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 v5.29.0 - Erle Stanley Gardner, The Case of the Grinning Gorilla
22 L<Announced on 2018-06-26 by Sawyer X|http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/251297>
24 Courage is the only antidote for danger.
26 =head2 v5.28.0 - Martin Luther King, Jr., 1967
28 L<Announced on 2018-06-22 by Sawyer X|http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/251240>
30 When we look at modern man we have to face the fact that modern man
31 suffers from a kind of poverty of the spirit which stands in glaring
32 contrast with his scientific and technological abundance. We've learned
33 to fly the air as birds, we've learned to swim the seas as fish, yet we
34 haven't learned to walk the earth as brothers and sisters.
36 =head2 v5.28.0-RC4 - Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book
38 L<Announced on 2018-06-19 by Sawyer X|http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/251212>
40 You're alive, Bod. That means you have infinite potential. You can do
41 anything, make anything, dream anything. If you can change the world,
42 the world will change. Potential. Once you're dead, it's gone. Over.
43 You've made what you've made, dreamed your dream, written your name.
44 You may be buried here, you may even walk. But that potential is
47 =head2 v5.28.0-RC3 - Anthony Horowitz, Magpie Murders
49 L<Announced on 2018-06-18 by Sawyer X|http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/251204>
51 These had been his plans. But if there was one thing that life had
52 taught him, it was the futility of making plans. Life had its own
55 =head2 v5.28.0-RC2 - Oliver Sacks, The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat: And Other Clinical Tales
57 L<Announced on 2018-06-06 by Sawyer X|http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/251122>
59 Had she not been of exceptional intelligence and literacy, with an
60 imagination filled and sustained, so to speak, by the images of
61 others, images conveyed by language, by the word, she might have
62 remained almost as helpless as a baby.
64 =head2 v5.28.0-RC1 - Anu Garg, A Word A Day
66 L<Announced on 2018-05-21 by Sawyer X|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/05/msg250999.html>
68 One doesn't have to know the unit of pain (dol) to realize that the
69 unit of joy is not the dollar, or any other currency for that matter.
71 =head2 v5.27.11 - Tana French, In the Woods
73 L<Announced on 2018-04-20 by Sawyer X|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/04/msg250571.html>
75 And then, too, I had learned early to assume something dark and
76 lethal hidden at the heart of anything I loved. When I couldn't find
77 it, I responded, bewildered and wary, in the only way I knew how: by
78 planting it there myself.
80 =head2 v5.27.10 - Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, p. 248
82 L<Announced on 2018-03-20 by Todd Rinaldo|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/03/msg250042.html>
84 A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher
85 a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts,
86 build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders,
87 cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure,
88 program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly.
89 Specialization is for insects.
91 =head2 v5.27.9 - Agatha Christie, "The Mysterious Affair at Styles"
93 L<Announced on 2018-02-20 by Renee Bäcker|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/02/msg249549.html>
95 Poirot was an extraordinary looking little man. He was hardly more
96 than five feet, four inches, but carried himself with great dignity.
97 His head was exactly the shape of an egg, and he always perched it
98 a little on one side. His moustache was very stiff and military.
99 The neatness of his attire was almost incredible. I believe a
100 speck of dust would have caused him more pain than a bullet wound.
101 Yet this quaint dandified little man who, I was sorry to see, now
102 limped badly, had been in his time one of the most celebrated members
103 of the Belgian police. As a detective, his flair had been extraordinary,
104 and he had achieved triumphs by unravelling some of the most baffling
106 He pointed out to me the little house inhabited by him and his fellow
107 Belgians, and I promised to go and see him at an early date. Then he
108 raised his hat with a flourish to Cynthia, and we drove away.
109 "He's a dear little man," said Cynthia. "I'd no idea you knew him."
110 "You've been entertaining a celebrity unawares," I replied.
111 And, for the rest of the way home, I recited to them the various
112 exploits and triumphs of Hercule Poirot.
114 =head2 v5.27.8 - Jasper Fforde, "Shades of Grey"
116 L<Announced on 2018-01-20 by Abigail|http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/248914>
118 2.4.16.55.021: Males are to wear dresscode #6 during inter-Collective
119 travel. Hats are encouraged, but not required.
121 9.3.88.32.025: The cucumber and tomato are both fruit; the avocado
122 is a nut. To assist with the dietary requirements of vegetarians,
123 on the first Tuesday of the month a chicken is officially a vegetable.
125 5.3.21.01.002: Once allocated, postcodes are permanent, and for life.
127 6.1.02.11.235: Artifacture from before the Something That Happened
128 may be collected, so long it does not appear on the Leapback list
129 or possess color above 23 percent saturation.
131 2.3.06.02.087: Unnecessary sharpening of pencils constitutes a waste
132 of public resources, and will be punished as appropriate.
134 2.1.01.05.002: All children are to attent school until the age of
135 sixteen or until they have learned everything, whichever be the sooner.
137 1.3.02.06.023: There shall be no staring at the sun, however good
140 1.1.19.02.006: Team sports are mandatory in order to build character.
141 Character is there to give purpose to team sports.
143 2.3.03.01.006: Juggling shall not be practiced after 4:00 pm.
146 =head2 v5.27.7 - Terry Pratchett, "Hogfather"
148 L<Announced on 2017-12-20 by Chris 'BinGOs' Williams|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/12/msg248274.html>
150 Death looked at the sacks.
152 It was a strange but demonstrable fact that the sacks of
153 toys carried by the Hogfather, no matter what they
154 really contained, always appeared to have sticking out
155 of the top a teddy bear, a toy soldier in the kind of
156 colorful uniform that would stand out in a disco, a
157 drum and a red-and-white candy cane. The actual
158 contents always turned out to be something a bit
159 garish and costing $5.99.
161 Death had investigated one or two. There had been a
162 Real Agatean Ninja, for example, with Fearsome
163 Death Grip, and a Captain Carrot One-Man Night
164 Watch with a complete wardrobe of toy weapons, each
165 of which cost as much as the original wooden doll in
168 Mind you, the stuff for the girls was just as
169 depressing. It seemed to be nearly all horses. Most of
170 them were grinning. Horses, Death felt, shouldn't grin.
172 Any horse that was grinning was planning something.
174 =head2 v5.27.6 - Ogden Nash, "Behold the Duck"
176 L<Announced on 2017-11-20 by Karen Etheridge|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/11/msg247489.html>
183 It is 'specially fond
185 when it dines or sups
189 =head2 v5.27.5 - Frank Birch, Dilly Knox & G. P. Mackeson, "Alice in I.D.25"
191 L<Announced on 2017-10-20 by Steve Hay|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/10/msg246785.html>
193 'Can I do anything?' Alice suggested timidly, thinking that something
194 dreadful must have happened.
195 The Waterflap jumped as if it had been shot. 'What are you doing
196 here?' it snapped. 'Take this at once into the Directional room,' and it
197 thrust the paper which had caused all the fuss into her hands.
198 'But where is the Directional room?' she inquired, bewildered.
199 'Why, there of course,' howled the Waterflap, pointing to a door.
200 'How could I possibly know that!' Alice exclaimed, angered by his
202 'Silly girl,' it hissed. 'Why, it's called the Directional room
203 because it's in that direction,' and it pushed her roughly through the
206 =head2 v5.27.4 - Richard Brautigan, "All Watched Over By Machines Of Loving Grace"
208 L<Announced on 2017-09-20 by John SJ Anderson|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/09/msg246371.html>
211 the sooner the better!)
212 of a cybernetic meadow
213 where mammals and computers
214 live together in mutually
221 of a cybernetic forest
222 filled with pines and electronics
223 where deer stroll peacefully
225 as if they were flowers
226 with spinning blossoms.
230 of a cybernetic ecology
231 where we are free of our labors
232 and joined back to nature,
233 returned to our mammal
234 brothers and sisters,
236 by machines of loving grace.
238 =head2 v5.27.3 - Rodgers and Hammerstein, "You'll Never Walk Alone"
240 L<Announced on 2017-08-21 by Matthew Horsfall|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/08/msg245988.html>
242 When you walk through a storm
243 Hold your head up high
244 And don't be afraid of the dark
246 At the end of a storm
248 And the sweet silver song of a lark
250 Walk on through the wind
251 Walk on through the rain
252 Though your dreams be tossed and blown
255 With hope in your heart
256 And you'll never walk alone
258 You'll never walk alone
261 With hope in your heart
262 And you'll never walk alone
264 You'll never walk alone
266 =head2 v5.27.2 - Lev Grossman, Codex
268 L<Announced on 2017-07-20 by Aaron Crane|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/07/msg245585.html>
270 He went back for another stack of books: a three-volume English legal
271 treatise; a travel guide to Tuscany from the '20s crammed with faded
272 Italian wildflowers that fluttered out from between the pages like
273 moths; a French edition of Turgeniev so decayed that it came apart in
274 his hands; a register of London society from 1863. In a way it was
275 idiotic. He was treating these books like they were holy relics. It
276 wasn't like he would ever actually read them. But there was something
277 magnetic about them, something that compelled respect, even the silly
278 ones, like the Enlightenment treatise about how lightning was caused
279 by bees. They were information, data, but not in the form he was used
280 to dealing with it. They were non-digital, nonelectrical chunks of
281 memory, not stamped out of silicon but laboriously crafted out of wood
282 pulp and ink, leather and glue. Somebody had cared enough to write
283 these things; somebody else had cared enough to buy them, possibly
284 even read them, at the very least keep them safe for 150 years,
285 sometimes longer, when they could have vanished at the touch of a
286 spark. That made them worth something, didn't it, just by itself?
287 Though most of them would have bored him rigid the second he cracked
288 them open, which there wasn't much chance of. Maybe that was what he
289 found so appealing: the sight of so many books that he'd never have to
290 read, so much work he'd never have to do.
292 =head2 v5.27.1 - Rona Munro, Doctor Who: Survival
294 L<Announced on 2017-06-20 by Eric Herman|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/06/msg245055.html>
296 There are worlds out there where the sky is burning,
297 where the sea's asleep and the rivers dream,
298 people made of smoke and cities made of song.
299 Somewhere there's danger,
300 somewhere there's injustice
301 and somewhere else the tea is getting cold.
302 Come on, Ace, we've got work to do.
304 =head2 v5.27.0 - Bertrand Russell, The Road to Happiness
306 L<Announced on 2017-05-31 by Sawyer X|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/05/msg244580.html>
308 People who have theories as to how one should live tend to forget the
309 limitations of nature. If your way of life involves constant
310 restraint of impulse for the sake of some one supreme aim that you
311 have set yourself, it is likely that the aim will become increasingly
312 distasteful because of the efforts that it demands; impulse, denied
313 its normal outlets, will find others, probably in spite; pleasure, if
314 you allow yourself any at all, will be dissociated from the main
315 current of your life, and will become Bacchic and frivolous. Such
316 pleasure brings no happiness, but only a deeper despair.
318 -- Bertrand Russell, The Road to Happiness
320 =head2 v5.26.2 - Desmond Morris, "Catwatching: The Essential Guide to Cat Behaviour"
322 L<Announced on 2018-04-14 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/04/msg250440.html>
324 How does a cat use its whiskers? The usual answer is that the whiskers
325 are feelers that enable a cat to tell whether a gap is wide enough for
326 it to squeeze through, but the truth is more complicated and more
327 remarkable. In addition to their obvious role as feelers sensitive to
328 touch, the whiskers also operate as air-current detectors. As the cat
329 moves along in the dark it needs to manoeuvre past solid objects without
330 touching them. Each solid object it approaches causes slight eddies in
331 the air, minute disturbances in the currents of air movements, and the
332 cat's whiskers are so amazingly sensitive that they can read these air
333 changes and respond to the presence of solid obstacles even without
336 =head2 v5.26.2-RC1 - Desmond Morris, "Catwatching: The Essential Guide to Cat Behaviour"
338 L<Announced on 2018-03-24 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/03/msg250103.html>
340 Cats have a way of endearing themselves to their owners, not just by
341 their 'kittenoid' behaviour, which stimulates strong parental feelings,
342 but also by their sheer gracefulness. There is an elegance and a
343 composure about them that captivates the human eye. To the sensitive
344 human being it becomes a privilege to share a room with a cat, exchange
345 its glance, feel its greeting rub, or watch it gently luxuriate itself
346 into a snoozing ball on a soft cushion.
348 =head2 v5.26.1 - Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
350 L<Announced on 2017-09-22 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/09/msg246408.html>
352 And soon I heard a roaring wind:
353 It did not come anear;
354 But with its sound it shook the sails,
355 That were so thin and sere.
357 The upper air burst into life!
358 And a hundred fire-flags sheen,
359 To and fro they were hurried about!
360 And to and fro, and in and out,
361 The wan stars danced between.
363 =head2 v5.26.1-RC1 - Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
365 L<Announced on 2017-09-10 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/09/msg246202.html>
367 At length did cross an Albatross,
368 Thorough the fog it came;
369 As if it had been a Christian soul,
370 We hailed it in God's name.
372 It ate the food it ne'er had eat,
373 And round and round it flew.
374 The ice did split with a thunder-fit;
375 The helmsman steered us through!
377 And a good south wind sprung up behind;
378 The Albatross did follow,
379 And every day, for food or play,
380 Came to the mariner's hollo!
382 In mist or cloud, on mast or shroud,
383 It perched for vespers nine;
384 Whiles all the night, through fog-smoke white,
385 Glimmered the white Moon-shine.'
387 'God save thee, ancient Mariner!
388 From the fiends, that plague thee thus!—
389 Why look'st thou so?'—With my cross-bow
390 I shot the ALBATROSS.
392 =head2 v5.26.0 - Nine Simone, Ain't Got No / I Got Life
394 L<Announced on 2017-05-30 by Sawyer X|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/05/msg244573.html>
397 And I'm gonna keep it
399 And nobody's gonna take it away
402 =head2 v5.26.0-RC2 - Richard Condon, The Manchurian Candidate
404 L<Announced on 2017-05-23 by Sawyer X|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/05/msg244511.html>
406 Amateur psychiatric prognosis can be fascinating when there is
407 absolutely nothing else to do.
409 =head2 v5.26.0-RC1 - Thomas Paine, Common Sense
411 L<Announced on 2017-05-11 by Sawyer X|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/05/msg244337.html>
413 A long habit of not thinking a thing WRONG, gives it a superficial
414 appearance of being RIGHT, and raises at first a formidable outcry in
415 defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more
416 converts than reason.
418 =head2 v5.25.12 - Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
420 L<Announced on 2017-04-20 by Sawyer X|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/04/msg244146.html>
422 I have told my sons that they are not under any circumstances to take
423 part in massacres, and that the news of massacres of enemies is not
424 to fill them with satisfaction or glee.
426 I have also told them not to work for companies which make massacre
427 machinery, and to express contempt for people who think we need
430 =head2 v5.25.11 - Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow
432 L<Announced on 2017-03-20 by Sawyer X|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/03/msg243624.html>
434 Subjective confidence in a judgment is not a reasoned evaluation of
435 the probability that this judgment is correct. Confidence is a
436 feeling, which reflects the coherence of the information and the
437 cognitive ease of processing it. It is wise to take admissions of
438 uncertainty seriously, but declarations of high confidence mainly
439 tell you that an individual has constructed a coherent story in his
440 mind, not necessarily that the story is true.
442 =head2 v5.25.10 - Erich Fried, 1968
444 L<Announced on 2017-02-20 by Renee Bäcker|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/02/msg243173.html>
446 He who wants the world to remain as it is
447 doesn't want it to remain.
449 =head2 v5.25.9 - A. A. Milne, "Winnie-the-Pooh", 1926
451 L<Announced on 2017-01-20 by Abigail|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/01/msg242405.html>
453 Pooh always liked a little something at eleven o'clock in the
454 morning, and he was very glad to see Rabbit getting out the plates
455 and mugs; and when Rabbit said, "Honey or condensed milk with
456 your bread?" he was so excited that he said, "Both," and then,
457 so as not to seem greedy, he added, "But don't bother about the
460 =head2 v5.25.8 - Langston Hughes, So long
462 L<Announced on 2016-12-20 by Sawyer X|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/12/msg241739.html>
466 and it's in the way you're gone
467 but it's like a foreign language
469 and maybe was I blind
475 =head2 v5.25.7 - J.R.R. Tolkien, "The Silmarillion"
477 L<Announced on 2016-11-20 by Chad 'Exodist' Granum|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/11/msg241120.html>
481 Among the tales of sorrow and of ruin that come down to us from the darkness of
482 those days there are yet some in which amid weeping there is joy and under the
483 shadow of death light that endures. And of these histories most fair still in
484 the ears of the Elves is the tale of Beren and Lúthien. Of their lives was made
485 the Lay of Leithian, Release from Bondage, which is the longest save one of the
486 songs concerning the world of old; but here is told in fewer words and without
489 =head2 v5.25.6 - Alan Warner, "The Sopranos"
491 L<Announced on 2016-10-10 by Aaron Crane|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/10/msg240406.html>
493 I'm up on all the pop trivia, says the guy with the stud in his tongue.
495 Yes. Do you know who he lead singer of Echo and the Bunnymen is?
496 Let me guess, is he called Echo?
497 Good guess but no, anyway when they played Glastonbury it was so
498 muddy he had two roadies to hold up a binliner on each of his legs so
499 they wouldn't get covered in mud.
500 That's what being rich and famous is all about, having someone
501 else hold up your binliners on each leg when you're wandering across
503 Do you know what Sammy Davis Junior said being black and famous in
506 He said being black and famous in America meant he could be
507 refused entry to exclusive clubs and restaurants that other people
508 could only ever dream of going to. Do you know Michael Stipe likes to
509 send his remote control toy cars onto stage while his support band are
510 playing to freak them out?
512 You're not really a pop trivia person, are you, Kylah?
513 No, I'm not, Stephen.
515 =head2 v5.25.5 - Philip K. Dick, VALIS
517 L<Announced on 2016-09-20 by Stevan Little|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/09/msg239887.html>
519 We hypostatize information into objects. Rearrangement of objects is
520 change in the content of the information; the message has changed.
521 This is a language which we have lost the ability to read. We ourselves
522 are a part of this language; changes in us are changes in the content
523 of the information. We ourselves are information-rich; information
524 enters us, is processed and is then projected outward once more, now
525 in an altered form. We are not aware that we are doing this, that in
526 fact this is all we are doing
528 =head2 v5.25.4 - Terry Pratchett, "Truckers"
530 L<Announced on 2016-08-20 by Chris 'BinGOs' Williams|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/08/msg239191.html>
532 Concerning Nomes and Time
534 Nomes are small. On the whole, small creatures don't live for a long
535 time. But perhaps they do live fast.
539 One of the shortest-lived creatures on the planet Earth is the adult
540 common mayfly. It lasts for one day. The longest-living things are
541 bristlecone pine trees, at 4,700 years and still counting.
543 This may seem tough on the mayflies. But the important thing is not
544 how long your life is, but how long it seems.
546 To a mayfly, a single hour may last as long as a century. Perhaps
547 old mayflies sit around complaining about how life this minute isn't a
548 patch on the good old minutes of long ago, when the world was
549 young and the sun seemed so much brighter and larvae showed you a
550 bit of respect. Whereas the trees, which are not famous to their
551 quick reactions, may just have time to notice the way the sky keeps
552 flickering before the dry rot and woodworm set in.
554 It's all a sort of relativity. The faster you live, the more time
555 stretches out. To a nome, a year lasts as long as ten years does to a
556 human. Remember it. Don't let it concern you. They don't. They don't
559 =head2 v5.25.3 - Edward Lear, ed. Vivien Noakes, "The Complete Nonsense and Other Verse": The Dong with a Luminous Nose
561 L<Announced on 2016-07-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/07/msg238158.html>
563 When awful darkness and silence reign
564 Over the great Gromboolian plain,
565 Through the long, long wintry nights; -
566 When the angry breakers roar
567 As they beat on the rocky shore; -
568 When Storm-clouds brood on the towering heights
569 Of the Hills of the Chankly Bore: -
571 Then, through the vast and gloomy dark,
572 There moves what seems a fiery spark,
573 A lonely spark with silvery rays
574 Piercing the coal-black night, -
575 A Meteor strange and bright: -
576 Hither and thither the vision strays,
577 A single lurid light.
579 Slowly it wanders, - pauses, - creeps, -
580 Anon it sparkles, - flashes and leaps;
581 And ever as onward it gleaming goes
582 A light on the Bong-tree stems it throws.
583 And those who watch at that midnight hour
584 From Hall or Terrace, or lofty Tower,
585 Cry, as the wild light passes along, -
586 'The Dong! - the Dong!
587 The wandering Dong through the forest goes!
589 The Dong with a luminous Nose!'
591 =head2 v5.25.2 - Dan le Sac Vs Scroobius Pip "Waiting For The Beat To Kick In"
593 L<Announced on 2016-06-20 by Matthew Horsfall|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/06/msg237274.html>
595 Waiting for the beat to kick in
597 Waiting for my feet to grow wings
599 All of these tiresome things
600 That we know and love
601 Waiting for the beat to kick in
604 =head2 v5.25.1 - Eli Pariser, "The Filter Bubble"
606 L<Announced on 2016-05-20 by Sawyer X|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/05/msg236566.html>
608 Imagine that you're a smart high school student on the low end of the social
609 totem pole. You're alienated from adult authority, but unlike many teenagers,
610 you're also alienated from the power structures of your peers -- an existence
611 that can feel lonely and peripheral. Systems and equations are intuitive, but
612 people aren't -- social signals are confusing and messy, difficult to interpret.
614 Then you discover code. You may be powerless at the lunch table, but code
615 gives you power over an infinitely malleable world and opens the door to a
616 symbolic system that's perfectly clear and ordered. The jostling for position
617 and status fades away. The nagging parental voices disappear. There's just a
618 clean, white page for you to fill, an opportunity to build a better place, a
619 home, from the ground up.
621 No wonder you're a geek.
623 =head2 v5.25.0 - Robert Frost, "The Trial by Existence"
625 L<Announced on 2016-05-09 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/05/msg236244.html>
627 Even the bravest that are slain
628 Shall not dissemble their surprise
629 On waking to find valor reign,
630 Even as on earth, in paradise;
631 And where they sought without the sword
632 Wide fields of asphodel fore’er,
633 To find that the utmost reward
634 Of daring should be still to dare.
636 =head2 v5.24.4 - Desmond Morris, "Catwatching: The Essential Guide to Cat Behaviour"
638 L<Announced on 2018-04-14 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/04/msg250439.html>
640 Cats hate doors. Doors simply do not register in the evolutionary story
641 of the cat family. They constantly block patrolling activities and
642 prevent cats from exploring their home range and then returning to their
643 central, secure base at will. Humans often do not understand that a cat
644 needs to make only a brief survey of its territory before returning with
645 all the necessary information about the activities of other cats in the
646 vicinity. It likes to make these tours of inspection at frequent
647 intervals, but does not want to stay outside for very long, unless there
648 has been some special and unexpected change in the condition of the
649 local feline population.
651 =head2 v5.24.4-RC1 - Desmond Morris, "Catwatching: The Essential Guide to Cat Behaviour"
653 L<Announced on 2018-03-24 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/03/msg250102.html>
655 The domestic cat is a contradiction. No animal has developed such an
656 intimate relationship with mankind, while at the same time demanding and
657 getting such independence of movement and action. The dog may be man's
658 best friend, but it is rarely allowed out on its own to wander from
659 garden to garden or street to street. The obedient dog has to be taken
660 for a walk. The headstrong cat walks alone.
662 =head2 v5.24.3 - Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
664 L<Announced on 2017-09-22 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/09/msg246407.html>
666 Oh sleep! it is a gentle thing,
667 Beloved from pole to pole!
668 To Mary Queen the praise be given!
669 She sent the gentle sleep from Heaven,
670 That slid into my soul.
672 The silly buckets on the deck,
673 That had so long remained,
674 I dreamt that they were filled with dew;
675 And when I awoke, it rained.
677 =head2 v5.24.3-RC1 - Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
679 L<Announced on 2017-09-10 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/09/msg246201.html>
681 'And now the STORM-BLAST came, and he
682 Was tyrannous and strong:
683 He struck with his o'ertaking wings,
684 And chased us south along.
686 With sloping masts and dipping prow,
687 As who pursued with yell and blow
688 Still treads the shadow of his foe,
689 And forward bends his head,
690 The ship drove fast, loud roared the blast,
691 And southward aye we fled.
693 And now there came both mist and snow,
694 And it grew wondrous cold:
695 And ice, mast-high, came floating by,
698 And through the drifts the snowy clifts
699 Did send a dismal sheen:
700 Nor shapes of men nor beasts we ken—
701 The ice was all between.
703 The ice was here, the ice was there,
704 The ice was all around:
705 It cracked and growled, and roared and howled,
706 Like noises in a swound!
708 =head2 v5.24.2 - Roald Dahl, "The Three Little Pigs"
710 L<Announced on 2017-07-15 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/07/msg245527.html>
712 A short while later, through the wood,
713 Came striding brave Miss Riding Hood.
714 The Wolf stood there, his eyes ablaze
715 And yellowish, like mayonnaise.
716 His teeth were sharp, his gums were raw,
717 And spit was dripping from his jaw.
718 Once more the maiden's eyelid flickers.
719 She draws the pistol from her knickers.
720 Once more, she hits the vital spot,
721 And kills him with a single shot.
722 Pig, peeping through the window, stood
723 And yelled, 'Well done, Miss Riding Hood!'
725 Ah, Piglet, you must never trust
726 Young ladies from the upper crust.
727 For now, Miss Riding Hood, one notes,
728 Not only has two wolfskin coats,
729 But when she goes from place to place,
730 She has a PIGSKIN TRAVELLING CASE.
732 =head2 v5.24.2-RC1 - Roald Dahl, "The Three Little Pigs"
734 L<Announced on 2017-07-01 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/07/msg245292.html>
736 The animal I really dig
737 Above all others is the pig.
738 Pigs are noble. Pigs are clever,
739 Pig are courteous. However,
740 Now and then, to break this rule,
741 One meets a pig who is a fool.
742 What, for example, would you say
743 If strolling through the woods one day,
744 Right there in front of you you saw
745 A pig who'd built his house of STRAW?
746 The Wolf who saw it licked his lips,
747 And said, 'That pig has had his chips.'
749 =head2 v5.24.1 - Charles Dodgson [as "Lewis Carroll"], "The Hunting of the Snark", Fit 4: The Hunting
751 L<Announced on 2017-01-14 by Steve Hay|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/01/msg242259.html>
753 The Bellman looked uffish, and wrinkled his brow.
754 'If only you'd spoken before!
755 It's excessively awkward to mention it now,
756 With the Snark, so to speak, at the door!
758 'We should all of us grieve, as you well may believe,
759 If you never were met with again -
760 But surely, my man, when the voyage began,
761 You might have suggested it then?
763 'It's excessively awkward to mention it now -
764 As I think I've already remarked.'
765 And the man they called 'Hi!' replied, with a sigh,
766 'I informed you the day we embarked.
768 'You may charge me with murder - or want of sense -
769 (We are all of us weak at times):
770 But the slightest approach to a false pretence
771 Was never among my crimes!
773 'I said it in Hebrew - I said it in Dutch -
774 I said it in German and Greek:
775 But I wholly forgot (and it vexes me much)
776 That English is what you speak!'
778 ''Tis a pitiful tale,' said the Bellman, whose face
779 Had grown longer at every word:
780 'But, now that you've stated the whole of your case,
781 More debate would be simply absurd.
783 'The rest of my speech' (he exclaimed to his men)
784 'You shall hear when I've leisure to speak it.
785 But the Snark is at hand, let me tell you again!
786 'Tis your glorious duty to seek it!
788 =head2 v5.24.1-RC5 - John Milton, ed. Gordon Campbell, "Paradise Regained", Book IV
790 L<Announced on 2017-01-02 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/01/msg242016.html>
792 Thus passed the night so foul, till Morning fair
793 Came forth with pilgrim steps, in amice grey;
794 Who with her radiant finger stilled the roar
795 Of thunder, chased the clouds, and laid the winds,
796 And grisly spectres, which the fiend had raised
797 To tempt the Son of God with terrors dire.
798 And now the sun with more effectual beams
799 Had cheered the face of earth, and dried the wet
800 From drooping plant, or dropping tree; the birds,
801 Who all things now behold more fresh and green,
802 After a night of storm so ruinous,
803 Cleared up their choicest notes in bush and spray,
804 To gratulate the sweet return of morn.
806 =head2 v5.24.1-RC4 - John Milton, ed. Gordon Campbell, "Paradise Lost", Book II
808 L<Announced on 2016-10-12 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/10/msg240224.html>
810 Before the gates there sat
811 On either side a formidable shape;
812 The one seemed woman to the waste, and fair,
813 But ended foul in many a scaly fold,
814 Voluminous and vast -- a serpent armed
815 With mortal sting; about her middle round
816 A cry of hell hounds never ceasing barked
817 With wide Cerberean mouths full loud, and rung
818 A hideous peal; yet, when they list, would creep,
819 If aught disturbed their noise, into her womb,
820 And kennel there; yet there still barked and howled
821 Within unseen. Far less abhorred than these
822 Vexed Scylla, bathing in the sea that parts
823 Calabria from the hoarse Trinacrian shore;
824 Nor uglier follow the night-hag, when, called
825 In secret, riding through the air she comes,
826 Lured with the smell of infant blood, to dance
827 With Lapland witches, while the labouring moon
828 Eclipses at their charms. The other shape --
829 If shape it might be called that shape had none
830 Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb;
831 Or substance might be called that shadow seemed,
832 For each seemed either -- black it stood as night,
833 Fierce as ten Furies, terrible as hell,
834 And shook a dreadful dart: what seemed his head
835 The likeness of a kingly crown had on.
836 Satan was now at hand, and from his seat
837 The monster moving onward came as fast
838 With horrid strides; hell trembled as he strode.
840 =head2 v5.24.1-RC3 - Dante Alighieri, trans. Dorothy L. Sayers and Barbara Reynolds, "The Divine Comedy", Cantica III: Paradise, Canto XXIII
842 L<Announced on 2016-08-11 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/08/msg238909.html>
844 A bird within the bower of her delight,
845 Quiet upon the nest with her sweet brood
846 Throughout the dark concealment of the night,
848 Anxious to look on them and gather food -
849 No weary task for her, for as at play
850 Blithely she toils to seek her fledglings' good -
852 Before the time, upon the topmost spray
853 Eager awaits the sun and on the East
854 Fixes her wakeful eye till break of day.
856 =head2 v5.24.1-RC2 - Dante Alighieri, trans. Dorothy L. Sayers, "The Divine Comedy", Cantica II: Purgatory, Canto X
858 L<Announced on 2016-07-25 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/07/msg238269.html>
860 When we had crossed the threshold of that gate
861 Which the soul's evil loves put out of use,
862 Because they make the crooked path seem straight,
864 I heard its closing clang ring clamorous,
865 And had I then turned back my eyes to it
866 How could my fault have found the least excuse?
868 We had to climb now through a rocky slit
869 Which ran from side to side in many a swerve,
870 As runs the wave in onset and retreat.
872 "Now here," the master said, "we must observe
873 Some little caution, hugging now this wall,
874 Now that, upon the far side of the curve."
876 =head2 v5.24.1-RC1 - Dante Alighieri, trans. Dorothy L. Sayers, "The Divine Comedy", Cantica I: Hell, Canto XX
878 L<Announced on 2016-07-17 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/07/msg238072.html>
880 New punishments behoves me sing in this
881 Twentieth canto of my first canticle,
882 Which tells of spirits sunk in the Abyss.
884 I now stood ready to observe the full
885 Extent of the new chasm thus laid bare,
886 Drenched as it was in tears most miserable.
888 Through the round vale I saw folk drawing near,
889 Weeping and silent, and at such slow pace
890 As Litany processions keep, up here.
892 And presently, when I had dropped my gaze
893 Lower than the head, I saw them strangely wried
894 'Twixt collar-bone and chin, so that the face
896 Of each was turned towards his own backside,
897 And backwards must they needs creep with their feet,
898 All power of looking forward being denied.
900 =head2 v5.24.0 - Robert Frost, "The Black Cottage"
902 L<Announced on 2016-05-09 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/05/msg236242.html>
904 As I sit here, and oftentimes, I wish
905 I could be monarch of a desert land
906 I could devote and dedicate forever
907 To the truths we keep coming back and back to.
908 So desert it would have to be, so walled
909 By mountain ranges half in summer snow,
910 No one would covet it or think it worth
911 The pains of conquering to force change on.
912 Scattered oases where men dwelt, but mostly
913 Sand dunes held loosely in tamarisk
914 Blown over and over themselves in idleness.
915 Sand grains should sugar in the natal dew
916 The babe born to the desert, the sand storm
917 Retard mid-waste my cowering caravans—
919 “There are bees in this wall.” He struck the clapboards,
920 Fierce heads looked out; small bodies pivoted.
921 We rose to go. Sunset blazed on the windows.
923 =head2 v5.24.0-RC5 - The Mountain Goats, "No Children"
925 L<Announced on 2016-05-04 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/05/msg236198.html>
927 And I hope when you think of me years down the line
928 You can't find one good thing to say
929 And I'd hope that if I found the strength to walk out
930 You'd stay the hell out of my way
932 I am drowning, there is no sign of land
933 You are coming down with me, hand in unlovable hand
935 =head2 v5.24.0-RC4 - The Joker in "The Killing Joke"
937 L<Announced on 2016-05-02 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/05/msg236145.html>
939 "See, there were these two guys in a lunatic asylum…"
941 =head2 v5.24.0-RC3 - Jesse Vincent
943 L<Announced on 2016-04-27 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/04/msg236066.html>
945 The Great Pumpkin is a Santa-Claus like figure. He does bring toys like
946 Santa. But unlike Santa, who gives away toys because it's his job, he
947 gives away toys because it's the right thing to do.
949 =head2 v5.24.0-RC2 - Joseph Heller, "Catch-22"
951 L<Announced on 2016-04-23 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/04/msg235999.html>
953 “How do you feel, Yossarian?”
955 “Fine. No, I’m very frightened.”
957 “That’s good,” said Major Danby. “It proves you’re still alive. It won’t
960 Yossarian started out. “Yes it will.”
962 “I mean it, Yossarian. You’ll have to keep on your toes every minute of
963 every day. They’ll bend heaven and earth to catch you.”
965 “I’ll keep on my toes every minute.”
967 “You’ll have to jump.”
971 “Jump!” Major Danby cried.
975 Nately’s [girl] was hiding just outside the door. The knife came down,
976 missing him by inches, and he took off.
978 =head2 v5.24.0-RC1 - Robert Frost, "The Census-Taker"
980 L<Announced on 2016-04-14 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/04/msg235807.html>
982 Nothing was left to do that I could see
983 Unless to find that there was no one there
984 And declare to the cliffs too far for echo,
985 "The place is desert, and let whoso lurks
986 In silence, if in this he is aggrieved,
987 Break silence now or be forever silent.
988 Let him say why it should not be declared so."
989 The melancholy of having to count souls
990 Where they grow fewer and fewer every year
991 Is extreme where they shrink to none at all.
992 It must be I want life to go on living.
994 =head2 v5.23.9 - Tom Kitchin, "from nature to plate"
996 L<Announced on 2016-03-20 by Abigail|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/03/msg235251.html>
1000 Spring is the proper beginning of my kitchen and a season that I
1001 look forward to with great anticipation. By the time spring arrives
1002 I am desperate to welcome all the spring produce into my kitchen
1003 and I long to work with fresh green vegetables again. As much as I
1004 love root vegetables, such as celeriac and parsnips, and the heaver
1005 meat and game dishes, I'm ready to leave those behind with winter
1006 and begin a new adventure.
1008 Somehow spring always gives me a little bit of bounce in my feet
1009 -- I feel like I want to kick off my shoes and dance around in my
1010 kitchen. Not that I do, of course, but I feel lighter somehow. My
1011 adrenalin kicks in with spring and so does the level of excitement,
1012 as I think about all the produce that is about to come in.
1014 The moment spring arrives I'm eager to cook peas, broad beans, green
1015 asparagus and other fresh vegetables! I want to create lighter,
1016 brighter dishes and I can't wait to get my hands on the first greens
1017 and the first morels, not to mention the first wild Scottish salmon.
1018 Thanks to my network of trusted suppliers, I always get to first
1019 produce of the season delivered to my restaurant as soon as it is
1020 possible. I want my customers to experience and understand the
1021 beauty of locally grown produce and to try things the minute they
1022 are available so they can taste how incredibly fresh the ingredients
1023 are. I also want them to understand the relationship between
1024 seasonality and flavours. One of the most important things to
1025 remember is to allow the seasons to inspire your dishes and help
1026 you make natural matches. Wild spring herbs, such as sorrel, sweet
1027 cicely and wild garlic, as well as spring salad leaves and green
1028 lettuce served with wild salmon, wild sea trout, lamb or rabbit are
1029 marriages made in heaven.
1032 =head2 v5.23.8 - Patrick Rothfuss, "The Wise Man's Fear (The Kingkiller's Chronicle: Day Two)"
1034 L<Announced on 2016-02-20 by Sawyer X|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/02/msg234535.html>
1036 Denna, on the other hand, had never been trained. She knew nothing
1037 of shortcuts. You'd think she'd be forced to wander the city, lost and
1038 helpless, trapped in a twisting maze of mortared stone.
1040 But instead, she simply walked throught the walls. She didn't know
1041 any better. Nobody had ever told her she couldn't. Because of this,
1042 she moved through the city like some faerie creature. She walked roads
1043 no one else could see, and it made her music wild and strange and
1046 =head2 v5.23.7 - William Gibson, "Neuromancer"
1048 L<Announced on 2016-01-20 by Stevan Little|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/01/msg233856.html>
1050 A year here and he still dreamed of cyberspace, hope fading
1051 nightly. All the speed he took, all the turns he'd taken and
1052 the corners he cut in Night City, and he'd still see the matrix
1053 in his dreams, bright lattices of logic unfolding across that
1054 colourless void...The Sprawl was a long, strange way home now
1055 over the Pacific, and he was no Console Man, no cyberspace
1056 cowboy. Just another hustler, trying to make it through. But
1057 the dreams came on in the Japanese night like livewire voodoo,
1058 and he'd cry for it, cry in his sleep, and wake alone in the
1059 dark, curled in his capsule in some coffin hotel, hands clawed
1060 into the bedslab, temper foam bunched between his fingers,
1061 trying to reach the console that wasn't there.
1063 =head2 v5.23.6 - 5.23 Episode VII
1065 L<Announced on 2015-12-21 by David Golden|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/12/msg233475.html>
1067 A long time ago in microseconds, in a galaxy not very far away...
1073 unrest as separatists
1074 announce their intentions
1075 to fork PERL and return the
1076 galaxy to speed and stability.
1078 Chancellor Rik Hoolian struggles
1079 to hold together the remains of the
1080 once mighty Republic against a tide of
1081 incivility and the depredations of a new
1082 foe, the FUZZ RAIDERS.
1084 Meanwhile, after 15 years of preparation and
1085 high expectations, Supreme Leader Toady prepares
1086 to unleash a devastating new weapon, PERL SIXDOTOH,
1087 that could splinter the Republic forever and usher in
1088 a new Empire of gradual typing....
1090 =head2 v5.23.5 - utastro!nather (Ed Nather), "The Story of Mel", in net.jokes, May 21, 1983.
1092 L<Announced on 2015-11-20 by Abigail|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/11/msg232758.html>
1094 After Mel had left the company for greener pa$ture$, the Big Boss asked
1095 me to look at the code and see if I could find the test and reverse it.
1096 Somewhat reluctantly, I agreed to look. Tracking Mel's code was a real
1099 I have often felt that programming is an art form, whose real value can
1100 only be appreciated by another versed in the same arcane art; there are
1101 lovely gems and brilliant coups hidden from human view and admiration,
1102 sometimes forever, by the very nature of the process. You can learn a
1103 lot about an individual just by reading through his code, even in
1104 hexadecimal. Mel was, I think, an unsung genius.
1106 Perhaps my greatest shock came when I found an innocent loop that had
1107 no test in it. No test. None. Common sense said it had to be a closed
1108 loop, where the program would circle, forever, endlessly. Program
1109 control passed right through it, however, and safely out the other side.
1110 It took me two weeks to figure it out.
1112 The RPC-4000 computer had a really modern facility called an index
1113 register. It allowed the programmer to write a program loop that used
1114 an indexed instruction inside; each time through, the number in the
1115 index register was added to the address of that instruction, so it
1116 would refer to the next datum in a series. He had only to increment
1117 the index register each time through. Mel never used it.
1119 Instead, he would pull the instruction into a machine register, add one
1120 to its address, and store it back. He would then execute the modified
1121 instruction right from the register. The loop was written so this
1122 additional execution time was taken into account -- just as this
1123 instruction finished, the next one was right under the drum's read head,
1124 ready to go. But the loop had no test in it.
1126 The vital clue came when I noticed the index register bit, the bit that
1127 lay between the address and the operation code in the instruction word,
1128 was turned on -- yet Mel never used the index register, leaving it zero
1129 all the time. When the light went on it nearly blinded me.
1131 He had located the data he was working on near the top of memory -- the
1132 largest locations the instructions could address -- so, after the last
1133 datum was handled, incrementing the instruction address would make it
1134 overflow. The carry would add one to the operation code, changing it to
1135 the next one in the instruction set: a jump instruction. Sure enough,
1136 the next program instruction was in address location zero, and the
1137 program went happily on its way.
1139 =head2 v5.23.4 - Denis Diderot, trans. David Coward, "Jacques the Fatalist"
1141 L<Announced on 2015-10-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/10/msg232040.html>
1143 Well, everybody's got a dog. The prime minister is the king's dog. The
1144 first secretary is the prime minister's dog. A wife is a husband's dog,
1145 or a husband is a wife's dog. Favourite is Madame So-and-so's dog and
1146 Thibaut is the man on the corner's dog. When my Master tells me to talk
1147 when I'd prefer not to, which to be honest doesn't happen very often,
1148 when he tells me to shut up when I feel like talking, which I find very
1149 difficult, when he asks me to tell the story of my love-life and then
1150 keeps interrupting, what am I if not his dog? Weak men are the dogs of
1153 =head2 v5.23.3 - Oliver Wendell Holmes, "The Deacon’s Masterpiece or The Wonderful 'One-Hoss Shay': A Logical Story"
1155 L<Announced on 2015-09-20 by Peter Martini|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/09/msg231173.html>
1157 Little of of all we value here
1158 Wakes on the morn of its hundredth year
1159 Without both feeling and looking queer.
1160 In fact, there’s nothing that keeps its youth,
1161 So far as I know, but a tree and truth.
1162 (This is a moral that runs at large;
1163 Take it. — You’re welcome. — No extra charge.)
1165 =head2 v5.23.2 - Blind Guardian, "Skalds and Shadows"
1167 L<Announced on 2015-08-20 by Matthew Horsfall|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/08/msg230298.html>
1169 Would you believe in a night like this
1170 A night like this, when visions come true
1171 Would you believe in a tale like this
1172 A lay of bliss, praise in the old lore
1173 Come to the blazing fire and
1175 See me in the shadows
1176 See me in the shadows
1179 Just hand me my harp
1180 This night turns into myth
1183 The world we live in is another skald's
1184 Dream in the shadows
1185 Dream in the shadows
1187 Do you believe there is sense in it
1188 Is it truth or myth?
1189 They´re one in my rhymes
1190 Nobody knows the meaning behind
1192 Well nobody else but the Norns can
1193 See through the blazing fires of time and
1194 All things will proceed as the
1195 Child of the hallowed
1196 Will speak to you now
1198 See me in the shadows
1199 See me in the shadows
1200 Songs I will sing of tribes and kings
1201 The carrion bird and the hall of the slain
1204 The world we live in is another skald´s
1205 Dream in the shadows
1206 Dream in the shadows
1208 Do not fear for my reason
1209 There's nothing to hide
1210 How bitter your treason
1212 Remember the runes and remember the light
1213 All I ever want is to be at your side
1214 We'll gladden the raven now I will
1215 Run through the blazing fires
1217 Cause things shall proceed as foreseen
1219 =head2 v5.23.1 - Elizabeth Haydon, "The Assassin King"
1221 L<Announced on 2015-07-20 by Matthew Horsfall|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/07/msg229413.html>
1223 I was born beneath this willow,
1224 Where my sire the earth did farm
1225 Had the green grass as my pillow
1226 The east wind as a blanket warm.
1228 But away! away! called the wind from the west
1229 And in answer I did run
1230 Seeking glory and adventure
1231 Promised by the rising sun.
1233 I found love beneath this willow,
1234 As true a love as life could hold,
1235 Pledged my heart and swore my fealty
1236 Sealed with a kiss and a band of gold.
1238 But to arms! to arms! called the wind from the west
1239 In faithful answer I did run
1240 Marching forth for king and country
1241 In battles 'neath the midday sun.
1243 Oft I dreamt of that fair willow
1244 As the seven seas I plied
1245 And the girl who I left waiting
1246 Longing to be at her side.
1248 But about! about! called the wind from the west
1249 As once again my ship did run
1250 Down the coast, about the wide world
1251 Flying sails in the setting sun.
1253 Now I lie beneath the willow
1254 Now at last no more to roam,
1255 My bride and earth so tightly hold me
1256 In their arms I'm finally home.
1258 While away! away! calls the wind from the west
1259 Beyond the grave my spirit, free
1260 Will chase the sun into the morning
1261 Beyond the sky, beyond the sea.
1263 =head2 v5.23.0 - Bob Dylan, "Maggie's Farm"
1265 L<Announced on 2015-06-20 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/06/msg228807.html>
1267 I ain't gonna work on Maggie's farm no more
1268 I ain't gonna work on Maggie's farm no more
1270 To be just like I am
1271 But everybody wants you
1272 To be just like them
1273 They sing while you slave and I just get bored
1274 I ain't gonna work on Maggie's farm no more
1276 =head2 v5.22.4 - Roald Dahl, "Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf"
1278 L<Announced on 2017-07-15 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/07/msg245526.html>
1280 Then Little Red Riding Hood said, 'But Grandma,
1281 what a lovely great big furry coat you have on.'
1282 'That's wrong!' cried Wolf. 'Have you forgot
1283 'To tell me what BIG TEETH I've got?
1284 'Ah well, no matter what you say,
1285 'I'm going to eat you anyway.'
1286 The small girl smiles. One eyelid flickers.
1287 She whips a pistol from her knickers.
1288 She aims it at the creature's head
1289 And bang bang bang, she shoots him dead.
1291 A few weeks later, in the wood,
1292 I came across Miss Riding Hood.
1293 But what a change! No cloak of red,
1294 No silly hood upon her head.
1295 She said, 'Hello, and do please note
1296 'My lovely furry WOLFSKIN COAT.'
1298 =head2 v5.22.4-RC1 - Roald Dahl, "Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf"
1300 L<Announced on 2017-07-01 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/07/msg245293.html>
1302 As soon as Wolf began to feel
1303 That he would like a decent meal,
1304 He went and knocked on Grandma's door.
1305 When Grandma opened it, she saw
1306 The sharp white teeth, the horrid grin,
1307 And Wolfie said, 'May I come in?'
1308 Poor Grandmamma was terrified,
1309 'He's going to eat me up!' she cried.
1310 And she was absolutely right.
1311 He ate her up in one big bite.
1313 =head2 v5.22.3 - Charles Dodgson [as "Lewis Carroll"], "Phantasmagoria", Canto 6: Discomfyture
1315 L<Announced on 2017-01-14 by Steve Hay|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/01/msg242258.html>
1317 As one who strives a hill to climb,
1318 Who never climbed before:
1319 Who finds it, in a little time,
1320 Grow every moment less sublime,
1321 And votes the thing a bore:
1323 Yet, having once begun to try,
1324 Dares not desert his quest,
1325 But, climbing, ever keeps his eye
1326 On one small hut against the sky
1327 Wherein he hopes to rest:
1329 Who climbs till nerve and force are spent,
1330 With many a puff and pant:
1331 Who still, as rises the ascent,
1332 In language grows more violent,
1333 Although in breath more scant:
1335 Who, climbing, gains at length the place
1336 That crowns the upward track:
1337 And, entering with unsteady pace,
1338 Receives a buffet in the face
1339 That lands him on his back:
1341 And feels himself, like one in sleep,
1342 Glide swiftly down again,
1343 A helpless weight, from steep to steep,
1344 Till, with a headlong giddy sweep,
1345 He drops upon the plain -
1347 So I, that had resolved to bring
1348 Conviction to a ghost,
1349 And found it quite a different thing
1350 From any human arguing,
1351 Yet dared not quit my post.
1353 =head2 v5.22.3-RC5 - John Milton, ed. Gordon Campbell, "Paradise Regained", Book II
1355 L<Announced on 2017-01-02 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/01/msg242017.html>
1357 Thus wore out night; and now the herald lark
1358 Left his ground-nest, high towering to descry
1359 The Morn's approach, and greet her with his song;
1360 As lightly from his grassy couch up rose
1361 Our Saviour, and found all was but a dream;
1362 Fasting he went to sleep, and fasting waked.
1363 Up to a hill anon his steps he reared,
1364 From whose high top to ken the prospect round,
1365 If cottage were in view, sheep-cote, or herd;
1366 But cottage, herd, or sheep-cote, none he saw --
1367 Only in a bottom saw a pleasant grove,
1368 With chant of tuneful birds resounding loud;
1369 Thither he bent his way, determined there
1370 To rest at noon, and entered soon the shade,
1371 High-roofed and walks beneath, and alleys brown,
1372 That opened in the midst a woody scene;
1373 Nature's own work it seemed (Nature taught Art),
1374 And, to a superstitious eye, the haunt
1375 Of wood-gods and wood-nymphs.
1377 =head2 v5.22.3-RC4 - John Milton, ed. Gordon Campbell, "Paradise Lost", Book II
1379 L<Announced on 2016-10-12 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/10/msg240223.html>
1381 Far off from these, a slow and silent stream,
1382 Lethe, the river of oblivion, rolls
1383 Her watery labyrinth, whereof who drinks
1384 Forthwith his former state and being forgets --
1385 Forgets both joy and grief, pleasure and pain.
1386 Beyond this flood a frozen continent
1387 Lies dark and wild, beat with perpetual storms
1388 Of Whirlwind and dire hail, which on firm land
1389 Thaws not, but gathers heap, and ruin seems
1390 Of ancient pile; all else deep snow and ice,
1391 A gulf profound as that Serbonian bog
1392 Betwixt Damiata and Mount Casius old,
1393 Where armies whole have sunk: the parching air
1394 Burns frore, and cold performs the effect of fire.
1395 Thither, by harpy-footed Furies haled,
1396 At certain revolutions all the damned
1397 Are brought; and feel by turns the bitter change
1398 Of fierce extremes, extremes by change more fierce,
1399 From beds of raging fire to starve in ice
1400 Their soft ethereal warmth, and there to pine
1401 Immovable, infixed, and frozen round
1402 Periods of time -- thence hurried back to fire.
1403 They ferry over this Lethean sound
1404 Both to and fro, their sorrow to augment,
1405 And wish and struggle, as they pass, to reach
1406 The tempting stream, with one small drop to lose
1407 In sweet forgetfulness all pain and woe,
1408 All in one moment, and so near the brink;
1409 But fate withstands, and, to oppose the attempt,
1410 Medusa with Gorgonian terror guards
1411 The ford, and of itself the water flies
1412 All taste of living wight, as once it fled
1413 The lip of Tantalus.
1415 =head2 v5.22.3-RC3 - Dante Alighieri, trans. Dorothy L. Sayers and Barbara Reynolds, "The Divine Comedy", Cantica III: Paradise, Canto IV
1417 L<Announced on 2016-08-11 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/08/msg238908.html>
1419 Between two dishes, equally attractive
1420 And near to him, a free man, I suppose,
1421 Would starve to death before his teeth got active;
1423 So would a lamb 'twixt two fierce wolfish foes,
1424 Fearing the fangs both ways, not stir a foot;
1425 So would a deerhound halt between two does;
1427 So I can't blame myself for standing mute,
1428 Nor praise myself: for I must needs so do,
1429 Suspended 'twixt two doubts, alike acute.
1431 =head2 v5.22.3-RC2 - Dante Alighieri, trans. Dorothy L. Sayers, "The Divine Comedy", Cantica II: Purgatory, Canto I
1433 L<Announced on 2016-07-25 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/07/msg238270.html>
1435 For better waters heading with the wind
1436 My ship of genius now shakes out her sail
1437 And leaves that ocean of despair behind;
1439 For to the second realm I tune my tale,
1440 Where human spirits purge themselves, and train
1441 To leap up into joy celestial.
1443 Now from the grave wake poetry again,
1444 O sacred Muses I have served so long!
1445 Now let Calliope uplift her strain
1447 And lift my voice up on the mighty song
1448 That smote the miserable Magpies nine
1449 Out of all hope of pardon for their wrong!
1451 =head2 v5.22.3-RC1 - Dante Alighieri, trans. Dorothy L. Sayers, "The Divine Comedy", Cantica I: Hell, Canto XII
1453 L<Announced on 2016-07-17 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/07/msg238071.html>
1455 The place we came to, to descend the brink from,
1456 Was sheer crag; and there was a Thing there - making,
1457 All told, a prospect any eye would shrink from.
1459 Like the great landslide that rushed downward, shaking
1460 The bank of Adige on this side Trent,
1461 (Whether through faulty shoring or the earth's quaking)
1463 So that the rock, down from the summit rent
1464 Far as the plain, lies strewn, and one might crawl
1465 From top to bottom by that unsure descent,
1467 Such was the precipice; and there we spied,
1468 Topping the cleft that split the rocky wall,
1469 That which was wombed in the false heifer's side,
1471 The infamy of Crete, stretched out a-sprawl;
1472 And seeing us, he gnawed himself, like one
1473 Inly devoured with spite and burning gall.
1475 =head2 v5.22.2 - Gaston Leroux, trans. Mireille Ribière, "The Phantom of the Opera"
1477 L<Announced on 2016-04-29 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/04/msg236120.html>
1479 A silence; and then: 'If, in just two minutes' time by my watch--and a
1480 splendid watch it is--you have not turned the scorpion, mademoiselle, I
1481 shall turn the grasshopper... and the grasshopper, remember, _leaps
1482 straight up into the air!_'
1483 The silence that ensued was terrifying, worse than any we had
1484 experienced before. I knew that when Erik spoke with that quiet,
1485 gentle, slightly weary voice, it meant that he had reached the end of
1486 his tether: that he was capable of the most abominable crimes or the
1487 most selfless devotion; that the slightest irritation might unleash a
1489 Realizing that our fate was out of our hands, the Viscount fell to his
1490 knees and prayed. As for me, I pressed both hands to my chest, for my
1491 heart was pounding so fiercely that I thought it would burst. We were
1492 intensely aware of the excruciating dilemma Christine Daaé faced in
1493 those final seconds. We understood why she hesitated to turn the
1494 scorpion. What if the scorpion, rather than the grasshopper, were to
1495 set off the explosion? What if Erik was simply intent on destroying
1496 everything, regardless?
1497 At last he spoke: 'The two minutes are up,' he said in a soft, angelic
1498 voice. 'Goodbye, mademoiselle. Off you go, little grasshopper!'
1500 =head2 v5.22.2-RC1 - Gaston Leroux, trans. Mireille Ribière, "The Phantom of the Opera"
1502 L<Announced on 2016-04-10 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/04/msg235732.html>
1504 This annual ball was quite a magnificent affair. It was given some time
1505 before Shrovetide to celebrate the birthday of a famous illustrator
1506 whose pencil had immortalized, in the style of Gavarni, the extravagant
1507 carnival parade down La Courtille. As such, the ball was an altogether
1508 merrier, noisier and more Bohemian occasion than was usual for a masked
1509 ball. Many artists had arranged to meet there; they arrived with an
1510 entourage of models and pupils, who, by midnight, had become quite
1512 Raoul climbed the grand staircase at five minutes to midnight. He did
1513 not linger to admire the many-coloured costumes on display all the way
1514 up the marble steps of one of the most luxurious settings in the world;
1515 nor did he allow himself to be drawn into the facetious conversation of
1516 masked guests. He simply ignored all the jesting remarks, and shook off
1517 the attentions of several all too merry couples.
1518 Crossing the big crush-room and escaping from the dancers' farandole
1519 that had encircled him awhile, he at last entered the salon mentioned by
1520 Christine in her letter. The small room was crammed with people either
1521 on their way to supper at the restaurant in the Rotunda or back from
1522 raising a glass of champagne.
1523 In the midst of the gay and lively hubbub, Raoul thought that, for their
1524 mysterious assignation, Christine must have preferred this crowd to some
1526 He leaned against a door-jamb and waited. He did not have to wait long;
1527 a black domino passed him and deftly touched his hand. He understood
1528 that it was Christine and followed her.
1529 'Is that you, Christine?' he murmured, barely moving his slips.
1530 The black domino promptly looked back and raised her finger to her lips,
1531 no doubt to caution him against uttering her name again. Raoul followed
1534 =head2 v5.22.1 - Wilhelm Müller, trans. Anon., "Courage" (No. 22 in Schubert's song-cycle, "Winterreise")
1536 L<Announced on 2015-12-13 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/12/msg233318.html>
1538 If the snow flies in my face,
1539 Let me shake it off me!
1540 If my heart within me speaks,
1541 I'll sing bright and gaily!
1543 Will not listen what it says,
1544 Have no ears for moaning.
1545 Do not feel what it complains,--
1546 Only fools like groaning!
1548 Jolly brave into the world,
1549 'Gainst all wind and weather,--
1550 If there is no God on earth,
1551 Let 's be gods down nether!
1553 =head2 v5.22.1-RC4 - Wilhelm Müller, trans. Anon., "The Signpost" (No. 20 in Schubert's song-cycle, "Winterreise")
1555 L<Announced on 2015-12-08 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/12/msg233215.html>
1557 Why do I shun all those highways
1558 Which the other wanderer seeks?
1559 Why do I find bridged by-ways
1560 Through snow-covered deep creeks?
1562 For I have no crime committed,
1563 Why I should now run from men,--
1564 What demented heart's desire
1565 Drives me to a desert glen?
1567 Signposts on all highways stationed
1568 Point their signs toward the towns,
1569 Whilst I wonder 'yond moderation,
1570 Without rest, yet seeking rest!
1572 One such signpost I see planted
1573 Of my question unconcerned,
1574 One road must my choice be granted,
1575 Whence no man has yet returned!
1577 =head2 v5.22.1-RC3 - Wilhelm Müller, trans. Anon., "Stormy Morning" (No. 18 in Schubert's song-cycle, "Winterreise")
1579 L<Announced on 2015-12-02 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/12/msg233032.html>
1581 How the storm tore rents
1582 In heavens gray attired!
1583 The rags of cloud are flying
1584 Around, of combat tired.
1586 And flames of fire lambent,
1587 Fly between them and part,
1588 That 's what I call a morning,
1589 A morning after my heart!
1591 My heart sees in the heavens
1592 Its own picture unspoilt--
1593 It's nothing but the Winter,
1594 The Winter, cold and wild.
1596 =head2 v5.22.1-RC2 - Wilhelm Müller, trans. Anon., "The Old Head" (No. 14 in Schubert's song-cycle, "Winterreise")
1598 L<Announced on 2015-11-15 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/11/msg232632.html>
1600 The hoary frost has a white sheen
1601 Strewn all over my hair,
1602 So I thought I was an old man
1603 And thought life dealt me fair.
1605 Yet soon was thawed my old white mane,
1606 And I have my black hair again.
1607 How I abhor my young fair years,
1608 How long to wait for death and biers?
1610 From setting sun to morning's hue
1611 Many a head turns white.
1612 Who'll credit it? My hair did not
1613 In all this lifelong plight!
1615 =head2 v5.22.1-RC1 - Wilhelm Müller, trans. Anon., "Will-o'-the Wisp" (No. 9 in Schubert's song-cycle, "Winterreise")
1617 L<Announced on 2015-10-31 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/10/msg232321.html>
1619 In the deepest rocky crevice
1620 A will-o'-the wisp lured me;
1621 How I could find my way from here,
1622 For me it's easy memory!
1624 For I am used to straying ways,
1625 Every path to th'end a way,
1626 All our joys and all our suffering,--
1627 To a will-o'-the wisp it 's all play!
1629 Through the dried-up bed of torrents
1630 I quite calmly downward stroll;
1631 Every stream its sea will enter,
1632 Every suffering finds its goal!
1634 =head2 v5.22.0 - Gene Wolfe, The Citadel of the Autarch
1636 L<Announced on 2015-06-01 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/06/msg228300.html>
1638 “You are the advocate of the dead.”
1640 The old man nodded. “I am. People talk about being fair to this one and
1641 that one, but nobody I ever heard talks about doing right by them. We
1642 take everything they had, which is all right. And spit, most often, on
1643 their opinions, which I suppose is all right too. But we ought to
1644 remember now and then how much of what we have we got from them. I
1645 figure while I’m still here I ought to put a word in for them.”
1647 =head2 v5.22.0-RC2 - T.S. Eliot, unpublished work
1649 L<Announced on 2015-05-21 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/05/msg228142.html>
1651 And when thyself with silver foot shall pass
1652 Among the theories scattered on the grass
1653 Take up my good intentions with the rest
1655 =head2 v5.22.0-RC1 - Gene Wolfe, Citadel of the Autarch
1657 L<Announced on 2015-05-19 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/05/msg228059.html>
1659 There is no limit to stupidity. Space itself is said to be bounded by
1660 its own curvature, but stupidity continues beyond infinity.
1662 =head2 v5.21.11 - Algernon Charles Swinburne, "Dolores (Notre-Dame des Sept Douleurs)"
1664 L<Announced on 2015-04-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/04/msg227472.html>
1666 They shall pass and their places be taken,
1667 The gods and the priests that are pure.
1668 They shall pass, and shalt thou not be shaken?
1669 They shall perish, and shalt thou endure?
1670 Death laughs, breathing close and relentless
1671 In the nostrils and eyelids of lust,
1672 With a pinch in his fingers of scentless
1675 But the worm shall revive thee with kisses;
1676 Thou shalt change and transmute as a god,
1677 As the rod to a serpent that hisses,
1678 As the serpent again to a rod.
1679 Thy life shall not cease though thou doff it;
1680 Thou shalt live until evil be slain,
1681 And good shall die first, said thy prophet,
1684 =head2 v5.21.10 - Aldous Huxley, "The Devils of Loudun"
1686 L<Announced on 2015-03-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/03/msg226847.html>
1688 The fire burned on, the good fathers continued to sprinkle and intone.
1689 Suddenly a flock of pigeons came swooping down from the church and
1690 started to wheel around the roaring column of flame and smoke. The
1691 crowd shouted, the archers waved their halberds at the birds, Lactance
1692 and Tranquille splashed them on the wing with holy water. In vain. The
1693 pigeons were not to be driven away. Round and round they flew, diving
1694 through the smoke, singeing their feathers in the flames. Both parties
1695 claimed a miracle. For the parson's enemies the birds, quite obviously,
1696 were a troop of devils, come to fetch away his soul. For his friends,
1697 they were emblems of the Holy Ghost and living proof of his innocence.
1698 It never seems to have occurred to anyone that they were just pigeons,
1699 obeying the laws of their own, their blessedly other-than-human nature.
1701 =head2 v5.21.9 - Emily Dickinson, "There is Another Sky"
1703 L<Announced on 2015-02-20 by Sawyer X|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/02/msg226002.html>
1705 There is another sky,
1706 Ever serene and fair,
1707 And there is another sunshine,
1708 Though it be darkness there;
1709 Never mind faded forests, Austin,
1710 Never mind silent fields -
1711 Here is a little forest,
1712 Whose leaf is ever green;
1713 Here is a brighter garden,
1714 Where not a frost has been;
1715 In its unfading flowers
1716 I hear the bright bee hum:
1717 Prithee, my brother,
1718 Into my garden come!
1720 =head2 v5.21.8 - Bill Watterson, "Scientific Progress Goes 'Boink': A Calvin and Hobbes Collection"
1722 L<Announced on 2015-01-20 by Matthew Horsfall|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/01/msg224869.html>
1724 Calvin: OK Hobbes, press the button and duplicate me.
1725 Hobbes: Are you sure this is such a good idea?
1726 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?
1727 Hobbes: I'd hate to be accused of inhibiting scientific progress... Here you go.
1729 Hobbes: Scientific progress goes "BOINK"?
1730 Calvin?: It worked! It worked! I'm a genius!
1731 Cavlin??: No you're not, you liar! *I* invented this!
1733 =head2 v5.21.7 - Robert Heinlein, "The Number of the Beast"
1735 L<Announced on 2014-12-20 by Max Maischein|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/12/msg223774.html>
1737 "Zebadiah, Hilda and I salvaged and put everything into the basket.
1738 Hilda started to put it into our wardrobe-and it was heavy. So
1739 we looked. Packed as tight as when we left Oz. Six bananas-and
1740 everything else. Cross my heart. No, go look."
1741 "Hmmm- Jake, can you write equations for a picnic basket that
1742 refills itself? Will it go on doing so?"
1743 "Zeb, equations can be written to describe anything. The description
1744 would be simpler for a basket that replenishes itself indefinitely
1745 than for one that does it once and stops-I would have to describe
1748 =head2 v5.21.6 - Jeff Noon, "Vurt"
1750 L<Announced on 2014-11-20 by Chris 'BinGOs' Williams|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/11/msg222448.html>
1754 EXCHANGE MECHANISMS. Sometimes we lose precious
1755 things. Friends and colleagues, fellow travellers in the
1756 Vurt, sometimes we lose them; even lovers we sometimes
1757 lose. And get bad things in exchange: aliens, objects,
1758 snakes, and sometimes even death. Things we don't want.
1759 This is part of the deal, part of the game deal;
1760 all things, in all worlds, must be kept in balance.
1761 Kittlings often ask, who decides on the swappings? Now then,
1762 some say it's all accidental; that some poor Vurt thing
1763 finds himself too close to a door, at too critical a time,
1764 just when something real is being lost. Whoosh! Swap time!
1765 Others say that some kind of overseer is working the
1766 MECHANISMS OF EXCHANGE, deciding the fate of innocents.
1767 The Cat can only tease at this, because of the big secrets
1768 involved, and because of the levels between you, the reader,
1769 and me, the Game Cat. Hey, listen; I've struggled to get
1770 where I am today; why should I give you the easy route?
1771 Get working, kittlings! Reach up higher. Work the Vurt.
1773 =head2 v5.21.5 - Friso Wiegersma (text), Jean Ferrat (music), Wim Sonneveld (performer), "Het Dorp"
1775 L<Announced on 2014-10-20 by Abigail|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/10/msg221399.html>
1779 Thuis heb ik nog een ansichtkaart
1780 waarop een kerk, een kar met paard,
1781 een slagerij J. van der Ven.
1782 Een kroeg, een juffrouw op de fiets
1783 het zegt u hoogstwaarschijnlijk niets,
1784 maar 't is waar ik geboren ben.
1785 Dit dorp, ik weet nog hoe het was,
1786 de boerenkind'ren in de klas,
1787 een kar die ratelt op de keien,
1788 het raadhuis met een pomp ervoor,
1789 een zandweg tussen koren door,
1790 het vee, de boerderijen.
1792 En langs het tuinpad van m'n vader
1793 zag ik de hoge bomen staan.
1794 Ik was een kind en wist niet beter,
1795 dan dat dat nooit voorbij zou gaan.
1797 Wat leefden ze eenvoudig toen
1798 in simp'le huizen tussen groen
1799 met boerenbloemen en een heg.
1800 Maar blijkbaar leefden ze verkeerd,
1801 het dorp is gemoderniseerd
1802 en nu zijn ze op de goeie weg.
1803 Want ziet, hoe rijk het leven is,
1804 ze zien de televisiequiz
1805 en wonen in betonnen dozen,
1806 met flink veel glas, dan kun je zien
1807 hoe of het bankstel staat bij Mien
1808 en d'r dressoir met plastic rozen.
1810 En langs het tuinpad van m'n vader
1811 zag ik de hoge bomen staan.
1812 Ik was een kind en wist niet beter,
1813 dan dat dat nooit voorbij zou gaan.
1815 De dorpsjeugd klit wat bij elkaar
1816 in minirok en beatle-haar
1817 en joelt wat mee met beat-muziek.
1818 Ik weet wel, het is hun goeie recht,
1819 de nieuwe tijd, net wat u zegt,
1820 maar het maakt me wat melancholiek.
1821 Ik heb hun vaders nog gekend
1822 ze kochten zoethout voor een cent
1823 ik zag hun moeders touwtjespringen.
1824 Dat dorp van toen, het is voorbij,
1825 dit is al wat er bleef voor mij:
1826 een ansicht en herinneringen.
1828 Toen ik langs het tuinpad van m'n vader
1829 de hoge bomen nog zag staan.
1830 Ik was een kind, hoe kon ik weten
1831 dat dat voorgoed voorbij zou gaan.
1833 =head2 v5.21.4 - Edgar Allan Poe, "The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket"
1835 L<Announced on 2014-09-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/09/msg220267.html>
1837 To-day, being in latitude 83° 20', longitude 43° 5' W. (the sea being
1838 of an extraordinarily dark colour), we again saw land from the
1839 masthead, and, upon a closer scrutiny, found it to be one of a group
1840 of very large islands. The shore was precipitous, and the interior
1841 seemed to be well wooded, a circumstance which occasioned us great
1842 joy. In about four hours from our first discovering the land we came
1843 to anchor in ten fathoms, sandy bottom, a league from the coast, as a
1844 high surf, with strong ripples here and there, rendered a nearer
1845 approach of doubtful expediency. The two largest boats were now
1846 ordered out, and a party, well armed (among whome were Peters and
1847 myself), proceeded to look for an opening in the reef which appeared
1848 to encircle the island. After searching about for some time, we
1849 discovered an inlet, which we were entering, when we saw four large
1850 canoes put off from the shore, filled with men who seemed to be well
1851 armed. We waited for them to come up, and, as they moved with great
1852 rapidity, they were soon within hail. Captain Guy now held up a white
1853 handkerchief on the blade of an oar, when the strangers made a full
1854 stop, and commenced a loud jabbering all at once, intermingled with
1855 occasional shouts, in which we could distinguish the words Anamoo-moo!
1856 and Lama-Lama! They continued this for at least half an hour, during
1857 which we had a good opportunity of observing their appearance.
1859 =head2 v5.21.3 - Robert Service, "The Men that Don't Fit In"
1861 L<Announced on 2014-08-20 by Peter Martini|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/08/msg218826.html>
1863 If they just went straight they might go far,
1864 They are strong and brave and true;
1865 But they're always tired of the things that are,
1866 And they want the strange and new.
1867 They say: "Could I find my proper groove,
1868 What a deep mark I would make!"
1869 So they chop and change, and each fresh move
1870 Is only a fresh mistake.
1872 =head2 v5.21.2 - Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, Charlie Duke, Final minutes of communication of the first manned moon landing, July 20, 1969
1874 L<Announced on 2014-07-20 by Abigail|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/07/msg217937.html>
1876 Armstrong: Okay. Here's a...Looks like a good area here.
1877 Aldrin: I got the shadow out there.
1878 Aldrin: 250, down at 2 1/2, 19 forward.
1879 Aldrin: Altitude, velocity lights.
1880 Aldrin: 3 1/2 down, 220 feet, 13 forward.
1881 Aldrin: 11 forward. Coming down nicely.
1882 Armstrong: Gonna be right over that crater.
1883 Aldrin: 200 feet, 4 1/2 down.
1885 Armstrong: I got a good spot [garbled].
1886 Aldrin: 160 feet, 6 1/2 down.
1887 Aldrin: 5 1/2 down, 9 forward. You're looking good.
1889 Aldrin: 100 feet, 3 1/2 down, 9 forward. Five percent. Quantity light.
1890 Aldrin: Okay. 75 feet. And it's looking good. Down a half, 6 forward.
1893 Aldrin: 60 feet, down 2 1/2. 2 forward. 2 forward. That's good.
1894 Aldrin: 40 feet, down 2 1/2. Picking up some dust.
1895 Aldrin: 30 feet, 2 1/2 down. [Garbled] shadow.
1896 Aldrin: 4 forward. 4 forward. Drifting to the right a little. 20 feet,
1899 Aldrin: Drifting forward just a little bit; that's good.
1900 Aldrin: Contact Light.
1901 Armstrong: Shutdown.
1902 Aldrin: Okay. Engine Stop.
1903 Aldrin: ACA out of Detent.
1904 Armstrong: Out of Detent. Auto.
1905 Aldrin: Mode Control, both Auto. Descent Engine Command Override, Off.
1906 Engine Arm, Off. 413 is in.
1907 Duke: We copy you down, Eagle.
1908 Armstrong: Engine arm is off.
1909 Armstrong: Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed.
1910 Duke: Roger, Twan...[correcting himself] Tranquility. We copy you on
1911 the ground. You got a bunch of guys about to turn blue.
1912 We're breathing again. Thanks a lot.
1915 =head2 v5.21.1 - Robert Jordan, "The Crossroads of Twilights", Book 10 of "The Wheel of Time"
1917 L<Announced on 2014-06-20 by Matthew Horsfall|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/06/msg217030.html>
1919 We rode on the winds of the rising storm,
1920 We ran to the sounds of the thunder.
1921 We danced among the lightning bolts,
1922 and tore the world asunder.
1924 -- Anonymous fragment of a poem believed
1925 written near the end of the previous Age,
1926 known by some as the Third Age.
1927 Sometimes attributed to the Dragon
1930 =head2 v5.21.0 - Friedrich von Schiller, "The Song of the Bell"
1932 L<Announced on 2014-05-27 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/05/msg215826.html>
1934 Walled in fast within the earth
1935 Stands the form burnt out of clay.
1936 This must be the bell’s great birth!
1937 Fellows, lend a hand to-day.
1938 Sweat must trickle now
1939 From the burning brow,
1940 Till the work its master honour.
1941 Blessing comes from Heaven’s Donor.
1943 =head2 v5.20.3 - Elias Lönnrot, trans. Keith Bosley, "The Kalevala", Canto 42: Stealing the Sampo
1945 L<Announced on 2015-09-12 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/09/msg230945.html>
1947 Steady old Väinämöinen
1948 uttered a word and spoke thus:
1949 'No lilting on the waters
1950 and no singing on the waves!
1953 Precious day would pass and night
1954 would overtake us midway
1955 on these wide waters
1956 upon these vast waves.'
1958 The wanton Lemminkäinen
1959 uttered a word and spoke thus:
1960 'The time will pass anyway
1961 the fair day will flee
1962 and the night will come panting
1963 and the twilight will steal in
1964 if you don't sing while you live
1965 nor hum in this world.'
1967 =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"
1969 L<Announced on 2015-08-29 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/08/msg230544.html>
1971 'I fled from Basra, sad and tearful, with no idea where I was going,
1972 and I was reciting these lines:
1974 The pain of parting makes me melt away,
1975 As lovers do when those they love are harsh.
1976 I wonder at the patience that I showed
1977 When I had lost my love, for that was wonderful.
1978 Beloved, do you know that since you left,
1979 I have remained confused in misery.
1981 I then heard a voice that said: "Damn you, have you no fear of
1982 Almighty God that you hand over a girl to an unbelieving 'ifrit?" I
1983 walked for a time amongst the palm-trees until I caught sight of a
1984 person, whom I approached. When I asked him who he was he said: "I
1985 am one of the jinn who were converted to Islam at the hands of 'Ali
1986 ibn Abi Talib, may God ennoble him." "How can I get to my wife?" I
1987 asked him, and he said: "Wretched fellow, you had a bird which you
1988 allowed to fly away and now you want to fly after it." But he
1989 added: "Follow this road with God's blessing all night until dawn
1990 and then by the shore you will see a huge cave in which there is an
1991 idol made of white stone. You must drink of the water that there is
1992 coming out of the cave and smear your face with its mud. Stay there
1993 and a barge will pass you as you stand opposite the statue. Various
1994 different creatures will emerge, heads without bodies and bodies
1995 without heads, and they will prostrate themselves in adoration to
1996 the idol rather than to Almighty God. When you see that, embark on
1997 the barge and cross to the other bank and walk along it until
1998 sunset. On a high point you will see a castle built of bricks of
1999 gold and silver. That is where your 'ifrit will be. I have now
2000 told you about this, so goodbye."
2002 =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"
2004 L<Announced on 2015-08-22 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/08/msg230359.html>
2006 'On the night of the wedding the ape came to sit in front of me and
2007 asked me what I intended to do. "Whatever you tell me," I replied,
2008 and he said: "Take care not to covet the girl, or I shall come back
2009 and burn you up and leave you as a lesson for those who can learn."
2010 I agreed to this and when evening came I found the world full of
2011 candles and torches burning in holders of gold and silver. There
2012 were servants and serving girls, and everyone who saw me
2013 congratulated me on my good fortune, as there was no girl on the
2014 face of the earth more beautiful than my bride.
2016 'Next morning I went out to the market, and people went in and asked
2017 her how the night had been. "He never looked up at me," she told
2018 them. Then, when it was afternoon, I went to my house, where the
2019 ape was sitting by the door. "Tell me what you did," it said, and I
2020 told it: "By God, I did not learn and do not know whether this was a
2021 man or a girl." "That's what I want," it said.
2023 'On the second night my bride was brought to me, after which the
2024 servants left her and went away. She fell asleep, and, while she
2025 was sleeping, I killed the cock, wrapped it in the cloth and put the
2026 four poles from the couch over it. Suddenly there was a huge crash
2027 like a peal of thunder and a fiery 'ifrit swooped on the girl. I
2028 fainted at the sight and when I recovered I heard a voice saying:
2029 "By the Lord of the Ka'ba, the girl has been carried off!" and there
2030 was a sound like the rustling of wind and bitter weeping. At this I
2031 shed tears, struck my head and was filled with regret when it was no
2032 longer of any use, for to me the whole world was worth no more than
2035 =head2 v5.20.2 - Jonathan "Jonti" Picking, L<"Magical Trevor"|http://www.weebls-stuff.com/other-toons/video/magical-trevor.html>
2037 L<Announced on 2015-02-14 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/02/msg225777.html>
2039 Everyone loves Magical Trevor,
2040 'Cos the tricks that he does are ever so clever;
2041 Look at him now, disappearin' the cow,
2042 Where is the cow hidden right now?
2044 Taking a bow, it's Magical Trevor,
2045 Everybody's seen that the trick is clever;
2046 Look at him there with his leathery, leathery whip!
2047 It's made of magic, and with a little flip--
2049 Yeah, yeah, yeah, the cow is back,
2050 Yeah, yeah, yeah, the cow is back;
2051 Back, back, back from his magical journey,
2054 What did he see in the parallel dimension?
2055 He saw beans, lots of beans, lots of beans, lots of beans;
2056 Oh, beans, lots of beans, lots of beans, lots of beans,
2059 =head2 v5.20.2-RC1 - Jonathan "Jonti" Picking, L<"Scampi"|http://www.weebls-stuff.com/other-toons/video/scampi.html>
2061 L<Announced on 2015-02-01 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/02/msg225273.html>
2064 I've seen them with my eyes;
2066 They're often in disguise.
2068 Like carrots, handbags, cheese, toilets,
2069 Russians, planets, hamsters, weddings,
2070 Poets, Stalin, Kuala Lumpur!
2071 Pygmies, budgies, Kuala Lumpur!
2074 I've seen them with my eyes;
2076 They're often in disguise.
2078 Like carrots, handbags, cheese...
2080 =head2 v5.20.1 - Lorenzo da Ponte, trans. Diana Reed, "Così fan tutte"
2082 L<Announced on 2014-09-14 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/09/msg219789.html>
2084 DORABELLA (as if waking from a daze): Where are they?
2085 DON ALFONSO: They've gone.
2086 FIORDILIGI: Oh, the cruel bitterness of parting!
2089 Take heart, my dearest children.
2090 Look, in the distance, your lovers are waving to you.
2092 FIORDILIGI: Bon voyage, my darling!
2093 DORABELLA: Bon voyage!
2096 O heavens! How swiftly the ship is sailing away!
2097 It is disappearing already!
2098 It is no longer in sight!
2099 Oh, may heaven grant it a prosperous voyage!
2101 DORABELLA: May good luck attend it to the battlefield!
2102 DON ALFONSO: And may your sweethearts and my friends be safe!
2104 FIORDILIGI, DORABELLA, DON ALFONSO:
2105 May the wind be gentle,
2106 may the sea be calm,
2107 and may the elements
2111 =head2 v5.20.1-RC2 - Lorenzo da Ponte, trans. William Weaver, "Così fan tutte"
2113 L<Announced on 2014-09-07 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/09/msg219446.html>
2116 Oh God, I feel that this foot of mine
2117 is reluctant to come before her.
2124 The hero displays his manliness
2125 in the most terrible moments.
2127 FIORDILIGI, DORABELLA:
2128 Now that we have heard the news,
2129 you have the lesser duty:
2130 Take heart, and plunge your swords
2131 into both our hearts.
2133 FERRANDO, GUGLIELMO:
2135 that I must abandon you.
2137 DORABELLA: Ah no, you shall not leave...
2138 FIORDILIGI: No, cruel one, you shall not go...
2139 DORABELLA: First I want to tear out my heart.
2140 FIORDILIGI: First I want to die at your feet.
2141 FERRANDO (softly to Don Alfonso): What do you say to that?
2142 GUGLIELMO (softly to Don Alfonso): You realise?
2143 DON ALFONSO (softly): Steady, friend, finem lauda.
2146 Thus destiny defrauds
2147 the hopes of mortals.
2148 Ah, among so many misfortunes,
2149 who can ever love life?
2151 =head2 v5.20.1-RC1 - Lorenzo da Ponte, trans. William Weaver, "Così fan tutte"
2153 L<Announced on 2014-08-25 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/08/msg218975.html>
2156 I'd like to speak, but I haven't the heart:
2158 My voice cannot emerge,
2159 but remains in my throat.
2160 What will you do? What shall I do?
2161 Oh what a great catastrophe!
2162 There can be nothing worse.
2163 I feel pity for you and for them.
2165 FIORDILIGI: Heavens! For mercy's sake, Signor Alfonso, don't make us
2167 DON ALFONSO: My children, you must arm yourselves with constancy.
2168 DORABELLA: Ye Gods! What evil has occurred? What horrible event? Is my
2170 FIORDILIGI: Is mine dead?
2171 DON ALFONSO: They are not dead, but they are not far from it.
2175 DON ALFONSO: Nor that.
2176 FIORDILIGI: What, then?
2177 DON ALFONSO: A royal command summons them to the field of battle.
2178 FIORDILIGI, DORABELLA: Alas, what do I hear? And they will leave?
2179 DON ALFONSO: Immediately.
2180 DORABELLA: And there is no way of preventing it?
2181 DON ALFONSO: There is none.
2182 FIORDILIGI: And not even a single farewell...
2183 DON ALFONSO: The unhappy men haven't the courage to see you; but if
2184 you wish it, they are ready...
2185 DORABELLA: Where are they?
2186 DON ALFONSO: Come in, friends.
2188 =head2 v5.20.0 - William Shakespeare, Sonnet 18
2190 L<Announced on 2014-05-27 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/05/msg215815.html>
2192 But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
2193 Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st;
2194 Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
2195 When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st:
2196 So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
2197 So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
2199 =head2 v5.20.0-RC1 - Lindsey Buckingham, "Second Hand News"
2201 L<Announced on 2014-05-17 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/05/msg215479.html>
2205 Won't you lay me down in tall grass
2206 And let me do my stuff
2208 =head2 v5.19.11 - Isidore-Lucien Ducasse [as "Comte de Lautréamont"], trans. Paul Knight, "Les Chants de Maldoror"
2210 L<Announced on 2014-04-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/04/msg214580.html>
2212 O rigorous mathematics, I have not forgotten you since your wise lessons,
2213 sweeter than honey, filtered into my heart like a refreshing wave.
2214 Instinctively, from the cradle, I had longed to drink from your source, older
2215 than the sun, and I continue to tread the sacred sanctuary of your solemn
2216 temple, I, the most faithful of your devotees. There was a vagueness in my
2217 mind, something thick as smoke; but I managed to mount the steps which lead to
2218 your altar, and you drove away this dark veil, as the wind blows the
2219 draught-board. You replaced it with excessive coldness, consummate prudence and
2220 implacable logic. With the aid of your fortifying milk, my intellect developed
2221 rapidly and took on immense proportions amid the ravishing lucidity which you
2222 bestow as a gift on all those who sincerely love you. Arithmetic! Algebra!
2223 Geometry! Awe-inspiring trinity! Luminous triangle! He who has not known you
2226 =head2 v5.19.10 - John Chadwick, "The Decipherment of Linear B"
2228 L<Announced on 2014-03-20 by Aaron Crane|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/03/msg213851.html>
2230 The urge to discover secrets is deeply ingrained in human nature; even
2231 the least curious mind is roused by the promise of sharing knowledge
2232 withheld from others. Some are fortunate enough to find a job which
2233 consists in the solution of mysteries, whether it be the physicist who
2234 tracks down a hitherto unknown nuclear particle or the policeman who
2235 detects a criminal. But most of us are driven to sublimate this urge
2236 by the solving of artificial puzzles devised for our entertainment.
2238 =head2 v5.19.9 - R. A. MacAvoy, "Tea with the Black Dragon"
2240 L<Announced on 2014-02-20 by Tony Cook|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/02/msg213047.html>
2242 Old hands. The smell of rain--the smell of Ch'an. Quiet words in
2243 rough Cantonese. "I am not to be your master. Your master has to be
2244 stronger than you are--has to tell you you are a fool and make you
2245 know it. And make you feel content in being a fool. How could I do
2246 that for you? I'm old. You are too strong for me; you are full of
2247 chi." The old man has paused then, huddled against the wind while
2248 clouds thickened above them.
2250 "I will tell you this, Long," he continued, "Before you find yourself
2251 you will lose your chi. Also you will leave behind you all pride of
2252 body, pride of mind. You will be reduced. Like me." The old man
2253 closed his eyes, and rain began to beat against his gray, crew-cut
2254 hair. He pulled his coat closer. Suddenly his eyes snapped open and
2255 he looked Long in the face.
2257 "You must leave China. Go across the ocean. There you will meet your
2258 master." He set down his teacup with a palsied hand. His voice rose,
2261 "I tell you this, most honored and impressive visitor. You are a
2262 fool, yes, but you will find the very thing you seek. You will find
2265 =head2 v5.19.8 - Joseph Heller, "Catch-22"
2267 L<Announced on 2014-01-20 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/01/msg211729.html>
2269 “I used to get a big kick out of saving people’s lives. Now I wonder what the
2270 hell’s the point, since they all have to die anyway.”
2272 “Oh, there’s a point, all right,” Dunbar assured him.
2274 “Is there? What is the point?”
2276 “The point is to keep them from dying for as long as you can.”
2278 “Yeah, but what’s the point, since they all have to die anyway?”
2280 “The trick is not to think about that.”
2282 “Never mind the trick. What the hell’s the point?”
2284 Dunbar pondered in silence for a few moments. “Who the hell knows?”
2286 =head2 v5.19.7 - Kurt Vonnegut, "Slaughterhouse-Five"
2288 L<Announced on 2013-12-20 by Abigail|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/12/msg210882.html>
2290 And somewhere in there was springtime. The corpse mines were closed
2291 down. The soldiers all left to fight the Russians. In the suburbs,
2292 the women and children dug rifle pits. Billy and the rest of his group
2293 were locked up in the stable in the suburbs. And then, one morning,
2294 they got up to discover that the door was unlocked. World War Two in
2297 Billy and the rest wandered out onto the shady street. The trees were
2298 leafing out. There was nothing going on out there, no traffic of any
2299 kind. There was only one vehicle, an abandoned wagon drawn by two
2300 horses. The wagon was green and coffin-shaped.
2304 One bird said to Billy Pilgrim, "Pee-tee-weet?"
2306 =head2 v5.19.6 - Monty Python's Flying Circus, "Spam"
2308 L<Announced on 2013-11-20 by Chris 'BinGOs' Williams|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/11/msg210043.html>
2310 Interior: cheap cafe. All the customers are Vikings. Mr and Mrs Bun enter downwards (on wires).
2314 Mr. Bun: What have you got, then?
2315 Waitress: Well there's egg and bacon; egg, sausage and bacon; egg and spam; egg, bacon and spam;
2316 egg, bacon, sausage and spam; spam, bacon, sausage and spam; spam, egg, spam, spam, bacon and spam;
2317 spam, spam, spam, egg and spam; spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, baked beans, spam, spam, spam and spam;
2318 or lobster thermidor aux crevettes, with a mornay sauce garnished with truffle pate, brandy and a fried
2320 Mrs. Bun: Have you got anything without spam in it?
2321 Waitress: Well, there's spam, egg, sausage and spam. That's not got MUCH spam in it.
2322 Mrs. Bun: I don't want ANY spam.
2323 Mr. Bun: Why can't she have egg, bacon, spam and sausage?
2324 Mrs. Bun: That's got spam in it!
2325 Mr. Bun: Not as much as spam, egg, sausage and spam.
2326 Mrs. Bun: Look, could I have egg, bacon, spam and sausage, without the spam.
2327 Waitress: Uuuuuuggggh!
2328 Mrs. Bun: What d'you mean, uugggh! I don't like spam.
2329 Vikings: (singing) Spam, spam, spam, spam, spam ... spam, spam, spam, spam ... lovely spam, wonderful spam ...
2331 (Brief shot of a Viking ship)
2333 Waitress: Shut up. Shut up! Shut up! You can't have egg, bacon, spam and sausage without the spam.
2335 Waitress: No, it wouldn't be egg, bacon, spam and sausage, would it?
2336 Mrs. Bun: I don't like spam!
2338 =head2 v5.19.5 - Charles Baudelaire, trans. James McGowan, "The Flowers of Evil", 51. The Cat
2340 L<Announced on 2013-10-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/10/msg208752.html>
2344 A cat is strolling through my mind
2345 Acting as though he owned the place,
2346 A lovely cat -- strong, charming, sweet.
2347 When he meows, one scarcely hears,
2349 So tender and discreet his tone;
2350 But whether he should growl or purr
2351 His voice is always rich and deep.
2352 That is the secret of his charm.
2354 This purling voice that filters down
2355 Into my darkest depths of soul
2356 Fulfils me like a balanced verse,
2357 Delights me as a potion would.
2359 It puts to sleep the cruellest ills
2360 And keeps a rein on ecstasies --
2361 Without the need for any words
2362 It can pronounce the longest phrase.
2364 Oh no, there is no bow that draws
2365 Across my heart, fine instrument,
2366 And makes to sing so royally
2367 The strongest and the purest chord,
2369 More than your voice, mysterious cat,
2370 Exotic cat, seraphic cat,
2371 In whom all is, angelically,
2372 As subtle as harmonious.
2376 From his soft fur, golden and brown,
2377 Goes out so sweet a scent, one night
2378 I might have been embalmed in it
2379 By giving him one little pet.
2381 He is my household's guardian soul;
2382 He judges, he presides, inspires
2383 All matters in hos royal realm;
2384 Might he be fairy? or a god?
2386 When my eyes, to this cat I love
2387 Drawn as by a magnet's force,
2388 Turn tamely back from that appeal,
2389 And when I look within myself,
2391 I notice with astonishment
2392 The fire of his opal eyes,
2393 Clear beacons glowing, living jewels,
2394 Taking my measure, steadily.
2396 =head2 v5.19.4 - Washington Irving, "The Widow and Her Son"
2398 L<Announced on 2013-09-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/09/msg207969.html>
2400 There is something in sickness that breaks down the pride of manhood;
2401 that softens the heart and brings it back to the feelings of infancy.
2402 Who that has languished, even in advanced life, in sickness and
2403 despondency — who that has pined on a weary bed in the neglect and
2404 loneliness of a foreign land — but has thought on the mother "that
2405 looked on his childhood," that smoothed his pillow and administered to
2406 his helplessness. — Oh! there is an enduring tenderness in the love
2407 of a mother to her son that transcends all other affections of the
2408 heart. It is neither to be chilled by selfishness — nor daunted by
2409 danger — nor weakened by worthlessness — nor stifled by ingratitude.
2410 She will sacrifice every comfort to his convenience — she will
2411 surrender every pleasure to his enjoyment — she will glory in his fame
2412 and exult in his prosperity. And if misfortune overtake him he will
2413 be the dearer to her from misfortune — and if disgrace settle upon his
2414 name, she will still love and cherish him in spite of his disgrace —
2415 and if all the world beside cast him off, she will be all the world to
2418 =head2 v5.19.3 - Andrew Hodges, "Alan Turing: The Enigma"
2420 L<Announced on 2013-08-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/08/msg206318.html>
2422 E.M. Forster, outdoing the King's heresy with grand bravura, had
2423 written in 1938 that if he were faced with the choice between
2424 betraying his country and betraying his friends, he hoped he would
2425 have the courage to betray his country. He would always put the
2426 personal above the political. But for Alan Turing, unlike Forster, or
2427 Wittgenstein, or G.H. Hardy, it was more than a theoretical question.
2428 For him not only had the personal become the political, but the
2429 political was the personal. He had chosen and promised for himself in
2430 working for the government. The choice for him therefore was that
2431 between betraying one part of himself and betraying another part. And
2432 however much he wavered between these alternatives, there was a solid
2433 logic to the mind of security, one that could not be expected to take
2434 an interest in notions of freedom and development. He had no rights
2435 to such things, as he would have had to admit. He might have
2436 outwitted the Home Guard, but when it came to questions that mattered,
2437 there was no doubt that he had placed himself under military law.
2438 There was a war on; there was always a war on now.
2440 =head2 v5.19.2 - Fred Brooks, "The Mythical Man-Month"
2442 L<Announced on 2013-07-22 by Aristotle Pagaltzis|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/07/msg204905.html>
2444 The magic of myth and legend has come true in our time. One types the
2445 correct incantation on a keyboard, and a display screen comes to life,
2446 showing things that never were nor could be. [...] Not all is delight,
2447 however [...] One must perform perfectly. The computer resembles the
2448 magic of legend in this respect, too. If one character, one pause, of
2449 the incantation is not strictly in proper form, the magic doesn't work.
2451 =head2 v5.19.1 - William Shakespeare, "A Midsummer Night's Dream"
2453 L<Announced on 2013-06-21 by David Golden|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/06/msg203449.html>
2455 Over hill, over dale,
2456 Thorough bush, thorough briar,
2457 Over park, over pale,
2458 Thorough flood, thorough fire,
2459 I do wander everywhere,
2460 Swifter than the moon's sphere;
2461 And I serve the fairy queen,
2462 To dew her orbs upon the green.
2463 The cowslips tall her pensioners be;
2464 In their gold coats, spots you see;
2465 Those be rubies, fairy favours,
2466 In their freckles live our savours.
2467 I must go seek some dew-drops here,
2468 And hang a perl in every cowslip's ear.
2469 Farewell, thou lob of spirits, I'll be gone;
2470 My queen and all her elves come here anon!
2472 =head2 v5.19.0 - Batman, of the Joker, in "The Dark Knight Returns"
2474 L<Announced on 2013-05-20 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/05/msg201980.html>
2476 From the beginning, I knew…
2477 …that there was nothing wrong with you…
2481 =head2 v5.18.4 - Robert W. Chambers, Cassilda's Song in "The King in Yellow," Act I, Scene 2
2483 L<Announced on 2014-10-01 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/10/msg220770.html>
2485 Along the shore the cloud waves break,
2486 The twin suns sink beneath the lake,
2487 The shadows lengthen
2490 Strange is the night where black stars rise,
2491 And strange moons circle through the skies
2492 But stranger still is
2495 Songs that the Hyades shall sing,
2496 Where flap the tatters of the King,
2500 Song of my soul, my voice is dead;
2501 Die thou, unsung, as tears unshed
2502 Shall dry and die in
2505 =head2 v5.18.3 - (no epigraph)
2509 =head2 v5.18.3-RC2 - Robert W. Chambers, "The King in Yellow", Act I, Scene 2
2511 L<Announced on 2014-09-27 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/09/msg220613.html>
2513 "Ah! I see it now!" I shrieked. "You have seized the throne and the
2514 empire. Woe! woe to you who are crowned with the crown of the King in
2517 =head2 v5.18.3-RC1 - Robert W. Chambers, "The King in Yellow", Act I, Scene 2
2519 L<Announced on 2014-09-17 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/09/msg220072.html>
2521 CAMILLA: You, sir, should unmask.
2525 CASSILDA: Indeed it's time. We all have laid aside disguise but you.
2527 STRANGER: I wear no mask.
2529 CAMILLA: (Terrified, aside to Cassilda.) No mask? No mask!
2531 =head2 v5.18.2 - Miss Manners
2533 L<Announced on 2014-01-06 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/01/msg211224.html>
2535 One of the major mistakes people make is that they think manners are
2536 only the expression of happy ideas. There's a whole range of behavior
2537 that can be expressed in a mannerly way. That's what civilization is all
2538 about – doing it in a mannerly and not an antagonistic way. One of the
2539 places we went wrong was the naturalistic Rousseauean movement of the
2540 Sixties in which people said, "Why can't you just say what's on your
2541 mind?" In civilization there have to be some restraints. If we followed
2542 every impulse, we'd be killing one another.
2544 =head2 v5.18.1 - Chuck Moore
2546 L<Announced on 2013-08-12 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/08/msg205897.html>
2548 The operating system is another concept that is curious. Operating
2549 systems are dauntingly complex and totally unnecessary. It’s a brilliant
2550 thing that Bill Gates has done in selling the world on the notion of
2551 operating systems. It’s probably the greatest con game the world has
2554 An operating system does absolutely nothing for you. As long as you had
2555 something — a subroutine called disk driver, a subroutine called some
2556 kind of communication support, in the modern world, it doesn’t do
2557 anything else. In fact, Windows spends a lot of time with overlays and
2558 disk management all stuff like that which are irrelevant. You’ve got
2559 gigabyte disks; you’ve got megabyte RAMs. The world has changed in a way
2560 that renders the operating system unnecessary.
2562 =head2 v5.18.1-RC1 - Chuck Moore
2564 L<Announced on 2013-08-02 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/08/msg205445.html>
2566 Compilers are probably the worst code ever written. They are written by
2567 someone who has never written a compiler before and will never do so
2568 again. The more elaborate the language, the more complex, bug-ridden,
2569 and unusable is the compiler. But a simple compiler for a simple
2570 language is an essential tool—if only for documentation.
2572 =head2 v5.18.0 - Yevgeny Zamyatin
2574 L<Announced on 2013-05-18 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/05/msg201940.html>
2576 It is an error to divide people into the living and the dead: there are people
2577 who are dead-alive, and people who are alive-alive. The dead-alive also write,
2578 walk, speak, act. But they make no mistakes; only machines make no mistakes,
2579 and they produce only dead things. The alive-alive are constantly in error, in
2580 search, in questions, in torment.
2582 =head2 v5.18.0-RC4 - Joseph Heller, "Catch-22"
2584 L<Announced on 2013-05-16 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/05/msg201889.html>
2586 Clevinger was dead. That was the basic flaw in his philosophy.
2588 =head2 v5.18.0-RC3 - Tom Waits, "The Ocean Doesn't Want Me"
2590 L<Announced on 2013-05-14 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/05/msg201823.html>
2592 I'd love to go drowning
2593 And to stay and to stay
2594 But the ocean doesn't want me today
2595 I'll go in up to here
2596 It can't possibly hurt
2597 All they will find is my beer
2600 =head2 v5.18.0-RC2 - Tom Waits, "Earth Died Screaming"
2602 L<Announced on 2013-05-12 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/05/msg201723.html>
2604 And the great day of wrath has come
2605 And here's mud in your big red eye
2606 The poker's in the fire
2607 And the locusts take the sky
2608 And the earth died screaming
2609 While I lay dreaming of you
2611 =head2 v5.18.0-RC1 - Tom Waits, "What's He Building in There?"
2613 L<Announced on 2013-05-11 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/05/msg201651.html>
2615 What's he building in there?
2617 We have a right to know…
2619 =head2 v5.17.11 - Nigel Tufnel in "This is Spın̈al Tap"
2621 L<Announced on 2013-04-20 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/04/msg201056.html>
2623 It's very special because, if you can see, the numbers all go to…
2624 eleven! Look, right across the board: eleven, eleven, eleven, eleven!
2626 =head2 v5.17.10 - Vernor Vinge, "A Fire Upon The Deep"
2628 L<Announced on 2013-03-23 by Max Maischein|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/03/msg200504.html>
2630 The archive informed the automation. Data structures were built, recipes
2631 followed. A local network was built, faster than anything on Straum, but surely
2632 safe. Nodes were added, modified by other recipes. The archive was a friendly
2633 place, with hierarchies of translation keys that led them along. Straum itself
2634 would be famous for this.
2636 Six months passed. A year.
2638 The omniscient view. Not self-aware really. Self-awareness is much over-rated.
2639 Most automation works far better as a part of a whole, and even if human-
2640 powerful, it does not need to self-know.
2642 =head2 v5.17.9 - Douglas Adams, "The Hitch-Hikers Guide to the Galaxy"
2644 L<Announced on 2013-02-20 by Chris 'BinGOs' Williams|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/02/msg199115.html>
2646 Vogon poetry is of course, the third worst in the universe.
2647 The second worst is that of the Azgoths of Kria. During a
2648 recitation by their poet master Grunthos the Flatulent of
2649 his poem 'Ode To A Small Lump of Green Putty I Found In My
2650 Armpit One Midsummer Morning' four of his audience died
2651 of internal haemorrhaging and the president of the
2652 Mid-Galactic Arts Nobbling Council survived by gnawing one
2653 of his own legs off. Grunthos is reported to have been
2654 'disappointed' by the poem's reception, and was about to
2655 embark on a reading of his twelve-book epic entitled
2656 'My Favourite Bathtime Gurgles' when his own major intestine,
2657 in a desperate attempt to save life and civilisation,
2658 leapt straight up through his neck and throttled his brain.
2660 The very worst poetry of all perished along with its creator
2661 Paula Nancy Millstone Jennings of Greenbridge, Essex, England,
2662 in the destruction of the planet Earth.
2664 =head2 v5.17.8 - Iain Pears, "An Instance of the Fingerpost"
2666 L<Announced on 2013-01-20 by Aaron Crane|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/01/msg197571.html>
2668 I must here declare myself as someone who does not for a moment subscribe to
2669 the general view that a willingness to perform oneself is detrimental to the
2670 dignity of experimental philosophy. There is, after all, a clear distinction
2671 between labour carried out for financial reward, and that done for the
2672 improvement of mankind: to put it another way, Lower as a philosopher was
2673 fully my equal even if he fell away when he became the practising physician.
2674 I think ridiculous of certain professors of anatomy, who find it beneath
2675 them to pick up the knife themselves, but merely comment while hired hands
2676 do the cutting. Sylvius would never have dreamt of sitting on a dais reading
2677 from an authority while others cut — when he taught, the knife was
2678 in his hand and the blood spattered his coat. Boyle also did not scruple to
2679 perform his own experiments and, on one occasion in my presence, even showed
2680 himself willing to anatomise a rat with his very own hands. Nor was he less
2681 a gentleman when he had finished. Indeed, in my opinion, his stature was all
2682 the greater, for in Boyle wealth, humility and curiosity mingled, and the
2683 world is richer for it.
2685 =head2 v5.17.7 - R. Scott Bakker, "The Darkness That Comes Before"
2687 L<Announced on 2012-12-18 by Dave Rolsky|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/12/msg196707.html>
2691 The boy extinguished. Only a place.
2695 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.
2697 A place without breath or sound. A place of sight alone. A place without before or after . . . almost.
2699 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.
2701 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 . . .
2703 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.
2705 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.
2707 I have been legion . . .
2709 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.
2713 =head2 v5.17.6 - Kurt Vonnegut, "The Sirens of Titan"
2715 L<Announced on 2012-11-20 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/11/msg195659.html>
2717 Beatrice, looking like a gypsy queen, smoldered at the foot of a statue
2718 of a young physical student. At first glance, the laboratory-gowned
2719 scientist seemed to be a perfect servant of nothing but truth. At first
2720 glance, one was convinced that nothing but truth could please him as he
2721 beamed at his test tube. At first glance, one thought that he was as
2722 much above the beastly concerns of mankind as the harmoniums in the
2723 caves of Mercury. There, at first glance, was a young man without
2724 vanity, without lust — and one accepted at its face value the title Salo
2725 had engraved on the statue, "Discovery of Atomic Power."
2727 =head2 v5.17.5 - Charles Stross, "Singularity Sky"
2729 L<Announced on 2012-10-20 by Florian Ragwitz|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/10/msg194349.html>
2731 Neither of them noticed the pair of polka-dotted knickers hiding
2732 behind the ventilation duct overhead, listening patiently and
2733 recording everything.
2735 =head2 v5.17.4 - Roald Dahl, "Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf"
2737 L<Announced on 2012-09-19 by Florian Ragwitz|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/09/msg192635.html>
2739 The small girl smiles. One eyelid flickers.
2740 She whips a pistol from her knickers.
2741 She aims it at the creature's head,
2742 And bang bang bang, she shoots him dead.
2744 A few weeks later, in the wood,
2745 I came across Miss Riding Hood.
2746 But what a change! No cloak of red,
2747 No silly hood upon her head.
2748 She said, "Hello, and do please note
2749 My lovely furry wolfskin coat."
2751 =head2 v5.17.3 - Kris Ta-belle, "Smoked Perl Onion Soup"
2753 L<Announced on 2012-08-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/08/msg190775.html>
2757 Cut 16 Perl Onions into quarters and put them in a grill smoker rack
2758 or a perforated pan over a BBQ using hickory wood chips or Special
2759 Blend Smoker Bisquettes. Smoke them for an hour and remove once they
2761 Let them cool and put them in the fridge (or freezer) until you are
2762 ready to create the soup.
2766 16 diced, pre-smoked, Perl Onions
2769 2 small garlic cloves, finely minced
2772 black pepper to taste
2774 1/4 cup all purpose flour
2775 6 cups of beef or vegetable stock
2776 1 cup of thick cream (milk can be used as a substitute)
2780 Melt the butter in a pan and then add olive oil.
2781 Heat and add the onions to caramelize over a medium-high heat for up
2783 Add the garlic, turn down the heat and cook for a further 5 minutes.
2784 Add the salt, pepper and sugar.
2785 Now add the red wine and reduce to a jam like consistency.
2786 Add the flour, stir well and add the stock a cup at a time.
2787 Simmer for 30 minutes, add the cream and heat to almost boiling.
2791 =head2 v5.17.2 - Terry Pratchet, "The Colour of Magic"
2793 L<Announced on 2012-07-21 by TonyC|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/07/msg189828.html>
2795 ‘I knew it,’ said Rincewind. ‘We're in a strong magical field.’
2797 Twoflower and Hrun looked around the little hollow where they had made
2798 their noonday halt. Then they looked at each other.
2800 The horses were quietly cropping the rich grass by the stream. Yellow
2801 butterflies skittered among the bushes. There was a smell of thyme
2802 and a buzzing of bees. The wild pigs on the spit sizzled gently.
2804 Hrun shrugged and went back to oiling his biceps. They gleamed.
2806 ‘Looks alright to me,’ he said.
2808 ‘Try tossing a coin,’ said Rincewind.
2812 ‘Go on. Toss a coin.’
2814 ‘Hokay,’ said Hrun. 'If that gives you any pleasure.’ He reached into
2815 his pouch and withdrew a handful of loose change plundered from a
2816 dozen realms. With some care he selected a Zchloty leaden
2817 quarter-iotum and balanced it on a purple thumbnail.
2819 ‘You call,’ he said. ‘Heads or—’ he inspected the obverse with
2820 an air of intense concentration, ‘some sort of a fish with legs.’
2822 ‘When it's in the air,’ said Rincewind. Hrun grinned and flicked his thumb.
2824 The iotum rose, spinning.
2826 ‘Edge,’ said Rincewind, without looking at it.
2828 =head2 v5.17.1 - Rand Miller, "Myst: The Book of Ti'ana"
2830 L<Announced on 2012-06-20 by doy|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/06/msg188354.html>
2832 On their return from Ko'ah, Aitrus had shown her the Book, patiently
2833 taking her through page after page, and showing her how such an Age was
2834 "made." She had seen at once the differences between this archaic form
2835 and the ordinary written speech of the D'ni, noting how it was not
2836 merely more elaborate but more specific: a language of precise yet
2837 subtle descriptive power. Yet seeing was one thing, believing another.
2838 Given all the evidence, her rational mind still fought against accepting
2841 =head2 v5.17.0 - Charles Stross, "Singularity Sky"
2843 L<Announced on 2012-05-26 by Zefram|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/05/msg187214.html>
2845 `Welcome, comrades!' Burya opened his arms toward the soldier.
2846 `Yes it is true! With help from our allies of the Festival, the iron
2847 hand of the reactionary junta is about to be overthrown for all time!
2848 The new economy is being born; the marginal cost of production has
2849 been abolished, and from now on, if any item is produced once, it can
2850 be replicated infinitely. From each according to his imagination,
2851 to each according to his needs! Join us or better still, bring your
2852 fellow soldiers and workers to join us!'
2854 There was a sharp bang from the roof of the Corn Exchange, right at the
2855 climax of his impromptu speech; heads turned in alarm. Something had
2856 broken inside the spork factory and a stream of rainbow-hued plastic
2857 implements fountained toward the sky and clattered to the cobblestones
2858 on every side, like a harbinger of the postindustrial society to come.
2859 Workers and peasants alike stared in open-mouthed bewilderment at this
2860 astounding display of productivity, then bent to scrabble in the muck
2861 for the brightly colored sporks of revolution. A volley of shots rang
2862 out and Burya Rubenstein raised his hands, grinning wildly, to accept
2863 the salute of the soldiers from the Skull Hill garrison.
2865 =head2 v5.16.3 - Devo, "Freedom of Choice"
2867 L<Announced on 2013-03-11 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/03/msg200009.html>
2869 A victim of collision on the open sea
2870 Nobody ever said that life was free
2871 Sink, swim, go down with the ship
2872 But use your freedom of choice
2874 =head2 v5.16.2 - Stanislaw Lem, "The Cyberiad", Trurl's Machine
2876 L<Announced on 2012-11-01 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/11/msg194915.html>
2878 Once upon a time Trurl the constructor built an eight-story thinking
2879 machine. When it was finished, he gave it a coat of white paint,
2880 trimmed the edges in lavender, stepped back, squinted, then added a
2881 little curlicue on the front and, where one might imagine the forehead
2882 to be, a few pale orange polkadots. Extremely pleased with himself,
2883 he whistled an air and, as is always done on such occasions, asked it
2884 the ritual question of how much is two plus two.
2886 The machine stirred. Its tubes began to glow, its coils warmed up,
2887 current coursed through all its circuits like a waterfall,
2888 transformers hummed and throbbed, there was a clanging, and a
2889 chugging, and such an ungodly racket that Trurl began to think of
2890 adding a special mentation muffler. Meanwhile the machine labored on,
2891 as if it had been given the most difficult problem in the Universe to
2892 solve; the ground shook, the sand slid underfoot from the vibration,
2893 valves popped like champagne corks, the relays nearly gave way under
2894 the strain. At last, when Trurl had grown extremely impatient, the
2895 machine ground to a halt and said in a voice like thunder: SEVEN!
2897 =head2 v5.16.1 - Emerald Rose, "Never Split The Party"
2899 L<Announced on 2012-08-08 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/08/msg190413.html>
2901 Don't you know? You never split the party
2902 Clerics in the back to keep those fighters hale and hearty
2903 The wizard in the middle, where he can shed some light
2904 And you never let that damn thief out of sight…
2906 =head2 v5.16.1-RC1 - Tom Moldvay, Foreward to the "Dungeons & Dragons Basic Rulebook"
2908 L<Announced on 2012-08-03 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/08/msg190264.html>
2910 I was busy rescuing the captured maiden when the dragon showed up.
2911 Fifty feed of scaled terror glared down at us with smoldering red eyes.
2912 Tendrils of smoke drifted out from between fangs larger than daggers.
2913 The dragon blocked the only exit from the cave.
2917 I unwrapped the sword which the mysterious cleric had given me. The
2918 sword was golden-tinted steel. Its hilt was set with a rainbow
2919 collection of precious gems. I shouted my battle cry and charged
2921 My charge caught the dragon by surprise. Its titanic jaws snapped shut
2922 inches from my face. I swung the golden sword with both arms. The
2923 swordblade bit into the dragon's neck and continued through to the other
2924 side. With an earth-shaking crash, the dragon dropped dead at my feet.
2925 The magic sword had saved my life and ended the reign of the
2926 dragon-tyrant. The countryside was freed and I could return as a hero.
2928 =head2 v5.16.0 - W.H. Auden, "September 1, 1939"
2930 L<Announced on 2012-05-20 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/05/msg186903.html>
2932 All I have is a voice
2933 To undo the folded lie,
2934 The romantic lie in the brain
2935 Of the sensual man-in-the-street
2936 And the lie of Authority
2937 Whose buildings grope the sky:
2938 There is no such thing as the State
2939 And no one exists alone;
2940 Hunger allows no choice
2941 To the citizen or the police;
2942 We must love one another or die.
2944 =head2 v5.15.9 - Bob Dylan, "Blowin' In The Wind"
2946 L<Announced on 2012-03-20 by Abigail|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/03/msg184824.html>
2948 How many roads must a man walk down
2949 Before you call him a man?
2950 Yes, 'n' how many seas must a white dove sail
2951 Before she sleeps in the sand?
2952 Yes, 'n' how many times must the cannonballs fly
2953 Before they're forever banned?
2954 The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind
2955 The answer is blowin' in the wind
2957 How many years can a mountain exist
2958 Before it's washed to the sea?
2959 Yes, 'n' how many years can some people exist
2960 Before they're allowed to be free?
2961 Yes, 'n' how many times can a man turn his head
2962 Pretending he just doesn't see?
2963 The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind
2964 The answer is blowin' in the wind
2966 How many times must a man look up
2967 Before he can see the sky?
2968 Yes, 'n' how many ears must one man have
2969 Before he can hear people cry?
2970 Yes, 'n' how many deaths will it take till he knows
2971 That too many people have died?
2972 The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind
2973 The answer is blowin' in the wind
2975 =head2 v5.15.8 - The KLF, "The Manual-How To Have A Number One The Easy Way"
2977 L<Announced on 2012-02-20 by Max Maischein|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/02/msg183919.html>
2979 "Doctor Who, hey Doctor Who
2980 Doctor Who, in the Tardis
2981 Doctor Who, hey Doctor Who
2982 Doctor Who, Doc, Doctor Who
2983 Doctor Who, Doc, Doctor Who"
2985 Gibberish of course, but every lad in the country under a certain
2986 age related instinctively to what it was about. The ones slightly
2987 older needed a couple of pints inside them to clear away the mind
2988 debris left by the passing years before it made sense. As for
2989 girls and our chorus, we think they must have seen it as pure crap.
2990 A fact that must have limited to zero our chances of staying at The
2991 Top for more than one week.
2993 Stock, Aitkin and Waterman, however, are kings of writing chorus
2994 lyrics that go straight to the emotional heart of the 7" single
2995 buying girls in this country. Their most successful records will kick
2996 into the chorus with a line which encapsulates the entire emotional
2997 meaning of the song. This will obviously be used as the title. As
2998 soon as Rick Astley hit the first line of the chorus on his debut
2999 single it was all over - the Number One position was guaranteed:
3001 "I'm never going to give you up"
3003 =head2 v5.15.7 - Penelope Lively, "The Voyage of QV66"
3005 L<Announced on 2012-01-20 by Chris 'BinGOs' Williams|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/01/msg182230.html>
3007 "Laboratories," announced Henry. "Kindly don't touch anything."
3009 He led us into a long low brick shed. Outside there was a
3010 notice on a piece of board, crudely printed in red paint,
3011 which said GRATE SIENCE DISCOVERYS DONE HERE SSSH! BRING YOUR
3012 OWN BUKKIT NO PINCHING ANYWUN ELSE'S EXPERRYMENTS CANTEEN OPEN
3013 ALL DAY CHIMPS ONLY.
3015 There were a lot of large black monkeys inside, all intently
3016 busy on what they were doing. Some of them were pouring stuff
3017 out of bottles into buckets and carefully stirring the ensuing
3018 mixture; others were at work with glass tubes and jars, blowing
3019 and measuring and mixing; others were crouched over long benches
3020 with tools and heaps of bits and pieces of metal, cutting and
3021 bending and constructing. There was a great deal of noise and
3022 chatter. Every now and then one of them would give a whoop of
3023 excitement and all the others would gather round and jump up and
3024 down cheering and applauding.
3026 "Chimps," said Henry. "They're awfully clever."
3028 =head2 v5.15.6 - Ursula K. Leguin, "A Wizard of Earthsea"
3030 L<Announced on 2011-12-20 by Dave Rolsky|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/12/msg180962.html>
3032 Ged had thought that as the prentice of a great mage he would enter at once
3033 into the mystery and mastery of power. He would understand the language of the
3034 beasts and the speech of the leaves of the forest, he thought, and sway the
3035 winds with his word, and learn to change himself into any shape he
3036 wished. Maybe he and his master would run together as stags, or fly to Re Albi
3037 over the mountain on the wings of eagles.
3039 But it was not so at all. They wandered, first down into the Vale and then
3040 gradually south and westward around the mountain, given lodging in little
3041 villages or spending the night out in the wilderness, like poor
3042 journeyman-sorcerers, or tinkers, or beggars. They entered no mysterious
3043 domain. Nothing happened. The mage's oaken staff that Ged had watched at first
3044 with eager dread was nothing but a stout staff to walk with. Three days went
3045 by and four days went by and still Ogion had not spoken a single charm in
3046 Ged's hearing, and had not taught him a single name or rune or spell.
3048 =head2 v5.15.5 - Nikolai Gogol, trans. Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, "The Diary of a Madman"
3050 L<Announced on 2011-11-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/11/msg179588.html>
3052 This day - is a day of the greatest solemnity! Spain has a king. He has
3053 been found. I am that king. Only this very day did I learn of it. I
3054 confess, it came to me suddenly in a flash of lightning. I don't understand
3055 how I could have thought and imagined that I was a titular councillor. How
3056 could such a wild notion enter my head? It's a good thing no one thought of
3057 putting me in an insane asylum. Now everything is laid open before me. Now
3058 I see everything as on the palm of my hand. And before, I don't understand,
3059 before everything around me was in some sort of fog. And all this happens, I
3060 think, because people imagine that the human brain is in the head. Not at
3061 all: it is brought by a wind from the direction of the Caspian Sea. First
3062 off, I announced to Mavra who I am. When she heard that the king of Spain
3063 was standing before her, she clasped her hands and nearly died of fright.
3064 The stupid woman had never seen a king of Spain before. However, I
3065 endeavoured to calm her down and assured her in gracious words of my
3066 benevolence and that I was not at all angry that she sometimes polished my
3067 boots poorly. They're benighted folk. It's impossible to tell them about
3068 lofty matters. She got frightened because she's convinced that all kings of
3069 Spain are like Philip II. But I explained to her that there was no
3070 resemblance between me and Philip II, and that I didn't have a single
3071 Capuchin . . . I didn't go to the office . . . To hell with it! No friends,
3072 you won't lure me there now; I'm not going to copy your vile papers!
3074 =head2 v5.15.4 - Steve Jobs
3076 L<Announced on 2011-10-20 by Florian Ragwitz|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/10/msg178412.html>
3078 A lot of people in our industry haven't had very diverse experiences. So they
3079 don't have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions
3080 without a broad perspective on the problem. The broader one's understanding of
3081 the human experience, the better design we will have.
3083 =head2 v5.15.3 - Oscar Wilde, From the preface to "The Picture of Dorian Gray"
3085 L<Announced on 2011-09-20 by Stevan Little|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/09/msg177427.html>
3087 All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath
3088 the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol
3089 do so at their peril.
3091 It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.
3092 Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the
3093 work is new, complex, and vital. When critics disagree, the
3094 artist is in accord with himself.
3096 We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as
3097 he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless
3098 thing is that one admires it intensely.
3100 All art is quite useless.
3102 =head2 v5.15.2 - Rainer Maria Rilke, trans., C. F. MacIntyre, "Duino", The First Elegy
3104 L<Announced on 2011-08-20 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/08/msg176067.html>
3106 True, it is strange to live no more on earth,
3107 no longer follow the folkways scarecely learned;
3108 not to give roses and other especially auspicious
3109 things the significance of a human future;
3110 to be no more what one was in infinitely anxious hands,
3111 and to put aside even one's name, like a broken plaything.
3112 Strange, to wish wishes no longer. Strange, to see
3113 all that was related fluttering so loosely in space.
3114 And being dead is hard, full of catching-up,
3115 so that finally one feels a little eternity.–
3116 But the living all make the mistake of too sharp discrimination.
3117 Often angels (it's said) don't know if they move
3118 among the quick or the dead. The eternal current
3119 hurtles all ages along with it forever
3120 through both realms and drowns their voices in both.
3122 =head2 v5.15.1 - Greg Egan, "Permutation City"
3124 L<Announced on 2011-07-20 by Zefram|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/07/msg175014.html>
3126 Carter held out a hand towards the middle of the room. `See that
3127 fountain?' A ten-metre-wide marble wedding cake, topped with a
3128 winged cherub wrestling a serpent, duly appeared. Water cascaded
3129 down from a gushing wound in the cherub's neck. Carter said, `It's
3130 being computed by redundancies in the sketch of the city. I can
3131 extract the results, because I know exactly where to look for them --
3132 but nobody else would have a hope in hell of picking them out.'
3134 Peer walked up to the fountain. Even as he approached, he noticed
3135 that the spray was intangible; when he dipped his hand in the water
3136 around the base he felt nothing, and the motion he made with his
3137 fingers left the foaming surface unchanged. They were spying on
3138 the calculations, not interacting with them; the fountain was a
3141 Carter said, `In your case, of course, nobody will need to know
3142 the results. Except you -- and you'll know them because you'll
3145 =head2 v5.15.0 - Neil Gaiman, "The Graveyard Book"
3147 L<Announced on 2011-06-20 by David Golden|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/06/msg173748.html>
3149 If you dare nothing, then when the day is over, nothing is all you will have gained.
3151 =head2 v5.14.4 - Arthur C. Clarke, "The Nine Billion Names of God"
3153 L<Announced on 2013-03-11 by Dave Mitchell|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/03/msg199988.html>
3155 He began to sing, but gave it up after a while. This vast arena of
3156 mountains, gleaming like whitely hooded ghosts on every side, did not
3157 encourage such ebullience. Presently George glanced at his watch.
3159 'Should be there in an hour,' he called back over his shoulder to
3160 Chuck. Then he added, in an afterthought: 'Wonder if the computer's
3161 finished its run. It was due about now.'
3163 Chuck didn't reply, so George swung round in his saddle. He could just
3164 see Chuck's face, a white oval turned towards the sky.
3166 'Look,' whispered Chuck, and George lifted his eyes to heaven. (There
3167 is always a last time for everything.)
3169 Overhead, without any fuss, the stars were going out.
3171 =head2 v5.14.3 - William Shakespeare, "As You Like It"
3173 L<Announced on 2012-10-12 by Dominic Hargreaves|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/10/msg194057.html>
3175 The poor world is almost six thousand years old, and in all
3176 this time there was not any man died in his own person,
3177 videlicit, in a love-cause. Troilus had his brains dashed
3178 out with a Grecian club; yet he did what he could to die
3179 before, and he is one of the patterns of love. Leander, he
3180 would have lived many a fair year, though Hero had turned
3181 nun, if it had not been for a hot midsummer night; for, good
3182 youth, he went but forth to wash him in the Hellespont and
3183 being taken with the cramp was drowned and the foolish
3184 coroners of that age found it was 'Hero of Sestos.' But these
3185 are all lies: men have died from time to time and worms have
3186 eaten them, but not for love.
3188 =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 >>
3190 L<Announced on 2011-09-26 by Florian Ragwitz|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/09/msg177618.html>
3192 It's not so much that people don't value the programs after they have them--they
3193 do value them. But they're not the sort of thing that would ever catch on if
3194 they had to overcome the marketing barrier. (I don't yet know if perl will
3195 catch on at all--I'm worried enough about it that I specifically included an
3196 awk-to-perl translator just to help it catch on.) Maybe it's all just an
3197 inferiority complex. Or maybe I don't like to be mercenary.
3199 So I guess I'd say that the reason some software comes free is that the
3200 mechanism for selling it is missing, either from the work environment, or from
3201 the heart of the programmer.
3203 =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 >>
3205 L<Announced on 2011-06-16 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/06/msg173650.html>
3207 At this point I'm no longer working for a company that makes me sign
3208 my life away, but by now I'm in the habit. Besides, I still harbor
3209 the deep-down suspicion that nobody would pay money for what I write,
3210 since most of it just helps you do something better that you could
3211 already do some other way. How much money would you personally pay
3212 to upgrade from readnews to rn? How much money would you pay for
3213 the patch program? As for warp, it's a mere game. And anything you
3214 can do with perl you can eventually do with an amazing and totally
3215 unreadable conglomeration of awk, sed, sh and C.
3217 =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 >>
3219 L<Announced on 2011-05-14 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/05/msg172326.html>
3221 At the start of any project, I'm programming primarily to please
3222 myself. (The two chief virtues in a programmer are laziness and
3223 impatience.) After a while somebody looks over my shoulder and says,
3224 "That's neat. It'd be neater if it did such-and-so." So the thing
3225 gets neater. Pretty soon (a year or two) I have an rn, a warp, a patch,
3226 or a perl. One of these years I'll have a metaconfig.
3228 I then say to myself, "I don't want my life's work to die when this
3229 computer is scrapped, so I should let some other people use this. If I
3230 ask my company to sell this, it'll never see the light of day, and nobody
3231 would pay much for it anyway. If I sell it myself, I'll be in trouble with
3232 my company, to whom I signed my life away when I was hired. If I give it
3233 away, I can pretend it was worthless in the first place, so my company
3234 won't care. In any event, it's easier to ask forgiveness than permission."
3236 So a freely distributable program is born.
3238 =head2 v5.14.0-RC3 - American Airlines Gate Agent, last call
3240 L<Announced on 2011-05-11 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/05/msg172282.html>
3242 This is the last call for flight 1697 with service to Chicago and
3243 continuing service to San Francisco. All passengers should already be
3244 aboard. If you aren't aboard at this time, you will be denied boarding
3245 and your bags will be offloaded.
3247 =head2 v5.14.0-RC2 - Greg Grandin, "Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City"
3249 L<Announced on 2011-05-04 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/05/msg171879.html>
3251 Over the course of nearly two decades, Ford would spend tens of millions
3252 of dollars founding not one but, after the plantation was defastated
3253 by leaf blight, two American towns, complete with central squares,
3254 sidewalks, indoor plumbing, hospitals, manicured lawns, movie theaters,
3255 swimming pools, golf courses, and, of course, Model Ts and As rolling
3256 down their paved streets.
3258 Back in America, newspapers kept up their drumbeat celebration, only
3259 obliquely referencing reports that things were not progressing as the
3260 company had hoped. But there was one note of skepticism. In late 1928,
3261 the Washington Post ran an editorial that read in its entirety: "Ford will
3262 govern a rubber plantation in Brazil larger than North Carolina. This is
3263 the first time he has applied quantity production methods to trouble"
3265 =head2 v5.14.0-RC1 - Bill Bryson, "In a Sunburned Country"
3267 L<Announced on 2011-04-20 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/04/msg171253.html>
3269 But then Australia is such a difficult country to keep track of. On
3270 my first visit, some years ago, I passed the time on the long flight
3271 reading a history of Australian politics in the twentieth century,
3272 wherein I encountered the startling fact that in 1967 the prime minister,
3273 Harold Holt, was strolling along a beach in Victoria when he plunged into
3274 the surf and vanished. No trace of the poor man was ever seen again.
3275 This seemed doubly astounding to me—first that Australia could
3276 just I<lose> a prime minister (I mean, come on) and second that news of
3277 this had never reached me.
3279 =head2 v5.13.11 - Walt Whitman, L<"Leaves of Grass"|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leaves_of_Grass>
3281 L<Announced on 2011-03-20 by Florian Ragwitz|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/03/msg170206.html>
3283 When the full-grown poet came,
3284 Out spake pleased Nature (the round impassive globe, with all its
3285 shows of day and night,) saying, He is mine;
3286 But out spake too the Soul of man, proud, jealous and unreconciled,
3287 Nay he is mine alone;
3288 --Then the full-grown poet stood between the two, and took each
3290 And to-day and ever so stands, as blender, uniter, tightly
3292 Which he will never release until he reconciles the two,
3293 And wholly and joyously blends them.
3295 =head2 v5.13.10 - Egill Skalla-Grímsson, L<"Egils saga Skalla-Grímssonar"|http://www.heimskringla.no/wiki/Egils_saga_Skalla-Gr%C3%ADmssonar>
3297 L<Announced on 2011-02-20 by Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/02/msg169340.html>
3299 Skalat maðr rúnar rísta,
3300 nema ráða vel kunni.
3301 Þat verðr mörgum manni,
3302 es of myrkvan staf villisk.
3304 tíu launstafi ristna.
3305 Þat hefr lauka lindi
3306 langs ofrtrega fengit.
3308 =head2 v5.13.9 - John F Kennedy, L<Inaugural Address January 20, 1961|http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/John_F._Kennedy%27s_Inaugural_Address>
3310 L<Announced on 2011-01-20 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/01/msg168335.html>
3312 In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been
3313 granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I
3314 do not shrink from this responsibility -- I welcome it. I do not believe
3315 that any of us would exchange places with any other people or any other
3316 generation. The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this
3317 endeavor will light our country and all who serve it. And the glow from
3318 that fire can truly light the world.
3320 And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you;
3321 ask what you can do for your country.
3323 My fellow citizens of the world, ask not what America will do for you,
3324 but what together we can do for the freedom of man.
3326 Finally, whether you are citizens of America or citizens of the world,
3327 ask of us here the same high standards of strength and sacrifice which
3328 we ask of you. With a good conscience our only sure reward, with history
3329 the final judge of our deeds, let us go forth to lead the land we love,
3330 asking His blessing and His help, but knowing that here on earth God's
3331 work must truly be our own.
3333 =head2 v5.13.8 - Roger Williams, L<"The Fifth Gift"|http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2005/8/19/21304/8493>
3335 L<Announced on 2010-12-19 by Zefram|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/12/msg167271.html>
3337 The aliens called the box a "matter generator," but we'd be more inclined
3338 to call it a matter duplicator. By connecting switches and potentiometers
3339 between the copper posts it was possible to make the box mark off two
3340 cubic rectangular areas of volume. Make a certain contact, and these
3341 areas would be isolated within perfectly reflective fields. They could
3342 be expanded or contracted by altering resistances between other posts.
3343 As I worked out the user interface I built a little control panel for
3344 the device. It was actually a clever way for the aliens to do things;
3345 instead of trying to build controls we could use, they built us an
3346 interface we could attach to controls that made sense to us. It could
3349 Once you had made the contact that established the shielded volumes,
3350 if you made another certain contact the contents of the first volume
3351 were copied to the second. The machine copied metal, plastic, steel,
3352 and diamond with equal ease. Copies of copies of copies of copies were
3353 indistinguishable from the originals at any magnification, even using
3354 techniques like X-ray crystallography.
3356 =head2 v5.13.7 - Andy Wachowski and Lana Wachowski, "The Matrix"
3358 L<Announced on 2010-11-20 by Chris 'BinGOs' Williams|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/11/msg166162.html>
3360 [Neo sees a black cat walk by them, and then a similar black cat walk by them just like the first one]
3364 [Everyone freezes right in their tracks]
3366 Trinity: What did you just say?
3367 Neo: Nothing. Just had a little deja vu.
3368 Trinity: What did you see?
3369 Cypher: What happened?
3370 Neo: A black cat went past us, and then another that looked just
3372 Trinity: How much like it? Was it the same cat?
3373 Neo: It might have been. I'm not sure.
3374 Morpheus: Switch! Apoc!
3376 Trinity: A deja vu is usually a glitch in the Matrix. It happens when
3377 they change something.
3379 =head2 v5.13.6 - Haruki Murakami, "Kafka on the Shore"
3381 L<Announced on 2010-10-20 by Tatsuhiko Miyagawa|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/10/msg165183.html>
3383 The boy called Crow softly rests a hand on my shoulder, and with that
3386 "From now on -- no matter what -- you've got to be the world's toughest
3387 fifteen-year-old. That's the only way you're going to survive. And in order
3388 to do that, you've got to figure out what it means to be tough. You following
3391 I keep my eyes closed and don't reply. I just want to sink off into sleep
3392 like this, his hand on my shoulder. I hear the faint flutter of wings.
3394 "You're going to be the world's toughest fifteen-year-old," Crow whispers
3395 as I try to fall asleep. Like he was carving the words in a deep blue tattoo
3398 (Translated from Japanese by Philip Gabriel)
3400 =head2 v5.13.5 - Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, "The Room in the Dragon Volant"
3402 L<Announced on 2010-09-19 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/09/msg164238.html>
3404 Candle in hand I stepped in. I do not know whether the quality of
3405 air, long undisturbed, is peculiar; to me it has always seemed so, and
3406 the damp smell of the old masonry hung in this atmosphere. My candle
3407 faintly lighted the bare stone wall that enclosed the stair, the foot
3408 of which I could not see. Down I went, and a few turns brought me to
3409 the stone floor. Here was another door, of the simple, old, oak kind,
3410 deep sunk in the thickness of the wall. The large end of the key
3411 fitted this. The lock was stiff; I set the candle down upon the
3412 stair, and applied both hands; it turned with difficulty, and as it
3413 revolved, uttered a shriek that alarmed me for my secret.
3415 For some minutes I did not move. In a little time, however, I took
3416 courage, and opened the door. The night-air floating in puffed out
3417 the candle. There was a thicket of holly and underwood, as dense as a
3418 jungle, close about the door. I should have been in pitch-darkness,
3419 were it not that through the topmost leaves there twinkled, here and
3420 there, a glimmer of moonshine.
3422 Softly, lest any one should have opened his window at the sound of the
3423 rusty bolt, I struggled through this till I gained a view of the open
3424 grounds. Here I found that the brushwood spread a good way up the
3425 park, uniting with the wood that approached the little temple I have
3428 =head2 v5.13.4 - Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
3430 L<Announced on 2010-08-20 by Florian Ragwitz|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/08/msg163150.html>
3432 `How the creatures order one about, and make one repeat lessons!' thought Alice;
3433 `I might as well be at school at once.' However, she got up, and began to repeat
3434 it, but her head was so full of the Lobster Quadrille, that she hardly knew what
3435 she was saying, and the words came very queer indeed:--
3437 "'Tis the voice of the Lobster; I heard him declare,
3438 "You have baked me too brown, I must sugar my hair."
3439 As a duck with its eyelids, so he with his nose
3440 Trims his belt and his buttons, and turns out his toes.'
3443 `That's different from what I used to say when I was a child,' said the Gryphon.
3445 `Well, I never heard it before,' said the Mock Turtle; `but it sounds uncommon
3448 Alice said nothing; she had sat down with her face in her hands, wondering if
3449 anything would ever happen in a natural way again.
3451 `I should like to have it explained,' said the Mock Turtle.
3453 `She can't explain it,' said the Gryphon hastily. `Go on with the next verse.'
3455 `But about his toes?' the Mock Turtle persisted. `How could he turn them out
3456 with his nose, you know?'
3458 `It's the first position in dancing.' Alice said; but was dreadfully puzzled by
3459 the whole thing, and longed to change the subject.
3461 =head2 v5.13.3 - Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, "Good Omens"
3463 L<Announced on 2010-07-20 by David Golden|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/07/msg162230.html>
3465 Look at Crowley, doing 110 mph on the M40 heading towards
3466 Oxfordshire. Even the most resolutely casual observer would
3467 notice a number of strange things about him. The clenched teeth,
3468 for example, or the dull red glow coming from behind his
3469 sunglasses. And the car. The car was a definite hint.
3471 Crowley had started the journey in his Bentley, and he was
3472 dammned if he wasn't going to finish it in the Bentley as well.
3473 Not that even the kind of car buff who owns his own pair of
3474 motoring goggles would have been able to tell it was a vintage
3475 Bentley. Not any more. They wouldn't have been able to tell
3476 that it was a Bentley. They would only offer fifty-fifty that it
3477 had ever even been a car.
3479 There was no paint left on it, for a start. It might still have
3480 been black, where it wasn't a rusty, smudged reddish-brown, but
3481 this was a dull charcoal black. It traveled in its own ball of
3482 flame, like a space capsule making a particularly difficult
3485 There was a thin skin of crusted, melted rubber left around the
3486 metal wheel rims, but seeing that the wheel rims were still
3487 somhow riding an inch above the road surface this didn't seem to
3488 make an awful lot of difference to the suspension.
3490 It should have fallen apart miles back.
3492 =head2 v5.13.2 - Iain M Banks, "Use of Weapons"
3494 L<Announced on 2010-06-22 by Matt S Trout|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/06/msg161112.html>
3496 We deal in the moral equivalent of black holes, where the normal laws -
3497 the rules of right and wrong that people imagine apply everywhere else
3498 in the universe - break down; beyond those metaphysical event-horizons,
3499 there exist ... special circumstances.
3501 =head2 v5.13.1 - Miguel de Unamuno, "The Sepulchre of Don Quixote"
3503 L<Announced on 2010-05-20 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/05/msg160275.html>
3505 And if anyone shall come to you and say that he knows how to construct
3506 bridges and that perhaps a time will come when you will wish to avail
3507 yourself of his science in order to cross over a river, out with him! Out
3508 with the engineer! Rivers will be crossed by wading or swimming them, even
3509 if half the crusaders drown themselves. Let the engineer go off and build
3510 bridges somewhere else, where they are badly wanted. For those who go in
3511 quest of the sepulchre, faith is bridge enough.
3513 =head2 v5.13.0 - Jules Verne, "A Journey to the Centre of the Earth"
3515 L<Announced on 2010-04-20 by LE<0xe9>on Brocard|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/04/msg159275.html>
3517 The heat still remained at quite a supportable degree. With an
3518 involuntary shudder, I reflected on what the heat must have been
3519 when the volcano of Sneffels was pouring its smoke, flames, and
3520 streams of boiling lava -- all of which must have come up by the
3521 road we were now following. I could imagine the torrents of hot
3522 seething stone darting on, bubbling up with accompaniments of
3523 smoke, steam, and sulphurous stench!
3525 "Only to think of the consequences," I mused, "if the old
3526 volcano were once more to set to work."
3528 =head2 v5.12.5 - William Shakespeare, "Measure for Measure"
3530 L<Announced on 2012-11-10 by Dominic Hargreaves|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/11/msg195171.html>
3532 Music oft hath such a charm
3533 To make bad good, and good provoke to harm.
3535 =head2 v5.12.4 - William Schwenck Gilbert, "Trial By Jury"
3537 L<Announced on 2011-06-20 by Leon Brocard|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/06/msg173725.html>
3539 You cannot eat breakfast all day,
3540 Nor is it the act of a sinner,
3541 When breakfast is taken away,
3542 To turn his attention to dinner;
3543 And it's not in the range of belief,
3544 To look upon him as a glutton,
3545 Who, when he is tired of beef,
3546 Determines to tackle the mutton.
3547 Ah! But this I am willing to say,
3548 If it will appease her sorrow,
3549 I'll marry this lady today,
3550 And I'll marry the other tomorrow!
3552 =head2 v5.12.4-RC2 - James Russell Lowell, "Eleanor makes macaroons"
3554 L<Announced on 2011-06-15 by Leon Brocard|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/06/msg173609.html>
3556 Now for sugar, -- nay, our plan
3557 Tolerates no work of man.
3558 Hurry, then, ye golden bees;
3559 Fetch your clearest honey, please,
3560 Garnered on a Yorkshire moor,
3561 While the last larks sing and soar,
3562 From the heather-blossoms sweet
3563 Where sea-breeze and sunshine meet,
3564 And the Augusts mask as Junes, --
3565 Eleanor makes macaroons!
3567 =head2 v5.12.4-RC1 - Ogden Nash, "The Clean Plater"
3569 L<Announced on 2011-06-08 by Leon Brocard|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/06/msg173352.html>
3571 Pheasant is pleasant, of course,
3572 And terrapin, too, is tasty,
3573 Lobster I freely endorse,
3574 In pate or patty or pasty.
3575 But there's nothing the matter with butter,
3576 And nothing the matter with jam,
3577 And the warmest greetings I utter
3578 To the ham and the yam and the clam.
3581 And I think very fondly of food.
3582 Through I'm broody at times
3583 When bothered by rhymes,
3587 =head2 v5.12.3 - Howard W. Campbell, Jr., "Reflections on Not Participating in Current Events"
3589 L<Announced on 2011-01-21 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/01/msg168368.html>
3591 I saw a huge steam roller,
3592 It blotted out the sun.
3593 The people all lay down, lay down;
3594 They did not try to run.
3595 My love and I, we looked amazed
3596 Upon the gory mystery.
3597 'Lie down, lie down!' the people cried.
3598 'The great machine is history!'
3599 My love and I, we ran away,
3600 The engine did not find us.
3601 We ran up to a mountain top,
3602 Left history far behind us.
3603 Perhaps we should have stayed and died,
3604 But somehow we don't think so.
3605 We went to see where history'd been,
3606 And my, the dead did stink so.
3608 =head2 v5.12.2 - William Gibson, "Pattern Recognition"
3610 L<Announced on 2010-09-06 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/09/msg163852.html>
3612 CPUs. Cayce Pollard Units. That's what Damien calls the clothing
3613 she wears. CPUs are either black, white, or gray, and ideally
3614 seem to have come into this world without human intervention.
3616 What people take for relentless minimalism is a side effect
3617 of too much exposure to the reactor-cores of fashion. This
3618 has resulted in a remorseless paring-down of what she can and
3619 will wear. She is, literally, allergic to fashion. She can
3620 only tolerate things that could have been worn, to a general
3621 lack of comment, during any year between 1945 and 2000. She's a
3622 design-free zone, a one-woman school of and whose very austerity
3623 periodically threatens to spawn its own cult.
3625 =head2 v5.12.2-RC1 - William Gibson, "Pattern Recognition"
3627 L<Announced on 2010-08-31 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/08/msg163670.html>
3629 The front page opens, familiar as a friend's living room. A frame-grab
3630 from #48 serves as backdrop, dim and almost monochrome, no characters in
3631 view. This is one of the sequences that generate comparisons with
3632 Tarkovsky. She only knows Tarkovsky from stills, really, though she did
3633 once fall asleep during a screening of The Stalker, going under on an
3634 endless pan, the camera aimed straight down, in close-up, at a puddle on
3635 a ruined mosaic floor. But she is not one of those who think that much
3636 will be gained by analysis of the maker's imagined influences. The cult
3637 of the footage is rife with subcults, claiming every possible influence.
3638 Truffaut, Peckinpah -- The Peckinpah people, among the least likely, are
3639 still waiting for the guns to be drawn.
3641 =head2 v5.12.1 - Kurt Vonnegut, "Cat's Cradle"
3643 L<Announced on 2010-05-16 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/05/msg160109.html>
3645 "Now suppose," chortled Dr. Breed, enjoying himself, "that there were
3646 many possible ways in which water could crystallize, could freeze.
3647 Suppose that the sort of ice we skate upon and put into highballs --
3648 what we might call ice-one -- is only one of several types of ice.
3649 Suppose water always froze as ice-one on Earth because it had never
3650 had a seed to teach it how to form ice-two, ice-three, ice-four
3651 ...? And suppose," he rapped on his desk with his old hand again,
3652 "that there were one form, which we will call ice-nine -- a crystal as
3653 hard as this desk -- with a melting point of, let us say, one-hundred
3654 degrees Fahrenheit, or, better still, a melting point of one-hundred-
3655 and-thirty degrees."
3657 =head2 v5.12.1-RC2 - Kurt Vonnegut, "Cat's Cradle"
3659 L<Announced on 2010-05-13 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/05/msg160066.html>
3661 San Lorenzo was fifty miles long and twenty miles wide, I learned from
3662 the supplement to the New York Sunday Times. Its population was four
3663 hundred, fifty thousand souls, "...all fiercely dedicated to the ideals
3666 Its highest point, Mount McCabe, was eleven thousand feet above sea
3667 level. Its capital was Bolivar, "...a strikingly modern city built on a
3668 harbor capable of sheltering the entire United States Navy." The principal
3669 exports were sugar, coffee, bananas, indigo, and handcrafted novelties.
3671 =head2 v5.12.1-RC1 - Kurt Vonnegut, "Cat's Cradle"
3673 L<Announced on 2010-05-09 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/05/msg159971.html>
3675 Which brings me to the Bokononist concept of a wampeter. A wampeter is
3676 the pivot of a karass. No karass is without a wampeter, Bokonon tells us,
3677 just as no wheel is without a hub. Anything can be a wampeter: a tree,
3678 a rock, an animal, an idea, a book, a melody, the Holy Grail. Whatever
3679 it is, the members of its karass revolve about it in the majestic chaos
3680 of a spiral nebula. The orbits of the members of a karass about their
3681 common wampeter are spiritual orbits, naturally. It is souls and not
3682 bodies that revolve. As Bokonon invites us to sing:
3684 Around and around and around we spin,
3685 With feet of lead and wings of tin . . .
3687 =head2 v5.12.0 - Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
3689 L<Announced on 2010-04-12 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/04/msg158820.html>
3691 'Please would you tell me,' said Alice, a little timidly, for she was
3692 not quite sure whether it was good manners for her to speak first, 'why
3693 your cat grins like that?'
3695 'It's a Cheshire cat,' said the Duchess, 'and that's why. Pig!'
3697 She said the last word with such sudden violence that Alice quite
3698 jumped; but she saw in another moment that it was addressed to the baby,
3699 and not to her, so she took courage, and went on again:--
3701 'I didn't know that Cheshire cats always grinned; in fact, I didn't know
3702 that cats COULD grin.'
3704 'They all can,' said the Duchess; 'and most of 'em do.'
3706 =head2 v5.12.0-RC5 - Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
3708 L<Announced on 2010-04-09 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/04/msg158720.html>
3710 'Not QUITE right, I'm afraid,' said Alice, timidly; 'some of the words
3713 'It is wrong from beginning to end,' said the Caterpillar decidedly, and
3714 there was silence for some minutes.
3716 =head2 v5.12.0-RC4 - Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
3718 L<Announced on 2010-04-06 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/04/msg158567.html>
3720 'It was much pleasanter at home,' thought poor Alice, 'when one wasn't
3721 always growing larger and smaller, and being ordered about by mice and
3722 rabbits. I almost wish I hadn't gone down that rabbit-hole--and yet--and
3723 yet--it's rather curious, you know, this sort of life! I do wonder what
3724 can have happened to me! When I used to read fairy-tales, I fancied that
3725 kind of thing never happened, and now here I am in the middle of one!
3727 =head2 v5.12.0-RC3 - Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
3729 L<Announced on 2010-04-02 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/04/msg158346.html>
3731 At last the Mouse, who seemed to be a person of authority among them,
3732 called out, 'Sit down, all of you, and listen to me! I'LL soon make you
3733 dry enough!' They all sat down at once, in a large ring, with the Mouse
3734 in the middle. Alice kept her eyes anxiously fixed on it, for she felt
3735 sure she would catch a bad cold if she did not get dry very soon.
3737 'Ahem!' said the Mouse with an important air, 'are you all ready? This
3738 is the driest thing I know. Silence all round, if you please! "William
3739 the Conqueror, whose cause was favoured by the pope, was soon submitted
3740 to by the English, who wanted leaders, and had been of late much
3741 accustomed to usurpation and conquest. Edwin and Morcar, the earls of
3742 Mercia and Northumbria --"'
3744 =head2 v5.12.0-RC2 - no announcement
3746 Available on CPAN since 2010-04-01.
3748 =head2 v5.12.0-RC1 - Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
3750 L<Announced on 2010-03-29 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/03/msg158060.html>
3752 So she was considering in her own mind (as well as she could, for the
3753 hot day made her feel very sleepy and stupid), whether the pleasure of
3754 making a daisy-chain would be worth the trouble of getting up and
3755 picking the daisies, when suddenly a White Rabbit with pink eyes ran
3758 There was nothing so VERY remarkable in that; nor did Alice think it so
3759 VERY much out of the way to hear the Rabbit say to itself, 'Oh dear! Oh
3760 dear! I shall be late!' (when she thought it over afterwards, it
3761 occurred to her that she ought to have wondered at this, but at the time
3762 it all seemed quite natural); but when the Rabbit actually TOOK A WATCH
3763 OUT OF ITS WAISTCOAT-POCKET, and looked at it, and then hurried on,
3764 Alice started to her feet, for it flashed across her mind that she had
3765 never before seen a rabbit with either a waistcoat-pocket, or a watch to
3766 take out of it, and burning with curiosity, she ran across the field
3767 after it, and fortunately was just in time to see it pop down a large
3768 rabbit-hole under the hedge.
3770 In another moment down went Alice after it, never once considering how
3771 in the world she was to get out again.
3773 =head2 v5.12.0-RC0 - no epigraph
3775 L<Announced on 2020-03-21 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/03/msg157761.html>
3777 =head2 v5.11.5 - Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "Christabel"
3779 L<Announced on 2010-02-21 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/02/msg156957.html>
3781 A little child, a limber elf,
3782 Singing, dancing to itself,
3783 A fairy thing with red round cheeks,
3784 That always finds, and never seeks,
3785 Makes such a vision to the sight
3786 As fills a father's eyes with light;
3787 And pleasures flow in so thick and fast
3788 Upon his heart, that he at last
3789 Must needs express his love's excess
3790 With words of unmeant bitterness.
3791 Perhaps 'tis pretty to force together
3792 Thoughts so all unlike each other;
3793 To mutter and mock a broken charm,
3794 To dally with wrong that does no harm.
3795 Perhaps 'tis tender too and pretty
3796 At each wild word to feel within
3797 A sweet recoil of love and pity.
3798 And what, if in a world of sin
3799 (O sorrow and shame should this be true!)
3800 Such giddiness of heart and brain
3801 Comes seldom save from rage and pain,
3802 So talks as it's most used to do.
3804 =head2 v5.11.4 - Fyodor Dostoevsky, "Crime and Punishment"
3806 L<Announced on 2010-01-20 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/01/msg155848.html>
3808 And you don't suppose that I went into it headlong like a fool? I went
3809 into it like a wise man, and that was just my destruction. And you
3810 mustn't suppose that I didn't know, for instance, that if I began to
3811 question myself whether I had the right to gain power -- I certainly
3812 hadn't the right -- or that if I asked myself whether a human being is a
3813 louse it proved that it wasn't so for me, though it might be for a man
3814 who would go straight to his goal without asking questions.... If I
3815 worried myself all those days, wondering whether Napoleon would have
3816 done it or not, I felt clearly of course that I wasn't Napoleon.
3818 =head2 v5.11.3 - Mark Twain, "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer"
3820 L<Announced on 2009-12-20 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2009/12/msg154838.html>
3822 "Say -- I'm going in a swimming, I am. Don't you wish you could? But of
3823 course you'd druther work -- wouldn't you? Course you would!"
3825 Tom contemplated the boy a bit, and said: "What do you call work?"
3827 "Why ain't that work?"
3829 Tom resumed his whitewashing, and answered carelessly: "Well, maybe it
3830 is, and maybe it aint. All I know, is, it suits Tom Sawyer."
3832 "Oh come, now, you don't mean to let on that you like it?"
3834 The brush continued to move. "Like it? Well I don't see why I oughtn't
3835 to like it. Does a boy get a chance to whitewash a fence every day?"
3837 That put the thing in a new light. Ben stopped nibbling his apple. Tom
3838 swept his brush daintily back and forth -- stepped back to note the effect
3839 -- added a touch here and there-criticised the effect again -- Ben
3840 watching every move and getting more and more interested, more and more
3841 absorbed. Presently he said: "Say, Tom, let me whitewash a little."
3843 =head2 v5.11.2 - Michael Marshall Smith, "Only Forward"
3845 L<Announced on 2009-11-20 by Léon Brocard|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2009/11/msg153646.html>
3847 The streets were pretty quiet, which was nice. They're always quiet here
3848 at that time: you have to be wearing a black jacket to be out on the
3849 streets between seven and nine in the evening, and not many people in
3850 the area have black jackets. It's just one of those things. I currently
3851 live in Colour Neighbourhood, which is for people who are heavily into
3852 colour. All the streets and buildings are set for instant colourmatch:
3853 as you walk down the road they change hue to offset whatever you're
3854 wearing. When the streets are busy it's kind of intense, and anyone
3855 prone to epileptic seizures isn't allowed to live in the Neighbourhood,
3856 however much they're into colour.
3858 =head2 v5.11.1 - Joseph Heller, "Catch-22"
3860 L<Announced on 2009-10-20 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2009/10/msg152360.html>
3862 Milo had been caught red-handed in the act of plundering his countrymen,
3863 and, as a result, his stock had never been higher. He proved good as his
3864 word when a rawboned major from Minnesota curled his lip in rebellious
3865 disavowal and demanded his share of the syndicate Milo kept saying
3866 everybody owned. Milo met the challenge by writing the words "A Share"
3867 on the nearest scrap of paper and handing it away with a virtuous disdain
3868 that won the envy and admiration of almost everyone who knew him. His
3869 glory was at a peak, and Colonel Cathcart, who knew and admired his
3870 war record, was astonished by the deferential humility with which Milo
3871 presented himself at Group Headquarters and made his fantastic appeal
3872 for more hazardous assignment.
3874 =head2 v5.11.0 - Mikhail Bulgakov, "The Master and Margarita"
3876 L<Announced on 2009-10-02 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2009/10/msg151376.html>
3878 Whispers of an "evil power" were heard in lines at dairy shops, in
3879 streetcars, stores, arguments, kitchens, suburban and long-distance
3880 trains, at stations large and small, in dachas and on beaches. Needless
3881 to say, truly mature and cultured people did not tell these stories
3882 about an evil power's visit to the capital. In fact, they even made fun
3883 of them and tried to talk sense into those who told them. Nevertheless,
3884 facts are facts, as they say, and cannot simply be dismissed without
3885 explanation: somebody had visited the capital. The charred cinders of
3886 Griboyedov alone, and many other things besides, confirmed it. Cultured
3887 people shared the point of view of the investigating team: it was the
3888 work of a gang of hypnotists and ventriloquists magnificently skilled in
3891 =head2 v5.10.1 - Right Hon. James Hacker MP, "The Complete Yes Minister: The Diaries of a Cabinet Minister"
3893 L<Announced on 2009-08-23 by Dave Mitchell|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2009/08/msg150172.html>
3895 'Briefly, sir, I am the Permanent Under-Secretary of State, known as
3896 the Permanent Secretary. Woolley here is your Principal Private
3897 Secretary. I, too, have a Principal Private Secretary, and he is the
3898 Principal Private Secretary to the Permanent Secretary. Directly
3899 responsible to me are ten Deputy Secretaries, eighty-seven Under
3900 Secretaries and two hundred and nineteen Assistant Secretaries.
3901 Directly responsible to the Principal Private Secretaries are plain
3902 Private Secretaries. The Prime Minister will be appointing two
3903 Parliamentary Under-Secretaries and you will be appointing your own
3904 Parliamentary Private Secretary.'
3906 'Can they all type?' I joked.
3908 'None of us can type, Minister,' replied Sir Humphrey smoothly. 'Mrs
3909 McKay types - she is your Secretary.'
3911 I couldn't tell whether or not he was joking. 'What a pity,' I said.
3912 'We could have opened an agency.'
3914 Sir Humphrey and Bernard laughed. 'Very droll, sir,' said Sir
3915 Humphrey. 'Most amusing, sir,' said Bernard. Were they genuinely
3916 amused at my wit, or just being rather patronising? 'I suppose they
3917 all say that, do they?' I ventured.
3919 Sir Humphrey reassured me on that. 'Certainly not, Minister,' he
3920 replied. 'Not quite all.'
3922 =head2 v5.10.1-RC2 - no epigraph
3924 L<Announced on 2009-08-18 by Dave Mitchell|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2009/08/msg150015.html>
3926 =head2 v5.10.1-RC1 - no epigraph
3928 L<Announced on 2009-08-06 by Dave Mitchell|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2009/08/msg149498.html>
3930 =head2 v5.10.0 - Laurence Sterne, "Tristram Shandy"
3932 L<Announced on 2007-12-18 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2007/12/msg131636.html>
3934 He would often declare, in speaking his thoughts upon the subject, that
3935 he did not conceive how the greatest family in England could stand it
3936 out against an uninterrupted succession of six or seven short
3937 noses.--And for the contrary reason, he would generally add, That it
3938 must be one of the greatest problems in civil life, where the same
3939 number of long and jolly noses, following one another in a direct line,
3940 did not raise and hoist it up into the best vacancies in the kingdom.
3942 =head2 v5.10.0-RC2 - no epigraph
3944 L<Announced on 2007-11-25 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2007/11/msg130978.html>
3946 =head2 v5.10.0-RC1 - no epigraph
3948 L<Announced on 2007-11-17 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2007/11/msg130653.html>
3950 =head2 v5.9.5 - no announcement
3952 L<Pre-announced on 2007-07-07 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2007/07/msg126358.html>,
3953 available on CPAN with same date, but never actually announced.
3955 =head2 v5.9.4 - no epigraph
3957 L<Announced on 2006-08-15 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2006/08/msg115782.html>
3959 =head2 v5.9.3 - no epigraph
3961 L<Announced on 2006-01-28 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2006/01/msg109086.html>
3963 =head2 v5.9.2 - Thomas Pynchon, "V"
3965 L<Announced on 2005-04-01 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2005/04/msg99421.html>
3967 This word flip was weird. Every recording date of McClintic's he'd
3968 gotten into the habit of talking electricity with the audio men and
3969 technicians of the studio. McClintic once couldn't have cared less
3970 about electricity, but now it seemed if that was helping him reach a
3971 bigger audience, some digging, some who would never dig, but all
3972 paying and those royalties keeping the Triumph in gas and McClintic
3973 in J. Press suits, then McClintic ought to be grateful to
3974 electricity, ought maybe to learn a little more about it. So he'd
3975 picked up some here and there, and one day last summer he got around
3976 to talking stochastic music and digital computers with one
3977 technician. Out of the conversation had come Set/Reset, which was
3978 getting to be a signature for the group. He had found out from this
3979 sound man about a two-triode circuit called a flip-flop, which when
3980 it turned on could be one of two ways, depending on which tube was
3981 conducting and which was cut off: set or reset, flip or flop.
3983 "And that," the man said, "can be yes or no, or one or zero. And
3984 that is what you might call one of the basic units, or specialized
3985 `cells' in a big `electronic brain.' "
3987 "Crazy," said McClintic, having lost him back there someplace. But
3988 one thing that did occur to him was if a computer's brain could go
3989 flip or flop, why so could a musician's. As long as you were flop,
3990 everything was cool. But where did the trigger-pulse come from to
3993 =head2 v5.9.1 - Tom Stoppard, "Arcadia"
3995 L<Announced on 2004-03-16 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/03/msg89722.html>
3997 Aren't you supposed to have a pony?
3999 =head2 v5.9.0 - Doris Lessing, "Martha Quest"
4001 L<Announced on 2003-10-27 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/10/msg84147.html>
4003 What of October, that ambiguous month
4005 =head2 v5.8.9 - Right Hon. James Hacker MP, "The Complete Yes Minister: The Diaries of a Cabinet Minister"
4007 L<Announced on 2008-12-14 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2008/12/msg142571.html>
4009 Frank and I, unlike the civil servants, were still puzzled that such a
4010 proposal as the Europass could even be seriously under consideration by
4011 the FCO. We can both see clearly that it is wonderful ammunition for the
4012 anti-Europeans. I asked Humphrey if the Foreign Office doesn't realise
4013 how damaging this would be to the European ideal?
4015 'I'm sure they do, Minister, he said. That's why they support it.'
4017 This was even more puzzling, since I'd always been under the impression
4018 that the FO is pro-Europe. 'Is it or isn't it?' I asked Humphrey.
4020 'Yes and no,' he replied of course, 'if you'll pardon the
4021 expression. The Foreign Office is pro-Europe because it is really
4022 anti-Europe. In fact the Civil Service was united in its desire to make
4023 sure the Common Market didn't work. That's why we went into it.'
4025 This sounded like a riddle to me. I asked him to explain further. And
4026 basically his argument was as follows: Britain has had the same foreign
4027 policy objective for at least the last five hundred years - to create a
4028 disunited Europe. In that cause we have fought with the Dutch against
4029 the Spanish, with the Germans against the French, with the French and
4030 Italians against the Germans, and with the French against the Italians
4031 and Germans. [The Dutch rebellion against Phillip II of Spain, the
4032 Napoleonic Wars, the First World War, and the Second World War - Ed.]
4034 In other words, divide and rule. And the Foreign Office can see no
4035 reason to change when it has worked so well until now.
4037 I was aware of this, naturally, but I regarded it as ancient history.
4038 Humphrey thinks that it is, in fact, current policy. It was necessary
4039 for us to break up the EEC, he explained, so we had to get inside. We
4040 had previously tried to break it up from the outside, but that didn't
4041 work. [A reference to our futile and short-lived involvement in EFTA,
4042 the European Free Trade Association, founded in 1960 and which the UK
4043 left in 1972 - Ed.] Now that we're in, we are able to make a complete
4044 pig's breakfast out of it. We've now set the Germans against the French,
4045 the French against the Italians, the Italians against the Dutch... and
4046 the Foreign office is terribly happy. It's just like old time.
4048 I was staggered by all of this. I thought that the all of us who are
4049 publicly pro-European believed in the European ideal. I said this to Sir
4050 Humphrey, and he simply chuckled.
4052 So I asked him: if we don't believe in the European Ideal, why are we
4053 pushing to increase the membership?
4055 'Same reason,' came the reply. 'It's just like the United Nations. The
4056 more members it has, the more arguments you can stir up, and the more
4057 futile and impotent it becomes.'
4059 This all strikes me as the most appalling cynicism, and I said so.
4061 Sir Humphrey agreed completely. 'Yes Minister. We call it
4062 diplomacy. It's what made Britain great, you know.'
4064 =head2 v5.8.9-RC2 - Right Hon. James Hacker MP, "The Complete Yes Minister: The Diaries of a Cabinet Minister"
4066 L<Announced on 2008-12-06 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2008/12/msg142422.html>
4068 There was silence in the office. I didn't know what we were going to do
4069 about the four hundred new people supervising our economy drive or the
4070 four hundred new people for the Bureaucratic Watchdog Office, or
4071 anything! I simply sat and waited and hoped that my head would stop
4072 thumping and that some idea would be suggested by someone sometime soon.
4074 Sir Humphrey obliged. 'Minister... if we were to end the economy drive
4075 and close the Bureaucratic Watchdog Office we could issue an immediate
4076 press announcement that you had axed eight hundred jobs.' He had
4077 obviously thought this out carefully in advance, for at this moment he
4078 produced a slim folder from under his arm. 'If you'd like to approve
4081 I couldn't believe the impertinence of the suggestion. Axed eight
4082 hundred jobs? 'But no one was ever doing these jobs,' I pointed out
4083 incredulously. 'No one's been appointed yet.'
4085 'Even greater economy,' he replied instantly. 'We've saved eight hundred
4086 redundancy payments as well.'
4088 'But...' I attempted to explain '... that's just phony. It's dishonest,
4089 it's juggling with figures, it's pulling the wool over people's eyes.'
4091 'A government press release, in fact.' said Humphrey.
4093 =head2 v5.8.9-RC1 - Right Hon. James Hacker MP, "The Complete Yes Minister: The Diaries of a Cabinet Minister"
4095 L<Announced on 2008-11-10 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2008/11/msg141515.html>
4097 A jumbo jet touched down, with BURANDAN AIRWAYS written on the side. I
4098 was hugely impressed. British Airways are having to pawn their Concordes,
4099 and here is this little tiny African state with its own airline, jumbo
4102 I asked Bernard how many planes Burandan Airways had. 'None,' he said.
4104 I told him not to be silly and use his eyes. 'No Minister, it belongs to
4105 Freddie Laker,' he said. 'They chartered it last week and repainted it
4106 specially.' Apparently most of the Have-Nots (I mean, LDCs) do this - at
4107 the opening of the UN General Assembly the runways of Kennedy Airport are
4108 jam-packed with phoney flag-carriers. 'In fact,' said Bernard with a sly
4109 grin, 'there was one 747 that belonged to nine different African airlines
4110 in a month. They called it the mumbo-jumbo.'
4112 While we watched nothing much happening on the TV except the mumbo-jumbo
4113 taxiing around Prestwick and the Queen looking a bit chilly, Bernard gave
4114 me the next day's schedule and explained that I was booked on the night
4115 sleeper from King's Cross to Edinburgh because I had to vote in a
4116 three-line whip at the House tonight and would have to miss the last
4117 plane. Then the commentator, in that special hushed BBC voice used for any
4118 occasion with which Royalty is connected, announced reverentially that we
4119 were about to catch our first glimpse of President Selim.
4121 And out of the plane stepped Charlie. My old friend Charlie Umtali. We
4122 were at LSE together. Not Selim Mohammed at all, but Charlie.
4124 Bernard asked me if I were sure. Silly question. How could you forget a
4125 name like Charlie Umtali?
4127 I sent Bernard for Sir Humphrey, who was delighted to hear that we now
4128 know something about our official visitor.
4130 Bernard's official brief said nothing. Amazing! Amazing how little the FCO
4131 has been able to find out. Perhaps they were hoping it would all be on the
4132 car radio. All the brief says is that Colonel Selim Mohammed had converted
4133 to Islam some years ago, they didn't know his original name, and therefore
4134 knew little of his background.
4136 I was able to tell Humphrey and Bernard /all/ about his background.
4137 Charlie was a red-hot political economist, I informed them. Got the top
4138 first. Wiped the floor with everyone.
4140 Bernard seemed relieved. 'Well that's all right then.'
4144 'I think Bernard means,' said Sir Humphrey helpfully, 'that he'll know how
4145 to behave if he was at an English University. Even if it was the LSE.' I
4146 never know whether or not Humphrey is insulting me intentionally.
4148 Humphrey was concerned about Charlie's political colour. 'When you said
4149 that he was red-hot, were you speaking politically?'
4151 In a way I was. 'The thing about Charlie is that you never quite know
4152 where you are with him. He's the sort of chap who follows you into a
4153 revolving door and comes out in front.'
4155 'No deeply held convictions?' asked Sir Humphrey.
4157 'No. The only thing Charlie was committed too was Charlie.'
4159 'Ah, I see. A politician, Minister.'
4161 =head2 v5.8.8 - Joe Raposo, "Bein' Green"
4163 L<Announced on 2006-01-31 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2006/01/msg109190.html>
4165 It's not that easy bein' green
4166 Having to spend each day the color of the leaves
4167 When I think it could be nicer being red or yellow or gold
4168 Or something much more colorful like that
4170 It's not easy bein' green
4171 It seems you blend in with so many other ordinary things
4172 And people tend to pass you over 'cause you're
4173 Not standing out like flashy sparkles in the water
4176 But green's the color of Spring
4177 And green can be cool and friendly-like
4178 And green can be big like an ocean
4179 Or important like a mountain
4182 When green is all there is to be
4183 It could make you wonder why, but why wonder why?
4184 Wonder I am green and it'll do fine, it's beautiful
4185 And I think it's what I want to be
4187 =head2 v5.8.8-RC1 - Cosgrove Hall Productions, "Dangermouse"
4189 L<Announced on 2006-01-20 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2006/01/msg108833.html>
4191 Greenback: And the world is mine, all mine. Muhahahahaha. See to it!
4193 Stiletto: Si, Barone. Subito, Barone.
4195 =head2 v5.8.7 - Sergei Prokofiev, "Peter and the Wolf"
4197 L<Announced on 2005-05-31 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2005/05/msg101088.html>
4199 And now, imagine the triumphant procession: Peter at the head; after him the
4200 hunters leading the wolf; and winding up the procession, grandfather and the
4203 Grandfather shook his head discontentedly: "Well, and if Peter hadn't caught
4204 the wolf? What then?"
4206 =head2 v5.8.7-RC1 - Sergei Prokofiev, "Peter and the Wolf"
4208 L<Announced on 2005-05-20 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2005/05/msg100711.html>
4210 And now this is how things stood: The cat was sitting on one branch. The
4211 bird on another, not too close to the cat. And the wolf walked round and
4212 round the tree, looking at them with greedy eyes.
4214 In the meantime, Peter, without the slightest fear, stood behind the
4215 gate, watching all that was going on. He ran home,got a strong rope and
4216 climbed up the high stone wall.
4218 One of the branches of the tree, around which the wolf was walking,
4219 stretched out over the wall.
4221 Grabbing hold of the branch, Peter lightly climbed over on to the tree.
4222 Peter said to the bird: "Fly down and circle round the wolf's head, only
4223 take care that he doesn't catch you!".
4225 The bird almost touched the wolf's head with its wings, while the wolf
4226 snapped angrily at him from this side and that.
4228 How that bird teased the wolf, how that wolf wanted to catch him! But
4229 the bird was clever and the wolf simply couldn't do anything about it.
4231 =head2 v5.8.6 - A. A. Milne, "The House at Pooh Corner"
4233 L<Announced on 2004-11-27 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/11/msg96304.html>
4235 "Hallo, Pooh," said Piglet, giving a jump of surprise. "I knew it was
4238 "So did I,", said Pooh. "What are you doing?"
4240 "I'm planting a haycorn, Pooh, so that it can grow up into an oak-tree,
4241 and have lots of haycorns just outside the front door instead of having
4242 to walk miles and miles, do you see, Pooh?"
4244 "Supposing it doesn't?" said Pooh.
4246 "It will, because Christopher Robin says it will, so that's why I'm
4249 "Well," aid Pooh, "if I plant a honeycomb outside my house, then it will
4250 grow up into a beehive."
4252 Piglet wasn't quite sure about this.
4254 "Or a /piece/ of a honeycomb," said Pooh, "so as not to waste too much.
4255 Only then I might only get a piece of a beehive, and it might be the
4256 wrong piece, where the bees were buzzing and not hunnying. Bother"
4258 Piglet agreed that that would be rather bothering.
4260 "Besides, Pooh, it's a very difficult thing, planting unless you know
4261 how to do it," he said; and he put the acorn in the hole he had made,
4262 and covered it up with earth, and jumped on it.
4264 =head2 v5.8.6-RC1 - A. A. Milne, "Winnie the Pooh"
4266 L<Announced on 2004-11-11 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/11/msg95786.html>
4268 "Hallo!" said Piglet, "whare are /you/ doing?"
4270 "Hunting," said Pooh.
4274 "Tracking something," said Winnie-the-Pooh very mysteriously.
4276 "Tracking what?" said Piglet, coming closer.
4278 "That's just what I ask myself, I ask myself, What?"
4280 "What do you think you'll answer?"
4282 "I shall have to wait until I catch up with it," said Winnie-the-Pooh.
4283 "Now, look there." He pointed to the ground in front of him. "What do
4286 "Track," said Piglet. "Paw-marks." He gave a little squeak of
4287 excitement. "Oh, Pooh!" Do you think it's a--a--a Woozle?"
4289 =head2 v5.8.5 - wikipedia, "Yew"
4291 L<Announced on 2004-07-19 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/07/msg93189.html>
4293 Yews are relatively slow growing trees, widely used in landscaping and
4294 ornamental horticulture. They have flat, dark-green needles, reddish
4295 bark, and bear seeds with red arils, which are eaten by thrushes,
4296 waxwings and other birds, dispersing the hard seeds undamaged in their
4297 droppings. Yew wood is reddish brown (with white sapwood), and very
4298 hard. It was traditionally used to make bows, especially the English
4301 In England, the Common Yew (Taxus baccata, also known as English Yew) is
4302 often found in churchyards. It is sometimes suggested that these are
4303 placed there as a symbol of long life or trees of death, and some are
4304 likely to be over 3,000 years old. It is also suggested that yew trees
4305 may have a pre-Christian association with old pagan holy sites, and the
4306 Christian church found it expedient to use and take over existing sites.
4307 Another explanation is that the poisonous berries and foliage discourage
4308 farmers and drovers from letting their animals wander into the burial
4309 grounds. The yew tree is a frequent symbol in the Christian poetry of
4310 T.S. Eliot, especially his Four Quartets.
4312 =head2 v5.8.5-RC2 - wikipedia, "Beech"
4314 L<Announced on 2004-07-09 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/07/msg92934.html>
4316 Beeches are trees of the Genus Fagus, family Fagaceae, including about
4317 ten species in Europe, Asia, and North America. The leaves are entire or
4318 sparsely toothed. The fruit is a small, sharply-angled nut, borne in
4319 pairs in spiny husks. The beech most commonly grown as an ornamental or
4320 shade tree is the European beech (Fagus sylvatica).
4322 The southern beeches belong to a different but related genus,
4323 Nothofagus. They are found in Australia, New Zealand, New Guinea, New
4324 Caledonia and South America.
4326 =head2 v5.8.5-RC1 - wikipedia, "Pedunculate Oak" (abridged)
4328 L<Announced on 2004-07-07 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/07/msg92840.html>
4330 The Pedunculate Oak is called the Common Oak in Britain, and is also
4331 often called the English Oak in other English speaking countries It is a
4332 large deciduous tree to 25-35m tall (exceptionally to 40m), with lobed
4333 and sessile (stalk-less) leaves. Flowering takes place in early to mid
4334 spring, and their fruit, called "acorns", ripen by autumn of the same
4335 year. The acorns are pedunculate (having a peduncle or acorn-stalk) and
4336 may occur singly, or several acorns may occur on a stalk.
4338 It forms a long-lived tree, with a large widespreading head of rugged
4339 branches. While it may naturally live to an age of a few centuries, many
4340 of the oldest trees are pollarded or coppiced, both pruning techniques
4341 that extend the tree's potential lifespan, if not its health.
4343 Within its native range it is valued for its importance to insects and
4344 other wildlife. Numerous insects live on the leaves, buds, and in the
4345 acorns. The acorns form a valuable food resource for several small
4346 mammals and some birds, notably Jays Garrulus glandarius.
4348 It is planted for forestry, and produces a long-lasting and durable
4349 heartwood, much in demand for interior and furniture work.
4351 =head2 v5.8.4 - T. S. Eliot, "The Old Gumbie Cat"
4353 L<Announced on 2004-04-22 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/04/msg90984.html>
4355 I have a Gumbie Cat in mind, her name is Jennyanydots;
4356 The curtain-cord she likes to wind, and tie it into sailor-knots.
4357 She sits upon the window-sill, or anything that's smooth and flat:
4358 She sits and sits and sits and sits -- and that's what makes a Gumbie Cat!
4360 But when the day's hustle and bustle is done,
4361 Then the Gumbie Cat's work is but hardly begun.
4362 She thinks that the cockroaches just need employment
4363 To prevent them from idle and wanton destroyment.
4364 So she's formed, from that a lot of disorderly louts,
4365 A troop of well-disciplined helpful boy-scouts,
4366 With a purpose in life and a good deed to do--
4367 And she's even created a Beetles' Tattoo.
4369 So for Old Gumbie Cats let us now give three cheers --
4370 On whom well-ordered households depend, it appears.
4373 =head2 v5.8.4-RC2 - T. S. Eliot, "Macavity: The Mystery Cat"
4375 L<Announced on 2004-04-16 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/04/msg90796.html>
4377 Macavity's a Mystery Cat: he's called the Hidden Paw --
4378 For he's the master criminal who can defy the Law.
4379 He's the bafflement of Scotland Yard, the Flying Squad's despair:
4380 For when they reach the scene of crime -- /Macavity's not there/!
4382 Macavity, Macavity, there's no one like Macavity,
4383 He's broken every human law, he breaks the law of gravity.
4384 His powers of levitation would make a fakir stare,
4385 And when you reach the scene of crime -- /Macavity's not there/!
4386 You may seek him in the basement, you may look up in the air --
4387 But I tell you once and once again, /Macavity's not there/!
4389 =head2 v5.8.4-RC1 - T. S. Eliot, "Skimbleshanks: The Railway Cat"
4391 L<Announced on 2004-04-05 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/04/msg90422.html>
4393 There's a whisper down the line at 11.39
4394 When the Night Mail's ready to depart,
4395 Saying 'Skimble where is Skimble has he gone to hunt the thimble?
4396 We must find him of the train can't start.'
4397 All the guards and all the porters and the stationmaster's daughters
4398 They are searching high and low,
4399 Saying 'Skimble where is Skimble for unless he's very nimble
4400 Then the Night Mail just can't go'
4401 At 11.42 then the signal's overdue
4402 And the passengers are frantic to a man--
4403 Then Skimble will appear and he'll saunter to the rear:
4404 He's been busy in the luggage van!
4405 He gives one flash of his glass-green eyes
4406 And the signal goes 'All Clear!'
4407 And we're off at last of the northern part
4408 Of the Northern Hemisphere!
4410 =head2 v5.8.3 - Arthur William Edgar O'Shaugnessy, "Ode"
4412 L<Announced on 2004-01-14 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/01/msg87317.html>
4414 We are the music makers,
4415 And we are the dreamers of dreams,
4416 Wandering by lonely sea-breakers,
4417 And sitting by desolate streams; --
4418 World-losers and world-forsakers,
4419 On whom the pale moon gleams:
4420 Yet we are the movers and shakers
4421 Of the world for ever, it seems.
4423 =head2 v5.8.3-RC1 - Irving Berlin, "Let's Face the Music and Dance"
4425 L<Announced on 2004-01-07 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/01/msg86969.html>
4427 There may be trouble ahead,
4428 But while there's music and moonlight,
4429 And love and romance,
4430 Let's face the music and dance.
4432 Before the fiddlers have fled,
4433 Before they ask us to pay the bill,
4434 And while we still have that chance,
4435 Let's face the music and dance.
4437 Soon, we'll be without the moon,
4438 Humming a different tune, and then,
4440 There may be teardrops to shed,
4441 So while there's music and moonlight,
4442 And love and romance,
4443 Let's face the music and dance.
4445 =head2 v5.8.2 - Walt Whitman, "Passage to India"
4447 L<Announced on 2003-11-05 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/11/msg84822.html>
4449 Passage, immediate passage! the blood burns in my veins!
4450 Away O soul! hoist instantly the anchor!
4451 Cut the hawsers - hall out - shake out every sail!
4452 Have we not stood here like trees in the ground long enough?
4453 Have we not grovel'd here long enough, eating and drinking like mere brutes?
4454 Have we not darken'd and dazed ourselves with books long enough?
4456 Sail forth - steer for the deep waters only,
4457 Reckless O soul, exploring, I with the and thou with me,
4458 For we are bound where mariner has not yet dared to go,
4459 And we will risk the ship, ourselves and all.
4462 O farther farther sail!
4463 O daring job, but safe! are they not all the seas of God?
4464 O farther, farther, farther sail!
4466 =head2 v5.8.2-RC2 - Eric Idle and John Du Prez, "Accountancy Shanty"
4468 L<Announced on 2003-11-03 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/11/msg84645.html>
4470 It's fun to charter an accountant
4471 And sail the wide accountan-cy,
4472 To find, explore the funds offshore
4473 And skirt the shoals of bankruptcy.
4475 =head2 v5.8.2-RC1 - Edward Lear, "The Jumblies"
4477 L<Announced on 2003-10-27 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/10/msg84194.html>
4479 They went to sea in a Sieve, they did,
4480 In a Sieve they went to sea:
4481 In spite of all their friends could say,
4482 On a winter's morn, on a stormy day,
4483 In a Sieve they went to sea!
4484 And when the Sieve turned round and round,
4485 And everyone cried, "You'll all be drowned!"
4486 They cried aloud, "Our Sieve ain't big,
4487 But we don't care a button, we don't care a fig!
4488 In a Sieve we'll go to sea!"
4490 Far and few, far and few,
4491 Are the lands where the Jumblies live;
4492 Their heads are green, and their hands are blue,
4493 And they went to sea in a Sieve.
4495 =head2 v5.8.1 - epigraph same as v5.7.1
4497 L<Announced on 2003-09-25 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/09/msg82678.html>
4499 =head2 v5.8.1-RC5 - Terry Pratchett, "Lords and Ladies"
4501 L<Announced on 2003-09-22 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/09/msg82476.html>
4503 No matter what she did with her hair it took about
4504 three minutes for it to tangle itself up again,
4505 like a garden hosepipe in a shed [Footnote: Which,
4506 no matter how carefully coiled, will always uncoil
4507 overnight and tie the lawnmower to the bicycles].
4509 =head2 v5.8.1-RC4 - Terry Pratchett, "Interesting Times"
4511 L<Announced on 2003-08-01 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/08/msg79184.html>
4513 Grand Viziers were /always/ scheming megalomaniacs.
4514 It was probably in the job description: "Are you a
4515 devious, plotting, unreliable madman? Ah, good,
4516 then you can be my most trusted minister."
4518 =head2 v5.8.1-RC3 - Terry Pratchett, "Interesting Times"
4520 L<Announced on 2003-07-30 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/07/msg79048.html>
4522 Lord Hong had a mind like a knife, although possibly
4523 a knife with a curved blade.
4525 =head2 v5.8.1-RC2 - Terry Pratchett, "Interesting Times"
4527 L<Announced on 2003-07-11 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/07/msg78102.html>
4529 Many an ancient lord's last words had been, "You can't kill
4530 me because I've got magic aaargh."
4532 =head2 v5.8.1-RC1 - Terry Pratchett, "Interesting Times"
4534 L<Announced on 2003-07-10 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/07/msg78009.html>
4536 Cohen was familiar with city gates. He'd broken down a number
4537 in his time, by battering ram, siege gun, and on one occasion
4540 But the gates of Hunghung were pretty damn good gates. They
4541 weren't like the gates of Ankh-Morpork, which were usually wide
4542 open to attract the spending customer and whose concession to
4543 defense was the sign "Thank You For Not Attacking Our City.
4544 Bonum Diem." These things were big and made of metal and there
4545 was a guardhouse and a squad of unhelpful men in black armor.
4547 =head2 v5.8.0 - Terry Pratchett, "Reaper Man"
4549 L<Announced on 2002-07-18 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2002/07/msg63720.html>
4551 There was the faint sound of footsteps.
4552 "Chap with a whip got as far as the big sharp spikes last week,"
4553 said the low priest.
4554 There was a sound like the flushing of a very old dry lavatory.
4555 The footsteps stopped. The High Priest smiled to himself.
4556 "Right," he said. "See your two pebbles and raise you two pebbles."
4557 The low priest threw down his cards. "Double Onion," he said.
4558 The High Priest looked down suspiciously.
4559 The low priest consulted a scrap of paper. "That's three hundred
4560 thousand, nine hundred and sixty-four pebbles you owe me," he said.
4561 There was the sound of footsteps. The priests exchanged glances.
4562 "Haven't had one for poisoned-dart alley for quite some time,"
4563 said the High Priest.
4564 "Five says he makes it", said the low priest. "You're on."
4565 There was a faint clatter of metal points on stone.
4566 "It's a shame to take your pebbles."
4567 There were footsteps again.
4569 =head2 v5.8.0-RC3 - no epigraph
4571 L<Announced on 2002-07-13 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2002/07/msg63234.html>
4573 =head2 v5.8.0-RC2 - no epigraph
4575 L<Announced on 2002-06-21 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2002/06/msg62013.html>
4577 =head2 v5.8.0-RC1 - no epigraph
4579 L<Announced on 2002-06-01 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2002/06/msg60317.html>
4581 =head2 v5.7.3 - Terry Pratchett, "Reaper Man"
4583 L<Announced on 2002-03-04 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2002/03/msg53652.html>
4585 Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong.
4586 No matter how fast light travels it finds the darkness has always
4587 got there first, and is waiting for it.
4589 =head2 v5.7.2 - Terry Pratchett, "Small Gods"
4591 L<Announced on 2001-07-13 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2001/07/msg40370.html>
4593 His philosophy was a mixture of three famous schools --
4594 the Cynics, the Stoics and the Epicureans -- and summed up
4595 all three of them in his famous phrase, "You can't trust any
4596 bugger further than you can throw him, and there's nothing
4597 you can do about it, so let's have a drink."
4599 =head2 v5.7.1 - Terry Pratchett, "The Colour of Magic"
4601 L<Announced on 2001-04-09 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2001/04/msg33851.html>
4603 "What happens next?" asked Twoflower.
4605 Hrun screwed a finger in his ear and inspected it absently.
4607 "Oh,", he said, "I expect in a minute the door will be
4608 flung back and I'll be dragged off to some sort of temple
4609 arena where I'll fight maybe a couple of giant spiders
4610 and an eight-foot slave from the jungles of Klatch and then
4611 I'll rescue some kind of a princess from the altar and then
4612 I'll kill off a few guards or whatever and then this girl
4613 will show me the secret passage out of the place and we'll
4614 liberate a couple of horses and escape with the treasure."
4615 Hrun leaned his head back on his hands and looked at the
4616 ceiling, whistling tunelessly.
4618 "All that?" said Twoflower.
4622 =head2 v5.7.0 - Terry Pratchett, "Moving Pictures"
4624 L<Announced on 2000-09-02 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2000/09/msg17730.html>
4626 The Librarian had seen many weird things in his time,
4627 but that had to be the 57th strangest.
4628 [footnote: he had a tidy mind]
4630 =head2 v5.6.2 - Laurence Sterne, "Tristram Shandy"
4632 L<Announced on 2003-11-15 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/11/msg85222.html>
4634 When great or unexpected events fall out upon the stage of this
4635 sublunary word--the mind of man, which is an inquisitive kind of
4636 a substance, naturally takes a flight, behind the scenes, to see
4637 what is the cause and first spring of them--The search was not
4638 long in this instance.
4640 =head2 v5.6.2-RC1 - Laurence Sterne, "Tristram Shandy"
4642 L<Announced on 2003-11-08 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/11/msg84953.html>
4644 "Pray, my dear", quoth my mother, "have you not forgot to wind up the clock?"
4646 =head2 v5.6.1 - J R R Tolkien, "The Hobbit", Riddles in the Dark
4648 L<Announced on 2001-04-08 by Gurusamy Sarathy|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2001/04/msg33823.html>
4650 `What have I got in my pocket?' he said aloud. He was talking to
4651 himself, but Gollum thought it was a riddle, and he was frightfully
4654 `Not fair! not fair!' he hissed. `It isn't fair, my precious, is it,
4655 to ask us what it's got in its nassty little pocketses?'
4657 Bilbo seeing what had happened and having nothing better to ask
4658 stuck to his question, `What have I got in my pocket?' he said
4661 `S-s-s-s-s,' hissed Gollum. `It must give us three guesseses,
4662 my precious, three guesseses.'
4664 =head2 v5.6.1-foolish - no epigraph
4666 L<Announced on 2001-04-01 by Gurusamy Sarathy|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2001/04/msg33421.html>
4668 =head2 v5.6.1-TRIAL3 - I can't find the announcement
4670 No announcement available.
4672 =head2 v5.6.1-TRIAL2 - no epigraph
4674 L<Announced on 2001-01-31 by Gurusamy Sarathy|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2001/01/msg29934.html>
4676 =head2 v5.6.1-TRIAL1 - no epigraph
4678 L<Announced on 2000-12-18 by Gurusamy Sarathy|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2000/12/msg27738.html>
4680 =head2 v5.6.0 - J R R Tolkien, "The Hobbit", The Last Stage
4682 L<Announced on 2000-03-23 by Gurusamy Sarathy|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2000/03/msg10341.html>
4684 The dragon is withered,
4685 His bones are now crumbled;
4686 His armour is shivered,
4687 His splendour is humbled!
4688 Though sword shall be rusted,
4689 And throne and crown perish
4690 With strength that men trusted
4691 And wealth that they cherish,
4692 Here grass is still growing,
4693 And leaves are a yet swinging,
4694 The white water flowing,
4695 And elves are yet singing
4696 Come! Tra-la-la-lally!
4697 Come back to the valley.
4699 =head2 v5.6.0-RC3 - no epigraph
4701 L<Announced on 2000-03-22 by Gurusamy Sarathy|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2000/03/msg10140.html>
4703 =head2 v5.005_05-RC1 - no epigraph
4705 L<Announced on 2009-02-16 by LE<0xe9>on Brocard|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2009/02/msg144227.html>
4707 =head2 v5.005_04 - no epigraph
4709 L<Announced on 2004-03-01 by LE<0xe9>on Brocard|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/03/msg89047.html>
4711 =head2 v5.005_04-RC2 - Rudyard Kipling, "The Jungle Book"
4713 L<Announced on 2004-02-19 by LE<0xe9>on Brocard|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/02/msg88672.html>
4715 The monkeys called the place their city, and pretended to despise
4716 the Jungle-People because they lived in the forest. And yet they
4717 never knew what the buildings were made for nor how to use
4718 them. They would sit in circles on the hall of the king's council
4719 chamber, and scratch for fleas and pretend to be men; or they would
4720 run in and out of the roofless houses and collect pieces of plaster
4721 and old bricks in a corner, and forget where they had hidden them,
4722 and fight and cry in scuffling crowds, and then break off to play up
4723 and down the terraces of the king's garden, where they would shake
4724 the rose trees and the oranges in sport to see the fruit and flowers
4727 =head2 v5.005_04-RC1 - Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
4729 L<Announced on 2004-02-05 by LE<0xe9>on Brocard|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/02/msg88312.html>
4731 Either the well was very deep, or she fell very slowly, for she had
4732 plenty of time as she went down to look about her and to wonder what was
4733 going to happen next. First, she tried to look down and make out what
4734 she was coming to, but it was too dark to see anything; then she looked
4735 at the sides of the well, and noticed that they were filled with
4736 cupboards and book-shelves; here and there she saw maps and pictures
4737 hung upon pegs. She took down a jar from one of the shelves as she
4738 passed; it was labelled 'ORANGE MARMALADE', but to her great
4739 disappointment it was empty: she did not like to drop the jar for fear
4740 of killing somebody, so managed to put it into one of the cupboards as
4743 =head2 v1.0_16 - Johan Vromans, extemporarily
4745 L<Announced on 2003-12-18 by Richard Clamp|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/12/msg86423.html>
4747 't was 16 years ago today
4748 Larry taught us a new game
4749 of lazyness, impatience, and hubris
4750 Happy birthday, Perl!
4752 =head1 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
4754 This document was originally compiled based on a list of epigraphs
4755 on L<Perl Monks|http://perlmonks.org> titled
4756 L<Recent Perl Release Announcement|http://perlmonks.org/?node_id=372406>