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 v5.27.5 - Frank Birch, Dilly Knox & G. P. Mackeson, "Alice in I.D.25"
22 L<Announced on 2017-10-20 by Steve Hay|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/10/msg246785.html>
24 'Can I do anything?' Alice suggested timidly, thinking that something
25 dreadful must have happened.
26 The Waterflap jumped as if it had been shot. 'What are you doing
27 here?' it snapped. 'Take this at once into the Directional room,' and it
28 thrust the paper which had caused all the fuss into her hands.
29 'But where is the Directional room?' she inquired, bewildered.
30 'Why, there of course,' howled the Waterflap, pointing to a door.
31 'How could I possibly know that!' Alice exclaimed, angered by his
33 'Silly girl,' it hissed. 'Why, it's called the Directional room
34 because it's in that direction,' and it pushed her roughly through the
37 =head2 v5.27.4 - Richard Brautigan, "All Watched Over By Machines Of Loving Grace"
39 L<Announced on 2017-09-20 by John SJ Anderson|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/09/msg246371.html>
42 the sooner the better!)
43 of a cybernetic meadow
44 where mammals and computers
45 live together in mutually
52 of a cybernetic forest
53 filled with pines and electronics
54 where deer stroll peacefully
56 as if they were flowers
57 with spinning blossoms.
61 of a cybernetic ecology
62 where we are free of our labors
63 and joined back to nature,
64 returned to our mammal
67 by machines of loving grace.
69 =head2 v5.27.3 - Rodgers and Hammerstein, "You'll Never Walk Alone"
71 L<Announced on 2017-08-21 by Matthew Horsfall|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/08/msg245988.html>
73 When you walk through a storm
74 Hold your head up high
75 And don't be afraid of the dark
79 And the sweet silver song of a lark
81 Walk on through the wind
82 Walk on through the rain
83 Though your dreams be tossed and blown
86 With hope in your heart
87 And you'll never walk alone
89 You'll never walk alone
92 With hope in your heart
93 And you'll never walk alone
95 You'll never walk alone
97 =head2 v5.27.2 - Lev Grossman, Codex
99 L<Announced on 2017-07-20 by Aaron Crane|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/07/msg245585.html>
101 He went back for another stack of books: a three-volume English legal
102 treatise; a travel guide to Tuscany from the '20s crammed with faded
103 Italian wildflowers that fluttered out from between the pages like
104 moths; a French edition of Turgeniev so decayed that it came apart in
105 his hands; a register of London society from 1863. In a way it was
106 idiotic. He was treating these books like they were holy relics. It
107 wasn't like he would ever actually read them. But there was something
108 magnetic about them, something that compelled respect, even the silly
109 ones, like the Enlightenment treatise about how lightning was caused
110 by bees. They were information, data, but not in the form he was used
111 to dealing with it. They were non-digital, nonelectrical chunks of
112 memory, not stamped out of silicon but laboriously crafted out of wood
113 pulp and ink, leather and glue. Somebody had cared enough to write
114 these things; somebody else had cared enough to buy them, possibly
115 even read them, at the very least keep them safe for 150 years,
116 sometimes longer, when they could have vanished at the touch of a
117 spark. That made them worth something, didn't it, just by itself?
118 Though most of them would have bored him rigid the second he cracked
119 them open, which there wasn't much chance of. Maybe that was what he
120 found so appealing: the sight of so many books that he'd never have to
121 read, so much work he'd never have to do.
123 =head2 v5.27.1 - Rona Munro, Doctor Who: Survival
125 L<Announced on 2017-06-20 by Eric Herman|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/06/msg245055.html>
127 There are worlds out there where the sky is burning,
128 where the sea's asleep and the rivers dream,
129 people made of smoke and cities made of song.
130 Somewhere there's danger,
131 somewhere there's injustice
132 and somewhere else the tea is getting cold.
133 Come on, Ace, we've got work to do.
135 =head2 v5.27.0 - Bertrand Russell, The Road to Happiness
137 L<Announced on 2017-05-31 by Sawyer X|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/05/msg244580.html>
139 People who have theories as to how one should live tend to forget the
140 limitations of nature. If your way of life involves constant
141 restraint of impulse for the sake of some one supreme aim that you
142 have set yourself, it is likely that the aim will become increasingly
143 distasteful because of the efforts that it demands; impulse, denied
144 its normal outlets, will find others, probably in spite; pleasure, if
145 you allow yourself any at all, will be dissociated from the main
146 current of your life, and will become Bacchic and frivolous. Such
147 pleasure brings no happiness, but only a deeper despair.
149 -- Bertrand Russell, The Road to Happiness
151 =head2 v5.26.1 - Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
153 L<Announced on 2017-09-22 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/09/msg246408.html>
155 And soon I heard a roaring wind:
156 It did not come anear;
157 But with its sound it shook the sails,
158 That were so thin and sere.
160 The upper air burst into life!
161 And a hundred fire-flags sheen,
162 To and fro they were hurried about!
163 And to and fro, and in and out,
164 The wan stars danced between.
166 =head2 v5.26.1-RC1 - Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
168 L<Announced on 2017-09-10 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/09/msg246202.html>
170 At length did cross an Albatross,
171 Thorough the fog it came;
172 As if it had been a Christian soul,
173 We hailed it in God's name.
175 It ate the food it ne'er had eat,
176 And round and round it flew.
177 The ice did split with a thunder-fit;
178 The helmsman steered us through!
180 And a good south wind sprung up behind;
181 The Albatross did follow,
182 And every day, for food or play,
183 Came to the mariner's hollo!
185 In mist or cloud, on mast or shroud,
186 It perched for vespers nine;
187 Whiles all the night, through fog-smoke white,
188 Glimmered the white Moon-shine.'
190 'God save thee, ancient Mariner!
191 From the fiends, that plague thee thus!—
192 Why look'st thou so?'—With my cross-bow
193 I shot the ALBATROSS.
195 =head2 v5.26.0 - Nine Simone, Ain't Got No / I Got Life
197 L<Announced on 2017-05-30 by Sawyer X|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/05/msg244573.html>
200 And I'm gonna keep it
202 And nobody's gonna take it away
205 =head2 v5.26.0-RC2 - Richard Condon, The Manchurian Candidate
207 L<Announced on 2017-05-23 by Sawyer X|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/05/msg244511.html>
209 Amateur psychiatric prognosis can be fascinating when there is
210 absolutely nothing else to do.
212 =head2 v5.26.0-RC1 - Thomas Paine, Common Sense
214 L<Announced on 2017-05-11 by Sawyer X|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/05/msg244337.html>
216 A long habit of not thinking a thing WRONG, gives it a superficial
217 appearance of being RIGHT, and raises at first a formidable outcry in
218 defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more
219 converts than reason.
221 =head2 v5.25.12 - Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
223 L<Announced on 2017-04-20 by Sawyer X|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/04/msg244146.html>
225 I have told my sons that they are not under any circumstances to take
226 part in massacres, and that the news of massacres of enemies is not
227 to fill them with satisfaction or glee.
229 I have also told them not to work for companies which make massacre
230 machinery, and to express contempt for people who think we need
233 =head2 v5.25.11 - Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow
235 L<Announced on 2017-03-20 by Sawyer X|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/03/msg243624.html>
237 Subjective confidence in a judgment is not a reasoned evaluation of
238 the probability that this judgment is correct. Confidence is a
239 feeling, which reflects the coherence of the information and the
240 cognitive ease of processing it. It is wise to take admissions of
241 uncertainty seriously, but declarations of high confidence mainly
242 tell you that an individual has constructed a coherent story in his
243 mind, not necessarily that the story is true.
245 =head2 v5.25.10 - Erich Fried, 1968
247 L<Announced on 2017-02-20 by Renee Bäcker|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/02/msg243173.html>
249 He who wants the world to remain as it is
250 doesn't want it to remain.
252 =head2 v5.25.9 - A. A. Milne, "Winnie-the-Pooh", 1926
254 L<Announced on 2017-01-20 by Abigail|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/01/msg242405.html>
256 Pooh always liked a little something at eleven o'clock in the
257 morning, and he was very glad to see Rabbit getting out the plates
258 and mugs; and when Rabbit said, "Honey or condensed milk with
259 your bread?" he was so excited that he said, "Both," and then,
260 so as not to seem greedy, he added, "But don't bother about the
263 =head2 v5.25.8 - Langston Hughes, So long
265 L<Announced on 2016-12-20 by Sawyer X|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/12/msg241739.html>
269 and it's in the way you're gone
270 but it's like a foreign language
272 and maybe was I blind
278 =head2 v5.25.7 - J.R.R. Tolkien, "The Silmarillion"
280 L<Announced on 2016-11-20 by Chad 'Exodist' Granum|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/11/msg241120.html>
284 Among the tales of sorrow and of ruin that come down to us from the darkness of
285 those days there are yet some in which amid weeping there is joy and under the
286 shadow of death light that endures. And of these histories most fair still in
287 the ears of the Elves is the tale of Beren and Lúthien. Of their lives was made
288 the Lay of Leithian, Release from Bondage, which is the longest save one of the
289 songs concerning the world of old; but here is told in fewer words and without
292 =head2 v5.25.6 - Alan Warner, "The Sopranos"
294 L<Announced on 2016-10-10 by Aaron Crane|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/10/msg240406.html>
296 I'm up on all the pop trivia, says the guy with the stud in his tongue.
298 Yes. Do you know who he lead singer of Echo and the Bunnymen is?
299 Let me guess, is he called Echo?
300 Good guess but no, anyway when they played Glastonbury it was so
301 muddy he had two roadies to hold up a binliner on each of his legs so
302 they wouldn't get covered in mud.
303 That's what being rich and famous is all about, having someone
304 else hold up your binliners on each leg when you're wandering across
306 Do you know what Sammy Davis Junior said being black and famous in
309 He said being black and famous in America meant he could be
310 refused entry to exclusive clubs and restaurants that other people
311 could only ever dream of going to. Do you know Michael Stipe likes to
312 send his remote control toy cars onto stage while his support band are
313 playing to freak them out?
315 You're not really a pop trivia person, are you, Kylah?
316 No, I'm not, Stephen.
318 =head2 v5.25.5 - Philip K. Dick, VALIS
320 L<Announced on 2016-09-20 by Stevan Little|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/09/msg239887.html>
322 We hypostatize information into objects. Rearrangement of objects is
323 change in the content of the information; the message has changed.
324 This is a language which we have lost the ability to read. We ourselves
325 are a part of this language; changes in us are changes in the content
326 of the information. We ourselves are information-rich; information
327 enters us, is processed and is then projected outward once more, now
328 in an altered form. We are not aware that we are doing this, that in
329 fact this is all we are doing
331 =head2 v5.25.4 - Terry Pratchett, "Truckers"
333 L<Announced on 2016-08-20 by Chris 'BinGOs' Williams|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/08/msg239191.html>
335 Concerning Nomes and Time
337 Nomes are small. On the whole, small creatures don't live for a long
338 time. But perhaps they do live fast.
342 One of the shortest-lived creatures on the planet Earth is the adult
343 common mayfly. It lasts for one day. The longest-living things are
344 bristlecone pine trees, at 4,700 years and still counting.
346 This may seem tough on the mayflies. But the important thing is not
347 how long your life is, but how long it seems.
349 To a mayfly, a single hour may last as long as a century. Perhaps
350 old mayflies sit around complaining about how life this minute isn't a
351 patch on the good old minutes of long ago, when the world was
352 young and the sun seemed so much brighter and larvae showed you a
353 bit of respect. Whereas the trees, which are not famous to their
354 quick reactions, may just have time to notice the way the sky keeps
355 flickering before the dry rot and woodworm set in.
357 It's all a sort of relativity. The faster you live, the more time
358 stretches out. To a nome, a year lasts as long as ten years does to a
359 human. Remember it. Don't let it concern you. They don't. They don't
362 =head2 v5.25.3 - Edward Lear, ed. Vivien Noakes, "The Complete Nonsense and Other Verse": The Dong with a Luminous Nose
364 L<Announced on 2016-07-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/07/msg238158.html>
366 When awful darkness and silence reign
367 Over the great Gromboolian plain,
368 Through the long, long wintry nights; -
369 When the angry breakers roar
370 As they beat on the rocky shore; -
371 When Storm-clouds brood on the towering heights
372 Of the Hills of the Chankly Bore: -
374 Then, through the vast and gloomy dark,
375 There moves what seems a fiery spark,
376 A lonely spark with silvery rays
377 Piercing the coal-black night, -
378 A Meteor strange and bright: -
379 Hither and thither the vision strays,
380 A single lurid light.
382 Slowly it wanders, - pauses, - creeps, -
383 Anon it sparkles, - flashes and leaps;
384 And ever as onward it gleaming goes
385 A light on the Bong-tree stems it throws.
386 And those who watch at that midnight hour
387 From Hall or Terrace, or lofty Tower,
388 Cry, as the wild light passes along, -
389 'The Dong! - the Dong!
390 The wandering Dong through the forest goes!
392 The Dong with a luminous Nose!'
394 =head2 v5.25.2 - Dan le Sac Vs Scroobius Pip "Waiting For The Beat To Kick In"
396 L<Announced on 2016-06-20 by Matthew Horsfall|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/06/msg237274.html>
398 Waiting for the beat to kick in
400 Waiting for my feet to grow wings
402 All of these tiresome things
403 That we know and love
404 Waiting for the beat to kick in
407 =head2 v5.25.1 - Eli Pariser, "The Filter Bubble"
409 L<Announced on 2016-05-20 by Sawyer X|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/05/msg236566.html>
411 Imagine that you're a smart high school student on the low end of the social
412 totem pole. You're alienated from adult authority, but unlike many teenagers,
413 you're also alienated from the power structures of your peers -- an existence
414 that can feel lonely and peripheral. Systems and equations are intuitive, but
415 people aren't -- social signals are confusing and messy, difficult to interpret.
417 Then you discover code. You may be powerless at the lunch table, but code
418 gives you power over an infinitely malleable world and opens the door to a
419 symbolic system that's perfectly clear and ordered. The jostling for position
420 and status fades away. The nagging parental voices disappear. There's just a
421 clean, white page for you to fill, an opportunity to build a better place, a
422 home, from the ground up.
424 No wonder you're a geek.
426 =head2 v5.25.0 - Robert Frost, "The Trial by Existence"
428 L<Announced on 2016-05-09 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/05/msg236244.html>
430 Even the bravest that are slain
431 Shall not dissemble their surprise
432 On waking to find valor reign,
433 Even as on earth, in paradise;
434 And where they sought without the sword
435 Wide fields of asphodel fore’er,
436 To find that the utmost reward
437 Of daring should be still to dare.
439 =head2 v5.24.3 - Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
441 L<Announced on 2017-09-22 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/09/msg246407.html>
443 Oh sleep! it is a gentle thing,
444 Beloved from pole to pole!
445 To Mary Queen the praise be given!
446 She sent the gentle sleep from Heaven,
447 That slid into my soul.
449 The silly buckets on the deck,
450 That had so long remained,
451 I dreamt that they were filled with dew;
452 And when I awoke, it rained.
454 =head2 v5.24.3-RC1 - Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
456 L<Announced on 2017-09-10 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/09/msg246201.html>
458 'And now the STORM-BLAST came, and he
459 Was tyrannous and strong:
460 He struck with his o'ertaking wings,
461 And chased us south along.
463 With sloping masts and dipping prow,
464 As who pursued with yell and blow
465 Still treads the shadow of his foe,
466 And forward bends his head,
467 The ship drove fast, loud roared the blast,
468 And southward aye we fled.
470 And now there came both mist and snow,
471 And it grew wondrous cold:
472 And ice, mast-high, came floating by,
475 And through the drifts the snowy clifts
476 Did send a dismal sheen:
477 Nor shapes of men nor beasts we ken—
478 The ice was all between.
480 The ice was here, the ice was there,
481 The ice was all around:
482 It cracked and growled, and roared and howled,
483 Like noises in a swound!
485 =head2 v5.24.2 - Roald Dahl, "The Three Little Pigs"
487 L<Announced on 2017-07-15 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/07/msg245527.html>
489 A short while later, through the wood,
490 Came striding brave Miss Riding Hood.
491 The Wolf stood there, his eyes ablaze
492 And yellowish, like mayonnaise.
493 His teeth were sharp, his gums were raw,
494 And spit was dripping from his jaw.
495 Once more the maiden's eyelid flickers.
496 She draws the pistol from her knickers.
497 Once more, she hits the vital spot,
498 And kills him with a single shot.
499 Pig, peeping through the window, stood
500 And yelled, 'Well done, Miss Riding Hood!'
502 Ah, Piglet, you must never trust
503 Young ladies from the upper crust.
504 For now, Miss Riding Hood, one notes,
505 Not only has two wolfskin coats,
506 But when she goes from place to place,
507 She has a PIGSKIN TRAVELLING CASE.
509 =head2 v5.24.2-RC1 - Roald Dahl, "The Three Little Pigs"
511 L<Announced on 2017-07-01 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/07/msg245292.html>
513 The animal I really dig
514 Above all others is the pig.
515 Pigs are noble. Pigs are clever,
516 Pig are courteous. However,
517 Now and then, to break this rule,
518 One meets a pig who is a fool.
519 What, for example, would you say
520 If strolling through the woods one day,
521 Right there in front of you you saw
522 A pig who'd built his house of STRAW?
523 The Wolf who saw it licked his lips,
524 And said, 'That pig has had his chips.'
526 =head2 v5.24.1 - Charles Dodgson [as "Lewis Carroll"], "The Hunting of the Snark", Fit 4: The Hunting
528 L<Announced on 2017-01-14 by Steve Hay|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/01/msg242259.html>
530 The Bellman looked uffish, and wrinkled his brow.
531 'If only you'd spoken before!
532 It's excessively awkward to mention it now,
533 With the Snark, so to speak, at the door!
535 'We should all of us grieve, as you well may believe,
536 If you never were met with again -
537 But surely, my man, when the voyage began,
538 You might have suggested it then?
540 'It's excessively awkward to mention it now -
541 As I think I've already remarked.'
542 And the man they called 'Hi!' replied, with a sigh,
543 'I informed you the day we embarked.
545 'You may charge me with murder - or want of sense -
546 (We are all of us weak at times):
547 But the slightest approach to a false pretence
548 Was never among my crimes!
550 'I said it in Hebrew - I said it in Dutch -
551 I said it in German and Greek:
552 But I wholly forgot (and it vexes me much)
553 That English is what you speak!'
555 ''Tis a pitiful tale,' said the Bellman, whose face
556 Had grown longer at every word:
557 'But, now that you've stated the whole of your case,
558 More debate would be simply absurd.
560 'The rest of my speech' (he exclaimed to his men)
561 'You shall hear when I've leisure to speak it.
562 But the Snark is at hand, let me tell you again!
563 'Tis your glorious duty to seek it!
565 =head2 v5.24.1-RC5 - John Milton, ed. Gordon Campbell, "Paradise Regained", Book IV
567 L<Announced on 2017-01-02 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/01/msg242016.html>
569 Thus passed the night so foul, till Morning fair
570 Came forth with pilgrim steps, in amice grey;
571 Who with her radiant finger stilled the roar
572 Of thunder, chased the clouds, and laid the winds,
573 And grisly spectres, which the fiend had raised
574 To tempt the Son of God with terrors dire.
575 And now the sun with more effectual beams
576 Had cheered the face of earth, and dried the wet
577 From drooping plant, or dropping tree; the birds,
578 Who all things now behold more fresh and green,
579 After a night of storm so ruinous,
580 Cleared up their choicest notes in bush and spray,
581 To gratulate the sweet return of morn.
583 =head2 v5.24.1-RC4 - John Milton, ed. Gordon Campbell, "Paradise Lost", Book II
585 L<Announced on 2016-10-12 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/10/msg240224.html>
587 Before the gates there sat
588 On either side a formidable shape;
589 The one seemed woman to the waste, and fair,
590 But ended foul in many a scaly fold,
591 Voluminous and vast -- a serpent armed
592 With mortal sting; about her middle round
593 A cry of hell hounds never ceasing barked
594 With wide Cerberean mouths full loud, and rung
595 A hideous peal; yet, when they list, would creep,
596 If aught disturbed their noise, into her womb,
597 And kennel there; yet there still barked and howled
598 Within unseen. Far less abhorred than these
599 Vexed Scylla, bathing in the sea that parts
600 Calabria from the hoarse Trinacrian shore;
601 Nor uglier follow the night-hag, when, called
602 In secret, riding through the air she comes,
603 Lured with the smell of infant blood, to dance
604 With Lapland witches, while the labouring moon
605 Eclipses at their charms. The other shape --
606 If shape it might be called that shape had none
607 Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb;
608 Or substance might be called that shadow seemed,
609 For each seemed either -- black it stood as night,
610 Fierce as ten Furies, terrible as hell,
611 And shook a dreadful dart: what seemed his head
612 The likeness of a kingly crown had on.
613 Satan was now at hand, and from his seat
614 The monster moving onward came as fast
615 With horrid strides; hell trembled as he strode.
617 =head2 v5.24.1-RC3 - Dante Alighieri, trans. Dorothy L. Sayers and Barbara Reynolds, "The Divine Comedy", Cantica III: Paradise, Canto XXIII
619 L<Announced on 2016-08-11 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/08/msg238909.html>
621 A bird within the bower of her delight,
622 Quiet upon the nest with her sweet brood
623 Throughout the dark concealment of the night,
625 Anxious to look on them and gather food -
626 No weary task for her, for as at play
627 Blithely she toils to seek her fledglings' good -
629 Before the time, upon the topmost spray
630 Eager awaits the sun and on the East
631 Fixes her wakeful eye till break of day.
633 =head2 v5.24.1-RC2 - Dante Alighieri, trans. Dorothy L. Sayers, "The Divine Comedy", Cantica II: Purgatory, Canto X
635 L<Announced on 2016-07-25 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/07/msg238269.html>
637 When we had crossed the threshold of that gate
638 Which the soul's evil loves put out of use,
639 Because they make the crooked path seem straight,
641 I heard its closing clang ring clamorous,
642 And had I then turned back my eyes to it
643 How could my fault have found the least excuse?
645 We had to climb now through a rocky slit
646 Which ran from side to side in many a swerve,
647 As runs the wave in onset and retreat.
649 "Now here," the master said, "we must observe
650 Some little caution, hugging now this wall,
651 Now that, upon the far side of the curve."
653 =head2 v5.24.1-RC1 - Dante Alighieri, trans. Dorothy L. Sayers, "The Divine Comedy", Cantica I: Hell, Canto XX
655 L<Announced on 2016-07-17 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/07/msg238072.html>
657 New punishments behoves me sing in this
658 Twentieth canto of my first canticle,
659 Which tells of spirits sunk in the Abyss.
661 I now stood ready to observe the full
662 Extent of the new chasm thus laid bare,
663 Drenched as it was in tears most miserable.
665 Through the round vale I saw folk drawing near,
666 Weeping and silent, and at such slow pace
667 As Litany processions keep, up here.
669 And presently, when I had dropped my gaze
670 Lower than the head, I saw them strangely wried
671 'Twixt collar-bone and chin, so that the face
673 Of each was turned towards his own backside,
674 And backwards must they needs creep with their feet,
675 All power of looking forward being denied.
677 =head2 v5.24.0 - Robert Frost, "The Black Cottage"
679 L<Announced on 2016-05-09 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/05/msg236242.html>
681 As I sit here, and oftentimes, I wish
682 I could be monarch of a desert land
683 I could devote and dedicate forever
684 To the truths we keep coming back and back to.
685 So desert it would have to be, so walled
686 By mountain ranges half in summer snow,
687 No one would covet it or think it worth
688 The pains of conquering to force change on.
689 Scattered oases where men dwelt, but mostly
690 Sand dunes held loosely in tamarisk
691 Blown over and over themselves in idleness.
692 Sand grains should sugar in the natal dew
693 The babe born to the desert, the sand storm
694 Retard mid-waste my cowering caravans—
696 “There are bees in this wall.” He struck the clapboards,
697 Fierce heads looked out; small bodies pivoted.
698 We rose to go. Sunset blazed on the windows.
700 =head2 v5.24.0-RC5 - The Mountain Goats, "No Children"
702 L<Announced on 2016-05-04 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/05/msg236198.html>
704 And I hope when you think of me years down the line
705 You can't find one good thing to say
706 And I'd hope that if I found the strength to walk out
707 You'd stay the hell out of my way
709 I am drowning, there is no sign of land
710 You are coming down with me, hand in unlovable hand
712 =head2 v5.24.0-RC4 - The Joker in "The Killing Joke"
714 L<Announced on 2016-05-02 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/05/msg236145.html>
716 "See, there were these two guys in a lunatic asylum…"
718 =head2 v5.24.0-RC3 - Jesse Vincent
720 L<Announced on 2016-04-27 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/04/msg236066.html>
722 The Great Pumpkin is a Santa-Claus like figure. He does bring toys like
723 Santa. But unlike Santa, who gives away toys because it's his job, he
724 gives away toys because it's the right thing to do.
726 =head2 v5.24.0-RC2 - Joseph Heller, "Catch-22"
728 L<Announced on 2016-04-23 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/04/msg235999.html>
730 “How do you feel, Yossarian?”
732 “Fine. No, I’m very frightened.”
734 “That’s good,” said Major Danby. “It proves you’re still alive. It won’t
737 Yossarian started out. “Yes it will.”
739 “I mean it, Yossarian. You’ll have to keep on your toes every minute of
740 every day. They’ll bend heaven and earth to catch you.”
742 “I’ll keep on my toes every minute.”
744 “You’ll have to jump.”
748 “Jump!” Major Danby cried.
752 Nately’s [girl] was hiding just outside the door. The knife came down,
753 missing him by inches, and he took off.
755 =head2 v5.24.0-RC1 - Robert Frost, "The Census-Taker"
757 L<Announced on 2016-04-14 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/04/msg235807.html>
759 Nothing was left to do that I could see
760 Unless to find that there was no one there
761 And declare to the cliffs too far for echo,
762 "The place is desert, and let whoso lurks
763 In silence, if in this he is aggrieved,
764 Break silence now or be forever silent.
765 Let him say why it should not be declared so."
766 The melancholy of having to count souls
767 Where they grow fewer and fewer every year
768 Is extreme where they shrink to none at all.
769 It must be I want life to go on living.
771 =head2 v5.23.9 - Tom Kitchin, "from nature to plate"
773 L<Announced on 2016-03-20 by Abigail|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/03/msg235251.html>
777 Spring is the proper beginning of my kitchen and a season that I
778 look forward to with great anticipation. By the time spring arrives
779 I am desperate to welcome all the spring produce into my kitchen
780 and I long to work with fresh green vegetables again. As much as I
781 love root vegetables, such as celeriac and parsnips, and the heaver
782 meat and game dishes, I'm ready to leave those behind with winter
783 and begin a new adventure.
785 Somehow spring always gives me a little bit of bounce in my feet
786 -- I feel like I want to kick off my shoes and dance around in my
787 kitchen. Not that I do, of course, but I feel lighter somehow. My
788 adrenalin kicks in with spring and so does the level of excitement,
789 as I think about all the produce that is about to come in.
791 The moment spring arrives I'm eager to cook peas, broad beans, green
792 asparagus and other fresh vegetables! I want to create lighter,
793 brighter dishes and I can't wait to get my hands on the first greens
794 and the first morels, not to mention the first wild Scottish salmon.
795 Thanks to my network of trusted suppliers, I always get to first
796 produce of the season delivered to my restaurant as soon as it is
797 possible. I want my customers to experience and understand the
798 beauty of locally grown produce and to try things the minute they
799 are available so they can taste how incredibly fresh the ingredients
800 are. I also want them to understand the relationship between
801 seasonality and flavours. One of the most important things to
802 remember is to allow the seasons to inspire your dishes and help
803 you make natural matches. Wild spring herbs, such as sorrel, sweet
804 cicely and wild garlic, as well as spring salad leaves and green
805 lettuce served with wild salmon, wild sea trout, lamb or rabbit are
806 marriages made in heaven.
809 =head2 v5.23.8 - Patrick Rothfuss, "The Wise Man's Fear (The Kingkiller's Chronicle: Day Two)"
811 L<Announced on 2016-02-20 by Sawyer X|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/02/msg234535.html>
813 Denna, on the other hand, had never been trained. She knew nothing
814 of shortcuts. You'd think she'd be forced to wander the city, lost and
815 helpless, trapped in a twisting maze of mortared stone.
817 But instead, she simply walked throught the walls. She didn't know
818 any better. Nobody had ever told her she couldn't. Because of this,
819 she moved through the city like some faerie creature. She walked roads
820 no one else could see, and it made her music wild and strange and
823 =head2 v5.23.7 - William Gibson, "Neuromancer"
825 L<Announced on 2016-01-20 by Stevan Little|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/01/msg233856.html>
827 A year here and he still dreamed of cyberspace, hope fading
828 nightly. All the speed he took, all the turns he'd taken and
829 the corners he cut in Night City, and he'd still see the matrix
830 in his dreams, bright lattices of logic unfolding across that
831 colourless void...The Sprawl was a long, strange way home now
832 over the Pacific, and he was no Console Man, no cyberspace
833 cowboy. Just another hustler, trying to make it through. But
834 the dreams came on in the Japanese night like livewire voodoo,
835 and he'd cry for it, cry in his sleep, and wake alone in the
836 dark, curled in his capsule in some coffin hotel, hands clawed
837 into the bedslab, temper foam bunched between his fingers,
838 trying to reach the console that wasn't there.
840 =head2 v5.23.6 - 5.23 Episode VII
842 L<Announced on 2015-12-21 by David Golden|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/12/msg233475.html>
844 A long time ago in microseconds, in a galaxy not very far away...
850 unrest as separatists
851 announce their intentions
852 to fork PERL and return the
853 galaxy to speed and stability.
855 Chancellor Rik Hoolian struggles
856 to hold together the remains of the
857 once mighty Republic against a tide of
858 incivility and the depredations of a new
859 foe, the FUZZ RAIDERS.
861 Meanwhile, after 15 years of preparation and
862 high expectations, Supreme Leader Toady prepares
863 to unleash a devastating new weapon, PERL SIXDOTOH,
864 that could splinter the Republic forever and usher in
865 a new Empire of gradual typing....
867 =head2 v5.23.5 - utastro!nather (Ed Nather), "The Story of Mel", in net.jokes, May 21, 1983.
869 L<Announced on 2015-11-20 by Abigail|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/11/msg232758.html>
871 After Mel had left the company for greener pa$ture$, the Big Boss asked
872 me to look at the code and see if I could find the test and reverse it.
873 Somewhat reluctantly, I agreed to look. Tracking Mel's code was a real
876 I have often felt that programming is an art form, whose real value can
877 only be appreciated by another versed in the same arcane art; there are
878 lovely gems and brilliant coups hidden from human view and admiration,
879 sometimes forever, by the very nature of the process. You can learn a
880 lot about an individual just by reading through his code, even in
881 hexadecimal. Mel was, I think, an unsung genius.
883 Perhaps my greatest shock came when I found an innocent loop that had
884 no test in it. No test. None. Common sense said it had to be a closed
885 loop, where the program would circle, forever, endlessly. Program
886 control passed right through it, however, and safely out the other side.
887 It took me two weeks to figure it out.
889 The RPC-4000 computer had a really modern facility called an index
890 register. It allowed the programmer to write a program loop that used
891 an indexed instruction inside; each time through, the number in the
892 index register was added to the address of that instruction, so it
893 would refer to the next datum in a series. He had only to increment
894 the index register each time through. Mel never used it.
896 Instead, he would pull the instruction into a machine register, add one
897 to its address, and store it back. He would then execute the modified
898 instruction right from the register. The loop was written so this
899 additional execution time was taken into account -- just as this
900 instruction finished, the next one was right under the drum's read head,
901 ready to go. But the loop had no test in it.
903 The vital clue came when I noticed the index register bit, the bit that
904 lay between the address and the operation code in the instruction word,
905 was turned on -- yet Mel never used the index register, leaving it zero
906 all the time. When the light went on it nearly blinded me.
908 He had located the data he was working on near the top of memory -- the
909 largest locations the instructions could address -- so, after the last
910 datum was handled, incrementing the instruction address would make it
911 overflow. The carry would add one to the operation code, changing it to
912 the next one in the instruction set: a jump instruction. Sure enough,
913 the next program instruction was in address location zero, and the
914 program went happily on its way.
916 =head2 v5.23.4 - Denis Diderot, trans. David Coward, "Jacques the Fatalist"
918 L<Announced on 2015-10-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/10/msg232040.html>
920 Well, everybody's got a dog. The prime minister is the king's dog. The
921 first secretary is the prime minister's dog. A wife is a husband's dog,
922 or a husband is a wife's dog. Favourite is Madame So-and-so's dog and
923 Thibaut is the man on the corner's dog. When my Master tells me to talk
924 when I'd prefer not to, which to be honest doesn't happen very often,
925 when he tells me to shut up when I feel like talking, which I find very
926 difficult, when he asks me to tell the story of my love-life and then
927 keeps interrupting, what am I if not his dog? Weak men are the dogs of
930 =head2 v5.23.3 - Oliver Wendell Holmes, "The Deacon’s Masterpiece or The Wonderful 'One-Hoss Shay': A Logical Story"
932 L<Announced on 2015-09-20 by Peter Martini|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/09/msg231173.html>
934 Little of of all we value here
935 Wakes on the morn of its hundredth year
936 Without both feeling and looking queer.
937 In fact, there’s nothing that keeps its youth,
938 So far as I know, but a tree and truth.
939 (This is a moral that runs at large;
940 Take it. — You’re welcome. — No extra charge.)
942 =head2 v5.23.2 - Blind Guardian, "Skalds and Shadows"
944 L<Announced on 2015-08-20 by Matthew Horsfall|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/08/msg230298.html>
946 Would you believe in a night like this
947 A night like this, when visions come true
948 Would you believe in a tale like this
949 A lay of bliss, praise in the old lore
950 Come to the blazing fire and
952 See me in the shadows
953 See me in the shadows
957 This night turns into myth
960 The world we live in is another skald's
964 Do you believe there is sense in it
966 They´re one in my rhymes
967 Nobody knows the meaning behind
969 Well nobody else but the Norns can
970 See through the blazing fires of time and
971 All things will proceed as the
972 Child of the hallowed
973 Will speak to you now
975 See me in the shadows
976 See me in the shadows
977 Songs I will sing of tribes and kings
978 The carrion bird and the hall of the slain
981 The world we live in is another skald´s
985 Do not fear for my reason
986 There's nothing to hide
987 How bitter your treason
989 Remember the runes and remember the light
990 All I ever want is to be at your side
991 We'll gladden the raven now I will
992 Run through the blazing fires
994 Cause things shall proceed as foreseen
996 =head2 v5.23.1 - Elizabeth Haydon, "The Assassin King"
998 L<Announced on 2015-07-20 by Matthew Horsfall|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/07/msg229413.html>
1000 I was born beneath this willow,
1001 Where my sire the earth did farm
1002 Had the green grass as my pillow
1003 The east wind as a blanket warm.
1005 But away! away! called the wind from the west
1006 And in answer I did run
1007 Seeking glory and adventure
1008 Promised by the rising sun.
1010 I found love beneath this willow,
1011 As true a love as life could hold,
1012 Pledged my heart and swore my fealty
1013 Sealed with a kiss and a band of gold.
1015 But to arms! to arms! called the wind from the west
1016 In faithful answer I did run
1017 Marching forth for king and country
1018 In battles 'neath the midday sun.
1020 Oft I dreamt of that fair willow
1021 As the seven seas I plied
1022 And the girl who I left waiting
1023 Longing to be at her side.
1025 But about! about! called the wind from the west
1026 As once again my ship did run
1027 Down the coast, about the wide world
1028 Flying sails in the setting sun.
1030 Now I lie beneath the willow
1031 Now at last no more to roam,
1032 My bride and earth so tightly hold me
1033 In their arms I'm finally home.
1035 While away! away! calls the wind from the west
1036 Beyond the grave my spirit, free
1037 Will chase the sun into the morning
1038 Beyond the sky, beyond the sea.
1040 =head2 v5.23.0 - Bob Dylan, "Maggie's Farm"
1042 L<Announced on 2015-06-20 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/06/msg228807.html>
1044 I ain't gonna work on Maggie's farm no more
1045 I ain't gonna work on Maggie's farm no more
1047 To be just like I am
1048 But everybody wants you
1049 To be just like them
1050 They sing while you slave and I just get bored
1051 I ain't gonna work on Maggie's farm no more
1053 =head2 v5.22.4 - Roald Dahl, "Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf"
1055 L<Announced on 2017-07-15 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/07/msg245526.html>
1057 Then Little Red Riding Hood said, 'But Grandma,
1058 what a lovely great big furry coat you have on.'
1059 'That's wrong!' cried Wolf. 'Have you forgot
1060 'To tell me what BIG TEETH I've got?
1061 'Ah well, no matter what you say,
1062 'I'm going to eat you anyway.'
1063 The small girl smiles. One eyelid flickers.
1064 She whips a pistol from her knickers.
1065 She aims it at the creature's head
1066 And bang bang bang, she shoots him dead.
1068 A few weeks later, in the wood,
1069 I came across Miss Riding Hood.
1070 But what a change! No cloak of red,
1071 No silly hood upon her head.
1072 She said, 'Hello, and do please note
1073 'My lovely furry WOLFSKIN COAT.'
1075 =head2 v5.22.4-RC1 - Roald Dahl, "Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf"
1077 L<Announced on 2017-07-01 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/07/msg245293.html>
1079 As soon as Wolf began to feel
1080 That he would like a decent meal,
1081 He went and knocked on Grandma's door.
1082 When Grandma opened it, she saw
1083 The sharp white teeth, the horrid grin,
1084 And Wolfie said, 'May I come in?'
1085 Poor Grandmamma was terrified,
1086 'He's going to eat me up!' she cried.
1087 And she was absolutely right.
1088 He ate her up in one big bite.
1090 =head2 v5.22.3 - Charles Dodgson [as "Lewis Carroll"], "Phantasmagoria", Canto 6: Discomfyture
1092 L<Announced on 2017-01-14 by Steve Hay|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/01/msg242258.html>
1094 As one who strives a hill to climb,
1095 Who never climbed before:
1096 Who finds it, in a little time,
1097 Grow every moment less sublime,
1098 And votes the thing a bore:
1100 Yet, having once begun to try,
1101 Dares not desert his quest,
1102 But, climbing, ever keeps his eye
1103 On one small hut against the sky
1104 Wherein he hopes to rest:
1106 Who climbs till nerve and force are spent,
1107 With many a puff and pant:
1108 Who still, as rises the ascent,
1109 In language grows more violent,
1110 Although in breath more scant:
1112 Who, climbing, gains at length the place
1113 That crowns the upward track:
1114 And, entering with unsteady pace,
1115 Receives a buffet in the face
1116 That lands him on his back:
1118 And feels himself, like one in sleep,
1119 Glide swiftly down again,
1120 A helpless weight, from steep to steep,
1121 Till, with a headlong giddy sweep,
1122 He drops upon the plain -
1124 So I, that had resolved to bring
1125 Conviction to a ghost,
1126 And found it quite a different thing
1127 From any human arguing,
1128 Yet dared not quit my post.
1130 =head2 v5.22.3-RC5 - John Milton, ed. Gordon Campbell, "Paradise Regained", Book II
1132 L<Announced on 2017-01-02 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/01/msg242017.html>
1134 Thus wore out night; and now the herald lark
1135 Left his ground-nest, high towering to descry
1136 The Morn's approach, and greet her with his song;
1137 As lightly from his grassy couch up rose
1138 Our Saviour, and found all was but a dream;
1139 Fasting he went to sleep, and fasting waked.
1140 Up to a hill anon his steps he reared,
1141 From whose high top to ken the prospect round,
1142 If cottage were in view, sheep-cote, or herd;
1143 But cottage, herd, or sheep-cote, none he saw --
1144 Only in a bottom saw a pleasant grove,
1145 With chant of tuneful birds resounding loud;
1146 Thither he bent his way, determined there
1147 To rest at noon, and entered soon the shade,
1148 High-roofed and walks beneath, and alleys brown,
1149 That opened in the midst a woody scene;
1150 Nature's own work it seemed (Nature taught Art),
1151 And, to a superstitious eye, the haunt
1152 Of wood-gods and wood-nymphs.
1154 =head2 v5.22.3-RC4 - John Milton, ed. Gordon Campbell, "Paradise Lost", Book II
1156 L<Announced on 2016-10-12 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/10/msg240223.html>
1158 Far off from these, a slow and silent stream,
1159 Lethe, the river of oblivion, rolls
1160 Her watery labyrinth, whereof who drinks
1161 Forthwith his former state and being forgets --
1162 Forgets both joy and grief, pleasure and pain.
1163 Beyond this flood a frozen continent
1164 Lies dark and wild, beat with perpetual storms
1165 Of Whirlwind and dire hail, which on firm land
1166 Thaws not, but gathers heap, and ruin seems
1167 Of ancient pile; all else deep snow and ice,
1168 A gulf profound as that Serbonian bog
1169 Betwixt Damiata and Mount Casius old,
1170 Where armies whole have sunk: the parching air
1171 Burns frore, and cold performs the effect of fire.
1172 Thither, by harpy-footed Furies haled,
1173 At certain revolutions all the damned
1174 Are brought; and feel by turns the bitter change
1175 Of fierce extremes, extremes by change more fierce,
1176 From beds of raging fire to starve in ice
1177 Their soft ethereal warmth, and there to pine
1178 Immovable, infixed, and frozen round
1179 Periods of time -- thence hurried back to fire.
1180 They ferry over this Lethean sound
1181 Both to and fro, their sorrow to augment,
1182 And wish and struggle, as they pass, to reach
1183 The tempting stream, with one small drop to lose
1184 In sweet forgetfulness all pain and woe,
1185 All in one moment, and so near the brink;
1186 But fate withstands, and, to oppose the attempt,
1187 Medusa with Gorgonian terror guards
1188 The ford, and of itself the water flies
1189 All taste of living wight, as once it fled
1190 The lip of Tantalus.
1192 =head2 v5.22.3-RC3 - Dante Alighieri, trans. Dorothy L. Sayers and Barbara Reynolds, "The Divine Comedy", Cantica III: Paradise, Canto IV
1194 L<Announced on 2016-08-11 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/08/msg238908.html>
1196 Between two dishes, equally attractive
1197 And near to him, a free man, I suppose,
1198 Would starve to death before his teeth got active;
1200 So would a lamb 'twixt two fierce wolfish foes,
1201 Fearing the fangs both ways, not stir a foot;
1202 So would a deerhound halt between two does;
1204 So I can't blame myself for standing mute,
1205 Nor praise myself: for I must needs so do,
1206 Suspended 'twixt two doubts, alike acute.
1208 =head2 v5.22.3-RC2 - Dante Alighieri, trans. Dorothy L. Sayers, "The Divine Comedy", Cantica II: Purgatory, Canto I
1210 L<Announced on 2016-07-25 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/07/msg238270.html>
1212 For better waters heading with the wind
1213 My ship of genius now shakes out her sail
1214 And leaves that ocean of despair behind;
1216 For to the second realm I tune my tale,
1217 Where human spirits purge themselves, and train
1218 To leap up into joy celestial.
1220 Now from the grave wake poetry again,
1221 O sacred Muses I have served so long!
1222 Now let Calliope uplift her strain
1224 And lift my voice up on the mighty song
1225 That smote the miserable Magpies nine
1226 Out of all hope of pardon for their wrong!
1228 =head2 v5.22.3-RC1 - Dante Alighieri, trans. Dorothy L. Sayers, "The Divine Comedy", Cantica I: Hell, Canto XII
1230 L<Announced on 2016-07-17 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/07/msg238071.html>
1232 The place we came to, to descend the brink from,
1233 Was sheer crag; and there was a Thing there - making,
1234 All told, a prospect any eye would shrink from.
1236 Like the great landslide that rushed downward, shaking
1237 The bank of Adige on this side Trent,
1238 (Whether through faulty shoring or the earth's quaking)
1240 So that the rock, down from the summit rent
1241 Far as the plain, lies strewn, and one might crawl
1242 From top to bottom by that unsure descent,
1244 Such was the precipice; and there we spied,
1245 Topping the cleft that split the rocky wall,
1246 That which was wombed in the false heifer's side,
1248 The infamy of Crete, stretched out a-sprawl;
1249 And seeing us, he gnawed himself, like one
1250 Inly devoured with spite and burning gall.
1252 =head2 v5.22.2 - Gaston Leroux, trans. Mireille Ribière, "The Phantom of the Opera"
1254 L<Announced on 2016-04-29 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/04/msg236120.html>
1256 A silence; and then: 'If, in just two minutes' time by my watch--and a
1257 splendid watch it is--you have not turned the scorpion, mademoiselle, I
1258 shall turn the grasshopper... and the grasshopper, remember, _leaps
1259 straight up into the air!_'
1260 The silence that ensued was terrifying, worse than any we had
1261 experienced before. I knew that when Erik spoke with that quiet,
1262 gentle, slightly weary voice, it meant that he had reached the end of
1263 his tether: that he was capable of the most abominable crimes or the
1264 most selfless devotion; that the slightest irritation might unleash a
1266 Realizing that our fate was out of our hands, the Viscount fell to his
1267 knees and prayed. As for me, I pressed both hands to my chest, for my
1268 heart was pounding so fiercely that I thought it would burst. We were
1269 intensely aware of the excruciating dilemma Christine Daaé faced in
1270 those final seconds. We understood why she hesitated to turn the
1271 scorpion. What if the scorpion, rather than the grasshopper, were to
1272 set off the explosion? What if Erik was simply intent on destroying
1273 everything, regardless?
1274 At last he spoke: 'The two minutes are up,' he said in a soft, angelic
1275 voice. 'Goodbye, mademoiselle. Off you go, little grasshopper!'
1277 =head2 v5.22.2-RC1 - Gaston Leroux, trans. Mireille Ribière, "The Phantom of the Opera"
1279 L<Announced on 2016-04-10 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/04/msg235732.html>
1281 This annual ball was quite a magnificent affair. It was given some time
1282 before Shrovetide to celebrate the birthday of a famous illustrator
1283 whose pencil had immortalized, in the style of Gavarni, the extravagant
1284 carnival parade down La Courtille. As such, the ball was an altogether
1285 merrier, noisier and more Bohemian occasion than was usual for a masked
1286 ball. Many artists had arranged to meet there; they arrived with an
1287 entourage of models and pupils, who, by midnight, had become quite
1289 Raoul climbed the grand staircase at five minutes to midnight. He did
1290 not linger to admire the many-coloured costumes on display all the way
1291 up the marble steps of one of the most luxurious settings in the world;
1292 nor did he allow himself to be drawn into the facetious conversation of
1293 masked guests. He simply ignored all the jesting remarks, and shook off
1294 the attentions of several all too merry couples.
1295 Crossing the big crush-room and escaping from the dancers' farandole
1296 that had encircled him awhile, he at last entered the salon mentioned by
1297 Christine in her letter. The small room was crammed with people either
1298 on their way to supper at the restaurant in the Rotunda or back from
1299 raising a glass of champagne.
1300 In the midst of the gay and lively hubbub, Raoul thought that, for their
1301 mysterious assignation, Christine must have preferred this crowd to some
1303 He leaned against a door-jamb and waited. He did not have to wait long;
1304 a black domino passed him and deftly touched his hand. He understood
1305 that it was Christine and followed her.
1306 'Is that you, Christine?' he murmured, barely moving his slips.
1307 The black domino promptly looked back and raised her finger to her lips,
1308 no doubt to caution him against uttering her name again. Raoul followed
1311 =head2 v5.22.1 - Wilhelm Müller, trans. Anon., "Courage" (No. 22 in Schubert's song-cycle, "Winterreise")
1313 L<Announced on 2015-12-13 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/12/msg233318.html>
1315 If the snow flies in my face,
1316 Let me shake it off me!
1317 If my heart within me speaks,
1318 I'll sing bright and gaily!
1320 Will not listen what it says,
1321 Have no ears for moaning.
1322 Do not feel what it complains,--
1323 Only fools like groaning!
1325 Jolly brave into the world,
1326 'Gainst all wind and weather,--
1327 If there is no God on earth,
1328 Let 's be gods down nether!
1330 =head2 v5.22.1-RC4 - Wilhelm Müller, trans. Anon., "The Signpost" (No. 20 in Schubert's song-cycle, "Winterreise")
1332 L<Announced on 2015-12-08 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/12/msg233215.html>
1334 Why do I shun all those highways
1335 Which the other wanderer seeks?
1336 Why do I find bridged by-ways
1337 Through snow-covered deep creeks?
1339 For I have no crime committed,
1340 Why I should now run from men,--
1341 What demented heart's desire
1342 Drives me to a desert glen?
1344 Signposts on all highways stationed
1345 Point their signs toward the towns,
1346 Whilst I wonder 'yond moderation,
1347 Without rest, yet seeking rest!
1349 One such signpost I see planted
1350 Of my question unconcerned,
1351 One road must my choice be granted,
1352 Whence no man has yet returned!
1354 =head2 v5.22.1-RC3 - Wilhelm Müller, trans. Anon., "Stormy Morning" (No. 18 in Schubert's song-cycle, "Winterreise")
1356 L<Announced on 2015-12-02 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/12/msg233032.html>
1358 How the storm tore rents
1359 In heavens gray attired!
1360 The rags of cloud are flying
1361 Around, of combat tired.
1363 And flames of fire lambent,
1364 Fly between them and part,
1365 That 's what I call a morning,
1366 A morning after my heart!
1368 My heart sees in the heavens
1369 Its own picture unspoilt--
1370 It's nothing but the Winter,
1371 The Winter, cold and wild.
1373 =head2 v5.22.1-RC2 - Wilhelm Müller, trans. Anon., "The Old Head" (No. 14 in Schubert's song-cycle, "Winterreise")
1375 L<Announced on 2015-11-15 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/11/msg232632.html>
1377 The hoary frost has a white sheen
1378 Strewn all over my hair,
1379 So I thought I was an old man
1380 And thought life dealt me fair.
1382 Yet soon was thawed my old white mane,
1383 And I have my black hair again.
1384 How I abhor my young fair years,
1385 How long to wait for death and biers?
1387 From setting sun to morning's hue
1388 Many a head turns white.
1389 Who'll credit it? My hair did not
1390 In all this lifelong plight!
1392 =head2 v5.22.1-RC1 - Wilhelm Müller, trans. Anon., "Will-o'-the Wisp" (No. 9 in Schubert's song-cycle, "Winterreise")
1394 L<Announced on 2015-10-31 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/10/msg232321.html>
1396 In the deepest rocky crevice
1397 A will-o'-the wisp lured me;
1398 How I could find my way from here,
1399 For me it's easy memory!
1401 For I am used to straying ways,
1402 Every path to th'end a way,
1403 All our joys and all our suffering,--
1404 To a will-o'-the wisp it 's all play!
1406 Through the dried-up bed of torrents
1407 I quite calmly downward stroll;
1408 Every stream its sea will enter,
1409 Every suffering finds its goal!
1411 =head2 v5.22.0 - Gene Wolfe, The Citadel of the Autarch
1413 L<Announced on 2015-06-01 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/06/msg228300.html>
1415 “You are the advocate of the dead.”
1417 The old man nodded. “I am. People talk about being fair to this one and
1418 that one, but nobody I ever heard talks about doing right by them. We
1419 take everything they had, which is all right. And spit, most often, on
1420 their opinions, which I suppose is all right too. But we ought to
1421 remember now and then how much of what we have we got from them. I
1422 figure while I’m still here I ought to put a word in for them.”
1424 =head2 v5.22.0-RC2 - T.S. Eliot, unpublished work
1426 L<Announced on 2015-05-21 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/05/msg228142.html>
1428 And when thyself with silver foot shall pass
1429 Among the theories scattered on the grass
1430 Take up my good intentions with the rest
1432 =head2 v5.22.0-RC1 - Gene Wolfe, Citadel of the Autarch
1434 L<Announced on 2015-05-19 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/05/msg228059.html>
1436 There is no limit to stupidity. Space itself is said to be bounded by
1437 its own curvature, but stupidity continues beyond infinity.
1439 =head2 v5.21.11 - Algernon Charles Swinburne, "Dolores (Notre-Dame des Sept Douleurs)"
1441 L<Announced on 2015-04-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/04/msg227472.html>
1443 They shall pass and their places be taken,
1444 The gods and the priests that are pure.
1445 They shall pass, and shalt thou not be shaken?
1446 They shall perish, and shalt thou endure?
1447 Death laughs, breathing close and relentless
1448 In the nostrils and eyelids of lust,
1449 With a pinch in his fingers of scentless
1452 But the worm shall revive thee with kisses;
1453 Thou shalt change and transmute as a god,
1454 As the rod to a serpent that hisses,
1455 As the serpent again to a rod.
1456 Thy life shall not cease though thou doff it;
1457 Thou shalt live until evil be slain,
1458 And good shall die first, said thy prophet,
1461 =head2 v5.21.10 - Aldous Huxley, "The Devils of Loudun"
1463 L<Announced on 2015-03-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/03/msg226847.html>
1465 The fire burned on, the good fathers continued to sprinkle and intone.
1466 Suddenly a flock of pigeons came swooping down from the church and
1467 started to wheel around the roaring column of flame and smoke. The
1468 crowd shouted, the archers waved their halberds at the birds, Lactance
1469 and Tranquille splashed them on the wing with holy water. In vain. The
1470 pigeons were not to be driven away. Round and round they flew, diving
1471 through the smoke, singeing their feathers in the flames. Both parties
1472 claimed a miracle. For the parson's enemies the birds, quite obviously,
1473 were a troop of devils, come to fetch away his soul. For his friends,
1474 they were emblems of the Holy Ghost and living proof of his innocence.
1475 It never seems to have occurred to anyone that they were just pigeons,
1476 obeying the laws of their own, their blessedly other-than-human nature.
1478 =head2 v5.21.9 - Emily Dickinson, "There is Another Sky"
1480 L<Announced on 2015-02-20 by Sawyer X|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/02/msg226002.html>
1482 There is another sky,
1483 Ever serene and fair,
1484 And there is another sunshine,
1485 Though it be darkness there;
1486 Never mind faded forests, Austin,
1487 Never mind silent fields -
1488 Here is a little forest,
1489 Whose leaf is ever green;
1490 Here is a brighter garden,
1491 Where not a frost has been;
1492 In its unfading flowers
1493 I hear the bright bee hum:
1494 Prithee, my brother,
1495 Into my garden come!
1497 =head2 v5.21.8 - Bill Watterson, "Scientific Progress Goes 'Boink': A Calvin and Hobbes Collection"
1499 L<Announced on 2015-01-20 by Matthew Horsfall|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/01/msg224869.html>
1501 Calvin: OK Hobbes, press the button and duplicate me.
1502 Hobbes: Are you sure this is such a good idea?
1503 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?
1504 Hobbes: I'd hate to be accused of inhibiting scientific progress... Here you go.
1506 Hobbes: Scientific progress goes "BOINK"?
1507 Calvin?: It worked! It worked! I'm a genius!
1508 Cavlin??: No you're not, you liar! *I* invented this!
1510 =head2 v5.21.7 - Robert Heinlein, "The Number of the Beast"
1512 L<Announced on 2014-12-20 by Max Maischein|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/12/msg223774.html>
1514 "Zebadiah, Hilda and I salvaged and put everything into the basket.
1515 Hilda started to put it into our wardrobe-and it was heavy. So
1516 we looked. Packed as tight as when we left Oz. Six bananas-and
1517 everything else. Cross my heart. No, go look."
1518 "Hmmm- Jake, can you write equations for a picnic basket that
1519 refills itself? Will it go on doing so?"
1520 "Zeb, equations can be written to describe anything. The description
1521 would be simpler for a basket that replenishes itself indefinitely
1522 than for one that does it once and stops-I would have to describe
1525 =head2 v5.21.6 - Jeff Noon, "Vurt"
1527 L<Announced on 2014-11-20 by Chris 'BinGOs' Williams|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/11/msg222448.html>
1531 EXCHANGE MECHANISMS. Sometimes we lose precious
1532 things. Friends and colleagues, fellow travellers in the
1533 Vurt, sometimes we lose them; even lovers we sometimes
1534 lose. And get bad things in exchange: aliens, objects,
1535 snakes, and sometimes even death. Things we don't want.
1536 This is part of the deal, part of the game deal;
1537 all things, in all worlds, must be kept in balance.
1538 Kittlings often ask, who decides on the swappings? Now then,
1539 some say it's all accidental; that some poor Vurt thing
1540 finds himself too close to a door, at too critical a time,
1541 just when something real is being lost. Whoosh! Swap time!
1542 Others say that some kind of overseer is working the
1543 MECHANISMS OF EXCHANGE, deciding the fate of innocents.
1544 The Cat can only tease at this, because of the big secrets
1545 involved, and because of the levels between you, the reader,
1546 and me, the Game Cat. Hey, listen; I've struggled to get
1547 where I am today; why should I give you the easy route?
1548 Get working, kittlings! Reach up higher. Work the Vurt.
1550 =head2 v5.21.5 - Friso Wiegersma (text), Jean Ferrat (music), Wim Sonneveld (performer), "Het Dorp"
1552 L<Announced on 2014-10-20 by Abigail|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/10/msg221399.html>
1556 Thuis heb ik nog een ansichtkaart
1557 waarop een kerk, een kar met paard,
1558 een slagerij J. van der Ven.
1559 Een kroeg, een juffrouw op de fiets
1560 het zegt u hoogstwaarschijnlijk niets,
1561 maar 't is waar ik geboren ben.
1562 Dit dorp, ik weet nog hoe het was,
1563 de boerenkind'ren in de klas,
1564 een kar die ratelt op de keien,
1565 het raadhuis met een pomp ervoor,
1566 een zandweg tussen koren door,
1567 het vee, de boerderijen.
1569 En langs het tuinpad van m'n vader
1570 zag ik de hoge bomen staan.
1571 Ik was een kind en wist niet beter,
1572 dan dat dat nooit voorbij zou gaan.
1574 Wat leefden ze eenvoudig toen
1575 in simp'le huizen tussen groen
1576 met boerenbloemen en een heg.
1577 Maar blijkbaar leefden ze verkeerd,
1578 het dorp is gemoderniseerd
1579 en nu zijn ze op de goeie weg.
1580 Want ziet, hoe rijk het leven is,
1581 ze zien de televisiequiz
1582 en wonen in betonnen dozen,
1583 met flink veel glas, dan kun je zien
1584 hoe of het bankstel staat bij Mien
1585 en d'r dressoir met plastic rozen.
1587 En langs het tuinpad van m'n vader
1588 zag ik de hoge bomen staan.
1589 Ik was een kind en wist niet beter,
1590 dan dat dat nooit voorbij zou gaan.
1592 De dorpsjeugd klit wat bij elkaar
1593 in minirok en beatle-haar
1594 en joelt wat mee met beat-muziek.
1595 Ik weet wel, het is hun goeie recht,
1596 de nieuwe tijd, net wat u zegt,
1597 maar het maakt me wat melancholiek.
1598 Ik heb hun vaders nog gekend
1599 ze kochten zoethout voor een cent
1600 ik zag hun moeders touwtjespringen.
1601 Dat dorp van toen, het is voorbij,
1602 dit is al wat er bleef voor mij:
1603 een ansicht en herinneringen.
1605 Toen ik langs het tuinpad van m'n vader
1606 de hoge bomen nog zag staan.
1607 Ik was een kind, hoe kon ik weten
1608 dat dat voorgoed voorbij zou gaan.
1610 =head2 v5.21.4 - Edgar Allan Poe, "The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket"
1612 L<Announced on 2014-09-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/09/msg220267.html>
1614 To-day, being in latitude 83° 20', longitude 43° 5' W. (the sea being
1615 of an extraordinarily dark colour), we again saw land from the
1616 masthead, and, upon a closer scrutiny, found it to be one of a group
1617 of very large islands. The shore was precipitous, and the interior
1618 seemed to be well wooded, a circumstance which occasioned us great
1619 joy. In about four hours from our first discovering the land we came
1620 to anchor in ten fathoms, sandy bottom, a league from the coast, as a
1621 high surf, with strong ripples here and there, rendered a nearer
1622 approach of doubtful expediency. The two largest boats were now
1623 ordered out, and a party, well armed (among whome were Peters and
1624 myself), proceeded to look for an opening in the reef which appeared
1625 to encircle the island. After searching about for some time, we
1626 discovered an inlet, which we were entering, when we saw four large
1627 canoes put off from the shore, filled with men who seemed to be well
1628 armed. We waited for them to come up, and, as they moved with great
1629 rapidity, they were soon within hail. Captain Guy now held up a white
1630 handkerchief on the blade of an oar, when the strangers made a full
1631 stop, and commenced a loud jabbering all at once, intermingled with
1632 occasional shouts, in which we could distinguish the words Anamoo-moo!
1633 and Lama-Lama! They continued this for at least half an hour, during
1634 which we had a good opportunity of observing their appearance.
1636 =head2 v5.21.3 - Robert Service, "The Men that Don't Fit In"
1638 L<Announced on 2014-08-20 by Peter Martini|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/08/msg218826.html>
1640 If they just went straight they might go far,
1641 They are strong and brave and true;
1642 But they're always tired of the things that are,
1643 And they want the strange and new.
1644 They say: "Could I find my proper groove,
1645 What a deep mark I would make!"
1646 So they chop and change, and each fresh move
1647 Is only a fresh mistake.
1649 =head2 v5.21.2 - Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, Charlie Duke, Final minutes of communication of the first manned moon landing, July 20, 1969
1651 L<Announced on 2014-07-20 by Abigail|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/07/msg217937.html>
1653 Armstrong: Okay. Here's a...Looks like a good area here.
1654 Aldrin: I got the shadow out there.
1655 Aldrin: 250, down at 2 1/2, 19 forward.
1656 Aldrin: Altitude, velocity lights.
1657 Aldrin: 3 1/2 down, 220 feet, 13 forward.
1658 Aldrin: 11 forward. Coming down nicely.
1659 Armstrong: Gonna be right over that crater.
1660 Aldrin: 200 feet, 4 1/2 down.
1662 Armstrong: I got a good spot [garbled].
1663 Aldrin: 160 feet, 6 1/2 down.
1664 Aldrin: 5 1/2 down, 9 forward. You're looking good.
1666 Aldrin: 100 feet, 3 1/2 down, 9 forward. Five percent. Quantity light.
1667 Aldrin: Okay. 75 feet. And it's looking good. Down a half, 6 forward.
1670 Aldrin: 60 feet, down 2 1/2. 2 forward. 2 forward. That's good.
1671 Aldrin: 40 feet, down 2 1/2. Picking up some dust.
1672 Aldrin: 30 feet, 2 1/2 down. [Garbled] shadow.
1673 Aldrin: 4 forward. 4 forward. Drifting to the right a little. 20 feet,
1676 Aldrin: Drifting forward just a little bit; that's good.
1677 Aldrin: Contact Light.
1678 Armstrong: Shutdown.
1679 Aldrin: Okay. Engine Stop.
1680 Aldrin: ACA out of Detent.
1681 Armstrong: Out of Detent. Auto.
1682 Aldrin: Mode Control, both Auto. Descent Engine Command Override, Off.
1683 Engine Arm, Off. 413 is in.
1684 Duke: We copy you down, Eagle.
1685 Armstrong: Engine arm is off.
1686 Armstrong: Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed.
1687 Duke: Roger, Twan...[correcting himself] Tranquility. We copy you on
1688 the ground. You got a bunch of guys about to turn blue.
1689 We're breathing again. Thanks a lot.
1692 =head2 v5.21.1 - Robert Jordan, "The Crossroads of Twilights", Book 10 of "The Wheel of Time"
1694 L<Announced on 2014-06-20 by Matthew Horsfall|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/06/msg217030.html>
1696 We rode on the winds of the rising storm,
1697 We ran to the sounds of the thunder.
1698 We danced among the lightning bolts,
1699 and tore the world asunder.
1701 -- Anonymous fragment of a poem believed
1702 written near the end of the previous Age,
1703 known by some as the Third Age.
1704 Sometimes attributed to the Dragon
1707 =head2 v5.21.0 - Friedrich von Schiller, "The Song of the Bell"
1709 L<Announced on 2014-05-27 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/05/msg215826.html>
1711 Walled in fast within the earth
1712 Stands the form burnt out of clay.
1713 This must be the bell’s great birth!
1714 Fellows, lend a hand to-day.
1715 Sweat must trickle now
1716 From the burning brow,
1717 Till the work its master honour.
1718 Blessing comes from Heaven’s Donor.
1720 =head2 v5.20.3 - Elias Lönnrot, trans. Keith Bosley, "The Kalevala", Canto 42: Stealing the Sampo
1722 L<Announced on 2015-09-12 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/09/msg230945.html>
1724 Steady old Väinämöinen
1725 uttered a word and spoke thus:
1726 'No lilting on the waters
1727 and no singing on the waves!
1730 Precious day would pass and night
1731 would overtake us midway
1732 on these wide waters
1733 upon these vast waves.'
1735 The wanton Lemminkäinen
1736 uttered a word and spoke thus:
1737 'The time will pass anyway
1738 the fair day will flee
1739 and the night will come panting
1740 and the twilight will steal in
1741 if you don't sing while you live
1742 nor hum in this world.'
1744 =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"
1746 L<Announced on 2015-08-29 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/08/msg230544.html>
1748 'I fled from Basra, sad and tearful, with no idea where I was going,
1749 and I was reciting these lines:
1751 The pain of parting makes me melt away,
1752 As lovers do when those they love are harsh.
1753 I wonder at the patience that I showed
1754 When I had lost my love, for that was wonderful.
1755 Beloved, do you know that since you left,
1756 I have remained confused in misery.
1758 I then heard a voice that said: "Damn you, have you no fear of
1759 Almighty God that you hand over a girl to an unbelieving 'ifrit?" I
1760 walked for a time amongst the palm-trees until I caught sight of a
1761 person, whom I approached. When I asked him who he was he said: "I
1762 am one of the jinn who were converted to Islam at the hands of 'Ali
1763 ibn Abi Talib, may God ennoble him." "How can I get to my wife?" I
1764 asked him, and he said: "Wretched fellow, you had a bird which you
1765 allowed to fly away and now you want to fly after it." But he
1766 added: "Follow this road with God's blessing all night until dawn
1767 and then by the shore you will see a huge cave in which there is an
1768 idol made of white stone. You must drink of the water that there is
1769 coming out of the cave and smear your face with its mud. Stay there
1770 and a barge will pass you as you stand opposite the statue. Various
1771 different creatures will emerge, heads without bodies and bodies
1772 without heads, and they will prostrate themselves in adoration to
1773 the idol rather than to Almighty God. When you see that, embark on
1774 the barge and cross to the other bank and walk along it until
1775 sunset. On a high point you will see a castle built of bricks of
1776 gold and silver. That is where your 'ifrit will be. I have now
1777 told you about this, so goodbye."
1779 =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"
1781 L<Announced on 2015-08-22 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/08/msg230359.html>
1783 'On the night of the wedding the ape came to sit in front of me and
1784 asked me what I intended to do. "Whatever you tell me," I replied,
1785 and he said: "Take care not to covet the girl, or I shall come back
1786 and burn you up and leave you as a lesson for those who can learn."
1787 I agreed to this and when evening came I found the world full of
1788 candles and torches burning in holders of gold and silver. There
1789 were servants and serving girls, and everyone who saw me
1790 congratulated me on my good fortune, as there was no girl on the
1791 face of the earth more beautiful than my bride.
1793 'Next morning I went out to the market, and people went in and asked
1794 her how the night had been. "He never looked up at me," she told
1795 them. Then, when it was afternoon, I went to my house, where the
1796 ape was sitting by the door. "Tell me what you did," it said, and I
1797 told it: "By God, I did not learn and do not know whether this was a
1798 man or a girl." "That's what I want," it said.
1800 'On the second night my bride was brought to me, after which the
1801 servants left her and went away. She fell asleep, and, while she
1802 was sleeping, I killed the cock, wrapped it in the cloth and put the
1803 four poles from the couch over it. Suddenly there was a huge crash
1804 like a peal of thunder and a fiery 'ifrit swooped on the girl. I
1805 fainted at the sight and when I recovered I heard a voice saying:
1806 "By the Lord of the Ka'ba, the girl has been carried off!" and there
1807 was a sound like the rustling of wind and bitter weeping. At this I
1808 shed tears, struck my head and was filled with regret when it was no
1809 longer of any use, for to me the whole world was worth no more than
1812 =head2 v5.20.2 - Jonathan "Jonti" Picking, L<"Magical Trevor"|http://www.weebls-stuff.com/other-toons/video/magical-trevor.html>
1814 L<Announced on 2015-02-14 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/02/msg225777.html>
1816 Everyone loves Magical Trevor,
1817 'Cos the tricks that he does are ever so clever;
1818 Look at him now, disappearin' the cow,
1819 Where is the cow hidden right now?
1821 Taking a bow, it's Magical Trevor,
1822 Everybody's seen that the trick is clever;
1823 Look at him there with his leathery, leathery whip!
1824 It's made of magic, and with a little flip--
1826 Yeah, yeah, yeah, the cow is back,
1827 Yeah, yeah, yeah, the cow is back;
1828 Back, back, back from his magical journey,
1831 What did he see in the parallel dimension?
1832 He saw beans, lots of beans, lots of beans, lots of beans;
1833 Oh, beans, lots of beans, lots of beans, lots of beans,
1836 =head2 v5.20.2-RC1 - Jonathan "Jonti" Picking, L<"Scampi"|http://www.weebls-stuff.com/other-toons/video/scampi.html>
1838 L<Announced on 2015-02-01 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/02/msg225273.html>
1841 I've seen them with my eyes;
1843 They're often in disguise.
1845 Like carrots, handbags, cheese, toilets,
1846 Russians, planets, hamsters, weddings,
1847 Poets, Stalin, Kuala Lumpur!
1848 Pygmies, budgies, Kuala Lumpur!
1851 I've seen them with my eyes;
1853 They're often in disguise.
1855 Like carrots, handbags, cheese...
1857 =head2 v5.20.1 - Lorenzo da Ponte, trans. Diana Reed, "Così fan tutte"
1859 L<Announced on 2014-09-14 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/09/msg219789.html>
1861 DORABELLA (as if waking from a daze): Where are they?
1862 DON ALFONSO: They've gone.
1863 FIORDILIGI: Oh, the cruel bitterness of parting!
1866 Take heart, my dearest children.
1867 Look, in the distance, your lovers are waving to you.
1869 FIORDILIGI: Bon voyage, my darling!
1870 DORABELLA: Bon voyage!
1873 O heavens! How swiftly the ship is sailing away!
1874 It is disappearing already!
1875 It is no longer in sight!
1876 Oh, may heaven grant it a prosperous voyage!
1878 DORABELLA: May good luck attend it to the battlefield!
1879 DON ALFONSO: And may your sweethearts and my friends be safe!
1881 FIORDILIGI, DORABELLA, DON ALFONSO:
1882 May the wind be gentle,
1883 may the sea be calm,
1884 and may the elements
1888 =head2 v5.20.1-RC2 - Lorenzo da Ponte, trans. William Weaver, "Così fan tutte"
1890 L<Announced on 2014-09-07 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/09/msg219446.html>
1893 Oh God, I feel that this foot of mine
1894 is reluctant to come before her.
1901 The hero displays his manliness
1902 in the most terrible moments.
1904 FIORDILIGI, DORABELLA:
1905 Now that we have heard the news,
1906 you have the lesser duty:
1907 Take heart, and plunge your swords
1908 into both our hearts.
1910 FERRANDO, GUGLIELMO:
1912 that I must abandon you.
1914 DORABELLA: Ah no, you shall not leave...
1915 FIORDILIGI: No, cruel one, you shall not go...
1916 DORABELLA: First I want to tear out my heart.
1917 FIORDILIGI: First I want to die at your feet.
1918 FERRANDO (softly to Don Alfonso): What do you say to that?
1919 GUGLIELMO (softly to Don Alfonso): You realise?
1920 DON ALFONSO (softly): Steady, friend, finem lauda.
1923 Thus destiny defrauds
1924 the hopes of mortals.
1925 Ah, among so many misfortunes,
1926 who can ever love life?
1928 =head2 v5.20.1-RC1 - Lorenzo da Ponte, trans. William Weaver, "Così fan tutte"
1930 L<Announced on 2014-08-25 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/08/msg218975.html>
1933 I'd like to speak, but I haven't the heart:
1935 My voice cannot emerge,
1936 but remains in my throat.
1937 What will you do? What shall I do?
1938 Oh what a great catastrophe!
1939 There can be nothing worse.
1940 I feel pity for you and for them.
1942 FIORDILIGI: Heavens! For mercy's sake, Signor Alfonso, don't make us
1944 DON ALFONSO: My children, you must arm yourselves with constancy.
1945 DORABELLA: Ye Gods! What evil has occurred? What horrible event? Is my
1947 FIORDILIGI: Is mine dead?
1948 DON ALFONSO: They are not dead, but they are not far from it.
1952 DON ALFONSO: Nor that.
1953 FIORDILIGI: What, then?
1954 DON ALFONSO: A royal command summons them to the field of battle.
1955 FIORDILIGI, DORABELLA: Alas, what do I hear? And they will leave?
1956 DON ALFONSO: Immediately.
1957 DORABELLA: And there is no way of preventing it?
1958 DON ALFONSO: There is none.
1959 FIORDILIGI: And not even a single farewell...
1960 DON ALFONSO: The unhappy men haven't the courage to see you; but if
1961 you wish it, they are ready...
1962 DORABELLA: Where are they?
1963 DON ALFONSO: Come in, friends.
1965 =head2 v5.20.0 - William Shakespeare, Sonnet 18
1967 L<Announced on 2014-05-27 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/05/msg215815.html>
1969 But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
1970 Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st;
1971 Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
1972 When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st:
1973 So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
1974 So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
1976 =head2 v5.20.0-RC1 - Lindsey Buckingham, "Second Hand News"
1978 L<Announced on 2014-05-17 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/05/msg215479.html>
1982 Won't you lay me down in tall grass
1983 And let me do my stuff
1985 =head2 v5.19.11 - Isidore-Lucien Ducasse [as "Comte de Lautréamont"], trans. Paul Knight, "Les Chants de Maldoror"
1987 L<Announced on 2014-04-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/04/msg214580.html>
1989 O rigorous mathematics, I have not forgotten you since your wise lessons,
1990 sweeter than honey, filtered into my heart like a refreshing wave.
1991 Instinctively, from the cradle, I had longed to drink from your source, older
1992 than the sun, and I continue to tread the sacred sanctuary of your solemn
1993 temple, I, the most faithful of your devotees. There was a vagueness in my
1994 mind, something thick as smoke; but I managed to mount the steps which lead to
1995 your altar, and you drove away this dark veil, as the wind blows the
1996 draught-board. You replaced it with excessive coldness, consummate prudence and
1997 implacable logic. With the aid of your fortifying milk, my intellect developed
1998 rapidly and took on immense proportions amid the ravishing lucidity which you
1999 bestow as a gift on all those who sincerely love you. Arithmetic! Algebra!
2000 Geometry! Awe-inspiring trinity! Luminous triangle! He who has not known you
2003 =head2 v5.19.10 - John Chadwick, "The Decipherment of Linear B"
2005 L<Announced on 2014-03-20 by Aaron Crane|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/03/msg213851.html>
2007 The urge to discover secrets is deeply ingrained in human nature; even
2008 the least curious mind is roused by the promise of sharing knowledge
2009 withheld from others. Some are fortunate enough to find a job which
2010 consists in the solution of mysteries, whether it be the physicist who
2011 tracks down a hitherto unknown nuclear particle or the policeman who
2012 detects a criminal. But most of us are driven to sublimate this urge
2013 by the solving of artificial puzzles devised for our entertainment.
2015 =head2 v5.19.9 - R. A. MacAvoy, "Tea with the Black Dragon"
2017 L<Announced on 2014-02-20 by Tony Cook|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/02/msg213047.html>
2019 Old hands. The smell of rain--the smell of Ch'an. Quiet words in
2020 rough Cantonese. "I am not to be your master. Your master has to be
2021 stronger than you are--has to tell you you are a fool and make you
2022 know it. And make you feel content in being a fool. How could I do
2023 that for you? I'm old. You are too strong for me; you are full of
2024 chi." The old man has paused then, huddled against the wind while
2025 clouds thickened above them.
2027 "I will tell you this, Long," he continued, "Before you find yourself
2028 you will lose your chi. Also you will leave behind you all pride of
2029 body, pride of mind. You will be reduced. Like me." The old man
2030 closed his eyes, and rain began to beat against his gray, crew-cut
2031 hair. He pulled his coat closer. Suddenly his eyes snapped open and
2032 he looked Long in the face.
2034 "You must leave China. Go across the ocean. There you will meet your
2035 master." He set down his teacup with a palsied hand. His voice rose,
2038 "I tell you this, most honored and impressive visitor. You are a
2039 fool, yes, but you will find the very thing you seek. You will find
2042 =head2 v5.19.8 - Joseph Heller, "Catch-22"
2044 L<Announced on 2014-01-20 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/01/msg211729.html>
2046 “I used to get a big kick out of saving people’s lives. Now I wonder what the
2047 hell’s the point, since they all have to die anyway.”
2049 “Oh, there’s a point, all right,” Dunbar assured him.
2051 “Is there? What is the point?”
2053 “The point is to keep them from dying for as long as you can.”
2055 “Yeah, but what’s the point, since they all have to die anyway?”
2057 “The trick is not to think about that.”
2059 “Never mind the trick. What the hell’s the point?”
2061 Dunbar pondered in silence for a few moments. “Who the hell knows?”
2063 =head2 v5.19.7 - Kurt Vonnegut, "Slaughterhouse-Five"
2065 L<Announced on 2013-12-20 by Abigail|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/12/msg210882.html>
2067 And somewhere in there was springtime. The corpse mines were closed
2068 down. The soldiers all left to fight the Russians. In the suburbs,
2069 the women and children dug rifle pits. Billy and the rest of his group
2070 were locked up in the stable in the suburbs. And then, one morning,
2071 they got up to discover that the door was unlocked. World War Two in
2074 Billy and the rest wandered out onto the shady street. The trees were
2075 leafing out. There was nothing going on out there, no traffic of any
2076 kind. There was only one vehicle, an abandoned wagon drawn by two
2077 horses. The wagon was green and coffin-shaped.
2081 One bird said to Billy Pilgrim, "Pee-tee-weet?"
2083 =head2 v5.19.6 - Monty Python's Flying Circus, "Spam"
2085 L<Announced on 2013-11-20 by Chris 'BinGOs' Williams|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/11/msg210043.html>
2087 Interior: cheap cafe. All the customers are Vikings. Mr and Mrs Bun enter downwards (on wires).
2091 Mr. Bun: What have you got, then?
2092 Waitress: Well there's egg and bacon; egg, sausage and bacon; egg and spam; egg, bacon and spam;
2093 egg, bacon, sausage and spam; spam, bacon, sausage and spam; spam, egg, spam, spam, bacon and spam;
2094 spam, spam, spam, egg and spam; spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, baked beans, spam, spam, spam and spam;
2095 or lobster thermidor aux crevettes, with a mornay sauce garnished with truffle pate, brandy and a fried
2097 Mrs. Bun: Have you got anything without spam in it?
2098 Waitress: Well, there's spam, egg, sausage and spam. That's not got MUCH spam in it.
2099 Mrs. Bun: I don't want ANY spam.
2100 Mr. Bun: Why can't she have egg, bacon, spam and sausage?
2101 Mrs. Bun: That's got spam in it!
2102 Mr. Bun: Not as much as spam, egg, sausage and spam.
2103 Mrs. Bun: Look, could I have egg, bacon, spam and sausage, without the spam.
2104 Waitress: Uuuuuuggggh!
2105 Mrs. Bun: What d'you mean, uugggh! I don't like spam.
2106 Vikings: (singing) Spam, spam, spam, spam, spam ... spam, spam, spam, spam ... lovely spam, wonderful spam ...
2108 (Brief shot of a Viking ship)
2110 Waitress: Shut up. Shut up! Shut up! You can't have egg, bacon, spam and sausage without the spam.
2112 Waitress: No, it wouldn't be egg, bacon, spam and sausage, would it?
2113 Mrs. Bun: I don't like spam!
2115 =head2 v5.19.5 - Charles Baudelaire, trans. James McGowan, "The Flowers of Evil", 51. The Cat
2117 L<Announced on 2013-10-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/10/msg208752.html>
2121 A cat is strolling through my mind
2122 Acting as though he owned the place,
2123 A lovely cat -- strong, charming, sweet.
2124 When he meows, one scarcely hears,
2126 So tender and discreet his tone;
2127 But whether he should growl or purr
2128 His voice is always rich and deep.
2129 That is the secret of his charm.
2131 This purling voice that filters down
2132 Into my darkest depths of soul
2133 Fulfils me like a balanced verse,
2134 Delights me as a potion would.
2136 It puts to sleep the cruellest ills
2137 And keeps a rein on ecstasies --
2138 Without the need for any words
2139 It can pronounce the longest phrase.
2141 Oh no, there is no bow that draws
2142 Across my heart, fine instrument,
2143 And makes to sing so royally
2144 The strongest and the purest chord,
2146 More than your voice, mysterious cat,
2147 Exotic cat, seraphic cat,
2148 In whom all is, angelically,
2149 As subtle as harmonious.
2153 From his soft fur, golden and brown,
2154 Goes out so sweet a scent, one night
2155 I might have been embalmed in it
2156 By giving him one little pet.
2158 He is my household's guardian soul;
2159 He judges, he presides, inspires
2160 All matters in hos royal realm;
2161 Might he be fairy? or a god?
2163 When my eyes, to this cat I love
2164 Drawn as by a magnet's force,
2165 Turn tamely back from that appeal,
2166 And when I look within myself,
2168 I notice with astonishment
2169 The fire of his opal eyes,
2170 Clear beacons glowing, living jewels,
2171 Taking my measure, steadily.
2173 =head2 v5.19.4 - Washington Irving, "The Widow and Her Son"
2175 L<Announced on 2013-09-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/09/msg207969.html>
2177 There is something in sickness that breaks down the pride of manhood;
2178 that softens the heart and brings it back to the feelings of infancy.
2179 Who that has languished, even in advanced life, in sickness and
2180 despondency — who that has pined on a weary bed in the neglect and
2181 loneliness of a foreign land — but has thought on the mother "that
2182 looked on his childhood," that smoothed his pillow and administered to
2183 his helplessness. — Oh! there is an enduring tenderness in the love
2184 of a mother to her son that transcends all other affections of the
2185 heart. It is neither to be chilled by selfishness — nor daunted by
2186 danger — nor weakened by worthlessness — nor stifled by ingratitude.
2187 She will sacrifice every comfort to his convenience — she will
2188 surrender every pleasure to his enjoyment — she will glory in his fame
2189 and exult in his prosperity. And if misfortune overtake him he will
2190 be the dearer to her from misfortune — and if disgrace settle upon his
2191 name, she will still love and cherish him in spite of his disgrace —
2192 and if all the world beside cast him off, she will be all the world to
2195 =head2 v5.19.3 - Andrew Hodges, "Alan Turing: The Enigma"
2197 L<Announced on 2013-08-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/08/msg206318.html>
2199 E.M. Forster, outdoing the King's heresy with grand bravura, had
2200 written in 1938 that if he were faced with the choice between
2201 betraying his country and betraying his friends, he hoped he would
2202 have the courage to betray his country. He would always put the
2203 personal above the political. But for Alan Turing, unlike Forster, or
2204 Wittgenstein, or G.H. Hardy, it was more than a theoretical question.
2205 For him not only had the personal become the political, but the
2206 political was the personal. He had chosen and promised for himself in
2207 working for the government. The choice for him therefore was that
2208 between betraying one part of himself and betraying another part. And
2209 however much he wavered between these alternatives, there was a solid
2210 logic to the mind of security, one that could not be expected to take
2211 an interest in notions of freedom and development. He had no rights
2212 to such things, as he would have had to admit. He might have
2213 outwitted the Home Guard, but when it came to questions that mattered,
2214 there was no doubt that he had placed himself under military law.
2215 There was a war on; there was always a war on now.
2217 =head2 v5.19.2 - Fred Brooks, "The Mythical Man-Month"
2219 L<Announced on 2013-07-22 by Aristotle Pagaltzis|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/07/msg204905.html>
2221 The magic of myth and legend has come true in our time. One types the
2222 correct incantation on a keyboard, and a display screen comes to life,
2223 showing things that never were nor could be. [...] Not all is delight,
2224 however [...] One must perform perfectly. The computer resembles the
2225 magic of legend in this respect, too. If one character, one pause, of
2226 the incantation is not strictly in proper form, the magic doesn't work.
2228 =head2 v5.19.1 - William Shakespeare, "A Midsummer Night's Dream"
2230 L<Announced on 2013-06-21 by David Golden|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/06/msg203449.html>
2232 Over hill, over dale,
2233 Thorough bush, thorough briar,
2234 Over park, over pale,
2235 Thorough flood, thorough fire,
2236 I do wander everywhere,
2237 Swifter than the moon's sphere;
2238 And I serve the fairy queen,
2239 To dew her orbs upon the green.
2240 The cowslips tall her pensioners be;
2241 In their gold coats, spots you see;
2242 Those be rubies, fairy favours,
2243 In their freckles live our savours.
2244 I must go seek some dew-drops here,
2245 And hang a perl in every cowslip's ear.
2246 Farewell, thou lob of spirits, I'll be gone;
2247 My queen and all her elves come here anon!
2249 =head2 v5.19.0 - Batman, of the Joker, in "The Dark Knight Returns"
2251 L<Announced on 2013-05-20 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/05/msg201980.html>
2253 From the beginning, I knew…
2254 …that there was nothing wrong with you…
2258 =head2 v5.18.4 - Robert W. Chambers, Cassilda's Song in "The King in Yellow," Act I, Scene 2
2260 L<Announced on 2014-10-01 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/10/msg220770.html>
2262 Along the shore the cloud waves break,
2263 The twin suns sink beneath the lake,
2264 The shadows lengthen
2267 Strange is the night where black stars rise,
2268 And strange moons circle through the skies
2269 But stranger still is
2272 Songs that the Hyades shall sing,
2273 Where flap the tatters of the King,
2277 Song of my soul, my voice is dead;
2278 Die thou, unsung, as tears unshed
2279 Shall dry and die in
2282 =head2 v5.18.3 - (no epigraph)
2286 =head2 v5.18.3-RC2 - Robert W. Chambers, "The King in Yellow", Act I, Scene 2
2288 L<Announced on 2014-09-27 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/09/msg220613.html>
2290 "Ah! I see it now!" I shrieked. "You have seized the throne and the
2291 empire. Woe! woe to you who are crowned with the crown of the King in
2294 =head2 v5.18.3-RC1 - Robert W. Chambers, "The King in Yellow", Act I, Scene 2
2296 L<Announced on 2014-09-17 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/09/msg220072.html>
2298 CAMILLA: You, sir, should unmask.
2302 CASSILDA: Indeed it's time. We all have laid aside disguise but you.
2304 STRANGER: I wear no mask.
2306 CAMILLA: (Terrified, aside to Cassilda.) No mask? No mask!
2308 =head2 v5.18.2 - Miss Manners
2310 L<Announced on 2014-01-06 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/01/msg211224.html>
2312 One of the major mistakes people make is that they think manners are
2313 only the expression of happy ideas. There's a whole range of behavior
2314 that can be expressed in a mannerly way. That's what civilization is all
2315 about – doing it in a mannerly and not an antagonistic way. One of the
2316 places we went wrong was the naturalistic Rousseauean movement of the
2317 Sixties in which people said, "Why can't you just say what's on your
2318 mind?" In civilization there have to be some restraints. If we followed
2319 every impulse, we'd be killing one another.
2321 =head2 v5.18.1 - Chuck Moore
2323 L<Announced on 2013-08-12 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/08/msg205897.html>
2325 The operating system is another concept that is curious. Operating
2326 systems are dauntingly complex and totally unnecessary. It’s a brilliant
2327 thing that Bill Gates has done in selling the world on the notion of
2328 operating systems. It’s probably the greatest con game the world has
2331 An operating system does absolutely nothing for you. As long as you had
2332 something — a subroutine called disk driver, a subroutine called some
2333 kind of communication support, in the modern world, it doesn’t do
2334 anything else. In fact, Windows spends a lot of time with overlays and
2335 disk management all stuff like that which are irrelevant. You’ve got
2336 gigabyte disks; you’ve got megabyte RAMs. The world has changed in a way
2337 that renders the operating system unnecessary.
2339 =head2 v5.18.1-RC1 - Chuck Moore
2341 L<Announced on 2013-08-02 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/08/msg205445.html>
2343 Compilers are probably the worst code ever written. They are written by
2344 someone who has never written a compiler before and will never do so
2345 again. The more elaborate the language, the more complex, bug-ridden,
2346 and unusable is the compiler. But a simple compiler for a simple
2347 language is an essential tool—if only for documentation.
2349 =head2 v5.18.0 - Yevgeny Zamyatin
2351 L<Announced on 2013-05-18 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/05/msg201940.html>
2353 It is an error to divide people into the living and the dead: there are people
2354 who are dead-alive, and people who are alive-alive. The dead-alive also write,
2355 walk, speak, act. But they make no mistakes; only machines make no mistakes,
2356 and they produce only dead things. The alive-alive are constantly in error, in
2357 search, in questions, in torment.
2359 =head2 v5.18.0-RC4 - Joseph Heller, "Catch-22"
2361 L<Announced on 2013-05-16 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/05/msg201889.html>
2363 Clevinger was dead. That was the basic flaw in his philosophy.
2365 =head2 v5.18.0-RC3 - Tom Waits, "The Ocean Doesn't Want Me"
2367 L<Announced on 2013-05-14 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/05/msg201823.html>
2369 I'd love to go drowning
2370 And to stay and to stay
2371 But the ocean doesn't want me today
2372 I'll go in up to here
2373 It can't possibly hurt
2374 All they will find is my beer
2377 =head2 v5.18.0-RC2 - Tom Waits, "Earth Died Screaming"
2379 L<Announced on 2013-05-12 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/05/msg201723.html>
2381 And the great day of wrath has come
2382 And here's mud in your big red eye
2383 The poker's in the fire
2384 And the locusts take the sky
2385 And the earth died screaming
2386 While I lay dreaming of you
2388 =head2 v5.18.0-RC1 - Tom Waits, "What's He Building in There?"
2390 L<Announced on 2013-05-11 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/05/msg201651.html>
2392 What's he building in there?
2394 We have a right to know…
2396 =head2 v5.17.11 - Nigel Tufnel in "This is Spın̈al Tap"
2398 L<Announced on 2013-04-20 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/04/msg201056.html>
2400 It's very special because, if you can see, the numbers all go to…
2401 eleven! Look, right across the board: eleven, eleven, eleven, eleven!
2403 =head2 v5.17.10 - Vernor Vinge, "A Fire Upon The Deep"
2405 L<Announced on 2013-03-23 by Max Maischein|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/03/msg200504.html>
2407 The archive informed the automation. Data structures were built, recipes
2408 followed. A local network was built, faster than anything on Straum, but surely
2409 safe. Nodes were added, modified by other recipes. The archive was a friendly
2410 place, with hierarchies of translation keys that led them along. Straum itself
2411 would be famous for this.
2413 Six months passed. A year.
2415 The omniscient view. Not self-aware really. Self-awareness is much over-rated.
2416 Most automation works far better as a part of a whole, and even if human-
2417 powerful, it does not need to self-know.
2419 =head2 v5.17.9 - Douglas Adams, "The Hitch-Hikers Guide to the Galaxy"
2421 L<Announced on 2013-02-20 by Chris 'BinGOs' Williams|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/02/msg199115.html>
2423 Vogon poetry is of course, the third worst in the universe.
2424 The second worst is that of the Azgoths of Kria. During a
2425 recitation by their poet master Grunthos the Flatulent of
2426 his poem 'Ode To A Small Lump of Green Putty I Found In My
2427 Armpit One Midsummer Morning' four of his audience died
2428 of internal haemorrhaging and the president of the
2429 Mid-Galactic Arts Nobbling Council survived by gnawing one
2430 of his own legs off. Grunthos is reported to have been
2431 'disappointed' by the poem's reception, and was about to
2432 embark on a reading of his twelve-book epic entitled
2433 'My Favourite Bathtime Gurgles' when his own major intestine,
2434 in a desperate attempt to save life and civilisation,
2435 leapt straight up through his neck and throttled his brain.
2437 The very worst poetry of all perished along with its creator
2438 Paula Nancy Millstone Jennings of Greenbridge, Essex, England,
2439 in the destruction of the planet Earth.
2441 =head2 v5.17.8 - Iain Pears, "An Instance of the Fingerpost"
2443 L<Announced on 2013-01-20 by Aaron Crane|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/01/msg197571.html>
2445 I must here declare myself as someone who does not for a moment subscribe to
2446 the general view that a willingness to perform oneself is detrimental to the
2447 dignity of experimental philosophy. There is, after all, a clear distinction
2448 between labour carried out for financial reward, and that done for the
2449 improvement of mankind: to put it another way, Lower as a philosopher was
2450 fully my equal even if he fell away when he became the practising physician.
2451 I think ridiculous of certain professors of anatomy, who find it beneath
2452 them to pick up the knife themselves, but merely comment while hired hands
2453 do the cutting. Sylvius would never have dreamt of sitting on a dais reading
2454 from an authority while others cut — when he taught, the knife was
2455 in his hand and the blood spattered his coat. Boyle also did not scruple to
2456 perform his own experiments and, on one occasion in my presence, even showed
2457 himself willing to anatomise a rat with his very own hands. Nor was he less
2458 a gentleman when he had finished. Indeed, in my opinion, his stature was all
2459 the greater, for in Boyle wealth, humility and curiosity mingled, and the
2460 world is richer for it.
2462 =head2 v5.17.7 - R. Scott Bakker, "The Darkness That Comes Before"
2464 L<Announced on 2012-12-18 by Dave Rolsky|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/12/msg196707.html>
2468 The boy extinguished. Only a place.
2472 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.
2474 A place without breath or sound. A place of sight alone. A place without before or after . . . almost.
2476 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.
2478 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 . . .
2480 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.
2482 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.
2484 I have been legion . . .
2486 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.
2490 =head2 v5.17.6 - Kurt Vonnegut, "The Sirens of Titan"
2492 L<Announced on 2012-11-20 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/11/msg195659.html>
2494 Beatrice, looking like a gypsy queen, smoldered at the foot of a statue
2495 of a young physical student. At first glance, the laboratory-gowned
2496 scientist seemed to be a perfect servant of nothing but truth. At first
2497 glance, one was convinced that nothing but truth could please him as he
2498 beamed at his test tube. At first glance, one thought that he was as
2499 much above the beastly concerns of mankind as the harmoniums in the
2500 caves of Mercury. There, at first glance, was a young man without
2501 vanity, without lust — and one accepted at its face value the title Salo
2502 had engraved on the statue, "Discovery of Atomic Power."
2504 =head2 v5.17.5 - Charles Stross, "Singularity Sky"
2506 L<Announced on 2012-10-20 by Florian Ragwitz|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/10/msg194349.html>
2508 Neither of them noticed the pair of polka-dotted knickers hiding
2509 behind the ventilation duct overhead, listening patiently and
2510 recording everything.
2512 =head2 v5.17.4 - Roald Dahl, "Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf"
2514 L<Announced on 2012-09-19 by Florian Ragwitz|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/09/msg192635.html>
2516 The small girl smiles. One eyelid flickers.
2517 She whips a pistol from her knickers.
2518 She aims it at the creature's head,
2519 And bang bang bang, she shoots him dead.
2521 A few weeks later, in the wood,
2522 I came across Miss Riding Hood.
2523 But what a change! No cloak of red,
2524 No silly hood upon her head.
2525 She said, "Hello, and do please note
2526 My lovely furry wolfskin coat."
2528 =head2 v5.17.3 - Kris Ta-belle, "Smoked Perl Onion Soup"
2530 L<Announced on 2012-08-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/08/msg190775.html>
2534 Cut 16 Perl Onions into quarters and put them in a grill smoker rack
2535 or a perforated pan over a BBQ using hickory wood chips or Special
2536 Blend Smoker Bisquettes. Smoke them for an hour and remove once they
2538 Let them cool and put them in the fridge (or freezer) until you are
2539 ready to create the soup.
2543 16 diced, pre-smoked, Perl Onions
2546 2 small garlic cloves, finely minced
2549 black pepper to taste
2551 1/4 cup all purpose flour
2552 6 cups of beef or vegetable stock
2553 1 cup of thick cream (milk can be used as a substitute)
2557 Melt the butter in a pan and then add olive oil.
2558 Heat and add the onions to caramelize over a medium-high heat for up
2560 Add the garlic, turn down the heat and cook for a further 5 minutes.
2561 Add the salt, pepper and sugar.
2562 Now add the red wine and reduce to a jam like consistency.
2563 Add the flour, stir well and add the stock a cup at a time.
2564 Simmer for 30 minutes, add the cream and heat to almost boiling.
2568 =head2 v5.17.2 - Terry Pratchet, "The Colour of Magic"
2570 L<Announced on 2012-07-21 by TonyC|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/07/msg189828.html>
2572 ‘I knew it,’ said Rincewind. ‘We're in a strong magical field.’
2574 Twoflower and Hrun looked around the little hollow where they had made
2575 their noonday halt. Then they looked at each other.
2577 The horses were quietly cropping the rich grass by the stream. Yellow
2578 butterflies skittered among the bushes. There was a smell of thyme
2579 and a buzzing of bees. The wild pigs on the spit sizzled gently.
2581 Hrun shrugged and went back to oiling his biceps. They gleamed.
2583 ‘Looks alright to me,’ he said.
2585 ‘Try tossing a coin,’ said Rincewind.
2589 ‘Go on. Toss a coin.’
2591 ‘Hokay,’ said Hrun. 'If that gives you any pleasure.’ He reached into
2592 his pouch and withdrew a handful of loose change plundered from a
2593 dozen realms. With some care he selected a Zchloty leaden
2594 quarter-iotum and balanced it on a purple thumbnail.
2596 ‘You call,’ he said. ‘Heads or—’ he inspected the obverse with
2597 an air of intense concentration, ‘some sort of a fish with legs.’
2599 ‘When it's in the air,’ said Rincewind. Hrun grinned and flicked his thumb.
2601 The iotum rose, spinning.
2603 ‘Edge,’ said Rincewind, without looking at it.
2605 =head2 v5.17.1 - Rand Miller, "Myst: The Book of Ti'ana"
2607 L<Announced on 2012-06-20 by doy|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/06/msg188354.html>
2609 On their return from Ko'ah, Aitrus had shown her the Book, patiently
2610 taking her through page after page, and showing her how such an Age was
2611 "made." She had seen at once the differences between this archaic form
2612 and the ordinary written speech of the D'ni, noting how it was not
2613 merely more elaborate but more specific: a language of precise yet
2614 subtle descriptive power. Yet seeing was one thing, believing another.
2615 Given all the evidence, her rational mind still fought against accepting
2618 =head2 v5.17.0 - Charles Stross, "Singularity Sky"
2620 L<Announced on 2012-05-26 by Zefram|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/05/msg187214.html>
2622 `Welcome, comrades!' Burya opened his arms toward the soldier.
2623 `Yes it is true! With help from our allies of the Festival, the iron
2624 hand of the reactionary junta is about to be overthrown for all time!
2625 The new economy is being born; the marginal cost of production has
2626 been abolished, and from now on, if any item is produced once, it can
2627 be replicated infinitely. From each according to his imagination,
2628 to each according to his needs! Join us or better still, bring your
2629 fellow soldiers and workers to join us!'
2631 There was a sharp bang from the roof of the Corn Exchange, right at the
2632 climax of his impromptu speech; heads turned in alarm. Something had
2633 broken inside the spork factory and a stream of rainbow-hued plastic
2634 implements fountained toward the sky and clattered to the cobblestones
2635 on every side, like a harbinger of the postindustrial society to come.
2636 Workers and peasants alike stared in open-mouthed bewilderment at this
2637 astounding display of productivity, then bent to scrabble in the muck
2638 for the brightly colored sporks of revolution. A volley of shots rang
2639 out and Burya Rubenstein raised his hands, grinning wildly, to accept
2640 the salute of the soldiers from the Skull Hill garrison.
2642 =head2 v5.16.3 - Devo, "Freedom of Choice"
2644 L<Announced on 2013-03-11 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/03/msg200009.html>
2646 A victim of collision on the open sea
2647 Nobody ever said that life was free
2648 Sink, swim, go down with the ship
2649 But use your freedom of choice
2651 =head2 v5.16.2 - Stanislaw Lem, "The Cyberiad", Trurl's Machine
2653 L<Announced on 2012-11-01 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/11/msg194915.html>
2655 Once upon a time Trurl the constructor built an eight-story thinking
2656 machine. When it was finished, he gave it a coat of white paint,
2657 trimmed the edges in lavender, stepped back, squinted, then added a
2658 little curlicue on the front and, where one might imagine the forehead
2659 to be, a few pale orange polkadots. Extremely pleased with himself,
2660 he whistled an air and, as is always done on such occasions, asked it
2661 the ritual question of how much is two plus two.
2663 The machine stirred. Its tubes began to glow, its coils warmed up,
2664 current coursed through all its circuits like a waterfall,
2665 transformers hummed and throbbed, there was a clanging, and a
2666 chugging, and such an ungodly racket that Trurl began to think of
2667 adding a special mentation muffler. Meanwhile the machine labored on,
2668 as if it had been given the most difficult problem in the Universe to
2669 solve; the ground shook, the sand slid underfoot from the vibration,
2670 valves popped like champagne corks, the relays nearly gave way under
2671 the strain. At last, when Trurl had grown extremely impatient, the
2672 machine ground to a halt and said in a voice like thunder: SEVEN!
2674 =head2 v5.16.1 - Emerald Rose, "Never Split The Party"
2676 L<Announced on 2012-08-08 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/08/msg190413.html>
2678 Don't you know? You never split the party
2679 Clerics in the back to keep those fighters hale and hearty
2680 The wizard in the middle, where he can shed some light
2681 And you never let that damn thief out of sight…
2683 =head2 v5.16.1-RC1 - Tom Moldvay, Foreward to the "Dungeons & Dragons Basic Rulebook"
2685 L<Announced on 2012-08-03 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/08/msg190264.html>
2687 I was busy rescuing the captured maiden when the dragon showed up.
2688 Fifty feed of scaled terror glared down at us with smoldering red eyes.
2689 Tendrils of smoke drifted out from between fangs larger than daggers.
2690 The dragon blocked the only exit from the cave.
2694 I unwrapped the sword which the mysterious cleric had given me. The
2695 sword was golden-tinted steel. Its hilt was set with a rainbow
2696 collection of precious gems. I shouted my battle cry and charged
2698 My charge caught the dragon by surprise. Its titanic jaws snapped shut
2699 inches from my face. I swung the golden sword with both arms. The
2700 swordblade bit into the dragon's neck and continued through to the other
2701 side. With an earth-shaking crash, the dragon dropped dead at my feet.
2702 The magic sword had saved my life and ended the reign of the
2703 dragon-tyrant. The countryside was freed and I could return as a hero.
2705 =head2 v5.16.0 - W.H. Auden, "September 1, 1939"
2707 L<Announced on 2012-05-20 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/05/msg186903.html>
2709 All I have is a voice
2710 To undo the folded lie,
2711 The romantic lie in the brain
2712 Of the sensual man-in-the-street
2713 And the lie of Authority
2714 Whose buildings grope the sky:
2715 There is no such thing as the State
2716 And no one exists alone;
2717 Hunger allows no choice
2718 To the citizen or the police;
2719 We must love one another or die.
2721 =head2 v5.15.9 - Bob Dylan, "Blowin' In The Wind"
2723 L<Announced on 2012-03-20 by Abigail|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/03/msg184824.html>
2725 How many roads must a man walk down
2726 Before you call him a man?
2727 Yes, 'n' how many seas must a white dove sail
2728 Before she sleeps in the sand?
2729 Yes, 'n' how many times must the cannonballs fly
2730 Before they're forever banned?
2731 The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind
2732 The answer is blowin' in the wind
2734 How many years can a mountain exist
2735 Before it's washed to the sea?
2736 Yes, 'n' how many years can some people exist
2737 Before they're allowed to be free?
2738 Yes, 'n' how many times can a man turn his head
2739 Pretending he just doesn't see?
2740 The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind
2741 The answer is blowin' in the wind
2743 How many times must a man look up
2744 Before he can see the sky?
2745 Yes, 'n' how many ears must one man have
2746 Before he can hear people cry?
2747 Yes, 'n' how many deaths will it take till he knows
2748 That too many people have died?
2749 The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind
2750 The answer is blowin' in the wind
2752 =head2 v5.15.8 - The KLF, "The Manual-How To Have A Number One The Easy Way"
2754 L<Announced on 2012-02-20 by Max Maischein|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/02/msg183919.html>
2756 "Doctor Who, hey Doctor Who
2757 Doctor Who, in the Tardis
2758 Doctor Who, hey Doctor Who
2759 Doctor Who, Doc, Doctor Who
2760 Doctor Who, Doc, Doctor Who"
2762 Gibberish of course, but every lad in the country under a certain
2763 age related instinctively to what it was about. The ones slightly
2764 older needed a couple of pints inside them to clear away the mind
2765 debris left by the passing years before it made sense. As for
2766 girls and our chorus, we think they must have seen it as pure crap.
2767 A fact that must have limited to zero our chances of staying at The
2768 Top for more than one week.
2770 Stock, Aitkin and Waterman, however, are kings of writing chorus
2771 lyrics that go straight to the emotional heart of the 7" single
2772 buying girls in this country. Their most successful records will kick
2773 into the chorus with a line which encapsulates the entire emotional
2774 meaning of the song. This will obviously be used as the title. As
2775 soon as Rick Astley hit the first line of the chorus on his debut
2776 single it was all over - the Number One position was guaranteed:
2778 "I'm never going to give you up"
2780 =head2 v5.15.7 - Penelope Lively, "The Voyage of QV66"
2782 L<Announced on 2012-01-20 by Chris 'BinGOs' Williams|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/01/msg182230.html>
2784 "Laboratories," announced Henry. "Kindly don't touch anything."
2786 He led us into a long low brick shed. Outside there was a
2787 notice on a piece of board, crudely printed in red paint,
2788 which said GRATE SIENCE DISCOVERYS DONE HERE SSSH! BRING YOUR
2789 OWN BUKKIT NO PINCHING ANYWUN ELSE'S EXPERRYMENTS CANTEEN OPEN
2790 ALL DAY CHIMPS ONLY.
2792 There were a lot of large black monkeys inside, all intently
2793 busy on what they were doing. Some of them were pouring stuff
2794 out of bottles into buckets and carefully stirring the ensuing
2795 mixture; others were at work with glass tubes and jars, blowing
2796 and measuring and mixing; others were crouched over long benches
2797 with tools and heaps of bits and pieces of metal, cutting and
2798 bending and constructing. There was a great deal of noise and
2799 chatter. Every now and then one of them would give a whoop of
2800 excitement and all the others would gather round and jump up and
2801 down cheering and applauding.
2803 "Chimps," said Henry. "They're awfully clever."
2805 =head2 v5.15.6 - Ursula K. Leguin, "A Wizard of Earthsea"
2807 L<Announced on 2011-12-20 by Dave Rolsky|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/12/msg180962.html>
2809 Ged had thought that as the prentice of a great mage he would enter at once
2810 into the mystery and mastery of power. He would understand the language of the
2811 beasts and the speech of the leaves of the forest, he thought, and sway the
2812 winds with his word, and learn to change himself into any shape he
2813 wished. Maybe he and his master would run together as stags, or fly to Re Albi
2814 over the mountain on the wings of eagles.
2816 But it was not so at all. They wandered, first down into the Vale and then
2817 gradually south and westward around the mountain, given lodging in little
2818 villages or spending the night out in the wilderness, like poor
2819 journeyman-sorcerers, or tinkers, or beggars. They entered no mysterious
2820 domain. Nothing happened. The mage's oaken staff that Ged had watched at first
2821 with eager dread was nothing but a stout staff to walk with. Three days went
2822 by and four days went by and still Ogion had not spoken a single charm in
2823 Ged's hearing, and had not taught him a single name or rune or spell.
2825 =head2 v5.15.5 - Nikolai Gogol, trans. Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, "The Diary of a Madman"
2827 L<Announced on 2011-11-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/11/msg179588.html>
2829 This day - is a day of the greatest solemnity! Spain has a king. He has
2830 been found. I am that king. Only this very day did I learn of it. I
2831 confess, it came to me suddenly in a flash of lightning. I don't understand
2832 how I could have thought and imagined that I was a titular councillor. How
2833 could such a wild notion enter my head? It's a good thing no one thought of
2834 putting me in an insane asylum. Now everything is laid open before me. Now
2835 I see everything as on the palm of my hand. And before, I don't understand,
2836 before everything around me was in some sort of fog. And all this happens, I
2837 think, because people imagine that the human brain is in the head. Not at
2838 all: it is brought by a wind from the direction of the Caspian Sea. First
2839 off, I announced to Mavra who I am. When she heard that the king of Spain
2840 was standing before her, she clasped her hands and nearly died of fright.
2841 The stupid woman had never seen a king of Spain before. However, I
2842 endeavoured to calm her down and assured her in gracious words of my
2843 benevolence and that I was not at all angry that she sometimes polished my
2844 boots poorly. They're benighted folk. It's impossible to tell them about
2845 lofty matters. She got frightened because she's convinced that all kings of
2846 Spain are like Philip II. But I explained to her that there was no
2847 resemblance between me and Philip II, and that I didn't have a single
2848 Capuchin . . . I didn't go to the office . . . To hell with it! No friends,
2849 you won't lure me there now; I'm not going to copy your vile papers!
2851 =head2 v5.15.4 - Steve Jobs
2853 L<Announced on 2011-10-20 by Florian Ragwitz|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/10/msg178412.html>
2855 A lot of people in our industry haven't had very diverse experiences. So they
2856 don't have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions
2857 without a broad perspective on the problem. The broader one's understanding of
2858 the human experience, the better design we will have.
2860 =head2 v5.15.3 - Oscar Wilde, From the preface to "The Picture of Dorian Gray"
2862 L<Announced on 2011-09-20 by Stevan Little|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/09/msg177427.html>
2864 All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath
2865 the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol
2866 do so at their peril.
2868 It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.
2869 Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the
2870 work is new, complex, and vital. When critics disagree, the
2871 artist is in accord with himself.
2873 We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as
2874 he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless
2875 thing is that one admires it intensely.
2877 All art is quite useless.
2879 =head2 v5.15.2 - Rainer Maria Rilke, trans., C. F. MacIntyre, "Duino", The First Elegy
2881 L<Announced on 2011-08-20 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/08/msg176067.html>
2883 True, it is strange to live no more on earth,
2884 no longer follow the folkways scarecely learned;
2885 not to give roses and other especially auspicious
2886 things the significance of a human future;
2887 to be no more what one was in infinitely anxious hands,
2888 and to put aside even one's name, like a broken plaything.
2889 Strange, to wish wishes no longer. Strange, to see
2890 all that was related fluttering so loosely in space.
2891 And being dead is hard, full of catching-up,
2892 so that finally one feels a little eternity.–
2893 But the living all make the mistake of too sharp discrimination.
2894 Often angels (it's said) don't know if they move
2895 among the quick or the dead. The eternal current
2896 hurtles all ages along with it forever
2897 through both realms and drowns their voices in both.
2899 =head2 v5.15.1 - Greg Egan, "Permutation City"
2901 L<Announced on 2011-07-20 by Zefram|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/07/msg175014.html>
2903 Carter held out a hand towards the middle of the room. `See that
2904 fountain?' A ten-metre-wide marble wedding cake, topped with a
2905 winged cherub wrestling a serpent, duly appeared. Water cascaded
2906 down from a gushing wound in the cherub's neck. Carter said, `It's
2907 being computed by redundancies in the sketch of the city. I can
2908 extract the results, because I know exactly where to look for them --
2909 but nobody else would have a hope in hell of picking them out.'
2911 Peer walked up to the fountain. Even as he approached, he noticed
2912 that the spray was intangible; when he dipped his hand in the water
2913 around the base he felt nothing, and the motion he made with his
2914 fingers left the foaming surface unchanged. They were spying on
2915 the calculations, not interacting with them; the fountain was a
2918 Carter said, `In your case, of course, nobody will need to know
2919 the results. Except you -- and you'll know them because you'll
2922 =head2 v5.15.0 - Neil Gaiman, "The Graveyard Book"
2924 L<Announced on 2011-06-20 by David Golden|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/06/msg173748.html>
2926 If you dare nothing, then when the day is over, nothing is all you will have gained.
2928 =head2 v5.14.4 - Arthur C. Clarke, "The Nine Billion Names of God"
2930 L<Announced on 2013-03-11 by Dave Mitchell|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/03/msg199988.html>
2932 He began to sing, but gave it up after a while. This vast arena of
2933 mountains, gleaming like whitely hooded ghosts on every side, did not
2934 encourage such ebullience. Presently George glanced at his watch.
2936 'Should be there in an hour,' he called back over his shoulder to
2937 Chuck. Then he added, in an afterthought: 'Wonder if the computer's
2938 finished its run. It was due about now.'
2940 Chuck didn't reply, so George swung round in his saddle. He could just
2941 see Chuck's face, a white oval turned towards the sky.
2943 'Look,' whispered Chuck, and George lifted his eyes to heaven. (There
2944 is always a last time for everything.)
2946 Overhead, without any fuss, the stars were going out.
2948 =head2 v5.14.3 - William Shakespeare, "As You Like It"
2950 L<Announced on 2012-10-12 by Dominic Hargreaves|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/10/msg194057.html>
2952 The poor world is almost six thousand years old, and in all
2953 this time there was not any man died in his own person,
2954 videlicit, in a love-cause. Troilus had his brains dashed
2955 out with a Grecian club; yet he did what he could to die
2956 before, and he is one of the patterns of love. Leander, he
2957 would have lived many a fair year, though Hero had turned
2958 nun, if it had not been for a hot midsummer night; for, good
2959 youth, he went but forth to wash him in the Hellespont and
2960 being taken with the cramp was drowned and the foolish
2961 coroners of that age found it was 'Hero of Sestos.' But these
2962 are all lies: men have died from time to time and worms have
2963 eaten them, but not for love.
2965 =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 >>
2967 L<Announced on 2011-09-26 by Florian Ragwitz|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/09/msg177618.html>
2969 It's not so much that people don't value the programs after they have them--they
2970 do value them. But they're not the sort of thing that would ever catch on if
2971 they had to overcome the marketing barrier. (I don't yet know if perl will
2972 catch on at all--I'm worried enough about it that I specifically included an
2973 awk-to-perl translator just to help it catch on.) Maybe it's all just an
2974 inferiority complex. Or maybe I don't like to be mercenary.
2976 So I guess I'd say that the reason some software comes free is that the
2977 mechanism for selling it is missing, either from the work environment, or from
2978 the heart of the programmer.
2980 =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 >>
2982 L<Announced on 2011-06-16 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/06/msg173650.html>
2984 At this point I'm no longer working for a company that makes me sign
2985 my life away, but by now I'm in the habit. Besides, I still harbor
2986 the deep-down suspicion that nobody would pay money for what I write,
2987 since most of it just helps you do something better that you could
2988 already do some other way. How much money would you personally pay
2989 to upgrade from readnews to rn? How much money would you pay for
2990 the patch program? As for warp, it's a mere game. And anything you
2991 can do with perl you can eventually do with an amazing and totally
2992 unreadable conglomeration of awk, sed, sh and C.
2994 =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 >>
2996 L<Announced on 2011-05-14 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/05/msg172326.html>
2998 At the start of any project, I'm programming primarily to please
2999 myself. (The two chief virtues in a programmer are laziness and
3000 impatience.) After a while somebody looks over my shoulder and says,
3001 "That's neat. It'd be neater if it did such-and-so." So the thing
3002 gets neater. Pretty soon (a year or two) I have an rn, a warp, a patch,
3003 or a perl. One of these years I'll have a metaconfig.
3005 I then say to myself, "I don't want my life's work to die when this
3006 computer is scrapped, so I should let some other people use this. If I
3007 ask my company to sell this, it'll never see the light of day, and nobody
3008 would pay much for it anyway. If I sell it myself, I'll be in trouble with
3009 my company, to whom I signed my life away when I was hired. If I give it
3010 away, I can pretend it was worthless in the first place, so my company
3011 won't care. In any event, it's easier to ask forgiveness than permission."
3013 So a freely distributable program is born.
3015 =head2 v5.14.0-RC3 - American Airlines Gate Agent, last call
3017 L<Announced on 2011-05-11 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/05/msg172282.html>
3019 This is the last call for flight 1697 with service to Chicago and
3020 continuing service to San Francisco. All passengers should already be
3021 aboard. If you aren't aboard at this time, you will be denied boarding
3022 and your bags will be offloaded.
3024 =head2 v5.14.0-RC2 - Greg Grandin, "Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City"
3026 L<Announced on 2011-05-04 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/05/msg171879.html>
3028 Over the course of nearly two decades, Ford would spend tens of millions
3029 of dollars founding not one but, after the plantation was defastated
3030 by leaf blight, two American towns, complete with central squares,
3031 sidewalks, indoor plumbing, hospitals, manicured lawns, movie theaters,
3032 swimming pools, golf courses, and, of course, Model Ts and As rolling
3033 down their paved streets.
3035 Back in America, newspapers kept up their drumbeat celebration, only
3036 obliquely referencing reports that things were not progressing as the
3037 company had hoped. But there was one note of skepticism. In late 1928,
3038 the Washington Post ran an editorial that read in its entirety: "Ford will
3039 govern a rubber plantation in Brazil larger than North Carolina. This is
3040 the first time he has applied quantity production methods to trouble"
3042 =head2 v5.14.0-RC1 - Bill Bryson, "In a Sunburned Country"
3044 L<Announced on 2011-04-20 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/04/msg171253.html>
3046 But then Australia is such a difficult country to keep track of. On
3047 my first visit, some years ago, I passed the time on the long flight
3048 reading a history of Australian politics in the twentieth century,
3049 wherein I encountered the startling fact that in 1967 the prime minister,
3050 Harold Holt, was strolling along a beach in Victoria when he plunged into
3051 the surf and vanished. No trace of the poor man was ever seen again.
3052 This seemed doubly astounding to me—first that Australia could
3053 just I<lose> a prime minister (I mean, come on) and second that news of
3054 this had never reached me.
3056 =head2 v5.13.11 - Walt Whitman, L<"Leaves of Grass"|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leaves_of_Grass>
3058 L<Announced on 2011-03-20 by Florian Ragwitz|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/03/msg170206.html>
3060 When the full-grown poet came,
3061 Out spake pleased Nature (the round impassive globe, with all its
3062 shows of day and night,) saying, He is mine;
3063 But out spake too the Soul of man, proud, jealous and unreconciled,
3064 Nay he is mine alone;
3065 --Then the full-grown poet stood between the two, and took each
3067 And to-day and ever so stands, as blender, uniter, tightly
3069 Which he will never release until he reconciles the two,
3070 And wholly and joyously blends them.
3072 =head2 v5.13.10 - Egill Skalla-Grímsson, L<"Egils saga Skalla-Grímssonar"|http://www.heimskringla.no/wiki/Egils_saga_Skalla-Gr%C3%ADmssonar>
3074 L<Announced on 2011-02-20 by Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/02/msg169340.html>
3076 Skalat maðr rúnar rísta,
3077 nema ráða vel kunni.
3078 Þat verðr mörgum manni,
3079 es of myrkvan staf villisk.
3081 tíu launstafi ristna.
3082 Þat hefr lauka lindi
3083 langs ofrtrega fengit.
3085 =head2 v5.13.9 - John F Kennedy, L<Inaugural Address January 20, 1961|http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/John_F._Kennedy%27s_Inaugural_Address>
3087 L<Announced on 2011-01-20 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/01/msg168335.html>
3089 In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been
3090 granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I
3091 do not shrink from this responsibility -- I welcome it. I do not believe
3092 that any of us would exchange places with any other people or any other
3093 generation. The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this
3094 endeavor will light our country and all who serve it. And the glow from
3095 that fire can truly light the world.
3097 And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you;
3098 ask what you can do for your country.
3100 My fellow citizens of the world, ask not what America will do for you,
3101 but what together we can do for the freedom of man.
3103 Finally, whether you are citizens of America or citizens of the world,
3104 ask of us here the same high standards of strength and sacrifice which
3105 we ask of you. With a good conscience our only sure reward, with history
3106 the final judge of our deeds, let us go forth to lead the land we love,
3107 asking His blessing and His help, but knowing that here on earth God's
3108 work must truly be our own.
3110 =head2 v5.13.8 - Roger Williams, L<"The Fifth Gift"|http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2005/8/19/21304/8493>
3112 L<Announced on 2010-12-19 by Zefram|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/12/msg167271.html>
3114 The aliens called the box a "matter generator," but we'd be more inclined
3115 to call it a matter duplicator. By connecting switches and potentiometers
3116 between the copper posts it was possible to make the box mark off two
3117 cubic rectangular areas of volume. Make a certain contact, and these
3118 areas would be isolated within perfectly reflective fields. They could
3119 be expanded or contracted by altering resistances between other posts.
3120 As I worked out the user interface I built a little control panel for
3121 the device. It was actually a clever way for the aliens to do things;
3122 instead of trying to build controls we could use, they built us an
3123 interface we could attach to controls that made sense to us. It could
3126 Once you had made the contact that established the shielded volumes,
3127 if you made another certain contact the contents of the first volume
3128 were copied to the second. The machine copied metal, plastic, steel,
3129 and diamond with equal ease. Copies of copies of copies of copies were
3130 indistinguishable from the originals at any magnification, even using
3131 techniques like X-ray crystallography.
3133 =head2 v5.13.7 - Andy Wachowski and Lana Wachowski, "The Matrix"
3135 L<Announced on 2010-11-20 by Chris 'BinGOs' Williams|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/11/msg166162.html>
3137 [Neo sees a black cat walk by them, and then a similar black cat walk by them just like the first one]
3141 [Everyone freezes right in their tracks]
3143 Trinity: What did you just say?
3144 Neo: Nothing. Just had a little deja vu.
3145 Trinity: What did you see?
3146 Cypher: What happened?
3147 Neo: A black cat went past us, and then another that looked just
3149 Trinity: How much like it? Was it the same cat?
3150 Neo: It might have been. I'm not sure.
3151 Morpheus: Switch! Apoc!
3153 Trinity: A deja vu is usually a glitch in the Matrix. It happens when
3154 they change something.
3156 =head2 v5.13.6 - Haruki Murakami, "Kafka on the Shore"
3158 L<Announced on 2010-10-20 by Tatsuhiko Miyagawa|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/10/msg165183.html>
3160 The boy called Crow softly rests a hand on my shoulder, and with that
3163 "From now on -- no matter what -- you've got to be the world's toughest
3164 fifteen-year-old. That's the only way you're going to survive. And in order
3165 to do that, you've got to figure out what it means to be tough. You following
3168 I keep my eyes closed and don't reply. I just want to sink off into sleep
3169 like this, his hand on my shoulder. I hear the faint flutter of wings.
3171 "You're going to be the world's toughest fifteen-year-old," Crow whispers
3172 as I try to fall asleep. Like he was carving the words in a deep blue tattoo
3175 (Translated from Japanese by Philip Gabriel)
3177 =head2 v5.13.5 - Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, "The Room in the Dragon Volant"
3179 L<Announced on 2010-09-19 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/09/msg164238.html>
3181 Candle in hand I stepped in. I do not know whether the quality of
3182 air, long undisturbed, is peculiar; to me it has always seemed so, and
3183 the damp smell of the old masonry hung in this atmosphere. My candle
3184 faintly lighted the bare stone wall that enclosed the stair, the foot
3185 of which I could not see. Down I went, and a few turns brought me to
3186 the stone floor. Here was another door, of the simple, old, oak kind,
3187 deep sunk in the thickness of the wall. The large end of the key
3188 fitted this. The lock was stiff; I set the candle down upon the
3189 stair, and applied both hands; it turned with difficulty, and as it
3190 revolved, uttered a shriek that alarmed me for my secret.
3192 For some minutes I did not move. In a little time, however, I took
3193 courage, and opened the door. The night-air floating in puffed out
3194 the candle. There was a thicket of holly and underwood, as dense as a
3195 jungle, close about the door. I should have been in pitch-darkness,
3196 were it not that through the topmost leaves there twinkled, here and
3197 there, a glimmer of moonshine.
3199 Softly, lest any one should have opened his window at the sound of the
3200 rusty bolt, I struggled through this till I gained a view of the open
3201 grounds. Here I found that the brushwood spread a good way up the
3202 park, uniting with the wood that approached the little temple I have
3205 =head2 v5.13.4 - Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
3207 L<Announced on 2010-08-20 by Florian Ragwitz|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/08/msg163150.html>
3209 `How the creatures order one about, and make one repeat lessons!' thought Alice;
3210 `I might as well be at school at once.' However, she got up, and began to repeat
3211 it, but her head was so full of the Lobster Quadrille, that she hardly knew what
3212 she was saying, and the words came very queer indeed:--
3214 "'Tis the voice of the Lobster; I heard him declare,
3215 "You have baked me too brown, I must sugar my hair."
3216 As a duck with its eyelids, so he with his nose
3217 Trims his belt and his buttons, and turns out his toes.'
3220 `That's different from what I used to say when I was a child,' said the Gryphon.
3222 `Well, I never heard it before,' said the Mock Turtle; `but it sounds uncommon
3225 Alice said nothing; she had sat down with her face in her hands, wondering if
3226 anything would ever happen in a natural way again.
3228 `I should like to have it explained,' said the Mock Turtle.
3230 `She can't explain it,' said the Gryphon hastily. `Go on with the next verse.'
3232 `But about his toes?' the Mock Turtle persisted. `How could he turn them out
3233 with his nose, you know?'
3235 `It's the first position in dancing.' Alice said; but was dreadfully puzzled by
3236 the whole thing, and longed to change the subject.
3238 =head2 v5.13.3 - Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, "Good Omens"
3240 L<Announced on 2010-07-20 by David Golden|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/07/msg162230.html>
3242 Look at Crowley, doing 110 mph on the M40 heading towards
3243 Oxfordshire. Even the most resolutely casual observer would
3244 notice a number of strange things about him. The clenched teeth,
3245 for example, or the dull red glow coming from behind his
3246 sunglasses. And the car. The car was a definite hint.
3248 Crowley had started the journey in his Bentley, and he was
3249 dammned if he wasn't going to finish it in the Bentley as well.
3250 Not that even the kind of car buff who owns his own pair of
3251 motoring goggles would have been able to tell it was a vintage
3252 Bentley. Not any more. They wouldn't have been able to tell
3253 that it was a Bentley. They would only offer fifty-fifty that it
3254 had ever even been a car.
3256 There was no paint left on it, for a start. It might still have
3257 been black, where it wasn't a rusty, smudged reddish-brown, but
3258 this was a dull charcoal black. It traveled in its own ball of
3259 flame, like a space capsule making a particularly difficult
3262 There was a thin skin of crusted, melted rubber left around the
3263 metal wheel rims, but seeing that the wheel rims were still
3264 somhow riding an inch above the road surface this didn't seem to
3265 make an awful lot of difference to the suspension.
3267 It should have fallen apart miles back.
3269 =head2 v5.13.2 - Iain M Banks, "Use of Weapons"
3271 L<Announced on 2010-06-22 by Matt S Trout|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/06/msg161112.html>
3273 We deal in the moral equivalent of black holes, where the normal laws -
3274 the rules of right and wrong that people imagine apply everywhere else
3275 in the universe - break down; beyond those metaphysical event-horizons,
3276 there exist ... special circumstances.
3278 =head2 v5.13.1 - Miguel de Unamuno, "The Sepulchre of Don Quixote"
3280 L<Announced on 2010-05-20 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/05/msg160275.html>
3282 And if anyone shall come to you and say that he knows how to construct
3283 bridges and that perhaps a time will come when you will wish to avail
3284 yourself of his science in order to cross over a river, out with him! Out
3285 with the engineer! Rivers will be crossed by wading or swimming them, even
3286 if half the crusaders drown themselves. Let the engineer go off and build
3287 bridges somewhere else, where they are badly wanted. For those who go in
3288 quest of the sepulchre, faith is bridge enough.
3290 =head2 v5.13.0 - Jules Verne, "A Journey to the Centre of the Earth"
3292 L<Announced on 2010-04-20 by LE<0xe9>on Brocard|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/04/msg159275.html>
3294 The heat still remained at quite a supportable degree. With an
3295 involuntary shudder, I reflected on what the heat must have been
3296 when the volcano of Sneffels was pouring its smoke, flames, and
3297 streams of boiling lava -- all of which must have come up by the
3298 road we were now following. I could imagine the torrents of hot
3299 seething stone darting on, bubbling up with accompaniments of
3300 smoke, steam, and sulphurous stench!
3302 "Only to think of the consequences," I mused, "if the old
3303 volcano were once more to set to work."
3305 =head2 v5.12.5 - William Shakespeare, "Measure for Measure"
3307 L<Announced on 2012-11-10 by Dominic Hargreaves|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/11/msg195171.html>
3309 Music oft hath such a charm
3310 To make bad good, and good provoke to harm.
3312 =head2 v5.12.4 - William Schwenck Gilbert, "Trial By Jury"
3314 L<Announced on 2011-06-20 by Leon Brocard|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/06/msg173725.html>
3316 You cannot eat breakfast all day,
3317 Nor is it the act of a sinner,
3318 When breakfast is taken away,
3319 To turn his attention to dinner;
3320 And it's not in the range of belief,
3321 To look upon him as a glutton,
3322 Who, when he is tired of beef,
3323 Determines to tackle the mutton.
3324 Ah! But this I am willing to say,
3325 If it will appease her sorrow,
3326 I'll marry this lady today,
3327 And I'll marry the other tomorrow!
3329 =head2 v5.12.4-RC2 - James Russell Lowell, "Eleanor makes macaroons"
3331 L<Announced on 2011-06-15 by Leon Brocard|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/06/msg173609.html>
3333 Now for sugar, -- nay, our plan
3334 Tolerates no work of man.
3335 Hurry, then, ye golden bees;
3336 Fetch your clearest honey, please,
3337 Garnered on a Yorkshire moor,
3338 While the last larks sing and soar,
3339 From the heather-blossoms sweet
3340 Where sea-breeze and sunshine meet,
3341 And the Augusts mask as Junes, --
3342 Eleanor makes macaroons!
3344 =head2 v5.12.4-RC1 - Ogden Nash, "The Clean Plater"
3346 L<Announced on 2011-06-08 by Leon Brocard|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/06/msg173352.html>
3348 Pheasant is pleasant, of course,
3349 And terrapin, too, is tasty,
3350 Lobster I freely endorse,
3351 In pate or patty or pasty.
3352 But there's nothing the matter with butter,
3353 And nothing the matter with jam,
3354 And the warmest greetings I utter
3355 To the ham and the yam and the clam.
3358 And I think very fondly of food.
3359 Through I'm broody at times
3360 When bothered by rhymes,
3364 =head2 v5.12.3 - Howard W. Campbell, Jr., "Reflections on Not Participating in Current Events"
3366 L<Announced on 2011-01-21 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/01/msg168368.html>
3368 I saw a huge steam roller,
3369 It blotted out the sun.
3370 The people all lay down, lay down;
3371 They did not try to run.
3372 My love and I, we looked amazed
3373 Upon the gory mystery.
3374 'Lie down, lie down!' the people cried.
3375 'The great machine is history!'
3376 My love and I, we ran away,
3377 The engine did not find us.
3378 We ran up to a mountain top,
3379 Left history far behind us.
3380 Perhaps we should have stayed and died,
3381 But somehow we don't think so.
3382 We went to see where history'd been,
3383 And my, the dead did stink so.
3385 =head2 v5.12.2 - William Gibson, "Pattern Recognition"
3387 L<Announced on 2010-09-06 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/09/msg163852.html>
3389 CPUs. Cayce Pollard Units. That's what Damien calls the clothing
3390 she wears. CPUs are either black, white, or gray, and ideally
3391 seem to have come into this world without human intervention.
3393 What people take for relentless minimalism is a side effect
3394 of too much exposure to the reactor-cores of fashion. This
3395 has resulted in a remorseless paring-down of what she can and
3396 will wear. She is, literally, allergic to fashion. She can
3397 only tolerate things that could have been worn, to a general
3398 lack of comment, during any year between 1945 and 2000. She's a
3399 design-free zone, a one-woman school of and whose very austerity
3400 periodically threatens to spawn its own cult.
3402 =head2 v5.12.2-RC1 - William Gibson, "Pattern Recognition"
3404 L<Announced on 2010-08-31 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/08/msg163670.html>
3406 The front page opens, familiar as a friend's living room. A frame-grab
3407 from #48 serves as backdrop, dim and almost monochrome, no characters in
3408 view. This is one of the sequences that generate comparisons with
3409 Tarkovsky. She only knows Tarkovsky from stills, really, though she did
3410 once fall asleep during a screening of The Stalker, going under on an
3411 endless pan, the camera aimed straight down, in close-up, at a puddle on
3412 a ruined mosaic floor. But she is not one of those who think that much
3413 will be gained by analysis of the maker's imagined influences. The cult
3414 of the footage is rife with subcults, claiming every possible influence.
3415 Truffaut, Peckinpah -- The Peckinpah people, among the least likely, are
3416 still waiting for the guns to be drawn.
3418 =head2 v5.12.1 - Kurt Vonnegut, "Cat's Cradle"
3420 L<Announced on 2010-05-16 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/05/msg160109.html>
3422 "Now suppose," chortled Dr. Breed, enjoying himself, "that there were
3423 many possible ways in which water could crystallize, could freeze.
3424 Suppose that the sort of ice we skate upon and put into highballs --
3425 what we might call ice-one -- is only one of several types of ice.
3426 Suppose water always froze as ice-one on Earth because it had never
3427 had a seed to teach it how to form ice-two, ice-three, ice-four
3428 ...? And suppose," he rapped on his desk with his old hand again,
3429 "that there were one form, which we will call ice-nine -- a crystal as
3430 hard as this desk -- with a melting point of, let us say, one-hundred
3431 degrees Fahrenheit, or, better still, a melting point of one-hundred-
3432 and-thirty degrees."
3434 =head2 v5.12.1-RC2 - Kurt Vonnegut, "Cat's Cradle"
3436 L<Announced on 2010-05-13 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/05/msg160066.html>
3438 San Lorenzo was fifty miles long and twenty miles wide, I learned from
3439 the supplement to the New York Sunday Times. Its population was four
3440 hundred, fifty thousand souls, "...all fiercely dedicated to the ideals
3443 Its highest point, Mount McCabe, was eleven thousand feet above sea
3444 level. Its capital was Bolivar, "...a strikingly modern city built on a
3445 harbor capable of sheltering the entire United States Navy." The principal
3446 exports were sugar, coffee, bananas, indigo, and handcrafted novelties.
3448 =head2 v5.12.1-RC1 - Kurt Vonnegut, "Cat's Cradle"
3450 L<Announced on 2010-05-09 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/05/msg159971.html>
3452 Which brings me to the Bokononist concept of a wampeter. A wampeter is
3453 the pivot of a karass. No karass is without a wampeter, Bokonon tells us,
3454 just as no wheel is without a hub. Anything can be a wampeter: a tree,
3455 a rock, an animal, an idea, a book, a melody, the Holy Grail. Whatever
3456 it is, the members of its karass revolve about it in the majestic chaos
3457 of a spiral nebula. The orbits of the members of a karass about their
3458 common wampeter are spiritual orbits, naturally. It is souls and not
3459 bodies that revolve. As Bokonon invites us to sing:
3461 Around and around and around we spin,
3462 With feet of lead and wings of tin . . .
3464 =head2 v5.12.0 - Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
3466 L<Announced on 2010-04-12 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/04/msg158820.html>
3468 'Please would you tell me,' said Alice, a little timidly, for she was
3469 not quite sure whether it was good manners for her to speak first, 'why
3470 your cat grins like that?'
3472 'It's a Cheshire cat,' said the Duchess, 'and that's why. Pig!'
3474 She said the last word with such sudden violence that Alice quite
3475 jumped; but she saw in another moment that it was addressed to the baby,
3476 and not to her, so she took courage, and went on again:--
3478 'I didn't know that Cheshire cats always grinned; in fact, I didn't know
3479 that cats COULD grin.'
3481 'They all can,' said the Duchess; 'and most of 'em do.'
3483 =head2 v5.12.0-RC5 - Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
3485 L<Announced on 2010-04-09 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/04/msg158720.html>
3487 'Not QUITE right, I'm afraid,' said Alice, timidly; 'some of the words
3490 'It is wrong from beginning to end,' said the Caterpillar decidedly, and
3491 there was silence for some minutes.
3493 =head2 v5.12.0-RC4 - Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
3495 L<Announced on 2010-04-06 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/04/msg158567.html>
3497 'It was much pleasanter at home,' thought poor Alice, 'when one wasn't
3498 always growing larger and smaller, and being ordered about by mice and
3499 rabbits. I almost wish I hadn't gone down that rabbit-hole--and yet--and
3500 yet--it's rather curious, you know, this sort of life! I do wonder what
3501 can have happened to me! When I used to read fairy-tales, I fancied that
3502 kind of thing never happened, and now here I am in the middle of one!
3504 =head2 v5.12.0-RC3 - Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
3506 L<Announced on 2010-04-02 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/04/msg158346.html>
3508 At last the Mouse, who seemed to be a person of authority among them,
3509 called out, 'Sit down, all of you, and listen to me! I'LL soon make you
3510 dry enough!' They all sat down at once, in a large ring, with the Mouse
3511 in the middle. Alice kept her eyes anxiously fixed on it, for she felt
3512 sure she would catch a bad cold if she did not get dry very soon.
3514 'Ahem!' said the Mouse with an important air, 'are you all ready? This
3515 is the driest thing I know. Silence all round, if you please! "William
3516 the Conqueror, whose cause was favoured by the pope, was soon submitted
3517 to by the English, who wanted leaders, and had been of late much
3518 accustomed to usurpation and conquest. Edwin and Morcar, the earls of
3519 Mercia and Northumbria --"'
3521 =head2 v5.12.0-RC2 - no announcement
3523 Available on CPAN since 2010-04-01.
3525 =head2 v5.12.0-RC1 - Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
3527 L<Announced on 2010-03-29 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/03/msg158060.html>
3529 So she was considering in her own mind (as well as she could, for the
3530 hot day made her feel very sleepy and stupid), whether the pleasure of
3531 making a daisy-chain would be worth the trouble of getting up and
3532 picking the daisies, when suddenly a White Rabbit with pink eyes ran
3535 There was nothing so VERY remarkable in that; nor did Alice think it so
3536 VERY much out of the way to hear the Rabbit say to itself, 'Oh dear! Oh
3537 dear! I shall be late!' (when she thought it over afterwards, it
3538 occurred to her that she ought to have wondered at this, but at the time
3539 it all seemed quite natural); but when the Rabbit actually TOOK A WATCH
3540 OUT OF ITS WAISTCOAT-POCKET, and looked at it, and then hurried on,
3541 Alice started to her feet, for it flashed across her mind that she had
3542 never before seen a rabbit with either a waistcoat-pocket, or a watch to
3543 take out of it, and burning with curiosity, she ran across the field
3544 after it, and fortunately was just in time to see it pop down a large
3545 rabbit-hole under the hedge.
3547 In another moment down went Alice after it, never once considering how
3548 in the world she was to get out again.
3550 =head2 v5.12.0-RC0 - no epigraph
3552 L<Announced on 2020-03-21 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/03/msg157761.html>
3554 =head2 v5.11.5 - Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "Christabel"
3556 L<Announced on 2010-02-21 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/02/msg156957.html>
3558 A little child, a limber elf,
3559 Singing, dancing to itself,
3560 A fairy thing with red round cheeks,
3561 That always finds, and never seeks,
3562 Makes such a vision to the sight
3563 As fills a father's eyes with light;
3564 And pleasures flow in so thick and fast
3565 Upon his heart, that he at last
3566 Must needs express his love's excess
3567 With words of unmeant bitterness.
3568 Perhaps 'tis pretty to force together
3569 Thoughts so all unlike each other;
3570 To mutter and mock a broken charm,
3571 To dally with wrong that does no harm.
3572 Perhaps 'tis tender too and pretty
3573 At each wild word to feel within
3574 A sweet recoil of love and pity.
3575 And what, if in a world of sin
3576 (O sorrow and shame should this be true!)
3577 Such giddiness of heart and brain
3578 Comes seldom save from rage and pain,
3579 So talks as it's most used to do.
3581 =head2 v5.11.4 - Fyodor Dostoevsky, "Crime and Punishment"
3583 L<Announced on 2010-01-20 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/01/msg155848.html>
3585 And you don't suppose that I went into it headlong like a fool? I went
3586 into it like a wise man, and that was just my destruction. And you
3587 mustn't suppose that I didn't know, for instance, that if I began to
3588 question myself whether I had the right to gain power -- I certainly
3589 hadn't the right -- or that if I asked myself whether a human being is a
3590 louse it proved that it wasn't so for me, though it might be for a man
3591 who would go straight to his goal without asking questions.... If I
3592 worried myself all those days, wondering whether Napoleon would have
3593 done it or not, I felt clearly of course that I wasn't Napoleon.
3595 =head2 v5.11.3 - Mark Twain, "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer"
3597 L<Announced on 2009-12-20 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2009/12/msg154838.html>
3599 "Say -- I'm going in a swimming, I am. Don't you wish you could? But of
3600 course you'd druther work -- wouldn't you? Course you would!"
3602 Tom contemplated the boy a bit, and said: "What do you call work?"
3604 "Why ain't that work?"
3606 Tom resumed his whitewashing, and answered carelessly: "Well, maybe it
3607 is, and maybe it aint. All I know, is, it suits Tom Sawyer."
3609 "Oh come, now, you don't mean to let on that you like it?"
3611 The brush continued to move. "Like it? Well I don't see why I oughtn't
3612 to like it. Does a boy get a chance to whitewash a fence every day?"
3614 That put the thing in a new light. Ben stopped nibbling his apple. Tom
3615 swept his brush daintily back and forth -- stepped back to note the effect
3616 -- added a touch here and there-criticised the effect again -- Ben
3617 watching every move and getting more and more interested, more and more
3618 absorbed. Presently he said: "Say, Tom, let me whitewash a little."
3620 =head2 v5.11.2 - Michael Marshall Smith, "Only Forward"
3622 L<Announced on 2009-11-20 by Léon Brocard|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2009/11/msg153646.html>
3624 The streets were pretty quiet, which was nice. They're always quiet here
3625 at that time: you have to be wearing a black jacket to be out on the
3626 streets between seven and nine in the evening, and not many people in
3627 the area have black jackets. It's just one of those things. I currently
3628 live in Colour Neighbourhood, which is for people who are heavily into
3629 colour. All the streets and buildings are set for instant colourmatch:
3630 as you walk down the road they change hue to offset whatever you're
3631 wearing. When the streets are busy it's kind of intense, and anyone
3632 prone to epileptic seizures isn't allowed to live in the Neighbourhood,
3633 however much they're into colour.
3635 =head2 v5.11.1 - Joseph Heller, "Catch-22"
3637 L<Announced on 2009-10-20 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2009/10/msg152360.html>
3639 Milo had been caught red-handed in the act of plundering his countrymen,
3640 and, as a result, his stock had never been higher. He proved good as his
3641 word when a rawboned major from Minnesota curled his lip in rebellious
3642 disavowal and demanded his share of the syndicate Milo kept saying
3643 everybody owned. Milo met the challenge by writing the words "A Share"
3644 on the nearest scrap of paper and handing it away with a virtuous disdain
3645 that won the envy and admiration of almost everyone who knew him. His
3646 glory was at a peak, and Colonel Cathcart, who knew and admired his
3647 war record, was astonished by the deferential humility with which Milo
3648 presented himself at Group Headquarters and made his fantastic appeal
3649 for more hazardous assignment.
3651 =head2 v5.11.0 - Mikhail Bulgakov, "The Master and Margarita"
3653 L<Announced on 2009-10-02 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2009/10/msg151376.html>
3655 Whispers of an "evil power" were heard in lines at dairy shops, in
3656 streetcars, stores, arguments, kitchens, suburban and long-distance
3657 trains, at stations large and small, in dachas and on beaches. Needless
3658 to say, truly mature and cultured people did not tell these stories
3659 about an evil power's visit to the capital. In fact, they even made fun
3660 of them and tried to talk sense into those who told them. Nevertheless,
3661 facts are facts, as they say, and cannot simply be dismissed without
3662 explanation: somebody had visited the capital. The charred cinders of
3663 Griboyedov alone, and many other things besides, confirmed it. Cultured
3664 people shared the point of view of the investigating team: it was the
3665 work of a gang of hypnotists and ventriloquists magnificently skilled in
3668 =head2 v5.10.1 - Right Hon. James Hacker MP, "The Complete Yes Minister: The Diaries of a Cabinet Minister"
3670 L<Announced on 2009-08-23 by Dave Mitchell|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2009/08/msg150172.html>
3672 'Briefly, sir, I am the Permanent Under-Secretary of State, known as
3673 the Permanent Secretary. Woolley here is your Principal Private
3674 Secretary. I, too, have a Principal Private Secretary, and he is the
3675 Principal Private Secretary to the Permanent Secretary. Directly
3676 responsible to me are ten Deputy Secretaries, eighty-seven Under
3677 Secretaries and two hundred and nineteen Assistant Secretaries.
3678 Directly responsible to the Principal Private Secretaries are plain
3679 Private Secretaries. The Prime Minister will be appointing two
3680 Parliamentary Under-Secretaries and you will be appointing your own
3681 Parliamentary Private Secretary.'
3683 'Can they all type?' I joked.
3685 'None of us can type, Minister,' replied Sir Humphrey smoothly. 'Mrs
3686 McKay types - she is your Secretary.'
3688 I couldn't tell whether or not he was joking. 'What a pity,' I said.
3689 'We could have opened an agency.'
3691 Sir Humphrey and Bernard laughed. 'Very droll, sir,' said Sir
3692 Humphrey. 'Most amusing, sir,' said Bernard. Were they genuinely
3693 amused at my wit, or just being rather patronising? 'I suppose they
3694 all say that, do they?' I ventured.
3696 Sir Humphrey reassured me on that. 'Certainly not, Minister,' he
3697 replied. 'Not quite all.'
3699 =head2 v5.10.1-RC2 - no epigraph
3701 L<Announced on 2009-08-18 by Dave Mitchell|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2009/08/msg150015.html>
3703 =head2 v5.10.1-RC1 - no epigraph
3705 L<Announced on 2009-08-06 by Dave Mitchell|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2009/08/msg149498.html>
3707 =head2 v5.10.0 - Laurence Sterne, "Tristram Shandy"
3709 L<Announced on 2007-12-18 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2007/12/msg131636.html>
3711 He would often declare, in speaking his thoughts upon the subject, that
3712 he did not conceive how the greatest family in England could stand it
3713 out against an uninterrupted succession of six or seven short
3714 noses.--And for the contrary reason, he would generally add, That it
3715 must be one of the greatest problems in civil life, where the same
3716 number of long and jolly noses, following one another in a direct line,
3717 did not raise and hoist it up into the best vacancies in the kingdom.
3719 =head2 v5.10.0-RC2 - no epigraph
3721 L<Announced on 2007-11-25 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2007/11/msg130978.html>
3723 =head2 v5.10.0-RC1 - no epigraph
3725 L<Announced on 2007-11-17 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2007/11/msg130653.html>
3727 =head2 v5.9.5 - no announcement
3729 L<Pre-announced on 2007-07-07 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2007/07/msg126358.html>,
3730 available on CPAN with same date, but never actually announced.
3732 =head2 v5.9.4 - no epigraph
3734 L<Announced on 2006-08-15 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2006/08/msg115782.html>
3736 =head2 v5.9.3 - no epigraph
3738 L<Announced on 2006-01-28 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2006/01/msg109086.html>
3740 =head2 v5.9.2 - Thomas Pynchon, "V"
3742 L<Announced on 2005-04-01 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2005/04/msg99421.html>
3744 This word flip was weird. Every recording date of McClintic's he'd
3745 gotten into the habit of talking electricity with the audio men and
3746 technicians of the studio. McClintic once couldn't have cared less
3747 about electricity, but now it seemed if that was helping him reach a
3748 bigger audience, some digging, some who would never dig, but all
3749 paying and those royalties keeping the Triumph in gas and McClintic
3750 in J. Press suits, then McClintic ought to be grateful to
3751 electricity, ought maybe to learn a little more about it. So he'd
3752 picked up some here and there, and one day last summer he got around
3753 to talking stochastic music and digital computers with one
3754 technician. Out of the conversation had come Set/Reset, which was
3755 getting to be a signature for the group. He had found out from this
3756 sound man about a two-triode circuit called a flip-flop, which when
3757 it turned on could be one of two ways, depending on which tube was
3758 conducting and which was cut off: set or reset, flip or flop.
3760 "And that," the man said, "can be yes or no, or one or zero. And
3761 that is what you might call one of the basic units, or specialized
3762 `cells' in a big `electronic brain.' "
3764 "Crazy," said McClintic, having lost him back there someplace. But
3765 one thing that did occur to him was if a computer's brain could go
3766 flip or flop, why so could a musician's. As long as you were flop,
3767 everything was cool. But where did the trigger-pulse come from to
3770 =head2 v5.9.1 - Tom Stoppard, "Arcadia"
3772 L<Announced on 2004-03-16 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/03/msg89722.html>
3774 Aren't you supposed to have a pony?
3776 =head2 v5.9.0 - Doris Lessing, "Martha Quest"
3778 L<Announced on 2003-10-27 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/10/msg84147.html>
3780 What of October, that ambiguous month
3782 =head2 v5.8.9 - Right Hon. James Hacker MP, "The Complete Yes Minister: The Diaries of a Cabinet Minister"
3784 L<Announced on 2008-12-14 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2008/12/msg142571.html>
3786 Frank and I, unlike the civil servants, were still puzzled that such a
3787 proposal as the Europass could even be seriously under consideration by
3788 the FCO. We can both see clearly that it is wonderful ammunition for the
3789 anti-Europeans. I asked Humphrey if the Foreign Office doesn't realise
3790 how damaging this would be to the European ideal?
3792 'I'm sure they do, Minister, he said. That's why they support it.'
3794 This was even more puzzling, since I'd always been under the impression
3795 that the FO is pro-Europe. 'Is it or isn't it?' I asked Humphrey.
3797 'Yes and no,' he replied of course, 'if you'll pardon the
3798 expression. The Foreign Office is pro-Europe because it is really
3799 anti-Europe. In fact the Civil Service was united in its desire to make
3800 sure the Common Market didn't work. That's why we went into it.'
3802 This sounded like a riddle to me. I asked him to explain further. And
3803 basically his argument was as follows: Britain has had the same foreign
3804 policy objective for at least the last five hundred years - to create a
3805 disunited Europe. In that cause we have fought with the Dutch against
3806 the Spanish, with the Germans against the French, with the French and
3807 Italians against the Germans, and with the French against the Italians
3808 and Germans. [The Dutch rebellion against Phillip II of Spain, the
3809 Napoleonic Wars, the First World War, and the Second World War - Ed.]
3811 In other words, divide and rule. And the Foreign Office can see no
3812 reason to change when it has worked so well until now.
3814 I was aware of this, naturally, but I regarded it as ancient history.
3815 Humphrey thinks that it is, in fact, current policy. It was necessary
3816 for us to break up the EEC, he explained, so we had to get inside. We
3817 had previously tried to break it up from the outside, but that didn't
3818 work. [A reference to our futile and short-lived involvement in EFTA,
3819 the European Free Trade Association, founded in 1960 and which the UK
3820 left in 1972 - Ed.] Now that we're in, we are able to make a complete
3821 pig's breakfast out of it. We've now set the Germans against the French,
3822 the French against the Italians, the Italians against the Dutch... and
3823 the Foreign office is terribly happy. It's just like old time.
3825 I was staggered by all of this. I thought that the all of us who are
3826 publicly pro-European believed in the European ideal. I said this to Sir
3827 Humphrey, and he simply chuckled.
3829 So I asked him: if we don't believe in the European Ideal, why are we
3830 pushing to increase the membership?
3832 'Same reason,' came the reply. 'It's just like the United Nations. The
3833 more members it has, the more arguments you can stir up, and the more
3834 futile and impotent it becomes.'
3836 This all strikes me as the most appalling cynicism, and I said so.
3838 Sir Humphrey agreed completely. 'Yes Minister. We call it
3839 diplomacy. It's what made Britain great, you know.'
3841 =head2 v5.8.9-RC2 - Right Hon. James Hacker MP, "The Complete Yes Minister: The Diaries of a Cabinet Minister"
3843 L<Announced on 2008-12-06 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2008/12/msg142422.html>
3845 There was silence in the office. I didn't know what we were going to do
3846 about the four hundred new people supervising our economy drive or the
3847 four hundred new people for the Bureaucratic Watchdog Office, or
3848 anything! I simply sat and waited and hoped that my head would stop
3849 thumping and that some idea would be suggested by someone sometime soon.
3851 Sir Humphrey obliged. 'Minister... if we were to end the economy drive
3852 and close the Bureaucratic Watchdog Office we could issue an immediate
3853 press announcement that you had axed eight hundred jobs.' He had
3854 obviously thought this out carefully in advance, for at this moment he
3855 produced a slim folder from under his arm. 'If you'd like to approve
3858 I couldn't believe the impertinence of the suggestion. Axed eight
3859 hundred jobs? 'But no one was ever doing these jobs,' I pointed out
3860 incredulously. 'No one's been appointed yet.'
3862 'Even greater economy,' he replied instantly. 'We've saved eight hundred
3863 redundancy payments as well.'
3865 'But...' I attempted to explain '... that's just phony. It's dishonest,
3866 it's juggling with figures, it's pulling the wool over people's eyes.'
3868 'A government press release, in fact.' said Humphrey.
3870 =head2 v5.8.9-RC1 - Right Hon. James Hacker MP, "The Complete Yes Minister: The Diaries of a Cabinet Minister"
3872 L<Announced on 2008-11-10 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2008/11/msg141515.html>
3874 A jumbo jet touched down, with BURANDAN AIRWAYS written on the side. I
3875 was hugely impressed. British Airways are having to pawn their Concordes,
3876 and here is this little tiny African state with its own airline, jumbo
3879 I asked Bernard how many planes Burandan Airways had. 'None,' he said.
3881 I told him not to be silly and use his eyes. 'No Minister, it belongs to
3882 Freddie Laker,' he said. 'They chartered it last week and repainted it
3883 specially.' Apparently most of the Have-Nots (I mean, LDCs) do this - at
3884 the opening of the UN General Assembly the runways of Kennedy Airport are
3885 jam-packed with phoney flag-carriers. 'In fact,' said Bernard with a sly
3886 grin, 'there was one 747 that belonged to nine different African airlines
3887 in a month. They called it the mumbo-jumbo.'
3889 While we watched nothing much happening on the TV except the mumbo-jumbo
3890 taxiing around Prestwick and the Queen looking a bit chilly, Bernard gave
3891 me the next day's schedule and explained that I was booked on the night
3892 sleeper from King's Cross to Edinburgh because I had to vote in a
3893 three-line whip at the House tonight and would have to miss the last
3894 plane. Then the commentator, in that special hushed BBC voice used for any
3895 occasion with which Royalty is connected, announced reverentially that we
3896 were about to catch our first glimpse of President Selim.
3898 And out of the plane stepped Charlie. My old friend Charlie Umtali. We
3899 were at LSE together. Not Selim Mohammed at all, but Charlie.
3901 Bernard asked me if I were sure. Silly question. How could you forget a
3902 name like Charlie Umtali?
3904 I sent Bernard for Sir Humphrey, who was delighted to hear that we now
3905 know something about our official visitor.
3907 Bernard's official brief said nothing. Amazing! Amazing how little the FCO
3908 has been able to find out. Perhaps they were hoping it would all be on the
3909 car radio. All the brief says is that Colonel Selim Mohammed had converted
3910 to Islam some years ago, they didn't know his original name, and therefore
3911 knew little of his background.
3913 I was able to tell Humphrey and Bernard /all/ about his background.
3914 Charlie was a red-hot political economist, I informed them. Got the top
3915 first. Wiped the floor with everyone.
3917 Bernard seemed relieved. 'Well that's all right then.'
3921 'I think Bernard means,' said Sir Humphrey helpfully, 'that he'll know how
3922 to behave if he was at an English University. Even if it was the LSE.' I
3923 never know whether or not Humphrey is insulting me intentionally.
3925 Humphrey was concerned about Charlie's political colour. 'When you said
3926 that he was red-hot, were you speaking politically?'
3928 In a way I was. 'The thing about Charlie is that you never quite know
3929 where you are with him. He's the sort of chap who follows you into a
3930 revolving door and comes out in front.'
3932 'No deeply held convictions?' asked Sir Humphrey.
3934 'No. The only thing Charlie was committed too was Charlie.'
3936 'Ah, I see. A politician, Minister.'
3938 =head2 v5.8.8 - Joe Raposo, "Bein' Green"
3940 L<Announced on 2006-01-31 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2006/01/msg109190.html>
3942 It's not that easy bein' green
3943 Having to spend each day the color of the leaves
3944 When I think it could be nicer being red or yellow or gold
3945 Or something much more colorful like that
3947 It's not easy bein' green
3948 It seems you blend in with so many other ordinary things
3949 And people tend to pass you over 'cause you're
3950 Not standing out like flashy sparkles in the water
3953 But green's the color of Spring
3954 And green can be cool and friendly-like
3955 And green can be big like an ocean
3956 Or important like a mountain
3959 When green is all there is to be
3960 It could make you wonder why, but why wonder why?
3961 Wonder I am green and it'll do fine, it's beautiful
3962 And I think it's what I want to be
3964 =head2 v5.8.8-RC1 - Cosgrove Hall Productions, "Dangermouse"
3966 L<Announced on 2006-01-20 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2006/01/msg108833.html>
3968 Greenback: And the world is mine, all mine. Muhahahahaha. See to it!
3970 Stiletto: Si, Barone. Subito, Barone.
3972 =head2 v5.8.7 - Sergei Prokofiev, "Peter and the Wolf"
3974 L<Announced on 2005-05-31 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2005/05/msg101088.html>
3976 And now, imagine the triumphant procession: Peter at the head; after him the
3977 hunters leading the wolf; and winding up the procession, grandfather and the
3980 Grandfather shook his head discontentedly: "Well, and if Peter hadn't caught
3981 the wolf? What then?"
3983 =head2 v5.8.7-RC1 - Sergei Prokofiev, "Peter and the Wolf"
3985 L<Announced on 2005-05-20 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2005/05/msg100711.html>
3987 And now this is how things stood: The cat was sitting on one branch. The
3988 bird on another, not too close to the cat. And the wolf walked round and
3989 round the tree, looking at them with greedy eyes.
3991 In the meantime, Peter, without the slightest fear, stood behind the
3992 gate, watching all that was going on. He ran home,got a strong rope and
3993 climbed up the high stone wall.
3995 One of the branches of the tree, around which the wolf was walking,
3996 stretched out over the wall.
3998 Grabbing hold of the branch, Peter lightly climbed over on to the tree.
3999 Peter said to the bird: "Fly down and circle round the wolf's head, only
4000 take care that he doesn't catch you!".
4002 The bird almost touched the wolf's head with its wings, while the wolf
4003 snapped angrily at him from this side and that.
4005 How that bird teased the wolf, how that wolf wanted to catch him! But
4006 the bird was clever and the wolf simply couldn't do anything about it.
4008 =head2 v5.8.6 - A. A. Milne, "The House at Pooh Corner"
4010 L<Announced on 2004-11-27 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/11/msg96304.html>
4012 "Hallo, Pooh," said Piglet, giving a jump of surprise. "I knew it was
4015 "So did I,", said Pooh. "What are you doing?"
4017 "I'm planting a haycorn, Pooh, so that it can grow up into an oak-tree,
4018 and have lots of haycorns just outside the front door instead of having
4019 to walk miles and miles, do you see, Pooh?"
4021 "Supposing it doesn't?" said Pooh.
4023 "It will, because Christopher Robin says it will, so that's why I'm
4026 "Well," aid Pooh, "if I plant a honeycomb outside my house, then it will
4027 grow up into a beehive."
4029 Piglet wasn't quite sure about this.
4031 "Or a /piece/ of a honeycomb," said Pooh, "so as not to waste too much.
4032 Only then I might only get a piece of a beehive, and it might be the
4033 wrong piece, where the bees were buzzing and not hunnying. Bother"
4035 Piglet agreed that that would be rather bothering.
4037 "Besides, Pooh, it's a very difficult thing, planting unless you know
4038 how to do it," he said; and he put the acorn in the hole he had made,
4039 and covered it up with earth, and jumped on it.
4041 =head2 v5.8.6-RC1 - A. A. Milne, "Winnie the Pooh"
4043 L<Announced on 2004-11-11 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/11/msg95786.html>
4045 "Hallo!" said Piglet, "whare are /you/ doing?"
4047 "Hunting," said Pooh.
4051 "Tracking something," said Winnie-the-Pooh very mysteriously.
4053 "Tracking what?" said Piglet, coming closer.
4055 "That's just what I ask myself, I ask myself, What?"
4057 "What do you think you'll answer?"
4059 "I shall have to wait until I catch up with it," said Winnie-the-Pooh.
4060 "Now, look there." He pointed to the ground in front of him. "What do
4063 "Track," said Piglet. "Paw-marks." He gave a little squeak of
4064 excitement. "Oh, Pooh!" Do you think it's a--a--a Woozle?"
4066 =head2 v5.8.5 - wikipedia, "Yew"
4068 L<Announced on 2004-07-19 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/07/msg93189.html>
4070 Yews are relatively slow growing trees, widely used in landscaping and
4071 ornamental horticulture. They have flat, dark-green needles, reddish
4072 bark, and bear seeds with red arils, which are eaten by thrushes,
4073 waxwings and other birds, dispersing the hard seeds undamaged in their
4074 droppings. Yew wood is reddish brown (with white sapwood), and very
4075 hard. It was traditionally used to make bows, especially the English
4078 In England, the Common Yew (Taxus baccata, also known as English Yew) is
4079 often found in churchyards. It is sometimes suggested that these are
4080 placed there as a symbol of long life or trees of death, and some are
4081 likely to be over 3,000 years old. It is also suggested that yew trees
4082 may have a pre-Christian association with old pagan holy sites, and the
4083 Christian church found it expedient to use and take over existing sites.
4084 Another explanation is that the poisonous berries and foliage discourage
4085 farmers and drovers from letting their animals wander into the burial
4086 grounds. The yew tree is a frequent symbol in the Christian poetry of
4087 T.S. Eliot, especially his Four Quartets.
4089 =head2 v5.8.5-RC2 - wikipedia, "Beech"
4091 L<Announced on 2004-07-09 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/07/msg92934.html>
4093 Beeches are trees of the Genus Fagus, family Fagaceae, including about
4094 ten species in Europe, Asia, and North America. The leaves are entire or
4095 sparsely toothed. The fruit is a small, sharply-angled nut, borne in
4096 pairs in spiny husks. The beech most commonly grown as an ornamental or
4097 shade tree is the European beech (Fagus sylvatica).
4099 The southern beeches belong to a different but related genus,
4100 Nothofagus. They are found in Australia, New Zealand, New Guinea, New
4101 Caledonia and South America.
4103 =head2 v5.8.5-RC1 - wikipedia, "Pedunculate Oak" (abridged)
4105 L<Announced on 2004-07-07 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/07/msg92840.html>
4107 The Pedunculate Oak is called the Common Oak in Britain, and is also
4108 often called the English Oak in other English speaking countries It is a
4109 large deciduous tree to 25-35m tall (exceptionally to 40m), with lobed
4110 and sessile (stalk-less) leaves. Flowering takes place in early to mid
4111 spring, and their fruit, called "acorns", ripen by autumn of the same
4112 year. The acorns are pedunculate (having a peduncle or acorn-stalk) and
4113 may occur singly, or several acorns may occur on a stalk.
4115 It forms a long-lived tree, with a large widespreading head of rugged
4116 branches. While it may naturally live to an age of a few centuries, many
4117 of the oldest trees are pollarded or coppiced, both pruning techniques
4118 that extend the tree's potential lifespan, if not its health.
4120 Within its native range it is valued for its importance to insects and
4121 other wildlife. Numerous insects live on the leaves, buds, and in the
4122 acorns. The acorns form a valuable food resource for several small
4123 mammals and some birds, notably Jays Garrulus glandarius.
4125 It is planted for forestry, and produces a long-lasting and durable
4126 heartwood, much in demand for interior and furniture work.
4128 =head2 v5.8.4 - T. S. Eliot, "The Old Gumbie Cat"
4130 L<Announced on 2004-04-22 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/04/msg90984.html>
4132 I have a Gumbie Cat in mind, her name is Jennyanydots;
4133 The curtain-cord she likes to wind, and tie it into sailor-knots.
4134 She sits upon the window-sill, or anything that's smooth and flat:
4135 She sits and sits and sits and sits -- and that's what makes a Gumbie Cat!
4137 But when the day's hustle and bustle is done,
4138 Then the Gumbie Cat's work is but hardly begun.
4139 She thinks that the cockroaches just need employment
4140 To prevent them from idle and wanton destroyment.
4141 So she's formed, from that a lot of disorderly louts,
4142 A troop of well-disciplined helpful boy-scouts,
4143 With a purpose in life and a good deed to do--
4144 And she's even created a Beetles' Tattoo.
4146 So for Old Gumbie Cats let us now give three cheers --
4147 On whom well-ordered households depend, it appears.
4150 =head2 v5.8.4-RC2 - T. S. Eliot, "Macavity: The Mystery Cat"
4152 L<Announced on 2004-04-16 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/04/msg90796.html>
4154 Macavity's a Mystery Cat: he's called the Hidden Paw --
4155 For he's the master criminal who can defy the Law.
4156 He's the bafflement of Scotland Yard, the Flying Squad's despair:
4157 For when they reach the scene of crime -- /Macavity's not there/!
4159 Macavity, Macavity, there's no one like Macavity,
4160 He's broken every human law, he breaks the law of gravity.
4161 His powers of levitation would make a fakir stare,
4162 And when you reach the scene of crime -- /Macavity's not there/!
4163 You may seek him in the basement, you may look up in the air --
4164 But I tell you once and once again, /Macavity's not there/!
4166 =head2 v5.8.4-RC1 - T. S. Eliot, "Skimbleshanks: The Railway Cat"
4168 L<Announced on 2004-04-05 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/04/msg90422.html>
4170 There's a whisper down the line at 11.39
4171 When the Night Mail's ready to depart,
4172 Saying 'Skimble where is Skimble has he gone to hunt the thimble?
4173 We must find him of the train can't start.'
4174 All the guards and all the porters and the stationmaster's daughters
4175 They are searching high and low,
4176 Saying 'Skimble where is Skimble for unless he's very nimble
4177 Then the Night Mail just can't go'
4178 At 11.42 then the signal's overdue
4179 And the passengers are frantic to a man--
4180 Then Skimble will appear and he'll saunter to the rear:
4181 He's been busy in the luggage van!
4182 He gives one flash of his glass-green eyes
4183 And the signal goes 'All Clear!'
4184 And we're off at last of the northern part
4185 Of the Northern Hemisphere!
4187 =head2 v5.8.3 - Arthur William Edgar O'Shaugnessy, "Ode"
4189 L<Announced on 2004-01-14 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/01/msg87317.html>
4191 We are the music makers,
4192 And we are the dreamers of dreams,
4193 Wandering by lonely sea-breakers,
4194 And sitting by desolate streams; --
4195 World-losers and world-forsakers,
4196 On whom the pale moon gleams:
4197 Yet we are the movers and shakers
4198 Of the world for ever, it seems.
4200 =head2 v5.8.3-RC1 - Irving Berlin, "Let's Face the Music and Dance"
4202 L<Announced on 2004-01-07 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/01/msg86969.html>
4204 There may be trouble ahead,
4205 But while there's music and moonlight,
4206 And love and romance,
4207 Let's face the music and dance.
4209 Before the fiddlers have fled,
4210 Before they ask us to pay the bill,
4211 And while we still have that chance,
4212 Let's face the music and dance.
4214 Soon, we'll be without the moon,
4215 Humming a different tune, and then,
4217 There may be teardrops to shed,
4218 So while there's music and moonlight,
4219 And love and romance,
4220 Let's face the music and dance.
4222 =head2 v5.8.2 - Walt Whitman, "Passage to India"
4224 L<Announced on 2003-11-05 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/11/msg84822.html>
4226 Passage, immediate passage! the blood burns in my veins!
4227 Away O soul! hoist instantly the anchor!
4228 Cut the hawsers - hall out - shake out every sail!
4229 Have we not stood here like trees in the ground long enough?
4230 Have we not grovel'd here long enough, eating and drinking like mere brutes?
4231 Have we not darken'd and dazed ourselves with books long enough?
4233 Sail forth - steer for the deep waters only,
4234 Reckless O soul, exploring, I with the and thou with me,
4235 For we are bound where mariner has not yet dared to go,
4236 And we will risk the ship, ourselves and all.
4239 O farther farther sail!
4240 O daring job, but safe! are they not all the seas of God?
4241 O farther, farther, farther sail!
4243 =head2 v5.8.2-RC2 - Eric Idle and John Du Prez, "Accountancy Shanty"
4245 L<Announced on 2003-11-03 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/11/msg84645.html>
4247 It's fun to charter an accountant
4248 And sail the wide accountan-cy,
4249 To find, explore the funds offshore
4250 And skirt the shoals of bankruptcy.
4252 =head2 v5.8.2-RC1 - Edward Lear, "The Jumblies"
4254 L<Announced on 2003-10-27 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/10/msg84194.html>
4256 They went to sea in a Sieve, they did,
4257 In a Sieve they went to sea:
4258 In spite of all their friends could say,
4259 On a winter's morn, on a stormy day,
4260 In a Sieve they went to sea!
4261 And when the Sieve turned round and round,
4262 And everyone cried, "You'll all be drowned!"
4263 They cried aloud, "Our Sieve ain't big,
4264 But we don't care a button, we don't care a fig!
4265 In a Sieve we'll go to sea!"
4267 Far and few, far and few,
4268 Are the lands where the Jumblies live;
4269 Their heads are green, and their hands are blue,
4270 And they went to sea in a Sieve.
4272 =head2 v5.8.1 - epigraph same as v5.7.1
4274 L<Announced on 2003-09-25 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/09/msg82678.html>
4276 =head2 v5.8.1-RC5 - Terry Pratchett, "Lords and Ladies"
4278 L<Announced on 2003-09-22 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/09/msg82476.html>
4280 No matter what she did with her hair it took about
4281 three minutes for it to tangle itself up again,
4282 like a garden hosepipe in a shed [Footnote: Which,
4283 no matter how carefully coiled, will always uncoil
4284 overnight and tie the lawnmower to the bicycles].
4286 =head2 v5.8.1-RC4 - Terry Pratchett, "Interesting Times"
4288 L<Announced on 2003-08-01 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/08/msg79184.html>
4290 Grand Viziers were /always/ scheming megalomaniacs.
4291 It was probably in the job description: "Are you a
4292 devious, plotting, unreliable madman? Ah, good,
4293 then you can be my most trusted minister."
4295 =head2 v5.8.1-RC3 - Terry Pratchett, "Interesting Times"
4297 L<Announced on 2003-07-30 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/07/msg79048.html>
4299 Lord Hong had a mind like a knife, although possibly
4300 a knife with a curved blade.
4302 =head2 v5.8.1-RC2 - Terry Pratchett, "Interesting Times"
4304 L<Announced on 2003-07-11 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/07/msg78102.html>
4306 Many an ancient lord's last words had been, "You can't kill
4307 me because I've got magic aaargh."
4309 =head2 v5.8.1-RC1 - Terry Pratchett, "Interesting Times"
4311 L<Announced on 2003-07-10 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/07/msg78009.html>
4313 Cohen was familiar with city gates. He'd broken down a number
4314 in his time, by battering ram, siege gun, and on one occasion
4317 But the gates of Hunghung were pretty damn good gates. They
4318 weren't like the gates of Ankh-Morpork, which were usually wide
4319 open to attract the spending customer and whose concession to
4320 defense was the sign "Thank You For Not Attacking Our City.
4321 Bonum Diem." These things were big and made of metal and there
4322 was a guardhouse and a squad of unhelpful men in black armor.
4324 =head2 v5.8.0 - Terry Pratchett, "Reaper Man"
4326 L<Announced on 2002-07-18 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2002/07/msg63720.html>
4328 There was the faint sound of footsteps.
4329 "Chap with a whip got as far as the big sharp spikes last week,"
4330 said the low priest.
4331 There was a sound like the flushing of a very old dry lavatory.
4332 The footsteps stopped. The High Priest smiled to himself.
4333 "Right," he said. "See your two pebbles and raise you two pebbles."
4334 The low priest threw down his cards. "Double Onion," he said.
4335 The High Priest looked down suspiciously.
4336 The low priest consulted a scrap of paper. "That's three hundred
4337 thousand, nine hundred and sixty-four pebbles you owe me," he said.
4338 There was the sound of footsteps. The priests exchanged glances.
4339 "Haven't had one for poisoned-dart alley for quite some time,"
4340 said the High Priest.
4341 "Five says he makes it", said the low priest. "You're on."
4342 There was a faint clatter of metal points on stone.
4343 "It's a shame to take your pebbles."
4344 There were footsteps again.
4346 =head2 v5.8.0-RC3 - no epigraph
4348 L<Announced on 2002-07-13 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2002/07/msg63234.html>
4350 =head2 v5.8.0-RC2 - no epigraph
4352 L<Announced on 2002-06-21 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2002/06/msg62013.html>
4354 =head2 v5.8.0-RC1 - no epigraph
4356 L<Announced on 2002-06-01 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2002/06/msg60317.html>
4358 =head2 v5.7.3 - Terry Pratchett, "Reaper Man"
4360 L<Announced on 2002-03-04 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2002/03/msg53652.html>
4362 Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong.
4363 No matter how fast light travels it finds the darkness has always
4364 got there first, and is waiting for it.
4366 =head2 v5.7.2 - Terry Pratchett, "Small Gods"
4368 L<Announced on 2001-07-13 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2001/07/msg40370.html>
4370 His philosophy was a mixture of three famous schools --
4371 the Cynics, the Stoics and the Epicureans -- and summed up
4372 all three of them in his famous phrase, "You can't trust any
4373 bugger further than you can throw him, and there's nothing
4374 you can do about it, so let's have a drink."
4376 =head2 v5.7.1 - Terry Pratchett, "The Colour of Magic"
4378 L<Announced on 2001-04-09 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2001/04/msg33851.html>
4380 "What happens next?" asked Twoflower.
4382 Hrun screwed a finger in his ear and inspected it absently.
4384 "Oh,", he said, "I expect in a minute the door will be
4385 flung back and I'll be dragged off to some sort of temple
4386 arena where I'll fight maybe a couple of giant spiders
4387 and an eight-foot slave from the jungles of Klatch and then
4388 I'll rescue some kind of a princess from the altar and then
4389 I'll kill off a few guards or whatever and then this girl
4390 will show me the secret passage out of the place and we'll
4391 liberate a couple of horses and escape with the treasure."
4392 Hrun leaned his head back on his hands and looked at the
4393 ceiling, whistling tunelessly.
4395 "All that?" said Twoflower.
4399 =head2 v5.7.0 - Terry Pratchett, "Moving Pictures"
4401 L<Announced on 2000-09-02 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2000/09/msg17730.html>
4403 The Librarian had seen many weird things in his time,
4404 but that had to be the 57th strangest.
4405 [footnote: he had a tidy mind]
4407 =head2 v5.6.2 - Laurence Sterne, "Tristram Shandy"
4409 L<Announced on 2003-11-15 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/11/msg85222.html>
4411 When great or unexpected events fall out upon the stage of this
4412 sublunary word--the mind of man, which is an inquisitive kind of
4413 a substance, naturally takes a flight, behind the scenes, to see
4414 what is the cause and first spring of them--The search was not
4415 long in this instance.
4417 =head2 v5.6.2-RC1 - Laurence Sterne, "Tristram Shandy"
4419 L<Announced on 2003-11-08 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/11/msg84953.html>
4421 "Pray, my dear", quoth my mother, "have you not forgot to wind up the clock?"
4423 =head2 v5.6.1 - J R R Tolkien, "The Hobbit", Riddles in the Dark
4425 L<Announced on 2001-04-08 by Gurusamy Sarathy|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2001/04/msg33823.html>
4427 `What have I got in my pocket?' he said aloud. He was talking to
4428 himself, but Gollum thought it was a riddle, and he was frightfully
4431 `Not fair! not fair!' he hissed. `It isn't fair, my precious, is it,
4432 to ask us what it's got in its nassty little pocketses?'
4434 Bilbo seeing what had happened and having nothing better to ask
4435 stuck to his question, `What have I got in my pocket?' he said
4438 `S-s-s-s-s,' hissed Gollum. `It must give us three guesseses,
4439 my precious, three guesseses.'
4441 =head2 v5.6.1-foolish - no epigraph
4443 L<Announced on 2001-04-01 by Gurusamy Sarathy|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2001/04/msg33421.html>
4445 =head2 v5.6.1-TRIAL3 - I can't find the announcement
4447 No announcement available.
4449 =head2 v5.6.1-TRIAL2 - no epigraph
4451 L<Announced on 2001-01-31 by Gurusamy Sarathy|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2001/01/msg29934.html>
4453 =head2 v5.6.1-TRIAL1 - no epigraph
4455 L<Announced on 2000-12-18 by Gurusamy Sarathy|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2000/12/msg27738.html>
4457 =head2 v5.6.0 - J R R Tolkien, "The Hobbit", The Last Stage
4459 L<Announced on 2000-03-23 by Gurusamy Sarathy|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2000/03/msg10341.html>
4461 The dragon is withered,
4462 His bones are now crumbled;
4463 His armour is shivered,
4464 His splendour is humbled!
4465 Though sword shall be rusted,
4466 And throne and crown perish
4467 With strength that men trusted
4468 And wealth that they cherish,
4469 Here grass is still growing,
4470 And leaves are a yet swinging,
4471 The white water flowing,
4472 And elves are yet singing
4473 Come! Tra-la-la-lally!
4474 Come back to the valley.
4476 =head2 v5.6.0-RC3 - no epigraph
4478 L<Announced on 2000-03-22 by Gurusamy Sarathy|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2000/03/msg10140.html>
4480 =head2 v5.005_05-RC1 - no epigraph
4482 L<Announced on 2009-02-16 by LE<0xe9>on Brocard|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2009/02/msg144227.html>
4484 =head2 v5.005_04 - no epigraph
4486 L<Announced on 2004-03-01 by LE<0xe9>on Brocard|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/03/msg89047.html>
4488 =head2 v5.005_04-RC2 - Rudyard Kipling, "The Jungle Book"
4490 L<Announced on 2004-02-19 by LE<0xe9>on Brocard|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/02/msg88672.html>
4492 The monkeys called the place their city, and pretended to despise
4493 the Jungle-People because they lived in the forest. And yet they
4494 never knew what the buildings were made for nor how to use
4495 them. They would sit in circles on the hall of the king's council
4496 chamber, and scratch for fleas and pretend to be men; or they would
4497 run in and out of the roofless houses and collect pieces of plaster
4498 and old bricks in a corner, and forget where they had hidden them,
4499 and fight and cry in scuffling crowds, and then break off to play up
4500 and down the terraces of the king's garden, where they would shake
4501 the rose trees and the oranges in sport to see the fruit and flowers
4504 =head2 v5.005_04-RC1 - Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
4506 L<Announced on 2004-02-05 by LE<0xe9>on Brocard|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/02/msg88312.html>
4508 Either the well was very deep, or she fell very slowly, for she had
4509 plenty of time as she went down to look about her and to wonder what was
4510 going to happen next. First, she tried to look down and make out what
4511 she was coming to, but it was too dark to see anything; then she looked
4512 at the sides of the well, and noticed that they were filled with
4513 cupboards and book-shelves; here and there she saw maps and pictures
4514 hung upon pegs. She took down a jar from one of the shelves as she
4515 passed; it was labelled 'ORANGE MARMALADE', but to her great
4516 disappointment it was empty: she did not like to drop the jar for fear
4517 of killing somebody, so managed to put it into one of the cupboards as
4520 =head2 v1.0_16 - Johan Vromans, extemporarily
4522 L<Announced on 2003-12-18 by Richard Clamp|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/12/msg86423.html>
4524 't was 16 years ago today
4525 Larry taught us a new game
4526 of lazyness, impatience, and hubris
4527 Happy birthday, Perl!
4529 =head1 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
4531 This document was originally compiled based on a list of epigraphs
4532 on L<Perl Monks|http://perlmonks.org> titled
4533 L<Recent Perl Release Announcement|http://perlmonks.org/?node_id=372406>