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 v5.35.1 - Sam Schube
22 L<Announced on 2021-06-20 by Max Maischein|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2021/06/msg260592.html>
24 His first marriage ended. A new relationship with an old friend
25 straightened him out. “I realized that I can't live like I was and be
26 with Naomi,” he said. “I wanted to become a better man for her. At
27 first. Then it was for myself too.” He started seeing a therapist. There
28 were limits: He told her he wasn't interested in exploring the part of
29 him that wanted to do stunts. “I know that needs looking at,” he said.
30 “But I didn't want to break the machine.”
32 It wasn't just about jeopardizing his livelihood, he explained. Doing
33 stunts “was exciting. It's something that I did with my friends. And I
34 was decent at it.” It wasn't so much about the stunts themselves, which
35 were terrifying, as about how completing them made him feel. He loved,
36 he said, “the exhilaration and relief, once you get on the other side of
37 the stunt. Or when you come to. You wake up, you're like, ‘Oh, was that
38 good?’ And they're like, ‘That was great.’ You got a good bit when
39 there's seven people standing over you, snapping their fingers.” When we
40 spoke, he still hadn't broached the topic in therapy. “I'll talk about
41 it eventually,” he said. “It's not something I need to know this second.”
43 =head2 v5.35.0 - Miguel de Unamuno
45 L<Announced on 2021-05-20 by Ricardo Signes|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2021/05/msg260116.html>
47 We should try to be the parents of our future rather than the offspring of our
50 =head2 v5.34.0 - Aberjhani
52 L<Announced on 2021-05-20 by Sawyer X|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2021/05/msg260110.html>
54 Our greatest power as nations and individuals is not the ability to employ assault weapons, suicide bombers, and drones to destroy each other.
55 The greater more creative powers with which we may arm ourselves are grace and compassion sufficient enough to love and save each other.
57 =head2 v5.34.0-RC2 - Nelson Mandela, The Long Walk to Freedom
59 L<Announced on 2021-05-15 by Sawyer X|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2021/05/msg260066.html>
61 No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.
63 =head2 v5.34.0-RC1 - Paul Tremblay, The Cabin at the End of the World
65 L<Announced on 2021-05-04 by Sawyer X|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2021/05/msg260029.html>
67 He’d irrationally hoped he could somehow put off indefinitely the future day on which she would recognize cruelty, ignorance, and injustice were the struts and pillars of the social order, as unavoidable and inevitable as the weather.
69 =head2 v5.33.9 - Abraham Lincoln
71 L<Announced on 2021-04-20 by toddr|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2021/04/msg259954.html>
73 Seven minutes ago... we, your forefathers, were brought forth upon a most excellent adventure conceived by our new friends, Bill... and Ted. These two great gentlemen are dedicated to a proposition which was true in my time, just as it's true today. Be excellent to each other!
75 =head2 v5.33.8 - David Bowie, "Heroes"
77 L<Announced on 2021-03-20 by atoomic|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2021/03/msg259358.html>
79 Tomorrow belongs to those who can hear it coming.
81 =head2 v5.33.7 - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther
83 L<Announced on 2021-02-20 by Renée Bäcker|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2021/02/msg259169.html>
85 The human race is a monotonous affair. Most people spend the greatest part of
86 their time working in order to live, and what little freedom remains so fills
87 them with fear that they seek out any and every means to be rid of it.
89 =head2 v5.33.6 - Edward R. Murrow
91 L<Announced on 2021-01-20 by Richard Leach|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2021/01/msg258843.html>
93 This instrument can teach, it can illuminate; yes, and it can even
94 inspire. But it can do so only to the extent that humans are determined
95 to use it to those ends. Otherwise it is merely wires and lights in a box.
97 =head2 v5.33.5 - Max Weber, (from "Understanding Administration", by Wolfgang Seibel)
99 L<Announced on 2020-12-20 by Max Maischein|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2020/12/msg258683.html>
101 Authority is primarily: Administration
104 =head2 v5.33.4 - George Eliot, "Adam Bede"
106 L<Announced on 2020-11-20 by Tom Hukins|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2020/11/msg258597.html>
108 It was more than two o'clock in the afternoon when Adam came in sight of
109 the grey town on the hill-side and looked searchingly towards the green
110 valley below, for the first glimpse of the old thatched roof near the
113 =head2 v5.33.3 - Ludwig van Beethoven, "Heiligenstadt Testament"; translated and quoted in: Maynard Solomon, "Beethoven"
115 L<Announced on 2020-10-20 by Steve Hay|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2020/10/msg258502.html>
117 Oh you men who think or say that I am malevolent, stubborn, or
118 misanthropic, how greatly do you wrong me. You do not know the secret
119 cause which makes me seem that way to you. From childhood on, my
120 heart and soul have been full of the tender feeling of goodwill, and I
121 was ever inclined to accomplish great things. But, think that for six
122 years now I have been hopelessly afflicted, made worse by senseless
123 physicians, from year to year deceived with hopes of improvement,
124 finally compelled to face the prospect of a lasting malady (whose cure
125 will take years or, perhaps, be impossible). Though born with a
126 fiery, active temperament, even susceptible to the diversions of
127 society, I was soon compelled to withdraw myself, to live life alone.
128 [...] I endured this wretched existence--truly wretched for so
129 susceptible a body, which can be thrown by a sudden change from the
130 best condition to the very worst.--Patience, they say, is what I must
131 now choose for my guide, and I have done so--I hope my determination
132 will remain firm to endure until it pleases the inexorable Parcae to
133 break the thread. [...] Recommend virtue to your children; it alone,
134 not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience; this was
135 what upheld me in time of misery. [...] Do not wholly forget me when I
136 am dead; I deserve this from you, for during my lifetime I was
137 thinking of you often and of ways to make you happy--please be so--
139 =head2 v5.33.2 - Elizabeth Warren
141 L<Announced on 2020-09-20 by Sawyer X|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2020/09/msg258369.html>
143 What I've learned is that real change is very, very hard. But I've
144 also learned that change is possible - if you fight for it.
146 =head2 v5.33.1 - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956 (1973)
148 L<Announced on 2020-08-20 by Karen Etheridge|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2020/08/msg258282.html>
150 If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds,
151 and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy
152 them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every
153 human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?
155 =head2 v5.33.0 - Confucius, "Confucius: The Analects"
157 L<Announed on 2020-07-17 by Sawyer X|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2020/07/msg258033.html>
159 The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.
161 =head2 v5.32.1 - Mikhail Bulgakov, trans. Michael Glenny, "The Master and Margarita"
163 L<Announced on 2021-01-23 by Steve Hay|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2021/01/msg258868.html>
165 As the warning bells rang, inquisitive people were peeping into the star
166 dressing room. Among them were jugglers in bright robes and turbans, a
167 roller-skater in a knitted cardigan, a comedian with a powdered white
168 face and a make-up man. The celebrated guest artiste amazed everyone
169 with his unusually long, superbly cut tail coat and by wearing a black
170 domino. Even more astounding were the black magician's two companions:
171 a tall man in checks with an unsteady pince-nez and a fat black cat
172 which walked into the dressing room on its hind legs and casually sat
173 down on the divan, blinking in the light of the unshaded lamps round the
176 =head2 v5.32.1-RC1 - Mikhail Bulgakov, trans. Michael Glenny, "The Heart of a Dog"
178 L<Announced on 2021-01-09 by Steve Hay|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2021/01/msg258762.html>
180 Why bother to learn to read when you can smell meat a mile away? If you
181 live in Moscow, though, and if you've got an ounce of brain in your head
182 you can't help learning to read - and without going to night-school
183 either. There are forty-thousand dogs in Moscow and I'll bet there's
184 not one of them so stupid he can't spell out the word 'sausage'.
186 =head2 v5.32.0 - Bob Dylan, "The Times They Are A Changing"
188 L<Announced on 2020-06-20 by Sawyer X|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2020/06/msg257547.html>
190 Come gather 'round, people
192 And admit that the waters
193 Around you have grown
194 And accept it that soon
195 You'll be drenched to the bone
196 If your time to you is worth savin'
197 And you better start swimmin'
198 Or you'll sink like a stone
199 For the times they are a-changin'
201 =head2 v5.32.0-RC1 - Coretta Scott King
203 L<Announced on 2020-06-08 by Sawyer X|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2020/06/msg257521.html>
205 Struggle is a never ending process. Freedom is never really won,
206 you earn it and win it in every generation.
208 =head2 v5.32.0-RC0 - Franz Kafka
210 L<Announced on 2020-05-30 by Sawyer X|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2020/05/msg257486.html>
212 There are some things one can only achieve by a deliberate leap
213 in the opposite direction.
215 =head2 v5.31.11 - John F. Kennedy, National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy
217 L<Announced on 2020-04-28 by Sawyer X|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2020/04/msg257385.html>
219 Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind.
221 =head2 v5.31.10 - Christina Rossetti, "Remember"
223 L<Announced on 2020-03-20 by Sawyer X|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2020/03/msg257274.html>
225 Remember me when I am gone away,
226 Gone far away into the silent land;
227 When you can no more hold me by the hand,
228 Nor I half turn to go yet turning stay.
229 Remember me when no more day by day
230 You tell me of our future that you plann'd:
231 Only remember me; you understand
232 It will be late to counsel then or pray.
233 Yet if you should forget me for a while
234 And afterwards remember, do not grieve:
235 For if the darkness and corruption leave
236 A vestige of the thoughts that once I had,
237 Better by far you should forget and smile
238 Than that you should remember and be sad.
240 =head2 v5.31.9 - Sten Nadolny, book The Discovery of Slowness
242 L<Announced on 2020-02-20 by Renee Bäcker|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2020/02/msg257144.html>
244 „When people talk too fast the content becomes as superfluous as the speed.“
246 =head2 v5.31.8 - Joe Perham, "Joe Perham's Guide to Hunting and Guide to Fishing in Maine"
248 L<Announced on 2020-01-20 by Matthew Horsfall|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2020/01/msg256894.html>
250 Harry used to cut wood for the Brown company over in Stoneham Red
251 Rock Basin. And of course he was the best shot in camp. One day the
252 foreman told him to go get some meat.
254 "Take any gun you want."
256 Harry says "I'll take the .45-70."
258 Foreman said "That gun's only got one bullet."
260 Harry says "I only need one bullet."
262 Took the .45-70, went out, an hour later he was back with two Moose,
263 a dozen trout you see, and a fluffy partridge. Went back to work.
265 Well at supper that night foreman says "Harry, um, something's
266 bothering me here a little bit. How did you get all that food with
267 only one bullet. I'm a little confused about the... the partridge,
268 there ain't a mark on him."
270 "Well", Harry says, "I'll tell ya. I took that .45-70, went back into
271 the woods a piece there I come to this brook. And I just uh, got to
272 the other side when I happen to see two moose in the swamp off
273 there. I figured I could get both of 'em. So I took out my huntin'
274 knife and stuck it into the mud, hilt foremost, sharp edge on the
275 blade towards me of course. I took dead aim on that knife, fired,
276 split that bullet and killed those two moose. Well you know the
277 recoil knocked me back into the brook. When I come up out of the
278 water, my pants were so full of fish that it popped a button off my
279 fly and killed that bird."
281 =head2 v5.31.7 - Bernard Werber
283 L<Announced on 2019-12-20 by Atoomic|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/12/msg256802.html>
285 Be quiet. Look at the stars and appreciate what you live.
287 =head2 v5.31.6 - Neal Stephenson, "Quicksilver"
289 L<Announced on 2019-11-20 by Chris 'BinGOs' Williams|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/11/msg256646.html>
293 State your intentions, Muse. I know you're there.
294 Dead bards who pined for you have said
295 You're bright as flame, but fickle as the air.
296 My pen and I, submerged in liquid shade,
297 Much dark can spread, on days and over reams
298 But without you, no radiance can shed.
299 Why rustle in the dark, when fledged with fire?
300 Craze the night with flails of light. Reave
301 Your turbid shroud. Bestow what I require.
303 But you're not in the dark. I do believe
304 I swim, like squid, in clouds of my own make,
305 To you, offensive. To us both, opaque.
306 What's constituted so, only a pen
307 Can penetrate. I have one here; let's go.
309 =head2 v5.31.5 - Edward Lear, ed. Vivien Noakes, "The Complete Nonsense and Other Verse": The Daddy Long-legs and the Fly
311 L<Announced on 2019-10-20 by Steve Hay|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/10/msg256478.html>
313 'O Mr Daddy Long-legs,'
315 'It's true I never go to court,
316 And I will tell you why.
317 If I had six long legs like yours,
318 At once I'd go to court!
319 But oh! I can't, because my legs
320 Are so extremely short.
321 And I'm afraid the King and Queen
322 (One in red, and one in green)
323 Would say aloud, "You are not fit,
324 You Fly, to come to court a bit!"'
326 =head2 v5.31.4 - Ann Leckie, "The Raven Tower"
328 L<Announced on 2019-09-20 by Max Maischein|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/09/msg256254.html>
330 Stories can be risky for someone like me. What I say must be true, or it
331 will be made true, and if it cannot be made true - if I don't have the
332 power, or if what I have said is an impossibility - then I will pay the
333 price. I might more or less safely say, "Once there was a man who rode
334 home to attend his father's funeral and claim his inheritance, but
335 matters were not as he expected them to be." I do not doubt that such a
336 thing has happened more than once in all the time there have been
337 fathers to die and sons to succeed them. But to go any further, I must
338 supply more details - the specific actions of specific people, and their
339 specific consequences - and there I might blunder, all unknowing, into
340 untruth. It's safer for me to speak of what I know. Or to speak only in
341 the safest of generalities. Or else to say plainly at the beginning,
342 "Here is a story I have heard," placing the burden of truth or not on
343 the teller whose words I am merely accurately reporting.
345 But what is the story that I am telling? Here is another story I have
347 Once there were two brothers, and one of them wanted what the other had.
348 Bent all his will to obtain what the other had, no matter the cost.
349 Here is another story: Once there was a prisoner in a tower.
351 Once someone risked their life out of duty and loyalty to a friend.
352 Ah, there's a story that I might tell, and truthfully.
354 =head2 v5.31.3 - Samantha Harvey, "All Is Song"
356 L<Announced on 2019-08-20 by Tom Hukins|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/08/msg256012.html>
358 We are born from unity, we divide into isolation. We winnow ourselves
359 out from the thing that first made sense of us and then expect to find
360 meaning, yet a fraction makes no sense without the number of which
361 it's a fractional part. We see loss, feel grief, give ourselves
362 illness, we're cells that have over-divided and we call the division
363 growth; the only real growth is in the return to unity, God, the
366 Tired to his core, he turned the video off. The rain still poured as
367 he went upstairs, and in bed as he tripped down into the deep open
368 shaft of sleep he kept thinking that to divide by zero was to end up
369 with infinity, as was to divide by God. To divide by God, to divide
370 by God, over and over he thought it without sense; to divide by God; I
371 must tell my students that the way to pass their exams is to divide by
372 God. Then he must have slept, for it was morning.
374 =head2 v5.31.2 - Edward Lear, ed. Vivien Noakes, "The Complete Nonsense and Other Verse": The Duck and the Kangaroo
376 L<Announced on 2019-07-20 by Steve Hay|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/07/msg255639.html>
378 Said the Duck to the Kangaroo,
379 'Good gracious! how you hop!
380 Over the fields and the water too,
381 As if you never would stop!
382 My life is a bore in this nasty pond,
383 And I long to go out in the world beyond!
384 I wish I could hop like you!'
385 Said the Duck to the Kangaroo.
387 =head2 v5.31.1 - Kurt Vonnegut, _A Man without a Country_
389 L<Announced on 2019-06-20 by Karen Etheridge|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/06/msg255243.html>
391 On Tuesday, January 20, 2004, I sent Joel Bleifuss, my editor at _In These
394 ON ORANGE ALERT HERE.
395 ECONOMIC TERRORIST ATTACK
396 EXPECTED AT 8 PM EST. KV
398 Worried, he called, asking what was up. I said I would tell him when I had
399 more complete information on the bombs George Bush was set to deliver in his
400 State of the Union address.
402 That night I got a call from my friend, the out-of-print-science-fiction
403 writer Kilgore Trout. He asked me, "Did you watch the State of the Union
406 "Yes, and it certainly helped to remember what the great British socialist
407 playwright George Bernard Shaw said about this planet."
411 "He said, 'I don't know if there are men on the moon, but if there are, they
412 must be using the earth as their lunatic asylum.' And he wasn't talking
413 about the germs or the elephants. He meant we the people."
417 "You don't think this is the Lunatic Asylum of the Universe?"
419 "Kurt, I don't think I expressed an opinion one way of the other."
421 "We are killing this planet as a life-support system with the poisons from
422 all the thermodynamic whoopee we're making with atomic energy and fossil
423 fuels, and everybody knows it, and practically nobody cares. This is how
424 crazy we are. I think the planet's immune system is trying to get rid of us
425 with AIDS and new strains of flu and tuberculosis, and so on. I think the
426 planet should get rid of us. We're really awful animals. I mean, that dumb
427 Barbra Streisand song, 'People who need people are the luckiest people in
428 the world' -- she's talking about cannibals. Lots to eat. Yes, the planet is
429 trying to get rid of us, but I think it's too late."
431 And I said good-bye to my friend, hung up the phone, sat down and wrote this
432 epitaph: "The good Earth -- we could have saved it, but we were too damn
435 =head2 v5.31.0 - Fumiko Enchi, Masks
437 L<Announced on 2019-05-24 by Sawyer X|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/05/msg254886.html>
439 The secrets inside her mind are like flowers in a garden at
440 nighttime, filling the darkness with perfume.
442 =head2 v5.30.3 - Ben Aaronovitch, "Rivers of London"
444 L<Announced on 2020-06-01 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2020/01/msg257498.html>
446 Trewsbury Mead [...] According to the Ordnance Survey, this is where the
447 Thames first rises 130 straight-line kilometres west of London. Just to
448 the north is the site either of an Iron Age hill fort or a Roman
449 encampment, the exact nature of which is awaiting an episode of Time
450 Team. Apparently there is a soggy field, a stone to mark the spot and a
451 chance, after a particularly wet winter, that you might see some water.
453 =head2 v5.30.2 - Francesco Maria Piave, trans. Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, "La traviata", Act II, Scene 2
455 L<Announced on 2020-03-14 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2020/03/msg257227.html>
457 FLORA, GASTON, DOCTOR, MARQUIS, CHORUS
459 Yes, you have suffered, but take heart!
460 Every one of us has shared your pain;
461 friends are around you to dry the tears
465 (I alone know the true devotion
466 this poor girl hides within her breast;
467 I know her faithful heart,
468 but I'm vowed so cruelly to silence.)
472 Your deadly insult to this lady
473 offends us all, but such an outrage
474 shall not go unavenged!
475 I shall find a way to humble your pride!
478 (Alas, what have I done? I feel terrible about it.
479 She will never forgive me.)
483 Alfredo, how should you understand
484 all the love that's in my heart?
485 How should you know that I have proved it,
486 even at the price of your contempt?
488 But the time will come when you will know,
489 when you'll admit how much I loved you.
490 God save you then from all remorse!
491 Even after death I shall still love you.
493 =head2 v5.30.2-RC1 - Francesco Maria Piave, trans. Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, "La traviata", Act II, Scene 2
495 L<Announced on 2020-02-29 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2020/02/msg257163.html>
498 For me this woman lost
500 I was blind, a wretched coward,
502 But it's time now for me to clear
504 I call you all to witness here
505 that I've paid her back!
507 (Contemptuously, he throws his winnings at Violetta's feet.
508 She swoons in Flora's arms. Alfredo's father arrives suddenly.)
514 a tender heart that way!
518 We've no use for the likes of you!
522 (dignified in his anger)
523 A man who offends a woman, even in anger,
524 deserves nothing but scorn.
525 Where is my son? I no longer see him
529 (What have I done? Yes, I despise myself!
530 Jealous madness, love deceived,
531 ravaged my soul, destroyed my reason.
532 How can I ever gain her pardon?
533 I would have left her, but I couldn't;
534 I came here to vent my anger,
535 But now I've done that, wretch that I am,
536 I feel nothing but deep remorse!)
538 =head2 v5.30.1 - Francesco Maria Piave, trans. Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, "La traviata", Act I: Brindisi
540 L<Announced on 2019-11-10 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/11/msg256610.html>
543 With you I would share
544 my days of happiness;
545 everything is folly in this world
546 that does not give us pleasure.
548 for the pleasures of love are swift and fleeting
549 as a flower that lives and dies
550 and can be enjoyed no more.
551 Let's take our pleasure while its ardent,
552 brilliant summons lures us on!
554 =head2 v5.30.1-RC1 - Francesco Maria Piave, trans. Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, "La traviata", Act I: Brindisi
556 L<Announced on 2019-10-27 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/10/msg256542.html>
559 Let's drink from the joyous chalice
560 where beauty flowers...
561 Let the fleeting hour
562 to pleasure's intoxication yield.
564 to love's sweet tremors --
566 that pierce the heart.
567 Let's drink to love -- to wine
568 that warms our kisses.
570 =head2 v5.30.0 - Morihei Ueshiba
572 L<Announced on 2019-05-22 by Sawyer X|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/05/msg254844.html>
574 Life is growth. If we stop growing, technically and spiritually, we
577 =head2 v5.30.0-RC2 - Derek Walcott
579 L<Announced on 2019-05-17 by Sawyer X|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/05/msg254824.html>
581 The truest writers are those who see language not as linguistic process but
586 =head2 v5.30.0-RC1 - Marcel Proust
588 L<Announced on 2019-05-11 by Sawyer X|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/05/msg254748.html>
590 If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream
591 less but to dream more, to dream all the time.
595 =head2 v5.29.10 - Maya Angelou, Alone
597 L<Announced on 2019-04-20 by Sawyer X|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/04/msg254467.html>
601 How to find my soul a home
602 Where water is not thirsty
603 And bread loaf is not stone
604 I came up with one thing
605 And I don't believe I'm wrong
608 Can make it out here alone.
612 Can make it out here alone.
614 There are some millionaires
615 With money they can't use
616 Their wives run round like banshees
617 Their children sing the blues
618 They've got expensive doctors
619 To cure their hearts of stone.
622 Can make it out here alone.
626 Can make it out here alone.
628 Now if you listen closely
629 I'll tell you what I know
630 Storm clouds are gathering
631 The wind is gonna blow
632 The race of man is suffering
633 And I can hear the moan,
636 Can make it out here alone.
640 Can make it out here alone.
642 =head2 v5.29.9 - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Dancing Men
644 L<Announced on 2019-03-21 by Zak Elep|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/03/msg253978.html>
646 What one man can invent, another can discover.
648 =head2 v5.29.8 - Isaac Asimov, Foundation: “Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.”
650 L<Announced on 2019-02-20 by Atoomic|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/02/msg253750.html>
652 =head2 v5.29.7 - Edsger W. Dijkstra: "Programming Considered as a Human Activity", IFIP Congress, New York, 1965.
654 L<Announced on 2019-01-20 by Abigail|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/01/msg253444.html>
656 When I became acquainted with the notion of algorithmic languages I
657 never challenged the then prevailing notion that the problems of
658 language design and implementation were mostly a question of
659 compromises: every new convenience for the user had to be paid for
660 by the implementation, either in the form of increased trouble
661 during translation, or during execution or during both. Well, we
662 are most certainly not living in Heaven and I am not going to deny
663 the possibility of a conflict between convenience and efficiency,
664 but now I do protest when this conflict is presented as a complete
665 summing up of the situation. I am of the opinion that is worth-while
666 to investigate what extent the needs of Man and Machine go hand in
667 hand and to see what techniques we can devise of the benefit of all
668 of us. I trust that this investigation will bear fruits and if this
669 talk made some of you share this fervent hope, it has achieved its aim.
671 =head2 v5.29.6 - Rudyard Kipling: "How the Camel Got His Hump"
673 L<Announced on 2018-12-18 by Abigail|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/12/msg253187.html>
675 The Camel's hump is an ugly lump
676 Which well you may see at the Zoo;
677 But uglier yet is the hump we get
678 From having little to do.
680 Kiddies and grown-ups too-oo-oo
681 If we haven't enough to do-oo-oo,
684 The hump that is black and blue!
686 We climb out of bed with a frouzly head
687 And a snarly-yarly voice.
688 We shiver and scowl and we grunt and we growl
689 At our bath and our boots and our toys;
691 And there ought to be a corner for me
692 (And I know there is one for you)
693 When we get the hump -
695 The hump that is black and blue!
697 The cure for this ill is to not sit still,
698 Or frowst with a book by the fire;
699 But to take a large hoe and a shovel also,
700 And dig till you gentle perspire;
702 And then you will find that the sun and the wind,
703 And the Djinn of the Garden too,
704 Have lifted the hump -
706 The hump that is black and blue!
708 I get it as well as you-oo-oo -
709 If I haven't enough to do-oo-oo!
712 Kiddies and grown-ups too!
715 =head2 v5.29.5 - T. S. Eliot, "The Naming Of Cats"
717 L<Announced on 2018-11-20 by Karen Etheridge|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/11/msg252839.html>
719 The Naming of Cats is a difficult matter,
720 It isn't just one of your holiday games;
721 You may think at first I'm as mad as a hatter
722 When I tell you, a cat must have THREE DIFFERENT NAMES.
723 First of all, there's the name that the family use daily,
724 Such as Peter, Augustus, Alonzo or James,
725 Such as Victor or Jonathan, George or Bill Bailey--
726 All of them sensible everyday names.
727 There are fancier names if you think they sound sweeter,
728 Some for the gentlemen, some for the dames:
729 Such as Plato, Admetus, Electra, Demeter--
730 But all of them sensible everyday names.
731 But I tell you, a cat needs a name that's particular,
732 A name that's peculiar, and more dignified,
733 Else how can he keep up his tail perpendicular,
734 Or spread out his whiskers, or cherish his pride?
735 Of names of this kind, I can give you a quorum,
736 Such as Munkustrap, Quaxo, or Coricopat,
737 Such as Bombalurina, or else Jellylorum-
738 Names that never belong to more than one cat.
739 But above and beyond there's still one name left over,
740 And that is the name that you never will guess;
741 The name that no human research can discover--
742 But THE CAT HIMSELF KNOWS, and will never confess.
743 When you notice a cat in profound meditation,
744 The reason, I tell you, is always the same:
745 His mind is engaged in a rapt contemplation
746 Of the thought, of the thought, of the thought of his name:
747 His ineffable effable
749 Deep and inscrutable singular Name.
751 =head2 v5.29.4 - The Mountain Goats, "Oceanographer's Choice"
753 L<Announced on 2018-10-20 by Aaron Crane|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/10/msg252575.html>
756 Guy in a skeleton costume
757 Comes up to the guy in the Superman suit
758 Runs through him with a broadsword
759 I flipped the television off
760 Bring all the bright lights up
761 Turn the radio up loud
762 I don't know why I'm so persuaded
763 That if I think things through
764 Long enough and hard enough
765 I'll somehow get to you
766 But then you came in and we locked eyes
767 You kicked the ashtray over as we came toward each other
768 Stubbed my cigarette out against the west wall
771 Would you look at that?
772 We're throwing off sparks
773 What will I do when I don't have you
774 To hold onto in the dark?
776 =head2 v5.29.3 - Mac Miller, "Senior Skip Day"
778 L<Announced on 2018-09-20 by John 'genehack' Anderson|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/09/msg252255.html>
780 Enjoy the best things in your life
781 ’Cause you ain’t gonna get to live it twice
782 They say you waste time asleep
783 But I’m just tryin’ to dream
785 =head2 v5.29.2 - Rick Riordan, "The Lightning Thief"
787 L<Announced on 2018-08-20 by Chris 'BinGOs' Williams|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/08/msg251918.html>
789 Look, I didn't want to be a half-blood.
791 If you're reading this because you think you might be one,
792 my advice is: close this book right now. Believe whatever
793 lie your mom or dad told you about your birth, and try
794 to lead a normal life.
796 Being a half-blood is dangerous. It's scary. Most of the time,
797 it gets you killed in painful, nasty ways.
799 If you're a normal kid, reading this because you think it's
800 fiction, great. Read on. I envy you for being able to believe
801 that none of this ever happened.
803 But if you recognize yourself in these pages - if you feel
804 something stirring inside - stop reading immediately.
805 You might be one of us. And once you know that, it's only a
806 matter of time before they sense it too, and they'll come for you.
808 =head2 v5.29.1 - Richard Curtis & Ben Elton, "Blackadder, Series 3, Episode 2: Ink and Incapability"
810 L<Announced on 2018-07-20 by Steve Hay|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/07/msg251605.html>
812 Dr. Samuel Johnson: Here it is, sir: the very cornerstone of English
813 scholarship. This book, sir, contains every word in our beloved
816 Prince Regent George: Hmm.
818 Edmund Blackadder: Every single one, sir?
820 Johnson: (confidently) Every single word, sir!
822 Blackadder: (to Prince) Oh, well, in that case, sir, I hope you will
823 not object if I also offer the Doctor my most enthusiastic
828 Blackadder: 'Contrafribularities,' sir? It is a common word down our
831 Johnson: Damn! (writes in the book)
833 Blackadder: Oh, I'm sorry, sir. I'm anaspeptic, phrasmotic, even
834 compunctious to have caused you such pericombobulation.
836 Johnson: What? What? WHAT?
838 =head2 v5.29.0 - Erle Stanley Gardner, The Case of the Grinning Gorilla
840 L<Announced on 2018-06-26 by Sawyer X|http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/251297>
842 Courage is the only antidote for danger.
844 =head2 v5.28.3 - Ben Aaronovitch, "Rivers of London"
846 L<Announced on 2020-06-01 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2020/01/msg257497.html>
848 The north end of the London Borough of Camden is dominated by two hills,
849 Hampstead on the west, Highgate on the east, with the Heath, one of the
850 largest parks in London, slung between them like a green saddle. From
851 these heights the land slopes down towards the River Thames and the
852 floodplains that lurk below the built-up centre of London.
854 =head2 v5.28.2 - Edward Lear, ed. Vivien Noakes, "The Complete Nonsense and Other Verse": The Jumblies
856 L<Announced on 2019-04-19 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/04/msg254456.html>
858 They went to sea in a Sieve, they did,
859 In a Sieve they went to sea:
860 In spite of all their friends could say,
861 On a winter's morn, on a stormy day,
862 In a Sieve they went to sea!
863 And when the Sieve turned round and round,
864 And every one cried, 'You'll all be drowned!'
865 They called aloud, 'Our Sieve ain't big,
866 But we don't care a button! we don't care a fig!
867 In a Sieve we'll go to sea!'
868 Far and few, far and few,
869 Are the lands where the Jumblies live;
870 Their heads are green, and their hands are blue,
871 And they went to sea in a Sieve.
873 =head2 v5.28.2-RC1 - Edward Lear, ed. Vivien Noakes, "The Complete Nonsense and Other Verse": The Quangle Wangle's Hat
875 L<Announced on 2019-04-05 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/04/msg254218.html>
877 On the top of the Crumpetty Tree
878 The Quangle Wangle sat,
879 But his face you could not see,
880 On account of his Beaver Hat.
881 For his Hat was a hundred and two feet wide,
882 With ribbons and bibbons on every side,
883 And bells, and buttons, and loops, and lace,
884 So that nobody ever could see the face
885 Of the Quangle Wangle Quee.
887 =head2 v5.28.1 - Humphrey Burton, "Leonard Bernstein"
889 L<Announced on 2018-11-29 by Steve Hay|http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/11/msg252975.html>
891 On August 25, 1983, Leonard Bernstein celebrated his sixty-fifth
892 birthday in his birthplace, Lawrence, Massachusetts. He had actually
893 lived in the town for only a few weeks as a newborn baby, and had last
894 visited it forty-nine years previously, in 1934, to get the name on his
895 birth certificate altered from Louis to Leonard. But the citizens of
896 Lawrence proposed to dedicate an outdoor theater to him in their
897 heritage park and to provide not one but two local orchestras--the
898 Merrimack Valley Philharmonic to play excerpts from his own compositions
899 and the Greater Boston Youth Symphony and Chorus to perform the "Ode to
900 Joy" and accompany Bernstein himself reading (for the only time in his
901 life) the text of A Lincoln Portrait. So Bernstein turned down birthday
902 invitations from Tanglewood and Central Park, New York, and the
903 Hollywood Bowl and drove through the cheering if slightly bewildered
904 crowds lining the streets of Lawrence in an open-topped 1928 Ford
905 roadster, looking as homespun as James Stewart in Frank Capra's classic,
906 It's a Wonderful Life.
908 =head2 v5.28.0 - Martin Luther King, Jr., 1967
910 L<Announced on 2018-06-22 by Sawyer X|http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/251240>
912 When we look at modern man we have to face the fact that modern man
913 suffers from a kind of poverty of the spirit which stands in glaring
914 contrast with his scientific and technological abundance. We've learned
915 to fly the air as birds, we've learned to swim the seas as fish, yet we
916 haven't learned to walk the earth as brothers and sisters.
918 =head2 v5.28.0-RC4 - Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book
920 L<Announced on 2018-06-19 by Sawyer X|http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/251212>
922 You're alive, Bod. That means you have infinite potential. You can do
923 anything, make anything, dream anything. If you can change the world,
924 the world will change. Potential. Once you're dead, it's gone. Over.
925 You've made what you've made, dreamed your dream, written your name.
926 You may be buried here, you may even walk. But that potential is
929 =head2 v5.28.0-RC3 - Anthony Horowitz, Magpie Murders
931 L<Announced on 2018-06-18 by Sawyer X|http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/251204>
933 These had been his plans. But if there was one thing that life had
934 taught him, it was the futility of making plans. Life had its own
937 =head2 v5.28.0-RC2 - Oliver Sacks, The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat: And Other Clinical Tales
939 L<Announced on 2018-06-06 by Sawyer X|http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/251122>
941 Had she not been of exceptional intelligence and literacy, with an
942 imagination filled and sustained, so to speak, by the images of
943 others, images conveyed by language, by the word, she might have
944 remained almost as helpless as a baby.
946 =head2 v5.28.0-RC1 - Anu Garg, A Word A Day
948 L<Announced on 2018-05-21 by Sawyer X|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/05/msg250999.html>
950 One doesn't have to know the unit of pain (dol) to realize that the
951 unit of joy is not the dollar, or any other currency for that matter.
953 =head2 v5.27.11 - Tana French, In the Woods
955 L<Announced on 2018-04-20 by Sawyer X|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/04/msg250571.html>
957 And then, too, I had learned early to assume something dark and
958 lethal hidden at the heart of anything I loved. When I couldn't find
959 it, I responded, bewildered and wary, in the only way I knew how: by
960 planting it there myself.
962 =head2 v5.27.10 - Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, p. 248
964 L<Announced on 2018-03-20 by Todd Rinaldo|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/03/msg250042.html>
966 A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher
967 a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts,
968 build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders,
969 cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure,
970 program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly.
971 Specialization is for insects.
973 =head2 v5.27.9 - Agatha Christie, "The Mysterious Affair at Styles"
975 L<Announced on 2018-02-20 by Renee Bäcker|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/02/msg249549.html>
977 Poirot was an extraordinary looking little man. He was hardly more
978 than five feet, four inches, but carried himself with great dignity.
979 His head was exactly the shape of an egg, and he always perched it
980 a little on one side. His moustache was very stiff and military.
981 The neatness of his attire was almost incredible. I believe a
982 speck of dust would have caused him more pain than a bullet wound.
983 Yet this quaint dandified little man who, I was sorry to see, now
984 limped badly, had been in his time one of the most celebrated members
985 of the Belgian police. As a detective, his flair had been extraordinary,
986 and he had achieved triumphs by unravelling some of the most baffling
988 He pointed out to me the little house inhabited by him and his fellow
989 Belgians, and I promised to go and see him at an early date. Then he
990 raised his hat with a flourish to Cynthia, and we drove away.
991 "He's a dear little man," said Cynthia. "I'd no idea you knew him."
992 "You've been entertaining a celebrity unawares," I replied.
993 And, for the rest of the way home, I recited to them the various
994 exploits and triumphs of Hercule Poirot.
996 =head2 v5.27.8 - Jasper Fforde, "Shades of Grey"
998 L<Announced on 2018-01-20 by Abigail|http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/248914>
1000 2.4.16.55.021: Males are to wear dresscode #6 during inter-Collective
1001 travel. Hats are encouraged, but not required.
1003 9.3.88.32.025: The cucumber and tomato are both fruit; the avocado
1004 is a nut. To assist with the dietary requirements of vegetarians,
1005 on the first Tuesday of the month a chicken is officially a vegetable.
1007 5.3.21.01.002: Once allocated, postcodes are permanent, and for life.
1009 6.1.02.11.235: Artifacture from before the Something That Happened
1010 may be collected, so long it does not appear on the Leapback list
1011 or possess color above 23 percent saturation.
1013 2.3.06.02.087: Unnecessary sharpening of pencils constitutes a waste
1014 of public resources, and will be punished as appropriate.
1016 2.1.01.05.002: All children are to attent school until the age of
1017 sixteen or until they have learned everything, whichever be the sooner.
1019 1.3.02.06.023: There shall be no staring at the sun, however good
1022 1.1.19.02.006: Team sports are mandatory in order to build character.
1023 Character is there to give purpose to team sports.
1025 2.3.03.01.006: Juggling shall not be practiced after 4:00 pm.
1028 =head2 v5.27.7 - Terry Pratchett, "Hogfather"
1030 L<Announced on 2017-12-20 by Chris 'BinGOs' Williams|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/12/msg248274.html>
1032 Death looked at the sacks.
1034 It was a strange but demonstrable fact that the sacks of
1035 toys carried by the Hogfather, no matter what they
1036 really contained, always appeared to have sticking out
1037 of the top a teddy bear, a toy soldier in the kind of
1038 colorful uniform that would stand out in a disco, a
1039 drum and a red-and-white candy cane. The actual
1040 contents always turned out to be something a bit
1041 garish and costing $5.99.
1043 Death had investigated one or two. There had been a
1044 Real Agatean Ninja, for example, with Fearsome
1045 Death Grip, and a Captain Carrot One-Man Night
1046 Watch with a complete wardrobe of toy weapons, each
1047 of which cost as much as the original wooden doll in
1050 Mind you, the stuff for the girls was just as
1051 depressing. It seemed to be nearly all horses. Most of
1052 them were grinning. Horses, Death felt, shouldn't grin.
1054 Any horse that was grinning was planning something.
1056 =head2 v5.27.6 - Ogden Nash, "Behold the Duck"
1058 L<Announced on 2017-11-20 by Karen Etheridge|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/11/msg247489.html>
1065 It is 'specially fond
1066 of puddles or ponds;
1067 when it dines or sups
1071 =head2 v5.27.5 - Frank Birch, Dilly Knox & G. P. Mackeson, "Alice in I.D.25"
1073 L<Announced on 2017-10-20 by Steve Hay|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/10/msg246785.html>
1075 'Can I do anything?' Alice suggested timidly, thinking that something
1076 dreadful must have happened.
1077 The Waterflap jumped as if it had been shot. 'What are you doing
1078 here?' it snapped. 'Take this at once into the Directional room,' and it
1079 thrust the paper which had caused all the fuss into her hands.
1080 'But where is the Directional room?' she inquired, bewildered.
1081 'Why, there of course,' howled the Waterflap, pointing to a door.
1082 'How could I possibly know that!' Alice exclaimed, angered by his
1084 'Silly girl,' it hissed. 'Why, it's called the Directional room
1085 because it's in that direction,' and it pushed her roughly through the
1088 =head2 v5.27.4 - Richard Brautigan, "All Watched Over By Machines Of Loving Grace"
1090 L<Announced on 2017-09-20 by John SJ Anderson|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/09/msg246371.html>
1092 I like to think (and
1093 the sooner the better!)
1094 of a cybernetic meadow
1095 where mammals and computers
1096 live together in mutually
1102 (right now, please!)
1103 of a cybernetic forest
1104 filled with pines and electronics
1105 where deer stroll peacefully
1107 as if they were flowers
1108 with spinning blossoms.
1112 of a cybernetic ecology
1113 where we are free of our labors
1114 and joined back to nature,
1115 returned to our mammal
1116 brothers and sisters,
1117 and all watched over
1118 by machines of loving grace.
1120 =head2 v5.27.3 - Rodgers and Hammerstein, "You'll Never Walk Alone"
1122 L<Announced on 2017-08-21 by Matthew Horsfall|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/08/msg245988.html>
1124 When you walk through a storm
1125 Hold your head up high
1126 And don't be afraid of the dark
1128 At the end of a storm
1129 There's a golden sky
1130 And the sweet silver song of a lark
1132 Walk on through the wind
1133 Walk on through the rain
1134 Though your dreams be tossed and blown
1137 With hope in your heart
1138 And you'll never walk alone
1140 You'll never walk alone
1143 With hope in your heart
1144 And you'll never walk alone
1146 You'll never walk alone
1148 =head2 v5.27.2 - Lev Grossman, Codex
1150 L<Announced on 2017-07-20 by Aaron Crane|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/07/msg245585.html>
1152 He went back for another stack of books: a three-volume English legal
1153 treatise; a travel guide to Tuscany from the '20s crammed with faded
1154 Italian wildflowers that fluttered out from between the pages like
1155 moths; a French edition of Turgeniev so decayed that it came apart in
1156 his hands; a register of London society from 1863. In a way it was
1157 idiotic. He was treating these books like they were holy relics. It
1158 wasn't like he would ever actually read them. But there was something
1159 magnetic about them, something that compelled respect, even the silly
1160 ones, like the Enlightenment treatise about how lightning was caused
1161 by bees. They were information, data, but not in the form he was used
1162 to dealing with it. They were non-digital, nonelectrical chunks of
1163 memory, not stamped out of silicon but laboriously crafted out of wood
1164 pulp and ink, leather and glue. Somebody had cared enough to write
1165 these things; somebody else had cared enough to buy them, possibly
1166 even read them, at the very least keep them safe for 150 years,
1167 sometimes longer, when they could have vanished at the touch of a
1168 spark. That made them worth something, didn't it, just by itself?
1169 Though most of them would have bored him rigid the second he cracked
1170 them open, which there wasn't much chance of. Maybe that was what he
1171 found so appealing: the sight of so many books that he'd never have to
1172 read, so much work he'd never have to do.
1174 =head2 v5.27.1 - Rona Munro, Doctor Who: Survival
1176 L<Announced on 2017-06-20 by Eric Herman|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/06/msg245055.html>
1178 There are worlds out there where the sky is burning,
1179 where the sea's asleep and the rivers dream,
1180 people made of smoke and cities made of song.
1181 Somewhere there's danger,
1182 somewhere there's injustice
1183 and somewhere else the tea is getting cold.
1184 Come on, Ace, we've got work to do.
1186 =head2 v5.27.0 - Bertrand Russell, The Road to Happiness
1188 L<Announced on 2017-05-31 by Sawyer X|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/05/msg244580.html>
1190 People who have theories as to how one should live tend to forget the
1191 limitations of nature. If your way of life involves constant
1192 restraint of impulse for the sake of some one supreme aim that you
1193 have set yourself, it is likely that the aim will become increasingly
1194 distasteful because of the efforts that it demands; impulse, denied
1195 its normal outlets, will find others, probably in spite; pleasure, if
1196 you allow yourself any at all, will be dissociated from the main
1197 current of your life, and will become Bacchic and frivolous. Such
1198 pleasure brings no happiness, but only a deeper despair.
1200 -- Bertrand Russell, The Road to Happiness
1202 =head2 v5.26.3 - Humphrey Burton, "Leonard Bernstein"
1204 L<Announced on 2018-11-29 by Steve Hay|http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/11/msg252974.html>
1206 The origins of the name "Bernstein" are sometimes linked with the German
1207 noun Bernstein, which means "amber"--a translucent yellowish fossilized
1208 resin, used for ornaments and thought to possess magical properties.
1209 Leonard Bernstein would later call himself "Lenny Amber" when he needed
1210 a pseudonym for the popular piano transcriptions he published in his
1211 mid-twenties, and his business affairs would be organized within a
1212 company called Amberson Enterprises. There are several towns and
1213 villages named Bernstein in Germany and Austria (where the pronunciation
1214 is BernSTINE), but Bernstein's parents came from Jewish ghettos in
1215 northwestern Ukraine, where the last syllable is usually pronounced
1216 BernSHTAYN or STEEN. Sam insisted, however, on the mid-European style
1217 employed by the earlier immigrants.
1219 =head2 v5.26.2 - Desmond Morris, "Catwatching: The Essential Guide to Cat Behaviour"
1221 L<Announced on 2018-04-14 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/04/msg250440.html>
1223 How does a cat use its whiskers? The usual answer is that the whiskers
1224 are feelers that enable a cat to tell whether a gap is wide enough for
1225 it to squeeze through, but the truth is more complicated and more
1226 remarkable. In addition to their obvious role as feelers sensitive to
1227 touch, the whiskers also operate as air-current detectors. As the cat
1228 moves along in the dark it needs to manoeuvre past solid objects without
1229 touching them. Each solid object it approaches causes slight eddies in
1230 the air, minute disturbances in the currents of air movements, and the
1231 cat's whiskers are so amazingly sensitive that they can read these air
1232 changes and respond to the presence of solid obstacles even without
1235 =head2 v5.26.2-RC1 - Desmond Morris, "Catwatching: The Essential Guide to Cat Behaviour"
1237 L<Announced on 2018-03-24 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/03/msg250103.html>
1239 Cats have a way of endearing themselves to their owners, not just by
1240 their 'kittenoid' behaviour, which stimulates strong parental feelings,
1241 but also by their sheer gracefulness. There is an elegance and a
1242 composure about them that captivates the human eye. To the sensitive
1243 human being it becomes a privilege to share a room with a cat, exchange
1244 its glance, feel its greeting rub, or watch it gently luxuriate itself
1245 into a snoozing ball on a soft cushion.
1247 =head2 v5.26.1 - Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
1249 L<Announced on 2017-09-22 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/09/msg246408.html>
1251 And soon I heard a roaring wind:
1252 It did not come anear;
1253 But with its sound it shook the sails,
1254 That were so thin and sere.
1256 The upper air burst into life!
1257 And a hundred fire-flags sheen,
1258 To and fro they were hurried about!
1259 And to and fro, and in and out,
1260 The wan stars danced between.
1262 =head2 v5.26.1-RC1 - Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
1264 L<Announced on 2017-09-10 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/09/msg246202.html>
1266 At length did cross an Albatross,
1267 Thorough the fog it came;
1268 As if it had been a Christian soul,
1269 We hailed it in God's name.
1271 It ate the food it ne'er had eat,
1272 And round and round it flew.
1273 The ice did split with a thunder-fit;
1274 The helmsman steered us through!
1276 And a good south wind sprung up behind;
1277 The Albatross did follow,
1278 And every day, for food or play,
1279 Came to the mariner's hollo!
1281 In mist or cloud, on mast or shroud,
1282 It perched for vespers nine;
1283 Whiles all the night, through fog-smoke white,
1284 Glimmered the white Moon-shine.'
1286 'God save thee, ancient Mariner!
1287 From the fiends, that plague thee thus!—
1288 Why look'st thou so?'—With my cross-bow
1289 I shot the ALBATROSS.
1291 =head2 v5.26.0 - Nine Simone, Ain't Got No / I Got Life
1293 L<Announced on 2017-05-30 by Sawyer X|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/05/msg244573.html>
1296 And I'm gonna keep it
1298 And nobody's gonna take it away
1301 =head2 v5.26.0-RC2 - Richard Condon, The Manchurian Candidate
1303 L<Announced on 2017-05-23 by Sawyer X|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/05/msg244511.html>
1305 Amateur psychiatric prognosis can be fascinating when there is
1306 absolutely nothing else to do.
1308 =head2 v5.26.0-RC1 - Thomas Paine, Common Sense
1310 L<Announced on 2017-05-11 by Sawyer X|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/05/msg244337.html>
1312 A long habit of not thinking a thing WRONG, gives it a superficial
1313 appearance of being RIGHT, and raises at first a formidable outcry in
1314 defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more
1315 converts than reason.
1317 =head2 v5.25.12 - Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
1319 L<Announced on 2017-04-20 by Sawyer X|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/04/msg244146.html>
1321 I have told my sons that they are not under any circumstances to take
1322 part in massacres, and that the news of massacres of enemies is not
1323 to fill them with satisfaction or glee.
1325 I have also told them not to work for companies which make massacre
1326 machinery, and to express contempt for people who think we need
1327 machinery like that.
1329 =head2 v5.25.11 - Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow
1331 L<Announced on 2017-03-20 by Sawyer X|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/03/msg243624.html>
1333 Subjective confidence in a judgment is not a reasoned evaluation of
1334 the probability that this judgment is correct. Confidence is a
1335 feeling, which reflects the coherence of the information and the
1336 cognitive ease of processing it. It is wise to take admissions of
1337 uncertainty seriously, but declarations of high confidence mainly
1338 tell you that an individual has constructed a coherent story in his
1339 mind, not necessarily that the story is true.
1341 =head2 v5.25.10 - Erich Fried, 1968
1343 L<Announced on 2017-02-20 by Renee Bäcker|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/02/msg243173.html>
1345 He who wants the world to remain as it is
1346 doesn't want it to remain.
1348 =head2 v5.25.9 - A. A. Milne, "Winnie-the-Pooh", 1926
1350 L<Announced on 2017-01-20 by Abigail|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/01/msg242405.html>
1352 Pooh always liked a little something at eleven o'clock in the
1353 morning, and he was very glad to see Rabbit getting out the plates
1354 and mugs; and when Rabbit said, "Honey or condensed milk with
1355 your bread?" he was so excited that he said, "Both," and then,
1356 so as not to seem greedy, he added, "But don't bother about the
1359 =head2 v5.25.8 - Langston Hughes, So long
1361 L<Announced on 2016-12-20 by Sawyer X|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/12/msg241739.html>
1365 and it's in the way you're gone
1366 but it's like a foreign language
1368 and maybe was I blind
1374 =head2 v5.25.7 - J.R.R. Tolkien, "The Silmarillion"
1376 L<Announced on 2016-11-20 by Chad 'Exodist' Granum|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/11/msg241120.html>
1378 Of Beren and Lúthien
1380 Among the tales of sorrow and of ruin that come down to us from the darkness of
1381 those days there are yet some in which amid weeping there is joy and under the
1382 shadow of death light that endures. And of these histories most fair still in
1383 the ears of the Elves is the tale of Beren and Lúthien. Of their lives was made
1384 the Lay of Leithian, Release from Bondage, which is the longest save one of the
1385 songs concerning the world of old; but here is told in fewer words and without
1388 =head2 v5.25.6 - Alan Warner, "The Sopranos"
1390 L<Announced on 2016-10-10 by Aaron Crane|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/10/msg240406.html>
1392 I'm up on all the pop trivia, says the guy with the stud in his tongue.
1394 Yes. Do you know who the lead singer of Echo and the Bunnymen is?
1395 Let me guess, is he called Echo?
1396 Good guess but no, anyway when they played Glastonbury it was so
1397 muddy he had two roadies to hold up a binliner on each of his legs so
1398 they wouldn't get covered in mud.
1399 That's what being rich and famous is all about, having someone
1400 else hold up your binliners on each leg when you're wandering across
1402 Do you know what Sammy Davis Junior said being black and famous in
1405 He said being black and famous in America meant he could be
1406 refused entry to exclusive clubs and restaurants that other people
1407 could only ever dream of going to. Do you know Michael Stipe likes to
1408 send his remote control toy cars onto stage while his support band are
1409 playing to freak them out?
1410 Who's Michael Stipe?
1411 You're not really a pop trivia person, are you, Kylah?
1412 No, I'm not, Stephen.
1414 =head2 v5.25.5 - Philip K. Dick, VALIS
1416 L<Announced on 2016-09-20 by Stevan Little|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/09/msg239887.html>
1418 We hypostatize information into objects. Rearrangement of objects is
1419 change in the content of the information; the message has changed.
1420 This is a language which we have lost the ability to read. We ourselves
1421 are a part of this language; changes in us are changes in the content
1422 of the information. We ourselves are information-rich; information
1423 enters us, is processed and is then projected outward once more, now
1424 in an altered form. We are not aware that we are doing this, that in
1425 fact this is all we are doing
1427 =head2 v5.25.4 - Terry Pratchett, "Truckers"
1429 L<Announced on 2016-08-20 by Chris 'BinGOs' Williams|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/08/msg239191.html>
1431 Concerning Nomes and Time
1433 Nomes are small. On the whole, small creatures don't live for a long
1434 time. But perhaps they do live fast.
1438 One of the shortest-lived creatures on the planet Earth is the adult
1439 common mayfly. It lasts for one day. The longest-living things are
1440 bristlecone pine trees, at 4,700 years and still counting.
1442 This may seem tough on the mayflies. But the important thing is not
1443 how long your life is, but how long it seems.
1445 To a mayfly, a single hour may last as long as a century. Perhaps
1446 old mayflies sit around complaining about how life this minute isn't a
1447 patch on the good old minutes of long ago, when the world was
1448 young and the sun seemed so much brighter and larvae showed you a
1449 bit of respect. Whereas the trees, which are not famous to their
1450 quick reactions, may just have time to notice the way the sky keeps
1451 flickering before the dry rot and woodworm set in.
1453 It's all a sort of relativity. The faster you live, the more time
1454 stretches out. To a nome, a year lasts as long as ten years does to a
1455 human. Remember it. Don't let it concern you. They don't. They don't
1458 =head2 v5.25.3 - Edward Lear, ed. Vivien Noakes, "The Complete Nonsense and Other Verse": The Dong with a Luminous Nose
1460 L<Announced on 2016-07-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/07/msg238158.html>
1462 When awful darkness and silence reign
1463 Over the great Gromboolian plain,
1464 Through the long, long wintry nights; -
1465 When the angry breakers roar
1466 As they beat on the rocky shore; -
1467 When Storm-clouds brood on the towering heights
1468 Of the Hills of the Chankly Bore: -
1470 Then, through the vast and gloomy dark,
1471 There moves what seems a fiery spark,
1472 A lonely spark with silvery rays
1473 Piercing the coal-black night, -
1474 A Meteor strange and bright: -
1475 Hither and thither the vision strays,
1476 A single lurid light.
1478 Slowly it wanders, - pauses, - creeps, -
1479 Anon it sparkles, - flashes and leaps;
1480 And ever as onward it gleaming goes
1481 A light on the Bong-tree stems it throws.
1482 And those who watch at that midnight hour
1483 From Hall or Terrace, or lofty Tower,
1484 Cry, as the wild light passes along, -
1485 'The Dong! - the Dong!
1486 The wandering Dong through the forest goes!
1488 The Dong with a luminous Nose!'
1490 =head2 v5.25.2 - Dan le Sac Vs Scroobius Pip "Waiting For The Beat To Kick In"
1492 L<Announced on 2016-06-20 by Matthew Horsfall|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/06/msg237274.html>
1494 Waiting for the beat to kick in
1496 Waiting for my feet to grow wings
1498 All of these tiresome things
1499 That we know and love
1500 Waiting for the beat to kick in
1503 =head2 v5.25.1 - Eli Pariser, "The Filter Bubble"
1505 L<Announced on 2016-05-20 by Sawyer X|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/05/msg236566.html>
1507 Imagine that you're a smart high school student on the low end of the social
1508 totem pole. You're alienated from adult authority, but unlike many teenagers,
1509 you're also alienated from the power structures of your peers -- an existence
1510 that can feel lonely and peripheral. Systems and equations are intuitive, but
1511 people aren't -- social signals are confusing and messy, difficult to interpret.
1513 Then you discover code. You may be powerless at the lunch table, but code
1514 gives you power over an infinitely malleable world and opens the door to a
1515 symbolic system that's perfectly clear and ordered. The jostling for position
1516 and status fades away. The nagging parental voices disappear. There's just a
1517 clean, white page for you to fill, an opportunity to build a better place, a
1518 home, from the ground up.
1520 No wonder you're a geek.
1522 =head2 v5.25.0 - Robert Frost, "The Trial by Existence"
1524 L<Announced on 2016-05-09 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/05/msg236244.html>
1526 Even the bravest that are slain
1527 Shall not dissemble their surprise
1528 On waking to find valor reign,
1529 Even as on earth, in paradise;
1530 And where they sought without the sword
1531 Wide fields of asphodel fore’er,
1532 To find that the utmost reward
1533 Of daring should be still to dare.
1535 =head2 v5.24.4 - Desmond Morris, "Catwatching: The Essential Guide to Cat Behaviour"
1537 L<Announced on 2018-04-14 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/04/msg250439.html>
1539 Cats hate doors. Doors simply do not register in the evolutionary story
1540 of the cat family. They constantly block patrolling activities and
1541 prevent cats from exploring their home range and then returning to their
1542 central, secure base at will. Humans often do not understand that a cat
1543 needs to make only a brief survey of its territory before returning with
1544 all the necessary information about the activities of other cats in the
1545 vicinity. It likes to make these tours of inspection at frequent
1546 intervals, but does not want to stay outside for very long, unless there
1547 has been some special and unexpected change in the condition of the
1548 local feline population.
1550 =head2 v5.24.4-RC1 - Desmond Morris, "Catwatching: The Essential Guide to Cat Behaviour"
1552 L<Announced on 2018-03-24 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/03/msg250102.html>
1554 The domestic cat is a contradiction. No animal has developed such an
1555 intimate relationship with mankind, while at the same time demanding and
1556 getting such independence of movement and action. The dog may be man's
1557 best friend, but it is rarely allowed out on its own to wander from
1558 garden to garden or street to street. The obedient dog has to be taken
1559 for a walk. The headstrong cat walks alone.
1561 =head2 v5.24.3 - Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
1563 L<Announced on 2017-09-22 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/09/msg246407.html>
1565 Oh sleep! it is a gentle thing,
1566 Beloved from pole to pole!
1567 To Mary Queen the praise be given!
1568 She sent the gentle sleep from Heaven,
1569 That slid into my soul.
1571 The silly buckets on the deck,
1572 That had so long remained,
1573 I dreamt that they were filled with dew;
1574 And when I awoke, it rained.
1576 =head2 v5.24.3-RC1 - Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
1578 L<Announced on 2017-09-10 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/09/msg246201.html>
1580 'And now the STORM-BLAST came, and he
1581 Was tyrannous and strong:
1582 He struck with his o'ertaking wings,
1583 And chased us south along.
1585 With sloping masts and dipping prow,
1586 As who pursued with yell and blow
1587 Still treads the shadow of his foe,
1588 And forward bends his head,
1589 The ship drove fast, loud roared the blast,
1590 And southward aye we fled.
1592 And now there came both mist and snow,
1593 And it grew wondrous cold:
1594 And ice, mast-high, came floating by,
1595 As green as emerald.
1597 And through the drifts the snowy clifts
1598 Did send a dismal sheen:
1599 Nor shapes of men nor beasts we ken—
1600 The ice was all between.
1602 The ice was here, the ice was there,
1603 The ice was all around:
1604 It cracked and growled, and roared and howled,
1605 Like noises in a swound!
1607 =head2 v5.24.2 - Roald Dahl, "The Three Little Pigs"
1609 L<Announced on 2017-07-15 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/07/msg245527.html>
1611 A short while later, through the wood,
1612 Came striding brave Miss Riding Hood.
1613 The Wolf stood there, his eyes ablaze
1614 And yellowish, like mayonnaise.
1615 His teeth were sharp, his gums were raw,
1616 And spit was dripping from his jaw.
1617 Once more the maiden's eyelid flickers.
1618 She draws the pistol from her knickers.
1619 Once more, she hits the vital spot,
1620 And kills him with a single shot.
1621 Pig, peeping through the window, stood
1622 And yelled, 'Well done, Miss Riding Hood!'
1624 Ah, Piglet, you must never trust
1625 Young ladies from the upper crust.
1626 For now, Miss Riding Hood, one notes,
1627 Not only has two wolfskin coats,
1628 But when she goes from place to place,
1629 She has a PIGSKIN TRAVELLING CASE.
1631 =head2 v5.24.2-RC1 - Roald Dahl, "The Three Little Pigs"
1633 L<Announced on 2017-07-01 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/07/msg245292.html>
1635 The animal I really dig
1636 Above all others is the pig.
1637 Pigs are noble. Pigs are clever,
1638 Pig are courteous. However,
1639 Now and then, to break this rule,
1640 One meets a pig who is a fool.
1641 What, for example, would you say
1642 If strolling through the woods one day,
1643 Right there in front of you you saw
1644 A pig who'd built his house of STRAW?
1645 The Wolf who saw it licked his lips,
1646 And said, 'That pig has had his chips.'
1648 =head2 v5.24.1 - Charles Dodgson [as "Lewis Carroll"], "The Hunting of the Snark", Fit 4: The Hunting
1650 L<Announced on 2017-01-14 by Steve Hay|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/01/msg242259.html>
1652 The Bellman looked uffish, and wrinkled his brow.
1653 'If only you'd spoken before!
1654 It's excessively awkward to mention it now,
1655 With the Snark, so to speak, at the door!
1657 'We should all of us grieve, as you well may believe,
1658 If you never were met with again -
1659 But surely, my man, when the voyage began,
1660 You might have suggested it then?
1662 'It's excessively awkward to mention it now -
1663 As I think I've already remarked.'
1664 And the man they called 'Hi!' replied, with a sigh,
1665 'I informed you the day we embarked.
1667 'You may charge me with murder - or want of sense -
1668 (We are all of us weak at times):
1669 But the slightest approach to a false pretence
1670 Was never among my crimes!
1672 'I said it in Hebrew - I said it in Dutch -
1673 I said it in German and Greek:
1674 But I wholly forgot (and it vexes me much)
1675 That English is what you speak!'
1677 ''Tis a pitiful tale,' said the Bellman, whose face
1678 Had grown longer at every word:
1679 'But, now that you've stated the whole of your case,
1680 More debate would be simply absurd.
1682 'The rest of my speech' (he exclaimed to his men)
1683 'You shall hear when I've leisure to speak it.
1684 But the Snark is at hand, let me tell you again!
1685 'Tis your glorious duty to seek it!
1687 =head2 v5.24.1-RC5 - John Milton, ed. Gordon Campbell, "Paradise Regained", Book IV
1689 L<Announced on 2017-01-02 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/01/msg242016.html>
1691 Thus passed the night so foul, till Morning fair
1692 Came forth with pilgrim steps, in amice grey;
1693 Who with her radiant finger stilled the roar
1694 Of thunder, chased the clouds, and laid the winds,
1695 And grisly spectres, which the fiend had raised
1696 To tempt the Son of God with terrors dire.
1697 And now the sun with more effectual beams
1698 Had cheered the face of earth, and dried the wet
1699 From drooping plant, or dropping tree; the birds,
1700 Who all things now behold more fresh and green,
1701 After a night of storm so ruinous,
1702 Cleared up their choicest notes in bush and spray,
1703 To gratulate the sweet return of morn.
1705 =head2 v5.24.1-RC4 - John Milton, ed. Gordon Campbell, "Paradise Lost", Book II
1707 L<Announced on 2016-10-12 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/10/msg240224.html>
1709 Before the gates there sat
1710 On either side a formidable shape;
1711 The one seemed woman to the waste, and fair,
1712 But ended foul in many a scaly fold,
1713 Voluminous and vast -- a serpent armed
1714 With mortal sting; about her middle round
1715 A cry of hell hounds never ceasing barked
1716 With wide Cerberean mouths full loud, and rung
1717 A hideous peal; yet, when they list, would creep,
1718 If aught disturbed their noise, into her womb,
1719 And kennel there; yet there still barked and howled
1720 Within unseen. Far less abhorred than these
1721 Vexed Scylla, bathing in the sea that parts
1722 Calabria from the hoarse Trinacrian shore;
1723 Nor uglier follow the night-hag, when, called
1724 In secret, riding through the air she comes,
1725 Lured with the smell of infant blood, to dance
1726 With Lapland witches, while the labouring moon
1727 Eclipses at their charms. The other shape --
1728 If shape it might be called that shape had none
1729 Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb;
1730 Or substance might be called that shadow seemed,
1731 For each seemed either -- black it stood as night,
1732 Fierce as ten Furies, terrible as hell,
1733 And shook a dreadful dart: what seemed his head
1734 The likeness of a kingly crown had on.
1735 Satan was now at hand, and from his seat
1736 The monster moving onward came as fast
1737 With horrid strides; hell trembled as he strode.
1739 =head2 v5.24.1-RC3 - Dante Alighieri, trans. Dorothy L. Sayers and Barbara Reynolds, "The Divine Comedy", Cantica III: Paradise, Canto XXIII
1741 L<Announced on 2016-08-11 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/08/msg238909.html>
1743 A bird within the bower of her delight,
1744 Quiet upon the nest with her sweet brood
1745 Throughout the dark concealment of the night,
1747 Anxious to look on them and gather food -
1748 No weary task for her, for as at play
1749 Blithely she toils to seek her fledglings' good -
1751 Before the time, upon the topmost spray
1752 Eager awaits the sun and on the East
1753 Fixes her wakeful eye till break of day.
1755 =head2 v5.24.1-RC2 - Dante Alighieri, trans. Dorothy L. Sayers, "The Divine Comedy", Cantica II: Purgatory, Canto X
1757 L<Announced on 2016-07-25 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/07/msg238269.html>
1759 When we had crossed the threshold of that gate
1760 Which the soul's evil loves put out of use,
1761 Because they make the crooked path seem straight,
1763 I heard its closing clang ring clamorous,
1764 And had I then turned back my eyes to it
1765 How could my fault have found the least excuse?
1767 We had to climb now through a rocky slit
1768 Which ran from side to side in many a swerve,
1769 As runs the wave in onset and retreat.
1771 "Now here," the master said, "we must observe
1772 Some little caution, hugging now this wall,
1773 Now that, upon the far side of the curve."
1775 =head2 v5.24.1-RC1 - Dante Alighieri, trans. Dorothy L. Sayers, "The Divine Comedy", Cantica I: Hell, Canto XX
1777 L<Announced on 2016-07-17 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/07/msg238072.html>
1779 New punishments behoves me sing in this
1780 Twentieth canto of my first canticle,
1781 Which tells of spirits sunk in the Abyss.
1783 I now stood ready to observe the full
1784 Extent of the new chasm thus laid bare,
1785 Drenched as it was in tears most miserable.
1787 Through the round vale I saw folk drawing near,
1788 Weeping and silent, and at such slow pace
1789 As Litany processions keep, up here.
1791 And presently, when I had dropped my gaze
1792 Lower than the head, I saw them strangely wried
1793 'Twixt collar-bone and chin, so that the face
1795 Of each was turned towards his own backside,
1796 And backwards must they needs creep with their feet,
1797 All power of looking forward being denied.
1799 =head2 v5.24.0 - Robert Frost, "The Black Cottage"
1801 L<Announced on 2016-05-09 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/05/msg236242.html>
1803 As I sit here, and oftentimes, I wish
1804 I could be monarch of a desert land
1805 I could devote and dedicate forever
1806 To the truths we keep coming back and back to.
1807 So desert it would have to be, so walled
1808 By mountain ranges half in summer snow,
1809 No one would covet it or think it worth
1810 The pains of conquering to force change on.
1811 Scattered oases where men dwelt, but mostly
1812 Sand dunes held loosely in tamarisk
1813 Blown over and over themselves in idleness.
1814 Sand grains should sugar in the natal dew
1815 The babe born to the desert, the sand storm
1816 Retard mid-waste my cowering caravans—
1818 “There are bees in this wall.” He struck the clapboards,
1819 Fierce heads looked out; small bodies pivoted.
1820 We rose to go. Sunset blazed on the windows.
1822 =head2 v5.24.0-RC5 - The Mountain Goats, "No Children"
1824 L<Announced on 2016-05-04 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/05/msg236198.html>
1826 And I hope when you think of me years down the line
1827 You can't find one good thing to say
1828 And I'd hope that if I found the strength to walk out
1829 You'd stay the hell out of my way
1831 I am drowning, there is no sign of land
1832 You are coming down with me, hand in unlovable hand
1834 =head2 v5.24.0-RC4 - The Joker in "The Killing Joke"
1836 L<Announced on 2016-05-02 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/05/msg236145.html>
1838 "See, there were these two guys in a lunatic asylum…"
1840 =head2 v5.24.0-RC3 - Jesse Vincent
1842 L<Announced on 2016-04-27 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/04/msg236066.html>
1844 The Great Pumpkin is a Santa-Claus like figure. He does bring toys like
1845 Santa. But unlike Santa, who gives away toys because it's his job, he
1846 gives away toys because it's the right thing to do.
1848 =head2 v5.24.0-RC2 - Joseph Heller, "Catch-22"
1850 L<Announced on 2016-04-23 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/04/msg235999.html>
1852 “How do you feel, Yossarian?”
1854 “Fine. No, I’m very frightened.”
1856 “That’s good,” said Major Danby. “It proves you’re still alive. It won’t
1859 Yossarian started out. “Yes it will.”
1861 “I mean it, Yossarian. You’ll have to keep on your toes every minute of
1862 every day. They’ll bend heaven and earth to catch you.”
1864 “I’ll keep on my toes every minute.”
1866 “You’ll have to jump.”
1870 “Jump!” Major Danby cried.
1874 Nately’s [girl] was hiding just outside the door. The knife came down,
1875 missing him by inches, and he took off.
1877 =head2 v5.24.0-RC1 - Robert Frost, "The Census-Taker"
1879 L<Announced on 2016-04-14 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/04/msg235807.html>
1881 Nothing was left to do that I could see
1882 Unless to find that there was no one there
1883 And declare to the cliffs too far for echo,
1884 "The place is desert, and let whoso lurks
1885 In silence, if in this he is aggrieved,
1886 Break silence now or be forever silent.
1887 Let him say why it should not be declared so."
1888 The melancholy of having to count souls
1889 Where they grow fewer and fewer every year
1890 Is extreme where they shrink to none at all.
1891 It must be I want life to go on living.
1893 =head2 v5.23.9 - Tom Kitchin, "from nature to plate"
1895 L<Announced on 2016-03-20 by Abigail|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/03/msg235251.html>
1899 Spring is the proper beginning of my kitchen and a season that I
1900 look forward to with great anticipation. By the time spring arrives
1901 I am desperate to welcome all the spring produce into my kitchen
1902 and I long to work with fresh green vegetables again. As much as I
1903 love root vegetables, such as celeriac and parsnips, and the heaver
1904 meat and game dishes, I'm ready to leave those behind with winter
1905 and begin a new adventure.
1907 Somehow spring always gives me a little bit of bounce in my feet
1908 -- I feel like I want to kick off my shoes and dance around in my
1909 kitchen. Not that I do, of course, but I feel lighter somehow. My
1910 adrenalin kicks in with spring and so does the level of excitement,
1911 as I think about all the produce that is about to come in.
1913 The moment spring arrives I'm eager to cook peas, broad beans, green
1914 asparagus and other fresh vegetables! I want to create lighter,
1915 brighter dishes and I can't wait to get my hands on the first greens
1916 and the first morels, not to mention the first wild Scottish salmon.
1917 Thanks to my network of trusted suppliers, I always get to first
1918 produce of the season delivered to my restaurant as soon as it is
1919 possible. I want my customers to experience and understand the
1920 beauty of locally grown produce and to try things the minute they
1921 are available so they can taste how incredibly fresh the ingredients
1922 are. I also want them to understand the relationship between
1923 seasonality and flavours. One of the most important things to
1924 remember is to allow the seasons to inspire your dishes and help
1925 you make natural matches. Wild spring herbs, such as sorrel, sweet
1926 cicely and wild garlic, as well as spring salad leaves and green
1927 lettuce served with wild salmon, wild sea trout, lamb or rabbit are
1928 marriages made in heaven.
1931 =head2 v5.23.8 - Patrick Rothfuss, "The Wise Man's Fear (The Kingkiller's Chronicle: Day Two)"
1933 L<Announced on 2016-02-20 by Sawyer X|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/02/msg234535.html>
1935 Denna, on the other hand, had never been trained. She knew nothing
1936 of shortcuts. You'd think she'd be forced to wander the city, lost and
1937 helpless, trapped in a twisting maze of mortared stone.
1939 But instead, she simply walked throught the walls. She didn't know
1940 any better. Nobody had ever told her she couldn't. Because of this,
1941 she moved through the city like some faerie creature. She walked roads
1942 no one else could see, and it made her music wild and strange and
1945 =head2 v5.23.7 - William Gibson, "Neuromancer"
1947 L<Announced on 2016-01-20 by Stevan Little|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/01/msg233856.html>
1949 A year here and he still dreamed of cyberspace, hope fading
1950 nightly. All the speed he took, all the turns he'd taken and
1951 the corners he cut in Night City, and he'd still see the matrix
1952 in his dreams, bright lattices of logic unfolding across that
1953 colourless void...The Sprawl was a long, strange way home now
1954 over the Pacific, and he was no Console Man, no cyberspace
1955 cowboy. Just another hustler, trying to make it through. But
1956 the dreams came on in the Japanese night like livewire voodoo,
1957 and he'd cry for it, cry in his sleep, and wake alone in the
1958 dark, curled in his capsule in some coffin hotel, hands clawed
1959 into the bedslab, temper foam bunched between his fingers,
1960 trying to reach the console that wasn't there.
1962 =head2 v5.23.6 - 5.23 Episode VII
1964 L<Announced on 2015-12-21 by David Golden|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/12/msg233475.html>
1966 A long time ago in microseconds, in a galaxy not very far away...
1972 unrest as separatists
1973 announce their intentions
1974 to fork PERL and return the
1975 galaxy to speed and stability.
1977 Chancellor Rik Hoolian struggles
1978 to hold together the remains of the
1979 once mighty Republic against a tide of
1980 incivility and the depredations of a new
1981 foe, the FUZZ RAIDERS.
1983 Meanwhile, after 15 years of preparation and
1984 high expectations, Supreme Leader Toady prepares
1985 to unleash a devastating new weapon, PERL SIXDOTOH,
1986 that could splinter the Republic forever and usher in
1987 a new Empire of gradual typing....
1989 =head2 v5.23.5 - utastro!nather (Ed Nather), "The Story of Mel", in net.jokes, May 21, 1983.
1991 L<Announced on 2015-11-20 by Abigail|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/11/msg232758.html>
1993 After Mel had left the company for greener pa$ture$, the Big Boss asked
1994 me to look at the code and see if I could find the test and reverse it.
1995 Somewhat reluctantly, I agreed to look. Tracking Mel's code was a real
1998 I have often felt that programming is an art form, whose real value can
1999 only be appreciated by another versed in the same arcane art; there are
2000 lovely gems and brilliant coups hidden from human view and admiration,
2001 sometimes forever, by the very nature of the process. You can learn a
2002 lot about an individual just by reading through his code, even in
2003 hexadecimal. Mel was, I think, an unsung genius.
2005 Perhaps my greatest shock came when I found an innocent loop that had
2006 no test in it. No test. None. Common sense said it had to be a closed
2007 loop, where the program would circle, forever, endlessly. Program
2008 control passed right through it, however, and safely out the other side.
2009 It took me two weeks to figure it out.
2011 The RPC-4000 computer had a really modern facility called an index
2012 register. It allowed the programmer to write a program loop that used
2013 an indexed instruction inside; each time through, the number in the
2014 index register was added to the address of that instruction, so it
2015 would refer to the next datum in a series. He had only to increment
2016 the index register each time through. Mel never used it.
2018 Instead, he would pull the instruction into a machine register, add one
2019 to its address, and store it back. He would then execute the modified
2020 instruction right from the register. The loop was written so this
2021 additional execution time was taken into account -- just as this
2022 instruction finished, the next one was right under the drum's read head,
2023 ready to go. But the loop had no test in it.
2025 The vital clue came when I noticed the index register bit, the bit that
2026 lay between the address and the operation code in the instruction word,
2027 was turned on -- yet Mel never used the index register, leaving it zero
2028 all the time. When the light went on it nearly blinded me.
2030 He had located the data he was working on near the top of memory -- the
2031 largest locations the instructions could address -- so, after the last
2032 datum was handled, incrementing the instruction address would make it
2033 overflow. The carry would add one to the operation code, changing it to
2034 the next one in the instruction set: a jump instruction. Sure enough,
2035 the next program instruction was in address location zero, and the
2036 program went happily on its way.
2038 =head2 v5.23.4 - Denis Diderot, trans. David Coward, "Jacques the Fatalist"
2040 L<Announced on 2015-10-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/10/msg232040.html>
2042 Well, everybody's got a dog. The prime minister is the king's dog. The
2043 first secretary is the prime minister's dog. A wife is a husband's dog,
2044 or a husband is a wife's dog. Favourite is Madame So-and-so's dog and
2045 Thibaut is the man on the corner's dog. When my Master tells me to talk
2046 when I'd prefer not to, which to be honest doesn't happen very often,
2047 when he tells me to shut up when I feel like talking, which I find very
2048 difficult, when he asks me to tell the story of my love-life and then
2049 keeps interrupting, what am I if not his dog? Weak men are the dogs of
2052 =head2 v5.23.3 - Oliver Wendell Holmes, "The Deacon’s Masterpiece or The Wonderful 'One-Hoss Shay': A Logical Story"
2054 L<Announced on 2015-09-20 by Peter Martini|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/09/msg231173.html>
2056 Little of of all we value here
2057 Wakes on the morn of its hundredth year
2058 Without both feeling and looking queer.
2059 In fact, there’s nothing that keeps its youth,
2060 So far as I know, but a tree and truth.
2061 (This is a moral that runs at large;
2062 Take it. — You’re welcome. — No extra charge.)
2064 =head2 v5.23.2 - Blind Guardian, "Skalds and Shadows"
2066 L<Announced on 2015-08-20 by Matthew Horsfall|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/08/msg230298.html>
2068 Would you believe in a night like this
2069 A night like this, when visions come true
2070 Would you believe in a tale like this
2071 A lay of bliss, praise in the old lore
2072 Come to the blazing fire and
2074 See me in the shadows
2075 See me in the shadows
2078 Just hand me my harp
2079 This night turns into myth
2082 The world we live in is another skald's
2083 Dream in the shadows
2084 Dream in the shadows
2086 Do you believe there is sense in it
2087 Is it truth or myth?
2088 They´re one in my rhymes
2089 Nobody knows the meaning behind
2091 Well nobody else but the Norns can
2092 See through the blazing fires of time and
2093 All things will proceed as the
2094 Child of the hallowed
2095 Will speak to you now
2097 See me in the shadows
2098 See me in the shadows
2099 Songs I will sing of tribes and kings
2100 The carrion bird and the hall of the slain
2103 The world we live in is another skald´s
2104 Dream in the shadows
2105 Dream in the shadows
2107 Do not fear for my reason
2108 There's nothing to hide
2109 How bitter your treason
2111 Remember the runes and remember the light
2112 All I ever want is to be at your side
2113 We'll gladden the raven now I will
2114 Run through the blazing fires
2116 Cause things shall proceed as foreseen
2118 =head2 v5.23.1 - Elizabeth Haydon, "The Assassin King"
2120 L<Announced on 2015-07-20 by Matthew Horsfall|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/07/msg229413.html>
2122 I was born beneath this willow,
2123 Where my sire the earth did farm
2124 Had the green grass as my pillow
2125 The east wind as a blanket warm.
2127 But away! away! called the wind from the west
2128 And in answer I did run
2129 Seeking glory and adventure
2130 Promised by the rising sun.
2132 I found love beneath this willow,
2133 As true a love as life could hold,
2134 Pledged my heart and swore my fealty
2135 Sealed with a kiss and a band of gold.
2137 But to arms! to arms! called the wind from the west
2138 In faithful answer I did run
2139 Marching forth for king and country
2140 In battles 'neath the midday sun.
2142 Oft I dreamt of that fair willow
2143 As the seven seas I plied
2144 And the girl who I left waiting
2145 Longing to be at her side.
2147 But about! about! called the wind from the west
2148 As once again my ship did run
2149 Down the coast, about the wide world
2150 Flying sails in the setting sun.
2152 Now I lie beneath the willow
2153 Now at last no more to roam,
2154 My bride and earth so tightly hold me
2155 In their arms I'm finally home.
2157 While away! away! calls the wind from the west
2158 Beyond the grave my spirit, free
2159 Will chase the sun into the morning
2160 Beyond the sky, beyond the sea.
2162 =head2 v5.23.0 - Bob Dylan, "Maggie's Farm"
2164 L<Announced on 2015-06-20 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/06/msg228807.html>
2166 I ain't gonna work on Maggie's farm no more
2167 I ain't gonna work on Maggie's farm no more
2169 To be just like I am
2170 But everybody wants you
2171 To be just like them
2172 They sing while you slave and I just get bored
2173 I ain't gonna work on Maggie's farm no more
2175 =head2 v5.22.4 - Roald Dahl, "Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf"
2177 L<Announced on 2017-07-15 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/07/msg245526.html>
2179 Then Little Red Riding Hood said, 'But Grandma,
2180 what a lovely great big furry coat you have on.'
2181 'That's wrong!' cried Wolf. 'Have you forgot
2182 'To tell me what BIG TEETH I've got?
2183 'Ah well, no matter what you say,
2184 'I'm going to eat you anyway.'
2185 The small girl smiles. One eyelid flickers.
2186 She whips a pistol from her knickers.
2187 She aims it at the creature's head
2188 And bang bang bang, she shoots him dead.
2190 A few weeks later, in the wood,
2191 I came across Miss Riding Hood.
2192 But what a change! No cloak of red,
2193 No silly hood upon her head.
2194 She said, 'Hello, and do please note
2195 'My lovely furry WOLFSKIN COAT.'
2197 =head2 v5.22.4-RC1 - Roald Dahl, "Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf"
2199 L<Announced on 2017-07-01 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/07/msg245293.html>
2201 As soon as Wolf began to feel
2202 That he would like a decent meal,
2203 He went and knocked on Grandma's door.
2204 When Grandma opened it, she saw
2205 The sharp white teeth, the horrid grin,
2206 And Wolfie said, 'May I come in?'
2207 Poor Grandmamma was terrified,
2208 'He's going to eat me up!' she cried.
2209 And she was absolutely right.
2210 He ate her up in one big bite.
2212 =head2 v5.22.3 - Charles Dodgson [as "Lewis Carroll"], "Phantasmagoria", Canto 6: Discomfyture
2214 L<Announced on 2017-01-14 by Steve Hay|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/01/msg242258.html>
2216 As one who strives a hill to climb,
2217 Who never climbed before:
2218 Who finds it, in a little time,
2219 Grow every moment less sublime,
2220 And votes the thing a bore:
2222 Yet, having once begun to try,
2223 Dares not desert his quest,
2224 But, climbing, ever keeps his eye
2225 On one small hut against the sky
2226 Wherein he hopes to rest:
2228 Who climbs till nerve and force are spent,
2229 With many a puff and pant:
2230 Who still, as rises the ascent,
2231 In language grows more violent,
2232 Although in breath more scant:
2234 Who, climbing, gains at length the place
2235 That crowns the upward track:
2236 And, entering with unsteady pace,
2237 Receives a buffet in the face
2238 That lands him on his back:
2240 And feels himself, like one in sleep,
2241 Glide swiftly down again,
2242 A helpless weight, from steep to steep,
2243 Till, with a headlong giddy sweep,
2244 He drops upon the plain -
2246 So I, that had resolved to bring
2247 Conviction to a ghost,
2248 And found it quite a different thing
2249 From any human arguing,
2250 Yet dared not quit my post.
2252 =head2 v5.22.3-RC5 - John Milton, ed. Gordon Campbell, "Paradise Regained", Book II
2254 L<Announced on 2017-01-02 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/01/msg242017.html>
2256 Thus wore out night; and now the herald lark
2257 Left his ground-nest, high towering to descry
2258 The Morn's approach, and greet her with his song;
2259 As lightly from his grassy couch up rose
2260 Our Saviour, and found all was but a dream;
2261 Fasting he went to sleep, and fasting waked.
2262 Up to a hill anon his steps he reared,
2263 From whose high top to ken the prospect round,
2264 If cottage were in view, sheep-cote, or herd;
2265 But cottage, herd, or sheep-cote, none he saw --
2266 Only in a bottom saw a pleasant grove,
2267 With chant of tuneful birds resounding loud;
2268 Thither he bent his way, determined there
2269 To rest at noon, and entered soon the shade,
2270 High-roofed and walks beneath, and alleys brown,
2271 That opened in the midst a woody scene;
2272 Nature's own work it seemed (Nature taught Art),
2273 And, to a superstitious eye, the haunt
2274 Of wood-gods and wood-nymphs.
2276 =head2 v5.22.3-RC4 - John Milton, ed. Gordon Campbell, "Paradise Lost", Book II
2278 L<Announced on 2016-10-12 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/10/msg240223.html>
2280 Far off from these, a slow and silent stream,
2281 Lethe, the river of oblivion, rolls
2282 Her watery labyrinth, whereof who drinks
2283 Forthwith his former state and being forgets --
2284 Forgets both joy and grief, pleasure and pain.
2285 Beyond this flood a frozen continent
2286 Lies dark and wild, beat with perpetual storms
2287 Of Whirlwind and dire hail, which on firm land
2288 Thaws not, but gathers heap, and ruin seems
2289 Of ancient pile; all else deep snow and ice,
2290 A gulf profound as that Serbonian bog
2291 Betwixt Damiata and Mount Casius old,
2292 Where armies whole have sunk: the parching air
2293 Burns frore, and cold performs the effect of fire.
2294 Thither, by harpy-footed Furies haled,
2295 At certain revolutions all the damned
2296 Are brought; and feel by turns the bitter change
2297 Of fierce extremes, extremes by change more fierce,
2298 From beds of raging fire to starve in ice
2299 Their soft ethereal warmth, and there to pine
2300 Immovable, infixed, and frozen round
2301 Periods of time -- thence hurried back to fire.
2302 They ferry over this Lethean sound
2303 Both to and fro, their sorrow to augment,
2304 And wish and struggle, as they pass, to reach
2305 The tempting stream, with one small drop to lose
2306 In sweet forgetfulness all pain and woe,
2307 All in one moment, and so near the brink;
2308 But fate withstands, and, to oppose the attempt,
2309 Medusa with Gorgonian terror guards
2310 The ford, and of itself the water flies
2311 All taste of living wight, as once it fled
2312 The lip of Tantalus.
2314 =head2 v5.22.3-RC3 - Dante Alighieri, trans. Dorothy L. Sayers and Barbara Reynolds, "The Divine Comedy", Cantica III: Paradise, Canto IV
2316 L<Announced on 2016-08-11 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/08/msg238908.html>
2318 Between two dishes, equally attractive
2319 And near to him, a free man, I suppose,
2320 Would starve to death before his teeth got active;
2322 So would a lamb 'twixt two fierce wolfish foes,
2323 Fearing the fangs both ways, not stir a foot;
2324 So would a deerhound halt between two does;
2326 So I can't blame myself for standing mute,
2327 Nor praise myself: for I must needs so do,
2328 Suspended 'twixt two doubts, alike acute.
2330 =head2 v5.22.3-RC2 - Dante Alighieri, trans. Dorothy L. Sayers, "The Divine Comedy", Cantica II: Purgatory, Canto I
2332 L<Announced on 2016-07-25 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/07/msg238270.html>
2334 For better waters heading with the wind
2335 My ship of genius now shakes out her sail
2336 And leaves that ocean of despair behind;
2338 For to the second realm I tune my tale,
2339 Where human spirits purge themselves, and train
2340 To leap up into joy celestial.
2342 Now from the grave wake poetry again,
2343 O sacred Muses I have served so long!
2344 Now let Calliope uplift her strain
2346 And lift my voice up on the mighty song
2347 That smote the miserable Magpies nine
2348 Out of all hope of pardon for their wrong!
2350 =head2 v5.22.3-RC1 - Dante Alighieri, trans. Dorothy L. Sayers, "The Divine Comedy", Cantica I: Hell, Canto XII
2352 L<Announced on 2016-07-17 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/07/msg238071.html>
2354 The place we came to, to descend the brink from,
2355 Was sheer crag; and there was a Thing there - making,
2356 All told, a prospect any eye would shrink from.
2358 Like the great landslide that rushed downward, shaking
2359 The bank of Adige on this side Trent,
2360 (Whether through faulty shoring or the earth's quaking)
2362 So that the rock, down from the summit rent
2363 Far as the plain, lies strewn, and one might crawl
2364 From top to bottom by that unsure descent,
2366 Such was the precipice; and there we spied,
2367 Topping the cleft that split the rocky wall,
2368 That which was wombed in the false heifer's side,
2370 The infamy of Crete, stretched out a-sprawl;
2371 And seeing us, he gnawed himself, like one
2372 Inly devoured with spite and burning gall.
2374 =head2 v5.22.2 - Gaston Leroux, trans. Mireille Ribière, "The Phantom of the Opera"
2376 L<Announced on 2016-04-29 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/04/msg236120.html>
2378 A silence; and then: 'If, in just two minutes' time by my watch--and a
2379 splendid watch it is--you have not turned the scorpion, mademoiselle, I
2380 shall turn the grasshopper... and the grasshopper, remember, _leaps
2381 straight up into the air!_'
2382 The silence that ensued was terrifying, worse than any we had
2383 experienced before. I knew that when Erik spoke with that quiet,
2384 gentle, slightly weary voice, it meant that he had reached the end of
2385 his tether: that he was capable of the most abominable crimes or the
2386 most selfless devotion; that the slightest irritation might unleash a
2388 Realizing that our fate was out of our hands, the Viscount fell to his
2389 knees and prayed. As for me, I pressed both hands to my chest, for my
2390 heart was pounding so fiercely that I thought it would burst. We were
2391 intensely aware of the excruciating dilemma Christine Daaé faced in
2392 those final seconds. We understood why she hesitated to turn the
2393 scorpion. What if the scorpion, rather than the grasshopper, were to
2394 set off the explosion? What if Erik was simply intent on destroying
2395 everything, regardless?
2396 At last he spoke: 'The two minutes are up,' he said in a soft, angelic
2397 voice. 'Goodbye, mademoiselle. Off you go, little grasshopper!'
2399 =head2 v5.22.2-RC1 - Gaston Leroux, trans. Mireille Ribière, "The Phantom of the Opera"
2401 L<Announced on 2016-04-10 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/04/msg235732.html>
2403 This annual ball was quite a magnificent affair. It was given some time
2404 before Shrovetide to celebrate the birthday of a famous illustrator
2405 whose pencil had immortalized, in the style of Gavarni, the extravagant
2406 carnival parade down La Courtille. As such, the ball was an altogether
2407 merrier, noisier and more Bohemian occasion than was usual for a masked
2408 ball. Many artists had arranged to meet there; they arrived with an
2409 entourage of models and pupils, who, by midnight, had become quite
2411 Raoul climbed the grand staircase at five minutes to midnight. He did
2412 not linger to admire the many-coloured costumes on display all the way
2413 up the marble steps of one of the most luxurious settings in the world;
2414 nor did he allow himself to be drawn into the facetious conversation of
2415 masked guests. He simply ignored all the jesting remarks, and shook off
2416 the attentions of several all too merry couples.
2417 Crossing the big crush-room and escaping from the dancers' farandole
2418 that had encircled him awhile, he at last entered the salon mentioned by
2419 Christine in her letter. The small room was crammed with people either
2420 on their way to supper at the restaurant in the Rotunda or back from
2421 raising a glass of champagne.
2422 In the midst of the gay and lively hubbub, Raoul thought that, for their
2423 mysterious assignation, Christine must have preferred this crowd to some
2425 He leaned against a door-jamb and waited. He did not have to wait long;
2426 a black domino passed him and deftly touched his hand. He understood
2427 that it was Christine and followed her.
2428 'Is that you, Christine?' he murmured, barely moving his slips.
2429 The black domino promptly looked back and raised her finger to her lips,
2430 no doubt to caution him against uttering her name again. Raoul followed
2433 =head2 v5.22.1 - Wilhelm Müller, trans. Anon., "Courage" (No. 22 in Schubert's song-cycle, "Winterreise")
2435 L<Announced on 2015-12-13 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/12/msg233318.html>
2437 If the snow flies in my face,
2438 Let me shake it off me!
2439 If my heart within me speaks,
2440 I'll sing bright and gaily!
2442 Will not listen what it says,
2443 Have no ears for moaning.
2444 Do not feel what it complains,--
2445 Only fools like groaning!
2447 Jolly brave into the world,
2448 'Gainst all wind and weather,--
2449 If there is no God on earth,
2450 Let 's be gods down nether!
2452 =head2 v5.22.1-RC4 - Wilhelm Müller, trans. Anon., "The Signpost" (No. 20 in Schubert's song-cycle, "Winterreise")
2454 L<Announced on 2015-12-08 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/12/msg233215.html>
2456 Why do I shun all those highways
2457 Which the other wanderer seeks?
2458 Why do I find bridged by-ways
2459 Through snow-covered deep creeks?
2461 For I have no crime committed,
2462 Why I should now run from men,--
2463 What demented heart's desire
2464 Drives me to a desert glen?
2466 Signposts on all highways stationed
2467 Point their signs toward the towns,
2468 Whilst I wonder 'yond moderation,
2469 Without rest, yet seeking rest!
2471 One such signpost I see planted
2472 Of my question unconcerned,
2473 One road must my choice be granted,
2474 Whence no man has yet returned!
2476 =head2 v5.22.1-RC3 - Wilhelm Müller, trans. Anon., "Stormy Morning" (No. 18 in Schubert's song-cycle, "Winterreise")
2478 L<Announced on 2015-12-02 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/12/msg233032.html>
2480 How the storm tore rents
2481 In heavens gray attired!
2482 The rags of cloud are flying
2483 Around, of combat tired.
2485 And flames of fire lambent,
2486 Fly between them and part,
2487 That 's what I call a morning,
2488 A morning after my heart!
2490 My heart sees in the heavens
2491 Its own picture unspoilt--
2492 It's nothing but the Winter,
2493 The Winter, cold and wild.
2495 =head2 v5.22.1-RC2 - Wilhelm Müller, trans. Anon., "The Old Head" (No. 14 in Schubert's song-cycle, "Winterreise")
2497 L<Announced on 2015-11-15 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/11/msg232632.html>
2499 The hoary frost has a white sheen
2500 Strewn all over my hair,
2501 So I thought I was an old man
2502 And thought life dealt me fair.
2504 Yet soon was thawed my old white mane,
2505 And I have my black hair again.
2506 How I abhor my young fair years,
2507 How long to wait for death and biers?
2509 From setting sun to morning's hue
2510 Many a head turns white.
2511 Who'll credit it? My hair did not
2512 In all this lifelong plight!
2514 =head2 v5.22.1-RC1 - Wilhelm Müller, trans. Anon., "Will-o'-the Wisp" (No. 9 in Schubert's song-cycle, "Winterreise")
2516 L<Announced on 2015-10-31 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/10/msg232321.html>
2518 In the deepest rocky crevice
2519 A will-o'-the wisp lured me;
2520 How I could find my way from here,
2521 For me it's easy memory!
2523 For I am used to straying ways,
2524 Every path to th'end a way,
2525 All our joys and all our suffering,--
2526 To a will-o'-the wisp it 's all play!
2528 Through the dried-up bed of torrents
2529 I quite calmly downward stroll;
2530 Every stream its sea will enter,
2531 Every suffering finds its goal!
2533 =head2 v5.22.0 - Gene Wolfe, The Citadel of the Autarch
2535 L<Announced on 2015-06-01 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/06/msg228300.html>
2537 “You are the advocate of the dead.”
2539 The old man nodded. “I am. People talk about being fair to this one and
2540 that one, but nobody I ever heard talks about doing right by them. We
2541 take everything they had, which is all right. And spit, most often, on
2542 their opinions, which I suppose is all right too. But we ought to
2543 remember now and then how much of what we have we got from them. I
2544 figure while I’m still here I ought to put a word in for them.”
2546 =head2 v5.22.0-RC2 - T.S. Eliot, unpublished work
2548 L<Announced on 2015-05-21 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/05/msg228142.html>
2550 And when thyself with silver foot shall pass
2551 Among the theories scattered on the grass
2552 Take up my good intentions with the rest
2554 =head2 v5.22.0-RC1 - Gene Wolfe, Citadel of the Autarch
2556 L<Announced on 2015-05-19 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/05/msg228059.html>
2558 There is no limit to stupidity. Space itself is said to be bounded by
2559 its own curvature, but stupidity continues beyond infinity.
2561 =head2 v5.21.11 - Algernon Charles Swinburne, "Dolores (Notre-Dame des Sept Douleurs)"
2563 L<Announced on 2015-04-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/04/msg227472.html>
2565 They shall pass and their places be taken,
2566 The gods and the priests that are pure.
2567 They shall pass, and shalt thou not be shaken?
2568 They shall perish, and shalt thou endure?
2569 Death laughs, breathing close and relentless
2570 In the nostrils and eyelids of lust,
2571 With a pinch in his fingers of scentless
2574 But the worm shall revive thee with kisses;
2575 Thou shalt change and transmute as a god,
2576 As the rod to a serpent that hisses,
2577 As the serpent again to a rod.
2578 Thy life shall not cease though thou doff it;
2579 Thou shalt live until evil be slain,
2580 And good shall die first, said thy prophet,
2583 =head2 v5.21.10 - Aldous Huxley, "The Devils of Loudun"
2585 L<Announced on 2015-03-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/03/msg226847.html>
2587 The fire burned on, the good fathers continued to sprinkle and intone.
2588 Suddenly a flock of pigeons came swooping down from the church and
2589 started to wheel around the roaring column of flame and smoke. The
2590 crowd shouted, the archers waved their halberds at the birds, Lactance
2591 and Tranquille splashed them on the wing with holy water. In vain. The
2592 pigeons were not to be driven away. Round and round they flew, diving
2593 through the smoke, singeing their feathers in the flames. Both parties
2594 claimed a miracle. For the parson's enemies the birds, quite obviously,
2595 were a troop of devils, come to fetch away his soul. For his friends,
2596 they were emblems of the Holy Ghost and living proof of his innocence.
2597 It never seems to have occurred to anyone that they were just pigeons,
2598 obeying the laws of their own, their blessedly other-than-human nature.
2600 =head2 v5.21.9 - Emily Dickinson, "There is Another Sky"
2602 L<Announced on 2015-02-20 by Sawyer X|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/02/msg226002.html>
2604 There is another sky,
2605 Ever serene and fair,
2606 And there is another sunshine,
2607 Though it be darkness there;
2608 Never mind faded forests, Austin,
2609 Never mind silent fields -
2610 Here is a little forest,
2611 Whose leaf is ever green;
2612 Here is a brighter garden,
2613 Where not a frost has been;
2614 In its unfading flowers
2615 I hear the bright bee hum:
2616 Prithee, my brother,
2617 Into my garden come!
2619 =head2 v5.21.8 - Bill Watterson, "Scientific Progress Goes 'Boink': A Calvin and Hobbes Collection"
2621 L<Announced on 2015-01-20 by Matthew Horsfall|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/01/msg224869.html>
2623 Calvin: OK Hobbes, press the button and duplicate me.
2624 Hobbes: Are you sure this is such a good idea?
2625 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?
2626 Hobbes: I'd hate to be accused of inhibiting scientific progress... Here you go.
2628 Hobbes: Scientific progress goes "BOINK"?
2629 Calvin?: It worked! It worked! I'm a genius!
2630 Cavlin??: No you're not, you liar! *I* invented this!
2632 =head2 v5.21.7 - Robert Heinlein, "The Number of the Beast"
2634 L<Announced on 2014-12-20 by Max Maischein|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/12/msg223774.html>
2636 "Zebadiah, Hilda and I salvaged and put everything into the basket.
2637 Hilda started to put it into our wardrobe-and it was heavy. So
2638 we looked. Packed as tight as when we left Oz. Six bananas-and
2639 everything else. Cross my heart. No, go look."
2640 "Hmmm- Jake, can you write equations for a picnic basket that
2641 refills itself? Will it go on doing so?"
2642 "Zeb, equations can be written to describe anything. The description
2643 would be simpler for a basket that replenishes itself indefinitely
2644 than for one that does it once and stops-I would have to describe
2647 =head2 v5.21.6 - Jeff Noon, "Vurt"
2649 L<Announced on 2014-11-20 by Chris 'BinGOs' Williams|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/11/msg222448.html>
2653 EXCHANGE MECHANISMS. Sometimes we lose precious
2654 things. Friends and colleagues, fellow travellers in the
2655 Vurt, sometimes we lose them; even lovers we sometimes
2656 lose. And get bad things in exchange: aliens, objects,
2657 snakes, and sometimes even death. Things we don't want.
2658 This is part of the deal, part of the game deal;
2659 all things, in all worlds, must be kept in balance.
2660 Kittlings often ask, who decides on the swappings? Now then,
2661 some say it's all accidental; that some poor Vurt thing
2662 finds himself too close to a door, at too critical a time,
2663 just when something real is being lost. Whoosh! Swap time!
2664 Others say that some kind of overseer is working the
2665 MECHANISMS OF EXCHANGE, deciding the fate of innocents.
2666 The Cat can only tease at this, because of the big secrets
2667 involved, and because of the levels between you, the reader,
2668 and me, the Game Cat. Hey, listen; I've struggled to get
2669 where I am today; why should I give you the easy route?
2670 Get working, kittlings! Reach up higher. Work the Vurt.
2672 =head2 v5.21.5 - Friso Wiegersma (text), Jean Ferrat (music), Wim Sonneveld (performer), "Het Dorp"
2674 L<Announced on 2014-10-20 by Abigail|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/10/msg221399.html>
2678 Thuis heb ik nog een ansichtkaart
2679 waarop een kerk, een kar met paard,
2680 een slagerij J. van der Ven.
2681 Een kroeg, een juffrouw op de fiets
2682 het zegt u hoogstwaarschijnlijk niets,
2683 maar 't is waar ik geboren ben.
2684 Dit dorp, ik weet nog hoe het was,
2685 de boerenkind'ren in de klas,
2686 een kar die ratelt op de keien,
2687 het raadhuis met een pomp ervoor,
2688 een zandweg tussen koren door,
2689 het vee, de boerderijen.
2691 En langs het tuinpad van m'n vader
2692 zag ik de hoge bomen staan.
2693 Ik was een kind en wist niet beter,
2694 dan dat dat nooit voorbij zou gaan.
2696 Wat leefden ze eenvoudig toen
2697 in simp'le huizen tussen groen
2698 met boerenbloemen en een heg.
2699 Maar blijkbaar leefden ze verkeerd,
2700 het dorp is gemoderniseerd
2701 en nu zijn ze op de goeie weg.
2702 Want ziet, hoe rijk het leven is,
2703 ze zien de televisiequiz
2704 en wonen in betonnen dozen,
2705 met flink veel glas, dan kun je zien
2706 hoe of het bankstel staat bij Mien
2707 en d'r dressoir met plastic rozen.
2709 En langs het tuinpad van m'n vader
2710 zag ik de hoge bomen staan.
2711 Ik was een kind en wist niet beter,
2712 dan dat dat nooit voorbij zou gaan.
2714 De dorpsjeugd klit wat bij elkaar
2715 in minirok en beatle-haar
2716 en joelt wat mee met beat-muziek.
2717 Ik weet wel, het is hun goeie recht,
2718 de nieuwe tijd, net wat u zegt,
2719 maar het maakt me wat melancholiek.
2720 Ik heb hun vaders nog gekend
2721 ze kochten zoethout voor een cent
2722 ik zag hun moeders touwtjespringen.
2723 Dat dorp van toen, het is voorbij,
2724 dit is al wat er bleef voor mij:
2725 een ansicht en herinneringen.
2727 Toen ik langs het tuinpad van m'n vader
2728 de hoge bomen nog zag staan.
2729 Ik was een kind, hoe kon ik weten
2730 dat dat voorgoed voorbij zou gaan.
2732 =head2 v5.21.4 - Edgar Allan Poe, "The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket"
2734 L<Announced on 2014-09-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/09/msg220267.html>
2736 To-day, being in latitude 83° 20', longitude 43° 5' W. (the sea being
2737 of an extraordinarily dark colour), we again saw land from the
2738 masthead, and, upon a closer scrutiny, found it to be one of a group
2739 of very large islands. The shore was precipitous, and the interior
2740 seemed to be well wooded, a circumstance which occasioned us great
2741 joy. In about four hours from our first discovering the land we came
2742 to anchor in ten fathoms, sandy bottom, a league from the coast, as a
2743 high surf, with strong ripples here and there, rendered a nearer
2744 approach of doubtful expediency. The two largest boats were now
2745 ordered out, and a party, well armed (among whome were Peters and
2746 myself), proceeded to look for an opening in the reef which appeared
2747 to encircle the island. After searching about for some time, we
2748 discovered an inlet, which we were entering, when we saw four large
2749 canoes put off from the shore, filled with men who seemed to be well
2750 armed. We waited for them to come up, and, as they moved with great
2751 rapidity, they were soon within hail. Captain Guy now held up a white
2752 handkerchief on the blade of an oar, when the strangers made a full
2753 stop, and commenced a loud jabbering all at once, intermingled with
2754 occasional shouts, in which we could distinguish the words Anamoo-moo!
2755 and Lama-Lama! They continued this for at least half an hour, during
2756 which we had a good opportunity of observing their appearance.
2758 =head2 v5.21.3 - Robert Service, "The Men that Don't Fit In"
2760 L<Announced on 2014-08-20 by Peter Martini|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/08/msg218826.html>
2762 If they just went straight they might go far,
2763 They are strong and brave and true;
2764 But they're always tired of the things that are,
2765 And they want the strange and new.
2766 They say: "Could I find my proper groove,
2767 What a deep mark I would make!"
2768 So they chop and change, and each fresh move
2769 Is only a fresh mistake.
2771 =head2 v5.21.2 - Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, Charlie Duke, Final minutes of communication of the first manned moon landing, July 20, 1969
2773 L<Announced on 2014-07-20 by Abigail|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/07/msg217937.html>
2775 Armstrong: Okay. Here's a...Looks like a good area here.
2776 Aldrin: I got the shadow out there.
2777 Aldrin: 250, down at 2 1/2, 19 forward.
2778 Aldrin: Altitude, velocity lights.
2779 Aldrin: 3 1/2 down, 220 feet, 13 forward.
2780 Aldrin: 11 forward. Coming down nicely.
2781 Armstrong: Gonna be right over that crater.
2782 Aldrin: 200 feet, 4 1/2 down.
2784 Armstrong: I got a good spot [garbled].
2785 Aldrin: 160 feet, 6 1/2 down.
2786 Aldrin: 5 1/2 down, 9 forward. You're looking good.
2788 Aldrin: 100 feet, 3 1/2 down, 9 forward. Five percent. Quantity light.
2789 Aldrin: Okay. 75 feet. And it's looking good. Down a half, 6 forward.
2792 Aldrin: 60 feet, down 2 1/2. 2 forward. 2 forward. That's good.
2793 Aldrin: 40 feet, down 2 1/2. Picking up some dust.
2794 Aldrin: 30 feet, 2 1/2 down. [Garbled] shadow.
2795 Aldrin: 4 forward. 4 forward. Drifting to the right a little. 20 feet,
2798 Aldrin: Drifting forward just a little bit; that's good.
2799 Aldrin: Contact Light.
2800 Armstrong: Shutdown.
2801 Aldrin: Okay. Engine Stop.
2802 Aldrin: ACA out of Detent.
2803 Armstrong: Out of Detent. Auto.
2804 Aldrin: Mode Control, both Auto. Descent Engine Command Override, Off.
2805 Engine Arm, Off. 413 is in.
2806 Duke: We copy you down, Eagle.
2807 Armstrong: Engine arm is off.
2808 Armstrong: Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed.
2809 Duke: Roger, Twan...[correcting himself] Tranquility. We copy you on
2810 the ground. You got a bunch of guys about to turn blue.
2811 We're breathing again. Thanks a lot.
2814 =head2 v5.21.1 - Robert Jordan, "The Crossroads of Twilights", Book 10 of "The Wheel of Time"
2816 L<Announced on 2014-06-20 by Matthew Horsfall|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/06/msg217030.html>
2818 We rode on the winds of the rising storm,
2819 We ran to the sounds of the thunder.
2820 We danced among the lightning bolts,
2821 and tore the world asunder.
2823 -- Anonymous fragment of a poem believed
2824 written near the end of the previous Age,
2825 known by some as the Third Age.
2826 Sometimes attributed to the Dragon
2829 =head2 v5.21.0 - Friedrich von Schiller, "The Song of the Bell"
2831 L<Announced on 2014-05-27 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/05/msg215826.html>
2833 Walled in fast within the earth
2834 Stands the form burnt out of clay.
2835 This must be the bell’s great birth!
2836 Fellows, lend a hand to-day.
2837 Sweat must trickle now
2838 From the burning brow,
2839 Till the work its master honour.
2840 Blessing comes from Heaven’s Donor.
2842 =head2 v5.20.3 - Elias Lönnrot, trans. Keith Bosley, "The Kalevala", Canto 42: Stealing the Sampo
2844 L<Announced on 2015-09-12 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/09/msg230945.html>
2846 Steady old Väinämöinen
2847 uttered a word and spoke thus:
2848 'No lilting on the waters
2849 and no singing on the waves!
2852 Precious day would pass and night
2853 would overtake us midway
2854 on these wide waters
2855 upon these vast waves.'
2857 The wanton Lemminkäinen
2858 uttered a word and spoke thus:
2859 'The time will pass anyway
2860 the fair day will flee
2861 and the night will come panting
2862 and the twilight will steal in
2863 if you don't sing while you live
2864 nor hum in this world.'
2866 =head2 v5.20.3-RC2 - Anon., trans. Malcolm C. Lyons, "The Story of Abu Muhammad the Idle and the Marvels He Encountered with the Ape As Well As the Marvels of the Seas and Islands", from "Tales of the Marvellous and News of the Strange"
2868 L<Announced on 2015-08-29 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/08/msg230544.html>
2870 'I fled from Basra, sad and tearful, with no idea where I was going,
2871 and I was reciting these lines:
2873 The pain of parting makes me melt away,
2874 As lovers do when those they love are harsh.
2875 I wonder at the patience that I showed
2876 When I had lost my love, for that was wonderful.
2877 Beloved, do you know that since you left,
2878 I have remained confused in misery.
2880 I then heard a voice that said: "Damn you, have you no fear of
2881 Almighty God that you hand over a girl to an unbelieving 'ifrit?" I
2882 walked for a time amongst the palm-trees until I caught sight of a
2883 person, whom I approached. When I asked him who he was he said: "I
2884 am one of the jinn who were converted to Islam at the hands of 'Ali
2885 ibn Abi Talib, may God ennoble him." "How can I get to my wife?" I
2886 asked him, and he said: "Wretched fellow, you had a bird which you
2887 allowed to fly away and now you want to fly after it." But he
2888 added: "Follow this road with God's blessing all night until dawn
2889 and then by the shore you will see a huge cave in which there is an
2890 idol made of white stone. You must drink of the water that there is
2891 coming out of the cave and smear your face with its mud. Stay there
2892 and a barge will pass you as you stand opposite the statue. Various
2893 different creatures will emerge, heads without bodies and bodies
2894 without heads, and they will prostrate themselves in adoration to
2895 the idol rather than to Almighty God. When you see that, embark on
2896 the barge and cross to the other bank and walk along it until
2897 sunset. On a high point you will see a castle built of bricks of
2898 gold and silver. That is where your 'ifrit will be. I have now
2899 told you about this, so goodbye."
2901 =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"
2903 L<Announced on 2015-08-22 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/08/msg230359.html>
2905 'On the night of the wedding the ape came to sit in front of me and
2906 asked me what I intended to do. "Whatever you tell me," I replied,
2907 and he said: "Take care not to covet the girl, or I shall come back
2908 and burn you up and leave you as a lesson for those who can learn."
2909 I agreed to this and when evening came I found the world full of
2910 candles and torches burning in holders of gold and silver. There
2911 were servants and serving girls, and everyone who saw me
2912 congratulated me on my good fortune, as there was no girl on the
2913 face of the earth more beautiful than my bride.
2915 'Next morning I went out to the market, and people went in and asked
2916 her how the night had been. "He never looked up at me," she told
2917 them. Then, when it was afternoon, I went to my house, where the
2918 ape was sitting by the door. "Tell me what you did," it said, and I
2919 told it: "By God, I did not learn and do not know whether this was a
2920 man or a girl." "That's what I want," it said.
2922 'On the second night my bride was brought to me, after which the
2923 servants left her and went away. She fell asleep, and, while she
2924 was sleeping, I killed the cock, wrapped it in the cloth and put the
2925 four poles from the couch over it. Suddenly there was a huge crash
2926 like a peal of thunder and a fiery 'ifrit swooped on the girl. I
2927 fainted at the sight and when I recovered I heard a voice saying:
2928 "By the Lord of the Ka'ba, the girl has been carried off!" and there
2929 was a sound like the rustling of wind and bitter weeping. At this I
2930 shed tears, struck my head and was filled with regret when it was no
2931 longer of any use, for to me the whole world was worth no more than
2934 =head2 v5.20.2 - Jonathan "Jonti" Picking, L<"Magical Trevor"|http://weebls-stuff.com/toons/magical-trevor-episode-01-animated-music-video-mrweebl/>
2936 L<Announced on 2015-02-14 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/02/msg225777.html>
2938 Everyone loves Magical Trevor,
2939 'Cos the tricks that he does are ever so clever;
2940 Look at him now, disappearin' the cow,
2941 Where is the cow hidden right now?
2943 Taking a bow, it's Magical Trevor,
2944 Everybody's seen that the trick is clever;
2945 Look at him there with his leathery, leathery whip!
2946 It's made of magic, and with a little flip--
2948 Yeah, yeah, yeah, the cow is back,
2949 Yeah, yeah, yeah, the cow is back;
2950 Back, back, back from his magical journey,
2953 What did he see in the parallel dimension?
2954 He saw beans, lots of beans, lots of beans, lots of beans;
2955 Oh, beans, lots of beans, lots of beans, lots of beans,
2958 =head2 v5.20.2-RC1 - Jonathan "Jonti" Picking, L<"Scampi"|http://weebls-stuff.com/toons/ive-seen-things-scampi-animated-music-video-mrweebl/>
2960 L<Announced on 2015-02-01 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/02/msg225273.html>
2963 I've seen them with my eyes;
2965 They're often in disguise.
2967 Like carrots, handbags, cheese, toilets,
2968 Russians, planets, hamsters, weddings,
2969 Poets, Stalin, Kuala Lumpur!
2970 Pygmies, budgies, Kuala Lumpur!
2973 I've seen them with my eyes;
2975 They're often in disguise.
2977 Like carrots, handbags, cheese...
2979 =head2 v5.20.1 - Lorenzo da Ponte, trans. Diana Reed, "Così fan tutte"
2981 L<Announced on 2014-09-14 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/09/msg219789.html>
2983 DORABELLA (as if waking from a daze): Where are they?
2984 DON ALFONSO: They've gone.
2985 FIORDILIGI: Oh, the cruel bitterness of parting!
2988 Take heart, my dearest children.
2989 Look, in the distance, your lovers are waving to you.
2991 FIORDILIGI: Bon voyage, my darling!
2992 DORABELLA: Bon voyage!
2995 O heavens! How swiftly the ship is sailing away!
2996 It is disappearing already!
2997 It is no longer in sight!
2998 Oh, may heaven grant it a prosperous voyage!
3000 DORABELLA: May good luck attend it to the battlefield!
3001 DON ALFONSO: And may your sweethearts and my friends be safe!
3003 FIORDILIGI, DORABELLA, DON ALFONSO:
3004 May the wind be gentle,
3005 may the sea be calm,
3006 and may the elements
3010 =head2 v5.20.1-RC2 - Lorenzo da Ponte, trans. William Weaver, "Così fan tutte"
3012 L<Announced on 2014-09-07 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/09/msg219446.html>
3015 Oh God, I feel that this foot of mine
3016 is reluctant to come before her.
3023 The hero displays his manliness
3024 in the most terrible moments.
3026 FIORDILIGI, DORABELLA:
3027 Now that we have heard the news,
3028 you have the lesser duty:
3029 Take heart, and plunge your swords
3030 into both our hearts.
3032 FERRANDO, GUGLIELMO:
3034 that I must abandon you.
3036 DORABELLA: Ah no, you shall not leave...
3037 FIORDILIGI: No, cruel one, you shall not go...
3038 DORABELLA: First I want to tear out my heart.
3039 FIORDILIGI: First I want to die at your feet.
3040 FERRANDO (softly to Don Alfonso): What do you say to that?
3041 GUGLIELMO (softly to Don Alfonso): You realise?
3042 DON ALFONSO (softly): Steady, friend, finem lauda.
3045 Thus destiny defrauds
3046 the hopes of mortals.
3047 Ah, among so many misfortunes,
3048 who can ever love life?
3050 =head2 v5.20.1-RC1 - Lorenzo da Ponte, trans. William Weaver, "Così fan tutte"
3052 L<Announced on 2014-08-25 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/08/msg218975.html>
3055 I'd like to speak, but I haven't the heart:
3057 My voice cannot emerge,
3058 but remains in my throat.
3059 What will you do? What shall I do?
3060 Oh what a great catastrophe!
3061 There can be nothing worse.
3062 I feel pity for you and for them.
3064 FIORDILIGI: Heavens! For mercy's sake, Signor Alfonso, don't make us
3066 DON ALFONSO: My children, you must arm yourselves with constancy.
3067 DORABELLA: Ye Gods! What evil has occurred? What horrible event? Is my
3069 FIORDILIGI: Is mine dead?
3070 DON ALFONSO: They are not dead, but they are not far from it.
3074 DON ALFONSO: Nor that.
3075 FIORDILIGI: What, then?
3076 DON ALFONSO: A royal command summons them to the field of battle.
3077 FIORDILIGI, DORABELLA: Alas, what do I hear? And they will leave?
3078 DON ALFONSO: Immediately.
3079 DORABELLA: And there is no way of preventing it?
3080 DON ALFONSO: There is none.
3081 FIORDILIGI: And not even a single farewell...
3082 DON ALFONSO: The unhappy men haven't the courage to see you; but if
3083 you wish it, they are ready...
3084 DORABELLA: Where are they?
3085 DON ALFONSO: Come in, friends.
3087 =head2 v5.20.0 - William Shakespeare, Sonnet 18
3089 L<Announced on 2014-05-27 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/05/msg215815.html>
3091 But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
3092 Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st;
3093 Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
3094 When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st:
3095 So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
3096 So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
3098 =head2 v5.20.0-RC1 - Lindsey Buckingham, "Second Hand News"
3100 L<Announced on 2014-05-17 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/05/msg215479.html>
3104 Won't you lay me down in tall grass
3105 And let me do my stuff
3107 =head2 v5.19.11 - Isidore-Lucien Ducasse [as "Comte de Lautréamont"], trans. Paul Knight, "Les Chants de Maldoror"
3109 L<Announced on 2014-04-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/04/msg214580.html>
3111 O rigorous mathematics, I have not forgotten you since your wise lessons,
3112 sweeter than honey, filtered into my heart like a refreshing wave.
3113 Instinctively, from the cradle, I had longed to drink from your source, older
3114 than the sun, and I continue to tread the sacred sanctuary of your solemn
3115 temple, I, the most faithful of your devotees. There was a vagueness in my
3116 mind, something thick as smoke; but I managed to mount the steps which lead to
3117 your altar, and you drove away this dark veil, as the wind blows the
3118 draught-board. You replaced it with excessive coldness, consummate prudence and
3119 implacable logic. With the aid of your fortifying milk, my intellect developed
3120 rapidly and took on immense proportions amid the ravishing lucidity which you
3121 bestow as a gift on all those who sincerely love you. Arithmetic! Algebra!
3122 Geometry! Awe-inspiring trinity! Luminous triangle! He who has not known you
3125 =head2 v5.19.10 - John Chadwick, "The Decipherment of Linear B"
3127 L<Announced on 2014-03-20 by Aaron Crane|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/03/msg213851.html>
3129 The urge to discover secrets is deeply ingrained in human nature; even
3130 the least curious mind is roused by the promise of sharing knowledge
3131 withheld from others. Some are fortunate enough to find a job which
3132 consists in the solution of mysteries, whether it be the physicist who
3133 tracks down a hitherto unknown nuclear particle or the policeman who
3134 detects a criminal. But most of us are driven to sublimate this urge
3135 by the solving of artificial puzzles devised for our entertainment.
3137 =head2 v5.19.9 - R. A. MacAvoy, "Tea with the Black Dragon"
3139 L<Announced on 2014-02-20 by Tony Cook|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/02/msg213047.html>
3141 Old hands. The smell of rain--the smell of Ch'an. Quiet words in
3142 rough Cantonese. "I am not to be your master. Your master has to be
3143 stronger than you are--has to tell you you are a fool and make you
3144 know it. And make you feel content in being a fool. How could I do
3145 that for you? I'm old. You are too strong for me; you are full of
3146 chi." The old man has paused then, huddled against the wind while
3147 clouds thickened above them.
3149 "I will tell you this, Long," he continued, "Before you find yourself
3150 you will lose your chi. Also you will leave behind you all pride of
3151 body, pride of mind. You will be reduced. Like me." The old man
3152 closed his eyes, and rain began to beat against his gray, crew-cut
3153 hair. He pulled his coat closer. Suddenly his eyes snapped open and
3154 he looked Long in the face.
3156 "You must leave China. Go across the ocean. There you will meet your
3157 master." He set down his teacup with a palsied hand. His voice rose,
3160 "I tell you this, most honored and impressive visitor. You are a
3161 fool, yes, but you will find the very thing you seek. You will find
3164 =head2 v5.19.8 - Joseph Heller, "Catch-22"
3166 L<Announced on 2014-01-20 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/01/msg211729.html>
3168 “I used to get a big kick out of saving people’s lives. Now I wonder what the
3169 hell’s the point, since they all have to die anyway.”
3171 “Oh, there’s a point, all right,” Dunbar assured him.
3173 “Is there? What is the point?”
3175 “The point is to keep them from dying for as long as you can.”
3177 “Yeah, but what’s the point, since they all have to die anyway?”
3179 “The trick is not to think about that.”
3181 “Never mind the trick. What the hell’s the point?”
3183 Dunbar pondered in silence for a few moments. “Who the hell knows?”
3185 =head2 v5.19.7 - Kurt Vonnegut, "Slaughterhouse-Five"
3187 L<Announced on 2013-12-20 by Abigail|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/12/msg210882.html>
3189 And somewhere in there was springtime. The corpse mines were closed
3190 down. The soldiers all left to fight the Russians. In the suburbs,
3191 the women and children dug rifle pits. Billy and the rest of his group
3192 were locked up in the stable in the suburbs. And then, one morning,
3193 they got up to discover that the door was unlocked. World War Two in
3196 Billy and the rest wandered out onto the shady street. The trees were
3197 leafing out. There was nothing going on out there, no traffic of any
3198 kind. There was only one vehicle, an abandoned wagon drawn by two
3199 horses. The wagon was green and coffin-shaped.
3203 One bird said to Billy Pilgrim, "Pee-tee-weet?"
3205 =head2 v5.19.6 - Monty Python's Flying Circus, "Spam"
3207 L<Announced on 2013-11-20 by Chris 'BinGOs' Williams|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/11/msg210043.html>
3209 Interior: cheap cafe. All the customers are Vikings. Mr and Mrs Bun enter downwards (on wires).
3213 Mr. Bun: What have you got, then?
3214 Waitress: Well there's egg and bacon; egg, sausage and bacon; egg and spam; egg, bacon and spam;
3215 egg, bacon, sausage and spam; spam, bacon, sausage and spam; spam, egg, spam, spam, bacon and spam;
3216 spam, spam, spam, egg and spam; spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, baked beans, spam, spam, spam and spam;
3217 or lobster thermidor aux crevettes, with a mornay sauce garnished with truffle pate, brandy and a fried
3219 Mrs. Bun: Have you got anything without spam in it?
3220 Waitress: Well, there's spam, egg, sausage and spam. That's not got MUCH spam in it.
3221 Mrs. Bun: I don't want ANY spam.
3222 Mr. Bun: Why can't she have egg, bacon, spam and sausage?
3223 Mrs. Bun: That's got spam in it!
3224 Mr. Bun: Not as much as spam, egg, sausage and spam.
3225 Mrs. Bun: Look, could I have egg, bacon, spam and sausage, without the spam.
3226 Waitress: Uuuuuuggggh!
3227 Mrs. Bun: What d'you mean, uugggh! I don't like spam.
3228 Vikings: (singing) Spam, spam, spam, spam, spam ... spam, spam, spam, spam ... lovely spam, wonderful spam ...
3230 (Brief shot of a Viking ship)
3232 Waitress: Shut up. Shut up! Shut up! You can't have egg, bacon, spam and sausage without the spam.
3234 Waitress: No, it wouldn't be egg, bacon, spam and sausage, would it?
3235 Mrs. Bun: I don't like spam!
3237 =head2 v5.19.5 - Charles Baudelaire, trans. James McGowan, "The Flowers of Evil", 51. The Cat
3239 L<Announced on 2013-10-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/10/msg208752.html>
3243 A cat is strolling through my mind
3244 Acting as though he owned the place,
3245 A lovely cat -- strong, charming, sweet.
3246 When he meows, one scarcely hears,
3248 So tender and discreet his tone;
3249 But whether he should growl or purr
3250 His voice is always rich and deep.
3251 That is the secret of his charm.
3253 This purling voice that filters down
3254 Into my darkest depths of soul
3255 Fulfils me like a balanced verse,
3256 Delights me as a potion would.
3258 It puts to sleep the cruellest ills
3259 And keeps a rein on ecstasies --
3260 Without the need for any words
3261 It can pronounce the longest phrase.
3263 Oh no, there is no bow that draws
3264 Across my heart, fine instrument,
3265 And makes to sing so royally
3266 The strongest and the purest chord,
3268 More than your voice, mysterious cat,
3269 Exotic cat, seraphic cat,
3270 In whom all is, angelically,
3271 As subtle as harmonious.
3275 From his soft fur, golden and brown,
3276 Goes out so sweet a scent, one night
3277 I might have been embalmed in it
3278 By giving him one little pet.
3280 He is my household's guardian soul;
3281 He judges, he presides, inspires
3282 All matters in hos royal realm;
3283 Might he be fairy? or a god?
3285 When my eyes, to this cat I love
3286 Drawn as by a magnet's force,
3287 Turn tamely back from that appeal,
3288 And when I look within myself,
3290 I notice with astonishment
3291 The fire of his opal eyes,
3292 Clear beacons glowing, living jewels,
3293 Taking my measure, steadily.
3295 =head2 v5.19.4 - Washington Irving, "The Widow and Her Son"
3297 L<Announced on 2013-09-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/09/msg207969.html>
3299 There is something in sickness that breaks down the pride of manhood;
3300 that softens the heart and brings it back to the feelings of infancy.
3301 Who that has languished, even in advanced life, in sickness and
3302 despondency — who that has pined on a weary bed in the neglect and
3303 loneliness of a foreign land — but has thought on the mother "that
3304 looked on his childhood," that smoothed his pillow and administered to
3305 his helplessness. — Oh! there is an enduring tenderness in the love
3306 of a mother to her son that transcends all other affections of the
3307 heart. It is neither to be chilled by selfishness — nor daunted by
3308 danger — nor weakened by worthlessness — nor stifled by ingratitude.
3309 She will sacrifice every comfort to his convenience — she will
3310 surrender every pleasure to his enjoyment — she will glory in his fame
3311 and exult in his prosperity. And if misfortune overtake him he will
3312 be the dearer to her from misfortune — and if disgrace settle upon his
3313 name, she will still love and cherish him in spite of his disgrace —
3314 and if all the world beside cast him off, she will be all the world to
3317 =head2 v5.19.3 - Andrew Hodges, "Alan Turing: The Enigma"
3319 L<Announced on 2013-08-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/08/msg206318.html>
3321 E.M. Forster, outdoing the King's heresy with grand bravura, had
3322 written in 1938 that if he were faced with the choice between
3323 betraying his country and betraying his friends, he hoped he would
3324 have the courage to betray his country. He would always put the
3325 personal above the political. But for Alan Turing, unlike Forster, or
3326 Wittgenstein, or G.H. Hardy, it was more than a theoretical question.
3327 For him not only had the personal become the political, but the
3328 political was the personal. He had chosen and promised for himself in
3329 working for the government. The choice for him therefore was that
3330 between betraying one part of himself and betraying another part. And
3331 however much he wavered between these alternatives, there was a solid
3332 logic to the mind of security, one that could not be expected to take
3333 an interest in notions of freedom and development. He had no rights
3334 to such things, as he would have had to admit. He might have
3335 outwitted the Home Guard, but when it came to questions that mattered,
3336 there was no doubt that he had placed himself under military law.
3337 There was a war on; there was always a war on now.
3339 =head2 v5.19.2 - Fred Brooks, "The Mythical Man-Month"
3341 L<Announced on 2013-07-22 by Aristotle Pagaltzis|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/07/msg204905.html>
3343 The magic of myth and legend has come true in our time. One types the
3344 correct incantation on a keyboard, and a display screen comes to life,
3345 showing things that never were nor could be. [...] Not all is delight,
3346 however [...] One must perform perfectly. The computer resembles the
3347 magic of legend in this respect, too. If one character, one pause, of
3348 the incantation is not strictly in proper form, the magic doesn't work.
3350 =head2 v5.19.1 - William Shakespeare, "A Midsummer Night's Dream"
3352 L<Announced on 2013-06-21 by David Golden|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/06/msg203449.html>
3354 Over hill, over dale,
3355 Thorough bush, thorough briar,
3356 Over park, over pale,
3357 Thorough flood, thorough fire,
3358 I do wander everywhere,
3359 Swifter than the moon's sphere;
3360 And I serve the fairy queen,
3361 To dew her orbs upon the green.
3362 The cowslips tall her pensioners be;
3363 In their gold coats, spots you see;
3364 Those be rubies, fairy favours,
3365 In their freckles live our savours.
3366 I must go seek some dew-drops here,
3367 And hang a perl in every cowslip's ear.
3368 Farewell, thou lob of spirits, I'll be gone;
3369 My queen and all her elves come here anon!
3371 =head2 v5.19.0 - Batman, of the Joker, in "The Dark Knight Returns"
3373 L<Announced on 2013-05-20 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/05/msg201980.html>
3375 From the beginning, I knew…
3376 …that there was nothing wrong with you…
3380 =head2 v5.18.4 - Robert W. Chambers, Cassilda's Song in "The King in Yellow," Act I, Scene 2
3382 L<Announced on 2014-10-01 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/10/msg220770.html>
3384 Along the shore the cloud waves break,
3385 The twin suns sink beneath the lake,
3386 The shadows lengthen
3389 Strange is the night where black stars rise,
3390 And strange moons circle through the skies
3391 But stranger still is
3394 Songs that the Hyades shall sing,
3395 Where flap the tatters of the King,
3399 Song of my soul, my voice is dead;
3400 Die thou, unsung, as tears unshed
3401 Shall dry and die in
3404 =head2 v5.18.3 - (no epigraph)
3408 =head2 v5.18.3-RC2 - Robert W. Chambers, "The King in Yellow", Act I, Scene 2
3410 L<Announced on 2014-09-27 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/09/msg220613.html>
3412 "Ah! I see it now!" I shrieked. "You have seized the throne and the
3413 empire. Woe! woe to you who are crowned with the crown of the King in
3416 =head2 v5.18.3-RC1 - Robert W. Chambers, "The King in Yellow", Act I, Scene 2
3418 L<Announced on 2014-09-17 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/09/msg220072.html>
3420 CAMILLA: You, sir, should unmask.
3424 CASSILDA: Indeed it's time. We all have laid aside disguise but you.
3426 STRANGER: I wear no mask.
3428 CAMILLA: (Terrified, aside to Cassilda.) No mask? No mask!
3430 =head2 v5.18.2 - Miss Manners
3432 L<Announced on 2014-01-06 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/01/msg211224.html>
3434 One of the major mistakes people make is that they think manners are
3435 only the expression of happy ideas. There's a whole range of behavior
3436 that can be expressed in a mannerly way. That's what civilization is all
3437 about – doing it in a mannerly and not an antagonistic way. One of the
3438 places we went wrong was the naturalistic Rousseauean movement of the
3439 Sixties in which people said, "Why can't you just say what's on your
3440 mind?" In civilization there have to be some restraints. If we followed
3441 every impulse, we'd be killing one another.
3443 =head2 v5.18.1 - Chuck Moore
3445 L<Announced on 2013-08-12 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/08/msg205897.html>
3447 The operating system is another concept that is curious. Operating
3448 systems are dauntingly complex and totally unnecessary. It’s a brilliant
3449 thing that Bill Gates has done in selling the world on the notion of
3450 operating systems. It’s probably the greatest con game the world has
3453 An operating system does absolutely nothing for you. As long as you had
3454 something — a subroutine called disk driver, a subroutine called some
3455 kind of communication support, in the modern world, it doesn’t do
3456 anything else. In fact, Windows spends a lot of time with overlays and
3457 disk management all stuff like that which are irrelevant. You’ve got
3458 gigabyte disks; you’ve got megabyte RAMs. The world has changed in a way
3459 that renders the operating system unnecessary.
3461 =head2 v5.18.1-RC1 - Chuck Moore
3463 L<Announced on 2013-08-02 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/08/msg205445.html>
3465 Compilers are probably the worst code ever written. They are written by
3466 someone who has never written a compiler before and will never do so
3467 again. The more elaborate the language, the more complex, bug-ridden,
3468 and unusable is the compiler. But a simple compiler for a simple
3469 language is an essential tool—if only for documentation.
3471 =head2 v5.18.0 - Yevgeny Zamyatin
3473 L<Announced on 2013-05-18 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/05/msg201940.html>
3475 It is an error to divide people into the living and the dead: there are people
3476 who are dead-alive, and people who are alive-alive. The dead-alive also write,
3477 walk, speak, act. But they make no mistakes; only machines make no mistakes,
3478 and they produce only dead things. The alive-alive are constantly in error, in
3479 search, in questions, in torment.
3481 =head2 v5.18.0-RC4 - Joseph Heller, "Catch-22"
3483 L<Announced on 2013-05-16 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/05/msg201889.html>
3485 Clevinger was dead. That was the basic flaw in his philosophy.
3487 =head2 v5.18.0-RC3 - Tom Waits, "The Ocean Doesn't Want Me"
3489 L<Announced on 2013-05-14 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/05/msg201823.html>
3491 I'd love to go drowning
3492 And to stay and to stay
3493 But the ocean doesn't want me today
3494 I'll go in up to here
3495 It can't possibly hurt
3496 All they will find is my beer
3499 =head2 v5.18.0-RC2 - Tom Waits, "Earth Died Screaming"
3501 L<Announced on 2013-05-12 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/05/msg201723.html>
3503 And the great day of wrath has come
3504 And here's mud in your big red eye
3505 The poker's in the fire
3506 And the locusts take the sky
3507 And the earth died screaming
3508 While I lay dreaming of you
3510 =head2 v5.18.0-RC1 - Tom Waits, "What's He Building in There?"
3512 L<Announced on 2013-05-11 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/05/msg201651.html>
3514 What's he building in there?
3516 We have a right to know…
3518 =head2 v5.17.11 - Nigel Tufnel in "This is Spın̈al Tap"
3520 L<Announced on 2013-04-20 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/04/msg201056.html>
3522 It's very special because, if you can see, the numbers all go to…
3523 eleven! Look, right across the board: eleven, eleven, eleven, eleven!
3525 =head2 v5.17.10 - Vernor Vinge, "A Fire Upon The Deep"
3527 L<Announced on 2013-03-23 by Max Maischein|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/03/msg200504.html>
3529 The archive informed the automation. Data structures were built, recipes
3530 followed. A local network was built, faster than anything on Straum, but surely
3531 safe. Nodes were added, modified by other recipes. The archive was a friendly
3532 place, with hierarchies of translation keys that led them along. Straum itself
3533 would be famous for this.
3535 Six months passed. A year.
3537 The omniscient view. Not self-aware really. Self-awareness is much over-rated.
3538 Most automation works far better as a part of a whole, and even if human-
3539 powerful, it does not need to self-know.
3541 =head2 v5.17.9 - Douglas Adams, "The Hitch-Hikers Guide to the Galaxy"
3543 L<Announced on 2013-02-20 by Chris 'BinGOs' Williams|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/02/msg199115.html>
3545 Vogon poetry is of course, the third worst in the universe.
3546 The second worst is that of the Azgoths of Kria. During a
3547 recitation by their poet master Grunthos the Flatulent of
3548 his poem 'Ode To A Small Lump of Green Putty I Found In My
3549 Armpit One Midsummer Morning' four of his audience died
3550 of internal haemorrhaging and the president of the
3551 Mid-Galactic Arts Nobbling Council survived by gnawing one
3552 of his own legs off. Grunthos is reported to have been
3553 'disappointed' by the poem's reception, and was about to
3554 embark on a reading of his twelve-book epic entitled
3555 'My Favourite Bathtime Gurgles' when his own major intestine,
3556 in a desperate attempt to save life and civilisation,
3557 leapt straight up through his neck and throttled his brain.
3559 The very worst poetry of all perished along with its creator
3560 Paula Nancy Millstone Jennings of Greenbridge, Essex, England,
3561 in the destruction of the planet Earth.
3563 =head2 v5.17.8 - Iain Pears, "An Instance of the Fingerpost"
3565 L<Announced on 2013-01-20 by Aaron Crane|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/01/msg197571.html>
3567 I must here declare myself as someone who does not for a moment subscribe to
3568 the general view that a willingness to perform oneself is detrimental to the
3569 dignity of experimental philosophy. There is, after all, a clear distinction
3570 between labour carried out for financial reward, and that done for the
3571 improvement of mankind: to put it another way, Lower as a philosopher was
3572 fully my equal even if he fell away when he became the practising physician.
3573 I think ridiculous of certain professors of anatomy, who find it beneath
3574 them to pick up the knife themselves, but merely comment while hired hands
3575 do the cutting. Sylvius would never have dreamt of sitting on a dais reading
3576 from an authority while others cut — when he taught, the knife was
3577 in his hand and the blood spattered his coat. Boyle also did not scruple to
3578 perform his own experiments and, on one occasion in my presence, even showed
3579 himself willing to anatomise a rat with his very own hands. Nor was he less
3580 a gentleman when he had finished. Indeed, in my opinion, his stature was all
3581 the greater, for in Boyle wealth, humility and curiosity mingled, and the
3582 world is richer for it.
3584 =head2 v5.17.7 - R. Scott Bakker, "The Darkness That Comes Before"
3586 L<Announced on 2012-12-18 by Dave Rolsky|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/12/msg196707.html>
3590 The boy extinguished. Only a place.
3594 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.
3596 A place without breath or sound. A place of sight alone. A place without before or after . . . almost.
3598 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.
3600 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 . . .
3602 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.
3604 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.
3606 I have been legion . . .
3608 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.
3612 =head2 v5.17.6 - Kurt Vonnegut, "The Sirens of Titan"
3614 L<Announced on 2012-11-20 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/11/msg195659.html>
3616 Beatrice, looking like a gypsy queen, smoldered at the foot of a statue
3617 of a young physical student. At first glance, the laboratory-gowned
3618 scientist seemed to be a perfect servant of nothing but truth. At first
3619 glance, one was convinced that nothing but truth could please him as he
3620 beamed at his test tube. At first glance, one thought that he was as
3621 much above the beastly concerns of mankind as the harmoniums in the
3622 caves of Mercury. There, at first glance, was a young man without
3623 vanity, without lust — and one accepted at its face value the title Salo
3624 had engraved on the statue, "Discovery of Atomic Power."
3626 =head2 v5.17.5 - Charles Stross, "Singularity Sky"
3628 L<Announced on 2012-10-20 by Florian Ragwitz|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/10/msg194349.html>
3630 Neither of them noticed the pair of polka-dotted knickers hiding
3631 behind the ventilation duct overhead, listening patiently and
3632 recording everything.
3634 =head2 v5.17.4 - Roald Dahl, "Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf"
3636 L<Announced on 2012-09-19 by Florian Ragwitz|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/09/msg192635.html>
3638 The small girl smiles. One eyelid flickers.
3639 She whips a pistol from her knickers.
3640 She aims it at the creature's head,
3641 And bang bang bang, she shoots him dead.
3643 A few weeks later, in the wood,
3644 I came across Miss Riding Hood.
3645 But what a change! No cloak of red,
3646 No silly hood upon her head.
3647 She said, "Hello, and do please note
3648 My lovely furry wolfskin coat."
3650 =head2 v5.17.3 - Kris Ta-belle, "Smoked Perl Onion Soup"
3652 L<Announced on 2012-08-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/08/msg190775.html>
3656 Cut 16 Perl Onions into quarters and put them in a grill smoker rack
3657 or a perforated pan over a BBQ using hickory wood chips or Special
3658 Blend Smoker Bisquettes. Smoke them for an hour and remove once they
3660 Let them cool and put them in the fridge (or freezer) until you are
3661 ready to create the soup.
3665 16 diced, pre-smoked, Perl Onions
3668 2 small garlic cloves, finely minced
3671 black pepper to taste
3673 1/4 cup all purpose flour
3674 6 cups of beef or vegetable stock
3675 1 cup of thick cream (milk can be used as a substitute)
3679 Melt the butter in a pan and then add olive oil.
3680 Heat and add the onions to caramelize over a medium-high heat for up
3682 Add the garlic, turn down the heat and cook for a further 5 minutes.
3683 Add the salt, pepper and sugar.
3684 Now add the red wine and reduce to a jam like consistency.
3685 Add the flour, stir well and add the stock a cup at a time.
3686 Simmer for 30 minutes, add the cream and heat to almost boiling.
3690 =head2 v5.17.2 - Terry Pratchet, "The Colour of Magic"
3692 L<Announced on 2012-07-21 by TonyC|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/07/msg189828.html>
3694 ‘I knew it,’ said Rincewind. ‘We're in a strong magical field.’
3696 Twoflower and Hrun looked around the little hollow where they had made
3697 their noonday halt. Then they looked at each other.
3699 The horses were quietly cropping the rich grass by the stream. Yellow
3700 butterflies skittered among the bushes. There was a smell of thyme
3701 and a buzzing of bees. The wild pigs on the spit sizzled gently.
3703 Hrun shrugged and went back to oiling his biceps. They gleamed.
3705 ‘Looks alright to me,’ he said.
3707 ‘Try tossing a coin,’ said Rincewind.
3711 ‘Go on. Toss a coin.’
3713 ‘Hokay,’ said Hrun. 'If that gives you any pleasure.’ He reached into
3714 his pouch and withdrew a handful of loose change plundered from a
3715 dozen realms. With some care he selected a Zchloty leaden
3716 quarter-iotum and balanced it on a purple thumbnail.
3718 ‘You call,’ he said. ‘Heads or—’ he inspected the obverse with
3719 an air of intense concentration, ‘some sort of a fish with legs.’
3721 ‘When it's in the air,’ said Rincewind. Hrun grinned and flicked his thumb.
3723 The iotum rose, spinning.
3725 ‘Edge,’ said Rincewind, without looking at it.
3727 =head2 v5.17.1 - Rand Miller, "Myst: The Book of Ti'ana"
3729 L<Announced on 2012-06-20 by doy|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/06/msg188354.html>
3731 On their return from Ko'ah, Aitrus had shown her the Book, patiently
3732 taking her through page after page, and showing her how such an Age was
3733 "made." She had seen at once the differences between this archaic form
3734 and the ordinary written speech of the D'ni, noting how it was not
3735 merely more elaborate but more specific: a language of precise yet
3736 subtle descriptive power. Yet seeing was one thing, believing another.
3737 Given all the evidence, her rational mind still fought against accepting
3740 =head2 v5.17.0 - Charles Stross, "Singularity Sky"
3742 L<Announced on 2012-05-26 by Zefram|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/05/msg187214.html>
3744 `Welcome, comrades!' Burya opened his arms toward the soldier.
3745 `Yes it is true! With help from our allies of the Festival, the iron
3746 hand of the reactionary junta is about to be overthrown for all time!
3747 The new economy is being born; the marginal cost of production has
3748 been abolished, and from now on, if any item is produced once, it can
3749 be replicated infinitely. From each according to his imagination,
3750 to each according to his needs! Join us or better still, bring your
3751 fellow soldiers and workers to join us!'
3753 There was a sharp bang from the roof of the Corn Exchange, right at the
3754 climax of his impromptu speech; heads turned in alarm. Something had
3755 broken inside the spork factory and a stream of rainbow-hued plastic
3756 implements fountained toward the sky and clattered to the cobblestones
3757 on every side, like a harbinger of the postindustrial society to come.
3758 Workers and peasants alike stared in open-mouthed bewilderment at this
3759 astounding display of productivity, then bent to scrabble in the muck
3760 for the brightly colored sporks of revolution. A volley of shots rang
3761 out and Burya Rubenstein raised his hands, grinning wildly, to accept
3762 the salute of the soldiers from the Skull Hill garrison.
3764 =head2 v5.16.3 - Devo, "Freedom of Choice"
3766 L<Announced on 2013-03-11 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/03/msg200009.html>
3768 A victim of collision on the open sea
3769 Nobody ever said that life was free
3770 Sink, swim, go down with the ship
3771 But use your freedom of choice
3773 =head2 v5.16.2 - Stanislaw Lem, "The Cyberiad", Trurl's Machine
3775 L<Announced on 2012-11-01 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/11/msg194915.html>
3777 Once upon a time Trurl the constructor built an eight-story thinking
3778 machine. When it was finished, he gave it a coat of white paint,
3779 trimmed the edges in lavender, stepped back, squinted, then added a
3780 little curlicue on the front and, where one might imagine the forehead
3781 to be, a few pale orange polkadots. Extremely pleased with himself,
3782 he whistled an air and, as is always done on such occasions, asked it
3783 the ritual question of how much is two plus two.
3785 The machine stirred. Its tubes began to glow, its coils warmed up,
3786 current coursed through all its circuits like a waterfall,
3787 transformers hummed and throbbed, there was a clanging, and a
3788 chugging, and such an ungodly racket that Trurl began to think of
3789 adding a special mentation muffler. Meanwhile the machine labored on,
3790 as if it had been given the most difficult problem in the Universe to
3791 solve; the ground shook, the sand slid underfoot from the vibration,
3792 valves popped like champagne corks, the relays nearly gave way under
3793 the strain. At last, when Trurl had grown extremely impatient, the
3794 machine ground to a halt and said in a voice like thunder: SEVEN!
3796 =head2 v5.16.1 - Emerald Rose, "Never Split The Party"
3798 L<Announced on 2012-08-08 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/08/msg190413.html>
3800 Don't you know? You never split the party
3801 Clerics in the back to keep those fighters hale and hearty
3802 The wizard in the middle, where he can shed some light
3803 And you never let that damn thief out of sight…
3805 =head2 v5.16.1-RC1 - Tom Moldvay, Foreward to the "Dungeons & Dragons Basic Rulebook"
3807 L<Announced on 2012-08-03 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/08/msg190264.html>
3809 I was busy rescuing the captured maiden when the dragon showed up.
3810 Fifty feed of scaled terror glared down at us with smoldering red eyes.
3811 Tendrils of smoke drifted out from between fangs larger than daggers.
3812 The dragon blocked the only exit from the cave.
3816 I unwrapped the sword which the mysterious cleric had given me. The
3817 sword was golden-tinted steel. Its hilt was set with a rainbow
3818 collection of precious gems. I shouted my battle cry and charged
3820 My charge caught the dragon by surprise. Its titanic jaws snapped shut
3821 inches from my face. I swung the golden sword with both arms. The
3822 swordblade bit into the dragon's neck and continued through to the other
3823 side. With an earth-shaking crash, the dragon dropped dead at my feet.
3824 The magic sword had saved my life and ended the reign of the
3825 dragon-tyrant. The countryside was freed and I could return as a hero.
3827 =head2 v5.16.0 - W.H. Auden, "September 1, 1939"
3829 L<Announced on 2012-05-20 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/05/msg186903.html>
3831 All I have is a voice
3832 To undo the folded lie,
3833 The romantic lie in the brain
3834 Of the sensual man-in-the-street
3835 And the lie of Authority
3836 Whose buildings grope the sky:
3837 There is no such thing as the State
3838 And no one exists alone;
3839 Hunger allows no choice
3840 To the citizen or the police;
3841 We must love one another or die.
3843 =head2 v5.15.9 - Bob Dylan, "Blowin' In The Wind"
3845 L<Announced on 2012-03-20 by Abigail|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/03/msg184824.html>
3847 How many roads must a man walk down
3848 Before you call him a man?
3849 Yes, 'n' how many seas must a white dove sail
3850 Before she sleeps in the sand?
3851 Yes, 'n' how many times must the cannonballs fly
3852 Before they're forever banned?
3853 The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind
3854 The answer is blowin' in the wind
3856 How many years can a mountain exist
3857 Before it's washed to the sea?
3858 Yes, 'n' how many years can some people exist
3859 Before they're allowed to be free?
3860 Yes, 'n' how many times can a man turn his head
3861 Pretending he just doesn't see?
3862 The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind
3863 The answer is blowin' in the wind
3865 How many times must a man look up
3866 Before he can see the sky?
3867 Yes, 'n' how many ears must one man have
3868 Before he can hear people cry?
3869 Yes, 'n' how many deaths will it take till he knows
3870 That too many people have died?
3871 The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind
3872 The answer is blowin' in the wind
3874 =head2 v5.15.8 - The KLF, "The Manual-How To Have A Number One The Easy Way"
3876 L<Announced on 2012-02-20 by Max Maischein|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/02/msg183919.html>
3878 "Doctor Who, hey Doctor Who
3879 Doctor Who, in the Tardis
3880 Doctor Who, hey Doctor Who
3881 Doctor Who, Doc, Doctor Who
3882 Doctor Who, Doc, Doctor Who"
3884 Gibberish of course, but every lad in the country under a certain
3885 age related instinctively to what it was about. The ones slightly
3886 older needed a couple of pints inside them to clear away the mind
3887 debris left by the passing years before it made sense. As for
3888 girls and our chorus, we think they must have seen it as pure crap.
3889 A fact that must have limited to zero our chances of staying at The
3890 Top for more than one week.
3892 Stock, Aitkin and Waterman, however, are kings of writing chorus
3893 lyrics that go straight to the emotional heart of the 7" single
3894 buying girls in this country. Their most successful records will kick
3895 into the chorus with a line which encapsulates the entire emotional
3896 meaning of the song. This will obviously be used as the title. As
3897 soon as Rick Astley hit the first line of the chorus on his debut
3898 single it was all over - the Number One position was guaranteed:
3900 "I'm never going to give you up"
3902 =head2 v5.15.7 - Penelope Lively, "The Voyage of QV66"
3904 L<Announced on 2012-01-20 by Chris 'BinGOs' Williams|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/01/msg182230.html>
3906 "Laboratories," announced Henry. "Kindly don't touch anything."
3908 He led us into a long low brick shed. Outside there was a
3909 notice on a piece of board, crudely printed in red paint,
3910 which said GRATE SIENCE DISCOVERYS DONE HERE SSSH! BRING YOUR
3911 OWN BUKKIT NO PINCHING ANYWUN ELSE'S EXPERRYMENTS CANTEEN OPEN
3912 ALL DAY CHIMPS ONLY.
3914 There were a lot of large black monkeys inside, all intently
3915 busy on what they were doing. Some of them were pouring stuff
3916 out of bottles into buckets and carefully stirring the ensuing
3917 mixture; others were at work with glass tubes and jars, blowing
3918 and measuring and mixing; others were crouched over long benches
3919 with tools and heaps of bits and pieces of metal, cutting and
3920 bending and constructing. There was a great deal of noise and
3921 chatter. Every now and then one of them would give a whoop of
3922 excitement and all the others would gather round and jump up and
3923 down cheering and applauding.
3925 "Chimps," said Henry. "They're awfully clever."
3927 =head2 v5.15.6 - Ursula K. Leguin, "A Wizard of Earthsea"
3929 L<Announced on 2011-12-20 by Dave Rolsky|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/12/msg180962.html>
3931 Ged had thought that as the prentice of a great mage he would enter at once
3932 into the mystery and mastery of power. He would understand the language of the
3933 beasts and the speech of the leaves of the forest, he thought, and sway the
3934 winds with his word, and learn to change himself into any shape he
3935 wished. Maybe he and his master would run together as stags, or fly to Re Albi
3936 over the mountain on the wings of eagles.
3938 But it was not so at all. They wandered, first down into the Vale and then
3939 gradually south and westward around the mountain, given lodging in little
3940 villages or spending the night out in the wilderness, like poor
3941 journeyman-sorcerers, or tinkers, or beggars. They entered no mysterious
3942 domain. Nothing happened. The mage's oaken staff that Ged had watched at first
3943 with eager dread was nothing but a stout staff to walk with. Three days went
3944 by and four days went by and still Ogion had not spoken a single charm in
3945 Ged's hearing, and had not taught him a single name or rune or spell.
3947 =head2 v5.15.5 - Nikolai Gogol, trans. Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, "The Diary of a Madman"
3949 L<Announced on 2011-11-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/11/msg179588.html>
3951 This day - is a day of the greatest solemnity! Spain has a king. He has
3952 been found. I am that king. Only this very day did I learn of it. I
3953 confess, it came to me suddenly in a flash of lightning. I don't understand
3954 how I could have thought and imagined that I was a titular councillor. How
3955 could such a wild notion enter my head? It's a good thing no one thought of
3956 putting me in an insane asylum. Now everything is laid open before me. Now
3957 I see everything as on the palm of my hand. And before, I don't understand,
3958 before everything around me was in some sort of fog. And all this happens, I
3959 think, because people imagine that the human brain is in the head. Not at
3960 all: it is brought by a wind from the direction of the Caspian Sea. First
3961 off, I announced to Mavra who I am. When she heard that the king of Spain
3962 was standing before her, she clasped her hands and nearly died of fright.
3963 The stupid woman had never seen a king of Spain before. However, I
3964 endeavoured to calm her down and assured her in gracious words of my
3965 benevolence and that I was not at all angry that she sometimes polished my
3966 boots poorly. They're benighted folk. It's impossible to tell them about
3967 lofty matters. She got frightened because she's convinced that all kings of
3968 Spain are like Philip II. But I explained to her that there was no
3969 resemblance between me and Philip II, and that I didn't have a single
3970 Capuchin . . . I didn't go to the office . . . To hell with it! No friends,
3971 you won't lure me there now; I'm not going to copy your vile papers!
3973 =head2 v5.15.4 - Steve Jobs
3975 L<Announced on 2011-10-20 by Florian Ragwitz|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/10/msg178412.html>
3977 A lot of people in our industry haven't had very diverse experiences. So they
3978 don't have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions
3979 without a broad perspective on the problem. The broader one's understanding of
3980 the human experience, the better design we will have.
3982 =head2 v5.15.3 - Oscar Wilde, From the preface to "The Picture of Dorian Gray"
3984 L<Announced on 2011-09-20 by Stevan Little|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/09/msg177427.html>
3986 All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath
3987 the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol
3988 do so at their peril.
3990 It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.
3991 Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the
3992 work is new, complex, and vital. When critics disagree, the
3993 artist is in accord with himself.
3995 We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as
3996 he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless
3997 thing is that one admires it intensely.
3999 All art is quite useless.
4001 =head2 v5.15.2 - Rainer Maria Rilke, trans., C. F. MacIntyre, "Duino", The First Elegy
4003 L<Announced on 2011-08-20 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/08/msg176067.html>
4005 True, it is strange to live no more on earth,
4006 no longer follow the folkways scarecely learned;
4007 not to give roses and other especially auspicious
4008 things the significance of a human future;
4009 to be no more what one was in infinitely anxious hands,
4010 and to put aside even one's name, like a broken plaything.
4011 Strange, to wish wishes no longer. Strange, to see
4012 all that was related fluttering so loosely in space.
4013 And being dead is hard, full of catching-up,
4014 so that finally one feels a little eternity.–
4015 But the living all make the mistake of too sharp discrimination.
4016 Often angels (it's said) don't know if they move
4017 among the quick or the dead. The eternal current
4018 hurtles all ages along with it forever
4019 through both realms and drowns their voices in both.
4021 =head2 v5.15.1 - Greg Egan, "Permutation City"
4023 L<Announced on 2011-07-20 by Zefram|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/07/msg175014.html>
4025 Carter held out a hand towards the middle of the room. `See that
4026 fountain?' A ten-metre-wide marble wedding cake, topped with a
4027 winged cherub wrestling a serpent, duly appeared. Water cascaded
4028 down from a gushing wound in the cherub's neck. Carter said, `It's
4029 being computed by redundancies in the sketch of the city. I can
4030 extract the results, because I know exactly where to look for them --
4031 but nobody else would have a hope in hell of picking them out.'
4033 Peer walked up to the fountain. Even as he approached, he noticed
4034 that the spray was intangible; when he dipped his hand in the water
4035 around the base he felt nothing, and the motion he made with his
4036 fingers left the foaming surface unchanged. They were spying on
4037 the calculations, not interacting with them; the fountain was a
4040 Carter said, `In your case, of course, nobody will need to know
4041 the results. Except you -- and you'll know them because you'll
4044 =head2 v5.15.0 - Neil Gaiman, "The Graveyard Book"
4046 L<Announced on 2011-06-20 by David Golden|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/06/msg173748.html>
4048 If you dare nothing, then when the day is over, nothing is all you will have gained.
4050 =head2 v5.14.4 - Arthur C. Clarke, "The Nine Billion Names of God"
4052 L<Announced on 2013-03-11 by Dave Mitchell|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/03/msg199988.html>
4054 He began to sing, but gave it up after a while. This vast arena of
4055 mountains, gleaming like whitely hooded ghosts on every side, did not
4056 encourage such ebullience. Presently George glanced at his watch.
4058 'Should be there in an hour,' he called back over his shoulder to
4059 Chuck. Then he added, in an afterthought: 'Wonder if the computer's
4060 finished its run. It was due about now.'
4062 Chuck didn't reply, so George swung round in his saddle. He could just
4063 see Chuck's face, a white oval turned towards the sky.
4065 'Look,' whispered Chuck, and George lifted his eyes to heaven. (There
4066 is always a last time for everything.)
4068 Overhead, without any fuss, the stars were going out.
4070 =head2 v5.14.3 - William Shakespeare, "As You Like It"
4072 L<Announced on 2012-10-12 by Dominic Hargreaves|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/10/msg194057.html>
4074 The poor world is almost six thousand years old, and in all
4075 this time there was not any man died in his own person,
4076 videlicit, in a love-cause. Troilus had his brains dashed
4077 out with a Grecian club; yet he did what he could to die
4078 before, and he is one of the patterns of love. Leander, he
4079 would have lived many a fair year, though Hero had turned
4080 nun, if it had not been for a hot midsummer night; for, good
4081 youth, he went but forth to wash him in the Hellespont and
4082 being taken with the cramp was drowned and the foolish
4083 coroners of that age found it was 'Hero of Sestos.' But these
4084 are all lies: men have died from time to time and worms have
4085 eaten them, but not for love.
4087 =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 >>
4089 L<Announced on 2011-09-26 by Florian Ragwitz|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/09/msg177618.html>
4091 It's not so much that people don't value the programs after they have them--they
4092 do value them. But they're not the sort of thing that would ever catch on if
4093 they had to overcome the marketing barrier. (I don't yet know if perl will
4094 catch on at all--I'm worried enough about it that I specifically included an
4095 awk-to-perl translator just to help it catch on.) Maybe it's all just an
4096 inferiority complex. Or maybe I don't like to be mercenary.
4098 So I guess I'd say that the reason some software comes free is that the
4099 mechanism for selling it is missing, either from the work environment, or from
4100 the heart of the programmer.
4102 =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 >>
4104 L<Announced on 2011-06-16 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/06/msg173650.html>
4106 At this point I'm no longer working for a company that makes me sign
4107 my life away, but by now I'm in the habit. Besides, I still harbor
4108 the deep-down suspicion that nobody would pay money for what I write,
4109 since most of it just helps you do something better that you could
4110 already do some other way. How much money would you personally pay
4111 to upgrade from readnews to rn? How much money would you pay for
4112 the patch program? As for warp, it's a mere game. And anything you
4113 can do with perl you can eventually do with an amazing and totally
4114 unreadable conglomeration of awk, sed, sh and C.
4116 =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 >>
4118 L<Announced on 2011-05-14 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/05/msg172326.html>
4120 At the start of any project, I'm programming primarily to please
4121 myself. (The two chief virtues in a programmer are laziness and
4122 impatience.) After a while somebody looks over my shoulder and says,
4123 "That's neat. It'd be neater if it did such-and-so." So the thing
4124 gets neater. Pretty soon (a year or two) I have an rn, a warp, a patch,
4125 or a perl. One of these years I'll have a metaconfig.
4127 I then say to myself, "I don't want my life's work to die when this
4128 computer is scrapped, so I should let some other people use this. If I
4129 ask my company to sell this, it'll never see the light of day, and nobody
4130 would pay much for it anyway. If I sell it myself, I'll be in trouble with
4131 my company, to whom I signed my life away when I was hired. If I give it
4132 away, I can pretend it was worthless in the first place, so my company
4133 won't care. In any event, it's easier to ask forgiveness than permission."
4135 So a freely distributable program is born.
4137 =head2 v5.14.0-RC3 - American Airlines Gate Agent, last call
4139 L<Announced on 2011-05-11 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/05/msg172282.html>
4141 This is the last call for flight 1697 with service to Chicago and
4142 continuing service to San Francisco. All passengers should already be
4143 aboard. If you aren't aboard at this time, you will be denied boarding
4144 and your bags will be offloaded.
4146 =head2 v5.14.0-RC2 - Greg Grandin, "Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City"
4148 L<Announced on 2011-05-04 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/05/msg171879.html>
4150 Over the course of nearly two decades, Ford would spend tens of millions
4151 of dollars founding not one but, after the plantation was defastated
4152 by leaf blight, two American towns, complete with central squares,
4153 sidewalks, indoor plumbing, hospitals, manicured lawns, movie theaters,
4154 swimming pools, golf courses, and, of course, Model Ts and As rolling
4155 down their paved streets.
4157 Back in America, newspapers kept up their drumbeat celebration, only
4158 obliquely referencing reports that things were not progressing as the
4159 company had hoped. But there was one note of skepticism. In late 1928,
4160 the Washington Post ran an editorial that read in its entirety: "Ford will
4161 govern a rubber plantation in Brazil larger than North Carolina. This is
4162 the first time he has applied quantity production methods to trouble"
4164 =head2 v5.14.0-RC1 - Bill Bryson, "In a Sunburned Country"
4166 L<Announced on 2011-04-20 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/04/msg171253.html>
4168 But then Australia is such a difficult country to keep track of. On
4169 my first visit, some years ago, I passed the time on the long flight
4170 reading a history of Australian politics in the twentieth century,
4171 wherein I encountered the startling fact that in 1967 the prime minister,
4172 Harold Holt, was strolling along a beach in Victoria when he plunged into
4173 the surf and vanished. No trace of the poor man was ever seen again.
4174 This seemed doubly astounding to me—first that Australia could
4175 just I<lose> a prime minister (I mean, come on) and second that news of
4176 this had never reached me.
4178 =head2 v5.13.11 - Walt Whitman, L<"Leaves of Grass"|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leaves_of_Grass>
4180 L<Announced on 2011-03-20 by Florian Ragwitz|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/03/msg170206.html>
4182 When the full-grown poet came,
4183 Out spake pleased Nature (the round impassive globe, with all its
4184 shows of day and night,) saying, He is mine;
4185 But out spake too the Soul of man, proud, jealous and unreconciled,
4186 Nay he is mine alone;
4187 --Then the full-grown poet stood between the two, and took each
4189 And to-day and ever so stands, as blender, uniter, tightly
4191 Which he will never release until he reconciles the two,
4192 And wholly and joyously blends them.
4194 =head2 v5.13.10 - Egill Skalla-Grímsson, L<"Egils saga Skalla-Grímssonar"|http://www.heimskringla.no/wiki/Egils_saga_Skalla-Gr%C3%ADmssonar>
4196 L<Announced on 2011-02-20 by Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/02/msg169340.html>
4198 Skalat maðr rúnar rísta,
4199 nema ráða vel kunni.
4200 Þat verðr mörgum manni,
4201 es of myrkvan staf villisk.
4203 tíu launstafi ristna.
4204 Þat hefr lauka lindi
4205 langs ofrtrega fengit.
4207 =head2 v5.13.9 - John F Kennedy, L<Inaugural Address January 20, 1961|http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/John_F._Kennedy%27s_Inaugural_Address>
4209 L<Announced on 2011-01-20 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/01/msg168335.html>
4211 In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been
4212 granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I
4213 do not shrink from this responsibility -- I welcome it. I do not believe
4214 that any of us would exchange places with any other people or any other
4215 generation. The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this
4216 endeavor will light our country and all who serve it. And the glow from
4217 that fire can truly light the world.
4219 And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you;
4220 ask what you can do for your country.
4222 My fellow citizens of the world, ask not what America will do for you,
4223 but what together we can do for the freedom of man.
4225 Finally, whether you are citizens of America or citizens of the world,
4226 ask of us here the same high standards of strength and sacrifice which
4227 we ask of you. With a good conscience our only sure reward, with history
4228 the final judge of our deeds, let us go forth to lead the land we love,
4229 asking His blessing and His help, but knowing that here on earth God's
4230 work must truly be our own.
4232 =head2 v5.13.8 - Roger Williams, L<"The Fifth Gift"|http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2005/8/19/21304/8493>
4234 L<Announced on 2010-12-19 by Zefram|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/12/msg167271.html>
4236 The aliens called the box a "matter generator," but we'd be more inclined
4237 to call it a matter duplicator. By connecting switches and potentiometers
4238 between the copper posts it was possible to make the box mark off two
4239 cubic rectangular areas of volume. Make a certain contact, and these
4240 areas would be isolated within perfectly reflective fields. They could
4241 be expanded or contracted by altering resistances between other posts.
4242 As I worked out the user interface I built a little control panel for
4243 the device. It was actually a clever way for the aliens to do things;
4244 instead of trying to build controls we could use, they built us an
4245 interface we could attach to controls that made sense to us. It could
4248 Once you had made the contact that established the shielded volumes,
4249 if you made another certain contact the contents of the first volume
4250 were copied to the second. The machine copied metal, plastic, steel,
4251 and diamond with equal ease. Copies of copies of copies of copies were
4252 indistinguishable from the originals at any magnification, even using
4253 techniques like X-ray crystallography.
4255 =head2 v5.13.7 - Andy Wachowski and Lana Wachowski, "The Matrix"
4257 L<Announced on 2010-11-20 by Chris 'BinGOs' Williams|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/11/msg166162.html>
4259 [Neo sees a black cat walk by them, and then a similar black cat walk by them just like the first one]
4263 [Everyone freezes right in their tracks]
4265 Trinity: What did you just say?
4266 Neo: Nothing. Just had a little deja vu.
4267 Trinity: What did you see?
4268 Cypher: What happened?
4269 Neo: A black cat went past us, and then another that looked just
4271 Trinity: How much like it? Was it the same cat?
4272 Neo: It might have been. I'm not sure.
4273 Morpheus: Switch! Apoc!
4275 Trinity: A deja vu is usually a glitch in the Matrix. It happens when
4276 they change something.
4278 =head2 v5.13.6 - Haruki Murakami, "Kafka on the Shore"
4280 L<Announced on 2010-10-20 by Tatsuhiko Miyagawa|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/10/msg165183.html>
4282 The boy called Crow softly rests a hand on my shoulder, and with that
4285 "From now on -- no matter what -- you've got to be the world's toughest
4286 fifteen-year-old. That's the only way you're going to survive. And in order
4287 to do that, you've got to figure out what it means to be tough. You following
4290 I keep my eyes closed and don't reply. I just want to sink off into sleep
4291 like this, his hand on my shoulder. I hear the faint flutter of wings.
4293 "You're going to be the world's toughest fifteen-year-old," Crow whispers
4294 as I try to fall asleep. Like he was carving the words in a deep blue tattoo
4297 (Translated from Japanese by Philip Gabriel)
4299 =head2 v5.13.5 - Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, "The Room in the Dragon Volant"
4301 L<Announced on 2010-09-19 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/09/msg164238.html>
4303 Candle in hand I stepped in. I do not know whether the quality of
4304 air, long undisturbed, is peculiar; to me it has always seemed so, and
4305 the damp smell of the old masonry hung in this atmosphere. My candle
4306 faintly lighted the bare stone wall that enclosed the stair, the foot
4307 of which I could not see. Down I went, and a few turns brought me to
4308 the stone floor. Here was another door, of the simple, old, oak kind,
4309 deep sunk in the thickness of the wall. The large end of the key
4310 fitted this. The lock was stiff; I set the candle down upon the
4311 stair, and applied both hands; it turned with difficulty, and as it
4312 revolved, uttered a shriek that alarmed me for my secret.
4314 For some minutes I did not move. In a little time, however, I took
4315 courage, and opened the door. The night-air floating in puffed out
4316 the candle. There was a thicket of holly and underwood, as dense as a
4317 jungle, close about the door. I should have been in pitch-darkness,
4318 were it not that through the topmost leaves there twinkled, here and
4319 there, a glimmer of moonshine.
4321 Softly, lest any one should have opened his window at the sound of the
4322 rusty bolt, I struggled through this till I gained a view of the open
4323 grounds. Here I found that the brushwood spread a good way up the
4324 park, uniting with the wood that approached the little temple I have
4327 =head2 v5.13.4 - Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
4329 L<Announced on 2010-08-20 by Florian Ragwitz|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/08/msg163150.html>
4331 `How the creatures order one about, and make one repeat lessons!' thought Alice;
4332 `I might as well be at school at once.' However, she got up, and began to repeat
4333 it, but her head was so full of the Lobster Quadrille, that she hardly knew what
4334 she was saying, and the words came very queer indeed:--
4336 "'Tis the voice of the Lobster; I heard him declare,
4337 "You have baked me too brown, I must sugar my hair."
4338 As a duck with its eyelids, so he with his nose
4339 Trims his belt and his buttons, and turns out his toes.'
4342 `That's different from what I used to say when I was a child,' said the Gryphon.
4344 `Well, I never heard it before,' said the Mock Turtle; `but it sounds uncommon
4347 Alice said nothing; she had sat down with her face in her hands, wondering if
4348 anything would ever happen in a natural way again.
4350 `I should like to have it explained,' said the Mock Turtle.
4352 `She can't explain it,' said the Gryphon hastily. `Go on with the next verse.'
4354 `But about his toes?' the Mock Turtle persisted. `How could he turn them out
4355 with his nose, you know?'
4357 `It's the first position in dancing.' Alice said; but was dreadfully puzzled by
4358 the whole thing, and longed to change the subject.
4360 =head2 v5.13.3 - Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, "Good Omens"
4362 L<Announced on 2010-07-20 by David Golden|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/07/msg162230.html>
4364 Look at Crowley, doing 110 mph on the M40 heading towards
4365 Oxfordshire. Even the most resolutely casual observer would
4366 notice a number of strange things about him. The clenched teeth,
4367 for example, or the dull red glow coming from behind his
4368 sunglasses. And the car. The car was a definite hint.
4370 Crowley had started the journey in his Bentley, and he was
4371 dammned if he wasn't going to finish it in the Bentley as well.
4372 Not that even the kind of car buff who owns his own pair of
4373 motoring goggles would have been able to tell it was a vintage
4374 Bentley. Not any more. They wouldn't have been able to tell
4375 that it was a Bentley. They would only offer fifty-fifty that it
4376 had ever even been a car.
4378 There was no paint left on it, for a start. It might still have
4379 been black, where it wasn't a rusty, smudged reddish-brown, but
4380 this was a dull charcoal black. It traveled in its own ball of
4381 flame, like a space capsule making a particularly difficult
4384 There was a thin skin of crusted, melted rubber left around the
4385 metal wheel rims, but seeing that the wheel rims were still
4386 somhow riding an inch above the road surface this didn't seem to
4387 make an awful lot of difference to the suspension.
4389 It should have fallen apart miles back.
4391 =head2 v5.13.2 - Iain M Banks, "Use of Weapons"
4393 L<Announced on 2010-06-22 by Matt S Trout|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/06/msg161112.html>
4395 We deal in the moral equivalent of black holes, where the normal laws -
4396 the rules of right and wrong that people imagine apply everywhere else
4397 in the universe - break down; beyond those metaphysical event-horizons,
4398 there exist ... special circumstances.
4400 =head2 v5.13.1 - Miguel de Unamuno, "The Sepulchre of Don Quixote"
4402 L<Announced on 2010-05-20 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/05/msg160275.html>
4404 And if anyone shall come to you and say that he knows how to construct
4405 bridges and that perhaps a time will come when you will wish to avail
4406 yourself of his science in order to cross over a river, out with him! Out
4407 with the engineer! Rivers will be crossed by wading or swimming them, even
4408 if half the crusaders drown themselves. Let the engineer go off and build
4409 bridges somewhere else, where they are badly wanted. For those who go in
4410 quest of the sepulchre, faith is bridge enough.
4412 =head2 v5.13.0 - Jules Verne, "A Journey to the Centre of the Earth"
4414 L<Announced on 2010-04-20 by LE<0xe9>on Brocard|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/04/msg159275.html>
4416 The heat still remained at quite a supportable degree. With an
4417 involuntary shudder, I reflected on what the heat must have been
4418 when the volcano of Sneffels was pouring its smoke, flames, and
4419 streams of boiling lava -- all of which must have come up by the
4420 road we were now following. I could imagine the torrents of hot
4421 seething stone darting on, bubbling up with accompaniments of
4422 smoke, steam, and sulphurous stench!
4424 "Only to think of the consequences," I mused, "if the old
4425 volcano were once more to set to work."
4427 =head2 v5.12.5 - William Shakespeare, "Measure for Measure"
4429 L<Announced on 2012-11-10 by Dominic Hargreaves|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/11/msg195171.html>
4431 Music oft hath such a charm
4432 To make bad good, and good provoke to harm.
4434 =head2 v5.12.4 - William Schwenck Gilbert, "Trial By Jury"
4436 L<Announced on 2011-06-20 by Leon Brocard|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/06/msg173725.html>
4438 You cannot eat breakfast all day,
4439 Nor is it the act of a sinner,
4440 When breakfast is taken away,
4441 To turn his attention to dinner;
4442 And it's not in the range of belief,
4443 To look upon him as a glutton,
4444 Who, when he is tired of beef,
4445 Determines to tackle the mutton.
4446 Ah! But this I am willing to say,
4447 If it will appease her sorrow,
4448 I'll marry this lady today,
4449 And I'll marry the other tomorrow!
4451 =head2 v5.12.4-RC2 - James Russell Lowell, "Eleanor makes macaroons"
4453 L<Announced on 2011-06-15 by Leon Brocard|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/06/msg173609.html>
4455 Now for sugar, -- nay, our plan
4456 Tolerates no work of man.
4457 Hurry, then, ye golden bees;
4458 Fetch your clearest honey, please,
4459 Garnered on a Yorkshire moor,
4460 While the last larks sing and soar,
4461 From the heather-blossoms sweet
4462 Where sea-breeze and sunshine meet,
4463 And the Augusts mask as Junes, --
4464 Eleanor makes macaroons!
4466 =head2 v5.12.4-RC1 - Ogden Nash, "The Clean Plater"
4468 L<Announced on 2011-06-08 by Leon Brocard|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/06/msg173352.html>
4470 Pheasant is pleasant, of course,
4471 And terrapin, too, is tasty,
4472 Lobster I freely endorse,
4473 In pate or patty or pasty.
4474 But there's nothing the matter with butter,
4475 And nothing the matter with jam,
4476 And the warmest greetings I utter
4477 To the ham and the yam and the clam.
4480 And I think very fondly of food.
4481 Through I'm broody at times
4482 When bothered by rhymes,
4486 =head2 v5.12.3 - Howard W. Campbell, Jr., "Reflections on Not Participating in Current Events"
4488 L<Announced on 2011-01-21 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/01/msg168368.html>
4490 I saw a huge steam roller,
4491 It blotted out the sun.
4492 The people all lay down, lay down;
4493 They did not try to run.
4494 My love and I, we looked amazed
4495 Upon the gory mystery.
4496 'Lie down, lie down!' the people cried.
4497 'The great machine is history!'
4498 My love and I, we ran away,
4499 The engine did not find us.
4500 We ran up to a mountain top,
4501 Left history far behind us.
4502 Perhaps we should have stayed and died,
4503 But somehow we don't think so.
4504 We went to see where history'd been,
4505 And my, the dead did stink so.
4507 =head2 v5.12.2 - William Gibson, "Pattern Recognition"
4509 L<Announced on 2010-09-06 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/09/msg163852.html>
4511 CPUs. Cayce Pollard Units. That's what Damien calls the clothing
4512 she wears. CPUs are either black, white, or gray, and ideally
4513 seem to have come into this world without human intervention.
4515 What people take for relentless minimalism is a side effect
4516 of too much exposure to the reactor-cores of fashion. This
4517 has resulted in a remorseless paring-down of what she can and
4518 will wear. She is, literally, allergic to fashion. She can
4519 only tolerate things that could have been worn, to a general
4520 lack of comment, during any year between 1945 and 2000. She's a
4521 design-free zone, a one-woman school of and whose very austerity
4522 periodically threatens to spawn its own cult.
4524 =head2 v5.12.2-RC1 - William Gibson, "Pattern Recognition"
4526 L<Announced on 2010-08-31 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/08/msg163670.html>
4528 The front page opens, familiar as a friend's living room. A frame-grab
4529 from #48 serves as backdrop, dim and almost monochrome, no characters in
4530 view. This is one of the sequences that generate comparisons with
4531 Tarkovsky. She only knows Tarkovsky from stills, really, though she did
4532 once fall asleep during a screening of The Stalker, going under on an
4533 endless pan, the camera aimed straight down, in close-up, at a puddle on
4534 a ruined mosaic floor. But she is not one of those who think that much
4535 will be gained by analysis of the maker's imagined influences. The cult
4536 of the footage is rife with subcults, claiming every possible influence.
4537 Truffaut, Peckinpah -- The Peckinpah people, among the least likely, are
4538 still waiting for the guns to be drawn.
4540 =head2 v5.12.1 - Kurt Vonnegut, "Cat's Cradle"
4542 L<Announced on 2010-05-16 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/05/msg160109.html>
4544 "Now suppose," chortled Dr. Breed, enjoying himself, "that there were
4545 many possible ways in which water could crystallize, could freeze.
4546 Suppose that the sort of ice we skate upon and put into highballs --
4547 what we might call ice-one -- is only one of several types of ice.
4548 Suppose water always froze as ice-one on Earth because it had never
4549 had a seed to teach it how to form ice-two, ice-three, ice-four
4550 ...? And suppose," he rapped on his desk with his old hand again,
4551 "that there were one form, which we will call ice-nine -- a crystal as
4552 hard as this desk -- with a melting point of, let us say, one-hundred
4553 degrees Fahrenheit, or, better still, a melting point of one-hundred-
4554 and-thirty degrees."
4556 =head2 v5.12.1-RC2 - Kurt Vonnegut, "Cat's Cradle"
4558 L<Announced on 2010-05-13 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/05/msg160066.html>
4560 San Lorenzo was fifty miles long and twenty miles wide, I learned from
4561 the supplement to the New York Sunday Times. Its population was four
4562 hundred, fifty thousand souls, "...all fiercely dedicated to the ideals
4565 Its highest point, Mount McCabe, was eleven thousand feet above sea
4566 level. Its capital was Bolivar, "...a strikingly modern city built on a
4567 harbor capable of sheltering the entire United States Navy." The principal
4568 exports were sugar, coffee, bananas, indigo, and handcrafted novelties.
4570 =head2 v5.12.1-RC1 - Kurt Vonnegut, "Cat's Cradle"
4572 L<Announced on 2010-05-09 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/05/msg159971.html>
4574 Which brings me to the Bokononist concept of a wampeter. A wampeter is
4575 the pivot of a karass. No karass is without a wampeter, Bokonon tells us,
4576 just as no wheel is without a hub. Anything can be a wampeter: a tree,
4577 a rock, an animal, an idea, a book, a melody, the Holy Grail. Whatever
4578 it is, the members of its karass revolve about it in the majestic chaos
4579 of a spiral nebula. The orbits of the members of a karass about their
4580 common wampeter are spiritual orbits, naturally. It is souls and not
4581 bodies that revolve. As Bokonon invites us to sing:
4583 Around and around and around we spin,
4584 With feet of lead and wings of tin . . .
4586 =head2 v5.12.0 - Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
4588 L<Announced on 2010-04-12 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/04/msg158820.html>
4590 'Please would you tell me,' said Alice, a little timidly, for she was
4591 not quite sure whether it was good manners for her to speak first, 'why
4592 your cat grins like that?'
4594 'It's a Cheshire cat,' said the Duchess, 'and that's why. Pig!'
4596 She said the last word with such sudden violence that Alice quite
4597 jumped; but she saw in another moment that it was addressed to the baby,
4598 and not to her, so she took courage, and went on again:--
4600 'I didn't know that Cheshire cats always grinned; in fact, I didn't know
4601 that cats COULD grin.'
4603 'They all can,' said the Duchess; 'and most of 'em do.'
4605 =head2 v5.12.0-RC5 - Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
4607 L<Announced on 2010-04-09 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/04/msg158720.html>
4609 'Not QUITE right, I'm afraid,' said Alice, timidly; 'some of the words
4612 'It is wrong from beginning to end,' said the Caterpillar decidedly, and
4613 there was silence for some minutes.
4615 =head2 v5.12.0-RC4 - Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
4617 L<Announced on 2010-04-06 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/04/msg158567.html>
4619 'It was much pleasanter at home,' thought poor Alice, 'when one wasn't
4620 always growing larger and smaller, and being ordered about by mice and
4621 rabbits. I almost wish I hadn't gone down that rabbit-hole--and yet--and
4622 yet--it's rather curious, you know, this sort of life! I do wonder what
4623 can have happened to me! When I used to read fairy-tales, I fancied that
4624 kind of thing never happened, and now here I am in the middle of one!
4626 =head2 v5.12.0-RC3 - Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
4628 L<Announced on 2010-04-02 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/04/msg158346.html>
4630 At last the Mouse, who seemed to be a person of authority among them,
4631 called out, 'Sit down, all of you, and listen to me! I'LL soon make you
4632 dry enough!' They all sat down at once, in a large ring, with the Mouse
4633 in the middle. Alice kept her eyes anxiously fixed on it, for she felt
4634 sure she would catch a bad cold if she did not get dry very soon.
4636 'Ahem!' said the Mouse with an important air, 'are you all ready? This
4637 is the driest thing I know. Silence all round, if you please! "William
4638 the Conqueror, whose cause was favoured by the pope, was soon submitted
4639 to by the English, who wanted leaders, and had been of late much
4640 accustomed to usurpation and conquest. Edwin and Morcar, the earls of
4641 Mercia and Northumbria --"'
4643 =head2 v5.12.0-RC2 - no announcement
4645 Available on CPAN since 2010-04-01.
4647 =head2 v5.12.0-RC1 - Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
4649 L<Announced on 2010-03-29 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/03/msg158060.html>
4651 So she was considering in her own mind (as well as she could, for the
4652 hot day made her feel very sleepy and stupid), whether the pleasure of
4653 making a daisy-chain would be worth the trouble of getting up and
4654 picking the daisies, when suddenly a White Rabbit with pink eyes ran
4657 There was nothing so VERY remarkable in that; nor did Alice think it so
4658 VERY much out of the way to hear the Rabbit say to itself, 'Oh dear! Oh
4659 dear! I shall be late!' (when she thought it over afterwards, it
4660 occurred to her that she ought to have wondered at this, but at the time
4661 it all seemed quite natural); but when the Rabbit actually TOOK A WATCH
4662 OUT OF ITS WAISTCOAT-POCKET, and looked at it, and then hurried on,
4663 Alice started to her feet, for it flashed across her mind that she had
4664 never before seen a rabbit with either a waistcoat-pocket, or a watch to
4665 take out of it, and burning with curiosity, she ran across the field
4666 after it, and fortunately was just in time to see it pop down a large
4667 rabbit-hole under the hedge.
4669 In another moment down went Alice after it, never once considering how
4670 in the world she was to get out again.
4672 =head2 v5.12.0-RC0 - no epigraph
4674 L<Announced on 2020-03-21 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/03/msg157761.html>
4676 =head2 v5.11.5 - Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "Christabel"
4678 L<Announced on 2010-02-21 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/02/msg156957.html>
4680 A little child, a limber elf,
4681 Singing, dancing to itself,
4682 A fairy thing with red round cheeks,
4683 That always finds, and never seeks,
4684 Makes such a vision to the sight
4685 As fills a father's eyes with light;
4686 And pleasures flow in so thick and fast
4687 Upon his heart, that he at last
4688 Must needs express his love's excess
4689 With words of unmeant bitterness.
4690 Perhaps 'tis pretty to force together
4691 Thoughts so all unlike each other;
4692 To mutter and mock a broken charm,
4693 To dally with wrong that does no harm.
4694 Perhaps 'tis tender too and pretty
4695 At each wild word to feel within
4696 A sweet recoil of love and pity.
4697 And what, if in a world of sin
4698 (O sorrow and shame should this be true!)
4699 Such giddiness of heart and brain
4700 Comes seldom save from rage and pain,
4701 So talks as it's most used to do.
4703 =head2 v5.11.4 - Fyodor Dostoevsky, "Crime and Punishment"
4705 L<Announced on 2010-01-20 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/01/msg155848.html>
4707 And you don't suppose that I went into it headlong like a fool? I went
4708 into it like a wise man, and that was just my destruction. And you
4709 mustn't suppose that I didn't know, for instance, that if I began to
4710 question myself whether I had the right to gain power -- I certainly
4711 hadn't the right -- or that if I asked myself whether a human being is a
4712 louse it proved that it wasn't so for me, though it might be for a man
4713 who would go straight to his goal without asking questions.... If I
4714 worried myself all those days, wondering whether Napoleon would have
4715 done it or not, I felt clearly of course that I wasn't Napoleon.
4717 =head2 v5.11.3 - Mark Twain, "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer"
4719 L<Announced on 2009-12-20 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2009/12/msg154838.html>
4721 "Say -- I'm going in a swimming, I am. Don't you wish you could? But of
4722 course you'd druther work -- wouldn't you? Course you would!"
4724 Tom contemplated the boy a bit, and said: "What do you call work?"
4726 "Why ain't that work?"
4728 Tom resumed his whitewashing, and answered carelessly: "Well, maybe it
4729 is, and maybe it aint. All I know, is, it suits Tom Sawyer."
4731 "Oh come, now, you don't mean to let on that you like it?"
4733 The brush continued to move. "Like it? Well I don't see why I oughtn't
4734 to like it. Does a boy get a chance to whitewash a fence every day?"
4736 That put the thing in a new light. Ben stopped nibbling his apple. Tom
4737 swept his brush daintily back and forth -- stepped back to note the effect
4738 -- added a touch here and there-criticised the effect again -- Ben
4739 watching every move and getting more and more interested, more and more
4740 absorbed. Presently he said: "Say, Tom, let me whitewash a little."
4742 =head2 v5.11.2 - Michael Marshall Smith, "Only Forward"
4744 L<Announced on 2009-11-20 by Léon Brocard|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2009/11/msg153646.html>
4746 The streets were pretty quiet, which was nice. They're always quiet here
4747 at that time: you have to be wearing a black jacket to be out on the
4748 streets between seven and nine in the evening, and not many people in
4749 the area have black jackets. It's just one of those things. I currently
4750 live in Colour Neighbourhood, which is for people who are heavily into
4751 colour. All the streets and buildings are set for instant colourmatch:
4752 as you walk down the road they change hue to offset whatever you're
4753 wearing. When the streets are busy it's kind of intense, and anyone
4754 prone to epileptic seizures isn't allowed to live in the Neighbourhood,
4755 however much they're into colour.
4757 =head2 v5.11.1 - Joseph Heller, "Catch-22"
4759 L<Announced on 2009-10-20 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2009/10/msg152360.html>
4761 Milo had been caught red-handed in the act of plundering his countrymen,
4762 and, as a result, his stock had never been higher. He proved good as his
4763 word when a rawboned major from Minnesota curled his lip in rebellious
4764 disavowal and demanded his share of the syndicate Milo kept saying
4765 everybody owned. Milo met the challenge by writing the words "A Share"
4766 on the nearest scrap of paper and handing it away with a virtuous disdain
4767 that won the envy and admiration of almost everyone who knew him. His
4768 glory was at a peak, and Colonel Cathcart, who knew and admired his
4769 war record, was astonished by the deferential humility with which Milo
4770 presented himself at Group Headquarters and made his fantastic appeal
4771 for more hazardous assignment.
4773 =head2 v5.11.0 - Mikhail Bulgakov, "The Master and Margarita"
4775 L<Announced on 2009-10-02 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2009/10/msg151376.html>
4777 Whispers of an "evil power" were heard in lines at dairy shops, in
4778 streetcars, stores, arguments, kitchens, suburban and long-distance
4779 trains, at stations large and small, in dachas and on beaches. Needless
4780 to say, truly mature and cultured people did not tell these stories
4781 about an evil power's visit to the capital. In fact, they even made fun
4782 of them and tried to talk sense into those who told them. Nevertheless,
4783 facts are facts, as they say, and cannot simply be dismissed without
4784 explanation: somebody had visited the capital. The charred cinders of
4785 Griboyedov alone, and many other things besides, confirmed it. Cultured
4786 people shared the point of view of the investigating team: it was the
4787 work of a gang of hypnotists and ventriloquists magnificently skilled in
4790 =head2 v5.10.1 - Right Hon. James Hacker MP, "The Complete Yes Minister: The Diaries of a Cabinet Minister"
4792 L<Announced on 2009-08-23 by Dave Mitchell|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2009/08/msg150172.html>
4794 'Briefly, sir, I am the Permanent Under-Secretary of State, known as
4795 the Permanent Secretary. Woolley here is your Principal Private
4796 Secretary. I, too, have a Principal Private Secretary, and he is the
4797 Principal Private Secretary to the Permanent Secretary. Directly
4798 responsible to me are ten Deputy Secretaries, eighty-seven Under
4799 Secretaries and two hundred and nineteen Assistant Secretaries.
4800 Directly responsible to the Principal Private Secretaries are plain
4801 Private Secretaries. The Prime Minister will be appointing two
4802 Parliamentary Under-Secretaries and you will be appointing your own
4803 Parliamentary Private Secretary.'
4805 'Can they all type?' I joked.
4807 'None of us can type, Minister,' replied Sir Humphrey smoothly. 'Mrs
4808 McKay types - she is your Secretary.'
4810 I couldn't tell whether or not he was joking. 'What a pity,' I said.
4811 'We could have opened an agency.'
4813 Sir Humphrey and Bernard laughed. 'Very droll, sir,' said Sir
4814 Humphrey. 'Most amusing, sir,' said Bernard. Were they genuinely
4815 amused at my wit, or just being rather patronising? 'I suppose they
4816 all say that, do they?' I ventured.
4818 Sir Humphrey reassured me on that. 'Certainly not, Minister,' he
4819 replied. 'Not quite all.'
4821 =head2 v5.10.1-RC2 - no epigraph
4823 L<Announced on 2009-08-18 by Dave Mitchell|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2009/08/msg150015.html>
4825 =head2 v5.10.1-RC1 - no epigraph
4827 L<Announced on 2009-08-06 by Dave Mitchell|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2009/08/msg149498.html>
4829 =head2 v5.10.0 - Laurence Sterne, "Tristram Shandy"
4831 L<Announced on 2007-12-18 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2007/12/msg131636.html>
4833 He would often declare, in speaking his thoughts upon the subject, that
4834 he did not conceive how the greatest family in England could stand it
4835 out against an uninterrupted succession of six or seven short
4836 noses.--And for the contrary reason, he would generally add, That it
4837 must be one of the greatest problems in civil life, where the same
4838 number of long and jolly noses, following one another in a direct line,
4839 did not raise and hoist it up into the best vacancies in the kingdom.
4841 =head2 v5.10.0-RC2 - no epigraph
4843 L<Announced on 2007-11-25 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2007/11/msg130978.html>
4845 =head2 v5.10.0-RC1 - no epigraph
4847 L<Announced on 2007-11-17 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2007/11/msg130653.html>
4849 =head2 v5.9.5 - no announcement
4851 L<Pre-announced on 2007-07-07 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2007/07/msg126358.html>,
4852 available on CPAN with same date, but never actually announced.
4854 =head2 v5.9.4 - no epigraph
4856 L<Announced on 2006-08-15 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2006/08/msg115782.html>
4858 =head2 v5.9.3 - no epigraph
4860 L<Announced on 2006-01-28 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2006/01/msg109086.html>
4862 =head2 v5.9.2 - Thomas Pynchon, "V"
4864 L<Announced on 2005-04-01 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2005/04/msg99421.html>
4866 This word flip was weird. Every recording date of McClintic's he'd
4867 gotten into the habit of talking electricity with the audio men and
4868 technicians of the studio. McClintic once couldn't have cared less
4869 about electricity, but now it seemed if that was helping him reach a
4870 bigger audience, some digging, some who would never dig, but all
4871 paying and those royalties keeping the Triumph in gas and McClintic
4872 in J. Press suits, then McClintic ought to be grateful to
4873 electricity, ought maybe to learn a little more about it. So he'd
4874 picked up some here and there, and one day last summer he got around
4875 to talking stochastic music and digital computers with one
4876 technician. Out of the conversation had come Set/Reset, which was
4877 getting to be a signature for the group. He had found out from this
4878 sound man about a two-triode circuit called a flip-flop, which when
4879 it turned on could be one of two ways, depending on which tube was
4880 conducting and which was cut off: set or reset, flip or flop.
4882 "And that," the man said, "can be yes or no, or one or zero. And
4883 that is what you might call one of the basic units, or specialized
4884 `cells' in a big `electronic brain.' "
4886 "Crazy," said McClintic, having lost him back there someplace. But
4887 one thing that did occur to him was if a computer's brain could go
4888 flip or flop, why so could a musician's. As long as you were flop,
4889 everything was cool. But where did the trigger-pulse come from to
4892 =head2 v5.9.1 - Tom Stoppard, "Arcadia"
4894 L<Announced on 2004-03-16 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/03/msg89722.html>
4896 Aren't you supposed to have a pony?
4898 =head2 v5.9.0 - Doris Lessing, "Martha Quest"
4900 L<Announced on 2003-10-27 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/10/msg84147.html>
4902 What of October, that ambiguous month
4904 =head2 v5.8.9 - Right Hon. James Hacker MP, "The Complete Yes Minister: The Diaries of a Cabinet Minister"
4906 L<Announced on 2008-12-14 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2008/12/msg142571.html>
4908 Frank and I, unlike the civil servants, were still puzzled that such a
4909 proposal as the Europass could even be seriously under consideration by
4910 the FCO. We can both see clearly that it is wonderful ammunition for the
4911 anti-Europeans. I asked Humphrey if the Foreign Office doesn't realise
4912 how damaging this would be to the European ideal?
4914 'I'm sure they do, Minister, he said. That's why they support it.'
4916 This was even more puzzling, since I'd always been under the impression
4917 that the FO is pro-Europe. 'Is it or isn't it?' I asked Humphrey.
4919 'Yes and no,' he replied of course, 'if you'll pardon the
4920 expression. The Foreign Office is pro-Europe because it is really
4921 anti-Europe. In fact the Civil Service was united in its desire to make
4922 sure the Common Market didn't work. That's why we went into it.'
4924 This sounded like a riddle to me. I asked him to explain further. And
4925 basically his argument was as follows: Britain has had the same foreign
4926 policy objective for at least the last five hundred years - to create a
4927 disunited Europe. In that cause we have fought with the Dutch against
4928 the Spanish, with the Germans against the French, with the French and
4929 Italians against the Germans, and with the French against the Italians
4930 and Germans. [The Dutch rebellion against Phillip II of Spain, the
4931 Napoleonic Wars, the First World War, and the Second World War - Ed.]
4933 In other words, divide and rule. And the Foreign Office can see no
4934 reason to change when it has worked so well until now.
4936 I was aware of this, naturally, but I regarded it as ancient history.
4937 Humphrey thinks that it is, in fact, current policy. It was necessary
4938 for us to break up the EEC, he explained, so we had to get inside. We
4939 had previously tried to break it up from the outside, but that didn't
4940 work. [A reference to our futile and short-lived involvement in EFTA,
4941 the European Free Trade Association, founded in 1960 and which the UK
4942 left in 1972 - Ed.] Now that we're in, we are able to make a complete
4943 pig's breakfast out of it. We've now set the Germans against the French,
4944 the French against the Italians, the Italians against the Dutch... and
4945 the Foreign office is terribly happy. It's just like old time.
4947 I was staggered by all of this. I thought that the all of us who are
4948 publicly pro-European believed in the European ideal. I said this to Sir
4949 Humphrey, and he simply chuckled.
4951 So I asked him: if we don't believe in the European Ideal, why are we
4952 pushing to increase the membership?
4954 'Same reason,' came the reply. 'It's just like the United Nations. The
4955 more members it has, the more arguments you can stir up, and the more
4956 futile and impotent it becomes.'
4958 This all strikes me as the most appalling cynicism, and I said so.
4960 Sir Humphrey agreed completely. 'Yes Minister. We call it
4961 diplomacy. It's what made Britain great, you know.'
4963 =head2 v5.8.9-RC2 - Right Hon. James Hacker MP, "The Complete Yes Minister: The Diaries of a Cabinet Minister"
4965 L<Announced on 2008-12-06 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2008/12/msg142422.html>
4967 There was silence in the office. I didn't know what we were going to do
4968 about the four hundred new people supervising our economy drive or the
4969 four hundred new people for the Bureaucratic Watchdog Office, or
4970 anything! I simply sat and waited and hoped that my head would stop
4971 thumping and that some idea would be suggested by someone sometime soon.
4973 Sir Humphrey obliged. 'Minister... if we were to end the economy drive
4974 and close the Bureaucratic Watchdog Office we could issue an immediate
4975 press announcement that you had axed eight hundred jobs.' He had
4976 obviously thought this out carefully in advance, for at this moment he
4977 produced a slim folder from under his arm. 'If you'd like to approve
4980 I couldn't believe the impertinence of the suggestion. Axed eight
4981 hundred jobs? 'But no one was ever doing these jobs,' I pointed out
4982 incredulously. 'No one's been appointed yet.'
4984 'Even greater economy,' he replied instantly. 'We've saved eight hundred
4985 redundancy payments as well.'
4987 'But...' I attempted to explain '... that's just phony. It's dishonest,
4988 it's juggling with figures, it's pulling the wool over people's eyes.'
4990 'A government press release, in fact.' said Humphrey.
4992 =head2 v5.8.9-RC1 - Right Hon. James Hacker MP, "The Complete Yes Minister: The Diaries of a Cabinet Minister"
4994 L<Announced on 2008-11-10 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2008/11/msg141515.html>
4996 A jumbo jet touched down, with BURANDAN AIRWAYS written on the side. I
4997 was hugely impressed. British Airways are having to pawn their Concordes,
4998 and here is this little tiny African state with its own airline, jumbo
5001 I asked Bernard how many planes Burandan Airways had. 'None,' he said.
5003 I told him not to be silly and use his eyes. 'No Minister, it belongs to
5004 Freddie Laker,' he said. 'They chartered it last week and repainted it
5005 specially.' Apparently most of the Have-Nots (I mean, LDCs) do this - at
5006 the opening of the UN General Assembly the runways of Kennedy Airport are
5007 jam-packed with phoney flag-carriers. 'In fact,' said Bernard with a sly
5008 grin, 'there was one 747 that belonged to nine different African airlines
5009 in a month. They called it the mumbo-jumbo.'
5011 While we watched nothing much happening on the TV except the mumbo-jumbo
5012 taxiing around Prestwick and the Queen looking a bit chilly, Bernard gave
5013 me the next day's schedule and explained that I was booked on the night
5014 sleeper from King's Cross to Edinburgh because I had to vote in a
5015 three-line whip at the House tonight and would have to miss the last
5016 plane. Then the commentator, in that special hushed BBC voice used for any
5017 occasion with which Royalty is connected, announced reverentially that we
5018 were about to catch our first glimpse of President Selim.
5020 And out of the plane stepped Charlie. My old friend Charlie Umtali. We
5021 were at LSE together. Not Selim Mohammed at all, but Charlie.
5023 Bernard asked me if I were sure. Silly question. How could you forget a
5024 name like Charlie Umtali?
5026 I sent Bernard for Sir Humphrey, who was delighted to hear that we now
5027 know something about our official visitor.
5029 Bernard's official brief said nothing. Amazing! Amazing how little the FCO
5030 has been able to find out. Perhaps they were hoping it would all be on the
5031 car radio. All the brief says is that Colonel Selim Mohammed had converted
5032 to Islam some years ago, they didn't know his original name, and therefore
5033 knew little of his background.
5035 I was able to tell Humphrey and Bernard /all/ about his background.
5036 Charlie was a red-hot political economist, I informed them. Got the top
5037 first. Wiped the floor with everyone.
5039 Bernard seemed relieved. 'Well that's all right then.'
5043 'I think Bernard means,' said Sir Humphrey helpfully, 'that he'll know how
5044 to behave if he was at an English University. Even if it was the LSE.' I
5045 never know whether or not Humphrey is insulting me intentionally.
5047 Humphrey was concerned about Charlie's political colour. 'When you said
5048 that he was red-hot, were you speaking politically?'
5050 In a way I was. 'The thing about Charlie is that you never quite know
5051 where you are with him. He's the sort of chap who follows you into a
5052 revolving door and comes out in front.'
5054 'No deeply held convictions?' asked Sir Humphrey.
5056 'No. The only thing Charlie was committed too was Charlie.'
5058 'Ah, I see. A politician, Minister.'
5060 =head2 v5.8.8 - Joe Raposo, "Bein' Green"
5062 L<Announced on 2006-01-31 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2006/01/msg109190.html>
5064 It's not that easy bein' green
5065 Having to spend each day the color of the leaves
5066 When I think it could be nicer being red or yellow or gold
5067 Or something much more colorful like that
5069 It's not easy bein' green
5070 It seems you blend in with so many other ordinary things
5071 And people tend to pass you over 'cause you're
5072 Not standing out like flashy sparkles in the water
5075 But green's the color of Spring
5076 And green can be cool and friendly-like
5077 And green can be big like an ocean
5078 Or important like a mountain
5081 When green is all there is to be
5082 It could make you wonder why, but why wonder why?
5083 Wonder I am green and it'll do fine, it's beautiful
5084 And I think it's what I want to be
5086 =head2 v5.8.8-RC1 - Cosgrove Hall Productions, "Dangermouse"
5088 L<Announced on 2006-01-20 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2006/01/msg108833.html>
5090 Greenback: And the world is mine, all mine. Muhahahahaha. See to it!
5092 Stiletto: Si, Barone. Subito, Barone.
5094 =head2 v5.8.7 - Sergei Prokofiev, "Peter and the Wolf"
5096 L<Announced on 2005-05-31 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2005/05/msg101088.html>
5098 And now, imagine the triumphant procession: Peter at the head; after him the
5099 hunters leading the wolf; and winding up the procession, grandfather and the
5102 Grandfather shook his head discontentedly: "Well, and if Peter hadn't caught
5103 the wolf? What then?"
5105 =head2 v5.8.7-RC1 - Sergei Prokofiev, "Peter and the Wolf"
5107 L<Announced on 2005-05-20 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2005/05/msg100711.html>
5109 And now this is how things stood: The cat was sitting on one branch. The
5110 bird on another, not too close to the cat. And the wolf walked round and
5111 round the tree, looking at them with greedy eyes.
5113 In the meantime, Peter, without the slightest fear, stood behind the
5114 gate, watching all that was going on. He ran home,got a strong rope and
5115 climbed up the high stone wall.
5117 One of the branches of the tree, around which the wolf was walking,
5118 stretched out over the wall.
5120 Grabbing hold of the branch, Peter lightly climbed over on to the tree.
5121 Peter said to the bird: "Fly down and circle round the wolf's head, only
5122 take care that he doesn't catch you!".
5124 The bird almost touched the wolf's head with its wings, while the wolf
5125 snapped angrily at him from this side and that.
5127 How that bird teased the wolf, how that wolf wanted to catch him! But
5128 the bird was clever and the wolf simply couldn't do anything about it.
5130 =head2 v5.8.6 - A. A. Milne, "The House at Pooh Corner"
5132 L<Announced on 2004-11-27 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/11/msg96304.html>
5134 "Hallo, Pooh," said Piglet, giving a jump of surprise. "I knew it was
5137 "So did I,", said Pooh. "What are you doing?"
5139 "I'm planting a haycorn, Pooh, so that it can grow up into an oak-tree,
5140 and have lots of haycorns just outside the front door instead of having
5141 to walk miles and miles, do you see, Pooh?"
5143 "Supposing it doesn't?" said Pooh.
5145 "It will, because Christopher Robin says it will, so that's why I'm
5148 "Well," aid Pooh, "if I plant a honeycomb outside my house, then it will
5149 grow up into a beehive."
5151 Piglet wasn't quite sure about this.
5153 "Or a /piece/ of a honeycomb," said Pooh, "so as not to waste too much.
5154 Only then I might only get a piece of a beehive, and it might be the
5155 wrong piece, where the bees were buzzing and not hunnying. Bother"
5157 Piglet agreed that that would be rather bothering.
5159 "Besides, Pooh, it's a very difficult thing, planting unless you know
5160 how to do it," he said; and he put the acorn in the hole he had made,
5161 and covered it up with earth, and jumped on it.
5163 =head2 v5.8.6-RC1 - A. A. Milne, "Winnie the Pooh"
5165 L<Announced on 2004-11-11 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/11/msg95786.html>
5167 "Hallo!" said Piglet, "whare are /you/ doing?"
5169 "Hunting," said Pooh.
5173 "Tracking something," said Winnie-the-Pooh very mysteriously.
5175 "Tracking what?" said Piglet, coming closer.
5177 "That's just what I ask myself, I ask myself, What?"
5179 "What do you think you'll answer?"
5181 "I shall have to wait until I catch up with it," said Winnie-the-Pooh.
5182 "Now, look there." He pointed to the ground in front of him. "What do
5185 "Track," said Piglet. "Paw-marks." He gave a little squeak of
5186 excitement. "Oh, Pooh!" Do you think it's a--a--a Woozle?"
5188 =head2 v5.8.5 - wikipedia, "Yew"
5190 L<Announced on 2004-07-19 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/07/msg93189.html>
5192 Yews are relatively slow growing trees, widely used in landscaping and
5193 ornamental horticulture. They have flat, dark-green needles, reddish
5194 bark, and bear seeds with red arils, which are eaten by thrushes,
5195 waxwings and other birds, dispersing the hard seeds undamaged in their
5196 droppings. Yew wood is reddish brown (with white sapwood), and very
5197 hard. It was traditionally used to make bows, especially the English
5200 In England, the Common Yew (Taxus baccata, also known as English Yew) is
5201 often found in churchyards. It is sometimes suggested that these are
5202 placed there as a symbol of long life or trees of death, and some are
5203 likely to be over 3,000 years old. It is also suggested that yew trees
5204 may have a pre-Christian association with old pagan holy sites, and the
5205 Christian church found it expedient to use and take over existing sites.
5206 Another explanation is that the poisonous berries and foliage discourage
5207 farmers and drovers from letting their animals wander into the burial
5208 grounds. The yew tree is a frequent symbol in the Christian poetry of
5209 T.S. Eliot, especially his Four Quartets.
5211 =head2 v5.8.5-RC2 - wikipedia, "Beech"
5213 L<Announced on 2004-07-09 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/07/msg92934.html>
5215 Beeches are trees of the Genus Fagus, family Fagaceae, including about
5216 ten species in Europe, Asia, and North America. The leaves are entire or
5217 sparsely toothed. The fruit is a small, sharply-angled nut, borne in
5218 pairs in spiny husks. The beech most commonly grown as an ornamental or
5219 shade tree is the European beech (Fagus sylvatica).
5221 The southern beeches belong to a different but related genus,
5222 Nothofagus. They are found in Australia, New Zealand, New Guinea, New
5223 Caledonia and South America.
5225 =head2 v5.8.5-RC1 - wikipedia, "Pedunculate Oak" (abridged)
5227 L<Announced on 2004-07-07 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/07/msg92840.html>
5229 The Pedunculate Oak is called the Common Oak in Britain, and is also
5230 often called the English Oak in other English speaking countries It is a
5231 large deciduous tree to 25-35m tall (exceptionally to 40m), with lobed
5232 and sessile (stalk-less) leaves. Flowering takes place in early to mid
5233 spring, and their fruit, called "acorns", ripen by autumn of the same
5234 year. The acorns are pedunculate (having a peduncle or acorn-stalk) and
5235 may occur singly, or several acorns may occur on a stalk.
5237 It forms a long-lived tree, with a large widespreading head of rugged
5238 branches. While it may naturally live to an age of a few centuries, many
5239 of the oldest trees are pollarded or coppiced, both pruning techniques
5240 that extend the tree's potential lifespan, if not its health.
5242 Within its native range it is valued for its importance to insects and
5243 other wildlife. Numerous insects live on the leaves, buds, and in the
5244 acorns. The acorns form a valuable food resource for several small
5245 mammals and some birds, notably Jays Garrulus glandarius.
5247 It is planted for forestry, and produces a long-lasting and durable
5248 heartwood, much in demand for interior and furniture work.
5250 =head2 v5.8.4 - T. S. Eliot, "The Old Gumbie Cat"
5252 L<Announced on 2004-04-22 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/04/msg90984.html>
5254 I have a Gumbie Cat in mind, her name is Jennyanydots;
5255 The curtain-cord she likes to wind, and tie it into sailor-knots.
5256 She sits upon the window-sill, or anything that's smooth and flat:
5257 She sits and sits and sits and sits -- and that's what makes a Gumbie Cat!
5259 But when the day's hustle and bustle is done,
5260 Then the Gumbie Cat's work is but hardly begun.
5261 She thinks that the cockroaches just need employment
5262 To prevent them from idle and wanton destroyment.
5263 So she's formed, from that a lot of disorderly louts,
5264 A troop of well-disciplined helpful boy-scouts,
5265 With a purpose in life and a good deed to do--
5266 And she's even created a Beetles' Tattoo.
5268 So for Old Gumbie Cats let us now give three cheers --
5269 On whom well-ordered households depend, it appears.
5272 =head2 v5.8.4-RC2 - T. S. Eliot, "Macavity: The Mystery Cat"
5274 L<Announced on 2004-04-16 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/04/msg90796.html>
5276 Macavity's a Mystery Cat: he's called the Hidden Paw --
5277 For he's the master criminal who can defy the Law.
5278 He's the bafflement of Scotland Yard, the Flying Squad's despair:
5279 For when they reach the scene of crime -- /Macavity's not there/!
5281 Macavity, Macavity, there's no one like Macavity,
5282 He's broken every human law, he breaks the law of gravity.
5283 His powers of levitation would make a fakir stare,
5284 And when you reach the scene of crime -- /Macavity's not there/!
5285 You may seek him in the basement, you may look up in the air --
5286 But I tell you once and once again, /Macavity's not there/!
5288 =head2 v5.8.4-RC1 - T. S. Eliot, "Skimbleshanks: The Railway Cat"
5290 L<Announced on 2004-04-05 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/04/msg90422.html>
5292 There's a whisper down the line at 11.39
5293 When the Night Mail's ready to depart,
5294 Saying 'Skimble where is Skimble has he gone to hunt the thimble?
5295 We must find him of the train can't start.'
5296 All the guards and all the porters and the stationmaster's daughters
5297 They are searching high and low,
5298 Saying 'Skimble where is Skimble for unless he's very nimble
5299 Then the Night Mail just can't go'
5300 At 11.42 then the signal's overdue
5301 And the passengers are frantic to a man--
5302 Then Skimble will appear and he'll saunter to the rear:
5303 He's been busy in the luggage van!
5304 He gives one flash of his glass-green eyes
5305 And the signal goes 'All Clear!'
5306 And we're off at last of the northern part
5307 Of the Northern Hemisphere!
5309 =head2 v5.8.3 - Arthur William Edgar O'Shaugnessy, "Ode"
5311 L<Announced on 2004-01-14 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/01/msg87317.html>
5313 We are the music makers,
5314 And we are the dreamers of dreams,
5315 Wandering by lonely sea-breakers,
5316 And sitting by desolate streams; --
5317 World-losers and world-forsakers,
5318 On whom the pale moon gleams:
5319 Yet we are the movers and shakers
5320 Of the world for ever, it seems.
5322 =head2 v5.8.3-RC1 - Irving Berlin, "Let's Face the Music and Dance"
5324 L<Announced on 2004-01-07 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/01/msg86969.html>
5326 There may be trouble ahead,
5327 But while there's music and moonlight,
5328 And love and romance,
5329 Let's face the music and dance.
5331 Before the fiddlers have fled,
5332 Before they ask us to pay the bill,
5333 And while we still have that chance,
5334 Let's face the music and dance.
5336 Soon, we'll be without the moon,
5337 Humming a different tune, and then,
5339 There may be teardrops to shed,
5340 So while there's music and moonlight,
5341 And love and romance,
5342 Let's face the music and dance.
5344 =head2 v5.8.2 - Walt Whitman, "Passage to India"
5346 L<Announced on 2003-11-05 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/11/msg84822.html>
5348 Passage, immediate passage! the blood burns in my veins!
5349 Away O soul! hoist instantly the anchor!
5350 Cut the hawsers - hall out - shake out every sail!
5351 Have we not stood here like trees in the ground long enough?
5352 Have we not grovel'd here long enough, eating and drinking like mere brutes?
5353 Have we not darken'd and dazed ourselves with books long enough?
5355 Sail forth - steer for the deep waters only,
5356 Reckless O soul, exploring, I with the and thou with me,
5357 For we are bound where mariner has not yet dared to go,
5358 And we will risk the ship, ourselves and all.
5361 O farther farther sail!
5362 O daring job, but safe! are they not all the seas of God?
5363 O farther, farther, farther sail!
5365 =head2 v5.8.2-RC2 - Eric Idle and John Du Prez, "Accountancy Shanty"
5367 L<Announced on 2003-11-03 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/11/msg84645.html>
5369 It's fun to charter an accountant
5370 And sail the wide accountan-cy,
5371 To find, explore the funds offshore
5372 And skirt the shoals of bankruptcy.
5374 =head2 v5.8.2-RC1 - Edward Lear, "The Jumblies"
5376 L<Announced on 2003-10-27 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/10/msg84194.html>
5378 They went to sea in a Sieve, they did,
5379 In a Sieve they went to sea:
5380 In spite of all their friends could say,
5381 On a winter's morn, on a stormy day,
5382 In a Sieve they went to sea!
5383 And when the Sieve turned round and round,
5384 And everyone cried, "You'll all be drowned!"
5385 They cried aloud, "Our Sieve ain't big,
5386 But we don't care a button, we don't care a fig!
5387 In a Sieve we'll go to sea!"
5389 Far and few, far and few,
5390 Are the lands where the Jumblies live;
5391 Their heads are green, and their hands are blue,
5392 And they went to sea in a Sieve.
5394 =head2 v5.8.1 - epigraph same as v5.7.1
5396 L<Announced on 2003-09-25 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/09/msg82678.html>
5398 =head2 v5.8.1-RC5 - Terry Pratchett, "Lords and Ladies"
5400 L<Announced on 2003-09-22 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/09/msg82476.html>
5402 No matter what she did with her hair it took about
5403 three minutes for it to tangle itself up again,
5404 like a garden hosepipe in a shed [Footnote: Which,
5405 no matter how carefully coiled, will always uncoil
5406 overnight and tie the lawnmower to the bicycles].
5408 =head2 v5.8.1-RC4 - Terry Pratchett, "Interesting Times"
5410 L<Announced on 2003-08-01 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/08/msg79184.html>
5412 Grand Viziers were /always/ scheming megalomaniacs.
5413 It was probably in the job description: "Are you a
5414 devious, plotting, unreliable madman? Ah, good,
5415 then you can be my most trusted minister."
5417 =head2 v5.8.1-RC3 - Terry Pratchett, "Interesting Times"
5419 L<Announced on 2003-07-30 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/07/msg79048.html>
5421 Lord Hong had a mind like a knife, although possibly
5422 a knife with a curved blade.
5424 =head2 v5.8.1-RC2 - Terry Pratchett, "Interesting Times"
5426 L<Announced on 2003-07-11 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/07/msg78102.html>
5428 Many an ancient lord's last words had been, "You can't kill
5429 me because I've got magic aaargh."
5431 =head2 v5.8.1-RC1 - Terry Pratchett, "Interesting Times"
5433 L<Announced on 2003-07-10 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/07/msg78009.html>
5435 Cohen was familiar with city gates. He'd broken down a number
5436 in his time, by battering ram, siege gun, and on one occasion
5439 But the gates of Hunghung were pretty damn good gates. They
5440 weren't like the gates of Ankh-Morpork, which were usually wide
5441 open to attract the spending customer and whose concession to
5442 defense was the sign "Thank You For Not Attacking Our City.
5443 Bonum Diem." These things were big and made of metal and there
5444 was a guardhouse and a squad of unhelpful men in black armor.
5446 =head2 v5.8.0 - Terry Pratchett, "Reaper Man"
5448 L<Announced on 2002-07-18 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2002/07/msg63720.html>
5450 There was the faint sound of footsteps.
5451 "Chap with a whip got as far as the big sharp spikes last week,"
5452 said the low priest.
5453 There was a sound like the flushing of a very old dry lavatory.
5454 The footsteps stopped. The High Priest smiled to himself.
5455 "Right," he said. "See your two pebbles and raise you two pebbles."
5456 The low priest threw down his cards. "Double Onion," he said.
5457 The High Priest looked down suspiciously.
5458 The low priest consulted a scrap of paper. "That's three hundred
5459 thousand, nine hundred and sixty-four pebbles you owe me," he said.
5460 There was the sound of footsteps. The priests exchanged glances.
5461 "Haven't had one for poisoned-dart alley for quite some time,"
5462 said the High Priest.
5463 "Five says he makes it", said the low priest. "You're on."
5464 There was a faint clatter of metal points on stone.
5465 "It's a shame to take your pebbles."
5466 There were footsteps again.
5468 =head2 v5.8.0-RC3 - no epigraph
5470 L<Announced on 2002-07-13 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2002/07/msg63234.html>
5472 =head2 v5.8.0-RC2 - no epigraph
5474 L<Announced on 2002-06-21 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2002/06/msg62013.html>
5476 =head2 v5.8.0-RC1 - no epigraph
5478 L<Announced on 2002-06-01 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2002/06/msg60317.html>
5480 =head2 v5.7.3 - Terry Pratchett, "Reaper Man"
5482 L<Announced on 2002-03-04 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2002/03/msg53652.html>
5484 Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong.
5485 No matter how fast light travels it finds the darkness has always
5486 got there first, and is waiting for it.
5488 =head2 v5.7.2 - Terry Pratchett, "Small Gods"
5490 L<Announced on 2001-07-13 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2001/07/msg40370.html>
5492 His philosophy was a mixture of three famous schools --
5493 the Cynics, the Stoics and the Epicureans -- and summed up
5494 all three of them in his famous phrase, "You can't trust any
5495 bugger further than you can throw him, and there's nothing
5496 you can do about it, so let's have a drink."
5498 =head2 v5.7.1 - Terry Pratchett, "The Colour of Magic"
5500 L<Announced on 2001-04-09 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2001/04/msg33851.html>
5502 "What happens next?" asked Twoflower.
5504 Hrun screwed a finger in his ear and inspected it absently.
5506 "Oh,", he said, "I expect in a minute the door will be
5507 flung back and I'll be dragged off to some sort of temple
5508 arena where I'll fight maybe a couple of giant spiders
5509 and an eight-foot slave from the jungles of Klatch and then
5510 I'll rescue some kind of a princess from the altar and then
5511 I'll kill off a few guards or whatever and then this girl
5512 will show me the secret passage out of the place and we'll
5513 liberate a couple of horses and escape with the treasure."
5514 Hrun leaned his head back on his hands and looked at the
5515 ceiling, whistling tunelessly.
5517 "All that?" said Twoflower.
5521 =head2 v5.7.0 - Terry Pratchett, "Moving Pictures"
5523 L<Announced on 2000-09-02 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2000/09/msg17730.html>
5525 The Librarian had seen many weird things in his time,
5526 but that had to be the 57th strangest.
5527 [footnote: he had a tidy mind]
5529 =head2 v5.6.2 - Laurence Sterne, "Tristram Shandy"
5531 L<Announced on 2003-11-15 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/11/msg85222.html>
5533 When great or unexpected events fall out upon the stage of this
5534 sublunary word--the mind of man, which is an inquisitive kind of
5535 a substance, naturally takes a flight, behind the scenes, to see
5536 what is the cause and first spring of them--The search was not
5537 long in this instance.
5539 =head2 v5.6.2-RC1 - Laurence Sterne, "Tristram Shandy"
5541 L<Announced on 2003-11-08 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/11/msg84953.html>
5543 "Pray, my dear", quoth my mother, "have you not forgot to wind up the clock?"
5545 =head2 v5.6.1 - J R R Tolkien, "The Hobbit", Riddles in the Dark
5547 L<Announced on 2001-04-08 by Gurusamy Sarathy|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2001/04/msg33823.html>
5549 `What have I got in my pocket?' he said aloud. He was talking to
5550 himself, but Gollum thought it was a riddle, and he was frightfully
5553 `Not fair! not fair!' he hissed. `It isn't fair, my precious, is it,
5554 to ask us what it's got in its nassty little pocketses?'
5556 Bilbo seeing what had happened and having nothing better to ask
5557 stuck to his question, `What have I got in my pocket?' he said
5560 `S-s-s-s-s,' hissed Gollum. `It must give us three guesseses,
5561 my precious, three guesseses.'
5563 =head2 v5.6.1-foolish - no epigraph
5565 L<Announced on 2001-04-01 by Gurusamy Sarathy|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2001/04/msg33421.html>
5567 =head2 v5.6.1-TRIAL3 - I can't find the announcement
5569 No announcement available.
5571 =head2 v5.6.1-TRIAL2 - no epigraph
5573 L<Announced on 2001-01-31 by Gurusamy Sarathy|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2001/01/msg29934.html>
5575 =head2 v5.6.1-TRIAL1 - no epigraph
5577 L<Announced on 2000-12-18 by Gurusamy Sarathy|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2000/12/msg27738.html>
5579 =head2 v5.6.0 - J R R Tolkien, "The Hobbit", The Last Stage
5581 L<Announced on 2000-03-23 by Gurusamy Sarathy|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2000/03/msg10341.html>
5583 The dragon is withered,
5584 His bones are now crumbled;
5585 His armour is shivered,
5586 His splendour is humbled!
5587 Though sword shall be rusted,
5588 And throne and crown perish
5589 With strength that men trusted
5590 And wealth that they cherish,
5591 Here grass is still growing,
5592 And leaves are a yet swinging,
5593 The white water flowing,
5594 And elves are yet singing
5595 Come! Tra-la-la-lally!
5596 Come back to the valley.
5598 =head2 v5.6.0-RC3 - no epigraph
5600 L<Announced on 2000-03-22 by Gurusamy Sarathy|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2000/03/msg10140.html>
5602 =head2 v5.005_05-RC1 - no epigraph
5604 L<Announced on 2009-02-16 by LE<0xe9>on Brocard|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2009/02/msg144227.html>
5606 =head2 v5.005_04 - no epigraph
5608 L<Announced on 2004-03-01 by LE<0xe9>on Brocard|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/03/msg89047.html>
5610 =head2 v5.005_04-RC2 - Rudyard Kipling, "The Jungle Book"
5612 L<Announced on 2004-02-19 by LE<0xe9>on Brocard|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/02/msg88672.html>
5614 The monkeys called the place their city, and pretended to despise
5615 the Jungle-People because they lived in the forest. And yet they
5616 never knew what the buildings were made for nor how to use
5617 them. They would sit in circles on the hall of the king's council
5618 chamber, and scratch for fleas and pretend to be men; or they would
5619 run in and out of the roofless houses and collect pieces of plaster
5620 and old bricks in a corner, and forget where they had hidden them,
5621 and fight and cry in scuffling crowds, and then break off to play up
5622 and down the terraces of the king's garden, where they would shake
5623 the rose trees and the oranges in sport to see the fruit and flowers
5626 =head2 v5.005_04-RC1 - Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
5628 L<Announced on 2004-02-05 by LE<0xe9>on Brocard|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/02/msg88312.html>
5630 Either the well was very deep, or she fell very slowly, for she had
5631 plenty of time as she went down to look about her and to wonder what was
5632 going to happen next. First, she tried to look down and make out what
5633 she was coming to, but it was too dark to see anything; then she looked
5634 at the sides of the well, and noticed that they were filled with
5635 cupboards and book-shelves; here and there she saw maps and pictures
5636 hung upon pegs. She took down a jar from one of the shelves as she
5637 passed; it was labelled 'ORANGE MARMALADE', but to her great
5638 disappointment it was empty: she did not like to drop the jar for fear
5639 of killing somebody, so managed to put it into one of the cupboards as
5642 =head2 v1.0_16 - Johan Vromans, extemporarily
5644 L<Announced on 2003-12-18 by Richard Clamp|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/12/msg86423.html>
5646 't was 16 years ago today
5647 Larry taught us a new game
5648 of lazyness, impatience, and hubris
5649 Happy birthday, Perl!
5651 =head1 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
5653 This document was originally compiled based on a list of epigraphs
5654 on L<Perl Monks|http://perlmonks.org> titled
5655 L<Recent Perl Release Announcement|http://perlmonks.org/?node_id=372406>