1216 | a substance, naturally takes a flight, behind the scenes, to see | |
1217 | what is the cause and first spring of them--The search was not | |
1218 | long in this instance. | |
1219 | ||
1220 | =head2 v5.6.2-RC1 - Sterne, "Tristram Shandy" | |
1221 | ||
1222 | L<Announced on 2003-11-08 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://groups.google.com/group/perl.perl5.porters/msg/e3d4acc7a8dd3ce5> | |
1223 | ||
1224 | "Pray, my dear", quoth my mother, "have you not forgot to wind up the clock?" | |
1225 | ||
1226 | =head2 v5.8.0 - Terry Pratchett, "Reaper Man" | |
1227 | ||
1228 | L<Announced on 2002-07-18 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2002/07/msg63720.html> | |
1229 | ||
1230 | There was the faint sound of footsteps. | |
1231 | "Chap with a whip got as far as the big sharp spikes last week," | |
1232 | said the low priest. | |
1233 | There was a sound like the flushing of a very old dry lavatory. | |
1234 | The footsteps stopped. The High Priest smiled to himself. | |
1235 | "Right," he said. "See your two pebbles and raise you two pebbles." | |
1236 | The low priest threw down his cards. "Double Onion," he said. | |
1237 | The High Priest looked down suspiciously. | |
1238 | The low priest consulted a scrap of paper. "That's three hundred | |
1239 | thousand, nine hundred and sixty-four pebbles you owe me," he said. | |
1240 | There was the sound of footsteps. The priests exchanged glances. | |
1241 | "Haven't had one for poisoned-dart alley for quite some time," | |
1242 | said the High Priest. | |
1243 | "Five says he makes it", said the low priest. "You're on." | |
1244 | There was a faint clatter of metal points on stone. | |
1245 | "It's a shame to take your pebbles." | |
1246 | There were footsteps again. | |
1247 | ||
1248 | =head2 v5.8.0-RC3 - no epigraph | |
1249 | ||
1250 | L<Announced on 2002-07-13 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2002/07/msg63234.html> | |
1251 | ||
1252 | =head2 v5.8.0-RC2 - no epigraph | |
1253 | ||
1254 | L<Announced on 2002-06-21 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2002/06/msg62013.html> | |
1255 | ||
1256 | =head2 v5.8.0-RC1 - no epigraph | |
1257 | ||
1258 | L<Announced on 2002-06-01 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2002/06/msg60317.html> | |
1259 | ||
1260 | =head2 v5.7.3 - Terry Pratchett, "Reaper Man" | |
1261 | ||
1262 | L<Announced on 2002-03-04 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2002/03/msg53652.html> | |
1263 | ||
1264 | Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. | |
1265 | No matter how fast light travels it finds the darkness has always | |
1266 | got there first, and is waiting for it. | |
1267 | ||
1268 | =head2 v5.7.2 - Terry Pratchett, "Small Gods" | |
1269 | ||
1270 | L<Announced on 2001-07-13 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2001/07/msg40370.html> | |
1271 | ||
1272 | His philosophy was a mixture of three famous schools -- | |
1273 | the Cynics, the Stoics and the Epicureans -- and summed up | |
1274 | all three of them in his famous phrase, "You can't trust any | |
1275 | bugger further than you can throw him, and there's nothing | |
1276 | you can do about it, so let's have a drink." | |
1277 | ||
1278 | =head2 v5.7.1 - Terry Pratchett, "The Colour of Magic" | |
1279 | ||
1280 | L<Announced on 2001-07-13 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2001/04/msg33851.html> | |
4363636d | 1281 | |
4363636d DG |
1282 | "What happens next?" asked Twoflower. |
1283 | ||
1284 | Hrun screwed a finger in his ear and inspected it absently. | |
1285 | ||
1286 | "Oh,", he said, "I expect in a minute the door will be | |
1287 | flung back and I'll be dragged off to some sort of temple | |
1288 | arena where I'll fight maybe a couple of giant spiders | |
1289 | and an eight-foot slave from the jungles of Klatch and then | |
1290 | I'll rescue some kind of a princess from the altar and then | |
1291 | I'll kill off a few guards or whatever and then this girl | |
1292 | will show me the secret passage out of the place and we'll | |
1293 | liberate a couple of horses and escape with the treasure." | |
1294 | Hrun leaned his head back on his hands and looked at the | |
1295 | ceiling, whistling tunelessly. | |
1296 | ||
1297 | "All that?" said Twoflower. | |
1298 | ||
1299 | "Usually." | |
1300 | ||
2831a86c | 1301 | =head2 v5.6.1 - J R R Tolkien, "The Hobbit", Riddles in the Dark |
4363636d | 1302 | |
2831a86c | 1303 | L<Announced on 2001-04-08 by Gurusamy Sarathy|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2001/04/msg33823.html> |
4363636d | 1304 | |
2831a86c ZA |
1305 | `What have I got in my pocket?' he said aloud. He was talking to |
1306 | himself, but Gollum thought it was a riddle, and he was frightfully | |
1307 | upset. | |
4363636d | 1308 | |
2831a86c ZA |
1309 | `Not fair! not fair!' he hissed. `It isn't fair, my precious, is it, |
1310 | to ask us what it's got in its nassty little pocketses?' | |
4363636d | 1311 | |
2831a86c ZA |
1312 | Bilbo seeing what had happened and having nothing better to ask |
1313 | stuck to his question, `What have I got in my pocket?' he said | |
1314 | louder. | |
4363636d | 1315 | |
2831a86c ZA |
1316 | `S-s-s-s-s,' hissed Gollum. `It must give us three guesseses, |
1317 | my precious, three guesseses.' | |
4363636d | 1318 | |
2831a86c | 1319 | =head2 v5.6.1-foolish - no epigraph |
4363636d | 1320 | |
2831a86c | 1321 | L<Announced on 2001-08-04 by Gurusamy Sarathy|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2001/04/msg33421.html> |
3e340399 | 1322 | |
2831a86c | 1323 | =head2 v5.6.1-TRIAL3 - I can't find the announcement |
4363636d | 1324 | |
2831a86c | 1325 | =head2 v5.6.1-TRIAL2 - no epigraph |
4363636d | 1326 | |
2831a86c | 1327 | L<Announced on 2001-01-31 by Gurusamy Sarathy|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2001/01/msg29934.html> |
4363636d | 1328 | |
2831a86c | 1329 | =head2 v5.6.1-TRIAL1 - no epigraph |
4363636d | 1330 | |
2831a86c | 1331 | L<Announced on 2000-12-18 by Gurusamy Sarathy|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2000/12/msg27738.html> |
4363636d | 1332 | |
2831a86c ZA |
1333 | =head2 v5.7.0 - Terry Pratchett, "Moving Pictures" |
1334 | ||
1335 | L<Announced on 2000-09-02 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2000/09/msg17730.html> | |
1336 | ||
1337 | The Librarian had seen many weird things in his time, | |
1338 | but that had to be the 57th strangest. | |
1339 | [footnote: he had a tidy mind] | |
1340 | ||
1341 | =head2 v5.6.0 - J R R Tolkien, "The Hobbit", The Last Stage | |
1342 | ||
1343 | L<Announced on 2000-03-23 by Gurusamy Sarathy|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2000/03/msg10341.html> | |
1344 | ||
1345 | The dragon is withered, | |
1346 | His bones are now crumbled; | |
1347 | His armour is shivered, | |
1348 | His splendour is humbled! | |
1349 | Though sword shall be rusted, | |
1350 | And throne and crown perish | |
1351 | With strength that men trusted | |
1352 | And wealth that they cherish, | |
1353 | Here grass is still growing, | |
1354 | And leaves are a yet swinging, | |
1355 | The white water flowing, | |
1356 | And elves are yet singing | |
1357 | Come! Tra-la-la-lally! | |
1358 | Come back to the valley. | |
1359 | ||
1360 | ||
1361 | =head2 v5.6.0-RC3 - no epigraph | |
1362 | ||
1363 | L<Announced on 2000-03-22 by Gurusamy Sarathy|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2000/03/msg10140.html> | |
4363636d | 1364 | |
4363636d DG |
1365 | =head1 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS |
1366 | ||
0e6b8110 | 1367 | This document was originally compiled based on a list of epigraphs |
4363636d DG |
1368 | on L<Perl Monks|http://perlmonks.org> titled |
1369 | L<Recent Perl Release Announcement|http://perlmonks.org/?node_id=372406> | |
1370 | by ysth. | |
1371 | ||
1372 | =cut | |
3e340399 | 1373 | |
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