5 perlepigraphs - list of Perl release epigraphs
9 Many Perl release announcements included an I<epigraph>, a short excerpt
10 from a literary or other creative work, chosen by the pumpking or release
11 manager. This file assembles the known list of epigraph for posterity,
12 and also links to the release announcements in mailing list archives.
14 I<Note>: these have also been referred to as I<epigrams>, but the
15 definition of I<epigraph> is closer to the way they have been used.
16 Consult your favorite dictionary for details.
20 =head2 v5.29.5 - T. S. Eliot, "The Naming Of Cats"
22 L<Announced on 2018-11-20 by Karen Etheridge|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/11/msg252839.html>
24 The Naming of Cats is a difficult matter,
25 It isn't just one of your holiday games;
26 You may think at first I'm as mad as a hatter
27 When I tell you, a cat must have THREE DIFFERENT NAMES.
28 First of all, there's the name that the family use daily,
29 Such as Peter, Augustus, Alonzo or James,
30 Such as Victor or Jonathan, George or Bill Bailey--
31 All of them sensible everyday names.
32 There are fancier names if you think they sound sweeter,
33 Some for the gentlemen, some for the dames:
34 Such as Plato, Admetus, Electra, Demeter--
35 But all of them sensible everyday names.
36 But I tell you, a cat needs a name that's particular,
37 A name that's peculiar, and more dignified,
38 Else how can he keep up his tail perpendicular,
39 Or spread out his whiskers, or cherish his pride?
40 Of names of this kind, I can give you a quorum,
41 Such as Munkustrap, Quaxo, or Coricopat,
42 Such as Bombalurina, or else Jellylorum-
43 Names that never belong to more than one cat.
44 But above and beyond there's still one name left over,
45 And that is the name that you never will guess;
46 The name that no human research can discover--
47 But THE CAT HIMSELF KNOWS, and will never confess.
48 When you notice a cat in profound meditation,
49 The reason, I tell you, is always the same:
50 His mind is engaged in a rapt contemplation
51 Of the thought, of the thought, of the thought of his name:
54 Deep and inscrutable singular Name.
56 =head2 v5.29.4 - The Mountain Goats, "Oceanographer's Choice"
58 L<Announced on 2018-10-20 by Aaron Crane|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/10/msg252575.html>
61 Guy in a skeleton costume
62 Comes up to the guy in the Superman suit
63 Runs through him with a broadsword
64 I flipped the television off
65 Bring all the bright lights up
66 Turn the radio up loud
67 I don't know why I'm so persuaded
68 That if I think things through
69 Long enough and hard enough
70 I'll somehow get to you
71 But then you came in and we locked eyes
72 You kicked the ashtray over as we came toward each other
73 Stubbed my cigarette out against the west wall
76 Would you look at that?
77 We're throwing off sparks
78 What will I do when I don't have you
79 To hold onto in the dark?
81 =head2 v5.29.3 - Mac Miller, "Senior Skip Day"
83 L<Announced on 2018-09-20 by John 'genehack' Anderson|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/09/msg252255.html>
85 Enjoy the best things in your life
86 ’Cause you ain’t gonna get to live it twice
87 They say you waste time asleep
88 But I’m just tryin’ to dream
90 =head2 v5.29.2 - Rick Riordan, "The Lightning Thief"
92 L<Announced on 2018-08-20 by Chris 'BinGOs' Williams|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/08/msg251918.html>
94 Look, I didn't want to be a half-blood.
96 If you're reading this because you think you might be one,
97 my advice is: close this book right now. Believe whatever
98 lie your mom or dad told you about your birth, and try
99 to lead a normal life.
101 Being a half-blood is dangerous. It's scary. Most of the time,
102 it gets you killed in painful, nasty ways.
104 If you're a normal kid, reading this because you think it's
105 fiction, great. Read on. I envy you for being able to believe
106 that none of this ever happened.
108 But if you recognize yourself in these pages - if you feel
109 something stirring inside - stop reading immediately.
110 You might be one of us. And once you know that, it's only a
111 matter of time before they sense it too, and they'll come for you.
113 =head2 v5.29.1 - Richard Curtis & Ben Elton, "Blackadder, Series 3, Episode 2: Ink and Incapability"
115 L<Announced on 2018-07-20 by Steve Hay|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/07/msg251605.html>
117 Dr. Samuel Johnson: Here it is, sir: the very cornerstone of English
118 scholarship. This book, sir, contains every word in our beloved
121 Prince Regent George: Hmm.
123 Edmund Blackadder: Every single one, sir?
125 Johnson: (confidently) Every single word, sir!
127 Blackadder: (to Prince) Oh, well, in that case, sir, I hope you will
128 not object if I also offer the Doctor my most enthusiastic
133 Blackadder: 'Contrafribularities,' sir? It is a common word down our
136 Johnson: Damn! (writes in the book)
138 Blackadder: Oh, I'm sorry, sir. I'm anaspeptic, phrasmotic, even
139 compunctious to have caused you such pericombobulation.
141 Johnson: What? What? WHAT?
143 =head2 v5.29.0 - Erle Stanley Gardner, The Case of the Grinning Gorilla
145 L<Announced on 2018-06-26 by Sawyer X|http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/251297>
147 Courage is the only antidote for danger.
149 =head2 v5.28.0 - Martin Luther King, Jr., 1967
151 L<Announced on 2018-06-22 by Sawyer X|http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/251240>
153 When we look at modern man we have to face the fact that modern man
154 suffers from a kind of poverty of the spirit which stands in glaring
155 contrast with his scientific and technological abundance. We've learned
156 to fly the air as birds, we've learned to swim the seas as fish, yet we
157 haven't learned to walk the earth as brothers and sisters.
159 =head2 v5.28.0-RC4 - Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book
161 L<Announced on 2018-06-19 by Sawyer X|http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/251212>
163 You're alive, Bod. That means you have infinite potential. You can do
164 anything, make anything, dream anything. If you can change the world,
165 the world will change. Potential. Once you're dead, it's gone. Over.
166 You've made what you've made, dreamed your dream, written your name.
167 You may be buried here, you may even walk. But that potential is
170 =head2 v5.28.0-RC3 - Anthony Horowitz, Magpie Murders
172 L<Announced on 2018-06-18 by Sawyer X|http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/251204>
174 These had been his plans. But if there was one thing that life had
175 taught him, it was the futility of making plans. Life had its own
178 =head2 v5.28.0-RC2 - Oliver Sacks, The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat: And Other Clinical Tales
180 L<Announced on 2018-06-06 by Sawyer X|http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/251122>
182 Had she not been of exceptional intelligence and literacy, with an
183 imagination filled and sustained, so to speak, by the images of
184 others, images conveyed by language, by the word, she might have
185 remained almost as helpless as a baby.
187 =head2 v5.28.0-RC1 - Anu Garg, A Word A Day
189 L<Announced on 2018-05-21 by Sawyer X|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/05/msg250999.html>
191 One doesn't have to know the unit of pain (dol) to realize that the
192 unit of joy is not the dollar, or any other currency for that matter.
194 =head2 v5.27.11 - Tana French, In the Woods
196 L<Announced on 2018-04-20 by Sawyer X|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/04/msg250571.html>
198 And then, too, I had learned early to assume something dark and
199 lethal hidden at the heart of anything I loved. When I couldn't find
200 it, I responded, bewildered and wary, in the only way I knew how: by
201 planting it there myself.
203 =head2 v5.27.10 - Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, p. 248
205 L<Announced on 2018-03-20 by Todd Rinaldo|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/03/msg250042.html>
207 A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher
208 a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts,
209 build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders,
210 cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure,
211 program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly.
212 Specialization is for insects.
214 =head2 v5.27.9 - Agatha Christie, "The Mysterious Affair at Styles"
216 L<Announced on 2018-02-20 by Renee Bäcker|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/02/msg249549.html>
218 Poirot was an extraordinary looking little man. He was hardly more
219 than five feet, four inches, but carried himself with great dignity.
220 His head was exactly the shape of an egg, and he always perched it
221 a little on one side. His moustache was very stiff and military.
222 The neatness of his attire was almost incredible. I believe a
223 speck of dust would have caused him more pain than a bullet wound.
224 Yet this quaint dandified little man who, I was sorry to see, now
225 limped badly, had been in his time one of the most celebrated members
226 of the Belgian police. As a detective, his flair had been extraordinary,
227 and he had achieved triumphs by unravelling some of the most baffling
229 He pointed out to me the little house inhabited by him and his fellow
230 Belgians, and I promised to go and see him at an early date. Then he
231 raised his hat with a flourish to Cynthia, and we drove away.
232 "He's a dear little man," said Cynthia. "I'd no idea you knew him."
233 "You've been entertaining a celebrity unawares," I replied.
234 And, for the rest of the way home, I recited to them the various
235 exploits and triumphs of Hercule Poirot.
237 =head2 v5.27.8 - Jasper Fforde, "Shades of Grey"
239 L<Announced on 2018-01-20 by Abigail|http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/248914>
241 2.4.16.55.021: Males are to wear dresscode #6 during inter-Collective
242 travel. Hats are encouraged, but not required.
244 9.3.88.32.025: The cucumber and tomato are both fruit; the avocado
245 is a nut. To assist with the dietary requirements of vegetarians,
246 on the first Tuesday of the month a chicken is officially a vegetable.
248 5.3.21.01.002: Once allocated, postcodes are permanent, and for life.
250 6.1.02.11.235: Artifacture from before the Something That Happened
251 may be collected, so long it does not appear on the Leapback list
252 or possess color above 23 percent saturation.
254 2.3.06.02.087: Unnecessary sharpening of pencils constitutes a waste
255 of public resources, and will be punished as appropriate.
257 2.1.01.05.002: All children are to attent school until the age of
258 sixteen or until they have learned everything, whichever be the sooner.
260 1.3.02.06.023: There shall be no staring at the sun, however good
263 1.1.19.02.006: Team sports are mandatory in order to build character.
264 Character is there to give purpose to team sports.
266 2.3.03.01.006: Juggling shall not be practiced after 4:00 pm.
269 =head2 v5.27.7 - Terry Pratchett, "Hogfather"
271 L<Announced on 2017-12-20 by Chris 'BinGOs' Williams|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/12/msg248274.html>
273 Death looked at the sacks.
275 It was a strange but demonstrable fact that the sacks of
276 toys carried by the Hogfather, no matter what they
277 really contained, always appeared to have sticking out
278 of the top a teddy bear, a toy soldier in the kind of
279 colorful uniform that would stand out in a disco, a
280 drum and a red-and-white candy cane. The actual
281 contents always turned out to be something a bit
282 garish and costing $5.99.
284 Death had investigated one or two. There had been a
285 Real Agatean Ninja, for example, with Fearsome
286 Death Grip, and a Captain Carrot One-Man Night
287 Watch with a complete wardrobe of toy weapons, each
288 of which cost as much as the original wooden doll in
291 Mind you, the stuff for the girls was just as
292 depressing. It seemed to be nearly all horses. Most of
293 them were grinning. Horses, Death felt, shouldn't grin.
295 Any horse that was grinning was planning something.
297 =head2 v5.27.6 - Ogden Nash, "Behold the Duck"
299 L<Announced on 2017-11-20 by Karen Etheridge|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/11/msg247489.html>
306 It is 'specially fond
308 when it dines or sups
312 =head2 v5.27.5 - Frank Birch, Dilly Knox & G. P. Mackeson, "Alice in I.D.25"
314 L<Announced on 2017-10-20 by Steve Hay|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/10/msg246785.html>
316 'Can I do anything?' Alice suggested timidly, thinking that something
317 dreadful must have happened.
318 The Waterflap jumped as if it had been shot. 'What are you doing
319 here?' it snapped. 'Take this at once into the Directional room,' and it
320 thrust the paper which had caused all the fuss into her hands.
321 'But where is the Directional room?' she inquired, bewildered.
322 'Why, there of course,' howled the Waterflap, pointing to a door.
323 'How could I possibly know that!' Alice exclaimed, angered by his
325 'Silly girl,' it hissed. 'Why, it's called the Directional room
326 because it's in that direction,' and it pushed her roughly through the
329 =head2 v5.27.4 - Richard Brautigan, "All Watched Over By Machines Of Loving Grace"
331 L<Announced on 2017-09-20 by John SJ Anderson|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/09/msg246371.html>
334 the sooner the better!)
335 of a cybernetic meadow
336 where mammals and computers
337 live together in mutually
344 of a cybernetic forest
345 filled with pines and electronics
346 where deer stroll peacefully
348 as if they were flowers
349 with spinning blossoms.
353 of a cybernetic ecology
354 where we are free of our labors
355 and joined back to nature,
356 returned to our mammal
357 brothers and sisters,
359 by machines of loving grace.
361 =head2 v5.27.3 - Rodgers and Hammerstein, "You'll Never Walk Alone"
363 L<Announced on 2017-08-21 by Matthew Horsfall|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/08/msg245988.html>
365 When you walk through a storm
366 Hold your head up high
367 And don't be afraid of the dark
369 At the end of a storm
371 And the sweet silver song of a lark
373 Walk on through the wind
374 Walk on through the rain
375 Though your dreams be tossed and blown
378 With hope in your heart
379 And you'll never walk alone
381 You'll never walk alone
384 With hope in your heart
385 And you'll never walk alone
387 You'll never walk alone
389 =head2 v5.27.2 - Lev Grossman, Codex
391 L<Announced on 2017-07-20 by Aaron Crane|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/07/msg245585.html>
393 He went back for another stack of books: a three-volume English legal
394 treatise; a travel guide to Tuscany from the '20s crammed with faded
395 Italian wildflowers that fluttered out from between the pages like
396 moths; a French edition of Turgeniev so decayed that it came apart in
397 his hands; a register of London society from 1863. In a way it was
398 idiotic. He was treating these books like they were holy relics. It
399 wasn't like he would ever actually read them. But there was something
400 magnetic about them, something that compelled respect, even the silly
401 ones, like the Enlightenment treatise about how lightning was caused
402 by bees. They were information, data, but not in the form he was used
403 to dealing with it. They were non-digital, nonelectrical chunks of
404 memory, not stamped out of silicon but laboriously crafted out of wood
405 pulp and ink, leather and glue. Somebody had cared enough to write
406 these things; somebody else had cared enough to buy them, possibly
407 even read them, at the very least keep them safe for 150 years,
408 sometimes longer, when they could have vanished at the touch of a
409 spark. That made them worth something, didn't it, just by itself?
410 Though most of them would have bored him rigid the second he cracked
411 them open, which there wasn't much chance of. Maybe that was what he
412 found so appealing: the sight of so many books that he'd never have to
413 read, so much work he'd never have to do.
415 =head2 v5.27.1 - Rona Munro, Doctor Who: Survival
417 L<Announced on 2017-06-20 by Eric Herman|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/06/msg245055.html>
419 There are worlds out there where the sky is burning,
420 where the sea's asleep and the rivers dream,
421 people made of smoke and cities made of song.
422 Somewhere there's danger,
423 somewhere there's injustice
424 and somewhere else the tea is getting cold.
425 Come on, Ace, we've got work to do.
427 =head2 v5.27.0 - Bertrand Russell, The Road to Happiness
429 L<Announced on 2017-05-31 by Sawyer X|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/05/msg244580.html>
431 People who have theories as to how one should live tend to forget the
432 limitations of nature. If your way of life involves constant
433 restraint of impulse for the sake of some one supreme aim that you
434 have set yourself, it is likely that the aim will become increasingly
435 distasteful because of the efforts that it demands; impulse, denied
436 its normal outlets, will find others, probably in spite; pleasure, if
437 you allow yourself any at all, will be dissociated from the main
438 current of your life, and will become Bacchic and frivolous. Such
439 pleasure brings no happiness, but only a deeper despair.
441 -- Bertrand Russell, The Road to Happiness
443 =head2 v5.26.2 - Desmond Morris, "Catwatching: The Essential Guide to Cat Behaviour"
445 L<Announced on 2018-04-14 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/04/msg250440.html>
447 How does a cat use its whiskers? The usual answer is that the whiskers
448 are feelers that enable a cat to tell whether a gap is wide enough for
449 it to squeeze through, but the truth is more complicated and more
450 remarkable. In addition to their obvious role as feelers sensitive to
451 touch, the whiskers also operate as air-current detectors. As the cat
452 moves along in the dark it needs to manoeuvre past solid objects without
453 touching them. Each solid object it approaches causes slight eddies in
454 the air, minute disturbances in the currents of air movements, and the
455 cat's whiskers are so amazingly sensitive that they can read these air
456 changes and respond to the presence of solid obstacles even without
459 =head2 v5.26.2-RC1 - Desmond Morris, "Catwatching: The Essential Guide to Cat Behaviour"
461 L<Announced on 2018-03-24 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/03/msg250103.html>
463 Cats have a way of endearing themselves to their owners, not just by
464 their 'kittenoid' behaviour, which stimulates strong parental feelings,
465 but also by their sheer gracefulness. There is an elegance and a
466 composure about them that captivates the human eye. To the sensitive
467 human being it becomes a privilege to share a room with a cat, exchange
468 its glance, feel its greeting rub, or watch it gently luxuriate itself
469 into a snoozing ball on a soft cushion.
471 =head2 v5.26.1 - Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
473 L<Announced on 2017-09-22 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/09/msg246408.html>
475 And soon I heard a roaring wind:
476 It did not come anear;
477 But with its sound it shook the sails,
478 That were so thin and sere.
480 The upper air burst into life!
481 And a hundred fire-flags sheen,
482 To and fro they were hurried about!
483 And to and fro, and in and out,
484 The wan stars danced between.
486 =head2 v5.26.1-RC1 - Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
488 L<Announced on 2017-09-10 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/09/msg246202.html>
490 At length did cross an Albatross,
491 Thorough the fog it came;
492 As if it had been a Christian soul,
493 We hailed it in God's name.
495 It ate the food it ne'er had eat,
496 And round and round it flew.
497 The ice did split with a thunder-fit;
498 The helmsman steered us through!
500 And a good south wind sprung up behind;
501 The Albatross did follow,
502 And every day, for food or play,
503 Came to the mariner's hollo!
505 In mist or cloud, on mast or shroud,
506 It perched for vespers nine;
507 Whiles all the night, through fog-smoke white,
508 Glimmered the white Moon-shine.'
510 'God save thee, ancient Mariner!
511 From the fiends, that plague thee thus!—
512 Why look'st thou so?'—With my cross-bow
513 I shot the ALBATROSS.
515 =head2 v5.26.0 - Nine Simone, Ain't Got No / I Got Life
517 L<Announced on 2017-05-30 by Sawyer X|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/05/msg244573.html>
520 And I'm gonna keep it
522 And nobody's gonna take it away
525 =head2 v5.26.0-RC2 - Richard Condon, The Manchurian Candidate
527 L<Announced on 2017-05-23 by Sawyer X|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/05/msg244511.html>
529 Amateur psychiatric prognosis can be fascinating when there is
530 absolutely nothing else to do.
532 =head2 v5.26.0-RC1 - Thomas Paine, Common Sense
534 L<Announced on 2017-05-11 by Sawyer X|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/05/msg244337.html>
536 A long habit of not thinking a thing WRONG, gives it a superficial
537 appearance of being RIGHT, and raises at first a formidable outcry in
538 defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more
539 converts than reason.
541 =head2 v5.25.12 - Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
543 L<Announced on 2017-04-20 by Sawyer X|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/04/msg244146.html>
545 I have told my sons that they are not under any circumstances to take
546 part in massacres, and that the news of massacres of enemies is not
547 to fill them with satisfaction or glee.
549 I have also told them not to work for companies which make massacre
550 machinery, and to express contempt for people who think we need
553 =head2 v5.25.11 - Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow
555 L<Announced on 2017-03-20 by Sawyer X|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/03/msg243624.html>
557 Subjective confidence in a judgment is not a reasoned evaluation of
558 the probability that this judgment is correct. Confidence is a
559 feeling, which reflects the coherence of the information and the
560 cognitive ease of processing it. It is wise to take admissions of
561 uncertainty seriously, but declarations of high confidence mainly
562 tell you that an individual has constructed a coherent story in his
563 mind, not necessarily that the story is true.
565 =head2 v5.25.10 - Erich Fried, 1968
567 L<Announced on 2017-02-20 by Renee Bäcker|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/02/msg243173.html>
569 He who wants the world to remain as it is
570 doesn't want it to remain.
572 =head2 v5.25.9 - A. A. Milne, "Winnie-the-Pooh", 1926
574 L<Announced on 2017-01-20 by Abigail|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/01/msg242405.html>
576 Pooh always liked a little something at eleven o'clock in the
577 morning, and he was very glad to see Rabbit getting out the plates
578 and mugs; and when Rabbit said, "Honey or condensed milk with
579 your bread?" he was so excited that he said, "Both," and then,
580 so as not to seem greedy, he added, "But don't bother about the
583 =head2 v5.25.8 - Langston Hughes, So long
585 L<Announced on 2016-12-20 by Sawyer X|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/12/msg241739.html>
589 and it's in the way you're gone
590 but it's like a foreign language
592 and maybe was I blind
598 =head2 v5.25.7 - J.R.R. Tolkien, "The Silmarillion"
600 L<Announced on 2016-11-20 by Chad 'Exodist' Granum|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/11/msg241120.html>
604 Among the tales of sorrow and of ruin that come down to us from the darkness of
605 those days there are yet some in which amid weeping there is joy and under the
606 shadow of death light that endures. And of these histories most fair still in
607 the ears of the Elves is the tale of Beren and Lúthien. Of their lives was made
608 the Lay of Leithian, Release from Bondage, which is the longest save one of the
609 songs concerning the world of old; but here is told in fewer words and without
612 =head2 v5.25.6 - Alan Warner, "The Sopranos"
614 L<Announced on 2016-10-10 by Aaron Crane|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/10/msg240406.html>
616 I'm up on all the pop trivia, says the guy with the stud in his tongue.
618 Yes. Do you know who the lead singer of Echo and the Bunnymen is?
619 Let me guess, is he called Echo?
620 Good guess but no, anyway when they played Glastonbury it was so
621 muddy he had two roadies to hold up a binliner on each of his legs so
622 they wouldn't get covered in mud.
623 That's what being rich and famous is all about, having someone
624 else hold up your binliners on each leg when you're wandering across
626 Do you know what Sammy Davis Junior said being black and famous in
629 He said being black and famous in America meant he could be
630 refused entry to exclusive clubs and restaurants that other people
631 could only ever dream of going to. Do you know Michael Stipe likes to
632 send his remote control toy cars onto stage while his support band are
633 playing to freak them out?
635 You're not really a pop trivia person, are you, Kylah?
636 No, I'm not, Stephen.
638 =head2 v5.25.5 - Philip K. Dick, VALIS
640 L<Announced on 2016-09-20 by Stevan Little|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/09/msg239887.html>
642 We hypostatize information into objects. Rearrangement of objects is
643 change in the content of the information; the message has changed.
644 This is a language which we have lost the ability to read. We ourselves
645 are a part of this language; changes in us are changes in the content
646 of the information. We ourselves are information-rich; information
647 enters us, is processed and is then projected outward once more, now
648 in an altered form. We are not aware that we are doing this, that in
649 fact this is all we are doing
651 =head2 v5.25.4 - Terry Pratchett, "Truckers"
653 L<Announced on 2016-08-20 by Chris 'BinGOs' Williams|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/08/msg239191.html>
655 Concerning Nomes and Time
657 Nomes are small. On the whole, small creatures don't live for a long
658 time. But perhaps they do live fast.
662 One of the shortest-lived creatures on the planet Earth is the adult
663 common mayfly. It lasts for one day. The longest-living things are
664 bristlecone pine trees, at 4,700 years and still counting.
666 This may seem tough on the mayflies. But the important thing is not
667 how long your life is, but how long it seems.
669 To a mayfly, a single hour may last as long as a century. Perhaps
670 old mayflies sit around complaining about how life this minute isn't a
671 patch on the good old minutes of long ago, when the world was
672 young and the sun seemed so much brighter and larvae showed you a
673 bit of respect. Whereas the trees, which are not famous to their
674 quick reactions, may just have time to notice the way the sky keeps
675 flickering before the dry rot and woodworm set in.
677 It's all a sort of relativity. The faster you live, the more time
678 stretches out. To a nome, a year lasts as long as ten years does to a
679 human. Remember it. Don't let it concern you. They don't. They don't
682 =head2 v5.25.3 - Edward Lear, ed. Vivien Noakes, "The Complete Nonsense and Other Verse": The Dong with a Luminous Nose
684 L<Announced on 2016-07-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/07/msg238158.html>
686 When awful darkness and silence reign
687 Over the great Gromboolian plain,
688 Through the long, long wintry nights; -
689 When the angry breakers roar
690 As they beat on the rocky shore; -
691 When Storm-clouds brood on the towering heights
692 Of the Hills of the Chankly Bore: -
694 Then, through the vast and gloomy dark,
695 There moves what seems a fiery spark,
696 A lonely spark with silvery rays
697 Piercing the coal-black night, -
698 A Meteor strange and bright: -
699 Hither and thither the vision strays,
700 A single lurid light.
702 Slowly it wanders, - pauses, - creeps, -
703 Anon it sparkles, - flashes and leaps;
704 And ever as onward it gleaming goes
705 A light on the Bong-tree stems it throws.
706 And those who watch at that midnight hour
707 From Hall or Terrace, or lofty Tower,
708 Cry, as the wild light passes along, -
709 'The Dong! - the Dong!
710 The wandering Dong through the forest goes!
712 The Dong with a luminous Nose!'
714 =head2 v5.25.2 - Dan le Sac Vs Scroobius Pip "Waiting For The Beat To Kick In"
716 L<Announced on 2016-06-20 by Matthew Horsfall|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/06/msg237274.html>
718 Waiting for the beat to kick in
720 Waiting for my feet to grow wings
722 All of these tiresome things
723 That we know and love
724 Waiting for the beat to kick in
727 =head2 v5.25.1 - Eli Pariser, "The Filter Bubble"
729 L<Announced on 2016-05-20 by Sawyer X|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/05/msg236566.html>
731 Imagine that you're a smart high school student on the low end of the social
732 totem pole. You're alienated from adult authority, but unlike many teenagers,
733 you're also alienated from the power structures of your peers -- an existence
734 that can feel lonely and peripheral. Systems and equations are intuitive, but
735 people aren't -- social signals are confusing and messy, difficult to interpret.
737 Then you discover code. You may be powerless at the lunch table, but code
738 gives you power over an infinitely malleable world and opens the door to a
739 symbolic system that's perfectly clear and ordered. The jostling for position
740 and status fades away. The nagging parental voices disappear. There's just a
741 clean, white page for you to fill, an opportunity to build a better place, a
742 home, from the ground up.
744 No wonder you're a geek.
746 =head2 v5.25.0 - Robert Frost, "The Trial by Existence"
748 L<Announced on 2016-05-09 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/05/msg236244.html>
750 Even the bravest that are slain
751 Shall not dissemble their surprise
752 On waking to find valor reign,
753 Even as on earth, in paradise;
754 And where they sought without the sword
755 Wide fields of asphodel fore’er,
756 To find that the utmost reward
757 Of daring should be still to dare.
759 =head2 v5.24.4 - Desmond Morris, "Catwatching: The Essential Guide to Cat Behaviour"
761 L<Announced on 2018-04-14 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/04/msg250439.html>
763 Cats hate doors. Doors simply do not register in the evolutionary story
764 of the cat family. They constantly block patrolling activities and
765 prevent cats from exploring their home range and then returning to their
766 central, secure base at will. Humans often do not understand that a cat
767 needs to make only a brief survey of its territory before returning with
768 all the necessary information about the activities of other cats in the
769 vicinity. It likes to make these tours of inspection at frequent
770 intervals, but does not want to stay outside for very long, unless there
771 has been some special and unexpected change in the condition of the
772 local feline population.
774 =head2 v5.24.4-RC1 - Desmond Morris, "Catwatching: The Essential Guide to Cat Behaviour"
776 L<Announced on 2018-03-24 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/03/msg250102.html>
778 The domestic cat is a contradiction. No animal has developed such an
779 intimate relationship with mankind, while at the same time demanding and
780 getting such independence of movement and action. The dog may be man's
781 best friend, but it is rarely allowed out on its own to wander from
782 garden to garden or street to street. The obedient dog has to be taken
783 for a walk. The headstrong cat walks alone.
785 =head2 v5.24.3 - Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
787 L<Announced on 2017-09-22 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/09/msg246407.html>
789 Oh sleep! it is a gentle thing,
790 Beloved from pole to pole!
791 To Mary Queen the praise be given!
792 She sent the gentle sleep from Heaven,
793 That slid into my soul.
795 The silly buckets on the deck,
796 That had so long remained,
797 I dreamt that they were filled with dew;
798 And when I awoke, it rained.
800 =head2 v5.24.3-RC1 - Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
802 L<Announced on 2017-09-10 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/09/msg246201.html>
804 'And now the STORM-BLAST came, and he
805 Was tyrannous and strong:
806 He struck with his o'ertaking wings,
807 And chased us south along.
809 With sloping masts and dipping prow,
810 As who pursued with yell and blow
811 Still treads the shadow of his foe,
812 And forward bends his head,
813 The ship drove fast, loud roared the blast,
814 And southward aye we fled.
816 And now there came both mist and snow,
817 And it grew wondrous cold:
818 And ice, mast-high, came floating by,
821 And through the drifts the snowy clifts
822 Did send a dismal sheen:
823 Nor shapes of men nor beasts we ken—
824 The ice was all between.
826 The ice was here, the ice was there,
827 The ice was all around:
828 It cracked and growled, and roared and howled,
829 Like noises in a swound!
831 =head2 v5.24.2 - Roald Dahl, "The Three Little Pigs"
833 L<Announced on 2017-07-15 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/07/msg245527.html>
835 A short while later, through the wood,
836 Came striding brave Miss Riding Hood.
837 The Wolf stood there, his eyes ablaze
838 And yellowish, like mayonnaise.
839 His teeth were sharp, his gums were raw,
840 And spit was dripping from his jaw.
841 Once more the maiden's eyelid flickers.
842 She draws the pistol from her knickers.
843 Once more, she hits the vital spot,
844 And kills him with a single shot.
845 Pig, peeping through the window, stood
846 And yelled, 'Well done, Miss Riding Hood!'
848 Ah, Piglet, you must never trust
849 Young ladies from the upper crust.
850 For now, Miss Riding Hood, one notes,
851 Not only has two wolfskin coats,
852 But when she goes from place to place,
853 She has a PIGSKIN TRAVELLING CASE.
855 =head2 v5.24.2-RC1 - Roald Dahl, "The Three Little Pigs"
857 L<Announced on 2017-07-01 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/07/msg245292.html>
859 The animal I really dig
860 Above all others is the pig.
861 Pigs are noble. Pigs are clever,
862 Pig are courteous. However,
863 Now and then, to break this rule,
864 One meets a pig who is a fool.
865 What, for example, would you say
866 If strolling through the woods one day,
867 Right there in front of you you saw
868 A pig who'd built his house of STRAW?
869 The Wolf who saw it licked his lips,
870 And said, 'That pig has had his chips.'
872 =head2 v5.24.1 - Charles Dodgson [as "Lewis Carroll"], "The Hunting of the Snark", Fit 4: The Hunting
874 L<Announced on 2017-01-14 by Steve Hay|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/01/msg242259.html>
876 The Bellman looked uffish, and wrinkled his brow.
877 'If only you'd spoken before!
878 It's excessively awkward to mention it now,
879 With the Snark, so to speak, at the door!
881 'We should all of us grieve, as you well may believe,
882 If you never were met with again -
883 But surely, my man, when the voyage began,
884 You might have suggested it then?
886 'It's excessively awkward to mention it now -
887 As I think I've already remarked.'
888 And the man they called 'Hi!' replied, with a sigh,
889 'I informed you the day we embarked.
891 'You may charge me with murder - or want of sense -
892 (We are all of us weak at times):
893 But the slightest approach to a false pretence
894 Was never among my crimes!
896 'I said it in Hebrew - I said it in Dutch -
897 I said it in German and Greek:
898 But I wholly forgot (and it vexes me much)
899 That English is what you speak!'
901 ''Tis a pitiful tale,' said the Bellman, whose face
902 Had grown longer at every word:
903 'But, now that you've stated the whole of your case,
904 More debate would be simply absurd.
906 'The rest of my speech' (he exclaimed to his men)
907 'You shall hear when I've leisure to speak it.
908 But the Snark is at hand, let me tell you again!
909 'Tis your glorious duty to seek it!
911 =head2 v5.24.1-RC5 - John Milton, ed. Gordon Campbell, "Paradise Regained", Book IV
913 L<Announced on 2017-01-02 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/01/msg242016.html>
915 Thus passed the night so foul, till Morning fair
916 Came forth with pilgrim steps, in amice grey;
917 Who with her radiant finger stilled the roar
918 Of thunder, chased the clouds, and laid the winds,
919 And grisly spectres, which the fiend had raised
920 To tempt the Son of God with terrors dire.
921 And now the sun with more effectual beams
922 Had cheered the face of earth, and dried the wet
923 From drooping plant, or dropping tree; the birds,
924 Who all things now behold more fresh and green,
925 After a night of storm so ruinous,
926 Cleared up their choicest notes in bush and spray,
927 To gratulate the sweet return of morn.
929 =head2 v5.24.1-RC4 - John Milton, ed. Gordon Campbell, "Paradise Lost", Book II
931 L<Announced on 2016-10-12 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/10/msg240224.html>
933 Before the gates there sat
934 On either side a formidable shape;
935 The one seemed woman to the waste, and fair,
936 But ended foul in many a scaly fold,
937 Voluminous and vast -- a serpent armed
938 With mortal sting; about her middle round
939 A cry of hell hounds never ceasing barked
940 With wide Cerberean mouths full loud, and rung
941 A hideous peal; yet, when they list, would creep,
942 If aught disturbed their noise, into her womb,
943 And kennel there; yet there still barked and howled
944 Within unseen. Far less abhorred than these
945 Vexed Scylla, bathing in the sea that parts
946 Calabria from the hoarse Trinacrian shore;
947 Nor uglier follow the night-hag, when, called
948 In secret, riding through the air she comes,
949 Lured with the smell of infant blood, to dance
950 With Lapland witches, while the labouring moon
951 Eclipses at their charms. The other shape --
952 If shape it might be called that shape had none
953 Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb;
954 Or substance might be called that shadow seemed,
955 For each seemed either -- black it stood as night,
956 Fierce as ten Furies, terrible as hell,
957 And shook a dreadful dart: what seemed his head
958 The likeness of a kingly crown had on.
959 Satan was now at hand, and from his seat
960 The monster moving onward came as fast
961 With horrid strides; hell trembled as he strode.
963 =head2 v5.24.1-RC3 - Dante Alighieri, trans. Dorothy L. Sayers and Barbara Reynolds, "The Divine Comedy", Cantica III: Paradise, Canto XXIII
965 L<Announced on 2016-08-11 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/08/msg238909.html>
967 A bird within the bower of her delight,
968 Quiet upon the nest with her sweet brood
969 Throughout the dark concealment of the night,
971 Anxious to look on them and gather food -
972 No weary task for her, for as at play
973 Blithely she toils to seek her fledglings' good -
975 Before the time, upon the topmost spray
976 Eager awaits the sun and on the East
977 Fixes her wakeful eye till break of day.
979 =head2 v5.24.1-RC2 - Dante Alighieri, trans. Dorothy L. Sayers, "The Divine Comedy", Cantica II: Purgatory, Canto X
981 L<Announced on 2016-07-25 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/07/msg238269.html>
983 When we had crossed the threshold of that gate
984 Which the soul's evil loves put out of use,
985 Because they make the crooked path seem straight,
987 I heard its closing clang ring clamorous,
988 And had I then turned back my eyes to it
989 How could my fault have found the least excuse?
991 We had to climb now through a rocky slit
992 Which ran from side to side in many a swerve,
993 As runs the wave in onset and retreat.
995 "Now here," the master said, "we must observe
996 Some little caution, hugging now this wall,
997 Now that, upon the far side of the curve."
999 =head2 v5.24.1-RC1 - Dante Alighieri, trans. Dorothy L. Sayers, "The Divine Comedy", Cantica I: Hell, Canto XX
1001 L<Announced on 2016-07-17 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/07/msg238072.html>
1003 New punishments behoves me sing in this
1004 Twentieth canto of my first canticle,
1005 Which tells of spirits sunk in the Abyss.
1007 I now stood ready to observe the full
1008 Extent of the new chasm thus laid bare,
1009 Drenched as it was in tears most miserable.
1011 Through the round vale I saw folk drawing near,
1012 Weeping and silent, and at such slow pace
1013 As Litany processions keep, up here.
1015 And presently, when I had dropped my gaze
1016 Lower than the head, I saw them strangely wried
1017 'Twixt collar-bone and chin, so that the face
1019 Of each was turned towards his own backside,
1020 And backwards must they needs creep with their feet,
1021 All power of looking forward being denied.
1023 =head2 v5.24.0 - Robert Frost, "The Black Cottage"
1025 L<Announced on 2016-05-09 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/05/msg236242.html>
1027 As I sit here, and oftentimes, I wish
1028 I could be monarch of a desert land
1029 I could devote and dedicate forever
1030 To the truths we keep coming back and back to.
1031 So desert it would have to be, so walled
1032 By mountain ranges half in summer snow,
1033 No one would covet it or think it worth
1034 The pains of conquering to force change on.
1035 Scattered oases where men dwelt, but mostly
1036 Sand dunes held loosely in tamarisk
1037 Blown over and over themselves in idleness.
1038 Sand grains should sugar in the natal dew
1039 The babe born to the desert, the sand storm
1040 Retard mid-waste my cowering caravans—
1042 “There are bees in this wall.” He struck the clapboards,
1043 Fierce heads looked out; small bodies pivoted.
1044 We rose to go. Sunset blazed on the windows.
1046 =head2 v5.24.0-RC5 - The Mountain Goats, "No Children"
1048 L<Announced on 2016-05-04 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/05/msg236198.html>
1050 And I hope when you think of me years down the line
1051 You can't find one good thing to say
1052 And I'd hope that if I found the strength to walk out
1053 You'd stay the hell out of my way
1055 I am drowning, there is no sign of land
1056 You are coming down with me, hand in unlovable hand
1058 =head2 v5.24.0-RC4 - The Joker in "The Killing Joke"
1060 L<Announced on 2016-05-02 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/05/msg236145.html>
1062 "See, there were these two guys in a lunatic asylum…"
1064 =head2 v5.24.0-RC3 - Jesse Vincent
1066 L<Announced on 2016-04-27 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/04/msg236066.html>
1068 The Great Pumpkin is a Santa-Claus like figure. He does bring toys like
1069 Santa. But unlike Santa, who gives away toys because it's his job, he
1070 gives away toys because it's the right thing to do.
1072 =head2 v5.24.0-RC2 - Joseph Heller, "Catch-22"
1074 L<Announced on 2016-04-23 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/04/msg235999.html>
1076 “How do you feel, Yossarian?”
1078 “Fine. No, I’m very frightened.”
1080 “That’s good,” said Major Danby. “It proves you’re still alive. It won’t
1083 Yossarian started out. “Yes it will.”
1085 “I mean it, Yossarian. You’ll have to keep on your toes every minute of
1086 every day. They’ll bend heaven and earth to catch you.”
1088 “I’ll keep on my toes every minute.”
1090 “You’ll have to jump.”
1094 “Jump!” Major Danby cried.
1098 Nately’s [girl] was hiding just outside the door. The knife came down,
1099 missing him by inches, and he took off.
1101 =head2 v5.24.0-RC1 - Robert Frost, "The Census-Taker"
1103 L<Announced on 2016-04-14 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/04/msg235807.html>
1105 Nothing was left to do that I could see
1106 Unless to find that there was no one there
1107 And declare to the cliffs too far for echo,
1108 "The place is desert, and let whoso lurks
1109 In silence, if in this he is aggrieved,
1110 Break silence now or be forever silent.
1111 Let him say why it should not be declared so."
1112 The melancholy of having to count souls
1113 Where they grow fewer and fewer every year
1114 Is extreme where they shrink to none at all.
1115 It must be I want life to go on living.
1117 =head2 v5.23.9 - Tom Kitchin, "from nature to plate"
1119 L<Announced on 2016-03-20 by Abigail|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/03/msg235251.html>
1123 Spring is the proper beginning of my kitchen and a season that I
1124 look forward to with great anticipation. By the time spring arrives
1125 I am desperate to welcome all the spring produce into my kitchen
1126 and I long to work with fresh green vegetables again. As much as I
1127 love root vegetables, such as celeriac and parsnips, and the heaver
1128 meat and game dishes, I'm ready to leave those behind with winter
1129 and begin a new adventure.
1131 Somehow spring always gives me a little bit of bounce in my feet
1132 -- I feel like I want to kick off my shoes and dance around in my
1133 kitchen. Not that I do, of course, but I feel lighter somehow. My
1134 adrenalin kicks in with spring and so does the level of excitement,
1135 as I think about all the produce that is about to come in.
1137 The moment spring arrives I'm eager to cook peas, broad beans, green
1138 asparagus and other fresh vegetables! I want to create lighter,
1139 brighter dishes and I can't wait to get my hands on the first greens
1140 and the first morels, not to mention the first wild Scottish salmon.
1141 Thanks to my network of trusted suppliers, I always get to first
1142 produce of the season delivered to my restaurant as soon as it is
1143 possible. I want my customers to experience and understand the
1144 beauty of locally grown produce and to try things the minute they
1145 are available so they can taste how incredibly fresh the ingredients
1146 are. I also want them to understand the relationship between
1147 seasonality and flavours. One of the most important things to
1148 remember is to allow the seasons to inspire your dishes and help
1149 you make natural matches. Wild spring herbs, such as sorrel, sweet
1150 cicely and wild garlic, as well as spring salad leaves and green
1151 lettuce served with wild salmon, wild sea trout, lamb or rabbit are
1152 marriages made in heaven.
1155 =head2 v5.23.8 - Patrick Rothfuss, "The Wise Man's Fear (The Kingkiller's Chronicle: Day Two)"
1157 L<Announced on 2016-02-20 by Sawyer X|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/02/msg234535.html>
1159 Denna, on the other hand, had never been trained. She knew nothing
1160 of shortcuts. You'd think she'd be forced to wander the city, lost and
1161 helpless, trapped in a twisting maze of mortared stone.
1163 But instead, she simply walked throught the walls. She didn't know
1164 any better. Nobody had ever told her she couldn't. Because of this,
1165 she moved through the city like some faerie creature. She walked roads
1166 no one else could see, and it made her music wild and strange and
1169 =head2 v5.23.7 - William Gibson, "Neuromancer"
1171 L<Announced on 2016-01-20 by Stevan Little|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/01/msg233856.html>
1173 A year here and he still dreamed of cyberspace, hope fading
1174 nightly. All the speed he took, all the turns he'd taken and
1175 the corners he cut in Night City, and he'd still see the matrix
1176 in his dreams, bright lattices of logic unfolding across that
1177 colourless void...The Sprawl was a long, strange way home now
1178 over the Pacific, and he was no Console Man, no cyberspace
1179 cowboy. Just another hustler, trying to make it through. But
1180 the dreams came on in the Japanese night like livewire voodoo,
1181 and he'd cry for it, cry in his sleep, and wake alone in the
1182 dark, curled in his capsule in some coffin hotel, hands clawed
1183 into the bedslab, temper foam bunched between his fingers,
1184 trying to reach the console that wasn't there.
1186 =head2 v5.23.6 - 5.23 Episode VII
1188 L<Announced on 2015-12-21 by David Golden|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/12/msg233475.html>
1190 A long time ago in microseconds, in a galaxy not very far away...
1196 unrest as separatists
1197 announce their intentions
1198 to fork PERL and return the
1199 galaxy to speed and stability.
1201 Chancellor Rik Hoolian struggles
1202 to hold together the remains of the
1203 once mighty Republic against a tide of
1204 incivility and the depredations of a new
1205 foe, the FUZZ RAIDERS.
1207 Meanwhile, after 15 years of preparation and
1208 high expectations, Supreme Leader Toady prepares
1209 to unleash a devastating new weapon, PERL SIXDOTOH,
1210 that could splinter the Republic forever and usher in
1211 a new Empire of gradual typing....
1213 =head2 v5.23.5 - utastro!nather (Ed Nather), "The Story of Mel", in net.jokes, May 21, 1983.
1215 L<Announced on 2015-11-20 by Abigail|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/11/msg232758.html>
1217 After Mel had left the company for greener pa$ture$, the Big Boss asked
1218 me to look at the code and see if I could find the test and reverse it.
1219 Somewhat reluctantly, I agreed to look. Tracking Mel's code was a real
1222 I have often felt that programming is an art form, whose real value can
1223 only be appreciated by another versed in the same arcane art; there are
1224 lovely gems and brilliant coups hidden from human view and admiration,
1225 sometimes forever, by the very nature of the process. You can learn a
1226 lot about an individual just by reading through his code, even in
1227 hexadecimal. Mel was, I think, an unsung genius.
1229 Perhaps my greatest shock came when I found an innocent loop that had
1230 no test in it. No test. None. Common sense said it had to be a closed
1231 loop, where the program would circle, forever, endlessly. Program
1232 control passed right through it, however, and safely out the other side.
1233 It took me two weeks to figure it out.
1235 The RPC-4000 computer had a really modern facility called an index
1236 register. It allowed the programmer to write a program loop that used
1237 an indexed instruction inside; each time through, the number in the
1238 index register was added to the address of that instruction, so it
1239 would refer to the next datum in a series. He had only to increment
1240 the index register each time through. Mel never used it.
1242 Instead, he would pull the instruction into a machine register, add one
1243 to its address, and store it back. He would then execute the modified
1244 instruction right from the register. The loop was written so this
1245 additional execution time was taken into account -- just as this
1246 instruction finished, the next one was right under the drum's read head,
1247 ready to go. But the loop had no test in it.
1249 The vital clue came when I noticed the index register bit, the bit that
1250 lay between the address and the operation code in the instruction word,
1251 was turned on -- yet Mel never used the index register, leaving it zero
1252 all the time. When the light went on it nearly blinded me.
1254 He had located the data he was working on near the top of memory -- the
1255 largest locations the instructions could address -- so, after the last
1256 datum was handled, incrementing the instruction address would make it
1257 overflow. The carry would add one to the operation code, changing it to
1258 the next one in the instruction set: a jump instruction. Sure enough,
1259 the next program instruction was in address location zero, and the
1260 program went happily on its way.
1262 =head2 v5.23.4 - Denis Diderot, trans. David Coward, "Jacques the Fatalist"
1264 L<Announced on 2015-10-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/10/msg232040.html>
1266 Well, everybody's got a dog. The prime minister is the king's dog. The
1267 first secretary is the prime minister's dog. A wife is a husband's dog,
1268 or a husband is a wife's dog. Favourite is Madame So-and-so's dog and
1269 Thibaut is the man on the corner's dog. When my Master tells me to talk
1270 when I'd prefer not to, which to be honest doesn't happen very often,
1271 when he tells me to shut up when I feel like talking, which I find very
1272 difficult, when he asks me to tell the story of my love-life and then
1273 keeps interrupting, what am I if not his dog? Weak men are the dogs of
1276 =head2 v5.23.3 - Oliver Wendell Holmes, "The Deacon’s Masterpiece or The Wonderful 'One-Hoss Shay': A Logical Story"
1278 L<Announced on 2015-09-20 by Peter Martini|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/09/msg231173.html>
1280 Little of of all we value here
1281 Wakes on the morn of its hundredth year
1282 Without both feeling and looking queer.
1283 In fact, there’s nothing that keeps its youth,
1284 So far as I know, but a tree and truth.
1285 (This is a moral that runs at large;
1286 Take it. — You’re welcome. — No extra charge.)
1288 =head2 v5.23.2 - Blind Guardian, "Skalds and Shadows"
1290 L<Announced on 2015-08-20 by Matthew Horsfall|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/08/msg230298.html>
1292 Would you believe in a night like this
1293 A night like this, when visions come true
1294 Would you believe in a tale like this
1295 A lay of bliss, praise in the old lore
1296 Come to the blazing fire and
1298 See me in the shadows
1299 See me in the shadows
1302 Just hand me my harp
1303 This night turns into myth
1306 The world we live in is another skald's
1307 Dream in the shadows
1308 Dream in the shadows
1310 Do you believe there is sense in it
1311 Is it truth or myth?
1312 They´re one in my rhymes
1313 Nobody knows the meaning behind
1315 Well nobody else but the Norns can
1316 See through the blazing fires of time and
1317 All things will proceed as the
1318 Child of the hallowed
1319 Will speak to you now
1321 See me in the shadows
1322 See me in the shadows
1323 Songs I will sing of tribes and kings
1324 The carrion bird and the hall of the slain
1327 The world we live in is another skald´s
1328 Dream in the shadows
1329 Dream in the shadows
1331 Do not fear for my reason
1332 There's nothing to hide
1333 How bitter your treason
1335 Remember the runes and remember the light
1336 All I ever want is to be at your side
1337 We'll gladden the raven now I will
1338 Run through the blazing fires
1340 Cause things shall proceed as foreseen
1342 =head2 v5.23.1 - Elizabeth Haydon, "The Assassin King"
1344 L<Announced on 2015-07-20 by Matthew Horsfall|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/07/msg229413.html>
1346 I was born beneath this willow,
1347 Where my sire the earth did farm
1348 Had the green grass as my pillow
1349 The east wind as a blanket warm.
1351 But away! away! called the wind from the west
1352 And in answer I did run
1353 Seeking glory and adventure
1354 Promised by the rising sun.
1356 I found love beneath this willow,
1357 As true a love as life could hold,
1358 Pledged my heart and swore my fealty
1359 Sealed with a kiss and a band of gold.
1361 But to arms! to arms! called the wind from the west
1362 In faithful answer I did run
1363 Marching forth for king and country
1364 In battles 'neath the midday sun.
1366 Oft I dreamt of that fair willow
1367 As the seven seas I plied
1368 And the girl who I left waiting
1369 Longing to be at her side.
1371 But about! about! called the wind from the west
1372 As once again my ship did run
1373 Down the coast, about the wide world
1374 Flying sails in the setting sun.
1376 Now I lie beneath the willow
1377 Now at last no more to roam,
1378 My bride and earth so tightly hold me
1379 In their arms I'm finally home.
1381 While away! away! calls the wind from the west
1382 Beyond the grave my spirit, free
1383 Will chase the sun into the morning
1384 Beyond the sky, beyond the sea.
1386 =head2 v5.23.0 - Bob Dylan, "Maggie's Farm"
1388 L<Announced on 2015-06-20 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/06/msg228807.html>
1390 I ain't gonna work on Maggie's farm no more
1391 I ain't gonna work on Maggie's farm no more
1393 To be just like I am
1394 But everybody wants you
1395 To be just like them
1396 They sing while you slave and I just get bored
1397 I ain't gonna work on Maggie's farm no more
1399 =head2 v5.22.4 - Roald Dahl, "Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf"
1401 L<Announced on 2017-07-15 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/07/msg245526.html>
1403 Then Little Red Riding Hood said, 'But Grandma,
1404 what a lovely great big furry coat you have on.'
1405 'That's wrong!' cried Wolf. 'Have you forgot
1406 'To tell me what BIG TEETH I've got?
1407 'Ah well, no matter what you say,
1408 'I'm going to eat you anyway.'
1409 The small girl smiles. One eyelid flickers.
1410 She whips a pistol from her knickers.
1411 She aims it at the creature's head
1412 And bang bang bang, she shoots him dead.
1414 A few weeks later, in the wood,
1415 I came across Miss Riding Hood.
1416 But what a change! No cloak of red,
1417 No silly hood upon her head.
1418 She said, 'Hello, and do please note
1419 'My lovely furry WOLFSKIN COAT.'
1421 =head2 v5.22.4-RC1 - Roald Dahl, "Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf"
1423 L<Announced on 2017-07-01 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/07/msg245293.html>
1425 As soon as Wolf began to feel
1426 That he would like a decent meal,
1427 He went and knocked on Grandma's door.
1428 When Grandma opened it, she saw
1429 The sharp white teeth, the horrid grin,
1430 And Wolfie said, 'May I come in?'
1431 Poor Grandmamma was terrified,
1432 'He's going to eat me up!' she cried.
1433 And she was absolutely right.
1434 He ate her up in one big bite.
1436 =head2 v5.22.3 - Charles Dodgson [as "Lewis Carroll"], "Phantasmagoria", Canto 6: Discomfyture
1438 L<Announced on 2017-01-14 by Steve Hay|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/01/msg242258.html>
1440 As one who strives a hill to climb,
1441 Who never climbed before:
1442 Who finds it, in a little time,
1443 Grow every moment less sublime,
1444 And votes the thing a bore:
1446 Yet, having once begun to try,
1447 Dares not desert his quest,
1448 But, climbing, ever keeps his eye
1449 On one small hut against the sky
1450 Wherein he hopes to rest:
1452 Who climbs till nerve and force are spent,
1453 With many a puff and pant:
1454 Who still, as rises the ascent,
1455 In language grows more violent,
1456 Although in breath more scant:
1458 Who, climbing, gains at length the place
1459 That crowns the upward track:
1460 And, entering with unsteady pace,
1461 Receives a buffet in the face
1462 That lands him on his back:
1464 And feels himself, like one in sleep,
1465 Glide swiftly down again,
1466 A helpless weight, from steep to steep,
1467 Till, with a headlong giddy sweep,
1468 He drops upon the plain -
1470 So I, that had resolved to bring
1471 Conviction to a ghost,
1472 And found it quite a different thing
1473 From any human arguing,
1474 Yet dared not quit my post.
1476 =head2 v5.22.3-RC5 - John Milton, ed. Gordon Campbell, "Paradise Regained", Book II
1478 L<Announced on 2017-01-02 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/01/msg242017.html>
1480 Thus wore out night; and now the herald lark
1481 Left his ground-nest, high towering to descry
1482 The Morn's approach, and greet her with his song;
1483 As lightly from his grassy couch up rose
1484 Our Saviour, and found all was but a dream;
1485 Fasting he went to sleep, and fasting waked.
1486 Up to a hill anon his steps he reared,
1487 From whose high top to ken the prospect round,
1488 If cottage were in view, sheep-cote, or herd;
1489 But cottage, herd, or sheep-cote, none he saw --
1490 Only in a bottom saw a pleasant grove,
1491 With chant of tuneful birds resounding loud;
1492 Thither he bent his way, determined there
1493 To rest at noon, and entered soon the shade,
1494 High-roofed and walks beneath, and alleys brown,
1495 That opened in the midst a woody scene;
1496 Nature's own work it seemed (Nature taught Art),
1497 And, to a superstitious eye, the haunt
1498 Of wood-gods and wood-nymphs.
1500 =head2 v5.22.3-RC4 - John Milton, ed. Gordon Campbell, "Paradise Lost", Book II
1502 L<Announced on 2016-10-12 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/10/msg240223.html>
1504 Far off from these, a slow and silent stream,
1505 Lethe, the river of oblivion, rolls
1506 Her watery labyrinth, whereof who drinks
1507 Forthwith his former state and being forgets --
1508 Forgets both joy and grief, pleasure and pain.
1509 Beyond this flood a frozen continent
1510 Lies dark and wild, beat with perpetual storms
1511 Of Whirlwind and dire hail, which on firm land
1512 Thaws not, but gathers heap, and ruin seems
1513 Of ancient pile; all else deep snow and ice,
1514 A gulf profound as that Serbonian bog
1515 Betwixt Damiata and Mount Casius old,
1516 Where armies whole have sunk: the parching air
1517 Burns frore, and cold performs the effect of fire.
1518 Thither, by harpy-footed Furies haled,
1519 At certain revolutions all the damned
1520 Are brought; and feel by turns the bitter change
1521 Of fierce extremes, extremes by change more fierce,
1522 From beds of raging fire to starve in ice
1523 Their soft ethereal warmth, and there to pine
1524 Immovable, infixed, and frozen round
1525 Periods of time -- thence hurried back to fire.
1526 They ferry over this Lethean sound
1527 Both to and fro, their sorrow to augment,
1528 And wish and struggle, as they pass, to reach
1529 The tempting stream, with one small drop to lose
1530 In sweet forgetfulness all pain and woe,
1531 All in one moment, and so near the brink;
1532 But fate withstands, and, to oppose the attempt,
1533 Medusa with Gorgonian terror guards
1534 The ford, and of itself the water flies
1535 All taste of living wight, as once it fled
1536 The lip of Tantalus.
1538 =head2 v5.22.3-RC3 - Dante Alighieri, trans. Dorothy L. Sayers and Barbara Reynolds, "The Divine Comedy", Cantica III: Paradise, Canto IV
1540 L<Announced on 2016-08-11 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/08/msg238908.html>
1542 Between two dishes, equally attractive
1543 And near to him, a free man, I suppose,
1544 Would starve to death before his teeth got active;
1546 So would a lamb 'twixt two fierce wolfish foes,
1547 Fearing the fangs both ways, not stir a foot;
1548 So would a deerhound halt between two does;
1550 So I can't blame myself for standing mute,
1551 Nor praise myself: for I must needs so do,
1552 Suspended 'twixt two doubts, alike acute.
1554 =head2 v5.22.3-RC2 - Dante Alighieri, trans. Dorothy L. Sayers, "The Divine Comedy", Cantica II: Purgatory, Canto I
1556 L<Announced on 2016-07-25 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/07/msg238270.html>
1558 For better waters heading with the wind
1559 My ship of genius now shakes out her sail
1560 And leaves that ocean of despair behind;
1562 For to the second realm I tune my tale,
1563 Where human spirits purge themselves, and train
1564 To leap up into joy celestial.
1566 Now from the grave wake poetry again,
1567 O sacred Muses I have served so long!
1568 Now let Calliope uplift her strain
1570 And lift my voice up on the mighty song
1571 That smote the miserable Magpies nine
1572 Out of all hope of pardon for their wrong!
1574 =head2 v5.22.3-RC1 - Dante Alighieri, trans. Dorothy L. Sayers, "The Divine Comedy", Cantica I: Hell, Canto XII
1576 L<Announced on 2016-07-17 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/07/msg238071.html>
1578 The place we came to, to descend the brink from,
1579 Was sheer crag; and there was a Thing there - making,
1580 All told, a prospect any eye would shrink from.
1582 Like the great landslide that rushed downward, shaking
1583 The bank of Adige on this side Trent,
1584 (Whether through faulty shoring or the earth's quaking)
1586 So that the rock, down from the summit rent
1587 Far as the plain, lies strewn, and one might crawl
1588 From top to bottom by that unsure descent,
1590 Such was the precipice; and there we spied,
1591 Topping the cleft that split the rocky wall,
1592 That which was wombed in the false heifer's side,
1594 The infamy of Crete, stretched out a-sprawl;
1595 And seeing us, he gnawed himself, like one
1596 Inly devoured with spite and burning gall.
1598 =head2 v5.22.2 - Gaston Leroux, trans. Mireille Ribière, "The Phantom of the Opera"
1600 L<Announced on 2016-04-29 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/04/msg236120.html>
1602 A silence; and then: 'If, in just two minutes' time by my watch--and a
1603 splendid watch it is--you have not turned the scorpion, mademoiselle, I
1604 shall turn the grasshopper... and the grasshopper, remember, _leaps
1605 straight up into the air!_'
1606 The silence that ensued was terrifying, worse than any we had
1607 experienced before. I knew that when Erik spoke with that quiet,
1608 gentle, slightly weary voice, it meant that he had reached the end of
1609 his tether: that he was capable of the most abominable crimes or the
1610 most selfless devotion; that the slightest irritation might unleash a
1612 Realizing that our fate was out of our hands, the Viscount fell to his
1613 knees and prayed. As for me, I pressed both hands to my chest, for my
1614 heart was pounding so fiercely that I thought it would burst. We were
1615 intensely aware of the excruciating dilemma Christine Daaé faced in
1616 those final seconds. We understood why she hesitated to turn the
1617 scorpion. What if the scorpion, rather than the grasshopper, were to
1618 set off the explosion? What if Erik was simply intent on destroying
1619 everything, regardless?
1620 At last he spoke: 'The two minutes are up,' he said in a soft, angelic
1621 voice. 'Goodbye, mademoiselle. Off you go, little grasshopper!'
1623 =head2 v5.22.2-RC1 - Gaston Leroux, trans. Mireille Ribière, "The Phantom of the Opera"
1625 L<Announced on 2016-04-10 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/04/msg235732.html>
1627 This annual ball was quite a magnificent affair. It was given some time
1628 before Shrovetide to celebrate the birthday of a famous illustrator
1629 whose pencil had immortalized, in the style of Gavarni, the extravagant
1630 carnival parade down La Courtille. As such, the ball was an altogether
1631 merrier, noisier and more Bohemian occasion than was usual for a masked
1632 ball. Many artists had arranged to meet there; they arrived with an
1633 entourage of models and pupils, who, by midnight, had become quite
1635 Raoul climbed the grand staircase at five minutes to midnight. He did
1636 not linger to admire the many-coloured costumes on display all the way
1637 up the marble steps of one of the most luxurious settings in the world;
1638 nor did he allow himself to be drawn into the facetious conversation of
1639 masked guests. He simply ignored all the jesting remarks, and shook off
1640 the attentions of several all too merry couples.
1641 Crossing the big crush-room and escaping from the dancers' farandole
1642 that had encircled him awhile, he at last entered the salon mentioned by
1643 Christine in her letter. The small room was crammed with people either
1644 on their way to supper at the restaurant in the Rotunda or back from
1645 raising a glass of champagne.
1646 In the midst of the gay and lively hubbub, Raoul thought that, for their
1647 mysterious assignation, Christine must have preferred this crowd to some
1649 He leaned against a door-jamb and waited. He did not have to wait long;
1650 a black domino passed him and deftly touched his hand. He understood
1651 that it was Christine and followed her.
1652 'Is that you, Christine?' he murmured, barely moving his slips.
1653 The black domino promptly looked back and raised her finger to her lips,
1654 no doubt to caution him against uttering her name again. Raoul followed
1657 =head2 v5.22.1 - Wilhelm Müller, trans. Anon., "Courage" (No. 22 in Schubert's song-cycle, "Winterreise")
1659 L<Announced on 2015-12-13 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/12/msg233318.html>
1661 If the snow flies in my face,
1662 Let me shake it off me!
1663 If my heart within me speaks,
1664 I'll sing bright and gaily!
1666 Will not listen what it says,
1667 Have no ears for moaning.
1668 Do not feel what it complains,--
1669 Only fools like groaning!
1671 Jolly brave into the world,
1672 'Gainst all wind and weather,--
1673 If there is no God on earth,
1674 Let 's be gods down nether!
1676 =head2 v5.22.1-RC4 - Wilhelm Müller, trans. Anon., "The Signpost" (No. 20 in Schubert's song-cycle, "Winterreise")
1678 L<Announced on 2015-12-08 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/12/msg233215.html>
1680 Why do I shun all those highways
1681 Which the other wanderer seeks?
1682 Why do I find bridged by-ways
1683 Through snow-covered deep creeks?
1685 For I have no crime committed,
1686 Why I should now run from men,--
1687 What demented heart's desire
1688 Drives me to a desert glen?
1690 Signposts on all highways stationed
1691 Point their signs toward the towns,
1692 Whilst I wonder 'yond moderation,
1693 Without rest, yet seeking rest!
1695 One such signpost I see planted
1696 Of my question unconcerned,
1697 One road must my choice be granted,
1698 Whence no man has yet returned!
1700 =head2 v5.22.1-RC3 - Wilhelm Müller, trans. Anon., "Stormy Morning" (No. 18 in Schubert's song-cycle, "Winterreise")
1702 L<Announced on 2015-12-02 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/12/msg233032.html>
1704 How the storm tore rents
1705 In heavens gray attired!
1706 The rags of cloud are flying
1707 Around, of combat tired.
1709 And flames of fire lambent,
1710 Fly between them and part,
1711 That 's what I call a morning,
1712 A morning after my heart!
1714 My heart sees in the heavens
1715 Its own picture unspoilt--
1716 It's nothing but the Winter,
1717 The Winter, cold and wild.
1719 =head2 v5.22.1-RC2 - Wilhelm Müller, trans. Anon., "The Old Head" (No. 14 in Schubert's song-cycle, "Winterreise")
1721 L<Announced on 2015-11-15 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/11/msg232632.html>
1723 The hoary frost has a white sheen
1724 Strewn all over my hair,
1725 So I thought I was an old man
1726 And thought life dealt me fair.
1728 Yet soon was thawed my old white mane,
1729 And I have my black hair again.
1730 How I abhor my young fair years,
1731 How long to wait for death and biers?
1733 From setting sun to morning's hue
1734 Many a head turns white.
1735 Who'll credit it? My hair did not
1736 In all this lifelong plight!
1738 =head2 v5.22.1-RC1 - Wilhelm Müller, trans. Anon., "Will-o'-the Wisp" (No. 9 in Schubert's song-cycle, "Winterreise")
1740 L<Announced on 2015-10-31 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/10/msg232321.html>
1742 In the deepest rocky crevice
1743 A will-o'-the wisp lured me;
1744 How I could find my way from here,
1745 For me it's easy memory!
1747 For I am used to straying ways,
1748 Every path to th'end a way,
1749 All our joys and all our suffering,--
1750 To a will-o'-the wisp it 's all play!
1752 Through the dried-up bed of torrents
1753 I quite calmly downward stroll;
1754 Every stream its sea will enter,
1755 Every suffering finds its goal!
1757 =head2 v5.22.0 - Gene Wolfe, The Citadel of the Autarch
1759 L<Announced on 2015-06-01 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/06/msg228300.html>
1761 “You are the advocate of the dead.”
1763 The old man nodded. “I am. People talk about being fair to this one and
1764 that one, but nobody I ever heard talks about doing right by them. We
1765 take everything they had, which is all right. And spit, most often, on
1766 their opinions, which I suppose is all right too. But we ought to
1767 remember now and then how much of what we have we got from them. I
1768 figure while I’m still here I ought to put a word in for them.”
1770 =head2 v5.22.0-RC2 - T.S. Eliot, unpublished work
1772 L<Announced on 2015-05-21 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/05/msg228142.html>
1774 And when thyself with silver foot shall pass
1775 Among the theories scattered on the grass
1776 Take up my good intentions with the rest
1778 =head2 v5.22.0-RC1 - Gene Wolfe, Citadel of the Autarch
1780 L<Announced on 2015-05-19 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/05/msg228059.html>
1782 There is no limit to stupidity. Space itself is said to be bounded by
1783 its own curvature, but stupidity continues beyond infinity.
1785 =head2 v5.21.11 - Algernon Charles Swinburne, "Dolores (Notre-Dame des Sept Douleurs)"
1787 L<Announced on 2015-04-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/04/msg227472.html>
1789 They shall pass and their places be taken,
1790 The gods and the priests that are pure.
1791 They shall pass, and shalt thou not be shaken?
1792 They shall perish, and shalt thou endure?
1793 Death laughs, breathing close and relentless
1794 In the nostrils and eyelids of lust,
1795 With a pinch in his fingers of scentless
1798 But the worm shall revive thee with kisses;
1799 Thou shalt change and transmute as a god,
1800 As the rod to a serpent that hisses,
1801 As the serpent again to a rod.
1802 Thy life shall not cease though thou doff it;
1803 Thou shalt live until evil be slain,
1804 And good shall die first, said thy prophet,
1807 =head2 v5.21.10 - Aldous Huxley, "The Devils of Loudun"
1809 L<Announced on 2015-03-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/03/msg226847.html>
1811 The fire burned on, the good fathers continued to sprinkle and intone.
1812 Suddenly a flock of pigeons came swooping down from the church and
1813 started to wheel around the roaring column of flame and smoke. The
1814 crowd shouted, the archers waved their halberds at the birds, Lactance
1815 and Tranquille splashed them on the wing with holy water. In vain. The
1816 pigeons were not to be driven away. Round and round they flew, diving
1817 through the smoke, singeing their feathers in the flames. Both parties
1818 claimed a miracle. For the parson's enemies the birds, quite obviously,
1819 were a troop of devils, come to fetch away his soul. For his friends,
1820 they were emblems of the Holy Ghost and living proof of his innocence.
1821 It never seems to have occurred to anyone that they were just pigeons,
1822 obeying the laws of their own, their blessedly other-than-human nature.
1824 =head2 v5.21.9 - Emily Dickinson, "There is Another Sky"
1826 L<Announced on 2015-02-20 by Sawyer X|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/02/msg226002.html>
1828 There is another sky,
1829 Ever serene and fair,
1830 And there is another sunshine,
1831 Though it be darkness there;
1832 Never mind faded forests, Austin,
1833 Never mind silent fields -
1834 Here is a little forest,
1835 Whose leaf is ever green;
1836 Here is a brighter garden,
1837 Where not a frost has been;
1838 In its unfading flowers
1839 I hear the bright bee hum:
1840 Prithee, my brother,
1841 Into my garden come!
1843 =head2 v5.21.8 - Bill Watterson, "Scientific Progress Goes 'Boink': A Calvin and Hobbes Collection"
1845 L<Announced on 2015-01-20 by Matthew Horsfall|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/01/msg224869.html>
1847 Calvin: OK Hobbes, press the button and duplicate me.
1848 Hobbes: Are you sure this is such a good idea?
1849 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?
1850 Hobbes: I'd hate to be accused of inhibiting scientific progress... Here you go.
1852 Hobbes: Scientific progress goes "BOINK"?
1853 Calvin?: It worked! It worked! I'm a genius!
1854 Cavlin??: No you're not, you liar! *I* invented this!
1856 =head2 v5.21.7 - Robert Heinlein, "The Number of the Beast"
1858 L<Announced on 2014-12-20 by Max Maischein|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/12/msg223774.html>
1860 "Zebadiah, Hilda and I salvaged and put everything into the basket.
1861 Hilda started to put it into our wardrobe-and it was heavy. So
1862 we looked. Packed as tight as when we left Oz. Six bananas-and
1863 everything else. Cross my heart. No, go look."
1864 "Hmmm- Jake, can you write equations for a picnic basket that
1865 refills itself? Will it go on doing so?"
1866 "Zeb, equations can be written to describe anything. The description
1867 would be simpler for a basket that replenishes itself indefinitely
1868 than for one that does it once and stops-I would have to describe
1871 =head2 v5.21.6 - Jeff Noon, "Vurt"
1873 L<Announced on 2014-11-20 by Chris 'BinGOs' Williams|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/11/msg222448.html>
1877 EXCHANGE MECHANISMS. Sometimes we lose precious
1878 things. Friends and colleagues, fellow travellers in the
1879 Vurt, sometimes we lose them; even lovers we sometimes
1880 lose. And get bad things in exchange: aliens, objects,
1881 snakes, and sometimes even death. Things we don't want.
1882 This is part of the deal, part of the game deal;
1883 all things, in all worlds, must be kept in balance.
1884 Kittlings often ask, who decides on the swappings? Now then,
1885 some say it's all accidental; that some poor Vurt thing
1886 finds himself too close to a door, at too critical a time,
1887 just when something real is being lost. Whoosh! Swap time!
1888 Others say that some kind of overseer is working the
1889 MECHANISMS OF EXCHANGE, deciding the fate of innocents.
1890 The Cat can only tease at this, because of the big secrets
1891 involved, and because of the levels between you, the reader,
1892 and me, the Game Cat. Hey, listen; I've struggled to get
1893 where I am today; why should I give you the easy route?
1894 Get working, kittlings! Reach up higher. Work the Vurt.
1896 =head2 v5.21.5 - Friso Wiegersma (text), Jean Ferrat (music), Wim Sonneveld (performer), "Het Dorp"
1898 L<Announced on 2014-10-20 by Abigail|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/10/msg221399.html>
1902 Thuis heb ik nog een ansichtkaart
1903 waarop een kerk, een kar met paard,
1904 een slagerij J. van der Ven.
1905 Een kroeg, een juffrouw op de fiets
1906 het zegt u hoogstwaarschijnlijk niets,
1907 maar 't is waar ik geboren ben.
1908 Dit dorp, ik weet nog hoe het was,
1909 de boerenkind'ren in de klas,
1910 een kar die ratelt op de keien,
1911 het raadhuis met een pomp ervoor,
1912 een zandweg tussen koren door,
1913 het vee, de boerderijen.
1915 En langs het tuinpad van m'n vader
1916 zag ik de hoge bomen staan.
1917 Ik was een kind en wist niet beter,
1918 dan dat dat nooit voorbij zou gaan.
1920 Wat leefden ze eenvoudig toen
1921 in simp'le huizen tussen groen
1922 met boerenbloemen en een heg.
1923 Maar blijkbaar leefden ze verkeerd,
1924 het dorp is gemoderniseerd
1925 en nu zijn ze op de goeie weg.
1926 Want ziet, hoe rijk het leven is,
1927 ze zien de televisiequiz
1928 en wonen in betonnen dozen,
1929 met flink veel glas, dan kun je zien
1930 hoe of het bankstel staat bij Mien
1931 en d'r dressoir met plastic rozen.
1933 En langs het tuinpad van m'n vader
1934 zag ik de hoge bomen staan.
1935 Ik was een kind en wist niet beter,
1936 dan dat dat nooit voorbij zou gaan.
1938 De dorpsjeugd klit wat bij elkaar
1939 in minirok en beatle-haar
1940 en joelt wat mee met beat-muziek.
1941 Ik weet wel, het is hun goeie recht,
1942 de nieuwe tijd, net wat u zegt,
1943 maar het maakt me wat melancholiek.
1944 Ik heb hun vaders nog gekend
1945 ze kochten zoethout voor een cent
1946 ik zag hun moeders touwtjespringen.
1947 Dat dorp van toen, het is voorbij,
1948 dit is al wat er bleef voor mij:
1949 een ansicht en herinneringen.
1951 Toen ik langs het tuinpad van m'n vader
1952 de hoge bomen nog zag staan.
1953 Ik was een kind, hoe kon ik weten
1954 dat dat voorgoed voorbij zou gaan.
1956 =head2 v5.21.4 - Edgar Allan Poe, "The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket"
1958 L<Announced on 2014-09-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/09/msg220267.html>
1960 To-day, being in latitude 83° 20', longitude 43° 5' W. (the sea being
1961 of an extraordinarily dark colour), we again saw land from the
1962 masthead, and, upon a closer scrutiny, found it to be one of a group
1963 of very large islands. The shore was precipitous, and the interior
1964 seemed to be well wooded, a circumstance which occasioned us great
1965 joy. In about four hours from our first discovering the land we came
1966 to anchor in ten fathoms, sandy bottom, a league from the coast, as a
1967 high surf, with strong ripples here and there, rendered a nearer
1968 approach of doubtful expediency. The two largest boats were now
1969 ordered out, and a party, well armed (among whome were Peters and
1970 myself), proceeded to look for an opening in the reef which appeared
1971 to encircle the island. After searching about for some time, we
1972 discovered an inlet, which we were entering, when we saw four large
1973 canoes put off from the shore, filled with men who seemed to be well
1974 armed. We waited for them to come up, and, as they moved with great
1975 rapidity, they were soon within hail. Captain Guy now held up a white
1976 handkerchief on the blade of an oar, when the strangers made a full
1977 stop, and commenced a loud jabbering all at once, intermingled with
1978 occasional shouts, in which we could distinguish the words Anamoo-moo!
1979 and Lama-Lama! They continued this for at least half an hour, during
1980 which we had a good opportunity of observing their appearance.
1982 =head2 v5.21.3 - Robert Service, "The Men that Don't Fit In"
1984 L<Announced on 2014-08-20 by Peter Martini|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/08/msg218826.html>
1986 If they just went straight they might go far,
1987 They are strong and brave and true;
1988 But they're always tired of the things that are,
1989 And they want the strange and new.
1990 They say: "Could I find my proper groove,
1991 What a deep mark I would make!"
1992 So they chop and change, and each fresh move
1993 Is only a fresh mistake.
1995 =head2 v5.21.2 - Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, Charlie Duke, Final minutes of communication of the first manned moon landing, July 20, 1969
1997 L<Announced on 2014-07-20 by Abigail|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/07/msg217937.html>
1999 Armstrong: Okay. Here's a...Looks like a good area here.
2000 Aldrin: I got the shadow out there.
2001 Aldrin: 250, down at 2 1/2, 19 forward.
2002 Aldrin: Altitude, velocity lights.
2003 Aldrin: 3 1/2 down, 220 feet, 13 forward.
2004 Aldrin: 11 forward. Coming down nicely.
2005 Armstrong: Gonna be right over that crater.
2006 Aldrin: 200 feet, 4 1/2 down.
2008 Armstrong: I got a good spot [garbled].
2009 Aldrin: 160 feet, 6 1/2 down.
2010 Aldrin: 5 1/2 down, 9 forward. You're looking good.
2012 Aldrin: 100 feet, 3 1/2 down, 9 forward. Five percent. Quantity light.
2013 Aldrin: Okay. 75 feet. And it's looking good. Down a half, 6 forward.
2016 Aldrin: 60 feet, down 2 1/2. 2 forward. 2 forward. That's good.
2017 Aldrin: 40 feet, down 2 1/2. Picking up some dust.
2018 Aldrin: 30 feet, 2 1/2 down. [Garbled] shadow.
2019 Aldrin: 4 forward. 4 forward. Drifting to the right a little. 20 feet,
2022 Aldrin: Drifting forward just a little bit; that's good.
2023 Aldrin: Contact Light.
2024 Armstrong: Shutdown.
2025 Aldrin: Okay. Engine Stop.
2026 Aldrin: ACA out of Detent.
2027 Armstrong: Out of Detent. Auto.
2028 Aldrin: Mode Control, both Auto. Descent Engine Command Override, Off.
2029 Engine Arm, Off. 413 is in.
2030 Duke: We copy you down, Eagle.
2031 Armstrong: Engine arm is off.
2032 Armstrong: Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed.
2033 Duke: Roger, Twan...[correcting himself] Tranquility. We copy you on
2034 the ground. You got a bunch of guys about to turn blue.
2035 We're breathing again. Thanks a lot.
2038 =head2 v5.21.1 - Robert Jordan, "The Crossroads of Twilights", Book 10 of "The Wheel of Time"
2040 L<Announced on 2014-06-20 by Matthew Horsfall|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/06/msg217030.html>
2042 We rode on the winds of the rising storm,
2043 We ran to the sounds of the thunder.
2044 We danced among the lightning bolts,
2045 and tore the world asunder.
2047 -- Anonymous fragment of a poem believed
2048 written near the end of the previous Age,
2049 known by some as the Third Age.
2050 Sometimes attributed to the Dragon
2053 =head2 v5.21.0 - Friedrich von Schiller, "The Song of the Bell"
2055 L<Announced on 2014-05-27 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/05/msg215826.html>
2057 Walled in fast within the earth
2058 Stands the form burnt out of clay.
2059 This must be the bell’s great birth!
2060 Fellows, lend a hand to-day.
2061 Sweat must trickle now
2062 From the burning brow,
2063 Till the work its master honour.
2064 Blessing comes from Heaven’s Donor.
2066 =head2 v5.20.3 - Elias Lönnrot, trans. Keith Bosley, "The Kalevala", Canto 42: Stealing the Sampo
2068 L<Announced on 2015-09-12 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/09/msg230945.html>
2070 Steady old Väinämöinen
2071 uttered a word and spoke thus:
2072 'No lilting on the waters
2073 and no singing on the waves!
2076 Precious day would pass and night
2077 would overtake us midway
2078 on these wide waters
2079 upon these vast waves.'
2081 The wanton Lemminkäinen
2082 uttered a word and spoke thus:
2083 'The time will pass anyway
2084 the fair day will flee
2085 and the night will come panting
2086 and the twilight will steal in
2087 if you don't sing while you live
2088 nor hum in this world.'
2090 =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"
2092 L<Announced on 2015-08-29 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/08/msg230544.html>
2094 'I fled from Basra, sad and tearful, with no idea where I was going,
2095 and I was reciting these lines:
2097 The pain of parting makes me melt away,
2098 As lovers do when those they love are harsh.
2099 I wonder at the patience that I showed
2100 When I had lost my love, for that was wonderful.
2101 Beloved, do you know that since you left,
2102 I have remained confused in misery.
2104 I then heard a voice that said: "Damn you, have you no fear of
2105 Almighty God that you hand over a girl to an unbelieving 'ifrit?" I
2106 walked for a time amongst the palm-trees until I caught sight of a
2107 person, whom I approached. When I asked him who he was he said: "I
2108 am one of the jinn who were converted to Islam at the hands of 'Ali
2109 ibn Abi Talib, may God ennoble him." "How can I get to my wife?" I
2110 asked him, and he said: "Wretched fellow, you had a bird which you
2111 allowed to fly away and now you want to fly after it." But he
2112 added: "Follow this road with God's blessing all night until dawn
2113 and then by the shore you will see a huge cave in which there is an
2114 idol made of white stone. You must drink of the water that there is
2115 coming out of the cave and smear your face with its mud. Stay there
2116 and a barge will pass you as you stand opposite the statue. Various
2117 different creatures will emerge, heads without bodies and bodies
2118 without heads, and they will prostrate themselves in adoration to
2119 the idol rather than to Almighty God. When you see that, embark on
2120 the barge and cross to the other bank and walk along it until
2121 sunset. On a high point you will see a castle built of bricks of
2122 gold and silver. That is where your 'ifrit will be. I have now
2123 told you about this, so goodbye."
2125 =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"
2127 L<Announced on 2015-08-22 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/08/msg230359.html>
2129 'On the night of the wedding the ape came to sit in front of me and
2130 asked me what I intended to do. "Whatever you tell me," I replied,
2131 and he said: "Take care not to covet the girl, or I shall come back
2132 and burn you up and leave you as a lesson for those who can learn."
2133 I agreed to this and when evening came I found the world full of
2134 candles and torches burning in holders of gold and silver. There
2135 were servants and serving girls, and everyone who saw me
2136 congratulated me on my good fortune, as there was no girl on the
2137 face of the earth more beautiful than my bride.
2139 'Next morning I went out to the market, and people went in and asked
2140 her how the night had been. "He never looked up at me," she told
2141 them. Then, when it was afternoon, I went to my house, where the
2142 ape was sitting by the door. "Tell me what you did," it said, and I
2143 told it: "By God, I did not learn and do not know whether this was a
2144 man or a girl." "That's what I want," it said.
2146 'On the second night my bride was brought to me, after which the
2147 servants left her and went away. She fell asleep, and, while she
2148 was sleeping, I killed the cock, wrapped it in the cloth and put the
2149 four poles from the couch over it. Suddenly there was a huge crash
2150 like a peal of thunder and a fiery 'ifrit swooped on the girl. I
2151 fainted at the sight and when I recovered I heard a voice saying:
2152 "By the Lord of the Ka'ba, the girl has been carried off!" and there
2153 was a sound like the rustling of wind and bitter weeping. At this I
2154 shed tears, struck my head and was filled with regret when it was no
2155 longer of any use, for to me the whole world was worth no more than
2158 =head2 v5.20.2 - Jonathan "Jonti" Picking, L<"Magical Trevor"|http://www.weebls-stuff.com/other-toons/video/magical-trevor.html>
2160 L<Announced on 2015-02-14 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/02/msg225777.html>
2162 Everyone loves Magical Trevor,
2163 'Cos the tricks that he does are ever so clever;
2164 Look at him now, disappearin' the cow,
2165 Where is the cow hidden right now?
2167 Taking a bow, it's Magical Trevor,
2168 Everybody's seen that the trick is clever;
2169 Look at him there with his leathery, leathery whip!
2170 It's made of magic, and with a little flip--
2172 Yeah, yeah, yeah, the cow is back,
2173 Yeah, yeah, yeah, the cow is back;
2174 Back, back, back from his magical journey,
2177 What did he see in the parallel dimension?
2178 He saw beans, lots of beans, lots of beans, lots of beans;
2179 Oh, beans, lots of beans, lots of beans, lots of beans,
2182 =head2 v5.20.2-RC1 - Jonathan "Jonti" Picking, L<"Scampi"|http://www.weebls-stuff.com/other-toons/video/scampi.html>
2184 L<Announced on 2015-02-01 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/02/msg225273.html>
2187 I've seen them with my eyes;
2189 They're often in disguise.
2191 Like carrots, handbags, cheese, toilets,
2192 Russians, planets, hamsters, weddings,
2193 Poets, Stalin, Kuala Lumpur!
2194 Pygmies, budgies, Kuala Lumpur!
2197 I've seen them with my eyes;
2199 They're often in disguise.
2201 Like carrots, handbags, cheese...
2203 =head2 v5.20.1 - Lorenzo da Ponte, trans. Diana Reed, "Così fan tutte"
2205 L<Announced on 2014-09-14 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/09/msg219789.html>
2207 DORABELLA (as if waking from a daze): Where are they?
2208 DON ALFONSO: They've gone.
2209 FIORDILIGI: Oh, the cruel bitterness of parting!
2212 Take heart, my dearest children.
2213 Look, in the distance, your lovers are waving to you.
2215 FIORDILIGI: Bon voyage, my darling!
2216 DORABELLA: Bon voyage!
2219 O heavens! How swiftly the ship is sailing away!
2220 It is disappearing already!
2221 It is no longer in sight!
2222 Oh, may heaven grant it a prosperous voyage!
2224 DORABELLA: May good luck attend it to the battlefield!
2225 DON ALFONSO: And may your sweethearts and my friends be safe!
2227 FIORDILIGI, DORABELLA, DON ALFONSO:
2228 May the wind be gentle,
2229 may the sea be calm,
2230 and may the elements
2234 =head2 v5.20.1-RC2 - Lorenzo da Ponte, trans. William Weaver, "Così fan tutte"
2236 L<Announced on 2014-09-07 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/09/msg219446.html>
2239 Oh God, I feel that this foot of mine
2240 is reluctant to come before her.
2247 The hero displays his manliness
2248 in the most terrible moments.
2250 FIORDILIGI, DORABELLA:
2251 Now that we have heard the news,
2252 you have the lesser duty:
2253 Take heart, and plunge your swords
2254 into both our hearts.
2256 FERRANDO, GUGLIELMO:
2258 that I must abandon you.
2260 DORABELLA: Ah no, you shall not leave...
2261 FIORDILIGI: No, cruel one, you shall not go...
2262 DORABELLA: First I want to tear out my heart.
2263 FIORDILIGI: First I want to die at your feet.
2264 FERRANDO (softly to Don Alfonso): What do you say to that?
2265 GUGLIELMO (softly to Don Alfonso): You realise?
2266 DON ALFONSO (softly): Steady, friend, finem lauda.
2269 Thus destiny defrauds
2270 the hopes of mortals.
2271 Ah, among so many misfortunes,
2272 who can ever love life?
2274 =head2 v5.20.1-RC1 - Lorenzo da Ponte, trans. William Weaver, "Così fan tutte"
2276 L<Announced on 2014-08-25 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/08/msg218975.html>
2279 I'd like to speak, but I haven't the heart:
2281 My voice cannot emerge,
2282 but remains in my throat.
2283 What will you do? What shall I do?
2284 Oh what a great catastrophe!
2285 There can be nothing worse.
2286 I feel pity for you and for them.
2288 FIORDILIGI: Heavens! For mercy's sake, Signor Alfonso, don't make us
2290 DON ALFONSO: My children, you must arm yourselves with constancy.
2291 DORABELLA: Ye Gods! What evil has occurred? What horrible event? Is my
2293 FIORDILIGI: Is mine dead?
2294 DON ALFONSO: They are not dead, but they are not far from it.
2298 DON ALFONSO: Nor that.
2299 FIORDILIGI: What, then?
2300 DON ALFONSO: A royal command summons them to the field of battle.
2301 FIORDILIGI, DORABELLA: Alas, what do I hear? And they will leave?
2302 DON ALFONSO: Immediately.
2303 DORABELLA: And there is no way of preventing it?
2304 DON ALFONSO: There is none.
2305 FIORDILIGI: And not even a single farewell...
2306 DON ALFONSO: The unhappy men haven't the courage to see you; but if
2307 you wish it, they are ready...
2308 DORABELLA: Where are they?
2309 DON ALFONSO: Come in, friends.
2311 =head2 v5.20.0 - William Shakespeare, Sonnet 18
2313 L<Announced on 2014-05-27 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/05/msg215815.html>
2315 But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
2316 Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st;
2317 Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
2318 When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st:
2319 So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
2320 So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
2322 =head2 v5.20.0-RC1 - Lindsey Buckingham, "Second Hand News"
2324 L<Announced on 2014-05-17 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/05/msg215479.html>
2328 Won't you lay me down in tall grass
2329 And let me do my stuff
2331 =head2 v5.19.11 - Isidore-Lucien Ducasse [as "Comte de Lautréamont"], trans. Paul Knight, "Les Chants de Maldoror"
2333 L<Announced on 2014-04-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/04/msg214580.html>
2335 O rigorous mathematics, I have not forgotten you since your wise lessons,
2336 sweeter than honey, filtered into my heart like a refreshing wave.
2337 Instinctively, from the cradle, I had longed to drink from your source, older
2338 than the sun, and I continue to tread the sacred sanctuary of your solemn
2339 temple, I, the most faithful of your devotees. There was a vagueness in my
2340 mind, something thick as smoke; but I managed to mount the steps which lead to
2341 your altar, and you drove away this dark veil, as the wind blows the
2342 draught-board. You replaced it with excessive coldness, consummate prudence and
2343 implacable logic. With the aid of your fortifying milk, my intellect developed
2344 rapidly and took on immense proportions amid the ravishing lucidity which you
2345 bestow as a gift on all those who sincerely love you. Arithmetic! Algebra!
2346 Geometry! Awe-inspiring trinity! Luminous triangle! He who has not known you
2349 =head2 v5.19.10 - John Chadwick, "The Decipherment of Linear B"
2351 L<Announced on 2014-03-20 by Aaron Crane|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/03/msg213851.html>
2353 The urge to discover secrets is deeply ingrained in human nature; even
2354 the least curious mind is roused by the promise of sharing knowledge
2355 withheld from others. Some are fortunate enough to find a job which
2356 consists in the solution of mysteries, whether it be the physicist who
2357 tracks down a hitherto unknown nuclear particle or the policeman who
2358 detects a criminal. But most of us are driven to sublimate this urge
2359 by the solving of artificial puzzles devised for our entertainment.
2361 =head2 v5.19.9 - R. A. MacAvoy, "Tea with the Black Dragon"
2363 L<Announced on 2014-02-20 by Tony Cook|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/02/msg213047.html>
2365 Old hands. The smell of rain--the smell of Ch'an. Quiet words in
2366 rough Cantonese. "I am not to be your master. Your master has to be
2367 stronger than you are--has to tell you you are a fool and make you
2368 know it. And make you feel content in being a fool. How could I do
2369 that for you? I'm old. You are too strong for me; you are full of
2370 chi." The old man has paused then, huddled against the wind while
2371 clouds thickened above them.
2373 "I will tell you this, Long," he continued, "Before you find yourself
2374 you will lose your chi. Also you will leave behind you all pride of
2375 body, pride of mind. You will be reduced. Like me." The old man
2376 closed his eyes, and rain began to beat against his gray, crew-cut
2377 hair. He pulled his coat closer. Suddenly his eyes snapped open and
2378 he looked Long in the face.
2380 "You must leave China. Go across the ocean. There you will meet your
2381 master." He set down his teacup with a palsied hand. His voice rose,
2384 "I tell you this, most honored and impressive visitor. You are a
2385 fool, yes, but you will find the very thing you seek. You will find
2388 =head2 v5.19.8 - Joseph Heller, "Catch-22"
2390 L<Announced on 2014-01-20 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/01/msg211729.html>
2392 “I used to get a big kick out of saving people’s lives. Now I wonder what the
2393 hell’s the point, since they all have to die anyway.”
2395 “Oh, there’s a point, all right,” Dunbar assured him.
2397 “Is there? What is the point?”
2399 “The point is to keep them from dying for as long as you can.”
2401 “Yeah, but what’s the point, since they all have to die anyway?”
2403 “The trick is not to think about that.”
2405 “Never mind the trick. What the hell’s the point?”
2407 Dunbar pondered in silence for a few moments. “Who the hell knows?”
2409 =head2 v5.19.7 - Kurt Vonnegut, "Slaughterhouse-Five"
2411 L<Announced on 2013-12-20 by Abigail|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/12/msg210882.html>
2413 And somewhere in there was springtime. The corpse mines were closed
2414 down. The soldiers all left to fight the Russians. In the suburbs,
2415 the women and children dug rifle pits. Billy and the rest of his group
2416 were locked up in the stable in the suburbs. And then, one morning,
2417 they got up to discover that the door was unlocked. World War Two in
2420 Billy and the rest wandered out onto the shady street. The trees were
2421 leafing out. There was nothing going on out there, no traffic of any
2422 kind. There was only one vehicle, an abandoned wagon drawn by two
2423 horses. The wagon was green and coffin-shaped.
2427 One bird said to Billy Pilgrim, "Pee-tee-weet?"
2429 =head2 v5.19.6 - Monty Python's Flying Circus, "Spam"
2431 L<Announced on 2013-11-20 by Chris 'BinGOs' Williams|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/11/msg210043.html>
2433 Interior: cheap cafe. All the customers are Vikings. Mr and Mrs Bun enter downwards (on wires).
2437 Mr. Bun: What have you got, then?
2438 Waitress: Well there's egg and bacon; egg, sausage and bacon; egg and spam; egg, bacon and spam;
2439 egg, bacon, sausage and spam; spam, bacon, sausage and spam; spam, egg, spam, spam, bacon and spam;
2440 spam, spam, spam, egg and spam; spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, baked beans, spam, spam, spam and spam;
2441 or lobster thermidor aux crevettes, with a mornay sauce garnished with truffle pate, brandy and a fried
2443 Mrs. Bun: Have you got anything without spam in it?
2444 Waitress: Well, there's spam, egg, sausage and spam. That's not got MUCH spam in it.
2445 Mrs. Bun: I don't want ANY spam.
2446 Mr. Bun: Why can't she have egg, bacon, spam and sausage?
2447 Mrs. Bun: That's got spam in it!
2448 Mr. Bun: Not as much as spam, egg, sausage and spam.
2449 Mrs. Bun: Look, could I have egg, bacon, spam and sausage, without the spam.
2450 Waitress: Uuuuuuggggh!
2451 Mrs. Bun: What d'you mean, uugggh! I don't like spam.
2452 Vikings: (singing) Spam, spam, spam, spam, spam ... spam, spam, spam, spam ... lovely spam, wonderful spam ...
2454 (Brief shot of a Viking ship)
2456 Waitress: Shut up. Shut up! Shut up! You can't have egg, bacon, spam and sausage without the spam.
2458 Waitress: No, it wouldn't be egg, bacon, spam and sausage, would it?
2459 Mrs. Bun: I don't like spam!
2461 =head2 v5.19.5 - Charles Baudelaire, trans. James McGowan, "The Flowers of Evil", 51. The Cat
2463 L<Announced on 2013-10-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/10/msg208752.html>
2467 A cat is strolling through my mind
2468 Acting as though he owned the place,
2469 A lovely cat -- strong, charming, sweet.
2470 When he meows, one scarcely hears,
2472 So tender and discreet his tone;
2473 But whether he should growl or purr
2474 His voice is always rich and deep.
2475 That is the secret of his charm.
2477 This purling voice that filters down
2478 Into my darkest depths of soul
2479 Fulfils me like a balanced verse,
2480 Delights me as a potion would.
2482 It puts to sleep the cruellest ills
2483 And keeps a rein on ecstasies --
2484 Without the need for any words
2485 It can pronounce the longest phrase.
2487 Oh no, there is no bow that draws
2488 Across my heart, fine instrument,
2489 And makes to sing so royally
2490 The strongest and the purest chord,
2492 More than your voice, mysterious cat,
2493 Exotic cat, seraphic cat,
2494 In whom all is, angelically,
2495 As subtle as harmonious.
2499 From his soft fur, golden and brown,
2500 Goes out so sweet a scent, one night
2501 I might have been embalmed in it
2502 By giving him one little pet.
2504 He is my household's guardian soul;
2505 He judges, he presides, inspires
2506 All matters in hos royal realm;
2507 Might he be fairy? or a god?
2509 When my eyes, to this cat I love
2510 Drawn as by a magnet's force,
2511 Turn tamely back from that appeal,
2512 And when I look within myself,
2514 I notice with astonishment
2515 The fire of his opal eyes,
2516 Clear beacons glowing, living jewels,
2517 Taking my measure, steadily.
2519 =head2 v5.19.4 - Washington Irving, "The Widow and Her Son"
2521 L<Announced on 2013-09-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/09/msg207969.html>
2523 There is something in sickness that breaks down the pride of manhood;
2524 that softens the heart and brings it back to the feelings of infancy.
2525 Who that has languished, even in advanced life, in sickness and
2526 despondency — who that has pined on a weary bed in the neglect and
2527 loneliness of a foreign land — but has thought on the mother "that
2528 looked on his childhood," that smoothed his pillow and administered to
2529 his helplessness. — Oh! there is an enduring tenderness in the love
2530 of a mother to her son that transcends all other affections of the
2531 heart. It is neither to be chilled by selfishness — nor daunted by
2532 danger — nor weakened by worthlessness — nor stifled by ingratitude.
2533 She will sacrifice every comfort to his convenience — she will
2534 surrender every pleasure to his enjoyment — she will glory in his fame
2535 and exult in his prosperity. And if misfortune overtake him he will
2536 be the dearer to her from misfortune — and if disgrace settle upon his
2537 name, she will still love and cherish him in spite of his disgrace —
2538 and if all the world beside cast him off, she will be all the world to
2541 =head2 v5.19.3 - Andrew Hodges, "Alan Turing: The Enigma"
2543 L<Announced on 2013-08-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/08/msg206318.html>
2545 E.M. Forster, outdoing the King's heresy with grand bravura, had
2546 written in 1938 that if he were faced with the choice between
2547 betraying his country and betraying his friends, he hoped he would
2548 have the courage to betray his country. He would always put the
2549 personal above the political. But for Alan Turing, unlike Forster, or
2550 Wittgenstein, or G.H. Hardy, it was more than a theoretical question.
2551 For him not only had the personal become the political, but the
2552 political was the personal. He had chosen and promised for himself in
2553 working for the government. The choice for him therefore was that
2554 between betraying one part of himself and betraying another part. And
2555 however much he wavered between these alternatives, there was a solid
2556 logic to the mind of security, one that could not be expected to take
2557 an interest in notions of freedom and development. He had no rights
2558 to such things, as he would have had to admit. He might have
2559 outwitted the Home Guard, but when it came to questions that mattered,
2560 there was no doubt that he had placed himself under military law.
2561 There was a war on; there was always a war on now.
2563 =head2 v5.19.2 - Fred Brooks, "The Mythical Man-Month"
2565 L<Announced on 2013-07-22 by Aristotle Pagaltzis|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/07/msg204905.html>
2567 The magic of myth and legend has come true in our time. One types the
2568 correct incantation on a keyboard, and a display screen comes to life,
2569 showing things that never were nor could be. [...] Not all is delight,
2570 however [...] One must perform perfectly. The computer resembles the
2571 magic of legend in this respect, too. If one character, one pause, of
2572 the incantation is not strictly in proper form, the magic doesn't work.
2574 =head2 v5.19.1 - William Shakespeare, "A Midsummer Night's Dream"
2576 L<Announced on 2013-06-21 by David Golden|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/06/msg203449.html>
2578 Over hill, over dale,
2579 Thorough bush, thorough briar,
2580 Over park, over pale,
2581 Thorough flood, thorough fire,
2582 I do wander everywhere,
2583 Swifter than the moon's sphere;
2584 And I serve the fairy queen,
2585 To dew her orbs upon the green.
2586 The cowslips tall her pensioners be;
2587 In their gold coats, spots you see;
2588 Those be rubies, fairy favours,
2589 In their freckles live our savours.
2590 I must go seek some dew-drops here,
2591 And hang a perl in every cowslip's ear.
2592 Farewell, thou lob of spirits, I'll be gone;
2593 My queen and all her elves come here anon!
2595 =head2 v5.19.0 - Batman, of the Joker, in "The Dark Knight Returns"
2597 L<Announced on 2013-05-20 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/05/msg201980.html>
2599 From the beginning, I knew…
2600 …that there was nothing wrong with you…
2604 =head2 v5.18.4 - Robert W. Chambers, Cassilda's Song in "The King in Yellow," Act I, Scene 2
2606 L<Announced on 2014-10-01 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/10/msg220770.html>
2608 Along the shore the cloud waves break,
2609 The twin suns sink beneath the lake,
2610 The shadows lengthen
2613 Strange is the night where black stars rise,
2614 And strange moons circle through the skies
2615 But stranger still is
2618 Songs that the Hyades shall sing,
2619 Where flap the tatters of the King,
2623 Song of my soul, my voice is dead;
2624 Die thou, unsung, as tears unshed
2625 Shall dry and die in
2628 =head2 v5.18.3 - (no epigraph)
2632 =head2 v5.18.3-RC2 - Robert W. Chambers, "The King in Yellow", Act I, Scene 2
2634 L<Announced on 2014-09-27 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/09/msg220613.html>
2636 "Ah! I see it now!" I shrieked. "You have seized the throne and the
2637 empire. Woe! woe to you who are crowned with the crown of the King in
2640 =head2 v5.18.3-RC1 - Robert W. Chambers, "The King in Yellow", Act I, Scene 2
2642 L<Announced on 2014-09-17 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/09/msg220072.html>
2644 CAMILLA: You, sir, should unmask.
2648 CASSILDA: Indeed it's time. We all have laid aside disguise but you.
2650 STRANGER: I wear no mask.
2652 CAMILLA: (Terrified, aside to Cassilda.) No mask? No mask!
2654 =head2 v5.18.2 - Miss Manners
2656 L<Announced on 2014-01-06 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/01/msg211224.html>
2658 One of the major mistakes people make is that they think manners are
2659 only the expression of happy ideas. There's a whole range of behavior
2660 that can be expressed in a mannerly way. That's what civilization is all
2661 about – doing it in a mannerly and not an antagonistic way. One of the
2662 places we went wrong was the naturalistic Rousseauean movement of the
2663 Sixties in which people said, "Why can't you just say what's on your
2664 mind?" In civilization there have to be some restraints. If we followed
2665 every impulse, we'd be killing one another.
2667 =head2 v5.18.1 - Chuck Moore
2669 L<Announced on 2013-08-12 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/08/msg205897.html>
2671 The operating system is another concept that is curious. Operating
2672 systems are dauntingly complex and totally unnecessary. It’s a brilliant
2673 thing that Bill Gates has done in selling the world on the notion of
2674 operating systems. It’s probably the greatest con game the world has
2677 An operating system does absolutely nothing for you. As long as you had
2678 something — a subroutine called disk driver, a subroutine called some
2679 kind of communication support, in the modern world, it doesn’t do
2680 anything else. In fact, Windows spends a lot of time with overlays and
2681 disk management all stuff like that which are irrelevant. You’ve got
2682 gigabyte disks; you’ve got megabyte RAMs. The world has changed in a way
2683 that renders the operating system unnecessary.
2685 =head2 v5.18.1-RC1 - Chuck Moore
2687 L<Announced on 2013-08-02 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/08/msg205445.html>
2689 Compilers are probably the worst code ever written. They are written by
2690 someone who has never written a compiler before and will never do so
2691 again. The more elaborate the language, the more complex, bug-ridden,
2692 and unusable is the compiler. But a simple compiler for a simple
2693 language is an essential tool—if only for documentation.
2695 =head2 v5.18.0 - Yevgeny Zamyatin
2697 L<Announced on 2013-05-18 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/05/msg201940.html>
2699 It is an error to divide people into the living and the dead: there are people
2700 who are dead-alive, and people who are alive-alive. The dead-alive also write,
2701 walk, speak, act. But they make no mistakes; only machines make no mistakes,
2702 and they produce only dead things. The alive-alive are constantly in error, in
2703 search, in questions, in torment.
2705 =head2 v5.18.0-RC4 - Joseph Heller, "Catch-22"
2707 L<Announced on 2013-05-16 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/05/msg201889.html>
2709 Clevinger was dead. That was the basic flaw in his philosophy.
2711 =head2 v5.18.0-RC3 - Tom Waits, "The Ocean Doesn't Want Me"
2713 L<Announced on 2013-05-14 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/05/msg201823.html>
2715 I'd love to go drowning
2716 And to stay and to stay
2717 But the ocean doesn't want me today
2718 I'll go in up to here
2719 It can't possibly hurt
2720 All they will find is my beer
2723 =head2 v5.18.0-RC2 - Tom Waits, "Earth Died Screaming"
2725 L<Announced on 2013-05-12 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/05/msg201723.html>
2727 And the great day of wrath has come
2728 And here's mud in your big red eye
2729 The poker's in the fire
2730 And the locusts take the sky
2731 And the earth died screaming
2732 While I lay dreaming of you
2734 =head2 v5.18.0-RC1 - Tom Waits, "What's He Building in There?"
2736 L<Announced on 2013-05-11 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/05/msg201651.html>
2738 What's he building in there?
2740 We have a right to know…
2742 =head2 v5.17.11 - Nigel Tufnel in "This is Spın̈al Tap"
2744 L<Announced on 2013-04-20 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/04/msg201056.html>
2746 It's very special because, if you can see, the numbers all go to…
2747 eleven! Look, right across the board: eleven, eleven, eleven, eleven!
2749 =head2 v5.17.10 - Vernor Vinge, "A Fire Upon The Deep"
2751 L<Announced on 2013-03-23 by Max Maischein|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/03/msg200504.html>
2753 The archive informed the automation. Data structures were built, recipes
2754 followed. A local network was built, faster than anything on Straum, but surely
2755 safe. Nodes were added, modified by other recipes. The archive was a friendly
2756 place, with hierarchies of translation keys that led them along. Straum itself
2757 would be famous for this.
2759 Six months passed. A year.
2761 The omniscient view. Not self-aware really. Self-awareness is much over-rated.
2762 Most automation works far better as a part of a whole, and even if human-
2763 powerful, it does not need to self-know.
2765 =head2 v5.17.9 - Douglas Adams, "The Hitch-Hikers Guide to the Galaxy"
2767 L<Announced on 2013-02-20 by Chris 'BinGOs' Williams|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/02/msg199115.html>
2769 Vogon poetry is of course, the third worst in the universe.
2770 The second worst is that of the Azgoths of Kria. During a
2771 recitation by their poet master Grunthos the Flatulent of
2772 his poem 'Ode To A Small Lump of Green Putty I Found In My
2773 Armpit One Midsummer Morning' four of his audience died
2774 of internal haemorrhaging and the president of the
2775 Mid-Galactic Arts Nobbling Council survived by gnawing one
2776 of his own legs off. Grunthos is reported to have been
2777 'disappointed' by the poem's reception, and was about to
2778 embark on a reading of his twelve-book epic entitled
2779 'My Favourite Bathtime Gurgles' when his own major intestine,
2780 in a desperate attempt to save life and civilisation,
2781 leapt straight up through his neck and throttled his brain.
2783 The very worst poetry of all perished along with its creator
2784 Paula Nancy Millstone Jennings of Greenbridge, Essex, England,
2785 in the destruction of the planet Earth.
2787 =head2 v5.17.8 - Iain Pears, "An Instance of the Fingerpost"
2789 L<Announced on 2013-01-20 by Aaron Crane|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/01/msg197571.html>
2791 I must here declare myself as someone who does not for a moment subscribe to
2792 the general view that a willingness to perform oneself is detrimental to the
2793 dignity of experimental philosophy. There is, after all, a clear distinction
2794 between labour carried out for financial reward, and that done for the
2795 improvement of mankind: to put it another way, Lower as a philosopher was
2796 fully my equal even if he fell away when he became the practising physician.
2797 I think ridiculous of certain professors of anatomy, who find it beneath
2798 them to pick up the knife themselves, but merely comment while hired hands
2799 do the cutting. Sylvius would never have dreamt of sitting on a dais reading
2800 from an authority while others cut — when he taught, the knife was
2801 in his hand and the blood spattered his coat. Boyle also did not scruple to
2802 perform his own experiments and, on one occasion in my presence, even showed
2803 himself willing to anatomise a rat with his very own hands. Nor was he less
2804 a gentleman when he had finished. Indeed, in my opinion, his stature was all
2805 the greater, for in Boyle wealth, humility and curiosity mingled, and the
2806 world is richer for it.
2808 =head2 v5.17.7 - R. Scott Bakker, "The Darkness That Comes Before"
2810 L<Announced on 2012-12-18 by Dave Rolsky|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/12/msg196707.html>
2814 The boy extinguished. Only a place.
2818 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.
2820 A place without breath or sound. A place of sight alone. A place without before or after . . . almost.
2822 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.
2824 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 . . .
2826 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.
2828 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.
2830 I have been legion . . .
2832 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.
2836 =head2 v5.17.6 - Kurt Vonnegut, "The Sirens of Titan"
2838 L<Announced on 2012-11-20 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/11/msg195659.html>
2840 Beatrice, looking like a gypsy queen, smoldered at the foot of a statue
2841 of a young physical student. At first glance, the laboratory-gowned
2842 scientist seemed to be a perfect servant of nothing but truth. At first
2843 glance, one was convinced that nothing but truth could please him as he
2844 beamed at his test tube. At first glance, one thought that he was as
2845 much above the beastly concerns of mankind as the harmoniums in the
2846 caves of Mercury. There, at first glance, was a young man without
2847 vanity, without lust — and one accepted at its face value the title Salo
2848 had engraved on the statue, "Discovery of Atomic Power."
2850 =head2 v5.17.5 - Charles Stross, "Singularity Sky"
2852 L<Announced on 2012-10-20 by Florian Ragwitz|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/10/msg194349.html>
2854 Neither of them noticed the pair of polka-dotted knickers hiding
2855 behind the ventilation duct overhead, listening patiently and
2856 recording everything.
2858 =head2 v5.17.4 - Roald Dahl, "Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf"
2860 L<Announced on 2012-09-19 by Florian Ragwitz|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/09/msg192635.html>
2862 The small girl smiles. One eyelid flickers.
2863 She whips a pistol from her knickers.
2864 She aims it at the creature's head,
2865 And bang bang bang, she shoots him dead.
2867 A few weeks later, in the wood,
2868 I came across Miss Riding Hood.
2869 But what a change! No cloak of red,
2870 No silly hood upon her head.
2871 She said, "Hello, and do please note
2872 My lovely furry wolfskin coat."
2874 =head2 v5.17.3 - Kris Ta-belle, "Smoked Perl Onion Soup"
2876 L<Announced on 2012-08-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/08/msg190775.html>
2880 Cut 16 Perl Onions into quarters and put them in a grill smoker rack
2881 or a perforated pan over a BBQ using hickory wood chips or Special
2882 Blend Smoker Bisquettes. Smoke them for an hour and remove once they
2884 Let them cool and put them in the fridge (or freezer) until you are
2885 ready to create the soup.
2889 16 diced, pre-smoked, Perl Onions
2892 2 small garlic cloves, finely minced
2895 black pepper to taste
2897 1/4 cup all purpose flour
2898 6 cups of beef or vegetable stock
2899 1 cup of thick cream (milk can be used as a substitute)
2903 Melt the butter in a pan and then add olive oil.
2904 Heat and add the onions to caramelize over a medium-high heat for up
2906 Add the garlic, turn down the heat and cook for a further 5 minutes.
2907 Add the salt, pepper and sugar.
2908 Now add the red wine and reduce to a jam like consistency.
2909 Add the flour, stir well and add the stock a cup at a time.
2910 Simmer for 30 minutes, add the cream and heat to almost boiling.
2914 =head2 v5.17.2 - Terry Pratchet, "The Colour of Magic"
2916 L<Announced on 2012-07-21 by TonyC|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/07/msg189828.html>
2918 ‘I knew it,’ said Rincewind. ‘We're in a strong magical field.’
2920 Twoflower and Hrun looked around the little hollow where they had made
2921 their noonday halt. Then they looked at each other.
2923 The horses were quietly cropping the rich grass by the stream. Yellow
2924 butterflies skittered among the bushes. There was a smell of thyme
2925 and a buzzing of bees. The wild pigs on the spit sizzled gently.
2927 Hrun shrugged and went back to oiling his biceps. They gleamed.
2929 ‘Looks alright to me,’ he said.
2931 ‘Try tossing a coin,’ said Rincewind.
2935 ‘Go on. Toss a coin.’
2937 ‘Hokay,’ said Hrun. 'If that gives you any pleasure.’ He reached into
2938 his pouch and withdrew a handful of loose change plundered from a
2939 dozen realms. With some care he selected a Zchloty leaden
2940 quarter-iotum and balanced it on a purple thumbnail.
2942 ‘You call,’ he said. ‘Heads or—’ he inspected the obverse with
2943 an air of intense concentration, ‘some sort of a fish with legs.’
2945 ‘When it's in the air,’ said Rincewind. Hrun grinned and flicked his thumb.
2947 The iotum rose, spinning.
2949 ‘Edge,’ said Rincewind, without looking at it.
2951 =head2 v5.17.1 - Rand Miller, "Myst: The Book of Ti'ana"
2953 L<Announced on 2012-06-20 by doy|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/06/msg188354.html>
2955 On their return from Ko'ah, Aitrus had shown her the Book, patiently
2956 taking her through page after page, and showing her how such an Age was
2957 "made." She had seen at once the differences between this archaic form
2958 and the ordinary written speech of the D'ni, noting how it was not
2959 merely more elaborate but more specific: a language of precise yet
2960 subtle descriptive power. Yet seeing was one thing, believing another.
2961 Given all the evidence, her rational mind still fought against accepting
2964 =head2 v5.17.0 - Charles Stross, "Singularity Sky"
2966 L<Announced on 2012-05-26 by Zefram|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/05/msg187214.html>
2968 `Welcome, comrades!' Burya opened his arms toward the soldier.
2969 `Yes it is true! With help from our allies of the Festival, the iron
2970 hand of the reactionary junta is about to be overthrown for all time!
2971 The new economy is being born; the marginal cost of production has
2972 been abolished, and from now on, if any item is produced once, it can
2973 be replicated infinitely. From each according to his imagination,
2974 to each according to his needs! Join us or better still, bring your
2975 fellow soldiers and workers to join us!'
2977 There was a sharp bang from the roof of the Corn Exchange, right at the
2978 climax of his impromptu speech; heads turned in alarm. Something had
2979 broken inside the spork factory and a stream of rainbow-hued plastic
2980 implements fountained toward the sky and clattered to the cobblestones
2981 on every side, like a harbinger of the postindustrial society to come.
2982 Workers and peasants alike stared in open-mouthed bewilderment at this
2983 astounding display of productivity, then bent to scrabble in the muck
2984 for the brightly colored sporks of revolution. A volley of shots rang
2985 out and Burya Rubenstein raised his hands, grinning wildly, to accept
2986 the salute of the soldiers from the Skull Hill garrison.
2988 =head2 v5.16.3 - Devo, "Freedom of Choice"
2990 L<Announced on 2013-03-11 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/03/msg200009.html>
2992 A victim of collision on the open sea
2993 Nobody ever said that life was free
2994 Sink, swim, go down with the ship
2995 But use your freedom of choice
2997 =head2 v5.16.2 - Stanislaw Lem, "The Cyberiad", Trurl's Machine
2999 L<Announced on 2012-11-01 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/11/msg194915.html>
3001 Once upon a time Trurl the constructor built an eight-story thinking
3002 machine. When it was finished, he gave it a coat of white paint,
3003 trimmed the edges in lavender, stepped back, squinted, then added a
3004 little curlicue on the front and, where one might imagine the forehead
3005 to be, a few pale orange polkadots. Extremely pleased with himself,
3006 he whistled an air and, as is always done on such occasions, asked it
3007 the ritual question of how much is two plus two.
3009 The machine stirred. Its tubes began to glow, its coils warmed up,
3010 current coursed through all its circuits like a waterfall,
3011 transformers hummed and throbbed, there was a clanging, and a
3012 chugging, and such an ungodly racket that Trurl began to think of
3013 adding a special mentation muffler. Meanwhile the machine labored on,
3014 as if it had been given the most difficult problem in the Universe to
3015 solve; the ground shook, the sand slid underfoot from the vibration,
3016 valves popped like champagne corks, the relays nearly gave way under
3017 the strain. At last, when Trurl had grown extremely impatient, the
3018 machine ground to a halt and said in a voice like thunder: SEVEN!
3020 =head2 v5.16.1 - Emerald Rose, "Never Split The Party"
3022 L<Announced on 2012-08-08 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/08/msg190413.html>
3024 Don't you know? You never split the party
3025 Clerics in the back to keep those fighters hale and hearty
3026 The wizard in the middle, where he can shed some light
3027 And you never let that damn thief out of sight…
3029 =head2 v5.16.1-RC1 - Tom Moldvay, Foreward to the "Dungeons & Dragons Basic Rulebook"
3031 L<Announced on 2012-08-03 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/08/msg190264.html>
3033 I was busy rescuing the captured maiden when the dragon showed up.
3034 Fifty feed of scaled terror glared down at us with smoldering red eyes.
3035 Tendrils of smoke drifted out from between fangs larger than daggers.
3036 The dragon blocked the only exit from the cave.
3040 I unwrapped the sword which the mysterious cleric had given me. The
3041 sword was golden-tinted steel. Its hilt was set with a rainbow
3042 collection of precious gems. I shouted my battle cry and charged
3044 My charge caught the dragon by surprise. Its titanic jaws snapped shut
3045 inches from my face. I swung the golden sword with both arms. The
3046 swordblade bit into the dragon's neck and continued through to the other
3047 side. With an earth-shaking crash, the dragon dropped dead at my feet.
3048 The magic sword had saved my life and ended the reign of the
3049 dragon-tyrant. The countryside was freed and I could return as a hero.
3051 =head2 v5.16.0 - W.H. Auden, "September 1, 1939"
3053 L<Announced on 2012-05-20 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/05/msg186903.html>
3055 All I have is a voice
3056 To undo the folded lie,
3057 The romantic lie in the brain
3058 Of the sensual man-in-the-street
3059 And the lie of Authority
3060 Whose buildings grope the sky:
3061 There is no such thing as the State
3062 And no one exists alone;
3063 Hunger allows no choice
3064 To the citizen or the police;
3065 We must love one another or die.
3067 =head2 v5.15.9 - Bob Dylan, "Blowin' In The Wind"
3069 L<Announced on 2012-03-20 by Abigail|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/03/msg184824.html>
3071 How many roads must a man walk down
3072 Before you call him a man?
3073 Yes, 'n' how many seas must a white dove sail
3074 Before she sleeps in the sand?
3075 Yes, 'n' how many times must the cannonballs fly
3076 Before they're forever banned?
3077 The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind
3078 The answer is blowin' in the wind
3080 How many years can a mountain exist
3081 Before it's washed to the sea?
3082 Yes, 'n' how many years can some people exist
3083 Before they're allowed to be free?
3084 Yes, 'n' how many times can a man turn his head
3085 Pretending he just doesn't see?
3086 The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind
3087 The answer is blowin' in the wind
3089 How many times must a man look up
3090 Before he can see the sky?
3091 Yes, 'n' how many ears must one man have
3092 Before he can hear people cry?
3093 Yes, 'n' how many deaths will it take till he knows
3094 That too many people have died?
3095 The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind
3096 The answer is blowin' in the wind
3098 =head2 v5.15.8 - The KLF, "The Manual-How To Have A Number One The Easy Way"
3100 L<Announced on 2012-02-20 by Max Maischein|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/02/msg183919.html>
3102 "Doctor Who, hey Doctor Who
3103 Doctor Who, in the Tardis
3104 Doctor Who, hey Doctor Who
3105 Doctor Who, Doc, Doctor Who
3106 Doctor Who, Doc, Doctor Who"
3108 Gibberish of course, but every lad in the country under a certain
3109 age related instinctively to what it was about. The ones slightly
3110 older needed a couple of pints inside them to clear away the mind
3111 debris left by the passing years before it made sense. As for
3112 girls and our chorus, we think they must have seen it as pure crap.
3113 A fact that must have limited to zero our chances of staying at The
3114 Top for more than one week.
3116 Stock, Aitkin and Waterman, however, are kings of writing chorus
3117 lyrics that go straight to the emotional heart of the 7" single
3118 buying girls in this country. Their most successful records will kick
3119 into the chorus with a line which encapsulates the entire emotional
3120 meaning of the song. This will obviously be used as the title. As
3121 soon as Rick Astley hit the first line of the chorus on his debut
3122 single it was all over - the Number One position was guaranteed:
3124 "I'm never going to give you up"
3126 =head2 v5.15.7 - Penelope Lively, "The Voyage of QV66"
3128 L<Announced on 2012-01-20 by Chris 'BinGOs' Williams|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/01/msg182230.html>
3130 "Laboratories," announced Henry. "Kindly don't touch anything."
3132 He led us into a long low brick shed. Outside there was a
3133 notice on a piece of board, crudely printed in red paint,
3134 which said GRATE SIENCE DISCOVERYS DONE HERE SSSH! BRING YOUR
3135 OWN BUKKIT NO PINCHING ANYWUN ELSE'S EXPERRYMENTS CANTEEN OPEN
3136 ALL DAY CHIMPS ONLY.
3138 There were a lot of large black monkeys inside, all intently
3139 busy on what they were doing. Some of them were pouring stuff
3140 out of bottles into buckets and carefully stirring the ensuing
3141 mixture; others were at work with glass tubes and jars, blowing
3142 and measuring and mixing; others were crouched over long benches
3143 with tools and heaps of bits and pieces of metal, cutting and
3144 bending and constructing. There was a great deal of noise and
3145 chatter. Every now and then one of them would give a whoop of
3146 excitement and all the others would gather round and jump up and
3147 down cheering and applauding.
3149 "Chimps," said Henry. "They're awfully clever."
3151 =head2 v5.15.6 - Ursula K. Leguin, "A Wizard of Earthsea"
3153 L<Announced on 2011-12-20 by Dave Rolsky|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/12/msg180962.html>
3155 Ged had thought that as the prentice of a great mage he would enter at once
3156 into the mystery and mastery of power. He would understand the language of the
3157 beasts and the speech of the leaves of the forest, he thought, and sway the
3158 winds with his word, and learn to change himself into any shape he
3159 wished. Maybe he and his master would run together as stags, or fly to Re Albi
3160 over the mountain on the wings of eagles.
3162 But it was not so at all. They wandered, first down into the Vale and then
3163 gradually south and westward around the mountain, given lodging in little
3164 villages or spending the night out in the wilderness, like poor
3165 journeyman-sorcerers, or tinkers, or beggars. They entered no mysterious
3166 domain. Nothing happened. The mage's oaken staff that Ged had watched at first
3167 with eager dread was nothing but a stout staff to walk with. Three days went
3168 by and four days went by and still Ogion had not spoken a single charm in
3169 Ged's hearing, and had not taught him a single name or rune or spell.
3171 =head2 v5.15.5 - Nikolai Gogol, trans. Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, "The Diary of a Madman"
3173 L<Announced on 2011-11-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/11/msg179588.html>
3175 This day - is a day of the greatest solemnity! Spain has a king. He has
3176 been found. I am that king. Only this very day did I learn of it. I
3177 confess, it came to me suddenly in a flash of lightning. I don't understand
3178 how I could have thought and imagined that I was a titular councillor. How
3179 could such a wild notion enter my head? It's a good thing no one thought of
3180 putting me in an insane asylum. Now everything is laid open before me. Now
3181 I see everything as on the palm of my hand. And before, I don't understand,
3182 before everything around me was in some sort of fog. And all this happens, I
3183 think, because people imagine that the human brain is in the head. Not at
3184 all: it is brought by a wind from the direction of the Caspian Sea. First
3185 off, I announced to Mavra who I am. When she heard that the king of Spain
3186 was standing before her, she clasped her hands and nearly died of fright.
3187 The stupid woman had never seen a king of Spain before. However, I
3188 endeavoured to calm her down and assured her in gracious words of my
3189 benevolence and that I was not at all angry that she sometimes polished my
3190 boots poorly. They're benighted folk. It's impossible to tell them about
3191 lofty matters. She got frightened because she's convinced that all kings of
3192 Spain are like Philip II. But I explained to her that there was no
3193 resemblance between me and Philip II, and that I didn't have a single
3194 Capuchin . . . I didn't go to the office . . . To hell with it! No friends,
3195 you won't lure me there now; I'm not going to copy your vile papers!
3197 =head2 v5.15.4 - Steve Jobs
3199 L<Announced on 2011-10-20 by Florian Ragwitz|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/10/msg178412.html>
3201 A lot of people in our industry haven't had very diverse experiences. So they
3202 don't have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions
3203 without a broad perspective on the problem. The broader one's understanding of
3204 the human experience, the better design we will have.
3206 =head2 v5.15.3 - Oscar Wilde, From the preface to "The Picture of Dorian Gray"
3208 L<Announced on 2011-09-20 by Stevan Little|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/09/msg177427.html>
3210 All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath
3211 the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol
3212 do so at their peril.
3214 It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.
3215 Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the
3216 work is new, complex, and vital. When critics disagree, the
3217 artist is in accord with himself.
3219 We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as
3220 he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless
3221 thing is that one admires it intensely.
3223 All art is quite useless.
3225 =head2 v5.15.2 - Rainer Maria Rilke, trans., C. F. MacIntyre, "Duino", The First Elegy
3227 L<Announced on 2011-08-20 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/08/msg176067.html>
3229 True, it is strange to live no more on earth,
3230 no longer follow the folkways scarecely learned;
3231 not to give roses and other especially auspicious
3232 things the significance of a human future;
3233 to be no more what one was in infinitely anxious hands,
3234 and to put aside even one's name, like a broken plaything.
3235 Strange, to wish wishes no longer. Strange, to see
3236 all that was related fluttering so loosely in space.
3237 And being dead is hard, full of catching-up,
3238 so that finally one feels a little eternity.–
3239 But the living all make the mistake of too sharp discrimination.
3240 Often angels (it's said) don't know if they move
3241 among the quick or the dead. The eternal current
3242 hurtles all ages along with it forever
3243 through both realms and drowns their voices in both.
3245 =head2 v5.15.1 - Greg Egan, "Permutation City"
3247 L<Announced on 2011-07-20 by Zefram|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/07/msg175014.html>
3249 Carter held out a hand towards the middle of the room. `See that
3250 fountain?' A ten-metre-wide marble wedding cake, topped with a
3251 winged cherub wrestling a serpent, duly appeared. Water cascaded
3252 down from a gushing wound in the cherub's neck. Carter said, `It's
3253 being computed by redundancies in the sketch of the city. I can
3254 extract the results, because I know exactly where to look for them --
3255 but nobody else would have a hope in hell of picking them out.'
3257 Peer walked up to the fountain. Even as he approached, he noticed
3258 that the spray was intangible; when he dipped his hand in the water
3259 around the base he felt nothing, and the motion he made with his
3260 fingers left the foaming surface unchanged. They were spying on
3261 the calculations, not interacting with them; the fountain was a
3264 Carter said, `In your case, of course, nobody will need to know
3265 the results. Except you -- and you'll know them because you'll
3268 =head2 v5.15.0 - Neil Gaiman, "The Graveyard Book"
3270 L<Announced on 2011-06-20 by David Golden|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/06/msg173748.html>
3272 If you dare nothing, then when the day is over, nothing is all you will have gained.
3274 =head2 v5.14.4 - Arthur C. Clarke, "The Nine Billion Names of God"
3276 L<Announced on 2013-03-11 by Dave Mitchell|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/03/msg199988.html>
3278 He began to sing, but gave it up after a while. This vast arena of
3279 mountains, gleaming like whitely hooded ghosts on every side, did not
3280 encourage such ebullience. Presently George glanced at his watch.
3282 'Should be there in an hour,' he called back over his shoulder to
3283 Chuck. Then he added, in an afterthought: 'Wonder if the computer's
3284 finished its run. It was due about now.'
3286 Chuck didn't reply, so George swung round in his saddle. He could just
3287 see Chuck's face, a white oval turned towards the sky.
3289 'Look,' whispered Chuck, and George lifted his eyes to heaven. (There
3290 is always a last time for everything.)
3292 Overhead, without any fuss, the stars were going out.
3294 =head2 v5.14.3 - William Shakespeare, "As You Like It"
3296 L<Announced on 2012-10-12 by Dominic Hargreaves|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/10/msg194057.html>
3298 The poor world is almost six thousand years old, and in all
3299 this time there was not any man died in his own person,
3300 videlicit, in a love-cause. Troilus had his brains dashed
3301 out with a Grecian club; yet he did what he could to die
3302 before, and he is one of the patterns of love. Leander, he
3303 would have lived many a fair year, though Hero had turned
3304 nun, if it had not been for a hot midsummer night; for, good
3305 youth, he went but forth to wash him in the Hellespont and
3306 being taken with the cramp was drowned and the foolish
3307 coroners of that age found it was 'Hero of Sestos.' But these
3308 are all lies: men have died from time to time and worms have
3309 eaten them, but not for love.
3311 =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 >>
3313 L<Announced on 2011-09-26 by Florian Ragwitz|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/09/msg177618.html>
3315 It's not so much that people don't value the programs after they have them--they
3316 do value them. But they're not the sort of thing that would ever catch on if
3317 they had to overcome the marketing barrier. (I don't yet know if perl will
3318 catch on at all--I'm worried enough about it that I specifically included an
3319 awk-to-perl translator just to help it catch on.) Maybe it's all just an
3320 inferiority complex. Or maybe I don't like to be mercenary.
3322 So I guess I'd say that the reason some software comes free is that the
3323 mechanism for selling it is missing, either from the work environment, or from
3324 the heart of the programmer.
3326 =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 >>
3328 L<Announced on 2011-06-16 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/06/msg173650.html>
3330 At this point I'm no longer working for a company that makes me sign
3331 my life away, but by now I'm in the habit. Besides, I still harbor
3332 the deep-down suspicion that nobody would pay money for what I write,
3333 since most of it just helps you do something better that you could
3334 already do some other way. How much money would you personally pay
3335 to upgrade from readnews to rn? How much money would you pay for
3336 the patch program? As for warp, it's a mere game. And anything you
3337 can do with perl you can eventually do with an amazing and totally
3338 unreadable conglomeration of awk, sed, sh and C.
3340 =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 >>
3342 L<Announced on 2011-05-14 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/05/msg172326.html>
3344 At the start of any project, I'm programming primarily to please
3345 myself. (The two chief virtues in a programmer are laziness and
3346 impatience.) After a while somebody looks over my shoulder and says,
3347 "That's neat. It'd be neater if it did such-and-so." So the thing
3348 gets neater. Pretty soon (a year or two) I have an rn, a warp, a patch,
3349 or a perl. One of these years I'll have a metaconfig.
3351 I then say to myself, "I don't want my life's work to die when this
3352 computer is scrapped, so I should let some other people use this. If I
3353 ask my company to sell this, it'll never see the light of day, and nobody
3354 would pay much for it anyway. If I sell it myself, I'll be in trouble with
3355 my company, to whom I signed my life away when I was hired. If I give it
3356 away, I can pretend it was worthless in the first place, so my company
3357 won't care. In any event, it's easier to ask forgiveness than permission."
3359 So a freely distributable program is born.
3361 =head2 v5.14.0-RC3 - American Airlines Gate Agent, last call
3363 L<Announced on 2011-05-11 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/05/msg172282.html>
3365 This is the last call for flight 1697 with service to Chicago and
3366 continuing service to San Francisco. All passengers should already be
3367 aboard. If you aren't aboard at this time, you will be denied boarding
3368 and your bags will be offloaded.
3370 =head2 v5.14.0-RC2 - Greg Grandin, "Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City"
3372 L<Announced on 2011-05-04 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/05/msg171879.html>
3374 Over the course of nearly two decades, Ford would spend tens of millions
3375 of dollars founding not one but, after the plantation was defastated
3376 by leaf blight, two American towns, complete with central squares,
3377 sidewalks, indoor plumbing, hospitals, manicured lawns, movie theaters,
3378 swimming pools, golf courses, and, of course, Model Ts and As rolling
3379 down their paved streets.
3381 Back in America, newspapers kept up their drumbeat celebration, only
3382 obliquely referencing reports that things were not progressing as the
3383 company had hoped. But there was one note of skepticism. In late 1928,
3384 the Washington Post ran an editorial that read in its entirety: "Ford will
3385 govern a rubber plantation in Brazil larger than North Carolina. This is
3386 the first time he has applied quantity production methods to trouble"
3388 =head2 v5.14.0-RC1 - Bill Bryson, "In a Sunburned Country"
3390 L<Announced on 2011-04-20 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/04/msg171253.html>
3392 But then Australia is such a difficult country to keep track of. On
3393 my first visit, some years ago, I passed the time on the long flight
3394 reading a history of Australian politics in the twentieth century,
3395 wherein I encountered the startling fact that in 1967 the prime minister,
3396 Harold Holt, was strolling along a beach in Victoria when he plunged into
3397 the surf and vanished. No trace of the poor man was ever seen again.
3398 This seemed doubly astounding to me—first that Australia could
3399 just I<lose> a prime minister (I mean, come on) and second that news of
3400 this had never reached me.
3402 =head2 v5.13.11 - Walt Whitman, L<"Leaves of Grass"|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leaves_of_Grass>
3404 L<Announced on 2011-03-20 by Florian Ragwitz|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/03/msg170206.html>
3406 When the full-grown poet came,
3407 Out spake pleased Nature (the round impassive globe, with all its
3408 shows of day and night,) saying, He is mine;
3409 But out spake too the Soul of man, proud, jealous and unreconciled,
3410 Nay he is mine alone;
3411 --Then the full-grown poet stood between the two, and took each
3413 And to-day and ever so stands, as blender, uniter, tightly
3415 Which he will never release until he reconciles the two,
3416 And wholly and joyously blends them.
3418 =head2 v5.13.10 - Egill Skalla-Grímsson, L<"Egils saga Skalla-Grímssonar"|http://www.heimskringla.no/wiki/Egils_saga_Skalla-Gr%C3%ADmssonar>
3420 L<Announced on 2011-02-20 by Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/02/msg169340.html>
3422 Skalat maðr rúnar rísta,
3423 nema ráða vel kunni.
3424 Þat verðr mörgum manni,
3425 es of myrkvan staf villisk.
3427 tíu launstafi ristna.
3428 Þat hefr lauka lindi
3429 langs ofrtrega fengit.
3431 =head2 v5.13.9 - John F Kennedy, L<Inaugural Address January 20, 1961|http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/John_F._Kennedy%27s_Inaugural_Address>
3433 L<Announced on 2011-01-20 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/01/msg168335.html>
3435 In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been
3436 granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I
3437 do not shrink from this responsibility -- I welcome it. I do not believe
3438 that any of us would exchange places with any other people or any other
3439 generation. The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this
3440 endeavor will light our country and all who serve it. And the glow from
3441 that fire can truly light the world.
3443 And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you;
3444 ask what you can do for your country.
3446 My fellow citizens of the world, ask not what America will do for you,
3447 but what together we can do for the freedom of man.
3449 Finally, whether you are citizens of America or citizens of the world,
3450 ask of us here the same high standards of strength and sacrifice which
3451 we ask of you. With a good conscience our only sure reward, with history
3452 the final judge of our deeds, let us go forth to lead the land we love,
3453 asking His blessing and His help, but knowing that here on earth God's
3454 work must truly be our own.
3456 =head2 v5.13.8 - Roger Williams, L<"The Fifth Gift"|http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2005/8/19/21304/8493>
3458 L<Announced on 2010-12-19 by Zefram|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/12/msg167271.html>
3460 The aliens called the box a "matter generator," but we'd be more inclined
3461 to call it a matter duplicator. By connecting switches and potentiometers
3462 between the copper posts it was possible to make the box mark off two
3463 cubic rectangular areas of volume. Make a certain contact, and these
3464 areas would be isolated within perfectly reflective fields. They could
3465 be expanded or contracted by altering resistances between other posts.
3466 As I worked out the user interface I built a little control panel for
3467 the device. It was actually a clever way for the aliens to do things;
3468 instead of trying to build controls we could use, they built us an
3469 interface we could attach to controls that made sense to us. It could
3472 Once you had made the contact that established the shielded volumes,
3473 if you made another certain contact the contents of the first volume
3474 were copied to the second. The machine copied metal, plastic, steel,
3475 and diamond with equal ease. Copies of copies of copies of copies were
3476 indistinguishable from the originals at any magnification, even using
3477 techniques like X-ray crystallography.
3479 =head2 v5.13.7 - Andy Wachowski and Lana Wachowski, "The Matrix"
3481 L<Announced on 2010-11-20 by Chris 'BinGOs' Williams|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/11/msg166162.html>
3483 [Neo sees a black cat walk by them, and then a similar black cat walk by them just like the first one]
3487 [Everyone freezes right in their tracks]
3489 Trinity: What did you just say?
3490 Neo: Nothing. Just had a little deja vu.
3491 Trinity: What did you see?
3492 Cypher: What happened?
3493 Neo: A black cat went past us, and then another that looked just
3495 Trinity: How much like it? Was it the same cat?
3496 Neo: It might have been. I'm not sure.
3497 Morpheus: Switch! Apoc!
3499 Trinity: A deja vu is usually a glitch in the Matrix. It happens when
3500 they change something.
3502 =head2 v5.13.6 - Haruki Murakami, "Kafka on the Shore"
3504 L<Announced on 2010-10-20 by Tatsuhiko Miyagawa|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/10/msg165183.html>
3506 The boy called Crow softly rests a hand on my shoulder, and with that
3509 "From now on -- no matter what -- you've got to be the world's toughest
3510 fifteen-year-old. That's the only way you're going to survive. And in order
3511 to do that, you've got to figure out what it means to be tough. You following
3514 I keep my eyes closed and don't reply. I just want to sink off into sleep
3515 like this, his hand on my shoulder. I hear the faint flutter of wings.
3517 "You're going to be the world's toughest fifteen-year-old," Crow whispers
3518 as I try to fall asleep. Like he was carving the words in a deep blue tattoo
3521 (Translated from Japanese by Philip Gabriel)
3523 =head2 v5.13.5 - Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, "The Room in the Dragon Volant"
3525 L<Announced on 2010-09-19 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/09/msg164238.html>
3527 Candle in hand I stepped in. I do not know whether the quality of
3528 air, long undisturbed, is peculiar; to me it has always seemed so, and
3529 the damp smell of the old masonry hung in this atmosphere. My candle
3530 faintly lighted the bare stone wall that enclosed the stair, the foot
3531 of which I could not see. Down I went, and a few turns brought me to
3532 the stone floor. Here was another door, of the simple, old, oak kind,
3533 deep sunk in the thickness of the wall. The large end of the key
3534 fitted this. The lock was stiff; I set the candle down upon the
3535 stair, and applied both hands; it turned with difficulty, and as it
3536 revolved, uttered a shriek that alarmed me for my secret.
3538 For some minutes I did not move. In a little time, however, I took
3539 courage, and opened the door. The night-air floating in puffed out
3540 the candle. There was a thicket of holly and underwood, as dense as a
3541 jungle, close about the door. I should have been in pitch-darkness,
3542 were it not that through the topmost leaves there twinkled, here and
3543 there, a glimmer of moonshine.
3545 Softly, lest any one should have opened his window at the sound of the
3546 rusty bolt, I struggled through this till I gained a view of the open
3547 grounds. Here I found that the brushwood spread a good way up the
3548 park, uniting with the wood that approached the little temple I have
3551 =head2 v5.13.4 - Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
3553 L<Announced on 2010-08-20 by Florian Ragwitz|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/08/msg163150.html>
3555 `How the creatures order one about, and make one repeat lessons!' thought Alice;
3556 `I might as well be at school at once.' However, she got up, and began to repeat
3557 it, but her head was so full of the Lobster Quadrille, that she hardly knew what
3558 she was saying, and the words came very queer indeed:--
3560 "'Tis the voice of the Lobster; I heard him declare,
3561 "You have baked me too brown, I must sugar my hair."
3562 As a duck with its eyelids, so he with his nose
3563 Trims his belt and his buttons, and turns out his toes.'
3566 `That's different from what I used to say when I was a child,' said the Gryphon.
3568 `Well, I never heard it before,' said the Mock Turtle; `but it sounds uncommon
3571 Alice said nothing; she had sat down with her face in her hands, wondering if
3572 anything would ever happen in a natural way again.
3574 `I should like to have it explained,' said the Mock Turtle.
3576 `She can't explain it,' said the Gryphon hastily. `Go on with the next verse.'
3578 `But about his toes?' the Mock Turtle persisted. `How could he turn them out
3579 with his nose, you know?'
3581 `It's the first position in dancing.' Alice said; but was dreadfully puzzled by
3582 the whole thing, and longed to change the subject.
3584 =head2 v5.13.3 - Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, "Good Omens"
3586 L<Announced on 2010-07-20 by David Golden|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/07/msg162230.html>
3588 Look at Crowley, doing 110 mph on the M40 heading towards
3589 Oxfordshire. Even the most resolutely casual observer would
3590 notice a number of strange things about him. The clenched teeth,
3591 for example, or the dull red glow coming from behind his
3592 sunglasses. And the car. The car was a definite hint.
3594 Crowley had started the journey in his Bentley, and he was
3595 dammned if he wasn't going to finish it in the Bentley as well.
3596 Not that even the kind of car buff who owns his own pair of
3597 motoring goggles would have been able to tell it was a vintage
3598 Bentley. Not any more. They wouldn't have been able to tell
3599 that it was a Bentley. They would only offer fifty-fifty that it
3600 had ever even been a car.
3602 There was no paint left on it, for a start. It might still have
3603 been black, where it wasn't a rusty, smudged reddish-brown, but
3604 this was a dull charcoal black. It traveled in its own ball of
3605 flame, like a space capsule making a particularly difficult
3608 There was a thin skin of crusted, melted rubber left around the
3609 metal wheel rims, but seeing that the wheel rims were still
3610 somhow riding an inch above the road surface this didn't seem to
3611 make an awful lot of difference to the suspension.
3613 It should have fallen apart miles back.
3615 =head2 v5.13.2 - Iain M Banks, "Use of Weapons"
3617 L<Announced on 2010-06-22 by Matt S Trout|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/06/msg161112.html>
3619 We deal in the moral equivalent of black holes, where the normal laws -
3620 the rules of right and wrong that people imagine apply everywhere else
3621 in the universe - break down; beyond those metaphysical event-horizons,
3622 there exist ... special circumstances.
3624 =head2 v5.13.1 - Miguel de Unamuno, "The Sepulchre of Don Quixote"
3626 L<Announced on 2010-05-20 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/05/msg160275.html>
3628 And if anyone shall come to you and say that he knows how to construct
3629 bridges and that perhaps a time will come when you will wish to avail
3630 yourself of his science in order to cross over a river, out with him! Out
3631 with the engineer! Rivers will be crossed by wading or swimming them, even
3632 if half the crusaders drown themselves. Let the engineer go off and build
3633 bridges somewhere else, where they are badly wanted. For those who go in
3634 quest of the sepulchre, faith is bridge enough.
3636 =head2 v5.13.0 - Jules Verne, "A Journey to the Centre of the Earth"
3638 L<Announced on 2010-04-20 by LE<0xe9>on Brocard|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/04/msg159275.html>
3640 The heat still remained at quite a supportable degree. With an
3641 involuntary shudder, I reflected on what the heat must have been
3642 when the volcano of Sneffels was pouring its smoke, flames, and
3643 streams of boiling lava -- all of which must have come up by the
3644 road we were now following. I could imagine the torrents of hot
3645 seething stone darting on, bubbling up with accompaniments of
3646 smoke, steam, and sulphurous stench!
3648 "Only to think of the consequences," I mused, "if the old
3649 volcano were once more to set to work."
3651 =head2 v5.12.5 - William Shakespeare, "Measure for Measure"
3653 L<Announced on 2012-11-10 by Dominic Hargreaves|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/11/msg195171.html>
3655 Music oft hath such a charm
3656 To make bad good, and good provoke to harm.
3658 =head2 v5.12.4 - William Schwenck Gilbert, "Trial By Jury"
3660 L<Announced on 2011-06-20 by Leon Brocard|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/06/msg173725.html>
3662 You cannot eat breakfast all day,
3663 Nor is it the act of a sinner,
3664 When breakfast is taken away,
3665 To turn his attention to dinner;
3666 And it's not in the range of belief,
3667 To look upon him as a glutton,
3668 Who, when he is tired of beef,
3669 Determines to tackle the mutton.
3670 Ah! But this I am willing to say,
3671 If it will appease her sorrow,
3672 I'll marry this lady today,
3673 And I'll marry the other tomorrow!
3675 =head2 v5.12.4-RC2 - James Russell Lowell, "Eleanor makes macaroons"
3677 L<Announced on 2011-06-15 by Leon Brocard|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/06/msg173609.html>
3679 Now for sugar, -- nay, our plan
3680 Tolerates no work of man.
3681 Hurry, then, ye golden bees;
3682 Fetch your clearest honey, please,
3683 Garnered on a Yorkshire moor,
3684 While the last larks sing and soar,
3685 From the heather-blossoms sweet
3686 Where sea-breeze and sunshine meet,
3687 And the Augusts mask as Junes, --
3688 Eleanor makes macaroons!
3690 =head2 v5.12.4-RC1 - Ogden Nash, "The Clean Plater"
3692 L<Announced on 2011-06-08 by Leon Brocard|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/06/msg173352.html>
3694 Pheasant is pleasant, of course,
3695 And terrapin, too, is tasty,
3696 Lobster I freely endorse,
3697 In pate or patty or pasty.
3698 But there's nothing the matter with butter,
3699 And nothing the matter with jam,
3700 And the warmest greetings I utter
3701 To the ham and the yam and the clam.
3704 And I think very fondly of food.
3705 Through I'm broody at times
3706 When bothered by rhymes,
3710 =head2 v5.12.3 - Howard W. Campbell, Jr., "Reflections on Not Participating in Current Events"
3712 L<Announced on 2011-01-21 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/01/msg168368.html>
3714 I saw a huge steam roller,
3715 It blotted out the sun.
3716 The people all lay down, lay down;
3717 They did not try to run.
3718 My love and I, we looked amazed
3719 Upon the gory mystery.
3720 'Lie down, lie down!' the people cried.
3721 'The great machine is history!'
3722 My love and I, we ran away,
3723 The engine did not find us.
3724 We ran up to a mountain top,
3725 Left history far behind us.
3726 Perhaps we should have stayed and died,
3727 But somehow we don't think so.
3728 We went to see where history'd been,
3729 And my, the dead did stink so.
3731 =head2 v5.12.2 - William Gibson, "Pattern Recognition"
3733 L<Announced on 2010-09-06 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/09/msg163852.html>
3735 CPUs. Cayce Pollard Units. That's what Damien calls the clothing
3736 she wears. CPUs are either black, white, or gray, and ideally
3737 seem to have come into this world without human intervention.
3739 What people take for relentless minimalism is a side effect
3740 of too much exposure to the reactor-cores of fashion. This
3741 has resulted in a remorseless paring-down of what she can and
3742 will wear. She is, literally, allergic to fashion. She can
3743 only tolerate things that could have been worn, to a general
3744 lack of comment, during any year between 1945 and 2000. She's a
3745 design-free zone, a one-woman school of and whose very austerity
3746 periodically threatens to spawn its own cult.
3748 =head2 v5.12.2-RC1 - William Gibson, "Pattern Recognition"
3750 L<Announced on 2010-08-31 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/08/msg163670.html>
3752 The front page opens, familiar as a friend's living room. A frame-grab
3753 from #48 serves as backdrop, dim and almost monochrome, no characters in
3754 view. This is one of the sequences that generate comparisons with
3755 Tarkovsky. She only knows Tarkovsky from stills, really, though she did
3756 once fall asleep during a screening of The Stalker, going under on an
3757 endless pan, the camera aimed straight down, in close-up, at a puddle on
3758 a ruined mosaic floor. But she is not one of those who think that much
3759 will be gained by analysis of the maker's imagined influences. The cult
3760 of the footage is rife with subcults, claiming every possible influence.
3761 Truffaut, Peckinpah -- The Peckinpah people, among the least likely, are
3762 still waiting for the guns to be drawn.
3764 =head2 v5.12.1 - Kurt Vonnegut, "Cat's Cradle"
3766 L<Announced on 2010-05-16 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/05/msg160109.html>
3768 "Now suppose," chortled Dr. Breed, enjoying himself, "that there were
3769 many possible ways in which water could crystallize, could freeze.
3770 Suppose that the sort of ice we skate upon and put into highballs --
3771 what we might call ice-one -- is only one of several types of ice.
3772 Suppose water always froze as ice-one on Earth because it had never
3773 had a seed to teach it how to form ice-two, ice-three, ice-four
3774 ...? And suppose," he rapped on his desk with his old hand again,
3775 "that there were one form, which we will call ice-nine -- a crystal as
3776 hard as this desk -- with a melting point of, let us say, one-hundred
3777 degrees Fahrenheit, or, better still, a melting point of one-hundred-
3778 and-thirty degrees."
3780 =head2 v5.12.1-RC2 - Kurt Vonnegut, "Cat's Cradle"
3782 L<Announced on 2010-05-13 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/05/msg160066.html>
3784 San Lorenzo was fifty miles long and twenty miles wide, I learned from
3785 the supplement to the New York Sunday Times. Its population was four
3786 hundred, fifty thousand souls, "...all fiercely dedicated to the ideals
3789 Its highest point, Mount McCabe, was eleven thousand feet above sea
3790 level. Its capital was Bolivar, "...a strikingly modern city built on a
3791 harbor capable of sheltering the entire United States Navy." The principal
3792 exports were sugar, coffee, bananas, indigo, and handcrafted novelties.
3794 =head2 v5.12.1-RC1 - Kurt Vonnegut, "Cat's Cradle"
3796 L<Announced on 2010-05-09 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/05/msg159971.html>
3798 Which brings me to the Bokononist concept of a wampeter. A wampeter is
3799 the pivot of a karass. No karass is without a wampeter, Bokonon tells us,
3800 just as no wheel is without a hub. Anything can be a wampeter: a tree,
3801 a rock, an animal, an idea, a book, a melody, the Holy Grail. Whatever
3802 it is, the members of its karass revolve about it in the majestic chaos
3803 of a spiral nebula. The orbits of the members of a karass about their
3804 common wampeter are spiritual orbits, naturally. It is souls and not
3805 bodies that revolve. As Bokonon invites us to sing:
3807 Around and around and around we spin,
3808 With feet of lead and wings of tin . . .
3810 =head2 v5.12.0 - Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
3812 L<Announced on 2010-04-12 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/04/msg158820.html>
3814 'Please would you tell me,' said Alice, a little timidly, for she was
3815 not quite sure whether it was good manners for her to speak first, 'why
3816 your cat grins like that?'
3818 'It's a Cheshire cat,' said the Duchess, 'and that's why. Pig!'
3820 She said the last word with such sudden violence that Alice quite
3821 jumped; but she saw in another moment that it was addressed to the baby,
3822 and not to her, so she took courage, and went on again:--
3824 'I didn't know that Cheshire cats always grinned; in fact, I didn't know
3825 that cats COULD grin.'
3827 'They all can,' said the Duchess; 'and most of 'em do.'
3829 =head2 v5.12.0-RC5 - Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
3831 L<Announced on 2010-04-09 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/04/msg158720.html>
3833 'Not QUITE right, I'm afraid,' said Alice, timidly; 'some of the words
3836 'It is wrong from beginning to end,' said the Caterpillar decidedly, and
3837 there was silence for some minutes.
3839 =head2 v5.12.0-RC4 - Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
3841 L<Announced on 2010-04-06 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/04/msg158567.html>
3843 'It was much pleasanter at home,' thought poor Alice, 'when one wasn't
3844 always growing larger and smaller, and being ordered about by mice and
3845 rabbits. I almost wish I hadn't gone down that rabbit-hole--and yet--and
3846 yet--it's rather curious, you know, this sort of life! I do wonder what
3847 can have happened to me! When I used to read fairy-tales, I fancied that
3848 kind of thing never happened, and now here I am in the middle of one!
3850 =head2 v5.12.0-RC3 - Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
3852 L<Announced on 2010-04-02 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/04/msg158346.html>
3854 At last the Mouse, who seemed to be a person of authority among them,
3855 called out, 'Sit down, all of you, and listen to me! I'LL soon make you
3856 dry enough!' They all sat down at once, in a large ring, with the Mouse
3857 in the middle. Alice kept her eyes anxiously fixed on it, for she felt
3858 sure she would catch a bad cold if she did not get dry very soon.
3860 'Ahem!' said the Mouse with an important air, 'are you all ready? This
3861 is the driest thing I know. Silence all round, if you please! "William
3862 the Conqueror, whose cause was favoured by the pope, was soon submitted
3863 to by the English, who wanted leaders, and had been of late much
3864 accustomed to usurpation and conquest. Edwin and Morcar, the earls of
3865 Mercia and Northumbria --"'
3867 =head2 v5.12.0-RC2 - no announcement
3869 Available on CPAN since 2010-04-01.
3871 =head2 v5.12.0-RC1 - Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
3873 L<Announced on 2010-03-29 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/03/msg158060.html>
3875 So she was considering in her own mind (as well as she could, for the
3876 hot day made her feel very sleepy and stupid), whether the pleasure of
3877 making a daisy-chain would be worth the trouble of getting up and
3878 picking the daisies, when suddenly a White Rabbit with pink eyes ran
3881 There was nothing so VERY remarkable in that; nor did Alice think it so
3882 VERY much out of the way to hear the Rabbit say to itself, 'Oh dear! Oh
3883 dear! I shall be late!' (when she thought it over afterwards, it
3884 occurred to her that she ought to have wondered at this, but at the time
3885 it all seemed quite natural); but when the Rabbit actually TOOK A WATCH
3886 OUT OF ITS WAISTCOAT-POCKET, and looked at it, and then hurried on,
3887 Alice started to her feet, for it flashed across her mind that she had
3888 never before seen a rabbit with either a waistcoat-pocket, or a watch to
3889 take out of it, and burning with curiosity, she ran across the field
3890 after it, and fortunately was just in time to see it pop down a large
3891 rabbit-hole under the hedge.
3893 In another moment down went Alice after it, never once considering how
3894 in the world she was to get out again.
3896 =head2 v5.12.0-RC0 - no epigraph
3898 L<Announced on 2020-03-21 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/03/msg157761.html>
3900 =head2 v5.11.5 - Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "Christabel"
3902 L<Announced on 2010-02-21 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/02/msg156957.html>
3904 A little child, a limber elf,
3905 Singing, dancing to itself,
3906 A fairy thing with red round cheeks,
3907 That always finds, and never seeks,
3908 Makes such a vision to the sight
3909 As fills a father's eyes with light;
3910 And pleasures flow in so thick and fast
3911 Upon his heart, that he at last
3912 Must needs express his love's excess
3913 With words of unmeant bitterness.
3914 Perhaps 'tis pretty to force together
3915 Thoughts so all unlike each other;
3916 To mutter and mock a broken charm,
3917 To dally with wrong that does no harm.
3918 Perhaps 'tis tender too and pretty
3919 At each wild word to feel within
3920 A sweet recoil of love and pity.
3921 And what, if in a world of sin
3922 (O sorrow and shame should this be true!)
3923 Such giddiness of heart and brain
3924 Comes seldom save from rage and pain,
3925 So talks as it's most used to do.
3927 =head2 v5.11.4 - Fyodor Dostoevsky, "Crime and Punishment"
3929 L<Announced on 2010-01-20 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/01/msg155848.html>
3931 And you don't suppose that I went into it headlong like a fool? I went
3932 into it like a wise man, and that was just my destruction. And you
3933 mustn't suppose that I didn't know, for instance, that if I began to
3934 question myself whether I had the right to gain power -- I certainly
3935 hadn't the right -- or that if I asked myself whether a human being is a
3936 louse it proved that it wasn't so for me, though it might be for a man
3937 who would go straight to his goal without asking questions.... If I
3938 worried myself all those days, wondering whether Napoleon would have
3939 done it or not, I felt clearly of course that I wasn't Napoleon.
3941 =head2 v5.11.3 - Mark Twain, "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer"
3943 L<Announced on 2009-12-20 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2009/12/msg154838.html>
3945 "Say -- I'm going in a swimming, I am. Don't you wish you could? But of
3946 course you'd druther work -- wouldn't you? Course you would!"
3948 Tom contemplated the boy a bit, and said: "What do you call work?"
3950 "Why ain't that work?"
3952 Tom resumed his whitewashing, and answered carelessly: "Well, maybe it
3953 is, and maybe it aint. All I know, is, it suits Tom Sawyer."
3955 "Oh come, now, you don't mean to let on that you like it?"
3957 The brush continued to move. "Like it? Well I don't see why I oughtn't
3958 to like it. Does a boy get a chance to whitewash a fence every day?"
3960 That put the thing in a new light. Ben stopped nibbling his apple. Tom
3961 swept his brush daintily back and forth -- stepped back to note the effect
3962 -- added a touch here and there-criticised the effect again -- Ben
3963 watching every move and getting more and more interested, more and more
3964 absorbed. Presently he said: "Say, Tom, let me whitewash a little."
3966 =head2 v5.11.2 - Michael Marshall Smith, "Only Forward"
3968 L<Announced on 2009-11-20 by Léon Brocard|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2009/11/msg153646.html>
3970 The streets were pretty quiet, which was nice. They're always quiet here
3971 at that time: you have to be wearing a black jacket to be out on the
3972 streets between seven and nine in the evening, and not many people in
3973 the area have black jackets. It's just one of those things. I currently
3974 live in Colour Neighbourhood, which is for people who are heavily into
3975 colour. All the streets and buildings are set for instant colourmatch:
3976 as you walk down the road they change hue to offset whatever you're
3977 wearing. When the streets are busy it's kind of intense, and anyone
3978 prone to epileptic seizures isn't allowed to live in the Neighbourhood,
3979 however much they're into colour.
3981 =head2 v5.11.1 - Joseph Heller, "Catch-22"
3983 L<Announced on 2009-10-20 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2009/10/msg152360.html>
3985 Milo had been caught red-handed in the act of plundering his countrymen,
3986 and, as a result, his stock had never been higher. He proved good as his
3987 word when a rawboned major from Minnesota curled his lip in rebellious
3988 disavowal and demanded his share of the syndicate Milo kept saying
3989 everybody owned. Milo met the challenge by writing the words "A Share"
3990 on the nearest scrap of paper and handing it away with a virtuous disdain
3991 that won the envy and admiration of almost everyone who knew him. His
3992 glory was at a peak, and Colonel Cathcart, who knew and admired his
3993 war record, was astonished by the deferential humility with which Milo
3994 presented himself at Group Headquarters and made his fantastic appeal
3995 for more hazardous assignment.
3997 =head2 v5.11.0 - Mikhail Bulgakov, "The Master and Margarita"
3999 L<Announced on 2009-10-02 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2009/10/msg151376.html>
4001 Whispers of an "evil power" were heard in lines at dairy shops, in
4002 streetcars, stores, arguments, kitchens, suburban and long-distance
4003 trains, at stations large and small, in dachas and on beaches. Needless
4004 to say, truly mature and cultured people did not tell these stories
4005 about an evil power's visit to the capital. In fact, they even made fun
4006 of them and tried to talk sense into those who told them. Nevertheless,
4007 facts are facts, as they say, and cannot simply be dismissed without
4008 explanation: somebody had visited the capital. The charred cinders of
4009 Griboyedov alone, and many other things besides, confirmed it. Cultured
4010 people shared the point of view of the investigating team: it was the
4011 work of a gang of hypnotists and ventriloquists magnificently skilled in
4014 =head2 v5.10.1 - Right Hon. James Hacker MP, "The Complete Yes Minister: The Diaries of a Cabinet Minister"
4016 L<Announced on 2009-08-23 by Dave Mitchell|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2009/08/msg150172.html>
4018 'Briefly, sir, I am the Permanent Under-Secretary of State, known as
4019 the Permanent Secretary. Woolley here is your Principal Private
4020 Secretary. I, too, have a Principal Private Secretary, and he is the
4021 Principal Private Secretary to the Permanent Secretary. Directly
4022 responsible to me are ten Deputy Secretaries, eighty-seven Under
4023 Secretaries and two hundred and nineteen Assistant Secretaries.
4024 Directly responsible to the Principal Private Secretaries are plain
4025 Private Secretaries. The Prime Minister will be appointing two
4026 Parliamentary Under-Secretaries and you will be appointing your own
4027 Parliamentary Private Secretary.'
4029 'Can they all type?' I joked.
4031 'None of us can type, Minister,' replied Sir Humphrey smoothly. 'Mrs
4032 McKay types - she is your Secretary.'
4034 I couldn't tell whether or not he was joking. 'What a pity,' I said.
4035 'We could have opened an agency.'
4037 Sir Humphrey and Bernard laughed. 'Very droll, sir,' said Sir
4038 Humphrey. 'Most amusing, sir,' said Bernard. Were they genuinely
4039 amused at my wit, or just being rather patronising? 'I suppose they
4040 all say that, do they?' I ventured.
4042 Sir Humphrey reassured me on that. 'Certainly not, Minister,' he
4043 replied. 'Not quite all.'
4045 =head2 v5.10.1-RC2 - no epigraph
4047 L<Announced on 2009-08-18 by Dave Mitchell|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2009/08/msg150015.html>
4049 =head2 v5.10.1-RC1 - no epigraph
4051 L<Announced on 2009-08-06 by Dave Mitchell|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2009/08/msg149498.html>
4053 =head2 v5.10.0 - Laurence Sterne, "Tristram Shandy"
4055 L<Announced on 2007-12-18 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2007/12/msg131636.html>
4057 He would often declare, in speaking his thoughts upon the subject, that
4058 he did not conceive how the greatest family in England could stand it
4059 out against an uninterrupted succession of six or seven short
4060 noses.--And for the contrary reason, he would generally add, That it
4061 must be one of the greatest problems in civil life, where the same
4062 number of long and jolly noses, following one another in a direct line,
4063 did not raise and hoist it up into the best vacancies in the kingdom.
4065 =head2 v5.10.0-RC2 - no epigraph
4067 L<Announced on 2007-11-25 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2007/11/msg130978.html>
4069 =head2 v5.10.0-RC1 - no epigraph
4071 L<Announced on 2007-11-17 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2007/11/msg130653.html>
4073 =head2 v5.9.5 - no announcement
4075 L<Pre-announced on 2007-07-07 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2007/07/msg126358.html>,
4076 available on CPAN with same date, but never actually announced.
4078 =head2 v5.9.4 - no epigraph
4080 L<Announced on 2006-08-15 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2006/08/msg115782.html>
4082 =head2 v5.9.3 - no epigraph
4084 L<Announced on 2006-01-28 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2006/01/msg109086.html>
4086 =head2 v5.9.2 - Thomas Pynchon, "V"
4088 L<Announced on 2005-04-01 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2005/04/msg99421.html>
4090 This word flip was weird. Every recording date of McClintic's he'd
4091 gotten into the habit of talking electricity with the audio men and
4092 technicians of the studio. McClintic once couldn't have cared less
4093 about electricity, but now it seemed if that was helping him reach a
4094 bigger audience, some digging, some who would never dig, but all
4095 paying and those royalties keeping the Triumph in gas and McClintic
4096 in J. Press suits, then McClintic ought to be grateful to
4097 electricity, ought maybe to learn a little more about it. So he'd
4098 picked up some here and there, and one day last summer he got around
4099 to talking stochastic music and digital computers with one
4100 technician. Out of the conversation had come Set/Reset, which was
4101 getting to be a signature for the group. He had found out from this
4102 sound man about a two-triode circuit called a flip-flop, which when
4103 it turned on could be one of two ways, depending on which tube was
4104 conducting and which was cut off: set or reset, flip or flop.
4106 "And that," the man said, "can be yes or no, or one or zero. And
4107 that is what you might call one of the basic units, or specialized
4108 `cells' in a big `electronic brain.' "
4110 "Crazy," said McClintic, having lost him back there someplace. But
4111 one thing that did occur to him was if a computer's brain could go
4112 flip or flop, why so could a musician's. As long as you were flop,
4113 everything was cool. But where did the trigger-pulse come from to
4116 =head2 v5.9.1 - Tom Stoppard, "Arcadia"
4118 L<Announced on 2004-03-16 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/03/msg89722.html>
4120 Aren't you supposed to have a pony?
4122 =head2 v5.9.0 - Doris Lessing, "Martha Quest"
4124 L<Announced on 2003-10-27 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/10/msg84147.html>
4126 What of October, that ambiguous month
4128 =head2 v5.8.9 - Right Hon. James Hacker MP, "The Complete Yes Minister: The Diaries of a Cabinet Minister"
4130 L<Announced on 2008-12-14 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2008/12/msg142571.html>
4132 Frank and I, unlike the civil servants, were still puzzled that such a
4133 proposal as the Europass could even be seriously under consideration by
4134 the FCO. We can both see clearly that it is wonderful ammunition for the
4135 anti-Europeans. I asked Humphrey if the Foreign Office doesn't realise
4136 how damaging this would be to the European ideal?
4138 'I'm sure they do, Minister, he said. That's why they support it.'
4140 This was even more puzzling, since I'd always been under the impression
4141 that the FO is pro-Europe. 'Is it or isn't it?' I asked Humphrey.
4143 'Yes and no,' he replied of course, 'if you'll pardon the
4144 expression. The Foreign Office is pro-Europe because it is really
4145 anti-Europe. In fact the Civil Service was united in its desire to make
4146 sure the Common Market didn't work. That's why we went into it.'
4148 This sounded like a riddle to me. I asked him to explain further. And
4149 basically his argument was as follows: Britain has had the same foreign
4150 policy objective for at least the last five hundred years - to create a
4151 disunited Europe. In that cause we have fought with the Dutch against
4152 the Spanish, with the Germans against the French, with the French and
4153 Italians against the Germans, and with the French against the Italians
4154 and Germans. [The Dutch rebellion against Phillip II of Spain, the
4155 Napoleonic Wars, the First World War, and the Second World War - Ed.]
4157 In other words, divide and rule. And the Foreign Office can see no
4158 reason to change when it has worked so well until now.
4160 I was aware of this, naturally, but I regarded it as ancient history.
4161 Humphrey thinks that it is, in fact, current policy. It was necessary
4162 for us to break up the EEC, he explained, so we had to get inside. We
4163 had previously tried to break it up from the outside, but that didn't
4164 work. [A reference to our futile and short-lived involvement in EFTA,
4165 the European Free Trade Association, founded in 1960 and which the UK
4166 left in 1972 - Ed.] Now that we're in, we are able to make a complete
4167 pig's breakfast out of it. We've now set the Germans against the French,
4168 the French against the Italians, the Italians against the Dutch... and
4169 the Foreign office is terribly happy. It's just like old time.
4171 I was staggered by all of this. I thought that the all of us who are
4172 publicly pro-European believed in the European ideal. I said this to Sir
4173 Humphrey, and he simply chuckled.
4175 So I asked him: if we don't believe in the European Ideal, why are we
4176 pushing to increase the membership?
4178 'Same reason,' came the reply. 'It's just like the United Nations. The
4179 more members it has, the more arguments you can stir up, and the more
4180 futile and impotent it becomes.'
4182 This all strikes me as the most appalling cynicism, and I said so.
4184 Sir Humphrey agreed completely. 'Yes Minister. We call it
4185 diplomacy. It's what made Britain great, you know.'
4187 =head2 v5.8.9-RC2 - Right Hon. James Hacker MP, "The Complete Yes Minister: The Diaries of a Cabinet Minister"
4189 L<Announced on 2008-12-06 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2008/12/msg142422.html>
4191 There was silence in the office. I didn't know what we were going to do
4192 about the four hundred new people supervising our economy drive or the
4193 four hundred new people for the Bureaucratic Watchdog Office, or
4194 anything! I simply sat and waited and hoped that my head would stop
4195 thumping and that some idea would be suggested by someone sometime soon.
4197 Sir Humphrey obliged. 'Minister... if we were to end the economy drive
4198 and close the Bureaucratic Watchdog Office we could issue an immediate
4199 press announcement that you had axed eight hundred jobs.' He had
4200 obviously thought this out carefully in advance, for at this moment he
4201 produced a slim folder from under his arm. 'If you'd like to approve
4204 I couldn't believe the impertinence of the suggestion. Axed eight
4205 hundred jobs? 'But no one was ever doing these jobs,' I pointed out
4206 incredulously. 'No one's been appointed yet.'
4208 'Even greater economy,' he replied instantly. 'We've saved eight hundred
4209 redundancy payments as well.'
4211 'But...' I attempted to explain '... that's just phony. It's dishonest,
4212 it's juggling with figures, it's pulling the wool over people's eyes.'
4214 'A government press release, in fact.' said Humphrey.
4216 =head2 v5.8.9-RC1 - Right Hon. James Hacker MP, "The Complete Yes Minister: The Diaries of a Cabinet Minister"
4218 L<Announced on 2008-11-10 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2008/11/msg141515.html>
4220 A jumbo jet touched down, with BURANDAN AIRWAYS written on the side. I
4221 was hugely impressed. British Airways are having to pawn their Concordes,
4222 and here is this little tiny African state with its own airline, jumbo
4225 I asked Bernard how many planes Burandan Airways had. 'None,' he said.
4227 I told him not to be silly and use his eyes. 'No Minister, it belongs to
4228 Freddie Laker,' he said. 'They chartered it last week and repainted it
4229 specially.' Apparently most of the Have-Nots (I mean, LDCs) do this - at
4230 the opening of the UN General Assembly the runways of Kennedy Airport are
4231 jam-packed with phoney flag-carriers. 'In fact,' said Bernard with a sly
4232 grin, 'there was one 747 that belonged to nine different African airlines
4233 in a month. They called it the mumbo-jumbo.'
4235 While we watched nothing much happening on the TV except the mumbo-jumbo
4236 taxiing around Prestwick and the Queen looking a bit chilly, Bernard gave
4237 me the next day's schedule and explained that I was booked on the night
4238 sleeper from King's Cross to Edinburgh because I had to vote in a
4239 three-line whip at the House tonight and would have to miss the last
4240 plane. Then the commentator, in that special hushed BBC voice used for any
4241 occasion with which Royalty is connected, announced reverentially that we
4242 were about to catch our first glimpse of President Selim.
4244 And out of the plane stepped Charlie. My old friend Charlie Umtali. We
4245 were at LSE together. Not Selim Mohammed at all, but Charlie.
4247 Bernard asked me if I were sure. Silly question. How could you forget a
4248 name like Charlie Umtali?
4250 I sent Bernard for Sir Humphrey, who was delighted to hear that we now
4251 know something about our official visitor.
4253 Bernard's official brief said nothing. Amazing! Amazing how little the FCO
4254 has been able to find out. Perhaps they were hoping it would all be on the
4255 car radio. All the brief says is that Colonel Selim Mohammed had converted
4256 to Islam some years ago, they didn't know his original name, and therefore
4257 knew little of his background.
4259 I was able to tell Humphrey and Bernard /all/ about his background.
4260 Charlie was a red-hot political economist, I informed them. Got the top
4261 first. Wiped the floor with everyone.
4263 Bernard seemed relieved. 'Well that's all right then.'
4267 'I think Bernard means,' said Sir Humphrey helpfully, 'that he'll know how
4268 to behave if he was at an English University. Even if it was the LSE.' I
4269 never know whether or not Humphrey is insulting me intentionally.
4271 Humphrey was concerned about Charlie's political colour. 'When you said
4272 that he was red-hot, were you speaking politically?'
4274 In a way I was. 'The thing about Charlie is that you never quite know
4275 where you are with him. He's the sort of chap who follows you into a
4276 revolving door and comes out in front.'
4278 'No deeply held convictions?' asked Sir Humphrey.
4280 'No. The only thing Charlie was committed too was Charlie.'
4282 'Ah, I see. A politician, Minister.'
4284 =head2 v5.8.8 - Joe Raposo, "Bein' Green"
4286 L<Announced on 2006-01-31 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2006/01/msg109190.html>
4288 It's not that easy bein' green
4289 Having to spend each day the color of the leaves
4290 When I think it could be nicer being red or yellow or gold
4291 Or something much more colorful like that
4293 It's not easy bein' green
4294 It seems you blend in with so many other ordinary things
4295 And people tend to pass you over 'cause you're
4296 Not standing out like flashy sparkles in the water
4299 But green's the color of Spring
4300 And green can be cool and friendly-like
4301 And green can be big like an ocean
4302 Or important like a mountain
4305 When green is all there is to be
4306 It could make you wonder why, but why wonder why?
4307 Wonder I am green and it'll do fine, it's beautiful
4308 And I think it's what I want to be
4310 =head2 v5.8.8-RC1 - Cosgrove Hall Productions, "Dangermouse"
4312 L<Announced on 2006-01-20 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2006/01/msg108833.html>
4314 Greenback: And the world is mine, all mine. Muhahahahaha. See to it!
4316 Stiletto: Si, Barone. Subito, Barone.
4318 =head2 v5.8.7 - Sergei Prokofiev, "Peter and the Wolf"
4320 L<Announced on 2005-05-31 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2005/05/msg101088.html>
4322 And now, imagine the triumphant procession: Peter at the head; after him the
4323 hunters leading the wolf; and winding up the procession, grandfather and the
4326 Grandfather shook his head discontentedly: "Well, and if Peter hadn't caught
4327 the wolf? What then?"
4329 =head2 v5.8.7-RC1 - Sergei Prokofiev, "Peter and the Wolf"
4331 L<Announced on 2005-05-20 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2005/05/msg100711.html>
4333 And now this is how things stood: The cat was sitting on one branch. The
4334 bird on another, not too close to the cat. And the wolf walked round and
4335 round the tree, looking at them with greedy eyes.
4337 In the meantime, Peter, without the slightest fear, stood behind the
4338 gate, watching all that was going on. He ran home,got a strong rope and
4339 climbed up the high stone wall.
4341 One of the branches of the tree, around which the wolf was walking,
4342 stretched out over the wall.
4344 Grabbing hold of the branch, Peter lightly climbed over on to the tree.
4345 Peter said to the bird: "Fly down and circle round the wolf's head, only
4346 take care that he doesn't catch you!".
4348 The bird almost touched the wolf's head with its wings, while the wolf
4349 snapped angrily at him from this side and that.
4351 How that bird teased the wolf, how that wolf wanted to catch him! But
4352 the bird was clever and the wolf simply couldn't do anything about it.
4354 =head2 v5.8.6 - A. A. Milne, "The House at Pooh Corner"
4356 L<Announced on 2004-11-27 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/11/msg96304.html>
4358 "Hallo, Pooh," said Piglet, giving a jump of surprise. "I knew it was
4361 "So did I,", said Pooh. "What are you doing?"
4363 "I'm planting a haycorn, Pooh, so that it can grow up into an oak-tree,
4364 and have lots of haycorns just outside the front door instead of having
4365 to walk miles and miles, do you see, Pooh?"
4367 "Supposing it doesn't?" said Pooh.
4369 "It will, because Christopher Robin says it will, so that's why I'm
4372 "Well," aid Pooh, "if I plant a honeycomb outside my house, then it will
4373 grow up into a beehive."
4375 Piglet wasn't quite sure about this.
4377 "Or a /piece/ of a honeycomb," said Pooh, "so as not to waste too much.
4378 Only then I might only get a piece of a beehive, and it might be the
4379 wrong piece, where the bees were buzzing and not hunnying. Bother"
4381 Piglet agreed that that would be rather bothering.
4383 "Besides, Pooh, it's a very difficult thing, planting unless you know
4384 how to do it," he said; and he put the acorn in the hole he had made,
4385 and covered it up with earth, and jumped on it.
4387 =head2 v5.8.6-RC1 - A. A. Milne, "Winnie the Pooh"
4389 L<Announced on 2004-11-11 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/11/msg95786.html>
4391 "Hallo!" said Piglet, "whare are /you/ doing?"
4393 "Hunting," said Pooh.
4397 "Tracking something," said Winnie-the-Pooh very mysteriously.
4399 "Tracking what?" said Piglet, coming closer.
4401 "That's just what I ask myself, I ask myself, What?"
4403 "What do you think you'll answer?"
4405 "I shall have to wait until I catch up with it," said Winnie-the-Pooh.
4406 "Now, look there." He pointed to the ground in front of him. "What do
4409 "Track," said Piglet. "Paw-marks." He gave a little squeak of
4410 excitement. "Oh, Pooh!" Do you think it's a--a--a Woozle?"
4412 =head2 v5.8.5 - wikipedia, "Yew"
4414 L<Announced on 2004-07-19 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/07/msg93189.html>
4416 Yews are relatively slow growing trees, widely used in landscaping and
4417 ornamental horticulture. They have flat, dark-green needles, reddish
4418 bark, and bear seeds with red arils, which are eaten by thrushes,
4419 waxwings and other birds, dispersing the hard seeds undamaged in their
4420 droppings. Yew wood is reddish brown (with white sapwood), and very
4421 hard. It was traditionally used to make bows, especially the English
4424 In England, the Common Yew (Taxus baccata, also known as English Yew) is
4425 often found in churchyards. It is sometimes suggested that these are
4426 placed there as a symbol of long life or trees of death, and some are
4427 likely to be over 3,000 years old. It is also suggested that yew trees
4428 may have a pre-Christian association with old pagan holy sites, and the
4429 Christian church found it expedient to use and take over existing sites.
4430 Another explanation is that the poisonous berries and foliage discourage
4431 farmers and drovers from letting their animals wander into the burial
4432 grounds. The yew tree is a frequent symbol in the Christian poetry of
4433 T.S. Eliot, especially his Four Quartets.
4435 =head2 v5.8.5-RC2 - wikipedia, "Beech"
4437 L<Announced on 2004-07-09 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/07/msg92934.html>
4439 Beeches are trees of the Genus Fagus, family Fagaceae, including about
4440 ten species in Europe, Asia, and North America. The leaves are entire or
4441 sparsely toothed. The fruit is a small, sharply-angled nut, borne in
4442 pairs in spiny husks. The beech most commonly grown as an ornamental or
4443 shade tree is the European beech (Fagus sylvatica).
4445 The southern beeches belong to a different but related genus,
4446 Nothofagus. They are found in Australia, New Zealand, New Guinea, New
4447 Caledonia and South America.
4449 =head2 v5.8.5-RC1 - wikipedia, "Pedunculate Oak" (abridged)
4451 L<Announced on 2004-07-07 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/07/msg92840.html>
4453 The Pedunculate Oak is called the Common Oak in Britain, and is also
4454 often called the English Oak in other English speaking countries It is a
4455 large deciduous tree to 25-35m tall (exceptionally to 40m), with lobed
4456 and sessile (stalk-less) leaves. Flowering takes place in early to mid
4457 spring, and their fruit, called "acorns", ripen by autumn of the same
4458 year. The acorns are pedunculate (having a peduncle or acorn-stalk) and
4459 may occur singly, or several acorns may occur on a stalk.
4461 It forms a long-lived tree, with a large widespreading head of rugged
4462 branches. While it may naturally live to an age of a few centuries, many
4463 of the oldest trees are pollarded or coppiced, both pruning techniques
4464 that extend the tree's potential lifespan, if not its health.
4466 Within its native range it is valued for its importance to insects and
4467 other wildlife. Numerous insects live on the leaves, buds, and in the
4468 acorns. The acorns form a valuable food resource for several small
4469 mammals and some birds, notably Jays Garrulus glandarius.
4471 It is planted for forestry, and produces a long-lasting and durable
4472 heartwood, much in demand for interior and furniture work.
4474 =head2 v5.8.4 - T. S. Eliot, "The Old Gumbie Cat"
4476 L<Announced on 2004-04-22 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/04/msg90984.html>
4478 I have a Gumbie Cat in mind, her name is Jennyanydots;
4479 The curtain-cord she likes to wind, and tie it into sailor-knots.
4480 She sits upon the window-sill, or anything that's smooth and flat:
4481 She sits and sits and sits and sits -- and that's what makes a Gumbie Cat!
4483 But when the day's hustle and bustle is done,
4484 Then the Gumbie Cat's work is but hardly begun.
4485 She thinks that the cockroaches just need employment
4486 To prevent them from idle and wanton destroyment.
4487 So she's formed, from that a lot of disorderly louts,
4488 A troop of well-disciplined helpful boy-scouts,
4489 With a purpose in life and a good deed to do--
4490 And she's even created a Beetles' Tattoo.
4492 So for Old Gumbie Cats let us now give three cheers --
4493 On whom well-ordered households depend, it appears.
4496 =head2 v5.8.4-RC2 - T. S. Eliot, "Macavity: The Mystery Cat"
4498 L<Announced on 2004-04-16 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/04/msg90796.html>
4500 Macavity's a Mystery Cat: he's called the Hidden Paw --
4501 For he's the master criminal who can defy the Law.
4502 He's the bafflement of Scotland Yard, the Flying Squad's despair:
4503 For when they reach the scene of crime -- /Macavity's not there/!
4505 Macavity, Macavity, there's no one like Macavity,
4506 He's broken every human law, he breaks the law of gravity.
4507 His powers of levitation would make a fakir stare,
4508 And when you reach the scene of crime -- /Macavity's not there/!
4509 You may seek him in the basement, you may look up in the air --
4510 But I tell you once and once again, /Macavity's not there/!
4512 =head2 v5.8.4-RC1 - T. S. Eliot, "Skimbleshanks: The Railway Cat"
4514 L<Announced on 2004-04-05 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/04/msg90422.html>
4516 There's a whisper down the line at 11.39
4517 When the Night Mail's ready to depart,
4518 Saying 'Skimble where is Skimble has he gone to hunt the thimble?
4519 We must find him of the train can't start.'
4520 All the guards and all the porters and the stationmaster's daughters
4521 They are searching high and low,
4522 Saying 'Skimble where is Skimble for unless he's very nimble
4523 Then the Night Mail just can't go'
4524 At 11.42 then the signal's overdue
4525 And the passengers are frantic to a man--
4526 Then Skimble will appear and he'll saunter to the rear:
4527 He's been busy in the luggage van!
4528 He gives one flash of his glass-green eyes
4529 And the signal goes 'All Clear!'
4530 And we're off at last of the northern part
4531 Of the Northern Hemisphere!
4533 =head2 v5.8.3 - Arthur William Edgar O'Shaugnessy, "Ode"
4535 L<Announced on 2004-01-14 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/01/msg87317.html>
4537 We are the music makers,
4538 And we are the dreamers of dreams,
4539 Wandering by lonely sea-breakers,
4540 And sitting by desolate streams; --
4541 World-losers and world-forsakers,
4542 On whom the pale moon gleams:
4543 Yet we are the movers and shakers
4544 Of the world for ever, it seems.
4546 =head2 v5.8.3-RC1 - Irving Berlin, "Let's Face the Music and Dance"
4548 L<Announced on 2004-01-07 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/01/msg86969.html>
4550 There may be trouble ahead,
4551 But while there's music and moonlight,
4552 And love and romance,
4553 Let's face the music and dance.
4555 Before the fiddlers have fled,
4556 Before they ask us to pay the bill,
4557 And while we still have that chance,
4558 Let's face the music and dance.
4560 Soon, we'll be without the moon,
4561 Humming a different tune, and then,
4563 There may be teardrops to shed,
4564 So while there's music and moonlight,
4565 And love and romance,
4566 Let's face the music and dance.
4568 =head2 v5.8.2 - Walt Whitman, "Passage to India"
4570 L<Announced on 2003-11-05 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/11/msg84822.html>
4572 Passage, immediate passage! the blood burns in my veins!
4573 Away O soul! hoist instantly the anchor!
4574 Cut the hawsers - hall out - shake out every sail!
4575 Have we not stood here like trees in the ground long enough?
4576 Have we not grovel'd here long enough, eating and drinking like mere brutes?
4577 Have we not darken'd and dazed ourselves with books long enough?
4579 Sail forth - steer for the deep waters only,
4580 Reckless O soul, exploring, I with the and thou with me,
4581 For we are bound where mariner has not yet dared to go,
4582 And we will risk the ship, ourselves and all.
4585 O farther farther sail!
4586 O daring job, but safe! are they not all the seas of God?
4587 O farther, farther, farther sail!
4589 =head2 v5.8.2-RC2 - Eric Idle and John Du Prez, "Accountancy Shanty"
4591 L<Announced on 2003-11-03 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/11/msg84645.html>
4593 It's fun to charter an accountant
4594 And sail the wide accountan-cy,
4595 To find, explore the funds offshore
4596 And skirt the shoals of bankruptcy.
4598 =head2 v5.8.2-RC1 - Edward Lear, "The Jumblies"
4600 L<Announced on 2003-10-27 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/10/msg84194.html>
4602 They went to sea in a Sieve, they did,
4603 In a Sieve they went to sea:
4604 In spite of all their friends could say,
4605 On a winter's morn, on a stormy day,
4606 In a Sieve they went to sea!
4607 And when the Sieve turned round and round,
4608 And everyone cried, "You'll all be drowned!"
4609 They cried aloud, "Our Sieve ain't big,
4610 But we don't care a button, we don't care a fig!
4611 In a Sieve we'll go to sea!"
4613 Far and few, far and few,
4614 Are the lands where the Jumblies live;
4615 Their heads are green, and their hands are blue,
4616 And they went to sea in a Sieve.
4618 =head2 v5.8.1 - epigraph same as v5.7.1
4620 L<Announced on 2003-09-25 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/09/msg82678.html>
4622 =head2 v5.8.1-RC5 - Terry Pratchett, "Lords and Ladies"
4624 L<Announced on 2003-09-22 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/09/msg82476.html>
4626 No matter what she did with her hair it took about
4627 three minutes for it to tangle itself up again,
4628 like a garden hosepipe in a shed [Footnote: Which,
4629 no matter how carefully coiled, will always uncoil
4630 overnight and tie the lawnmower to the bicycles].
4632 =head2 v5.8.1-RC4 - Terry Pratchett, "Interesting Times"
4634 L<Announced on 2003-08-01 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/08/msg79184.html>
4636 Grand Viziers were /always/ scheming megalomaniacs.
4637 It was probably in the job description: "Are you a
4638 devious, plotting, unreliable madman? Ah, good,
4639 then you can be my most trusted minister."
4641 =head2 v5.8.1-RC3 - Terry Pratchett, "Interesting Times"
4643 L<Announced on 2003-07-30 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/07/msg79048.html>
4645 Lord Hong had a mind like a knife, although possibly
4646 a knife with a curved blade.
4648 =head2 v5.8.1-RC2 - Terry Pratchett, "Interesting Times"
4650 L<Announced on 2003-07-11 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/07/msg78102.html>
4652 Many an ancient lord's last words had been, "You can't kill
4653 me because I've got magic aaargh."
4655 =head2 v5.8.1-RC1 - Terry Pratchett, "Interesting Times"
4657 L<Announced on 2003-07-10 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/07/msg78009.html>
4659 Cohen was familiar with city gates. He'd broken down a number
4660 in his time, by battering ram, siege gun, and on one occasion
4663 But the gates of Hunghung were pretty damn good gates. They
4664 weren't like the gates of Ankh-Morpork, which were usually wide
4665 open to attract the spending customer and whose concession to
4666 defense was the sign "Thank You For Not Attacking Our City.
4667 Bonum Diem." These things were big and made of metal and there
4668 was a guardhouse and a squad of unhelpful men in black armor.
4670 =head2 v5.8.0 - Terry Pratchett, "Reaper Man"
4672 L<Announced on 2002-07-18 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2002/07/msg63720.html>
4674 There was the faint sound of footsteps.
4675 "Chap with a whip got as far as the big sharp spikes last week,"
4676 said the low priest.
4677 There was a sound like the flushing of a very old dry lavatory.
4678 The footsteps stopped. The High Priest smiled to himself.
4679 "Right," he said. "See your two pebbles and raise you two pebbles."
4680 The low priest threw down his cards. "Double Onion," he said.
4681 The High Priest looked down suspiciously.
4682 The low priest consulted a scrap of paper. "That's three hundred
4683 thousand, nine hundred and sixty-four pebbles you owe me," he said.
4684 There was the sound of footsteps. The priests exchanged glances.
4685 "Haven't had one for poisoned-dart alley for quite some time,"
4686 said the High Priest.
4687 "Five says he makes it", said the low priest. "You're on."
4688 There was a faint clatter of metal points on stone.
4689 "It's a shame to take your pebbles."
4690 There were footsteps again.
4692 =head2 v5.8.0-RC3 - no epigraph
4694 L<Announced on 2002-07-13 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2002/07/msg63234.html>
4696 =head2 v5.8.0-RC2 - no epigraph
4698 L<Announced on 2002-06-21 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2002/06/msg62013.html>
4700 =head2 v5.8.0-RC1 - no epigraph
4702 L<Announced on 2002-06-01 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2002/06/msg60317.html>
4704 =head2 v5.7.3 - Terry Pratchett, "Reaper Man"
4706 L<Announced on 2002-03-04 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2002/03/msg53652.html>
4708 Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong.
4709 No matter how fast light travels it finds the darkness has always
4710 got there first, and is waiting for it.
4712 =head2 v5.7.2 - Terry Pratchett, "Small Gods"
4714 L<Announced on 2001-07-13 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2001/07/msg40370.html>
4716 His philosophy was a mixture of three famous schools --
4717 the Cynics, the Stoics and the Epicureans -- and summed up
4718 all three of them in his famous phrase, "You can't trust any
4719 bugger further than you can throw him, and there's nothing
4720 you can do about it, so let's have a drink."
4722 =head2 v5.7.1 - Terry Pratchett, "The Colour of Magic"
4724 L<Announced on 2001-04-09 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2001/04/msg33851.html>
4726 "What happens next?" asked Twoflower.
4728 Hrun screwed a finger in his ear and inspected it absently.
4730 "Oh,", he said, "I expect in a minute the door will be
4731 flung back and I'll be dragged off to some sort of temple
4732 arena where I'll fight maybe a couple of giant spiders
4733 and an eight-foot slave from the jungles of Klatch and then
4734 I'll rescue some kind of a princess from the altar and then
4735 I'll kill off a few guards or whatever and then this girl
4736 will show me the secret passage out of the place and we'll
4737 liberate a couple of horses and escape with the treasure."
4738 Hrun leaned his head back on his hands and looked at the
4739 ceiling, whistling tunelessly.
4741 "All that?" said Twoflower.
4745 =head2 v5.7.0 - Terry Pratchett, "Moving Pictures"
4747 L<Announced on 2000-09-02 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2000/09/msg17730.html>
4749 The Librarian had seen many weird things in his time,
4750 but that had to be the 57th strangest.
4751 [footnote: he had a tidy mind]
4753 =head2 v5.6.2 - Laurence Sterne, "Tristram Shandy"
4755 L<Announced on 2003-11-15 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/11/msg85222.html>
4757 When great or unexpected events fall out upon the stage of this
4758 sublunary word--the mind of man, which is an inquisitive kind of
4759 a substance, naturally takes a flight, behind the scenes, to see
4760 what is the cause and first spring of them--The search was not
4761 long in this instance.
4763 =head2 v5.6.2-RC1 - Laurence Sterne, "Tristram Shandy"
4765 L<Announced on 2003-11-08 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/11/msg84953.html>
4767 "Pray, my dear", quoth my mother, "have you not forgot to wind up the clock?"
4769 =head2 v5.6.1 - J R R Tolkien, "The Hobbit", Riddles in the Dark
4771 L<Announced on 2001-04-08 by Gurusamy Sarathy|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2001/04/msg33823.html>
4773 `What have I got in my pocket?' he said aloud. He was talking to
4774 himself, but Gollum thought it was a riddle, and he was frightfully
4777 `Not fair! not fair!' he hissed. `It isn't fair, my precious, is it,
4778 to ask us what it's got in its nassty little pocketses?'
4780 Bilbo seeing what had happened and having nothing better to ask
4781 stuck to his question, `What have I got in my pocket?' he said
4784 `S-s-s-s-s,' hissed Gollum. `It must give us three guesseses,
4785 my precious, three guesseses.'
4787 =head2 v5.6.1-foolish - no epigraph
4789 L<Announced on 2001-04-01 by Gurusamy Sarathy|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2001/04/msg33421.html>
4791 =head2 v5.6.1-TRIAL3 - I can't find the announcement
4793 No announcement available.
4795 =head2 v5.6.1-TRIAL2 - no epigraph
4797 L<Announced on 2001-01-31 by Gurusamy Sarathy|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2001/01/msg29934.html>
4799 =head2 v5.6.1-TRIAL1 - no epigraph
4801 L<Announced on 2000-12-18 by Gurusamy Sarathy|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2000/12/msg27738.html>
4803 =head2 v5.6.0 - J R R Tolkien, "The Hobbit", The Last Stage
4805 L<Announced on 2000-03-23 by Gurusamy Sarathy|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2000/03/msg10341.html>
4807 The dragon is withered,
4808 His bones are now crumbled;
4809 His armour is shivered,
4810 His splendour is humbled!
4811 Though sword shall be rusted,
4812 And throne and crown perish
4813 With strength that men trusted
4814 And wealth that they cherish,
4815 Here grass is still growing,
4816 And leaves are a yet swinging,
4817 The white water flowing,
4818 And elves are yet singing
4819 Come! Tra-la-la-lally!
4820 Come back to the valley.
4822 =head2 v5.6.0-RC3 - no epigraph
4824 L<Announced on 2000-03-22 by Gurusamy Sarathy|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2000/03/msg10140.html>
4826 =head2 v5.005_05-RC1 - no epigraph
4828 L<Announced on 2009-02-16 by LE<0xe9>on Brocard|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2009/02/msg144227.html>
4830 =head2 v5.005_04 - no epigraph
4832 L<Announced on 2004-03-01 by LE<0xe9>on Brocard|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/03/msg89047.html>
4834 =head2 v5.005_04-RC2 - Rudyard Kipling, "The Jungle Book"
4836 L<Announced on 2004-02-19 by LE<0xe9>on Brocard|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/02/msg88672.html>
4838 The monkeys called the place their city, and pretended to despise
4839 the Jungle-People because they lived in the forest. And yet they
4840 never knew what the buildings were made for nor how to use
4841 them. They would sit in circles on the hall of the king's council
4842 chamber, and scratch for fleas and pretend to be men; or they would
4843 run in and out of the roofless houses and collect pieces of plaster
4844 and old bricks in a corner, and forget where they had hidden them,
4845 and fight and cry in scuffling crowds, and then break off to play up
4846 and down the terraces of the king's garden, where they would shake
4847 the rose trees and the oranges in sport to see the fruit and flowers
4850 =head2 v5.005_04-RC1 - Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
4852 L<Announced on 2004-02-05 by LE<0xe9>on Brocard|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/02/msg88312.html>
4854 Either the well was very deep, or she fell very slowly, for she had
4855 plenty of time as she went down to look about her and to wonder what was
4856 going to happen next. First, she tried to look down and make out what
4857 she was coming to, but it was too dark to see anything; then she looked
4858 at the sides of the well, and noticed that they were filled with
4859 cupboards and book-shelves; here and there she saw maps and pictures
4860 hung upon pegs. She took down a jar from one of the shelves as she
4861 passed; it was labelled 'ORANGE MARMALADE', but to her great
4862 disappointment it was empty: she did not like to drop the jar for fear
4863 of killing somebody, so managed to put it into one of the cupboards as
4866 =head2 v1.0_16 - Johan Vromans, extemporarily
4868 L<Announced on 2003-12-18 by Richard Clamp|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/12/msg86423.html>
4870 't was 16 years ago today
4871 Larry taught us a new game
4872 of lazyness, impatience, and hubris
4873 Happy birthday, Perl!
4875 =head1 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
4877 This document was originally compiled based on a list of epigraphs
4878 on L<Perl Monks|http://perlmonks.org> titled
4879 L<Recent Perl Release Announcement|http://perlmonks.org/?node_id=372406>