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3 | =head1 NAME |
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0e6b8110 | 5 | perlepigraphs - list of Perl release epigraphs |
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6 | |
7 | =head1 DESCRIPTION | |
8 | ||
0e6b8110 | 9 | Many Perl release announcements included an I<epigraph>, a short excerpt |
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10 | from a literary or other creative work, chosen by the pumpking or release |
11 | manager. This file assembles the known list of epigraph for posterity, | |
12 | and also links to the release announcements in mailing list archives. | |
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14 | I<Note>: these have also been referred to as <epigrams>, but the |
15 | definition of I<epigraph> is closer to the way they have been used. | |
16 | Consult your favorite dictionary for details. | |
17 | ||
18 | =head1 EPIGRAPHS | |
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20 | =head2 v5.15.1 - Greg Egan, "Permutation City" |
21 | ||
2ccefb8a | 22 | L<Announced on 2011-07-20 by Zefram|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/07/msg175014.html> |
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23 | |
24 | Carter held out a hand towards the middle of the room. `See that | |
25 | fountain?' A ten-metre-wide marble wedding cake, topped with a | |
26 | winged cherub wrestling a serpent, duly appeared. Water cascaded | |
27 | down from a gushing wound in the cherub's neck. Carter said, `It's | |
28 | being computed by redundancies in the sketch of the city. I can | |
29 | extract the results, because I know exactly where to look for them -- | |
30 | but nobody else would have a hope in hell of picking them out.' | |
31 | ||
32 | Peer walked up to the fountain. Even as he approached, he noticed | |
33 | that the spray was intangible; when he dipped his hand in the water | |
34 | around the base he felt nothing, and the motion he made with his | |
35 | fingers left the foaming surface unchanged. They were spying on | |
36 | the calculations, not interacting with them; the fountain was a | |
37 | closed system. | |
38 | ||
39 | Carter said, `In your case, of course, nobody will need to know | |
40 | the results. Except you -- and you'll know them because you'll | |
41 | /be/ them.' | |
42 | ||
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43 | =head2 v5.15.0 - Neil Gaiman, "The Graveyard Book" |
44 | ||
45 | L<Announced on 2011-06-20 by David Golden|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/06/msg173748.html> | |
46 | ||
47 | If you dare nothing, then when the day is over, nothing is all | |
48 | you will have gained. | |
49 | ||
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50 | =head2 v5.12.4 - William Schwenck Gilbert, "Trial By Jury" |
51 | ||
52 | L<Announced on 2011-06-20 by Leon Brocard|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/06/msg173725.html> | |
53 | ||
54 | You cannot eat breakfast all day, | |
55 | Nor is it the act of a sinner, | |
56 | When breakfast is taken away, | |
57 | To turn his attention to dinner; | |
58 | And it's not in the range of belief, | |
59 | To look upon him as a glutton, | |
60 | Who, when he is tired of beef, | |
61 | Determines to tackle the mutton. | |
62 | Ah! But this I am willing to say, | |
63 | If it will appease her sorrow, | |
64 | I'll marry this lady today, | |
65 | And I'll marry the other tomorrow! | |
66 | ||
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67 | =head2 v5.14.1 - L<< Larry Wall, January 12, 1988 <992@devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV> | http://groups.google.com/group/comp.sources.d/msg/5d17fa68c250b9b2 >> |
68 | ||
69 | L<Announced on 2011-06-16 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/06/msg173650.html> | |
70 | ||
71 | At this point I'm no longer working for a company that makes me sign | |
72 | my life away, but by now I'm in the habit. Besides, I still harbor | |
73 | the deep-down suspicion that nobody would pay money for what I write, | |
74 | since most of it just helps you do something better that you could | |
75 | already do some other way. How much money would you personally pay | |
76 | to upgrade from readnews to rn? How much money would you pay for | |
77 | the patch program? As for warp, it's a mere game. And anything you | |
78 | can do with perl you can eventually do with an amazing and totally | |
79 | unreadable conglomeration of awk, sed, sh and C. | |
80 | ||
81 | =head2 v5.12.4-RC2 - James Russell Lowell, "Eleanor makes macaroons" | |
82 | ||
83 | L<Announced on 2011-06-15 by Leon Brocard|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/06/msg173609.html> | |
84 | ||
85 | Now for sugar, -- nay, our plan | |
86 | Tolerates no work of man. | |
87 | Hurry, then, ye golden bees; | |
88 | Fetch your clearest honey, please, | |
89 | Garnered on a Yorkshire moor, | |
90 | While the last larks sing and soar, | |
91 | From the heather-blossoms sweet | |
92 | Where sea-breeze and sunshine meet, | |
93 | And the Augusts mask as Junes, -- | |
94 | Eleanor makes macaroons! | |
95 | ||
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96 | =head2 v5.12.4-RC1 - Ogden Nash, "The Clean Plater" |
97 | ||
98 | L<Announced on 2011-06-08 by Leon Brocard|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/06/msg173352.html> | |
99 | ||
100 | Pheasant is pleasant, of course, | |
101 | And terrapin, too, is tasty, | |
102 | Lobster I freely endorse, | |
103 | In pate or patty or pasty. | |
104 | But there's nothing the matter with butter, | |
105 | And nothing the matter with jam, | |
106 | And the warmest greetings I utter | |
107 | To the ham and the yam and the clam. | |
108 | For they're food, | |
109 | All food, | |
110 | And I think very fondly of food. | |
111 | Through I'm broody at times | |
112 | When bothered by rhymes, | |
113 | I brood | |
114 | On food. | |
115 | ||
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116 | =head2 v5.14.0 - L<< Larry Wall, January 12, 1988 <992@devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV> | http://groups.google.com/group/comp.sources.d/msg/5d17fa68c250b9b2 >> |
117 | ||
118 | L<Announced on 2011-05-14 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/05/msg172326.html> | |
119 | ||
120 | At the start of any project, I'm programming primarily to please | |
121 | myself. (The two chief virtues in a programmer are laziness and | |
122 | impatience.) After a while somebody looks over my shoulder and says, | |
123 | "That's neat. It'd be neater if it did such-and-so." So the thing | |
124 | gets neater. Pretty soon (a year or two) I have an rn, a warp, a patch, | |
125 | or a perl. One of these years I'll have a metaconfig. | |
126 | ||
127 | I then say to myself, "I don't want my life's work to die when this | |
128 | computer is scrapped, so I should let some other people use this. If I | |
129 | ask my company to sell this, it'll never see the light of day, and nobody | |
130 | would pay much for it anyway. If I sell it myself, I'll be in trouble with | |
131 | my company, to whom I signed my life away when I was hired. If I give it | |
132 | away, I can pretend it was worthless in the first place, so my company | |
133 | won't care. In any event, it's easier to ask forgiveness than permission." | |
134 | ||
135 | So a freely distributable program is born. | |
136 | ||
137 | =head2 v5.14.0-RC3 - American Airlines Gate Agent, last call | |
138 | ||
139 | L<Announced on 2011-05-11 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/05/msg172282.html> | |
140 | ||
141 | This is the last call for flight 1697 with service to Chicago and | |
142 | continuing service to San Francisco. All passengers should already be | |
143 | aboard. If you aren't aboard at this time, you will be denied boarding | |
144 | and your bags will be offloaded. | |
145 | ||
146 | =head2 v5.14.0-RC2 - Greg Grandin, Fordlandia, "the Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City" | |
147 | ||
148 | L<Announced on 2011-05-04 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/05/msg171879.html> | |
149 | ||
150 | Over the course of nearly two decades, Ford would spend tens of millions | |
151 | of dollars founding not one but, after the plantation was defastated | |
152 | by leaf blight, two American towns, complete with central squares, | |
153 | sidewalks, indoor plumbing, hospitals, manicured lawns, movie theaters, | |
154 | swimming pools, golf courses, and, of course, Model Ts and As rolling | |
155 | down their paved streets. | |
156 | ||
157 | Back in America, newspapers kept up their drumbeat celebration, only | |
158 | obliquely referencing reports that things were not progressing as the | |
159 | company had hoped. But there was one note of skepticism. In late 1928, | |
160 | the Washington Post ran an editorial that read in its entirety: "Ford will | |
161 | govern a rubber plantation in Brazil larger than North Carolina. This is | |
162 | the first time he has applied quantity production methods to trouble" | |
163 | ||
164 | =head2 v5.14.0-RC1 - Bill Bryson, "In a Sunburned Country" | |
165 | ||
166 | L<Announced on 2011-04-20 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/04/msg171253.html> | |
167 | ||
168 | But then Australia is such a difficult country to keep track of. On | |
169 | my first visit, some years ago, I passed the time on the long flight | |
170 | reading a history of Australian politics in the twentieth century, | |
171 | wherein I encountered the startling fact that in 1967 the prime minister, | |
172 | Harold Holt, was strolling along a beach in Victoria when he plunged into | |
173 | the surf and vanished. No trace of the poor man was ever seen again. | |
174 | This seemed doubly astounding to meE<0x2014>first that Australia could | |
175 | just I<lose> a prime minister (I mean, come on) and second that news of | |
176 | this had never reached me. | |
177 | ||
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178 | =head2 v5.13.11 - Walt Whitman, L<Leaves of Grass|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leaves_of_Grass> |
179 | ||
180 | L<Announced on 2011-02-20 by Florian Ragwitz|http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2011-03/msg00560.html> | |
181 | ||
182 | When the full-grown poet came, | |
183 | Out spake pleased Nature (the round impassive globe, with all its | |
184 | shows of day and night,) saying, He is mine; | |
185 | But out spake too the Soul of man, proud, jealous and unreconciled, | |
186 | Nay he is mine alone; | |
187 | --Then the full-grown poet stood between the two, and took each | |
188 | by the hand; | |
189 | And to-day and ever so stands, as blender, uniter, tightly holding hands, | |
190 | Which he will never release until he reconciles the two, | |
191 | And wholly and joyously blends them. | |
192 | ||
c7bed260 | 193 | =head2 v5.13.10 - Egill Skalla-Grímsson, L<Egils saga Skalla-Grímssonar|http://www.heimskringla.no/wiki/Egils_saga_Skalla-Gr%C3%ADmssonar> |
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197 | Skalat maðr rúnar rísta, |
198 | nema ráða vel kunni. | |
199 | Þat verðr mörgum manni, | |
200 | es of myrkvan staf villisk. | |
201 | Sák á telgðu talkni | |
202 | tíu launstafi ristna. | |
203 | Þat hefr lauka lindi | |
f1e17f6f | 204 | langs ofrtrega fengit. |
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206 | =head2 v5.13.9 - John F Kennedy, L<Inaugural Address January 20, 1961|http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/John_F._Kennedy%27s_Inaugural_Address> |
207 | ||
208 | L<Announced on 2011-01-20 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/01/msg168335.html> | |
209 | ||
210 | In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been | |
211 | granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I | |
212 | do not shrink from this responsibility -- I welcome it. I do not believe | |
213 | that any of us would exchange places with any other people or any other | |
214 | generation. The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this | |
215 | endeavor will light our country and all who serve it. And the glow from | |
216 | that fire can truly light the world. | |
217 | ||
218 | And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you; | |
219 | ask what you can do for your country. | |
220 | ||
221 | My fellow citizens of the world, ask not what America will do for you, | |
222 | but what together we can do for the freedom of man. | |
223 | ||
224 | Finally, whether you are citizens of America or citizens of the world, | |
225 | ask of us here the same high standards of strength and sacrifice which | |
226 | we ask of you. With a good conscience our only sure reward, with history | |
227 | the final judge of our deeds, let us go forth to lead the land we love, | |
228 | asking His blessing and His help, but knowing that here on earth God's | |
229 | work must truly be our own. | |
230 | ||
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231 | =head2 v5.13.8 - Roger Williams, L<"The Fifth Gift"|http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2005/8/19/21304/8493> |
232 | ||
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233 | L<Announced on 2010-12-19 by Zefram|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/12/msg167271.html> |
234 | ||
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235 | The aliens called the box a "matter generator," but we'd be more inclined |
236 | to call it a matter duplicator. By connecting switches and potentiometers | |
237 | between the copper posts it was possible to make the box mark off two | |
238 | cubic rectangular areas of volume. Make a certain contact, and these | |
239 | areas would be isolated within perfectly reflective fields. They could | |
240 | be expanded or contracted by altering resistances between other posts. | |
241 | As I worked out the user interface I built a little control panel for | |
242 | the device. It was actually a clever way for the aliens to do things; | |
243 | instead of trying to build controls we could use, they built us an | |
244 | interface we could attach to controls that made sense to us. It could | |
245 | also be automated. | |
246 | ||
247 | Once you had made the contact that established the shielded volumes, | |
248 | if you made another certain contact the contents of the first volume | |
249 | were copied to the second. The machine copied metal, plastic, steel, | |
250 | and diamond with equal ease. Copies of copies of copies of copies were | |
251 | indistinguishable from the originals at any magnification, even using | |
252 | techniques like X-ray crystallography. | |
253 | ||
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254 | =head2 v5.13.7 - Andy Wachowski and Lana Wachowski, 'The Matrix' |
255 | ||
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256 | L<Announced on 2010-11-20 by Chris 'BinGOs' Williams|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/11/msg166162.html> |
257 | ||
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258 | [Neo sees a black cat walk by them, and then a similar black cat walk by them just like the first one] |
259 | ||
260 | Neo: Whoa. Deja vu. | |
261 | ||
262 | [Everyone freezes right in their tracks] | |
263 | ||
264 | Trinity: What did you just say? | |
265 | Neo: Nothing. Just had a little deja vu. | |
266 | Trinity: What did you see? | |
267 | Cypher: What happened? | |
268 | Neo: A black cat went past us, and then another that looked just like it. | |
269 | Trinity: How much like it? Was it the same cat? | |
270 | Neo: It might have been. I'm not sure. | |
271 | Morpheus: Switch! Apoc! | |
272 | Neo: What is it? | |
273 | Trinity: A deja vu is usually a glitch in the Matrix. It happens when they change something. | |
274 | ||
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275 | =head2 v5.13.6 - Haruki Murakami, "Kafka on the Shore" |
276 | ||
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277 | L<Announced on 2010-10-20 by Tatsuhiko Miyagawa|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/10/msg165183.html> |
278 | ||
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279 | The boy called Crow softly rests a hand on my shoulder, and with that |
280 | he storm vanishes. | |
281 | ||
282 | "From now on -- no matter what -- you've got to be the world's toughest | |
283 | fifteen-year-old. That's the only way you're going to survive. And in order | |
284 | to do that, you've got to figure out what it means to be tough. You following | |
285 | me?" | |
286 | ||
287 | I keep my eyes closed and don't reply. I just want to sink off into sleep | |
288 | like this, his hand on my shoulder. I hear the faint flutter of wings. | |
289 | ||
290 | "You're going to be the world's toughest fifteen-year-old," Crow whispers | |
291 | as I try to fall asleep. Like he was carving the words in a deep blue tattoo | |
292 | on my heart. | |
293 | ||
294 | (Translated from Japanese by Philip Gabriel) | |
295 | ||
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296 | =head2 v5.13.5 - Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, "The Room in the Dragon Volant" |
297 | ||
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298 | L<Announced on 2010-09-19 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/09/msg164238.html> |
299 | ||
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300 | Candle in hand I stepped in. I do not know whether the quality of |
301 | air, long undisturbed, is peculiar; to me it has always seemed so, and | |
302 | the damp smell of the old masonry hung in this atmosphere. My candle | |
303 | faintly lighted the bare stone wall that enclosed the stair, the foot | |
304 | of which I could not see. Down I went, and a few turns brought me to | |
305 | the stone floor. Here was another door, of the simple, old, oak kind, | |
306 | deep sunk in the thickness of the wall. The large end of the key | |
307 | fitted this. The lock was stiff; I set the candle down upon the | |
308 | stair, and applied both hands; it turned with difficulty, and as it | |
309 | revolved, uttered a shriek that alarmed me for my secret. | |
310 | ||
311 | For some minutes I did not move. In a little time, however, I took | |
312 | courage, and opened the door. The night-air floating in puffed out | |
313 | the candle. There was a thicket of holly and underwood, as dense as a | |
314 | jungle, close about the door. I should have been in pitch-darkness, | |
315 | were it not that through the topmost leaves there twinkled, here and | |
316 | there, a glimmer of moonshine. | |
317 | ||
318 | Softly, lest any one should have opened his window at the sound of the | |
319 | rusty bolt, I struggled through this till I gained a view of the open | |
320 | grounds. Here I found that the brushwood spread a good way up the | |
321 | park, uniting with the wood that approached the little temple I have | |
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324 | =head2 v5.13.4 - Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" |
325 | ||
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326 | L<Announced on 2010-08-20 by Florian Ragwitz|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/08/msg163150.html> |
327 | ||
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328 | `How the creatures order one about, and make one repeat lessons!' thought Alice; |
329 | `I might as well be at school at once.' However, she got up, and began to repeat | |
330 | it, but her head was so full of the Lobster Quadrille, that she hardly knew what | |
331 | she was saying, and the words came very queer indeed:-- | |
332 | ||
333 | "'Tis the voice of the Lobster; I heard him declare, | |
334 | "You have baked me too brown, I must sugar my hair." | |
335 | As a duck with its eyelids, so he with his nose | |
336 | Trims his belt and his buttons, and turns out his toes.' | |
337 | ||
338 | ||
339 | `That's different from what I used to say when I was a child,' said the Gryphon. | |
340 | ||
341 | `Well, I never heard it before,' said the Mock Turtle; `but it sounds uncommon | |
342 | nonsense.' | |
343 | ||
344 | Alice said nothing; she had sat down with her face in her hands, wondering if | |
345 | anything would ever happen in a natural way again. | |
346 | ||
347 | `I should like to have it explained,' said the Mock Turtle. | |
348 | ||
349 | `She can't explain it,' said the Gryphon hastily. `Go on with the next verse.' | |
350 | ||
351 | `But about his toes?' the Mock Turtle persisted. `How could he turn them out | |
352 | with his nose, you know?' | |
353 | ||
354 | `It's the first position in dancing.' Alice said; but was dreadfully puzzled by | |
355 | the whole thing, and longed to change the subject. | |
356 | ||
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357 | =head2 v5.13.3 - Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, "Good Omens" |
358 | ||
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359 | L<Announced on 2010-07-20 by David Golden|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/07/msg162230.html> |
360 | ||
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361 | Look at Crowley, doing 110 mph on the M40 heading towards |
362 | Oxfordshire. Even the most resolutely casual observer would | |
363 | notice a number of strange things about him. The clenched teeth, | |
364 | for example, or the dull red glow coming from behind his | |
365 | sunglasses. And the car. The car was a definite hint. | |
366 | ||
367 | Crowley had started the journey in his Bentley, and he was | |
368 | dammned if he wasn't going to finish it in the Bentley as well. | |
369 | Not that even the kind of car buff who owns his own pair of | |
370 | motoring goggles would have been able to tell it was a vintage | |
371 | Bentley. Not any more. They wouldn't have been able to tell | |
372 | that it was a Bentley. They would only offer fifty-fifty that it | |
373 | had ever even been a car. | |
374 | ||
375 | There was no paint left on it, for a start. It might still have | |
376 | been black, where it wasn't a rusty, smudged reddish-brown, but | |
377 | this was a dull charcoal black. It traveled in its own ball of | |
378 | flame, like a space capsule making a particularly difficult | |
379 | re-entry. | |
380 | ||
381 | There was a thin skin of crusted, melted rubber left around the | |
382 | metal wheel rims, but seeing that the wheel rims were still | |
383 | somhow riding an inch above the road surface this didn't seem to | |
384 | make an awful lot of difference to the suspension. | |
385 | ||
386 | It should have fallen apart miles back. | |
387 | ||
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388 | =head2 v5.13.2 - Iain M Banks, "Use of Weapons" |
389 | ||
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390 | L<Announced on 2010-06-22 by Matt S Trout|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/06/msg161112.html> |
391 | ||
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392 | We deal in the moral equivalent of black holes, where the normal laws - |
393 | the rules of right and wrong that people imagine apply everywhere else | |
394 | in the universe - break down; beyond those metaphysical event-horizons, | |
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395 | there exist ... special circumstances. |
396 | ||
397 | =head2 v5.13.1 - Miguel de Unamuno, "The Sepulchre of Don Quixote" | |
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399 | L<Announced on 2010-05-20 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/05/msg160275.html> |
400 | ||
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401 | And if anyone shall come to you and say that he knows how to construct |
402 | bridges and that perhaps a time will come when you will wish to avail | |
403 | yourself of his science in order to cross over a river, out with him! Out | |
404 | with the engineer! Rivers will be crossed by wading or swimming them, even | |
405 | if half the crusaders drown themselves. Let the engineer go off and build | |
406 | bridges somewhere else, where they are badly wanted. For those who go in | |
407 | quest of the sepulchre, faith is bridge enough. | |
408 | ||
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409 | =head2 v5.13.0 - Jules Verne, "A Journey to the Centre of the Earth" |
410 | ||
411 | L<Announced on 2010-04-20 by LE<0xe9>on Brocard|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/04/msg159275.html> | |
412 | ||
413 | The heat still remained at quite a supportable degree. With an | |
414 | involuntary shudder, I reflected on what the heat must have been | |
415 | when the volcano of Sneffels was pouring its smoke, flames, and | |
416 | streams of boiling lava -- all of which must have come up by the | |
417 | road we were now following. I could imagine the torrents of hot | |
418 | seething stone darting on, bubbling up with accompaniments of | |
419 | smoke, steam, and sulphurous stench! | |
420 | ||
421 | "Only to think of the consequences," I mused, "if the old | |
422 | volcano were once more to set to work." | |
423 | ||
424 | =head2 v5.12.3 - Howard W. Campbell, Jr., "Reflections on Not Participating in Current Events" | |
425 | ||
426 | L<Announced on 2011-01-21 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/01/msg168368.html> | |
427 | ||
428 | I saw a huge steam roller, | |
429 | It blotted out the sun. | |
430 | The people all lay down, lay down; | |
431 | They did not try to run. | |
432 | My love and I, we looked amazed | |
433 | Upon the gory mystery. | |
434 | 'Lie down, lie down!' the people cried. | |
435 | 'The great machine is history!' | |
436 | My love and I, we ran away, | |
437 | The engine did not find us. | |
438 | We ran up to a mountain top, | |
439 | Left history far behind us. | |
440 | Perhaps we should have stayed and died, | |
441 | But somehow we don't think so. | |
442 | We went to see where history'd been, | |
443 | And my, the dead did stink so. | |
444 | ||
445 | =head2 v5.12.2 - William Gibson, "Pattern Recognition" | |
446 | ||
447 | L<Announced on 2010-09-06 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/09/msg163852.html> | |
448 | ||
449 | CPUs. Cayce Pollard Units. That's what Damien calls the clothing | |
450 | she wears. CPUs are either black, white, or gray, and ideally | |
451 | seem to have come into this world without human intervention. | |
452 | ||
453 | What people take for relentless minimalism is a side effect | |
454 | of too much exposure to the reactor-cores of fashion. This | |
455 | has resulted in a remorseless paring-down of what she can and | |
456 | will wear. She is, literally, allergic to fashion. She can | |
457 | only tolerate things that could have been worn, to a general | |
458 | lack of comment, during any year between 1945 and 2000. She's a | |
459 | design-free zone, a one-woman school of and whose very austerity | |
460 | periodically threatens to spawn its own cult. | |
461 | ||
462 | =head2 v5.12.2-RC1 - William Gibson, "Pattern Recognition" | |
463 | ||
464 | L<Announced on 2010-08-31 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/08/msg163670.html> | |
465 | ||
466 | The front page opens, familiar as a friend's living room. A frame-grab | |
467 | from #48 serves as backdrop, dim and almost monochrome, no characters in | |
468 | view. This is one of the sequences that generate comparisons with | |
469 | Tarkovsky. She only knows Tarkovsky from stills, really, though she did | |
470 | once fall asleep during a screening of The Stalker, going under on an | |
471 | endless pan, the camera aimed straight down, in close-up, at a puddle on | |
472 | a ruined mosaic floor. But she is not one of those who think that much | |
473 | will be gained by analysis of the maker's imagined influences. The cult | |
474 | of the footage is rife with subcults, claiming every possible influence. | |
475 | Truffaut, Peckinpah -- The Peckinpah people, among the least likely, are | |
476 | still waiting for the guns to be drawn. | |
477 | ||
4363636d DG |
478 | =head2 v5.12.1 - Kurt Vonnegut, "Cat's Cradle" |
479 | ||
2831a86c ZA |
480 | L<Announced on 2010-05-16 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/05/msg160109.html> |
481 | ||
4363636d DG |
482 | "Now suppose," chortled Dr. Breed, enjoying himself, "that there were |
483 | many possible ways in which water could crystallize, could freeze. | |
d517a16a Z |
484 | Suppose that the sort of ice we skate upon and put into highballs -- |
485 | what we might call ice-one -- is only one of several types of ice. | |
4363636d DG |
486 | Suppose water always froze as ice-one on Earth because it had never |
487 | had a seed to teach it how to form ice-two, ice-three, ice-four | |
488 | ...? And suppose," he rapped on his desk with his old hand again, | |
d517a16a Z |
489 | "that there were one form, which we will call ice-nine -- a crystal as |
490 | hard as this desk -- with a melting point of, let us say, one-hundred | |
4363636d DG |
491 | degrees Fahrenheit, or, better still, a melting point of one-hundred- |
492 | and-thirty degrees." | |
493 | ||
4363636d DG |
494 | =head2 v5.12.1-RC2 - Kurt Vonnegut, "Cat's Cradle" |
495 | ||
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496 | L<Announced on 2010-05-13 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/05/msg160066.html> |
497 | ||
4363636d DG |
498 | San Lorenzo was fifty miles long and twenty miles wide, I learned from |
499 | the supplement to the New York Sunday Times. Its population was four | |
500 | hundred, fifty thousand souls, "...all fiercely dedicated to the ideals | |
501 | of the Free World." | |
502 | ||
503 | Its highest point, Mount McCabe, was eleven thousand feet above sea | |
504 | level. Its capital was Bolivar, "...a strikingly modern city built on a | |
505 | harbor capable of sheltering the entire United States Navy." The principal | |
506 | exports were sugar, coffee, bananas, indigo, and handcrafted novelties. | |
507 | ||
2831a86c ZA |
508 | =head2 v5.12.1-RC1 - Kurt Vonnegut, "Cat's Cradle" |
509 | ||
510 | L<Announced on 2010-05-09 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/05/msg159971.html> | |
4363636d | 511 | |
4363636d DG |
512 | Which brings me to the Bokononist concept of a wampeter. A wampeter is |
513 | the pivot of a karass. No karass is without a wampeter, Bokonon tells us, | |
514 | just as no wheel is without a hub. Anything can be a wampeter: a tree, | |
515 | a rock, an animal, an idea, a book, a melody, the Holy Grail. Whatever | |
516 | it is, the members of its karass revolve about it in the majestic chaos | |
517 | of a spiral nebula. The orbits of the members of a karass about their | |
518 | common wampeter are spiritual orbits, naturally. It is souls and not | |
519 | bodies that revolve. As Bokonon invites us to sing: | |
520 | ||
521 | Around and around and around we spin, | |
522 | With feet of lead and wings of tin . . . | |
523 | ||
4363636d DG |
524 | =head2 v5.12.0 - Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" |
525 | ||
2831a86c ZA |
526 | L<Announced on 2010-04-12 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/04/msg158820.html> |
527 | ||
4363636d DG |
528 | 'Please would you tell me,' said Alice, a little timidly, for she was |
529 | not quite sure whether it was good manners for her to speak first, 'why | |
530 | your cat grins like that?' | |
531 | ||
532 | 'It's a Cheshire cat,' said the Duchess, 'and that's why. Pig!' | |
533 | ||
534 | She said the last word with such sudden violence that Alice quite | |
535 | jumped; but she saw in another moment that it was addressed to the baby, | |
536 | and not to her, so she took courage, and went on again:-- | |
537 | ||
538 | 'I didn't know that Cheshire cats always grinned; in fact, I didn't know | |
539 | that cats COULD grin.' | |
540 | ||
541 | 'They all can,' said the Duchess; 'and most of 'em do.' | |
542 | ||
4363636d DG |
543 | =head2 v5.12.0-RC5 - Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" |
544 | ||
2831a86c ZA |
545 | L<Announced on 2010-04-09 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/04/msg158720.html> |
546 | ||
4363636d DG |
547 | 'Not QUITE right, I'm afraid,' said Alice, timidly; 'some of the words |
548 | have got altered.' | |
549 | ||
550 | 'It is wrong from beginning to end,' said the Caterpillar decidedly, and | |
551 | there was silence for some minutes. | |
552 | ||
4363636d DG |
553 | =head2 v5.12.0-RC4 - Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" |
554 | ||
2831a86c ZA |
555 | L<Announced on 2010-04-06 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/04/msg158567.html> |
556 | ||
4363636d DG |
557 | 'It was much pleasanter at home,' thought poor Alice, 'when one wasn't |
558 | always growing larger and smaller, and being ordered about by mice and | |
559 | rabbits. I almost wish I hadn't gone down that rabbit-hole--and yet--and | |
560 | yet--it's rather curious, you know, this sort of life! I do wonder what | |
561 | can have happened to me! When I used to read fairy-tales, I fancied that | |
562 | kind of thing never happened, and now here I am in the middle of one! | |
563 | ||
4363636d DG |
564 | =head2 v5.12.0-RC3 - Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" |
565 | ||
2831a86c ZA |
566 | L<Announced on 2010-04-02 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/04/msg158346.html> |
567 | ||
4363636d DG |
568 | At last the Mouse, who seemed to be a person of authority among them, |
569 | called out, 'Sit down, all of you, and listen to me! I'LL soon make you | |
570 | dry enough!' They all sat down at once, in a large ring, with the Mouse | |
571 | in the middle. Alice kept her eyes anxiously fixed on it, for she felt | |
572 | sure she would catch a bad cold if she did not get dry very soon. | |
573 | ||
574 | 'Ahem!' said the Mouse with an important air, 'are you all ready? This | |
575 | is the driest thing I know. Silence all round, if you please! "William | |
576 | the Conqueror, whose cause was favoured by the pope, was soon submitted | |
577 | to by the English, who wanted leaders, and had been of late much | |
578 | accustomed to usurpation and conquest. Edwin and Morcar, the earls of | |
d517a16a | 579 | Mercia and Northumbria --"' |
4363636d | 580 | |
2831a86c | 581 | =head2 v5.12.0-RC2 - no announcement |
4363636d | 582 | |
2831a86c | 583 | Available on CPAN since 2010-04-01. |
4363636d | 584 | |
3e340399 | 585 | =head2 v5.12.0-RC1 - Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" |
4363636d | 586 | |
2831a86c ZA |
587 | L<Announced on 2010-03-29 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/03/msg158060.html> |
588 | ||
4363636d DG |
589 | So she was considering in her own mind (as well as she could, for the |
590 | hot day made her feel very sleepy and stupid), whether the pleasure of | |
591 | making a daisy-chain would be worth the trouble of getting up and | |
592 | picking the daisies, when suddenly a White Rabbit with pink eyes ran | |
593 | close by her. | |
594 | ||
595 | There was nothing so VERY remarkable in that; nor did Alice think it so | |
596 | VERY much out of the way to hear the Rabbit say to itself, 'Oh dear! Oh | |
597 | dear! I shall be late!' (when she thought it over afterwards, it | |
598 | occurred to her that she ought to have wondered at this, but at the time | |
599 | it all seemed quite natural); but when the Rabbit actually TOOK A WATCH | |
600 | OUT OF ITS WAISTCOAT-POCKET, and looked at it, and then hurried on, | |
601 | Alice started to her feet, for it flashed across her mind that she had | |
602 | never before seen a rabbit with either a waistcoat-pocket, or a watch to | |
603 | take out of it, and burning with curiosity, she ran across the field | |
604 | after it, and fortunately was just in time to see it pop down a large | |
605 | rabbit-hole under the hedge. | |
606 | ||
607 | In another moment down went Alice after it, never once considering how | |
608 | in the world she was to get out again. | |
609 | ||
0e6b8110 | 610 | =head2 v5.12.0-RC0 - no epigraph |
4363636d | 611 | |
2831a86c | 612 | L<Announced on 2020-03-21 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/03/msg157761.html> |
4363636d | 613 | |
3e340399 | 614 | =head2 v5.11.5 - Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "Christabel" |
4363636d | 615 | |
2831a86c ZA |
616 | L<Announced on 2010-02-21 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/02/msg156957.html> |
617 | ||
4363636d DG |
618 | A little child, a limber elf, |
619 | Singing, dancing to itself, | |
620 | A fairy thing with red round cheeks, | |
621 | That always finds, and never seeks, | |
622 | Makes such a vision to the sight | |
623 | As fills a father's eyes with light; | |
624 | And pleasures flow in so thick and fast | |
625 | Upon his heart, that he at last | |
626 | Must needs express his love's excess | |
627 | With words of unmeant bitterness. | |
628 | Perhaps 'tis pretty to force together | |
629 | Thoughts so all unlike each other; | |
630 | To mutter and mock a broken charm, | |
631 | To dally with wrong that does no harm. | |
632 | Perhaps 'tis tender too and pretty | |
633 | At each wild word to feel within | |
634 | A sweet recoil of love and pity. | |
635 | And what, if in a world of sin | |
636 | (O sorrow and shame should this be true!) | |
637 | Such giddiness of heart and brain | |
638 | Comes seldom save from rage and pain, | |
639 | So talks as it's most used to do. | |
640 | ||
4363636d DG |
641 | =head2 v5.11.4 - Fyodor Dostoevsky, "Crime and Punishment" |
642 | ||
2831a86c ZA |
643 | L<Announced on 2010-01-20 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/01/msg155848.html> |
644 | ||
4363636d DG |
645 | And you don't suppose that I went into it headlong like a fool? I went |
646 | into it like a wise man, and that was just my destruction. And you | |
647 | mustn't suppose that I didn't know, for instance, that if I began to | |
648 | question myself whether I had the right to gain power -- I certainly | |
649 | hadn't the right -- or that if I asked myself whether a human being is a | |
650 | louse it proved that it wasn't so for me, though it might be for a man | |
651 | who would go straight to his goal without asking questions.... If I | |
652 | worried myself all those days, wondering whether Napoleon would have | |
653 | done it or not, I felt clearly of course that I wasn't Napoleon. | |
654 | ||
4363636d DG |
655 | =head2 v5.11.3 - Mark Twain, "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" |
656 | ||
2831a86c ZA |
657 | L<Announced on 2009-12-20 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2009/12/msg154838.html> |
658 | ||
4363636d | 659 | "Say -- I'm going in a swimming, I am. Don't you wish you could? But of |
d517a16a | 660 | course you'd druther work -- wouldn't you? Course you would!" |
4363636d DG |
661 | |
662 | Tom contemplated the boy a bit, and said: "What do you call work?" | |
663 | ||
664 | "Why ain't that work?" | |
665 | ||
666 | Tom resumed his whitewashing, and answered carelessly: "Well, maybe it | |
667 | is, and maybe it aint. All I know, is, it suits Tom Sawyer." | |
668 | ||
669 | "Oh come, now, you don't mean to let on that you like it?" | |
670 | ||
671 | The brush continued to move. "Like it? Well I don't see why I oughtn't | |
672 | to like it. Does a boy get a chance to whitewash a fence every day?" | |
673 | ||
674 | That put the thing in a new light. Ben stopped nibbling his apple. Tom | |
675 | swept his brush daintily back and forth -- stepped back to note the effect | |
676 | -- added a touch here and there-criticised the effect again -- Ben | |
677 | watching every move and getting more and more interested, more and more | |
678 | absorbed. Presently he said: "Say, Tom, let me whitewash a little." | |
679 | ||
4363636d DG |
680 | =head2 v5.11.2 - Michael Marshall Smith, "Only Forward" |
681 | ||
2831a86c ZA |
682 | L<Announced on 2009-11-20 by |http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2009/11/msg153646.html> |
683 | ||
4363636d DG |
684 | The streets were pretty quiet, which was nice. They're always quiet here |
685 | at that time: you have to be wearing a black jacket to be out on the | |
686 | streets between seven and nine in the evening, and not many people in | |
687 | the area have black jackets. It's just one of those things. I currently | |
688 | live in Colour Neighbourhood, which is for people who are heavily into | |
689 | colour. All the streets and buildings are set for instant colourmatch: | |
690 | as you walk down the road they change hue to offset whatever you're | |
691 | wearing. When the streets are busy it's kind of intense, and anyone | |
692 | prone to epileptic seizures isn't allowed to live in the Neighbourhood, | |
693 | however much they're into colour. | |
694 | ||
4363636d DG |
695 | =head2 v5.11.1 - Joseph Heller, "Catch-22" |
696 | ||
2831a86c ZA |
697 | L<Announced on 2009-10-20 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2009/10/msg152360.html> |
698 | ||
4363636d DG |
699 | Milo had been caught red-handed in the act of plundering his countrymen, |
700 | and, as a result, his stock had never been higher. He proved good as his | |
701 | word when a rawboned major from Minnesota curled his lip in rebellious | |
702 | disavowal and demanded his share of the syndicate Milo kept saying | |
703 | everybody owned. Milo met the challenge by writing the words "A Share" | |
704 | on the nearest scrap of paper and handing it away with a virtuous disdain | |
705 | that won the envy and admiration of almost everyone who knew him. His | |
706 | glory was at a peak, and Colonel Cathcart, who knew and admired his | |
707 | war record, was astonished by the deferential humility with which Mil | |
708 | presented himself at Group Headquarters and made his fantastic appeal | |
709 | for more hazardous assignment. | |
710 | ||
4363636d DG |
711 | =head2 v5.11.0 - Mikhail Bulgakov, "The Master and Margarita" |
712 | ||
2831a86c ZA |
713 | L<Announced on 2009-10-02 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2009/10/msg151376.html> |
714 | ||
4363636d DG |
715 | Whispers of an "evil power" were heard in lines at dairy shops, in |
716 | streetcars, stores, arguments, kitchens, suburban and long-distance | |
717 | trains, at stations large and small, in dachas and on beaches. Needless | |
718 | to say, truly mature and cultured people did not tell these stories | |
719 | about an evil power's visit to the capital. In fact, they even made fun | |
720 | of them and tried to talk sense into those who told them. Nevertheless, | |
721 | facts are facts, as they say, and cannot simply be dismissed without | |
722 | explanation: somebody had visited the capital. The charred cinders of | |
723 | Griboyedov alone, and many other things besides, confirmed it. Cultured | |
724 | people shared the point of view of the investigating team: it was the | |
725 | work of a gang of hypnotists and ventriloquists magnificently skilled in | |
726 | their art. | |
727 | ||
4363636d DG |
728 | =head2 v5.10.1 - Right Hon. James Hacker MP, "The Complete Yes Minister: The Diaries of a Cabinet Minister" |
729 | ||
2831a86c ZA |
730 | L<Announced on 2009-09-23 by Dave Mitchell|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2009/08/msg150172.html> |
731 | ||
4363636d DG |
732 | 'Briefly, sir, I am the Permanent Under-Secretary of State, known as |
733 | the Permanent Secretary. Woolley here is your Principal Private | |
734 | Secretary. I, too, have a Principal Private Secretary, and he is the | |
735 | Principal Private Secretary to the Permanent Secretary. Directly | |
736 | responsible to me are ten Deputy Secretaries, eighty-seven Under | |
737 | Secretaries and two hundred and nineteen Assistant Secretaries. | |
738 | Directly responsible to the Principal Private Secretaries are plain | |
739 | Private Secretaries. The Prime Minister will be appointing two | |
740 | Parliamentary Under-Secretaries and you will be appointing your own | |
741 | Parliamentary Private Secretary.' | |
742 | ||
743 | 'Can they all type?' I joked. | |
744 | ||
745 | 'None of us can type, Minister,' replied Sir Humphrey smoothly. 'Mrs | |
746 | McKay types - she is your Secretary.' | |
747 | ||
748 | I couldn't tell whether or not he was joking. 'What a pity,' I said. | |
749 | 'We could have opened an agency.' | |
750 | ||
751 | Sir Humphrey and Bernard laughed. 'Very droll, sir,' said Sir | |
752 | Humphrey. 'Most amusing, sir,' said Bernard. Were they genuinely | |
753 | amused at my wit, or just being rather patronising? 'I suppose they | |
754 | all say that, do they?' I ventured. | |
755 | ||
756 | Sir Humphrey reassured me on that. 'Certainly not, Minister,' he | |
757 | replied. 'Not quite all.' | |
758 | ||
0e6b8110 | 759 | =head2 v5.10.1-RC2 - no epigraph |
4363636d | 760 | |
2831a86c | 761 | L<Announced on 2009-08-18 by Dave Mitchell|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2009/08/msg150015.html> |
3e340399 | 762 | |
0e6b8110 | 763 | =head2 v5.10.1-RC1 - no epigraph |
4363636d | 764 | |
2831a86c | 765 | L<Announced on 2009-08-06 by Dave Mitchell|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2009/08/msg149498.html> |
3e340399 | 766 | |
c7bed260 | 767 | =head2 v5.10.0 - Laurence Sterne, "Tristram Shandy" |
4363636d | 768 | |
c7bed260 Z |
769 | L<Announced on 2007-12-18 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2007/12/msg131636.html> |
770 | ||
771 | He would often declare, in speaking his thoughts upon the subject, that | |
772 | he did not conceive how the greatest family in England could stand it | |
773 | out against an uninterrupted succession of six or seven short | |
774 | noses.--And for the contrary reason, he would generally add, That it | |
775 | must be one of the greatest problems in civil life, where the same | |
776 | number of long and jolly noses, following one another in a direct line, | |
777 | did not raise and hoist it up into the best vacancies in the kingdom. | |
778 | ||
779 | =head2 v5.10.0-RC2 - no epigraph | |
780 | ||
781 | L<Announced on 2007-11-25 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2007/11/msg130978.html> | |
782 | ||
783 | =head2 v5.10.0-RC1 - no epigraph | |
784 | ||
785 | L<Announced on 2007-11-17 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2007/11/msg130653.html> | |
786 | ||
787 | =head2 v5.9.5 - no announcement | |
788 | ||
789 | L<Pre-announced on 2007-07-07 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2007/07/msg126358.html>, | |
790 | available on CPAN with same date, but never actually announced. | |
791 | ||
792 | =head2 v5.9.4 - no epigraph | |
793 | ||
794 | L<Announced on 2006-08-15 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2006/08/msg115782.html> | |
795 | ||
796 | =head2 v5.9.3 - no epigraph | |
797 | ||
798 | L<Announced on 2006-01-28 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2006/01/msg109086.html> | |
799 | ||
800 | =head2 v5.9.2 - Thomas Pynchon, "V" | |
801 | ||
802 | L<Announced on 2005-04-01 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=20050401150702.2b4a70d5@grubert.mandrakesoft.com> | |
803 | ||
804 | This word flip was weird. Every recording date of McClintic's he'd | |
805 | gotten into the habit of talking electricity with the audio men and | |
806 | technicians of the studio. McClintic once couldn't have cared less | |
807 | about electricity, but now it seemed if that was helping him reach a | |
808 | bigger audience, some digging, some who would never dig, but all | |
809 | paying and those royalties keeping the Triumph in gas and McClintic | |
810 | in J. Press suits, then McClintic ought to be grateful to | |
811 | electricity, ought maybe to learn a little more about it. So he'd | |
812 | picked up some here and there, and one day last summer he got around | |
813 | to talking stochastic music and digital computers with one | |
814 | technician. Out of the conversation had come Set/Reset, which was | |
815 | getting to be a signature for the group. He had found out from this | |
816 | sound man about a two-triode circuit called a flip-flop, which when | |
817 | it turned on could be one of two ways, depending on which tube was | |
818 | conducting and which was cut off: set or reset, flip or flop. | |
819 | ||
820 | "And that," the man said, "can be yes or no, or one or zero. And | |
821 | that is what you might call one of the basic units, or specialized | |
822 | `cells' in a big `electronic brain.' " | |
823 | ||
824 | "Crazy," said McClintic, having lost him back there someplace. But | |
825 | one thing that did occur to him was if a computer's brain could go | |
826 | flip or flop, why so could a musician's. As long as you were flop, | |
827 | everything was cool. But where did the trigger-pulse come from to | |
828 | make you flip? | |
829 | ||
830 | =head2 v5.9.1 - Tom Stoppard, "Arcadia" | |
831 | ||
832 | L<Announced on 2004-03-16 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://groups.google.com/group/perl.perl5.porters/msg/8587d77c565f2d43> | |
833 | ||
834 | Aren't you supposed to have a pony? | |
835 | ||
836 | =head2 v5.9.0 - Doris Lessing, "Martha Quest" | |
837 | ||
838 | L<Announced on 2003-10-27 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://groups.google.com/group/perl.perl5.porters/msg/63a8c34385de82a1> | |
839 | ||
840 | What of October, that ambiguous month | |
4363636d | 841 | |
4363636d DG |
842 | =head2 v5.8.9 - Right Hon. James Hacker MP, "The Complete Yes Minister: The Diaries of a Cabinet Minister" |
843 | ||
2831a86c ZA |
844 | L<Announced on 2008-12-14 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2008/12/msg142571.html> |
845 | ||
4363636d DG |
846 | Frank and I, unlike the civil servants, were still puzzled that such a |
847 | proposal as the Europass could even be seriously under consideration by | |
848 | the FCO. We can both see clearly that it is wonderful ammunition for the | |
849 | anti-Europeans. I asked Humphrey if the Foreign Office doesn't realise | |
850 | how damaging this would be to the European ideal? | |
851 | ||
852 | 'I'm sure they do, Minister, he said. That's why they support it.' | |
853 | ||
854 | This was even more puzzling, since I'd always been under the impression | |
855 | that the FO is pro-Europe. 'Is it or isn't it?' I asked Humphrey. | |
856 | ||
857 | 'Yes and no,' he replied of course, 'if you'll pardon the | |
858 | expression. The Foreign Office is pro-Europe because it is really | |
859 | anti-Europe. In fact the Civil Service was united in its desire to make | |
860 | sure the Common Market didn't work. That's why we went into it.' | |
861 | ||
862 | This sounded like a riddle to me. I asked him to explain further. And | |
863 | basically his argument was as follows: Britain has had the same foreign | |
864 | policy objective for at least the last five hundred years - to create a | |
865 | disunited Europe. In that cause we have fought with the Dutch against | |
866 | the Spanish, with the Germans against the French, with the French and | |
867 | Italians against the Germans, and with the French against the Italians | |
868 | and Germans. [The Dutch rebellion against Phillip II of Spain, the | |
869 | Napoleonic Wars, the First World War, and the Second World War - Ed.] | |
870 | ||
871 | In other words, divide and rule. And the Foreign Office can see no | |
872 | reason to change when it has worked so well until now. | |
873 | ||
874 | I was aware of this, naturally, but I regarded it as ancient history. | |
875 | Humphrey thinks that it is, in fact, current policy. It was necessary | |
876 | for us to break up the EEC, he explained, so we had to get inside. We | |
877 | had previously tried to break it up from the outside, but that didn't | |
878 | work. [A reference to our futile and short-lived involvement in EFTA, | |
879 | the European Free Trade Association, founded in 1960 and which the UK | |
880 | left in 1972 - Ed.] Now that we're in, we are able to make a complete | |
881 | pig's breakfast out of it. We've now set the Germans against the French, | |
882 | the French against the Italians, the Italians against the Dutch... and | |
883 | the Foreign office is terribly happy. It's just like old time. | |
884 | ||
885 | I was staggered by all of this. I thought that the all of us who are | |
886 | publicly pro-European believed in the European ideal. I said this to Sir | |
887 | Humphrey, and he simply chuckled. | |
888 | ||
889 | So I asked him: if we don't believe in the European Ideal, why are we | |
890 | pushing to increase the membership? | |
891 | ||
892 | 'Same reason,' came the reply. 'It's just like the United Nations. The | |
893 | more members it has, the more arguments you can stir up, and the more | |
894 | futile and impotent it becomes.' | |
895 | ||
896 | This all strikes me as the most appalling cynicism, and I said so. | |
897 | ||
898 | Sir Humphrey agreed completely. 'Yes Minister. We call it | |
899 | diplomacy. It's what made Britain great, you know.' | |
900 | ||
4363636d DG |
901 | =head2 v5.8.9-RC2 - Right Hon. James Hacker MP, "The Complete Yes Minister: The Diaries of a Cabinet Minister" |
902 | ||
2831a86c ZA |
903 | L<Announced on 2008-12-06 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2008/11/msg142422.html> |
904 | ||
4363636d DG |
905 | There was silence in the office. I didn't know what we were going to do |
906 | about the four hundred new people supervising our economy drive or the | |
907 | four hundred new people for the Bureaucratic Watchdog Office, or | |
908 | anything! I simply sat and waited and hoped that my head would stop | |
909 | thumping and that some idea would be suggested by someone sometime soon. | |
910 | ||
911 | Sir Humphrey obliged. 'Minister... if we were to end the economy drive | |
912 | and close the Bureaucratic Watchdog Office we could issue an immediate | |
913 | press announcement that you had axed eight hundred jobs.' He had | |
914 | obviously thought this out carefully in advance, for at this moment he | |
915 | produced a slim folder from under his arm. 'If you'd like to approve | |
916 | this draft...' | |
917 | ||
918 | I couldn't believe the impertinence of the suggestion. Axed eight | |
919 | hundred jobs? 'But no one was ever doing these jobs,' I pointed out | |
920 | incredulously. 'No one's been appointed yet.' | |
921 | ||
922 | 'Even greater economy,' he replied instantly. 'We've saved eight hundred | |
923 | redundancy payments as well.' | |
924 | ||
925 | 'But...' I attempted to explain '... that's just phony. It's dishonest, | |
926 | it's juggling with figures, it's pulling the wool over people's eyes.' | |
927 | ||
928 | 'A government press release, in fact.' said Humphrey. | |
929 | ||
4363636d DG |
930 | =head2 v5.8.9-RC1 - Right Hon. James Hacker MP, "The Complete Yes Minister: The Diaries of a Cabinet Minister" |
931 | ||
2831a86c ZA |
932 | L<Announced on 2008-11-10 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2008/11/msg141515.html> |
933 | ||
4363636d DG |
934 | A jumbo jet touched down, with BURANDAN AIRWAYS written on the side. I |
935 | was hugely impressed. British Airways are having to pawn their Concordes, | |
936 | and here is this little tiny African state with its own airline, jumbo | |
937 | jets and all. | |
938 | ||
939 | I asked Bernard how many planes Burandan Airways had. 'None,' he said. | |
940 | ||
941 | I told him not to be silly and use his eyes. 'No Minister, it belongs to | |
942 | Freddie Laker,' he said. 'They chartered it last week and repainted it | |
943 | specially.' Apparently most of the Have-Nots (I mean, LDCs) do this - at | |
944 | the opening of the UN General Assembly the runways of Kennedy Airport are | |
945 | jam-packed with phoney flag-carriers. 'In fact,' said Bernard with a sly | |
946 | grin, 'there was one 747 that belonged to nine different African airlines | |
947 | in a month. They called it the mumbo-jumbo.' | |
948 | ||
949 | While we watched nothing much happening on the TV except the mumbo-jumbo | |
950 | taxiing around Prestwick and the Queen looking a bit chilly, Bernard gave | |
951 | me the next day's schedule and explained that I was booked on the night | |
952 | sleeper from King's Cross to Edinburgh because I had to vote in a | |
953 | three-line whip at the House tonight and would have to miss the last | |
954 | plane. Then the commentator, in that special hushed BBC voice used for any | |
955 | occasion with which Royalty is connected, announced reverentially that we | |
956 | were about to catch our first glimpse of President Selim. | |
957 | ||
958 | And out of the plane stepped Charlie. My old friend Charlie Umtali. We | |
959 | were at LSE together. Not Selim Mohammed at all, but Charlie. | |
960 | ||
961 | Bernard asked me if I were sure. Silly question. How could you forget a | |
962 | name like Charlie Umtali? | |
963 | ||
964 | I sent Bernard for Sir Humphrey, who was delighted to hear that we now | |
965 | know something about our official visitor. | |
966 | ||
967 | Bernard's official brief said nothing. Amazing! Amazing how little the FCO | |
968 | has been able to find out. Perhaps they were hoping it would all be on the | |
969 | car radio. All the brief says is that Colonel Selim Mohammed had converted | |
970 | to Islam some years ago, they didn't know his original name, and therefore | |
971 | knew little of his background. | |
972 | ||
973 | I was able to tell Humphrey and Bernard /all/ about his background. | |
974 | Charlie was a red-hot political economist, I informed them. Got the top | |
975 | first. Wiped the floor with everyone. | |
976 | ||
977 | Bernard seemed relieved. 'Well that's all right then.' | |
978 | ||
979 | 'Why?' I enquired. | |
980 | ||
981 | 'I think Bernard means,' said Sir Humphrey helpfully, 'that he'll know how | |
982 | to behave if he was at an English University. Even if it was the LSE.' I | |
983 | never know whether or not Humphrey is insulting me intentionally. | |
984 | ||
985 | Humphrey was concerned about Charlie's political colour. 'When you said | |
986 | that he was red-hot, were you speaking politically?' | |
987 | ||
988 | In a way I was. 'The thing about Charlie is that you never quite know | |
989 | where you are with him. He's the sort of chap who follows you into a | |
990 | revolving door and comes out in front.' | |
991 | ||
992 | 'No deeply held convictions?' asked Sir Humphrey. | |
993 | ||
994 | 'No. The only thing Charlie was committed too was Charlie.' | |
995 | ||
996 | 'Ah, I see. A politician, Minister.' | |
997 | ||
4363636d DG |
998 | =head2 v5.8.8 - Joe Raposo, "Bein' Green" |
999 | ||
2831a86c ZA |
1000 | L<Announced on 2006-02-01 by Nicholas Clark|http://groups.google.com/group/perl.perl5.porters/msg/28caf52e41ebe723> |
1001 | ||
51caa79e DG |
1002 | It's not that easy bein' green |
1003 | Having to spend each day the color of the leaves | |
4363636d | 1004 | When I think it could be nicer being red or yellow or gold |
51caa79e DG |
1005 | Or something much more colorful like that |
1006 | ||
1007 | It's not easy bein' green | |
4363636d | 1008 | It seems you blend in with so many other ordinary things |
51caa79e DG |
1009 | And people tend to pass you over 'cause you're |
1010 | Not standing out like flashy sparkles in the water | |
1011 | Or stars in the sky | |
1012 | ||
1013 | But green's the color of Spring | |
1014 | And green can be cool and friendly-like | |
1015 | And green can be big like an ocean | |
1016 | Or important like a mountain | |
4363636d DG |
1017 | Or tall like a tree |
1018 | ||
1019 | When green is all there is to be | |
1020 | It could make you wonder why, but why wonder why? | |
1021 | Wonder I am green and it'll do fine, it's beautiful | |
1022 | And I think it's what I want to be | |
1023 | ||
4363636d DG |
1024 | =head2 v5.8.8-RC1 - Cosgrove Hall Productions, "Dangermouse" |
1025 | ||
2831a86c ZA |
1026 | L<Announced on 2006-01-20 by Nicholas Clark|http://groups.google.com/group/perl.perl5.porters/msg/d231fc554af8cc51> |
1027 | ||
1028 | Greenback: And the world is mine, all mine. Muhahahahaha. See to it! | |
51caa79e | 1029 | |
2831a86c | 1030 | Stiletto: Si, Barone. Subito, Barone. |
4363636d | 1031 | |
4363636d DG |
1032 | =head2 v5.8.7 - Sergei Prokofiev, "Peter and the Wolf" |
1033 | ||
2831a86c ZA |
1034 | L<Announced on 2005-05-31 by Nicholas Clark|http://groups.google.com/group/perl.perl5.porters/msg/9a545704a0062f16> |
1035 | ||
4363636d DG |
1036 | And now, imagine the triumphant procession: Peter at the head; after him the |
1037 | hunters leading the wolf; and winding up the procession, grandfather and the | |
1038 | cat. | |
1039 | ||
1040 | Grandfather shook his head discontentedly: "Well, and if Peter hadn't caught | |
51caa79e | 1041 | the wolf? What then?" |
4363636d | 1042 | |
4363636d DG |
1043 | =head2 v5.8.7-RC1 - Sergei Prokofiev, "Peter and the Wolf" |
1044 | ||
2831a86c ZA |
1045 | L<Announced on 2005-05-20 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2005/05/msg100711.html> |
1046 | ||
4363636d DG |
1047 | And now this is how things stood: The cat was sitting on one branch. The |
1048 | bird on another, not too close to the cat. And the wolf walked round and | |
1049 | round the tree, looking at them with greedy eyes. | |
1050 | ||
1051 | In the meantime, Peter, without the slightest fear, stood behind the | |
1052 | gate, watching all that was going on. He ran home,got a strong rope and | |
1053 | climbed up the high stone wall. | |
1054 | ||
1055 | One of the branches of the tree, around which the wolf was walking, | |
1056 | stretched out over the wall. | |
1057 | ||
1058 | Grabbing hold of the branch, Peter lightly climbed over on to the tree. | |
1059 | Peter said to the bird: "Fly down and circle round the wolf's head, only | |
1060 | take care that he doesn't catch you!". | |
1061 | ||
1062 | The bird almost touched the wolf's head with its wings, while the wolf | |
1063 | snapped angrily at him from this side and that. | |
1064 | ||
1065 | How that bird teased the wolf, how that wolf wanted to catch him! But | |
51caa79e | 1066 | the bird was clever and the wolf simply couldn't do anything about it. |
4363636d | 1067 | |
4363636d DG |
1068 | =head2 v5.8.6 - A. A. Milne, "The House at Pooh Corner" |
1069 | ||
2831a86c ZA |
1070 | L<Announced on 2004-11-28 by Nicholas Clark|http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=20041128000836.GA304@Bagpuss.unfortu.net> |
1071 | ||
4363636d | 1072 | "Hallo, Pooh," said Piglet, giving a jump of surprise. "I knew it was |
51caa79e | 1073 | you." |
4363636d | 1074 | |
51caa79e | 1075 | "So did I,", said Pooh. "What are you doing?" |
4363636d DG |
1076 | |
1077 | "I'm planting a haycorn, Pooh, so that it can grow up into an oak-tree, | |
1078 | and have lots of haycorns just outside the front door instead of having | |
51caa79e | 1079 | to walk miles and miles, do you see, Pooh?" |
4363636d | 1080 | |
51caa79e | 1081 | "Supposing it doesn't?" said Pooh. |
4363636d DG |
1082 | |
1083 | "It will, because Christopher Robin says it will, so that's why I'm | |
1084 | planting it." | |
1085 | ||
1086 | "Well," aid Pooh, "if I plant a honeycomb outside my house, then it will | |
51caa79e | 1087 | grow up into a beehive." |
4363636d | 1088 | |
51caa79e | 1089 | Piglet wasn't quite sure about this. |
4363636d DG |
1090 | |
1091 | "Or a /piece/ of a honeycomb," said Pooh, "so as not to waste too much. | |
1092 | Only then I might only get a piece of a beehive, and it might be the | |
51caa79e | 1093 | wrong piece, where the bees were buzzing and not hunnying. Bother" |
4363636d | 1094 | |
51caa79e | 1095 | Piglet agreed that that would be rather bothering. |
4363636d DG |
1096 | |
1097 | "Besides, Pooh, it's a very difficult thing, planting unless you know | |
1098 | how to do it," he said; and he put the acorn in the hole he had made, | |
51caa79e | 1099 | and covered it up with earth, and jumped on it. |
4363636d | 1100 | |
4363636d DG |
1101 | =head2 v5.8.6-RC1 - A. A. Milne, "Winnie the Pooh" |
1102 | ||
2831a86c ZA |
1103 | L<Announced on 2004-11-11 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/11/msg95786.html> |
1104 | ||
4363636d DG |
1105 | "Hallo!" said Piglet, "whare are /you/ doing?" |
1106 | ||
1107 | "Hunting," said Pooh. | |
1108 | ||
1109 | "Hunting what?" | |
1110 | ||
1111 | "Tracking something," said Winnie-the-Pooh very mysteriously. | |
1112 | ||
1113 | "Tracking what?" said Piglet, coming closer. | |
1114 | ||
1115 | "That's just what I ask myself, I ask myself, What?" | |
1116 | ||
1117 | "What do you think you'll answer?" | |
1118 | ||
1119 | "I shall have to wait until I catch up with it," said Winnie-the-Pooh. | |
1120 | "Now, look there." He pointed to the ground in front of him. "What do | |
1121 | you see there?" | |
1122 | ||
1123 | "Track," said Piglet. "Paw-marks." He gave a little squeak of | |
1124 | excitement. "Oh, Pooh!" Do you think it's a--a--a Woozle?" | |
1125 | ||
4363636d DG |
1126 | =head2 v5.8.5 - wikipedia, "Yew" |
1127 | ||
2831a86c ZA |
1128 | L<Announced on 2004-07-19 by Nicholas Clark|http://groups.google.com/group/perl.perl5.porters/msg/68340e2e4c39222c> |
1129 | ||
4363636d DG |
1130 | Yews are relatively slow growing trees, widely used in landscaping and |
1131 | ornamental horticulture. They have flat, dark-green needles, reddish | |
1132 | bark, and bear seeds with red arils, which are eaten by thrushes, | |
1133 | waxwings and other birds, dispersing the hard seeds undamaged in their | |
1134 | droppings. Yew wood is reddish brown (with white sapwood), and very | |
1135 | hard. It was traditionally used to make bows, especially the English | |
1136 | longbow. | |
1137 | ||
1138 | In England, the Common Yew (Taxus baccata, also known as English Yew) is | |
1139 | often found in churchyards. It is sometimes suggested that these are | |
1140 | placed there as a symbol of long life or trees of death, and some are | |
1141 | likely to be over 3,000 years old. It is also suggested that yew trees | |
1142 | may have a pre-Christian association with old pagan holy sites, and the | |
1143 | Christian church found it expedient to use and take over existing sites. | |
1144 | Another explanation is that the poisonous berries and foliage discourage | |
1145 | farmers and drovers from letting their animals wander into the burial | |
1146 | grounds. The yew tree is a frequent symbol in the Christian poetry of | |
51caa79e | 1147 | T.S. Eliot, especially his Four Quartets. |
4363636d | 1148 | |
4363636d DG |
1149 | =head2 v5.8.5-RC2 - wikipedia, "Beech" |
1150 | ||
2831a86c ZA |
1151 | L<Announced on 2004-07-09 by Nicholas Clark|http://groups.google.com/group/perl.perl5.porters/msg/f92175725af7a5ad> |
1152 | ||
4363636d DG |
1153 | Beeches are trees of the Genus Fagus, family Fagaceae, including about |
1154 | ten species in Europe, Asia, and North America. The leaves are entire or | |
1155 | sparsely toothed. The fruit is a small, sharply-angled nut, borne in | |
1156 | pairs in spiny husks. The beech most commonly grown as an ornamental or | |
1157 | shade tree is the European beech (Fagus sylvatica). | |
1158 | ||
1159 | The southern beeches belong to a different but related genus, | |
1160 | Nothofagus. They are found in Australia, New Zealand, New Guinea, New | |
51caa79e | 1161 | Caledonia and South America. |
4363636d | 1162 | |
4363636d DG |
1163 | =head2 v5.8.5-RC1 - wikipedia, "Pedunculate Oak" (abridged) |
1164 | ||
38183302 | 1165 | L<Announced on 2004-07-07 by Nicholas Clark|http://groups.google.com/group/perl.perl5.porters/msg/ca6ce4a7ed9f219c?pli=1> |
2831a86c | 1166 | |
4363636d DG |
1167 | The Pedunculate Oak is called the Common Oak in Britain, and is also |
1168 | often called the English Oak in other English speaking countries It is a | |
1169 | large deciduous tree to 25-35m tall (exceptionally to 40m), with lobed | |
1170 | and sessile (stalk-less) leaves. Flowering takes place in early to mid | |
1171 | spring, and their fruit, called "acorns", ripen by autumn of the same | |
1172 | year. The acorns are pedunculate (having a peduncle or acorn-stalk) and | |
1173 | may occur singly, or several acorns may occur on a stalk. | |
1174 | ||
1175 | It forms a long-lived tree, with a large widespreading head of rugged | |
1176 | branches. While it may naturally live to an age of a few centuries, many | |
1177 | of the oldest trees are pollarded or coppiced, both pruning techniques | |
1178 | that extend the tree's potential lifespan, if not its health. | |
1179 | ||
1180 | Within its native range it is valued for its importance to insects and | |
1181 | other wildlife. Numerous insects live on the leaves, buds, and in the | |
1182 | acorns. The acorns form a valuable food resource for several small | |
1183 | mammals and some birds, notably Jays Garrulus glandarius. | |
1184 | ||
1185 | It is planted for forestry, and produces a long-lasting and durable | |
51caa79e | 1186 | heartwood, much in demand for interior and furniture work. |
4363636d | 1187 | |
4363636d DG |
1188 | =head2 v5.8.4 - T. S. Eliot, "The Old Gumbie Cat" |
1189 | ||
2831a86c ZA |
1190 | L<Announced on 2004-04-22 by Nicholas Clark|http://groups.google.com/group/perl.perl5.porters/msg/c7333acf03ef4015> |
1191 | ||
4363636d DG |
1192 | I have a Gumbie Cat in mind, her name is Jennyanydots; |
1193 | The curtain-cord she likes to wind, and tie it into sailor-knots. | |
1194 | She sits upon the window-sill, or anything that's smooth and flat: | |
1195 | She sits and sits and sits and sits -- and that's what makes a Gumbie Cat! | |
1196 | ||
1197 | But when the day's hustle and bustle is done, | |
1198 | Then the Gumbie Cat's work is but hardly begun. | |
1199 | She thinks that the cockroaches just need employment | |
1200 | To prevent them from idle and wanton destroyment. | |
1201 | So she's formed, from that a lot of disorderly louts, | |
1202 | A troop of well-disciplined helpful boy-scouts, | |
1203 | With a purpose in life and a good deed to do-- | |
1204 | And she's even created a Beetles' Tattoo. | |
1205 | ||
4363636d DG |
1206 | So for Old Gumbie Cats let us now give three cheers -- |
1207 | On whom well-ordered households depend, it appears. | |
1208 | ||
4363636d DG |
1209 | |
1210 | =head2 v5.8.4-RC2 - T. S. Eliot, "Macavity: The Mystery Cat" | |
1211 | ||
2831a86c ZA |
1212 | L<Announced on 2004-04-16 by Nicholas Clark|http://groups.google.com/group/perl.perl5.porters/msg/84f6fdd73cc56a1b> |
1213 | ||
4363636d DG |
1214 | Macavity's a Mystery Cat: he's called the Hidden Paw -- |
1215 | For he's the master criminal who can defy the Law. | |
1216 | He's the bafflement of Scotland Yard, the Flying Squad's despair: | |
1217 | For when they reach the scene of crime -- /Macavity's not there/! | |
1218 | ||
1219 | Macavity, Macavity, there's no one like Macavity, | |
1220 | He's broken every human law, he breaks the law of gravity. | |
1221 | His powers of levitation would make a fakir stare, | |
1222 | And when you reach the scene of crime -- /Macavity's not there/! | |
1223 | You may seek him in the basement, you may look up in the air -- | |
1224 | But I tell you once and once again, /Macavity's not there/! | |
1225 | ||
4363636d DG |
1226 | =head2 v5.8.4-RC1 - T. S. Eliot, "Skimbleshanks: The Railway Cat" |
1227 | ||
2831a86c ZA |
1228 | L<Announced on 2004-04-05 by Nicholas Clark|http://groups.google.com/group/perl.perl5.porters/msg/e500353440769ebf> |
1229 | ||
4363636d DG |
1230 | There's a whisper down the line at 11.39 |
1231 | When the Night Mail's ready to depart, | |
1232 | Saying 'Skimble where is Skimble has he gone to hunt the thimble? | |
1233 | We must find him of the train can't start.' | |
1234 | All the guards and all the porters and the stationmaster's daughters | |
1235 | They are searching high and low, | |
1236 | Saying 'Skimble where is Skimble for unless he's very nimble | |
1237 | Then the Night Mail just can't go' | |
1238 | At 11.42 then the signal's overdue | |
1239 | And the passengers are frantic to a man-- | |
1240 | Then Skimble will appear and he'll saunter to the rear: | |
1241 | He's been busy in the luggage van! | |
1242 | He gives one flash of his glass-green eyes | |
1243 | And the the signal goes 'All Clear!' | |
1244 | And we're off at last of the northern part | |
1245 | Of the Northern Hemisphere! | |
1246 | ||
4363636d DG |
1247 | =head2 v5.8.3 - Arthur William Edgar O'Shaugnessy, "Ode" |
1248 | ||
2831a86c ZA |
1249 | L<Announced on 2004-01-14 by Nicholas Clark|http://groups.google.com/group/perl.perl5.porters/msg/968fb8d71e23af69> |
1250 | ||
51caa79e DG |
1251 | We are the music makers, |
1252 | And we are the dreamers of dreams, | |
1253 | Wandering by lonely sea-breakers, | |
1254 | And sitting by desolate streams; -- | |
1255 | World-losers and world-forsakers, | |
1256 | On whom the pale moon gleams: | |
1257 | Yet we are the movers and shakers | |
1258 | Of the world for ever, it seems. | |
4363636d | 1259 | |
4363636d DG |
1260 | =head2 v5.8.3-RC1 - Irving Berlin, "Let's Face the Music and Dance" |
1261 | ||
2831a86c ZA |
1262 | L<Announced on 2004-01-07 by Nicholas Clark|http://groups.google.com/group/perl.perl5.porters/msg/5ced50bebcd11c96> |
1263 | ||
4363636d DG |
1264 | There may be trouble ahead, |
1265 | But while there's music and moonlight, | |
1266 | And love and romance, | |
1267 | Let's face the music and dance. | |
1268 | ||
1269 | Before the fiddlers have fled, | |
1270 | Before they ask us to pay the bill, | |
1271 | And while we still have that chance, | |
1272 | Let's face the music and dance. | |
1273 | ||
1274 | Soon, we'll be without the moon, | |
1275 | Humming a different tune, and then, | |
1276 | ||
1277 | There may be teardrops to shed, | |
1278 | So while there's music and moonlight, | |
1279 | And love and romance, | |
1280 | Let's face the music and dance. | |
1281 | ||
4363636d DG |
1282 | =head2 v5.8.2 - Walt Whitman, "Passage to India" |
1283 | ||
2831a86c ZA |
1284 | L<Announced on 2003-11-06 by Nicholas Clark|http://groups.google.com/group/perl.perl5.porters/msg/4714574f93967673> |
1285 | ||
4363636d DG |
1286 | Passage, immediate passage! the blood burns in my veins! |
1287 | Away O soul! hoist instantly the anchor! | |
1288 | Cut the hawsers - hall out - shake out every sail! | |
1289 | Have we not stood here like trees in the ground long enough? | |
1290 | Have we not grovel'd here long enough, eating and drinking like mere brutes? | |
1291 | Have we not darken'd and dazed ourselves with books long enough? | |
1292 | ||
4363636d DG |
1293 | Sail forth - steer for the deep waters only, |
1294 | Reckless O soul, exploring, I with the and thou with me, | |
1295 | For we are bound where mariner has not yet dared to go, | |
1296 | And we will risk the ship, ourselves and all. | |
1297 | ||
1298 | O my brave soul! | |
1299 | O farther farther sail! | |
1300 | O daring job, but safe! are they not all the seas of God? | |
1301 | O farther, farther, farther sail! | |
1302 | ||
4363636d DG |
1303 | =head2 v5.8.2-RC2 - Eric Idle/John Du Prez, "Accountancy Shanty" |
1304 | ||
2831a86c ZA |
1305 | L<Announced on 2003-11-03 by Nicholas Clark|http://groups.google.com/group/perl.perl5.porters/msg/7669de5804b792f6> |
1306 | ||
4363636d DG |
1307 | It's fun to charter an accountant |
1308 | And sail the wide accountan-cy, | |
1309 | To find, explore the funds offshore | |
1310 | And skirt the shoals of bankruptcy. | |
1311 | ||
4363636d DG |
1312 | =head2 v5.8.2-RC1 - Edward Lear, "The Jumblies" |
1313 | ||
2831a86c ZA |
1314 | L<Announced on 2003-10-28 by Nicholas Clark|http://groups.google.com/group/perl.perl5.porters/msg/83680ef3bbf7378d> |
1315 | ||
4363636d DG |
1316 | They went to sea in a Sieve, they did, |
1317 | In a Sieve they went to sea: | |
1318 | In spite of all their friends could say, | |
1319 | On a winter's morn, on a stormy day, | |
1320 | In a Sieve they went to sea! | |
1321 | And when the Sieve turned round and round, | |
1322 | And everyone cried, "You'll all be drowned!" | |
1323 | They cried aloud, "Our Sieve ain't big, | |
1324 | But we don't care a button, we don't care a fig! | |
1325 | In a Sieve we'll go to sea!" | |
1326 | ||
1327 | Far and few, far and few, | |
1328 | Are the lands where the Jumblies live; | |
1329 | Their heads are green, and their hands are blue, | |
1330 | And they went to sea in a Sieve. | |
1331 | ||
2831a86c ZA |
1332 | =head2 v5.8.1 - epigraph same as v5.7.1 |
1333 | ||
1334 | L<Announced on 2003-09-25 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/09/msg82678.html> | |
1335 | ||
1336 | =head2 v5.8.1-RC5 - Terry Pratchett, "Lords and Ladies" | |
1337 | ||
1338 | L<Announced on 2003-09-22 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/09/msg82476.html> | |
1339 | ||
1340 | No matter what she did with her hair it took about | |
1341 | three minutes for it to tangle itself up again, | |
1342 | like a garden hosepipe in a shed [Footnote: Which, | |
1343 | no matter how carefully coiled, will always uncoil | |
1344 | overnight and tie the lawnmower to the bicycles]. | |
1345 | ||
1346 | =head2 v5.8.1-RC4 - Terry Pratchett, "Interesting Times" | |
1347 | ||
1348 | L<Announced on 2003-08-01 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/08/msg79184.html> | |
1349 | ||
1350 | Grand Viziers were /always/ scheming megalomaniacs. | |
1351 | It was probably in the job description: "Are you a | |
1352 | devious, plotting, unreliable madman? Ah, good, | |
1353 | then you can be my most trusted minister." | |
1354 | ||
1355 | =head2 v5.8.1-RC3 - Terry Pratchett, "Interesting Times" | |
1356 | ||
1357 | L<Announced on 2003-07-30 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/07/msg79048.html> | |
1358 | ||
1359 | Lord Hong had a mind like a knife, although possibly | |
1360 | a knife with a curved blade. | |
1361 | ||
1362 | =head2 v5.8.1-RC2 - Terry Pratchett, "Interesting Times" | |
1363 | ||
1364 | L<Announced on 2003-07-11 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/07/msg78102.html> | |
1365 | ||
1366 | Many an ancient lord's last words had been, "You can't kill | |
1367 | me because I've got magic aaargh." | |
1368 | ||
1369 | =head2 v5.8.1-RC1 - Terry Pratchett, "Interesting Times" | |
1370 | ||
1371 | L<Announced on 2003-07-10 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/07/msg78009.html> | |
1372 | ||
1373 | Cohen was familiar with city gates. He'd broken down a number | |
1374 | in his time, by battering ram, siege gun, and on one occasion | |
1375 | with his head. | |
1376 | ||
1377 | But the gates of Hunghung were pretty damn good gates. They | |
1378 | weren't like the gates of Ankh-Morpork, which were usually wide | |
1379 | open to attract the spending customer and whose concession to | |
1380 | defense was the sign "Thank You For Not Attacking Our City. | |
1381 | Bonum Diem." These things were big and made of metal and there | |
1382 | was a guardhouse and a squad of unhelpful men in black armor. | |
1383 | ||
2831a86c ZA |
1384 | =head2 v5.8.0 - Terry Pratchett, "Reaper Man" |
1385 | ||
1386 | L<Announced on 2002-07-18 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2002/07/msg63720.html> | |
1387 | ||
1388 | There was the faint sound of footsteps. | |
1389 | "Chap with a whip got as far as the big sharp spikes last week," | |
1390 | said the low priest. | |
1391 | There was a sound like the flushing of a very old dry lavatory. | |
1392 | The footsteps stopped. The High Priest smiled to himself. | |
1393 | "Right," he said. "See your two pebbles and raise you two pebbles." | |
1394 | The low priest threw down his cards. "Double Onion," he said. | |
1395 | The High Priest looked down suspiciously. | |
1396 | The low priest consulted a scrap of paper. "That's three hundred | |
1397 | thousand, nine hundred and sixty-four pebbles you owe me," he said. | |
1398 | There was the sound of footsteps. The priests exchanged glances. | |
1399 | "Haven't had one for poisoned-dart alley for quite some time," | |
1400 | said the High Priest. | |
1401 | "Five says he makes it", said the low priest. "You're on." | |
1402 | There was a faint clatter of metal points on stone. | |
1403 | "It's a shame to take your pebbles." | |
1404 | There were footsteps again. | |
1405 | ||
1406 | =head2 v5.8.0-RC3 - no epigraph | |
1407 | ||
1408 | L<Announced on 2002-07-13 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2002/07/msg63234.html> | |
1409 | ||
1410 | =head2 v5.8.0-RC2 - no epigraph | |
1411 | ||
1412 | L<Announced on 2002-06-21 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2002/06/msg62013.html> | |
1413 | ||
1414 | =head2 v5.8.0-RC1 - no epigraph | |
1415 | ||
1416 | L<Announced on 2002-06-01 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2002/06/msg60317.html> | |
1417 | ||
1418 | =head2 v5.7.3 - Terry Pratchett, "Reaper Man" | |
1419 | ||
1420 | L<Announced on 2002-03-04 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2002/03/msg53652.html> | |
1421 | ||
1422 | Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. | |
1423 | No matter how fast light travels it finds the darkness has always | |
1424 | got there first, and is waiting for it. | |
1425 | ||
1426 | =head2 v5.7.2 - Terry Pratchett, "Small Gods" | |
1427 | ||
1428 | L<Announced on 2001-07-13 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2001/07/msg40370.html> | |
1429 | ||
1430 | His philosophy was a mixture of three famous schools -- | |
1431 | the Cynics, the Stoics and the Epicureans -- and summed up | |
1432 | all three of them in his famous phrase, "You can't trust any | |
1433 | bugger further than you can throw him, and there's nothing | |
1434 | you can do about it, so let's have a drink." | |
1435 | ||
1436 | =head2 v5.7.1 - Terry Pratchett, "The Colour of Magic" | |
1437 | ||
1438 | L<Announced on 2001-07-13 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2001/04/msg33851.html> | |
4363636d | 1439 | |
4363636d DG |
1440 | "What happens next?" asked Twoflower. |
1441 | ||
1442 | Hrun screwed a finger in his ear and inspected it absently. | |
1443 | ||
1444 | "Oh,", he said, "I expect in a minute the door will be | |
1445 | flung back and I'll be dragged off to some sort of temple | |
1446 | arena where I'll fight maybe a couple of giant spiders | |
1447 | and an eight-foot slave from the jungles of Klatch and then | |
1448 | I'll rescue some kind of a princess from the altar and then | |
1449 | I'll kill off a few guards or whatever and then this girl | |
1450 | will show me the secret passage out of the place and we'll | |
1451 | liberate a couple of horses and escape with the treasure." | |
1452 | Hrun leaned his head back on his hands and looked at the | |
1453 | ceiling, whistling tunelessly. | |
1454 | ||
1455 | "All that?" said Twoflower. | |
1456 | ||
1457 | "Usually." | |
1458 | ||
c7bed260 Z |
1459 | =head2 v5.7.0 - Terry Pratchett, "Moving Pictures" |
1460 | ||
1461 | L<Announced on 2000-09-02 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2000/09/msg17730.html> | |
1462 | ||
1463 | The Librarian had seen many weird things in his time, | |
1464 | but that had to be the 57th strangest. | |
1465 | [footnote: he had a tidy mind] | |
1466 | ||
1467 | =head2 v5.6.2 - Sterne, "Tristram Shandy" | |
1468 | ||
1469 | L<Announced on 2003-11-15 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://groups.google.com/group/perl.perl5.porters/msg/deb8cb9ad918716f> | |
1470 | ||
1471 | When great or unexpected events fall out upon the stage of this | |
1472 | sublunary word--the mind of man, which is an inquisitive kind of | |
1473 | a substance, naturally takes a flight, behind the scenes, to see | |
1474 | what is the cause and first spring of them--The search was not | |
1475 | long in this instance. | |
1476 | ||
1477 | =head2 v5.6.2-RC1 - Sterne, "Tristram Shandy" | |
1478 | ||
1479 | L<Announced on 2003-11-15 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://groups.google.com/group/perl.perl5.porters/msg/e3d4acc7a8dd3ce5> | |
1480 | ||
1481 | "Pray, my dear", quoth my mother, "have you not forgot to wind up the clock?" | |
1482 | ||
2831a86c | 1483 | =head2 v5.6.1 - J R R Tolkien, "The Hobbit", Riddles in the Dark |
4363636d | 1484 | |
2831a86c | 1485 | L<Announced on 2001-04-08 by Gurusamy Sarathy|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2001/04/msg33823.html> |
4363636d | 1486 | |
2831a86c ZA |
1487 | `What have I got in my pocket?' he said aloud. He was talking to |
1488 | himself, but Gollum thought it was a riddle, and he was frightfully | |
1489 | upset. | |
4363636d | 1490 | |
2831a86c ZA |
1491 | `Not fair! not fair!' he hissed. `It isn't fair, my precious, is it, |
1492 | to ask us what it's got in its nassty little pocketses?' | |
4363636d | 1493 | |
2831a86c ZA |
1494 | Bilbo seeing what had happened and having nothing better to ask |
1495 | stuck to his question, `What have I got in my pocket?' he said | |
1496 | louder. | |
4363636d | 1497 | |
2831a86c ZA |
1498 | `S-s-s-s-s,' hissed Gollum. `It must give us three guesseses, |
1499 | my precious, three guesseses.' | |
4363636d | 1500 | |
2831a86c | 1501 | =head2 v5.6.1-foolish - no epigraph |
4363636d | 1502 | |
2831a86c | 1503 | L<Announced on 2001-08-04 by Gurusamy Sarathy|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2001/04/msg33421.html> |
3e340399 | 1504 | |
2831a86c | 1505 | =head2 v5.6.1-TRIAL3 - I can't find the announcement |
4363636d | 1506 | |
a4b0381d MS |
1507 | No announcement available. |
1508 | ||
2831a86c | 1509 | =head2 v5.6.1-TRIAL2 - no epigraph |
4363636d | 1510 | |
2831a86c | 1511 | L<Announced on 2001-01-31 by Gurusamy Sarathy|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2001/01/msg29934.html> |
4363636d | 1512 | |
2831a86c | 1513 | =head2 v5.6.1-TRIAL1 - no epigraph |
4363636d | 1514 | |
2831a86c | 1515 | L<Announced on 2000-12-18 by Gurusamy Sarathy|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2000/12/msg27738.html> |
4363636d | 1516 | |
2831a86c | 1517 | =head2 v5.6.0 - J R R Tolkien, "The Hobbit", The Last Stage |
a4b0381d | 1518 | |
2831a86c ZA |
1519 | L<Announced on 2000-03-23 by Gurusamy Sarathy|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2000/03/msg10341.html> |
1520 | ||
1521 | The dragon is withered, | |
1522 | His bones are now crumbled; | |
1523 | His armour is shivered, | |
1524 | His splendour is humbled! | |
1525 | Though sword shall be rusted, | |
1526 | And throne and crown perish | |
1527 | With strength that men trusted | |
1528 | And wealth that they cherish, | |
1529 | Here grass is still growing, | |
1530 | And leaves are a yet swinging, | |
1531 | The white water flowing, | |
1532 | And elves are yet singing | |
1533 | Come! Tra-la-la-lally! | |
1534 | Come back to the valley. | |
1535 | ||
2831a86c ZA |
1536 | =head2 v5.6.0-RC3 - no epigraph |
1537 | ||
1538 | L<Announced on 2000-03-22 by Gurusamy Sarathy|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2000/03/msg10140.html> | |
4363636d | 1539 | |
c7bed260 Z |
1540 | =head2 v5.005_05-RC1 - no epigraph |
1541 | ||
1542 | L<Announced on 2009-02-16 by LE<0xe9>on Brocard|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2009/02/msg144227.html> | |
1543 | ||
1544 | =head2 v5.005_04 - no epigraph | |
1545 | ||
1546 | L<Announced on 2004-03-01 by LE<0xe9>on Brocard|http://groups.google.com/group/perl.perl5.porters/msg/6c240ad0b189cb47> | |
1547 | ||
1548 | =head2 v5.005_04-RC2 - Rudyard Kipling, "The Jungle Book" | |
1549 | ||
1550 | L<Announced on 2004-02-19 by LE<0xe9>on Brocard|http://groups.google.com/group/perl.perl5.porters/msg/83e5421124a7b49d> | |
1551 | ||
1552 | The monkeys called the place their city, and pretended to despise | |
1553 | the Jungle-People because they lived in the forest. And yet they | |
1554 | never knew what the buildings were made for nor how to use | |
1555 | them. They would sit in circles on the hall of the king's council | |
1556 | chamber, and scratch for fleas and pretend to be men; or they would | |
1557 | run in and out of the roofless houses and collect pieces of plaster | |
1558 | and old bricks in a corner, and forget where they had hidden them, | |
1559 | and fight and cry in scuffling crowds, and then break off to play up | |
1560 | and down the terraces of the king's garden, where they would shake | |
1561 | the rose trees and the oranges in sport to see the fruit and flowers | |
1562 | fall. | |
1563 | ||
1564 | =head2 v5.005_04-RC1 - Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" | |
1565 | ||
1566 | L<Announced on 2004-02-05 by LE<0xe9>on Brocard|http://groups.google.com/group/perl.perl5.porters/msg/6aaeb6ec699bd116> | |
1567 | ||
1568 | Either the well was very deep, or she fell very slowly, for she had | |
1569 | plenty of time as she went down to look about her and to wonder what was | |
1570 | going to happen next. First, she tried to look down and make out what | |
1571 | she was coming to, but it was too dark to see anything; then she looked | |
1572 | at the sides of the well, and noticed that they were filled with | |
1573 | cupboards and book-shelves; here and there she saw maps and pictures | |
1574 | hung upon pegs. She took down a jar from one of the shelves as she | |
1575 | passed; it was labelled 'ORANGE MARMALADE', but to her great | |
1576 | disappointment it was empty: she did not like to drop the jar for fear | |
1577 | of killing somebody, so managed to put it into one of the cupboards as | |
1578 | she fell past it. | |
1579 | ||
1580 | =head2 v1.0_16 - Johan Vromans, extemporarily | |
1581 | ||
1582 | L<Announced on 2003-12-18 by Richard Clamp|http://groups.google.com/group/perl.perl5.porters/msg/9281dc6194d15940> | |
1583 | ||
4363636d DG |
1584 | =head1 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS |
1585 | ||
0e6b8110 | 1586 | This document was originally compiled based on a list of epigraphs |
4363636d DG |
1587 | on L<Perl Monks|http://perlmonks.org> titled |
1588 | L<Recent Perl Release Announcement|http://perlmonks.org/?node_id=372406> | |
1589 | by ysth. | |
1590 | ||
1591 | =cut | |
3e340399 | 1592 | |
4363636d | 1593 | # vim:tw=72: |