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 v5.33.0 - Confucius, "Confucius: The Analects"
22 Announed on 2020-07-17 by Sawyer X
24 The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.
26 =head2 v5.32.0 - Bob Dylan, "The Times They Are A Changing"
28 L<Announced on 2020-06-20 by Sawyer X|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2020/06/msg257547.html>
30 Come gather 'round, people
32 And admit that the waters
34 And accept it that soon
35 You'll be drenched to the bone
36 If your time to you is worth savin'
37 And you better start swimmin'
38 Or you'll sink like a stone
39 For the times they are a-changin'
41 =head2 v5.32.0-RC1 - Coretta Scott King
43 L<Announced on 2020-06-08 by Sawyer X|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2020/06/msg257521.html>
45 Struggle is a never ending process. Freedom is never really won,
46 you earn it and win it in every generation.
48 =head2 v5.32.0-RC0 - Franz Kafka
50 L<Announced on 2020-05-30 by Sawyer X|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2020/05/msg257486.html>
52 There are some things one can only achieve by a deliberate leap
53 in the opposite direction.
55 =head2 v5.31.11 - John F. Kennedy, National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy
57 L<Announced on 2020-04-28 by Sawyer X|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2020/04/msg257385.html>
59 Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind.
61 =head2 v5.31.10 - Christina Rossetti, "Remember"
63 L<Announced on 2020-03-20 by Sawyer X|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2020/03/msg257274.html>
65 Remember me when I am gone away,
66 Gone far away into the silent land;
67 When you can no more hold me by the hand,
68 Nor I half turn to go yet turning stay.
69 Remember me when no more day by day
70 You tell me of our future that you plann'd:
71 Only remember me; you understand
72 It will be late to counsel then or pray.
73 Yet if you should forget me for a while
74 And afterwards remember, do not grieve:
75 For if the darkness and corruption leave
76 A vestige of the thoughts that once I had,
77 Better by far you should forget and smile
78 Than that you should remember and be sad.
80 =head2 v5.31.9 - Sten Nadolny, book The Discovery of Slowness
82 L<Announced on 2020-02-20 by Renee Bäcker|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2020/02/msg257144.html>
84 „When people talk too fast the content becomes as superfluous as the speed.“
86 =head2 v5.31.8 - Joe Perham, "Joe Perham's Guide to Hunting and Guide to Fishing in Maine"
88 L<Announced on 2020-01-20 by Matthew Horsfall|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2020/01/msg256894.html>
90 Harry used to cut wood for the Brown company over in Stoneham Red
91 Rock Basin. And of course he was the best shot in camp. One day the
92 foreman told him to go get some meat.
94 "Take any gun you want."
96 Harry says "I'll take the .45-70."
98 Foreman said "That gun's only got one bullet."
100 Harry says "I only need one bullet."
102 Took the .45-70, went out, an hour later he was back with two Moose,
103 a dozen trout you see, and a fluffy partridge. Went back to work.
105 Well at supper that night foreman says "Harry, um, something's
106 bothering me here a little bit. How did you get all that food with
107 only one bullet. I'm a little confused about the... the partridge,
108 there ain't a mark on him."
110 "Well", Harry says, "I'll tell ya. I took that .45-70, went back into
111 the woods a piece there I come to this brook. And I just uh, got to
112 the other side when I happen to see two moose in the swamp off
113 there. I figured I could get both of 'em. So I took out my huntin'
114 knife and stuck it into the mud, hilt foremost, sharp edge on the
115 blade towards me of course. I took dead aim on that knife, fired,
116 split that bullet and killed those two moose. Well you know the
117 recoil knocked me back into the brook. When I come up out of the
118 water, my pants were so full of fish that it popped a button off my
119 fly and killed that bird."
121 =head2 v5.31.7 - Bernard Werber
123 L<Announced on 2019-12-20 by Atoomic|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/12/msg256802.html>
125 Be quiet. Look at the stars and appreciate what you live.
127 =head2 v5.31.6 - Neal Stephenson, "Quicksilver"
129 L<Announced on 2019-11-20 by Chris 'BinGOs' Williams|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/11/msg256646.html>
133 State your intentions, Muse. I know you're there.
134 Dead bards who pined for you have said
135 You're bright as flame, but fickle as the air.
136 My pen and I, submerged in liquid shade,
137 Much dark can spread, on days and over reams
138 But without you, no radiance can shed.
139 Why rustle in the dark, when fledged with fire?
140 Craze the night with flails of light. Reave
141 Your turbid shroud. Bestow what I require.
143 But you're not in the dark. I do believe
144 I swim, like squid, in clouds of my own make,
145 To you, offensive. To us both, opaque.
146 What's constituted so, only a pen
147 Can penetrate. I have one here; let's go.
149 =head2 v5.31.5 - Edward Lear, ed. Vivien Noakes, "The Complete Nonsense and Other Verse": The Daddy Long-legs and the Fly
151 L<Announced on 2019-10-20 by Steve Hay|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/10/msg256478.html>
153 'O Mr Daddy Long-legs,'
155 'It's true I never go to court,
156 And I will tell you why.
157 If I had six long legs like yours,
158 At once I'd go to court!
159 But oh! I can't, because my legs
160 Are so extremely short.
161 And I'm afraid the King and Queen
162 (One in red, and one in green)
163 Would say aloud, "You are not fit,
164 You Fly, to come to court a bit!"'
166 =head2 v5.31.4 - Ann Leckie, "The Raven Tower"
168 L<Announced on 2019-09-20 by Max Maischein|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/09/msg256254.html>
170 Stories can be risky for someone like me. What I say must be true, or it
171 will be made true, and if it cannot be made true - if I don't have the
172 power, or if what I have said is an impossibility - then I will pay the
173 price. I might more or less safely say, "Once there was a man who rode
174 home to attend his father's funeral and claim his inheritance, but
175 matters were not as he expected them to be." I do not doubt that such a
176 thing has happened more than once in all the time there have been
177 fathers to die and sons to succeed them. But to go any further, I must
178 supply more details - the specific actions of specific people, and their
179 specific consequences - and there I might blunder, all unknowing, into
180 untruth. It's safer for me to speak of what I know. Or to speak only in
181 the safest of generalities. Or else to say plainly at the beginning,
182 "Here is a story I have heard," placing the burden of truth or not on
183 the teller whose words I am merely accurately reporting.
185 But what is the story that I am telling? Here is another story I have
187 Once there were two brothers, and one of them wanted what the other had.
188 Bent all his will to obtain what the other had, no matter the cost.
189 Here is another story: Once there was a prisoner in a tower.
191 Once someone risked their life out of duty and loyalty to a friend.
192 Ah, there's a story that I might tell, and truthfully.
194 =head2 v5.31.3 - Samantha Harvey, "All Is Song"
196 L<Announced on 2019-08-20 by Tom Hukins|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/08/msg256012.html>
198 We are born from unity, we divide into isolation. We winnow ourselves
199 out from the thing that first made sense of us and then expect to find
200 meaning, yet a fraction makes no sense without the number of which
201 it's a fractional part. We see loss, feel grief, give ourselves
202 illness, we're cells that have over-divided and we call the division
203 growth; the only real growth is in the return to unity, God, the
206 Tired to his core, he turned the video off. The rain still poured as
207 he went upstairs, and in bed as he tripped down into the deep open
208 shaft of sleep he kept thinking that to divide by zero was to end up
209 with infinity, as was to divide by God. To divide by God, to divide
210 by God, over and over he thought it without sense; to divide by God; I
211 must tell my students that the way to pass their exams is to divide by
212 God. Then he must have slept, for it was morning.
214 =head2 v5.31.2 - Edward Lear, ed. Vivien Noakes, "The Complete Nonsense and Other Verse": The Duck and the Kangaroo
216 L<Announced on 2019-07-20 by Steve Hay|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/07/msg255639.html>
218 Said the Duck to the Kangaroo,
219 'Good gracious! how you hop!
220 Over the fields and the water too,
221 As if you never would stop!
222 My life is a bore in this nasty pond,
223 And I long to go out in the world beyond!
224 I wish I could hop like you!'
225 Said the Duck to the Kangaroo.
227 =head2 v5.31.1 - Kurt Vonnegut, _A Man without a Country_
229 L<Announced on 2019-06-20 by Karen Etheridge|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/06/msg255243.html>
231 On Tuesday, January 20, 2004, I sent Joel Bleifuss, my editor at _In These
234 ON ORANGE ALERT HERE.
235 ECONOMIC TERRORIST ATTACK
236 EXPECTED AT 8 PM EST. KV
238 Worried, he called, asking what was up. I said I would tell him when I had
239 more complete information on the bombs George Bush was set to deliver in his
240 State of the Union address.
242 That night I got a call from my friend, the out-of-print-science-fiction
243 writer Kilgore Trout. He asked me, "Did you watch the State of the Union
246 "Yes, and it certainly helped to remember what the great British socialist
247 playwright George Bernard Shaw said about this planet."
251 "He said, 'I don't know if there are men on the moon, but if there are, they
252 must be using the earth as their lunatic asylum.' And he wasn't talking
253 about the germs or the elephants. He meant we the people."
257 "You don't think this is the Lunatic Asylum of the Universe?"
259 "Kurt, I don't think I expressed an opinion one way of the other."
261 "We are killing this planet as a life-support system with the poisons from
262 all the thermodynamic whoopee we're making with atomic energy and fossil
263 fuels, and everybody knows it, and practically nobody cares. This is how
264 crazy we are. I think the planet's immune system is trying to get rid of us
265 with AIDS and new strains of flu and tuberculosis, and so on. I think the
266 planet should get rid of us. We're really awful animals. I mean, that dumb
267 Barbra Streisand song, 'People who need people are the luckiest people in
268 the world' -- she's talking about cannibals. Lots to eat. Yes, the planet is
269 trying to get rid of us, but I think it's too late."
271 And I said good-bye to my friend, hung up the phone, sat down and wrote this
272 epitaph: "The good Earth -- we could have saved it, but we were too damn
275 =head2 v5.31.0 - Fumiko Enchi, Masks
277 L<Announced on 2019-05-24 by Sawyer X|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/05/msg254886.html>
279 The secrets inside her mind are like flowers in a garden at
280 nighttime, filling the darkness with perfume.
282 =head2 v5.30.3 - Ben Aaronovitch, "Rivers of London"
284 L<Announced on 2020-06-01 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2020/01/msg257498.html>
286 Trewsbury Mead [...] According to the Ordnance Survey, this is where the
287 Thames first rises 130 straight-line kilometres west of London. Just to
288 the north is the site either of an Iron Age hill fort or a Roman
289 encampment, the exact nature of which is awaiting an episode of Time
290 Team. Apparently there is a soggy field, a stone to mark the spot and a
291 chance, after a particularly wet winter, that you might see some water.
293 =head2 v5.30.2 - Francesco Maria Piave, trans. Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, "La traviata", Act II, Scene 2
295 L<Announced on 2020-03-14 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2020/03/msg257227.html>
297 FLORA, GASTON, DOCTOR, MARQUIS, CHORUS
299 Yes, you have suffered, but take heart!
300 Every one of us has shared your pain;
301 friends are around you to dry the tears
305 (I alone know the true devotion
306 this poor girl hides within her breast;
307 I know her faithful heart,
308 but I'm vowed so cruelly to silence.)
312 Your deadly insult to this lady
313 offends us all, but such an outrage
314 shall not go unavenged!
315 I shall find a way to humble your pride!
318 (Alas, what have I done? I feel terrible about it.
319 She will never forgive me.)
323 Alfredo, how should you understand
324 all the love that's in my heart?
325 How should you know that I have proved it,
326 even at the price of your contempt?
328 But the time will come when you will know,
329 when you'll admit how much I loved you.
330 God save you then from all remorse!
331 Even after death I shall still love you.
333 =head2 v5.30.2-RC1 - Francesco Maria Piave, trans. Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, "La traviata", Act II, Scene 2
335 L<Announced on 2020-02-29 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2020/02/msg257163.html>
338 For me this woman lost
340 I was blind, a wretched coward,
342 But it's time now for me to clear
344 I call you all to witness here
345 that I've paid her back!
347 (Contemptuously, he throws his winnings at Violetta's feet.
348 She swoons in Flora's arms. Alfredo's father arrives suddenly.)
354 a tender heart that way!
358 We've no use for the likes of you!
362 (dignified in his anger)
363 A man who offends a woman, even in anger,
364 deserves nothing but scorn.
365 Where is my son? I no longer see him
369 (What have I done? Yes, I despise myself!
370 Jealous madness, love deceived,
371 ravaged my soul, destroyed my reason.
372 How can I ever gain her pardon?
373 I would have left her, but I couldn't;
374 I came here to vent my anger,
375 But now I've done that, wretch that I am,
376 I feel nothing but deep remorse!)
378 =head2 v5.30.1 - Francesco Maria Piave, trans. Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, "La traviata", Act I: Brindisi
380 L<Announced on 2019-11-10 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/11/msg256610.html>
383 With you I would share
384 my days of happiness;
385 everything is folly in this world
386 that does not give us pleasure.
388 for the pleasures of love are swift and fleeting
389 as a flower that lives and dies
390 and can be enjoyed no more.
391 Let's take our pleasure while its ardent,
392 brilliant summons lures us on!
394 =head2 v5.30.1-RC1 - Francesco Maria Piave, trans. Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, "La traviata", Act I: Brindisi
396 L<Announced on 2019-10-27 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/10/msg256542.html>
399 Let's drink from the joyous chalice
400 where beauty flowers...
401 Let the fleeting hour
402 to pleasure's intoxication yield.
404 to love's sweet tremors --
406 that pierce the heart.
407 Let's drink to love -- to wine
408 that warms our kisses.
410 =head2 v5.30.0 - Morihei Ueshiba
412 L<Announced on 2019-05-22 by Sawyer X|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/05/msg254844.html>
414 Life is growth. If we stop growing, technically and spiritually, we
417 =head2 v5.30.0-RC2 - Derek Walcott
419 L<Announced on 2019-05-17 by Sawyer X|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/05/msg254824.html>
421 The truest writers are those who see language not as linguistic process but
426 =head2 v5.30.0-RC1 - Marcel Proust
428 L<Announced on 2019-05-11 by Sawyer X|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/05/msg254748.html>
430 If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream
431 less but to dream more, to dream all the time.
435 =head2 v5.29.10 - Maya Angelou, Alone
437 L<Announced on 2019-04-20 by Sawyer X|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/04/msg254467.html>
441 How to find my soul a home
442 Where water is not thirsty
443 And bread loaf is not stone
444 I came up with one thing
445 And I don't believe I'm wrong
448 Can make it out here alone.
452 Can make it out here alone.
454 There are some millionaires
455 With money they can't use
456 Their wives run round like banshees
457 Their children sing the blues
458 They've got expensive doctors
459 To cure their hearts of stone.
462 Can make it out here alone.
466 Can make it out here alone.
468 Now if you listen closely
469 I'll tell you what I know
470 Storm clouds are gathering
471 The wind is gonna blow
472 The race of man is suffering
473 And I can hear the moan,
476 Can make it out here alone.
480 Can make it out here alone.
482 =head2 v5.29.9 - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Dancing Men
484 L<Announced on 2019-03-21 by Zak Elep|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/03/msg253978.html>
486 What one man can invent, another can discover.
488 =head2 v5.29.8 - Isaac Asimov, Foundation: “Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.”
490 L<Announced on 2019-02-20 by Atoomic|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/02/msg253750.html>
492 =head2 v5.29.7 - Edsger W. Dijkstra: "Programming Considered as a Human Activity", IFIP Congress, New York, 1965.
494 L<Announced on 2019-01-20 by Abigail|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/01/msg253444.html>
496 When I became acquainted with the notion of algorithmic languages I
497 never challenged the then prevailing notion that the problems of
498 language design and implementation were mostly a question of
499 compromises: every new convenience for the user had to be paid for
500 by the implementation, either in the form of increased trouble
501 during translation, or during execution or during both. Well, we
502 are most certainly not living in Heaven and I am not going to deny
503 the possibility of a conflict between convenience and efficiency,
504 but now I do protest when this conflict is presented as a complete
505 summing up of the situation. I am of the opinion that is worth-while
506 to investigate what extent the needs of Man and Machine go hand in
507 hand and to see what techniques we can devise of the benefit of all
508 of us. I trust that this investigation will bear fruits and if this
509 talk made some of you share this fervent hope, it has achieved its aim.
511 =head2 v5.29.6 - Rudyard Kipling: "How the Camel Got His Hump"
513 L<Announced on 2018-12-18 by Abigail|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/12/msg253187.html>
515 The Camel's hump is an ugly lump
516 Which well you may see at the Zoo;
517 But uglier yet is the hump we get
518 From having little to do.
520 Kiddies and grown-ups too-oo-oo
521 If we haven't enough to do-oo-oo,
524 The hump that is black and blue!
526 We climb out of bed with a frouzly head
527 And a snarly-yarly voice.
528 We shiver and scowl and we grunt and we growl
529 At our bath and our boots and our toys;
531 And there ought to be a corner for me
532 (And I know there is one for you)
533 When we get the hump -
535 The hump that is black and blue!
537 The cure for this ill is to not sit still,
538 Or frowst with a book by the fire;
539 But to take a large hoe and a shovel also,
540 And dig till you gentle perspire;
542 And then you will find that the sun and the wind,
543 And the Djinn of the Garden too,
544 Have lifted the hump -
546 The hump that is black and blue!
548 I get it as well as you-oo-oo -
549 If I haven't enough to do-oo-oo!
552 Kiddies and grown-ups too!
555 =head2 v5.29.5 - T. S. Eliot, "The Naming Of Cats"
557 L<Announced on 2018-11-20 by Karen Etheridge|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/11/msg252839.html>
559 The Naming of Cats is a difficult matter,
560 It isn't just one of your holiday games;
561 You may think at first I'm as mad as a hatter
562 When I tell you, a cat must have THREE DIFFERENT NAMES.
563 First of all, there's the name that the family use daily,
564 Such as Peter, Augustus, Alonzo or James,
565 Such as Victor or Jonathan, George or Bill Bailey--
566 All of them sensible everyday names.
567 There are fancier names if you think they sound sweeter,
568 Some for the gentlemen, some for the dames:
569 Such as Plato, Admetus, Electra, Demeter--
570 But all of them sensible everyday names.
571 But I tell you, a cat needs a name that's particular,
572 A name that's peculiar, and more dignified,
573 Else how can he keep up his tail perpendicular,
574 Or spread out his whiskers, or cherish his pride?
575 Of names of this kind, I can give you a quorum,
576 Such as Munkustrap, Quaxo, or Coricopat,
577 Such as Bombalurina, or else Jellylorum-
578 Names that never belong to more than one cat.
579 But above and beyond there's still one name left over,
580 And that is the name that you never will guess;
581 The name that no human research can discover--
582 But THE CAT HIMSELF KNOWS, and will never confess.
583 When you notice a cat in profound meditation,
584 The reason, I tell you, is always the same:
585 His mind is engaged in a rapt contemplation
586 Of the thought, of the thought, of the thought of his name:
587 His ineffable effable
589 Deep and inscrutable singular Name.
591 =head2 v5.29.4 - The Mountain Goats, "Oceanographer's Choice"
593 L<Announced on 2018-10-20 by Aaron Crane|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/10/msg252575.html>
596 Guy in a skeleton costume
597 Comes up to the guy in the Superman suit
598 Runs through him with a broadsword
599 I flipped the television off
600 Bring all the bright lights up
601 Turn the radio up loud
602 I don't know why I'm so persuaded
603 That if I think things through
604 Long enough and hard enough
605 I'll somehow get to you
606 But then you came in and we locked eyes
607 You kicked the ashtray over as we came toward each other
608 Stubbed my cigarette out against the west wall
611 Would you look at that?
612 We're throwing off sparks
613 What will I do when I don't have you
614 To hold onto in the dark?
616 =head2 v5.29.3 - Mac Miller, "Senior Skip Day"
618 L<Announced on 2018-09-20 by John 'genehack' Anderson|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/09/msg252255.html>
620 Enjoy the best things in your life
621 ’Cause you ain’t gonna get to live it twice
622 They say you waste time asleep
623 But I’m just tryin’ to dream
625 =head2 v5.29.2 - Rick Riordan, "The Lightning Thief"
627 L<Announced on 2018-08-20 by Chris 'BinGOs' Williams|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/08/msg251918.html>
629 Look, I didn't want to be a half-blood.
631 If you're reading this because you think you might be one,
632 my advice is: close this book right now. Believe whatever
633 lie your mom or dad told you about your birth, and try
634 to lead a normal life.
636 Being a half-blood is dangerous. It's scary. Most of the time,
637 it gets you killed in painful, nasty ways.
639 If you're a normal kid, reading this because you think it's
640 fiction, great. Read on. I envy you for being able to believe
641 that none of this ever happened.
643 But if you recognize yourself in these pages - if you feel
644 something stirring inside - stop reading immediately.
645 You might be one of us. And once you know that, it's only a
646 matter of time before they sense it too, and they'll come for you.
648 =head2 v5.29.1 - Richard Curtis & Ben Elton, "Blackadder, Series 3, Episode 2: Ink and Incapability"
650 L<Announced on 2018-07-20 by Steve Hay|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/07/msg251605.html>
652 Dr. Samuel Johnson: Here it is, sir: the very cornerstone of English
653 scholarship. This book, sir, contains every word in our beloved
656 Prince Regent George: Hmm.
658 Edmund Blackadder: Every single one, sir?
660 Johnson: (confidently) Every single word, sir!
662 Blackadder: (to Prince) Oh, well, in that case, sir, I hope you will
663 not object if I also offer the Doctor my most enthusiastic
668 Blackadder: 'Contrafribularities,' sir? It is a common word down our
671 Johnson: Damn! (writes in the book)
673 Blackadder: Oh, I'm sorry, sir. I'm anaspeptic, phrasmotic, even
674 compunctious to have caused you such pericombobulation.
676 Johnson: What? What? WHAT?
678 =head2 v5.29.0 - Erle Stanley Gardner, The Case of the Grinning Gorilla
680 L<Announced on 2018-06-26 by Sawyer X|http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/251297>
682 Courage is the only antidote for danger.
684 =head2 v5.28.3 - Ben Aaronovitch, "Rivers of London"
686 L<Announced on 2020-06-01 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2020/01/msg257497.html>
688 The north end of the London Borough of Camden is dominated by two hills,
689 Hampstead on the west, Highgate on the east, with the Heath, one of the
690 largest parks in London, slung between them like a green saddle. From
691 these heights the land slopes down towards the River Thames and the
692 floodplains that lurk below the built-up centre of London.
694 =head2 v5.28.2 - Edward Lear, ed. Vivien Noakes, "The Complete Nonsense and Other Verse": The Jumblies
696 L<Announced on 2019-04-19 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/04/msg254456.html>
698 They went to sea in a Sieve, they did,
699 In a Sieve they went to sea:
700 In spite of all their friends could say,
701 On a winter's morn, on a stormy day,
702 In a Sieve they went to sea!
703 And when the Sieve turned round and round,
704 And every one cried, 'You'll all be drowned!'
705 They called aloud, 'Our Sieve ain't big,
706 But we don't care a button! we don't care a fig!
707 In a Sieve we'll go to sea!'
708 Far and few, far and few,
709 Are the lands where the Jumblies live;
710 Their heads are green, and their hands are blue,
711 And they went to sea in a Sieve.
713 =head2 v5.28.2-RC1 - Edward Lear, ed. Vivien Noakes, "The Complete Nonsense and Other Verse": The Quangle Wangle's Hat
715 L<Announced on 2019-04-05 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/04/msg254218.html>
717 On the top of the Crumpetty Tree
718 The Quangle Wangle sat,
719 But his face you could not see,
720 On account of his Beaver Hat.
721 For his Hat was a hundred and two feet wide,
722 With ribbons and bibbons on every side,
723 And bells, and buttons, and loops, and lace,
724 So that nobody ever could see the face
725 Of the Quangle Wangle Quee.
727 =head2 v5.28.1 - Humphrey Burton, "Leonard Bernstein"
729 L<Announced on 2018-11-29 by Steve Hay|http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/11/msg252975.html>
731 On August 25, 1983, Leonard Bernstein celebrated his sixty-fifth
732 birthday in his birthplace, Lawrence, Massachusetts. He had actually
733 lived in the town for only a few weeks as a newborn baby, and had last
734 visited it forty-nine years previously, in 1934, to get the name on his
735 birth certificate altered from Louis to Leonard. But the citizens of
736 Lawrence proposed to dedicate an outdoor theater to him in their
737 heritage park and to provide not one but two local orchestras--the
738 Merrimack Valley Philharmonic to play excerpts from his own compositions
739 and the Greater Boston Youth Symphony and Chorus to perform the "Ode to
740 Joy" and accompany Bernstein himself reading (for the only time in his
741 life) the text of A Lincoln Portrait. So Bernstein turned down birthday
742 invitations from Tanglewood and Central Park, New York, and the
743 Hollywood Bowl and drove through the cheering if slightly bewildered
744 crowds lining the streets of Lawrence in an open-topped 1928 Ford
745 roadster, looking as homespun as James Stewart in Frank Capra's classic,
746 It's a Wonderful Life.
748 =head2 v5.28.0 - Martin Luther King, Jr., 1967
750 L<Announced on 2018-06-22 by Sawyer X|http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/251240>
752 When we look at modern man we have to face the fact that modern man
753 suffers from a kind of poverty of the spirit which stands in glaring
754 contrast with his scientific and technological abundance. We've learned
755 to fly the air as birds, we've learned to swim the seas as fish, yet we
756 haven't learned to walk the earth as brothers and sisters.
758 =head2 v5.28.0-RC4 - Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book
760 L<Announced on 2018-06-19 by Sawyer X|http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/251212>
762 You're alive, Bod. That means you have infinite potential. You can do
763 anything, make anything, dream anything. If you can change the world,
764 the world will change. Potential. Once you're dead, it's gone. Over.
765 You've made what you've made, dreamed your dream, written your name.
766 You may be buried here, you may even walk. But that potential is
769 =head2 v5.28.0-RC3 - Anthony Horowitz, Magpie Murders
771 L<Announced on 2018-06-18 by Sawyer X|http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/251204>
773 These had been his plans. But if there was one thing that life had
774 taught him, it was the futility of making plans. Life had its own
777 =head2 v5.28.0-RC2 - Oliver Sacks, The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat: And Other Clinical Tales
779 L<Announced on 2018-06-06 by Sawyer X|http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/251122>
781 Had she not been of exceptional intelligence and literacy, with an
782 imagination filled and sustained, so to speak, by the images of
783 others, images conveyed by language, by the word, she might have
784 remained almost as helpless as a baby.
786 =head2 v5.28.0-RC1 - Anu Garg, A Word A Day
788 L<Announced on 2018-05-21 by Sawyer X|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/05/msg250999.html>
790 One doesn't have to know the unit of pain (dol) to realize that the
791 unit of joy is not the dollar, or any other currency for that matter.
793 =head2 v5.27.11 - Tana French, In the Woods
795 L<Announced on 2018-04-20 by Sawyer X|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/04/msg250571.html>
797 And then, too, I had learned early to assume something dark and
798 lethal hidden at the heart of anything I loved. When I couldn't find
799 it, I responded, bewildered and wary, in the only way I knew how: by
800 planting it there myself.
802 =head2 v5.27.10 - Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, p. 248
804 L<Announced on 2018-03-20 by Todd Rinaldo|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/03/msg250042.html>
806 A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher
807 a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts,
808 build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders,
809 cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure,
810 program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly.
811 Specialization is for insects.
813 =head2 v5.27.9 - Agatha Christie, "The Mysterious Affair at Styles"
815 L<Announced on 2018-02-20 by Renee Bäcker|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/02/msg249549.html>
817 Poirot was an extraordinary looking little man. He was hardly more
818 than five feet, four inches, but carried himself with great dignity.
819 His head was exactly the shape of an egg, and he always perched it
820 a little on one side. His moustache was very stiff and military.
821 The neatness of his attire was almost incredible. I believe a
822 speck of dust would have caused him more pain than a bullet wound.
823 Yet this quaint dandified little man who, I was sorry to see, now
824 limped badly, had been in his time one of the most celebrated members
825 of the Belgian police. As a detective, his flair had been extraordinary,
826 and he had achieved triumphs by unravelling some of the most baffling
828 He pointed out to me the little house inhabited by him and his fellow
829 Belgians, and I promised to go and see him at an early date. Then he
830 raised his hat with a flourish to Cynthia, and we drove away.
831 "He's a dear little man," said Cynthia. "I'd no idea you knew him."
832 "You've been entertaining a celebrity unawares," I replied.
833 And, for the rest of the way home, I recited to them the various
834 exploits and triumphs of Hercule Poirot.
836 =head2 v5.27.8 - Jasper Fforde, "Shades of Grey"
838 L<Announced on 2018-01-20 by Abigail|http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/248914>
840 2.4.16.55.021: Males are to wear dresscode #6 during inter-Collective
841 travel. Hats are encouraged, but not required.
843 9.3.88.32.025: The cucumber and tomato are both fruit; the avocado
844 is a nut. To assist with the dietary requirements of vegetarians,
845 on the first Tuesday of the month a chicken is officially a vegetable.
847 5.3.21.01.002: Once allocated, postcodes are permanent, and for life.
849 6.1.02.11.235: Artifacture from before the Something That Happened
850 may be collected, so long it does not appear on the Leapback list
851 or possess color above 23 percent saturation.
853 2.3.06.02.087: Unnecessary sharpening of pencils constitutes a waste
854 of public resources, and will be punished as appropriate.
856 2.1.01.05.002: All children are to attent school until the age of
857 sixteen or until they have learned everything, whichever be the sooner.
859 1.3.02.06.023: There shall be no staring at the sun, however good
862 1.1.19.02.006: Team sports are mandatory in order to build character.
863 Character is there to give purpose to team sports.
865 2.3.03.01.006: Juggling shall not be practiced after 4:00 pm.
868 =head2 v5.27.7 - Terry Pratchett, "Hogfather"
870 L<Announced on 2017-12-20 by Chris 'BinGOs' Williams|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/12/msg248274.html>
872 Death looked at the sacks.
874 It was a strange but demonstrable fact that the sacks of
875 toys carried by the Hogfather, no matter what they
876 really contained, always appeared to have sticking out
877 of the top a teddy bear, a toy soldier in the kind of
878 colorful uniform that would stand out in a disco, a
879 drum and a red-and-white candy cane. The actual
880 contents always turned out to be something a bit
881 garish and costing $5.99.
883 Death had investigated one or two. There had been a
884 Real Agatean Ninja, for example, with Fearsome
885 Death Grip, and a Captain Carrot One-Man Night
886 Watch with a complete wardrobe of toy weapons, each
887 of which cost as much as the original wooden doll in
890 Mind you, the stuff for the girls was just as
891 depressing. It seemed to be nearly all horses. Most of
892 them were grinning. Horses, Death felt, shouldn't grin.
894 Any horse that was grinning was planning something.
896 =head2 v5.27.6 - Ogden Nash, "Behold the Duck"
898 L<Announced on 2017-11-20 by Karen Etheridge|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/11/msg247489.html>
905 It is 'specially fond
907 when it dines or sups
911 =head2 v5.27.5 - Frank Birch, Dilly Knox & G. P. Mackeson, "Alice in I.D.25"
913 L<Announced on 2017-10-20 by Steve Hay|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/10/msg246785.html>
915 'Can I do anything?' Alice suggested timidly, thinking that something
916 dreadful must have happened.
917 The Waterflap jumped as if it had been shot. 'What are you doing
918 here?' it snapped. 'Take this at once into the Directional room,' and it
919 thrust the paper which had caused all the fuss into her hands.
920 'But where is the Directional room?' she inquired, bewildered.
921 'Why, there of course,' howled the Waterflap, pointing to a door.
922 'How could I possibly know that!' Alice exclaimed, angered by his
924 'Silly girl,' it hissed. 'Why, it's called the Directional room
925 because it's in that direction,' and it pushed her roughly through the
928 =head2 v5.27.4 - Richard Brautigan, "All Watched Over By Machines Of Loving Grace"
930 L<Announced on 2017-09-20 by John SJ Anderson|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/09/msg246371.html>
933 the sooner the better!)
934 of a cybernetic meadow
935 where mammals and computers
936 live together in mutually
943 of a cybernetic forest
944 filled with pines and electronics
945 where deer stroll peacefully
947 as if they were flowers
948 with spinning blossoms.
952 of a cybernetic ecology
953 where we are free of our labors
954 and joined back to nature,
955 returned to our mammal
956 brothers and sisters,
958 by machines of loving grace.
960 =head2 v5.27.3 - Rodgers and Hammerstein, "You'll Never Walk Alone"
962 L<Announced on 2017-08-21 by Matthew Horsfall|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/08/msg245988.html>
964 When you walk through a storm
965 Hold your head up high
966 And don't be afraid of the dark
968 At the end of a storm
970 And the sweet silver song of a lark
972 Walk on through the wind
973 Walk on through the rain
974 Though your dreams be tossed and blown
977 With hope in your heart
978 And you'll never walk alone
980 You'll never walk alone
983 With hope in your heart
984 And you'll never walk alone
986 You'll never walk alone
988 =head2 v5.27.2 - Lev Grossman, Codex
990 L<Announced on 2017-07-20 by Aaron Crane|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/07/msg245585.html>
992 He went back for another stack of books: a three-volume English legal
993 treatise; a travel guide to Tuscany from the '20s crammed with faded
994 Italian wildflowers that fluttered out from between the pages like
995 moths; a French edition of Turgeniev so decayed that it came apart in
996 his hands; a register of London society from 1863. In a way it was
997 idiotic. He was treating these books like they were holy relics. It
998 wasn't like he would ever actually read them. But there was something
999 magnetic about them, something that compelled respect, even the silly
1000 ones, like the Enlightenment treatise about how lightning was caused
1001 by bees. They were information, data, but not in the form he was used
1002 to dealing with it. They were non-digital, nonelectrical chunks of
1003 memory, not stamped out of silicon but laboriously crafted out of wood
1004 pulp and ink, leather and glue. Somebody had cared enough to write
1005 these things; somebody else had cared enough to buy them, possibly
1006 even read them, at the very least keep them safe for 150 years,
1007 sometimes longer, when they could have vanished at the touch of a
1008 spark. That made them worth something, didn't it, just by itself?
1009 Though most of them would have bored him rigid the second he cracked
1010 them open, which there wasn't much chance of. Maybe that was what he
1011 found so appealing: the sight of so many books that he'd never have to
1012 read, so much work he'd never have to do.
1014 =head2 v5.27.1 - Rona Munro, Doctor Who: Survival
1016 L<Announced on 2017-06-20 by Eric Herman|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/06/msg245055.html>
1018 There are worlds out there where the sky is burning,
1019 where the sea's asleep and the rivers dream,
1020 people made of smoke and cities made of song.
1021 Somewhere there's danger,
1022 somewhere there's injustice
1023 and somewhere else the tea is getting cold.
1024 Come on, Ace, we've got work to do.
1026 =head2 v5.27.0 - Bertrand Russell, The Road to Happiness
1028 L<Announced on 2017-05-31 by Sawyer X|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/05/msg244580.html>
1030 People who have theories as to how one should live tend to forget the
1031 limitations of nature. If your way of life involves constant
1032 restraint of impulse for the sake of some one supreme aim that you
1033 have set yourself, it is likely that the aim will become increasingly
1034 distasteful because of the efforts that it demands; impulse, denied
1035 its normal outlets, will find others, probably in spite; pleasure, if
1036 you allow yourself any at all, will be dissociated from the main
1037 current of your life, and will become Bacchic and frivolous. Such
1038 pleasure brings no happiness, but only a deeper despair.
1040 -- Bertrand Russell, The Road to Happiness
1042 =head2 v5.26.3 - Humphrey Burton, "Leonard Bernstein"
1044 L<Announced on 2018-11-29 by Steve Hay|http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/11/msg252974.html>
1046 The origins of the name "Bernstein" are sometimes linked with the German
1047 noun Bernstein, which means "amber"--a translucent yellowish fossilized
1048 resin, used for ornaments and thought to possess magical properties.
1049 Leonard Bernstein would later call himself "Lenny Amber" when he needed
1050 a pseudonym for the popular piano transcriptions he published in his
1051 mid-twenties, and his business affairs would be organized within a
1052 company called Amberson Enterprises. There are several towns and
1053 villages named Bernstein in Germany and Austria (where the pronunciation
1054 is BernSTINE), but Bernstein's parents came from Jewish ghettos in
1055 northwestern Ukraine, where the last syllable is usually pronounced
1056 BernSHTAYN or STEEN. Sam insisted, however, on the mid-European style
1057 employed by the earlier immigrants.
1059 =head2 v5.26.2 - Desmond Morris, "Catwatching: The Essential Guide to Cat Behaviour"
1061 L<Announced on 2018-04-14 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/04/msg250440.html>
1063 How does a cat use its whiskers? The usual answer is that the whiskers
1064 are feelers that enable a cat to tell whether a gap is wide enough for
1065 it to squeeze through, but the truth is more complicated and more
1066 remarkable. In addition to their obvious role as feelers sensitive to
1067 touch, the whiskers also operate as air-current detectors. As the cat
1068 moves along in the dark it needs to manoeuvre past solid objects without
1069 touching them. Each solid object it approaches causes slight eddies in
1070 the air, minute disturbances in the currents of air movements, and the
1071 cat's whiskers are so amazingly sensitive that they can read these air
1072 changes and respond to the presence of solid obstacles even without
1075 =head2 v5.26.2-RC1 - Desmond Morris, "Catwatching: The Essential Guide to Cat Behaviour"
1077 L<Announced on 2018-03-24 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/03/msg250103.html>
1079 Cats have a way of endearing themselves to their owners, not just by
1080 their 'kittenoid' behaviour, which stimulates strong parental feelings,
1081 but also by their sheer gracefulness. There is an elegance and a
1082 composure about them that captivates the human eye. To the sensitive
1083 human being it becomes a privilege to share a room with a cat, exchange
1084 its glance, feel its greeting rub, or watch it gently luxuriate itself
1085 into a snoozing ball on a soft cushion.
1087 =head2 v5.26.1 - Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
1089 L<Announced on 2017-09-22 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/09/msg246408.html>
1091 And soon I heard a roaring wind:
1092 It did not come anear;
1093 But with its sound it shook the sails,
1094 That were so thin and sere.
1096 The upper air burst into life!
1097 And a hundred fire-flags sheen,
1098 To and fro they were hurried about!
1099 And to and fro, and in and out,
1100 The wan stars danced between.
1102 =head2 v5.26.1-RC1 - Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
1104 L<Announced on 2017-09-10 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/09/msg246202.html>
1106 At length did cross an Albatross,
1107 Thorough the fog it came;
1108 As if it had been a Christian soul,
1109 We hailed it in God's name.
1111 It ate the food it ne'er had eat,
1112 And round and round it flew.
1113 The ice did split with a thunder-fit;
1114 The helmsman steered us through!
1116 And a good south wind sprung up behind;
1117 The Albatross did follow,
1118 And every day, for food or play,
1119 Came to the mariner's hollo!
1121 In mist or cloud, on mast or shroud,
1122 It perched for vespers nine;
1123 Whiles all the night, through fog-smoke white,
1124 Glimmered the white Moon-shine.'
1126 'God save thee, ancient Mariner!
1127 From the fiends, that plague thee thus!—
1128 Why look'st thou so?'—With my cross-bow
1129 I shot the ALBATROSS.
1131 =head2 v5.26.0 - Nine Simone, Ain't Got No / I Got Life
1133 L<Announced on 2017-05-30 by Sawyer X|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/05/msg244573.html>
1136 And I'm gonna keep it
1138 And nobody's gonna take it away
1141 =head2 v5.26.0-RC2 - Richard Condon, The Manchurian Candidate
1143 L<Announced on 2017-05-23 by Sawyer X|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/05/msg244511.html>
1145 Amateur psychiatric prognosis can be fascinating when there is
1146 absolutely nothing else to do.
1148 =head2 v5.26.0-RC1 - Thomas Paine, Common Sense
1150 L<Announced on 2017-05-11 by Sawyer X|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/05/msg244337.html>
1152 A long habit of not thinking a thing WRONG, gives it a superficial
1153 appearance of being RIGHT, and raises at first a formidable outcry in
1154 defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more
1155 converts than reason.
1157 =head2 v5.25.12 - Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
1159 L<Announced on 2017-04-20 by Sawyer X|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/04/msg244146.html>
1161 I have told my sons that they are not under any circumstances to take
1162 part in massacres, and that the news of massacres of enemies is not
1163 to fill them with satisfaction or glee.
1165 I have also told them not to work for companies which make massacre
1166 machinery, and to express contempt for people who think we need
1167 machinery like that.
1169 =head2 v5.25.11 - Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow
1171 L<Announced on 2017-03-20 by Sawyer X|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/03/msg243624.html>
1173 Subjective confidence in a judgment is not a reasoned evaluation of
1174 the probability that this judgment is correct. Confidence is a
1175 feeling, which reflects the coherence of the information and the
1176 cognitive ease of processing it. It is wise to take admissions of
1177 uncertainty seriously, but declarations of high confidence mainly
1178 tell you that an individual has constructed a coherent story in his
1179 mind, not necessarily that the story is true.
1181 =head2 v5.25.10 - Erich Fried, 1968
1183 L<Announced on 2017-02-20 by Renee Bäcker|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/02/msg243173.html>
1185 He who wants the world to remain as it is
1186 doesn't want it to remain.
1188 =head2 v5.25.9 - A. A. Milne, "Winnie-the-Pooh", 1926
1190 L<Announced on 2017-01-20 by Abigail|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/01/msg242405.html>
1192 Pooh always liked a little something at eleven o'clock in the
1193 morning, and he was very glad to see Rabbit getting out the plates
1194 and mugs; and when Rabbit said, "Honey or condensed milk with
1195 your bread?" he was so excited that he said, "Both," and then,
1196 so as not to seem greedy, he added, "But don't bother about the
1199 =head2 v5.25.8 - Langston Hughes, So long
1201 L<Announced on 2016-12-20 by Sawyer X|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/12/msg241739.html>
1205 and it's in the way you're gone
1206 but it's like a foreign language
1208 and maybe was I blind
1214 =head2 v5.25.7 - J.R.R. Tolkien, "The Silmarillion"
1216 L<Announced on 2016-11-20 by Chad 'Exodist' Granum|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/11/msg241120.html>
1218 Of Beren and Lúthien
1220 Among the tales of sorrow and of ruin that come down to us from the darkness of
1221 those days there are yet some in which amid weeping there is joy and under the
1222 shadow of death light that endures. And of these histories most fair still in
1223 the ears of the Elves is the tale of Beren and Lúthien. Of their lives was made
1224 the Lay of Leithian, Release from Bondage, which is the longest save one of the
1225 songs concerning the world of old; but here is told in fewer words and without
1228 =head2 v5.25.6 - Alan Warner, "The Sopranos"
1230 L<Announced on 2016-10-10 by Aaron Crane|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/10/msg240406.html>
1232 I'm up on all the pop trivia, says the guy with the stud in his tongue.
1234 Yes. Do you know who the lead singer of Echo and the Bunnymen is?
1235 Let me guess, is he called Echo?
1236 Good guess but no, anyway when they played Glastonbury it was so
1237 muddy he had two roadies to hold up a binliner on each of his legs so
1238 they wouldn't get covered in mud.
1239 That's what being rich and famous is all about, having someone
1240 else hold up your binliners on each leg when you're wandering across
1242 Do you know what Sammy Davis Junior said being black and famous in
1245 He said being black and famous in America meant he could be
1246 refused entry to exclusive clubs and restaurants that other people
1247 could only ever dream of going to. Do you know Michael Stipe likes to
1248 send his remote control toy cars onto stage while his support band are
1249 playing to freak them out?
1250 Who's Michael Stipe?
1251 You're not really a pop trivia person, are you, Kylah?
1252 No, I'm not, Stephen.
1254 =head2 v5.25.5 - Philip K. Dick, VALIS
1256 L<Announced on 2016-09-20 by Stevan Little|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/09/msg239887.html>
1258 We hypostatize information into objects. Rearrangement of objects is
1259 change in the content of the information; the message has changed.
1260 This is a language which we have lost the ability to read. We ourselves
1261 are a part of this language; changes in us are changes in the content
1262 of the information. We ourselves are information-rich; information
1263 enters us, is processed and is then projected outward once more, now
1264 in an altered form. We are not aware that we are doing this, that in
1265 fact this is all we are doing
1267 =head2 v5.25.4 - Terry Pratchett, "Truckers"
1269 L<Announced on 2016-08-20 by Chris 'BinGOs' Williams|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/08/msg239191.html>
1271 Concerning Nomes and Time
1273 Nomes are small. On the whole, small creatures don't live for a long
1274 time. But perhaps they do live fast.
1278 One of the shortest-lived creatures on the planet Earth is the adult
1279 common mayfly. It lasts for one day. The longest-living things are
1280 bristlecone pine trees, at 4,700 years and still counting.
1282 This may seem tough on the mayflies. But the important thing is not
1283 how long your life is, but how long it seems.
1285 To a mayfly, a single hour may last as long as a century. Perhaps
1286 old mayflies sit around complaining about how life this minute isn't a
1287 patch on the good old minutes of long ago, when the world was
1288 young and the sun seemed so much brighter and larvae showed you a
1289 bit of respect. Whereas the trees, which are not famous to their
1290 quick reactions, may just have time to notice the way the sky keeps
1291 flickering before the dry rot and woodworm set in.
1293 It's all a sort of relativity. The faster you live, the more time
1294 stretches out. To a nome, a year lasts as long as ten years does to a
1295 human. Remember it. Don't let it concern you. They don't. They don't
1298 =head2 v5.25.3 - Edward Lear, ed. Vivien Noakes, "The Complete Nonsense and Other Verse": The Dong with a Luminous Nose
1300 L<Announced on 2016-07-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/07/msg238158.html>
1302 When awful darkness and silence reign
1303 Over the great Gromboolian plain,
1304 Through the long, long wintry nights; -
1305 When the angry breakers roar
1306 As they beat on the rocky shore; -
1307 When Storm-clouds brood on the towering heights
1308 Of the Hills of the Chankly Bore: -
1310 Then, through the vast and gloomy dark,
1311 There moves what seems a fiery spark,
1312 A lonely spark with silvery rays
1313 Piercing the coal-black night, -
1314 A Meteor strange and bright: -
1315 Hither and thither the vision strays,
1316 A single lurid light.
1318 Slowly it wanders, - pauses, - creeps, -
1319 Anon it sparkles, - flashes and leaps;
1320 And ever as onward it gleaming goes
1321 A light on the Bong-tree stems it throws.
1322 And those who watch at that midnight hour
1323 From Hall or Terrace, or lofty Tower,
1324 Cry, as the wild light passes along, -
1325 'The Dong! - the Dong!
1326 The wandering Dong through the forest goes!
1328 The Dong with a luminous Nose!'
1330 =head2 v5.25.2 - Dan le Sac Vs Scroobius Pip "Waiting For The Beat To Kick In"
1332 L<Announced on 2016-06-20 by Matthew Horsfall|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/06/msg237274.html>
1334 Waiting for the beat to kick in
1336 Waiting for my feet to grow wings
1338 All of these tiresome things
1339 That we know and love
1340 Waiting for the beat to kick in
1343 =head2 v5.25.1 - Eli Pariser, "The Filter Bubble"
1345 L<Announced on 2016-05-20 by Sawyer X|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/05/msg236566.html>
1347 Imagine that you're a smart high school student on the low end of the social
1348 totem pole. You're alienated from adult authority, but unlike many teenagers,
1349 you're also alienated from the power structures of your peers -- an existence
1350 that can feel lonely and peripheral. Systems and equations are intuitive, but
1351 people aren't -- social signals are confusing and messy, difficult to interpret.
1353 Then you discover code. You may be powerless at the lunch table, but code
1354 gives you power over an infinitely malleable world and opens the door to a
1355 symbolic system that's perfectly clear and ordered. The jostling for position
1356 and status fades away. The nagging parental voices disappear. There's just a
1357 clean, white page for you to fill, an opportunity to build a better place, a
1358 home, from the ground up.
1360 No wonder you're a geek.
1362 =head2 v5.25.0 - Robert Frost, "The Trial by Existence"
1364 L<Announced on 2016-05-09 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/05/msg236244.html>
1366 Even the bravest that are slain
1367 Shall not dissemble their surprise
1368 On waking to find valor reign,
1369 Even as on earth, in paradise;
1370 And where they sought without the sword
1371 Wide fields of asphodel fore’er,
1372 To find that the utmost reward
1373 Of daring should be still to dare.
1375 =head2 v5.24.4 - Desmond Morris, "Catwatching: The Essential Guide to Cat Behaviour"
1377 L<Announced on 2018-04-14 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/04/msg250439.html>
1379 Cats hate doors. Doors simply do not register in the evolutionary story
1380 of the cat family. They constantly block patrolling activities and
1381 prevent cats from exploring their home range and then returning to their
1382 central, secure base at will. Humans often do not understand that a cat
1383 needs to make only a brief survey of its territory before returning with
1384 all the necessary information about the activities of other cats in the
1385 vicinity. It likes to make these tours of inspection at frequent
1386 intervals, but does not want to stay outside for very long, unless there
1387 has been some special and unexpected change in the condition of the
1388 local feline population.
1390 =head2 v5.24.4-RC1 - Desmond Morris, "Catwatching: The Essential Guide to Cat Behaviour"
1392 L<Announced on 2018-03-24 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/03/msg250102.html>
1394 The domestic cat is a contradiction. No animal has developed such an
1395 intimate relationship with mankind, while at the same time demanding and
1396 getting such independence of movement and action. The dog may be man's
1397 best friend, but it is rarely allowed out on its own to wander from
1398 garden to garden or street to street. The obedient dog has to be taken
1399 for a walk. The headstrong cat walks alone.
1401 =head2 v5.24.3 - Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
1403 L<Announced on 2017-09-22 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/09/msg246407.html>
1405 Oh sleep! it is a gentle thing,
1406 Beloved from pole to pole!
1407 To Mary Queen the praise be given!
1408 She sent the gentle sleep from Heaven,
1409 That slid into my soul.
1411 The silly buckets on the deck,
1412 That had so long remained,
1413 I dreamt that they were filled with dew;
1414 And when I awoke, it rained.
1416 =head2 v5.24.3-RC1 - Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
1418 L<Announced on 2017-09-10 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/09/msg246201.html>
1420 'And now the STORM-BLAST came, and he
1421 Was tyrannous and strong:
1422 He struck with his o'ertaking wings,
1423 And chased us south along.
1425 With sloping masts and dipping prow,
1426 As who pursued with yell and blow
1427 Still treads the shadow of his foe,
1428 And forward bends his head,
1429 The ship drove fast, loud roared the blast,
1430 And southward aye we fled.
1432 And now there came both mist and snow,
1433 And it grew wondrous cold:
1434 And ice, mast-high, came floating by,
1435 As green as emerald.
1437 And through the drifts the snowy clifts
1438 Did send a dismal sheen:
1439 Nor shapes of men nor beasts we ken—
1440 The ice was all between.
1442 The ice was here, the ice was there,
1443 The ice was all around:
1444 It cracked and growled, and roared and howled,
1445 Like noises in a swound!
1447 =head2 v5.24.2 - Roald Dahl, "The Three Little Pigs"
1449 L<Announced on 2017-07-15 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/07/msg245527.html>
1451 A short while later, through the wood,
1452 Came striding brave Miss Riding Hood.
1453 The Wolf stood there, his eyes ablaze
1454 And yellowish, like mayonnaise.
1455 His teeth were sharp, his gums were raw,
1456 And spit was dripping from his jaw.
1457 Once more the maiden's eyelid flickers.
1458 She draws the pistol from her knickers.
1459 Once more, she hits the vital spot,
1460 And kills him with a single shot.
1461 Pig, peeping through the window, stood
1462 And yelled, 'Well done, Miss Riding Hood!'
1464 Ah, Piglet, you must never trust
1465 Young ladies from the upper crust.
1466 For now, Miss Riding Hood, one notes,
1467 Not only has two wolfskin coats,
1468 But when she goes from place to place,
1469 She has a PIGSKIN TRAVELLING CASE.
1471 =head2 v5.24.2-RC1 - Roald Dahl, "The Three Little Pigs"
1473 L<Announced on 2017-07-01 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/07/msg245292.html>
1475 The animal I really dig
1476 Above all others is the pig.
1477 Pigs are noble. Pigs are clever,
1478 Pig are courteous. However,
1479 Now and then, to break this rule,
1480 One meets a pig who is a fool.
1481 What, for example, would you say
1482 If strolling through the woods one day,
1483 Right there in front of you you saw
1484 A pig who'd built his house of STRAW?
1485 The Wolf who saw it licked his lips,
1486 And said, 'That pig has had his chips.'
1488 =head2 v5.24.1 - Charles Dodgson [as "Lewis Carroll"], "The Hunting of the Snark", Fit 4: The Hunting
1490 L<Announced on 2017-01-14 by Steve Hay|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/01/msg242259.html>
1492 The Bellman looked uffish, and wrinkled his brow.
1493 'If only you'd spoken before!
1494 It's excessively awkward to mention it now,
1495 With the Snark, so to speak, at the door!
1497 'We should all of us grieve, as you well may believe,
1498 If you never were met with again -
1499 But surely, my man, when the voyage began,
1500 You might have suggested it then?
1502 'It's excessively awkward to mention it now -
1503 As I think I've already remarked.'
1504 And the man they called 'Hi!' replied, with a sigh,
1505 'I informed you the day we embarked.
1507 'You may charge me with murder - or want of sense -
1508 (We are all of us weak at times):
1509 But the slightest approach to a false pretence
1510 Was never among my crimes!
1512 'I said it in Hebrew - I said it in Dutch -
1513 I said it in German and Greek:
1514 But I wholly forgot (and it vexes me much)
1515 That English is what you speak!'
1517 ''Tis a pitiful tale,' said the Bellman, whose face
1518 Had grown longer at every word:
1519 'But, now that you've stated the whole of your case,
1520 More debate would be simply absurd.
1522 'The rest of my speech' (he exclaimed to his men)
1523 'You shall hear when I've leisure to speak it.
1524 But the Snark is at hand, let me tell you again!
1525 'Tis your glorious duty to seek it!
1527 =head2 v5.24.1-RC5 - John Milton, ed. Gordon Campbell, "Paradise Regained", Book IV
1529 L<Announced on 2017-01-02 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/01/msg242016.html>
1531 Thus passed the night so foul, till Morning fair
1532 Came forth with pilgrim steps, in amice grey;
1533 Who with her radiant finger stilled the roar
1534 Of thunder, chased the clouds, and laid the winds,
1535 And grisly spectres, which the fiend had raised
1536 To tempt the Son of God with terrors dire.
1537 And now the sun with more effectual beams
1538 Had cheered the face of earth, and dried the wet
1539 From drooping plant, or dropping tree; the birds,
1540 Who all things now behold more fresh and green,
1541 After a night of storm so ruinous,
1542 Cleared up their choicest notes in bush and spray,
1543 To gratulate the sweet return of morn.
1545 =head2 v5.24.1-RC4 - John Milton, ed. Gordon Campbell, "Paradise Lost", Book II
1547 L<Announced on 2016-10-12 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/10/msg240224.html>
1549 Before the gates there sat
1550 On either side a formidable shape;
1551 The one seemed woman to the waste, and fair,
1552 But ended foul in many a scaly fold,
1553 Voluminous and vast -- a serpent armed
1554 With mortal sting; about her middle round
1555 A cry of hell hounds never ceasing barked
1556 With wide Cerberean mouths full loud, and rung
1557 A hideous peal; yet, when they list, would creep,
1558 If aught disturbed their noise, into her womb,
1559 And kennel there; yet there still barked and howled
1560 Within unseen. Far less abhorred than these
1561 Vexed Scylla, bathing in the sea that parts
1562 Calabria from the hoarse Trinacrian shore;
1563 Nor uglier follow the night-hag, when, called
1564 In secret, riding through the air she comes,
1565 Lured with the smell of infant blood, to dance
1566 With Lapland witches, while the labouring moon
1567 Eclipses at their charms. The other shape --
1568 If shape it might be called that shape had none
1569 Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb;
1570 Or substance might be called that shadow seemed,
1571 For each seemed either -- black it stood as night,
1572 Fierce as ten Furies, terrible as hell,
1573 And shook a dreadful dart: what seemed his head
1574 The likeness of a kingly crown had on.
1575 Satan was now at hand, and from his seat
1576 The monster moving onward came as fast
1577 With horrid strides; hell trembled as he strode.
1579 =head2 v5.24.1-RC3 - Dante Alighieri, trans. Dorothy L. Sayers and Barbara Reynolds, "The Divine Comedy", Cantica III: Paradise, Canto XXIII
1581 L<Announced on 2016-08-11 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/08/msg238909.html>
1583 A bird within the bower of her delight,
1584 Quiet upon the nest with her sweet brood
1585 Throughout the dark concealment of the night,
1587 Anxious to look on them and gather food -
1588 No weary task for her, for as at play
1589 Blithely she toils to seek her fledglings' good -
1591 Before the time, upon the topmost spray
1592 Eager awaits the sun and on the East
1593 Fixes her wakeful eye till break of day.
1595 =head2 v5.24.1-RC2 - Dante Alighieri, trans. Dorothy L. Sayers, "The Divine Comedy", Cantica II: Purgatory, Canto X
1597 L<Announced on 2016-07-25 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/07/msg238269.html>
1599 When we had crossed the threshold of that gate
1600 Which the soul's evil loves put out of use,
1601 Because they make the crooked path seem straight,
1603 I heard its closing clang ring clamorous,
1604 And had I then turned back my eyes to it
1605 How could my fault have found the least excuse?
1607 We had to climb now through a rocky slit
1608 Which ran from side to side in many a swerve,
1609 As runs the wave in onset and retreat.
1611 "Now here," the master said, "we must observe
1612 Some little caution, hugging now this wall,
1613 Now that, upon the far side of the curve."
1615 =head2 v5.24.1-RC1 - Dante Alighieri, trans. Dorothy L. Sayers, "The Divine Comedy", Cantica I: Hell, Canto XX
1617 L<Announced on 2016-07-17 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/07/msg238072.html>
1619 New punishments behoves me sing in this
1620 Twentieth canto of my first canticle,
1621 Which tells of spirits sunk in the Abyss.
1623 I now stood ready to observe the full
1624 Extent of the new chasm thus laid bare,
1625 Drenched as it was in tears most miserable.
1627 Through the round vale I saw folk drawing near,
1628 Weeping and silent, and at such slow pace
1629 As Litany processions keep, up here.
1631 And presently, when I had dropped my gaze
1632 Lower than the head, I saw them strangely wried
1633 'Twixt collar-bone and chin, so that the face
1635 Of each was turned towards his own backside,
1636 And backwards must they needs creep with their feet,
1637 All power of looking forward being denied.
1639 =head2 v5.24.0 - Robert Frost, "The Black Cottage"
1641 L<Announced on 2016-05-09 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/05/msg236242.html>
1643 As I sit here, and oftentimes, I wish
1644 I could be monarch of a desert land
1645 I could devote and dedicate forever
1646 To the truths we keep coming back and back to.
1647 So desert it would have to be, so walled
1648 By mountain ranges half in summer snow,
1649 No one would covet it or think it worth
1650 The pains of conquering to force change on.
1651 Scattered oases where men dwelt, but mostly
1652 Sand dunes held loosely in tamarisk
1653 Blown over and over themselves in idleness.
1654 Sand grains should sugar in the natal dew
1655 The babe born to the desert, the sand storm
1656 Retard mid-waste my cowering caravans—
1658 “There are bees in this wall.” He struck the clapboards,
1659 Fierce heads looked out; small bodies pivoted.
1660 We rose to go. Sunset blazed on the windows.
1662 =head2 v5.24.0-RC5 - The Mountain Goats, "No Children"
1664 L<Announced on 2016-05-04 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/05/msg236198.html>
1666 And I hope when you think of me years down the line
1667 You can't find one good thing to say
1668 And I'd hope that if I found the strength to walk out
1669 You'd stay the hell out of my way
1671 I am drowning, there is no sign of land
1672 You are coming down with me, hand in unlovable hand
1674 =head2 v5.24.0-RC4 - The Joker in "The Killing Joke"
1676 L<Announced on 2016-05-02 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/05/msg236145.html>
1678 "See, there were these two guys in a lunatic asylum…"
1680 =head2 v5.24.0-RC3 - Jesse Vincent
1682 L<Announced on 2016-04-27 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/04/msg236066.html>
1684 The Great Pumpkin is a Santa-Claus like figure. He does bring toys like
1685 Santa. But unlike Santa, who gives away toys because it's his job, he
1686 gives away toys because it's the right thing to do.
1688 =head2 v5.24.0-RC2 - Joseph Heller, "Catch-22"
1690 L<Announced on 2016-04-23 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/04/msg235999.html>
1692 “How do you feel, Yossarian?”
1694 “Fine. No, I’m very frightened.”
1696 “That’s good,” said Major Danby. “It proves you’re still alive. It won’t
1699 Yossarian started out. “Yes it will.”
1701 “I mean it, Yossarian. You’ll have to keep on your toes every minute of
1702 every day. They’ll bend heaven and earth to catch you.”
1704 “I’ll keep on my toes every minute.”
1706 “You’ll have to jump.”
1710 “Jump!” Major Danby cried.
1714 Nately’s [girl] was hiding just outside the door. The knife came down,
1715 missing him by inches, and he took off.
1717 =head2 v5.24.0-RC1 - Robert Frost, "The Census-Taker"
1719 L<Announced on 2016-04-14 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/04/msg235807.html>
1721 Nothing was left to do that I could see
1722 Unless to find that there was no one there
1723 And declare to the cliffs too far for echo,
1724 "The place is desert, and let whoso lurks
1725 In silence, if in this he is aggrieved,
1726 Break silence now or be forever silent.
1727 Let him say why it should not be declared so."
1728 The melancholy of having to count souls
1729 Where they grow fewer and fewer every year
1730 Is extreme where they shrink to none at all.
1731 It must be I want life to go on living.
1733 =head2 v5.23.9 - Tom Kitchin, "from nature to plate"
1735 L<Announced on 2016-03-20 by Abigail|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/03/msg235251.html>
1739 Spring is the proper beginning of my kitchen and a season that I
1740 look forward to with great anticipation. By the time spring arrives
1741 I am desperate to welcome all the spring produce into my kitchen
1742 and I long to work with fresh green vegetables again. As much as I
1743 love root vegetables, such as celeriac and parsnips, and the heaver
1744 meat and game dishes, I'm ready to leave those behind with winter
1745 and begin a new adventure.
1747 Somehow spring always gives me a little bit of bounce in my feet
1748 -- I feel like I want to kick off my shoes and dance around in my
1749 kitchen. Not that I do, of course, but I feel lighter somehow. My
1750 adrenalin kicks in with spring and so does the level of excitement,
1751 as I think about all the produce that is about to come in.
1753 The moment spring arrives I'm eager to cook peas, broad beans, green
1754 asparagus and other fresh vegetables! I want to create lighter,
1755 brighter dishes and I can't wait to get my hands on the first greens
1756 and the first morels, not to mention the first wild Scottish salmon.
1757 Thanks to my network of trusted suppliers, I always get to first
1758 produce of the season delivered to my restaurant as soon as it is
1759 possible. I want my customers to experience and understand the
1760 beauty of locally grown produce and to try things the minute they
1761 are available so they can taste how incredibly fresh the ingredients
1762 are. I also want them to understand the relationship between
1763 seasonality and flavours. One of the most important things to
1764 remember is to allow the seasons to inspire your dishes and help
1765 you make natural matches. Wild spring herbs, such as sorrel, sweet
1766 cicely and wild garlic, as well as spring salad leaves and green
1767 lettuce served with wild salmon, wild sea trout, lamb or rabbit are
1768 marriages made in heaven.
1771 =head2 v5.23.8 - Patrick Rothfuss, "The Wise Man's Fear (The Kingkiller's Chronicle: Day Two)"
1773 L<Announced on 2016-02-20 by Sawyer X|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/02/msg234535.html>
1775 Denna, on the other hand, had never been trained. She knew nothing
1776 of shortcuts. You'd think she'd be forced to wander the city, lost and
1777 helpless, trapped in a twisting maze of mortared stone.
1779 But instead, she simply walked throught the walls. She didn't know
1780 any better. Nobody had ever told her she couldn't. Because of this,
1781 she moved through the city like some faerie creature. She walked roads
1782 no one else could see, and it made her music wild and strange and
1785 =head2 v5.23.7 - William Gibson, "Neuromancer"
1787 L<Announced on 2016-01-20 by Stevan Little|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/01/msg233856.html>
1789 A year here and he still dreamed of cyberspace, hope fading
1790 nightly. All the speed he took, all the turns he'd taken and
1791 the corners he cut in Night City, and he'd still see the matrix
1792 in his dreams, bright lattices of logic unfolding across that
1793 colourless void...The Sprawl was a long, strange way home now
1794 over the Pacific, and he was no Console Man, no cyberspace
1795 cowboy. Just another hustler, trying to make it through. But
1796 the dreams came on in the Japanese night like livewire voodoo,
1797 and he'd cry for it, cry in his sleep, and wake alone in the
1798 dark, curled in his capsule in some coffin hotel, hands clawed
1799 into the bedslab, temper foam bunched between his fingers,
1800 trying to reach the console that wasn't there.
1802 =head2 v5.23.6 - 5.23 Episode VII
1804 L<Announced on 2015-12-21 by David Golden|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/12/msg233475.html>
1806 A long time ago in microseconds, in a galaxy not very far away...
1812 unrest as separatists
1813 announce their intentions
1814 to fork PERL and return the
1815 galaxy to speed and stability.
1817 Chancellor Rik Hoolian struggles
1818 to hold together the remains of the
1819 once mighty Republic against a tide of
1820 incivility and the depredations of a new
1821 foe, the FUZZ RAIDERS.
1823 Meanwhile, after 15 years of preparation and
1824 high expectations, Supreme Leader Toady prepares
1825 to unleash a devastating new weapon, PERL SIXDOTOH,
1826 that could splinter the Republic forever and usher in
1827 a new Empire of gradual typing....
1829 =head2 v5.23.5 - utastro!nather (Ed Nather), "The Story of Mel", in net.jokes, May 21, 1983.
1831 L<Announced on 2015-11-20 by Abigail|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/11/msg232758.html>
1833 After Mel had left the company for greener pa$ture$, the Big Boss asked
1834 me to look at the code and see if I could find the test and reverse it.
1835 Somewhat reluctantly, I agreed to look. Tracking Mel's code was a real
1838 I have often felt that programming is an art form, whose real value can
1839 only be appreciated by another versed in the same arcane art; there are
1840 lovely gems and brilliant coups hidden from human view and admiration,
1841 sometimes forever, by the very nature of the process. You can learn a
1842 lot about an individual just by reading through his code, even in
1843 hexadecimal. Mel was, I think, an unsung genius.
1845 Perhaps my greatest shock came when I found an innocent loop that had
1846 no test in it. No test. None. Common sense said it had to be a closed
1847 loop, where the program would circle, forever, endlessly. Program
1848 control passed right through it, however, and safely out the other side.
1849 It took me two weeks to figure it out.
1851 The RPC-4000 computer had a really modern facility called an index
1852 register. It allowed the programmer to write a program loop that used
1853 an indexed instruction inside; each time through, the number in the
1854 index register was added to the address of that instruction, so it
1855 would refer to the next datum in a series. He had only to increment
1856 the index register each time through. Mel never used it.
1858 Instead, he would pull the instruction into a machine register, add one
1859 to its address, and store it back. He would then execute the modified
1860 instruction right from the register. The loop was written so this
1861 additional execution time was taken into account -- just as this
1862 instruction finished, the next one was right under the drum's read head,
1863 ready to go. But the loop had no test in it.
1865 The vital clue came when I noticed the index register bit, the bit that
1866 lay between the address and the operation code in the instruction word,
1867 was turned on -- yet Mel never used the index register, leaving it zero
1868 all the time. When the light went on it nearly blinded me.
1870 He had located the data he was working on near the top of memory -- the
1871 largest locations the instructions could address -- so, after the last
1872 datum was handled, incrementing the instruction address would make it
1873 overflow. The carry would add one to the operation code, changing it to
1874 the next one in the instruction set: a jump instruction. Sure enough,
1875 the next program instruction was in address location zero, and the
1876 program went happily on its way.
1878 =head2 v5.23.4 - Denis Diderot, trans. David Coward, "Jacques the Fatalist"
1880 L<Announced on 2015-10-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/10/msg232040.html>
1882 Well, everybody's got a dog. The prime minister is the king's dog. The
1883 first secretary is the prime minister's dog. A wife is a husband's dog,
1884 or a husband is a wife's dog. Favourite is Madame So-and-so's dog and
1885 Thibaut is the man on the corner's dog. When my Master tells me to talk
1886 when I'd prefer not to, which to be honest doesn't happen very often,
1887 when he tells me to shut up when I feel like talking, which I find very
1888 difficult, when he asks me to tell the story of my love-life and then
1889 keeps interrupting, what am I if not his dog? Weak men are the dogs of
1892 =head2 v5.23.3 - Oliver Wendell Holmes, "The Deacon’s Masterpiece or The Wonderful 'One-Hoss Shay': A Logical Story"
1894 L<Announced on 2015-09-20 by Peter Martini|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/09/msg231173.html>
1896 Little of of all we value here
1897 Wakes on the morn of its hundredth year
1898 Without both feeling and looking queer.
1899 In fact, there’s nothing that keeps its youth,
1900 So far as I know, but a tree and truth.
1901 (This is a moral that runs at large;
1902 Take it. — You’re welcome. — No extra charge.)
1904 =head2 v5.23.2 - Blind Guardian, "Skalds and Shadows"
1906 L<Announced on 2015-08-20 by Matthew Horsfall|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/08/msg230298.html>
1908 Would you believe in a night like this
1909 A night like this, when visions come true
1910 Would you believe in a tale like this
1911 A lay of bliss, praise in the old lore
1912 Come to the blazing fire and
1914 See me in the shadows
1915 See me in the shadows
1918 Just hand me my harp
1919 This night turns into myth
1922 The world we live in is another skald's
1923 Dream in the shadows
1924 Dream in the shadows
1926 Do you believe there is sense in it
1927 Is it truth or myth?
1928 They´re one in my rhymes
1929 Nobody knows the meaning behind
1931 Well nobody else but the Norns can
1932 See through the blazing fires of time and
1933 All things will proceed as the
1934 Child of the hallowed
1935 Will speak to you now
1937 See me in the shadows
1938 See me in the shadows
1939 Songs I will sing of tribes and kings
1940 The carrion bird and the hall of the slain
1943 The world we live in is another skald´s
1944 Dream in the shadows
1945 Dream in the shadows
1947 Do not fear for my reason
1948 There's nothing to hide
1949 How bitter your treason
1951 Remember the runes and remember the light
1952 All I ever want is to be at your side
1953 We'll gladden the raven now I will
1954 Run through the blazing fires
1956 Cause things shall proceed as foreseen
1958 =head2 v5.23.1 - Elizabeth Haydon, "The Assassin King"
1960 L<Announced on 2015-07-20 by Matthew Horsfall|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/07/msg229413.html>
1962 I was born beneath this willow,
1963 Where my sire the earth did farm
1964 Had the green grass as my pillow
1965 The east wind as a blanket warm.
1967 But away! away! called the wind from the west
1968 And in answer I did run
1969 Seeking glory and adventure
1970 Promised by the rising sun.
1972 I found love beneath this willow,
1973 As true a love as life could hold,
1974 Pledged my heart and swore my fealty
1975 Sealed with a kiss and a band of gold.
1977 But to arms! to arms! called the wind from the west
1978 In faithful answer I did run
1979 Marching forth for king and country
1980 In battles 'neath the midday sun.
1982 Oft I dreamt of that fair willow
1983 As the seven seas I plied
1984 And the girl who I left waiting
1985 Longing to be at her side.
1987 But about! about! called the wind from the west
1988 As once again my ship did run
1989 Down the coast, about the wide world
1990 Flying sails in the setting sun.
1992 Now I lie beneath the willow
1993 Now at last no more to roam,
1994 My bride and earth so tightly hold me
1995 In their arms I'm finally home.
1997 While away! away! calls the wind from the west
1998 Beyond the grave my spirit, free
1999 Will chase the sun into the morning
2000 Beyond the sky, beyond the sea.
2002 =head2 v5.23.0 - Bob Dylan, "Maggie's Farm"
2004 L<Announced on 2015-06-20 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/06/msg228807.html>
2006 I ain't gonna work on Maggie's farm no more
2007 I ain't gonna work on Maggie's farm no more
2009 To be just like I am
2010 But everybody wants you
2011 To be just like them
2012 They sing while you slave and I just get bored
2013 I ain't gonna work on Maggie's farm no more
2015 =head2 v5.22.4 - Roald Dahl, "Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf"
2017 L<Announced on 2017-07-15 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/07/msg245526.html>
2019 Then Little Red Riding Hood said, 'But Grandma,
2020 what a lovely great big furry coat you have on.'
2021 'That's wrong!' cried Wolf. 'Have you forgot
2022 'To tell me what BIG TEETH I've got?
2023 'Ah well, no matter what you say,
2024 'I'm going to eat you anyway.'
2025 The small girl smiles. One eyelid flickers.
2026 She whips a pistol from her knickers.
2027 She aims it at the creature's head
2028 And bang bang bang, she shoots him dead.
2030 A few weeks later, in the wood,
2031 I came across Miss Riding Hood.
2032 But what a change! No cloak of red,
2033 No silly hood upon her head.
2034 She said, 'Hello, and do please note
2035 'My lovely furry WOLFSKIN COAT.'
2037 =head2 v5.22.4-RC1 - Roald Dahl, "Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf"
2039 L<Announced on 2017-07-01 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/07/msg245293.html>
2041 As soon as Wolf began to feel
2042 That he would like a decent meal,
2043 He went and knocked on Grandma's door.
2044 When Grandma opened it, she saw
2045 The sharp white teeth, the horrid grin,
2046 And Wolfie said, 'May I come in?'
2047 Poor Grandmamma was terrified,
2048 'He's going to eat me up!' she cried.
2049 And she was absolutely right.
2050 He ate her up in one big bite.
2052 =head2 v5.22.3 - Charles Dodgson [as "Lewis Carroll"], "Phantasmagoria", Canto 6: Discomfyture
2054 L<Announced on 2017-01-14 by Steve Hay|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/01/msg242258.html>
2056 As one who strives a hill to climb,
2057 Who never climbed before:
2058 Who finds it, in a little time,
2059 Grow every moment less sublime,
2060 And votes the thing a bore:
2062 Yet, having once begun to try,
2063 Dares not desert his quest,
2064 But, climbing, ever keeps his eye
2065 On one small hut against the sky
2066 Wherein he hopes to rest:
2068 Who climbs till nerve and force are spent,
2069 With many a puff and pant:
2070 Who still, as rises the ascent,
2071 In language grows more violent,
2072 Although in breath more scant:
2074 Who, climbing, gains at length the place
2075 That crowns the upward track:
2076 And, entering with unsteady pace,
2077 Receives a buffet in the face
2078 That lands him on his back:
2080 And feels himself, like one in sleep,
2081 Glide swiftly down again,
2082 A helpless weight, from steep to steep,
2083 Till, with a headlong giddy sweep,
2084 He drops upon the plain -
2086 So I, that had resolved to bring
2087 Conviction to a ghost,
2088 And found it quite a different thing
2089 From any human arguing,
2090 Yet dared not quit my post.
2092 =head2 v5.22.3-RC5 - John Milton, ed. Gordon Campbell, "Paradise Regained", Book II
2094 L<Announced on 2017-01-02 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/01/msg242017.html>
2096 Thus wore out night; and now the herald lark
2097 Left his ground-nest, high towering to descry
2098 The Morn's approach, and greet her with his song;
2099 As lightly from his grassy couch up rose
2100 Our Saviour, and found all was but a dream;
2101 Fasting he went to sleep, and fasting waked.
2102 Up to a hill anon his steps he reared,
2103 From whose high top to ken the prospect round,
2104 If cottage were in view, sheep-cote, or herd;
2105 But cottage, herd, or sheep-cote, none he saw --
2106 Only in a bottom saw a pleasant grove,
2107 With chant of tuneful birds resounding loud;
2108 Thither he bent his way, determined there
2109 To rest at noon, and entered soon the shade,
2110 High-roofed and walks beneath, and alleys brown,
2111 That opened in the midst a woody scene;
2112 Nature's own work it seemed (Nature taught Art),
2113 And, to a superstitious eye, the haunt
2114 Of wood-gods and wood-nymphs.
2116 =head2 v5.22.3-RC4 - John Milton, ed. Gordon Campbell, "Paradise Lost", Book II
2118 L<Announced on 2016-10-12 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/10/msg240223.html>
2120 Far off from these, a slow and silent stream,
2121 Lethe, the river of oblivion, rolls
2122 Her watery labyrinth, whereof who drinks
2123 Forthwith his former state and being forgets --
2124 Forgets both joy and grief, pleasure and pain.
2125 Beyond this flood a frozen continent
2126 Lies dark and wild, beat with perpetual storms
2127 Of Whirlwind and dire hail, which on firm land
2128 Thaws not, but gathers heap, and ruin seems
2129 Of ancient pile; all else deep snow and ice,
2130 A gulf profound as that Serbonian bog
2131 Betwixt Damiata and Mount Casius old,
2132 Where armies whole have sunk: the parching air
2133 Burns frore, and cold performs the effect of fire.
2134 Thither, by harpy-footed Furies haled,
2135 At certain revolutions all the damned
2136 Are brought; and feel by turns the bitter change
2137 Of fierce extremes, extremes by change more fierce,
2138 From beds of raging fire to starve in ice
2139 Their soft ethereal warmth, and there to pine
2140 Immovable, infixed, and frozen round
2141 Periods of time -- thence hurried back to fire.
2142 They ferry over this Lethean sound
2143 Both to and fro, their sorrow to augment,
2144 And wish and struggle, as they pass, to reach
2145 The tempting stream, with one small drop to lose
2146 In sweet forgetfulness all pain and woe,
2147 All in one moment, and so near the brink;
2148 But fate withstands, and, to oppose the attempt,
2149 Medusa with Gorgonian terror guards
2150 The ford, and of itself the water flies
2151 All taste of living wight, as once it fled
2152 The lip of Tantalus.
2154 =head2 v5.22.3-RC3 - Dante Alighieri, trans. Dorothy L. Sayers and Barbara Reynolds, "The Divine Comedy", Cantica III: Paradise, Canto IV
2156 L<Announced on 2016-08-11 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/08/msg238908.html>
2158 Between two dishes, equally attractive
2159 And near to him, a free man, I suppose,
2160 Would starve to death before his teeth got active;
2162 So would a lamb 'twixt two fierce wolfish foes,
2163 Fearing the fangs both ways, not stir a foot;
2164 So would a deerhound halt between two does;
2166 So I can't blame myself for standing mute,
2167 Nor praise myself: for I must needs so do,
2168 Suspended 'twixt two doubts, alike acute.
2170 =head2 v5.22.3-RC2 - Dante Alighieri, trans. Dorothy L. Sayers, "The Divine Comedy", Cantica II: Purgatory, Canto I
2172 L<Announced on 2016-07-25 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/07/msg238270.html>
2174 For better waters heading with the wind
2175 My ship of genius now shakes out her sail
2176 And leaves that ocean of despair behind;
2178 For to the second realm I tune my tale,
2179 Where human spirits purge themselves, and train
2180 To leap up into joy celestial.
2182 Now from the grave wake poetry again,
2183 O sacred Muses I have served so long!
2184 Now let Calliope uplift her strain
2186 And lift my voice up on the mighty song
2187 That smote the miserable Magpies nine
2188 Out of all hope of pardon for their wrong!
2190 =head2 v5.22.3-RC1 - Dante Alighieri, trans. Dorothy L. Sayers, "The Divine Comedy", Cantica I: Hell, Canto XII
2192 L<Announced on 2016-07-17 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/07/msg238071.html>
2194 The place we came to, to descend the brink from,
2195 Was sheer crag; and there was a Thing there - making,
2196 All told, a prospect any eye would shrink from.
2198 Like the great landslide that rushed downward, shaking
2199 The bank of Adige on this side Trent,
2200 (Whether through faulty shoring or the earth's quaking)
2202 So that the rock, down from the summit rent
2203 Far as the plain, lies strewn, and one might crawl
2204 From top to bottom by that unsure descent,
2206 Such was the precipice; and there we spied,
2207 Topping the cleft that split the rocky wall,
2208 That which was wombed in the false heifer's side,
2210 The infamy of Crete, stretched out a-sprawl;
2211 And seeing us, he gnawed himself, like one
2212 Inly devoured with spite and burning gall.
2214 =head2 v5.22.2 - Gaston Leroux, trans. Mireille Ribière, "The Phantom of the Opera"
2216 L<Announced on 2016-04-29 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/04/msg236120.html>
2218 A silence; and then: 'If, in just two minutes' time by my watch--and a
2219 splendid watch it is--you have not turned the scorpion, mademoiselle, I
2220 shall turn the grasshopper... and the grasshopper, remember, _leaps
2221 straight up into the air!_'
2222 The silence that ensued was terrifying, worse than any we had
2223 experienced before. I knew that when Erik spoke with that quiet,
2224 gentle, slightly weary voice, it meant that he had reached the end of
2225 his tether: that he was capable of the most abominable crimes or the
2226 most selfless devotion; that the slightest irritation might unleash a
2228 Realizing that our fate was out of our hands, the Viscount fell to his
2229 knees and prayed. As for me, I pressed both hands to my chest, for my
2230 heart was pounding so fiercely that I thought it would burst. We were
2231 intensely aware of the excruciating dilemma Christine Daaé faced in
2232 those final seconds. We understood why she hesitated to turn the
2233 scorpion. What if the scorpion, rather than the grasshopper, were to
2234 set off the explosion? What if Erik was simply intent on destroying
2235 everything, regardless?
2236 At last he spoke: 'The two minutes are up,' he said in a soft, angelic
2237 voice. 'Goodbye, mademoiselle. Off you go, little grasshopper!'
2239 =head2 v5.22.2-RC1 - Gaston Leroux, trans. Mireille Ribière, "The Phantom of the Opera"
2241 L<Announced on 2016-04-10 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/04/msg235732.html>
2243 This annual ball was quite a magnificent affair. It was given some time
2244 before Shrovetide to celebrate the birthday of a famous illustrator
2245 whose pencil had immortalized, in the style of Gavarni, the extravagant
2246 carnival parade down La Courtille. As such, the ball was an altogether
2247 merrier, noisier and more Bohemian occasion than was usual for a masked
2248 ball. Many artists had arranged to meet there; they arrived with an
2249 entourage of models and pupils, who, by midnight, had become quite
2251 Raoul climbed the grand staircase at five minutes to midnight. He did
2252 not linger to admire the many-coloured costumes on display all the way
2253 up the marble steps of one of the most luxurious settings in the world;
2254 nor did he allow himself to be drawn into the facetious conversation of
2255 masked guests. He simply ignored all the jesting remarks, and shook off
2256 the attentions of several all too merry couples.
2257 Crossing the big crush-room and escaping from the dancers' farandole
2258 that had encircled him awhile, he at last entered the salon mentioned by
2259 Christine in her letter. The small room was crammed with people either
2260 on their way to supper at the restaurant in the Rotunda or back from
2261 raising a glass of champagne.
2262 In the midst of the gay and lively hubbub, Raoul thought that, for their
2263 mysterious assignation, Christine must have preferred this crowd to some
2265 He leaned against a door-jamb and waited. He did not have to wait long;
2266 a black domino passed him and deftly touched his hand. He understood
2267 that it was Christine and followed her.
2268 'Is that you, Christine?' he murmured, barely moving his slips.
2269 The black domino promptly looked back and raised her finger to her lips,
2270 no doubt to caution him against uttering her name again. Raoul followed
2273 =head2 v5.22.1 - Wilhelm Müller, trans. Anon., "Courage" (No. 22 in Schubert's song-cycle, "Winterreise")
2275 L<Announced on 2015-12-13 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/12/msg233318.html>
2277 If the snow flies in my face,
2278 Let me shake it off me!
2279 If my heart within me speaks,
2280 I'll sing bright and gaily!
2282 Will not listen what it says,
2283 Have no ears for moaning.
2284 Do not feel what it complains,--
2285 Only fools like groaning!
2287 Jolly brave into the world,
2288 'Gainst all wind and weather,--
2289 If there is no God on earth,
2290 Let 's be gods down nether!
2292 =head2 v5.22.1-RC4 - Wilhelm Müller, trans. Anon., "The Signpost" (No. 20 in Schubert's song-cycle, "Winterreise")
2294 L<Announced on 2015-12-08 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/12/msg233215.html>
2296 Why do I shun all those highways
2297 Which the other wanderer seeks?
2298 Why do I find bridged by-ways
2299 Through snow-covered deep creeks?
2301 For I have no crime committed,
2302 Why I should now run from men,--
2303 What demented heart's desire
2304 Drives me to a desert glen?
2306 Signposts on all highways stationed
2307 Point their signs toward the towns,
2308 Whilst I wonder 'yond moderation,
2309 Without rest, yet seeking rest!
2311 One such signpost I see planted
2312 Of my question unconcerned,
2313 One road must my choice be granted,
2314 Whence no man has yet returned!
2316 =head2 v5.22.1-RC3 - Wilhelm Müller, trans. Anon., "Stormy Morning" (No. 18 in Schubert's song-cycle, "Winterreise")
2318 L<Announced on 2015-12-02 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/12/msg233032.html>
2320 How the storm tore rents
2321 In heavens gray attired!
2322 The rags of cloud are flying
2323 Around, of combat tired.
2325 And flames of fire lambent,
2326 Fly between them and part,
2327 That 's what I call a morning,
2328 A morning after my heart!
2330 My heart sees in the heavens
2331 Its own picture unspoilt--
2332 It's nothing but the Winter,
2333 The Winter, cold and wild.
2335 =head2 v5.22.1-RC2 - Wilhelm Müller, trans. Anon., "The Old Head" (No. 14 in Schubert's song-cycle, "Winterreise")
2337 L<Announced on 2015-11-15 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/11/msg232632.html>
2339 The hoary frost has a white sheen
2340 Strewn all over my hair,
2341 So I thought I was an old man
2342 And thought life dealt me fair.
2344 Yet soon was thawed my old white mane,
2345 And I have my black hair again.
2346 How I abhor my young fair years,
2347 How long to wait for death and biers?
2349 From setting sun to morning's hue
2350 Many a head turns white.
2351 Who'll credit it? My hair did not
2352 In all this lifelong plight!
2354 =head2 v5.22.1-RC1 - Wilhelm Müller, trans. Anon., "Will-o'-the Wisp" (No. 9 in Schubert's song-cycle, "Winterreise")
2356 L<Announced on 2015-10-31 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/10/msg232321.html>
2358 In the deepest rocky crevice
2359 A will-o'-the wisp lured me;
2360 How I could find my way from here,
2361 For me it's easy memory!
2363 For I am used to straying ways,
2364 Every path to th'end a way,
2365 All our joys and all our suffering,--
2366 To a will-o'-the wisp it 's all play!
2368 Through the dried-up bed of torrents
2369 I quite calmly downward stroll;
2370 Every stream its sea will enter,
2371 Every suffering finds its goal!
2373 =head2 v5.22.0 - Gene Wolfe, The Citadel of the Autarch
2375 L<Announced on 2015-06-01 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/06/msg228300.html>
2377 “You are the advocate of the dead.”
2379 The old man nodded. “I am. People talk about being fair to this one and
2380 that one, but nobody I ever heard talks about doing right by them. We
2381 take everything they had, which is all right. And spit, most often, on
2382 their opinions, which I suppose is all right too. But we ought to
2383 remember now and then how much of what we have we got from them. I
2384 figure while I’m still here I ought to put a word in for them.”
2386 =head2 v5.22.0-RC2 - T.S. Eliot, unpublished work
2388 L<Announced on 2015-05-21 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/05/msg228142.html>
2390 And when thyself with silver foot shall pass
2391 Among the theories scattered on the grass
2392 Take up my good intentions with the rest
2394 =head2 v5.22.0-RC1 - Gene Wolfe, Citadel of the Autarch
2396 L<Announced on 2015-05-19 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/05/msg228059.html>
2398 There is no limit to stupidity. Space itself is said to be bounded by
2399 its own curvature, but stupidity continues beyond infinity.
2401 =head2 v5.21.11 - Algernon Charles Swinburne, "Dolores (Notre-Dame des Sept Douleurs)"
2403 L<Announced on 2015-04-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/04/msg227472.html>
2405 They shall pass and their places be taken,
2406 The gods and the priests that are pure.
2407 They shall pass, and shalt thou not be shaken?
2408 They shall perish, and shalt thou endure?
2409 Death laughs, breathing close and relentless
2410 In the nostrils and eyelids of lust,
2411 With a pinch in his fingers of scentless
2414 But the worm shall revive thee with kisses;
2415 Thou shalt change and transmute as a god,
2416 As the rod to a serpent that hisses,
2417 As the serpent again to a rod.
2418 Thy life shall not cease though thou doff it;
2419 Thou shalt live until evil be slain,
2420 And good shall die first, said thy prophet,
2423 =head2 v5.21.10 - Aldous Huxley, "The Devils of Loudun"
2425 L<Announced on 2015-03-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/03/msg226847.html>
2427 The fire burned on, the good fathers continued to sprinkle and intone.
2428 Suddenly a flock of pigeons came swooping down from the church and
2429 started to wheel around the roaring column of flame and smoke. The
2430 crowd shouted, the archers waved their halberds at the birds, Lactance
2431 and Tranquille splashed them on the wing with holy water. In vain. The
2432 pigeons were not to be driven away. Round and round they flew, diving
2433 through the smoke, singeing their feathers in the flames. Both parties
2434 claimed a miracle. For the parson's enemies the birds, quite obviously,
2435 were a troop of devils, come to fetch away his soul. For his friends,
2436 they were emblems of the Holy Ghost and living proof of his innocence.
2437 It never seems to have occurred to anyone that they were just pigeons,
2438 obeying the laws of their own, their blessedly other-than-human nature.
2440 =head2 v5.21.9 - Emily Dickinson, "There is Another Sky"
2442 L<Announced on 2015-02-20 by Sawyer X|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/02/msg226002.html>
2444 There is another sky,
2445 Ever serene and fair,
2446 And there is another sunshine,
2447 Though it be darkness there;
2448 Never mind faded forests, Austin,
2449 Never mind silent fields -
2450 Here is a little forest,
2451 Whose leaf is ever green;
2452 Here is a brighter garden,
2453 Where not a frost has been;
2454 In its unfading flowers
2455 I hear the bright bee hum:
2456 Prithee, my brother,
2457 Into my garden come!
2459 =head2 v5.21.8 - Bill Watterson, "Scientific Progress Goes 'Boink': A Calvin and Hobbes Collection"
2461 L<Announced on 2015-01-20 by Matthew Horsfall|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/01/msg224869.html>
2463 Calvin: OK Hobbes, press the button and duplicate me.
2464 Hobbes: Are you sure this is such a good idea?
2465 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?
2466 Hobbes: I'd hate to be accused of inhibiting scientific progress... Here you go.
2468 Hobbes: Scientific progress goes "BOINK"?
2469 Calvin?: It worked! It worked! I'm a genius!
2470 Cavlin??: No you're not, you liar! *I* invented this!
2472 =head2 v5.21.7 - Robert Heinlein, "The Number of the Beast"
2474 L<Announced on 2014-12-20 by Max Maischein|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/12/msg223774.html>
2476 "Zebadiah, Hilda and I salvaged and put everything into the basket.
2477 Hilda started to put it into our wardrobe-and it was heavy. So
2478 we looked. Packed as tight as when we left Oz. Six bananas-and
2479 everything else. Cross my heart. No, go look."
2480 "Hmmm- Jake, can you write equations for a picnic basket that
2481 refills itself? Will it go on doing so?"
2482 "Zeb, equations can be written to describe anything. The description
2483 would be simpler for a basket that replenishes itself indefinitely
2484 than for one that does it once and stops-I would have to describe
2487 =head2 v5.21.6 - Jeff Noon, "Vurt"
2489 L<Announced on 2014-11-20 by Chris 'BinGOs' Williams|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/11/msg222448.html>
2493 EXCHANGE MECHANISMS. Sometimes we lose precious
2494 things. Friends and colleagues, fellow travellers in the
2495 Vurt, sometimes we lose them; even lovers we sometimes
2496 lose. And get bad things in exchange: aliens, objects,
2497 snakes, and sometimes even death. Things we don't want.
2498 This is part of the deal, part of the game deal;
2499 all things, in all worlds, must be kept in balance.
2500 Kittlings often ask, who decides on the swappings? Now then,
2501 some say it's all accidental; that some poor Vurt thing
2502 finds himself too close to a door, at too critical a time,
2503 just when something real is being lost. Whoosh! Swap time!
2504 Others say that some kind of overseer is working the
2505 MECHANISMS OF EXCHANGE, deciding the fate of innocents.
2506 The Cat can only tease at this, because of the big secrets
2507 involved, and because of the levels between you, the reader,
2508 and me, the Game Cat. Hey, listen; I've struggled to get
2509 where I am today; why should I give you the easy route?
2510 Get working, kittlings! Reach up higher. Work the Vurt.
2512 =head2 v5.21.5 - Friso Wiegersma (text), Jean Ferrat (music), Wim Sonneveld (performer), "Het Dorp"
2514 L<Announced on 2014-10-20 by Abigail|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/10/msg221399.html>
2518 Thuis heb ik nog een ansichtkaart
2519 waarop een kerk, een kar met paard,
2520 een slagerij J. van der Ven.
2521 Een kroeg, een juffrouw op de fiets
2522 het zegt u hoogstwaarschijnlijk niets,
2523 maar 't is waar ik geboren ben.
2524 Dit dorp, ik weet nog hoe het was,
2525 de boerenkind'ren in de klas,
2526 een kar die ratelt op de keien,
2527 het raadhuis met een pomp ervoor,
2528 een zandweg tussen koren door,
2529 het vee, de boerderijen.
2531 En langs het tuinpad van m'n vader
2532 zag ik de hoge bomen staan.
2533 Ik was een kind en wist niet beter,
2534 dan dat dat nooit voorbij zou gaan.
2536 Wat leefden ze eenvoudig toen
2537 in simp'le huizen tussen groen
2538 met boerenbloemen en een heg.
2539 Maar blijkbaar leefden ze verkeerd,
2540 het dorp is gemoderniseerd
2541 en nu zijn ze op de goeie weg.
2542 Want ziet, hoe rijk het leven is,
2543 ze zien de televisiequiz
2544 en wonen in betonnen dozen,
2545 met flink veel glas, dan kun je zien
2546 hoe of het bankstel staat bij Mien
2547 en d'r dressoir met plastic rozen.
2549 En langs het tuinpad van m'n vader
2550 zag ik de hoge bomen staan.
2551 Ik was een kind en wist niet beter,
2552 dan dat dat nooit voorbij zou gaan.
2554 De dorpsjeugd klit wat bij elkaar
2555 in minirok en beatle-haar
2556 en joelt wat mee met beat-muziek.
2557 Ik weet wel, het is hun goeie recht,
2558 de nieuwe tijd, net wat u zegt,
2559 maar het maakt me wat melancholiek.
2560 Ik heb hun vaders nog gekend
2561 ze kochten zoethout voor een cent
2562 ik zag hun moeders touwtjespringen.
2563 Dat dorp van toen, het is voorbij,
2564 dit is al wat er bleef voor mij:
2565 een ansicht en herinneringen.
2567 Toen ik langs het tuinpad van m'n vader
2568 de hoge bomen nog zag staan.
2569 Ik was een kind, hoe kon ik weten
2570 dat dat voorgoed voorbij zou gaan.
2572 =head2 v5.21.4 - Edgar Allan Poe, "The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket"
2574 L<Announced on 2014-09-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/09/msg220267.html>
2576 To-day, being in latitude 83° 20', longitude 43° 5' W. (the sea being
2577 of an extraordinarily dark colour), we again saw land from the
2578 masthead, and, upon a closer scrutiny, found it to be one of a group
2579 of very large islands. The shore was precipitous, and the interior
2580 seemed to be well wooded, a circumstance which occasioned us great
2581 joy. In about four hours from our first discovering the land we came
2582 to anchor in ten fathoms, sandy bottom, a league from the coast, as a
2583 high surf, with strong ripples here and there, rendered a nearer
2584 approach of doubtful expediency. The two largest boats were now
2585 ordered out, and a party, well armed (among whome were Peters and
2586 myself), proceeded to look for an opening in the reef which appeared
2587 to encircle the island. After searching about for some time, we
2588 discovered an inlet, which we were entering, when we saw four large
2589 canoes put off from the shore, filled with men who seemed to be well
2590 armed. We waited for them to come up, and, as they moved with great
2591 rapidity, they were soon within hail. Captain Guy now held up a white
2592 handkerchief on the blade of an oar, when the strangers made a full
2593 stop, and commenced a loud jabbering all at once, intermingled with
2594 occasional shouts, in which we could distinguish the words Anamoo-moo!
2595 and Lama-Lama! They continued this for at least half an hour, during
2596 which we had a good opportunity of observing their appearance.
2598 =head2 v5.21.3 - Robert Service, "The Men that Don't Fit In"
2600 L<Announced on 2014-08-20 by Peter Martini|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/08/msg218826.html>
2602 If they just went straight they might go far,
2603 They are strong and brave and true;
2604 But they're always tired of the things that are,
2605 And they want the strange and new.
2606 They say: "Could I find my proper groove,
2607 What a deep mark I would make!"
2608 So they chop and change, and each fresh move
2609 Is only a fresh mistake.
2611 =head2 v5.21.2 - Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, Charlie Duke, Final minutes of communication of the first manned moon landing, July 20, 1969
2613 L<Announced on 2014-07-20 by Abigail|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/07/msg217937.html>
2615 Armstrong: Okay. Here's a...Looks like a good area here.
2616 Aldrin: I got the shadow out there.
2617 Aldrin: 250, down at 2 1/2, 19 forward.
2618 Aldrin: Altitude, velocity lights.
2619 Aldrin: 3 1/2 down, 220 feet, 13 forward.
2620 Aldrin: 11 forward. Coming down nicely.
2621 Armstrong: Gonna be right over that crater.
2622 Aldrin: 200 feet, 4 1/2 down.
2624 Armstrong: I got a good spot [garbled].
2625 Aldrin: 160 feet, 6 1/2 down.
2626 Aldrin: 5 1/2 down, 9 forward. You're looking good.
2628 Aldrin: 100 feet, 3 1/2 down, 9 forward. Five percent. Quantity light.
2629 Aldrin: Okay. 75 feet. And it's looking good. Down a half, 6 forward.
2632 Aldrin: 60 feet, down 2 1/2. 2 forward. 2 forward. That's good.
2633 Aldrin: 40 feet, down 2 1/2. Picking up some dust.
2634 Aldrin: 30 feet, 2 1/2 down. [Garbled] shadow.
2635 Aldrin: 4 forward. 4 forward. Drifting to the right a little. 20 feet,
2638 Aldrin: Drifting forward just a little bit; that's good.
2639 Aldrin: Contact Light.
2640 Armstrong: Shutdown.
2641 Aldrin: Okay. Engine Stop.
2642 Aldrin: ACA out of Detent.
2643 Armstrong: Out of Detent. Auto.
2644 Aldrin: Mode Control, both Auto. Descent Engine Command Override, Off.
2645 Engine Arm, Off. 413 is in.
2646 Duke: We copy you down, Eagle.
2647 Armstrong: Engine arm is off.
2648 Armstrong: Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed.
2649 Duke: Roger, Twan...[correcting himself] Tranquility. We copy you on
2650 the ground. You got a bunch of guys about to turn blue.
2651 We're breathing again. Thanks a lot.
2654 =head2 v5.21.1 - Robert Jordan, "The Crossroads of Twilights", Book 10 of "The Wheel of Time"
2656 L<Announced on 2014-06-20 by Matthew Horsfall|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/06/msg217030.html>
2658 We rode on the winds of the rising storm,
2659 We ran to the sounds of the thunder.
2660 We danced among the lightning bolts,
2661 and tore the world asunder.
2663 -- Anonymous fragment of a poem believed
2664 written near the end of the previous Age,
2665 known by some as the Third Age.
2666 Sometimes attributed to the Dragon
2669 =head2 v5.21.0 - Friedrich von Schiller, "The Song of the Bell"
2671 L<Announced on 2014-05-27 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/05/msg215826.html>
2673 Walled in fast within the earth
2674 Stands the form burnt out of clay.
2675 This must be the bell’s great birth!
2676 Fellows, lend a hand to-day.
2677 Sweat must trickle now
2678 From the burning brow,
2679 Till the work its master honour.
2680 Blessing comes from Heaven’s Donor.
2682 =head2 v5.20.3 - Elias Lönnrot, trans. Keith Bosley, "The Kalevala", Canto 42: Stealing the Sampo
2684 L<Announced on 2015-09-12 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/09/msg230945.html>
2686 Steady old Väinämöinen
2687 uttered a word and spoke thus:
2688 'No lilting on the waters
2689 and no singing on the waves!
2692 Precious day would pass and night
2693 would overtake us midway
2694 on these wide waters
2695 upon these vast waves.'
2697 The wanton Lemminkäinen
2698 uttered a word and spoke thus:
2699 'The time will pass anyway
2700 the fair day will flee
2701 and the night will come panting
2702 and the twilight will steal in
2703 if you don't sing while you live
2704 nor hum in this world.'
2706 =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"
2708 L<Announced on 2015-08-29 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/08/msg230544.html>
2710 'I fled from Basra, sad and tearful, with no idea where I was going,
2711 and I was reciting these lines:
2713 The pain of parting makes me melt away,
2714 As lovers do when those they love are harsh.
2715 I wonder at the patience that I showed
2716 When I had lost my love, for that was wonderful.
2717 Beloved, do you know that since you left,
2718 I have remained confused in misery.
2720 I then heard a voice that said: "Damn you, have you no fear of
2721 Almighty God that you hand over a girl to an unbelieving 'ifrit?" I
2722 walked for a time amongst the palm-trees until I caught sight of a
2723 person, whom I approached. When I asked him who he was he said: "I
2724 am one of the jinn who were converted to Islam at the hands of 'Ali
2725 ibn Abi Talib, may God ennoble him." "How can I get to my wife?" I
2726 asked him, and he said: "Wretched fellow, you had a bird which you
2727 allowed to fly away and now you want to fly after it." But he
2728 added: "Follow this road with God's blessing all night until dawn
2729 and then by the shore you will see a huge cave in which there is an
2730 idol made of white stone. You must drink of the water that there is
2731 coming out of the cave and smear your face with its mud. Stay there
2732 and a barge will pass you as you stand opposite the statue. Various
2733 different creatures will emerge, heads without bodies and bodies
2734 without heads, and they will prostrate themselves in adoration to
2735 the idol rather than to Almighty God. When you see that, embark on
2736 the barge and cross to the other bank and walk along it until
2737 sunset. On a high point you will see a castle built of bricks of
2738 gold and silver. That is where your 'ifrit will be. I have now
2739 told you about this, so goodbye."
2741 =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"
2743 L<Announced on 2015-08-22 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/08/msg230359.html>
2745 'On the night of the wedding the ape came to sit in front of me and
2746 asked me what I intended to do. "Whatever you tell me," I replied,
2747 and he said: "Take care not to covet the girl, or I shall come back
2748 and burn you up and leave you as a lesson for those who can learn."
2749 I agreed to this and when evening came I found the world full of
2750 candles and torches burning in holders of gold and silver. There
2751 were servants and serving girls, and everyone who saw me
2752 congratulated me on my good fortune, as there was no girl on the
2753 face of the earth more beautiful than my bride.
2755 'Next morning I went out to the market, and people went in and asked
2756 her how the night had been. "He never looked up at me," she told
2757 them. Then, when it was afternoon, I went to my house, where the
2758 ape was sitting by the door. "Tell me what you did," it said, and I
2759 told it: "By God, I did not learn and do not know whether this was a
2760 man or a girl." "That's what I want," it said.
2762 'On the second night my bride was brought to me, after which the
2763 servants left her and went away. She fell asleep, and, while she
2764 was sleeping, I killed the cock, wrapped it in the cloth and put the
2765 four poles from the couch over it. Suddenly there was a huge crash
2766 like a peal of thunder and a fiery 'ifrit swooped on the girl. I
2767 fainted at the sight and when I recovered I heard a voice saying:
2768 "By the Lord of the Ka'ba, the girl has been carried off!" and there
2769 was a sound like the rustling of wind and bitter weeping. At this I
2770 shed tears, struck my head and was filled with regret when it was no
2771 longer of any use, for to me the whole world was worth no more than
2774 =head2 v5.20.2 - Jonathan "Jonti" Picking, L<"Magical Trevor"|http://weebls-stuff.com/toons/magical-trevor-episode-01-animated-music-video-mrweebl/>
2776 L<Announced on 2015-02-14 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/02/msg225777.html>
2778 Everyone loves Magical Trevor,
2779 'Cos the tricks that he does are ever so clever;
2780 Look at him now, disappearin' the cow,
2781 Where is the cow hidden right now?
2783 Taking a bow, it's Magical Trevor,
2784 Everybody's seen that the trick is clever;
2785 Look at him there with his leathery, leathery whip!
2786 It's made of magic, and with a little flip--
2788 Yeah, yeah, yeah, the cow is back,
2789 Yeah, yeah, yeah, the cow is back;
2790 Back, back, back from his magical journey,
2793 What did he see in the parallel dimension?
2794 He saw beans, lots of beans, lots of beans, lots of beans;
2795 Oh, beans, lots of beans, lots of beans, lots of beans,
2798 =head2 v5.20.2-RC1 - Jonathan "Jonti" Picking, L<"Scampi"|http://weebls-stuff.com/toons/ive-seen-things-scampi-animated-music-video-mrweebl/>
2800 L<Announced on 2015-02-01 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/02/msg225273.html>
2803 I've seen them with my eyes;
2805 They're often in disguise.
2807 Like carrots, handbags, cheese, toilets,
2808 Russians, planets, hamsters, weddings,
2809 Poets, Stalin, Kuala Lumpur!
2810 Pygmies, budgies, Kuala Lumpur!
2813 I've seen them with my eyes;
2815 They're often in disguise.
2817 Like carrots, handbags, cheese...
2819 =head2 v5.20.1 - Lorenzo da Ponte, trans. Diana Reed, "Così fan tutte"
2821 L<Announced on 2014-09-14 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/09/msg219789.html>
2823 DORABELLA (as if waking from a daze): Where are they?
2824 DON ALFONSO: They've gone.
2825 FIORDILIGI: Oh, the cruel bitterness of parting!
2828 Take heart, my dearest children.
2829 Look, in the distance, your lovers are waving to you.
2831 FIORDILIGI: Bon voyage, my darling!
2832 DORABELLA: Bon voyage!
2835 O heavens! How swiftly the ship is sailing away!
2836 It is disappearing already!
2837 It is no longer in sight!
2838 Oh, may heaven grant it a prosperous voyage!
2840 DORABELLA: May good luck attend it to the battlefield!
2841 DON ALFONSO: And may your sweethearts and my friends be safe!
2843 FIORDILIGI, DORABELLA, DON ALFONSO:
2844 May the wind be gentle,
2845 may the sea be calm,
2846 and may the elements
2850 =head2 v5.20.1-RC2 - Lorenzo da Ponte, trans. William Weaver, "Così fan tutte"
2852 L<Announced on 2014-09-07 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/09/msg219446.html>
2855 Oh God, I feel that this foot of mine
2856 is reluctant to come before her.
2863 The hero displays his manliness
2864 in the most terrible moments.
2866 FIORDILIGI, DORABELLA:
2867 Now that we have heard the news,
2868 you have the lesser duty:
2869 Take heart, and plunge your swords
2870 into both our hearts.
2872 FERRANDO, GUGLIELMO:
2874 that I must abandon you.
2876 DORABELLA: Ah no, you shall not leave...
2877 FIORDILIGI: No, cruel one, you shall not go...
2878 DORABELLA: First I want to tear out my heart.
2879 FIORDILIGI: First I want to die at your feet.
2880 FERRANDO (softly to Don Alfonso): What do you say to that?
2881 GUGLIELMO (softly to Don Alfonso): You realise?
2882 DON ALFONSO (softly): Steady, friend, finem lauda.
2885 Thus destiny defrauds
2886 the hopes of mortals.
2887 Ah, among so many misfortunes,
2888 who can ever love life?
2890 =head2 v5.20.1-RC1 - Lorenzo da Ponte, trans. William Weaver, "Così fan tutte"
2892 L<Announced on 2014-08-25 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/08/msg218975.html>
2895 I'd like to speak, but I haven't the heart:
2897 My voice cannot emerge,
2898 but remains in my throat.
2899 What will you do? What shall I do?
2900 Oh what a great catastrophe!
2901 There can be nothing worse.
2902 I feel pity for you and for them.
2904 FIORDILIGI: Heavens! For mercy's sake, Signor Alfonso, don't make us
2906 DON ALFONSO: My children, you must arm yourselves with constancy.
2907 DORABELLA: Ye Gods! What evil has occurred? What horrible event? Is my
2909 FIORDILIGI: Is mine dead?
2910 DON ALFONSO: They are not dead, but they are not far from it.
2914 DON ALFONSO: Nor that.
2915 FIORDILIGI: What, then?
2916 DON ALFONSO: A royal command summons them to the field of battle.
2917 FIORDILIGI, DORABELLA: Alas, what do I hear? And they will leave?
2918 DON ALFONSO: Immediately.
2919 DORABELLA: And there is no way of preventing it?
2920 DON ALFONSO: There is none.
2921 FIORDILIGI: And not even a single farewell...
2922 DON ALFONSO: The unhappy men haven't the courage to see you; but if
2923 you wish it, they are ready...
2924 DORABELLA: Where are they?
2925 DON ALFONSO: Come in, friends.
2927 =head2 v5.20.0 - William Shakespeare, Sonnet 18
2929 L<Announced on 2014-05-27 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/05/msg215815.html>
2931 But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
2932 Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st;
2933 Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
2934 When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st:
2935 So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
2936 So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
2938 =head2 v5.20.0-RC1 - Lindsey Buckingham, "Second Hand News"
2940 L<Announced on 2014-05-17 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/05/msg215479.html>
2944 Won't you lay me down in tall grass
2945 And let me do my stuff
2947 =head2 v5.19.11 - Isidore-Lucien Ducasse [as "Comte de Lautréamont"], trans. Paul Knight, "Les Chants de Maldoror"
2949 L<Announced on 2014-04-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/04/msg214580.html>
2951 O rigorous mathematics, I have not forgotten you since your wise lessons,
2952 sweeter than honey, filtered into my heart like a refreshing wave.
2953 Instinctively, from the cradle, I had longed to drink from your source, older
2954 than the sun, and I continue to tread the sacred sanctuary of your solemn
2955 temple, I, the most faithful of your devotees. There was a vagueness in my
2956 mind, something thick as smoke; but I managed to mount the steps which lead to
2957 your altar, and you drove away this dark veil, as the wind blows the
2958 draught-board. You replaced it with excessive coldness, consummate prudence and
2959 implacable logic. With the aid of your fortifying milk, my intellect developed
2960 rapidly and took on immense proportions amid the ravishing lucidity which you
2961 bestow as a gift on all those who sincerely love you. Arithmetic! Algebra!
2962 Geometry! Awe-inspiring trinity! Luminous triangle! He who has not known you
2965 =head2 v5.19.10 - John Chadwick, "The Decipherment of Linear B"
2967 L<Announced on 2014-03-20 by Aaron Crane|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/03/msg213851.html>
2969 The urge to discover secrets is deeply ingrained in human nature; even
2970 the least curious mind is roused by the promise of sharing knowledge
2971 withheld from others. Some are fortunate enough to find a job which
2972 consists in the solution of mysteries, whether it be the physicist who
2973 tracks down a hitherto unknown nuclear particle or the policeman who
2974 detects a criminal. But most of us are driven to sublimate this urge
2975 by the solving of artificial puzzles devised for our entertainment.
2977 =head2 v5.19.9 - R. A. MacAvoy, "Tea with the Black Dragon"
2979 L<Announced on 2014-02-20 by Tony Cook|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/02/msg213047.html>
2981 Old hands. The smell of rain--the smell of Ch'an. Quiet words in
2982 rough Cantonese. "I am not to be your master. Your master has to be
2983 stronger than you are--has to tell you you are a fool and make you
2984 know it. And make you feel content in being a fool. How could I do
2985 that for you? I'm old. You are too strong for me; you are full of
2986 chi." The old man has paused then, huddled against the wind while
2987 clouds thickened above them.
2989 "I will tell you this, Long," he continued, "Before you find yourself
2990 you will lose your chi. Also you will leave behind you all pride of
2991 body, pride of mind. You will be reduced. Like me." The old man
2992 closed his eyes, and rain began to beat against his gray, crew-cut
2993 hair. He pulled his coat closer. Suddenly his eyes snapped open and
2994 he looked Long in the face.
2996 "You must leave China. Go across the ocean. There you will meet your
2997 master." He set down his teacup with a palsied hand. His voice rose,
3000 "I tell you this, most honored and impressive visitor. You are a
3001 fool, yes, but you will find the very thing you seek. You will find
3004 =head2 v5.19.8 - Joseph Heller, "Catch-22"
3006 L<Announced on 2014-01-20 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/01/msg211729.html>
3008 “I used to get a big kick out of saving people’s lives. Now I wonder what the
3009 hell’s the point, since they all have to die anyway.”
3011 “Oh, there’s a point, all right,” Dunbar assured him.
3013 “Is there? What is the point?”
3015 “The point is to keep them from dying for as long as you can.”
3017 “Yeah, but what’s the point, since they all have to die anyway?”
3019 “The trick is not to think about that.”
3021 “Never mind the trick. What the hell’s the point?”
3023 Dunbar pondered in silence for a few moments. “Who the hell knows?”
3025 =head2 v5.19.7 - Kurt Vonnegut, "Slaughterhouse-Five"
3027 L<Announced on 2013-12-20 by Abigail|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/12/msg210882.html>
3029 And somewhere in there was springtime. The corpse mines were closed
3030 down. The soldiers all left to fight the Russians. In the suburbs,
3031 the women and children dug rifle pits. Billy and the rest of his group
3032 were locked up in the stable in the suburbs. And then, one morning,
3033 they got up to discover that the door was unlocked. World War Two in
3036 Billy and the rest wandered out onto the shady street. The trees were
3037 leafing out. There was nothing going on out there, no traffic of any
3038 kind. There was only one vehicle, an abandoned wagon drawn by two
3039 horses. The wagon was green and coffin-shaped.
3043 One bird said to Billy Pilgrim, "Pee-tee-weet?"
3045 =head2 v5.19.6 - Monty Python's Flying Circus, "Spam"
3047 L<Announced on 2013-11-20 by Chris 'BinGOs' Williams|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/11/msg210043.html>
3049 Interior: cheap cafe. All the customers are Vikings. Mr and Mrs Bun enter downwards (on wires).
3053 Mr. Bun: What have you got, then?
3054 Waitress: Well there's egg and bacon; egg, sausage and bacon; egg and spam; egg, bacon and spam;
3055 egg, bacon, sausage and spam; spam, bacon, sausage and spam; spam, egg, spam, spam, bacon and spam;
3056 spam, spam, spam, egg and spam; spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, baked beans, spam, spam, spam and spam;
3057 or lobster thermidor aux crevettes, with a mornay sauce garnished with truffle pate, brandy and a fried
3059 Mrs. Bun: Have you got anything without spam in it?
3060 Waitress: Well, there's spam, egg, sausage and spam. That's not got MUCH spam in it.
3061 Mrs. Bun: I don't want ANY spam.
3062 Mr. Bun: Why can't she have egg, bacon, spam and sausage?
3063 Mrs. Bun: That's got spam in it!
3064 Mr. Bun: Not as much as spam, egg, sausage and spam.
3065 Mrs. Bun: Look, could I have egg, bacon, spam and sausage, without the spam.
3066 Waitress: Uuuuuuggggh!
3067 Mrs. Bun: What d'you mean, uugggh! I don't like spam.
3068 Vikings: (singing) Spam, spam, spam, spam, spam ... spam, spam, spam, spam ... lovely spam, wonderful spam ...
3070 (Brief shot of a Viking ship)
3072 Waitress: Shut up. Shut up! Shut up! You can't have egg, bacon, spam and sausage without the spam.
3074 Waitress: No, it wouldn't be egg, bacon, spam and sausage, would it?
3075 Mrs. Bun: I don't like spam!
3077 =head2 v5.19.5 - Charles Baudelaire, trans. James McGowan, "The Flowers of Evil", 51. The Cat
3079 L<Announced on 2013-10-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/10/msg208752.html>
3083 A cat is strolling through my mind
3084 Acting as though he owned the place,
3085 A lovely cat -- strong, charming, sweet.
3086 When he meows, one scarcely hears,
3088 So tender and discreet his tone;
3089 But whether he should growl or purr
3090 His voice is always rich and deep.
3091 That is the secret of his charm.
3093 This purling voice that filters down
3094 Into my darkest depths of soul
3095 Fulfils me like a balanced verse,
3096 Delights me as a potion would.
3098 It puts to sleep the cruellest ills
3099 And keeps a rein on ecstasies --
3100 Without the need for any words
3101 It can pronounce the longest phrase.
3103 Oh no, there is no bow that draws
3104 Across my heart, fine instrument,
3105 And makes to sing so royally
3106 The strongest and the purest chord,
3108 More than your voice, mysterious cat,
3109 Exotic cat, seraphic cat,
3110 In whom all is, angelically,
3111 As subtle as harmonious.
3115 From his soft fur, golden and brown,
3116 Goes out so sweet a scent, one night
3117 I might have been embalmed in it
3118 By giving him one little pet.
3120 He is my household's guardian soul;
3121 He judges, he presides, inspires
3122 All matters in hos royal realm;
3123 Might he be fairy? or a god?
3125 When my eyes, to this cat I love
3126 Drawn as by a magnet's force,
3127 Turn tamely back from that appeal,
3128 And when I look within myself,
3130 I notice with astonishment
3131 The fire of his opal eyes,
3132 Clear beacons glowing, living jewels,
3133 Taking my measure, steadily.
3135 =head2 v5.19.4 - Washington Irving, "The Widow and Her Son"
3137 L<Announced on 2013-09-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/09/msg207969.html>
3139 There is something in sickness that breaks down the pride of manhood;
3140 that softens the heart and brings it back to the feelings of infancy.
3141 Who that has languished, even in advanced life, in sickness and
3142 despondency — who that has pined on a weary bed in the neglect and
3143 loneliness of a foreign land — but has thought on the mother "that
3144 looked on his childhood," that smoothed his pillow and administered to
3145 his helplessness. — Oh! there is an enduring tenderness in the love
3146 of a mother to her son that transcends all other affections of the
3147 heart. It is neither to be chilled by selfishness — nor daunted by
3148 danger — nor weakened by worthlessness — nor stifled by ingratitude.
3149 She will sacrifice every comfort to his convenience — she will
3150 surrender every pleasure to his enjoyment — she will glory in his fame
3151 and exult in his prosperity. And if misfortune overtake him he will
3152 be the dearer to her from misfortune — and if disgrace settle upon his
3153 name, she will still love and cherish him in spite of his disgrace —
3154 and if all the world beside cast him off, she will be all the world to
3157 =head2 v5.19.3 - Andrew Hodges, "Alan Turing: The Enigma"
3159 L<Announced on 2013-08-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/08/msg206318.html>
3161 E.M. Forster, outdoing the King's heresy with grand bravura, had
3162 written in 1938 that if he were faced with the choice between
3163 betraying his country and betraying his friends, he hoped he would
3164 have the courage to betray his country. He would always put the
3165 personal above the political. But for Alan Turing, unlike Forster, or
3166 Wittgenstein, or G.H. Hardy, it was more than a theoretical question.
3167 For him not only had the personal become the political, but the
3168 political was the personal. He had chosen and promised for himself in
3169 working for the government. The choice for him therefore was that
3170 between betraying one part of himself and betraying another part. And
3171 however much he wavered between these alternatives, there was a solid
3172 logic to the mind of security, one that could not be expected to take
3173 an interest in notions of freedom and development. He had no rights
3174 to such things, as he would have had to admit. He might have
3175 outwitted the Home Guard, but when it came to questions that mattered,
3176 there was no doubt that he had placed himself under military law.
3177 There was a war on; there was always a war on now.
3179 =head2 v5.19.2 - Fred Brooks, "The Mythical Man-Month"
3181 L<Announced on 2013-07-22 by Aristotle Pagaltzis|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/07/msg204905.html>
3183 The magic of myth and legend has come true in our time. One types the
3184 correct incantation on a keyboard, and a display screen comes to life,
3185 showing things that never were nor could be. [...] Not all is delight,
3186 however [...] One must perform perfectly. The computer resembles the
3187 magic of legend in this respect, too. If one character, one pause, of
3188 the incantation is not strictly in proper form, the magic doesn't work.
3190 =head2 v5.19.1 - William Shakespeare, "A Midsummer Night's Dream"
3192 L<Announced on 2013-06-21 by David Golden|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/06/msg203449.html>
3194 Over hill, over dale,
3195 Thorough bush, thorough briar,
3196 Over park, over pale,
3197 Thorough flood, thorough fire,
3198 I do wander everywhere,
3199 Swifter than the moon's sphere;
3200 And I serve the fairy queen,
3201 To dew her orbs upon the green.
3202 The cowslips tall her pensioners be;
3203 In their gold coats, spots you see;
3204 Those be rubies, fairy favours,
3205 In their freckles live our savours.
3206 I must go seek some dew-drops here,
3207 And hang a perl in every cowslip's ear.
3208 Farewell, thou lob of spirits, I'll be gone;
3209 My queen and all her elves come here anon!
3211 =head2 v5.19.0 - Batman, of the Joker, in "The Dark Knight Returns"
3213 L<Announced on 2013-05-20 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/05/msg201980.html>
3215 From the beginning, I knew…
3216 …that there was nothing wrong with you…
3220 =head2 v5.18.4 - Robert W. Chambers, Cassilda's Song in "The King in Yellow," Act I, Scene 2
3222 L<Announced on 2014-10-01 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/10/msg220770.html>
3224 Along the shore the cloud waves break,
3225 The twin suns sink beneath the lake,
3226 The shadows lengthen
3229 Strange is the night where black stars rise,
3230 And strange moons circle through the skies
3231 But stranger still is
3234 Songs that the Hyades shall sing,
3235 Where flap the tatters of the King,
3239 Song of my soul, my voice is dead;
3240 Die thou, unsung, as tears unshed
3241 Shall dry and die in
3244 =head2 v5.18.3 - (no epigraph)
3248 =head2 v5.18.3-RC2 - Robert W. Chambers, "The King in Yellow", Act I, Scene 2
3250 L<Announced on 2014-09-27 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/09/msg220613.html>
3252 "Ah! I see it now!" I shrieked. "You have seized the throne and the
3253 empire. Woe! woe to you who are crowned with the crown of the King in
3256 =head2 v5.18.3-RC1 - Robert W. Chambers, "The King in Yellow", Act I, Scene 2
3258 L<Announced on 2014-09-17 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/09/msg220072.html>
3260 CAMILLA: You, sir, should unmask.
3264 CASSILDA: Indeed it's time. We all have laid aside disguise but you.
3266 STRANGER: I wear no mask.
3268 CAMILLA: (Terrified, aside to Cassilda.) No mask? No mask!
3270 =head2 v5.18.2 - Miss Manners
3272 L<Announced on 2014-01-06 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/01/msg211224.html>
3274 One of the major mistakes people make is that they think manners are
3275 only the expression of happy ideas. There's a whole range of behavior
3276 that can be expressed in a mannerly way. That's what civilization is all
3277 about – doing it in a mannerly and not an antagonistic way. One of the
3278 places we went wrong was the naturalistic Rousseauean movement of the
3279 Sixties in which people said, "Why can't you just say what's on your
3280 mind?" In civilization there have to be some restraints. If we followed
3281 every impulse, we'd be killing one another.
3283 =head2 v5.18.1 - Chuck Moore
3285 L<Announced on 2013-08-12 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/08/msg205897.html>
3287 The operating system is another concept that is curious. Operating
3288 systems are dauntingly complex and totally unnecessary. It’s a brilliant
3289 thing that Bill Gates has done in selling the world on the notion of
3290 operating systems. It’s probably the greatest con game the world has
3293 An operating system does absolutely nothing for you. As long as you had
3294 something — a subroutine called disk driver, a subroutine called some
3295 kind of communication support, in the modern world, it doesn’t do
3296 anything else. In fact, Windows spends a lot of time with overlays and
3297 disk management all stuff like that which are irrelevant. You’ve got
3298 gigabyte disks; you’ve got megabyte RAMs. The world has changed in a way
3299 that renders the operating system unnecessary.
3301 =head2 v5.18.1-RC1 - Chuck Moore
3303 L<Announced on 2013-08-02 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/08/msg205445.html>
3305 Compilers are probably the worst code ever written. They are written by
3306 someone who has never written a compiler before and will never do so
3307 again. The more elaborate the language, the more complex, bug-ridden,
3308 and unusable is the compiler. But a simple compiler for a simple
3309 language is an essential tool—if only for documentation.
3311 =head2 v5.18.0 - Yevgeny Zamyatin
3313 L<Announced on 2013-05-18 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/05/msg201940.html>
3315 It is an error to divide people into the living and the dead: there are people
3316 who are dead-alive, and people who are alive-alive. The dead-alive also write,
3317 walk, speak, act. But they make no mistakes; only machines make no mistakes,
3318 and they produce only dead things. The alive-alive are constantly in error, in
3319 search, in questions, in torment.
3321 =head2 v5.18.0-RC4 - Joseph Heller, "Catch-22"
3323 L<Announced on 2013-05-16 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/05/msg201889.html>
3325 Clevinger was dead. That was the basic flaw in his philosophy.
3327 =head2 v5.18.0-RC3 - Tom Waits, "The Ocean Doesn't Want Me"
3329 L<Announced on 2013-05-14 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/05/msg201823.html>
3331 I'd love to go drowning
3332 And to stay and to stay
3333 But the ocean doesn't want me today
3334 I'll go in up to here
3335 It can't possibly hurt
3336 All they will find is my beer
3339 =head2 v5.18.0-RC2 - Tom Waits, "Earth Died Screaming"
3341 L<Announced on 2013-05-12 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/05/msg201723.html>
3343 And the great day of wrath has come
3344 And here's mud in your big red eye
3345 The poker's in the fire
3346 And the locusts take the sky
3347 And the earth died screaming
3348 While I lay dreaming of you
3350 =head2 v5.18.0-RC1 - Tom Waits, "What's He Building in There?"
3352 L<Announced on 2013-05-11 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/05/msg201651.html>
3354 What's he building in there?
3356 We have a right to know…
3358 =head2 v5.17.11 - Nigel Tufnel in "This is Spın̈al Tap"
3360 L<Announced on 2013-04-20 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/04/msg201056.html>
3362 It's very special because, if you can see, the numbers all go to…
3363 eleven! Look, right across the board: eleven, eleven, eleven, eleven!
3365 =head2 v5.17.10 - Vernor Vinge, "A Fire Upon The Deep"
3367 L<Announced on 2013-03-23 by Max Maischein|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/03/msg200504.html>
3369 The archive informed the automation. Data structures were built, recipes
3370 followed. A local network was built, faster than anything on Straum, but surely
3371 safe. Nodes were added, modified by other recipes. The archive was a friendly
3372 place, with hierarchies of translation keys that led them along. Straum itself
3373 would be famous for this.
3375 Six months passed. A year.
3377 The omniscient view. Not self-aware really. Self-awareness is much over-rated.
3378 Most automation works far better as a part of a whole, and even if human-
3379 powerful, it does not need to self-know.
3381 =head2 v5.17.9 - Douglas Adams, "The Hitch-Hikers Guide to the Galaxy"
3383 L<Announced on 2013-02-20 by Chris 'BinGOs' Williams|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/02/msg199115.html>
3385 Vogon poetry is of course, the third worst in the universe.
3386 The second worst is that of the Azgoths of Kria. During a
3387 recitation by their poet master Grunthos the Flatulent of
3388 his poem 'Ode To A Small Lump of Green Putty I Found In My
3389 Armpit One Midsummer Morning' four of his audience died
3390 of internal haemorrhaging and the president of the
3391 Mid-Galactic Arts Nobbling Council survived by gnawing one
3392 of his own legs off. Grunthos is reported to have been
3393 'disappointed' by the poem's reception, and was about to
3394 embark on a reading of his twelve-book epic entitled
3395 'My Favourite Bathtime Gurgles' when his own major intestine,
3396 in a desperate attempt to save life and civilisation,
3397 leapt straight up through his neck and throttled his brain.
3399 The very worst poetry of all perished along with its creator
3400 Paula Nancy Millstone Jennings of Greenbridge, Essex, England,
3401 in the destruction of the planet Earth.
3403 =head2 v5.17.8 - Iain Pears, "An Instance of the Fingerpost"
3405 L<Announced on 2013-01-20 by Aaron Crane|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/01/msg197571.html>
3407 I must here declare myself as someone who does not for a moment subscribe to
3408 the general view that a willingness to perform oneself is detrimental to the
3409 dignity of experimental philosophy. There is, after all, a clear distinction
3410 between labour carried out for financial reward, and that done for the
3411 improvement of mankind: to put it another way, Lower as a philosopher was
3412 fully my equal even if he fell away when he became the practising physician.
3413 I think ridiculous of certain professors of anatomy, who find it beneath
3414 them to pick up the knife themselves, but merely comment while hired hands
3415 do the cutting. Sylvius would never have dreamt of sitting on a dais reading
3416 from an authority while others cut — when he taught, the knife was
3417 in his hand and the blood spattered his coat. Boyle also did not scruple to
3418 perform his own experiments and, on one occasion in my presence, even showed
3419 himself willing to anatomise a rat with his very own hands. Nor was he less
3420 a gentleman when he had finished. Indeed, in my opinion, his stature was all
3421 the greater, for in Boyle wealth, humility and curiosity mingled, and the
3422 world is richer for it.
3424 =head2 v5.17.7 - R. Scott Bakker, "The Darkness That Comes Before"
3426 L<Announced on 2012-12-18 by Dave Rolsky|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/12/msg196707.html>
3430 The boy extinguished. Only a place.
3434 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.
3436 A place without breath or sound. A place of sight alone. A place without before or after . . . almost.
3438 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.
3440 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 . . .
3442 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.
3444 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.
3446 I have been legion . . .
3448 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.
3452 =head2 v5.17.6 - Kurt Vonnegut, "The Sirens of Titan"
3454 L<Announced on 2012-11-20 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/11/msg195659.html>
3456 Beatrice, looking like a gypsy queen, smoldered at the foot of a statue
3457 of a young physical student. At first glance, the laboratory-gowned
3458 scientist seemed to be a perfect servant of nothing but truth. At first
3459 glance, one was convinced that nothing but truth could please him as he
3460 beamed at his test tube. At first glance, one thought that he was as
3461 much above the beastly concerns of mankind as the harmoniums in the
3462 caves of Mercury. There, at first glance, was a young man without
3463 vanity, without lust — and one accepted at its face value the title Salo
3464 had engraved on the statue, "Discovery of Atomic Power."
3466 =head2 v5.17.5 - Charles Stross, "Singularity Sky"
3468 L<Announced on 2012-10-20 by Florian Ragwitz|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/10/msg194349.html>
3470 Neither of them noticed the pair of polka-dotted knickers hiding
3471 behind the ventilation duct overhead, listening patiently and
3472 recording everything.
3474 =head2 v5.17.4 - Roald Dahl, "Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf"
3476 L<Announced on 2012-09-19 by Florian Ragwitz|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/09/msg192635.html>
3478 The small girl smiles. One eyelid flickers.
3479 She whips a pistol from her knickers.
3480 She aims it at the creature's head,
3481 And bang bang bang, she shoots him dead.
3483 A few weeks later, in the wood,
3484 I came across Miss Riding Hood.
3485 But what a change! No cloak of red,
3486 No silly hood upon her head.
3487 She said, "Hello, and do please note
3488 My lovely furry wolfskin coat."
3490 =head2 v5.17.3 - Kris Ta-belle, "Smoked Perl Onion Soup"
3492 L<Announced on 2012-08-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/08/msg190775.html>
3496 Cut 16 Perl Onions into quarters and put them in a grill smoker rack
3497 or a perforated pan over a BBQ using hickory wood chips or Special
3498 Blend Smoker Bisquettes. Smoke them for an hour and remove once they
3500 Let them cool and put them in the fridge (or freezer) until you are
3501 ready to create the soup.
3505 16 diced, pre-smoked, Perl Onions
3508 2 small garlic cloves, finely minced
3511 black pepper to taste
3513 1/4 cup all purpose flour
3514 6 cups of beef or vegetable stock
3515 1 cup of thick cream (milk can be used as a substitute)
3519 Melt the butter in a pan and then add olive oil.
3520 Heat and add the onions to caramelize over a medium-high heat for up
3522 Add the garlic, turn down the heat and cook for a further 5 minutes.
3523 Add the salt, pepper and sugar.
3524 Now add the red wine and reduce to a jam like consistency.
3525 Add the flour, stir well and add the stock a cup at a time.
3526 Simmer for 30 minutes, add the cream and heat to almost boiling.
3530 =head2 v5.17.2 - Terry Pratchet, "The Colour of Magic"
3532 L<Announced on 2012-07-21 by TonyC|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/07/msg189828.html>
3534 ‘I knew it,’ said Rincewind. ‘We're in a strong magical field.’
3536 Twoflower and Hrun looked around the little hollow where they had made
3537 their noonday halt. Then they looked at each other.
3539 The horses were quietly cropping the rich grass by the stream. Yellow
3540 butterflies skittered among the bushes. There was a smell of thyme
3541 and a buzzing of bees. The wild pigs on the spit sizzled gently.
3543 Hrun shrugged and went back to oiling his biceps. They gleamed.
3545 ‘Looks alright to me,’ he said.
3547 ‘Try tossing a coin,’ said Rincewind.
3551 ‘Go on. Toss a coin.’
3553 ‘Hokay,’ said Hrun. 'If that gives you any pleasure.’ He reached into
3554 his pouch and withdrew a handful of loose change plundered from a
3555 dozen realms. With some care he selected a Zchloty leaden
3556 quarter-iotum and balanced it on a purple thumbnail.
3558 ‘You call,’ he said. ‘Heads or—’ he inspected the obverse with
3559 an air of intense concentration, ‘some sort of a fish with legs.’
3561 ‘When it's in the air,’ said Rincewind. Hrun grinned and flicked his thumb.
3563 The iotum rose, spinning.
3565 ‘Edge,’ said Rincewind, without looking at it.
3567 =head2 v5.17.1 - Rand Miller, "Myst: The Book of Ti'ana"
3569 L<Announced on 2012-06-20 by doy|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/06/msg188354.html>
3571 On their return from Ko'ah, Aitrus had shown her the Book, patiently
3572 taking her through page after page, and showing her how such an Age was
3573 "made." She had seen at once the differences between this archaic form
3574 and the ordinary written speech of the D'ni, noting how it was not
3575 merely more elaborate but more specific: a language of precise yet
3576 subtle descriptive power. Yet seeing was one thing, believing another.
3577 Given all the evidence, her rational mind still fought against accepting
3580 =head2 v5.17.0 - Charles Stross, "Singularity Sky"
3582 L<Announced on 2012-05-26 by Zefram|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/05/msg187214.html>
3584 `Welcome, comrades!' Burya opened his arms toward the soldier.
3585 `Yes it is true! With help from our allies of the Festival, the iron
3586 hand of the reactionary junta is about to be overthrown for all time!
3587 The new economy is being born; the marginal cost of production has
3588 been abolished, and from now on, if any item is produced once, it can
3589 be replicated infinitely. From each according to his imagination,
3590 to each according to his needs! Join us or better still, bring your
3591 fellow soldiers and workers to join us!'
3593 There was a sharp bang from the roof of the Corn Exchange, right at the
3594 climax of his impromptu speech; heads turned in alarm. Something had
3595 broken inside the spork factory and a stream of rainbow-hued plastic
3596 implements fountained toward the sky and clattered to the cobblestones
3597 on every side, like a harbinger of the postindustrial society to come.
3598 Workers and peasants alike stared in open-mouthed bewilderment at this
3599 astounding display of productivity, then bent to scrabble in the muck
3600 for the brightly colored sporks of revolution. A volley of shots rang
3601 out and Burya Rubenstein raised his hands, grinning wildly, to accept
3602 the salute of the soldiers from the Skull Hill garrison.
3604 =head2 v5.16.3 - Devo, "Freedom of Choice"
3606 L<Announced on 2013-03-11 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/03/msg200009.html>
3608 A victim of collision on the open sea
3609 Nobody ever said that life was free
3610 Sink, swim, go down with the ship
3611 But use your freedom of choice
3613 =head2 v5.16.2 - Stanislaw Lem, "The Cyberiad", Trurl's Machine
3615 L<Announced on 2012-11-01 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/11/msg194915.html>
3617 Once upon a time Trurl the constructor built an eight-story thinking
3618 machine. When it was finished, he gave it a coat of white paint,
3619 trimmed the edges in lavender, stepped back, squinted, then added a
3620 little curlicue on the front and, where one might imagine the forehead
3621 to be, a few pale orange polkadots. Extremely pleased with himself,
3622 he whistled an air and, as is always done on such occasions, asked it
3623 the ritual question of how much is two plus two.
3625 The machine stirred. Its tubes began to glow, its coils warmed up,
3626 current coursed through all its circuits like a waterfall,
3627 transformers hummed and throbbed, there was a clanging, and a
3628 chugging, and such an ungodly racket that Trurl began to think of
3629 adding a special mentation muffler. Meanwhile the machine labored on,
3630 as if it had been given the most difficult problem in the Universe to
3631 solve; the ground shook, the sand slid underfoot from the vibration,
3632 valves popped like champagne corks, the relays nearly gave way under
3633 the strain. At last, when Trurl had grown extremely impatient, the
3634 machine ground to a halt and said in a voice like thunder: SEVEN!
3636 =head2 v5.16.1 - Emerald Rose, "Never Split The Party"
3638 L<Announced on 2012-08-08 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/08/msg190413.html>
3640 Don't you know? You never split the party
3641 Clerics in the back to keep those fighters hale and hearty
3642 The wizard in the middle, where he can shed some light
3643 And you never let that damn thief out of sight…
3645 =head2 v5.16.1-RC1 - Tom Moldvay, Foreward to the "Dungeons & Dragons Basic Rulebook"
3647 L<Announced on 2012-08-03 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/08/msg190264.html>
3649 I was busy rescuing the captured maiden when the dragon showed up.
3650 Fifty feed of scaled terror glared down at us with smoldering red eyes.
3651 Tendrils of smoke drifted out from between fangs larger than daggers.
3652 The dragon blocked the only exit from the cave.
3656 I unwrapped the sword which the mysterious cleric had given me. The
3657 sword was golden-tinted steel. Its hilt was set with a rainbow
3658 collection of precious gems. I shouted my battle cry and charged
3660 My charge caught the dragon by surprise. Its titanic jaws snapped shut
3661 inches from my face. I swung the golden sword with both arms. The
3662 swordblade bit into the dragon's neck and continued through to the other
3663 side. With an earth-shaking crash, the dragon dropped dead at my feet.
3664 The magic sword had saved my life and ended the reign of the
3665 dragon-tyrant. The countryside was freed and I could return as a hero.
3667 =head2 v5.16.0 - W.H. Auden, "September 1, 1939"
3669 L<Announced on 2012-05-20 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/05/msg186903.html>
3671 All I have is a voice
3672 To undo the folded lie,
3673 The romantic lie in the brain
3674 Of the sensual man-in-the-street
3675 And the lie of Authority
3676 Whose buildings grope the sky:
3677 There is no such thing as the State
3678 And no one exists alone;
3679 Hunger allows no choice
3680 To the citizen or the police;
3681 We must love one another or die.
3683 =head2 v5.15.9 - Bob Dylan, "Blowin' In The Wind"
3685 L<Announced on 2012-03-20 by Abigail|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/03/msg184824.html>
3687 How many roads must a man walk down
3688 Before you call him a man?
3689 Yes, 'n' how many seas must a white dove sail
3690 Before she sleeps in the sand?
3691 Yes, 'n' how many times must the cannonballs fly
3692 Before they're forever banned?
3693 The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind
3694 The answer is blowin' in the wind
3696 How many years can a mountain exist
3697 Before it's washed to the sea?
3698 Yes, 'n' how many years can some people exist
3699 Before they're allowed to be free?
3700 Yes, 'n' how many times can a man turn his head
3701 Pretending he just doesn't see?
3702 The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind
3703 The answer is blowin' in the wind
3705 How many times must a man look up
3706 Before he can see the sky?
3707 Yes, 'n' how many ears must one man have
3708 Before he can hear people cry?
3709 Yes, 'n' how many deaths will it take till he knows
3710 That too many people have died?
3711 The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind
3712 The answer is blowin' in the wind
3714 =head2 v5.15.8 - The KLF, "The Manual-How To Have A Number One The Easy Way"
3716 L<Announced on 2012-02-20 by Max Maischein|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/02/msg183919.html>
3718 "Doctor Who, hey Doctor Who
3719 Doctor Who, in the Tardis
3720 Doctor Who, hey Doctor Who
3721 Doctor Who, Doc, Doctor Who
3722 Doctor Who, Doc, Doctor Who"
3724 Gibberish of course, but every lad in the country under a certain
3725 age related instinctively to what it was about. The ones slightly
3726 older needed a couple of pints inside them to clear away the mind
3727 debris left by the passing years before it made sense. As for
3728 girls and our chorus, we think they must have seen it as pure crap.
3729 A fact that must have limited to zero our chances of staying at The
3730 Top for more than one week.
3732 Stock, Aitkin and Waterman, however, are kings of writing chorus
3733 lyrics that go straight to the emotional heart of the 7" single
3734 buying girls in this country. Their most successful records will kick
3735 into the chorus with a line which encapsulates the entire emotional
3736 meaning of the song. This will obviously be used as the title. As
3737 soon as Rick Astley hit the first line of the chorus on his debut
3738 single it was all over - the Number One position was guaranteed:
3740 "I'm never going to give you up"
3742 =head2 v5.15.7 - Penelope Lively, "The Voyage of QV66"
3744 L<Announced on 2012-01-20 by Chris 'BinGOs' Williams|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/01/msg182230.html>
3746 "Laboratories," announced Henry. "Kindly don't touch anything."
3748 He led us into a long low brick shed. Outside there was a
3749 notice on a piece of board, crudely printed in red paint,
3750 which said GRATE SIENCE DISCOVERYS DONE HERE SSSH! BRING YOUR
3751 OWN BUKKIT NO PINCHING ANYWUN ELSE'S EXPERRYMENTS CANTEEN OPEN
3752 ALL DAY CHIMPS ONLY.
3754 There were a lot of large black monkeys inside, all intently
3755 busy on what they were doing. Some of them were pouring stuff
3756 out of bottles into buckets and carefully stirring the ensuing
3757 mixture; others were at work with glass tubes and jars, blowing
3758 and measuring and mixing; others were crouched over long benches
3759 with tools and heaps of bits and pieces of metal, cutting and
3760 bending and constructing. There was a great deal of noise and
3761 chatter. Every now and then one of them would give a whoop of
3762 excitement and all the others would gather round and jump up and
3763 down cheering and applauding.
3765 "Chimps," said Henry. "They're awfully clever."
3767 =head2 v5.15.6 - Ursula K. Leguin, "A Wizard of Earthsea"
3769 L<Announced on 2011-12-20 by Dave Rolsky|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/12/msg180962.html>
3771 Ged had thought that as the prentice of a great mage he would enter at once
3772 into the mystery and mastery of power. He would understand the language of the
3773 beasts and the speech of the leaves of the forest, he thought, and sway the
3774 winds with his word, and learn to change himself into any shape he
3775 wished. Maybe he and his master would run together as stags, or fly to Re Albi
3776 over the mountain on the wings of eagles.
3778 But it was not so at all. They wandered, first down into the Vale and then
3779 gradually south and westward around the mountain, given lodging in little
3780 villages or spending the night out in the wilderness, like poor
3781 journeyman-sorcerers, or tinkers, or beggars. They entered no mysterious
3782 domain. Nothing happened. The mage's oaken staff that Ged had watched at first
3783 with eager dread was nothing but a stout staff to walk with. Three days went
3784 by and four days went by and still Ogion had not spoken a single charm in
3785 Ged's hearing, and had not taught him a single name or rune or spell.
3787 =head2 v5.15.5 - Nikolai Gogol, trans. Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, "The Diary of a Madman"
3789 L<Announced on 2011-11-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/11/msg179588.html>
3791 This day - is a day of the greatest solemnity! Spain has a king. He has
3792 been found. I am that king. Only this very day did I learn of it. I
3793 confess, it came to me suddenly in a flash of lightning. I don't understand
3794 how I could have thought and imagined that I was a titular councillor. How
3795 could such a wild notion enter my head? It's a good thing no one thought of
3796 putting me in an insane asylum. Now everything is laid open before me. Now
3797 I see everything as on the palm of my hand. And before, I don't understand,
3798 before everything around me was in some sort of fog. And all this happens, I
3799 think, because people imagine that the human brain is in the head. Not at
3800 all: it is brought by a wind from the direction of the Caspian Sea. First
3801 off, I announced to Mavra who I am. When she heard that the king of Spain
3802 was standing before her, she clasped her hands and nearly died of fright.
3803 The stupid woman had never seen a king of Spain before. However, I
3804 endeavoured to calm her down and assured her in gracious words of my
3805 benevolence and that I was not at all angry that she sometimes polished my
3806 boots poorly. They're benighted folk. It's impossible to tell them about
3807 lofty matters. She got frightened because she's convinced that all kings of
3808 Spain are like Philip II. But I explained to her that there was no
3809 resemblance between me and Philip II, and that I didn't have a single
3810 Capuchin . . . I didn't go to the office . . . To hell with it! No friends,
3811 you won't lure me there now; I'm not going to copy your vile papers!
3813 =head2 v5.15.4 - Steve Jobs
3815 L<Announced on 2011-10-20 by Florian Ragwitz|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/10/msg178412.html>
3817 A lot of people in our industry haven't had very diverse experiences. So they
3818 don't have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions
3819 without a broad perspective on the problem. The broader one's understanding of
3820 the human experience, the better design we will have.
3822 =head2 v5.15.3 - Oscar Wilde, From the preface to "The Picture of Dorian Gray"
3824 L<Announced on 2011-09-20 by Stevan Little|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/09/msg177427.html>
3826 All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath
3827 the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol
3828 do so at their peril.
3830 It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.
3831 Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the
3832 work is new, complex, and vital. When critics disagree, the
3833 artist is in accord with himself.
3835 We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as
3836 he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless
3837 thing is that one admires it intensely.
3839 All art is quite useless.
3841 =head2 v5.15.2 - Rainer Maria Rilke, trans., C. F. MacIntyre, "Duino", The First Elegy
3843 L<Announced on 2011-08-20 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/08/msg176067.html>
3845 True, it is strange to live no more on earth,
3846 no longer follow the folkways scarecely learned;
3847 not to give roses and other especially auspicious
3848 things the significance of a human future;
3849 to be no more what one was in infinitely anxious hands,
3850 and to put aside even one's name, like a broken plaything.
3851 Strange, to wish wishes no longer. Strange, to see
3852 all that was related fluttering so loosely in space.
3853 And being dead is hard, full of catching-up,
3854 so that finally one feels a little eternity.–
3855 But the living all make the mistake of too sharp discrimination.
3856 Often angels (it's said) don't know if they move
3857 among the quick or the dead. The eternal current
3858 hurtles all ages along with it forever
3859 through both realms and drowns their voices in both.
3861 =head2 v5.15.1 - Greg Egan, "Permutation City"
3863 L<Announced on 2011-07-20 by Zefram|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/07/msg175014.html>
3865 Carter held out a hand towards the middle of the room. `See that
3866 fountain?' A ten-metre-wide marble wedding cake, topped with a
3867 winged cherub wrestling a serpent, duly appeared. Water cascaded
3868 down from a gushing wound in the cherub's neck. Carter said, `It's
3869 being computed by redundancies in the sketch of the city. I can
3870 extract the results, because I know exactly where to look for them --
3871 but nobody else would have a hope in hell of picking them out.'
3873 Peer walked up to the fountain. Even as he approached, he noticed
3874 that the spray was intangible; when he dipped his hand in the water
3875 around the base he felt nothing, and the motion he made with his
3876 fingers left the foaming surface unchanged. They were spying on
3877 the calculations, not interacting with them; the fountain was a
3880 Carter said, `In your case, of course, nobody will need to know
3881 the results. Except you -- and you'll know them because you'll
3884 =head2 v5.15.0 - Neil Gaiman, "The Graveyard Book"
3886 L<Announced on 2011-06-20 by David Golden|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/06/msg173748.html>
3888 If you dare nothing, then when the day is over, nothing is all you will have gained.
3890 =head2 v5.14.4 - Arthur C. Clarke, "The Nine Billion Names of God"
3892 L<Announced on 2013-03-11 by Dave Mitchell|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/03/msg199988.html>
3894 He began to sing, but gave it up after a while. This vast arena of
3895 mountains, gleaming like whitely hooded ghosts on every side, did not
3896 encourage such ebullience. Presently George glanced at his watch.
3898 'Should be there in an hour,' he called back over his shoulder to
3899 Chuck. Then he added, in an afterthought: 'Wonder if the computer's
3900 finished its run. It was due about now.'
3902 Chuck didn't reply, so George swung round in his saddle. He could just
3903 see Chuck's face, a white oval turned towards the sky.
3905 'Look,' whispered Chuck, and George lifted his eyes to heaven. (There
3906 is always a last time for everything.)
3908 Overhead, without any fuss, the stars were going out.
3910 =head2 v5.14.3 - William Shakespeare, "As You Like It"
3912 L<Announced on 2012-10-12 by Dominic Hargreaves|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/10/msg194057.html>
3914 The poor world is almost six thousand years old, and in all
3915 this time there was not any man died in his own person,
3916 videlicit, in a love-cause. Troilus had his brains dashed
3917 out with a Grecian club; yet he did what he could to die
3918 before, and he is one of the patterns of love. Leander, he
3919 would have lived many a fair year, though Hero had turned
3920 nun, if it had not been for a hot midsummer night; for, good
3921 youth, he went but forth to wash him in the Hellespont and
3922 being taken with the cramp was drowned and the foolish
3923 coroners of that age found it was 'Hero of Sestos.' But these
3924 are all lies: men have died from time to time and worms have
3925 eaten them, but not for love.
3927 =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 >>
3929 L<Announced on 2011-09-26 by Florian Ragwitz|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/09/msg177618.html>
3931 It's not so much that people don't value the programs after they have them--they
3932 do value them. But they're not the sort of thing that would ever catch on if
3933 they had to overcome the marketing barrier. (I don't yet know if perl will
3934 catch on at all--I'm worried enough about it that I specifically included an
3935 awk-to-perl translator just to help it catch on.) Maybe it's all just an
3936 inferiority complex. Or maybe I don't like to be mercenary.
3938 So I guess I'd say that the reason some software comes free is that the
3939 mechanism for selling it is missing, either from the work environment, or from
3940 the heart of the programmer.
3942 =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 >>
3944 L<Announced on 2011-06-16 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/06/msg173650.html>
3946 At this point I'm no longer working for a company that makes me sign
3947 my life away, but by now I'm in the habit. Besides, I still harbor
3948 the deep-down suspicion that nobody would pay money for what I write,
3949 since most of it just helps you do something better that you could
3950 already do some other way. How much money would you personally pay
3951 to upgrade from readnews to rn? How much money would you pay for
3952 the patch program? As for warp, it's a mere game. And anything you
3953 can do with perl you can eventually do with an amazing and totally
3954 unreadable conglomeration of awk, sed, sh and C.
3956 =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 >>
3958 L<Announced on 2011-05-14 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/05/msg172326.html>
3960 At the start of any project, I'm programming primarily to please
3961 myself. (The two chief virtues in a programmer are laziness and
3962 impatience.) After a while somebody looks over my shoulder and says,
3963 "That's neat. It'd be neater if it did such-and-so." So the thing
3964 gets neater. Pretty soon (a year or two) I have an rn, a warp, a patch,
3965 or a perl. One of these years I'll have a metaconfig.
3967 I then say to myself, "I don't want my life's work to die when this
3968 computer is scrapped, so I should let some other people use this. If I
3969 ask my company to sell this, it'll never see the light of day, and nobody
3970 would pay much for it anyway. If I sell it myself, I'll be in trouble with
3971 my company, to whom I signed my life away when I was hired. If I give it
3972 away, I can pretend it was worthless in the first place, so my company
3973 won't care. In any event, it's easier to ask forgiveness than permission."
3975 So a freely distributable program is born.
3977 =head2 v5.14.0-RC3 - American Airlines Gate Agent, last call
3979 L<Announced on 2011-05-11 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/05/msg172282.html>
3981 This is the last call for flight 1697 with service to Chicago and
3982 continuing service to San Francisco. All passengers should already be
3983 aboard. If you aren't aboard at this time, you will be denied boarding
3984 and your bags will be offloaded.
3986 =head2 v5.14.0-RC2 - Greg Grandin, "Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City"
3988 L<Announced on 2011-05-04 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/05/msg171879.html>
3990 Over the course of nearly two decades, Ford would spend tens of millions
3991 of dollars founding not one but, after the plantation was defastated
3992 by leaf blight, two American towns, complete with central squares,
3993 sidewalks, indoor plumbing, hospitals, manicured lawns, movie theaters,
3994 swimming pools, golf courses, and, of course, Model Ts and As rolling
3995 down their paved streets.
3997 Back in America, newspapers kept up their drumbeat celebration, only
3998 obliquely referencing reports that things were not progressing as the
3999 company had hoped. But there was one note of skepticism. In late 1928,
4000 the Washington Post ran an editorial that read in its entirety: "Ford will
4001 govern a rubber plantation in Brazil larger than North Carolina. This is
4002 the first time he has applied quantity production methods to trouble"
4004 =head2 v5.14.0-RC1 - Bill Bryson, "In a Sunburned Country"
4006 L<Announced on 2011-04-20 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/04/msg171253.html>
4008 But then Australia is such a difficult country to keep track of. On
4009 my first visit, some years ago, I passed the time on the long flight
4010 reading a history of Australian politics in the twentieth century,
4011 wherein I encountered the startling fact that in 1967 the prime minister,
4012 Harold Holt, was strolling along a beach in Victoria when he plunged into
4013 the surf and vanished. No trace of the poor man was ever seen again.
4014 This seemed doubly astounding to me—first that Australia could
4015 just I<lose> a prime minister (I mean, come on) and second that news of
4016 this had never reached me.
4018 =head2 v5.13.11 - Walt Whitman, L<"Leaves of Grass"|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leaves_of_Grass>
4020 L<Announced on 2011-03-20 by Florian Ragwitz|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/03/msg170206.html>
4022 When the full-grown poet came,
4023 Out spake pleased Nature (the round impassive globe, with all its
4024 shows of day and night,) saying, He is mine;
4025 But out spake too the Soul of man, proud, jealous and unreconciled,
4026 Nay he is mine alone;
4027 --Then the full-grown poet stood between the two, and took each
4029 And to-day and ever so stands, as blender, uniter, tightly
4031 Which he will never release until he reconciles the two,
4032 And wholly and joyously blends them.
4034 =head2 v5.13.10 - Egill Skalla-Grímsson, L<"Egils saga Skalla-Grímssonar"|http://www.heimskringla.no/wiki/Egils_saga_Skalla-Gr%C3%ADmssonar>
4036 L<Announced on 2011-02-20 by Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/02/msg169340.html>
4038 Skalat maðr rúnar rísta,
4039 nema ráða vel kunni.
4040 Þat verðr mörgum manni,
4041 es of myrkvan staf villisk.
4043 tíu launstafi ristna.
4044 Þat hefr lauka lindi
4045 langs ofrtrega fengit.
4047 =head2 v5.13.9 - John F Kennedy, L<Inaugural Address January 20, 1961|http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/John_F._Kennedy%27s_Inaugural_Address>
4049 L<Announced on 2011-01-20 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/01/msg168335.html>
4051 In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been
4052 granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I
4053 do not shrink from this responsibility -- I welcome it. I do not believe
4054 that any of us would exchange places with any other people or any other
4055 generation. The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this
4056 endeavor will light our country and all who serve it. And the glow from
4057 that fire can truly light the world.
4059 And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you;
4060 ask what you can do for your country.
4062 My fellow citizens of the world, ask not what America will do for you,
4063 but what together we can do for the freedom of man.
4065 Finally, whether you are citizens of America or citizens of the world,
4066 ask of us here the same high standards of strength and sacrifice which
4067 we ask of you. With a good conscience our only sure reward, with history
4068 the final judge of our deeds, let us go forth to lead the land we love,
4069 asking His blessing and His help, but knowing that here on earth God's
4070 work must truly be our own.
4072 =head2 v5.13.8 - Roger Williams, L<"The Fifth Gift"|http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2005/8/19/21304/8493>
4074 L<Announced on 2010-12-19 by Zefram|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/12/msg167271.html>
4076 The aliens called the box a "matter generator," but we'd be more inclined
4077 to call it a matter duplicator. By connecting switches and potentiometers
4078 between the copper posts it was possible to make the box mark off two
4079 cubic rectangular areas of volume. Make a certain contact, and these
4080 areas would be isolated within perfectly reflective fields. They could
4081 be expanded or contracted by altering resistances between other posts.
4082 As I worked out the user interface I built a little control panel for
4083 the device. It was actually a clever way for the aliens to do things;
4084 instead of trying to build controls we could use, they built us an
4085 interface we could attach to controls that made sense to us. It could
4088 Once you had made the contact that established the shielded volumes,
4089 if you made another certain contact the contents of the first volume
4090 were copied to the second. The machine copied metal, plastic, steel,
4091 and diamond with equal ease. Copies of copies of copies of copies were
4092 indistinguishable from the originals at any magnification, even using
4093 techniques like X-ray crystallography.
4095 =head2 v5.13.7 - Andy Wachowski and Lana Wachowski, "The Matrix"
4097 L<Announced on 2010-11-20 by Chris 'BinGOs' Williams|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/11/msg166162.html>
4099 [Neo sees a black cat walk by them, and then a similar black cat walk by them just like the first one]
4103 [Everyone freezes right in their tracks]
4105 Trinity: What did you just say?
4106 Neo: Nothing. Just had a little deja vu.
4107 Trinity: What did you see?
4108 Cypher: What happened?
4109 Neo: A black cat went past us, and then another that looked just
4111 Trinity: How much like it? Was it the same cat?
4112 Neo: It might have been. I'm not sure.
4113 Morpheus: Switch! Apoc!
4115 Trinity: A deja vu is usually a glitch in the Matrix. It happens when
4116 they change something.
4118 =head2 v5.13.6 - Haruki Murakami, "Kafka on the Shore"
4120 L<Announced on 2010-10-20 by Tatsuhiko Miyagawa|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/10/msg165183.html>
4122 The boy called Crow softly rests a hand on my shoulder, and with that
4125 "From now on -- no matter what -- you've got to be the world's toughest
4126 fifteen-year-old. That's the only way you're going to survive. And in order
4127 to do that, you've got to figure out what it means to be tough. You following
4130 I keep my eyes closed and don't reply. I just want to sink off into sleep
4131 like this, his hand on my shoulder. I hear the faint flutter of wings.
4133 "You're going to be the world's toughest fifteen-year-old," Crow whispers
4134 as I try to fall asleep. Like he was carving the words in a deep blue tattoo
4137 (Translated from Japanese by Philip Gabriel)
4139 =head2 v5.13.5 - Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, "The Room in the Dragon Volant"
4141 L<Announced on 2010-09-19 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/09/msg164238.html>
4143 Candle in hand I stepped in. I do not know whether the quality of
4144 air, long undisturbed, is peculiar; to me it has always seemed so, and
4145 the damp smell of the old masonry hung in this atmosphere. My candle
4146 faintly lighted the bare stone wall that enclosed the stair, the foot
4147 of which I could not see. Down I went, and a few turns brought me to
4148 the stone floor. Here was another door, of the simple, old, oak kind,
4149 deep sunk in the thickness of the wall. The large end of the key
4150 fitted this. The lock was stiff; I set the candle down upon the
4151 stair, and applied both hands; it turned with difficulty, and as it
4152 revolved, uttered a shriek that alarmed me for my secret.
4154 For some minutes I did not move. In a little time, however, I took
4155 courage, and opened the door. The night-air floating in puffed out
4156 the candle. There was a thicket of holly and underwood, as dense as a
4157 jungle, close about the door. I should have been in pitch-darkness,
4158 were it not that through the topmost leaves there twinkled, here and
4159 there, a glimmer of moonshine.
4161 Softly, lest any one should have opened his window at the sound of the
4162 rusty bolt, I struggled through this till I gained a view of the open
4163 grounds. Here I found that the brushwood spread a good way up the
4164 park, uniting with the wood that approached the little temple I have
4167 =head2 v5.13.4 - Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
4169 L<Announced on 2010-08-20 by Florian Ragwitz|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/08/msg163150.html>
4171 `How the creatures order one about, and make one repeat lessons!' thought Alice;
4172 `I might as well be at school at once.' However, she got up, and began to repeat
4173 it, but her head was so full of the Lobster Quadrille, that she hardly knew what
4174 she was saying, and the words came very queer indeed:--
4176 "'Tis the voice of the Lobster; I heard him declare,
4177 "You have baked me too brown, I must sugar my hair."
4178 As a duck with its eyelids, so he with his nose
4179 Trims his belt and his buttons, and turns out his toes.'
4182 `That's different from what I used to say when I was a child,' said the Gryphon.
4184 `Well, I never heard it before,' said the Mock Turtle; `but it sounds uncommon
4187 Alice said nothing; she had sat down with her face in her hands, wondering if
4188 anything would ever happen in a natural way again.
4190 `I should like to have it explained,' said the Mock Turtle.
4192 `She can't explain it,' said the Gryphon hastily. `Go on with the next verse.'
4194 `But about his toes?' the Mock Turtle persisted. `How could he turn them out
4195 with his nose, you know?'
4197 `It's the first position in dancing.' Alice said; but was dreadfully puzzled by
4198 the whole thing, and longed to change the subject.
4200 =head2 v5.13.3 - Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, "Good Omens"
4202 L<Announced on 2010-07-20 by David Golden|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/07/msg162230.html>
4204 Look at Crowley, doing 110 mph on the M40 heading towards
4205 Oxfordshire. Even the most resolutely casual observer would
4206 notice a number of strange things about him. The clenched teeth,
4207 for example, or the dull red glow coming from behind his
4208 sunglasses. And the car. The car was a definite hint.
4210 Crowley had started the journey in his Bentley, and he was
4211 dammned if he wasn't going to finish it in the Bentley as well.
4212 Not that even the kind of car buff who owns his own pair of
4213 motoring goggles would have been able to tell it was a vintage
4214 Bentley. Not any more. They wouldn't have been able to tell
4215 that it was a Bentley. They would only offer fifty-fifty that it
4216 had ever even been a car.
4218 There was no paint left on it, for a start. It might still have
4219 been black, where it wasn't a rusty, smudged reddish-brown, but
4220 this was a dull charcoal black. It traveled in its own ball of
4221 flame, like a space capsule making a particularly difficult
4224 There was a thin skin of crusted, melted rubber left around the
4225 metal wheel rims, but seeing that the wheel rims were still
4226 somhow riding an inch above the road surface this didn't seem to
4227 make an awful lot of difference to the suspension.
4229 It should have fallen apart miles back.
4231 =head2 v5.13.2 - Iain M Banks, "Use of Weapons"
4233 L<Announced on 2010-06-22 by Matt S Trout|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/06/msg161112.html>
4235 We deal in the moral equivalent of black holes, where the normal laws -
4236 the rules of right and wrong that people imagine apply everywhere else
4237 in the universe - break down; beyond those metaphysical event-horizons,
4238 there exist ... special circumstances.
4240 =head2 v5.13.1 - Miguel de Unamuno, "The Sepulchre of Don Quixote"
4242 L<Announced on 2010-05-20 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/05/msg160275.html>
4244 And if anyone shall come to you and say that he knows how to construct
4245 bridges and that perhaps a time will come when you will wish to avail
4246 yourself of his science in order to cross over a river, out with him! Out
4247 with the engineer! Rivers will be crossed by wading or swimming them, even
4248 if half the crusaders drown themselves. Let the engineer go off and build
4249 bridges somewhere else, where they are badly wanted. For those who go in
4250 quest of the sepulchre, faith is bridge enough.
4252 =head2 v5.13.0 - Jules Verne, "A Journey to the Centre of the Earth"
4254 L<Announced on 2010-04-20 by LE<0xe9>on Brocard|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/04/msg159275.html>
4256 The heat still remained at quite a supportable degree. With an
4257 involuntary shudder, I reflected on what the heat must have been
4258 when the volcano of Sneffels was pouring its smoke, flames, and
4259 streams of boiling lava -- all of which must have come up by the
4260 road we were now following. I could imagine the torrents of hot
4261 seething stone darting on, bubbling up with accompaniments of
4262 smoke, steam, and sulphurous stench!
4264 "Only to think of the consequences," I mused, "if the old
4265 volcano were once more to set to work."
4267 =head2 v5.12.5 - William Shakespeare, "Measure for Measure"
4269 L<Announced on 2012-11-10 by Dominic Hargreaves|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/11/msg195171.html>
4271 Music oft hath such a charm
4272 To make bad good, and good provoke to harm.
4274 =head2 v5.12.4 - William Schwenck Gilbert, "Trial By Jury"
4276 L<Announced on 2011-06-20 by Leon Brocard|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/06/msg173725.html>
4278 You cannot eat breakfast all day,
4279 Nor is it the act of a sinner,
4280 When breakfast is taken away,
4281 To turn his attention to dinner;
4282 And it's not in the range of belief,
4283 To look upon him as a glutton,
4284 Who, when he is tired of beef,
4285 Determines to tackle the mutton.
4286 Ah! But this I am willing to say,
4287 If it will appease her sorrow,
4288 I'll marry this lady today,
4289 And I'll marry the other tomorrow!
4291 =head2 v5.12.4-RC2 - James Russell Lowell, "Eleanor makes macaroons"
4293 L<Announced on 2011-06-15 by Leon Brocard|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/06/msg173609.html>
4295 Now for sugar, -- nay, our plan
4296 Tolerates no work of man.
4297 Hurry, then, ye golden bees;
4298 Fetch your clearest honey, please,
4299 Garnered on a Yorkshire moor,
4300 While the last larks sing and soar,
4301 From the heather-blossoms sweet
4302 Where sea-breeze and sunshine meet,
4303 And the Augusts mask as Junes, --
4304 Eleanor makes macaroons!
4306 =head2 v5.12.4-RC1 - Ogden Nash, "The Clean Plater"
4308 L<Announced on 2011-06-08 by Leon Brocard|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/06/msg173352.html>
4310 Pheasant is pleasant, of course,
4311 And terrapin, too, is tasty,
4312 Lobster I freely endorse,
4313 In pate or patty or pasty.
4314 But there's nothing the matter with butter,
4315 And nothing the matter with jam,
4316 And the warmest greetings I utter
4317 To the ham and the yam and the clam.
4320 And I think very fondly of food.
4321 Through I'm broody at times
4322 When bothered by rhymes,
4326 =head2 v5.12.3 - Howard W. Campbell, Jr., "Reflections on Not Participating in Current Events"
4328 L<Announced on 2011-01-21 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/01/msg168368.html>
4330 I saw a huge steam roller,
4331 It blotted out the sun.
4332 The people all lay down, lay down;
4333 They did not try to run.
4334 My love and I, we looked amazed
4335 Upon the gory mystery.
4336 'Lie down, lie down!' the people cried.
4337 'The great machine is history!'
4338 My love and I, we ran away,
4339 The engine did not find us.
4340 We ran up to a mountain top,
4341 Left history far behind us.
4342 Perhaps we should have stayed and died,
4343 But somehow we don't think so.
4344 We went to see where history'd been,
4345 And my, the dead did stink so.
4347 =head2 v5.12.2 - William Gibson, "Pattern Recognition"
4349 L<Announced on 2010-09-06 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/09/msg163852.html>
4351 CPUs. Cayce Pollard Units. That's what Damien calls the clothing
4352 she wears. CPUs are either black, white, or gray, and ideally
4353 seem to have come into this world without human intervention.
4355 What people take for relentless minimalism is a side effect
4356 of too much exposure to the reactor-cores of fashion. This
4357 has resulted in a remorseless paring-down of what she can and
4358 will wear. She is, literally, allergic to fashion. She can
4359 only tolerate things that could have been worn, to a general
4360 lack of comment, during any year between 1945 and 2000. She's a
4361 design-free zone, a one-woman school of and whose very austerity
4362 periodically threatens to spawn its own cult.
4364 =head2 v5.12.2-RC1 - William Gibson, "Pattern Recognition"
4366 L<Announced on 2010-08-31 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/08/msg163670.html>
4368 The front page opens, familiar as a friend's living room. A frame-grab
4369 from #48 serves as backdrop, dim and almost monochrome, no characters in
4370 view. This is one of the sequences that generate comparisons with
4371 Tarkovsky. She only knows Tarkovsky from stills, really, though she did
4372 once fall asleep during a screening of The Stalker, going under on an
4373 endless pan, the camera aimed straight down, in close-up, at a puddle on
4374 a ruined mosaic floor. But she is not one of those who think that much
4375 will be gained by analysis of the maker's imagined influences. The cult
4376 of the footage is rife with subcults, claiming every possible influence.
4377 Truffaut, Peckinpah -- The Peckinpah people, among the least likely, are
4378 still waiting for the guns to be drawn.
4380 =head2 v5.12.1 - Kurt Vonnegut, "Cat's Cradle"
4382 L<Announced on 2010-05-16 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/05/msg160109.html>
4384 "Now suppose," chortled Dr. Breed, enjoying himself, "that there were
4385 many possible ways in which water could crystallize, could freeze.
4386 Suppose that the sort of ice we skate upon and put into highballs --
4387 what we might call ice-one -- is only one of several types of ice.
4388 Suppose water always froze as ice-one on Earth because it had never
4389 had a seed to teach it how to form ice-two, ice-three, ice-four
4390 ...? And suppose," he rapped on his desk with his old hand again,
4391 "that there were one form, which we will call ice-nine -- a crystal as
4392 hard as this desk -- with a melting point of, let us say, one-hundred
4393 degrees Fahrenheit, or, better still, a melting point of one-hundred-
4394 and-thirty degrees."
4396 =head2 v5.12.1-RC2 - Kurt Vonnegut, "Cat's Cradle"
4398 L<Announced on 2010-05-13 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/05/msg160066.html>
4400 San Lorenzo was fifty miles long and twenty miles wide, I learned from
4401 the supplement to the New York Sunday Times. Its population was four
4402 hundred, fifty thousand souls, "...all fiercely dedicated to the ideals
4405 Its highest point, Mount McCabe, was eleven thousand feet above sea
4406 level. Its capital was Bolivar, "...a strikingly modern city built on a
4407 harbor capable of sheltering the entire United States Navy." The principal
4408 exports were sugar, coffee, bananas, indigo, and handcrafted novelties.
4410 =head2 v5.12.1-RC1 - Kurt Vonnegut, "Cat's Cradle"
4412 L<Announced on 2010-05-09 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/05/msg159971.html>
4414 Which brings me to the Bokononist concept of a wampeter. A wampeter is
4415 the pivot of a karass. No karass is without a wampeter, Bokonon tells us,
4416 just as no wheel is without a hub. Anything can be a wampeter: a tree,
4417 a rock, an animal, an idea, a book, a melody, the Holy Grail. Whatever
4418 it is, the members of its karass revolve about it in the majestic chaos
4419 of a spiral nebula. The orbits of the members of a karass about their
4420 common wampeter are spiritual orbits, naturally. It is souls and not
4421 bodies that revolve. As Bokonon invites us to sing:
4423 Around and around and around we spin,
4424 With feet of lead and wings of tin . . .
4426 =head2 v5.12.0 - Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
4428 L<Announced on 2010-04-12 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/04/msg158820.html>
4430 'Please would you tell me,' said Alice, a little timidly, for she was
4431 not quite sure whether it was good manners for her to speak first, 'why
4432 your cat grins like that?'
4434 'It's a Cheshire cat,' said the Duchess, 'and that's why. Pig!'
4436 She said the last word with such sudden violence that Alice quite
4437 jumped; but she saw in another moment that it was addressed to the baby,
4438 and not to her, so she took courage, and went on again:--
4440 'I didn't know that Cheshire cats always grinned; in fact, I didn't know
4441 that cats COULD grin.'
4443 'They all can,' said the Duchess; 'and most of 'em do.'
4445 =head2 v5.12.0-RC5 - Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
4447 L<Announced on 2010-04-09 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/04/msg158720.html>
4449 'Not QUITE right, I'm afraid,' said Alice, timidly; 'some of the words
4452 'It is wrong from beginning to end,' said the Caterpillar decidedly, and
4453 there was silence for some minutes.
4455 =head2 v5.12.0-RC4 - Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
4457 L<Announced on 2010-04-06 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/04/msg158567.html>
4459 'It was much pleasanter at home,' thought poor Alice, 'when one wasn't
4460 always growing larger and smaller, and being ordered about by mice and
4461 rabbits. I almost wish I hadn't gone down that rabbit-hole--and yet--and
4462 yet--it's rather curious, you know, this sort of life! I do wonder what
4463 can have happened to me! When I used to read fairy-tales, I fancied that
4464 kind of thing never happened, and now here I am in the middle of one!
4466 =head2 v5.12.0-RC3 - Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
4468 L<Announced on 2010-04-02 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/04/msg158346.html>
4470 At last the Mouse, who seemed to be a person of authority among them,
4471 called out, 'Sit down, all of you, and listen to me! I'LL soon make you
4472 dry enough!' They all sat down at once, in a large ring, with the Mouse
4473 in the middle. Alice kept her eyes anxiously fixed on it, for she felt
4474 sure she would catch a bad cold if she did not get dry very soon.
4476 'Ahem!' said the Mouse with an important air, 'are you all ready? This
4477 is the driest thing I know. Silence all round, if you please! "William
4478 the Conqueror, whose cause was favoured by the pope, was soon submitted
4479 to by the English, who wanted leaders, and had been of late much
4480 accustomed to usurpation and conquest. Edwin and Morcar, the earls of
4481 Mercia and Northumbria --"'
4483 =head2 v5.12.0-RC2 - no announcement
4485 Available on CPAN since 2010-04-01.
4487 =head2 v5.12.0-RC1 - Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
4489 L<Announced on 2010-03-29 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/03/msg158060.html>
4491 So she was considering in her own mind (as well as she could, for the
4492 hot day made her feel very sleepy and stupid), whether the pleasure of
4493 making a daisy-chain would be worth the trouble of getting up and
4494 picking the daisies, when suddenly a White Rabbit with pink eyes ran
4497 There was nothing so VERY remarkable in that; nor did Alice think it so
4498 VERY much out of the way to hear the Rabbit say to itself, 'Oh dear! Oh
4499 dear! I shall be late!' (when she thought it over afterwards, it
4500 occurred to her that she ought to have wondered at this, but at the time
4501 it all seemed quite natural); but when the Rabbit actually TOOK A WATCH
4502 OUT OF ITS WAISTCOAT-POCKET, and looked at it, and then hurried on,
4503 Alice started to her feet, for it flashed across her mind that she had
4504 never before seen a rabbit with either a waistcoat-pocket, or a watch to
4505 take out of it, and burning with curiosity, she ran across the field
4506 after it, and fortunately was just in time to see it pop down a large
4507 rabbit-hole under the hedge.
4509 In another moment down went Alice after it, never once considering how
4510 in the world she was to get out again.
4512 =head2 v5.12.0-RC0 - no epigraph
4514 L<Announced on 2020-03-21 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/03/msg157761.html>
4516 =head2 v5.11.5 - Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "Christabel"
4518 L<Announced on 2010-02-21 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/02/msg156957.html>
4520 A little child, a limber elf,
4521 Singing, dancing to itself,
4522 A fairy thing with red round cheeks,
4523 That always finds, and never seeks,
4524 Makes such a vision to the sight
4525 As fills a father's eyes with light;
4526 And pleasures flow in so thick and fast
4527 Upon his heart, that he at last
4528 Must needs express his love's excess
4529 With words of unmeant bitterness.
4530 Perhaps 'tis pretty to force together
4531 Thoughts so all unlike each other;
4532 To mutter and mock a broken charm,
4533 To dally with wrong that does no harm.
4534 Perhaps 'tis tender too and pretty
4535 At each wild word to feel within
4536 A sweet recoil of love and pity.
4537 And what, if in a world of sin
4538 (O sorrow and shame should this be true!)
4539 Such giddiness of heart and brain
4540 Comes seldom save from rage and pain,
4541 So talks as it's most used to do.
4543 =head2 v5.11.4 - Fyodor Dostoevsky, "Crime and Punishment"
4545 L<Announced on 2010-01-20 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/01/msg155848.html>
4547 And you don't suppose that I went into it headlong like a fool? I went
4548 into it like a wise man, and that was just my destruction. And you
4549 mustn't suppose that I didn't know, for instance, that if I began to
4550 question myself whether I had the right to gain power -- I certainly
4551 hadn't the right -- or that if I asked myself whether a human being is a
4552 louse it proved that it wasn't so for me, though it might be for a man
4553 who would go straight to his goal without asking questions.... If I
4554 worried myself all those days, wondering whether Napoleon would have
4555 done it or not, I felt clearly of course that I wasn't Napoleon.
4557 =head2 v5.11.3 - Mark Twain, "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer"
4559 L<Announced on 2009-12-20 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2009/12/msg154838.html>
4561 "Say -- I'm going in a swimming, I am. Don't you wish you could? But of
4562 course you'd druther work -- wouldn't you? Course you would!"
4564 Tom contemplated the boy a bit, and said: "What do you call work?"
4566 "Why ain't that work?"
4568 Tom resumed his whitewashing, and answered carelessly: "Well, maybe it
4569 is, and maybe it aint. All I know, is, it suits Tom Sawyer."
4571 "Oh come, now, you don't mean to let on that you like it?"
4573 The brush continued to move. "Like it? Well I don't see why I oughtn't
4574 to like it. Does a boy get a chance to whitewash a fence every day?"
4576 That put the thing in a new light. Ben stopped nibbling his apple. Tom
4577 swept his brush daintily back and forth -- stepped back to note the effect
4578 -- added a touch here and there-criticised the effect again -- Ben
4579 watching every move and getting more and more interested, more and more
4580 absorbed. Presently he said: "Say, Tom, let me whitewash a little."
4582 =head2 v5.11.2 - Michael Marshall Smith, "Only Forward"
4584 L<Announced on 2009-11-20 by Léon Brocard|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2009/11/msg153646.html>
4586 The streets were pretty quiet, which was nice. They're always quiet here
4587 at that time: you have to be wearing a black jacket to be out on the
4588 streets between seven and nine in the evening, and not many people in
4589 the area have black jackets. It's just one of those things. I currently
4590 live in Colour Neighbourhood, which is for people who are heavily into
4591 colour. All the streets and buildings are set for instant colourmatch:
4592 as you walk down the road they change hue to offset whatever you're
4593 wearing. When the streets are busy it's kind of intense, and anyone
4594 prone to epileptic seizures isn't allowed to live in the Neighbourhood,
4595 however much they're into colour.
4597 =head2 v5.11.1 - Joseph Heller, "Catch-22"
4599 L<Announced on 2009-10-20 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2009/10/msg152360.html>
4601 Milo had been caught red-handed in the act of plundering his countrymen,
4602 and, as a result, his stock had never been higher. He proved good as his
4603 word when a rawboned major from Minnesota curled his lip in rebellious
4604 disavowal and demanded his share of the syndicate Milo kept saying
4605 everybody owned. Milo met the challenge by writing the words "A Share"
4606 on the nearest scrap of paper and handing it away with a virtuous disdain
4607 that won the envy and admiration of almost everyone who knew him. His
4608 glory was at a peak, and Colonel Cathcart, who knew and admired his
4609 war record, was astonished by the deferential humility with which Milo
4610 presented himself at Group Headquarters and made his fantastic appeal
4611 for more hazardous assignment.
4613 =head2 v5.11.0 - Mikhail Bulgakov, "The Master and Margarita"
4615 L<Announced on 2009-10-02 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2009/10/msg151376.html>
4617 Whispers of an "evil power" were heard in lines at dairy shops, in
4618 streetcars, stores, arguments, kitchens, suburban and long-distance
4619 trains, at stations large and small, in dachas and on beaches. Needless
4620 to say, truly mature and cultured people did not tell these stories
4621 about an evil power's visit to the capital. In fact, they even made fun
4622 of them and tried to talk sense into those who told them. Nevertheless,
4623 facts are facts, as they say, and cannot simply be dismissed without
4624 explanation: somebody had visited the capital. The charred cinders of
4625 Griboyedov alone, and many other things besides, confirmed it. Cultured
4626 people shared the point of view of the investigating team: it was the
4627 work of a gang of hypnotists and ventriloquists magnificently skilled in
4630 =head2 v5.10.1 - Right Hon. James Hacker MP, "The Complete Yes Minister: The Diaries of a Cabinet Minister"
4632 L<Announced on 2009-08-23 by Dave Mitchell|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2009/08/msg150172.html>
4634 'Briefly, sir, I am the Permanent Under-Secretary of State, known as
4635 the Permanent Secretary. Woolley here is your Principal Private
4636 Secretary. I, too, have a Principal Private Secretary, and he is the
4637 Principal Private Secretary to the Permanent Secretary. Directly
4638 responsible to me are ten Deputy Secretaries, eighty-seven Under
4639 Secretaries and two hundred and nineteen Assistant Secretaries.
4640 Directly responsible to the Principal Private Secretaries are plain
4641 Private Secretaries. The Prime Minister will be appointing two
4642 Parliamentary Under-Secretaries and you will be appointing your own
4643 Parliamentary Private Secretary.'
4645 'Can they all type?' I joked.
4647 'None of us can type, Minister,' replied Sir Humphrey smoothly. 'Mrs
4648 McKay types - she is your Secretary.'
4650 I couldn't tell whether or not he was joking. 'What a pity,' I said.
4651 'We could have opened an agency.'
4653 Sir Humphrey and Bernard laughed. 'Very droll, sir,' said Sir
4654 Humphrey. 'Most amusing, sir,' said Bernard. Were they genuinely
4655 amused at my wit, or just being rather patronising? 'I suppose they
4656 all say that, do they?' I ventured.
4658 Sir Humphrey reassured me on that. 'Certainly not, Minister,' he
4659 replied. 'Not quite all.'
4661 =head2 v5.10.1-RC2 - no epigraph
4663 L<Announced on 2009-08-18 by Dave Mitchell|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2009/08/msg150015.html>
4665 =head2 v5.10.1-RC1 - no epigraph
4667 L<Announced on 2009-08-06 by Dave Mitchell|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2009/08/msg149498.html>
4669 =head2 v5.10.0 - Laurence Sterne, "Tristram Shandy"
4671 L<Announced on 2007-12-18 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2007/12/msg131636.html>
4673 He would often declare, in speaking his thoughts upon the subject, that
4674 he did not conceive how the greatest family in England could stand it
4675 out against an uninterrupted succession of six or seven short
4676 noses.--And for the contrary reason, he would generally add, That it
4677 must be one of the greatest problems in civil life, where the same
4678 number of long and jolly noses, following one another in a direct line,
4679 did not raise and hoist it up into the best vacancies in the kingdom.
4681 =head2 v5.10.0-RC2 - no epigraph
4683 L<Announced on 2007-11-25 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2007/11/msg130978.html>
4685 =head2 v5.10.0-RC1 - no epigraph
4687 L<Announced on 2007-11-17 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2007/11/msg130653.html>
4689 =head2 v5.9.5 - no announcement
4691 L<Pre-announced on 2007-07-07 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2007/07/msg126358.html>,
4692 available on CPAN with same date, but never actually announced.
4694 =head2 v5.9.4 - no epigraph
4696 L<Announced on 2006-08-15 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2006/08/msg115782.html>
4698 =head2 v5.9.3 - no epigraph
4700 L<Announced on 2006-01-28 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2006/01/msg109086.html>
4702 =head2 v5.9.2 - Thomas Pynchon, "V"
4704 L<Announced on 2005-04-01 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2005/04/msg99421.html>
4706 This word flip was weird. Every recording date of McClintic's he'd
4707 gotten into the habit of talking electricity with the audio men and
4708 technicians of the studio. McClintic once couldn't have cared less
4709 about electricity, but now it seemed if that was helping him reach a
4710 bigger audience, some digging, some who would never dig, but all
4711 paying and those royalties keeping the Triumph in gas and McClintic
4712 in J. Press suits, then McClintic ought to be grateful to
4713 electricity, ought maybe to learn a little more about it. So he'd
4714 picked up some here and there, and one day last summer he got around
4715 to talking stochastic music and digital computers with one
4716 technician. Out of the conversation had come Set/Reset, which was
4717 getting to be a signature for the group. He had found out from this
4718 sound man about a two-triode circuit called a flip-flop, which when
4719 it turned on could be one of two ways, depending on which tube was
4720 conducting and which was cut off: set or reset, flip or flop.
4722 "And that," the man said, "can be yes or no, or one or zero. And
4723 that is what you might call one of the basic units, or specialized
4724 `cells' in a big `electronic brain.' "
4726 "Crazy," said McClintic, having lost him back there someplace. But
4727 one thing that did occur to him was if a computer's brain could go
4728 flip or flop, why so could a musician's. As long as you were flop,
4729 everything was cool. But where did the trigger-pulse come from to
4732 =head2 v5.9.1 - Tom Stoppard, "Arcadia"
4734 L<Announced on 2004-03-16 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/03/msg89722.html>
4736 Aren't you supposed to have a pony?
4738 =head2 v5.9.0 - Doris Lessing, "Martha Quest"
4740 L<Announced on 2003-10-27 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/10/msg84147.html>
4742 What of October, that ambiguous month
4744 =head2 v5.8.9 - Right Hon. James Hacker MP, "The Complete Yes Minister: The Diaries of a Cabinet Minister"
4746 L<Announced on 2008-12-14 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2008/12/msg142571.html>
4748 Frank and I, unlike the civil servants, were still puzzled that such a
4749 proposal as the Europass could even be seriously under consideration by
4750 the FCO. We can both see clearly that it is wonderful ammunition for the
4751 anti-Europeans. I asked Humphrey if the Foreign Office doesn't realise
4752 how damaging this would be to the European ideal?
4754 'I'm sure they do, Minister, he said. That's why they support it.'
4756 This was even more puzzling, since I'd always been under the impression
4757 that the FO is pro-Europe. 'Is it or isn't it?' I asked Humphrey.
4759 'Yes and no,' he replied of course, 'if you'll pardon the
4760 expression. The Foreign Office is pro-Europe because it is really
4761 anti-Europe. In fact the Civil Service was united in its desire to make
4762 sure the Common Market didn't work. That's why we went into it.'
4764 This sounded like a riddle to me. I asked him to explain further. And
4765 basically his argument was as follows: Britain has had the same foreign
4766 policy objective for at least the last five hundred years - to create a
4767 disunited Europe. In that cause we have fought with the Dutch against
4768 the Spanish, with the Germans against the French, with the French and
4769 Italians against the Germans, and with the French against the Italians
4770 and Germans. [The Dutch rebellion against Phillip II of Spain, the
4771 Napoleonic Wars, the First World War, and the Second World War - Ed.]
4773 In other words, divide and rule. And the Foreign Office can see no
4774 reason to change when it has worked so well until now.
4776 I was aware of this, naturally, but I regarded it as ancient history.
4777 Humphrey thinks that it is, in fact, current policy. It was necessary
4778 for us to break up the EEC, he explained, so we had to get inside. We
4779 had previously tried to break it up from the outside, but that didn't
4780 work. [A reference to our futile and short-lived involvement in EFTA,
4781 the European Free Trade Association, founded in 1960 and which the UK
4782 left in 1972 - Ed.] Now that we're in, we are able to make a complete
4783 pig's breakfast out of it. We've now set the Germans against the French,
4784 the French against the Italians, the Italians against the Dutch... and
4785 the Foreign office is terribly happy. It's just like old time.
4787 I was staggered by all of this. I thought that the all of us who are
4788 publicly pro-European believed in the European ideal. I said this to Sir
4789 Humphrey, and he simply chuckled.
4791 So I asked him: if we don't believe in the European Ideal, why are we
4792 pushing to increase the membership?
4794 'Same reason,' came the reply. 'It's just like the United Nations. The
4795 more members it has, the more arguments you can stir up, and the more
4796 futile and impotent it becomes.'
4798 This all strikes me as the most appalling cynicism, and I said so.
4800 Sir Humphrey agreed completely. 'Yes Minister. We call it
4801 diplomacy. It's what made Britain great, you know.'
4803 =head2 v5.8.9-RC2 - Right Hon. James Hacker MP, "The Complete Yes Minister: The Diaries of a Cabinet Minister"
4805 L<Announced on 2008-12-06 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2008/12/msg142422.html>
4807 There was silence in the office. I didn't know what we were going to do
4808 about the four hundred new people supervising our economy drive or the
4809 four hundred new people for the Bureaucratic Watchdog Office, or
4810 anything! I simply sat and waited and hoped that my head would stop
4811 thumping and that some idea would be suggested by someone sometime soon.
4813 Sir Humphrey obliged. 'Minister... if we were to end the economy drive
4814 and close the Bureaucratic Watchdog Office we could issue an immediate
4815 press announcement that you had axed eight hundred jobs.' He had
4816 obviously thought this out carefully in advance, for at this moment he
4817 produced a slim folder from under his arm. 'If you'd like to approve
4820 I couldn't believe the impertinence of the suggestion. Axed eight
4821 hundred jobs? 'But no one was ever doing these jobs,' I pointed out
4822 incredulously. 'No one's been appointed yet.'
4824 'Even greater economy,' he replied instantly. 'We've saved eight hundred
4825 redundancy payments as well.'
4827 'But...' I attempted to explain '... that's just phony. It's dishonest,
4828 it's juggling with figures, it's pulling the wool over people's eyes.'
4830 'A government press release, in fact.' said Humphrey.
4832 =head2 v5.8.9-RC1 - Right Hon. James Hacker MP, "The Complete Yes Minister: The Diaries of a Cabinet Minister"
4834 L<Announced on 2008-11-10 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2008/11/msg141515.html>
4836 A jumbo jet touched down, with BURANDAN AIRWAYS written on the side. I
4837 was hugely impressed. British Airways are having to pawn their Concordes,
4838 and here is this little tiny African state with its own airline, jumbo
4841 I asked Bernard how many planes Burandan Airways had. 'None,' he said.
4843 I told him not to be silly and use his eyes. 'No Minister, it belongs to
4844 Freddie Laker,' he said. 'They chartered it last week and repainted it
4845 specially.' Apparently most of the Have-Nots (I mean, LDCs) do this - at
4846 the opening of the UN General Assembly the runways of Kennedy Airport are
4847 jam-packed with phoney flag-carriers. 'In fact,' said Bernard with a sly
4848 grin, 'there was one 747 that belonged to nine different African airlines
4849 in a month. They called it the mumbo-jumbo.'
4851 While we watched nothing much happening on the TV except the mumbo-jumbo
4852 taxiing around Prestwick and the Queen looking a bit chilly, Bernard gave
4853 me the next day's schedule and explained that I was booked on the night
4854 sleeper from King's Cross to Edinburgh because I had to vote in a
4855 three-line whip at the House tonight and would have to miss the last
4856 plane. Then the commentator, in that special hushed BBC voice used for any
4857 occasion with which Royalty is connected, announced reverentially that we
4858 were about to catch our first glimpse of President Selim.
4860 And out of the plane stepped Charlie. My old friend Charlie Umtali. We
4861 were at LSE together. Not Selim Mohammed at all, but Charlie.
4863 Bernard asked me if I were sure. Silly question. How could you forget a
4864 name like Charlie Umtali?
4866 I sent Bernard for Sir Humphrey, who was delighted to hear that we now
4867 know something about our official visitor.
4869 Bernard's official brief said nothing. Amazing! Amazing how little the FCO
4870 has been able to find out. Perhaps they were hoping it would all be on the
4871 car radio. All the brief says is that Colonel Selim Mohammed had converted
4872 to Islam some years ago, they didn't know his original name, and therefore
4873 knew little of his background.
4875 I was able to tell Humphrey and Bernard /all/ about his background.
4876 Charlie was a red-hot political economist, I informed them. Got the top
4877 first. Wiped the floor with everyone.
4879 Bernard seemed relieved. 'Well that's all right then.'
4883 'I think Bernard means,' said Sir Humphrey helpfully, 'that he'll know how
4884 to behave if he was at an English University. Even if it was the LSE.' I
4885 never know whether or not Humphrey is insulting me intentionally.
4887 Humphrey was concerned about Charlie's political colour. 'When you said
4888 that he was red-hot, were you speaking politically?'
4890 In a way I was. 'The thing about Charlie is that you never quite know
4891 where you are with him. He's the sort of chap who follows you into a
4892 revolving door and comes out in front.'
4894 'No deeply held convictions?' asked Sir Humphrey.
4896 'No. The only thing Charlie was committed too was Charlie.'
4898 'Ah, I see. A politician, Minister.'
4900 =head2 v5.8.8 - Joe Raposo, "Bein' Green"
4902 L<Announced on 2006-01-31 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2006/01/msg109190.html>
4904 It's not that easy bein' green
4905 Having to spend each day the color of the leaves
4906 When I think it could be nicer being red or yellow or gold
4907 Or something much more colorful like that
4909 It's not easy bein' green
4910 It seems you blend in with so many other ordinary things
4911 And people tend to pass you over 'cause you're
4912 Not standing out like flashy sparkles in the water
4915 But green's the color of Spring
4916 And green can be cool and friendly-like
4917 And green can be big like an ocean
4918 Or important like a mountain
4921 When green is all there is to be
4922 It could make you wonder why, but why wonder why?
4923 Wonder I am green and it'll do fine, it's beautiful
4924 And I think it's what I want to be
4926 =head2 v5.8.8-RC1 - Cosgrove Hall Productions, "Dangermouse"
4928 L<Announced on 2006-01-20 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2006/01/msg108833.html>
4930 Greenback: And the world is mine, all mine. Muhahahahaha. See to it!
4932 Stiletto: Si, Barone. Subito, Barone.
4934 =head2 v5.8.7 - Sergei Prokofiev, "Peter and the Wolf"
4936 L<Announced on 2005-05-31 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2005/05/msg101088.html>
4938 And now, imagine the triumphant procession: Peter at the head; after him the
4939 hunters leading the wolf; and winding up the procession, grandfather and the
4942 Grandfather shook his head discontentedly: "Well, and if Peter hadn't caught
4943 the wolf? What then?"
4945 =head2 v5.8.7-RC1 - Sergei Prokofiev, "Peter and the Wolf"
4947 L<Announced on 2005-05-20 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2005/05/msg100711.html>
4949 And now this is how things stood: The cat was sitting on one branch. The
4950 bird on another, not too close to the cat. And the wolf walked round and
4951 round the tree, looking at them with greedy eyes.
4953 In the meantime, Peter, without the slightest fear, stood behind the
4954 gate, watching all that was going on. He ran home,got a strong rope and
4955 climbed up the high stone wall.
4957 One of the branches of the tree, around which the wolf was walking,
4958 stretched out over the wall.
4960 Grabbing hold of the branch, Peter lightly climbed over on to the tree.
4961 Peter said to the bird: "Fly down and circle round the wolf's head, only
4962 take care that he doesn't catch you!".
4964 The bird almost touched the wolf's head with its wings, while the wolf
4965 snapped angrily at him from this side and that.
4967 How that bird teased the wolf, how that wolf wanted to catch him! But
4968 the bird was clever and the wolf simply couldn't do anything about it.
4970 =head2 v5.8.6 - A. A. Milne, "The House at Pooh Corner"
4972 L<Announced on 2004-11-27 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/11/msg96304.html>
4974 "Hallo, Pooh," said Piglet, giving a jump of surprise. "I knew it was
4977 "So did I,", said Pooh. "What are you doing?"
4979 "I'm planting a haycorn, Pooh, so that it can grow up into an oak-tree,
4980 and have lots of haycorns just outside the front door instead of having
4981 to walk miles and miles, do you see, Pooh?"
4983 "Supposing it doesn't?" said Pooh.
4985 "It will, because Christopher Robin says it will, so that's why I'm
4988 "Well," aid Pooh, "if I plant a honeycomb outside my house, then it will
4989 grow up into a beehive."
4991 Piglet wasn't quite sure about this.
4993 "Or a /piece/ of a honeycomb," said Pooh, "so as not to waste too much.
4994 Only then I might only get a piece of a beehive, and it might be the
4995 wrong piece, where the bees were buzzing and not hunnying. Bother"
4997 Piglet agreed that that would be rather bothering.
4999 "Besides, Pooh, it's a very difficult thing, planting unless you know
5000 how to do it," he said; and he put the acorn in the hole he had made,
5001 and covered it up with earth, and jumped on it.
5003 =head2 v5.8.6-RC1 - A. A. Milne, "Winnie the Pooh"
5005 L<Announced on 2004-11-11 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/11/msg95786.html>
5007 "Hallo!" said Piglet, "whare are /you/ doing?"
5009 "Hunting," said Pooh.
5013 "Tracking something," said Winnie-the-Pooh very mysteriously.
5015 "Tracking what?" said Piglet, coming closer.
5017 "That's just what I ask myself, I ask myself, What?"
5019 "What do you think you'll answer?"
5021 "I shall have to wait until I catch up with it," said Winnie-the-Pooh.
5022 "Now, look there." He pointed to the ground in front of him. "What do
5025 "Track," said Piglet. "Paw-marks." He gave a little squeak of
5026 excitement. "Oh, Pooh!" Do you think it's a--a--a Woozle?"
5028 =head2 v5.8.5 - wikipedia, "Yew"
5030 L<Announced on 2004-07-19 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/07/msg93189.html>
5032 Yews are relatively slow growing trees, widely used in landscaping and
5033 ornamental horticulture. They have flat, dark-green needles, reddish
5034 bark, and bear seeds with red arils, which are eaten by thrushes,
5035 waxwings and other birds, dispersing the hard seeds undamaged in their
5036 droppings. Yew wood is reddish brown (with white sapwood), and very
5037 hard. It was traditionally used to make bows, especially the English
5040 In England, the Common Yew (Taxus baccata, also known as English Yew) is
5041 often found in churchyards. It is sometimes suggested that these are
5042 placed there as a symbol of long life or trees of death, and some are
5043 likely to be over 3,000 years old. It is also suggested that yew trees
5044 may have a pre-Christian association with old pagan holy sites, and the
5045 Christian church found it expedient to use and take over existing sites.
5046 Another explanation is that the poisonous berries and foliage discourage
5047 farmers and drovers from letting their animals wander into the burial
5048 grounds. The yew tree is a frequent symbol in the Christian poetry of
5049 T.S. Eliot, especially his Four Quartets.
5051 =head2 v5.8.5-RC2 - wikipedia, "Beech"
5053 L<Announced on 2004-07-09 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/07/msg92934.html>
5055 Beeches are trees of the Genus Fagus, family Fagaceae, including about
5056 ten species in Europe, Asia, and North America. The leaves are entire or
5057 sparsely toothed. The fruit is a small, sharply-angled nut, borne in
5058 pairs in spiny husks. The beech most commonly grown as an ornamental or
5059 shade tree is the European beech (Fagus sylvatica).
5061 The southern beeches belong to a different but related genus,
5062 Nothofagus. They are found in Australia, New Zealand, New Guinea, New
5063 Caledonia and South America.
5065 =head2 v5.8.5-RC1 - wikipedia, "Pedunculate Oak" (abridged)
5067 L<Announced on 2004-07-07 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/07/msg92840.html>
5069 The Pedunculate Oak is called the Common Oak in Britain, and is also
5070 often called the English Oak in other English speaking countries It is a
5071 large deciduous tree to 25-35m tall (exceptionally to 40m), with lobed
5072 and sessile (stalk-less) leaves. Flowering takes place in early to mid
5073 spring, and their fruit, called "acorns", ripen by autumn of the same
5074 year. The acorns are pedunculate (having a peduncle or acorn-stalk) and
5075 may occur singly, or several acorns may occur on a stalk.
5077 It forms a long-lived tree, with a large widespreading head of rugged
5078 branches. While it may naturally live to an age of a few centuries, many
5079 of the oldest trees are pollarded or coppiced, both pruning techniques
5080 that extend the tree's potential lifespan, if not its health.
5082 Within its native range it is valued for its importance to insects and
5083 other wildlife. Numerous insects live on the leaves, buds, and in the
5084 acorns. The acorns form a valuable food resource for several small
5085 mammals and some birds, notably Jays Garrulus glandarius.
5087 It is planted for forestry, and produces a long-lasting and durable
5088 heartwood, much in demand for interior and furniture work.
5090 =head2 v5.8.4 - T. S. Eliot, "The Old Gumbie Cat"
5092 L<Announced on 2004-04-22 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/04/msg90984.html>
5094 I have a Gumbie Cat in mind, her name is Jennyanydots;
5095 The curtain-cord she likes to wind, and tie it into sailor-knots.
5096 She sits upon the window-sill, or anything that's smooth and flat:
5097 She sits and sits and sits and sits -- and that's what makes a Gumbie Cat!
5099 But when the day's hustle and bustle is done,
5100 Then the Gumbie Cat's work is but hardly begun.
5101 She thinks that the cockroaches just need employment
5102 To prevent them from idle and wanton destroyment.
5103 So she's formed, from that a lot of disorderly louts,
5104 A troop of well-disciplined helpful boy-scouts,
5105 With a purpose in life and a good deed to do--
5106 And she's even created a Beetles' Tattoo.
5108 So for Old Gumbie Cats let us now give three cheers --
5109 On whom well-ordered households depend, it appears.
5112 =head2 v5.8.4-RC2 - T. S. Eliot, "Macavity: The Mystery Cat"
5114 L<Announced on 2004-04-16 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/04/msg90796.html>
5116 Macavity's a Mystery Cat: he's called the Hidden Paw --
5117 For he's the master criminal who can defy the Law.
5118 He's the bafflement of Scotland Yard, the Flying Squad's despair:
5119 For when they reach the scene of crime -- /Macavity's not there/!
5121 Macavity, Macavity, there's no one like Macavity,
5122 He's broken every human law, he breaks the law of gravity.
5123 His powers of levitation would make a fakir stare,
5124 And when you reach the scene of crime -- /Macavity's not there/!
5125 You may seek him in the basement, you may look up in the air --
5126 But I tell you once and once again, /Macavity's not there/!
5128 =head2 v5.8.4-RC1 - T. S. Eliot, "Skimbleshanks: The Railway Cat"
5130 L<Announced on 2004-04-05 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/04/msg90422.html>
5132 There's a whisper down the line at 11.39
5133 When the Night Mail's ready to depart,
5134 Saying 'Skimble where is Skimble has he gone to hunt the thimble?
5135 We must find him of the train can't start.'
5136 All the guards and all the porters and the stationmaster's daughters
5137 They are searching high and low,
5138 Saying 'Skimble where is Skimble for unless he's very nimble
5139 Then the Night Mail just can't go'
5140 At 11.42 then the signal's overdue
5141 And the passengers are frantic to a man--
5142 Then Skimble will appear and he'll saunter to the rear:
5143 He's been busy in the luggage van!
5144 He gives one flash of his glass-green eyes
5145 And the signal goes 'All Clear!'
5146 And we're off at last of the northern part
5147 Of the Northern Hemisphere!
5149 =head2 v5.8.3 - Arthur William Edgar O'Shaugnessy, "Ode"
5151 L<Announced on 2004-01-14 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/01/msg87317.html>
5153 We are the music makers,
5154 And we are the dreamers of dreams,
5155 Wandering by lonely sea-breakers,
5156 And sitting by desolate streams; --
5157 World-losers and world-forsakers,
5158 On whom the pale moon gleams:
5159 Yet we are the movers and shakers
5160 Of the world for ever, it seems.
5162 =head2 v5.8.3-RC1 - Irving Berlin, "Let's Face the Music and Dance"
5164 L<Announced on 2004-01-07 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/01/msg86969.html>
5166 There may be trouble ahead,
5167 But while there's music and moonlight,
5168 And love and romance,
5169 Let's face the music and dance.
5171 Before the fiddlers have fled,
5172 Before they ask us to pay the bill,
5173 And while we still have that chance,
5174 Let's face the music and dance.
5176 Soon, we'll be without the moon,
5177 Humming a different tune, and then,
5179 There may be teardrops to shed,
5180 So while there's music and moonlight,
5181 And love and romance,
5182 Let's face the music and dance.
5184 =head2 v5.8.2 - Walt Whitman, "Passage to India"
5186 L<Announced on 2003-11-05 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/11/msg84822.html>
5188 Passage, immediate passage! the blood burns in my veins!
5189 Away O soul! hoist instantly the anchor!
5190 Cut the hawsers - hall out - shake out every sail!
5191 Have we not stood here like trees in the ground long enough?
5192 Have we not grovel'd here long enough, eating and drinking like mere brutes?
5193 Have we not darken'd and dazed ourselves with books long enough?
5195 Sail forth - steer for the deep waters only,
5196 Reckless O soul, exploring, I with the and thou with me,
5197 For we are bound where mariner has not yet dared to go,
5198 And we will risk the ship, ourselves and all.
5201 O farther farther sail!
5202 O daring job, but safe! are they not all the seas of God?
5203 O farther, farther, farther sail!
5205 =head2 v5.8.2-RC2 - Eric Idle and John Du Prez, "Accountancy Shanty"
5207 L<Announced on 2003-11-03 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/11/msg84645.html>
5209 It's fun to charter an accountant
5210 And sail the wide accountan-cy,
5211 To find, explore the funds offshore
5212 And skirt the shoals of bankruptcy.
5214 =head2 v5.8.2-RC1 - Edward Lear, "The Jumblies"
5216 L<Announced on 2003-10-27 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/10/msg84194.html>
5218 They went to sea in a Sieve, they did,
5219 In a Sieve they went to sea:
5220 In spite of all their friends could say,
5221 On a winter's morn, on a stormy day,
5222 In a Sieve they went to sea!
5223 And when the Sieve turned round and round,
5224 And everyone cried, "You'll all be drowned!"
5225 They cried aloud, "Our Sieve ain't big,
5226 But we don't care a button, we don't care a fig!
5227 In a Sieve we'll go to sea!"
5229 Far and few, far and few,
5230 Are the lands where the Jumblies live;
5231 Their heads are green, and their hands are blue,
5232 And they went to sea in a Sieve.
5234 =head2 v5.8.1 - epigraph same as v5.7.1
5236 L<Announced on 2003-09-25 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/09/msg82678.html>
5238 =head2 v5.8.1-RC5 - Terry Pratchett, "Lords and Ladies"
5240 L<Announced on 2003-09-22 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/09/msg82476.html>
5242 No matter what she did with her hair it took about
5243 three minutes for it to tangle itself up again,
5244 like a garden hosepipe in a shed [Footnote: Which,
5245 no matter how carefully coiled, will always uncoil
5246 overnight and tie the lawnmower to the bicycles].
5248 =head2 v5.8.1-RC4 - Terry Pratchett, "Interesting Times"
5250 L<Announced on 2003-08-01 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/08/msg79184.html>
5252 Grand Viziers were /always/ scheming megalomaniacs.
5253 It was probably in the job description: "Are you a
5254 devious, plotting, unreliable madman? Ah, good,
5255 then you can be my most trusted minister."
5257 =head2 v5.8.1-RC3 - Terry Pratchett, "Interesting Times"
5259 L<Announced on 2003-07-30 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/07/msg79048.html>
5261 Lord Hong had a mind like a knife, although possibly
5262 a knife with a curved blade.
5264 =head2 v5.8.1-RC2 - Terry Pratchett, "Interesting Times"
5266 L<Announced on 2003-07-11 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/07/msg78102.html>
5268 Many an ancient lord's last words had been, "You can't kill
5269 me because I've got magic aaargh."
5271 =head2 v5.8.1-RC1 - Terry Pratchett, "Interesting Times"
5273 L<Announced on 2003-07-10 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/07/msg78009.html>
5275 Cohen was familiar with city gates. He'd broken down a number
5276 in his time, by battering ram, siege gun, and on one occasion
5279 But the gates of Hunghung were pretty damn good gates. They
5280 weren't like the gates of Ankh-Morpork, which were usually wide
5281 open to attract the spending customer and whose concession to
5282 defense was the sign "Thank You For Not Attacking Our City.
5283 Bonum Diem." These things were big and made of metal and there
5284 was a guardhouse and a squad of unhelpful men in black armor.
5286 =head2 v5.8.0 - Terry Pratchett, "Reaper Man"
5288 L<Announced on 2002-07-18 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2002/07/msg63720.html>
5290 There was the faint sound of footsteps.
5291 "Chap with a whip got as far as the big sharp spikes last week,"
5292 said the low priest.
5293 There was a sound like the flushing of a very old dry lavatory.
5294 The footsteps stopped. The High Priest smiled to himself.
5295 "Right," he said. "See your two pebbles and raise you two pebbles."
5296 The low priest threw down his cards. "Double Onion," he said.
5297 The High Priest looked down suspiciously.
5298 The low priest consulted a scrap of paper. "That's three hundred
5299 thousand, nine hundred and sixty-four pebbles you owe me," he said.
5300 There was the sound of footsteps. The priests exchanged glances.
5301 "Haven't had one for poisoned-dart alley for quite some time,"
5302 said the High Priest.
5303 "Five says he makes it", said the low priest. "You're on."
5304 There was a faint clatter of metal points on stone.
5305 "It's a shame to take your pebbles."
5306 There were footsteps again.
5308 =head2 v5.8.0-RC3 - no epigraph
5310 L<Announced on 2002-07-13 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2002/07/msg63234.html>
5312 =head2 v5.8.0-RC2 - no epigraph
5314 L<Announced on 2002-06-21 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2002/06/msg62013.html>
5316 =head2 v5.8.0-RC1 - no epigraph
5318 L<Announced on 2002-06-01 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2002/06/msg60317.html>
5320 =head2 v5.7.3 - Terry Pratchett, "Reaper Man"
5322 L<Announced on 2002-03-04 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2002/03/msg53652.html>
5324 Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong.
5325 No matter how fast light travels it finds the darkness has always
5326 got there first, and is waiting for it.
5328 =head2 v5.7.2 - Terry Pratchett, "Small Gods"
5330 L<Announced on 2001-07-13 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2001/07/msg40370.html>
5332 His philosophy was a mixture of three famous schools --
5333 the Cynics, the Stoics and the Epicureans -- and summed up
5334 all three of them in his famous phrase, "You can't trust any
5335 bugger further than you can throw him, and there's nothing
5336 you can do about it, so let's have a drink."
5338 =head2 v5.7.1 - Terry Pratchett, "The Colour of Magic"
5340 L<Announced on 2001-04-09 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2001/04/msg33851.html>
5342 "What happens next?" asked Twoflower.
5344 Hrun screwed a finger in his ear and inspected it absently.
5346 "Oh,", he said, "I expect in a minute the door will be
5347 flung back and I'll be dragged off to some sort of temple
5348 arena where I'll fight maybe a couple of giant spiders
5349 and an eight-foot slave from the jungles of Klatch and then
5350 I'll rescue some kind of a princess from the altar and then
5351 I'll kill off a few guards or whatever and then this girl
5352 will show me the secret passage out of the place and we'll
5353 liberate a couple of horses and escape with the treasure."
5354 Hrun leaned his head back on his hands and looked at the
5355 ceiling, whistling tunelessly.
5357 "All that?" said Twoflower.
5361 =head2 v5.7.0 - Terry Pratchett, "Moving Pictures"
5363 L<Announced on 2000-09-02 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2000/09/msg17730.html>
5365 The Librarian had seen many weird things in his time,
5366 but that had to be the 57th strangest.
5367 [footnote: he had a tidy mind]
5369 =head2 v5.6.2 - Laurence Sterne, "Tristram Shandy"
5371 L<Announced on 2003-11-15 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/11/msg85222.html>
5373 When great or unexpected events fall out upon the stage of this
5374 sublunary word--the mind of man, which is an inquisitive kind of
5375 a substance, naturally takes a flight, behind the scenes, to see
5376 what is the cause and first spring of them--The search was not
5377 long in this instance.
5379 =head2 v5.6.2-RC1 - Laurence Sterne, "Tristram Shandy"
5381 L<Announced on 2003-11-08 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/11/msg84953.html>
5383 "Pray, my dear", quoth my mother, "have you not forgot to wind up the clock?"
5385 =head2 v5.6.1 - J R R Tolkien, "The Hobbit", Riddles in the Dark
5387 L<Announced on 2001-04-08 by Gurusamy Sarathy|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2001/04/msg33823.html>
5389 `What have I got in my pocket?' he said aloud. He was talking to
5390 himself, but Gollum thought it was a riddle, and he was frightfully
5393 `Not fair! not fair!' he hissed. `It isn't fair, my precious, is it,
5394 to ask us what it's got in its nassty little pocketses?'
5396 Bilbo seeing what had happened and having nothing better to ask
5397 stuck to his question, `What have I got in my pocket?' he said
5400 `S-s-s-s-s,' hissed Gollum. `It must give us three guesseses,
5401 my precious, three guesseses.'
5403 =head2 v5.6.1-foolish - no epigraph
5405 L<Announced on 2001-04-01 by Gurusamy Sarathy|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2001/04/msg33421.html>
5407 =head2 v5.6.1-TRIAL3 - I can't find the announcement
5409 No announcement available.
5411 =head2 v5.6.1-TRIAL2 - no epigraph
5413 L<Announced on 2001-01-31 by Gurusamy Sarathy|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2001/01/msg29934.html>
5415 =head2 v5.6.1-TRIAL1 - no epigraph
5417 L<Announced on 2000-12-18 by Gurusamy Sarathy|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2000/12/msg27738.html>
5419 =head2 v5.6.0 - J R R Tolkien, "The Hobbit", The Last Stage
5421 L<Announced on 2000-03-23 by Gurusamy Sarathy|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2000/03/msg10341.html>
5423 The dragon is withered,
5424 His bones are now crumbled;
5425 His armour is shivered,
5426 His splendour is humbled!
5427 Though sword shall be rusted,
5428 And throne and crown perish
5429 With strength that men trusted
5430 And wealth that they cherish,
5431 Here grass is still growing,
5432 And leaves are a yet swinging,
5433 The white water flowing,
5434 And elves are yet singing
5435 Come! Tra-la-la-lally!
5436 Come back to the valley.
5438 =head2 v5.6.0-RC3 - no epigraph
5440 L<Announced on 2000-03-22 by Gurusamy Sarathy|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2000/03/msg10140.html>
5442 =head2 v5.005_05-RC1 - no epigraph
5444 L<Announced on 2009-02-16 by LE<0xe9>on Brocard|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2009/02/msg144227.html>
5446 =head2 v5.005_04 - no epigraph
5448 L<Announced on 2004-03-01 by LE<0xe9>on Brocard|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/03/msg89047.html>
5450 =head2 v5.005_04-RC2 - Rudyard Kipling, "The Jungle Book"
5452 L<Announced on 2004-02-19 by LE<0xe9>on Brocard|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/02/msg88672.html>
5454 The monkeys called the place their city, and pretended to despise
5455 the Jungle-People because they lived in the forest. And yet they
5456 never knew what the buildings were made for nor how to use
5457 them. They would sit in circles on the hall of the king's council
5458 chamber, and scratch for fleas and pretend to be men; or they would
5459 run in and out of the roofless houses and collect pieces of plaster
5460 and old bricks in a corner, and forget where they had hidden them,
5461 and fight and cry in scuffling crowds, and then break off to play up
5462 and down the terraces of the king's garden, where they would shake
5463 the rose trees and the oranges in sport to see the fruit and flowers
5466 =head2 v5.005_04-RC1 - Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
5468 L<Announced on 2004-02-05 by LE<0xe9>on Brocard|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/02/msg88312.html>
5470 Either the well was very deep, or she fell very slowly, for she had
5471 plenty of time as she went down to look about her and to wonder what was
5472 going to happen next. First, she tried to look down and make out what
5473 she was coming to, but it was too dark to see anything; then she looked
5474 at the sides of the well, and noticed that they were filled with
5475 cupboards and book-shelves; here and there she saw maps and pictures
5476 hung upon pegs. She took down a jar from one of the shelves as she
5477 passed; it was labelled 'ORANGE MARMALADE', but to her great
5478 disappointment it was empty: she did not like to drop the jar for fear
5479 of killing somebody, so managed to put it into one of the cupboards as
5482 =head2 v1.0_16 - Johan Vromans, extemporarily
5484 L<Announced on 2003-12-18 by Richard Clamp|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/12/msg86423.html>
5486 't was 16 years ago today
5487 Larry taught us a new game
5488 of lazyness, impatience, and hubris
5489 Happy birthday, Perl!
5491 =head1 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
5493 This document was originally compiled based on a list of epigraphs
5494 on L<Perl Monks|http://perlmonks.org> titled
5495 L<Recent Perl Release Announcement|http://perlmonks.org/?node_id=372406>