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 v5.23.2 - Blind Guardian, "Skalds and Shadows"
22 L<Announced on 2015-08-20 by Matthew Horsfall|http://TBD>
24 Would you believe in a night like this
25 A night like this, when visions come true
26 Would you believe in a tale like this
27 A lay of bliss, praise in the old lore
28 Come to the blazing fire and
35 This night turns into myth
38 The world we live in is another skald's
42 Do you believe there is sense in it
44 They´re one in my rhymes
45 Nobody knows the meaning behind
47 Well nobody else but the Norns can
48 See through the blazing fires of time and
49 All things will proceed as the
55 Songs I will sing of tribes and kings
56 The carrion bird and the hall of the slain
59 The world we live in is another skald´s
63 Do not fear for my reason
64 There's nothing to hide
65 How bitter your treason
67 Remember the runes and remember the light
68 All I ever want is to be at your side
69 We'll gladden the raven now I will
70 Run through the blazing fires
72 Cause things shall proceed as foreseen
74 =head2 v5.23.1 - Elizabeth Haydon, "The Assassin King"
76 L<Announced on 2015-07-20 by Matthew Horsfall|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/07/msg229413.html>
78 I was born beneath this willow,
79 Where my sire the earth did farm
80 Had the green grass as my pillow
81 The east wind as a blanket warm.
83 But away! away! called the wind from the west
84 And in answer I did run
85 Seeking glory and adventure
86 Promised by the rising sun.
88 I found love beneath this willow,
89 As true a love as life could hold,
90 Pledged my heart and swore my fealty
91 Sealed with a kiss and a band of gold.
93 But to arms! to arms! called the wind from the west
94 In faithful answer I did run
95 Marching forth for king and country
96 In battles 'neath the midday sun.
98 Oft I dreamt of that fair willow
99 As the seven seas I plied
100 And the girl who I left waiting
101 Longing to be at her side.
103 But about! about! called the wind from the west
104 As once again my ship did run
105 Down the coast, about the wide world
106 Flying sails in the setting sun.
108 Now I lie beneath the willow
109 Now at last no more to roam,
110 My bride and earth so tightly hold me
111 In their arms I'm finally home.
113 While away! away! calls the wind from the west
114 Beyond the grave my spirit, free
115 Will chase the sun into the morning
116 Beyond the sky, beyond the sea.
118 =head2 v5.23.0 - Bob Dylan, Maggie's Farm
120 L<Announced on 2015-06-20 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/06/msg228807.html>
122 I ain't gonna work on Maggie's farm no more
123 I ain't gonna work on Maggie's farm no more
126 But everybody wants you
128 They sing while you slave and I just get bored
129 I ain't gonna work on Maggie's farm no more
131 =head2 v5.22.0 - Gene Wolfe, The Citadel of the Autarch
133 L<Announced on 2015-06-01 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/06/msg228300.html>
135 “You are the advocate of the dead.”
137 The old man nodded. “I am. People talk about being fair to this one and
138 that one, but nobody I ever heard talks about doing right by them. We
139 take everything they had, which is all right. And spit, most often, on
140 their opinions, which I suppose is all right too. But we ought to
141 remember now and then how much of what we have we got from them. I
142 figure while I’m still here I ought to put a word in for them.”
144 =head2 v5.22.0-RC2 - T.S. Eliot, unpublished work
146 L<Announced on 2015-05-21 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/05/msg228142.html>
148 And when thyself with silver foot shall pass
149 Among the theories scattered on the grass
150 Take up my good intentions with the rest
152 =head2 v5.22.0-RC1 - Gene Wolfe, Citadel of the Autarch
154 L<Announced on 2015-05-19 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/05/msg228059.html>
156 There is no limit to stupidity. Space itself is said to be bounded by
157 its own curvature, but stupidity continues beyond infinity.
159 =head2 v5.21.11 - Algernon Charles Swinburne, "Dolores (Notre-Dame des Sept Douleurs)"
161 L<Announced on 2015-04-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/04/msg227472.html>
163 They shall pass and their places be taken,
164 The gods and the priests that are pure.
165 They shall pass, and shalt thou not be shaken?
166 They shall perish, and shalt thou endure?
167 Death laughs, breathing close and relentless
168 In the nostrils and eyelids of lust,
169 With a pinch in his fingers of scentless
172 But the worm shall revive thee with kisses;
173 Thou shalt change and transmute as a god,
174 As the rod to a serpent that hisses,
175 As the serpent again to a rod.
176 Thy life shall not cease though thou doff it;
177 Thou shalt live until evil be slain,
178 And good shall die first, said thy prophet,
181 =head2 v5.21.10 - Aldous Huxley, "The Devils of Loudun"
183 L<Announced on 2015-03-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/03/msg226847.html>
185 The fire burned on, the good fathers continued to sprinkle and intone.
186 Suddenly a flock of pigeons came swooping down from the church and
187 started to wheel around the roaring column of flame and smoke. The
188 crowd shouted, the archers waved their halberds at the birds, Lactance
189 and Tranquille splashed them on the wing with holy water. In vain. The
190 pigeons were not to be driven away. Round and round they flew, diving
191 through the smoke, singeing their feathers in the flames. Both parties
192 claimed a miracle. For the parson's enemies the birds, quite obviously,
193 were a troop of devils, come to fetch away his soul. For his friends,
194 they were emblems of the Holy Ghost and living proof of his innocence.
195 It never seems to have occurred to anyone that they were just pigeons,
196 obeying the laws of their own, their blessedly other-than-human nature.
198 =head2 v5.21.9 - Emily Dickinson, "There is Another Sky"
200 L<Announced on 2015-02-20 by Sawyer X|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/02/msg226002.html>
202 There is another sky,
203 Ever serene and fair,
204 And there is another sunshine,
205 Though it be darkness there;
206 Never mind faded forests, Austin,
207 Never mind silent fields -
208 Here is a little forest,
209 Whose leaf is ever green;
210 Here is a brighter garden,
211 Where not a frost has been;
212 In its unfading flowers
213 I hear the bright bee hum:
217 =head2 v5.21.8 - Bill Watterson, "Scientific Progress Goes 'Boink': A Calvin and Hobbes Collection"
219 L<Announced on 2015-01-20 by Matthew Horsfall|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/01/msg224869.html>
221 Calvin: OK Hobbes, press the button and duplicate me.
222 Hobbes: Are you sure this is such a good idea?
223 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?
224 Hobbes: I'd hate to be accused of inhibiting scientific progress... Here you go.
226 Hobbes: Scientific progress goes "BOINK"?
227 Calvin?: It worked! It worked! I'm a genius!
228 Cavlin??: No you're not, you liar! *I* invented this!
230 =head2 v5.21.7 - Robert Heinlein, "The Number of the Beast"
232 L<Announced on 2014-12-20 by Max Maischein|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/12/msg223774.html>
234 "Zebadiah, Hilda and I salvaged and put everything into the basket.
235 Hilda started to put it into our wardrobe-and it was heavy. So
236 we looked. Packed as tight as when we left Oz. Six bananas-and
237 everything else. Cross my heart. No, go look."
238 "Hmmm- Jake, can you write equations for a picnic basket that
239 refills itself? Will it go on doing so?"
240 "Zeb, equations can be written to describe anything. The description
241 would be simpler for a basket that replenishes itself indefinitely
242 than for one that does it once and stops-I would have to describe
245 =head2 v5.21.6 - Jeff Noon, "Vurt"
247 L<Announced on 2014-11-20 by Chris 'BinGOs' Williams|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/11/msg222448.html>
251 EXCHANGE MECHANISMS. Sometimes we lose precious
252 things. Friends and colleagues, fellow travellers in the
253 Vurt, sometimes we lose them; even lovers we sometimes
254 lose. And get bad things in exchange: aliens, objects,
255 snakes, and sometimes even death. Things we don't want.
256 This is part of the deal, part of the game deal;
257 all things, in all worlds, must be kept in balance.
258 Kittlings often ask, who decides on the swappings? Now then,
259 some say it's all accidental; that some poor Vurt thing
260 finds himself too close to a door, at too critical a time,
261 just when something real is being lost. Whoosh! Swap time!
262 Others say that some kind of overseer is working the
263 MECHANISMS OF EXCHANGE, deciding the fate of innocents.
264 The Cat can only tease at this, because of the big secrets
265 involved, and because of the levels between you, the reader,
266 and me, the Game Cat. Hey, listen; I've struggled to get
267 where I am today; why should I give you the easy route?
268 Get working, kittlings! Reach up higher. Work the Vurt.
270 =head2 v5.21.5 - Friso Wiegersma (text), Jean Ferrat (music), Wim Sonneveld (performer), "Het Dorp"
272 L<Announced on 2014-10-20 by Abigail|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/10/msg221399.html>
276 Thuis heb ik nog een ansichtkaart
277 waarop een kerk, een kar met paard,
278 een slagerij J. van der Ven.
279 Een kroeg, een juffrouw op de fiets
280 het zegt u hoogstwaarschijnlijk niets,
281 maar 't is waar ik geboren ben.
282 Dit dorp, ik weet nog hoe het was,
283 de boerenkind'ren in de klas,
284 een kar die ratelt op de keien,
285 het raadhuis met een pomp ervoor,
286 een zandweg tussen koren door,
287 het vee, de boerderijen.
289 En langs het tuinpad van m'n vader
290 zag ik de hoge bomen staan.
291 Ik was een kind en wist niet beter,
292 dan dat dat nooit voorbij zou gaan.
294 Wat leefden ze eenvoudig toen
295 in simp'le huizen tussen groen
296 met boerenbloemen en een heg.
297 Maar blijkbaar leefden ze verkeerd,
298 het dorp is gemoderniseerd
299 en nu zijn ze op de goeie weg.
300 Want ziet, hoe rijk het leven is,
301 ze zien de televisiequiz
302 en wonen in betonnen dozen,
303 met flink veel glas, dan kun je zien
304 hoe of het bankstel staat bij Mien
305 en d'r dressoir met plastic rozen.
307 En langs het tuinpad van m'n vader
308 zag ik de hoge bomen staan.
309 Ik was een kind en wist niet beter,
310 dan dat dat nooit voorbij zou gaan.
312 De dorpsjeugd klit wat bij elkaar
313 in minirok en beatle-haar
314 en joelt wat mee met beat-muziek.
315 Ik weet wel, het is hun goeie recht,
316 de nieuwe tijd, net wat u zegt,
317 maar het maakt me wat melancholiek.
318 Ik heb hun vaders nog gekend
319 ze kochten zoethout voor een cent
320 ik zag hun moeders touwtjespringen.
321 Dat dorp van toen, het is voorbij,
322 dit is al wat er bleef voor mij:
323 een ansicht en herinneringen.
325 Toen ik langs het tuinpad van m'n vader
326 de hoge bomen nog zag staan.
327 Ik was een kind, hoe kon ik weten
328 dat dat voorgoed voorbij zou gaan.
330 =head2 v5.21.4 - Edgar Allan Poe, "The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket"
332 L<Announced on 2014-09-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/09/msg220267.html>
334 To-day, being in latitude 83° 20', longitude 43° 5' W. (the sea being
335 of an extraordinarily dark colour), we again saw land from the
336 masthead, and, upon a closer scrutiny, found it to be one of a group
337 of very large islands. The shore was precipitous, and the interior
338 seemed to be well wooded, a circumstance which occasioned us great
339 joy. In about four hours from our first discovering the land we came
340 to anchor in ten fathoms, sandy bottom, a league from the coast, as a
341 high surf, with strong ripples here and there, rendered a nearer
342 approach of doubtful expediency. The two largest boats were now
343 ordered out, and a party, well armed (among whome were Peters and
344 myself), proceeded to look for an opening in the reef which appeared
345 to encircle the island. After searching about for some time, we
346 discovered an inlet, which we were entering, when we saw four large
347 canoes put off from the shore, filled with men who seemed to be well
348 armed. We waited for them to come up, and, as they moved with great
349 rapidity, they were soon within hail. Captain Guy now held up a white
350 handkerchief on the blade of an oar, when the strangers made a full
351 stop, and commenced a loud jabbering all at once, intermingled with
352 occasional shouts, in which we could distinguish the words Anamoo-moo!
353 and Lama-Lama! They continued this for at least half an hour, during
354 which we had a good opportunity of observing their appearance.
356 =head2 v5.21.3 - Robert Service, "The Men that Don't Fit In"
358 L<Announced on 2014-08-20 by Peter Martini|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/08/msg218826.html>
360 If they just went straight they might go far,
361 They are strong and brave and true;
362 But they're always tired of the things that are,
363 And they want the strange and new.
364 They say: "Could I find my proper groove,
365 What a deep mark I would make!"
366 So they chop and change, and each fresh move
367 Is only a fresh mistake.
369 =head2 v5.21.2 - Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, Charlie Duke, Final minutes of communication of the first manned moon landing, July 20, 1969
371 L<Announced on 2014-07-20 by Abigail|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/07/msg217937.html>
373 Armstrong: Okay. Here's a...Looks like a good area here.
374 Aldrin: I got the shadow out there.
375 Aldrin: 250, down at 2 1/2, 19 forward.
376 Aldrin: Altitude, velocity lights.
377 Aldrin: 3 1/2 down, 220 feet, 13 forward.
378 Aldrin: 11 forward. Coming down nicely.
379 Armstrong: Gonna be right over that crater.
380 Aldrin: 200 feet, 4 1/2 down.
382 Armstrong: I got a good spot [garbled].
383 Aldrin: 160 feet, 6 1/2 down.
384 Aldrin: 5 1/2 down, 9 forward. You're looking good.
386 Aldrin: 100 feet, 3 1/2 down, 9 forward. Five percent. Quantity light.
387 Aldrin: Okay. 75 feet. And it's looking good. Down a half, 6 forward.
390 Aldrin: 60 feet, down 2 1/2. 2 forward. 2 forward. That's good.
391 Aldrin: 40 feet, down 2 1/2. Picking up some dust.
392 Aldrin: 30 feet, 2 1/2 down. [Garbled] shadow.
393 Aldrin: 4 forward. 4 forward. Drifting to the right a little. 20 feet,
396 Aldrin: Drifting forward just a little bit; that's good.
397 Aldrin: Contact Light.
399 Aldrin: Okay. Engine Stop.
400 Aldrin: ACA out of Detent.
401 Armstrong: Out of Detent. Auto.
402 Aldrin: Mode Control, both Auto. Descent Engine Command Override, Off.
403 Engine Arm, Off. 413 is in.
404 Duke: We copy you down, Eagle.
405 Armstrong: Engine arm is off.
406 Armstrong: Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed.
407 Duke: Roger, Twan...[correcting himself] Tranquility. We copy you on
408 the ground. You got a bunch of guys about to turn blue.
409 We're breathing again. Thanks a lot.
412 =head2 v5.21.1 - Robert Jordan, "The Crossroads of Twilights", Book 10 of "The Wheel of Time"
414 L<Announced on 2014-06-20 by Matthew Horsfall|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/06/msg217030.html>
416 We rode on the winds of the rising storm,
417 We ran to the sounds of the thunder.
418 We danced among the lightning bolts,
419 and tore the world asunder.
421 -- Anonymous fragment of a poem believed
422 written near the end of the previous Age,
423 known by some as the Third Age.
424 Sometimes attributed to the Dragon
427 =head2 v5.21.0 - Friedrich von Schiller, "The Song of the Bell"
429 L<Announced on 2014-05-27 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/05/msg215826.html>
431 Walled in fast within the earth
432 Stands the form burnt out of clay.
433 This must be the bell’s great birth!
434 Fellows, lend a hand to-day.
435 Sweat must trickle now
436 From the burning brow,
437 Till the work its master honour.
438 Blessing comes from Heaven’s Donor.
440 =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"
442 L<Announced on 2015-08-22 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/08/msg230359.html>
444 'On the night of the wedding the ape came to sit in front of me and
445 asked me what I intended to do. "Whatever you tell me," I replied,
446 and he said: "Take care not to covet the girl, or I shall come back
447 and burn you up and leave you as a lesson for those who can learn."
448 I agreed to this and when evening came I found the world full of
449 candles and torches burning in holders of gold and silver. There
450 were servants and serving girls, and everyone who saw me
451 congratulated me on my good fortune, as there was no girl on the
452 face of the earth more beautiful than my bride.
454 'Next morning I went out to the market, and people went in and asked
455 her how the night had been. "He never looked up at me," she told
456 them. Then, when it was afternoon, I went to my house, where the
457 ape was sitting by the door. "Tell me what you did," it said, and I
458 told it: "By God, I did not learn and do not know whether this was a
459 man or a girl." "That's what I want," it said.
461 'On the second night my bride was brought to me, after which the
462 servants left her and went away. She fell asleep, and, while she
463 was sleeping, I killed the cock, wrapped it in the cloth and put the
464 four poles from the couch over it. Suddenly there was a huge crash
465 like a peal of thunder and a fiery 'ifrit swooped on the girl. I
466 fainted at the sight and when I recovered I heard a voice saying:
467 "By the Lord of the Ka'ba, the girl has been carried off!" and there
468 was a sound like the rustling of wind and bitter weeping. At this I
469 shed tears, struck my head and was filled with regret when it was no
470 longer of any use, for to me the whole world was worth no more than
473 =head2 v5.20.2 - Jonathan "Jonti" Picking, L<"Magical Trevor"|http://www.weebls-stuff.com/other-toons/video/magical-trevor.html>
475 L<Announced on 2015-02-14 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/02/msg225777.html>
477 Everyone loves Magical Trevor,
478 'Cos the tricks that he does are ever so clever;
479 Look at him now, disappearin' the cow,
480 Where is the cow hidden right now?
482 Taking a bow, it's Magical Trevor,
483 Everybody's seen that the trick is clever;
484 Look at him there with his leathery, leathery whip!
485 It's made of magic, and with a little flip--
487 Yeah, yeah, yeah, the cow is back,
488 Yeah, yeah, yeah, the cow is back;
489 Back, back, back from his magical journey,
492 What did he see in the parallel dimension?
493 He saw beans, lots of beans, lots of beans, lots of beans;
494 Oh, beans, lots of beans, lots of beans, lots of beans,
497 =head2 v5.20.2-RC1 - Jonathan "Jonti" Picking, L<"Scampi"|http://www.weebls-stuff.com/other-toons/video/scampi.html>
499 L<Announced on 2015-02-01 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/02/msg225273.html>
502 I've seen them with my eyes;
504 They're often in disguise.
506 Like carrots, handbags, cheese, toilets,
507 Russians, planets, hamsters, weddings,
508 Poets, Stalin, Kuala Lumpur!
509 Pygmies, budgies, Kuala Lumpur!
512 I've seen them with my eyes;
514 They're often in disguise.
516 Like carrots, handbags, cheese...
518 =head2 v5.20.1 - Lorenzo da Ponte, trans. Diana Reed, "Così fan tutte"
520 L<Announced on 2014-09-14 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/09/msg219789.html>
522 DORABELLA (as if waking from a daze): Where are they?
523 DON ALFONSO: They've gone.
524 FIORDILIGI: Oh, the cruel bitterness of parting!
527 Take heart, my dearest children.
528 Look, in the distance, your lovers are waving to you.
530 FIORDILIGI: Bon voyage, my darling!
531 DORABELLA: Bon voyage!
534 O heavens! How swiftly the ship is sailing away!
535 It is disappearing already!
536 It is no longer in sight!
537 Oh, may heaven grant it a prosperous voyage!
539 DORABELLA: May good luck attend it to the battlefield!
540 DON ALFONSO: And may your sweethearts and my friends be safe!
542 FIORDILIGI, DORABELLA, DON ALFONSO:
543 May the wind be gentle,
549 =head2 v5.20.1-RC2 - Lorenzo da Ponte, trans. William Weaver, "Così fan tutte"
551 L<Announced on 2014-09-07 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/09/msg219446.html>
554 Oh God, I feel that this foot of mine
555 is reluctant to come before her.
562 The hero displays his manliness
563 in the most terrible moments.
565 FIORDILIGI, DORABELLA:
566 Now that we have heard the news,
567 you have the lesser duty:
568 Take heart, and plunge your swords
569 into both our hearts.
573 that I must abandon you.
575 DORABELLA: Ah no, you shall not leave...
576 FIORDILIGI: No, cruel one, you shall not go...
577 DORABELLA: First I want to tear out my heart.
578 FIORDILIGI: First I want to die at your feet.
579 FERRANDO (softly to Don Alfonso): What do you say to that?
580 GUGLIELMO (softly to Don Alfonso): You realise?
581 DON ALFONSO (softly): Steady, friend, finem lauda.
584 Thus destiny defrauds
585 the hopes of mortals.
586 Ah, among so many misfortunes,
587 who can ever love life?
589 =head2 v5.20.1-RC1 - Lorenzo da Ponte, trans. William Weaver, "Così fan tutte"
591 L<Announced on 2014-08-25 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/08/msg218975.html>
594 I'd like to speak, but I haven't the heart:
596 My voice cannot emerge,
597 but remains in my throat.
598 What will you do? What shall I do?
599 Oh what a great catastrophe!
600 There can be nothing worse.
601 I feel pity for you and for them.
603 FIORDILIGI: Heavens! For mercy's sake, Signor Alfonso, don't make us
605 DON ALFONSO: My children, you must arm yourselves with constancy.
606 DORABELLA: Ye Gods! What evil has occurred? What horrible event? Is my
608 FIORDILIGI: Is mine dead?
609 DON ALFONSO: They are not dead, but they are not far from it.
613 DON ALFONSO: Nor that.
614 FIORDILIGI: What, then?
615 DON ALFONSO: A royal command summons them to the field of battle.
616 FIORDILIGI, DORABELLA: Alas, what do I hear? And they will leave?
617 DON ALFONSO: Immediately.
618 DORABELLA: And there is no way of preventing it?
619 DON ALFONSO: There is none.
620 FIORDILIGI: And not even a single farewell...
621 DON ALFONSO: The unhappy men haven't the courage to see you; but if
622 you wish it, they are ready...
623 DORABELLA: Where are they?
624 DON ALFONSO: Come in, friends.
626 =head2 v5.20.0 - William Shakespeare, Sonnet 18
628 L<Announced on 2014-05-27 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/05/msg215815.html>
630 But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
631 Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st;
632 Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
633 When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st:
634 So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
635 So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
637 =head2 v5.20.0-RC1 - Lindsey Buckingham, "Second Hand News"
639 L<Announced on 2014-05-17 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/05/msg215479.html>
643 Won't you lay me down in tall grass
644 And let me do my stuff
646 =head2 v5.19.11 - Isidore-Lucien Ducasse [as "Comte de Lautréamont"], trans. Paul Knight, "Les Chants de Maldoror"
648 L<Announced on 2014-04-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/04/msg214580.html>
650 O rigorous mathematics, I have not forgotten you since your wise lessons,
651 sweeter than honey, filtered into my heart like a refreshing wave.
652 Instinctively, from the cradle, I had longed to drink from your source, older
653 than the sun, and I continue to tread the sacred sanctuary of your solemn
654 temple, I, the most faithful of your devotees. There was a vagueness in my
655 mind, something thick as smoke; but I managed to mount the steps which lead to
656 your altar, and you drove away this dark veil, as the wind blows the
657 draught-board. You replaced it with excessive coldness, consummate prudence and
658 implacable logic. With the aid of your fortifying milk, my intellect developed
659 rapidly and took on immense proportions amid the ravishing lucidity which you
660 bestow as a gift on all those who sincerely love you. Arithmetic! Algebra!
661 Geometry! Awe-inspiring trinity! Luminous triangle! He who has not known you
664 =head2 v5.19.10 - John Chadwick, "The Decipherment of Linear B"
666 L<Announced on 2014-03-20 by Aaron Crane|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/03/msg213851.html>
668 The urge to discover secrets is deeply ingrained in human nature; even
669 the least curious mind is roused by the promise of sharing knowledge
670 withheld from others. Some are fortunate enough to find a job which
671 consists in the solution of mysteries, whether it be the physicist who
672 tracks down a hitherto unknown nuclear particle or the policeman who
673 detects a criminal. But most of us are driven to sublimate this urge
674 by the solving of artificial puzzles devised for our entertainment.
676 =head2 v5.19.9 - R. A. MacAvoy, "Tea with the Black Dragon"
678 L<Announced on 2014-02-20 by Tony Cook|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/02/msg213047.html>
680 Old hands. The smell of rain--the smell of Ch'an. Quiet words in
681 rough Cantonese. "I am not to be your master. Your master has to be
682 stronger than you are--has to tell you you are a fool and make you
683 know it. And make you feel content in being a fool. How could I do
684 that for you? I'm old. You are too strong for me; you are full of
685 chi." The old man has paused then, huddled against the wind while
686 clouds thickened above them.
688 "I will tell you this, Long," he continued, "Before you find yourself
689 you will lose your chi. Also you will leave behind you all pride of
690 body, pride of mind. You will be reduced. Like me." The old man
691 closed his eyes, and rain began to beat against his gray, crew-cut
692 hair. He pulled his coat closer. Suddenly his eyes snapped open and
693 he looked Long in the face.
695 "You must leave China. Go across the ocean. There you will meet your
696 master." He set down his teacup with a palsied hand. His voice rose,
699 "I tell you this, most honored and impressive visitor. You are a
700 fool, yes, but you will find the very thing you seek. You will find
703 =head2 v5.19.8 - Joseph Heller, "Catch-22"
705 L<Announced on 2014-01-20 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/01/msg211729.html>
707 “I used to get a big kick out of saving people’s lives. Now I wonder what the
708 hell’s the point, since they all have to die anyway.”
710 “Oh, there’s a point, all right,” Dunbar assured him.
712 “Is there? What is the point?”
714 “The point is to keep them from dying for as long as you can.”
716 “Yeah, but what’s the point, since they all have to die anyway?”
718 “The trick is not to think about that.”
720 “Never mind the trick. What the hell’s the point?”
722 Dunbar pondered in silence for a few moments. “Who the hell knows?”
724 =head2 v5.19.7 - Kurt Vonnegut, "Slaughterhouse-Five"
726 L<Announced on 2013-12-20 by Abigail|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/12/msg210882.html>
728 And somewhere in there was springtime. The corpse mines were closed
729 down. The soldiers all left to fight the Russians. In the suburbs,
730 the women and children dug rifle pits. Billy and the rest of his group
731 were locked up in the stable in the suburbs. And then, one morning,
732 they got up to discover that the door was unlocked. World War Two in
735 Billy and the rest wandered out onto the shady street. The trees were
736 leafing out. There was nothing going on out there, no traffic of any
737 kind. There was only one vehicle, an abandoned wagon drawn by two
738 horses. The wagon was green and coffin-shaped.
742 One bird said to Billy Pilgrim, "Pee-tee-weet?"
744 =head2 v5.19.6 - Monty Python's Flying Circus, "Spam"
746 L<Announced on 2013-11-20 by Chris 'BinGOs' Williams|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/11/msg210043.html>
748 Interior: cheap cafe. All the customers are Vikings. Mr and Mrs Bun enter downwards (on wires).
752 Mr. Bun: What have you got, then?
753 Waitress: Well there's egg and bacon; egg, sausage and bacon; egg and spam; egg, bacon and spam;
754 egg, bacon, sausage and spam; spam, bacon, sausage and spam; spam, egg, spam, spam, bacon and spam;
755 spam, spam, spam, egg and spam; spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, baked beans, spam, spam, spam and spam;
756 or lobster thermidor aux crevettes, with a mornay sauce garnished with truffle pate, brandy and a fried
758 Mrs. Bun: Have you got anything without spam in it?
759 Waitress: Well, there's spam, egg, sausage and spam. That's not got MUCH spam in it.
760 Mrs. Bun: I don't want ANY spam.
761 Mr. Bun: Why can't she have egg, bacon, spam and sausage?
762 Mrs. Bun: That's got spam in it!
763 Mr. Bun: Not as much as spam, egg, sausage and spam.
764 Mrs. Bun: Look, could I have egg, bacon, spam and sausage, without the spam.
765 Waitress: Uuuuuuggggh!
766 Mrs. Bun: What d'you mean, uugggh! I don't like spam.
767 Vikings: (singing) Spam, spam, spam, spam, spam ... spam, spam, spam, spam ... lovely spam, wonderful spam ...
769 (Brief shot of a Viking ship)
771 Waitress: Shut up. Shut up! Shut up! You can't have egg, bacon, spam and sausage without the spam.
773 Waitress: No, it wouldn't be egg, bacon, spam and sausage, would it?
774 Mrs. Bun: I don't like spam!
776 =head2 v5.19.5 - Charles Baudelaire, trans. James McGowan, "The Flowers of Evil", 51. The Cat
778 L<Announced on 2013-10-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/10/msg208752.html>
782 A cat is strolling through my mind
783 Acting as though he owned the place,
784 A lovely cat -- strong, charming, sweet.
785 When he meows, one scarcely hears,
787 So tender and discreet his tone;
788 But whether he should growl or purr
789 His voice is always rich and deep.
790 That is the secret of his charm.
792 This purling voice that filters down
793 Into my darkest depths of soul
794 Fulfils me like a balanced verse,
795 Delights me as a potion would.
797 It puts to sleep the cruellest ills
798 And keeps a rein on ecstasies --
799 Without the need for any words
800 It can pronounce the longest phrase.
802 Oh no, there is no bow that draws
803 Across my heart, fine instrument,
804 And makes to sing so royally
805 The strongest and the purest chord,
807 More than your voice, mysterious cat,
808 Exotic cat, seraphic cat,
809 In whom all is, angelically,
810 As subtle as harmonious.
814 From his soft fur, golden and brown,
815 Goes out so sweet a scent, one night
816 I might have been embalmed in it
817 By giving him one little pet.
819 He is my household's guardian soul;
820 He judges, he presides, inspires
821 All matters in hos royal realm;
822 Might he be fairy? or a god?
824 When my eyes, to this cat I love
825 Drawn as by a magnet's force,
826 Turn tamely back from that appeal,
827 And when I look within myself,
829 I notice with astonishment
830 The fire of his opal eyes,
831 Clear beacons glowing, living jewels,
832 Taking my measure, steadily.
834 =head2 v5.19.4 - Washington Irving, "The Widow and Her Son"
836 L<Announced on 2013-09-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/09/msg207969.html>
838 There is something in sickness that breaks down the pride of manhood;
839 that softens the heart and brings it back to the feelings of infancy.
840 Who that has languished, even in advanced life, in sickness and
841 despondency — who that has pined on a weary bed in the neglect and
842 loneliness of a foreign land — but has thought on the mother "that
843 looked on his childhood," that smoothed his pillow and administered to
844 his helplessness. — Oh! there is an enduring tenderness in the love
845 of a mother to her son that transcends all other affections of the
846 heart. It is neither to be chilled by selfishness — nor daunted by
847 danger — nor weakened by worthlessness — nor stifled by ingratitude.
848 She will sacrifice every comfort to his convenience — she will
849 surrender every pleasure to his enjoyment — she will glory in his fame
850 and exult in his prosperity. And if misfortune overtake him he will
851 be the dearer to her from misfortune — and if disgrace settle upon his
852 name, she will still love and cherish him in spite of his disgrace —
853 and if all the world beside cast him off, she will be all the world to
856 =head2 v5.19.3 - Andrew Hodges, "Alan Turing: The Enigma"
858 L<Announced on 2013-08-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/08/msg206318.html>
860 E.M. Forster, outdoing the King's heresy with grand bravura, had
861 written in 1938 that if he were faced with the choice between
862 betraying his country and betraying his friends, he hoped he would
863 have the courage to betray his country. He would always put the
864 personal above the political. But for Alan Turing, unlike Forster, or
865 Wittgenstein, or G.H. Hardy, it was more than a theoretical question.
866 For him not only had the personal become the political, but the
867 political was the personal. He had chosen and promised for himself in
868 working for the government. The choice for him therefore was that
869 between betraying one part of himself and betraying another part. And
870 however much he wavered between these alternatives, there was a solid
871 logic to the mind of security, one that could not be expected to take
872 an interest in notions of freedom and development. He had no rights
873 to such things, as he would have had to admit. He might have
874 outwitted the Home Guard, but when it came to questions that mattered,
875 there was no doubt that he had placed himself under military law.
876 There was a war on; there was always a war on now.
878 =head2 v5.19.2 - Fred Brooks, "The Mythical Man-Month"
880 L<Announced on 2013-07-22 by Aristotle Pagaltzis|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/07/msg204905.html>
882 The magic of myth and legend has come true in our time. One types the
883 correct incantation on a keyboard, and a display screen comes to life,
884 showing things that never were nor could be. [...] Not all is delight,
885 however [...] One must perform perfectly. The computer resembles the
886 magic of legend in this respect, too. If one character, one pause, of
887 the incantation is not strictly in proper form, the magic doesn't work.
889 =head2 v5.19.1 - William Shakespeare, "A Midsummer Night's Dream"
891 L<Announced on 2013-06-21 by David Golden|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/06/msg203449.html>
893 Over hill, over dale,
894 Thorough bush, thorough briar,
895 Over park, over pale,
896 Thorough flood, thorough fire,
897 I do wander everywhere,
898 Swifter than the moon's sphere;
899 And I serve the fairy queen,
900 To dew her orbs upon the green.
901 The cowslips tall her pensioners be;
902 In their gold coats, spots you see;
903 Those be rubies, fairy favours,
904 In their freckles live our savours.
905 I must go seek some dew-drops here,
906 And hang a perl in every cowslip's ear.
907 Farewell, thou lob of spirits, I'll be gone;
908 My queen and all her elves come here anon!
910 =head2 v5.19.0 - Batman, of the Joker, in "The Dark Knight Returns"
912 L<Announced on 2013-05-20 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/05/msg201980.html>
914 From the beginning, I knew…
915 …that there was nothing wrong with you…
919 =head2 v5.18.4 - Robert W. Chambers, Cassilda's Song in "The King in Yellow," Act I, Scene 2
921 L<Announced on 2014-10-01 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/10/msg220770.html>
923 Along the shore the cloud waves break,
924 The twin suns sink beneath the lake,
928 Strange is the night where black stars rise,
929 And strange moons circle through the skies
930 But stranger still is
933 Songs that the Hyades shall sing,
934 Where flap the tatters of the King,
938 Song of my soul, my voice is dead;
939 Die thou, unsung, as tears unshed
943 =head2 v5.18.3 - (no epigraph)
947 =head2 v5.18.3-RC2 - Robert W. Chambers, "The King in Yellow", Act I, Scene 2
949 L<Announced on 2014-09-27 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/09/msg220613.html>
951 "Ah! I see it now!" I shrieked. "You have seized the throne and the
952 empire. Woe! woe to you who are crowned with the crown of the King in
955 =head2 v5.18.3-RC1 - Robert W. Chambers, "The King in Yellow", Act I, Scene 2
957 L<Announced on 2014-09-17 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/09/msg220072.html>
959 CAMILLA: You, sir, should unmask.
963 CASSILDA: Indeed it's time. We all have laid aside disguise but you.
965 STRANGER: I wear no mask.
967 CAMILLA: (Terrified, aside to Cassilda.) No mask? No mask!
969 =head2 v5.18.2 - Miss Manners
971 L<Announced on 2014-01-06 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/01/msg211224.html>
973 One of the major mistakes people make is that they think manners are
974 only the expression of happy ideas. There's a whole range of behavior
975 that can be expressed in a mannerly way. That's what civilization is all
976 about – doing it in a mannerly and not an antagonistic way. One of the
977 places we went wrong was the naturalistic Rousseauean movement of the
978 Sixties in which people said, "Why can't you just say what's on your
979 mind?" In civilization there have to be some restraints. If we followed
980 every impulse, we'd be killing one another.
982 =head2 v5.18.1 - Chuck Moore
984 L<Announced on 2013-08-12 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/08/msg205897.html>
986 The operating system is another concept that is curious. Operating
987 systems are dauntingly complex and totally unnecessary. It’s a brilliant
988 thing that Bill Gates has done in selling the world on the notion of
989 operating systems. It’s probably the greatest con game the world has
992 An operating system does absolutely nothing for you. As long as you had
993 something — a subroutine called disk driver, a subroutine called some
994 kind of communication support, in the modern world, it doesn’t do
995 anything else. In fact, Windows spends a lot of time with overlays and
996 disk management all stuff like that which are irrelevant. You’ve got
997 gigabyte disks; you’ve got megabyte RAMs. The world has changed in a way
998 that renders the operating system unnecessary.
1000 =head2 v5.18.1-RC1 - Chuck Moore
1002 L<Announced on 2013-08-02 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/08/msg205445.html>
1004 Compilers are probably the worst code ever written. They are written by
1005 someone who has never written a compiler before and will never do so
1006 again. The more elaborate the language, the more complex, bug-ridden,
1007 and unusable is the compiler. But a simple compiler for a simple
1008 language is an essential tool—if only for documentation.
1010 =head2 v5.18.0 - Yevgeny Zamyatin
1012 L<Announced on 2013-05-18 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/05/msg201940.html>
1014 It is an error to divide people into the living and the dead: there are people
1015 who are dead-alive, and people who are alive-alive. The dead-alive also write,
1016 walk, speak, act. But they make no mistakes; only machines make no mistakes,
1017 and they produce only dead things. The alive-alive are constantly in error, in
1018 search, in questions, in torment.
1020 =head2 v5.18.0-RC4 - Joseph Heller, "Catch-22"
1022 L<Announced on 2013-05-16 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/05/msg201889.html>
1024 Clevinger was dead. That was the basic flaw in his philosophy.
1026 =head2 v5.18.0-RC3 - Tom Waits, "The Ocean Doesn't Want Me"
1028 L<Announced on 2013-05-14 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/05/msg201823.html>
1030 I'd love to go drowning
1031 And to stay and to stay
1032 But the ocean doesn't want me today
1033 I'll go in up to here
1034 It can't possibly hurt
1035 All they will find is my beer
1038 =head2 v5.18.0-RC2 - Tom Waits, "Earth Died Screaming"
1040 L<Announced on 2013-05-12 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/05/msg201723.html>
1042 And the great day of wrath has come
1043 And here's mud in your big red eye
1044 The poker's in the fire
1045 And the locusts take the sky
1046 And the earth died screaming
1047 While I lay dreaming of you
1049 =head2 v5.18.0-RC1 - Tom Waits, "What's He Building in There?"
1051 L<Announced on 2013-05-11 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/05/msg201651.html>
1053 What's he building in there?
1055 We have a right to know…
1057 =head2 v5.17.11 - Nigel Tufnel in "This is Spın̈al Tap"
1059 L<Announced on 2013-04-20 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/04/msg201056.html>
1061 It's very special because, if you can see, the numbers all go to…
1062 eleven! Look, right across the board: eleven, eleven, eleven, eleven!
1064 =head2 v5.17.10 - Vernor Vinge, "A Fire Upon The Deep"
1066 L<Announced on 2013-03-23 by Max Maischein|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/03/msg200504.html>
1068 The archive informed the automation. Data structures were built, recipes
1069 followed. A local network was built, faster than anything on Straum, but surely
1070 safe. Nodes were added, modified by other recipes. The archive was a friendly
1071 place, with hierarchies of translation keys that led them along. Straum itself
1072 would be famous for this.
1074 Six months passed. A year.
1076 The omniscient view. Not self-aware really. Self-awareness is much over-rated.
1077 Most automation works far better as a part of a whole, and even if human-
1078 powerful, it does not need to self-know.
1080 =head2 v5.17.9 - Douglas Adams, "The Hitch-Hikers Guide to the Galaxy"
1082 L<Announced on 2013-02-20 by Chris 'BinGOs' Williams|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/02/msg199115.html>
1084 Vogon poetry is of course, the third worst in the universe.
1085 The second worst is that of the Azgoths of Kria. During a
1086 recitation by their poet master Grunthos the Flatulent of
1087 his poem 'Ode To A Small Lump of Green Putty I Found In My
1088 Armpit One Midsummer Morning' four of his audience died
1089 of internal haemorrhaging and the president of the
1090 Mid-Galactic Arts Nobbling Council survived by gnawing one
1091 of his own legs off. Grunthos is reported to have been
1092 'disappointed' by the poem's reception, and was about to
1093 embark on a reading of his twelve-book epic entitled
1094 'My Favourite Bathtime Gurgles' when his own major intestine,
1095 in a desperate attempt to save life and civilisation,
1096 leapt straight up through his neck and throttled his brain.
1098 The very worst poetry of all perished along with its creator
1099 Paula Nancy Millstone Jennings of Greenbridge, Essex, England,
1100 in the destruction of the planet Earth.
1102 =head2 v5.17.8 - Iain Pears, "An Instance of the Fingerpost"
1104 L<Announced on 2013-01-20 by Aaron Crane|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/01/msg197571.html>
1106 I must here declare myself as someone who does not for a moment subscribe to
1107 the general view that a willingness to perform oneself is detrimental to the
1108 dignity of experimental philosophy. There is, after all, a clear distinction
1109 between labour carried out for financial reward, and that done for the
1110 improvement of mankind: to put it another way, Lower as a philosopher was
1111 fully my equal even if he fell away when he became the practising physician.
1112 I think ridiculous of certain professors of anatomy, who find it beneath
1113 them to pick up the knife themselves, but merely comment while hired hands
1114 do the cutting. Sylvius would never have dreamt of sitting on a dais reading
1115 from an authority while others cut — when he taught, the knife was
1116 in his hand and the blood spattered his coat. Boyle also did not scruple to
1117 perform his own experiments and, on one occasion in my presence, even showed
1118 himself willing to anatomise a rat with his very own hands. Nor was he less
1119 a gentleman when he had finished. Indeed, in my opinion, his stature was all
1120 the greater, for in Boyle wealth, humility and curiosity mingled, and the
1121 world is richer for it.
1123 =head2 v5.17.7 - R. Scott Bakker, "The Darkness That Comes Before"
1125 L<Announced on 2012-12-18 by Dave Rolsky|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/12/msg196707.html>
1129 The boy extinguished. Only a place.
1133 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.
1135 A place without breath or sound. A place of sight alone. A place without before or after . . . almost.
1137 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.
1139 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 . . .
1141 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.
1143 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.
1145 I have been legion . . .
1147 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.
1151 =head2 v5.17.6 - Kurt Vonnegut, "The Sirens of Titan"
1153 L<Announced on 2012-11-20 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/11/msg195659.html>
1155 Beatrice, looking like a gypsy queen, smoldered at the foot of a statue
1156 of a young physical student. At first glance, the laboratory-gowned
1157 scientist seemed to be a perfect servant of nothing but truth. At first
1158 glance, one was convinced that nothing but truth could please him as he
1159 beamed at his test tube. At first glance, one thought that he was as
1160 much above the beastly concerns of mankind as the harmoniums in the
1161 caves of Mercury. There, at first glance, was a young man without
1162 vanity, without lust — and one accepted at its face value the title Salo
1163 had engraved on the statue, "Discovery of Atomic Power."
1165 =head2 v5.17.5 - Charles Stross, "Singularity Sky"
1167 L<Announced on 2012-10-20 by Florian Ragwitz|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/10/msg194349.html>
1169 Neither of them noticed the pair of polka-dotted knickers hiding
1170 behind the ventilation duct overhead, listening patiently and
1171 recording everything.
1173 =head2 v5.17.4 - Roald Dahl, "Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf"
1175 L<Announced on 2012-09-19 by Florian Ragwitz|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/09/msg192635.html>
1177 The small girl smiles. One eyelid flickers.
1178 She whips a pistol from her knickers.
1179 She aims it at the creature's head,
1180 And bang bang bang, she shoots him dead.
1182 A few weeks later, in the wood,
1183 I came across Miss Riding Hood.
1184 But what a change! No cloak of red,
1185 No silly hood upon her head.
1186 She said, "Hello, and do please note
1187 My lovely furry wolfskin coat."
1189 =head2 v5.17.3 - Kris Ta-belle, "Smoked Perl Onion Soup"
1191 L<Announced on 2012-08-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/08/msg190775.html>
1195 Cut 16 Perl Onions into quarters and put them in a grill smoker rack
1196 or a perforated pan over a BBQ using hickory wood chips or Special
1197 Blend Smoker Bisquettes. Smoke them for an hour and remove once they
1199 Let them cool and put them in the fridge (or freezer) until you are
1200 ready to create the soup.
1204 16 diced, pre-smoked, Perl Onions
1207 2 small garlic cloves, finely minced
1210 black pepper to taste
1212 1/4 cup all purpose flour
1213 6 cups of beef or vegetable stock
1214 1 cup of thick cream (milk can be used as a substitute)
1218 Melt the butter in a pan and then add olive oil.
1219 Heat and add the onions to caramelize over a medium-high heat for up
1221 Add the garlic, turn down the heat and cook for a further 5 minutes.
1222 Add the salt, pepper and sugar.
1223 Now add the red wine and reduce to a jam like consistency.
1224 Add the flour, stir well and add the stock a cup at a time.
1225 Simmer for 30 minutes, add the cream and heat to almost boiling.
1229 =head2 v5.17.2 - Terry Pratchet, "The Colour of Magic"
1231 L<Announced on 2012-07-21 by TonyC|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/07/msg189828.html>
1233 ‘I knew it,’ said Rincewind. ‘We're in a strong magical field.’
1235 Twoflower and Hrun looked around the little hollow where they had made
1236 their noonday halt. Then they looked at each other.
1238 The horses were quietly cropping the rich grass by the stream. Yellow
1239 butterflies skittered among the bushes. There was a smell of thyme
1240 and a buzzing of bees. The wild pigs on the spit sizzled gently.
1242 Hrun shrugged and went back to oiling his biceps. They gleamed.
1244 ‘Looks alright to me,’ he said.
1246 ‘Try tossing a coin,’ said Rincewind.
1250 ‘Go on. Toss a coin.’
1252 ‘Hokay,’ said Hrun. 'If that gives you any pleasure.’ He reached into
1253 his pouch and withdrew a handful of loose change plundered from a
1254 dozen realms. With some care he selected a Zchloty leaden
1255 quarter-iotum and balanced it on a purple thumbnail.
1257 ‘You call,’ he said. ‘Heads or—’ he inspected the obverse with
1258 an air of intense concentration, ‘some sort of a fish with legs.’
1260 ‘When it's in the air,’ said Rincewind. Hrun grinned and flicked his thumb.
1262 The iotum rose, spinning.
1264 ‘Edge,’ said Rincewind, without looking at it.
1266 =head2 v5.17.1 - Rand Miller, "Myst: The Book of Ti'ana"
1268 L<Announced on 2012-06-20 by doy|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/06/msg188354.html>
1270 On their return from Ko'ah, Aitrus had shown her the Book, patiently
1271 taking her through page after page, and showing her how such an Age was
1272 "made." She had seen at once the differences between this archaic form
1273 and the ordinary written speech of the D'ni, noting how it was not
1274 merely more elaborate but more specific: a language of precise yet
1275 subtle descriptive power. Yet seeing was one thing, believing another.
1276 Given all the evidence, her rational mind still fought against accepting
1279 =head2 v5.17.0 - Charles Stross, "Singularity Sky"
1281 L<Announced on 2012-05-26 by Zefram|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/05/msg187214.html>
1283 `Welcome, comrades!' Burya opened his arms toward the soldier.
1284 `Yes it is true! With help from our allies of the Festival, the iron
1285 hand of the reactionary junta is about to be overthrown for all time!
1286 The new economy is being born; the marginal cost of production has
1287 been abolished, and from now on, if any item is produced once, it can
1288 be replicated infinitely. From each according to his imagination,
1289 to each according to his needs! Join us or better still, bring your
1290 fellow soldiers and workers to join us!'
1292 There was a sharp bang from the roof of the Corn Exchange, right at the
1293 climax of his impromptu speech; heads turned in alarm. Something had
1294 broken inside the spork factory and a stream of rainbow-hued plastic
1295 implements fountained toward the sky and clattered to the cobblestones
1296 on every side, like a harbinger of the postindustrial society to come.
1297 Workers and peasants alike stared in open-mouthed bewilderment at this
1298 astounding display of productivity, then bent to scrabble in the muck
1299 for the brightly colored sporks of revolution. A volley of shots rang
1300 out and Burya Rubenstein raised his hands, grinning wildly, to accept
1301 the salute of the soldiers from the Skull Hill garrison.
1303 =head2 v5.16.3 - Devo, "Freedom of Choice"
1305 L<Announced on 2013-03-11 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/03/msg200009.html>
1307 A victim of collision on the open sea
1308 Nobody ever said that life was free
1309 Sink, swim, go down with the ship
1310 But use your freedom of choice
1312 =head2 v5.16.2 - Stanislaw Lem, "The Cyberiad", Trurl's Machine
1314 L<Announced on 2012-11-01 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/11/msg194915.html>
1316 Once upon a time Trurl the constructor built an eight-story thinking
1317 machine. When it was finished, he gave it a coat of white paint,
1318 trimmed the edges in lavender, stepped back, squinted, then added a
1319 little curlicue on the front and, where one might imagine the forehead
1320 to be, a few pale orange polkadots. Extremely pleased with himself,
1321 he whistled an air and, as is always done on such occasions, asked it
1322 the ritual question of how much is two plus two.
1324 The machine stirred. Its tubes began to glow, its coils warmed up,
1325 current coursed through all its circuits like a waterfall,
1326 transformers hummed and throbbed, there was a clanging, and a
1327 chugging, and such an ungodly racket that Trurl began to think of
1328 adding a special mentation muffler. Meanwhile the machine labored on,
1329 as if it had been given the most difficult problem in the Universe to
1330 solve; the ground shook, the sand slid underfoot from the vibration,
1331 valves popped like champagne corks, the relays nearly gave way under
1332 the strain. At last, when Trurl had grown extremely impatient, the
1333 machine ground to a halt and said in a voice like thunder: SEVEN!
1335 =head2 v5.16.1 - Emerald Rose, "Never Split The Party"
1337 L<Announced on 2012-08-08 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/08/msg190413.html>
1339 Don't you know? You never split the party
1340 Clerics in the back to keep those fighters hale and hearty
1341 The wizard in the middle, where he can shed some light
1342 And you never let that damn thief out of sight…
1344 =head2 v5.16.1-RC1 - Tom Moldvay, Foreward to the "Dungeons & Dragons Basic Rulebook"
1346 L<Announced on 2012-08-03 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/08/msg190264.html>
1348 I was busy rescuing the captured maiden when the dragon showed up.
1349 Fifty feed of scaled terror glared down at us with smoldering red eyes.
1350 Tendrils of smoke drifted out from between fangs larger than daggers.
1351 The dragon blocked the only exit from the cave.
1355 I unwrapped the sword which the mysterious cleric had given me. The
1356 sword was golden-tinted steel. Its hilt was set with a rainbow
1357 collection of precious gems. I shouted my battle cry and charged
1359 My charge caught the dragon by surprise. Its titanic jaws snapped shut
1360 inches from my face. I swung the golden sword with both arms. The
1361 swordblade bit into the dragon's neck and continued through to the other
1362 side. With an earth-shaking crash, the dragon dropped dead at my feet.
1363 The magic sword had saved my life and ended the reign of the
1364 dragon-tyrant. The countryside was freed and I could return as a hero.
1366 =head2 v5.16.0 - W.H. Auden, "September 1, 1939"
1368 L<Announced on 2012-05-20 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/05/msg186903.html>
1370 All I have is a voice
1371 To undo the folded lie,
1372 The romantic lie in the brain
1373 Of the sensual man-in-the-street
1374 And the lie of Authority
1375 Whose buildings grope the sky:
1376 There is no such thing as the State
1377 And no one exists alone;
1378 Hunger allows no choice
1379 To the citizen or the police;
1380 We must love one another or die.
1382 =head2 v5.15.9 - Bob Dylan, "Blowin' In The Wind"
1384 L<Announced on 2012-03-20 by Abigail|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/03/msg184824.html>
1386 How many roads must a man walk down
1387 Before you call him a man?
1388 Yes, 'n' how many seas must a white dove sail
1389 Before she sleeps in the sand?
1390 Yes, 'n' how many times must the cannonballs fly
1391 Before they're forever banned?
1392 The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind
1393 The answer is blowin' in the wind
1395 How many years can a mountain exist
1396 Before it's washed to the sea?
1397 Yes, 'n' how many years can some people exist
1398 Before they're allowed to be free?
1399 Yes, 'n' how many times can a man turn his head
1400 Pretending he just doesn't see?
1401 The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind
1402 The answer is blowin' in the wind
1404 How many times must a man look up
1405 Before he can see the sky?
1406 Yes, 'n' how many ears must one man have
1407 Before he can hear people cry?
1408 Yes, 'n' how many deaths will it take till he knows
1409 That too many people have died?
1410 The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind
1411 The answer is blowin' in the wind
1413 =head2 v5.15.8 - The KLF, "The Manual-How To Have A Number One The Easy Way"
1415 L<Announced on 2012-02-20 by Max Maischein|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/02/msg183919.html>
1417 "Doctor Who, hey Doctor Who
1418 Doctor Who, in the Tardis
1419 Doctor Who, hey Doctor Who
1420 Doctor Who, Doc, Doctor Who
1421 Doctor Who, Doc, Doctor Who"
1423 Gibberish of course, but every lad in the country under a certain
1424 age related instinctively to what it was about. The ones slightly
1425 older needed a couple of pints inside them to clear away the mind
1426 debris left by the passing years before it made sense. As for
1427 girls and our chorus, we think they must have seen it as pure crap.
1428 A fact that must have limited to zero our chances of staying at The
1429 Top for more than one week.
1431 Stock, Aitkin and Waterman, however, are kings of writing chorus
1432 lyrics that go straight to the emotional heart of the 7" single
1433 buying girls in this country. Their most successful records will kick
1434 into the chorus with a line which encapsulates the entire emotional
1435 meaning of the song. This will obviously be used as the title. As
1436 soon as Rick Astley hit the first line of the chorus on his debut
1437 single it was all over - the Number One position was guaranteed:
1439 "I'm never going to give you up"
1441 =head2 v5.15.7 - Penelope Lively, "The Voyage of QV66"
1443 L<Announced on 2012-01-20 by Chris 'BinGOs' Williams|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/01/msg182230.html>
1445 "Laboratories," announced Henry. "Kindly don't touch anything."
1447 He led us into a long low brick shed. Outside there was a
1448 notice on a piece of board, crudely printed in red paint,
1449 which said GRATE SIENCE DISCOVERYS DONE HERE SSSH! BRING YOUR
1450 OWN BUKKIT NO PINCHING ANYWUN ELSE'S EXPERRYMENTS CANTEEN OPEN
1451 ALL DAY CHIMPS ONLY.
1453 There were a lot of large black monkeys inside, all intently
1454 busy on what they were doing. Some of them were pouring stuff
1455 out of bottles into buckets and carefully stirring the ensuing
1456 mixture; others were at work with glass tubes and jars, blowing
1457 and measuring and mixing; others were crouched over long benches
1458 with tools and heaps of bits and pieces of metal, cutting and
1459 bending and constructing. There was a great deal of noise and
1460 chatter. Every now and then one of them would give a whoop of
1461 excitement and all the others would gather round and jump up and
1462 down cheering and applauding.
1464 "Chimps," said Henry. "They're awfully clever."
1466 =head2 v5.15.6 - Ursula K. Leguin, "A Wizard of Earthsea"
1468 L<Announced on 2011-12-20 by Dave Rolsky|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/12/msg180962.html>
1470 Ged had thought that as the prentice of a great mage he would enter at once
1471 into the mystery and mastery of power. He would understand the language of the
1472 beasts and the speech of the leaves of the forest, he thought, and sway the
1473 winds with his word, and learn to change himself into any shape he
1474 wished. Maybe he and his master would run together as stags, or fly to Re Albi
1475 over the mountain on the wings of eagles.
1477 But it was not so at all. They wandered, first down into the Vale and then
1478 gradually south and westward around the mountain, given lodging in little
1479 villages or spending the night out in the wilderness, like poor
1480 journeyman-sorcerers, or tinkers, or beggars. They entered no mysterious
1481 domain. Nothing happened. The mage's oaken staff that Ged had watched at first
1482 with eager dread was nothing but a stout staff to walk with. Three days went
1483 by and four days went by and still Ogion had not spoken a single charm in
1484 Ged's hearing, and had not taught him a single name or rune or spell.
1486 =head2 v5.15.5 - Nikolai Gogol, trans. Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, "The Diary of a Madman"
1488 L<Announced on 2011-11-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/11/msg179588.html>
1490 This day - is a day of the greatest solemnity! Spain has a king. He has
1491 been found. I am that king. Only this very day did I learn of it. I
1492 confess, it came to me suddenly in a flash of lightning. I don't understand
1493 how I could have thought and imagined that I was a titular councillor. How
1494 could such a wild notion enter my head? It's a good thing no one thought of
1495 putting me in an insane asylum. Now everything is laid open before me. Now
1496 I see everything as on the palm of my hand. And before, I don't understand,
1497 before everything around me was in some sort of fog. And all this happens, I
1498 think, because people imagine that the human brain is in the head. Not at
1499 all: it is brought by a wind from the direction of the Caspian Sea. First
1500 off, I announced to Mavra who I am. When she heard that the king of Spain
1501 was standing before her, she clasped her hands and nearly died of fright.
1502 The stupid woman had never seen a king of Spain before. However, I
1503 endeavoured to calm her down and assured her in gracious words of my
1504 benevolence and that I was not at all angry that she sometimes polished my
1505 boots poorly. They're benighted folk. It's impossible to tell them about
1506 lofty matters. She got frightened because she's convinced that all kings of
1507 Spain are like Philip II. But I explained to her that there was no
1508 resemblance between me and Philip II, and that I didn't have a single
1509 Capuchin . . . I didn't go to the office . . . To hell with it! No friends,
1510 you won't lure me there now; I'm not going to copy your vile papers!
1512 =head2 v5.15.4 - Steve Jobs
1514 L<Announced on 2011-10-20 by Florian Ragwitz|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/10/msg178412.html>
1516 A lot of people in our industry haven't had very diverse experiences. So they
1517 don't have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions
1518 without a broad perspective on the problem. The broader one's understanding of
1519 the human experience, the better design we will have.
1521 =head2 v5.15.3 - Oscar Wilde, From the preface to "The Picture of Dorian Gray"
1523 L<Announced on 2011-09-20 by Stevan Little|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/09/msg177427.html>
1525 All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath
1526 the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol
1527 do so at their peril.
1529 It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.
1530 Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the
1531 work is new, complex, and vital. When critics disagree, the
1532 artist is in accord with himself.
1534 We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as
1535 he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless
1536 thing is that one admires it intensely.
1538 All art is quite useless.
1540 =head2 v5.15.2 - Rainer Maria Rilke, trans., C. F. MacIntyre, "Duino", The First Elegy
1542 L<Announced on 2011-08-20 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/08/msg176067.html>
1544 True, it is strange to live no more on earth,
1545 no longer follow the folkways scarecely learned;
1546 not to give roses and other especially auspicious
1547 things the significance of a human future;
1548 to be no more what one was in infinitely anxious hands,
1549 and to put aside even one's name, like a broken plaything.
1550 Strange, to wish wishes no longer. Strange, to see
1551 all that was related fluttering so loosely in space.
1552 And being dead is hard, full of catching-up,
1553 so that finally one feels a little eternity.–
1554 But the living all make the mistake of too sharp discrimination.
1555 Often angels (it's said) don't know if they move
1556 among the quick or the dead. The eternal current
1557 hurtles all ages along with it forever
1558 through both realms and drowns their voices in both.
1560 =head2 v5.15.1 - Greg Egan, "Permutation City"
1562 L<Announced on 2011-07-20 by Zefram|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/07/msg175014.html>
1564 Carter held out a hand towards the middle of the room. `See that
1565 fountain?' A ten-metre-wide marble wedding cake, topped with a
1566 winged cherub wrestling a serpent, duly appeared. Water cascaded
1567 down from a gushing wound in the cherub's neck. Carter said, `It's
1568 being computed by redundancies in the sketch of the city. I can
1569 extract the results, because I know exactly where to look for them --
1570 but nobody else would have a hope in hell of picking them out.'
1572 Peer walked up to the fountain. Even as he approached, he noticed
1573 that the spray was intangible; when he dipped his hand in the water
1574 around the base he felt nothing, and the motion he made with his
1575 fingers left the foaming surface unchanged. They were spying on
1576 the calculations, not interacting with them; the fountain was a
1579 Carter said, `In your case, of course, nobody will need to know
1580 the results. Except you -- and you'll know them because you'll
1583 =head2 v5.15.0 - Neil Gaiman, "The Graveyard Book"
1585 L<Announced on 2011-06-20 by David Golden|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/06/msg173748.html>
1587 If you dare nothing, then when the day is over, nothing is all you will have gained.
1589 =head2 v5.14.4 - Arthur C. Clarke, "The Nine Billion Names of God"
1591 L<Announced on 2013-03-11 by Dave Mitchell|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/03/msg199988.html>
1593 He began to sing, but gave it up after a while. This vast arena of
1594 mountains, gleaming like whitely hooded ghosts on every side, did not
1595 encourage such ebullience. Presently George glanced at his watch.
1597 'Should be there in an hour,' he called back over his shoulder to
1598 Chuck. Then he added, in an afterthought: 'Wonder if the computer's
1599 finished its run. It was due about now.'
1601 Chuck didn't reply, so George swung round in his saddle. He could just
1602 see Chuck's face, a white oval turned towards the sky.
1604 'Look,' whispered Chuck, and George lifted his eyes to heaven. (There
1605 is always a last time for everything.)
1607 Overhead, without any fuss, the stars were going out.
1609 =head2 v5.14.3 - William Shakespeare, "As You Like It"
1611 L<Announced on 2012-10-12 by Dominic Hargreaves|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/10/msg194057.html>
1613 The poor world is almost six thousand years old, and in all
1614 this time there was not any man died in his own person,
1615 videlicit, in a love-cause. Troilus had his brains dashed
1616 out with a Grecian club; yet he did what he could to die
1617 before, and he is one of the patterns of love. Leander, he
1618 would have lived many a fair year, though Hero had turned
1619 nun, if it had not been for a hot midsummer night; for, good
1620 youth, he went but forth to wash him in the Hellespont and
1621 being taken with the cramp was drowned and the foolish
1622 coroners of that age found it was 'Hero of Sestos.' But these
1623 are all lies: men have died from time to time and worms have
1624 eaten them, but not for love.
1626 =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 >>
1628 L<Announced on 2011-09-26 by Florian Ragwitz|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/09/msg177618.html>
1630 It's not so much that people don't value the programs after they have them--they
1631 do value them. But they're not the sort of thing that would ever catch on if
1632 they had to overcome the marketing barrier. (I don't yet know if perl will
1633 catch on at all--I'm worried enough about it that I specifically included an
1634 awk-to-perl translator just to help it catch on.) Maybe it's all just an
1635 inferiority complex. Or maybe I don't like to be mercenary.
1637 So I guess I'd say that the reason some software comes free is that the
1638 mechanism for selling it is missing, either from the work environment, or from
1639 the heart of the programmer.
1641 =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 >>
1643 L<Announced on 2011-06-16 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/06/msg173650.html>
1645 At this point I'm no longer working for a company that makes me sign
1646 my life away, but by now I'm in the habit. Besides, I still harbor
1647 the deep-down suspicion that nobody would pay money for what I write,
1648 since most of it just helps you do something better that you could
1649 already do some other way. How much money would you personally pay
1650 to upgrade from readnews to rn? How much money would you pay for
1651 the patch program? As for warp, it's a mere game. And anything you
1652 can do with perl you can eventually do with an amazing and totally
1653 unreadable conglomeration of awk, sed, sh and C.
1655 =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 >>
1657 L<Announced on 2011-05-14 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/05/msg172326.html>
1659 At the start of any project, I'm programming primarily to please
1660 myself. (The two chief virtues in a programmer are laziness and
1661 impatience.) After a while somebody looks over my shoulder and says,
1662 "That's neat. It'd be neater if it did such-and-so." So the thing
1663 gets neater. Pretty soon (a year or two) I have an rn, a warp, a patch,
1664 or a perl. One of these years I'll have a metaconfig.
1666 I then say to myself, "I don't want my life's work to die when this
1667 computer is scrapped, so I should let some other people use this. If I
1668 ask my company to sell this, it'll never see the light of day, and nobody
1669 would pay much for it anyway. If I sell it myself, I'll be in trouble with
1670 my company, to whom I signed my life away when I was hired. If I give it
1671 away, I can pretend it was worthless in the first place, so my company
1672 won't care. In any event, it's easier to ask forgiveness than permission."
1674 So a freely distributable program is born.
1676 =head2 v5.14.0-RC3 - American Airlines Gate Agent, last call
1678 L<Announced on 2011-05-11 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/05/msg172282.html>
1680 This is the last call for flight 1697 with service to Chicago and
1681 continuing service to San Francisco. All passengers should already be
1682 aboard. If you aren't aboard at this time, you will be denied boarding
1683 and your bags will be offloaded.
1685 =head2 v5.14.0-RC2 - Greg Grandin, "Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City"
1687 L<Announced on 2011-05-04 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/05/msg171879.html>
1689 Over the course of nearly two decades, Ford would spend tens of millions
1690 of dollars founding not one but, after the plantation was defastated
1691 by leaf blight, two American towns, complete with central squares,
1692 sidewalks, indoor plumbing, hospitals, manicured lawns, movie theaters,
1693 swimming pools, golf courses, and, of course, Model Ts and As rolling
1694 down their paved streets.
1696 Back in America, newspapers kept up their drumbeat celebration, only
1697 obliquely referencing reports that things were not progressing as the
1698 company had hoped. But there was one note of skepticism. In late 1928,
1699 the Washington Post ran an editorial that read in its entirety: "Ford will
1700 govern a rubber plantation in Brazil larger than North Carolina. This is
1701 the first time he has applied quantity production methods to trouble"
1703 =head2 v5.14.0-RC1 - Bill Bryson, "In a Sunburned Country"
1705 L<Announced on 2011-04-20 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/04/msg171253.html>
1707 But then Australia is such a difficult country to keep track of. On
1708 my first visit, some years ago, I passed the time on the long flight
1709 reading a history of Australian politics in the twentieth century,
1710 wherein I encountered the startling fact that in 1967 the prime minister,
1711 Harold Holt, was strolling along a beach in Victoria when he plunged into
1712 the surf and vanished. No trace of the poor man was ever seen again.
1713 This seemed doubly astounding to me—first that Australia could
1714 just I<lose> a prime minister (I mean, come on) and second that news of
1715 this had never reached me.
1717 =head2 v5.13.11 - Walt Whitman, L<"Leaves of Grass"|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leaves_of_Grass>
1719 L<Announced on 2011-03-20 by Florian Ragwitz|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/03/msg170206.html>
1721 When the full-grown poet came,
1722 Out spake pleased Nature (the round impassive globe, with all its
1723 shows of day and night,) saying, He is mine;
1724 But out spake too the Soul of man, proud, jealous and unreconciled,
1725 Nay he is mine alone;
1726 --Then the full-grown poet stood between the two, and took each
1728 And to-day and ever so stands, as blender, uniter, tightly
1730 Which he will never release until he reconciles the two,
1731 And wholly and joyously blends them.
1733 =head2 v5.13.10 - Egill Skalla-Grímsson, L<"Egils saga Skalla-Grímssonar"|http://www.heimskringla.no/wiki/Egils_saga_Skalla-Gr%C3%ADmssonar>
1735 L<Announced on 2011-02-20 by Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/02/msg169340.html>
1737 Skalat maðr rúnar rísta,
1738 nema ráða vel kunni.
1739 Þat verðr mörgum manni,
1740 es of myrkvan staf villisk.
1742 tíu launstafi ristna.
1743 Þat hefr lauka lindi
1744 langs ofrtrega fengit.
1746 =head2 v5.13.9 - John F Kennedy, L<Inaugural Address January 20, 1961|http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/John_F._Kennedy%27s_Inaugural_Address>
1748 L<Announced on 2011-01-20 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/01/msg168335.html>
1750 In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been
1751 granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I
1752 do not shrink from this responsibility -- I welcome it. I do not believe
1753 that any of us would exchange places with any other people or any other
1754 generation. The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this
1755 endeavor will light our country and all who serve it. And the glow from
1756 that fire can truly light the world.
1758 And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you;
1759 ask what you can do for your country.
1761 My fellow citizens of the world, ask not what America will do for you,
1762 but what together we can do for the freedom of man.
1764 Finally, whether you are citizens of America or citizens of the world,
1765 ask of us here the same high standards of strength and sacrifice which
1766 we ask of you. With a good conscience our only sure reward, with history
1767 the final judge of our deeds, let us go forth to lead the land we love,
1768 asking His blessing and His help, but knowing that here on earth God's
1769 work must truly be our own.
1771 =head2 v5.13.8 - Roger Williams, L<"The Fifth Gift"|http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2005/8/19/21304/8493>
1773 L<Announced on 2010-12-19 by Zefram|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/12/msg167271.html>
1775 The aliens called the box a "matter generator," but we'd be more inclined
1776 to call it a matter duplicator. By connecting switches and potentiometers
1777 between the copper posts it was possible to make the box mark off two
1778 cubic rectangular areas of volume. Make a certain contact, and these
1779 areas would be isolated within perfectly reflective fields. They could
1780 be expanded or contracted by altering resistances between other posts.
1781 As I worked out the user interface I built a little control panel for
1782 the device. It was actually a clever way for the aliens to do things;
1783 instead of trying to build controls we could use, they built us an
1784 interface we could attach to controls that made sense to us. It could
1787 Once you had made the contact that established the shielded volumes,
1788 if you made another certain contact the contents of the first volume
1789 were copied to the second. The machine copied metal, plastic, steel,
1790 and diamond with equal ease. Copies of copies of copies of copies were
1791 indistinguishable from the originals at any magnification, even using
1792 techniques like X-ray crystallography.
1794 =head2 v5.13.7 - Andy Wachowski and Lana Wachowski, "The Matrix"
1796 L<Announced on 2010-11-20 by Chris 'BinGOs' Williams|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/11/msg166162.html>
1798 [Neo sees a black cat walk by them, and then a similar black cat walk by them just like the first one]
1802 [Everyone freezes right in their tracks]
1804 Trinity: What did you just say?
1805 Neo: Nothing. Just had a little deja vu.
1806 Trinity: What did you see?
1807 Cypher: What happened?
1808 Neo: A black cat went past us, and then another that looked just
1810 Trinity: How much like it? Was it the same cat?
1811 Neo: It might have been. I'm not sure.
1812 Morpheus: Switch! Apoc!
1814 Trinity: A deja vu is usually a glitch in the Matrix. It happens when
1815 they change something.
1817 =head2 v5.13.6 - Haruki Murakami, "Kafka on the Shore"
1819 L<Announced on 2010-10-20 by Tatsuhiko Miyagawa|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/10/msg165183.html>
1821 The boy called Crow softly rests a hand on my shoulder, and with that
1824 "From now on -- no matter what -- you've got to be the world's toughest
1825 fifteen-year-old. That's the only way you're going to survive. And in order
1826 to do that, you've got to figure out what it means to be tough. You following
1829 I keep my eyes closed and don't reply. I just want to sink off into sleep
1830 like this, his hand on my shoulder. I hear the faint flutter of wings.
1832 "You're going to be the world's toughest fifteen-year-old," Crow whispers
1833 as I try to fall asleep. Like he was carving the words in a deep blue tattoo
1836 (Translated from Japanese by Philip Gabriel)
1838 =head2 v5.13.5 - Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, "The Room in the Dragon Volant"
1840 L<Announced on 2010-09-19 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/09/msg164238.html>
1842 Candle in hand I stepped in. I do not know whether the quality of
1843 air, long undisturbed, is peculiar; to me it has always seemed so, and
1844 the damp smell of the old masonry hung in this atmosphere. My candle
1845 faintly lighted the bare stone wall that enclosed the stair, the foot
1846 of which I could not see. Down I went, and a few turns brought me to
1847 the stone floor. Here was another door, of the simple, old, oak kind,
1848 deep sunk in the thickness of the wall. The large end of the key
1849 fitted this. The lock was stiff; I set the candle down upon the
1850 stair, and applied both hands; it turned with difficulty, and as it
1851 revolved, uttered a shriek that alarmed me for my secret.
1853 For some minutes I did not move. In a little time, however, I took
1854 courage, and opened the door. The night-air floating in puffed out
1855 the candle. There was a thicket of holly and underwood, as dense as a
1856 jungle, close about the door. I should have been in pitch-darkness,
1857 were it not that through the topmost leaves there twinkled, here and
1858 there, a glimmer of moonshine.
1860 Softly, lest any one should have opened his window at the sound of the
1861 rusty bolt, I struggled through this till I gained a view of the open
1862 grounds. Here I found that the brushwood spread a good way up the
1863 park, uniting with the wood that approached the little temple I have
1866 =head2 v5.13.4 - Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
1868 L<Announced on 2010-08-20 by Florian Ragwitz|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/08/msg163150.html>
1870 `How the creatures order one about, and make one repeat lessons!' thought Alice;
1871 `I might as well be at school at once.' However, she got up, and began to repeat
1872 it, but her head was so full of the Lobster Quadrille, that she hardly knew what
1873 she was saying, and the words came very queer indeed:--
1875 "'Tis the voice of the Lobster; I heard him declare,
1876 "You have baked me too brown, I must sugar my hair."
1877 As a duck with its eyelids, so he with his nose
1878 Trims his belt and his buttons, and turns out his toes.'
1881 `That's different from what I used to say when I was a child,' said the Gryphon.
1883 `Well, I never heard it before,' said the Mock Turtle; `but it sounds uncommon
1886 Alice said nothing; she had sat down with her face in her hands, wondering if
1887 anything would ever happen in a natural way again.
1889 `I should like to have it explained,' said the Mock Turtle.
1891 `She can't explain it,' said the Gryphon hastily. `Go on with the next verse.'
1893 `But about his toes?' the Mock Turtle persisted. `How could he turn them out
1894 with his nose, you know?'
1896 `It's the first position in dancing.' Alice said; but was dreadfully puzzled by
1897 the whole thing, and longed to change the subject.
1899 =head2 v5.13.3 - Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, "Good Omens"
1901 L<Announced on 2010-07-20 by David Golden|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/07/msg162230.html>
1903 Look at Crowley, doing 110 mph on the M40 heading towards
1904 Oxfordshire. Even the most resolutely casual observer would
1905 notice a number of strange things about him. The clenched teeth,
1906 for example, or the dull red glow coming from behind his
1907 sunglasses. And the car. The car was a definite hint.
1909 Crowley had started the journey in his Bentley, and he was
1910 dammned if he wasn't going to finish it in the Bentley as well.
1911 Not that even the kind of car buff who owns his own pair of
1912 motoring goggles would have been able to tell it was a vintage
1913 Bentley. Not any more. They wouldn't have been able to tell
1914 that it was a Bentley. They would only offer fifty-fifty that it
1915 had ever even been a car.
1917 There was no paint left on it, for a start. It might still have
1918 been black, where it wasn't a rusty, smudged reddish-brown, but
1919 this was a dull charcoal black. It traveled in its own ball of
1920 flame, like a space capsule making a particularly difficult
1923 There was a thin skin of crusted, melted rubber left around the
1924 metal wheel rims, but seeing that the wheel rims were still
1925 somhow riding an inch above the road surface this didn't seem to
1926 make an awful lot of difference to the suspension.
1928 It should have fallen apart miles back.
1930 =head2 v5.13.2 - Iain M Banks, "Use of Weapons"
1932 L<Announced on 2010-06-22 by Matt S Trout|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/06/msg161112.html>
1934 We deal in the moral equivalent of black holes, where the normal laws -
1935 the rules of right and wrong that people imagine apply everywhere else
1936 in the universe - break down; beyond those metaphysical event-horizons,
1937 there exist ... special circumstances.
1939 =head2 v5.13.1 - Miguel de Unamuno, "The Sepulchre of Don Quixote"
1941 L<Announced on 2010-05-20 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/05/msg160275.html>
1943 And if anyone shall come to you and say that he knows how to construct
1944 bridges and that perhaps a time will come when you will wish to avail
1945 yourself of his science in order to cross over a river, out with him! Out
1946 with the engineer! Rivers will be crossed by wading or swimming them, even
1947 if half the crusaders drown themselves. Let the engineer go off and build
1948 bridges somewhere else, where they are badly wanted. For those who go in
1949 quest of the sepulchre, faith is bridge enough.
1951 =head2 v5.13.0 - Jules Verne, "A Journey to the Centre of the Earth"
1953 L<Announced on 2010-04-20 by LE<0xe9>on Brocard|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/04/msg159275.html>
1955 The heat still remained at quite a supportable degree. With an
1956 involuntary shudder, I reflected on what the heat must have been
1957 when the volcano of Sneffels was pouring its smoke, flames, and
1958 streams of boiling lava -- all of which must have come up by the
1959 road we were now following. I could imagine the torrents of hot
1960 seething stone darting on, bubbling up with accompaniments of
1961 smoke, steam, and sulphurous stench!
1963 "Only to think of the consequences," I mused, "if the old
1964 volcano were once more to set to work."
1966 =head2 v5.12.5 - William Shakespeare, "Measure for Measure"
1968 L<Announced on 2012-11-10 by Dominic Hargreaves|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/11/msg195171.html>
1970 Music oft hath such a charm
1971 To make bad good, and good provoke to harm.
1973 =head2 v5.12.4 - William Schwenck Gilbert, "Trial By Jury"
1975 L<Announced on 2011-06-20 by Leon Brocard|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/06/msg173725.html>
1977 You cannot eat breakfast all day,
1978 Nor is it the act of a sinner,
1979 When breakfast is taken away,
1980 To turn his attention to dinner;
1981 And it's not in the range of belief,
1982 To look upon him as a glutton,
1983 Who, when he is tired of beef,
1984 Determines to tackle the mutton.
1985 Ah! But this I am willing to say,
1986 If it will appease her sorrow,
1987 I'll marry this lady today,
1988 And I'll marry the other tomorrow!
1990 =head2 v5.12.4-RC2 - James Russell Lowell, "Eleanor makes macaroons"
1992 L<Announced on 2011-06-15 by Leon Brocard|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/06/msg173609.html>
1994 Now for sugar, -- nay, our plan
1995 Tolerates no work of man.
1996 Hurry, then, ye golden bees;
1997 Fetch your clearest honey, please,
1998 Garnered on a Yorkshire moor,
1999 While the last larks sing and soar,
2000 From the heather-blossoms sweet
2001 Where sea-breeze and sunshine meet,
2002 And the Augusts mask as Junes, --
2003 Eleanor makes macaroons!
2005 =head2 v5.12.4-RC1 - Ogden Nash, "The Clean Plater"
2007 L<Announced on 2011-06-08 by Leon Brocard|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/06/msg173352.html>
2009 Pheasant is pleasant, of course,
2010 And terrapin, too, is tasty,
2011 Lobster I freely endorse,
2012 In pate or patty or pasty.
2013 But there's nothing the matter with butter,
2014 And nothing the matter with jam,
2015 And the warmest greetings I utter
2016 To the ham and the yam and the clam.
2019 And I think very fondly of food.
2020 Through I'm broody at times
2021 When bothered by rhymes,
2025 =head2 v5.12.3 - Howard W. Campbell, Jr., "Reflections on Not Participating in Current Events"
2027 L<Announced on 2011-01-21 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/01/msg168368.html>
2029 I saw a huge steam roller,
2030 It blotted out the sun.
2031 The people all lay down, lay down;
2032 They did not try to run.
2033 My love and I, we looked amazed
2034 Upon the gory mystery.
2035 'Lie down, lie down!' the people cried.
2036 'The great machine is history!'
2037 My love and I, we ran away,
2038 The engine did not find us.
2039 We ran up to a mountain top,
2040 Left history far behind us.
2041 Perhaps we should have stayed and died,
2042 But somehow we don't think so.
2043 We went to see where history'd been,
2044 And my, the dead did stink so.
2046 =head2 v5.12.2 - William Gibson, "Pattern Recognition"
2048 L<Announced on 2010-09-06 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/09/msg163852.html>
2050 CPUs. Cayce Pollard Units. That's what Damien calls the clothing
2051 she wears. CPUs are either black, white, or gray, and ideally
2052 seem to have come into this world without human intervention.
2054 What people take for relentless minimalism is a side effect
2055 of too much exposure to the reactor-cores of fashion. This
2056 has resulted in a remorseless paring-down of what she can and
2057 will wear. She is, literally, allergic to fashion. She can
2058 only tolerate things that could have been worn, to a general
2059 lack of comment, during any year between 1945 and 2000. She's a
2060 design-free zone, a one-woman school of and whose very austerity
2061 periodically threatens to spawn its own cult.
2063 =head2 v5.12.2-RC1 - William Gibson, "Pattern Recognition"
2065 L<Announced on 2010-08-31 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/08/msg163670.html>
2067 The front page opens, familiar as a friend's living room. A frame-grab
2068 from #48 serves as backdrop, dim and almost monochrome, no characters in
2069 view. This is one of the sequences that generate comparisons with
2070 Tarkovsky. She only knows Tarkovsky from stills, really, though she did
2071 once fall asleep during a screening of The Stalker, going under on an
2072 endless pan, the camera aimed straight down, in close-up, at a puddle on
2073 a ruined mosaic floor. But she is not one of those who think that much
2074 will be gained by analysis of the maker's imagined influences. The cult
2075 of the footage is rife with subcults, claiming every possible influence.
2076 Truffaut, Peckinpah -- The Peckinpah people, among the least likely, are
2077 still waiting for the guns to be drawn.
2079 =head2 v5.12.1 - Kurt Vonnegut, "Cat's Cradle"
2081 L<Announced on 2010-05-16 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/05/msg160109.html>
2083 "Now suppose," chortled Dr. Breed, enjoying himself, "that there were
2084 many possible ways in which water could crystallize, could freeze.
2085 Suppose that the sort of ice we skate upon and put into highballs --
2086 what we might call ice-one -- is only one of several types of ice.
2087 Suppose water always froze as ice-one on Earth because it had never
2088 had a seed to teach it how to form ice-two, ice-three, ice-four
2089 ...? And suppose," he rapped on his desk with his old hand again,
2090 "that there were one form, which we will call ice-nine -- a crystal as
2091 hard as this desk -- with a melting point of, let us say, one-hundred
2092 degrees Fahrenheit, or, better still, a melting point of one-hundred-
2093 and-thirty degrees."
2095 =head2 v5.12.1-RC2 - Kurt Vonnegut, "Cat's Cradle"
2097 L<Announced on 2010-05-13 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/05/msg160066.html>
2099 San Lorenzo was fifty miles long and twenty miles wide, I learned from
2100 the supplement to the New York Sunday Times. Its population was four
2101 hundred, fifty thousand souls, "...all fiercely dedicated to the ideals
2104 Its highest point, Mount McCabe, was eleven thousand feet above sea
2105 level. Its capital was Bolivar, "...a strikingly modern city built on a
2106 harbor capable of sheltering the entire United States Navy." The principal
2107 exports were sugar, coffee, bananas, indigo, and handcrafted novelties.
2109 =head2 v5.12.1-RC1 - Kurt Vonnegut, "Cat's Cradle"
2111 L<Announced on 2010-05-09 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/05/msg159971.html>
2113 Which brings me to the Bokononist concept of a wampeter. A wampeter is
2114 the pivot of a karass. No karass is without a wampeter, Bokonon tells us,
2115 just as no wheel is without a hub. Anything can be a wampeter: a tree,
2116 a rock, an animal, an idea, a book, a melody, the Holy Grail. Whatever
2117 it is, the members of its karass revolve about it in the majestic chaos
2118 of a spiral nebula. The orbits of the members of a karass about their
2119 common wampeter are spiritual orbits, naturally. It is souls and not
2120 bodies that revolve. As Bokonon invites us to sing:
2122 Around and around and around we spin,
2123 With feet of lead and wings of tin . . .
2125 =head2 v5.12.0 - Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
2127 L<Announced on 2010-04-12 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/04/msg158820.html>
2129 'Please would you tell me,' said Alice, a little timidly, for she was
2130 not quite sure whether it was good manners for her to speak first, 'why
2131 your cat grins like that?'
2133 'It's a Cheshire cat,' said the Duchess, 'and that's why. Pig!'
2135 She said the last word with such sudden violence that Alice quite
2136 jumped; but she saw in another moment that it was addressed to the baby,
2137 and not to her, so she took courage, and went on again:--
2139 'I didn't know that Cheshire cats always grinned; in fact, I didn't know
2140 that cats COULD grin.'
2142 'They all can,' said the Duchess; 'and most of 'em do.'
2144 =head2 v5.12.0-RC5 - Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
2146 L<Announced on 2010-04-09 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/04/msg158720.html>
2148 'Not QUITE right, I'm afraid,' said Alice, timidly; 'some of the words
2151 'It is wrong from beginning to end,' said the Caterpillar decidedly, and
2152 there was silence for some minutes.
2154 =head2 v5.12.0-RC4 - Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
2156 L<Announced on 2010-04-06 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/04/msg158567.html>
2158 'It was much pleasanter at home,' thought poor Alice, 'when one wasn't
2159 always growing larger and smaller, and being ordered about by mice and
2160 rabbits. I almost wish I hadn't gone down that rabbit-hole--and yet--and
2161 yet--it's rather curious, you know, this sort of life! I do wonder what
2162 can have happened to me! When I used to read fairy-tales, I fancied that
2163 kind of thing never happened, and now here I am in the middle of one!
2165 =head2 v5.12.0-RC3 - Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
2167 L<Announced on 2010-04-02 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/04/msg158346.html>
2169 At last the Mouse, who seemed to be a person of authority among them,
2170 called out, 'Sit down, all of you, and listen to me! I'LL soon make you
2171 dry enough!' They all sat down at once, in a large ring, with the Mouse
2172 in the middle. Alice kept her eyes anxiously fixed on it, for she felt
2173 sure she would catch a bad cold if she did not get dry very soon.
2175 'Ahem!' said the Mouse with an important air, 'are you all ready? This
2176 is the driest thing I know. Silence all round, if you please! "William
2177 the Conqueror, whose cause was favoured by the pope, was soon submitted
2178 to by the English, who wanted leaders, and had been of late much
2179 accustomed to usurpation and conquest. Edwin and Morcar, the earls of
2180 Mercia and Northumbria --"'
2182 =head2 v5.12.0-RC2 - no announcement
2184 Available on CPAN since 2010-04-01.
2186 =head2 v5.12.0-RC1 - Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
2188 L<Announced on 2010-03-29 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/03/msg158060.html>
2190 So she was considering in her own mind (as well as she could, for the
2191 hot day made her feel very sleepy and stupid), whether the pleasure of
2192 making a daisy-chain would be worth the trouble of getting up and
2193 picking the daisies, when suddenly a White Rabbit with pink eyes ran
2196 There was nothing so VERY remarkable in that; nor did Alice think it so
2197 VERY much out of the way to hear the Rabbit say to itself, 'Oh dear! Oh
2198 dear! I shall be late!' (when she thought it over afterwards, it
2199 occurred to her that she ought to have wondered at this, but at the time
2200 it all seemed quite natural); but when the Rabbit actually TOOK A WATCH
2201 OUT OF ITS WAISTCOAT-POCKET, and looked at it, and then hurried on,
2202 Alice started to her feet, for it flashed across her mind that she had
2203 never before seen a rabbit with either a waistcoat-pocket, or a watch to
2204 take out of it, and burning with curiosity, she ran across the field
2205 after it, and fortunately was just in time to see it pop down a large
2206 rabbit-hole under the hedge.
2208 In another moment down went Alice after it, never once considering how
2209 in the world she was to get out again.
2211 =head2 v5.12.0-RC0 - no epigraph
2213 L<Announced on 2020-03-21 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/03/msg157761.html>
2215 =head2 v5.11.5 - Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "Christabel"
2217 L<Announced on 2010-02-21 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/02/msg156957.html>
2219 A little child, a limber elf,
2220 Singing, dancing to itself,
2221 A fairy thing with red round cheeks,
2222 That always finds, and never seeks,
2223 Makes such a vision to the sight
2224 As fills a father's eyes with light;
2225 And pleasures flow in so thick and fast
2226 Upon his heart, that he at last
2227 Must needs express his love's excess
2228 With words of unmeant bitterness.
2229 Perhaps 'tis pretty to force together
2230 Thoughts so all unlike each other;
2231 To mutter and mock a broken charm,
2232 To dally with wrong that does no harm.
2233 Perhaps 'tis tender too and pretty
2234 At each wild word to feel within
2235 A sweet recoil of love and pity.
2236 And what, if in a world of sin
2237 (O sorrow and shame should this be true!)
2238 Such giddiness of heart and brain
2239 Comes seldom save from rage and pain,
2240 So talks as it's most used to do.
2242 =head2 v5.11.4 - Fyodor Dostoevsky, "Crime and Punishment"
2244 L<Announced on 2010-01-20 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/01/msg155848.html>
2246 And you don't suppose that I went into it headlong like a fool? I went
2247 into it like a wise man, and that was just my destruction. And you
2248 mustn't suppose that I didn't know, for instance, that if I began to
2249 question myself whether I had the right to gain power -- I certainly
2250 hadn't the right -- or that if I asked myself whether a human being is a
2251 louse it proved that it wasn't so for me, though it might be for a man
2252 who would go straight to his goal without asking questions.... If I
2253 worried myself all those days, wondering whether Napoleon would have
2254 done it or not, I felt clearly of course that I wasn't Napoleon.
2256 =head2 v5.11.3 - Mark Twain, "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer"
2258 L<Announced on 2009-12-20 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2009/12/msg154838.html>
2260 "Say -- I'm going in a swimming, I am. Don't you wish you could? But of
2261 course you'd druther work -- wouldn't you? Course you would!"
2263 Tom contemplated the boy a bit, and said: "What do you call work?"
2265 "Why ain't that work?"
2267 Tom resumed his whitewashing, and answered carelessly: "Well, maybe it
2268 is, and maybe it aint. All I know, is, it suits Tom Sawyer."
2270 "Oh come, now, you don't mean to let on that you like it?"
2272 The brush continued to move. "Like it? Well I don't see why I oughtn't
2273 to like it. Does a boy get a chance to whitewash a fence every day?"
2275 That put the thing in a new light. Ben stopped nibbling his apple. Tom
2276 swept his brush daintily back and forth -- stepped back to note the effect
2277 -- added a touch here and there-criticised the effect again -- Ben
2278 watching every move and getting more and more interested, more and more
2279 absorbed. Presently he said: "Say, Tom, let me whitewash a little."
2281 =head2 v5.11.2 - Michael Marshall Smith, "Only Forward"
2283 L<Announced on 2009-11-20 by Léon Brocard|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2009/11/msg153646.html>
2285 The streets were pretty quiet, which was nice. They're always quiet here
2286 at that time: you have to be wearing a black jacket to be out on the
2287 streets between seven and nine in the evening, and not many people in
2288 the area have black jackets. It's just one of those things. I currently
2289 live in Colour Neighbourhood, which is for people who are heavily into
2290 colour. All the streets and buildings are set for instant colourmatch:
2291 as you walk down the road they change hue to offset whatever you're
2292 wearing. When the streets are busy it's kind of intense, and anyone
2293 prone to epileptic seizures isn't allowed to live in the Neighbourhood,
2294 however much they're into colour.
2296 =head2 v5.11.1 - Joseph Heller, "Catch-22"
2298 L<Announced on 2009-10-20 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2009/10/msg152360.html>
2300 Milo had been caught red-handed in the act of plundering his countrymen,
2301 and, as a result, his stock had never been higher. He proved good as his
2302 word when a rawboned major from Minnesota curled his lip in rebellious
2303 disavowal and demanded his share of the syndicate Milo kept saying
2304 everybody owned. Milo met the challenge by writing the words "A Share"
2305 on the nearest scrap of paper and handing it away with a virtuous disdain
2306 that won the envy and admiration of almost everyone who knew him. His
2307 glory was at a peak, and Colonel Cathcart, who knew and admired his
2308 war record, was astonished by the deferential humility with which Milo
2309 presented himself at Group Headquarters and made his fantastic appeal
2310 for more hazardous assignment.
2312 =head2 v5.11.0 - Mikhail Bulgakov, "The Master and Margarita"
2314 L<Announced on 2009-10-02 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2009/10/msg151376.html>
2316 Whispers of an "evil power" were heard in lines at dairy shops, in
2317 streetcars, stores, arguments, kitchens, suburban and long-distance
2318 trains, at stations large and small, in dachas and on beaches. Needless
2319 to say, truly mature and cultured people did not tell these stories
2320 about an evil power's visit to the capital. In fact, they even made fun
2321 of them and tried to talk sense into those who told them. Nevertheless,
2322 facts are facts, as they say, and cannot simply be dismissed without
2323 explanation: somebody had visited the capital. The charred cinders of
2324 Griboyedov alone, and many other things besides, confirmed it. Cultured
2325 people shared the point of view of the investigating team: it was the
2326 work of a gang of hypnotists and ventriloquists magnificently skilled in
2329 =head2 v5.10.1 - Right Hon. James Hacker MP, "The Complete Yes Minister: The Diaries of a Cabinet Minister"
2331 L<Announced on 2009-08-23 by Dave Mitchell|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2009/08/msg150172.html>
2333 'Briefly, sir, I am the Permanent Under-Secretary of State, known as
2334 the Permanent Secretary. Woolley here is your Principal Private
2335 Secretary. I, too, have a Principal Private Secretary, and he is the
2336 Principal Private Secretary to the Permanent Secretary. Directly
2337 responsible to me are ten Deputy Secretaries, eighty-seven Under
2338 Secretaries and two hundred and nineteen Assistant Secretaries.
2339 Directly responsible to the Principal Private Secretaries are plain
2340 Private Secretaries. The Prime Minister will be appointing two
2341 Parliamentary Under-Secretaries and you will be appointing your own
2342 Parliamentary Private Secretary.'
2344 'Can they all type?' I joked.
2346 'None of us can type, Minister,' replied Sir Humphrey smoothly. 'Mrs
2347 McKay types - she is your Secretary.'
2349 I couldn't tell whether or not he was joking. 'What a pity,' I said.
2350 'We could have opened an agency.'
2352 Sir Humphrey and Bernard laughed. 'Very droll, sir,' said Sir
2353 Humphrey. 'Most amusing, sir,' said Bernard. Were they genuinely
2354 amused at my wit, or just being rather patronising? 'I suppose they
2355 all say that, do they?' I ventured.
2357 Sir Humphrey reassured me on that. 'Certainly not, Minister,' he
2358 replied. 'Not quite all.'
2360 =head2 v5.10.1-RC2 - no epigraph
2362 L<Announced on 2009-08-18 by Dave Mitchell|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2009/08/msg150015.html>
2364 =head2 v5.10.1-RC1 - no epigraph
2366 L<Announced on 2009-08-06 by Dave Mitchell|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2009/08/msg149498.html>
2368 =head2 v5.10.0 - Laurence Sterne, "Tristram Shandy"
2370 L<Announced on 2007-12-18 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2007/12/msg131636.html>
2372 He would often declare, in speaking his thoughts upon the subject, that
2373 he did not conceive how the greatest family in England could stand it
2374 out against an uninterrupted succession of six or seven short
2375 noses.--And for the contrary reason, he would generally add, That it
2376 must be one of the greatest problems in civil life, where the same
2377 number of long and jolly noses, following one another in a direct line,
2378 did not raise and hoist it up into the best vacancies in the kingdom.
2380 =head2 v5.10.0-RC2 - no epigraph
2382 L<Announced on 2007-11-25 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2007/11/msg130978.html>
2384 =head2 v5.10.0-RC1 - no epigraph
2386 L<Announced on 2007-11-17 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2007/11/msg130653.html>
2388 =head2 v5.9.5 - no announcement
2390 L<Pre-announced on 2007-07-07 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2007/07/msg126358.html>,
2391 available on CPAN with same date, but never actually announced.
2393 =head2 v5.9.4 - no epigraph
2395 L<Announced on 2006-08-15 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2006/08/msg115782.html>
2397 =head2 v5.9.3 - no epigraph
2399 L<Announced on 2006-01-28 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2006/01/msg109086.html>
2401 =head2 v5.9.2 - Thomas Pynchon, "V"
2403 L<Announced on 2005-04-01 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2005/04/msg99421.html>
2405 This word flip was weird. Every recording date of McClintic's he'd
2406 gotten into the habit of talking electricity with the audio men and
2407 technicians of the studio. McClintic once couldn't have cared less
2408 about electricity, but now it seemed if that was helping him reach a
2409 bigger audience, some digging, some who would never dig, but all
2410 paying and those royalties keeping the Triumph in gas and McClintic
2411 in J. Press suits, then McClintic ought to be grateful to
2412 electricity, ought maybe to learn a little more about it. So he'd
2413 picked up some here and there, and one day last summer he got around
2414 to talking stochastic music and digital computers with one
2415 technician. Out of the conversation had come Set/Reset, which was
2416 getting to be a signature for the group. He had found out from this
2417 sound man about a two-triode circuit called a flip-flop, which when
2418 it turned on could be one of two ways, depending on which tube was
2419 conducting and which was cut off: set or reset, flip or flop.
2421 "And that," the man said, "can be yes or no, or one or zero. And
2422 that is what you might call one of the basic units, or specialized
2423 `cells' in a big `electronic brain.' "
2425 "Crazy," said McClintic, having lost him back there someplace. But
2426 one thing that did occur to him was if a computer's brain could go
2427 flip or flop, why so could a musician's. As long as you were flop,
2428 everything was cool. But where did the trigger-pulse come from to
2431 =head2 v5.9.1 - Tom Stoppard, "Arcadia"
2433 L<Announced on 2004-03-16 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/03/msg89722.html>
2435 Aren't you supposed to have a pony?
2437 =head2 v5.9.0 - Doris Lessing, "Martha Quest"
2439 L<Announced on 2003-10-27 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/10/msg84147.html>
2441 What of October, that ambiguous month
2443 =head2 v5.8.9 - Right Hon. James Hacker MP, "The Complete Yes Minister: The Diaries of a Cabinet Minister"
2445 L<Announced on 2008-12-14 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2008/12/msg142571.html>
2447 Frank and I, unlike the civil servants, were still puzzled that such a
2448 proposal as the Europass could even be seriously under consideration by
2449 the FCO. We can both see clearly that it is wonderful ammunition for the
2450 anti-Europeans. I asked Humphrey if the Foreign Office doesn't realise
2451 how damaging this would be to the European ideal?
2453 'I'm sure they do, Minister, he said. That's why they support it.'
2455 This was even more puzzling, since I'd always been under the impression
2456 that the FO is pro-Europe. 'Is it or isn't it?' I asked Humphrey.
2458 'Yes and no,' he replied of course, 'if you'll pardon the
2459 expression. The Foreign Office is pro-Europe because it is really
2460 anti-Europe. In fact the Civil Service was united in its desire to make
2461 sure the Common Market didn't work. That's why we went into it.'
2463 This sounded like a riddle to me. I asked him to explain further. And
2464 basically his argument was as follows: Britain has had the same foreign
2465 policy objective for at least the last five hundred years - to create a
2466 disunited Europe. In that cause we have fought with the Dutch against
2467 the Spanish, with the Germans against the French, with the French and
2468 Italians against the Germans, and with the French against the Italians
2469 and Germans. [The Dutch rebellion against Phillip II of Spain, the
2470 Napoleonic Wars, the First World War, and the Second World War - Ed.]
2472 In other words, divide and rule. And the Foreign Office can see no
2473 reason to change when it has worked so well until now.
2475 I was aware of this, naturally, but I regarded it as ancient history.
2476 Humphrey thinks that it is, in fact, current policy. It was necessary
2477 for us to break up the EEC, he explained, so we had to get inside. We
2478 had previously tried to break it up from the outside, but that didn't
2479 work. [A reference to our futile and short-lived involvement in EFTA,
2480 the European Free Trade Association, founded in 1960 and which the UK
2481 left in 1972 - Ed.] Now that we're in, we are able to make a complete
2482 pig's breakfast out of it. We've now set the Germans against the French,
2483 the French against the Italians, the Italians against the Dutch... and
2484 the Foreign office is terribly happy. It's just like old time.
2486 I was staggered by all of this. I thought that the all of us who are
2487 publicly pro-European believed in the European ideal. I said this to Sir
2488 Humphrey, and he simply chuckled.
2490 So I asked him: if we don't believe in the European Ideal, why are we
2491 pushing to increase the membership?
2493 'Same reason,' came the reply. 'It's just like the United Nations. The
2494 more members it has, the more arguments you can stir up, and the more
2495 futile and impotent it becomes.'
2497 This all strikes me as the most appalling cynicism, and I said so.
2499 Sir Humphrey agreed completely. 'Yes Minister. We call it
2500 diplomacy. It's what made Britain great, you know.'
2502 =head2 v5.8.9-RC2 - Right Hon. James Hacker MP, "The Complete Yes Minister: The Diaries of a Cabinet Minister"
2504 L<Announced on 2008-12-06 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2008/12/msg142422.html>
2506 There was silence in the office. I didn't know what we were going to do
2507 about the four hundred new people supervising our economy drive or the
2508 four hundred new people for the Bureaucratic Watchdog Office, or
2509 anything! I simply sat and waited and hoped that my head would stop
2510 thumping and that some idea would be suggested by someone sometime soon.
2512 Sir Humphrey obliged. 'Minister... if we were to end the economy drive
2513 and close the Bureaucratic Watchdog Office we could issue an immediate
2514 press announcement that you had axed eight hundred jobs.' He had
2515 obviously thought this out carefully in advance, for at this moment he
2516 produced a slim folder from under his arm. 'If you'd like to approve
2519 I couldn't believe the impertinence of the suggestion. Axed eight
2520 hundred jobs? 'But no one was ever doing these jobs,' I pointed out
2521 incredulously. 'No one's been appointed yet.'
2523 'Even greater economy,' he replied instantly. 'We've saved eight hundred
2524 redundancy payments as well.'
2526 'But...' I attempted to explain '... that's just phony. It's dishonest,
2527 it's juggling with figures, it's pulling the wool over people's eyes.'
2529 'A government press release, in fact.' said Humphrey.
2531 =head2 v5.8.9-RC1 - Right Hon. James Hacker MP, "The Complete Yes Minister: The Diaries of a Cabinet Minister"
2533 L<Announced on 2008-11-10 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2008/11/msg141515.html>
2535 A jumbo jet touched down, with BURANDAN AIRWAYS written on the side. I
2536 was hugely impressed. British Airways are having to pawn their Concordes,
2537 and here is this little tiny African state with its own airline, jumbo
2540 I asked Bernard how many planes Burandan Airways had. 'None,' he said.
2542 I told him not to be silly and use his eyes. 'No Minister, it belongs to
2543 Freddie Laker,' he said. 'They chartered it last week and repainted it
2544 specially.' Apparently most of the Have-Nots (I mean, LDCs) do this - at
2545 the opening of the UN General Assembly the runways of Kennedy Airport are
2546 jam-packed with phoney flag-carriers. 'In fact,' said Bernard with a sly
2547 grin, 'there was one 747 that belonged to nine different African airlines
2548 in a month. They called it the mumbo-jumbo.'
2550 While we watched nothing much happening on the TV except the mumbo-jumbo
2551 taxiing around Prestwick and the Queen looking a bit chilly, Bernard gave
2552 me the next day's schedule and explained that I was booked on the night
2553 sleeper from King's Cross to Edinburgh because I had to vote in a
2554 three-line whip at the House tonight and would have to miss the last
2555 plane. Then the commentator, in that special hushed BBC voice used for any
2556 occasion with which Royalty is connected, announced reverentially that we
2557 were about to catch our first glimpse of President Selim.
2559 And out of the plane stepped Charlie. My old friend Charlie Umtali. We
2560 were at LSE together. Not Selim Mohammed at all, but Charlie.
2562 Bernard asked me if I were sure. Silly question. How could you forget a
2563 name like Charlie Umtali?
2565 I sent Bernard for Sir Humphrey, who was delighted to hear that we now
2566 know something about our official visitor.
2568 Bernard's official brief said nothing. Amazing! Amazing how little the FCO
2569 has been able to find out. Perhaps they were hoping it would all be on the
2570 car radio. All the brief says is that Colonel Selim Mohammed had converted
2571 to Islam some years ago, they didn't know his original name, and therefore
2572 knew little of his background.
2574 I was able to tell Humphrey and Bernard /all/ about his background.
2575 Charlie was a red-hot political economist, I informed them. Got the top
2576 first. Wiped the floor with everyone.
2578 Bernard seemed relieved. 'Well that's all right then.'
2582 'I think Bernard means,' said Sir Humphrey helpfully, 'that he'll know how
2583 to behave if he was at an English University. Even if it was the LSE.' I
2584 never know whether or not Humphrey is insulting me intentionally.
2586 Humphrey was concerned about Charlie's political colour. 'When you said
2587 that he was red-hot, were you speaking politically?'
2589 In a way I was. 'The thing about Charlie is that you never quite know
2590 where you are with him. He's the sort of chap who follows you into a
2591 revolving door and comes out in front.'
2593 'No deeply held convictions?' asked Sir Humphrey.
2595 'No. The only thing Charlie was committed too was Charlie.'
2597 'Ah, I see. A politician, Minister.'
2599 =head2 v5.8.8 - Joe Raposo, "Bein' Green"
2601 L<Announced on 2006-01-31 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2006/01/msg109190.html>
2603 It's not that easy bein' green
2604 Having to spend each day the color of the leaves
2605 When I think it could be nicer being red or yellow or gold
2606 Or something much more colorful like that
2608 It's not easy bein' green
2609 It seems you blend in with so many other ordinary things
2610 And people tend to pass you over 'cause you're
2611 Not standing out like flashy sparkles in the water
2614 But green's the color of Spring
2615 And green can be cool and friendly-like
2616 And green can be big like an ocean
2617 Or important like a mountain
2620 When green is all there is to be
2621 It could make you wonder why, but why wonder why?
2622 Wonder I am green and it'll do fine, it's beautiful
2623 And I think it's what I want to be
2625 =head2 v5.8.8-RC1 - Cosgrove Hall Productions, "Dangermouse"
2627 L<Announced on 2006-01-20 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2006/01/msg108833.html>
2629 Greenback: And the world is mine, all mine. Muhahahahaha. See to it!
2631 Stiletto: Si, Barone. Subito, Barone.
2633 =head2 v5.8.7 - Sergei Prokofiev, "Peter and the Wolf"
2635 L<Announced on 2005-05-31 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2005/05/msg101088.html>
2637 And now, imagine the triumphant procession: Peter at the head; after him the
2638 hunters leading the wolf; and winding up the procession, grandfather and the
2641 Grandfather shook his head discontentedly: "Well, and if Peter hadn't caught
2642 the wolf? What then?"
2644 =head2 v5.8.7-RC1 - Sergei Prokofiev, "Peter and the Wolf"
2646 L<Announced on 2005-05-20 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2005/05/msg100711.html>
2648 And now this is how things stood: The cat was sitting on one branch. The
2649 bird on another, not too close to the cat. And the wolf walked round and
2650 round the tree, looking at them with greedy eyes.
2652 In the meantime, Peter, without the slightest fear, stood behind the
2653 gate, watching all that was going on. He ran home,got a strong rope and
2654 climbed up the high stone wall.
2656 One of the branches of the tree, around which the wolf was walking,
2657 stretched out over the wall.
2659 Grabbing hold of the branch, Peter lightly climbed over on to the tree.
2660 Peter said to the bird: "Fly down and circle round the wolf's head, only
2661 take care that he doesn't catch you!".
2663 The bird almost touched the wolf's head with its wings, while the wolf
2664 snapped angrily at him from this side and that.
2666 How that bird teased the wolf, how that wolf wanted to catch him! But
2667 the bird was clever and the wolf simply couldn't do anything about it.
2669 =head2 v5.8.6 - A. A. Milne, "The House at Pooh Corner"
2671 L<Announced on 2004-11-27 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/11/msg96304.html>
2673 "Hallo, Pooh," said Piglet, giving a jump of surprise. "I knew it was
2676 "So did I,", said Pooh. "What are you doing?"
2678 "I'm planting a haycorn, Pooh, so that it can grow up into an oak-tree,
2679 and have lots of haycorns just outside the front door instead of having
2680 to walk miles and miles, do you see, Pooh?"
2682 "Supposing it doesn't?" said Pooh.
2684 "It will, because Christopher Robin says it will, so that's why I'm
2687 "Well," aid Pooh, "if I plant a honeycomb outside my house, then it will
2688 grow up into a beehive."
2690 Piglet wasn't quite sure about this.
2692 "Or a /piece/ of a honeycomb," said Pooh, "so as not to waste too much.
2693 Only then I might only get a piece of a beehive, and it might be the
2694 wrong piece, where the bees were buzzing and not hunnying. Bother"
2696 Piglet agreed that that would be rather bothering.
2698 "Besides, Pooh, it's a very difficult thing, planting unless you know
2699 how to do it," he said; and he put the acorn in the hole he had made,
2700 and covered it up with earth, and jumped on it.
2702 =head2 v5.8.6-RC1 - A. A. Milne, "Winnie the Pooh"
2704 L<Announced on 2004-11-11 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/11/msg95786.html>
2706 "Hallo!" said Piglet, "whare are /you/ doing?"
2708 "Hunting," said Pooh.
2712 "Tracking something," said Winnie-the-Pooh very mysteriously.
2714 "Tracking what?" said Piglet, coming closer.
2716 "That's just what I ask myself, I ask myself, What?"
2718 "What do you think you'll answer?"
2720 "I shall have to wait until I catch up with it," said Winnie-the-Pooh.
2721 "Now, look there." He pointed to the ground in front of him. "What do
2724 "Track," said Piglet. "Paw-marks." He gave a little squeak of
2725 excitement. "Oh, Pooh!" Do you think it's a--a--a Woozle?"
2727 =head2 v5.8.5 - wikipedia, "Yew"
2729 L<Announced on 2004-07-19 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/07/msg93189.html>
2731 Yews are relatively slow growing trees, widely used in landscaping and
2732 ornamental horticulture. They have flat, dark-green needles, reddish
2733 bark, and bear seeds with red arils, which are eaten by thrushes,
2734 waxwings and other birds, dispersing the hard seeds undamaged in their
2735 droppings. Yew wood is reddish brown (with white sapwood), and very
2736 hard. It was traditionally used to make bows, especially the English
2739 In England, the Common Yew (Taxus baccata, also known as English Yew) is
2740 often found in churchyards. It is sometimes suggested that these are
2741 placed there as a symbol of long life or trees of death, and some are
2742 likely to be over 3,000 years old. It is also suggested that yew trees
2743 may have a pre-Christian association with old pagan holy sites, and the
2744 Christian church found it expedient to use and take over existing sites.
2745 Another explanation is that the poisonous berries and foliage discourage
2746 farmers and drovers from letting their animals wander into the burial
2747 grounds. The yew tree is a frequent symbol in the Christian poetry of
2748 T.S. Eliot, especially his Four Quartets.
2750 =head2 v5.8.5-RC2 - wikipedia, "Beech"
2752 L<Announced on 2004-07-09 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/07/msg92934.html>
2754 Beeches are trees of the Genus Fagus, family Fagaceae, including about
2755 ten species in Europe, Asia, and North America. The leaves are entire or
2756 sparsely toothed. The fruit is a small, sharply-angled nut, borne in
2757 pairs in spiny husks. The beech most commonly grown as an ornamental or
2758 shade tree is the European beech (Fagus sylvatica).
2760 The southern beeches belong to a different but related genus,
2761 Nothofagus. They are found in Australia, New Zealand, New Guinea, New
2762 Caledonia and South America.
2764 =head2 v5.8.5-RC1 - wikipedia, "Pedunculate Oak" (abridged)
2766 L<Announced on 2004-07-07 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/07/msg92840.html>
2768 The Pedunculate Oak is called the Common Oak in Britain, and is also
2769 often called the English Oak in other English speaking countries It is a
2770 large deciduous tree to 25-35m tall (exceptionally to 40m), with lobed
2771 and sessile (stalk-less) leaves. Flowering takes place in early to mid
2772 spring, and their fruit, called "acorns", ripen by autumn of the same
2773 year. The acorns are pedunculate (having a peduncle or acorn-stalk) and
2774 may occur singly, or several acorns may occur on a stalk.
2776 It forms a long-lived tree, with a large widespreading head of rugged
2777 branches. While it may naturally live to an age of a few centuries, many
2778 of the oldest trees are pollarded or coppiced, both pruning techniques
2779 that extend the tree's potential lifespan, if not its health.
2781 Within its native range it is valued for its importance to insects and
2782 other wildlife. Numerous insects live on the leaves, buds, and in the
2783 acorns. The acorns form a valuable food resource for several small
2784 mammals and some birds, notably Jays Garrulus glandarius.
2786 It is planted for forestry, and produces a long-lasting and durable
2787 heartwood, much in demand for interior and furniture work.
2789 =head2 v5.8.4 - T. S. Eliot, "The Old Gumbie Cat"
2791 L<Announced on 2004-04-22 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/04/msg90984.html>
2793 I have a Gumbie Cat in mind, her name is Jennyanydots;
2794 The curtain-cord she likes to wind, and tie it into sailor-knots.
2795 She sits upon the window-sill, or anything that's smooth and flat:
2796 She sits and sits and sits and sits -- and that's what makes a Gumbie Cat!
2798 But when the day's hustle and bustle is done,
2799 Then the Gumbie Cat's work is but hardly begun.
2800 She thinks that the cockroaches just need employment
2801 To prevent them from idle and wanton destroyment.
2802 So she's formed, from that a lot of disorderly louts,
2803 A troop of well-disciplined helpful boy-scouts,
2804 With a purpose in life and a good deed to do--
2805 And she's even created a Beetles' Tattoo.
2807 So for Old Gumbie Cats let us now give three cheers --
2808 On whom well-ordered households depend, it appears.
2811 =head2 v5.8.4-RC2 - T. S. Eliot, "Macavity: The Mystery Cat"
2813 L<Announced on 2004-04-16 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/04/msg90796.html>
2815 Macavity's a Mystery Cat: he's called the Hidden Paw --
2816 For he's the master criminal who can defy the Law.
2817 He's the bafflement of Scotland Yard, the Flying Squad's despair:
2818 For when they reach the scene of crime -- /Macavity's not there/!
2820 Macavity, Macavity, there's no one like Macavity,
2821 He's broken every human law, he breaks the law of gravity.
2822 His powers of levitation would make a fakir stare,
2823 And when you reach the scene of crime -- /Macavity's not there/!
2824 You may seek him in the basement, you may look up in the air --
2825 But I tell you once and once again, /Macavity's not there/!
2827 =head2 v5.8.4-RC1 - T. S. Eliot, "Skimbleshanks: The Railway Cat"
2829 L<Announced on 2004-04-05 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/04/msg90422.html>
2831 There's a whisper down the line at 11.39
2832 When the Night Mail's ready to depart,
2833 Saying 'Skimble where is Skimble has he gone to hunt the thimble?
2834 We must find him of the train can't start.'
2835 All the guards and all the porters and the stationmaster's daughters
2836 They are searching high and low,
2837 Saying 'Skimble where is Skimble for unless he's very nimble
2838 Then the Night Mail just can't go'
2839 At 11.42 then the signal's overdue
2840 And the passengers are frantic to a man--
2841 Then Skimble will appear and he'll saunter to the rear:
2842 He's been busy in the luggage van!
2843 He gives one flash of his glass-green eyes
2844 And the signal goes 'All Clear!'
2845 And we're off at last of the northern part
2846 Of the Northern Hemisphere!
2848 =head2 v5.8.3 - Arthur William Edgar O'Shaugnessy, "Ode"
2850 L<Announced on 2004-01-14 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/01/msg87317.html>
2852 We are the music makers,
2853 And we are the dreamers of dreams,
2854 Wandering by lonely sea-breakers,
2855 And sitting by desolate streams; --
2856 World-losers and world-forsakers,
2857 On whom the pale moon gleams:
2858 Yet we are the movers and shakers
2859 Of the world for ever, it seems.
2861 =head2 v5.8.3-RC1 - Irving Berlin, "Let's Face the Music and Dance"
2863 L<Announced on 2004-01-07 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/01/msg86969.html>
2865 There may be trouble ahead,
2866 But while there's music and moonlight,
2867 And love and romance,
2868 Let's face the music and dance.
2870 Before the fiddlers have fled,
2871 Before they ask us to pay the bill,
2872 And while we still have that chance,
2873 Let's face the music and dance.
2875 Soon, we'll be without the moon,
2876 Humming a different tune, and then,
2878 There may be teardrops to shed,
2879 So while there's music and moonlight,
2880 And love and romance,
2881 Let's face the music and dance.
2883 =head2 v5.8.2 - Walt Whitman, "Passage to India"
2885 L<Announced on 2003-11-05 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/11/msg84822.html>
2887 Passage, immediate passage! the blood burns in my veins!
2888 Away O soul! hoist instantly the anchor!
2889 Cut the hawsers - hall out - shake out every sail!
2890 Have we not stood here like trees in the ground long enough?
2891 Have we not grovel'd here long enough, eating and drinking like mere brutes?
2892 Have we not darken'd and dazed ourselves with books long enough?
2894 Sail forth - steer for the deep waters only,
2895 Reckless O soul, exploring, I with the and thou with me,
2896 For we are bound where mariner has not yet dared to go,
2897 And we will risk the ship, ourselves and all.
2900 O farther farther sail!
2901 O daring job, but safe! are they not all the seas of God?
2902 O farther, farther, farther sail!
2904 =head2 v5.8.2-RC2 - Eric Idle and John Du Prez, "Accountancy Shanty"
2906 L<Announced on 2003-11-03 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/11/msg84645.html>
2908 It's fun to charter an accountant
2909 And sail the wide accountan-cy,
2910 To find, explore the funds offshore
2911 And skirt the shoals of bankruptcy.
2913 =head2 v5.8.2-RC1 - Edward Lear, "The Jumblies"
2915 L<Announced on 2003-10-27 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/10/msg84194.html>
2917 They went to sea in a Sieve, they did,
2918 In a Sieve they went to sea:
2919 In spite of all their friends could say,
2920 On a winter's morn, on a stormy day,
2921 In a Sieve they went to sea!
2922 And when the Sieve turned round and round,
2923 And everyone cried, "You'll all be drowned!"
2924 They cried aloud, "Our Sieve ain't big,
2925 But we don't care a button, we don't care a fig!
2926 In a Sieve we'll go to sea!"
2928 Far and few, far and few,
2929 Are the lands where the Jumblies live;
2930 Their heads are green, and their hands are blue,
2931 And they went to sea in a Sieve.
2933 =head2 v5.8.1 - epigraph same as v5.7.1
2935 L<Announced on 2003-09-25 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/09/msg82678.html>
2937 =head2 v5.8.1-RC5 - Terry Pratchett, "Lords and Ladies"
2939 L<Announced on 2003-09-22 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/09/msg82476.html>
2941 No matter what she did with her hair it took about
2942 three minutes for it to tangle itself up again,
2943 like a garden hosepipe in a shed [Footnote: Which,
2944 no matter how carefully coiled, will always uncoil
2945 overnight and tie the lawnmower to the bicycles].
2947 =head2 v5.8.1-RC4 - Terry Pratchett, "Interesting Times"
2949 L<Announced on 2003-08-01 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/08/msg79184.html>
2951 Grand Viziers were /always/ scheming megalomaniacs.
2952 It was probably in the job description: "Are you a
2953 devious, plotting, unreliable madman? Ah, good,
2954 then you can be my most trusted minister."
2956 =head2 v5.8.1-RC3 - Terry Pratchett, "Interesting Times"
2958 L<Announced on 2003-07-30 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/07/msg79048.html>
2960 Lord Hong had a mind like a knife, although possibly
2961 a knife with a curved blade.
2963 =head2 v5.8.1-RC2 - Terry Pratchett, "Interesting Times"
2965 L<Announced on 2003-07-11 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/07/msg78102.html>
2967 Many an ancient lord's last words had been, "You can't kill
2968 me because I've got magic aaargh."
2970 =head2 v5.8.1-RC1 - Terry Pratchett, "Interesting Times"
2972 L<Announced on 2003-07-10 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/07/msg78009.html>
2974 Cohen was familiar with city gates. He'd broken down a number
2975 in his time, by battering ram, siege gun, and on one occasion
2978 But the gates of Hunghung were pretty damn good gates. They
2979 weren't like the gates of Ankh-Morpork, which were usually wide
2980 open to attract the spending customer and whose concession to
2981 defense was the sign "Thank You For Not Attacking Our City.
2982 Bonum Diem." These things were big and made of metal and there
2983 was a guardhouse and a squad of unhelpful men in black armor.
2985 =head2 v5.8.0 - Terry Pratchett, "Reaper Man"
2987 L<Announced on 2002-07-18 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2002/07/msg63720.html>
2989 There was the faint sound of footsteps.
2990 "Chap with a whip got as far as the big sharp spikes last week,"
2991 said the low priest.
2992 There was a sound like the flushing of a very old dry lavatory.
2993 The footsteps stopped. The High Priest smiled to himself.
2994 "Right," he said. "See your two pebbles and raise you two pebbles."
2995 The low priest threw down his cards. "Double Onion," he said.
2996 The High Priest looked down suspiciously.
2997 The low priest consulted a scrap of paper. "That's three hundred
2998 thousand, nine hundred and sixty-four pebbles you owe me," he said.
2999 There was the sound of footsteps. The priests exchanged glances.
3000 "Haven't had one for poisoned-dart alley for quite some time,"
3001 said the High Priest.
3002 "Five says he makes it", said the low priest. "You're on."
3003 There was a faint clatter of metal points on stone.
3004 "It's a shame to take your pebbles."
3005 There were footsteps again.
3007 =head2 v5.8.0-RC3 - no epigraph
3009 L<Announced on 2002-07-13 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2002/07/msg63234.html>
3011 =head2 v5.8.0-RC2 - no epigraph
3013 L<Announced on 2002-06-21 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2002/06/msg62013.html>
3015 =head2 v5.8.0-RC1 - no epigraph
3017 L<Announced on 2002-06-01 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2002/06/msg60317.html>
3019 =head2 v5.7.3 - Terry Pratchett, "Reaper Man"
3021 L<Announced on 2002-03-04 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2002/03/msg53652.html>
3023 Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong.
3024 No matter how fast light travels it finds the darkness has always
3025 got there first, and is waiting for it.
3027 =head2 v5.7.2 - Terry Pratchett, "Small Gods"
3029 L<Announced on 2001-07-13 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2001/07/msg40370.html>
3031 His philosophy was a mixture of three famous schools --
3032 the Cynics, the Stoics and the Epicureans -- and summed up
3033 all three of them in his famous phrase, "You can't trust any
3034 bugger further than you can throw him, and there's nothing
3035 you can do about it, so let's have a drink."
3037 =head2 v5.7.1 - Terry Pratchett, "The Colour of Magic"
3039 L<Announced on 2001-04-09 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2001/04/msg33851.html>
3041 "What happens next?" asked Twoflower.
3043 Hrun screwed a finger in his ear and inspected it absently.
3045 "Oh,", he said, "I expect in a minute the door will be
3046 flung back and I'll be dragged off to some sort of temple
3047 arena where I'll fight maybe a couple of giant spiders
3048 and an eight-foot slave from the jungles of Klatch and then
3049 I'll rescue some kind of a princess from the altar and then
3050 I'll kill off a few guards or whatever and then this girl
3051 will show me the secret passage out of the place and we'll
3052 liberate a couple of horses and escape with the treasure."
3053 Hrun leaned his head back on his hands and looked at the
3054 ceiling, whistling tunelessly.
3056 "All that?" said Twoflower.
3060 =head2 v5.7.0 - Terry Pratchett, "Moving Pictures"
3062 L<Announced on 2000-09-02 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2000/09/msg17730.html>
3064 The Librarian had seen many weird things in his time,
3065 but that had to be the 57th strangest.
3066 [footnote: he had a tidy mind]
3068 =head2 v5.6.2 - Laurence Sterne, "Tristram Shandy"
3070 L<Announced on 2003-11-15 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/11/msg85222.html>
3072 When great or unexpected events fall out upon the stage of this
3073 sublunary word--the mind of man, which is an inquisitive kind of
3074 a substance, naturally takes a flight, behind the scenes, to see
3075 what is the cause and first spring of them--The search was not
3076 long in this instance.
3078 =head2 v5.6.2-RC1 - Laurence Sterne, "Tristram Shandy"
3080 L<Announced on 2003-11-08 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/11/msg84953.html>
3082 "Pray, my dear", quoth my mother, "have you not forgot to wind up the clock?"
3084 =head2 v5.6.1 - J R R Tolkien, "The Hobbit", Riddles in the Dark
3086 L<Announced on 2001-04-08 by Gurusamy Sarathy|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2001/04/msg33823.html>
3088 `What have I got in my pocket?' he said aloud. He was talking to
3089 himself, but Gollum thought it was a riddle, and he was frightfully
3092 `Not fair! not fair!' he hissed. `It isn't fair, my precious, is it,
3093 to ask us what it's got in its nassty little pocketses?'
3095 Bilbo seeing what had happened and having nothing better to ask
3096 stuck to his question, `What have I got in my pocket?' he said
3099 `S-s-s-s-s,' hissed Gollum. `It must give us three guesseses,
3100 my precious, three guesseses.'
3102 =head2 v5.6.1-foolish - no epigraph
3104 L<Announced on 2001-04-01 by Gurusamy Sarathy|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2001/04/msg33421.html>
3106 =head2 v5.6.1-TRIAL3 - I can't find the announcement
3108 No announcement available.
3110 =head2 v5.6.1-TRIAL2 - no epigraph
3112 L<Announced on 2001-01-31 by Gurusamy Sarathy|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2001/01/msg29934.html>
3114 =head2 v5.6.1-TRIAL1 - no epigraph
3116 L<Announced on 2000-12-18 by Gurusamy Sarathy|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2000/12/msg27738.html>
3118 =head2 v5.6.0 - J R R Tolkien, "The Hobbit", The Last Stage
3120 L<Announced on 2000-03-23 by Gurusamy Sarathy|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2000/03/msg10341.html>
3122 The dragon is withered,
3123 His bones are now crumbled;
3124 His armour is shivered,
3125 His splendour is humbled!
3126 Though sword shall be rusted,
3127 And throne and crown perish
3128 With strength that men trusted
3129 And wealth that they cherish,
3130 Here grass is still growing,
3131 And leaves are a yet swinging,
3132 The white water flowing,
3133 And elves are yet singing
3134 Come! Tra-la-la-lally!
3135 Come back to the valley.
3137 =head2 v5.6.0-RC3 - no epigraph
3139 L<Announced on 2000-03-22 by Gurusamy Sarathy|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2000/03/msg10140.html>
3141 =head2 v5.005_05-RC1 - no epigraph
3143 L<Announced on 2009-02-16 by LE<0xe9>on Brocard|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2009/02/msg144227.html>
3145 =head2 v5.005_04 - no epigraph
3147 L<Announced on 2004-03-01 by LE<0xe9>on Brocard|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/03/msg89047.html>
3149 =head2 v5.005_04-RC2 - Rudyard Kipling, "The Jungle Book"
3151 L<Announced on 2004-02-19 by LE<0xe9>on Brocard|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/02/msg88672.html>
3153 The monkeys called the place their city, and pretended to despise
3154 the Jungle-People because they lived in the forest. And yet they
3155 never knew what the buildings were made for nor how to use
3156 them. They would sit in circles on the hall of the king's council
3157 chamber, and scratch for fleas and pretend to be men; or they would
3158 run in and out of the roofless houses and collect pieces of plaster
3159 and old bricks in a corner, and forget where they had hidden them,
3160 and fight and cry in scuffling crowds, and then break off to play up
3161 and down the terraces of the king's garden, where they would shake
3162 the rose trees and the oranges in sport to see the fruit and flowers
3165 =head2 v5.005_04-RC1 - Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
3167 L<Announced on 2004-02-05 by LE<0xe9>on Brocard|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/02/msg88312.html>
3169 Either the well was very deep, or she fell very slowly, for she had
3170 plenty of time as she went down to look about her and to wonder what was
3171 going to happen next. First, she tried to look down and make out what
3172 she was coming to, but it was too dark to see anything; then she looked
3173 at the sides of the well, and noticed that they were filled with
3174 cupboards and book-shelves; here and there she saw maps and pictures
3175 hung upon pegs. She took down a jar from one of the shelves as she
3176 passed; it was labelled 'ORANGE MARMALADE', but to her great
3177 disappointment it was empty: she did not like to drop the jar for fear
3178 of killing somebody, so managed to put it into one of the cupboards as
3181 =head2 v1.0_16 - Johan Vromans, extemporarily
3183 L<Announced on 2003-12-18 by Richard Clamp|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/12/msg86423.html>
3185 't was 16 years ago today
3186 Larry taught us a new game
3187 of lazyness, impatience, and hubris
3188 Happy birthday, Perl!
3190 =head1 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
3192 This document was originally compiled based on a list of epigraphs
3193 on L<Perl Monks|http://perlmonks.org> titled
3194 L<Recent Perl Release Announcement|http://perlmonks.org/?node_id=372406>