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 v5.28.1 - Humphrey Burton, "Leonard Bernstein"
151 L<Announced on 2018-11-29 by Steve Hay|http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/11/msg252975.html>
153 On August 25, 1983, Leonard Bernstein celebrated his sixty-fifth
154 birthday in his birthplace, Lawrence, Massachusetts. He had actually
155 lived in the town for only a few weeks as a newborn baby, and had last
156 visited it forty-nine years previously, in 1934, to get the name on his
157 birth certificate altered from Louis to Leonard. But the citizens of
158 Lawrence proposed to dedicate an outdoor theater to him in their
159 heritage park and to provide not one but two local orchestras--the
160 Merrimack Valley Philharmonic to play excerpts from his own compositions
161 and the Greater Boston Youth Symphony and Chorus to perform the "Ode to
162 Joy" and accompany Bernstein himself reading (for the only time in his
163 life) the text of A Lincoln Portrait. So Bernstein turned down birthday
164 invitations from Tanglewood and Central Park, New York, and the
165 Hollywood Bowl and drove through the cheering if slightly bewildered
166 crowds lining the streets of Lawrence in an open-topped 1928 Ford
167 roadster, looking as homespun as James Stewart in Frank Capra's classic,
168 It's a Wonderful Life.
170 =head2 v5.28.0 - Martin Luther King, Jr., 1967
172 L<Announced on 2018-06-22 by Sawyer X|http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/251240>
174 When we look at modern man we have to face the fact that modern man
175 suffers from a kind of poverty of the spirit which stands in glaring
176 contrast with his scientific and technological abundance. We've learned
177 to fly the air as birds, we've learned to swim the seas as fish, yet we
178 haven't learned to walk the earth as brothers and sisters.
180 =head2 v5.28.0-RC4 - Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book
182 L<Announced on 2018-06-19 by Sawyer X|http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/251212>
184 You're alive, Bod. That means you have infinite potential. You can do
185 anything, make anything, dream anything. If you can change the world,
186 the world will change. Potential. Once you're dead, it's gone. Over.
187 You've made what you've made, dreamed your dream, written your name.
188 You may be buried here, you may even walk. But that potential is
191 =head2 v5.28.0-RC3 - Anthony Horowitz, Magpie Murders
193 L<Announced on 2018-06-18 by Sawyer X|http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/251204>
195 These had been his plans. But if there was one thing that life had
196 taught him, it was the futility of making plans. Life had its own
199 =head2 v5.28.0-RC2 - Oliver Sacks, The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat: And Other Clinical Tales
201 L<Announced on 2018-06-06 by Sawyer X|http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/251122>
203 Had she not been of exceptional intelligence and literacy, with an
204 imagination filled and sustained, so to speak, by the images of
205 others, images conveyed by language, by the word, she might have
206 remained almost as helpless as a baby.
208 =head2 v5.28.0-RC1 - Anu Garg, A Word A Day
210 L<Announced on 2018-05-21 by Sawyer X|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/05/msg250999.html>
212 One doesn't have to know the unit of pain (dol) to realize that the
213 unit of joy is not the dollar, or any other currency for that matter.
215 =head2 v5.27.11 - Tana French, In the Woods
217 L<Announced on 2018-04-20 by Sawyer X|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/04/msg250571.html>
219 And then, too, I had learned early to assume something dark and
220 lethal hidden at the heart of anything I loved. When I couldn't find
221 it, I responded, bewildered and wary, in the only way I knew how: by
222 planting it there myself.
224 =head2 v5.27.10 - Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, p. 248
226 L<Announced on 2018-03-20 by Todd Rinaldo|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/03/msg250042.html>
228 A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher
229 a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts,
230 build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders,
231 cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure,
232 program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly.
233 Specialization is for insects.
235 =head2 v5.27.9 - Agatha Christie, "The Mysterious Affair at Styles"
237 L<Announced on 2018-02-20 by Renee Bäcker|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/02/msg249549.html>
239 Poirot was an extraordinary looking little man. He was hardly more
240 than five feet, four inches, but carried himself with great dignity.
241 His head was exactly the shape of an egg, and he always perched it
242 a little on one side. His moustache was very stiff and military.
243 The neatness of his attire was almost incredible. I believe a
244 speck of dust would have caused him more pain than a bullet wound.
245 Yet this quaint dandified little man who, I was sorry to see, now
246 limped badly, had been in his time one of the most celebrated members
247 of the Belgian police. As a detective, his flair had been extraordinary,
248 and he had achieved triumphs by unravelling some of the most baffling
250 He pointed out to me the little house inhabited by him and his fellow
251 Belgians, and I promised to go and see him at an early date. Then he
252 raised his hat with a flourish to Cynthia, and we drove away.
253 "He's a dear little man," said Cynthia. "I'd no idea you knew him."
254 "You've been entertaining a celebrity unawares," I replied.
255 And, for the rest of the way home, I recited to them the various
256 exploits and triumphs of Hercule Poirot.
258 =head2 v5.27.8 - Jasper Fforde, "Shades of Grey"
260 L<Announced on 2018-01-20 by Abigail|http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/248914>
262 2.4.16.55.021: Males are to wear dresscode #6 during inter-Collective
263 travel. Hats are encouraged, but not required.
265 9.3.88.32.025: The cucumber and tomato are both fruit; the avocado
266 is a nut. To assist with the dietary requirements of vegetarians,
267 on the first Tuesday of the month a chicken is officially a vegetable.
269 5.3.21.01.002: Once allocated, postcodes are permanent, and for life.
271 6.1.02.11.235: Artifacture from before the Something That Happened
272 may be collected, so long it does not appear on the Leapback list
273 or possess color above 23 percent saturation.
275 2.3.06.02.087: Unnecessary sharpening of pencils constitutes a waste
276 of public resources, and will be punished as appropriate.
278 2.1.01.05.002: All children are to attent school until the age of
279 sixteen or until they have learned everything, whichever be the sooner.
281 1.3.02.06.023: There shall be no staring at the sun, however good
284 1.1.19.02.006: Team sports are mandatory in order to build character.
285 Character is there to give purpose to team sports.
287 2.3.03.01.006: Juggling shall not be practiced after 4:00 pm.
290 =head2 v5.27.7 - Terry Pratchett, "Hogfather"
292 L<Announced on 2017-12-20 by Chris 'BinGOs' Williams|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/12/msg248274.html>
294 Death looked at the sacks.
296 It was a strange but demonstrable fact that the sacks of
297 toys carried by the Hogfather, no matter what they
298 really contained, always appeared to have sticking out
299 of the top a teddy bear, a toy soldier in the kind of
300 colorful uniform that would stand out in a disco, a
301 drum and a red-and-white candy cane. The actual
302 contents always turned out to be something a bit
303 garish and costing $5.99.
305 Death had investigated one or two. There had been a
306 Real Agatean Ninja, for example, with Fearsome
307 Death Grip, and a Captain Carrot One-Man Night
308 Watch with a complete wardrobe of toy weapons, each
309 of which cost as much as the original wooden doll in
312 Mind you, the stuff for the girls was just as
313 depressing. It seemed to be nearly all horses. Most of
314 them were grinning. Horses, Death felt, shouldn't grin.
316 Any horse that was grinning was planning something.
318 =head2 v5.27.6 - Ogden Nash, "Behold the Duck"
320 L<Announced on 2017-11-20 by Karen Etheridge|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/11/msg247489.html>
327 It is 'specially fond
329 when it dines or sups
333 =head2 v5.27.5 - Frank Birch, Dilly Knox & G. P. Mackeson, "Alice in I.D.25"
335 L<Announced on 2017-10-20 by Steve Hay|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/10/msg246785.html>
337 'Can I do anything?' Alice suggested timidly, thinking that something
338 dreadful must have happened.
339 The Waterflap jumped as if it had been shot. 'What are you doing
340 here?' it snapped. 'Take this at once into the Directional room,' and it
341 thrust the paper which had caused all the fuss into her hands.
342 'But where is the Directional room?' she inquired, bewildered.
343 'Why, there of course,' howled the Waterflap, pointing to a door.
344 'How could I possibly know that!' Alice exclaimed, angered by his
346 'Silly girl,' it hissed. 'Why, it's called the Directional room
347 because it's in that direction,' and it pushed her roughly through the
350 =head2 v5.27.4 - Richard Brautigan, "All Watched Over By Machines Of Loving Grace"
352 L<Announced on 2017-09-20 by John SJ Anderson|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/09/msg246371.html>
355 the sooner the better!)
356 of a cybernetic meadow
357 where mammals and computers
358 live together in mutually
365 of a cybernetic forest
366 filled with pines and electronics
367 where deer stroll peacefully
369 as if they were flowers
370 with spinning blossoms.
374 of a cybernetic ecology
375 where we are free of our labors
376 and joined back to nature,
377 returned to our mammal
378 brothers and sisters,
380 by machines of loving grace.
382 =head2 v5.27.3 - Rodgers and Hammerstein, "You'll Never Walk Alone"
384 L<Announced on 2017-08-21 by Matthew Horsfall|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/08/msg245988.html>
386 When you walk through a storm
387 Hold your head up high
388 And don't be afraid of the dark
390 At the end of a storm
392 And the sweet silver song of a lark
394 Walk on through the wind
395 Walk on through the rain
396 Though your dreams be tossed and blown
399 With hope in your heart
400 And you'll never walk alone
402 You'll never walk alone
405 With hope in your heart
406 And you'll never walk alone
408 You'll never walk alone
410 =head2 v5.27.2 - Lev Grossman, Codex
412 L<Announced on 2017-07-20 by Aaron Crane|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/07/msg245585.html>
414 He went back for another stack of books: a three-volume English legal
415 treatise; a travel guide to Tuscany from the '20s crammed with faded
416 Italian wildflowers that fluttered out from between the pages like
417 moths; a French edition of Turgeniev so decayed that it came apart in
418 his hands; a register of London society from 1863. In a way it was
419 idiotic. He was treating these books like they were holy relics. It
420 wasn't like he would ever actually read them. But there was something
421 magnetic about them, something that compelled respect, even the silly
422 ones, like the Enlightenment treatise about how lightning was caused
423 by bees. They were information, data, but not in the form he was used
424 to dealing with it. They were non-digital, nonelectrical chunks of
425 memory, not stamped out of silicon but laboriously crafted out of wood
426 pulp and ink, leather and glue. Somebody had cared enough to write
427 these things; somebody else had cared enough to buy them, possibly
428 even read them, at the very least keep them safe for 150 years,
429 sometimes longer, when they could have vanished at the touch of a
430 spark. That made them worth something, didn't it, just by itself?
431 Though most of them would have bored him rigid the second he cracked
432 them open, which there wasn't much chance of. Maybe that was what he
433 found so appealing: the sight of so many books that he'd never have to
434 read, so much work he'd never have to do.
436 =head2 v5.27.1 - Rona Munro, Doctor Who: Survival
438 L<Announced on 2017-06-20 by Eric Herman|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/06/msg245055.html>
440 There are worlds out there where the sky is burning,
441 where the sea's asleep and the rivers dream,
442 people made of smoke and cities made of song.
443 Somewhere there's danger,
444 somewhere there's injustice
445 and somewhere else the tea is getting cold.
446 Come on, Ace, we've got work to do.
448 =head2 v5.27.0 - Bertrand Russell, The Road to Happiness
450 L<Announced on 2017-05-31 by Sawyer X|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/05/msg244580.html>
452 People who have theories as to how one should live tend to forget the
453 limitations of nature. If your way of life involves constant
454 restraint of impulse for the sake of some one supreme aim that you
455 have set yourself, it is likely that the aim will become increasingly
456 distasteful because of the efforts that it demands; impulse, denied
457 its normal outlets, will find others, probably in spite; pleasure, if
458 you allow yourself any at all, will be dissociated from the main
459 current of your life, and will become Bacchic and frivolous. Such
460 pleasure brings no happiness, but only a deeper despair.
462 -- Bertrand Russell, The Road to Happiness
464 =head2 v5.26.3 - Humphrey Burton, "Leonard Bernstein"
466 L<Announced on 2018-11-29 by Steve Hay|http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/11/msg252974.html>
468 The origins of the name "Bernstein" are sometimes linked with the German
469 noun Bernstein, which means "amber"--a translucent yellowish fossilized
470 resin, used for ornaments and thought to possess magical properties.
471 Leonard Bernstein would later call himself "Lenny Amber" when he needed
472 a pseudonym for the popular piano transcriptions he published in his
473 mid-twenties, and his business affairs would be organized within a
474 company called Amberson Enterprises. There are several towns and
475 villages named Bernstein in Germany and Austria (where the pronunciation
476 is BernSTINE), but Bernstein's parents came from Jewish ghettos in
477 northwestern Ukraine, where the last syllable is usually pronounced
478 BernSHTAYN or STEEN. Sam insisted, however, on the mid-European style
479 employed by the earlier immigrants.
481 =head2 v5.26.2 - Desmond Morris, "Catwatching: The Essential Guide to Cat Behaviour"
483 L<Announced on 2018-04-14 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/04/msg250440.html>
485 How does a cat use its whiskers? The usual answer is that the whiskers
486 are feelers that enable a cat to tell whether a gap is wide enough for
487 it to squeeze through, but the truth is more complicated and more
488 remarkable. In addition to their obvious role as feelers sensitive to
489 touch, the whiskers also operate as air-current detectors. As the cat
490 moves along in the dark it needs to manoeuvre past solid objects without
491 touching them. Each solid object it approaches causes slight eddies in
492 the air, minute disturbances in the currents of air movements, and the
493 cat's whiskers are so amazingly sensitive that they can read these air
494 changes and respond to the presence of solid obstacles even without
497 =head2 v5.26.2-RC1 - Desmond Morris, "Catwatching: The Essential Guide to Cat Behaviour"
499 L<Announced on 2018-03-24 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/03/msg250103.html>
501 Cats have a way of endearing themselves to their owners, not just by
502 their 'kittenoid' behaviour, which stimulates strong parental feelings,
503 but also by their sheer gracefulness. There is an elegance and a
504 composure about them that captivates the human eye. To the sensitive
505 human being it becomes a privilege to share a room with a cat, exchange
506 its glance, feel its greeting rub, or watch it gently luxuriate itself
507 into a snoozing ball on a soft cushion.
509 =head2 v5.26.1 - Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
511 L<Announced on 2017-09-22 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/09/msg246408.html>
513 And soon I heard a roaring wind:
514 It did not come anear;
515 But with its sound it shook the sails,
516 That were so thin and sere.
518 The upper air burst into life!
519 And a hundred fire-flags sheen,
520 To and fro they were hurried about!
521 And to and fro, and in and out,
522 The wan stars danced between.
524 =head2 v5.26.1-RC1 - Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
526 L<Announced on 2017-09-10 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/09/msg246202.html>
528 At length did cross an Albatross,
529 Thorough the fog it came;
530 As if it had been a Christian soul,
531 We hailed it in God's name.
533 It ate the food it ne'er had eat,
534 And round and round it flew.
535 The ice did split with a thunder-fit;
536 The helmsman steered us through!
538 And a good south wind sprung up behind;
539 The Albatross did follow,
540 And every day, for food or play,
541 Came to the mariner's hollo!
543 In mist or cloud, on mast or shroud,
544 It perched for vespers nine;
545 Whiles all the night, through fog-smoke white,
546 Glimmered the white Moon-shine.'
548 'God save thee, ancient Mariner!
549 From the fiends, that plague thee thus!—
550 Why look'st thou so?'—With my cross-bow
551 I shot the ALBATROSS.
553 =head2 v5.26.0 - Nine Simone, Ain't Got No / I Got Life
555 L<Announced on 2017-05-30 by Sawyer X|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/05/msg244573.html>
558 And I'm gonna keep it
560 And nobody's gonna take it away
563 =head2 v5.26.0-RC2 - Richard Condon, The Manchurian Candidate
565 L<Announced on 2017-05-23 by Sawyer X|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/05/msg244511.html>
567 Amateur psychiatric prognosis can be fascinating when there is
568 absolutely nothing else to do.
570 =head2 v5.26.0-RC1 - Thomas Paine, Common Sense
572 L<Announced on 2017-05-11 by Sawyer X|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/05/msg244337.html>
574 A long habit of not thinking a thing WRONG, gives it a superficial
575 appearance of being RIGHT, and raises at first a formidable outcry in
576 defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more
577 converts than reason.
579 =head2 v5.25.12 - Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
581 L<Announced on 2017-04-20 by Sawyer X|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/04/msg244146.html>
583 I have told my sons that they are not under any circumstances to take
584 part in massacres, and that the news of massacres of enemies is not
585 to fill them with satisfaction or glee.
587 I have also told them not to work for companies which make massacre
588 machinery, and to express contempt for people who think we need
591 =head2 v5.25.11 - Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow
593 L<Announced on 2017-03-20 by Sawyer X|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/03/msg243624.html>
595 Subjective confidence in a judgment is not a reasoned evaluation of
596 the probability that this judgment is correct. Confidence is a
597 feeling, which reflects the coherence of the information and the
598 cognitive ease of processing it. It is wise to take admissions of
599 uncertainty seriously, but declarations of high confidence mainly
600 tell you that an individual has constructed a coherent story in his
601 mind, not necessarily that the story is true.
603 =head2 v5.25.10 - Erich Fried, 1968
605 L<Announced on 2017-02-20 by Renee Bäcker|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/02/msg243173.html>
607 He who wants the world to remain as it is
608 doesn't want it to remain.
610 =head2 v5.25.9 - A. A. Milne, "Winnie-the-Pooh", 1926
612 L<Announced on 2017-01-20 by Abigail|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/01/msg242405.html>
614 Pooh always liked a little something at eleven o'clock in the
615 morning, and he was very glad to see Rabbit getting out the plates
616 and mugs; and when Rabbit said, "Honey or condensed milk with
617 your bread?" he was so excited that he said, "Both," and then,
618 so as not to seem greedy, he added, "But don't bother about the
621 =head2 v5.25.8 - Langston Hughes, So long
623 L<Announced on 2016-12-20 by Sawyer X|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/12/msg241739.html>
627 and it's in the way you're gone
628 but it's like a foreign language
630 and maybe was I blind
636 =head2 v5.25.7 - J.R.R. Tolkien, "The Silmarillion"
638 L<Announced on 2016-11-20 by Chad 'Exodist' Granum|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/11/msg241120.html>
642 Among the tales of sorrow and of ruin that come down to us from the darkness of
643 those days there are yet some in which amid weeping there is joy and under the
644 shadow of death light that endures. And of these histories most fair still in
645 the ears of the Elves is the tale of Beren and Lúthien. Of their lives was made
646 the Lay of Leithian, Release from Bondage, which is the longest save one of the
647 songs concerning the world of old; but here is told in fewer words and without
650 =head2 v5.25.6 - Alan Warner, "The Sopranos"
652 L<Announced on 2016-10-10 by Aaron Crane|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/10/msg240406.html>
654 I'm up on all the pop trivia, says the guy with the stud in his tongue.
656 Yes. Do you know who the lead singer of Echo and the Bunnymen is?
657 Let me guess, is he called Echo?
658 Good guess but no, anyway when they played Glastonbury it was so
659 muddy he had two roadies to hold up a binliner on each of his legs so
660 they wouldn't get covered in mud.
661 That's what being rich and famous is all about, having someone
662 else hold up your binliners on each leg when you're wandering across
664 Do you know what Sammy Davis Junior said being black and famous in
667 He said being black and famous in America meant he could be
668 refused entry to exclusive clubs and restaurants that other people
669 could only ever dream of going to. Do you know Michael Stipe likes to
670 send his remote control toy cars onto stage while his support band are
671 playing to freak them out?
673 You're not really a pop trivia person, are you, Kylah?
674 No, I'm not, Stephen.
676 =head2 v5.25.5 - Philip K. Dick, VALIS
678 L<Announced on 2016-09-20 by Stevan Little|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/09/msg239887.html>
680 We hypostatize information into objects. Rearrangement of objects is
681 change in the content of the information; the message has changed.
682 This is a language which we have lost the ability to read. We ourselves
683 are a part of this language; changes in us are changes in the content
684 of the information. We ourselves are information-rich; information
685 enters us, is processed and is then projected outward once more, now
686 in an altered form. We are not aware that we are doing this, that in
687 fact this is all we are doing
689 =head2 v5.25.4 - Terry Pratchett, "Truckers"
691 L<Announced on 2016-08-20 by Chris 'BinGOs' Williams|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/08/msg239191.html>
693 Concerning Nomes and Time
695 Nomes are small. On the whole, small creatures don't live for a long
696 time. But perhaps they do live fast.
700 One of the shortest-lived creatures on the planet Earth is the adult
701 common mayfly. It lasts for one day. The longest-living things are
702 bristlecone pine trees, at 4,700 years and still counting.
704 This may seem tough on the mayflies. But the important thing is not
705 how long your life is, but how long it seems.
707 To a mayfly, a single hour may last as long as a century. Perhaps
708 old mayflies sit around complaining about how life this minute isn't a
709 patch on the good old minutes of long ago, when the world was
710 young and the sun seemed so much brighter and larvae showed you a
711 bit of respect. Whereas the trees, which are not famous to their
712 quick reactions, may just have time to notice the way the sky keeps
713 flickering before the dry rot and woodworm set in.
715 It's all a sort of relativity. The faster you live, the more time
716 stretches out. To a nome, a year lasts as long as ten years does to a
717 human. Remember it. Don't let it concern you. They don't. They don't
720 =head2 v5.25.3 - Edward Lear, ed. Vivien Noakes, "The Complete Nonsense and Other Verse": The Dong with a Luminous Nose
722 L<Announced on 2016-07-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/07/msg238158.html>
724 When awful darkness and silence reign
725 Over the great Gromboolian plain,
726 Through the long, long wintry nights; -
727 When the angry breakers roar
728 As they beat on the rocky shore; -
729 When Storm-clouds brood on the towering heights
730 Of the Hills of the Chankly Bore: -
732 Then, through the vast and gloomy dark,
733 There moves what seems a fiery spark,
734 A lonely spark with silvery rays
735 Piercing the coal-black night, -
736 A Meteor strange and bright: -
737 Hither and thither the vision strays,
738 A single lurid light.
740 Slowly it wanders, - pauses, - creeps, -
741 Anon it sparkles, - flashes and leaps;
742 And ever as onward it gleaming goes
743 A light on the Bong-tree stems it throws.
744 And those who watch at that midnight hour
745 From Hall or Terrace, or lofty Tower,
746 Cry, as the wild light passes along, -
747 'The Dong! - the Dong!
748 The wandering Dong through the forest goes!
750 The Dong with a luminous Nose!'
752 =head2 v5.25.2 - Dan le Sac Vs Scroobius Pip "Waiting For The Beat To Kick In"
754 L<Announced on 2016-06-20 by Matthew Horsfall|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/06/msg237274.html>
756 Waiting for the beat to kick in
758 Waiting for my feet to grow wings
760 All of these tiresome things
761 That we know and love
762 Waiting for the beat to kick in
765 =head2 v5.25.1 - Eli Pariser, "The Filter Bubble"
767 L<Announced on 2016-05-20 by Sawyer X|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/05/msg236566.html>
769 Imagine that you're a smart high school student on the low end of the social
770 totem pole. You're alienated from adult authority, but unlike many teenagers,
771 you're also alienated from the power structures of your peers -- an existence
772 that can feel lonely and peripheral. Systems and equations are intuitive, but
773 people aren't -- social signals are confusing and messy, difficult to interpret.
775 Then you discover code. You may be powerless at the lunch table, but code
776 gives you power over an infinitely malleable world and opens the door to a
777 symbolic system that's perfectly clear and ordered. The jostling for position
778 and status fades away. The nagging parental voices disappear. There's just a
779 clean, white page for you to fill, an opportunity to build a better place, a
780 home, from the ground up.
782 No wonder you're a geek.
784 =head2 v5.25.0 - Robert Frost, "The Trial by Existence"
786 L<Announced on 2016-05-09 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/05/msg236244.html>
788 Even the bravest that are slain
789 Shall not dissemble their surprise
790 On waking to find valor reign,
791 Even as on earth, in paradise;
792 And where they sought without the sword
793 Wide fields of asphodel fore’er,
794 To find that the utmost reward
795 Of daring should be still to dare.
797 =head2 v5.24.4 - Desmond Morris, "Catwatching: The Essential Guide to Cat Behaviour"
799 L<Announced on 2018-04-14 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/04/msg250439.html>
801 Cats hate doors. Doors simply do not register in the evolutionary story
802 of the cat family. They constantly block patrolling activities and
803 prevent cats from exploring their home range and then returning to their
804 central, secure base at will. Humans often do not understand that a cat
805 needs to make only a brief survey of its territory before returning with
806 all the necessary information about the activities of other cats in the
807 vicinity. It likes to make these tours of inspection at frequent
808 intervals, but does not want to stay outside for very long, unless there
809 has been some special and unexpected change in the condition of the
810 local feline population.
812 =head2 v5.24.4-RC1 - Desmond Morris, "Catwatching: The Essential Guide to Cat Behaviour"
814 L<Announced on 2018-03-24 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/03/msg250102.html>
816 The domestic cat is a contradiction. No animal has developed such an
817 intimate relationship with mankind, while at the same time demanding and
818 getting such independence of movement and action. The dog may be man's
819 best friend, but it is rarely allowed out on its own to wander from
820 garden to garden or street to street. The obedient dog has to be taken
821 for a walk. The headstrong cat walks alone.
823 =head2 v5.24.3 - Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
825 L<Announced on 2017-09-22 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/09/msg246407.html>
827 Oh sleep! it is a gentle thing,
828 Beloved from pole to pole!
829 To Mary Queen the praise be given!
830 She sent the gentle sleep from Heaven,
831 That slid into my soul.
833 The silly buckets on the deck,
834 That had so long remained,
835 I dreamt that they were filled with dew;
836 And when I awoke, it rained.
838 =head2 v5.24.3-RC1 - Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
840 L<Announced on 2017-09-10 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/09/msg246201.html>
842 'And now the STORM-BLAST came, and he
843 Was tyrannous and strong:
844 He struck with his o'ertaking wings,
845 And chased us south along.
847 With sloping masts and dipping prow,
848 As who pursued with yell and blow
849 Still treads the shadow of his foe,
850 And forward bends his head,
851 The ship drove fast, loud roared the blast,
852 And southward aye we fled.
854 And now there came both mist and snow,
855 And it grew wondrous cold:
856 And ice, mast-high, came floating by,
859 And through the drifts the snowy clifts
860 Did send a dismal sheen:
861 Nor shapes of men nor beasts we ken—
862 The ice was all between.
864 The ice was here, the ice was there,
865 The ice was all around:
866 It cracked and growled, and roared and howled,
867 Like noises in a swound!
869 =head2 v5.24.2 - Roald Dahl, "The Three Little Pigs"
871 L<Announced on 2017-07-15 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/07/msg245527.html>
873 A short while later, through the wood,
874 Came striding brave Miss Riding Hood.
875 The Wolf stood there, his eyes ablaze
876 And yellowish, like mayonnaise.
877 His teeth were sharp, his gums were raw,
878 And spit was dripping from his jaw.
879 Once more the maiden's eyelid flickers.
880 She draws the pistol from her knickers.
881 Once more, she hits the vital spot,
882 And kills him with a single shot.
883 Pig, peeping through the window, stood
884 And yelled, 'Well done, Miss Riding Hood!'
886 Ah, Piglet, you must never trust
887 Young ladies from the upper crust.
888 For now, Miss Riding Hood, one notes,
889 Not only has two wolfskin coats,
890 But when she goes from place to place,
891 She has a PIGSKIN TRAVELLING CASE.
893 =head2 v5.24.2-RC1 - Roald Dahl, "The Three Little Pigs"
895 L<Announced on 2017-07-01 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/07/msg245292.html>
897 The animal I really dig
898 Above all others is the pig.
899 Pigs are noble. Pigs are clever,
900 Pig are courteous. However,
901 Now and then, to break this rule,
902 One meets a pig who is a fool.
903 What, for example, would you say
904 If strolling through the woods one day,
905 Right there in front of you you saw
906 A pig who'd built his house of STRAW?
907 The Wolf who saw it licked his lips,
908 And said, 'That pig has had his chips.'
910 =head2 v5.24.1 - Charles Dodgson [as "Lewis Carroll"], "The Hunting of the Snark", Fit 4: The Hunting
912 L<Announced on 2017-01-14 by Steve Hay|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/01/msg242259.html>
914 The Bellman looked uffish, and wrinkled his brow.
915 'If only you'd spoken before!
916 It's excessively awkward to mention it now,
917 With the Snark, so to speak, at the door!
919 'We should all of us grieve, as you well may believe,
920 If you never were met with again -
921 But surely, my man, when the voyage began,
922 You might have suggested it then?
924 'It's excessively awkward to mention it now -
925 As I think I've already remarked.'
926 And the man they called 'Hi!' replied, with a sigh,
927 'I informed you the day we embarked.
929 'You may charge me with murder - or want of sense -
930 (We are all of us weak at times):
931 But the slightest approach to a false pretence
932 Was never among my crimes!
934 'I said it in Hebrew - I said it in Dutch -
935 I said it in German and Greek:
936 But I wholly forgot (and it vexes me much)
937 That English is what you speak!'
939 ''Tis a pitiful tale,' said the Bellman, whose face
940 Had grown longer at every word:
941 'But, now that you've stated the whole of your case,
942 More debate would be simply absurd.
944 'The rest of my speech' (he exclaimed to his men)
945 'You shall hear when I've leisure to speak it.
946 But the Snark is at hand, let me tell you again!
947 'Tis your glorious duty to seek it!
949 =head2 v5.24.1-RC5 - John Milton, ed. Gordon Campbell, "Paradise Regained", Book IV
951 L<Announced on 2017-01-02 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/01/msg242016.html>
953 Thus passed the night so foul, till Morning fair
954 Came forth with pilgrim steps, in amice grey;
955 Who with her radiant finger stilled the roar
956 Of thunder, chased the clouds, and laid the winds,
957 And grisly spectres, which the fiend had raised
958 To tempt the Son of God with terrors dire.
959 And now the sun with more effectual beams
960 Had cheered the face of earth, and dried the wet
961 From drooping plant, or dropping tree; the birds,
962 Who all things now behold more fresh and green,
963 After a night of storm so ruinous,
964 Cleared up their choicest notes in bush and spray,
965 To gratulate the sweet return of morn.
967 =head2 v5.24.1-RC4 - John Milton, ed. Gordon Campbell, "Paradise Lost", Book II
969 L<Announced on 2016-10-12 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/10/msg240224.html>
971 Before the gates there sat
972 On either side a formidable shape;
973 The one seemed woman to the waste, and fair,
974 But ended foul in many a scaly fold,
975 Voluminous and vast -- a serpent armed
976 With mortal sting; about her middle round
977 A cry of hell hounds never ceasing barked
978 With wide Cerberean mouths full loud, and rung
979 A hideous peal; yet, when they list, would creep,
980 If aught disturbed their noise, into her womb,
981 And kennel there; yet there still barked and howled
982 Within unseen. Far less abhorred than these
983 Vexed Scylla, bathing in the sea that parts
984 Calabria from the hoarse Trinacrian shore;
985 Nor uglier follow the night-hag, when, called
986 In secret, riding through the air she comes,
987 Lured with the smell of infant blood, to dance
988 With Lapland witches, while the labouring moon
989 Eclipses at their charms. The other shape --
990 If shape it might be called that shape had none
991 Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb;
992 Or substance might be called that shadow seemed,
993 For each seemed either -- black it stood as night,
994 Fierce as ten Furies, terrible as hell,
995 And shook a dreadful dart: what seemed his head
996 The likeness of a kingly crown had on.
997 Satan was now at hand, and from his seat
998 The monster moving onward came as fast
999 With horrid strides; hell trembled as he strode.
1001 =head2 v5.24.1-RC3 - Dante Alighieri, trans. Dorothy L. Sayers and Barbara Reynolds, "The Divine Comedy", Cantica III: Paradise, Canto XXIII
1003 L<Announced on 2016-08-11 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/08/msg238909.html>
1005 A bird within the bower of her delight,
1006 Quiet upon the nest with her sweet brood
1007 Throughout the dark concealment of the night,
1009 Anxious to look on them and gather food -
1010 No weary task for her, for as at play
1011 Blithely she toils to seek her fledglings' good -
1013 Before the time, upon the topmost spray
1014 Eager awaits the sun and on the East
1015 Fixes her wakeful eye till break of day.
1017 =head2 v5.24.1-RC2 - Dante Alighieri, trans. Dorothy L. Sayers, "The Divine Comedy", Cantica II: Purgatory, Canto X
1019 L<Announced on 2016-07-25 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/07/msg238269.html>
1021 When we had crossed the threshold of that gate
1022 Which the soul's evil loves put out of use,
1023 Because they make the crooked path seem straight,
1025 I heard its closing clang ring clamorous,
1026 And had I then turned back my eyes to it
1027 How could my fault have found the least excuse?
1029 We had to climb now through a rocky slit
1030 Which ran from side to side in many a swerve,
1031 As runs the wave in onset and retreat.
1033 "Now here," the master said, "we must observe
1034 Some little caution, hugging now this wall,
1035 Now that, upon the far side of the curve."
1037 =head2 v5.24.1-RC1 - Dante Alighieri, trans. Dorothy L. Sayers, "The Divine Comedy", Cantica I: Hell, Canto XX
1039 L<Announced on 2016-07-17 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/07/msg238072.html>
1041 New punishments behoves me sing in this
1042 Twentieth canto of my first canticle,
1043 Which tells of spirits sunk in the Abyss.
1045 I now stood ready to observe the full
1046 Extent of the new chasm thus laid bare,
1047 Drenched as it was in tears most miserable.
1049 Through the round vale I saw folk drawing near,
1050 Weeping and silent, and at such slow pace
1051 As Litany processions keep, up here.
1053 And presently, when I had dropped my gaze
1054 Lower than the head, I saw them strangely wried
1055 'Twixt collar-bone and chin, so that the face
1057 Of each was turned towards his own backside,
1058 And backwards must they needs creep with their feet,
1059 All power of looking forward being denied.
1061 =head2 v5.24.0 - Robert Frost, "The Black Cottage"
1063 L<Announced on 2016-05-09 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/05/msg236242.html>
1065 As I sit here, and oftentimes, I wish
1066 I could be monarch of a desert land
1067 I could devote and dedicate forever
1068 To the truths we keep coming back and back to.
1069 So desert it would have to be, so walled
1070 By mountain ranges half in summer snow,
1071 No one would covet it or think it worth
1072 The pains of conquering to force change on.
1073 Scattered oases where men dwelt, but mostly
1074 Sand dunes held loosely in tamarisk
1075 Blown over and over themselves in idleness.
1076 Sand grains should sugar in the natal dew
1077 The babe born to the desert, the sand storm
1078 Retard mid-waste my cowering caravans—
1080 “There are bees in this wall.” He struck the clapboards,
1081 Fierce heads looked out; small bodies pivoted.
1082 We rose to go. Sunset blazed on the windows.
1084 =head2 v5.24.0-RC5 - The Mountain Goats, "No Children"
1086 L<Announced on 2016-05-04 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/05/msg236198.html>
1088 And I hope when you think of me years down the line
1089 You can't find one good thing to say
1090 And I'd hope that if I found the strength to walk out
1091 You'd stay the hell out of my way
1093 I am drowning, there is no sign of land
1094 You are coming down with me, hand in unlovable hand
1096 =head2 v5.24.0-RC4 - The Joker in "The Killing Joke"
1098 L<Announced on 2016-05-02 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/05/msg236145.html>
1100 "See, there were these two guys in a lunatic asylum…"
1102 =head2 v5.24.0-RC3 - Jesse Vincent
1104 L<Announced on 2016-04-27 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/04/msg236066.html>
1106 The Great Pumpkin is a Santa-Claus like figure. He does bring toys like
1107 Santa. But unlike Santa, who gives away toys because it's his job, he
1108 gives away toys because it's the right thing to do.
1110 =head2 v5.24.0-RC2 - Joseph Heller, "Catch-22"
1112 L<Announced on 2016-04-23 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/04/msg235999.html>
1114 “How do you feel, Yossarian?”
1116 “Fine. No, I’m very frightened.”
1118 “That’s good,” said Major Danby. “It proves you’re still alive. It won’t
1121 Yossarian started out. “Yes it will.”
1123 “I mean it, Yossarian. You’ll have to keep on your toes every minute of
1124 every day. They’ll bend heaven and earth to catch you.”
1126 “I’ll keep on my toes every minute.”
1128 “You’ll have to jump.”
1132 “Jump!” Major Danby cried.
1136 Nately’s [girl] was hiding just outside the door. The knife came down,
1137 missing him by inches, and he took off.
1139 =head2 v5.24.0-RC1 - Robert Frost, "The Census-Taker"
1141 L<Announced on 2016-04-14 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/04/msg235807.html>
1143 Nothing was left to do that I could see
1144 Unless to find that there was no one there
1145 And declare to the cliffs too far for echo,
1146 "The place is desert, and let whoso lurks
1147 In silence, if in this he is aggrieved,
1148 Break silence now or be forever silent.
1149 Let him say why it should not be declared so."
1150 The melancholy of having to count souls
1151 Where they grow fewer and fewer every year
1152 Is extreme where they shrink to none at all.
1153 It must be I want life to go on living.
1155 =head2 v5.23.9 - Tom Kitchin, "from nature to plate"
1157 L<Announced on 2016-03-20 by Abigail|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/03/msg235251.html>
1161 Spring is the proper beginning of my kitchen and a season that I
1162 look forward to with great anticipation. By the time spring arrives
1163 I am desperate to welcome all the spring produce into my kitchen
1164 and I long to work with fresh green vegetables again. As much as I
1165 love root vegetables, such as celeriac and parsnips, and the heaver
1166 meat and game dishes, I'm ready to leave those behind with winter
1167 and begin a new adventure.
1169 Somehow spring always gives me a little bit of bounce in my feet
1170 -- I feel like I want to kick off my shoes and dance around in my
1171 kitchen. Not that I do, of course, but I feel lighter somehow. My
1172 adrenalin kicks in with spring and so does the level of excitement,
1173 as I think about all the produce that is about to come in.
1175 The moment spring arrives I'm eager to cook peas, broad beans, green
1176 asparagus and other fresh vegetables! I want to create lighter,
1177 brighter dishes and I can't wait to get my hands on the first greens
1178 and the first morels, not to mention the first wild Scottish salmon.
1179 Thanks to my network of trusted suppliers, I always get to first
1180 produce of the season delivered to my restaurant as soon as it is
1181 possible. I want my customers to experience and understand the
1182 beauty of locally grown produce and to try things the minute they
1183 are available so they can taste how incredibly fresh the ingredients
1184 are. I also want them to understand the relationship between
1185 seasonality and flavours. One of the most important things to
1186 remember is to allow the seasons to inspire your dishes and help
1187 you make natural matches. Wild spring herbs, such as sorrel, sweet
1188 cicely and wild garlic, as well as spring salad leaves and green
1189 lettuce served with wild salmon, wild sea trout, lamb or rabbit are
1190 marriages made in heaven.
1193 =head2 v5.23.8 - Patrick Rothfuss, "The Wise Man's Fear (The Kingkiller's Chronicle: Day Two)"
1195 L<Announced on 2016-02-20 by Sawyer X|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/02/msg234535.html>
1197 Denna, on the other hand, had never been trained. She knew nothing
1198 of shortcuts. You'd think she'd be forced to wander the city, lost and
1199 helpless, trapped in a twisting maze of mortared stone.
1201 But instead, she simply walked throught the walls. She didn't know
1202 any better. Nobody had ever told her she couldn't. Because of this,
1203 she moved through the city like some faerie creature. She walked roads
1204 no one else could see, and it made her music wild and strange and
1207 =head2 v5.23.7 - William Gibson, "Neuromancer"
1209 L<Announced on 2016-01-20 by Stevan Little|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/01/msg233856.html>
1211 A year here and he still dreamed of cyberspace, hope fading
1212 nightly. All the speed he took, all the turns he'd taken and
1213 the corners he cut in Night City, and he'd still see the matrix
1214 in his dreams, bright lattices of logic unfolding across that
1215 colourless void...The Sprawl was a long, strange way home now
1216 over the Pacific, and he was no Console Man, no cyberspace
1217 cowboy. Just another hustler, trying to make it through. But
1218 the dreams came on in the Japanese night like livewire voodoo,
1219 and he'd cry for it, cry in his sleep, and wake alone in the
1220 dark, curled in his capsule in some coffin hotel, hands clawed
1221 into the bedslab, temper foam bunched between his fingers,
1222 trying to reach the console that wasn't there.
1224 =head2 v5.23.6 - 5.23 Episode VII
1226 L<Announced on 2015-12-21 by David Golden|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/12/msg233475.html>
1228 A long time ago in microseconds, in a galaxy not very far away...
1234 unrest as separatists
1235 announce their intentions
1236 to fork PERL and return the
1237 galaxy to speed and stability.
1239 Chancellor Rik Hoolian struggles
1240 to hold together the remains of the
1241 once mighty Republic against a tide of
1242 incivility and the depredations of a new
1243 foe, the FUZZ RAIDERS.
1245 Meanwhile, after 15 years of preparation and
1246 high expectations, Supreme Leader Toady prepares
1247 to unleash a devastating new weapon, PERL SIXDOTOH,
1248 that could splinter the Republic forever and usher in
1249 a new Empire of gradual typing....
1251 =head2 v5.23.5 - utastro!nather (Ed Nather), "The Story of Mel", in net.jokes, May 21, 1983.
1253 L<Announced on 2015-11-20 by Abigail|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/11/msg232758.html>
1255 After Mel had left the company for greener pa$ture$, the Big Boss asked
1256 me to look at the code and see if I could find the test and reverse it.
1257 Somewhat reluctantly, I agreed to look. Tracking Mel's code was a real
1260 I have often felt that programming is an art form, whose real value can
1261 only be appreciated by another versed in the same arcane art; there are
1262 lovely gems and brilliant coups hidden from human view and admiration,
1263 sometimes forever, by the very nature of the process. You can learn a
1264 lot about an individual just by reading through his code, even in
1265 hexadecimal. Mel was, I think, an unsung genius.
1267 Perhaps my greatest shock came when I found an innocent loop that had
1268 no test in it. No test. None. Common sense said it had to be a closed
1269 loop, where the program would circle, forever, endlessly. Program
1270 control passed right through it, however, and safely out the other side.
1271 It took me two weeks to figure it out.
1273 The RPC-4000 computer had a really modern facility called an index
1274 register. It allowed the programmer to write a program loop that used
1275 an indexed instruction inside; each time through, the number in the
1276 index register was added to the address of that instruction, so it
1277 would refer to the next datum in a series. He had only to increment
1278 the index register each time through. Mel never used it.
1280 Instead, he would pull the instruction into a machine register, add one
1281 to its address, and store it back. He would then execute the modified
1282 instruction right from the register. The loop was written so this
1283 additional execution time was taken into account -- just as this
1284 instruction finished, the next one was right under the drum's read head,
1285 ready to go. But the loop had no test in it.
1287 The vital clue came when I noticed the index register bit, the bit that
1288 lay between the address and the operation code in the instruction word,
1289 was turned on -- yet Mel never used the index register, leaving it zero
1290 all the time. When the light went on it nearly blinded me.
1292 He had located the data he was working on near the top of memory -- the
1293 largest locations the instructions could address -- so, after the last
1294 datum was handled, incrementing the instruction address would make it
1295 overflow. The carry would add one to the operation code, changing it to
1296 the next one in the instruction set: a jump instruction. Sure enough,
1297 the next program instruction was in address location zero, and the
1298 program went happily on its way.
1300 =head2 v5.23.4 - Denis Diderot, trans. David Coward, "Jacques the Fatalist"
1302 L<Announced on 2015-10-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/10/msg232040.html>
1304 Well, everybody's got a dog. The prime minister is the king's dog. The
1305 first secretary is the prime minister's dog. A wife is a husband's dog,
1306 or a husband is a wife's dog. Favourite is Madame So-and-so's dog and
1307 Thibaut is the man on the corner's dog. When my Master tells me to talk
1308 when I'd prefer not to, which to be honest doesn't happen very often,
1309 when he tells me to shut up when I feel like talking, which I find very
1310 difficult, when he asks me to tell the story of my love-life and then
1311 keeps interrupting, what am I if not his dog? Weak men are the dogs of
1314 =head2 v5.23.3 - Oliver Wendell Holmes, "The Deacon’s Masterpiece or The Wonderful 'One-Hoss Shay': A Logical Story"
1316 L<Announced on 2015-09-20 by Peter Martini|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/09/msg231173.html>
1318 Little of of all we value here
1319 Wakes on the morn of its hundredth year
1320 Without both feeling and looking queer.
1321 In fact, there’s nothing that keeps its youth,
1322 So far as I know, but a tree and truth.
1323 (This is a moral that runs at large;
1324 Take it. — You’re welcome. — No extra charge.)
1326 =head2 v5.23.2 - Blind Guardian, "Skalds and Shadows"
1328 L<Announced on 2015-08-20 by Matthew Horsfall|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/08/msg230298.html>
1330 Would you believe in a night like this
1331 A night like this, when visions come true
1332 Would you believe in a tale like this
1333 A lay of bliss, praise in the old lore
1334 Come to the blazing fire and
1336 See me in the shadows
1337 See me in the shadows
1340 Just hand me my harp
1341 This night turns into myth
1344 The world we live in is another skald's
1345 Dream in the shadows
1346 Dream in the shadows
1348 Do you believe there is sense in it
1349 Is it truth or myth?
1350 They´re one in my rhymes
1351 Nobody knows the meaning behind
1353 Well nobody else but the Norns can
1354 See through the blazing fires of time and
1355 All things will proceed as the
1356 Child of the hallowed
1357 Will speak to you now
1359 See me in the shadows
1360 See me in the shadows
1361 Songs I will sing of tribes and kings
1362 The carrion bird and the hall of the slain
1365 The world we live in is another skald´s
1366 Dream in the shadows
1367 Dream in the shadows
1369 Do not fear for my reason
1370 There's nothing to hide
1371 How bitter your treason
1373 Remember the runes and remember the light
1374 All I ever want is to be at your side
1375 We'll gladden the raven now I will
1376 Run through the blazing fires
1378 Cause things shall proceed as foreseen
1380 =head2 v5.23.1 - Elizabeth Haydon, "The Assassin King"
1382 L<Announced on 2015-07-20 by Matthew Horsfall|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/07/msg229413.html>
1384 I was born beneath this willow,
1385 Where my sire the earth did farm
1386 Had the green grass as my pillow
1387 The east wind as a blanket warm.
1389 But away! away! called the wind from the west
1390 And in answer I did run
1391 Seeking glory and adventure
1392 Promised by the rising sun.
1394 I found love beneath this willow,
1395 As true a love as life could hold,
1396 Pledged my heart and swore my fealty
1397 Sealed with a kiss and a band of gold.
1399 But to arms! to arms! called the wind from the west
1400 In faithful answer I did run
1401 Marching forth for king and country
1402 In battles 'neath the midday sun.
1404 Oft I dreamt of that fair willow
1405 As the seven seas I plied
1406 And the girl who I left waiting
1407 Longing to be at her side.
1409 But about! about! called the wind from the west
1410 As once again my ship did run
1411 Down the coast, about the wide world
1412 Flying sails in the setting sun.
1414 Now I lie beneath the willow
1415 Now at last no more to roam,
1416 My bride and earth so tightly hold me
1417 In their arms I'm finally home.
1419 While away! away! calls the wind from the west
1420 Beyond the grave my spirit, free
1421 Will chase the sun into the morning
1422 Beyond the sky, beyond the sea.
1424 =head2 v5.23.0 - Bob Dylan, "Maggie's Farm"
1426 L<Announced on 2015-06-20 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/06/msg228807.html>
1428 I ain't gonna work on Maggie's farm no more
1429 I ain't gonna work on Maggie's farm no more
1431 To be just like I am
1432 But everybody wants you
1433 To be just like them
1434 They sing while you slave and I just get bored
1435 I ain't gonna work on Maggie's farm no more
1437 =head2 v5.22.4 - Roald Dahl, "Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf"
1439 L<Announced on 2017-07-15 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/07/msg245526.html>
1441 Then Little Red Riding Hood said, 'But Grandma,
1442 what a lovely great big furry coat you have on.'
1443 'That's wrong!' cried Wolf. 'Have you forgot
1444 'To tell me what BIG TEETH I've got?
1445 'Ah well, no matter what you say,
1446 'I'm going to eat you anyway.'
1447 The small girl smiles. One eyelid flickers.
1448 She whips a pistol from her knickers.
1449 She aims it at the creature's head
1450 And bang bang bang, she shoots him dead.
1452 A few weeks later, in the wood,
1453 I came across Miss Riding Hood.
1454 But what a change! No cloak of red,
1455 No silly hood upon her head.
1456 She said, 'Hello, and do please note
1457 'My lovely furry WOLFSKIN COAT.'
1459 =head2 v5.22.4-RC1 - Roald Dahl, "Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf"
1461 L<Announced on 2017-07-01 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/07/msg245293.html>
1463 As soon as Wolf began to feel
1464 That he would like a decent meal,
1465 He went and knocked on Grandma's door.
1466 When Grandma opened it, she saw
1467 The sharp white teeth, the horrid grin,
1468 And Wolfie said, 'May I come in?'
1469 Poor Grandmamma was terrified,
1470 'He's going to eat me up!' she cried.
1471 And she was absolutely right.
1472 He ate her up in one big bite.
1474 =head2 v5.22.3 - Charles Dodgson [as "Lewis Carroll"], "Phantasmagoria", Canto 6: Discomfyture
1476 L<Announced on 2017-01-14 by Steve Hay|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/01/msg242258.html>
1478 As one who strives a hill to climb,
1479 Who never climbed before:
1480 Who finds it, in a little time,
1481 Grow every moment less sublime,
1482 And votes the thing a bore:
1484 Yet, having once begun to try,
1485 Dares not desert his quest,
1486 But, climbing, ever keeps his eye
1487 On one small hut against the sky
1488 Wherein he hopes to rest:
1490 Who climbs till nerve and force are spent,
1491 With many a puff and pant:
1492 Who still, as rises the ascent,
1493 In language grows more violent,
1494 Although in breath more scant:
1496 Who, climbing, gains at length the place
1497 That crowns the upward track:
1498 And, entering with unsteady pace,
1499 Receives a buffet in the face
1500 That lands him on his back:
1502 And feels himself, like one in sleep,
1503 Glide swiftly down again,
1504 A helpless weight, from steep to steep,
1505 Till, with a headlong giddy sweep,
1506 He drops upon the plain -
1508 So I, that had resolved to bring
1509 Conviction to a ghost,
1510 And found it quite a different thing
1511 From any human arguing,
1512 Yet dared not quit my post.
1514 =head2 v5.22.3-RC5 - John Milton, ed. Gordon Campbell, "Paradise Regained", Book II
1516 L<Announced on 2017-01-02 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/01/msg242017.html>
1518 Thus wore out night; and now the herald lark
1519 Left his ground-nest, high towering to descry
1520 The Morn's approach, and greet her with his song;
1521 As lightly from his grassy couch up rose
1522 Our Saviour, and found all was but a dream;
1523 Fasting he went to sleep, and fasting waked.
1524 Up to a hill anon his steps he reared,
1525 From whose high top to ken the prospect round,
1526 If cottage were in view, sheep-cote, or herd;
1527 But cottage, herd, or sheep-cote, none he saw --
1528 Only in a bottom saw a pleasant grove,
1529 With chant of tuneful birds resounding loud;
1530 Thither he bent his way, determined there
1531 To rest at noon, and entered soon the shade,
1532 High-roofed and walks beneath, and alleys brown,
1533 That opened in the midst a woody scene;
1534 Nature's own work it seemed (Nature taught Art),
1535 And, to a superstitious eye, the haunt
1536 Of wood-gods and wood-nymphs.
1538 =head2 v5.22.3-RC4 - John Milton, ed. Gordon Campbell, "Paradise Lost", Book II
1540 L<Announced on 2016-10-12 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/10/msg240223.html>
1542 Far off from these, a slow and silent stream,
1543 Lethe, the river of oblivion, rolls
1544 Her watery labyrinth, whereof who drinks
1545 Forthwith his former state and being forgets --
1546 Forgets both joy and grief, pleasure and pain.
1547 Beyond this flood a frozen continent
1548 Lies dark and wild, beat with perpetual storms
1549 Of Whirlwind and dire hail, which on firm land
1550 Thaws not, but gathers heap, and ruin seems
1551 Of ancient pile; all else deep snow and ice,
1552 A gulf profound as that Serbonian bog
1553 Betwixt Damiata and Mount Casius old,
1554 Where armies whole have sunk: the parching air
1555 Burns frore, and cold performs the effect of fire.
1556 Thither, by harpy-footed Furies haled,
1557 At certain revolutions all the damned
1558 Are brought; and feel by turns the bitter change
1559 Of fierce extremes, extremes by change more fierce,
1560 From beds of raging fire to starve in ice
1561 Their soft ethereal warmth, and there to pine
1562 Immovable, infixed, and frozen round
1563 Periods of time -- thence hurried back to fire.
1564 They ferry over this Lethean sound
1565 Both to and fro, their sorrow to augment,
1566 And wish and struggle, as they pass, to reach
1567 The tempting stream, with one small drop to lose
1568 In sweet forgetfulness all pain and woe,
1569 All in one moment, and so near the brink;
1570 But fate withstands, and, to oppose the attempt,
1571 Medusa with Gorgonian terror guards
1572 The ford, and of itself the water flies
1573 All taste of living wight, as once it fled
1574 The lip of Tantalus.
1576 =head2 v5.22.3-RC3 - Dante Alighieri, trans. Dorothy L. Sayers and Barbara Reynolds, "The Divine Comedy", Cantica III: Paradise, Canto IV
1578 L<Announced on 2016-08-11 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/08/msg238908.html>
1580 Between two dishes, equally attractive
1581 And near to him, a free man, I suppose,
1582 Would starve to death before his teeth got active;
1584 So would a lamb 'twixt two fierce wolfish foes,
1585 Fearing the fangs both ways, not stir a foot;
1586 So would a deerhound halt between two does;
1588 So I can't blame myself for standing mute,
1589 Nor praise myself: for I must needs so do,
1590 Suspended 'twixt two doubts, alike acute.
1592 =head2 v5.22.3-RC2 - Dante Alighieri, trans. Dorothy L. Sayers, "The Divine Comedy", Cantica II: Purgatory, Canto I
1594 L<Announced on 2016-07-25 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/07/msg238270.html>
1596 For better waters heading with the wind
1597 My ship of genius now shakes out her sail
1598 And leaves that ocean of despair behind;
1600 For to the second realm I tune my tale,
1601 Where human spirits purge themselves, and train
1602 To leap up into joy celestial.
1604 Now from the grave wake poetry again,
1605 O sacred Muses I have served so long!
1606 Now let Calliope uplift her strain
1608 And lift my voice up on the mighty song
1609 That smote the miserable Magpies nine
1610 Out of all hope of pardon for their wrong!
1612 =head2 v5.22.3-RC1 - Dante Alighieri, trans. Dorothy L. Sayers, "The Divine Comedy", Cantica I: Hell, Canto XII
1614 L<Announced on 2016-07-17 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/07/msg238071.html>
1616 The place we came to, to descend the brink from,
1617 Was sheer crag; and there was a Thing there - making,
1618 All told, a prospect any eye would shrink from.
1620 Like the great landslide that rushed downward, shaking
1621 The bank of Adige on this side Trent,
1622 (Whether through faulty shoring or the earth's quaking)
1624 So that the rock, down from the summit rent
1625 Far as the plain, lies strewn, and one might crawl
1626 From top to bottom by that unsure descent,
1628 Such was the precipice; and there we spied,
1629 Topping the cleft that split the rocky wall,
1630 That which was wombed in the false heifer's side,
1632 The infamy of Crete, stretched out a-sprawl;
1633 And seeing us, he gnawed himself, like one
1634 Inly devoured with spite and burning gall.
1636 =head2 v5.22.2 - Gaston Leroux, trans. Mireille Ribière, "The Phantom of the Opera"
1638 L<Announced on 2016-04-29 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/04/msg236120.html>
1640 A silence; and then: 'If, in just two minutes' time by my watch--and a
1641 splendid watch it is--you have not turned the scorpion, mademoiselle, I
1642 shall turn the grasshopper... and the grasshopper, remember, _leaps
1643 straight up into the air!_'
1644 The silence that ensued was terrifying, worse than any we had
1645 experienced before. I knew that when Erik spoke with that quiet,
1646 gentle, slightly weary voice, it meant that he had reached the end of
1647 his tether: that he was capable of the most abominable crimes or the
1648 most selfless devotion; that the slightest irritation might unleash a
1650 Realizing that our fate was out of our hands, the Viscount fell to his
1651 knees and prayed. As for me, I pressed both hands to my chest, for my
1652 heart was pounding so fiercely that I thought it would burst. We were
1653 intensely aware of the excruciating dilemma Christine Daaé faced in
1654 those final seconds. We understood why she hesitated to turn the
1655 scorpion. What if the scorpion, rather than the grasshopper, were to
1656 set off the explosion? What if Erik was simply intent on destroying
1657 everything, regardless?
1658 At last he spoke: 'The two minutes are up,' he said in a soft, angelic
1659 voice. 'Goodbye, mademoiselle. Off you go, little grasshopper!'
1661 =head2 v5.22.2-RC1 - Gaston Leroux, trans. Mireille Ribière, "The Phantom of the Opera"
1663 L<Announced on 2016-04-10 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/04/msg235732.html>
1665 This annual ball was quite a magnificent affair. It was given some time
1666 before Shrovetide to celebrate the birthday of a famous illustrator
1667 whose pencil had immortalized, in the style of Gavarni, the extravagant
1668 carnival parade down La Courtille. As such, the ball was an altogether
1669 merrier, noisier and more Bohemian occasion than was usual for a masked
1670 ball. Many artists had arranged to meet there; they arrived with an
1671 entourage of models and pupils, who, by midnight, had become quite
1673 Raoul climbed the grand staircase at five minutes to midnight. He did
1674 not linger to admire the many-coloured costumes on display all the way
1675 up the marble steps of one of the most luxurious settings in the world;
1676 nor did he allow himself to be drawn into the facetious conversation of
1677 masked guests. He simply ignored all the jesting remarks, and shook off
1678 the attentions of several all too merry couples.
1679 Crossing the big crush-room and escaping from the dancers' farandole
1680 that had encircled him awhile, he at last entered the salon mentioned by
1681 Christine in her letter. The small room was crammed with people either
1682 on their way to supper at the restaurant in the Rotunda or back from
1683 raising a glass of champagne.
1684 In the midst of the gay and lively hubbub, Raoul thought that, for their
1685 mysterious assignation, Christine must have preferred this crowd to some
1687 He leaned against a door-jamb and waited. He did not have to wait long;
1688 a black domino passed him and deftly touched his hand. He understood
1689 that it was Christine and followed her.
1690 'Is that you, Christine?' he murmured, barely moving his slips.
1691 The black domino promptly looked back and raised her finger to her lips,
1692 no doubt to caution him against uttering her name again. Raoul followed
1695 =head2 v5.22.1 - Wilhelm Müller, trans. Anon., "Courage" (No. 22 in Schubert's song-cycle, "Winterreise")
1697 L<Announced on 2015-12-13 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/12/msg233318.html>
1699 If the snow flies in my face,
1700 Let me shake it off me!
1701 If my heart within me speaks,
1702 I'll sing bright and gaily!
1704 Will not listen what it says,
1705 Have no ears for moaning.
1706 Do not feel what it complains,--
1707 Only fools like groaning!
1709 Jolly brave into the world,
1710 'Gainst all wind and weather,--
1711 If there is no God on earth,
1712 Let 's be gods down nether!
1714 =head2 v5.22.1-RC4 - Wilhelm Müller, trans. Anon., "The Signpost" (No. 20 in Schubert's song-cycle, "Winterreise")
1716 L<Announced on 2015-12-08 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/12/msg233215.html>
1718 Why do I shun all those highways
1719 Which the other wanderer seeks?
1720 Why do I find bridged by-ways
1721 Through snow-covered deep creeks?
1723 For I have no crime committed,
1724 Why I should now run from men,--
1725 What demented heart's desire
1726 Drives me to a desert glen?
1728 Signposts on all highways stationed
1729 Point their signs toward the towns,
1730 Whilst I wonder 'yond moderation,
1731 Without rest, yet seeking rest!
1733 One such signpost I see planted
1734 Of my question unconcerned,
1735 One road must my choice be granted,
1736 Whence no man has yet returned!
1738 =head2 v5.22.1-RC3 - Wilhelm Müller, trans. Anon., "Stormy Morning" (No. 18 in Schubert's song-cycle, "Winterreise")
1740 L<Announced on 2015-12-02 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/12/msg233032.html>
1742 How the storm tore rents
1743 In heavens gray attired!
1744 The rags of cloud are flying
1745 Around, of combat tired.
1747 And flames of fire lambent,
1748 Fly between them and part,
1749 That 's what I call a morning,
1750 A morning after my heart!
1752 My heart sees in the heavens
1753 Its own picture unspoilt--
1754 It's nothing but the Winter,
1755 The Winter, cold and wild.
1757 =head2 v5.22.1-RC2 - Wilhelm Müller, trans. Anon., "The Old Head" (No. 14 in Schubert's song-cycle, "Winterreise")
1759 L<Announced on 2015-11-15 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/11/msg232632.html>
1761 The hoary frost has a white sheen
1762 Strewn all over my hair,
1763 So I thought I was an old man
1764 And thought life dealt me fair.
1766 Yet soon was thawed my old white mane,
1767 And I have my black hair again.
1768 How I abhor my young fair years,
1769 How long to wait for death and biers?
1771 From setting sun to morning's hue
1772 Many a head turns white.
1773 Who'll credit it? My hair did not
1774 In all this lifelong plight!
1776 =head2 v5.22.1-RC1 - Wilhelm Müller, trans. Anon., "Will-o'-the Wisp" (No. 9 in Schubert's song-cycle, "Winterreise")
1778 L<Announced on 2015-10-31 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/10/msg232321.html>
1780 In the deepest rocky crevice
1781 A will-o'-the wisp lured me;
1782 How I could find my way from here,
1783 For me it's easy memory!
1785 For I am used to straying ways,
1786 Every path to th'end a way,
1787 All our joys and all our suffering,--
1788 To a will-o'-the wisp it 's all play!
1790 Through the dried-up bed of torrents
1791 I quite calmly downward stroll;
1792 Every stream its sea will enter,
1793 Every suffering finds its goal!
1795 =head2 v5.22.0 - Gene Wolfe, The Citadel of the Autarch
1797 L<Announced on 2015-06-01 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/06/msg228300.html>
1799 “You are the advocate of the dead.”
1801 The old man nodded. “I am. People talk about being fair to this one and
1802 that one, but nobody I ever heard talks about doing right by them. We
1803 take everything they had, which is all right. And spit, most often, on
1804 their opinions, which I suppose is all right too. But we ought to
1805 remember now and then how much of what we have we got from them. I
1806 figure while I’m still here I ought to put a word in for them.”
1808 =head2 v5.22.0-RC2 - T.S. Eliot, unpublished work
1810 L<Announced on 2015-05-21 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/05/msg228142.html>
1812 And when thyself with silver foot shall pass
1813 Among the theories scattered on the grass
1814 Take up my good intentions with the rest
1816 =head2 v5.22.0-RC1 - Gene Wolfe, Citadel of the Autarch
1818 L<Announced on 2015-05-19 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/05/msg228059.html>
1820 There is no limit to stupidity. Space itself is said to be bounded by
1821 its own curvature, but stupidity continues beyond infinity.
1823 =head2 v5.21.11 - Algernon Charles Swinburne, "Dolores (Notre-Dame des Sept Douleurs)"
1825 L<Announced on 2015-04-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/04/msg227472.html>
1827 They shall pass and their places be taken,
1828 The gods and the priests that are pure.
1829 They shall pass, and shalt thou not be shaken?
1830 They shall perish, and shalt thou endure?
1831 Death laughs, breathing close and relentless
1832 In the nostrils and eyelids of lust,
1833 With a pinch in his fingers of scentless
1836 But the worm shall revive thee with kisses;
1837 Thou shalt change and transmute as a god,
1838 As the rod to a serpent that hisses,
1839 As the serpent again to a rod.
1840 Thy life shall not cease though thou doff it;
1841 Thou shalt live until evil be slain,
1842 And good shall die first, said thy prophet,
1845 =head2 v5.21.10 - Aldous Huxley, "The Devils of Loudun"
1847 L<Announced on 2015-03-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/03/msg226847.html>
1849 The fire burned on, the good fathers continued to sprinkle and intone.
1850 Suddenly a flock of pigeons came swooping down from the church and
1851 started to wheel around the roaring column of flame and smoke. The
1852 crowd shouted, the archers waved their halberds at the birds, Lactance
1853 and Tranquille splashed them on the wing with holy water. In vain. The
1854 pigeons were not to be driven away. Round and round they flew, diving
1855 through the smoke, singeing their feathers in the flames. Both parties
1856 claimed a miracle. For the parson's enemies the birds, quite obviously,
1857 were a troop of devils, come to fetch away his soul. For his friends,
1858 they were emblems of the Holy Ghost and living proof of his innocence.
1859 It never seems to have occurred to anyone that they were just pigeons,
1860 obeying the laws of their own, their blessedly other-than-human nature.
1862 =head2 v5.21.9 - Emily Dickinson, "There is Another Sky"
1864 L<Announced on 2015-02-20 by Sawyer X|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/02/msg226002.html>
1866 There is another sky,
1867 Ever serene and fair,
1868 And there is another sunshine,
1869 Though it be darkness there;
1870 Never mind faded forests, Austin,
1871 Never mind silent fields -
1872 Here is a little forest,
1873 Whose leaf is ever green;
1874 Here is a brighter garden,
1875 Where not a frost has been;
1876 In its unfading flowers
1877 I hear the bright bee hum:
1878 Prithee, my brother,
1879 Into my garden come!
1881 =head2 v5.21.8 - Bill Watterson, "Scientific Progress Goes 'Boink': A Calvin and Hobbes Collection"
1883 L<Announced on 2015-01-20 by Matthew Horsfall|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/01/msg224869.html>
1885 Calvin: OK Hobbes, press the button and duplicate me.
1886 Hobbes: Are you sure this is such a good idea?
1887 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?
1888 Hobbes: I'd hate to be accused of inhibiting scientific progress... Here you go.
1890 Hobbes: Scientific progress goes "BOINK"?
1891 Calvin?: It worked! It worked! I'm a genius!
1892 Cavlin??: No you're not, you liar! *I* invented this!
1894 =head2 v5.21.7 - Robert Heinlein, "The Number of the Beast"
1896 L<Announced on 2014-12-20 by Max Maischein|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/12/msg223774.html>
1898 "Zebadiah, Hilda and I salvaged and put everything into the basket.
1899 Hilda started to put it into our wardrobe-and it was heavy. So
1900 we looked. Packed as tight as when we left Oz. Six bananas-and
1901 everything else. Cross my heart. No, go look."
1902 "Hmmm- Jake, can you write equations for a picnic basket that
1903 refills itself? Will it go on doing so?"
1904 "Zeb, equations can be written to describe anything. The description
1905 would be simpler for a basket that replenishes itself indefinitely
1906 than for one that does it once and stops-I would have to describe
1909 =head2 v5.21.6 - Jeff Noon, "Vurt"
1911 L<Announced on 2014-11-20 by Chris 'BinGOs' Williams|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/11/msg222448.html>
1915 EXCHANGE MECHANISMS. Sometimes we lose precious
1916 things. Friends and colleagues, fellow travellers in the
1917 Vurt, sometimes we lose them; even lovers we sometimes
1918 lose. And get bad things in exchange: aliens, objects,
1919 snakes, and sometimes even death. Things we don't want.
1920 This is part of the deal, part of the game deal;
1921 all things, in all worlds, must be kept in balance.
1922 Kittlings often ask, who decides on the swappings? Now then,
1923 some say it's all accidental; that some poor Vurt thing
1924 finds himself too close to a door, at too critical a time,
1925 just when something real is being lost. Whoosh! Swap time!
1926 Others say that some kind of overseer is working the
1927 MECHANISMS OF EXCHANGE, deciding the fate of innocents.
1928 The Cat can only tease at this, because of the big secrets
1929 involved, and because of the levels between you, the reader,
1930 and me, the Game Cat. Hey, listen; I've struggled to get
1931 where I am today; why should I give you the easy route?
1932 Get working, kittlings! Reach up higher. Work the Vurt.
1934 =head2 v5.21.5 - Friso Wiegersma (text), Jean Ferrat (music), Wim Sonneveld (performer), "Het Dorp"
1936 L<Announced on 2014-10-20 by Abigail|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/10/msg221399.html>
1940 Thuis heb ik nog een ansichtkaart
1941 waarop een kerk, een kar met paard,
1942 een slagerij J. van der Ven.
1943 Een kroeg, een juffrouw op de fiets
1944 het zegt u hoogstwaarschijnlijk niets,
1945 maar 't is waar ik geboren ben.
1946 Dit dorp, ik weet nog hoe het was,
1947 de boerenkind'ren in de klas,
1948 een kar die ratelt op de keien,
1949 het raadhuis met een pomp ervoor,
1950 een zandweg tussen koren door,
1951 het vee, de boerderijen.
1953 En langs het tuinpad van m'n vader
1954 zag ik de hoge bomen staan.
1955 Ik was een kind en wist niet beter,
1956 dan dat dat nooit voorbij zou gaan.
1958 Wat leefden ze eenvoudig toen
1959 in simp'le huizen tussen groen
1960 met boerenbloemen en een heg.
1961 Maar blijkbaar leefden ze verkeerd,
1962 het dorp is gemoderniseerd
1963 en nu zijn ze op de goeie weg.
1964 Want ziet, hoe rijk het leven is,
1965 ze zien de televisiequiz
1966 en wonen in betonnen dozen,
1967 met flink veel glas, dan kun je zien
1968 hoe of het bankstel staat bij Mien
1969 en d'r dressoir met plastic rozen.
1971 En langs het tuinpad van m'n vader
1972 zag ik de hoge bomen staan.
1973 Ik was een kind en wist niet beter,
1974 dan dat dat nooit voorbij zou gaan.
1976 De dorpsjeugd klit wat bij elkaar
1977 in minirok en beatle-haar
1978 en joelt wat mee met beat-muziek.
1979 Ik weet wel, het is hun goeie recht,
1980 de nieuwe tijd, net wat u zegt,
1981 maar het maakt me wat melancholiek.
1982 Ik heb hun vaders nog gekend
1983 ze kochten zoethout voor een cent
1984 ik zag hun moeders touwtjespringen.
1985 Dat dorp van toen, het is voorbij,
1986 dit is al wat er bleef voor mij:
1987 een ansicht en herinneringen.
1989 Toen ik langs het tuinpad van m'n vader
1990 de hoge bomen nog zag staan.
1991 Ik was een kind, hoe kon ik weten
1992 dat dat voorgoed voorbij zou gaan.
1994 =head2 v5.21.4 - Edgar Allan Poe, "The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket"
1996 L<Announced on 2014-09-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/09/msg220267.html>
1998 To-day, being in latitude 83° 20', longitude 43° 5' W. (the sea being
1999 of an extraordinarily dark colour), we again saw land from the
2000 masthead, and, upon a closer scrutiny, found it to be one of a group
2001 of very large islands. The shore was precipitous, and the interior
2002 seemed to be well wooded, a circumstance which occasioned us great
2003 joy. In about four hours from our first discovering the land we came
2004 to anchor in ten fathoms, sandy bottom, a league from the coast, as a
2005 high surf, with strong ripples here and there, rendered a nearer
2006 approach of doubtful expediency. The two largest boats were now
2007 ordered out, and a party, well armed (among whome were Peters and
2008 myself), proceeded to look for an opening in the reef which appeared
2009 to encircle the island. After searching about for some time, we
2010 discovered an inlet, which we were entering, when we saw four large
2011 canoes put off from the shore, filled with men who seemed to be well
2012 armed. We waited for them to come up, and, as they moved with great
2013 rapidity, they were soon within hail. Captain Guy now held up a white
2014 handkerchief on the blade of an oar, when the strangers made a full
2015 stop, and commenced a loud jabbering all at once, intermingled with
2016 occasional shouts, in which we could distinguish the words Anamoo-moo!
2017 and Lama-Lama! They continued this for at least half an hour, during
2018 which we had a good opportunity of observing their appearance.
2020 =head2 v5.21.3 - Robert Service, "The Men that Don't Fit In"
2022 L<Announced on 2014-08-20 by Peter Martini|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/08/msg218826.html>
2024 If they just went straight they might go far,
2025 They are strong and brave and true;
2026 But they're always tired of the things that are,
2027 And they want the strange and new.
2028 They say: "Could I find my proper groove,
2029 What a deep mark I would make!"
2030 So they chop and change, and each fresh move
2031 Is only a fresh mistake.
2033 =head2 v5.21.2 - Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, Charlie Duke, Final minutes of communication of the first manned moon landing, July 20, 1969
2035 L<Announced on 2014-07-20 by Abigail|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/07/msg217937.html>
2037 Armstrong: Okay. Here's a...Looks like a good area here.
2038 Aldrin: I got the shadow out there.
2039 Aldrin: 250, down at 2 1/2, 19 forward.
2040 Aldrin: Altitude, velocity lights.
2041 Aldrin: 3 1/2 down, 220 feet, 13 forward.
2042 Aldrin: 11 forward. Coming down nicely.
2043 Armstrong: Gonna be right over that crater.
2044 Aldrin: 200 feet, 4 1/2 down.
2046 Armstrong: I got a good spot [garbled].
2047 Aldrin: 160 feet, 6 1/2 down.
2048 Aldrin: 5 1/2 down, 9 forward. You're looking good.
2050 Aldrin: 100 feet, 3 1/2 down, 9 forward. Five percent. Quantity light.
2051 Aldrin: Okay. 75 feet. And it's looking good. Down a half, 6 forward.
2054 Aldrin: 60 feet, down 2 1/2. 2 forward. 2 forward. That's good.
2055 Aldrin: 40 feet, down 2 1/2. Picking up some dust.
2056 Aldrin: 30 feet, 2 1/2 down. [Garbled] shadow.
2057 Aldrin: 4 forward. 4 forward. Drifting to the right a little. 20 feet,
2060 Aldrin: Drifting forward just a little bit; that's good.
2061 Aldrin: Contact Light.
2062 Armstrong: Shutdown.
2063 Aldrin: Okay. Engine Stop.
2064 Aldrin: ACA out of Detent.
2065 Armstrong: Out of Detent. Auto.
2066 Aldrin: Mode Control, both Auto. Descent Engine Command Override, Off.
2067 Engine Arm, Off. 413 is in.
2068 Duke: We copy you down, Eagle.
2069 Armstrong: Engine arm is off.
2070 Armstrong: Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed.
2071 Duke: Roger, Twan...[correcting himself] Tranquility. We copy you on
2072 the ground. You got a bunch of guys about to turn blue.
2073 We're breathing again. Thanks a lot.
2076 =head2 v5.21.1 - Robert Jordan, "The Crossroads of Twilights", Book 10 of "The Wheel of Time"
2078 L<Announced on 2014-06-20 by Matthew Horsfall|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/06/msg217030.html>
2080 We rode on the winds of the rising storm,
2081 We ran to the sounds of the thunder.
2082 We danced among the lightning bolts,
2083 and tore the world asunder.
2085 -- Anonymous fragment of a poem believed
2086 written near the end of the previous Age,
2087 known by some as the Third Age.
2088 Sometimes attributed to the Dragon
2091 =head2 v5.21.0 - Friedrich von Schiller, "The Song of the Bell"
2093 L<Announced on 2014-05-27 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/05/msg215826.html>
2095 Walled in fast within the earth
2096 Stands the form burnt out of clay.
2097 This must be the bell’s great birth!
2098 Fellows, lend a hand to-day.
2099 Sweat must trickle now
2100 From the burning brow,
2101 Till the work its master honour.
2102 Blessing comes from Heaven’s Donor.
2104 =head2 v5.20.3 - Elias Lönnrot, trans. Keith Bosley, "The Kalevala", Canto 42: Stealing the Sampo
2106 L<Announced on 2015-09-12 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/09/msg230945.html>
2108 Steady old Väinämöinen
2109 uttered a word and spoke thus:
2110 'No lilting on the waters
2111 and no singing on the waves!
2114 Precious day would pass and night
2115 would overtake us midway
2116 on these wide waters
2117 upon these vast waves.'
2119 The wanton Lemminkäinen
2120 uttered a word and spoke thus:
2121 'The time will pass anyway
2122 the fair day will flee
2123 and the night will come panting
2124 and the twilight will steal in
2125 if you don't sing while you live
2126 nor hum in this world.'
2128 =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"
2130 L<Announced on 2015-08-29 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/08/msg230544.html>
2132 'I fled from Basra, sad and tearful, with no idea where I was going,
2133 and I was reciting these lines:
2135 The pain of parting makes me melt away,
2136 As lovers do when those they love are harsh.
2137 I wonder at the patience that I showed
2138 When I had lost my love, for that was wonderful.
2139 Beloved, do you know that since you left,
2140 I have remained confused in misery.
2142 I then heard a voice that said: "Damn you, have you no fear of
2143 Almighty God that you hand over a girl to an unbelieving 'ifrit?" I
2144 walked for a time amongst the palm-trees until I caught sight of a
2145 person, whom I approached. When I asked him who he was he said: "I
2146 am one of the jinn who were converted to Islam at the hands of 'Ali
2147 ibn Abi Talib, may God ennoble him." "How can I get to my wife?" I
2148 asked him, and he said: "Wretched fellow, you had a bird which you
2149 allowed to fly away and now you want to fly after it." But he
2150 added: "Follow this road with God's blessing all night until dawn
2151 and then by the shore you will see a huge cave in which there is an
2152 idol made of white stone. You must drink of the water that there is
2153 coming out of the cave and smear your face with its mud. Stay there
2154 and a barge will pass you as you stand opposite the statue. Various
2155 different creatures will emerge, heads without bodies and bodies
2156 without heads, and they will prostrate themselves in adoration to
2157 the idol rather than to Almighty God. When you see that, embark on
2158 the barge and cross to the other bank and walk along it until
2159 sunset. On a high point you will see a castle built of bricks of
2160 gold and silver. That is where your 'ifrit will be. I have now
2161 told you about this, so goodbye."
2163 =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"
2165 L<Announced on 2015-08-22 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/08/msg230359.html>
2167 'On the night of the wedding the ape came to sit in front of me and
2168 asked me what I intended to do. "Whatever you tell me," I replied,
2169 and he said: "Take care not to covet the girl, or I shall come back
2170 and burn you up and leave you as a lesson for those who can learn."
2171 I agreed to this and when evening came I found the world full of
2172 candles and torches burning in holders of gold and silver. There
2173 were servants and serving girls, and everyone who saw me
2174 congratulated me on my good fortune, as there was no girl on the
2175 face of the earth more beautiful than my bride.
2177 'Next morning I went out to the market, and people went in and asked
2178 her how the night had been. "He never looked up at me," she told
2179 them. Then, when it was afternoon, I went to my house, where the
2180 ape was sitting by the door. "Tell me what you did," it said, and I
2181 told it: "By God, I did not learn and do not know whether this was a
2182 man or a girl." "That's what I want," it said.
2184 'On the second night my bride was brought to me, after which the
2185 servants left her and went away. She fell asleep, and, while she
2186 was sleeping, I killed the cock, wrapped it in the cloth and put the
2187 four poles from the couch over it. Suddenly there was a huge crash
2188 like a peal of thunder and a fiery 'ifrit swooped on the girl. I
2189 fainted at the sight and when I recovered I heard a voice saying:
2190 "By the Lord of the Ka'ba, the girl has been carried off!" and there
2191 was a sound like the rustling of wind and bitter weeping. At this I
2192 shed tears, struck my head and was filled with regret when it was no
2193 longer of any use, for to me the whole world was worth no more than
2196 =head2 v5.20.2 - Jonathan "Jonti" Picking, L<"Magical Trevor"|http://www.weebls-stuff.com/other-toons/video/magical-trevor.html>
2198 L<Announced on 2015-02-14 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/02/msg225777.html>
2200 Everyone loves Magical Trevor,
2201 'Cos the tricks that he does are ever so clever;
2202 Look at him now, disappearin' the cow,
2203 Where is the cow hidden right now?
2205 Taking a bow, it's Magical Trevor,
2206 Everybody's seen that the trick is clever;
2207 Look at him there with his leathery, leathery whip!
2208 It's made of magic, and with a little flip--
2210 Yeah, yeah, yeah, the cow is back,
2211 Yeah, yeah, yeah, the cow is back;
2212 Back, back, back from his magical journey,
2215 What did he see in the parallel dimension?
2216 He saw beans, lots of beans, lots of beans, lots of beans;
2217 Oh, beans, lots of beans, lots of beans, lots of beans,
2220 =head2 v5.20.2-RC1 - Jonathan "Jonti" Picking, L<"Scampi"|http://www.weebls-stuff.com/other-toons/video/scampi.html>
2222 L<Announced on 2015-02-01 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/02/msg225273.html>
2225 I've seen them with my eyes;
2227 They're often in disguise.
2229 Like carrots, handbags, cheese, toilets,
2230 Russians, planets, hamsters, weddings,
2231 Poets, Stalin, Kuala Lumpur!
2232 Pygmies, budgies, Kuala Lumpur!
2235 I've seen them with my eyes;
2237 They're often in disguise.
2239 Like carrots, handbags, cheese...
2241 =head2 v5.20.1 - Lorenzo da Ponte, trans. Diana Reed, "Così fan tutte"
2243 L<Announced on 2014-09-14 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/09/msg219789.html>
2245 DORABELLA (as if waking from a daze): Where are they?
2246 DON ALFONSO: They've gone.
2247 FIORDILIGI: Oh, the cruel bitterness of parting!
2250 Take heart, my dearest children.
2251 Look, in the distance, your lovers are waving to you.
2253 FIORDILIGI: Bon voyage, my darling!
2254 DORABELLA: Bon voyage!
2257 O heavens! How swiftly the ship is sailing away!
2258 It is disappearing already!
2259 It is no longer in sight!
2260 Oh, may heaven grant it a prosperous voyage!
2262 DORABELLA: May good luck attend it to the battlefield!
2263 DON ALFONSO: And may your sweethearts and my friends be safe!
2265 FIORDILIGI, DORABELLA, DON ALFONSO:
2266 May the wind be gentle,
2267 may the sea be calm,
2268 and may the elements
2272 =head2 v5.20.1-RC2 - Lorenzo da Ponte, trans. William Weaver, "Così fan tutte"
2274 L<Announced on 2014-09-07 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/09/msg219446.html>
2277 Oh God, I feel that this foot of mine
2278 is reluctant to come before her.
2285 The hero displays his manliness
2286 in the most terrible moments.
2288 FIORDILIGI, DORABELLA:
2289 Now that we have heard the news,
2290 you have the lesser duty:
2291 Take heart, and plunge your swords
2292 into both our hearts.
2294 FERRANDO, GUGLIELMO:
2296 that I must abandon you.
2298 DORABELLA: Ah no, you shall not leave...
2299 FIORDILIGI: No, cruel one, you shall not go...
2300 DORABELLA: First I want to tear out my heart.
2301 FIORDILIGI: First I want to die at your feet.
2302 FERRANDO (softly to Don Alfonso): What do you say to that?
2303 GUGLIELMO (softly to Don Alfonso): You realise?
2304 DON ALFONSO (softly): Steady, friend, finem lauda.
2307 Thus destiny defrauds
2308 the hopes of mortals.
2309 Ah, among so many misfortunes,
2310 who can ever love life?
2312 =head2 v5.20.1-RC1 - Lorenzo da Ponte, trans. William Weaver, "Così fan tutte"
2314 L<Announced on 2014-08-25 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/08/msg218975.html>
2317 I'd like to speak, but I haven't the heart:
2319 My voice cannot emerge,
2320 but remains in my throat.
2321 What will you do? What shall I do?
2322 Oh what a great catastrophe!
2323 There can be nothing worse.
2324 I feel pity for you and for them.
2326 FIORDILIGI: Heavens! For mercy's sake, Signor Alfonso, don't make us
2328 DON ALFONSO: My children, you must arm yourselves with constancy.
2329 DORABELLA: Ye Gods! What evil has occurred? What horrible event? Is my
2331 FIORDILIGI: Is mine dead?
2332 DON ALFONSO: They are not dead, but they are not far from it.
2336 DON ALFONSO: Nor that.
2337 FIORDILIGI: What, then?
2338 DON ALFONSO: A royal command summons them to the field of battle.
2339 FIORDILIGI, DORABELLA: Alas, what do I hear? And they will leave?
2340 DON ALFONSO: Immediately.
2341 DORABELLA: And there is no way of preventing it?
2342 DON ALFONSO: There is none.
2343 FIORDILIGI: And not even a single farewell...
2344 DON ALFONSO: The unhappy men haven't the courage to see you; but if
2345 you wish it, they are ready...
2346 DORABELLA: Where are they?
2347 DON ALFONSO: Come in, friends.
2349 =head2 v5.20.0 - William Shakespeare, Sonnet 18
2351 L<Announced on 2014-05-27 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/05/msg215815.html>
2353 But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
2354 Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st;
2355 Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
2356 When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st:
2357 So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
2358 So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
2360 =head2 v5.20.0-RC1 - Lindsey Buckingham, "Second Hand News"
2362 L<Announced on 2014-05-17 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/05/msg215479.html>
2366 Won't you lay me down in tall grass
2367 And let me do my stuff
2369 =head2 v5.19.11 - Isidore-Lucien Ducasse [as "Comte de Lautréamont"], trans. Paul Knight, "Les Chants de Maldoror"
2371 L<Announced on 2014-04-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/04/msg214580.html>
2373 O rigorous mathematics, I have not forgotten you since your wise lessons,
2374 sweeter than honey, filtered into my heart like a refreshing wave.
2375 Instinctively, from the cradle, I had longed to drink from your source, older
2376 than the sun, and I continue to tread the sacred sanctuary of your solemn
2377 temple, I, the most faithful of your devotees. There was a vagueness in my
2378 mind, something thick as smoke; but I managed to mount the steps which lead to
2379 your altar, and you drove away this dark veil, as the wind blows the
2380 draught-board. You replaced it with excessive coldness, consummate prudence and
2381 implacable logic. With the aid of your fortifying milk, my intellect developed
2382 rapidly and took on immense proportions amid the ravishing lucidity which you
2383 bestow as a gift on all those who sincerely love you. Arithmetic! Algebra!
2384 Geometry! Awe-inspiring trinity! Luminous triangle! He who has not known you
2387 =head2 v5.19.10 - John Chadwick, "The Decipherment of Linear B"
2389 L<Announced on 2014-03-20 by Aaron Crane|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/03/msg213851.html>
2391 The urge to discover secrets is deeply ingrained in human nature; even
2392 the least curious mind is roused by the promise of sharing knowledge
2393 withheld from others. Some are fortunate enough to find a job which
2394 consists in the solution of mysteries, whether it be the physicist who
2395 tracks down a hitherto unknown nuclear particle or the policeman who
2396 detects a criminal. But most of us are driven to sublimate this urge
2397 by the solving of artificial puzzles devised for our entertainment.
2399 =head2 v5.19.9 - R. A. MacAvoy, "Tea with the Black Dragon"
2401 L<Announced on 2014-02-20 by Tony Cook|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/02/msg213047.html>
2403 Old hands. The smell of rain--the smell of Ch'an. Quiet words in
2404 rough Cantonese. "I am not to be your master. Your master has to be
2405 stronger than you are--has to tell you you are a fool and make you
2406 know it. And make you feel content in being a fool. How could I do
2407 that for you? I'm old. You are too strong for me; you are full of
2408 chi." The old man has paused then, huddled against the wind while
2409 clouds thickened above them.
2411 "I will tell you this, Long," he continued, "Before you find yourself
2412 you will lose your chi. Also you will leave behind you all pride of
2413 body, pride of mind. You will be reduced. Like me." The old man
2414 closed his eyes, and rain began to beat against his gray, crew-cut
2415 hair. He pulled his coat closer. Suddenly his eyes snapped open and
2416 he looked Long in the face.
2418 "You must leave China. Go across the ocean. There you will meet your
2419 master." He set down his teacup with a palsied hand. His voice rose,
2422 "I tell you this, most honored and impressive visitor. You are a
2423 fool, yes, but you will find the very thing you seek. You will find
2426 =head2 v5.19.8 - Joseph Heller, "Catch-22"
2428 L<Announced on 2014-01-20 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/01/msg211729.html>
2430 “I used to get a big kick out of saving people’s lives. Now I wonder what the
2431 hell’s the point, since they all have to die anyway.”
2433 “Oh, there’s a point, all right,” Dunbar assured him.
2435 “Is there? What is the point?”
2437 “The point is to keep them from dying for as long as you can.”
2439 “Yeah, but what’s the point, since they all have to die anyway?”
2441 “The trick is not to think about that.”
2443 “Never mind the trick. What the hell’s the point?”
2445 Dunbar pondered in silence for a few moments. “Who the hell knows?”
2447 =head2 v5.19.7 - Kurt Vonnegut, "Slaughterhouse-Five"
2449 L<Announced on 2013-12-20 by Abigail|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/12/msg210882.html>
2451 And somewhere in there was springtime. The corpse mines were closed
2452 down. The soldiers all left to fight the Russians. In the suburbs,
2453 the women and children dug rifle pits. Billy and the rest of his group
2454 were locked up in the stable in the suburbs. And then, one morning,
2455 they got up to discover that the door was unlocked. World War Two in
2458 Billy and the rest wandered out onto the shady street. The trees were
2459 leafing out. There was nothing going on out there, no traffic of any
2460 kind. There was only one vehicle, an abandoned wagon drawn by two
2461 horses. The wagon was green and coffin-shaped.
2465 One bird said to Billy Pilgrim, "Pee-tee-weet?"
2467 =head2 v5.19.6 - Monty Python's Flying Circus, "Spam"
2469 L<Announced on 2013-11-20 by Chris 'BinGOs' Williams|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/11/msg210043.html>
2471 Interior: cheap cafe. All the customers are Vikings. Mr and Mrs Bun enter downwards (on wires).
2475 Mr. Bun: What have you got, then?
2476 Waitress: Well there's egg and bacon; egg, sausage and bacon; egg and spam; egg, bacon and spam;
2477 egg, bacon, sausage and spam; spam, bacon, sausage and spam; spam, egg, spam, spam, bacon and spam;
2478 spam, spam, spam, egg and spam; spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, baked beans, spam, spam, spam and spam;
2479 or lobster thermidor aux crevettes, with a mornay sauce garnished with truffle pate, brandy and a fried
2481 Mrs. Bun: Have you got anything without spam in it?
2482 Waitress: Well, there's spam, egg, sausage and spam. That's not got MUCH spam in it.
2483 Mrs. Bun: I don't want ANY spam.
2484 Mr. Bun: Why can't she have egg, bacon, spam and sausage?
2485 Mrs. Bun: That's got spam in it!
2486 Mr. Bun: Not as much as spam, egg, sausage and spam.
2487 Mrs. Bun: Look, could I have egg, bacon, spam and sausage, without the spam.
2488 Waitress: Uuuuuuggggh!
2489 Mrs. Bun: What d'you mean, uugggh! I don't like spam.
2490 Vikings: (singing) Spam, spam, spam, spam, spam ... spam, spam, spam, spam ... lovely spam, wonderful spam ...
2492 (Brief shot of a Viking ship)
2494 Waitress: Shut up. Shut up! Shut up! You can't have egg, bacon, spam and sausage without the spam.
2496 Waitress: No, it wouldn't be egg, bacon, spam and sausage, would it?
2497 Mrs. Bun: I don't like spam!
2499 =head2 v5.19.5 - Charles Baudelaire, trans. James McGowan, "The Flowers of Evil", 51. The Cat
2501 L<Announced on 2013-10-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/10/msg208752.html>
2505 A cat is strolling through my mind
2506 Acting as though he owned the place,
2507 A lovely cat -- strong, charming, sweet.
2508 When he meows, one scarcely hears,
2510 So tender and discreet his tone;
2511 But whether he should growl or purr
2512 His voice is always rich and deep.
2513 That is the secret of his charm.
2515 This purling voice that filters down
2516 Into my darkest depths of soul
2517 Fulfils me like a balanced verse,
2518 Delights me as a potion would.
2520 It puts to sleep the cruellest ills
2521 And keeps a rein on ecstasies --
2522 Without the need for any words
2523 It can pronounce the longest phrase.
2525 Oh no, there is no bow that draws
2526 Across my heart, fine instrument,
2527 And makes to sing so royally
2528 The strongest and the purest chord,
2530 More than your voice, mysterious cat,
2531 Exotic cat, seraphic cat,
2532 In whom all is, angelically,
2533 As subtle as harmonious.
2537 From his soft fur, golden and brown,
2538 Goes out so sweet a scent, one night
2539 I might have been embalmed in it
2540 By giving him one little pet.
2542 He is my household's guardian soul;
2543 He judges, he presides, inspires
2544 All matters in hos royal realm;
2545 Might he be fairy? or a god?
2547 When my eyes, to this cat I love
2548 Drawn as by a magnet's force,
2549 Turn tamely back from that appeal,
2550 And when I look within myself,
2552 I notice with astonishment
2553 The fire of his opal eyes,
2554 Clear beacons glowing, living jewels,
2555 Taking my measure, steadily.
2557 =head2 v5.19.4 - Washington Irving, "The Widow and Her Son"
2559 L<Announced on 2013-09-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/09/msg207969.html>
2561 There is something in sickness that breaks down the pride of manhood;
2562 that softens the heart and brings it back to the feelings of infancy.
2563 Who that has languished, even in advanced life, in sickness and
2564 despondency — who that has pined on a weary bed in the neglect and
2565 loneliness of a foreign land — but has thought on the mother "that
2566 looked on his childhood," that smoothed his pillow and administered to
2567 his helplessness. — Oh! there is an enduring tenderness in the love
2568 of a mother to her son that transcends all other affections of the
2569 heart. It is neither to be chilled by selfishness — nor daunted by
2570 danger — nor weakened by worthlessness — nor stifled by ingratitude.
2571 She will sacrifice every comfort to his convenience — she will
2572 surrender every pleasure to his enjoyment — she will glory in his fame
2573 and exult in his prosperity. And if misfortune overtake him he will
2574 be the dearer to her from misfortune — and if disgrace settle upon his
2575 name, she will still love and cherish him in spite of his disgrace —
2576 and if all the world beside cast him off, she will be all the world to
2579 =head2 v5.19.3 - Andrew Hodges, "Alan Turing: The Enigma"
2581 L<Announced on 2013-08-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/08/msg206318.html>
2583 E.M. Forster, outdoing the King's heresy with grand bravura, had
2584 written in 1938 that if he were faced with the choice between
2585 betraying his country and betraying his friends, he hoped he would
2586 have the courage to betray his country. He would always put the
2587 personal above the political. But for Alan Turing, unlike Forster, or
2588 Wittgenstein, or G.H. Hardy, it was more than a theoretical question.
2589 For him not only had the personal become the political, but the
2590 political was the personal. He had chosen and promised for himself in
2591 working for the government. The choice for him therefore was that
2592 between betraying one part of himself and betraying another part. And
2593 however much he wavered between these alternatives, there was a solid
2594 logic to the mind of security, one that could not be expected to take
2595 an interest in notions of freedom and development. He had no rights
2596 to such things, as he would have had to admit. He might have
2597 outwitted the Home Guard, but when it came to questions that mattered,
2598 there was no doubt that he had placed himself under military law.
2599 There was a war on; there was always a war on now.
2601 =head2 v5.19.2 - Fred Brooks, "The Mythical Man-Month"
2603 L<Announced on 2013-07-22 by Aristotle Pagaltzis|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/07/msg204905.html>
2605 The magic of myth and legend has come true in our time. One types the
2606 correct incantation on a keyboard, and a display screen comes to life,
2607 showing things that never were nor could be. [...] Not all is delight,
2608 however [...] One must perform perfectly. The computer resembles the
2609 magic of legend in this respect, too. If one character, one pause, of
2610 the incantation is not strictly in proper form, the magic doesn't work.
2612 =head2 v5.19.1 - William Shakespeare, "A Midsummer Night's Dream"
2614 L<Announced on 2013-06-21 by David Golden|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/06/msg203449.html>
2616 Over hill, over dale,
2617 Thorough bush, thorough briar,
2618 Over park, over pale,
2619 Thorough flood, thorough fire,
2620 I do wander everywhere,
2621 Swifter than the moon's sphere;
2622 And I serve the fairy queen,
2623 To dew her orbs upon the green.
2624 The cowslips tall her pensioners be;
2625 In their gold coats, spots you see;
2626 Those be rubies, fairy favours,
2627 In their freckles live our savours.
2628 I must go seek some dew-drops here,
2629 And hang a perl in every cowslip's ear.
2630 Farewell, thou lob of spirits, I'll be gone;
2631 My queen and all her elves come here anon!
2633 =head2 v5.19.0 - Batman, of the Joker, in "The Dark Knight Returns"
2635 L<Announced on 2013-05-20 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/05/msg201980.html>
2637 From the beginning, I knew…
2638 …that there was nothing wrong with you…
2642 =head2 v5.18.4 - Robert W. Chambers, Cassilda's Song in "The King in Yellow," Act I, Scene 2
2644 L<Announced on 2014-10-01 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/10/msg220770.html>
2646 Along the shore the cloud waves break,
2647 The twin suns sink beneath the lake,
2648 The shadows lengthen
2651 Strange is the night where black stars rise,
2652 And strange moons circle through the skies
2653 But stranger still is
2656 Songs that the Hyades shall sing,
2657 Where flap the tatters of the King,
2661 Song of my soul, my voice is dead;
2662 Die thou, unsung, as tears unshed
2663 Shall dry and die in
2666 =head2 v5.18.3 - (no epigraph)
2670 =head2 v5.18.3-RC2 - Robert W. Chambers, "The King in Yellow", Act I, Scene 2
2672 L<Announced on 2014-09-27 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/09/msg220613.html>
2674 "Ah! I see it now!" I shrieked. "You have seized the throne and the
2675 empire. Woe! woe to you who are crowned with the crown of the King in
2678 =head2 v5.18.3-RC1 - Robert W. Chambers, "The King in Yellow", Act I, Scene 2
2680 L<Announced on 2014-09-17 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/09/msg220072.html>
2682 CAMILLA: You, sir, should unmask.
2686 CASSILDA: Indeed it's time. We all have laid aside disguise but you.
2688 STRANGER: I wear no mask.
2690 CAMILLA: (Terrified, aside to Cassilda.) No mask? No mask!
2692 =head2 v5.18.2 - Miss Manners
2694 L<Announced on 2014-01-06 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/01/msg211224.html>
2696 One of the major mistakes people make is that they think manners are
2697 only the expression of happy ideas. There's a whole range of behavior
2698 that can be expressed in a mannerly way. That's what civilization is all
2699 about – doing it in a mannerly and not an antagonistic way. One of the
2700 places we went wrong was the naturalistic Rousseauean movement of the
2701 Sixties in which people said, "Why can't you just say what's on your
2702 mind?" In civilization there have to be some restraints. If we followed
2703 every impulse, we'd be killing one another.
2705 =head2 v5.18.1 - Chuck Moore
2707 L<Announced on 2013-08-12 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/08/msg205897.html>
2709 The operating system is another concept that is curious. Operating
2710 systems are dauntingly complex and totally unnecessary. It’s a brilliant
2711 thing that Bill Gates has done in selling the world on the notion of
2712 operating systems. It’s probably the greatest con game the world has
2715 An operating system does absolutely nothing for you. As long as you had
2716 something — a subroutine called disk driver, a subroutine called some
2717 kind of communication support, in the modern world, it doesn’t do
2718 anything else. In fact, Windows spends a lot of time with overlays and
2719 disk management all stuff like that which are irrelevant. You’ve got
2720 gigabyte disks; you’ve got megabyte RAMs. The world has changed in a way
2721 that renders the operating system unnecessary.
2723 =head2 v5.18.1-RC1 - Chuck Moore
2725 L<Announced on 2013-08-02 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/08/msg205445.html>
2727 Compilers are probably the worst code ever written. They are written by
2728 someone who has never written a compiler before and will never do so
2729 again. The more elaborate the language, the more complex, bug-ridden,
2730 and unusable is the compiler. But a simple compiler for a simple
2731 language is an essential tool—if only for documentation.
2733 =head2 v5.18.0 - Yevgeny Zamyatin
2735 L<Announced on 2013-05-18 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/05/msg201940.html>
2737 It is an error to divide people into the living and the dead: there are people
2738 who are dead-alive, and people who are alive-alive. The dead-alive also write,
2739 walk, speak, act. But they make no mistakes; only machines make no mistakes,
2740 and they produce only dead things. The alive-alive are constantly in error, in
2741 search, in questions, in torment.
2743 =head2 v5.18.0-RC4 - Joseph Heller, "Catch-22"
2745 L<Announced on 2013-05-16 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/05/msg201889.html>
2747 Clevinger was dead. That was the basic flaw in his philosophy.
2749 =head2 v5.18.0-RC3 - Tom Waits, "The Ocean Doesn't Want Me"
2751 L<Announced on 2013-05-14 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/05/msg201823.html>
2753 I'd love to go drowning
2754 And to stay and to stay
2755 But the ocean doesn't want me today
2756 I'll go in up to here
2757 It can't possibly hurt
2758 All they will find is my beer
2761 =head2 v5.18.0-RC2 - Tom Waits, "Earth Died Screaming"
2763 L<Announced on 2013-05-12 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/05/msg201723.html>
2765 And the great day of wrath has come
2766 And here's mud in your big red eye
2767 The poker's in the fire
2768 And the locusts take the sky
2769 And the earth died screaming
2770 While I lay dreaming of you
2772 =head2 v5.18.0-RC1 - Tom Waits, "What's He Building in There?"
2774 L<Announced on 2013-05-11 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/05/msg201651.html>
2776 What's he building in there?
2778 We have a right to know…
2780 =head2 v5.17.11 - Nigel Tufnel in "This is Spın̈al Tap"
2782 L<Announced on 2013-04-20 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/04/msg201056.html>
2784 It's very special because, if you can see, the numbers all go to…
2785 eleven! Look, right across the board: eleven, eleven, eleven, eleven!
2787 =head2 v5.17.10 - Vernor Vinge, "A Fire Upon The Deep"
2789 L<Announced on 2013-03-23 by Max Maischein|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/03/msg200504.html>
2791 The archive informed the automation. Data structures were built, recipes
2792 followed. A local network was built, faster than anything on Straum, but surely
2793 safe. Nodes were added, modified by other recipes. The archive was a friendly
2794 place, with hierarchies of translation keys that led them along. Straum itself
2795 would be famous for this.
2797 Six months passed. A year.
2799 The omniscient view. Not self-aware really. Self-awareness is much over-rated.
2800 Most automation works far better as a part of a whole, and even if human-
2801 powerful, it does not need to self-know.
2803 =head2 v5.17.9 - Douglas Adams, "The Hitch-Hikers Guide to the Galaxy"
2805 L<Announced on 2013-02-20 by Chris 'BinGOs' Williams|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/02/msg199115.html>
2807 Vogon poetry is of course, the third worst in the universe.
2808 The second worst is that of the Azgoths of Kria. During a
2809 recitation by their poet master Grunthos the Flatulent of
2810 his poem 'Ode To A Small Lump of Green Putty I Found In My
2811 Armpit One Midsummer Morning' four of his audience died
2812 of internal haemorrhaging and the president of the
2813 Mid-Galactic Arts Nobbling Council survived by gnawing one
2814 of his own legs off. Grunthos is reported to have been
2815 'disappointed' by the poem's reception, and was about to
2816 embark on a reading of his twelve-book epic entitled
2817 'My Favourite Bathtime Gurgles' when his own major intestine,
2818 in a desperate attempt to save life and civilisation,
2819 leapt straight up through his neck and throttled his brain.
2821 The very worst poetry of all perished along with its creator
2822 Paula Nancy Millstone Jennings of Greenbridge, Essex, England,
2823 in the destruction of the planet Earth.
2825 =head2 v5.17.8 - Iain Pears, "An Instance of the Fingerpost"
2827 L<Announced on 2013-01-20 by Aaron Crane|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/01/msg197571.html>
2829 I must here declare myself as someone who does not for a moment subscribe to
2830 the general view that a willingness to perform oneself is detrimental to the
2831 dignity of experimental philosophy. There is, after all, a clear distinction
2832 between labour carried out for financial reward, and that done for the
2833 improvement of mankind: to put it another way, Lower as a philosopher was
2834 fully my equal even if he fell away when he became the practising physician.
2835 I think ridiculous of certain professors of anatomy, who find it beneath
2836 them to pick up the knife themselves, but merely comment while hired hands
2837 do the cutting. Sylvius would never have dreamt of sitting on a dais reading
2838 from an authority while others cut — when he taught, the knife was
2839 in his hand and the blood spattered his coat. Boyle also did not scruple to
2840 perform his own experiments and, on one occasion in my presence, even showed
2841 himself willing to anatomise a rat with his very own hands. Nor was he less
2842 a gentleman when he had finished. Indeed, in my opinion, his stature was all
2843 the greater, for in Boyle wealth, humility and curiosity mingled, and the
2844 world is richer for it.
2846 =head2 v5.17.7 - R. Scott Bakker, "The Darkness That Comes Before"
2848 L<Announced on 2012-12-18 by Dave Rolsky|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/12/msg196707.html>
2852 The boy extinguished. Only a place.
2856 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.
2858 A place without breath or sound. A place of sight alone. A place without before or after . . . almost.
2860 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.
2862 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 . . .
2864 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.
2866 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.
2868 I have been legion . . .
2870 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.
2874 =head2 v5.17.6 - Kurt Vonnegut, "The Sirens of Titan"
2876 L<Announced on 2012-11-20 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/11/msg195659.html>
2878 Beatrice, looking like a gypsy queen, smoldered at the foot of a statue
2879 of a young physical student. At first glance, the laboratory-gowned
2880 scientist seemed to be a perfect servant of nothing but truth. At first
2881 glance, one was convinced that nothing but truth could please him as he
2882 beamed at his test tube. At first glance, one thought that he was as
2883 much above the beastly concerns of mankind as the harmoniums in the
2884 caves of Mercury. There, at first glance, was a young man without
2885 vanity, without lust — and one accepted at its face value the title Salo
2886 had engraved on the statue, "Discovery of Atomic Power."
2888 =head2 v5.17.5 - Charles Stross, "Singularity Sky"
2890 L<Announced on 2012-10-20 by Florian Ragwitz|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/10/msg194349.html>
2892 Neither of them noticed the pair of polka-dotted knickers hiding
2893 behind the ventilation duct overhead, listening patiently and
2894 recording everything.
2896 =head2 v5.17.4 - Roald Dahl, "Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf"
2898 L<Announced on 2012-09-19 by Florian Ragwitz|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/09/msg192635.html>
2900 The small girl smiles. One eyelid flickers.
2901 She whips a pistol from her knickers.
2902 She aims it at the creature's head,
2903 And bang bang bang, she shoots him dead.
2905 A few weeks later, in the wood,
2906 I came across Miss Riding Hood.
2907 But what a change! No cloak of red,
2908 No silly hood upon her head.
2909 She said, "Hello, and do please note
2910 My lovely furry wolfskin coat."
2912 =head2 v5.17.3 - Kris Ta-belle, "Smoked Perl Onion Soup"
2914 L<Announced on 2012-08-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/08/msg190775.html>
2918 Cut 16 Perl Onions into quarters and put them in a grill smoker rack
2919 or a perforated pan over a BBQ using hickory wood chips or Special
2920 Blend Smoker Bisquettes. Smoke them for an hour and remove once they
2922 Let them cool and put them in the fridge (or freezer) until you are
2923 ready to create the soup.
2927 16 diced, pre-smoked, Perl Onions
2930 2 small garlic cloves, finely minced
2933 black pepper to taste
2935 1/4 cup all purpose flour
2936 6 cups of beef or vegetable stock
2937 1 cup of thick cream (milk can be used as a substitute)
2941 Melt the butter in a pan and then add olive oil.
2942 Heat and add the onions to caramelize over a medium-high heat for up
2944 Add the garlic, turn down the heat and cook for a further 5 minutes.
2945 Add the salt, pepper and sugar.
2946 Now add the red wine and reduce to a jam like consistency.
2947 Add the flour, stir well and add the stock a cup at a time.
2948 Simmer for 30 minutes, add the cream and heat to almost boiling.
2952 =head2 v5.17.2 - Terry Pratchet, "The Colour of Magic"
2954 L<Announced on 2012-07-21 by TonyC|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/07/msg189828.html>
2956 ‘I knew it,’ said Rincewind. ‘We're in a strong magical field.’
2958 Twoflower and Hrun looked around the little hollow where they had made
2959 their noonday halt. Then they looked at each other.
2961 The horses were quietly cropping the rich grass by the stream. Yellow
2962 butterflies skittered among the bushes. There was a smell of thyme
2963 and a buzzing of bees. The wild pigs on the spit sizzled gently.
2965 Hrun shrugged and went back to oiling his biceps. They gleamed.
2967 ‘Looks alright to me,’ he said.
2969 ‘Try tossing a coin,’ said Rincewind.
2973 ‘Go on. Toss a coin.’
2975 ‘Hokay,’ said Hrun. 'If that gives you any pleasure.’ He reached into
2976 his pouch and withdrew a handful of loose change plundered from a
2977 dozen realms. With some care he selected a Zchloty leaden
2978 quarter-iotum and balanced it on a purple thumbnail.
2980 ‘You call,’ he said. ‘Heads or—’ he inspected the obverse with
2981 an air of intense concentration, ‘some sort of a fish with legs.’
2983 ‘When it's in the air,’ said Rincewind. Hrun grinned and flicked his thumb.
2985 The iotum rose, spinning.
2987 ‘Edge,’ said Rincewind, without looking at it.
2989 =head2 v5.17.1 - Rand Miller, "Myst: The Book of Ti'ana"
2991 L<Announced on 2012-06-20 by doy|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/06/msg188354.html>
2993 On their return from Ko'ah, Aitrus had shown her the Book, patiently
2994 taking her through page after page, and showing her how such an Age was
2995 "made." She had seen at once the differences between this archaic form
2996 and the ordinary written speech of the D'ni, noting how it was not
2997 merely more elaborate but more specific: a language of precise yet
2998 subtle descriptive power. Yet seeing was one thing, believing another.
2999 Given all the evidence, her rational mind still fought against accepting
3002 =head2 v5.17.0 - Charles Stross, "Singularity Sky"
3004 L<Announced on 2012-05-26 by Zefram|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/05/msg187214.html>
3006 `Welcome, comrades!' Burya opened his arms toward the soldier.
3007 `Yes it is true! With help from our allies of the Festival, the iron
3008 hand of the reactionary junta is about to be overthrown for all time!
3009 The new economy is being born; the marginal cost of production has
3010 been abolished, and from now on, if any item is produced once, it can
3011 be replicated infinitely. From each according to his imagination,
3012 to each according to his needs! Join us or better still, bring your
3013 fellow soldiers and workers to join us!'
3015 There was a sharp bang from the roof of the Corn Exchange, right at the
3016 climax of his impromptu speech; heads turned in alarm. Something had
3017 broken inside the spork factory and a stream of rainbow-hued plastic
3018 implements fountained toward the sky and clattered to the cobblestones
3019 on every side, like a harbinger of the postindustrial society to come.
3020 Workers and peasants alike stared in open-mouthed bewilderment at this
3021 astounding display of productivity, then bent to scrabble in the muck
3022 for the brightly colored sporks of revolution. A volley of shots rang
3023 out and Burya Rubenstein raised his hands, grinning wildly, to accept
3024 the salute of the soldiers from the Skull Hill garrison.
3026 =head2 v5.16.3 - Devo, "Freedom of Choice"
3028 L<Announced on 2013-03-11 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/03/msg200009.html>
3030 A victim of collision on the open sea
3031 Nobody ever said that life was free
3032 Sink, swim, go down with the ship
3033 But use your freedom of choice
3035 =head2 v5.16.2 - Stanislaw Lem, "The Cyberiad", Trurl's Machine
3037 L<Announced on 2012-11-01 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/11/msg194915.html>
3039 Once upon a time Trurl the constructor built an eight-story thinking
3040 machine. When it was finished, he gave it a coat of white paint,
3041 trimmed the edges in lavender, stepped back, squinted, then added a
3042 little curlicue on the front and, where one might imagine the forehead
3043 to be, a few pale orange polkadots. Extremely pleased with himself,
3044 he whistled an air and, as is always done on such occasions, asked it
3045 the ritual question of how much is two plus two.
3047 The machine stirred. Its tubes began to glow, its coils warmed up,
3048 current coursed through all its circuits like a waterfall,
3049 transformers hummed and throbbed, there was a clanging, and a
3050 chugging, and such an ungodly racket that Trurl began to think of
3051 adding a special mentation muffler. Meanwhile the machine labored on,
3052 as if it had been given the most difficult problem in the Universe to
3053 solve; the ground shook, the sand slid underfoot from the vibration,
3054 valves popped like champagne corks, the relays nearly gave way under
3055 the strain. At last, when Trurl had grown extremely impatient, the
3056 machine ground to a halt and said in a voice like thunder: SEVEN!
3058 =head2 v5.16.1 - Emerald Rose, "Never Split The Party"
3060 L<Announced on 2012-08-08 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/08/msg190413.html>
3062 Don't you know? You never split the party
3063 Clerics in the back to keep those fighters hale and hearty
3064 The wizard in the middle, where he can shed some light
3065 And you never let that damn thief out of sight…
3067 =head2 v5.16.1-RC1 - Tom Moldvay, Foreward to the "Dungeons & Dragons Basic Rulebook"
3069 L<Announced on 2012-08-03 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/08/msg190264.html>
3071 I was busy rescuing the captured maiden when the dragon showed up.
3072 Fifty feed of scaled terror glared down at us with smoldering red eyes.
3073 Tendrils of smoke drifted out from between fangs larger than daggers.
3074 The dragon blocked the only exit from the cave.
3078 I unwrapped the sword which the mysterious cleric had given me. The
3079 sword was golden-tinted steel. Its hilt was set with a rainbow
3080 collection of precious gems. I shouted my battle cry and charged
3082 My charge caught the dragon by surprise. Its titanic jaws snapped shut
3083 inches from my face. I swung the golden sword with both arms. The
3084 swordblade bit into the dragon's neck and continued through to the other
3085 side. With an earth-shaking crash, the dragon dropped dead at my feet.
3086 The magic sword had saved my life and ended the reign of the
3087 dragon-tyrant. The countryside was freed and I could return as a hero.
3089 =head2 v5.16.0 - W.H. Auden, "September 1, 1939"
3091 L<Announced on 2012-05-20 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/05/msg186903.html>
3093 All I have is a voice
3094 To undo the folded lie,
3095 The romantic lie in the brain
3096 Of the sensual man-in-the-street
3097 And the lie of Authority
3098 Whose buildings grope the sky:
3099 There is no such thing as the State
3100 And no one exists alone;
3101 Hunger allows no choice
3102 To the citizen or the police;
3103 We must love one another or die.
3105 =head2 v5.15.9 - Bob Dylan, "Blowin' In The Wind"
3107 L<Announced on 2012-03-20 by Abigail|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/03/msg184824.html>
3109 How many roads must a man walk down
3110 Before you call him a man?
3111 Yes, 'n' how many seas must a white dove sail
3112 Before she sleeps in the sand?
3113 Yes, 'n' how many times must the cannonballs fly
3114 Before they're forever banned?
3115 The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind
3116 The answer is blowin' in the wind
3118 How many years can a mountain exist
3119 Before it's washed to the sea?
3120 Yes, 'n' how many years can some people exist
3121 Before they're allowed to be free?
3122 Yes, 'n' how many times can a man turn his head
3123 Pretending he just doesn't see?
3124 The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind
3125 The answer is blowin' in the wind
3127 How many times must a man look up
3128 Before he can see the sky?
3129 Yes, 'n' how many ears must one man have
3130 Before he can hear people cry?
3131 Yes, 'n' how many deaths will it take till he knows
3132 That too many people have died?
3133 The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind
3134 The answer is blowin' in the wind
3136 =head2 v5.15.8 - The KLF, "The Manual-How To Have A Number One The Easy Way"
3138 L<Announced on 2012-02-20 by Max Maischein|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/02/msg183919.html>
3140 "Doctor Who, hey Doctor Who
3141 Doctor Who, in the Tardis
3142 Doctor Who, hey Doctor Who
3143 Doctor Who, Doc, Doctor Who
3144 Doctor Who, Doc, Doctor Who"
3146 Gibberish of course, but every lad in the country under a certain
3147 age related instinctively to what it was about. The ones slightly
3148 older needed a couple of pints inside them to clear away the mind
3149 debris left by the passing years before it made sense. As for
3150 girls and our chorus, we think they must have seen it as pure crap.
3151 A fact that must have limited to zero our chances of staying at The
3152 Top for more than one week.
3154 Stock, Aitkin and Waterman, however, are kings of writing chorus
3155 lyrics that go straight to the emotional heart of the 7" single
3156 buying girls in this country. Their most successful records will kick
3157 into the chorus with a line which encapsulates the entire emotional
3158 meaning of the song. This will obviously be used as the title. As
3159 soon as Rick Astley hit the first line of the chorus on his debut
3160 single it was all over - the Number One position was guaranteed:
3162 "I'm never going to give you up"
3164 =head2 v5.15.7 - Penelope Lively, "The Voyage of QV66"
3166 L<Announced on 2012-01-20 by Chris 'BinGOs' Williams|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/01/msg182230.html>
3168 "Laboratories," announced Henry. "Kindly don't touch anything."
3170 He led us into a long low brick shed. Outside there was a
3171 notice on a piece of board, crudely printed in red paint,
3172 which said GRATE SIENCE DISCOVERYS DONE HERE SSSH! BRING YOUR
3173 OWN BUKKIT NO PINCHING ANYWUN ELSE'S EXPERRYMENTS CANTEEN OPEN
3174 ALL DAY CHIMPS ONLY.
3176 There were a lot of large black monkeys inside, all intently
3177 busy on what they were doing. Some of them were pouring stuff
3178 out of bottles into buckets and carefully stirring the ensuing
3179 mixture; others were at work with glass tubes and jars, blowing
3180 and measuring and mixing; others were crouched over long benches
3181 with tools and heaps of bits and pieces of metal, cutting and
3182 bending and constructing. There was a great deal of noise and
3183 chatter. Every now and then one of them would give a whoop of
3184 excitement and all the others would gather round and jump up and
3185 down cheering and applauding.
3187 "Chimps," said Henry. "They're awfully clever."
3189 =head2 v5.15.6 - Ursula K. Leguin, "A Wizard of Earthsea"
3191 L<Announced on 2011-12-20 by Dave Rolsky|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/12/msg180962.html>
3193 Ged had thought that as the prentice of a great mage he would enter at once
3194 into the mystery and mastery of power. He would understand the language of the
3195 beasts and the speech of the leaves of the forest, he thought, and sway the
3196 winds with his word, and learn to change himself into any shape he
3197 wished. Maybe he and his master would run together as stags, or fly to Re Albi
3198 over the mountain on the wings of eagles.
3200 But it was not so at all. They wandered, first down into the Vale and then
3201 gradually south and westward around the mountain, given lodging in little
3202 villages or spending the night out in the wilderness, like poor
3203 journeyman-sorcerers, or tinkers, or beggars. They entered no mysterious
3204 domain. Nothing happened. The mage's oaken staff that Ged had watched at first
3205 with eager dread was nothing but a stout staff to walk with. Three days went
3206 by and four days went by and still Ogion had not spoken a single charm in
3207 Ged's hearing, and had not taught him a single name or rune or spell.
3209 =head2 v5.15.5 - Nikolai Gogol, trans. Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, "The Diary of a Madman"
3211 L<Announced on 2011-11-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/11/msg179588.html>
3213 This day - is a day of the greatest solemnity! Spain has a king. He has
3214 been found. I am that king. Only this very day did I learn of it. I
3215 confess, it came to me suddenly in a flash of lightning. I don't understand
3216 how I could have thought and imagined that I was a titular councillor. How
3217 could such a wild notion enter my head? It's a good thing no one thought of
3218 putting me in an insane asylum. Now everything is laid open before me. Now
3219 I see everything as on the palm of my hand. And before, I don't understand,
3220 before everything around me was in some sort of fog. And all this happens, I
3221 think, because people imagine that the human brain is in the head. Not at
3222 all: it is brought by a wind from the direction of the Caspian Sea. First
3223 off, I announced to Mavra who I am. When she heard that the king of Spain
3224 was standing before her, she clasped her hands and nearly died of fright.
3225 The stupid woman had never seen a king of Spain before. However, I
3226 endeavoured to calm her down and assured her in gracious words of my
3227 benevolence and that I was not at all angry that she sometimes polished my
3228 boots poorly. They're benighted folk. It's impossible to tell them about
3229 lofty matters. She got frightened because she's convinced that all kings of
3230 Spain are like Philip II. But I explained to her that there was no
3231 resemblance between me and Philip II, and that I didn't have a single
3232 Capuchin . . . I didn't go to the office . . . To hell with it! No friends,
3233 you won't lure me there now; I'm not going to copy your vile papers!
3235 =head2 v5.15.4 - Steve Jobs
3237 L<Announced on 2011-10-20 by Florian Ragwitz|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/10/msg178412.html>
3239 A lot of people in our industry haven't had very diverse experiences. So they
3240 don't have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions
3241 without a broad perspective on the problem. The broader one's understanding of
3242 the human experience, the better design we will have.
3244 =head2 v5.15.3 - Oscar Wilde, From the preface to "The Picture of Dorian Gray"
3246 L<Announced on 2011-09-20 by Stevan Little|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/09/msg177427.html>
3248 All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath
3249 the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol
3250 do so at their peril.
3252 It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.
3253 Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the
3254 work is new, complex, and vital. When critics disagree, the
3255 artist is in accord with himself.
3257 We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as
3258 he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless
3259 thing is that one admires it intensely.
3261 All art is quite useless.
3263 =head2 v5.15.2 - Rainer Maria Rilke, trans., C. F. MacIntyre, "Duino", The First Elegy
3265 L<Announced on 2011-08-20 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/08/msg176067.html>
3267 True, it is strange to live no more on earth,
3268 no longer follow the folkways scarecely learned;
3269 not to give roses and other especially auspicious
3270 things the significance of a human future;
3271 to be no more what one was in infinitely anxious hands,
3272 and to put aside even one's name, like a broken plaything.
3273 Strange, to wish wishes no longer. Strange, to see
3274 all that was related fluttering so loosely in space.
3275 And being dead is hard, full of catching-up,
3276 so that finally one feels a little eternity.–
3277 But the living all make the mistake of too sharp discrimination.
3278 Often angels (it's said) don't know if they move
3279 among the quick or the dead. The eternal current
3280 hurtles all ages along with it forever
3281 through both realms and drowns their voices in both.
3283 =head2 v5.15.1 - Greg Egan, "Permutation City"
3285 L<Announced on 2011-07-20 by Zefram|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/07/msg175014.html>
3287 Carter held out a hand towards the middle of the room. `See that
3288 fountain?' A ten-metre-wide marble wedding cake, topped with a
3289 winged cherub wrestling a serpent, duly appeared. Water cascaded
3290 down from a gushing wound in the cherub's neck. Carter said, `It's
3291 being computed by redundancies in the sketch of the city. I can
3292 extract the results, because I know exactly where to look for them --
3293 but nobody else would have a hope in hell of picking them out.'
3295 Peer walked up to the fountain. Even as he approached, he noticed
3296 that the spray was intangible; when he dipped his hand in the water
3297 around the base he felt nothing, and the motion he made with his
3298 fingers left the foaming surface unchanged. They were spying on
3299 the calculations, not interacting with them; the fountain was a
3302 Carter said, `In your case, of course, nobody will need to know
3303 the results. Except you -- and you'll know them because you'll
3306 =head2 v5.15.0 - Neil Gaiman, "The Graveyard Book"
3308 L<Announced on 2011-06-20 by David Golden|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/06/msg173748.html>
3310 If you dare nothing, then when the day is over, nothing is all you will have gained.
3312 =head2 v5.14.4 - Arthur C. Clarke, "The Nine Billion Names of God"
3314 L<Announced on 2013-03-11 by Dave Mitchell|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/03/msg199988.html>
3316 He began to sing, but gave it up after a while. This vast arena of
3317 mountains, gleaming like whitely hooded ghosts on every side, did not
3318 encourage such ebullience. Presently George glanced at his watch.
3320 'Should be there in an hour,' he called back over his shoulder to
3321 Chuck. Then he added, in an afterthought: 'Wonder if the computer's
3322 finished its run. It was due about now.'
3324 Chuck didn't reply, so George swung round in his saddle. He could just
3325 see Chuck's face, a white oval turned towards the sky.
3327 'Look,' whispered Chuck, and George lifted his eyes to heaven. (There
3328 is always a last time for everything.)
3330 Overhead, without any fuss, the stars were going out.
3332 =head2 v5.14.3 - William Shakespeare, "As You Like It"
3334 L<Announced on 2012-10-12 by Dominic Hargreaves|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/10/msg194057.html>
3336 The poor world is almost six thousand years old, and in all
3337 this time there was not any man died in his own person,
3338 videlicit, in a love-cause. Troilus had his brains dashed
3339 out with a Grecian club; yet he did what he could to die
3340 before, and he is one of the patterns of love. Leander, he
3341 would have lived many a fair year, though Hero had turned
3342 nun, if it had not been for a hot midsummer night; for, good
3343 youth, he went but forth to wash him in the Hellespont and
3344 being taken with the cramp was drowned and the foolish
3345 coroners of that age found it was 'Hero of Sestos.' But these
3346 are all lies: men have died from time to time and worms have
3347 eaten them, but not for love.
3349 =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 >>
3351 L<Announced on 2011-09-26 by Florian Ragwitz|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/09/msg177618.html>
3353 It's not so much that people don't value the programs after they have them--they
3354 do value them. But they're not the sort of thing that would ever catch on if
3355 they had to overcome the marketing barrier. (I don't yet know if perl will
3356 catch on at all--I'm worried enough about it that I specifically included an
3357 awk-to-perl translator just to help it catch on.) Maybe it's all just an
3358 inferiority complex. Or maybe I don't like to be mercenary.
3360 So I guess I'd say that the reason some software comes free is that the
3361 mechanism for selling it is missing, either from the work environment, or from
3362 the heart of the programmer.
3364 =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 >>
3366 L<Announced on 2011-06-16 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/06/msg173650.html>
3368 At this point I'm no longer working for a company that makes me sign
3369 my life away, but by now I'm in the habit. Besides, I still harbor
3370 the deep-down suspicion that nobody would pay money for what I write,
3371 since most of it just helps you do something better that you could
3372 already do some other way. How much money would you personally pay
3373 to upgrade from readnews to rn? How much money would you pay for
3374 the patch program? As for warp, it's a mere game. And anything you
3375 can do with perl you can eventually do with an amazing and totally
3376 unreadable conglomeration of awk, sed, sh and C.
3378 =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 >>
3380 L<Announced on 2011-05-14 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/05/msg172326.html>
3382 At the start of any project, I'm programming primarily to please
3383 myself. (The two chief virtues in a programmer are laziness and
3384 impatience.) After a while somebody looks over my shoulder and says,
3385 "That's neat. It'd be neater if it did such-and-so." So the thing
3386 gets neater. Pretty soon (a year or two) I have an rn, a warp, a patch,
3387 or a perl. One of these years I'll have a metaconfig.
3389 I then say to myself, "I don't want my life's work to die when this
3390 computer is scrapped, so I should let some other people use this. If I
3391 ask my company to sell this, it'll never see the light of day, and nobody
3392 would pay much for it anyway. If I sell it myself, I'll be in trouble with
3393 my company, to whom I signed my life away when I was hired. If I give it
3394 away, I can pretend it was worthless in the first place, so my company
3395 won't care. In any event, it's easier to ask forgiveness than permission."
3397 So a freely distributable program is born.
3399 =head2 v5.14.0-RC3 - American Airlines Gate Agent, last call
3401 L<Announced on 2011-05-11 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/05/msg172282.html>
3403 This is the last call for flight 1697 with service to Chicago and
3404 continuing service to San Francisco. All passengers should already be
3405 aboard. If you aren't aboard at this time, you will be denied boarding
3406 and your bags will be offloaded.
3408 =head2 v5.14.0-RC2 - Greg Grandin, "Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City"
3410 L<Announced on 2011-05-04 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/05/msg171879.html>
3412 Over the course of nearly two decades, Ford would spend tens of millions
3413 of dollars founding not one but, after the plantation was defastated
3414 by leaf blight, two American towns, complete with central squares,
3415 sidewalks, indoor plumbing, hospitals, manicured lawns, movie theaters,
3416 swimming pools, golf courses, and, of course, Model Ts and As rolling
3417 down their paved streets.
3419 Back in America, newspapers kept up their drumbeat celebration, only
3420 obliquely referencing reports that things were not progressing as the
3421 company had hoped. But there was one note of skepticism. In late 1928,
3422 the Washington Post ran an editorial that read in its entirety: "Ford will
3423 govern a rubber plantation in Brazil larger than North Carolina. This is
3424 the first time he has applied quantity production methods to trouble"
3426 =head2 v5.14.0-RC1 - Bill Bryson, "In a Sunburned Country"
3428 L<Announced on 2011-04-20 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/04/msg171253.html>
3430 But then Australia is such a difficult country to keep track of. On
3431 my first visit, some years ago, I passed the time on the long flight
3432 reading a history of Australian politics in the twentieth century,
3433 wherein I encountered the startling fact that in 1967 the prime minister,
3434 Harold Holt, was strolling along a beach in Victoria when he plunged into
3435 the surf and vanished. No trace of the poor man was ever seen again.
3436 This seemed doubly astounding to me—first that Australia could
3437 just I<lose> a prime minister (I mean, come on) and second that news of
3438 this had never reached me.
3440 =head2 v5.13.11 - Walt Whitman, L<"Leaves of Grass"|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leaves_of_Grass>
3442 L<Announced on 2011-03-20 by Florian Ragwitz|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/03/msg170206.html>
3444 When the full-grown poet came,
3445 Out spake pleased Nature (the round impassive globe, with all its
3446 shows of day and night,) saying, He is mine;
3447 But out spake too the Soul of man, proud, jealous and unreconciled,
3448 Nay he is mine alone;
3449 --Then the full-grown poet stood between the two, and took each
3451 And to-day and ever so stands, as blender, uniter, tightly
3453 Which he will never release until he reconciles the two,
3454 And wholly and joyously blends them.
3456 =head2 v5.13.10 - Egill Skalla-Grímsson, L<"Egils saga Skalla-Grímssonar"|http://www.heimskringla.no/wiki/Egils_saga_Skalla-Gr%C3%ADmssonar>
3458 L<Announced on 2011-02-20 by Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/02/msg169340.html>
3460 Skalat maðr rúnar rísta,
3461 nema ráða vel kunni.
3462 Þat verðr mörgum manni,
3463 es of myrkvan staf villisk.
3465 tíu launstafi ristna.
3466 Þat hefr lauka lindi
3467 langs ofrtrega fengit.
3469 =head2 v5.13.9 - John F Kennedy, L<Inaugural Address January 20, 1961|http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/John_F._Kennedy%27s_Inaugural_Address>
3471 L<Announced on 2011-01-20 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/01/msg168335.html>
3473 In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been
3474 granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I
3475 do not shrink from this responsibility -- I welcome it. I do not believe
3476 that any of us would exchange places with any other people or any other
3477 generation. The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this
3478 endeavor will light our country and all who serve it. And the glow from
3479 that fire can truly light the world.
3481 And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you;
3482 ask what you can do for your country.
3484 My fellow citizens of the world, ask not what America will do for you,
3485 but what together we can do for the freedom of man.
3487 Finally, whether you are citizens of America or citizens of the world,
3488 ask of us here the same high standards of strength and sacrifice which
3489 we ask of you. With a good conscience our only sure reward, with history
3490 the final judge of our deeds, let us go forth to lead the land we love,
3491 asking His blessing and His help, but knowing that here on earth God's
3492 work must truly be our own.
3494 =head2 v5.13.8 - Roger Williams, L<"The Fifth Gift"|http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2005/8/19/21304/8493>
3496 L<Announced on 2010-12-19 by Zefram|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/12/msg167271.html>
3498 The aliens called the box a "matter generator," but we'd be more inclined
3499 to call it a matter duplicator. By connecting switches and potentiometers
3500 between the copper posts it was possible to make the box mark off two
3501 cubic rectangular areas of volume. Make a certain contact, and these
3502 areas would be isolated within perfectly reflective fields. They could
3503 be expanded or contracted by altering resistances between other posts.
3504 As I worked out the user interface I built a little control panel for
3505 the device. It was actually a clever way for the aliens to do things;
3506 instead of trying to build controls we could use, they built us an
3507 interface we could attach to controls that made sense to us. It could
3510 Once you had made the contact that established the shielded volumes,
3511 if you made another certain contact the contents of the first volume
3512 were copied to the second. The machine copied metal, plastic, steel,
3513 and diamond with equal ease. Copies of copies of copies of copies were
3514 indistinguishable from the originals at any magnification, even using
3515 techniques like X-ray crystallography.
3517 =head2 v5.13.7 - Andy Wachowski and Lana Wachowski, "The Matrix"
3519 L<Announced on 2010-11-20 by Chris 'BinGOs' Williams|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/11/msg166162.html>
3521 [Neo sees a black cat walk by them, and then a similar black cat walk by them just like the first one]
3525 [Everyone freezes right in their tracks]
3527 Trinity: What did you just say?
3528 Neo: Nothing. Just had a little deja vu.
3529 Trinity: What did you see?
3530 Cypher: What happened?
3531 Neo: A black cat went past us, and then another that looked just
3533 Trinity: How much like it? Was it the same cat?
3534 Neo: It might have been. I'm not sure.
3535 Morpheus: Switch! Apoc!
3537 Trinity: A deja vu is usually a glitch in the Matrix. It happens when
3538 they change something.
3540 =head2 v5.13.6 - Haruki Murakami, "Kafka on the Shore"
3542 L<Announced on 2010-10-20 by Tatsuhiko Miyagawa|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/10/msg165183.html>
3544 The boy called Crow softly rests a hand on my shoulder, and with that
3547 "From now on -- no matter what -- you've got to be the world's toughest
3548 fifteen-year-old. That's the only way you're going to survive. And in order
3549 to do that, you've got to figure out what it means to be tough. You following
3552 I keep my eyes closed and don't reply. I just want to sink off into sleep
3553 like this, his hand on my shoulder. I hear the faint flutter of wings.
3555 "You're going to be the world's toughest fifteen-year-old," Crow whispers
3556 as I try to fall asleep. Like he was carving the words in a deep blue tattoo
3559 (Translated from Japanese by Philip Gabriel)
3561 =head2 v5.13.5 - Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, "The Room in the Dragon Volant"
3563 L<Announced on 2010-09-19 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/09/msg164238.html>
3565 Candle in hand I stepped in. I do not know whether the quality of
3566 air, long undisturbed, is peculiar; to me it has always seemed so, and
3567 the damp smell of the old masonry hung in this atmosphere. My candle
3568 faintly lighted the bare stone wall that enclosed the stair, the foot
3569 of which I could not see. Down I went, and a few turns brought me to
3570 the stone floor. Here was another door, of the simple, old, oak kind,
3571 deep sunk in the thickness of the wall. The large end of the key
3572 fitted this. The lock was stiff; I set the candle down upon the
3573 stair, and applied both hands; it turned with difficulty, and as it
3574 revolved, uttered a shriek that alarmed me for my secret.
3576 For some minutes I did not move. In a little time, however, I took
3577 courage, and opened the door. The night-air floating in puffed out
3578 the candle. There was a thicket of holly and underwood, as dense as a
3579 jungle, close about the door. I should have been in pitch-darkness,
3580 were it not that through the topmost leaves there twinkled, here and
3581 there, a glimmer of moonshine.
3583 Softly, lest any one should have opened his window at the sound of the
3584 rusty bolt, I struggled through this till I gained a view of the open
3585 grounds. Here I found that the brushwood spread a good way up the
3586 park, uniting with the wood that approached the little temple I have
3589 =head2 v5.13.4 - Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
3591 L<Announced on 2010-08-20 by Florian Ragwitz|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/08/msg163150.html>
3593 `How the creatures order one about, and make one repeat lessons!' thought Alice;
3594 `I might as well be at school at once.' However, she got up, and began to repeat
3595 it, but her head was so full of the Lobster Quadrille, that she hardly knew what
3596 she was saying, and the words came very queer indeed:--
3598 "'Tis the voice of the Lobster; I heard him declare,
3599 "You have baked me too brown, I must sugar my hair."
3600 As a duck with its eyelids, so he with his nose
3601 Trims his belt and his buttons, and turns out his toes.'
3604 `That's different from what I used to say when I was a child,' said the Gryphon.
3606 `Well, I never heard it before,' said the Mock Turtle; `but it sounds uncommon
3609 Alice said nothing; she had sat down with her face in her hands, wondering if
3610 anything would ever happen in a natural way again.
3612 `I should like to have it explained,' said the Mock Turtle.
3614 `She can't explain it,' said the Gryphon hastily. `Go on with the next verse.'
3616 `But about his toes?' the Mock Turtle persisted. `How could he turn them out
3617 with his nose, you know?'
3619 `It's the first position in dancing.' Alice said; but was dreadfully puzzled by
3620 the whole thing, and longed to change the subject.
3622 =head2 v5.13.3 - Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, "Good Omens"
3624 L<Announced on 2010-07-20 by David Golden|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/07/msg162230.html>
3626 Look at Crowley, doing 110 mph on the M40 heading towards
3627 Oxfordshire. Even the most resolutely casual observer would
3628 notice a number of strange things about him. The clenched teeth,
3629 for example, or the dull red glow coming from behind his
3630 sunglasses. And the car. The car was a definite hint.
3632 Crowley had started the journey in his Bentley, and he was
3633 dammned if he wasn't going to finish it in the Bentley as well.
3634 Not that even the kind of car buff who owns his own pair of
3635 motoring goggles would have been able to tell it was a vintage
3636 Bentley. Not any more. They wouldn't have been able to tell
3637 that it was a Bentley. They would only offer fifty-fifty that it
3638 had ever even been a car.
3640 There was no paint left on it, for a start. It might still have
3641 been black, where it wasn't a rusty, smudged reddish-brown, but
3642 this was a dull charcoal black. It traveled in its own ball of
3643 flame, like a space capsule making a particularly difficult
3646 There was a thin skin of crusted, melted rubber left around the
3647 metal wheel rims, but seeing that the wheel rims were still
3648 somhow riding an inch above the road surface this didn't seem to
3649 make an awful lot of difference to the suspension.
3651 It should have fallen apart miles back.
3653 =head2 v5.13.2 - Iain M Banks, "Use of Weapons"
3655 L<Announced on 2010-06-22 by Matt S Trout|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/06/msg161112.html>
3657 We deal in the moral equivalent of black holes, where the normal laws -
3658 the rules of right and wrong that people imagine apply everywhere else
3659 in the universe - break down; beyond those metaphysical event-horizons,
3660 there exist ... special circumstances.
3662 =head2 v5.13.1 - Miguel de Unamuno, "The Sepulchre of Don Quixote"
3664 L<Announced on 2010-05-20 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/05/msg160275.html>
3666 And if anyone shall come to you and say that he knows how to construct
3667 bridges and that perhaps a time will come when you will wish to avail
3668 yourself of his science in order to cross over a river, out with him! Out
3669 with the engineer! Rivers will be crossed by wading or swimming them, even
3670 if half the crusaders drown themselves. Let the engineer go off and build
3671 bridges somewhere else, where they are badly wanted. For those who go in
3672 quest of the sepulchre, faith is bridge enough.
3674 =head2 v5.13.0 - Jules Verne, "A Journey to the Centre of the Earth"
3676 L<Announced on 2010-04-20 by LE<0xe9>on Brocard|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/04/msg159275.html>
3678 The heat still remained at quite a supportable degree. With an
3679 involuntary shudder, I reflected on what the heat must have been
3680 when the volcano of Sneffels was pouring its smoke, flames, and
3681 streams of boiling lava -- all of which must have come up by the
3682 road we were now following. I could imagine the torrents of hot
3683 seething stone darting on, bubbling up with accompaniments of
3684 smoke, steam, and sulphurous stench!
3686 "Only to think of the consequences," I mused, "if the old
3687 volcano were once more to set to work."
3689 =head2 v5.12.5 - William Shakespeare, "Measure for Measure"
3691 L<Announced on 2012-11-10 by Dominic Hargreaves|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/11/msg195171.html>
3693 Music oft hath such a charm
3694 To make bad good, and good provoke to harm.
3696 =head2 v5.12.4 - William Schwenck Gilbert, "Trial By Jury"
3698 L<Announced on 2011-06-20 by Leon Brocard|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/06/msg173725.html>
3700 You cannot eat breakfast all day,
3701 Nor is it the act of a sinner,
3702 When breakfast is taken away,
3703 To turn his attention to dinner;
3704 And it's not in the range of belief,
3705 To look upon him as a glutton,
3706 Who, when he is tired of beef,
3707 Determines to tackle the mutton.
3708 Ah! But this I am willing to say,
3709 If it will appease her sorrow,
3710 I'll marry this lady today,
3711 And I'll marry the other tomorrow!
3713 =head2 v5.12.4-RC2 - James Russell Lowell, "Eleanor makes macaroons"
3715 L<Announced on 2011-06-15 by Leon Brocard|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/06/msg173609.html>
3717 Now for sugar, -- nay, our plan
3718 Tolerates no work of man.
3719 Hurry, then, ye golden bees;
3720 Fetch your clearest honey, please,
3721 Garnered on a Yorkshire moor,
3722 While the last larks sing and soar,
3723 From the heather-blossoms sweet
3724 Where sea-breeze and sunshine meet,
3725 And the Augusts mask as Junes, --
3726 Eleanor makes macaroons!
3728 =head2 v5.12.4-RC1 - Ogden Nash, "The Clean Plater"
3730 L<Announced on 2011-06-08 by Leon Brocard|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/06/msg173352.html>
3732 Pheasant is pleasant, of course,
3733 And terrapin, too, is tasty,
3734 Lobster I freely endorse,
3735 In pate or patty or pasty.
3736 But there's nothing the matter with butter,
3737 And nothing the matter with jam,
3738 And the warmest greetings I utter
3739 To the ham and the yam and the clam.
3742 And I think very fondly of food.
3743 Through I'm broody at times
3744 When bothered by rhymes,
3748 =head2 v5.12.3 - Howard W. Campbell, Jr., "Reflections on Not Participating in Current Events"
3750 L<Announced on 2011-01-21 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/01/msg168368.html>
3752 I saw a huge steam roller,
3753 It blotted out the sun.
3754 The people all lay down, lay down;
3755 They did not try to run.
3756 My love and I, we looked amazed
3757 Upon the gory mystery.
3758 'Lie down, lie down!' the people cried.
3759 'The great machine is history!'
3760 My love and I, we ran away,
3761 The engine did not find us.
3762 We ran up to a mountain top,
3763 Left history far behind us.
3764 Perhaps we should have stayed and died,
3765 But somehow we don't think so.
3766 We went to see where history'd been,
3767 And my, the dead did stink so.
3769 =head2 v5.12.2 - William Gibson, "Pattern Recognition"
3771 L<Announced on 2010-09-06 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/09/msg163852.html>
3773 CPUs. Cayce Pollard Units. That's what Damien calls the clothing
3774 she wears. CPUs are either black, white, or gray, and ideally
3775 seem to have come into this world without human intervention.
3777 What people take for relentless minimalism is a side effect
3778 of too much exposure to the reactor-cores of fashion. This
3779 has resulted in a remorseless paring-down of what she can and
3780 will wear. She is, literally, allergic to fashion. She can
3781 only tolerate things that could have been worn, to a general
3782 lack of comment, during any year between 1945 and 2000. She's a
3783 design-free zone, a one-woman school of and whose very austerity
3784 periodically threatens to spawn its own cult.
3786 =head2 v5.12.2-RC1 - William Gibson, "Pattern Recognition"
3788 L<Announced on 2010-08-31 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/08/msg163670.html>
3790 The front page opens, familiar as a friend's living room. A frame-grab
3791 from #48 serves as backdrop, dim and almost monochrome, no characters in
3792 view. This is one of the sequences that generate comparisons with
3793 Tarkovsky. She only knows Tarkovsky from stills, really, though she did
3794 once fall asleep during a screening of The Stalker, going under on an
3795 endless pan, the camera aimed straight down, in close-up, at a puddle on
3796 a ruined mosaic floor. But she is not one of those who think that much
3797 will be gained by analysis of the maker's imagined influences. The cult
3798 of the footage is rife with subcults, claiming every possible influence.
3799 Truffaut, Peckinpah -- The Peckinpah people, among the least likely, are
3800 still waiting for the guns to be drawn.
3802 =head2 v5.12.1 - Kurt Vonnegut, "Cat's Cradle"
3804 L<Announced on 2010-05-16 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/05/msg160109.html>
3806 "Now suppose," chortled Dr. Breed, enjoying himself, "that there were
3807 many possible ways in which water could crystallize, could freeze.
3808 Suppose that the sort of ice we skate upon and put into highballs --
3809 what we might call ice-one -- is only one of several types of ice.
3810 Suppose water always froze as ice-one on Earth because it had never
3811 had a seed to teach it how to form ice-two, ice-three, ice-four
3812 ...? And suppose," he rapped on his desk with his old hand again,
3813 "that there were one form, which we will call ice-nine -- a crystal as
3814 hard as this desk -- with a melting point of, let us say, one-hundred
3815 degrees Fahrenheit, or, better still, a melting point of one-hundred-
3816 and-thirty degrees."
3818 =head2 v5.12.1-RC2 - Kurt Vonnegut, "Cat's Cradle"
3820 L<Announced on 2010-05-13 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/05/msg160066.html>
3822 San Lorenzo was fifty miles long and twenty miles wide, I learned from
3823 the supplement to the New York Sunday Times. Its population was four
3824 hundred, fifty thousand souls, "...all fiercely dedicated to the ideals
3827 Its highest point, Mount McCabe, was eleven thousand feet above sea
3828 level. Its capital was Bolivar, "...a strikingly modern city built on a
3829 harbor capable of sheltering the entire United States Navy." The principal
3830 exports were sugar, coffee, bananas, indigo, and handcrafted novelties.
3832 =head2 v5.12.1-RC1 - Kurt Vonnegut, "Cat's Cradle"
3834 L<Announced on 2010-05-09 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/05/msg159971.html>
3836 Which brings me to the Bokononist concept of a wampeter. A wampeter is
3837 the pivot of a karass. No karass is without a wampeter, Bokonon tells us,
3838 just as no wheel is without a hub. Anything can be a wampeter: a tree,
3839 a rock, an animal, an idea, a book, a melody, the Holy Grail. Whatever
3840 it is, the members of its karass revolve about it in the majestic chaos
3841 of a spiral nebula. The orbits of the members of a karass about their
3842 common wampeter are spiritual orbits, naturally. It is souls and not
3843 bodies that revolve. As Bokonon invites us to sing:
3845 Around and around and around we spin,
3846 With feet of lead and wings of tin . . .
3848 =head2 v5.12.0 - Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
3850 L<Announced on 2010-04-12 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/04/msg158820.html>
3852 'Please would you tell me,' said Alice, a little timidly, for she was
3853 not quite sure whether it was good manners for her to speak first, 'why
3854 your cat grins like that?'
3856 'It's a Cheshire cat,' said the Duchess, 'and that's why. Pig!'
3858 She said the last word with such sudden violence that Alice quite
3859 jumped; but she saw in another moment that it was addressed to the baby,
3860 and not to her, so she took courage, and went on again:--
3862 'I didn't know that Cheshire cats always grinned; in fact, I didn't know
3863 that cats COULD grin.'
3865 'They all can,' said the Duchess; 'and most of 'em do.'
3867 =head2 v5.12.0-RC5 - Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
3869 L<Announced on 2010-04-09 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/04/msg158720.html>
3871 'Not QUITE right, I'm afraid,' said Alice, timidly; 'some of the words
3874 'It is wrong from beginning to end,' said the Caterpillar decidedly, and
3875 there was silence for some minutes.
3877 =head2 v5.12.0-RC4 - Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
3879 L<Announced on 2010-04-06 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/04/msg158567.html>
3881 'It was much pleasanter at home,' thought poor Alice, 'when one wasn't
3882 always growing larger and smaller, and being ordered about by mice and
3883 rabbits. I almost wish I hadn't gone down that rabbit-hole--and yet--and
3884 yet--it's rather curious, you know, this sort of life! I do wonder what
3885 can have happened to me! When I used to read fairy-tales, I fancied that
3886 kind of thing never happened, and now here I am in the middle of one!
3888 =head2 v5.12.0-RC3 - Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
3890 L<Announced on 2010-04-02 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/04/msg158346.html>
3892 At last the Mouse, who seemed to be a person of authority among them,
3893 called out, 'Sit down, all of you, and listen to me! I'LL soon make you
3894 dry enough!' They all sat down at once, in a large ring, with the Mouse
3895 in the middle. Alice kept her eyes anxiously fixed on it, for she felt
3896 sure she would catch a bad cold if she did not get dry very soon.
3898 'Ahem!' said the Mouse with an important air, 'are you all ready? This
3899 is the driest thing I know. Silence all round, if you please! "William
3900 the Conqueror, whose cause was favoured by the pope, was soon submitted
3901 to by the English, who wanted leaders, and had been of late much
3902 accustomed to usurpation and conquest. Edwin and Morcar, the earls of
3903 Mercia and Northumbria --"'
3905 =head2 v5.12.0-RC2 - no announcement
3907 Available on CPAN since 2010-04-01.
3909 =head2 v5.12.0-RC1 - Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
3911 L<Announced on 2010-03-29 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/03/msg158060.html>
3913 So she was considering in her own mind (as well as she could, for the
3914 hot day made her feel very sleepy and stupid), whether the pleasure of
3915 making a daisy-chain would be worth the trouble of getting up and
3916 picking the daisies, when suddenly a White Rabbit with pink eyes ran
3919 There was nothing so VERY remarkable in that; nor did Alice think it so
3920 VERY much out of the way to hear the Rabbit say to itself, 'Oh dear! Oh
3921 dear! I shall be late!' (when she thought it over afterwards, it
3922 occurred to her that she ought to have wondered at this, but at the time
3923 it all seemed quite natural); but when the Rabbit actually TOOK A WATCH
3924 OUT OF ITS WAISTCOAT-POCKET, and looked at it, and then hurried on,
3925 Alice started to her feet, for it flashed across her mind that she had
3926 never before seen a rabbit with either a waistcoat-pocket, or a watch to
3927 take out of it, and burning with curiosity, she ran across the field
3928 after it, and fortunately was just in time to see it pop down a large
3929 rabbit-hole under the hedge.
3931 In another moment down went Alice after it, never once considering how
3932 in the world she was to get out again.
3934 =head2 v5.12.0-RC0 - no epigraph
3936 L<Announced on 2020-03-21 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/03/msg157761.html>
3938 =head2 v5.11.5 - Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "Christabel"
3940 L<Announced on 2010-02-21 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/02/msg156957.html>
3942 A little child, a limber elf,
3943 Singing, dancing to itself,
3944 A fairy thing with red round cheeks,
3945 That always finds, and never seeks,
3946 Makes such a vision to the sight
3947 As fills a father's eyes with light;
3948 And pleasures flow in so thick and fast
3949 Upon his heart, that he at last
3950 Must needs express his love's excess
3951 With words of unmeant bitterness.
3952 Perhaps 'tis pretty to force together
3953 Thoughts so all unlike each other;
3954 To mutter and mock a broken charm,
3955 To dally with wrong that does no harm.
3956 Perhaps 'tis tender too and pretty
3957 At each wild word to feel within
3958 A sweet recoil of love and pity.
3959 And what, if in a world of sin
3960 (O sorrow and shame should this be true!)
3961 Such giddiness of heart and brain
3962 Comes seldom save from rage and pain,
3963 So talks as it's most used to do.
3965 =head2 v5.11.4 - Fyodor Dostoevsky, "Crime and Punishment"
3967 L<Announced on 2010-01-20 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/01/msg155848.html>
3969 And you don't suppose that I went into it headlong like a fool? I went
3970 into it like a wise man, and that was just my destruction. And you
3971 mustn't suppose that I didn't know, for instance, that if I began to
3972 question myself whether I had the right to gain power -- I certainly
3973 hadn't the right -- or that if I asked myself whether a human being is a
3974 louse it proved that it wasn't so for me, though it might be for a man
3975 who would go straight to his goal without asking questions.... If I
3976 worried myself all those days, wondering whether Napoleon would have
3977 done it or not, I felt clearly of course that I wasn't Napoleon.
3979 =head2 v5.11.3 - Mark Twain, "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer"
3981 L<Announced on 2009-12-20 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2009/12/msg154838.html>
3983 "Say -- I'm going in a swimming, I am. Don't you wish you could? But of
3984 course you'd druther work -- wouldn't you? Course you would!"
3986 Tom contemplated the boy a bit, and said: "What do you call work?"
3988 "Why ain't that work?"
3990 Tom resumed his whitewashing, and answered carelessly: "Well, maybe it
3991 is, and maybe it aint. All I know, is, it suits Tom Sawyer."
3993 "Oh come, now, you don't mean to let on that you like it?"
3995 The brush continued to move. "Like it? Well I don't see why I oughtn't
3996 to like it. Does a boy get a chance to whitewash a fence every day?"
3998 That put the thing in a new light. Ben stopped nibbling his apple. Tom
3999 swept his brush daintily back and forth -- stepped back to note the effect
4000 -- added a touch here and there-criticised the effect again -- Ben
4001 watching every move and getting more and more interested, more and more
4002 absorbed. Presently he said: "Say, Tom, let me whitewash a little."
4004 =head2 v5.11.2 - Michael Marshall Smith, "Only Forward"
4006 L<Announced on 2009-11-20 by Léon Brocard|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2009/11/msg153646.html>
4008 The streets were pretty quiet, which was nice. They're always quiet here
4009 at that time: you have to be wearing a black jacket to be out on the
4010 streets between seven and nine in the evening, and not many people in
4011 the area have black jackets. It's just one of those things. I currently
4012 live in Colour Neighbourhood, which is for people who are heavily into
4013 colour. All the streets and buildings are set for instant colourmatch:
4014 as you walk down the road they change hue to offset whatever you're
4015 wearing. When the streets are busy it's kind of intense, and anyone
4016 prone to epileptic seizures isn't allowed to live in the Neighbourhood,
4017 however much they're into colour.
4019 =head2 v5.11.1 - Joseph Heller, "Catch-22"
4021 L<Announced on 2009-10-20 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2009/10/msg152360.html>
4023 Milo had been caught red-handed in the act of plundering his countrymen,
4024 and, as a result, his stock had never been higher. He proved good as his
4025 word when a rawboned major from Minnesota curled his lip in rebellious
4026 disavowal and demanded his share of the syndicate Milo kept saying
4027 everybody owned. Milo met the challenge by writing the words "A Share"
4028 on the nearest scrap of paper and handing it away with a virtuous disdain
4029 that won the envy and admiration of almost everyone who knew him. His
4030 glory was at a peak, and Colonel Cathcart, who knew and admired his
4031 war record, was astonished by the deferential humility with which Milo
4032 presented himself at Group Headquarters and made his fantastic appeal
4033 for more hazardous assignment.
4035 =head2 v5.11.0 - Mikhail Bulgakov, "The Master and Margarita"
4037 L<Announced on 2009-10-02 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2009/10/msg151376.html>
4039 Whispers of an "evil power" were heard in lines at dairy shops, in
4040 streetcars, stores, arguments, kitchens, suburban and long-distance
4041 trains, at stations large and small, in dachas and on beaches. Needless
4042 to say, truly mature and cultured people did not tell these stories
4043 about an evil power's visit to the capital. In fact, they even made fun
4044 of them and tried to talk sense into those who told them. Nevertheless,
4045 facts are facts, as they say, and cannot simply be dismissed without
4046 explanation: somebody had visited the capital. The charred cinders of
4047 Griboyedov alone, and many other things besides, confirmed it. Cultured
4048 people shared the point of view of the investigating team: it was the
4049 work of a gang of hypnotists and ventriloquists magnificently skilled in
4052 =head2 v5.10.1 - Right Hon. James Hacker MP, "The Complete Yes Minister: The Diaries of a Cabinet Minister"
4054 L<Announced on 2009-08-23 by Dave Mitchell|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2009/08/msg150172.html>
4056 'Briefly, sir, I am the Permanent Under-Secretary of State, known as
4057 the Permanent Secretary. Woolley here is your Principal Private
4058 Secretary. I, too, have a Principal Private Secretary, and he is the
4059 Principal Private Secretary to the Permanent Secretary. Directly
4060 responsible to me are ten Deputy Secretaries, eighty-seven Under
4061 Secretaries and two hundred and nineteen Assistant Secretaries.
4062 Directly responsible to the Principal Private Secretaries are plain
4063 Private Secretaries. The Prime Minister will be appointing two
4064 Parliamentary Under-Secretaries and you will be appointing your own
4065 Parliamentary Private Secretary.'
4067 'Can they all type?' I joked.
4069 'None of us can type, Minister,' replied Sir Humphrey smoothly. 'Mrs
4070 McKay types - she is your Secretary.'
4072 I couldn't tell whether or not he was joking. 'What a pity,' I said.
4073 'We could have opened an agency.'
4075 Sir Humphrey and Bernard laughed. 'Very droll, sir,' said Sir
4076 Humphrey. 'Most amusing, sir,' said Bernard. Were they genuinely
4077 amused at my wit, or just being rather patronising? 'I suppose they
4078 all say that, do they?' I ventured.
4080 Sir Humphrey reassured me on that. 'Certainly not, Minister,' he
4081 replied. 'Not quite all.'
4083 =head2 v5.10.1-RC2 - no epigraph
4085 L<Announced on 2009-08-18 by Dave Mitchell|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2009/08/msg150015.html>
4087 =head2 v5.10.1-RC1 - no epigraph
4089 L<Announced on 2009-08-06 by Dave Mitchell|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2009/08/msg149498.html>
4091 =head2 v5.10.0 - Laurence Sterne, "Tristram Shandy"
4093 L<Announced on 2007-12-18 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2007/12/msg131636.html>
4095 He would often declare, in speaking his thoughts upon the subject, that
4096 he did not conceive how the greatest family in England could stand it
4097 out against an uninterrupted succession of six or seven short
4098 noses.--And for the contrary reason, he would generally add, That it
4099 must be one of the greatest problems in civil life, where the same
4100 number of long and jolly noses, following one another in a direct line,
4101 did not raise and hoist it up into the best vacancies in the kingdom.
4103 =head2 v5.10.0-RC2 - no epigraph
4105 L<Announced on 2007-11-25 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2007/11/msg130978.html>
4107 =head2 v5.10.0-RC1 - no epigraph
4109 L<Announced on 2007-11-17 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2007/11/msg130653.html>
4111 =head2 v5.9.5 - no announcement
4113 L<Pre-announced on 2007-07-07 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2007/07/msg126358.html>,
4114 available on CPAN with same date, but never actually announced.
4116 =head2 v5.9.4 - no epigraph
4118 L<Announced on 2006-08-15 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2006/08/msg115782.html>
4120 =head2 v5.9.3 - no epigraph
4122 L<Announced on 2006-01-28 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2006/01/msg109086.html>
4124 =head2 v5.9.2 - Thomas Pynchon, "V"
4126 L<Announced on 2005-04-01 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2005/04/msg99421.html>
4128 This word flip was weird. Every recording date of McClintic's he'd
4129 gotten into the habit of talking electricity with the audio men and
4130 technicians of the studio. McClintic once couldn't have cared less
4131 about electricity, but now it seemed if that was helping him reach a
4132 bigger audience, some digging, some who would never dig, but all
4133 paying and those royalties keeping the Triumph in gas and McClintic
4134 in J. Press suits, then McClintic ought to be grateful to
4135 electricity, ought maybe to learn a little more about it. So he'd
4136 picked up some here and there, and one day last summer he got around
4137 to talking stochastic music and digital computers with one
4138 technician. Out of the conversation had come Set/Reset, which was
4139 getting to be a signature for the group. He had found out from this
4140 sound man about a two-triode circuit called a flip-flop, which when
4141 it turned on could be one of two ways, depending on which tube was
4142 conducting and which was cut off: set or reset, flip or flop.
4144 "And that," the man said, "can be yes or no, or one or zero. And
4145 that is what you might call one of the basic units, or specialized
4146 `cells' in a big `electronic brain.' "
4148 "Crazy," said McClintic, having lost him back there someplace. But
4149 one thing that did occur to him was if a computer's brain could go
4150 flip or flop, why so could a musician's. As long as you were flop,
4151 everything was cool. But where did the trigger-pulse come from to
4154 =head2 v5.9.1 - Tom Stoppard, "Arcadia"
4156 L<Announced on 2004-03-16 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/03/msg89722.html>
4158 Aren't you supposed to have a pony?
4160 =head2 v5.9.0 - Doris Lessing, "Martha Quest"
4162 L<Announced on 2003-10-27 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/10/msg84147.html>
4164 What of October, that ambiguous month
4166 =head2 v5.8.9 - Right Hon. James Hacker MP, "The Complete Yes Minister: The Diaries of a Cabinet Minister"
4168 L<Announced on 2008-12-14 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2008/12/msg142571.html>
4170 Frank and I, unlike the civil servants, were still puzzled that such a
4171 proposal as the Europass could even be seriously under consideration by
4172 the FCO. We can both see clearly that it is wonderful ammunition for the
4173 anti-Europeans. I asked Humphrey if the Foreign Office doesn't realise
4174 how damaging this would be to the European ideal?
4176 'I'm sure they do, Minister, he said. That's why they support it.'
4178 This was even more puzzling, since I'd always been under the impression
4179 that the FO is pro-Europe. 'Is it or isn't it?' I asked Humphrey.
4181 'Yes and no,' he replied of course, 'if you'll pardon the
4182 expression. The Foreign Office is pro-Europe because it is really
4183 anti-Europe. In fact the Civil Service was united in its desire to make
4184 sure the Common Market didn't work. That's why we went into it.'
4186 This sounded like a riddle to me. I asked him to explain further. And
4187 basically his argument was as follows: Britain has had the same foreign
4188 policy objective for at least the last five hundred years - to create a
4189 disunited Europe. In that cause we have fought with the Dutch against
4190 the Spanish, with the Germans against the French, with the French and
4191 Italians against the Germans, and with the French against the Italians
4192 and Germans. [The Dutch rebellion against Phillip II of Spain, the
4193 Napoleonic Wars, the First World War, and the Second World War - Ed.]
4195 In other words, divide and rule. And the Foreign Office can see no
4196 reason to change when it has worked so well until now.
4198 I was aware of this, naturally, but I regarded it as ancient history.
4199 Humphrey thinks that it is, in fact, current policy. It was necessary
4200 for us to break up the EEC, he explained, so we had to get inside. We
4201 had previously tried to break it up from the outside, but that didn't
4202 work. [A reference to our futile and short-lived involvement in EFTA,
4203 the European Free Trade Association, founded in 1960 and which the UK
4204 left in 1972 - Ed.] Now that we're in, we are able to make a complete
4205 pig's breakfast out of it. We've now set the Germans against the French,
4206 the French against the Italians, the Italians against the Dutch... and
4207 the Foreign office is terribly happy. It's just like old time.
4209 I was staggered by all of this. I thought that the all of us who are
4210 publicly pro-European believed in the European ideal. I said this to Sir
4211 Humphrey, and he simply chuckled.
4213 So I asked him: if we don't believe in the European Ideal, why are we
4214 pushing to increase the membership?
4216 'Same reason,' came the reply. 'It's just like the United Nations. The
4217 more members it has, the more arguments you can stir up, and the more
4218 futile and impotent it becomes.'
4220 This all strikes me as the most appalling cynicism, and I said so.
4222 Sir Humphrey agreed completely. 'Yes Minister. We call it
4223 diplomacy. It's what made Britain great, you know.'
4225 =head2 v5.8.9-RC2 - Right Hon. James Hacker MP, "The Complete Yes Minister: The Diaries of a Cabinet Minister"
4227 L<Announced on 2008-12-06 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2008/12/msg142422.html>
4229 There was silence in the office. I didn't know what we were going to do
4230 about the four hundred new people supervising our economy drive or the
4231 four hundred new people for the Bureaucratic Watchdog Office, or
4232 anything! I simply sat and waited and hoped that my head would stop
4233 thumping and that some idea would be suggested by someone sometime soon.
4235 Sir Humphrey obliged. 'Minister... if we were to end the economy drive
4236 and close the Bureaucratic Watchdog Office we could issue an immediate
4237 press announcement that you had axed eight hundred jobs.' He had
4238 obviously thought this out carefully in advance, for at this moment he
4239 produced a slim folder from under his arm. 'If you'd like to approve
4242 I couldn't believe the impertinence of the suggestion. Axed eight
4243 hundred jobs? 'But no one was ever doing these jobs,' I pointed out
4244 incredulously. 'No one's been appointed yet.'
4246 'Even greater economy,' he replied instantly. 'We've saved eight hundred
4247 redundancy payments as well.'
4249 'But...' I attempted to explain '... that's just phony. It's dishonest,
4250 it's juggling with figures, it's pulling the wool over people's eyes.'
4252 'A government press release, in fact.' said Humphrey.
4254 =head2 v5.8.9-RC1 - Right Hon. James Hacker MP, "The Complete Yes Minister: The Diaries of a Cabinet Minister"
4256 L<Announced on 2008-11-10 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2008/11/msg141515.html>
4258 A jumbo jet touched down, with BURANDAN AIRWAYS written on the side. I
4259 was hugely impressed. British Airways are having to pawn their Concordes,
4260 and here is this little tiny African state with its own airline, jumbo
4263 I asked Bernard how many planes Burandan Airways had. 'None,' he said.
4265 I told him not to be silly and use his eyes. 'No Minister, it belongs to
4266 Freddie Laker,' he said. 'They chartered it last week and repainted it
4267 specially.' Apparently most of the Have-Nots (I mean, LDCs) do this - at
4268 the opening of the UN General Assembly the runways of Kennedy Airport are
4269 jam-packed with phoney flag-carriers. 'In fact,' said Bernard with a sly
4270 grin, 'there was one 747 that belonged to nine different African airlines
4271 in a month. They called it the mumbo-jumbo.'
4273 While we watched nothing much happening on the TV except the mumbo-jumbo
4274 taxiing around Prestwick and the Queen looking a bit chilly, Bernard gave
4275 me the next day's schedule and explained that I was booked on the night
4276 sleeper from King's Cross to Edinburgh because I had to vote in a
4277 three-line whip at the House tonight and would have to miss the last
4278 plane. Then the commentator, in that special hushed BBC voice used for any
4279 occasion with which Royalty is connected, announced reverentially that we
4280 were about to catch our first glimpse of President Selim.
4282 And out of the plane stepped Charlie. My old friend Charlie Umtali. We
4283 were at LSE together. Not Selim Mohammed at all, but Charlie.
4285 Bernard asked me if I were sure. Silly question. How could you forget a
4286 name like Charlie Umtali?
4288 I sent Bernard for Sir Humphrey, who was delighted to hear that we now
4289 know something about our official visitor.
4291 Bernard's official brief said nothing. Amazing! Amazing how little the FCO
4292 has been able to find out. Perhaps they were hoping it would all be on the
4293 car radio. All the brief says is that Colonel Selim Mohammed had converted
4294 to Islam some years ago, they didn't know his original name, and therefore
4295 knew little of his background.
4297 I was able to tell Humphrey and Bernard /all/ about his background.
4298 Charlie was a red-hot political economist, I informed them. Got the top
4299 first. Wiped the floor with everyone.
4301 Bernard seemed relieved. 'Well that's all right then.'
4305 'I think Bernard means,' said Sir Humphrey helpfully, 'that he'll know how
4306 to behave if he was at an English University. Even if it was the LSE.' I
4307 never know whether or not Humphrey is insulting me intentionally.
4309 Humphrey was concerned about Charlie's political colour. 'When you said
4310 that he was red-hot, were you speaking politically?'
4312 In a way I was. 'The thing about Charlie is that you never quite know
4313 where you are with him. He's the sort of chap who follows you into a
4314 revolving door and comes out in front.'
4316 'No deeply held convictions?' asked Sir Humphrey.
4318 'No. The only thing Charlie was committed too was Charlie.'
4320 'Ah, I see. A politician, Minister.'
4322 =head2 v5.8.8 - Joe Raposo, "Bein' Green"
4324 L<Announced on 2006-01-31 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2006/01/msg109190.html>
4326 It's not that easy bein' green
4327 Having to spend each day the color of the leaves
4328 When I think it could be nicer being red or yellow or gold
4329 Or something much more colorful like that
4331 It's not easy bein' green
4332 It seems you blend in with so many other ordinary things
4333 And people tend to pass you over 'cause you're
4334 Not standing out like flashy sparkles in the water
4337 But green's the color of Spring
4338 And green can be cool and friendly-like
4339 And green can be big like an ocean
4340 Or important like a mountain
4343 When green is all there is to be
4344 It could make you wonder why, but why wonder why?
4345 Wonder I am green and it'll do fine, it's beautiful
4346 And I think it's what I want to be
4348 =head2 v5.8.8-RC1 - Cosgrove Hall Productions, "Dangermouse"
4350 L<Announced on 2006-01-20 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2006/01/msg108833.html>
4352 Greenback: And the world is mine, all mine. Muhahahahaha. See to it!
4354 Stiletto: Si, Barone. Subito, Barone.
4356 =head2 v5.8.7 - Sergei Prokofiev, "Peter and the Wolf"
4358 L<Announced on 2005-05-31 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2005/05/msg101088.html>
4360 And now, imagine the triumphant procession: Peter at the head; after him the
4361 hunters leading the wolf; and winding up the procession, grandfather and the
4364 Grandfather shook his head discontentedly: "Well, and if Peter hadn't caught
4365 the wolf? What then?"
4367 =head2 v5.8.7-RC1 - Sergei Prokofiev, "Peter and the Wolf"
4369 L<Announced on 2005-05-20 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2005/05/msg100711.html>
4371 And now this is how things stood: The cat was sitting on one branch. The
4372 bird on another, not too close to the cat. And the wolf walked round and
4373 round the tree, looking at them with greedy eyes.
4375 In the meantime, Peter, without the slightest fear, stood behind the
4376 gate, watching all that was going on. He ran home,got a strong rope and
4377 climbed up the high stone wall.
4379 One of the branches of the tree, around which the wolf was walking,
4380 stretched out over the wall.
4382 Grabbing hold of the branch, Peter lightly climbed over on to the tree.
4383 Peter said to the bird: "Fly down and circle round the wolf's head, only
4384 take care that he doesn't catch you!".
4386 The bird almost touched the wolf's head with its wings, while the wolf
4387 snapped angrily at him from this side and that.
4389 How that bird teased the wolf, how that wolf wanted to catch him! But
4390 the bird was clever and the wolf simply couldn't do anything about it.
4392 =head2 v5.8.6 - A. A. Milne, "The House at Pooh Corner"
4394 L<Announced on 2004-11-27 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/11/msg96304.html>
4396 "Hallo, Pooh," said Piglet, giving a jump of surprise. "I knew it was
4399 "So did I,", said Pooh. "What are you doing?"
4401 "I'm planting a haycorn, Pooh, so that it can grow up into an oak-tree,
4402 and have lots of haycorns just outside the front door instead of having
4403 to walk miles and miles, do you see, Pooh?"
4405 "Supposing it doesn't?" said Pooh.
4407 "It will, because Christopher Robin says it will, so that's why I'm
4410 "Well," aid Pooh, "if I plant a honeycomb outside my house, then it will
4411 grow up into a beehive."
4413 Piglet wasn't quite sure about this.
4415 "Or a /piece/ of a honeycomb," said Pooh, "so as not to waste too much.
4416 Only then I might only get a piece of a beehive, and it might be the
4417 wrong piece, where the bees were buzzing and not hunnying. Bother"
4419 Piglet agreed that that would be rather bothering.
4421 "Besides, Pooh, it's a very difficult thing, planting unless you know
4422 how to do it," he said; and he put the acorn in the hole he had made,
4423 and covered it up with earth, and jumped on it.
4425 =head2 v5.8.6-RC1 - A. A. Milne, "Winnie the Pooh"
4427 L<Announced on 2004-11-11 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/11/msg95786.html>
4429 "Hallo!" said Piglet, "whare are /you/ doing?"
4431 "Hunting," said Pooh.
4435 "Tracking something," said Winnie-the-Pooh very mysteriously.
4437 "Tracking what?" said Piglet, coming closer.
4439 "That's just what I ask myself, I ask myself, What?"
4441 "What do you think you'll answer?"
4443 "I shall have to wait until I catch up with it," said Winnie-the-Pooh.
4444 "Now, look there." He pointed to the ground in front of him. "What do
4447 "Track," said Piglet. "Paw-marks." He gave a little squeak of
4448 excitement. "Oh, Pooh!" Do you think it's a--a--a Woozle?"
4450 =head2 v5.8.5 - wikipedia, "Yew"
4452 L<Announced on 2004-07-19 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/07/msg93189.html>
4454 Yews are relatively slow growing trees, widely used in landscaping and
4455 ornamental horticulture. They have flat, dark-green needles, reddish
4456 bark, and bear seeds with red arils, which are eaten by thrushes,
4457 waxwings and other birds, dispersing the hard seeds undamaged in their
4458 droppings. Yew wood is reddish brown (with white sapwood), and very
4459 hard. It was traditionally used to make bows, especially the English
4462 In England, the Common Yew (Taxus baccata, also known as English Yew) is
4463 often found in churchyards. It is sometimes suggested that these are
4464 placed there as a symbol of long life or trees of death, and some are
4465 likely to be over 3,000 years old. It is also suggested that yew trees
4466 may have a pre-Christian association with old pagan holy sites, and the
4467 Christian church found it expedient to use and take over existing sites.
4468 Another explanation is that the poisonous berries and foliage discourage
4469 farmers and drovers from letting their animals wander into the burial
4470 grounds. The yew tree is a frequent symbol in the Christian poetry of
4471 T.S. Eliot, especially his Four Quartets.
4473 =head2 v5.8.5-RC2 - wikipedia, "Beech"
4475 L<Announced on 2004-07-09 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/07/msg92934.html>
4477 Beeches are trees of the Genus Fagus, family Fagaceae, including about
4478 ten species in Europe, Asia, and North America. The leaves are entire or
4479 sparsely toothed. The fruit is a small, sharply-angled nut, borne in
4480 pairs in spiny husks. The beech most commonly grown as an ornamental or
4481 shade tree is the European beech (Fagus sylvatica).
4483 The southern beeches belong to a different but related genus,
4484 Nothofagus. They are found in Australia, New Zealand, New Guinea, New
4485 Caledonia and South America.
4487 =head2 v5.8.5-RC1 - wikipedia, "Pedunculate Oak" (abridged)
4489 L<Announced on 2004-07-07 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/07/msg92840.html>
4491 The Pedunculate Oak is called the Common Oak in Britain, and is also
4492 often called the English Oak in other English speaking countries It is a
4493 large deciduous tree to 25-35m tall (exceptionally to 40m), with lobed
4494 and sessile (stalk-less) leaves. Flowering takes place in early to mid
4495 spring, and their fruit, called "acorns", ripen by autumn of the same
4496 year. The acorns are pedunculate (having a peduncle or acorn-stalk) and
4497 may occur singly, or several acorns may occur on a stalk.
4499 It forms a long-lived tree, with a large widespreading head of rugged
4500 branches. While it may naturally live to an age of a few centuries, many
4501 of the oldest trees are pollarded or coppiced, both pruning techniques
4502 that extend the tree's potential lifespan, if not its health.
4504 Within its native range it is valued for its importance to insects and
4505 other wildlife. Numerous insects live on the leaves, buds, and in the
4506 acorns. The acorns form a valuable food resource for several small
4507 mammals and some birds, notably Jays Garrulus glandarius.
4509 It is planted for forestry, and produces a long-lasting and durable
4510 heartwood, much in demand for interior and furniture work.
4512 =head2 v5.8.4 - T. S. Eliot, "The Old Gumbie Cat"
4514 L<Announced on 2004-04-22 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/04/msg90984.html>
4516 I have a Gumbie Cat in mind, her name is Jennyanydots;
4517 The curtain-cord she likes to wind, and tie it into sailor-knots.
4518 She sits upon the window-sill, or anything that's smooth and flat:
4519 She sits and sits and sits and sits -- and that's what makes a Gumbie Cat!
4521 But when the day's hustle and bustle is done,
4522 Then the Gumbie Cat's work is but hardly begun.
4523 She thinks that the cockroaches just need employment
4524 To prevent them from idle and wanton destroyment.
4525 So she's formed, from that a lot of disorderly louts,
4526 A troop of well-disciplined helpful boy-scouts,
4527 With a purpose in life and a good deed to do--
4528 And she's even created a Beetles' Tattoo.
4530 So for Old Gumbie Cats let us now give three cheers --
4531 On whom well-ordered households depend, it appears.
4534 =head2 v5.8.4-RC2 - T. S. Eliot, "Macavity: The Mystery Cat"
4536 L<Announced on 2004-04-16 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/04/msg90796.html>
4538 Macavity's a Mystery Cat: he's called the Hidden Paw --
4539 For he's the master criminal who can defy the Law.
4540 He's the bafflement of Scotland Yard, the Flying Squad's despair:
4541 For when they reach the scene of crime -- /Macavity's not there/!
4543 Macavity, Macavity, there's no one like Macavity,
4544 He's broken every human law, he breaks the law of gravity.
4545 His powers of levitation would make a fakir stare,
4546 And when you reach the scene of crime -- /Macavity's not there/!
4547 You may seek him in the basement, you may look up in the air --
4548 But I tell you once and once again, /Macavity's not there/!
4550 =head2 v5.8.4-RC1 - T. S. Eliot, "Skimbleshanks: The Railway Cat"
4552 L<Announced on 2004-04-05 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/04/msg90422.html>
4554 There's a whisper down the line at 11.39
4555 When the Night Mail's ready to depart,
4556 Saying 'Skimble where is Skimble has he gone to hunt the thimble?
4557 We must find him of the train can't start.'
4558 All the guards and all the porters and the stationmaster's daughters
4559 They are searching high and low,
4560 Saying 'Skimble where is Skimble for unless he's very nimble
4561 Then the Night Mail just can't go'
4562 At 11.42 then the signal's overdue
4563 And the passengers are frantic to a man--
4564 Then Skimble will appear and he'll saunter to the rear:
4565 He's been busy in the luggage van!
4566 He gives one flash of his glass-green eyes
4567 And the signal goes 'All Clear!'
4568 And we're off at last of the northern part
4569 Of the Northern Hemisphere!
4571 =head2 v5.8.3 - Arthur William Edgar O'Shaugnessy, "Ode"
4573 L<Announced on 2004-01-14 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/01/msg87317.html>
4575 We are the music makers,
4576 And we are the dreamers of dreams,
4577 Wandering by lonely sea-breakers,
4578 And sitting by desolate streams; --
4579 World-losers and world-forsakers,
4580 On whom the pale moon gleams:
4581 Yet we are the movers and shakers
4582 Of the world for ever, it seems.
4584 =head2 v5.8.3-RC1 - Irving Berlin, "Let's Face the Music and Dance"
4586 L<Announced on 2004-01-07 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/01/msg86969.html>
4588 There may be trouble ahead,
4589 But while there's music and moonlight,
4590 And love and romance,
4591 Let's face the music and dance.
4593 Before the fiddlers have fled,
4594 Before they ask us to pay the bill,
4595 And while we still have that chance,
4596 Let's face the music and dance.
4598 Soon, we'll be without the moon,
4599 Humming a different tune, and then,
4601 There may be teardrops to shed,
4602 So while there's music and moonlight,
4603 And love and romance,
4604 Let's face the music and dance.
4606 =head2 v5.8.2 - Walt Whitman, "Passage to India"
4608 L<Announced on 2003-11-05 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/11/msg84822.html>
4610 Passage, immediate passage! the blood burns in my veins!
4611 Away O soul! hoist instantly the anchor!
4612 Cut the hawsers - hall out - shake out every sail!
4613 Have we not stood here like trees in the ground long enough?
4614 Have we not grovel'd here long enough, eating and drinking like mere brutes?
4615 Have we not darken'd and dazed ourselves with books long enough?
4617 Sail forth - steer for the deep waters only,
4618 Reckless O soul, exploring, I with the and thou with me,
4619 For we are bound where mariner has not yet dared to go,
4620 And we will risk the ship, ourselves and all.
4623 O farther farther sail!
4624 O daring job, but safe! are they not all the seas of God?
4625 O farther, farther, farther sail!
4627 =head2 v5.8.2-RC2 - Eric Idle and John Du Prez, "Accountancy Shanty"
4629 L<Announced on 2003-11-03 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/11/msg84645.html>
4631 It's fun to charter an accountant
4632 And sail the wide accountan-cy,
4633 To find, explore the funds offshore
4634 And skirt the shoals of bankruptcy.
4636 =head2 v5.8.2-RC1 - Edward Lear, "The Jumblies"
4638 L<Announced on 2003-10-27 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/10/msg84194.html>
4640 They went to sea in a Sieve, they did,
4641 In a Sieve they went to sea:
4642 In spite of all their friends could say,
4643 On a winter's morn, on a stormy day,
4644 In a Sieve they went to sea!
4645 And when the Sieve turned round and round,
4646 And everyone cried, "You'll all be drowned!"
4647 They cried aloud, "Our Sieve ain't big,
4648 But we don't care a button, we don't care a fig!
4649 In a Sieve we'll go to sea!"
4651 Far and few, far and few,
4652 Are the lands where the Jumblies live;
4653 Their heads are green, and their hands are blue,
4654 And they went to sea in a Sieve.
4656 =head2 v5.8.1 - epigraph same as v5.7.1
4658 L<Announced on 2003-09-25 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/09/msg82678.html>
4660 =head2 v5.8.1-RC5 - Terry Pratchett, "Lords and Ladies"
4662 L<Announced on 2003-09-22 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/09/msg82476.html>
4664 No matter what she did with her hair it took about
4665 three minutes for it to tangle itself up again,
4666 like a garden hosepipe in a shed [Footnote: Which,
4667 no matter how carefully coiled, will always uncoil
4668 overnight and tie the lawnmower to the bicycles].
4670 =head2 v5.8.1-RC4 - Terry Pratchett, "Interesting Times"
4672 L<Announced on 2003-08-01 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/08/msg79184.html>
4674 Grand Viziers were /always/ scheming megalomaniacs.
4675 It was probably in the job description: "Are you a
4676 devious, plotting, unreliable madman? Ah, good,
4677 then you can be my most trusted minister."
4679 =head2 v5.8.1-RC3 - Terry Pratchett, "Interesting Times"
4681 L<Announced on 2003-07-30 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/07/msg79048.html>
4683 Lord Hong had a mind like a knife, although possibly
4684 a knife with a curved blade.
4686 =head2 v5.8.1-RC2 - Terry Pratchett, "Interesting Times"
4688 L<Announced on 2003-07-11 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/07/msg78102.html>
4690 Many an ancient lord's last words had been, "You can't kill
4691 me because I've got magic aaargh."
4693 =head2 v5.8.1-RC1 - Terry Pratchett, "Interesting Times"
4695 L<Announced on 2003-07-10 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/07/msg78009.html>
4697 Cohen was familiar with city gates. He'd broken down a number
4698 in his time, by battering ram, siege gun, and on one occasion
4701 But the gates of Hunghung were pretty damn good gates. They
4702 weren't like the gates of Ankh-Morpork, which were usually wide
4703 open to attract the spending customer and whose concession to
4704 defense was the sign "Thank You For Not Attacking Our City.
4705 Bonum Diem." These things were big and made of metal and there
4706 was a guardhouse and a squad of unhelpful men in black armor.
4708 =head2 v5.8.0 - Terry Pratchett, "Reaper Man"
4710 L<Announced on 2002-07-18 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2002/07/msg63720.html>
4712 There was the faint sound of footsteps.
4713 "Chap with a whip got as far as the big sharp spikes last week,"
4714 said the low priest.
4715 There was a sound like the flushing of a very old dry lavatory.
4716 The footsteps stopped. The High Priest smiled to himself.
4717 "Right," he said. "See your two pebbles and raise you two pebbles."
4718 The low priest threw down his cards. "Double Onion," he said.
4719 The High Priest looked down suspiciously.
4720 The low priest consulted a scrap of paper. "That's three hundred
4721 thousand, nine hundred and sixty-four pebbles you owe me," he said.
4722 There was the sound of footsteps. The priests exchanged glances.
4723 "Haven't had one for poisoned-dart alley for quite some time,"
4724 said the High Priest.
4725 "Five says he makes it", said the low priest. "You're on."
4726 There was a faint clatter of metal points on stone.
4727 "It's a shame to take your pebbles."
4728 There were footsteps again.
4730 =head2 v5.8.0-RC3 - no epigraph
4732 L<Announced on 2002-07-13 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2002/07/msg63234.html>
4734 =head2 v5.8.0-RC2 - no epigraph
4736 L<Announced on 2002-06-21 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2002/06/msg62013.html>
4738 =head2 v5.8.0-RC1 - no epigraph
4740 L<Announced on 2002-06-01 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2002/06/msg60317.html>
4742 =head2 v5.7.3 - Terry Pratchett, "Reaper Man"
4744 L<Announced on 2002-03-04 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2002/03/msg53652.html>
4746 Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong.
4747 No matter how fast light travels it finds the darkness has always
4748 got there first, and is waiting for it.
4750 =head2 v5.7.2 - Terry Pratchett, "Small Gods"
4752 L<Announced on 2001-07-13 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2001/07/msg40370.html>
4754 His philosophy was a mixture of three famous schools --
4755 the Cynics, the Stoics and the Epicureans -- and summed up
4756 all three of them in his famous phrase, "You can't trust any
4757 bugger further than you can throw him, and there's nothing
4758 you can do about it, so let's have a drink."
4760 =head2 v5.7.1 - Terry Pratchett, "The Colour of Magic"
4762 L<Announced on 2001-04-09 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2001/04/msg33851.html>
4764 "What happens next?" asked Twoflower.
4766 Hrun screwed a finger in his ear and inspected it absently.
4768 "Oh,", he said, "I expect in a minute the door will be
4769 flung back and I'll be dragged off to some sort of temple
4770 arena where I'll fight maybe a couple of giant spiders
4771 and an eight-foot slave from the jungles of Klatch and then
4772 I'll rescue some kind of a princess from the altar and then
4773 I'll kill off a few guards or whatever and then this girl
4774 will show me the secret passage out of the place and we'll
4775 liberate a couple of horses and escape with the treasure."
4776 Hrun leaned his head back on his hands and looked at the
4777 ceiling, whistling tunelessly.
4779 "All that?" said Twoflower.
4783 =head2 v5.7.0 - Terry Pratchett, "Moving Pictures"
4785 L<Announced on 2000-09-02 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2000/09/msg17730.html>
4787 The Librarian had seen many weird things in his time,
4788 but that had to be the 57th strangest.
4789 [footnote: he had a tidy mind]
4791 =head2 v5.6.2 - Laurence Sterne, "Tristram Shandy"
4793 L<Announced on 2003-11-15 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/11/msg85222.html>
4795 When great or unexpected events fall out upon the stage of this
4796 sublunary word--the mind of man, which is an inquisitive kind of
4797 a substance, naturally takes a flight, behind the scenes, to see
4798 what is the cause and first spring of them--The search was not
4799 long in this instance.
4801 =head2 v5.6.2-RC1 - Laurence Sterne, "Tristram Shandy"
4803 L<Announced on 2003-11-08 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/11/msg84953.html>
4805 "Pray, my dear", quoth my mother, "have you not forgot to wind up the clock?"
4807 =head2 v5.6.1 - J R R Tolkien, "The Hobbit", Riddles in the Dark
4809 L<Announced on 2001-04-08 by Gurusamy Sarathy|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2001/04/msg33823.html>
4811 `What have I got in my pocket?' he said aloud. He was talking to
4812 himself, but Gollum thought it was a riddle, and he was frightfully
4815 `Not fair! not fair!' he hissed. `It isn't fair, my precious, is it,
4816 to ask us what it's got in its nassty little pocketses?'
4818 Bilbo seeing what had happened and having nothing better to ask
4819 stuck to his question, `What have I got in my pocket?' he said
4822 `S-s-s-s-s,' hissed Gollum. `It must give us three guesseses,
4823 my precious, three guesseses.'
4825 =head2 v5.6.1-foolish - no epigraph
4827 L<Announced on 2001-04-01 by Gurusamy Sarathy|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2001/04/msg33421.html>
4829 =head2 v5.6.1-TRIAL3 - I can't find the announcement
4831 No announcement available.
4833 =head2 v5.6.1-TRIAL2 - no epigraph
4835 L<Announced on 2001-01-31 by Gurusamy Sarathy|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2001/01/msg29934.html>
4837 =head2 v5.6.1-TRIAL1 - no epigraph
4839 L<Announced on 2000-12-18 by Gurusamy Sarathy|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2000/12/msg27738.html>
4841 =head2 v5.6.0 - J R R Tolkien, "The Hobbit", The Last Stage
4843 L<Announced on 2000-03-23 by Gurusamy Sarathy|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2000/03/msg10341.html>
4845 The dragon is withered,
4846 His bones are now crumbled;
4847 His armour is shivered,
4848 His splendour is humbled!
4849 Though sword shall be rusted,
4850 And throne and crown perish
4851 With strength that men trusted
4852 And wealth that they cherish,
4853 Here grass is still growing,
4854 And leaves are a yet swinging,
4855 The white water flowing,
4856 And elves are yet singing
4857 Come! Tra-la-la-lally!
4858 Come back to the valley.
4860 =head2 v5.6.0-RC3 - no epigraph
4862 L<Announced on 2000-03-22 by Gurusamy Sarathy|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2000/03/msg10140.html>
4864 =head2 v5.005_05-RC1 - no epigraph
4866 L<Announced on 2009-02-16 by LE<0xe9>on Brocard|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2009/02/msg144227.html>
4868 =head2 v5.005_04 - no epigraph
4870 L<Announced on 2004-03-01 by LE<0xe9>on Brocard|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/03/msg89047.html>
4872 =head2 v5.005_04-RC2 - Rudyard Kipling, "The Jungle Book"
4874 L<Announced on 2004-02-19 by LE<0xe9>on Brocard|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/02/msg88672.html>
4876 The monkeys called the place their city, and pretended to despise
4877 the Jungle-People because they lived in the forest. And yet they
4878 never knew what the buildings were made for nor how to use
4879 them. They would sit in circles on the hall of the king's council
4880 chamber, and scratch for fleas and pretend to be men; or they would
4881 run in and out of the roofless houses and collect pieces of plaster
4882 and old bricks in a corner, and forget where they had hidden them,
4883 and fight and cry in scuffling crowds, and then break off to play up
4884 and down the terraces of the king's garden, where they would shake
4885 the rose trees and the oranges in sport to see the fruit and flowers
4888 =head2 v5.005_04-RC1 - Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
4890 L<Announced on 2004-02-05 by LE<0xe9>on Brocard|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/02/msg88312.html>
4892 Either the well was very deep, or she fell very slowly, for she had
4893 plenty of time as she went down to look about her and to wonder what was
4894 going to happen next. First, she tried to look down and make out what
4895 she was coming to, but it was too dark to see anything; then she looked
4896 at the sides of the well, and noticed that they were filled with
4897 cupboards and book-shelves; here and there she saw maps and pictures
4898 hung upon pegs. She took down a jar from one of the shelves as she
4899 passed; it was labelled 'ORANGE MARMALADE', but to her great
4900 disappointment it was empty: she did not like to drop the jar for fear
4901 of killing somebody, so managed to put it into one of the cupboards as
4904 =head2 v1.0_16 - Johan Vromans, extemporarily
4906 L<Announced on 2003-12-18 by Richard Clamp|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/12/msg86423.html>
4908 't was 16 years ago today
4909 Larry taught us a new game
4910 of lazyness, impatience, and hubris
4911 Happy birthday, Perl!
4913 =head1 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
4915 This document was originally compiled based on a list of epigraphs
4916 on L<Perl Monks|http://perlmonks.org> titled
4917 L<Recent Perl Release Announcement|http://perlmonks.org/?node_id=372406>