5 perlepigraphs - list of Perl release epigraphs
9 Many Perl release announcements included an I<epigraph>, a short excerpt
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.
14 I<Note>: these have also been referred to as I<epigrams>, but the
15 definition of I<epigraph> is closer to the way they have been used.
16 Consult your favorite dictionary for details.
20 =head2 v5.25.3 - Edward Lear, ed. Vivien Noakes, "The Complete Nonsense and Other Verse": The Dong with a Luminous Nose
22 L<Announced on 2016-07-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/07/msg238158.html>
24 When awful darkness and silence reign
25 Over the great Gromboolian plain,
26 Through the long, long wintry nights; -
27 When the angry breakers roar
28 As they beat on the rocky shore; -
29 When Storm-clouds brood on the towering heights
30 Of the Hills of the Chankly Bore: -
32 Then, through the vast and gloomy dark,
33 There moves what seems a fiery spark,
34 A lonely spark with silvery rays
35 Piercing the coal-black night, -
36 A Meteor strange and bright: -
37 Hither and thither the vision strays,
40 Slowly it wanders, - pauses, - creeps, -
41 Anon it sparkles, - flashes and leaps;
42 And ever as onward it gleaming goes
43 A light on the Bong-tree stems it throws.
44 And those who watch at that midnight hour
45 From Hall or Terrace, or lofty Tower,
46 Cry, as the wild light passes along, -
47 'The Dong! - the Dong!
48 The wandering Dong through the forest goes!
50 The Dong with a luminous Nose!'
52 =head2 v5.25.2 - Dan le Sac Vs Scroobius Pip "Waiting For The Beat To Kick In"
54 L<Announced on 2016-06-20 by Matthew Horsfall|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/06/msg237274.html>
56 Waiting for the beat to kick in
58 Waiting for my feet to grow wings
60 All of these tiresome things
62 Waiting for the beat to kick in
65 =head2 v5.25.1 - Eli Pariser, "The Filter Bubble"
67 L<Announced on 2016-05-20 by Sawyer X|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/05/msg236566.html>
69 Imagine that you're a smart high school student on the low end of the social
70 totem pole. You're alienated from adult authority, but unlike many teenagers,
71 you're also alienated from the power structures of your peers -- an existence
72 that can feel lonely and peripheral. Systems and equations are intuitive, but
73 people aren't -- social signals are confusing and messy, difficult to interpret.
75 Then you discover code. You may be powerless at the lunch table, but code
76 gives you power over an infinitely malleable world and opens the door to a
77 symbolic system that's perfectly clear and ordered. The jostling for position
78 and status fades away. The nagging parental voices disappear. There's just a
79 clean, white page for you to fill, an opportunity to build a better place, a
80 home, from the ground up.
82 No wonder you're a geek.
84 =head2 v5.25.0 - Robert Frost, "The Trial by Existence"
86 L<Announced on 2016-05-09 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/05/msg236244.html>
88 Even the bravest that are slain
89 Shall not dissemble their surprise
90 On waking to find valor reign,
91 Even as on earth, in paradise;
92 And where they sought without the sword
93 Wide fields of asphodel fore’er,
94 To find that the utmost reward
95 Of daring should be still to dare.
97 =head2 v5.24.1-RC1 - Dante Alighieri, trans. Dorothy L. Sayers, "The Divine Comedy", Cantica I: Hell, Canto XX
99 L<Announced on 2016-07-17 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/07/msg238072.html>
101 New punishments behoves me sing in this
102 Twentieth canto of my first canticle,
103 Which tells of spirits sunk in the Abyss.
105 I now stood ready to observe the full
106 Extent of the new chasm thus laid bare,
107 Drenched as it was in tears most miserable.
109 Through the round vale I saw folk drawing near,
110 Weeping and silent, and at such slow pace
111 As Litany processions keep, up here.
113 And presently, when I had dropped my gaze
114 Lower than the head, I saw them strangely wried
115 'Twixt collar-bone and chin, so that the face
117 Of each was turned towards his own backside,
118 And backwards must they needs creep with their feet,
119 All power of looking forward being denied.
121 =head2 v5.24.0 - Robert Frost, "The Black Cottage"
123 L<Announced on 2016-05-09 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/05/msg236242.html>
125 As I sit here, and oftentimes, I wish
126 I could be monarch of a desert land
127 I could devote and dedicate forever
128 To the truths we keep coming back and back to.
129 So desert it would have to be, so walled
130 By mountain ranges half in summer snow,
131 No one would covet it or think it worth
132 The pains of conquering to force change on.
133 Scattered oases where men dwelt, but mostly
134 Sand dunes held loosely in tamarisk
135 Blown over and over themselves in idleness.
136 Sand grains should sugar in the natal dew
137 The babe born to the desert, the sand storm
138 Retard mid-waste my cowering caravans—
140 “There are bees in this wall.” He struck the clapboards,
141 Fierce heads looked out; small bodies pivoted.
142 We rose to go. Sunset blazed on the windows.
144 =head2 v5.24.0-RC5 - The Mountain Goats, "No Children"
146 L<Announced on 2016-05-04 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/05/msg236198.html>
148 And I hope when you think of me years down the line
149 You can't find one good thing to say
150 And I'd hope that if I found the strength to walk out
151 You'd stay the hell out of my way
153 I am drowning, there is no sign of land
154 You are coming down with me, hand in unlovable hand
156 =head2 v5.24.0-RC4 - The Joker in "The Killing Joke"
158 L<Announced on 2016-05-02 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/05/msg236145.html>
160 "See, there were these two guys in a lunatic asylum…"
162 =head2 v5.24.0-RC3 - Jesse Vincent
164 L<Announced on 2016-04-27 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/04/msg236066.html>
166 The Great Pumpkin is a Santa-Claus like figure. He does bring toys like
167 Santa. But unlike Santa, who gives away toys because it's his job, he
168 gives away toys because it's the right thing to do.
170 =head2 v5.24.0-RC2 - Joseph Heller, "Catch-22"
172 L<Announced on 2016-04-23 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/04/msg235999.html>
174 “How do you feel, Yossarian?”
176 “Fine. No, I’m very frightened.”
178 “That’s good,” said Major Danby. “It proves you’re still alive. It won’t
181 Yossarian started out. “Yes it will.”
183 “I mean it, Yossarian. You’ll have to keep on your toes every minute of
184 every day. They’ll bend heaven and earth to catch you.”
186 “I’ll keep on my toes every minute.”
188 “You’ll have to jump.”
192 “Jump!” Major Danby cried.
196 Nately’s [girl] was hiding just outside the door. The knife came down,
197 missing him by inches, and he took off.
199 =head2 v5.24.0-RC1 - Robert Frost, "The Census-Taker"
201 L<Announced on 2016-04-14 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/04/msg235807.html>
203 Nothing was left to do that I could see
204 Unless to find that there was no one there
205 And declare to the cliffs too far for echo,
206 "The place is desert, and let whoso lurks
207 In silence, if in this he is aggrieved,
208 Break silence now or be forever silent.
209 Let him say why it should not be declared so."
210 The melancholy of having to count souls
211 Where they grow fewer and fewer every year
212 Is extreme where they shrink to none at all.
213 It must be I want life to go on living.
215 =head2 v5.23.9 - Tom Kitchin, "from nature to plate"
217 L<Announced on 2016-03-20 by Abigail|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/03/msg235251.html>
221 Spring is the proper beginning of my kitchen and a season that I
222 look forward to with great anticipation. By the time spring arrives
223 I am desperate to welcome all the spring produce into my kitchen
224 and I long to work with fresh green vegetables again. As much as I
225 love root vegetables, such as celeriac and parsnips, and the heaver
226 meat and game dishes, I'm ready to leave those behind with winter
227 and begin a new adventure.
229 Somehow spring always gives me a little bit of bounce in my feet
230 -- I feel like I want to kick off my shoes and dance around in my
231 kitchen. Not that I do, of course, but I feel lighter somehow. My
232 adrenalin kicks in with spring and so does the level of excitement,
233 as I think about all the produce that is about to come in.
235 The moment spring arrives I'm eager to cook peas, broad beans, green
236 asparagus and other fresh vegetables! I want to create lighter,
237 brighter dishes and I can't wait to get my hands on the first greens
238 and the first morels, not to mention the first wild Scottish salmon.
239 Thanks to my network of trusted suppliers, I always get to first
240 produce of the season delivered to my restaurant as soon as it is
241 possible. I want my customers to experience and understand the
242 beauty of locally grown produce and to try things the minute they
243 are available so they can taste how incredibly fresh the ingredients
244 are. I also want them to understand the relationship between
245 seasonality and flavours. One of the most important things to
246 remember is to allow the seasons to inspire your dishes and help
247 you make natural matches. Wild spring herbs, such as sorrel, sweet
248 cicely and wild garlic, as well as spring salad leaves and green
249 lettuce served with wild salmon, wild sea trout, lamb or rabbit are
250 marriages made in heaven.
253 =head2 v5.23.8 - Patrick Rothfuss, "The Wise Man's Fear (The Kingkiller's Chronicle: Day Two)"
255 L<Announced on 2016-02-20 by Sawyer X|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/02/msg234535.html>
257 Denna, on the other hand, had never been trained. She knew nothing
258 of shortcuts. You'd think she'd be forced to wander the city, lost and
259 helpless, trapped in a twisting maze of mortared stone.
261 But instead, she simply walked throught the walls. She didn't know
262 any better. Nobody had ever told her she couldn't. Because of this,
263 she moved through the city like some faerie creature. She walked roads
264 no one else could see, and it made her music wild and strange and
267 =head2 v5.23.7 - William Gibson, "Neuromancer"
269 L<Announced on 2016-01-20 by Stevan Little|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/01/msg233856.html>
271 A year here and he still dreamed of cyberspace, hope fading
272 nightly. All the speed he took, all the turns he'd taken and
273 the corners he cut in Night City, and he'd still see the matrix
274 in his dreams, bright lattices of logic unfolding across that
275 colourless void...The Sprawl was a long, strange way home now
276 over the Pacific, and he was no Console Man, no cyberspace
277 cowboy. Just another hustler, trying to make it through. But
278 the dreams came on in the Japanese night like livewire voodoo,
279 and he'd cry for it, cry in his sleep, and wake alone in the
280 dark, curled in his capsule in some coffin hotel, hands clawed
281 into the bedslab, temper foam bunched between his fingers,
282 trying to reach the console that wasn't there.
284 =head2 v5.23.6 - 5.23 Episode VII
286 L<Announced on 2015-12-21 by David Golden|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/12/msg233475.html>
288 A long time ago in microseconds, in a galaxy not very far away...
294 unrest as separatists
295 announce their intentions
296 to fork PERL and return the
297 galaxy to speed and stability.
299 Chancellor Rik Hoolian struggles
300 to hold together the remains of the
301 once mighty Republic against a tide of
302 incivility and the depredations of a new
303 foe, the FUZZ RAIDERS.
305 Meanwhile, after 15 years of preparation and
306 high expectations, Supreme Leader Toady prepares
307 to unleash a devastating new weapon, PERL SIXDOTOH,
308 that could splinter the Republic forever and usher in
309 a new Empire of gradual typing....
311 =head2 v5.23.5 - utastro!nather (Ed Nather), "The Story of Mel", in net.jokes, May 21, 1983.
313 L<Announced on 2015-11-20 by Abigail|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/11/msg232758.html>
315 After Mel had left the company for greener pa$ture$, the Big Boss asked
316 me to look at the code and see if I could find the test and reverse it.
317 Somewhat reluctantly, I agreed to look. Tracking Mel's code was a real
320 I have often felt that programming is an art form, whose real value can
321 only be appreciated by another versed in the same arcane art; there are
322 lovely gems and brilliant coups hidden from human view and admiration,
323 sometimes forever, by the very nature of the process. You can learn a
324 lot about an individual just by reading through his code, even in
325 hexadecimal. Mel was, I think, an unsung genius.
327 Perhaps my greatest shock came when I found an innocent loop that had
328 no test in it. No test. None. Common sense said it had to be a closed
329 loop, where the program would circle, forever, endlessly. Program
330 control passed right through it, however, and safely out the other side.
331 It took me two weeks to figure it out.
333 The RPC-4000 computer had a really modern facility called an index
334 register. It allowed the programmer to write a program loop that used
335 an indexed instruction inside; each time through, the number in the
336 index register was added to the address of that instruction, so it
337 would refer to the next datum in a series. He had only to increment
338 the index register each time through. Mel never used it.
340 Instead, he would pull the instruction into a machine register, add one
341 to its address, and store it back. He would then execute the modified
342 instruction right from the register. The loop was written so this
343 additional execution time was taken into account -- just as this
344 instruction finished, the next one was right under the drum's read head,
345 ready to go. But the loop had no test in it.
347 The vital clue came when I noticed the index register bit, the bit that
348 lay between the address and the operation code in the instruction word,
349 was turned on -- yet Mel never used the index register, leaving it zero
350 all the time. When the light went on it nearly blinded me.
352 He had located the data he was working on near the top of memory -- the
353 largest locations the instructions could address -- so, after the last
354 datum was handled, incrementing the instruction address would make it
355 overflow. The carry would add one to the operation code, changing it to
356 the next one in the instruction set: a jump instruction. Sure enough,
357 the next program instruction was in address location zero, and the
358 program went happily on its way.
360 =head2 v5.23.4 - Denis Diderot, trans. David Coward, "Jacques the Fatalist"
362 L<Announced on 2015-10-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/10/msg232040.html>
364 Well, everybody's got a dog. The prime minister is the king's dog. The
365 first secretary is the prime minister's dog. A wife is a husband's dog,
366 or a husband is a wife's dog. Favourite is Madame So-and-so's dog and
367 Thibaut is the man on the corner's dog. When my Master tells me to talk
368 when I'd prefer not to, which to be honest doesn't happen very often,
369 when he tells me to shut up when I feel like talking, which I find very
370 difficult, when he asks me to tell the story of my love-life and then
371 keeps interrupting, what am I if not his dog? Weak men are the dogs of
374 =head2 v5.23.3 - Oliver Wendell Holmes, "The Deacon’s Masterpiece or The Wonderful 'One-Hoss Shay': A Logical Story"
376 L<Announced on 2015-09-20 by Peter Martini|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/09/msg231173.html>
378 Little of of all we value here
379 Wakes on the morn of its hundredth year
380 Without both feeling and looking queer.
381 In fact, there’s nothing that keeps its youth,
382 So far as I know, but a tree and truth.
383 (This is a moral that runs at large;
384 Take it. — You’re welcome. — No extra charge.)
386 =head2 v5.23.2 - Blind Guardian, "Skalds and Shadows"
388 L<Announced on 2015-08-20 by Matthew Horsfall|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/08/msg230298.html>
390 Would you believe in a night like this
391 A night like this, when visions come true
392 Would you believe in a tale like this
393 A lay of bliss, praise in the old lore
394 Come to the blazing fire and
396 See me in the shadows
397 See me in the shadows
401 This night turns into myth
404 The world we live in is another skald's
408 Do you believe there is sense in it
410 They´re one in my rhymes
411 Nobody knows the meaning behind
413 Well nobody else but the Norns can
414 See through the blazing fires of time and
415 All things will proceed as the
416 Child of the hallowed
417 Will speak to you now
419 See me in the shadows
420 See me in the shadows
421 Songs I will sing of tribes and kings
422 The carrion bird and the hall of the slain
425 The world we live in is another skald´s
429 Do not fear for my reason
430 There's nothing to hide
431 How bitter your treason
433 Remember the runes and remember the light
434 All I ever want is to be at your side
435 We'll gladden the raven now I will
436 Run through the blazing fires
438 Cause things shall proceed as foreseen
440 =head2 v5.23.1 - Elizabeth Haydon, "The Assassin King"
442 L<Announced on 2015-07-20 by Matthew Horsfall|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/07/msg229413.html>
444 I was born beneath this willow,
445 Where my sire the earth did farm
446 Had the green grass as my pillow
447 The east wind as a blanket warm.
449 But away! away! called the wind from the west
450 And in answer I did run
451 Seeking glory and adventure
452 Promised by the rising sun.
454 I found love beneath this willow,
455 As true a love as life could hold,
456 Pledged my heart and swore my fealty
457 Sealed with a kiss and a band of gold.
459 But to arms! to arms! called the wind from the west
460 In faithful answer I did run
461 Marching forth for king and country
462 In battles 'neath the midday sun.
464 Oft I dreamt of that fair willow
465 As the seven seas I plied
466 And the girl who I left waiting
467 Longing to be at her side.
469 But about! about! called the wind from the west
470 As once again my ship did run
471 Down the coast, about the wide world
472 Flying sails in the setting sun.
474 Now I lie beneath the willow
475 Now at last no more to roam,
476 My bride and earth so tightly hold me
477 In their arms I'm finally home.
479 While away! away! calls the wind from the west
480 Beyond the grave my spirit, free
481 Will chase the sun into the morning
482 Beyond the sky, beyond the sea.
484 =head2 v5.23.0 - Bob Dylan, "Maggie's Farm"
486 L<Announced on 2015-06-20 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/06/msg228807.html>
488 I ain't gonna work on Maggie's farm no more
489 I ain't gonna work on Maggie's farm no more
492 But everybody wants you
494 They sing while you slave and I just get bored
495 I ain't gonna work on Maggie's farm no more
497 =head2 v5.22.3-RC1 - Dante Alighieri, trans. Dorothy L. Sayers, "The Divine Comedy", Cantica I: Hell, Canto XII
499 L<Announced on 2016-07-17 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/07/msg238071.html>
501 The place we came to, to descend the brink from,
502 Was sheer crag; and there was a Thing there - making,
503 All told, a prospect any eye would shrink from.
505 Like the great landslide that rushed downward, shaking
506 The bank of Adige on this side Trent,
507 (Whether through faulty shoring or the earth's quaking)
509 So that the rock, down from the summit rent
510 Far as the plain, lies strewn, and one might crawl
511 From top to bottom by that unsure descent,
513 Such was the precipice; and there we spied,
514 Topping the cleft that split the rocky wall,
515 That which was wombed in the false heifer's side,
517 The infamy of Crete, stretched out a-sprawl;
518 And seeing us, he gnawed himself, like one
519 Inly devoured with spite and burning gall.
521 =head2 v5.22.2 - Gaston Leroux, trans. Mireille Ribière, "The Phantom of the Opera"
523 L<Announced on 2016-04-29 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/04/msg236120.html>
525 A silence; and then: 'If, in just two minutes' time by my watch--and a
526 splendid watch it is--you have not turned the scorpion, mademoiselle, I
527 shall turn the grasshopper... and the grasshopper, remember, _leaps
528 straight up into the air!_'
529 The silence that ensued was terrifying, worse than any we had
530 experienced before. I knew that when Erik spoke with that quiet,
531 gentle, slightly weary voice, it meant that he had reached the end of
532 his tether: that he was capable of the most abominable crimes or the
533 most selfless devotion; that the slightest irritation might unleash a
535 Realizing that our fate was out of our hands, the Viscount fell to his
536 knees and prayed. As for me, I pressed both hands to my chest, for my
537 heart was pounding so fiercely that I thought it would burst. We were
538 intensely aware of the excruciating dilemma Christine Daaé faced in
539 those final seconds. We understood why she hesitated to turn the
540 scorpion. What if the scorpion, rather than the grasshopper, were to
541 set off the explosion? What if Erik was simply intent on destroying
542 everything, regardless?
543 At last he spoke: 'The two minutes are up,' he said in a soft, angelic
544 voice. 'Goodbye, mademoiselle. Off you go, little grasshopper!'
546 =head2 v5.22.2-RC1 - Gaston Leroux, trans. Mireille Ribière, "The Phantom of the Opera"
548 L<Announced on 2016-04-10 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/04/msg235732.html>
550 This annual ball was quite a magnificent affair. It was given some time
551 before Shrovetide to celebrate the birthday of a famous illustrator
552 whose pencil had immortalized, in the style of Gavarni, the extravagant
553 carnival parade down La Courtille. As such, the ball was an altogether
554 merrier, noisier and more Bohemian occasion than was usual for a masked
555 ball. Many artists had arranged to meet there; they arrived with an
556 entourage of models and pupils, who, by midnight, had become quite
558 Raoul climbed the grand staircase at five minutes to midnight. He did
559 not linger to admire the many-coloured costumes on display all the way
560 up the marble steps of one of the most luxurious settings in the world;
561 nor did he allow himself to be drawn into the facetious conversation of
562 masked guests. He simply ignored all the jesting remarks, and shook off
563 the attentions of several all too merry couples.
564 Crossing the big crush-room and escaping from the dancers' farandole
565 that had encircled him awhile, he at last entered the salon mentioned by
566 Christine in her letter. The small room was crammed with people either
567 on their way to supper at the restaurant in the Rotunda or back from
568 raising a glass of champagne.
569 In the midst of the gay and lively hubbub, Raoul thought that, for their
570 mysterious assignation, Christine must have preferred this crowd to some
572 He leaned against a door-jamb and waited. He did not have to wait long;
573 a black domino passed him and deftly touched his hand. He understood
574 that it was Christine and followed her.
575 'Is that you, Christine?' he murmured, barely moving his slips.
576 The black domino promptly looked back and raised her finger to her lips,
577 no doubt to caution him against uttering her name again. Raoul followed
580 =head2 v5.22.1 - Wilhelm Müller, trans. Anon., "Courage" (No. 22 in Schubert's song-cycle, "Winterreise")
582 L<Announced on 2015-12-13 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/12/msg233318.html>
584 If the snow flies in my face,
585 Let me shake it off me!
586 If my heart within me speaks,
587 I'll sing bright and gaily!
589 Will not listen what it says,
590 Have no ears for moaning.
591 Do not feel what it complains,--
592 Only fools like groaning!
594 Jolly brave into the world,
595 'Gainst all wind and weather,--
596 If there is no God on earth,
597 Let 's be gods down nether!
599 =head2 v5.22.1-RC4 - Wilhelm Müller, trans. Anon., "The Signpost" (No. 20 in Schubert's song-cycle, "Winterreise")
601 L<Announced on 2015-12-08 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/12/msg233215.html>
603 Why do I shun all those highways
604 Which the other wanderer seeks?
605 Why do I find bridged by-ways
606 Through snow-covered deep creeks?
608 For I have no crime committed,
609 Why I should now run from men,--
610 What demented heart's desire
611 Drives me to a desert glen?
613 Signposts on all highways stationed
614 Point their signs toward the towns,
615 Whilst I wonder 'yond moderation,
616 Without rest, yet seeking rest!
618 One such signpost I see planted
619 Of my question unconcerned,
620 One road must my choice be granted,
621 Whence no man has yet returned!
623 =head2 v5.22.1-RC3 - Wilhelm Müller, trans. Anon., "Stormy Morning" (No. 18 in Schubert's song-cycle, "Winterreise")
625 L<Announced on 2015-12-02 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/12/msg233032.html>
627 How the storm tore rents
628 In heavens gray attired!
629 The rags of cloud are flying
630 Around, of combat tired.
632 And flames of fire lambent,
633 Fly between them and part,
634 That 's what I call a morning,
635 A morning after my heart!
637 My heart sees in the heavens
638 Its own picture unspoilt--
639 It's nothing but the Winter,
640 The Winter, cold and wild.
642 =head2 v5.22.1-RC2 - Wilhelm Müller, trans. Anon., "The Old Head" (No. 14 in Schubert's song-cycle, "Winterreise")
644 L<Announced on 2015-11-15 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/11/msg232632.html>
646 The hoary frost has a white sheen
647 Strewn all over my hair,
648 So I thought I was an old man
649 And thought life dealt me fair.
651 Yet soon was thawed my old white mane,
652 And I have my black hair again.
653 How I abhor my young fair years,
654 How long to wait for death and biers?
656 From setting sun to morning's hue
657 Many a head turns white.
658 Who'll credit it? My hair did not
659 In all this lifelong plight!
661 =head2 v5.22.1-RC1 - Wilhelm Müller, trans. Anon., "Will-o'-the Wisp" (No. 9 in Schubert's song-cycle, "Winterreise")
663 L<Announced on 2015-10-31 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/10/msg232321.html>
665 In the deepest rocky crevice
666 A will-o'-the wisp lured me;
667 How I could find my way from here,
668 For me it's easy memory!
670 For I am used to straying ways,
671 Every path to th'end a way,
672 All our joys and all our suffering,--
673 To a will-o'-the wisp it 's all play!
675 Through the dried-up bed of torrents
676 I quite calmly downward stroll;
677 Every stream its sea will enter,
678 Every suffering finds its goal!
680 =head2 v5.22.0 - Gene Wolfe, The Citadel of the Autarch
682 L<Announced on 2015-06-01 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/06/msg228300.html>
684 “You are the advocate of the dead.”
686 The old man nodded. “I am. People talk about being fair to this one and
687 that one, but nobody I ever heard talks about doing right by them. We
688 take everything they had, which is all right. And spit, most often, on
689 their opinions, which I suppose is all right too. But we ought to
690 remember now and then how much of what we have we got from them. I
691 figure while I’m still here I ought to put a word in for them.”
693 =head2 v5.22.0-RC2 - T.S. Eliot, unpublished work
695 L<Announced on 2015-05-21 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/05/msg228142.html>
697 And when thyself with silver foot shall pass
698 Among the theories scattered on the grass
699 Take up my good intentions with the rest
701 =head2 v5.22.0-RC1 - Gene Wolfe, Citadel of the Autarch
703 L<Announced on 2015-05-19 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/05/msg228059.html>
705 There is no limit to stupidity. Space itself is said to be bounded by
706 its own curvature, but stupidity continues beyond infinity.
708 =head2 v5.21.11 - Algernon Charles Swinburne, "Dolores (Notre-Dame des Sept Douleurs)"
710 L<Announced on 2015-04-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/04/msg227472.html>
712 They shall pass and their places be taken,
713 The gods and the priests that are pure.
714 They shall pass, and shalt thou not be shaken?
715 They shall perish, and shalt thou endure?
716 Death laughs, breathing close and relentless
717 In the nostrils and eyelids of lust,
718 With a pinch in his fingers of scentless
721 But the worm shall revive thee with kisses;
722 Thou shalt change and transmute as a god,
723 As the rod to a serpent that hisses,
724 As the serpent again to a rod.
725 Thy life shall not cease though thou doff it;
726 Thou shalt live until evil be slain,
727 And good shall die first, said thy prophet,
730 =head2 v5.21.10 - Aldous Huxley, "The Devils of Loudun"
732 L<Announced on 2015-03-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/03/msg226847.html>
734 The fire burned on, the good fathers continued to sprinkle and intone.
735 Suddenly a flock of pigeons came swooping down from the church and
736 started to wheel around the roaring column of flame and smoke. The
737 crowd shouted, the archers waved their halberds at the birds, Lactance
738 and Tranquille splashed them on the wing with holy water. In vain. The
739 pigeons were not to be driven away. Round and round they flew, diving
740 through the smoke, singeing their feathers in the flames. Both parties
741 claimed a miracle. For the parson's enemies the birds, quite obviously,
742 were a troop of devils, come to fetch away his soul. For his friends,
743 they were emblems of the Holy Ghost and living proof of his innocence.
744 It never seems to have occurred to anyone that they were just pigeons,
745 obeying the laws of their own, their blessedly other-than-human nature.
747 =head2 v5.21.9 - Emily Dickinson, "There is Another Sky"
749 L<Announced on 2015-02-20 by Sawyer X|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/02/msg226002.html>
751 There is another sky,
752 Ever serene and fair,
753 And there is another sunshine,
754 Though it be darkness there;
755 Never mind faded forests, Austin,
756 Never mind silent fields -
757 Here is a little forest,
758 Whose leaf is ever green;
759 Here is a brighter garden,
760 Where not a frost has been;
761 In its unfading flowers
762 I hear the bright bee hum:
766 =head2 v5.21.8 - Bill Watterson, "Scientific Progress Goes 'Boink': A Calvin and Hobbes Collection"
768 L<Announced on 2015-01-20 by Matthew Horsfall|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/01/msg224869.html>
770 Calvin: OK Hobbes, press the button and duplicate me.
771 Hobbes: Are you sure this is such a good idea?
772 Calvin: Brother! You doubting Thomases get in the way of more scientific advances with your stupid ethical questions! This is a *BRILLIANT* idea! Hit the button, will ya?
773 Hobbes: I'd hate to be accused of inhibiting scientific progress... Here you go.
775 Hobbes: Scientific progress goes "BOINK"?
776 Calvin?: It worked! It worked! I'm a genius!
777 Cavlin??: No you're not, you liar! *I* invented this!
779 =head2 v5.21.7 - Robert Heinlein, "The Number of the Beast"
781 L<Announced on 2014-12-20 by Max Maischein|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/12/msg223774.html>
783 "Zebadiah, Hilda and I salvaged and put everything into the basket.
784 Hilda started to put it into our wardrobe-and it was heavy. So
785 we looked. Packed as tight as when we left Oz. Six bananas-and
786 everything else. Cross my heart. No, go look."
787 "Hmmm- Jake, can you write equations for a picnic basket that
788 refills itself? Will it go on doing so?"
789 "Zeb, equations can be written to describe anything. The description
790 would be simpler for a basket that replenishes itself indefinitely
791 than for one that does it once and stops-I would have to describe
794 =head2 v5.21.6 - Jeff Noon, "Vurt"
796 L<Announced on 2014-11-20 by Chris 'BinGOs' Williams|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/11/msg222448.html>
800 EXCHANGE MECHANISMS. Sometimes we lose precious
801 things. Friends and colleagues, fellow travellers in the
802 Vurt, sometimes we lose them; even lovers we sometimes
803 lose. And get bad things in exchange: aliens, objects,
804 snakes, and sometimes even death. Things we don't want.
805 This is part of the deal, part of the game deal;
806 all things, in all worlds, must be kept in balance.
807 Kittlings often ask, who decides on the swappings? Now then,
808 some say it's all accidental; that some poor Vurt thing
809 finds himself too close to a door, at too critical a time,
810 just when something real is being lost. Whoosh! Swap time!
811 Others say that some kind of overseer is working the
812 MECHANISMS OF EXCHANGE, deciding the fate of innocents.
813 The Cat can only tease at this, because of the big secrets
814 involved, and because of the levels between you, the reader,
815 and me, the Game Cat. Hey, listen; I've struggled to get
816 where I am today; why should I give you the easy route?
817 Get working, kittlings! Reach up higher. Work the Vurt.
819 =head2 v5.21.5 - Friso Wiegersma (text), Jean Ferrat (music), Wim Sonneveld (performer), "Het Dorp"
821 L<Announced on 2014-10-20 by Abigail|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/10/msg221399.html>
825 Thuis heb ik nog een ansichtkaart
826 waarop een kerk, een kar met paard,
827 een slagerij J. van der Ven.
828 Een kroeg, een juffrouw op de fiets
829 het zegt u hoogstwaarschijnlijk niets,
830 maar 't is waar ik geboren ben.
831 Dit dorp, ik weet nog hoe het was,
832 de boerenkind'ren in de klas,
833 een kar die ratelt op de keien,
834 het raadhuis met een pomp ervoor,
835 een zandweg tussen koren door,
836 het vee, de boerderijen.
838 En langs het tuinpad van m'n vader
839 zag ik de hoge bomen staan.
840 Ik was een kind en wist niet beter,
841 dan dat dat nooit voorbij zou gaan.
843 Wat leefden ze eenvoudig toen
844 in simp'le huizen tussen groen
845 met boerenbloemen en een heg.
846 Maar blijkbaar leefden ze verkeerd,
847 het dorp is gemoderniseerd
848 en nu zijn ze op de goeie weg.
849 Want ziet, hoe rijk het leven is,
850 ze zien de televisiequiz
851 en wonen in betonnen dozen,
852 met flink veel glas, dan kun je zien
853 hoe of het bankstel staat bij Mien
854 en d'r dressoir met plastic rozen.
856 En langs het tuinpad van m'n vader
857 zag ik de hoge bomen staan.
858 Ik was een kind en wist niet beter,
859 dan dat dat nooit voorbij zou gaan.
861 De dorpsjeugd klit wat bij elkaar
862 in minirok en beatle-haar
863 en joelt wat mee met beat-muziek.
864 Ik weet wel, het is hun goeie recht,
865 de nieuwe tijd, net wat u zegt,
866 maar het maakt me wat melancholiek.
867 Ik heb hun vaders nog gekend
868 ze kochten zoethout voor een cent
869 ik zag hun moeders touwtjespringen.
870 Dat dorp van toen, het is voorbij,
871 dit is al wat er bleef voor mij:
872 een ansicht en herinneringen.
874 Toen ik langs het tuinpad van m'n vader
875 de hoge bomen nog zag staan.
876 Ik was een kind, hoe kon ik weten
877 dat dat voorgoed voorbij zou gaan.
879 =head2 v5.21.4 - Edgar Allan Poe, "The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket"
881 L<Announced on 2014-09-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/09/msg220267.html>
883 To-day, being in latitude 83° 20', longitude 43° 5' W. (the sea being
884 of an extraordinarily dark colour), we again saw land from the
885 masthead, and, upon a closer scrutiny, found it to be one of a group
886 of very large islands. The shore was precipitous, and the interior
887 seemed to be well wooded, a circumstance which occasioned us great
888 joy. In about four hours from our first discovering the land we came
889 to anchor in ten fathoms, sandy bottom, a league from the coast, as a
890 high surf, with strong ripples here and there, rendered a nearer
891 approach of doubtful expediency. The two largest boats were now
892 ordered out, and a party, well armed (among whome were Peters and
893 myself), proceeded to look for an opening in the reef which appeared
894 to encircle the island. After searching about for some time, we
895 discovered an inlet, which we were entering, when we saw four large
896 canoes put off from the shore, filled with men who seemed to be well
897 armed. We waited for them to come up, and, as they moved with great
898 rapidity, they were soon within hail. Captain Guy now held up a white
899 handkerchief on the blade of an oar, when the strangers made a full
900 stop, and commenced a loud jabbering all at once, intermingled with
901 occasional shouts, in which we could distinguish the words Anamoo-moo!
902 and Lama-Lama! They continued this for at least half an hour, during
903 which we had a good opportunity of observing their appearance.
905 =head2 v5.21.3 - Robert Service, "The Men that Don't Fit In"
907 L<Announced on 2014-08-20 by Peter Martini|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/08/msg218826.html>
909 If they just went straight they might go far,
910 They are strong and brave and true;
911 But they're always tired of the things that are,
912 And they want the strange and new.
913 They say: "Could I find my proper groove,
914 What a deep mark I would make!"
915 So they chop and change, and each fresh move
916 Is only a fresh mistake.
918 =head2 v5.21.2 - Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, Charlie Duke, Final minutes of communication of the first manned moon landing, July 20, 1969
920 L<Announced on 2014-07-20 by Abigail|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/07/msg217937.html>
922 Armstrong: Okay. Here's a...Looks like a good area here.
923 Aldrin: I got the shadow out there.
924 Aldrin: 250, down at 2 1/2, 19 forward.
925 Aldrin: Altitude, velocity lights.
926 Aldrin: 3 1/2 down, 220 feet, 13 forward.
927 Aldrin: 11 forward. Coming down nicely.
928 Armstrong: Gonna be right over that crater.
929 Aldrin: 200 feet, 4 1/2 down.
931 Armstrong: I got a good spot [garbled].
932 Aldrin: 160 feet, 6 1/2 down.
933 Aldrin: 5 1/2 down, 9 forward. You're looking good.
935 Aldrin: 100 feet, 3 1/2 down, 9 forward. Five percent. Quantity light.
936 Aldrin: Okay. 75 feet. And it's looking good. Down a half, 6 forward.
939 Aldrin: 60 feet, down 2 1/2. 2 forward. 2 forward. That's good.
940 Aldrin: 40 feet, down 2 1/2. Picking up some dust.
941 Aldrin: 30 feet, 2 1/2 down. [Garbled] shadow.
942 Aldrin: 4 forward. 4 forward. Drifting to the right a little. 20 feet,
945 Aldrin: Drifting forward just a little bit; that's good.
946 Aldrin: Contact Light.
948 Aldrin: Okay. Engine Stop.
949 Aldrin: ACA out of Detent.
950 Armstrong: Out of Detent. Auto.
951 Aldrin: Mode Control, both Auto. Descent Engine Command Override, Off.
952 Engine Arm, Off. 413 is in.
953 Duke: We copy you down, Eagle.
954 Armstrong: Engine arm is off.
955 Armstrong: Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed.
956 Duke: Roger, Twan...[correcting himself] Tranquility. We copy you on
957 the ground. You got a bunch of guys about to turn blue.
958 We're breathing again. Thanks a lot.
961 =head2 v5.21.1 - Robert Jordan, "The Crossroads of Twilights", Book 10 of "The Wheel of Time"
963 L<Announced on 2014-06-20 by Matthew Horsfall|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/06/msg217030.html>
965 We rode on the winds of the rising storm,
966 We ran to the sounds of the thunder.
967 We danced among the lightning bolts,
968 and tore the world asunder.
970 -- Anonymous fragment of a poem believed
971 written near the end of the previous Age,
972 known by some as the Third Age.
973 Sometimes attributed to the Dragon
976 =head2 v5.21.0 - Friedrich von Schiller, "The Song of the Bell"
978 L<Announced on 2014-05-27 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/05/msg215826.html>
980 Walled in fast within the earth
981 Stands the form burnt out of clay.
982 This must be the bell’s great birth!
983 Fellows, lend a hand to-day.
984 Sweat must trickle now
985 From the burning brow,
986 Till the work its master honour.
987 Blessing comes from Heaven’s Donor.
989 =head2 v5.20.3 - Elias Lönnrot, trans. Keith Bosley, "The Kalevala", Canto 42: Stealing the Sampo
991 L<Announced on 2015-09-12 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/09/msg230945.html>
993 Steady old Väinämöinen
994 uttered a word and spoke thus:
995 'No lilting on the waters
996 and no singing on the waves!
999 Precious day would pass and night
1000 would overtake us midway
1001 on these wide waters
1002 upon these vast waves.'
1004 The wanton Lemminkäinen
1005 uttered a word and spoke thus:
1006 'The time will pass anyway
1007 the fair day will flee
1008 and the night will come panting
1009 and the twilight will steal in
1010 if you don't sing while you live
1011 nor hum in this world.'
1013 =head2 v5.20.3-RC2 - Anon., trans. Malcolm C. Lyons, "The Story of Abu Muhammad the Idle and the Marvels He Encountered with the Ape As Well As the Marvels of the Seas and Islands", from "Tales of the Marvellous and News of the Strange"
1015 L<Announced on 2015-08-29 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/08/msg230544.html>
1017 'I fled from Basra, sad and tearful, with no idea where I was going,
1018 and I was reciting these lines:
1020 The pain of parting makes me melt away,
1021 As lovers do when those they love are harsh.
1022 I wonder at the patience that I showed
1023 When I had lost my love, for that was wonderful.
1024 Beloved, do you know that since you left,
1025 I have remained confused in misery.
1027 I then heard a voice that said: "Damn you, have you no fear of
1028 Almighty God that you hand over a girl to an unbelieving 'ifrit?" I
1029 walked for a time amongst the palm-trees until I caught sight of a
1030 person, whom I approached. When I asked him who he was he said: "I
1031 am one of the jinn who were converted to Islam at the hands of 'Ali
1032 ibn Abi Talib, may God ennoble him." "How can I get to my wife?" I
1033 asked him, and he said: "Wretched fellow, you had a bird which you
1034 allowed to fly away and now you want to fly after it." But he
1035 added: "Follow this road with God's blessing all night until dawn
1036 and then by the shore you will see a huge cave in which there is an
1037 idol made of white stone. You must drink of the water that there is
1038 coming out of the cave and smear your face with its mud. Stay there
1039 and a barge will pass you as you stand opposite the statue. Various
1040 different creatures will emerge, heads without bodies and bodies
1041 without heads, and they will prostrate themselves in adoration to
1042 the idol rather than to Almighty God. When you see that, embark on
1043 the barge and cross to the other bank and walk along it until
1044 sunset. On a high point you will see a castle built of bricks of
1045 gold and silver. That is where your 'ifrit will be. I have now
1046 told you about this, so goodbye."
1048 =head2 v5.20.3-RC1 - Anon., trans. Malcolm C. Lyons, "The Story of Abu Muhammad the Idle and the Marvels He Encountered with the Ape As Well As the Marvels of the Seas and Islands", from "Tales of the Marvellous and News of the Strange"
1050 L<Announced on 2015-08-22 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/08/msg230359.html>
1052 'On the night of the wedding the ape came to sit in front of me and
1053 asked me what I intended to do. "Whatever you tell me," I replied,
1054 and he said: "Take care not to covet the girl, or I shall come back
1055 and burn you up and leave you as a lesson for those who can learn."
1056 I agreed to this and when evening came I found the world full of
1057 candles and torches burning in holders of gold and silver. There
1058 were servants and serving girls, and everyone who saw me
1059 congratulated me on my good fortune, as there was no girl on the
1060 face of the earth more beautiful than my bride.
1062 'Next morning I went out to the market, and people went in and asked
1063 her how the night had been. "He never looked up at me," she told
1064 them. Then, when it was afternoon, I went to my house, where the
1065 ape was sitting by the door. "Tell me what you did," it said, and I
1066 told it: "By God, I did not learn and do not know whether this was a
1067 man or a girl." "That's what I want," it said.
1069 'On the second night my bride was brought to me, after which the
1070 servants left her and went away. She fell asleep, and, while she
1071 was sleeping, I killed the cock, wrapped it in the cloth and put the
1072 four poles from the couch over it. Suddenly there was a huge crash
1073 like a peal of thunder and a fiery 'ifrit swooped on the girl. I
1074 fainted at the sight and when I recovered I heard a voice saying:
1075 "By the Lord of the Ka'ba, the girl has been carried off!" and there
1076 was a sound like the rustling of wind and bitter weeping. At this I
1077 shed tears, struck my head and was filled with regret when it was no
1078 longer of any use, for to me the whole world was worth no more than
1081 =head2 v5.20.2 - Jonathan "Jonti" Picking, L<"Magical Trevor"|http://www.weebls-stuff.com/other-toons/video/magical-trevor.html>
1083 L<Announced on 2015-02-14 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/02/msg225777.html>
1085 Everyone loves Magical Trevor,
1086 'Cos the tricks that he does are ever so clever;
1087 Look at him now, disappearin' the cow,
1088 Where is the cow hidden right now?
1090 Taking a bow, it's Magical Trevor,
1091 Everybody's seen that the trick is clever;
1092 Look at him there with his leathery, leathery whip!
1093 It's made of magic, and with a little flip--
1095 Yeah, yeah, yeah, the cow is back,
1096 Yeah, yeah, yeah, the cow is back;
1097 Back, back, back from his magical journey,
1100 What did he see in the parallel dimension?
1101 He saw beans, lots of beans, lots of beans, lots of beans;
1102 Oh, beans, lots of beans, lots of beans, lots of beans,
1105 =head2 v5.20.2-RC1 - Jonathan "Jonti" Picking, L<"Scampi"|http://www.weebls-stuff.com/other-toons/video/scampi.html>
1107 L<Announced on 2015-02-01 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/02/msg225273.html>
1110 I've seen them with my eyes;
1112 They're often in disguise.
1114 Like carrots, handbags, cheese, toilets,
1115 Russians, planets, hamsters, weddings,
1116 Poets, Stalin, Kuala Lumpur!
1117 Pygmies, budgies, Kuala Lumpur!
1120 I've seen them with my eyes;
1122 They're often in disguise.
1124 Like carrots, handbags, cheese...
1126 =head2 v5.20.1 - Lorenzo da Ponte, trans. Diana Reed, "Così fan tutte"
1128 L<Announced on 2014-09-14 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/09/msg219789.html>
1130 DORABELLA (as if waking from a daze): Where are they?
1131 DON ALFONSO: They've gone.
1132 FIORDILIGI: Oh, the cruel bitterness of parting!
1135 Take heart, my dearest children.
1136 Look, in the distance, your lovers are waving to you.
1138 FIORDILIGI: Bon voyage, my darling!
1139 DORABELLA: Bon voyage!
1142 O heavens! How swiftly the ship is sailing away!
1143 It is disappearing already!
1144 It is no longer in sight!
1145 Oh, may heaven grant it a prosperous voyage!
1147 DORABELLA: May good luck attend it to the battlefield!
1148 DON ALFONSO: And may your sweethearts and my friends be safe!
1150 FIORDILIGI, DORABELLA, DON ALFONSO:
1151 May the wind be gentle,
1152 may the sea be calm,
1153 and may the elements
1157 =head2 v5.20.1-RC2 - Lorenzo da Ponte, trans. William Weaver, "Così fan tutte"
1159 L<Announced on 2014-09-07 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/09/msg219446.html>
1162 Oh God, I feel that this foot of mine
1163 is reluctant to come before her.
1170 The hero displays his manliness
1171 in the most terrible moments.
1173 FIORDILIGI, DORABELLA:
1174 Now that we have heard the news,
1175 you have the lesser duty:
1176 Take heart, and plunge your swords
1177 into both our hearts.
1179 FERRANDO, GUGLIELMO:
1181 that I must abandon you.
1183 DORABELLA: Ah no, you shall not leave...
1184 FIORDILIGI: No, cruel one, you shall not go...
1185 DORABELLA: First I want to tear out my heart.
1186 FIORDILIGI: First I want to die at your feet.
1187 FERRANDO (softly to Don Alfonso): What do you say to that?
1188 GUGLIELMO (softly to Don Alfonso): You realise?
1189 DON ALFONSO (softly): Steady, friend, finem lauda.
1192 Thus destiny defrauds
1193 the hopes of mortals.
1194 Ah, among so many misfortunes,
1195 who can ever love life?
1197 =head2 v5.20.1-RC1 - Lorenzo da Ponte, trans. William Weaver, "Così fan tutte"
1199 L<Announced on 2014-08-25 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/08/msg218975.html>
1202 I'd like to speak, but I haven't the heart:
1204 My voice cannot emerge,
1205 but remains in my throat.
1206 What will you do? What shall I do?
1207 Oh what a great catastrophe!
1208 There can be nothing worse.
1209 I feel pity for you and for them.
1211 FIORDILIGI: Heavens! For mercy's sake, Signor Alfonso, don't make us
1213 DON ALFONSO: My children, you must arm yourselves with constancy.
1214 DORABELLA: Ye Gods! What evil has occurred? What horrible event? Is my
1216 FIORDILIGI: Is mine dead?
1217 DON ALFONSO: They are not dead, but they are not far from it.
1221 DON ALFONSO: Nor that.
1222 FIORDILIGI: What, then?
1223 DON ALFONSO: A royal command summons them to the field of battle.
1224 FIORDILIGI, DORABELLA: Alas, what do I hear? And they will leave?
1225 DON ALFONSO: Immediately.
1226 DORABELLA: And there is no way of preventing it?
1227 DON ALFONSO: There is none.
1228 FIORDILIGI: And not even a single farewell...
1229 DON ALFONSO: The unhappy men haven't the courage to see you; but if
1230 you wish it, they are ready...
1231 DORABELLA: Where are they?
1232 DON ALFONSO: Come in, friends.
1234 =head2 v5.20.0 - William Shakespeare, Sonnet 18
1236 L<Announced on 2014-05-27 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/05/msg215815.html>
1238 But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
1239 Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st;
1240 Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
1241 When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st:
1242 So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
1243 So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
1245 =head2 v5.20.0-RC1 - Lindsey Buckingham, "Second Hand News"
1247 L<Announced on 2014-05-17 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/05/msg215479.html>
1251 Won't you lay me down in tall grass
1252 And let me do my stuff
1254 =head2 v5.19.11 - Isidore-Lucien Ducasse [as "Comte de Lautréamont"], trans. Paul Knight, "Les Chants de Maldoror"
1256 L<Announced on 2014-04-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/04/msg214580.html>
1258 O rigorous mathematics, I have not forgotten you since your wise lessons,
1259 sweeter than honey, filtered into my heart like a refreshing wave.
1260 Instinctively, from the cradle, I had longed to drink from your source, older
1261 than the sun, and I continue to tread the sacred sanctuary of your solemn
1262 temple, I, the most faithful of your devotees. There was a vagueness in my
1263 mind, something thick as smoke; but I managed to mount the steps which lead to
1264 your altar, and you drove away this dark veil, as the wind blows the
1265 draught-board. You replaced it with excessive coldness, consummate prudence and
1266 implacable logic. With the aid of your fortifying milk, my intellect developed
1267 rapidly and took on immense proportions amid the ravishing lucidity which you
1268 bestow as a gift on all those who sincerely love you. Arithmetic! Algebra!
1269 Geometry! Awe-inspiring trinity! Luminous triangle! He who has not known you
1272 =head2 v5.19.10 - John Chadwick, "The Decipherment of Linear B"
1274 L<Announced on 2014-03-20 by Aaron Crane|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/03/msg213851.html>
1276 The urge to discover secrets is deeply ingrained in human nature; even
1277 the least curious mind is roused by the promise of sharing knowledge
1278 withheld from others. Some are fortunate enough to find a job which
1279 consists in the solution of mysteries, whether it be the physicist who
1280 tracks down a hitherto unknown nuclear particle or the policeman who
1281 detects a criminal. But most of us are driven to sublimate this urge
1282 by the solving of artificial puzzles devised for our entertainment.
1284 =head2 v5.19.9 - R. A. MacAvoy, "Tea with the Black Dragon"
1286 L<Announced on 2014-02-20 by Tony Cook|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/02/msg213047.html>
1288 Old hands. The smell of rain--the smell of Ch'an. Quiet words in
1289 rough Cantonese. "I am not to be your master. Your master has to be
1290 stronger than you are--has to tell you you are a fool and make you
1291 know it. And make you feel content in being a fool. How could I do
1292 that for you? I'm old. You are too strong for me; you are full of
1293 chi." The old man has paused then, huddled against the wind while
1294 clouds thickened above them.
1296 "I will tell you this, Long," he continued, "Before you find yourself
1297 you will lose your chi. Also you will leave behind you all pride of
1298 body, pride of mind. You will be reduced. Like me." The old man
1299 closed his eyes, and rain began to beat against his gray, crew-cut
1300 hair. He pulled his coat closer. Suddenly his eyes snapped open and
1301 he looked Long in the face.
1303 "You must leave China. Go across the ocean. There you will meet your
1304 master." He set down his teacup with a palsied hand. His voice rose,
1307 "I tell you this, most honored and impressive visitor. You are a
1308 fool, yes, but you will find the very thing you seek. You will find
1311 =head2 v5.19.8 - Joseph Heller, "Catch-22"
1313 L<Announced on 2014-01-20 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/01/msg211729.html>
1315 “I used to get a big kick out of saving people’s lives. Now I wonder what the
1316 hell’s the point, since they all have to die anyway.”
1318 “Oh, there’s a point, all right,” Dunbar assured him.
1320 “Is there? What is the point?”
1322 “The point is to keep them from dying for as long as you can.”
1324 “Yeah, but what’s the point, since they all have to die anyway?”
1326 “The trick is not to think about that.”
1328 “Never mind the trick. What the hell’s the point?”
1330 Dunbar pondered in silence for a few moments. “Who the hell knows?”
1332 =head2 v5.19.7 - Kurt Vonnegut, "Slaughterhouse-Five"
1334 L<Announced on 2013-12-20 by Abigail|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/12/msg210882.html>
1336 And somewhere in there was springtime. The corpse mines were closed
1337 down. The soldiers all left to fight the Russians. In the suburbs,
1338 the women and children dug rifle pits. Billy and the rest of his group
1339 were locked up in the stable in the suburbs. And then, one morning,
1340 they got up to discover that the door was unlocked. World War Two in
1343 Billy and the rest wandered out onto the shady street. The trees were
1344 leafing out. There was nothing going on out there, no traffic of any
1345 kind. There was only one vehicle, an abandoned wagon drawn by two
1346 horses. The wagon was green and coffin-shaped.
1350 One bird said to Billy Pilgrim, "Pee-tee-weet?"
1352 =head2 v5.19.6 - Monty Python's Flying Circus, "Spam"
1354 L<Announced on 2013-11-20 by Chris 'BinGOs' Williams|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/11/msg210043.html>
1356 Interior: cheap cafe. All the customers are Vikings. Mr and Mrs Bun enter downwards (on wires).
1360 Mr. Bun: What have you got, then?
1361 Waitress: Well there's egg and bacon; egg, sausage and bacon; egg and spam; egg, bacon and spam;
1362 egg, bacon, sausage and spam; spam, bacon, sausage and spam; spam, egg, spam, spam, bacon and spam;
1363 spam, spam, spam, egg and spam; spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, baked beans, spam, spam, spam and spam;
1364 or lobster thermidor aux crevettes, with a mornay sauce garnished with truffle pate, brandy and a fried
1366 Mrs. Bun: Have you got anything without spam in it?
1367 Waitress: Well, there's spam, egg, sausage and spam. That's not got MUCH spam in it.
1368 Mrs. Bun: I don't want ANY spam.
1369 Mr. Bun: Why can't she have egg, bacon, spam and sausage?
1370 Mrs. Bun: That's got spam in it!
1371 Mr. Bun: Not as much as spam, egg, sausage and spam.
1372 Mrs. Bun: Look, could I have egg, bacon, spam and sausage, without the spam.
1373 Waitress: Uuuuuuggggh!
1374 Mrs. Bun: What d'you mean, uugggh! I don't like spam.
1375 Vikings: (singing) Spam, spam, spam, spam, spam ... spam, spam, spam, spam ... lovely spam, wonderful spam ...
1377 (Brief shot of a Viking ship)
1379 Waitress: Shut up. Shut up! Shut up! You can't have egg, bacon, spam and sausage without the spam.
1381 Waitress: No, it wouldn't be egg, bacon, spam and sausage, would it?
1382 Mrs. Bun: I don't like spam!
1384 =head2 v5.19.5 - Charles Baudelaire, trans. James McGowan, "The Flowers of Evil", 51. The Cat
1386 L<Announced on 2013-10-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/10/msg208752.html>
1390 A cat is strolling through my mind
1391 Acting as though he owned the place,
1392 A lovely cat -- strong, charming, sweet.
1393 When he meows, one scarcely hears,
1395 So tender and discreet his tone;
1396 But whether he should growl or purr
1397 His voice is always rich and deep.
1398 That is the secret of his charm.
1400 This purling voice that filters down
1401 Into my darkest depths of soul
1402 Fulfils me like a balanced verse,
1403 Delights me as a potion would.
1405 It puts to sleep the cruellest ills
1406 And keeps a rein on ecstasies --
1407 Without the need for any words
1408 It can pronounce the longest phrase.
1410 Oh no, there is no bow that draws
1411 Across my heart, fine instrument,
1412 And makes to sing so royally
1413 The strongest and the purest chord,
1415 More than your voice, mysterious cat,
1416 Exotic cat, seraphic cat,
1417 In whom all is, angelically,
1418 As subtle as harmonious.
1422 From his soft fur, golden and brown,
1423 Goes out so sweet a scent, one night
1424 I might have been embalmed in it
1425 By giving him one little pet.
1427 He is my household's guardian soul;
1428 He judges, he presides, inspires
1429 All matters in hos royal realm;
1430 Might he be fairy? or a god?
1432 When my eyes, to this cat I love
1433 Drawn as by a magnet's force,
1434 Turn tamely back from that appeal,
1435 And when I look within myself,
1437 I notice with astonishment
1438 The fire of his opal eyes,
1439 Clear beacons glowing, living jewels,
1440 Taking my measure, steadily.
1442 =head2 v5.19.4 - Washington Irving, "The Widow and Her Son"
1444 L<Announced on 2013-09-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/09/msg207969.html>
1446 There is something in sickness that breaks down the pride of manhood;
1447 that softens the heart and brings it back to the feelings of infancy.
1448 Who that has languished, even in advanced life, in sickness and
1449 despondency — who that has pined on a weary bed in the neglect and
1450 loneliness of a foreign land — but has thought on the mother "that
1451 looked on his childhood," that smoothed his pillow and administered to
1452 his helplessness. — Oh! there is an enduring tenderness in the love
1453 of a mother to her son that transcends all other affections of the
1454 heart. It is neither to be chilled by selfishness — nor daunted by
1455 danger — nor weakened by worthlessness — nor stifled by ingratitude.
1456 She will sacrifice every comfort to his convenience — she will
1457 surrender every pleasure to his enjoyment — she will glory in his fame
1458 and exult in his prosperity. And if misfortune overtake him he will
1459 be the dearer to her from misfortune — and if disgrace settle upon his
1460 name, she will still love and cherish him in spite of his disgrace —
1461 and if all the world beside cast him off, she will be all the world to
1464 =head2 v5.19.3 - Andrew Hodges, "Alan Turing: The Enigma"
1466 L<Announced on 2013-08-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/08/msg206318.html>
1468 E.M. Forster, outdoing the King's heresy with grand bravura, had
1469 written in 1938 that if he were faced with the choice between
1470 betraying his country and betraying his friends, he hoped he would
1471 have the courage to betray his country. He would always put the
1472 personal above the political. But for Alan Turing, unlike Forster, or
1473 Wittgenstein, or G.H. Hardy, it was more than a theoretical question.
1474 For him not only had the personal become the political, but the
1475 political was the personal. He had chosen and promised for himself in
1476 working for the government. The choice for him therefore was that
1477 between betraying one part of himself and betraying another part. And
1478 however much he wavered between these alternatives, there was a solid
1479 logic to the mind of security, one that could not be expected to take
1480 an interest in notions of freedom and development. He had no rights
1481 to such things, as he would have had to admit. He might have
1482 outwitted the Home Guard, but when it came to questions that mattered,
1483 there was no doubt that he had placed himself under military law.
1484 There was a war on; there was always a war on now.
1486 =head2 v5.19.2 - Fred Brooks, "The Mythical Man-Month"
1488 L<Announced on 2013-07-22 by Aristotle Pagaltzis|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/07/msg204905.html>
1490 The magic of myth and legend has come true in our time. One types the
1491 correct incantation on a keyboard, and a display screen comes to life,
1492 showing things that never were nor could be. [...] Not all is delight,
1493 however [...] One must perform perfectly. The computer resembles the
1494 magic of legend in this respect, too. If one character, one pause, of
1495 the incantation is not strictly in proper form, the magic doesn't work.
1497 =head2 v5.19.1 - William Shakespeare, "A Midsummer Night's Dream"
1499 L<Announced on 2013-06-21 by David Golden|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/06/msg203449.html>
1501 Over hill, over dale,
1502 Thorough bush, thorough briar,
1503 Over park, over pale,
1504 Thorough flood, thorough fire,
1505 I do wander everywhere,
1506 Swifter than the moon's sphere;
1507 And I serve the fairy queen,
1508 To dew her orbs upon the green.
1509 The cowslips tall her pensioners be;
1510 In their gold coats, spots you see;
1511 Those be rubies, fairy favours,
1512 In their freckles live our savours.
1513 I must go seek some dew-drops here,
1514 And hang a perl in every cowslip's ear.
1515 Farewell, thou lob of spirits, I'll be gone;
1516 My queen and all her elves come here anon!
1518 =head2 v5.19.0 - Batman, of the Joker, in "The Dark Knight Returns"
1520 L<Announced on 2013-05-20 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/05/msg201980.html>
1522 From the beginning, I knew…
1523 …that there was nothing wrong with you…
1527 =head2 v5.18.4 - Robert W. Chambers, Cassilda's Song in "The King in Yellow," Act I, Scene 2
1529 L<Announced on 2014-10-01 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/10/msg220770.html>
1531 Along the shore the cloud waves break,
1532 The twin suns sink beneath the lake,
1533 The shadows lengthen
1536 Strange is the night where black stars rise,
1537 And strange moons circle through the skies
1538 But stranger still is
1541 Songs that the Hyades shall sing,
1542 Where flap the tatters of the King,
1546 Song of my soul, my voice is dead;
1547 Die thou, unsung, as tears unshed
1548 Shall dry and die in
1551 =head2 v5.18.3 - (no epigraph)
1555 =head2 v5.18.3-RC2 - Robert W. Chambers, "The King in Yellow", Act I, Scene 2
1557 L<Announced on 2014-09-27 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/09/msg220613.html>
1559 "Ah! I see it now!" I shrieked. "You have seized the throne and the
1560 empire. Woe! woe to you who are crowned with the crown of the King in
1563 =head2 v5.18.3-RC1 - Robert W. Chambers, "The King in Yellow", Act I, Scene 2
1565 L<Announced on 2014-09-17 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/09/msg220072.html>
1567 CAMILLA: You, sir, should unmask.
1571 CASSILDA: Indeed it's time. We all have laid aside disguise but you.
1573 STRANGER: I wear no mask.
1575 CAMILLA: (Terrified, aside to Cassilda.) No mask? No mask!
1577 =head2 v5.18.2 - Miss Manners
1579 L<Announced on 2014-01-06 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/01/msg211224.html>
1581 One of the major mistakes people make is that they think manners are
1582 only the expression of happy ideas. There's a whole range of behavior
1583 that can be expressed in a mannerly way. That's what civilization is all
1584 about – doing it in a mannerly and not an antagonistic way. One of the
1585 places we went wrong was the naturalistic Rousseauean movement of the
1586 Sixties in which people said, "Why can't you just say what's on your
1587 mind?" In civilization there have to be some restraints. If we followed
1588 every impulse, we'd be killing one another.
1590 =head2 v5.18.1 - Chuck Moore
1592 L<Announced on 2013-08-12 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/08/msg205897.html>
1594 The operating system is another concept that is curious. Operating
1595 systems are dauntingly complex and totally unnecessary. It’s a brilliant
1596 thing that Bill Gates has done in selling the world on the notion of
1597 operating systems. It’s probably the greatest con game the world has
1600 An operating system does absolutely nothing for you. As long as you had
1601 something — a subroutine called disk driver, a subroutine called some
1602 kind of communication support, in the modern world, it doesn’t do
1603 anything else. In fact, Windows spends a lot of time with overlays and
1604 disk management all stuff like that which are irrelevant. You’ve got
1605 gigabyte disks; you’ve got megabyte RAMs. The world has changed in a way
1606 that renders the operating system unnecessary.
1608 =head2 v5.18.1-RC1 - Chuck Moore
1610 L<Announced on 2013-08-02 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/08/msg205445.html>
1612 Compilers are probably the worst code ever written. They are written by
1613 someone who has never written a compiler before and will never do so
1614 again. The more elaborate the language, the more complex, bug-ridden,
1615 and unusable is the compiler. But a simple compiler for a simple
1616 language is an essential tool—if only for documentation.
1618 =head2 v5.18.0 - Yevgeny Zamyatin
1620 L<Announced on 2013-05-18 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/05/msg201940.html>
1622 It is an error to divide people into the living and the dead: there are people
1623 who are dead-alive, and people who are alive-alive. The dead-alive also write,
1624 walk, speak, act. But they make no mistakes; only machines make no mistakes,
1625 and they produce only dead things. The alive-alive are constantly in error, in
1626 search, in questions, in torment.
1628 =head2 v5.18.0-RC4 - Joseph Heller, "Catch-22"
1630 L<Announced on 2013-05-16 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/05/msg201889.html>
1632 Clevinger was dead. That was the basic flaw in his philosophy.
1634 =head2 v5.18.0-RC3 - Tom Waits, "The Ocean Doesn't Want Me"
1636 L<Announced on 2013-05-14 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/05/msg201823.html>
1638 I'd love to go drowning
1639 And to stay and to stay
1640 But the ocean doesn't want me today
1641 I'll go in up to here
1642 It can't possibly hurt
1643 All they will find is my beer
1646 =head2 v5.18.0-RC2 - Tom Waits, "Earth Died Screaming"
1648 L<Announced on 2013-05-12 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/05/msg201723.html>
1650 And the great day of wrath has come
1651 And here's mud in your big red eye
1652 The poker's in the fire
1653 And the locusts take the sky
1654 And the earth died screaming
1655 While I lay dreaming of you
1657 =head2 v5.18.0-RC1 - Tom Waits, "What's He Building in There?"
1659 L<Announced on 2013-05-11 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/05/msg201651.html>
1661 What's he building in there?
1663 We have a right to know…
1665 =head2 v5.17.11 - Nigel Tufnel in "This is Spın̈al Tap"
1667 L<Announced on 2013-04-20 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/04/msg201056.html>
1669 It's very special because, if you can see, the numbers all go to…
1670 eleven! Look, right across the board: eleven, eleven, eleven, eleven!
1672 =head2 v5.17.10 - Vernor Vinge, "A Fire Upon The Deep"
1674 L<Announced on 2013-03-23 by Max Maischein|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/03/msg200504.html>
1676 The archive informed the automation. Data structures were built, recipes
1677 followed. A local network was built, faster than anything on Straum, but surely
1678 safe. Nodes were added, modified by other recipes. The archive was a friendly
1679 place, with hierarchies of translation keys that led them along. Straum itself
1680 would be famous for this.
1682 Six months passed. A year.
1684 The omniscient view. Not self-aware really. Self-awareness is much over-rated.
1685 Most automation works far better as a part of a whole, and even if human-
1686 powerful, it does not need to self-know.
1688 =head2 v5.17.9 - Douglas Adams, "The Hitch-Hikers Guide to the Galaxy"
1690 L<Announced on 2013-02-20 by Chris 'BinGOs' Williams|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/02/msg199115.html>
1692 Vogon poetry is of course, the third worst in the universe.
1693 The second worst is that of the Azgoths of Kria. During a
1694 recitation by their poet master Grunthos the Flatulent of
1695 his poem 'Ode To A Small Lump of Green Putty I Found In My
1696 Armpit One Midsummer Morning' four of his audience died
1697 of internal haemorrhaging and the president of the
1698 Mid-Galactic Arts Nobbling Council survived by gnawing one
1699 of his own legs off. Grunthos is reported to have been
1700 'disappointed' by the poem's reception, and was about to
1701 embark on a reading of his twelve-book epic entitled
1702 'My Favourite Bathtime Gurgles' when his own major intestine,
1703 in a desperate attempt to save life and civilisation,
1704 leapt straight up through his neck and throttled his brain.
1706 The very worst poetry of all perished along with its creator
1707 Paula Nancy Millstone Jennings of Greenbridge, Essex, England,
1708 in the destruction of the planet Earth.
1710 =head2 v5.17.8 - Iain Pears, "An Instance of the Fingerpost"
1712 L<Announced on 2013-01-20 by Aaron Crane|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/01/msg197571.html>
1714 I must here declare myself as someone who does not for a moment subscribe to
1715 the general view that a willingness to perform oneself is detrimental to the
1716 dignity of experimental philosophy. There is, after all, a clear distinction
1717 between labour carried out for financial reward, and that done for the
1718 improvement of mankind: to put it another way, Lower as a philosopher was
1719 fully my equal even if he fell away when he became the practising physician.
1720 I think ridiculous of certain professors of anatomy, who find it beneath
1721 them to pick up the knife themselves, but merely comment while hired hands
1722 do the cutting. Sylvius would never have dreamt of sitting on a dais reading
1723 from an authority while others cut — when he taught, the knife was
1724 in his hand and the blood spattered his coat. Boyle also did not scruple to
1725 perform his own experiments and, on one occasion in my presence, even showed
1726 himself willing to anatomise a rat with his very own hands. Nor was he less
1727 a gentleman when he had finished. Indeed, in my opinion, his stature was all
1728 the greater, for in Boyle wealth, humility and curiosity mingled, and the
1729 world is richer for it.
1731 =head2 v5.17.7 - R. Scott Bakker, "The Darkness That Comes Before"
1733 L<Announced on 2012-12-18 by Dave Rolsky|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/12/msg196707.html>
1737 The boy extinguished. Only a place.
1741 Motionless, the Pragma sat facing him, the bare soles of his feet flat against each other, his dark frock scored by the shadows of deep folds, his eyes as empty as the child they watched.
1743 A place without breath or sound. A place of sight alone. A place without before or after . . . almost.
1745 For the first lances of sunlight careered over the glacier, as ponderous as great tree limbs in the wind. Shadows hardened and light gleamed across the Pragma’s ancient skull.
1747 The old man’s left hand forsook his right sleeve, bearing a watery knife. And like a rope in water, his arm pitched outward, fingertips trailing across the blade as the knife swung languidly into the air, the sun skating and the dark shrine plunging across its mirror back . . .
1749 And the place where Kellhus had once existed extended an open hand—the blond hairs like luminous filaments against tanned skin—and grasped the knife from stunned space.
1751 The slap of pommel against palm triggered the collapse of place into little boy. The pale stench of his body. Breath, sound, and lurching thoughts.
1753 I have been legion . . .
1755 In his periphery, he could see the spike of the sun ease from the mountain. He felt drunk with exhaustion. In the recoil of his trance, it seemed all he could hear were the twigs arching and bobbing in the wind, pulled by leaves like a million sails no bigger than his hand. Cause everywhere, but amid countless minute happenings—diffuse, useless.
1759 =head2 v5.17.6 - Kurt Vonnegut, "The Sirens of Titan"
1761 L<Announced on 2012-11-20 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/11/msg195659.html>
1763 Beatrice, looking like a gypsy queen, smoldered at the foot of a statue
1764 of a young physical student. At first glance, the laboratory-gowned
1765 scientist seemed to be a perfect servant of nothing but truth. At first
1766 glance, one was convinced that nothing but truth could please him as he
1767 beamed at his test tube. At first glance, one thought that he was as
1768 much above the beastly concerns of mankind as the harmoniums in the
1769 caves of Mercury. There, at first glance, was a young man without
1770 vanity, without lust — and one accepted at its face value the title Salo
1771 had engraved on the statue, "Discovery of Atomic Power."
1773 =head2 v5.17.5 - Charles Stross, "Singularity Sky"
1775 L<Announced on 2012-10-20 by Florian Ragwitz|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/10/msg194349.html>
1777 Neither of them noticed the pair of polka-dotted knickers hiding
1778 behind the ventilation duct overhead, listening patiently and
1779 recording everything.
1781 =head2 v5.17.4 - Roald Dahl, "Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf"
1783 L<Announced on 2012-09-19 by Florian Ragwitz|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/09/msg192635.html>
1785 The small girl smiles. One eyelid flickers.
1786 She whips a pistol from her knickers.
1787 She aims it at the creature's head,
1788 And bang bang bang, she shoots him dead.
1790 A few weeks later, in the wood,
1791 I came across Miss Riding Hood.
1792 But what a change! No cloak of red,
1793 No silly hood upon her head.
1794 She said, "Hello, and do please note
1795 My lovely furry wolfskin coat."
1797 =head2 v5.17.3 - Kris Ta-belle, "Smoked Perl Onion Soup"
1799 L<Announced on 2012-08-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/08/msg190775.html>
1803 Cut 16 Perl Onions into quarters and put them in a grill smoker rack
1804 or a perforated pan over a BBQ using hickory wood chips or Special
1805 Blend Smoker Bisquettes. Smoke them for an hour and remove once they
1807 Let them cool and put them in the fridge (or freezer) until you are
1808 ready to create the soup.
1812 16 diced, pre-smoked, Perl Onions
1815 2 small garlic cloves, finely minced
1818 black pepper to taste
1820 1/4 cup all purpose flour
1821 6 cups of beef or vegetable stock
1822 1 cup of thick cream (milk can be used as a substitute)
1826 Melt the butter in a pan and then add olive oil.
1827 Heat and add the onions to caramelize over a medium-high heat for up
1829 Add the garlic, turn down the heat and cook for a further 5 minutes.
1830 Add the salt, pepper and sugar.
1831 Now add the red wine and reduce to a jam like consistency.
1832 Add the flour, stir well and add the stock a cup at a time.
1833 Simmer for 30 minutes, add the cream and heat to almost boiling.
1837 =head2 v5.17.2 - Terry Pratchet, "The Colour of Magic"
1839 L<Announced on 2012-07-21 by TonyC|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/07/msg189828.html>
1841 ‘I knew it,’ said Rincewind. ‘We're in a strong magical field.’
1843 Twoflower and Hrun looked around the little hollow where they had made
1844 their noonday halt. Then they looked at each other.
1846 The horses were quietly cropping the rich grass by the stream. Yellow
1847 butterflies skittered among the bushes. There was a smell of thyme
1848 and a buzzing of bees. The wild pigs on the spit sizzled gently.
1850 Hrun shrugged and went back to oiling his biceps. They gleamed.
1852 ‘Looks alright to me,’ he said.
1854 ‘Try tossing a coin,’ said Rincewind.
1858 ‘Go on. Toss a coin.’
1860 ‘Hokay,’ said Hrun. 'If that gives you any pleasure.’ He reached into
1861 his pouch and withdrew a handful of loose change plundered from a
1862 dozen realms. With some care he selected a Zchloty leaden
1863 quarter-iotum and balanced it on a purple thumbnail.
1865 ‘You call,’ he said. ‘Heads or—’ he inspected the obverse with
1866 an air of intense concentration, ‘some sort of a fish with legs.’
1868 ‘When it's in the air,’ said Rincewind. Hrun grinned and flicked his thumb.
1870 The iotum rose, spinning.
1872 ‘Edge,’ said Rincewind, without looking at it.
1874 =head2 v5.17.1 - Rand Miller, "Myst: The Book of Ti'ana"
1876 L<Announced on 2012-06-20 by doy|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/06/msg188354.html>
1878 On their return from Ko'ah, Aitrus had shown her the Book, patiently
1879 taking her through page after page, and showing her how such an Age was
1880 "made." She had seen at once the differences between this archaic form
1881 and the ordinary written speech of the D'ni, noting how it was not
1882 merely more elaborate but more specific: a language of precise yet
1883 subtle descriptive power. Yet seeing was one thing, believing another.
1884 Given all the evidence, her rational mind still fought against accepting
1887 =head2 v5.17.0 - Charles Stross, "Singularity Sky"
1889 L<Announced on 2012-05-26 by Zefram|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/05/msg187214.html>
1891 `Welcome, comrades!' Burya opened his arms toward the soldier.
1892 `Yes it is true! With help from our allies of the Festival, the iron
1893 hand of the reactionary junta is about to be overthrown for all time!
1894 The new economy is being born; the marginal cost of production has
1895 been abolished, and from now on, if any item is produced once, it can
1896 be replicated infinitely. From each according to his imagination,
1897 to each according to his needs! Join us or better still, bring your
1898 fellow soldiers and workers to join us!'
1900 There was a sharp bang from the roof of the Corn Exchange, right at the
1901 climax of his impromptu speech; heads turned in alarm. Something had
1902 broken inside the spork factory and a stream of rainbow-hued plastic
1903 implements fountained toward the sky and clattered to the cobblestones
1904 on every side, like a harbinger of the postindustrial society to come.
1905 Workers and peasants alike stared in open-mouthed bewilderment at this
1906 astounding display of productivity, then bent to scrabble in the muck
1907 for the brightly colored sporks of revolution. A volley of shots rang
1908 out and Burya Rubenstein raised his hands, grinning wildly, to accept
1909 the salute of the soldiers from the Skull Hill garrison.
1911 =head2 v5.16.3 - Devo, "Freedom of Choice"
1913 L<Announced on 2013-03-11 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/03/msg200009.html>
1915 A victim of collision on the open sea
1916 Nobody ever said that life was free
1917 Sink, swim, go down with the ship
1918 But use your freedom of choice
1920 =head2 v5.16.2 - Stanislaw Lem, "The Cyberiad", Trurl's Machine
1922 L<Announced on 2012-11-01 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/11/msg194915.html>
1924 Once upon a time Trurl the constructor built an eight-story thinking
1925 machine. When it was finished, he gave it a coat of white paint,
1926 trimmed the edges in lavender, stepped back, squinted, then added a
1927 little curlicue on the front and, where one might imagine the forehead
1928 to be, a few pale orange polkadots. Extremely pleased with himself,
1929 he whistled an air and, as is always done on such occasions, asked it
1930 the ritual question of how much is two plus two.
1932 The machine stirred. Its tubes began to glow, its coils warmed up,
1933 current coursed through all its circuits like a waterfall,
1934 transformers hummed and throbbed, there was a clanging, and a
1935 chugging, and such an ungodly racket that Trurl began to think of
1936 adding a special mentation muffler. Meanwhile the machine labored on,
1937 as if it had been given the most difficult problem in the Universe to
1938 solve; the ground shook, the sand slid underfoot from the vibration,
1939 valves popped like champagne corks, the relays nearly gave way under
1940 the strain. At last, when Trurl had grown extremely impatient, the
1941 machine ground to a halt and said in a voice like thunder: SEVEN!
1943 =head2 v5.16.1 - Emerald Rose, "Never Split The Party"
1945 L<Announced on 2012-08-08 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/08/msg190413.html>
1947 Don't you know? You never split the party
1948 Clerics in the back to keep those fighters hale and hearty
1949 The wizard in the middle, where he can shed some light
1950 And you never let that damn thief out of sight…
1952 =head2 v5.16.1-RC1 - Tom Moldvay, Foreward to the "Dungeons & Dragons Basic Rulebook"
1954 L<Announced on 2012-08-03 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/08/msg190264.html>
1956 I was busy rescuing the captured maiden when the dragon showed up.
1957 Fifty feed of scaled terror glared down at us with smoldering red eyes.
1958 Tendrils of smoke drifted out from between fangs larger than daggers.
1959 The dragon blocked the only exit from the cave.
1963 I unwrapped the sword which the mysterious cleric had given me. The
1964 sword was golden-tinted steel. Its hilt was set with a rainbow
1965 collection of precious gems. I shouted my battle cry and charged
1967 My charge caught the dragon by surprise. Its titanic jaws snapped shut
1968 inches from my face. I swung the golden sword with both arms. The
1969 swordblade bit into the dragon's neck and continued through to the other
1970 side. With an earth-shaking crash, the dragon dropped dead at my feet.
1971 The magic sword had saved my life and ended the reign of the
1972 dragon-tyrant. The countryside was freed and I could return as a hero.
1974 =head2 v5.16.0 - W.H. Auden, "September 1, 1939"
1976 L<Announced on 2012-05-20 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/05/msg186903.html>
1978 All I have is a voice
1979 To undo the folded lie,
1980 The romantic lie in the brain
1981 Of the sensual man-in-the-street
1982 And the lie of Authority
1983 Whose buildings grope the sky:
1984 There is no such thing as the State
1985 And no one exists alone;
1986 Hunger allows no choice
1987 To the citizen or the police;
1988 We must love one another or die.
1990 =head2 v5.15.9 - Bob Dylan, "Blowin' In The Wind"
1992 L<Announced on 2012-03-20 by Abigail|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/03/msg184824.html>
1994 How many roads must a man walk down
1995 Before you call him a man?
1996 Yes, 'n' how many seas must a white dove sail
1997 Before she sleeps in the sand?
1998 Yes, 'n' how many times must the cannonballs fly
1999 Before they're forever banned?
2000 The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind
2001 The answer is blowin' in the wind
2003 How many years can a mountain exist
2004 Before it's washed to the sea?
2005 Yes, 'n' how many years can some people exist
2006 Before they're allowed to be free?
2007 Yes, 'n' how many times can a man turn his head
2008 Pretending he just doesn't see?
2009 The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind
2010 The answer is blowin' in the wind
2012 How many times must a man look up
2013 Before he can see the sky?
2014 Yes, 'n' how many ears must one man have
2015 Before he can hear people cry?
2016 Yes, 'n' how many deaths will it take till he knows
2017 That too many people have died?
2018 The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind
2019 The answer is blowin' in the wind
2021 =head2 v5.15.8 - The KLF, "The Manual-How To Have A Number One The Easy Way"
2023 L<Announced on 2012-02-20 by Max Maischein|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/02/msg183919.html>
2025 "Doctor Who, hey Doctor Who
2026 Doctor Who, in the Tardis
2027 Doctor Who, hey Doctor Who
2028 Doctor Who, Doc, Doctor Who
2029 Doctor Who, Doc, Doctor Who"
2031 Gibberish of course, but every lad in the country under a certain
2032 age related instinctively to what it was about. The ones slightly
2033 older needed a couple of pints inside them to clear away the mind
2034 debris left by the passing years before it made sense. As for
2035 girls and our chorus, we think they must have seen it as pure crap.
2036 A fact that must have limited to zero our chances of staying at The
2037 Top for more than one week.
2039 Stock, Aitkin and Waterman, however, are kings of writing chorus
2040 lyrics that go straight to the emotional heart of the 7" single
2041 buying girls in this country. Their most successful records will kick
2042 into the chorus with a line which encapsulates the entire emotional
2043 meaning of the song. This will obviously be used as the title. As
2044 soon as Rick Astley hit the first line of the chorus on his debut
2045 single it was all over - the Number One position was guaranteed:
2047 "I'm never going to give you up"
2049 =head2 v5.15.7 - Penelope Lively, "The Voyage of QV66"
2051 L<Announced on 2012-01-20 by Chris 'BinGOs' Williams|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/01/msg182230.html>
2053 "Laboratories," announced Henry. "Kindly don't touch anything."
2055 He led us into a long low brick shed. Outside there was a
2056 notice on a piece of board, crudely printed in red paint,
2057 which said GRATE SIENCE DISCOVERYS DONE HERE SSSH! BRING YOUR
2058 OWN BUKKIT NO PINCHING ANYWUN ELSE'S EXPERRYMENTS CANTEEN OPEN
2059 ALL DAY CHIMPS ONLY.
2061 There were a lot of large black monkeys inside, all intently
2062 busy on what they were doing. Some of them were pouring stuff
2063 out of bottles into buckets and carefully stirring the ensuing
2064 mixture; others were at work with glass tubes and jars, blowing
2065 and measuring and mixing; others were crouched over long benches
2066 with tools and heaps of bits and pieces of metal, cutting and
2067 bending and constructing. There was a great deal of noise and
2068 chatter. Every now and then one of them would give a whoop of
2069 excitement and all the others would gather round and jump up and
2070 down cheering and applauding.
2072 "Chimps," said Henry. "They're awfully clever."
2074 =head2 v5.15.6 - Ursula K. Leguin, "A Wizard of Earthsea"
2076 L<Announced on 2011-12-20 by Dave Rolsky|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/12/msg180962.html>
2078 Ged had thought that as the prentice of a great mage he would enter at once
2079 into the mystery and mastery of power. He would understand the language of the
2080 beasts and the speech of the leaves of the forest, he thought, and sway the
2081 winds with his word, and learn to change himself into any shape he
2082 wished. Maybe he and his master would run together as stags, or fly to Re Albi
2083 over the mountain on the wings of eagles.
2085 But it was not so at all. They wandered, first down into the Vale and then
2086 gradually south and westward around the mountain, given lodging in little
2087 villages or spending the night out in the wilderness, like poor
2088 journeyman-sorcerers, or tinkers, or beggars. They entered no mysterious
2089 domain. Nothing happened. The mage's oaken staff that Ged had watched at first
2090 with eager dread was nothing but a stout staff to walk with. Three days went
2091 by and four days went by and still Ogion had not spoken a single charm in
2092 Ged's hearing, and had not taught him a single name or rune or spell.
2094 =head2 v5.15.5 - Nikolai Gogol, trans. Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, "The Diary of a Madman"
2096 L<Announced on 2011-11-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/11/msg179588.html>
2098 This day - is a day of the greatest solemnity! Spain has a king. He has
2099 been found. I am that king. Only this very day did I learn of it. I
2100 confess, it came to me suddenly in a flash of lightning. I don't understand
2101 how I could have thought and imagined that I was a titular councillor. How
2102 could such a wild notion enter my head? It's a good thing no one thought of
2103 putting me in an insane asylum. Now everything is laid open before me. Now
2104 I see everything as on the palm of my hand. And before, I don't understand,
2105 before everything around me was in some sort of fog. And all this happens, I
2106 think, because people imagine that the human brain is in the head. Not at
2107 all: it is brought by a wind from the direction of the Caspian Sea. First
2108 off, I announced to Mavra who I am. When she heard that the king of Spain
2109 was standing before her, she clasped her hands and nearly died of fright.
2110 The stupid woman had never seen a king of Spain before. However, I
2111 endeavoured to calm her down and assured her in gracious words of my
2112 benevolence and that I was not at all angry that she sometimes polished my
2113 boots poorly. They're benighted folk. It's impossible to tell them about
2114 lofty matters. She got frightened because she's convinced that all kings of
2115 Spain are like Philip II. But I explained to her that there was no
2116 resemblance between me and Philip II, and that I didn't have a single
2117 Capuchin . . . I didn't go to the office . . . To hell with it! No friends,
2118 you won't lure me there now; I'm not going to copy your vile papers!
2120 =head2 v5.15.4 - Steve Jobs
2122 L<Announced on 2011-10-20 by Florian Ragwitz|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/10/msg178412.html>
2124 A lot of people in our industry haven't had very diverse experiences. So they
2125 don't have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions
2126 without a broad perspective on the problem. The broader one's understanding of
2127 the human experience, the better design we will have.
2129 =head2 v5.15.3 - Oscar Wilde, From the preface to "The Picture of Dorian Gray"
2131 L<Announced on 2011-09-20 by Stevan Little|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/09/msg177427.html>
2133 All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath
2134 the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol
2135 do so at their peril.
2137 It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.
2138 Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the
2139 work is new, complex, and vital. When critics disagree, the
2140 artist is in accord with himself.
2142 We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as
2143 he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless
2144 thing is that one admires it intensely.
2146 All art is quite useless.
2148 =head2 v5.15.2 - Rainer Maria Rilke, trans., C. F. MacIntyre, "Duino", The First Elegy
2150 L<Announced on 2011-08-20 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/08/msg176067.html>
2152 True, it is strange to live no more on earth,
2153 no longer follow the folkways scarecely learned;
2154 not to give roses and other especially auspicious
2155 things the significance of a human future;
2156 to be no more what one was in infinitely anxious hands,
2157 and to put aside even one's name, like a broken plaything.
2158 Strange, to wish wishes no longer. Strange, to see
2159 all that was related fluttering so loosely in space.
2160 And being dead is hard, full of catching-up,
2161 so that finally one feels a little eternity.–
2162 But the living all make the mistake of too sharp discrimination.
2163 Often angels (it's said) don't know if they move
2164 among the quick or the dead. The eternal current
2165 hurtles all ages along with it forever
2166 through both realms and drowns their voices in both.
2168 =head2 v5.15.1 - Greg Egan, "Permutation City"
2170 L<Announced on 2011-07-20 by Zefram|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/07/msg175014.html>
2172 Carter held out a hand towards the middle of the room. `See that
2173 fountain?' A ten-metre-wide marble wedding cake, topped with a
2174 winged cherub wrestling a serpent, duly appeared. Water cascaded
2175 down from a gushing wound in the cherub's neck. Carter said, `It's
2176 being computed by redundancies in the sketch of the city. I can
2177 extract the results, because I know exactly where to look for them --
2178 but nobody else would have a hope in hell of picking them out.'
2180 Peer walked up to the fountain. Even as he approached, he noticed
2181 that the spray was intangible; when he dipped his hand in the water
2182 around the base he felt nothing, and the motion he made with his
2183 fingers left the foaming surface unchanged. They were spying on
2184 the calculations, not interacting with them; the fountain was a
2187 Carter said, `In your case, of course, nobody will need to know
2188 the results. Except you -- and you'll know them because you'll
2191 =head2 v5.15.0 - Neil Gaiman, "The Graveyard Book"
2193 L<Announced on 2011-06-20 by David Golden|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/06/msg173748.html>
2195 If you dare nothing, then when the day is over, nothing is all you will have gained.
2197 =head2 v5.14.4 - Arthur C. Clarke, "The Nine Billion Names of God"
2199 L<Announced on 2013-03-11 by Dave Mitchell|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/03/msg199988.html>
2201 He began to sing, but gave it up after a while. This vast arena of
2202 mountains, gleaming like whitely hooded ghosts on every side, did not
2203 encourage such ebullience. Presently George glanced at his watch.
2205 'Should be there in an hour,' he called back over his shoulder to
2206 Chuck. Then he added, in an afterthought: 'Wonder if the computer's
2207 finished its run. It was due about now.'
2209 Chuck didn't reply, so George swung round in his saddle. He could just
2210 see Chuck's face, a white oval turned towards the sky.
2212 'Look,' whispered Chuck, and George lifted his eyes to heaven. (There
2213 is always a last time for everything.)
2215 Overhead, without any fuss, the stars were going out.
2217 =head2 v5.14.3 - William Shakespeare, "As You Like It"
2219 L<Announced on 2012-10-12 by Dominic Hargreaves|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/10/msg194057.html>
2221 The poor world is almost six thousand years old, and in all
2222 this time there was not any man died in his own person,
2223 videlicit, in a love-cause. Troilus had his brains dashed
2224 out with a Grecian club; yet he did what he could to die
2225 before, and he is one of the patterns of love. Leander, he
2226 would have lived many a fair year, though Hero had turned
2227 nun, if it had not been for a hot midsummer night; for, good
2228 youth, he went but forth to wash him in the Hellespont and
2229 being taken with the cramp was drowned and the foolish
2230 coroners of that age found it was 'Hero of Sestos.' But these
2231 are all lies: men have died from time to time and worms have
2232 eaten them, but not for love.
2234 =head2 v5.14.2 - L<< Larry Wall, January 12, 1988 <992@devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV> |http://groups.google.com/group/comp.sources.d/msg/5d17fa68c250b9b2 >>
2236 L<Announced on 2011-09-26 by Florian Ragwitz|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/09/msg177618.html>
2238 It's not so much that people don't value the programs after they have them--they
2239 do value them. But they're not the sort of thing that would ever catch on if
2240 they had to overcome the marketing barrier. (I don't yet know if perl will
2241 catch on at all--I'm worried enough about it that I specifically included an
2242 awk-to-perl translator just to help it catch on.) Maybe it's all just an
2243 inferiority complex. Or maybe I don't like to be mercenary.
2245 So I guess I'd say that the reason some software comes free is that the
2246 mechanism for selling it is missing, either from the work environment, or from
2247 the heart of the programmer.
2249 =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 >>
2251 L<Announced on 2011-06-16 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/06/msg173650.html>
2253 At this point I'm no longer working for a company that makes me sign
2254 my life away, but by now I'm in the habit. Besides, I still harbor
2255 the deep-down suspicion that nobody would pay money for what I write,
2256 since most of it just helps you do something better that you could
2257 already do some other way. How much money would you personally pay
2258 to upgrade from readnews to rn? How much money would you pay for
2259 the patch program? As for warp, it's a mere game. And anything you
2260 can do with perl you can eventually do with an amazing and totally
2261 unreadable conglomeration of awk, sed, sh and C.
2263 =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 >>
2265 L<Announced on 2011-05-14 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/05/msg172326.html>
2267 At the start of any project, I'm programming primarily to please
2268 myself. (The two chief virtues in a programmer are laziness and
2269 impatience.) After a while somebody looks over my shoulder and says,
2270 "That's neat. It'd be neater if it did such-and-so." So the thing
2271 gets neater. Pretty soon (a year or two) I have an rn, a warp, a patch,
2272 or a perl. One of these years I'll have a metaconfig.
2274 I then say to myself, "I don't want my life's work to die when this
2275 computer is scrapped, so I should let some other people use this. If I
2276 ask my company to sell this, it'll never see the light of day, and nobody
2277 would pay much for it anyway. If I sell it myself, I'll be in trouble with
2278 my company, to whom I signed my life away when I was hired. If I give it
2279 away, I can pretend it was worthless in the first place, so my company
2280 won't care. In any event, it's easier to ask forgiveness than permission."
2282 So a freely distributable program is born.
2284 =head2 v5.14.0-RC3 - American Airlines Gate Agent, last call
2286 L<Announced on 2011-05-11 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/05/msg172282.html>
2288 This is the last call for flight 1697 with service to Chicago and
2289 continuing service to San Francisco. All passengers should already be
2290 aboard. If you aren't aboard at this time, you will be denied boarding
2291 and your bags will be offloaded.
2293 =head2 v5.14.0-RC2 - Greg Grandin, "Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City"
2295 L<Announced on 2011-05-04 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/05/msg171879.html>
2297 Over the course of nearly two decades, Ford would spend tens of millions
2298 of dollars founding not one but, after the plantation was defastated
2299 by leaf blight, two American towns, complete with central squares,
2300 sidewalks, indoor plumbing, hospitals, manicured lawns, movie theaters,
2301 swimming pools, golf courses, and, of course, Model Ts and As rolling
2302 down their paved streets.
2304 Back in America, newspapers kept up their drumbeat celebration, only
2305 obliquely referencing reports that things were not progressing as the
2306 company had hoped. But there was one note of skepticism. In late 1928,
2307 the Washington Post ran an editorial that read in its entirety: "Ford will
2308 govern a rubber plantation in Brazil larger than North Carolina. This is
2309 the first time he has applied quantity production methods to trouble"
2311 =head2 v5.14.0-RC1 - Bill Bryson, "In a Sunburned Country"
2313 L<Announced on 2011-04-20 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/04/msg171253.html>
2315 But then Australia is such a difficult country to keep track of. On
2316 my first visit, some years ago, I passed the time on the long flight
2317 reading a history of Australian politics in the twentieth century,
2318 wherein I encountered the startling fact that in 1967 the prime minister,
2319 Harold Holt, was strolling along a beach in Victoria when he plunged into
2320 the surf and vanished. No trace of the poor man was ever seen again.
2321 This seemed doubly astounding to me—first that Australia could
2322 just I<lose> a prime minister (I mean, come on) and second that news of
2323 this had never reached me.
2325 =head2 v5.13.11 - Walt Whitman, L<"Leaves of Grass"|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leaves_of_Grass>
2327 L<Announced on 2011-03-20 by Florian Ragwitz|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/03/msg170206.html>
2329 When the full-grown poet came,
2330 Out spake pleased Nature (the round impassive globe, with all its
2331 shows of day and night,) saying, He is mine;
2332 But out spake too the Soul of man, proud, jealous and unreconciled,
2333 Nay he is mine alone;
2334 --Then the full-grown poet stood between the two, and took each
2336 And to-day and ever so stands, as blender, uniter, tightly
2338 Which he will never release until he reconciles the two,
2339 And wholly and joyously blends them.
2341 =head2 v5.13.10 - Egill Skalla-Grímsson, L<"Egils saga Skalla-Grímssonar"|http://www.heimskringla.no/wiki/Egils_saga_Skalla-Gr%C3%ADmssonar>
2343 L<Announced on 2011-02-20 by Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/02/msg169340.html>
2345 Skalat maðr rúnar rísta,
2346 nema ráða vel kunni.
2347 Þat verðr mörgum manni,
2348 es of myrkvan staf villisk.
2350 tíu launstafi ristna.
2351 Þat hefr lauka lindi
2352 langs ofrtrega fengit.
2354 =head2 v5.13.9 - John F Kennedy, L<Inaugural Address January 20, 1961|http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/John_F._Kennedy%27s_Inaugural_Address>
2356 L<Announced on 2011-01-20 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/01/msg168335.html>
2358 In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been
2359 granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I
2360 do not shrink from this responsibility -- I welcome it. I do not believe
2361 that any of us would exchange places with any other people or any other
2362 generation. The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this
2363 endeavor will light our country and all who serve it. And the glow from
2364 that fire can truly light the world.
2366 And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you;
2367 ask what you can do for your country.
2369 My fellow citizens of the world, ask not what America will do for you,
2370 but what together we can do for the freedom of man.
2372 Finally, whether you are citizens of America or citizens of the world,
2373 ask of us here the same high standards of strength and sacrifice which
2374 we ask of you. With a good conscience our only sure reward, with history
2375 the final judge of our deeds, let us go forth to lead the land we love,
2376 asking His blessing and His help, but knowing that here on earth God's
2377 work must truly be our own.
2379 =head2 v5.13.8 - Roger Williams, L<"The Fifth Gift"|http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2005/8/19/21304/8493>
2381 L<Announced on 2010-12-19 by Zefram|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/12/msg167271.html>
2383 The aliens called the box a "matter generator," but we'd be more inclined
2384 to call it a matter duplicator. By connecting switches and potentiometers
2385 between the copper posts it was possible to make the box mark off two
2386 cubic rectangular areas of volume. Make a certain contact, and these
2387 areas would be isolated within perfectly reflective fields. They could
2388 be expanded or contracted by altering resistances between other posts.
2389 As I worked out the user interface I built a little control panel for
2390 the device. It was actually a clever way for the aliens to do things;
2391 instead of trying to build controls we could use, they built us an
2392 interface we could attach to controls that made sense to us. It could
2395 Once you had made the contact that established the shielded volumes,
2396 if you made another certain contact the contents of the first volume
2397 were copied to the second. The machine copied metal, plastic, steel,
2398 and diamond with equal ease. Copies of copies of copies of copies were
2399 indistinguishable from the originals at any magnification, even using
2400 techniques like X-ray crystallography.
2402 =head2 v5.13.7 - Andy Wachowski and Lana Wachowski, "The Matrix"
2404 L<Announced on 2010-11-20 by Chris 'BinGOs' Williams|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/11/msg166162.html>
2406 [Neo sees a black cat walk by them, and then a similar black cat walk by them just like the first one]
2410 [Everyone freezes right in their tracks]
2412 Trinity: What did you just say?
2413 Neo: Nothing. Just had a little deja vu.
2414 Trinity: What did you see?
2415 Cypher: What happened?
2416 Neo: A black cat went past us, and then another that looked just
2418 Trinity: How much like it? Was it the same cat?
2419 Neo: It might have been. I'm not sure.
2420 Morpheus: Switch! Apoc!
2422 Trinity: A deja vu is usually a glitch in the Matrix. It happens when
2423 they change something.
2425 =head2 v5.13.6 - Haruki Murakami, "Kafka on the Shore"
2427 L<Announced on 2010-10-20 by Tatsuhiko Miyagawa|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/10/msg165183.html>
2429 The boy called Crow softly rests a hand on my shoulder, and with that
2432 "From now on -- no matter what -- you've got to be the world's toughest
2433 fifteen-year-old. That's the only way you're going to survive. And in order
2434 to do that, you've got to figure out what it means to be tough. You following
2437 I keep my eyes closed and don't reply. I just want to sink off into sleep
2438 like this, his hand on my shoulder. I hear the faint flutter of wings.
2440 "You're going to be the world's toughest fifteen-year-old," Crow whispers
2441 as I try to fall asleep. Like he was carving the words in a deep blue tattoo
2444 (Translated from Japanese by Philip Gabriel)
2446 =head2 v5.13.5 - Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, "The Room in the Dragon Volant"
2448 L<Announced on 2010-09-19 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/09/msg164238.html>
2450 Candle in hand I stepped in. I do not know whether the quality of
2451 air, long undisturbed, is peculiar; to me it has always seemed so, and
2452 the damp smell of the old masonry hung in this atmosphere. My candle
2453 faintly lighted the bare stone wall that enclosed the stair, the foot
2454 of which I could not see. Down I went, and a few turns brought me to
2455 the stone floor. Here was another door, of the simple, old, oak kind,
2456 deep sunk in the thickness of the wall. The large end of the key
2457 fitted this. The lock was stiff; I set the candle down upon the
2458 stair, and applied both hands; it turned with difficulty, and as it
2459 revolved, uttered a shriek that alarmed me for my secret.
2461 For some minutes I did not move. In a little time, however, I took
2462 courage, and opened the door. The night-air floating in puffed out
2463 the candle. There was a thicket of holly and underwood, as dense as a
2464 jungle, close about the door. I should have been in pitch-darkness,
2465 were it not that through the topmost leaves there twinkled, here and
2466 there, a glimmer of moonshine.
2468 Softly, lest any one should have opened his window at the sound of the
2469 rusty bolt, I struggled through this till I gained a view of the open
2470 grounds. Here I found that the brushwood spread a good way up the
2471 park, uniting with the wood that approached the little temple I have
2474 =head2 v5.13.4 - Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
2476 L<Announced on 2010-08-20 by Florian Ragwitz|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/08/msg163150.html>
2478 `How the creatures order one about, and make one repeat lessons!' thought Alice;
2479 `I might as well be at school at once.' However, she got up, and began to repeat
2480 it, but her head was so full of the Lobster Quadrille, that she hardly knew what
2481 she was saying, and the words came very queer indeed:--
2483 "'Tis the voice of the Lobster; I heard him declare,
2484 "You have baked me too brown, I must sugar my hair."
2485 As a duck with its eyelids, so he with his nose
2486 Trims his belt and his buttons, and turns out his toes.'
2489 `That's different from what I used to say when I was a child,' said the Gryphon.
2491 `Well, I never heard it before,' said the Mock Turtle; `but it sounds uncommon
2494 Alice said nothing; she had sat down with her face in her hands, wondering if
2495 anything would ever happen in a natural way again.
2497 `I should like to have it explained,' said the Mock Turtle.
2499 `She can't explain it,' said the Gryphon hastily. `Go on with the next verse.'
2501 `But about his toes?' the Mock Turtle persisted. `How could he turn them out
2502 with his nose, you know?'
2504 `It's the first position in dancing.' Alice said; but was dreadfully puzzled by
2505 the whole thing, and longed to change the subject.
2507 =head2 v5.13.3 - Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, "Good Omens"
2509 L<Announced on 2010-07-20 by David Golden|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/07/msg162230.html>
2511 Look at Crowley, doing 110 mph on the M40 heading towards
2512 Oxfordshire. Even the most resolutely casual observer would
2513 notice a number of strange things about him. The clenched teeth,
2514 for example, or the dull red glow coming from behind his
2515 sunglasses. And the car. The car was a definite hint.
2517 Crowley had started the journey in his Bentley, and he was
2518 dammned if he wasn't going to finish it in the Bentley as well.
2519 Not that even the kind of car buff who owns his own pair of
2520 motoring goggles would have been able to tell it was a vintage
2521 Bentley. Not any more. They wouldn't have been able to tell
2522 that it was a Bentley. They would only offer fifty-fifty that it
2523 had ever even been a car.
2525 There was no paint left on it, for a start. It might still have
2526 been black, where it wasn't a rusty, smudged reddish-brown, but
2527 this was a dull charcoal black. It traveled in its own ball of
2528 flame, like a space capsule making a particularly difficult
2531 There was a thin skin of crusted, melted rubber left around the
2532 metal wheel rims, but seeing that the wheel rims were still
2533 somhow riding an inch above the road surface this didn't seem to
2534 make an awful lot of difference to the suspension.
2536 It should have fallen apart miles back.
2538 =head2 v5.13.2 - Iain M Banks, "Use of Weapons"
2540 L<Announced on 2010-06-22 by Matt S Trout|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/06/msg161112.html>
2542 We deal in the moral equivalent of black holes, where the normal laws -
2543 the rules of right and wrong that people imagine apply everywhere else
2544 in the universe - break down; beyond those metaphysical event-horizons,
2545 there exist ... special circumstances.
2547 =head2 v5.13.1 - Miguel de Unamuno, "The Sepulchre of Don Quixote"
2549 L<Announced on 2010-05-20 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/05/msg160275.html>
2551 And if anyone shall come to you and say that he knows how to construct
2552 bridges and that perhaps a time will come when you will wish to avail
2553 yourself of his science in order to cross over a river, out with him! Out
2554 with the engineer! Rivers will be crossed by wading or swimming them, even
2555 if half the crusaders drown themselves. Let the engineer go off and build
2556 bridges somewhere else, where they are badly wanted. For those who go in
2557 quest of the sepulchre, faith is bridge enough.
2559 =head2 v5.13.0 - Jules Verne, "A Journey to the Centre of the Earth"
2561 L<Announced on 2010-04-20 by LE<0xe9>on Brocard|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/04/msg159275.html>
2563 The heat still remained at quite a supportable degree. With an
2564 involuntary shudder, I reflected on what the heat must have been
2565 when the volcano of Sneffels was pouring its smoke, flames, and
2566 streams of boiling lava -- all of which must have come up by the
2567 road we were now following. I could imagine the torrents of hot
2568 seething stone darting on, bubbling up with accompaniments of
2569 smoke, steam, and sulphurous stench!
2571 "Only to think of the consequences," I mused, "if the old
2572 volcano were once more to set to work."
2574 =head2 v5.12.5 - William Shakespeare, "Measure for Measure"
2576 L<Announced on 2012-11-10 by Dominic Hargreaves|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/11/msg195171.html>
2578 Music oft hath such a charm
2579 To make bad good, and good provoke to harm.
2581 =head2 v5.12.4 - William Schwenck Gilbert, "Trial By Jury"
2583 L<Announced on 2011-06-20 by Leon Brocard|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/06/msg173725.html>
2585 You cannot eat breakfast all day,
2586 Nor is it the act of a sinner,
2587 When breakfast is taken away,
2588 To turn his attention to dinner;
2589 And it's not in the range of belief,
2590 To look upon him as a glutton,
2591 Who, when he is tired of beef,
2592 Determines to tackle the mutton.
2593 Ah! But this I am willing to say,
2594 If it will appease her sorrow,
2595 I'll marry this lady today,
2596 And I'll marry the other tomorrow!
2598 =head2 v5.12.4-RC2 - James Russell Lowell, "Eleanor makes macaroons"
2600 L<Announced on 2011-06-15 by Leon Brocard|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/06/msg173609.html>
2602 Now for sugar, -- nay, our plan
2603 Tolerates no work of man.
2604 Hurry, then, ye golden bees;
2605 Fetch your clearest honey, please,
2606 Garnered on a Yorkshire moor,
2607 While the last larks sing and soar,
2608 From the heather-blossoms sweet
2609 Where sea-breeze and sunshine meet,
2610 And the Augusts mask as Junes, --
2611 Eleanor makes macaroons!
2613 =head2 v5.12.4-RC1 - Ogden Nash, "The Clean Plater"
2615 L<Announced on 2011-06-08 by Leon Brocard|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/06/msg173352.html>
2617 Pheasant is pleasant, of course,
2618 And terrapin, too, is tasty,
2619 Lobster I freely endorse,
2620 In pate or patty or pasty.
2621 But there's nothing the matter with butter,
2622 And nothing the matter with jam,
2623 And the warmest greetings I utter
2624 To the ham and the yam and the clam.
2627 And I think very fondly of food.
2628 Through I'm broody at times
2629 When bothered by rhymes,
2633 =head2 v5.12.3 - Howard W. Campbell, Jr., "Reflections on Not Participating in Current Events"
2635 L<Announced on 2011-01-21 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/01/msg168368.html>
2637 I saw a huge steam roller,
2638 It blotted out the sun.
2639 The people all lay down, lay down;
2640 They did not try to run.
2641 My love and I, we looked amazed
2642 Upon the gory mystery.
2643 'Lie down, lie down!' the people cried.
2644 'The great machine is history!'
2645 My love and I, we ran away,
2646 The engine did not find us.
2647 We ran up to a mountain top,
2648 Left history far behind us.
2649 Perhaps we should have stayed and died,
2650 But somehow we don't think so.
2651 We went to see where history'd been,
2652 And my, the dead did stink so.
2654 =head2 v5.12.2 - William Gibson, "Pattern Recognition"
2656 L<Announced on 2010-09-06 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/09/msg163852.html>
2658 CPUs. Cayce Pollard Units. That's what Damien calls the clothing
2659 she wears. CPUs are either black, white, or gray, and ideally
2660 seem to have come into this world without human intervention.
2662 What people take for relentless minimalism is a side effect
2663 of too much exposure to the reactor-cores of fashion. This
2664 has resulted in a remorseless paring-down of what she can and
2665 will wear. She is, literally, allergic to fashion. She can
2666 only tolerate things that could have been worn, to a general
2667 lack of comment, during any year between 1945 and 2000. She's a
2668 design-free zone, a one-woman school of and whose very austerity
2669 periodically threatens to spawn its own cult.
2671 =head2 v5.12.2-RC1 - William Gibson, "Pattern Recognition"
2673 L<Announced on 2010-08-31 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/08/msg163670.html>
2675 The front page opens, familiar as a friend's living room. A frame-grab
2676 from #48 serves as backdrop, dim and almost monochrome, no characters in
2677 view. This is one of the sequences that generate comparisons with
2678 Tarkovsky. She only knows Tarkovsky from stills, really, though she did
2679 once fall asleep during a screening of The Stalker, going under on an
2680 endless pan, the camera aimed straight down, in close-up, at a puddle on
2681 a ruined mosaic floor. But she is not one of those who think that much
2682 will be gained by analysis of the maker's imagined influences. The cult
2683 of the footage is rife with subcults, claiming every possible influence.
2684 Truffaut, Peckinpah -- The Peckinpah people, among the least likely, are
2685 still waiting for the guns to be drawn.
2687 =head2 v5.12.1 - Kurt Vonnegut, "Cat's Cradle"
2689 L<Announced on 2010-05-16 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/05/msg160109.html>
2691 "Now suppose," chortled Dr. Breed, enjoying himself, "that there were
2692 many possible ways in which water could crystallize, could freeze.
2693 Suppose that the sort of ice we skate upon and put into highballs --
2694 what we might call ice-one -- is only one of several types of ice.
2695 Suppose water always froze as ice-one on Earth because it had never
2696 had a seed to teach it how to form ice-two, ice-three, ice-four
2697 ...? And suppose," he rapped on his desk with his old hand again,
2698 "that there were one form, which we will call ice-nine -- a crystal as
2699 hard as this desk -- with a melting point of, let us say, one-hundred
2700 degrees Fahrenheit, or, better still, a melting point of one-hundred-
2701 and-thirty degrees."
2703 =head2 v5.12.1-RC2 - Kurt Vonnegut, "Cat's Cradle"
2705 L<Announced on 2010-05-13 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/05/msg160066.html>
2707 San Lorenzo was fifty miles long and twenty miles wide, I learned from
2708 the supplement to the New York Sunday Times. Its population was four
2709 hundred, fifty thousand souls, "...all fiercely dedicated to the ideals
2712 Its highest point, Mount McCabe, was eleven thousand feet above sea
2713 level. Its capital was Bolivar, "...a strikingly modern city built on a
2714 harbor capable of sheltering the entire United States Navy." The principal
2715 exports were sugar, coffee, bananas, indigo, and handcrafted novelties.
2717 =head2 v5.12.1-RC1 - Kurt Vonnegut, "Cat's Cradle"
2719 L<Announced on 2010-05-09 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/05/msg159971.html>
2721 Which brings me to the Bokononist concept of a wampeter. A wampeter is
2722 the pivot of a karass. No karass is without a wampeter, Bokonon tells us,
2723 just as no wheel is without a hub. Anything can be a wampeter: a tree,
2724 a rock, an animal, an idea, a book, a melody, the Holy Grail. Whatever
2725 it is, the members of its karass revolve about it in the majestic chaos
2726 of a spiral nebula. The orbits of the members of a karass about their
2727 common wampeter are spiritual orbits, naturally. It is souls and not
2728 bodies that revolve. As Bokonon invites us to sing:
2730 Around and around and around we spin,
2731 With feet of lead and wings of tin . . .
2733 =head2 v5.12.0 - Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
2735 L<Announced on 2010-04-12 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/04/msg158820.html>
2737 'Please would you tell me,' said Alice, a little timidly, for she was
2738 not quite sure whether it was good manners for her to speak first, 'why
2739 your cat grins like that?'
2741 'It's a Cheshire cat,' said the Duchess, 'and that's why. Pig!'
2743 She said the last word with such sudden violence that Alice quite
2744 jumped; but she saw in another moment that it was addressed to the baby,
2745 and not to her, so she took courage, and went on again:--
2747 'I didn't know that Cheshire cats always grinned; in fact, I didn't know
2748 that cats COULD grin.'
2750 'They all can,' said the Duchess; 'and most of 'em do.'
2752 =head2 v5.12.0-RC5 - Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
2754 L<Announced on 2010-04-09 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/04/msg158720.html>
2756 'Not QUITE right, I'm afraid,' said Alice, timidly; 'some of the words
2759 'It is wrong from beginning to end,' said the Caterpillar decidedly, and
2760 there was silence for some minutes.
2762 =head2 v5.12.0-RC4 - Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
2764 L<Announced on 2010-04-06 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/04/msg158567.html>
2766 'It was much pleasanter at home,' thought poor Alice, 'when one wasn't
2767 always growing larger and smaller, and being ordered about by mice and
2768 rabbits. I almost wish I hadn't gone down that rabbit-hole--and yet--and
2769 yet--it's rather curious, you know, this sort of life! I do wonder what
2770 can have happened to me! When I used to read fairy-tales, I fancied that
2771 kind of thing never happened, and now here I am in the middle of one!
2773 =head2 v5.12.0-RC3 - Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
2775 L<Announced on 2010-04-02 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/04/msg158346.html>
2777 At last the Mouse, who seemed to be a person of authority among them,
2778 called out, 'Sit down, all of you, and listen to me! I'LL soon make you
2779 dry enough!' They all sat down at once, in a large ring, with the Mouse
2780 in the middle. Alice kept her eyes anxiously fixed on it, for she felt
2781 sure she would catch a bad cold if she did not get dry very soon.
2783 'Ahem!' said the Mouse with an important air, 'are you all ready? This
2784 is the driest thing I know. Silence all round, if you please! "William
2785 the Conqueror, whose cause was favoured by the pope, was soon submitted
2786 to by the English, who wanted leaders, and had been of late much
2787 accustomed to usurpation and conquest. Edwin and Morcar, the earls of
2788 Mercia and Northumbria --"'
2790 =head2 v5.12.0-RC2 - no announcement
2792 Available on CPAN since 2010-04-01.
2794 =head2 v5.12.0-RC1 - Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
2796 L<Announced on 2010-03-29 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/03/msg158060.html>
2798 So she was considering in her own mind (as well as she could, for the
2799 hot day made her feel very sleepy and stupid), whether the pleasure of
2800 making a daisy-chain would be worth the trouble of getting up and
2801 picking the daisies, when suddenly a White Rabbit with pink eyes ran
2804 There was nothing so VERY remarkable in that; nor did Alice think it so
2805 VERY much out of the way to hear the Rabbit say to itself, 'Oh dear! Oh
2806 dear! I shall be late!' (when she thought it over afterwards, it
2807 occurred to her that she ought to have wondered at this, but at the time
2808 it all seemed quite natural); but when the Rabbit actually TOOK A WATCH
2809 OUT OF ITS WAISTCOAT-POCKET, and looked at it, and then hurried on,
2810 Alice started to her feet, for it flashed across her mind that she had
2811 never before seen a rabbit with either a waistcoat-pocket, or a watch to
2812 take out of it, and burning with curiosity, she ran across the field
2813 after it, and fortunately was just in time to see it pop down a large
2814 rabbit-hole under the hedge.
2816 In another moment down went Alice after it, never once considering how
2817 in the world she was to get out again.
2819 =head2 v5.12.0-RC0 - no epigraph
2821 L<Announced on 2020-03-21 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/03/msg157761.html>
2823 =head2 v5.11.5 - Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "Christabel"
2825 L<Announced on 2010-02-21 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/02/msg156957.html>
2827 A little child, a limber elf,
2828 Singing, dancing to itself,
2829 A fairy thing with red round cheeks,
2830 That always finds, and never seeks,
2831 Makes such a vision to the sight
2832 As fills a father's eyes with light;
2833 And pleasures flow in so thick and fast
2834 Upon his heart, that he at last
2835 Must needs express his love's excess
2836 With words of unmeant bitterness.
2837 Perhaps 'tis pretty to force together
2838 Thoughts so all unlike each other;
2839 To mutter and mock a broken charm,
2840 To dally with wrong that does no harm.
2841 Perhaps 'tis tender too and pretty
2842 At each wild word to feel within
2843 A sweet recoil of love and pity.
2844 And what, if in a world of sin
2845 (O sorrow and shame should this be true!)
2846 Such giddiness of heart and brain
2847 Comes seldom save from rage and pain,
2848 So talks as it's most used to do.
2850 =head2 v5.11.4 - Fyodor Dostoevsky, "Crime and Punishment"
2852 L<Announced on 2010-01-20 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/01/msg155848.html>
2854 And you don't suppose that I went into it headlong like a fool? I went
2855 into it like a wise man, and that was just my destruction. And you
2856 mustn't suppose that I didn't know, for instance, that if I began to
2857 question myself whether I had the right to gain power -- I certainly
2858 hadn't the right -- or that if I asked myself whether a human being is a
2859 louse it proved that it wasn't so for me, though it might be for a man
2860 who would go straight to his goal without asking questions.... If I
2861 worried myself all those days, wondering whether Napoleon would have
2862 done it or not, I felt clearly of course that I wasn't Napoleon.
2864 =head2 v5.11.3 - Mark Twain, "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer"
2866 L<Announced on 2009-12-20 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2009/12/msg154838.html>
2868 "Say -- I'm going in a swimming, I am. Don't you wish you could? But of
2869 course you'd druther work -- wouldn't you? Course you would!"
2871 Tom contemplated the boy a bit, and said: "What do you call work?"
2873 "Why ain't that work?"
2875 Tom resumed his whitewashing, and answered carelessly: "Well, maybe it
2876 is, and maybe it aint. All I know, is, it suits Tom Sawyer."
2878 "Oh come, now, you don't mean to let on that you like it?"
2880 The brush continued to move. "Like it? Well I don't see why I oughtn't
2881 to like it. Does a boy get a chance to whitewash a fence every day?"
2883 That put the thing in a new light. Ben stopped nibbling his apple. Tom
2884 swept his brush daintily back and forth -- stepped back to note the effect
2885 -- added a touch here and there-criticised the effect again -- Ben
2886 watching every move and getting more and more interested, more and more
2887 absorbed. Presently he said: "Say, Tom, let me whitewash a little."
2889 =head2 v5.11.2 - Michael Marshall Smith, "Only Forward"
2891 L<Announced on 2009-11-20 by Léon Brocard|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2009/11/msg153646.html>
2893 The streets were pretty quiet, which was nice. They're always quiet here
2894 at that time: you have to be wearing a black jacket to be out on the
2895 streets between seven and nine in the evening, and not many people in
2896 the area have black jackets. It's just one of those things. I currently
2897 live in Colour Neighbourhood, which is for people who are heavily into
2898 colour. All the streets and buildings are set for instant colourmatch:
2899 as you walk down the road they change hue to offset whatever you're
2900 wearing. When the streets are busy it's kind of intense, and anyone
2901 prone to epileptic seizures isn't allowed to live in the Neighbourhood,
2902 however much they're into colour.
2904 =head2 v5.11.1 - Joseph Heller, "Catch-22"
2906 L<Announced on 2009-10-20 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2009/10/msg152360.html>
2908 Milo had been caught red-handed in the act of plundering his countrymen,
2909 and, as a result, his stock had never been higher. He proved good as his
2910 word when a rawboned major from Minnesota curled his lip in rebellious
2911 disavowal and demanded his share of the syndicate Milo kept saying
2912 everybody owned. Milo met the challenge by writing the words "A Share"
2913 on the nearest scrap of paper and handing it away with a virtuous disdain
2914 that won the envy and admiration of almost everyone who knew him. His
2915 glory was at a peak, and Colonel Cathcart, who knew and admired his
2916 war record, was astonished by the deferential humility with which Milo
2917 presented himself at Group Headquarters and made his fantastic appeal
2918 for more hazardous assignment.
2920 =head2 v5.11.0 - Mikhail Bulgakov, "The Master and Margarita"
2922 L<Announced on 2009-10-02 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2009/10/msg151376.html>
2924 Whispers of an "evil power" were heard in lines at dairy shops, in
2925 streetcars, stores, arguments, kitchens, suburban and long-distance
2926 trains, at stations large and small, in dachas and on beaches. Needless
2927 to say, truly mature and cultured people did not tell these stories
2928 about an evil power's visit to the capital. In fact, they even made fun
2929 of them and tried to talk sense into those who told them. Nevertheless,
2930 facts are facts, as they say, and cannot simply be dismissed without
2931 explanation: somebody had visited the capital. The charred cinders of
2932 Griboyedov alone, and many other things besides, confirmed it. Cultured
2933 people shared the point of view of the investigating team: it was the
2934 work of a gang of hypnotists and ventriloquists magnificently skilled in
2937 =head2 v5.10.1 - Right Hon. James Hacker MP, "The Complete Yes Minister: The Diaries of a Cabinet Minister"
2939 L<Announced on 2009-08-23 by Dave Mitchell|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2009/08/msg150172.html>
2941 'Briefly, sir, I am the Permanent Under-Secretary of State, known as
2942 the Permanent Secretary. Woolley here is your Principal Private
2943 Secretary. I, too, have a Principal Private Secretary, and he is the
2944 Principal Private Secretary to the Permanent Secretary. Directly
2945 responsible to me are ten Deputy Secretaries, eighty-seven Under
2946 Secretaries and two hundred and nineteen Assistant Secretaries.
2947 Directly responsible to the Principal Private Secretaries are plain
2948 Private Secretaries. The Prime Minister will be appointing two
2949 Parliamentary Under-Secretaries and you will be appointing your own
2950 Parliamentary Private Secretary.'
2952 'Can they all type?' I joked.
2954 'None of us can type, Minister,' replied Sir Humphrey smoothly. 'Mrs
2955 McKay types - she is your Secretary.'
2957 I couldn't tell whether or not he was joking. 'What a pity,' I said.
2958 'We could have opened an agency.'
2960 Sir Humphrey and Bernard laughed. 'Very droll, sir,' said Sir
2961 Humphrey. 'Most amusing, sir,' said Bernard. Were they genuinely
2962 amused at my wit, or just being rather patronising? 'I suppose they
2963 all say that, do they?' I ventured.
2965 Sir Humphrey reassured me on that. 'Certainly not, Minister,' he
2966 replied. 'Not quite all.'
2968 =head2 v5.10.1-RC2 - no epigraph
2970 L<Announced on 2009-08-18 by Dave Mitchell|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2009/08/msg150015.html>
2972 =head2 v5.10.1-RC1 - no epigraph
2974 L<Announced on 2009-08-06 by Dave Mitchell|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2009/08/msg149498.html>
2976 =head2 v5.10.0 - Laurence Sterne, "Tristram Shandy"
2978 L<Announced on 2007-12-18 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2007/12/msg131636.html>
2980 He would often declare, in speaking his thoughts upon the subject, that
2981 he did not conceive how the greatest family in England could stand it
2982 out against an uninterrupted succession of six or seven short
2983 noses.--And for the contrary reason, he would generally add, That it
2984 must be one of the greatest problems in civil life, where the same
2985 number of long and jolly noses, following one another in a direct line,
2986 did not raise and hoist it up into the best vacancies in the kingdom.
2988 =head2 v5.10.0-RC2 - no epigraph
2990 L<Announced on 2007-11-25 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2007/11/msg130978.html>
2992 =head2 v5.10.0-RC1 - no epigraph
2994 L<Announced on 2007-11-17 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2007/11/msg130653.html>
2996 =head2 v5.9.5 - no announcement
2998 L<Pre-announced on 2007-07-07 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2007/07/msg126358.html>,
2999 available on CPAN with same date, but never actually announced.
3001 =head2 v5.9.4 - no epigraph
3003 L<Announced on 2006-08-15 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2006/08/msg115782.html>
3005 =head2 v5.9.3 - no epigraph
3007 L<Announced on 2006-01-28 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2006/01/msg109086.html>
3009 =head2 v5.9.2 - Thomas Pynchon, "V"
3011 L<Announced on 2005-04-01 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2005/04/msg99421.html>
3013 This word flip was weird. Every recording date of McClintic's he'd
3014 gotten into the habit of talking electricity with the audio men and
3015 technicians of the studio. McClintic once couldn't have cared less
3016 about electricity, but now it seemed if that was helping him reach a
3017 bigger audience, some digging, some who would never dig, but all
3018 paying and those royalties keeping the Triumph in gas and McClintic
3019 in J. Press suits, then McClintic ought to be grateful to
3020 electricity, ought maybe to learn a little more about it. So he'd
3021 picked up some here and there, and one day last summer he got around
3022 to talking stochastic music and digital computers with one
3023 technician. Out of the conversation had come Set/Reset, which was
3024 getting to be a signature for the group. He had found out from this
3025 sound man about a two-triode circuit called a flip-flop, which when
3026 it turned on could be one of two ways, depending on which tube was
3027 conducting and which was cut off: set or reset, flip or flop.
3029 "And that," the man said, "can be yes or no, or one or zero. And
3030 that is what you might call one of the basic units, or specialized
3031 `cells' in a big `electronic brain.' "
3033 "Crazy," said McClintic, having lost him back there someplace. But
3034 one thing that did occur to him was if a computer's brain could go
3035 flip or flop, why so could a musician's. As long as you were flop,
3036 everything was cool. But where did the trigger-pulse come from to
3039 =head2 v5.9.1 - Tom Stoppard, "Arcadia"
3041 L<Announced on 2004-03-16 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/03/msg89722.html>
3043 Aren't you supposed to have a pony?
3045 =head2 v5.9.0 - Doris Lessing, "Martha Quest"
3047 L<Announced on 2003-10-27 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/10/msg84147.html>
3049 What of October, that ambiguous month
3051 =head2 v5.8.9 - Right Hon. James Hacker MP, "The Complete Yes Minister: The Diaries of a Cabinet Minister"
3053 L<Announced on 2008-12-14 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2008/12/msg142571.html>
3055 Frank and I, unlike the civil servants, were still puzzled that such a
3056 proposal as the Europass could even be seriously under consideration by
3057 the FCO. We can both see clearly that it is wonderful ammunition for the
3058 anti-Europeans. I asked Humphrey if the Foreign Office doesn't realise
3059 how damaging this would be to the European ideal?
3061 'I'm sure they do, Minister, he said. That's why they support it.'
3063 This was even more puzzling, since I'd always been under the impression
3064 that the FO is pro-Europe. 'Is it or isn't it?' I asked Humphrey.
3066 'Yes and no,' he replied of course, 'if you'll pardon the
3067 expression. The Foreign Office is pro-Europe because it is really
3068 anti-Europe. In fact the Civil Service was united in its desire to make
3069 sure the Common Market didn't work. That's why we went into it.'
3071 This sounded like a riddle to me. I asked him to explain further. And
3072 basically his argument was as follows: Britain has had the same foreign
3073 policy objective for at least the last five hundred years - to create a
3074 disunited Europe. In that cause we have fought with the Dutch against
3075 the Spanish, with the Germans against the French, with the French and
3076 Italians against the Germans, and with the French against the Italians
3077 and Germans. [The Dutch rebellion against Phillip II of Spain, the
3078 Napoleonic Wars, the First World War, and the Second World War - Ed.]
3080 In other words, divide and rule. And the Foreign Office can see no
3081 reason to change when it has worked so well until now.
3083 I was aware of this, naturally, but I regarded it as ancient history.
3084 Humphrey thinks that it is, in fact, current policy. It was necessary
3085 for us to break up the EEC, he explained, so we had to get inside. We
3086 had previously tried to break it up from the outside, but that didn't
3087 work. [A reference to our futile and short-lived involvement in EFTA,
3088 the European Free Trade Association, founded in 1960 and which the UK
3089 left in 1972 - Ed.] Now that we're in, we are able to make a complete
3090 pig's breakfast out of it. We've now set the Germans against the French,
3091 the French against the Italians, the Italians against the Dutch... and
3092 the Foreign office is terribly happy. It's just like old time.
3094 I was staggered by all of this. I thought that the all of us who are
3095 publicly pro-European believed in the European ideal. I said this to Sir
3096 Humphrey, and he simply chuckled.
3098 So I asked him: if we don't believe in the European Ideal, why are we
3099 pushing to increase the membership?
3101 'Same reason,' came the reply. 'It's just like the United Nations. The
3102 more members it has, the more arguments you can stir up, and the more
3103 futile and impotent it becomes.'
3105 This all strikes me as the most appalling cynicism, and I said so.
3107 Sir Humphrey agreed completely. 'Yes Minister. We call it
3108 diplomacy. It's what made Britain great, you know.'
3110 =head2 v5.8.9-RC2 - Right Hon. James Hacker MP, "The Complete Yes Minister: The Diaries of a Cabinet Minister"
3112 L<Announced on 2008-12-06 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2008/12/msg142422.html>
3114 There was silence in the office. I didn't know what we were going to do
3115 about the four hundred new people supervising our economy drive or the
3116 four hundred new people for the Bureaucratic Watchdog Office, or
3117 anything! I simply sat and waited and hoped that my head would stop
3118 thumping and that some idea would be suggested by someone sometime soon.
3120 Sir Humphrey obliged. 'Minister... if we were to end the economy drive
3121 and close the Bureaucratic Watchdog Office we could issue an immediate
3122 press announcement that you had axed eight hundred jobs.' He had
3123 obviously thought this out carefully in advance, for at this moment he
3124 produced a slim folder from under his arm. 'If you'd like to approve
3127 I couldn't believe the impertinence of the suggestion. Axed eight
3128 hundred jobs? 'But no one was ever doing these jobs,' I pointed out
3129 incredulously. 'No one's been appointed yet.'
3131 'Even greater economy,' he replied instantly. 'We've saved eight hundred
3132 redundancy payments as well.'
3134 'But...' I attempted to explain '... that's just phony. It's dishonest,
3135 it's juggling with figures, it's pulling the wool over people's eyes.'
3137 'A government press release, in fact.' said Humphrey.
3139 =head2 v5.8.9-RC1 - Right Hon. James Hacker MP, "The Complete Yes Minister: The Diaries of a Cabinet Minister"
3141 L<Announced on 2008-11-10 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2008/11/msg141515.html>
3143 A jumbo jet touched down, with BURANDAN AIRWAYS written on the side. I
3144 was hugely impressed. British Airways are having to pawn their Concordes,
3145 and here is this little tiny African state with its own airline, jumbo
3148 I asked Bernard how many planes Burandan Airways had. 'None,' he said.
3150 I told him not to be silly and use his eyes. 'No Minister, it belongs to
3151 Freddie Laker,' he said. 'They chartered it last week and repainted it
3152 specially.' Apparently most of the Have-Nots (I mean, LDCs) do this - at
3153 the opening of the UN General Assembly the runways of Kennedy Airport are
3154 jam-packed with phoney flag-carriers. 'In fact,' said Bernard with a sly
3155 grin, 'there was one 747 that belonged to nine different African airlines
3156 in a month. They called it the mumbo-jumbo.'
3158 While we watched nothing much happening on the TV except the mumbo-jumbo
3159 taxiing around Prestwick and the Queen looking a bit chilly, Bernard gave
3160 me the next day's schedule and explained that I was booked on the night
3161 sleeper from King's Cross to Edinburgh because I had to vote in a
3162 three-line whip at the House tonight and would have to miss the last
3163 plane. Then the commentator, in that special hushed BBC voice used for any
3164 occasion with which Royalty is connected, announced reverentially that we
3165 were about to catch our first glimpse of President Selim.
3167 And out of the plane stepped Charlie. My old friend Charlie Umtali. We
3168 were at LSE together. Not Selim Mohammed at all, but Charlie.
3170 Bernard asked me if I were sure. Silly question. How could you forget a
3171 name like Charlie Umtali?
3173 I sent Bernard for Sir Humphrey, who was delighted to hear that we now
3174 know something about our official visitor.
3176 Bernard's official brief said nothing. Amazing! Amazing how little the FCO
3177 has been able to find out. Perhaps they were hoping it would all be on the
3178 car radio. All the brief says is that Colonel Selim Mohammed had converted
3179 to Islam some years ago, they didn't know his original name, and therefore
3180 knew little of his background.
3182 I was able to tell Humphrey and Bernard /all/ about his background.
3183 Charlie was a red-hot political economist, I informed them. Got the top
3184 first. Wiped the floor with everyone.
3186 Bernard seemed relieved. 'Well that's all right then.'
3190 'I think Bernard means,' said Sir Humphrey helpfully, 'that he'll know how
3191 to behave if he was at an English University. Even if it was the LSE.' I
3192 never know whether or not Humphrey is insulting me intentionally.
3194 Humphrey was concerned about Charlie's political colour. 'When you said
3195 that he was red-hot, were you speaking politically?'
3197 In a way I was. 'The thing about Charlie is that you never quite know
3198 where you are with him. He's the sort of chap who follows you into a
3199 revolving door and comes out in front.'
3201 'No deeply held convictions?' asked Sir Humphrey.
3203 'No. The only thing Charlie was committed too was Charlie.'
3205 'Ah, I see. A politician, Minister.'
3207 =head2 v5.8.8 - Joe Raposo, "Bein' Green"
3209 L<Announced on 2006-01-31 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2006/01/msg109190.html>
3211 It's not that easy bein' green
3212 Having to spend each day the color of the leaves
3213 When I think it could be nicer being red or yellow or gold
3214 Or something much more colorful like that
3216 It's not easy bein' green
3217 It seems you blend in with so many other ordinary things
3218 And people tend to pass you over 'cause you're
3219 Not standing out like flashy sparkles in the water
3222 But green's the color of Spring
3223 And green can be cool and friendly-like
3224 And green can be big like an ocean
3225 Or important like a mountain
3228 When green is all there is to be
3229 It could make you wonder why, but why wonder why?
3230 Wonder I am green and it'll do fine, it's beautiful
3231 And I think it's what I want to be
3233 =head2 v5.8.8-RC1 - Cosgrove Hall Productions, "Dangermouse"
3235 L<Announced on 2006-01-20 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2006/01/msg108833.html>
3237 Greenback: And the world is mine, all mine. Muhahahahaha. See to it!
3239 Stiletto: Si, Barone. Subito, Barone.
3241 =head2 v5.8.7 - Sergei Prokofiev, "Peter and the Wolf"
3243 L<Announced on 2005-05-31 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2005/05/msg101088.html>
3245 And now, imagine the triumphant procession: Peter at the head; after him the
3246 hunters leading the wolf; and winding up the procession, grandfather and the
3249 Grandfather shook his head discontentedly: "Well, and if Peter hadn't caught
3250 the wolf? What then?"
3252 =head2 v5.8.7-RC1 - Sergei Prokofiev, "Peter and the Wolf"
3254 L<Announced on 2005-05-20 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2005/05/msg100711.html>
3256 And now this is how things stood: The cat was sitting on one branch. The
3257 bird on another, not too close to the cat. And the wolf walked round and
3258 round the tree, looking at them with greedy eyes.
3260 In the meantime, Peter, without the slightest fear, stood behind the
3261 gate, watching all that was going on. He ran home,got a strong rope and
3262 climbed up the high stone wall.
3264 One of the branches of the tree, around which the wolf was walking,
3265 stretched out over the wall.
3267 Grabbing hold of the branch, Peter lightly climbed over on to the tree.
3268 Peter said to the bird: "Fly down and circle round the wolf's head, only
3269 take care that he doesn't catch you!".
3271 The bird almost touched the wolf's head with its wings, while the wolf
3272 snapped angrily at him from this side and that.
3274 How that bird teased the wolf, how that wolf wanted to catch him! But
3275 the bird was clever and the wolf simply couldn't do anything about it.
3277 =head2 v5.8.6 - A. A. Milne, "The House at Pooh Corner"
3279 L<Announced on 2004-11-27 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/11/msg96304.html>
3281 "Hallo, Pooh," said Piglet, giving a jump of surprise. "I knew it was
3284 "So did I,", said Pooh. "What are you doing?"
3286 "I'm planting a haycorn, Pooh, so that it can grow up into an oak-tree,
3287 and have lots of haycorns just outside the front door instead of having
3288 to walk miles and miles, do you see, Pooh?"
3290 "Supposing it doesn't?" said Pooh.
3292 "It will, because Christopher Robin says it will, so that's why I'm
3295 "Well," aid Pooh, "if I plant a honeycomb outside my house, then it will
3296 grow up into a beehive."
3298 Piglet wasn't quite sure about this.
3300 "Or a /piece/ of a honeycomb," said Pooh, "so as not to waste too much.
3301 Only then I might only get a piece of a beehive, and it might be the
3302 wrong piece, where the bees were buzzing and not hunnying. Bother"
3304 Piglet agreed that that would be rather bothering.
3306 "Besides, Pooh, it's a very difficult thing, planting unless you know
3307 how to do it," he said; and he put the acorn in the hole he had made,
3308 and covered it up with earth, and jumped on it.
3310 =head2 v5.8.6-RC1 - A. A. Milne, "Winnie the Pooh"
3312 L<Announced on 2004-11-11 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/11/msg95786.html>
3314 "Hallo!" said Piglet, "whare are /you/ doing?"
3316 "Hunting," said Pooh.
3320 "Tracking something," said Winnie-the-Pooh very mysteriously.
3322 "Tracking what?" said Piglet, coming closer.
3324 "That's just what I ask myself, I ask myself, What?"
3326 "What do you think you'll answer?"
3328 "I shall have to wait until I catch up with it," said Winnie-the-Pooh.
3329 "Now, look there." He pointed to the ground in front of him. "What do
3332 "Track," said Piglet. "Paw-marks." He gave a little squeak of
3333 excitement. "Oh, Pooh!" Do you think it's a--a--a Woozle?"
3335 =head2 v5.8.5 - wikipedia, "Yew"
3337 L<Announced on 2004-07-19 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/07/msg93189.html>
3339 Yews are relatively slow growing trees, widely used in landscaping and
3340 ornamental horticulture. They have flat, dark-green needles, reddish
3341 bark, and bear seeds with red arils, which are eaten by thrushes,
3342 waxwings and other birds, dispersing the hard seeds undamaged in their
3343 droppings. Yew wood is reddish brown (with white sapwood), and very
3344 hard. It was traditionally used to make bows, especially the English
3347 In England, the Common Yew (Taxus baccata, also known as English Yew) is
3348 often found in churchyards. It is sometimes suggested that these are
3349 placed there as a symbol of long life or trees of death, and some are
3350 likely to be over 3,000 years old. It is also suggested that yew trees
3351 may have a pre-Christian association with old pagan holy sites, and the
3352 Christian church found it expedient to use and take over existing sites.
3353 Another explanation is that the poisonous berries and foliage discourage
3354 farmers and drovers from letting their animals wander into the burial
3355 grounds. The yew tree is a frequent symbol in the Christian poetry of
3356 T.S. Eliot, especially his Four Quartets.
3358 =head2 v5.8.5-RC2 - wikipedia, "Beech"
3360 L<Announced on 2004-07-09 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/07/msg92934.html>
3362 Beeches are trees of the Genus Fagus, family Fagaceae, including about
3363 ten species in Europe, Asia, and North America. The leaves are entire or
3364 sparsely toothed. The fruit is a small, sharply-angled nut, borne in
3365 pairs in spiny husks. The beech most commonly grown as an ornamental or
3366 shade tree is the European beech (Fagus sylvatica).
3368 The southern beeches belong to a different but related genus,
3369 Nothofagus. They are found in Australia, New Zealand, New Guinea, New
3370 Caledonia and South America.
3372 =head2 v5.8.5-RC1 - wikipedia, "Pedunculate Oak" (abridged)
3374 L<Announced on 2004-07-07 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/07/msg92840.html>
3376 The Pedunculate Oak is called the Common Oak in Britain, and is also
3377 often called the English Oak in other English speaking countries It is a
3378 large deciduous tree to 25-35m tall (exceptionally to 40m), with lobed
3379 and sessile (stalk-less) leaves. Flowering takes place in early to mid
3380 spring, and their fruit, called "acorns", ripen by autumn of the same
3381 year. The acorns are pedunculate (having a peduncle or acorn-stalk) and
3382 may occur singly, or several acorns may occur on a stalk.
3384 It forms a long-lived tree, with a large widespreading head of rugged
3385 branches. While it may naturally live to an age of a few centuries, many
3386 of the oldest trees are pollarded or coppiced, both pruning techniques
3387 that extend the tree's potential lifespan, if not its health.
3389 Within its native range it is valued for its importance to insects and
3390 other wildlife. Numerous insects live on the leaves, buds, and in the
3391 acorns. The acorns form a valuable food resource for several small
3392 mammals and some birds, notably Jays Garrulus glandarius.
3394 It is planted for forestry, and produces a long-lasting and durable
3395 heartwood, much in demand for interior and furniture work.
3397 =head2 v5.8.4 - T. S. Eliot, "The Old Gumbie Cat"
3399 L<Announced on 2004-04-22 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/04/msg90984.html>
3401 I have a Gumbie Cat in mind, her name is Jennyanydots;
3402 The curtain-cord she likes to wind, and tie it into sailor-knots.
3403 She sits upon the window-sill, or anything that's smooth and flat:
3404 She sits and sits and sits and sits -- and that's what makes a Gumbie Cat!
3406 But when the day's hustle and bustle is done,
3407 Then the Gumbie Cat's work is but hardly begun.
3408 She thinks that the cockroaches just need employment
3409 To prevent them from idle and wanton destroyment.
3410 So she's formed, from that a lot of disorderly louts,
3411 A troop of well-disciplined helpful boy-scouts,
3412 With a purpose in life and a good deed to do--
3413 And she's even created a Beetles' Tattoo.
3415 So for Old Gumbie Cats let us now give three cheers --
3416 On whom well-ordered households depend, it appears.
3419 =head2 v5.8.4-RC2 - T. S. Eliot, "Macavity: The Mystery Cat"
3421 L<Announced on 2004-04-16 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/04/msg90796.html>
3423 Macavity's a Mystery Cat: he's called the Hidden Paw --
3424 For he's the master criminal who can defy the Law.
3425 He's the bafflement of Scotland Yard, the Flying Squad's despair:
3426 For when they reach the scene of crime -- /Macavity's not there/!
3428 Macavity, Macavity, there's no one like Macavity,
3429 He's broken every human law, he breaks the law of gravity.
3430 His powers of levitation would make a fakir stare,
3431 And when you reach the scene of crime -- /Macavity's not there/!
3432 You may seek him in the basement, you may look up in the air --
3433 But I tell you once and once again, /Macavity's not there/!
3435 =head2 v5.8.4-RC1 - T. S. Eliot, "Skimbleshanks: The Railway Cat"
3437 L<Announced on 2004-04-05 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/04/msg90422.html>
3439 There's a whisper down the line at 11.39
3440 When the Night Mail's ready to depart,
3441 Saying 'Skimble where is Skimble has he gone to hunt the thimble?
3442 We must find him of the train can't start.'
3443 All the guards and all the porters and the stationmaster's daughters
3444 They are searching high and low,
3445 Saying 'Skimble where is Skimble for unless he's very nimble
3446 Then the Night Mail just can't go'
3447 At 11.42 then the signal's overdue
3448 And the passengers are frantic to a man--
3449 Then Skimble will appear and he'll saunter to the rear:
3450 He's been busy in the luggage van!
3451 He gives one flash of his glass-green eyes
3452 And the signal goes 'All Clear!'
3453 And we're off at last of the northern part
3454 Of the Northern Hemisphere!
3456 =head2 v5.8.3 - Arthur William Edgar O'Shaugnessy, "Ode"
3458 L<Announced on 2004-01-14 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/01/msg87317.html>
3460 We are the music makers,
3461 And we are the dreamers of dreams,
3462 Wandering by lonely sea-breakers,
3463 And sitting by desolate streams; --
3464 World-losers and world-forsakers,
3465 On whom the pale moon gleams:
3466 Yet we are the movers and shakers
3467 Of the world for ever, it seems.
3469 =head2 v5.8.3-RC1 - Irving Berlin, "Let's Face the Music and Dance"
3471 L<Announced on 2004-01-07 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/01/msg86969.html>
3473 There may be trouble ahead,
3474 But while there's music and moonlight,
3475 And love and romance,
3476 Let's face the music and dance.
3478 Before the fiddlers have fled,
3479 Before they ask us to pay the bill,
3480 And while we still have that chance,
3481 Let's face the music and dance.
3483 Soon, we'll be without the moon,
3484 Humming a different tune, and then,
3486 There may be teardrops to shed,
3487 So while there's music and moonlight,
3488 And love and romance,
3489 Let's face the music and dance.
3491 =head2 v5.8.2 - Walt Whitman, "Passage to India"
3493 L<Announced on 2003-11-05 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/11/msg84822.html>
3495 Passage, immediate passage! the blood burns in my veins!
3496 Away O soul! hoist instantly the anchor!
3497 Cut the hawsers - hall out - shake out every sail!
3498 Have we not stood here like trees in the ground long enough?
3499 Have we not grovel'd here long enough, eating and drinking like mere brutes?
3500 Have we not darken'd and dazed ourselves with books long enough?
3502 Sail forth - steer for the deep waters only,
3503 Reckless O soul, exploring, I with the and thou with me,
3504 For we are bound where mariner has not yet dared to go,
3505 And we will risk the ship, ourselves and all.
3508 O farther farther sail!
3509 O daring job, but safe! are they not all the seas of God?
3510 O farther, farther, farther sail!
3512 =head2 v5.8.2-RC2 - Eric Idle and John Du Prez, "Accountancy Shanty"
3514 L<Announced on 2003-11-03 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/11/msg84645.html>
3516 It's fun to charter an accountant
3517 And sail the wide accountan-cy,
3518 To find, explore the funds offshore
3519 And skirt the shoals of bankruptcy.
3521 =head2 v5.8.2-RC1 - Edward Lear, "The Jumblies"
3523 L<Announced on 2003-10-27 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/10/msg84194.html>
3525 They went to sea in a Sieve, they did,
3526 In a Sieve they went to sea:
3527 In spite of all their friends could say,
3528 On a winter's morn, on a stormy day,
3529 In a Sieve they went to sea!
3530 And when the Sieve turned round and round,
3531 And everyone cried, "You'll all be drowned!"
3532 They cried aloud, "Our Sieve ain't big,
3533 But we don't care a button, we don't care a fig!
3534 In a Sieve we'll go to sea!"
3536 Far and few, far and few,
3537 Are the lands where the Jumblies live;
3538 Their heads are green, and their hands are blue,
3539 And they went to sea in a Sieve.
3541 =head2 v5.8.1 - epigraph same as v5.7.1
3543 L<Announced on 2003-09-25 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/09/msg82678.html>
3545 =head2 v5.8.1-RC5 - Terry Pratchett, "Lords and Ladies"
3547 L<Announced on 2003-09-22 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/09/msg82476.html>
3549 No matter what she did with her hair it took about
3550 three minutes for it to tangle itself up again,
3551 like a garden hosepipe in a shed [Footnote: Which,
3552 no matter how carefully coiled, will always uncoil
3553 overnight and tie the lawnmower to the bicycles].
3555 =head2 v5.8.1-RC4 - Terry Pratchett, "Interesting Times"
3557 L<Announced on 2003-08-01 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/08/msg79184.html>
3559 Grand Viziers were /always/ scheming megalomaniacs.
3560 It was probably in the job description: "Are you a
3561 devious, plotting, unreliable madman? Ah, good,
3562 then you can be my most trusted minister."
3564 =head2 v5.8.1-RC3 - Terry Pratchett, "Interesting Times"
3566 L<Announced on 2003-07-30 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/07/msg79048.html>
3568 Lord Hong had a mind like a knife, although possibly
3569 a knife with a curved blade.
3571 =head2 v5.8.1-RC2 - Terry Pratchett, "Interesting Times"
3573 L<Announced on 2003-07-11 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/07/msg78102.html>
3575 Many an ancient lord's last words had been, "You can't kill
3576 me because I've got magic aaargh."
3578 =head2 v5.8.1-RC1 - Terry Pratchett, "Interesting Times"
3580 L<Announced on 2003-07-10 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/07/msg78009.html>
3582 Cohen was familiar with city gates. He'd broken down a number
3583 in his time, by battering ram, siege gun, and on one occasion
3586 But the gates of Hunghung were pretty damn good gates. They
3587 weren't like the gates of Ankh-Morpork, which were usually wide
3588 open to attract the spending customer and whose concession to
3589 defense was the sign "Thank You For Not Attacking Our City.
3590 Bonum Diem." These things were big and made of metal and there
3591 was a guardhouse and a squad of unhelpful men in black armor.
3593 =head2 v5.8.0 - Terry Pratchett, "Reaper Man"
3595 L<Announced on 2002-07-18 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2002/07/msg63720.html>
3597 There was the faint sound of footsteps.
3598 "Chap with a whip got as far as the big sharp spikes last week,"
3599 said the low priest.
3600 There was a sound like the flushing of a very old dry lavatory.
3601 The footsteps stopped. The High Priest smiled to himself.
3602 "Right," he said. "See your two pebbles and raise you two pebbles."
3603 The low priest threw down his cards. "Double Onion," he said.
3604 The High Priest looked down suspiciously.
3605 The low priest consulted a scrap of paper. "That's three hundred
3606 thousand, nine hundred and sixty-four pebbles you owe me," he said.
3607 There was the sound of footsteps. The priests exchanged glances.
3608 "Haven't had one for poisoned-dart alley for quite some time,"
3609 said the High Priest.
3610 "Five says he makes it", said the low priest. "You're on."
3611 There was a faint clatter of metal points on stone.
3612 "It's a shame to take your pebbles."
3613 There were footsteps again.
3615 =head2 v5.8.0-RC3 - no epigraph
3617 L<Announced on 2002-07-13 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2002/07/msg63234.html>
3619 =head2 v5.8.0-RC2 - no epigraph
3621 L<Announced on 2002-06-21 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2002/06/msg62013.html>
3623 =head2 v5.8.0-RC1 - no epigraph
3625 L<Announced on 2002-06-01 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2002/06/msg60317.html>
3627 =head2 v5.7.3 - Terry Pratchett, "Reaper Man"
3629 L<Announced on 2002-03-04 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2002/03/msg53652.html>
3631 Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong.
3632 No matter how fast light travels it finds the darkness has always
3633 got there first, and is waiting for it.
3635 =head2 v5.7.2 - Terry Pratchett, "Small Gods"
3637 L<Announced on 2001-07-13 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2001/07/msg40370.html>
3639 His philosophy was a mixture of three famous schools --
3640 the Cynics, the Stoics and the Epicureans -- and summed up
3641 all three of them in his famous phrase, "You can't trust any
3642 bugger further than you can throw him, and there's nothing
3643 you can do about it, so let's have a drink."
3645 =head2 v5.7.1 - Terry Pratchett, "The Colour of Magic"
3647 L<Announced on 2001-04-09 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2001/04/msg33851.html>
3649 "What happens next?" asked Twoflower.
3651 Hrun screwed a finger in his ear and inspected it absently.
3653 "Oh,", he said, "I expect in a minute the door will be
3654 flung back and I'll be dragged off to some sort of temple
3655 arena where I'll fight maybe a couple of giant spiders
3656 and an eight-foot slave from the jungles of Klatch and then
3657 I'll rescue some kind of a princess from the altar and then
3658 I'll kill off a few guards or whatever and then this girl
3659 will show me the secret passage out of the place and we'll
3660 liberate a couple of horses and escape with the treasure."
3661 Hrun leaned his head back on his hands and looked at the
3662 ceiling, whistling tunelessly.
3664 "All that?" said Twoflower.
3668 =head2 v5.7.0 - Terry Pratchett, "Moving Pictures"
3670 L<Announced on 2000-09-02 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2000/09/msg17730.html>
3672 The Librarian had seen many weird things in his time,
3673 but that had to be the 57th strangest.
3674 [footnote: he had a tidy mind]
3676 =head2 v5.6.2 - Laurence Sterne, "Tristram Shandy"
3678 L<Announced on 2003-11-15 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/11/msg85222.html>
3680 When great or unexpected events fall out upon the stage of this
3681 sublunary word--the mind of man, which is an inquisitive kind of
3682 a substance, naturally takes a flight, behind the scenes, to see
3683 what is the cause and first spring of them--The search was not
3684 long in this instance.
3686 =head2 v5.6.2-RC1 - Laurence Sterne, "Tristram Shandy"
3688 L<Announced on 2003-11-08 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/11/msg84953.html>
3690 "Pray, my dear", quoth my mother, "have you not forgot to wind up the clock?"
3692 =head2 v5.6.1 - J R R Tolkien, "The Hobbit", Riddles in the Dark
3694 L<Announced on 2001-04-08 by Gurusamy Sarathy|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2001/04/msg33823.html>
3696 `What have I got in my pocket?' he said aloud. He was talking to
3697 himself, but Gollum thought it was a riddle, and he was frightfully
3700 `Not fair! not fair!' he hissed. `It isn't fair, my precious, is it,
3701 to ask us what it's got in its nassty little pocketses?'
3703 Bilbo seeing what had happened and having nothing better to ask
3704 stuck to his question, `What have I got in my pocket?' he said
3707 `S-s-s-s-s,' hissed Gollum. `It must give us three guesseses,
3708 my precious, three guesseses.'
3710 =head2 v5.6.1-foolish - no epigraph
3712 L<Announced on 2001-04-01 by Gurusamy Sarathy|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2001/04/msg33421.html>
3714 =head2 v5.6.1-TRIAL3 - I can't find the announcement
3716 No announcement available.
3718 =head2 v5.6.1-TRIAL2 - no epigraph
3720 L<Announced on 2001-01-31 by Gurusamy Sarathy|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2001/01/msg29934.html>
3722 =head2 v5.6.1-TRIAL1 - no epigraph
3724 L<Announced on 2000-12-18 by Gurusamy Sarathy|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2000/12/msg27738.html>
3726 =head2 v5.6.0 - J R R Tolkien, "The Hobbit", The Last Stage
3728 L<Announced on 2000-03-23 by Gurusamy Sarathy|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2000/03/msg10341.html>
3730 The dragon is withered,
3731 His bones are now crumbled;
3732 His armour is shivered,
3733 His splendour is humbled!
3734 Though sword shall be rusted,
3735 And throne and crown perish
3736 With strength that men trusted
3737 And wealth that they cherish,
3738 Here grass is still growing,
3739 And leaves are a yet swinging,
3740 The white water flowing,
3741 And elves are yet singing
3742 Come! Tra-la-la-lally!
3743 Come back to the valley.
3745 =head2 v5.6.0-RC3 - no epigraph
3747 L<Announced on 2000-03-22 by Gurusamy Sarathy|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2000/03/msg10140.html>
3749 =head2 v5.005_05-RC1 - no epigraph
3751 L<Announced on 2009-02-16 by LE<0xe9>on Brocard|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2009/02/msg144227.html>
3753 =head2 v5.005_04 - no epigraph
3755 L<Announced on 2004-03-01 by LE<0xe9>on Brocard|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/03/msg89047.html>
3757 =head2 v5.005_04-RC2 - Rudyard Kipling, "The Jungle Book"
3759 L<Announced on 2004-02-19 by LE<0xe9>on Brocard|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/02/msg88672.html>
3761 The monkeys called the place their city, and pretended to despise
3762 the Jungle-People because they lived in the forest. And yet they
3763 never knew what the buildings were made for nor how to use
3764 them. They would sit in circles on the hall of the king's council
3765 chamber, and scratch for fleas and pretend to be men; or they would
3766 run in and out of the roofless houses and collect pieces of plaster
3767 and old bricks in a corner, and forget where they had hidden them,
3768 and fight and cry in scuffling crowds, and then break off to play up
3769 and down the terraces of the king's garden, where they would shake
3770 the rose trees and the oranges in sport to see the fruit and flowers
3773 =head2 v5.005_04-RC1 - Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
3775 L<Announced on 2004-02-05 by LE<0xe9>on Brocard|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/02/msg88312.html>
3777 Either the well was very deep, or she fell very slowly, for she had
3778 plenty of time as she went down to look about her and to wonder what was
3779 going to happen next. First, she tried to look down and make out what
3780 she was coming to, but it was too dark to see anything; then she looked
3781 at the sides of the well, and noticed that they were filled with
3782 cupboards and book-shelves; here and there she saw maps and pictures
3783 hung upon pegs. She took down a jar from one of the shelves as she
3784 passed; it was labelled 'ORANGE MARMALADE', but to her great
3785 disappointment it was empty: she did not like to drop the jar for fear
3786 of killing somebody, so managed to put it into one of the cupboards as
3789 =head2 v1.0_16 - Johan Vromans, extemporarily
3791 L<Announced on 2003-12-18 by Richard Clamp|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/12/msg86423.html>
3793 't was 16 years ago today
3794 Larry taught us a new game
3795 of lazyness, impatience, and hubris
3796 Happy birthday, Perl!
3798 =head1 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
3800 This document was originally compiled based on a list of epigraphs
3801 on L<Perl Monks|http://perlmonks.org> titled
3802 L<Recent Perl Release Announcement|http://perlmonks.org/?node_id=372406>