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 v5.33.4 - George Eliot, "Adam Bede"
22 L<Announced on 2020-11-20 by Tom Hukins|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2020/11/msg258597.html>
24 It was more than two o'clock in the afternoon when Adam came in sight of
25 the grey town on the hill-side and looked searchingly towards the green
26 valley below, for the first glimpse of the old thatched roof near the
29 =head2 v5.33.3 - Ludwig van Beethoven, "Heiligenstadt Testament"; translated and quoted in: Maynard Solomon, "Beethoven"
31 L<Announced on 2020-10-20 by Steve Hay|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2020/10/msg258502.html>
33 Oh you men who think or say that I am malevolent, stubborn, or
34 misanthropic, how greatly do you wrong me. You do not know the secret
35 cause which makes me seem that way to you. From childhood on, my
36 heart and soul have been full of the tender feeling of goodwill, and I
37 was ever inclined to accomplish great things. But, think that for six
38 years now I have been hopelessly afflicted, made worse by senseless
39 physicians, from year to year deceived with hopes of improvement,
40 finally compelled to face the prospect of a lasting malady (whose cure
41 will take years or, perhaps, be impossible). Though born with a
42 fiery, active temperament, even susceptible to the diversions of
43 society, I was soon compelled to withdraw myself, to live life alone.
44 [...] I endured this wretched existence--truly wretched for so
45 susceptible a body, which can be thrown by a sudden change from the
46 best condition to the very worst.--Patience, they say, is what I must
47 now choose for my guide, and I have done so--I hope my determination
48 will remain firm to endure until it pleases the inexorable Parcae to
49 break the thread. [...] Recommend virtue to your children; it alone,
50 not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience; this was
51 what upheld me in time of misery. [...] Do not wholly forget me when I
52 am dead; I deserve this from you, for during my lifetime I was
53 thinking of you often and of ways to make you happy--please be so--
55 =head2 v5.33.2 - Elizabeth Warren
57 L<Announced on 2020-09-20 by Sawyer X|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2020/09/msg258369.html>
59 What I've learned is that real change is very, very hard. But I've
60 also learned that change is possible - if you fight for it.
62 =head2 v5.33.1 - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956 (1973)
64 L<Announced on 2020-08-20 by Karen Etheridge|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2020/08/msg258282.html>
66 If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds,
67 and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy
68 them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every
69 human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?
71 =head2 v5.33.0 - Confucius, "Confucius: The Analects"
73 L<Announed on 2020-07-17 by Sawyer X|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2020/07/msg258033.html>
75 The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.
77 =head2 v5.32.0 - Bob Dylan, "The Times They Are A Changing"
79 L<Announced on 2020-06-20 by Sawyer X|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2020/06/msg257547.html>
81 Come gather 'round, people
83 And admit that the waters
85 And accept it that soon
86 You'll be drenched to the bone
87 If your time to you is worth savin'
88 And you better start swimmin'
89 Or you'll sink like a stone
90 For the times they are a-changin'
92 =head2 v5.32.0-RC1 - Coretta Scott King
94 L<Announced on 2020-06-08 by Sawyer X|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2020/06/msg257521.html>
96 Struggle is a never ending process. Freedom is never really won,
97 you earn it and win it in every generation.
99 =head2 v5.32.0-RC0 - Franz Kafka
101 L<Announced on 2020-05-30 by Sawyer X|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2020/05/msg257486.html>
103 There are some things one can only achieve by a deliberate leap
104 in the opposite direction.
106 =head2 v5.31.11 - John F. Kennedy, National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy
108 L<Announced on 2020-04-28 by Sawyer X|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2020/04/msg257385.html>
110 Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind.
112 =head2 v5.31.10 - Christina Rossetti, "Remember"
114 L<Announced on 2020-03-20 by Sawyer X|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2020/03/msg257274.html>
116 Remember me when I am gone away,
117 Gone far away into the silent land;
118 When you can no more hold me by the hand,
119 Nor I half turn to go yet turning stay.
120 Remember me when no more day by day
121 You tell me of our future that you plann'd:
122 Only remember me; you understand
123 It will be late to counsel then or pray.
124 Yet if you should forget me for a while
125 And afterwards remember, do not grieve:
126 For if the darkness and corruption leave
127 A vestige of the thoughts that once I had,
128 Better by far you should forget and smile
129 Than that you should remember and be sad.
131 =head2 v5.31.9 - Sten Nadolny, book The Discovery of Slowness
133 L<Announced on 2020-02-20 by Renee Bäcker|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2020/02/msg257144.html>
135 „When people talk too fast the content becomes as superfluous as the speed.“
137 =head2 v5.31.8 - Joe Perham, "Joe Perham's Guide to Hunting and Guide to Fishing in Maine"
139 L<Announced on 2020-01-20 by Matthew Horsfall|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2020/01/msg256894.html>
141 Harry used to cut wood for the Brown company over in Stoneham Red
142 Rock Basin. And of course he was the best shot in camp. One day the
143 foreman told him to go get some meat.
145 "Take any gun you want."
147 Harry says "I'll take the .45-70."
149 Foreman said "That gun's only got one bullet."
151 Harry says "I only need one bullet."
153 Took the .45-70, went out, an hour later he was back with two Moose,
154 a dozen trout you see, and a fluffy partridge. Went back to work.
156 Well at supper that night foreman says "Harry, um, something's
157 bothering me here a little bit. How did you get all that food with
158 only one bullet. I'm a little confused about the... the partridge,
159 there ain't a mark on him."
161 "Well", Harry says, "I'll tell ya. I took that .45-70, went back into
162 the woods a piece there I come to this brook. And I just uh, got to
163 the other side when I happen to see two moose in the swamp off
164 there. I figured I could get both of 'em. So I took out my huntin'
165 knife and stuck it into the mud, hilt foremost, sharp edge on the
166 blade towards me of course. I took dead aim on that knife, fired,
167 split that bullet and killed those two moose. Well you know the
168 recoil knocked me back into the brook. When I come up out of the
169 water, my pants were so full of fish that it popped a button off my
170 fly and killed that bird."
172 =head2 v5.31.7 - Bernard Werber
174 L<Announced on 2019-12-20 by Atoomic|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/12/msg256802.html>
176 Be quiet. Look at the stars and appreciate what you live.
178 =head2 v5.31.6 - Neal Stephenson, "Quicksilver"
180 L<Announced on 2019-11-20 by Chris 'BinGOs' Williams|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/11/msg256646.html>
184 State your intentions, Muse. I know you're there.
185 Dead bards who pined for you have said
186 You're bright as flame, but fickle as the air.
187 My pen and I, submerged in liquid shade,
188 Much dark can spread, on days and over reams
189 But without you, no radiance can shed.
190 Why rustle in the dark, when fledged with fire?
191 Craze the night with flails of light. Reave
192 Your turbid shroud. Bestow what I require.
194 But you're not in the dark. I do believe
195 I swim, like squid, in clouds of my own make,
196 To you, offensive. To us both, opaque.
197 What's constituted so, only a pen
198 Can penetrate. I have one here; let's go.
200 =head2 v5.31.5 - Edward Lear, ed. Vivien Noakes, "The Complete Nonsense and Other Verse": The Daddy Long-legs and the Fly
202 L<Announced on 2019-10-20 by Steve Hay|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/10/msg256478.html>
204 'O Mr Daddy Long-legs,'
206 'It's true I never go to court,
207 And I will tell you why.
208 If I had six long legs like yours,
209 At once I'd go to court!
210 But oh! I can't, because my legs
211 Are so extremely short.
212 And I'm afraid the King and Queen
213 (One in red, and one in green)
214 Would say aloud, "You are not fit,
215 You Fly, to come to court a bit!"'
217 =head2 v5.31.4 - Ann Leckie, "The Raven Tower"
219 L<Announced on 2019-09-20 by Max Maischein|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/09/msg256254.html>
221 Stories can be risky for someone like me. What I say must be true, or it
222 will be made true, and if it cannot be made true - if I don't have the
223 power, or if what I have said is an impossibility - then I will pay the
224 price. I might more or less safely say, "Once there was a man who rode
225 home to attend his father's funeral and claim his inheritance, but
226 matters were not as he expected them to be." I do not doubt that such a
227 thing has happened more than once in all the time there have been
228 fathers to die and sons to succeed them. But to go any further, I must
229 supply more details - the specific actions of specific people, and their
230 specific consequences - and there I might blunder, all unknowing, into
231 untruth. It's safer for me to speak of what I know. Or to speak only in
232 the safest of generalities. Or else to say plainly at the beginning,
233 "Here is a story I have heard," placing the burden of truth or not on
234 the teller whose words I am merely accurately reporting.
236 But what is the story that I am telling? Here is another story I have
238 Once there were two brothers, and one of them wanted what the other had.
239 Bent all his will to obtain what the other had, no matter the cost.
240 Here is another story: Once there was a prisoner in a tower.
242 Once someone risked their life out of duty and loyalty to a friend.
243 Ah, there's a story that I might tell, and truthfully.
245 =head2 v5.31.3 - Samantha Harvey, "All Is Song"
247 L<Announced on 2019-08-20 by Tom Hukins|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/08/msg256012.html>
249 We are born from unity, we divide into isolation. We winnow ourselves
250 out from the thing that first made sense of us and then expect to find
251 meaning, yet a fraction makes no sense without the number of which
252 it's a fractional part. We see loss, feel grief, give ourselves
253 illness, we're cells that have over-divided and we call the division
254 growth; the only real growth is in the return to unity, God, the
257 Tired to his core, he turned the video off. The rain still poured as
258 he went upstairs, and in bed as he tripped down into the deep open
259 shaft of sleep he kept thinking that to divide by zero was to end up
260 with infinity, as was to divide by God. To divide by God, to divide
261 by God, over and over he thought it without sense; to divide by God; I
262 must tell my students that the way to pass their exams is to divide by
263 God. Then he must have slept, for it was morning.
265 =head2 v5.31.2 - Edward Lear, ed. Vivien Noakes, "The Complete Nonsense and Other Verse": The Duck and the Kangaroo
267 L<Announced on 2019-07-20 by Steve Hay|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/07/msg255639.html>
269 Said the Duck to the Kangaroo,
270 'Good gracious! how you hop!
271 Over the fields and the water too,
272 As if you never would stop!
273 My life is a bore in this nasty pond,
274 And I long to go out in the world beyond!
275 I wish I could hop like you!'
276 Said the Duck to the Kangaroo.
278 =head2 v5.31.1 - Kurt Vonnegut, _A Man without a Country_
280 L<Announced on 2019-06-20 by Karen Etheridge|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/06/msg255243.html>
282 On Tuesday, January 20, 2004, I sent Joel Bleifuss, my editor at _In These
285 ON ORANGE ALERT HERE.
286 ECONOMIC TERRORIST ATTACK
287 EXPECTED AT 8 PM EST. KV
289 Worried, he called, asking what was up. I said I would tell him when I had
290 more complete information on the bombs George Bush was set to deliver in his
291 State of the Union address.
293 That night I got a call from my friend, the out-of-print-science-fiction
294 writer Kilgore Trout. He asked me, "Did you watch the State of the Union
297 "Yes, and it certainly helped to remember what the great British socialist
298 playwright George Bernard Shaw said about this planet."
302 "He said, 'I don't know if there are men on the moon, but if there are, they
303 must be using the earth as their lunatic asylum.' And he wasn't talking
304 about the germs or the elephants. He meant we the people."
308 "You don't think this is the Lunatic Asylum of the Universe?"
310 "Kurt, I don't think I expressed an opinion one way of the other."
312 "We are killing this planet as a life-support system with the poisons from
313 all the thermodynamic whoopee we're making with atomic energy and fossil
314 fuels, and everybody knows it, and practically nobody cares. This is how
315 crazy we are. I think the planet's immune system is trying to get rid of us
316 with AIDS and new strains of flu and tuberculosis, and so on. I think the
317 planet should get rid of us. We're really awful animals. I mean, that dumb
318 Barbra Streisand song, 'People who need people are the luckiest people in
319 the world' -- she's talking about cannibals. Lots to eat. Yes, the planet is
320 trying to get rid of us, but I think it's too late."
322 And I said good-bye to my friend, hung up the phone, sat down and wrote this
323 epitaph: "The good Earth -- we could have saved it, but we were too damn
326 =head2 v5.31.0 - Fumiko Enchi, Masks
328 L<Announced on 2019-05-24 by Sawyer X|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/05/msg254886.html>
330 The secrets inside her mind are like flowers in a garden at
331 nighttime, filling the darkness with perfume.
333 =head2 v5.30.3 - Ben Aaronovitch, "Rivers of London"
335 L<Announced on 2020-06-01 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2020/01/msg257498.html>
337 Trewsbury Mead [...] According to the Ordnance Survey, this is where the
338 Thames first rises 130 straight-line kilometres west of London. Just to
339 the north is the site either of an Iron Age hill fort or a Roman
340 encampment, the exact nature of which is awaiting an episode of Time
341 Team. Apparently there is a soggy field, a stone to mark the spot and a
342 chance, after a particularly wet winter, that you might see some water.
344 =head2 v5.30.2 - Francesco Maria Piave, trans. Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, "La traviata", Act II, Scene 2
346 L<Announced on 2020-03-14 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2020/03/msg257227.html>
348 FLORA, GASTON, DOCTOR, MARQUIS, CHORUS
350 Yes, you have suffered, but take heart!
351 Every one of us has shared your pain;
352 friends are around you to dry the tears
356 (I alone know the true devotion
357 this poor girl hides within her breast;
358 I know her faithful heart,
359 but I'm vowed so cruelly to silence.)
363 Your deadly insult to this lady
364 offends us all, but such an outrage
365 shall not go unavenged!
366 I shall find a way to humble your pride!
369 (Alas, what have I done? I feel terrible about it.
370 She will never forgive me.)
374 Alfredo, how should you understand
375 all the love that's in my heart?
376 How should you know that I have proved it,
377 even at the price of your contempt?
379 But the time will come when you will know,
380 when you'll admit how much I loved you.
381 God save you then from all remorse!
382 Even after death I shall still love you.
384 =head2 v5.30.2-RC1 - Francesco Maria Piave, trans. Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, "La traviata", Act II, Scene 2
386 L<Announced on 2020-02-29 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2020/02/msg257163.html>
389 For me this woman lost
391 I was blind, a wretched coward,
393 But it's time now for me to clear
395 I call you all to witness here
396 that I've paid her back!
398 (Contemptuously, he throws his winnings at Violetta's feet.
399 She swoons in Flora's arms. Alfredo's father arrives suddenly.)
405 a tender heart that way!
409 We've no use for the likes of you!
413 (dignified in his anger)
414 A man who offends a woman, even in anger,
415 deserves nothing but scorn.
416 Where is my son? I no longer see him
420 (What have I done? Yes, I despise myself!
421 Jealous madness, love deceived,
422 ravaged my soul, destroyed my reason.
423 How can I ever gain her pardon?
424 I would have left her, but I couldn't;
425 I came here to vent my anger,
426 But now I've done that, wretch that I am,
427 I feel nothing but deep remorse!)
429 =head2 v5.30.1 - Francesco Maria Piave, trans. Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, "La traviata", Act I: Brindisi
431 L<Announced on 2019-11-10 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/11/msg256610.html>
434 With you I would share
435 my days of happiness;
436 everything is folly in this world
437 that does not give us pleasure.
439 for the pleasures of love are swift and fleeting
440 as a flower that lives and dies
441 and can be enjoyed no more.
442 Let's take our pleasure while its ardent,
443 brilliant summons lures us on!
445 =head2 v5.30.1-RC1 - Francesco Maria Piave, trans. Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, "La traviata", Act I: Brindisi
447 L<Announced on 2019-10-27 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/10/msg256542.html>
450 Let's drink from the joyous chalice
451 where beauty flowers...
452 Let the fleeting hour
453 to pleasure's intoxication yield.
455 to love's sweet tremors --
457 that pierce the heart.
458 Let's drink to love -- to wine
459 that warms our kisses.
461 =head2 v5.30.0 - Morihei Ueshiba
463 L<Announced on 2019-05-22 by Sawyer X|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/05/msg254844.html>
465 Life is growth. If we stop growing, technically and spiritually, we
468 =head2 v5.30.0-RC2 - Derek Walcott
470 L<Announced on 2019-05-17 by Sawyer X|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/05/msg254824.html>
472 The truest writers are those who see language not as linguistic process but
477 =head2 v5.30.0-RC1 - Marcel Proust
479 L<Announced on 2019-05-11 by Sawyer X|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/05/msg254748.html>
481 If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream
482 less but to dream more, to dream all the time.
486 =head2 v5.29.10 - Maya Angelou, Alone
488 L<Announced on 2019-04-20 by Sawyer X|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/04/msg254467.html>
492 How to find my soul a home
493 Where water is not thirsty
494 And bread loaf is not stone
495 I came up with one thing
496 And I don't believe I'm wrong
499 Can make it out here alone.
503 Can make it out here alone.
505 There are some millionaires
506 With money they can't use
507 Their wives run round like banshees
508 Their children sing the blues
509 They've got expensive doctors
510 To cure their hearts of stone.
513 Can make it out here alone.
517 Can make it out here alone.
519 Now if you listen closely
520 I'll tell you what I know
521 Storm clouds are gathering
522 The wind is gonna blow
523 The race of man is suffering
524 And I can hear the moan,
527 Can make it out here alone.
531 Can make it out here alone.
533 =head2 v5.29.9 - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Dancing Men
535 L<Announced on 2019-03-21 by Zak Elep|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/03/msg253978.html>
537 What one man can invent, another can discover.
539 =head2 v5.29.8 - Isaac Asimov, Foundation: “Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.”
541 L<Announced on 2019-02-20 by Atoomic|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/02/msg253750.html>
543 =head2 v5.29.7 - Edsger W. Dijkstra: "Programming Considered as a Human Activity", IFIP Congress, New York, 1965.
545 L<Announced on 2019-01-20 by Abigail|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/01/msg253444.html>
547 When I became acquainted with the notion of algorithmic languages I
548 never challenged the then prevailing notion that the problems of
549 language design and implementation were mostly a question of
550 compromises: every new convenience for the user had to be paid for
551 by the implementation, either in the form of increased trouble
552 during translation, or during execution or during both. Well, we
553 are most certainly not living in Heaven and I am not going to deny
554 the possibility of a conflict between convenience and efficiency,
555 but now I do protest when this conflict is presented as a complete
556 summing up of the situation. I am of the opinion that is worth-while
557 to investigate what extent the needs of Man and Machine go hand in
558 hand and to see what techniques we can devise of the benefit of all
559 of us. I trust that this investigation will bear fruits and if this
560 talk made some of you share this fervent hope, it has achieved its aim.
562 =head2 v5.29.6 - Rudyard Kipling: "How the Camel Got His Hump"
564 L<Announced on 2018-12-18 by Abigail|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/12/msg253187.html>
566 The Camel's hump is an ugly lump
567 Which well you may see at the Zoo;
568 But uglier yet is the hump we get
569 From having little to do.
571 Kiddies and grown-ups too-oo-oo
572 If we haven't enough to do-oo-oo,
575 The hump that is black and blue!
577 We climb out of bed with a frouzly head
578 And a snarly-yarly voice.
579 We shiver and scowl and we grunt and we growl
580 At our bath and our boots and our toys;
582 And there ought to be a corner for me
583 (And I know there is one for you)
584 When we get the hump -
586 The hump that is black and blue!
588 The cure for this ill is to not sit still,
589 Or frowst with a book by the fire;
590 But to take a large hoe and a shovel also,
591 And dig till you gentle perspire;
593 And then you will find that the sun and the wind,
594 And the Djinn of the Garden too,
595 Have lifted the hump -
597 The hump that is black and blue!
599 I get it as well as you-oo-oo -
600 If I haven't enough to do-oo-oo!
603 Kiddies and grown-ups too!
606 =head2 v5.29.5 - T. S. Eliot, "The Naming Of Cats"
608 L<Announced on 2018-11-20 by Karen Etheridge|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/11/msg252839.html>
610 The Naming of Cats is a difficult matter,
611 It isn't just one of your holiday games;
612 You may think at first I'm as mad as a hatter
613 When I tell you, a cat must have THREE DIFFERENT NAMES.
614 First of all, there's the name that the family use daily,
615 Such as Peter, Augustus, Alonzo or James,
616 Such as Victor or Jonathan, George or Bill Bailey--
617 All of them sensible everyday names.
618 There are fancier names if you think they sound sweeter,
619 Some for the gentlemen, some for the dames:
620 Such as Plato, Admetus, Electra, Demeter--
621 But all of them sensible everyday names.
622 But I tell you, a cat needs a name that's particular,
623 A name that's peculiar, and more dignified,
624 Else how can he keep up his tail perpendicular,
625 Or spread out his whiskers, or cherish his pride?
626 Of names of this kind, I can give you a quorum,
627 Such as Munkustrap, Quaxo, or Coricopat,
628 Such as Bombalurina, or else Jellylorum-
629 Names that never belong to more than one cat.
630 But above and beyond there's still one name left over,
631 And that is the name that you never will guess;
632 The name that no human research can discover--
633 But THE CAT HIMSELF KNOWS, and will never confess.
634 When you notice a cat in profound meditation,
635 The reason, I tell you, is always the same:
636 His mind is engaged in a rapt contemplation
637 Of the thought, of the thought, of the thought of his name:
638 His ineffable effable
640 Deep and inscrutable singular Name.
642 =head2 v5.29.4 - The Mountain Goats, "Oceanographer's Choice"
644 L<Announced on 2018-10-20 by Aaron Crane|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/10/msg252575.html>
647 Guy in a skeleton costume
648 Comes up to the guy in the Superman suit
649 Runs through him with a broadsword
650 I flipped the television off
651 Bring all the bright lights up
652 Turn the radio up loud
653 I don't know why I'm so persuaded
654 That if I think things through
655 Long enough and hard enough
656 I'll somehow get to you
657 But then you came in and we locked eyes
658 You kicked the ashtray over as we came toward each other
659 Stubbed my cigarette out against the west wall
662 Would you look at that?
663 We're throwing off sparks
664 What will I do when I don't have you
665 To hold onto in the dark?
667 =head2 v5.29.3 - Mac Miller, "Senior Skip Day"
669 L<Announced on 2018-09-20 by John 'genehack' Anderson|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/09/msg252255.html>
671 Enjoy the best things in your life
672 ’Cause you ain’t gonna get to live it twice
673 They say you waste time asleep
674 But I’m just tryin’ to dream
676 =head2 v5.29.2 - Rick Riordan, "The Lightning Thief"
678 L<Announced on 2018-08-20 by Chris 'BinGOs' Williams|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/08/msg251918.html>
680 Look, I didn't want to be a half-blood.
682 If you're reading this because you think you might be one,
683 my advice is: close this book right now. Believe whatever
684 lie your mom or dad told you about your birth, and try
685 to lead a normal life.
687 Being a half-blood is dangerous. It's scary. Most of the time,
688 it gets you killed in painful, nasty ways.
690 If you're a normal kid, reading this because you think it's
691 fiction, great. Read on. I envy you for being able to believe
692 that none of this ever happened.
694 But if you recognize yourself in these pages - if you feel
695 something stirring inside - stop reading immediately.
696 You might be one of us. And once you know that, it's only a
697 matter of time before they sense it too, and they'll come for you.
699 =head2 v5.29.1 - Richard Curtis & Ben Elton, "Blackadder, Series 3, Episode 2: Ink and Incapability"
701 L<Announced on 2018-07-20 by Steve Hay|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/07/msg251605.html>
703 Dr. Samuel Johnson: Here it is, sir: the very cornerstone of English
704 scholarship. This book, sir, contains every word in our beloved
707 Prince Regent George: Hmm.
709 Edmund Blackadder: Every single one, sir?
711 Johnson: (confidently) Every single word, sir!
713 Blackadder: (to Prince) Oh, well, in that case, sir, I hope you will
714 not object if I also offer the Doctor my most enthusiastic
719 Blackadder: 'Contrafribularities,' sir? It is a common word down our
722 Johnson: Damn! (writes in the book)
724 Blackadder: Oh, I'm sorry, sir. I'm anaspeptic, phrasmotic, even
725 compunctious to have caused you such pericombobulation.
727 Johnson: What? What? WHAT?
729 =head2 v5.29.0 - Erle Stanley Gardner, The Case of the Grinning Gorilla
731 L<Announced on 2018-06-26 by Sawyer X|http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/251297>
733 Courage is the only antidote for danger.
735 =head2 v5.28.3 - Ben Aaronovitch, "Rivers of London"
737 L<Announced on 2020-06-01 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2020/01/msg257497.html>
739 The north end of the London Borough of Camden is dominated by two hills,
740 Hampstead on the west, Highgate on the east, with the Heath, one of the
741 largest parks in London, slung between them like a green saddle. From
742 these heights the land slopes down towards the River Thames and the
743 floodplains that lurk below the built-up centre of London.
745 =head2 v5.28.2 - Edward Lear, ed. Vivien Noakes, "The Complete Nonsense and Other Verse": The Jumblies
747 L<Announced on 2019-04-19 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/04/msg254456.html>
749 They went to sea in a Sieve, they did,
750 In a Sieve they went to sea:
751 In spite of all their friends could say,
752 On a winter's morn, on a stormy day,
753 In a Sieve they went to sea!
754 And when the Sieve turned round and round,
755 And every one cried, 'You'll all be drowned!'
756 They called aloud, 'Our Sieve ain't big,
757 But we don't care a button! we don't care a fig!
758 In a Sieve we'll go to sea!'
759 Far and few, far and few,
760 Are the lands where the Jumblies live;
761 Their heads are green, and their hands are blue,
762 And they went to sea in a Sieve.
764 =head2 v5.28.2-RC1 - Edward Lear, ed. Vivien Noakes, "The Complete Nonsense and Other Verse": The Quangle Wangle's Hat
766 L<Announced on 2019-04-05 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/04/msg254218.html>
768 On the top of the Crumpetty Tree
769 The Quangle Wangle sat,
770 But his face you could not see,
771 On account of his Beaver Hat.
772 For his Hat was a hundred and two feet wide,
773 With ribbons and bibbons on every side,
774 And bells, and buttons, and loops, and lace,
775 So that nobody ever could see the face
776 Of the Quangle Wangle Quee.
778 =head2 v5.28.1 - Humphrey Burton, "Leonard Bernstein"
780 L<Announced on 2018-11-29 by Steve Hay|http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/11/msg252975.html>
782 On August 25, 1983, Leonard Bernstein celebrated his sixty-fifth
783 birthday in his birthplace, Lawrence, Massachusetts. He had actually
784 lived in the town for only a few weeks as a newborn baby, and had last
785 visited it forty-nine years previously, in 1934, to get the name on his
786 birth certificate altered from Louis to Leonard. But the citizens of
787 Lawrence proposed to dedicate an outdoor theater to him in their
788 heritage park and to provide not one but two local orchestras--the
789 Merrimack Valley Philharmonic to play excerpts from his own compositions
790 and the Greater Boston Youth Symphony and Chorus to perform the "Ode to
791 Joy" and accompany Bernstein himself reading (for the only time in his
792 life) the text of A Lincoln Portrait. So Bernstein turned down birthday
793 invitations from Tanglewood and Central Park, New York, and the
794 Hollywood Bowl and drove through the cheering if slightly bewildered
795 crowds lining the streets of Lawrence in an open-topped 1928 Ford
796 roadster, looking as homespun as James Stewart in Frank Capra's classic,
797 It's a Wonderful Life.
799 =head2 v5.28.0 - Martin Luther King, Jr., 1967
801 L<Announced on 2018-06-22 by Sawyer X|http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/251240>
803 When we look at modern man we have to face the fact that modern man
804 suffers from a kind of poverty of the spirit which stands in glaring
805 contrast with his scientific and technological abundance. We've learned
806 to fly the air as birds, we've learned to swim the seas as fish, yet we
807 haven't learned to walk the earth as brothers and sisters.
809 =head2 v5.28.0-RC4 - Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book
811 L<Announced on 2018-06-19 by Sawyer X|http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/251212>
813 You're alive, Bod. That means you have infinite potential. You can do
814 anything, make anything, dream anything. If you can change the world,
815 the world will change. Potential. Once you're dead, it's gone. Over.
816 You've made what you've made, dreamed your dream, written your name.
817 You may be buried here, you may even walk. But that potential is
820 =head2 v5.28.0-RC3 - Anthony Horowitz, Magpie Murders
822 L<Announced on 2018-06-18 by Sawyer X|http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/251204>
824 These had been his plans. But if there was one thing that life had
825 taught him, it was the futility of making plans. Life had its own
828 =head2 v5.28.0-RC2 - Oliver Sacks, The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat: And Other Clinical Tales
830 L<Announced on 2018-06-06 by Sawyer X|http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/251122>
832 Had she not been of exceptional intelligence and literacy, with an
833 imagination filled and sustained, so to speak, by the images of
834 others, images conveyed by language, by the word, she might have
835 remained almost as helpless as a baby.
837 =head2 v5.28.0-RC1 - Anu Garg, A Word A Day
839 L<Announced on 2018-05-21 by Sawyer X|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/05/msg250999.html>
841 One doesn't have to know the unit of pain (dol) to realize that the
842 unit of joy is not the dollar, or any other currency for that matter.
844 =head2 v5.27.11 - Tana French, In the Woods
846 L<Announced on 2018-04-20 by Sawyer X|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/04/msg250571.html>
848 And then, too, I had learned early to assume something dark and
849 lethal hidden at the heart of anything I loved. When I couldn't find
850 it, I responded, bewildered and wary, in the only way I knew how: by
851 planting it there myself.
853 =head2 v5.27.10 - Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, p. 248
855 L<Announced on 2018-03-20 by Todd Rinaldo|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/03/msg250042.html>
857 A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher
858 a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts,
859 build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders,
860 cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure,
861 program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly.
862 Specialization is for insects.
864 =head2 v5.27.9 - Agatha Christie, "The Mysterious Affair at Styles"
866 L<Announced on 2018-02-20 by Renee Bäcker|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/02/msg249549.html>
868 Poirot was an extraordinary looking little man. He was hardly more
869 than five feet, four inches, but carried himself with great dignity.
870 His head was exactly the shape of an egg, and he always perched it
871 a little on one side. His moustache was very stiff and military.
872 The neatness of his attire was almost incredible. I believe a
873 speck of dust would have caused him more pain than a bullet wound.
874 Yet this quaint dandified little man who, I was sorry to see, now
875 limped badly, had been in his time one of the most celebrated members
876 of the Belgian police. As a detective, his flair had been extraordinary,
877 and he had achieved triumphs by unravelling some of the most baffling
879 He pointed out to me the little house inhabited by him and his fellow
880 Belgians, and I promised to go and see him at an early date. Then he
881 raised his hat with a flourish to Cynthia, and we drove away.
882 "He's a dear little man," said Cynthia. "I'd no idea you knew him."
883 "You've been entertaining a celebrity unawares," I replied.
884 And, for the rest of the way home, I recited to them the various
885 exploits and triumphs of Hercule Poirot.
887 =head2 v5.27.8 - Jasper Fforde, "Shades of Grey"
889 L<Announced on 2018-01-20 by Abigail|http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/248914>
891 2.4.16.55.021: Males are to wear dresscode #6 during inter-Collective
892 travel. Hats are encouraged, but not required.
894 9.3.88.32.025: The cucumber and tomato are both fruit; the avocado
895 is a nut. To assist with the dietary requirements of vegetarians,
896 on the first Tuesday of the month a chicken is officially a vegetable.
898 5.3.21.01.002: Once allocated, postcodes are permanent, and for life.
900 6.1.02.11.235: Artifacture from before the Something That Happened
901 may be collected, so long it does not appear on the Leapback list
902 or possess color above 23 percent saturation.
904 2.3.06.02.087: Unnecessary sharpening of pencils constitutes a waste
905 of public resources, and will be punished as appropriate.
907 2.1.01.05.002: All children are to attent school until the age of
908 sixteen or until they have learned everything, whichever be the sooner.
910 1.3.02.06.023: There shall be no staring at the sun, however good
913 1.1.19.02.006: Team sports are mandatory in order to build character.
914 Character is there to give purpose to team sports.
916 2.3.03.01.006: Juggling shall not be practiced after 4:00 pm.
919 =head2 v5.27.7 - Terry Pratchett, "Hogfather"
921 L<Announced on 2017-12-20 by Chris 'BinGOs' Williams|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/12/msg248274.html>
923 Death looked at the sacks.
925 It was a strange but demonstrable fact that the sacks of
926 toys carried by the Hogfather, no matter what they
927 really contained, always appeared to have sticking out
928 of the top a teddy bear, a toy soldier in the kind of
929 colorful uniform that would stand out in a disco, a
930 drum and a red-and-white candy cane. The actual
931 contents always turned out to be something a bit
932 garish and costing $5.99.
934 Death had investigated one or two. There had been a
935 Real Agatean Ninja, for example, with Fearsome
936 Death Grip, and a Captain Carrot One-Man Night
937 Watch with a complete wardrobe of toy weapons, each
938 of which cost as much as the original wooden doll in
941 Mind you, the stuff for the girls was just as
942 depressing. It seemed to be nearly all horses. Most of
943 them were grinning. Horses, Death felt, shouldn't grin.
945 Any horse that was grinning was planning something.
947 =head2 v5.27.6 - Ogden Nash, "Behold the Duck"
949 L<Announced on 2017-11-20 by Karen Etheridge|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/11/msg247489.html>
956 It is 'specially fond
958 when it dines or sups
962 =head2 v5.27.5 - Frank Birch, Dilly Knox & G. P. Mackeson, "Alice in I.D.25"
964 L<Announced on 2017-10-20 by Steve Hay|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/10/msg246785.html>
966 'Can I do anything?' Alice suggested timidly, thinking that something
967 dreadful must have happened.
968 The Waterflap jumped as if it had been shot. 'What are you doing
969 here?' it snapped. 'Take this at once into the Directional room,' and it
970 thrust the paper which had caused all the fuss into her hands.
971 'But where is the Directional room?' she inquired, bewildered.
972 'Why, there of course,' howled the Waterflap, pointing to a door.
973 'How could I possibly know that!' Alice exclaimed, angered by his
975 'Silly girl,' it hissed. 'Why, it's called the Directional room
976 because it's in that direction,' and it pushed her roughly through the
979 =head2 v5.27.4 - Richard Brautigan, "All Watched Over By Machines Of Loving Grace"
981 L<Announced on 2017-09-20 by John SJ Anderson|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/09/msg246371.html>
984 the sooner the better!)
985 of a cybernetic meadow
986 where mammals and computers
987 live together in mutually
994 of a cybernetic forest
995 filled with pines and electronics
996 where deer stroll peacefully
998 as if they were flowers
999 with spinning blossoms.
1003 of a cybernetic ecology
1004 where we are free of our labors
1005 and joined back to nature,
1006 returned to our mammal
1007 brothers and sisters,
1008 and all watched over
1009 by machines of loving grace.
1011 =head2 v5.27.3 - Rodgers and Hammerstein, "You'll Never Walk Alone"
1013 L<Announced on 2017-08-21 by Matthew Horsfall|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/08/msg245988.html>
1015 When you walk through a storm
1016 Hold your head up high
1017 And don't be afraid of the dark
1019 At the end of a storm
1020 There's a golden sky
1021 And the sweet silver song of a lark
1023 Walk on through the wind
1024 Walk on through the rain
1025 Though your dreams be tossed and blown
1028 With hope in your heart
1029 And you'll never walk alone
1031 You'll never walk alone
1034 With hope in your heart
1035 And you'll never walk alone
1037 You'll never walk alone
1039 =head2 v5.27.2 - Lev Grossman, Codex
1041 L<Announced on 2017-07-20 by Aaron Crane|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/07/msg245585.html>
1043 He went back for another stack of books: a three-volume English legal
1044 treatise; a travel guide to Tuscany from the '20s crammed with faded
1045 Italian wildflowers that fluttered out from between the pages like
1046 moths; a French edition of Turgeniev so decayed that it came apart in
1047 his hands; a register of London society from 1863. In a way it was
1048 idiotic. He was treating these books like they were holy relics. It
1049 wasn't like he would ever actually read them. But there was something
1050 magnetic about them, something that compelled respect, even the silly
1051 ones, like the Enlightenment treatise about how lightning was caused
1052 by bees. They were information, data, but not in the form he was used
1053 to dealing with it. They were non-digital, nonelectrical chunks of
1054 memory, not stamped out of silicon but laboriously crafted out of wood
1055 pulp and ink, leather and glue. Somebody had cared enough to write
1056 these things; somebody else had cared enough to buy them, possibly
1057 even read them, at the very least keep them safe for 150 years,
1058 sometimes longer, when they could have vanished at the touch of a
1059 spark. That made them worth something, didn't it, just by itself?
1060 Though most of them would have bored him rigid the second he cracked
1061 them open, which there wasn't much chance of. Maybe that was what he
1062 found so appealing: the sight of so many books that he'd never have to
1063 read, so much work he'd never have to do.
1065 =head2 v5.27.1 - Rona Munro, Doctor Who: Survival
1067 L<Announced on 2017-06-20 by Eric Herman|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/06/msg245055.html>
1069 There are worlds out there where the sky is burning,
1070 where the sea's asleep and the rivers dream,
1071 people made of smoke and cities made of song.
1072 Somewhere there's danger,
1073 somewhere there's injustice
1074 and somewhere else the tea is getting cold.
1075 Come on, Ace, we've got work to do.
1077 =head2 v5.27.0 - Bertrand Russell, The Road to Happiness
1079 L<Announced on 2017-05-31 by Sawyer X|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/05/msg244580.html>
1081 People who have theories as to how one should live tend to forget the
1082 limitations of nature. If your way of life involves constant
1083 restraint of impulse for the sake of some one supreme aim that you
1084 have set yourself, it is likely that the aim will become increasingly
1085 distasteful because of the efforts that it demands; impulse, denied
1086 its normal outlets, will find others, probably in spite; pleasure, if
1087 you allow yourself any at all, will be dissociated from the main
1088 current of your life, and will become Bacchic and frivolous. Such
1089 pleasure brings no happiness, but only a deeper despair.
1091 -- Bertrand Russell, The Road to Happiness
1093 =head2 v5.26.3 - Humphrey Burton, "Leonard Bernstein"
1095 L<Announced on 2018-11-29 by Steve Hay|http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/11/msg252974.html>
1097 The origins of the name "Bernstein" are sometimes linked with the German
1098 noun Bernstein, which means "amber"--a translucent yellowish fossilized
1099 resin, used for ornaments and thought to possess magical properties.
1100 Leonard Bernstein would later call himself "Lenny Amber" when he needed
1101 a pseudonym for the popular piano transcriptions he published in his
1102 mid-twenties, and his business affairs would be organized within a
1103 company called Amberson Enterprises. There are several towns and
1104 villages named Bernstein in Germany and Austria (where the pronunciation
1105 is BernSTINE), but Bernstein's parents came from Jewish ghettos in
1106 northwestern Ukraine, where the last syllable is usually pronounced
1107 BernSHTAYN or STEEN. Sam insisted, however, on the mid-European style
1108 employed by the earlier immigrants.
1110 =head2 v5.26.2 - Desmond Morris, "Catwatching: The Essential Guide to Cat Behaviour"
1112 L<Announced on 2018-04-14 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/04/msg250440.html>
1114 How does a cat use its whiskers? The usual answer is that the whiskers
1115 are feelers that enable a cat to tell whether a gap is wide enough for
1116 it to squeeze through, but the truth is more complicated and more
1117 remarkable. In addition to their obvious role as feelers sensitive to
1118 touch, the whiskers also operate as air-current detectors. As the cat
1119 moves along in the dark it needs to manoeuvre past solid objects without
1120 touching them. Each solid object it approaches causes slight eddies in
1121 the air, minute disturbances in the currents of air movements, and the
1122 cat's whiskers are so amazingly sensitive that they can read these air
1123 changes and respond to the presence of solid obstacles even without
1126 =head2 v5.26.2-RC1 - Desmond Morris, "Catwatching: The Essential Guide to Cat Behaviour"
1128 L<Announced on 2018-03-24 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/03/msg250103.html>
1130 Cats have a way of endearing themselves to their owners, not just by
1131 their 'kittenoid' behaviour, which stimulates strong parental feelings,
1132 but also by their sheer gracefulness. There is an elegance and a
1133 composure about them that captivates the human eye. To the sensitive
1134 human being it becomes a privilege to share a room with a cat, exchange
1135 its glance, feel its greeting rub, or watch it gently luxuriate itself
1136 into a snoozing ball on a soft cushion.
1138 =head2 v5.26.1 - Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
1140 L<Announced on 2017-09-22 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/09/msg246408.html>
1142 And soon I heard a roaring wind:
1143 It did not come anear;
1144 But with its sound it shook the sails,
1145 That were so thin and sere.
1147 The upper air burst into life!
1148 And a hundred fire-flags sheen,
1149 To and fro they were hurried about!
1150 And to and fro, and in and out,
1151 The wan stars danced between.
1153 =head2 v5.26.1-RC1 - Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
1155 L<Announced on 2017-09-10 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/09/msg246202.html>
1157 At length did cross an Albatross,
1158 Thorough the fog it came;
1159 As if it had been a Christian soul,
1160 We hailed it in God's name.
1162 It ate the food it ne'er had eat,
1163 And round and round it flew.
1164 The ice did split with a thunder-fit;
1165 The helmsman steered us through!
1167 And a good south wind sprung up behind;
1168 The Albatross did follow,
1169 And every day, for food or play,
1170 Came to the mariner's hollo!
1172 In mist or cloud, on mast or shroud,
1173 It perched for vespers nine;
1174 Whiles all the night, through fog-smoke white,
1175 Glimmered the white Moon-shine.'
1177 'God save thee, ancient Mariner!
1178 From the fiends, that plague thee thus!—
1179 Why look'st thou so?'—With my cross-bow
1180 I shot the ALBATROSS.
1182 =head2 v5.26.0 - Nine Simone, Ain't Got No / I Got Life
1184 L<Announced on 2017-05-30 by Sawyer X|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/05/msg244573.html>
1187 And I'm gonna keep it
1189 And nobody's gonna take it away
1192 =head2 v5.26.0-RC2 - Richard Condon, The Manchurian Candidate
1194 L<Announced on 2017-05-23 by Sawyer X|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/05/msg244511.html>
1196 Amateur psychiatric prognosis can be fascinating when there is
1197 absolutely nothing else to do.
1199 =head2 v5.26.0-RC1 - Thomas Paine, Common Sense
1201 L<Announced on 2017-05-11 by Sawyer X|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/05/msg244337.html>
1203 A long habit of not thinking a thing WRONG, gives it a superficial
1204 appearance of being RIGHT, and raises at first a formidable outcry in
1205 defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more
1206 converts than reason.
1208 =head2 v5.25.12 - Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
1210 L<Announced on 2017-04-20 by Sawyer X|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/04/msg244146.html>
1212 I have told my sons that they are not under any circumstances to take
1213 part in massacres, and that the news of massacres of enemies is not
1214 to fill them with satisfaction or glee.
1216 I have also told them not to work for companies which make massacre
1217 machinery, and to express contempt for people who think we need
1218 machinery like that.
1220 =head2 v5.25.11 - Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow
1222 L<Announced on 2017-03-20 by Sawyer X|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/03/msg243624.html>
1224 Subjective confidence in a judgment is not a reasoned evaluation of
1225 the probability that this judgment is correct. Confidence is a
1226 feeling, which reflects the coherence of the information and the
1227 cognitive ease of processing it. It is wise to take admissions of
1228 uncertainty seriously, but declarations of high confidence mainly
1229 tell you that an individual has constructed a coherent story in his
1230 mind, not necessarily that the story is true.
1232 =head2 v5.25.10 - Erich Fried, 1968
1234 L<Announced on 2017-02-20 by Renee Bäcker|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/02/msg243173.html>
1236 He who wants the world to remain as it is
1237 doesn't want it to remain.
1239 =head2 v5.25.9 - A. A. Milne, "Winnie-the-Pooh", 1926
1241 L<Announced on 2017-01-20 by Abigail|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/01/msg242405.html>
1243 Pooh always liked a little something at eleven o'clock in the
1244 morning, and he was very glad to see Rabbit getting out the plates
1245 and mugs; and when Rabbit said, "Honey or condensed milk with
1246 your bread?" he was so excited that he said, "Both," and then,
1247 so as not to seem greedy, he added, "But don't bother about the
1250 =head2 v5.25.8 - Langston Hughes, So long
1252 L<Announced on 2016-12-20 by Sawyer X|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/12/msg241739.html>
1256 and it's in the way you're gone
1257 but it's like a foreign language
1259 and maybe was I blind
1265 =head2 v5.25.7 - J.R.R. Tolkien, "The Silmarillion"
1267 L<Announced on 2016-11-20 by Chad 'Exodist' Granum|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/11/msg241120.html>
1269 Of Beren and Lúthien
1271 Among the tales of sorrow and of ruin that come down to us from the darkness of
1272 those days there are yet some in which amid weeping there is joy and under the
1273 shadow of death light that endures. And of these histories most fair still in
1274 the ears of the Elves is the tale of Beren and Lúthien. Of their lives was made
1275 the Lay of Leithian, Release from Bondage, which is the longest save one of the
1276 songs concerning the world of old; but here is told in fewer words and without
1279 =head2 v5.25.6 - Alan Warner, "The Sopranos"
1281 L<Announced on 2016-10-10 by Aaron Crane|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/10/msg240406.html>
1283 I'm up on all the pop trivia, says the guy with the stud in his tongue.
1285 Yes. Do you know who the lead singer of Echo and the Bunnymen is?
1286 Let me guess, is he called Echo?
1287 Good guess but no, anyway when they played Glastonbury it was so
1288 muddy he had two roadies to hold up a binliner on each of his legs so
1289 they wouldn't get covered in mud.
1290 That's what being rich and famous is all about, having someone
1291 else hold up your binliners on each leg when you're wandering across
1293 Do you know what Sammy Davis Junior said being black and famous in
1296 He said being black and famous in America meant he could be
1297 refused entry to exclusive clubs and restaurants that other people
1298 could only ever dream of going to. Do you know Michael Stipe likes to
1299 send his remote control toy cars onto stage while his support band are
1300 playing to freak them out?
1301 Who's Michael Stipe?
1302 You're not really a pop trivia person, are you, Kylah?
1303 No, I'm not, Stephen.
1305 =head2 v5.25.5 - Philip K. Dick, VALIS
1307 L<Announced on 2016-09-20 by Stevan Little|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/09/msg239887.html>
1309 We hypostatize information into objects. Rearrangement of objects is
1310 change in the content of the information; the message has changed.
1311 This is a language which we have lost the ability to read. We ourselves
1312 are a part of this language; changes in us are changes in the content
1313 of the information. We ourselves are information-rich; information
1314 enters us, is processed and is then projected outward once more, now
1315 in an altered form. We are not aware that we are doing this, that in
1316 fact this is all we are doing
1318 =head2 v5.25.4 - Terry Pratchett, "Truckers"
1320 L<Announced on 2016-08-20 by Chris 'BinGOs' Williams|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/08/msg239191.html>
1322 Concerning Nomes and Time
1324 Nomes are small. On the whole, small creatures don't live for a long
1325 time. But perhaps they do live fast.
1329 One of the shortest-lived creatures on the planet Earth is the adult
1330 common mayfly. It lasts for one day. The longest-living things are
1331 bristlecone pine trees, at 4,700 years and still counting.
1333 This may seem tough on the mayflies. But the important thing is not
1334 how long your life is, but how long it seems.
1336 To a mayfly, a single hour may last as long as a century. Perhaps
1337 old mayflies sit around complaining about how life this minute isn't a
1338 patch on the good old minutes of long ago, when the world was
1339 young and the sun seemed so much brighter and larvae showed you a
1340 bit of respect. Whereas the trees, which are not famous to their
1341 quick reactions, may just have time to notice the way the sky keeps
1342 flickering before the dry rot and woodworm set in.
1344 It's all a sort of relativity. The faster you live, the more time
1345 stretches out. To a nome, a year lasts as long as ten years does to a
1346 human. Remember it. Don't let it concern you. They don't. They don't
1349 =head2 v5.25.3 - Edward Lear, ed. Vivien Noakes, "The Complete Nonsense and Other Verse": The Dong with a Luminous Nose
1351 L<Announced on 2016-07-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/07/msg238158.html>
1353 When awful darkness and silence reign
1354 Over the great Gromboolian plain,
1355 Through the long, long wintry nights; -
1356 When the angry breakers roar
1357 As they beat on the rocky shore; -
1358 When Storm-clouds brood on the towering heights
1359 Of the Hills of the Chankly Bore: -
1361 Then, through the vast and gloomy dark,
1362 There moves what seems a fiery spark,
1363 A lonely spark with silvery rays
1364 Piercing the coal-black night, -
1365 A Meteor strange and bright: -
1366 Hither and thither the vision strays,
1367 A single lurid light.
1369 Slowly it wanders, - pauses, - creeps, -
1370 Anon it sparkles, - flashes and leaps;
1371 And ever as onward it gleaming goes
1372 A light on the Bong-tree stems it throws.
1373 And those who watch at that midnight hour
1374 From Hall or Terrace, or lofty Tower,
1375 Cry, as the wild light passes along, -
1376 'The Dong! - the Dong!
1377 The wandering Dong through the forest goes!
1379 The Dong with a luminous Nose!'
1381 =head2 v5.25.2 - Dan le Sac Vs Scroobius Pip "Waiting For The Beat To Kick In"
1383 L<Announced on 2016-06-20 by Matthew Horsfall|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/06/msg237274.html>
1385 Waiting for the beat to kick in
1387 Waiting for my feet to grow wings
1389 All of these tiresome things
1390 That we know and love
1391 Waiting for the beat to kick in
1394 =head2 v5.25.1 - Eli Pariser, "The Filter Bubble"
1396 L<Announced on 2016-05-20 by Sawyer X|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/05/msg236566.html>
1398 Imagine that you're a smart high school student on the low end of the social
1399 totem pole. You're alienated from adult authority, but unlike many teenagers,
1400 you're also alienated from the power structures of your peers -- an existence
1401 that can feel lonely and peripheral. Systems and equations are intuitive, but
1402 people aren't -- social signals are confusing and messy, difficult to interpret.
1404 Then you discover code. You may be powerless at the lunch table, but code
1405 gives you power over an infinitely malleable world and opens the door to a
1406 symbolic system that's perfectly clear and ordered. The jostling for position
1407 and status fades away. The nagging parental voices disappear. There's just a
1408 clean, white page for you to fill, an opportunity to build a better place, a
1409 home, from the ground up.
1411 No wonder you're a geek.
1413 =head2 v5.25.0 - Robert Frost, "The Trial by Existence"
1415 L<Announced on 2016-05-09 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/05/msg236244.html>
1417 Even the bravest that are slain
1418 Shall not dissemble their surprise
1419 On waking to find valor reign,
1420 Even as on earth, in paradise;
1421 And where they sought without the sword
1422 Wide fields of asphodel fore’er,
1423 To find that the utmost reward
1424 Of daring should be still to dare.
1426 =head2 v5.24.4 - Desmond Morris, "Catwatching: The Essential Guide to Cat Behaviour"
1428 L<Announced on 2018-04-14 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/04/msg250439.html>
1430 Cats hate doors. Doors simply do not register in the evolutionary story
1431 of the cat family. They constantly block patrolling activities and
1432 prevent cats from exploring their home range and then returning to their
1433 central, secure base at will. Humans often do not understand that a cat
1434 needs to make only a brief survey of its territory before returning with
1435 all the necessary information about the activities of other cats in the
1436 vicinity. It likes to make these tours of inspection at frequent
1437 intervals, but does not want to stay outside for very long, unless there
1438 has been some special and unexpected change in the condition of the
1439 local feline population.
1441 =head2 v5.24.4-RC1 - Desmond Morris, "Catwatching: The Essential Guide to Cat Behaviour"
1443 L<Announced on 2018-03-24 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/03/msg250102.html>
1445 The domestic cat is a contradiction. No animal has developed such an
1446 intimate relationship with mankind, while at the same time demanding and
1447 getting such independence of movement and action. The dog may be man's
1448 best friend, but it is rarely allowed out on its own to wander from
1449 garden to garden or street to street. The obedient dog has to be taken
1450 for a walk. The headstrong cat walks alone.
1452 =head2 v5.24.3 - Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
1454 L<Announced on 2017-09-22 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/09/msg246407.html>
1456 Oh sleep! it is a gentle thing,
1457 Beloved from pole to pole!
1458 To Mary Queen the praise be given!
1459 She sent the gentle sleep from Heaven,
1460 That slid into my soul.
1462 The silly buckets on the deck,
1463 That had so long remained,
1464 I dreamt that they were filled with dew;
1465 And when I awoke, it rained.
1467 =head2 v5.24.3-RC1 - Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
1469 L<Announced on 2017-09-10 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/09/msg246201.html>
1471 'And now the STORM-BLAST came, and he
1472 Was tyrannous and strong:
1473 He struck with his o'ertaking wings,
1474 And chased us south along.
1476 With sloping masts and dipping prow,
1477 As who pursued with yell and blow
1478 Still treads the shadow of his foe,
1479 And forward bends his head,
1480 The ship drove fast, loud roared the blast,
1481 And southward aye we fled.
1483 And now there came both mist and snow,
1484 And it grew wondrous cold:
1485 And ice, mast-high, came floating by,
1486 As green as emerald.
1488 And through the drifts the snowy clifts
1489 Did send a dismal sheen:
1490 Nor shapes of men nor beasts we ken—
1491 The ice was all between.
1493 The ice was here, the ice was there,
1494 The ice was all around:
1495 It cracked and growled, and roared and howled,
1496 Like noises in a swound!
1498 =head2 v5.24.2 - Roald Dahl, "The Three Little Pigs"
1500 L<Announced on 2017-07-15 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/07/msg245527.html>
1502 A short while later, through the wood,
1503 Came striding brave Miss Riding Hood.
1504 The Wolf stood there, his eyes ablaze
1505 And yellowish, like mayonnaise.
1506 His teeth were sharp, his gums were raw,
1507 And spit was dripping from his jaw.
1508 Once more the maiden's eyelid flickers.
1509 She draws the pistol from her knickers.
1510 Once more, she hits the vital spot,
1511 And kills him with a single shot.
1512 Pig, peeping through the window, stood
1513 And yelled, 'Well done, Miss Riding Hood!'
1515 Ah, Piglet, you must never trust
1516 Young ladies from the upper crust.
1517 For now, Miss Riding Hood, one notes,
1518 Not only has two wolfskin coats,
1519 But when she goes from place to place,
1520 She has a PIGSKIN TRAVELLING CASE.
1522 =head2 v5.24.2-RC1 - Roald Dahl, "The Three Little Pigs"
1524 L<Announced on 2017-07-01 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/07/msg245292.html>
1526 The animal I really dig
1527 Above all others is the pig.
1528 Pigs are noble. Pigs are clever,
1529 Pig are courteous. However,
1530 Now and then, to break this rule,
1531 One meets a pig who is a fool.
1532 What, for example, would you say
1533 If strolling through the woods one day,
1534 Right there in front of you you saw
1535 A pig who'd built his house of STRAW?
1536 The Wolf who saw it licked his lips,
1537 And said, 'That pig has had his chips.'
1539 =head2 v5.24.1 - Charles Dodgson [as "Lewis Carroll"], "The Hunting of the Snark", Fit 4: The Hunting
1541 L<Announced on 2017-01-14 by Steve Hay|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/01/msg242259.html>
1543 The Bellman looked uffish, and wrinkled his brow.
1544 'If only you'd spoken before!
1545 It's excessively awkward to mention it now,
1546 With the Snark, so to speak, at the door!
1548 'We should all of us grieve, as you well may believe,
1549 If you never were met with again -
1550 But surely, my man, when the voyage began,
1551 You might have suggested it then?
1553 'It's excessively awkward to mention it now -
1554 As I think I've already remarked.'
1555 And the man they called 'Hi!' replied, with a sigh,
1556 'I informed you the day we embarked.
1558 'You may charge me with murder - or want of sense -
1559 (We are all of us weak at times):
1560 But the slightest approach to a false pretence
1561 Was never among my crimes!
1563 'I said it in Hebrew - I said it in Dutch -
1564 I said it in German and Greek:
1565 But I wholly forgot (and it vexes me much)
1566 That English is what you speak!'
1568 ''Tis a pitiful tale,' said the Bellman, whose face
1569 Had grown longer at every word:
1570 'But, now that you've stated the whole of your case,
1571 More debate would be simply absurd.
1573 'The rest of my speech' (he exclaimed to his men)
1574 'You shall hear when I've leisure to speak it.
1575 But the Snark is at hand, let me tell you again!
1576 'Tis your glorious duty to seek it!
1578 =head2 v5.24.1-RC5 - John Milton, ed. Gordon Campbell, "Paradise Regained", Book IV
1580 L<Announced on 2017-01-02 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/01/msg242016.html>
1582 Thus passed the night so foul, till Morning fair
1583 Came forth with pilgrim steps, in amice grey;
1584 Who with her radiant finger stilled the roar
1585 Of thunder, chased the clouds, and laid the winds,
1586 And grisly spectres, which the fiend had raised
1587 To tempt the Son of God with terrors dire.
1588 And now the sun with more effectual beams
1589 Had cheered the face of earth, and dried the wet
1590 From drooping plant, or dropping tree; the birds,
1591 Who all things now behold more fresh and green,
1592 After a night of storm so ruinous,
1593 Cleared up their choicest notes in bush and spray,
1594 To gratulate the sweet return of morn.
1596 =head2 v5.24.1-RC4 - John Milton, ed. Gordon Campbell, "Paradise Lost", Book II
1598 L<Announced on 2016-10-12 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/10/msg240224.html>
1600 Before the gates there sat
1601 On either side a formidable shape;
1602 The one seemed woman to the waste, and fair,
1603 But ended foul in many a scaly fold,
1604 Voluminous and vast -- a serpent armed
1605 With mortal sting; about her middle round
1606 A cry of hell hounds never ceasing barked
1607 With wide Cerberean mouths full loud, and rung
1608 A hideous peal; yet, when they list, would creep,
1609 If aught disturbed their noise, into her womb,
1610 And kennel there; yet there still barked and howled
1611 Within unseen. Far less abhorred than these
1612 Vexed Scylla, bathing in the sea that parts
1613 Calabria from the hoarse Trinacrian shore;
1614 Nor uglier follow the night-hag, when, called
1615 In secret, riding through the air she comes,
1616 Lured with the smell of infant blood, to dance
1617 With Lapland witches, while the labouring moon
1618 Eclipses at their charms. The other shape --
1619 If shape it might be called that shape had none
1620 Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb;
1621 Or substance might be called that shadow seemed,
1622 For each seemed either -- black it stood as night,
1623 Fierce as ten Furies, terrible as hell,
1624 And shook a dreadful dart: what seemed his head
1625 The likeness of a kingly crown had on.
1626 Satan was now at hand, and from his seat
1627 The monster moving onward came as fast
1628 With horrid strides; hell trembled as he strode.
1630 =head2 v5.24.1-RC3 - Dante Alighieri, trans. Dorothy L. Sayers and Barbara Reynolds, "The Divine Comedy", Cantica III: Paradise, Canto XXIII
1632 L<Announced on 2016-08-11 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/08/msg238909.html>
1634 A bird within the bower of her delight,
1635 Quiet upon the nest with her sweet brood
1636 Throughout the dark concealment of the night,
1638 Anxious to look on them and gather food -
1639 No weary task for her, for as at play
1640 Blithely she toils to seek her fledglings' good -
1642 Before the time, upon the topmost spray
1643 Eager awaits the sun and on the East
1644 Fixes her wakeful eye till break of day.
1646 =head2 v5.24.1-RC2 - Dante Alighieri, trans. Dorothy L. Sayers, "The Divine Comedy", Cantica II: Purgatory, Canto X
1648 L<Announced on 2016-07-25 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/07/msg238269.html>
1650 When we had crossed the threshold of that gate
1651 Which the soul's evil loves put out of use,
1652 Because they make the crooked path seem straight,
1654 I heard its closing clang ring clamorous,
1655 And had I then turned back my eyes to it
1656 How could my fault have found the least excuse?
1658 We had to climb now through a rocky slit
1659 Which ran from side to side in many a swerve,
1660 As runs the wave in onset and retreat.
1662 "Now here," the master said, "we must observe
1663 Some little caution, hugging now this wall,
1664 Now that, upon the far side of the curve."
1666 =head2 v5.24.1-RC1 - Dante Alighieri, trans. Dorothy L. Sayers, "The Divine Comedy", Cantica I: Hell, Canto XX
1668 L<Announced on 2016-07-17 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/07/msg238072.html>
1670 New punishments behoves me sing in this
1671 Twentieth canto of my first canticle,
1672 Which tells of spirits sunk in the Abyss.
1674 I now stood ready to observe the full
1675 Extent of the new chasm thus laid bare,
1676 Drenched as it was in tears most miserable.
1678 Through the round vale I saw folk drawing near,
1679 Weeping and silent, and at such slow pace
1680 As Litany processions keep, up here.
1682 And presently, when I had dropped my gaze
1683 Lower than the head, I saw them strangely wried
1684 'Twixt collar-bone and chin, so that the face
1686 Of each was turned towards his own backside,
1687 And backwards must they needs creep with their feet,
1688 All power of looking forward being denied.
1690 =head2 v5.24.0 - Robert Frost, "The Black Cottage"
1692 L<Announced on 2016-05-09 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/05/msg236242.html>
1694 As I sit here, and oftentimes, I wish
1695 I could be monarch of a desert land
1696 I could devote and dedicate forever
1697 To the truths we keep coming back and back to.
1698 So desert it would have to be, so walled
1699 By mountain ranges half in summer snow,
1700 No one would covet it or think it worth
1701 The pains of conquering to force change on.
1702 Scattered oases where men dwelt, but mostly
1703 Sand dunes held loosely in tamarisk
1704 Blown over and over themselves in idleness.
1705 Sand grains should sugar in the natal dew
1706 The babe born to the desert, the sand storm
1707 Retard mid-waste my cowering caravans—
1709 “There are bees in this wall.” He struck the clapboards,
1710 Fierce heads looked out; small bodies pivoted.
1711 We rose to go. Sunset blazed on the windows.
1713 =head2 v5.24.0-RC5 - The Mountain Goats, "No Children"
1715 L<Announced on 2016-05-04 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/05/msg236198.html>
1717 And I hope when you think of me years down the line
1718 You can't find one good thing to say
1719 And I'd hope that if I found the strength to walk out
1720 You'd stay the hell out of my way
1722 I am drowning, there is no sign of land
1723 You are coming down with me, hand in unlovable hand
1725 =head2 v5.24.0-RC4 - The Joker in "The Killing Joke"
1727 L<Announced on 2016-05-02 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/05/msg236145.html>
1729 "See, there were these two guys in a lunatic asylum…"
1731 =head2 v5.24.0-RC3 - Jesse Vincent
1733 L<Announced on 2016-04-27 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/04/msg236066.html>
1735 The Great Pumpkin is a Santa-Claus like figure. He does bring toys like
1736 Santa. But unlike Santa, who gives away toys because it's his job, he
1737 gives away toys because it's the right thing to do.
1739 =head2 v5.24.0-RC2 - Joseph Heller, "Catch-22"
1741 L<Announced on 2016-04-23 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/04/msg235999.html>
1743 “How do you feel, Yossarian?”
1745 “Fine. No, I’m very frightened.”
1747 “That’s good,” said Major Danby. “It proves you’re still alive. It won’t
1750 Yossarian started out. “Yes it will.”
1752 “I mean it, Yossarian. You’ll have to keep on your toes every minute of
1753 every day. They’ll bend heaven and earth to catch you.”
1755 “I’ll keep on my toes every minute.”
1757 “You’ll have to jump.”
1761 “Jump!” Major Danby cried.
1765 Nately’s [girl] was hiding just outside the door. The knife came down,
1766 missing him by inches, and he took off.
1768 =head2 v5.24.0-RC1 - Robert Frost, "The Census-Taker"
1770 L<Announced on 2016-04-14 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/04/msg235807.html>
1772 Nothing was left to do that I could see
1773 Unless to find that there was no one there
1774 And declare to the cliffs too far for echo,
1775 "The place is desert, and let whoso lurks
1776 In silence, if in this he is aggrieved,
1777 Break silence now or be forever silent.
1778 Let him say why it should not be declared so."
1779 The melancholy of having to count souls
1780 Where they grow fewer and fewer every year
1781 Is extreme where they shrink to none at all.
1782 It must be I want life to go on living.
1784 =head2 v5.23.9 - Tom Kitchin, "from nature to plate"
1786 L<Announced on 2016-03-20 by Abigail|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/03/msg235251.html>
1790 Spring is the proper beginning of my kitchen and a season that I
1791 look forward to with great anticipation. By the time spring arrives
1792 I am desperate to welcome all the spring produce into my kitchen
1793 and I long to work with fresh green vegetables again. As much as I
1794 love root vegetables, such as celeriac and parsnips, and the heaver
1795 meat and game dishes, I'm ready to leave those behind with winter
1796 and begin a new adventure.
1798 Somehow spring always gives me a little bit of bounce in my feet
1799 -- I feel like I want to kick off my shoes and dance around in my
1800 kitchen. Not that I do, of course, but I feel lighter somehow. My
1801 adrenalin kicks in with spring and so does the level of excitement,
1802 as I think about all the produce that is about to come in.
1804 The moment spring arrives I'm eager to cook peas, broad beans, green
1805 asparagus and other fresh vegetables! I want to create lighter,
1806 brighter dishes and I can't wait to get my hands on the first greens
1807 and the first morels, not to mention the first wild Scottish salmon.
1808 Thanks to my network of trusted suppliers, I always get to first
1809 produce of the season delivered to my restaurant as soon as it is
1810 possible. I want my customers to experience and understand the
1811 beauty of locally grown produce and to try things the minute they
1812 are available so they can taste how incredibly fresh the ingredients
1813 are. I also want them to understand the relationship between
1814 seasonality and flavours. One of the most important things to
1815 remember is to allow the seasons to inspire your dishes and help
1816 you make natural matches. Wild spring herbs, such as sorrel, sweet
1817 cicely and wild garlic, as well as spring salad leaves and green
1818 lettuce served with wild salmon, wild sea trout, lamb or rabbit are
1819 marriages made in heaven.
1822 =head2 v5.23.8 - Patrick Rothfuss, "The Wise Man's Fear (The Kingkiller's Chronicle: Day Two)"
1824 L<Announced on 2016-02-20 by Sawyer X|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/02/msg234535.html>
1826 Denna, on the other hand, had never been trained. She knew nothing
1827 of shortcuts. You'd think she'd be forced to wander the city, lost and
1828 helpless, trapped in a twisting maze of mortared stone.
1830 But instead, she simply walked throught the walls. She didn't know
1831 any better. Nobody had ever told her she couldn't. Because of this,
1832 she moved through the city like some faerie creature. She walked roads
1833 no one else could see, and it made her music wild and strange and
1836 =head2 v5.23.7 - William Gibson, "Neuromancer"
1838 L<Announced on 2016-01-20 by Stevan Little|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/01/msg233856.html>
1840 A year here and he still dreamed of cyberspace, hope fading
1841 nightly. All the speed he took, all the turns he'd taken and
1842 the corners he cut in Night City, and he'd still see the matrix
1843 in his dreams, bright lattices of logic unfolding across that
1844 colourless void...The Sprawl was a long, strange way home now
1845 over the Pacific, and he was no Console Man, no cyberspace
1846 cowboy. Just another hustler, trying to make it through. But
1847 the dreams came on in the Japanese night like livewire voodoo,
1848 and he'd cry for it, cry in his sleep, and wake alone in the
1849 dark, curled in his capsule in some coffin hotel, hands clawed
1850 into the bedslab, temper foam bunched between his fingers,
1851 trying to reach the console that wasn't there.
1853 =head2 v5.23.6 - 5.23 Episode VII
1855 L<Announced on 2015-12-21 by David Golden|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/12/msg233475.html>
1857 A long time ago in microseconds, in a galaxy not very far away...
1863 unrest as separatists
1864 announce their intentions
1865 to fork PERL and return the
1866 galaxy to speed and stability.
1868 Chancellor Rik Hoolian struggles
1869 to hold together the remains of the
1870 once mighty Republic against a tide of
1871 incivility and the depredations of a new
1872 foe, the FUZZ RAIDERS.
1874 Meanwhile, after 15 years of preparation and
1875 high expectations, Supreme Leader Toady prepares
1876 to unleash a devastating new weapon, PERL SIXDOTOH,
1877 that could splinter the Republic forever and usher in
1878 a new Empire of gradual typing....
1880 =head2 v5.23.5 - utastro!nather (Ed Nather), "The Story of Mel", in net.jokes, May 21, 1983.
1882 L<Announced on 2015-11-20 by Abigail|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/11/msg232758.html>
1884 After Mel had left the company for greener pa$ture$, the Big Boss asked
1885 me to look at the code and see if I could find the test and reverse it.
1886 Somewhat reluctantly, I agreed to look. Tracking Mel's code was a real
1889 I have often felt that programming is an art form, whose real value can
1890 only be appreciated by another versed in the same arcane art; there are
1891 lovely gems and brilliant coups hidden from human view and admiration,
1892 sometimes forever, by the very nature of the process. You can learn a
1893 lot about an individual just by reading through his code, even in
1894 hexadecimal. Mel was, I think, an unsung genius.
1896 Perhaps my greatest shock came when I found an innocent loop that had
1897 no test in it. No test. None. Common sense said it had to be a closed
1898 loop, where the program would circle, forever, endlessly. Program
1899 control passed right through it, however, and safely out the other side.
1900 It took me two weeks to figure it out.
1902 The RPC-4000 computer had a really modern facility called an index
1903 register. It allowed the programmer to write a program loop that used
1904 an indexed instruction inside; each time through, the number in the
1905 index register was added to the address of that instruction, so it
1906 would refer to the next datum in a series. He had only to increment
1907 the index register each time through. Mel never used it.
1909 Instead, he would pull the instruction into a machine register, add one
1910 to its address, and store it back. He would then execute the modified
1911 instruction right from the register. The loop was written so this
1912 additional execution time was taken into account -- just as this
1913 instruction finished, the next one was right under the drum's read head,
1914 ready to go. But the loop had no test in it.
1916 The vital clue came when I noticed the index register bit, the bit that
1917 lay between the address and the operation code in the instruction word,
1918 was turned on -- yet Mel never used the index register, leaving it zero
1919 all the time. When the light went on it nearly blinded me.
1921 He had located the data he was working on near the top of memory -- the
1922 largest locations the instructions could address -- so, after the last
1923 datum was handled, incrementing the instruction address would make it
1924 overflow. The carry would add one to the operation code, changing it to
1925 the next one in the instruction set: a jump instruction. Sure enough,
1926 the next program instruction was in address location zero, and the
1927 program went happily on its way.
1929 =head2 v5.23.4 - Denis Diderot, trans. David Coward, "Jacques the Fatalist"
1931 L<Announced on 2015-10-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/10/msg232040.html>
1933 Well, everybody's got a dog. The prime minister is the king's dog. The
1934 first secretary is the prime minister's dog. A wife is a husband's dog,
1935 or a husband is a wife's dog. Favourite is Madame So-and-so's dog and
1936 Thibaut is the man on the corner's dog. When my Master tells me to talk
1937 when I'd prefer not to, which to be honest doesn't happen very often,
1938 when he tells me to shut up when I feel like talking, which I find very
1939 difficult, when he asks me to tell the story of my love-life and then
1940 keeps interrupting, what am I if not his dog? Weak men are the dogs of
1943 =head2 v5.23.3 - Oliver Wendell Holmes, "The Deacon’s Masterpiece or The Wonderful 'One-Hoss Shay': A Logical Story"
1945 L<Announced on 2015-09-20 by Peter Martini|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/09/msg231173.html>
1947 Little of of all we value here
1948 Wakes on the morn of its hundredth year
1949 Without both feeling and looking queer.
1950 In fact, there’s nothing that keeps its youth,
1951 So far as I know, but a tree and truth.
1952 (This is a moral that runs at large;
1953 Take it. — You’re welcome. — No extra charge.)
1955 =head2 v5.23.2 - Blind Guardian, "Skalds and Shadows"
1957 L<Announced on 2015-08-20 by Matthew Horsfall|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/08/msg230298.html>
1959 Would you believe in a night like this
1960 A night like this, when visions come true
1961 Would you believe in a tale like this
1962 A lay of bliss, praise in the old lore
1963 Come to the blazing fire and
1965 See me in the shadows
1966 See me in the shadows
1969 Just hand me my harp
1970 This night turns into myth
1973 The world we live in is another skald's
1974 Dream in the shadows
1975 Dream in the shadows
1977 Do you believe there is sense in it
1978 Is it truth or myth?
1979 They´re one in my rhymes
1980 Nobody knows the meaning behind
1982 Well nobody else but the Norns can
1983 See through the blazing fires of time and
1984 All things will proceed as the
1985 Child of the hallowed
1986 Will speak to you now
1988 See me in the shadows
1989 See me in the shadows
1990 Songs I will sing of tribes and kings
1991 The carrion bird and the hall of the slain
1994 The world we live in is another skald´s
1995 Dream in the shadows
1996 Dream in the shadows
1998 Do not fear for my reason
1999 There's nothing to hide
2000 How bitter your treason
2002 Remember the runes and remember the light
2003 All I ever want is to be at your side
2004 We'll gladden the raven now I will
2005 Run through the blazing fires
2007 Cause things shall proceed as foreseen
2009 =head2 v5.23.1 - Elizabeth Haydon, "The Assassin King"
2011 L<Announced on 2015-07-20 by Matthew Horsfall|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/07/msg229413.html>
2013 I was born beneath this willow,
2014 Where my sire the earth did farm
2015 Had the green grass as my pillow
2016 The east wind as a blanket warm.
2018 But away! away! called the wind from the west
2019 And in answer I did run
2020 Seeking glory and adventure
2021 Promised by the rising sun.
2023 I found love beneath this willow,
2024 As true a love as life could hold,
2025 Pledged my heart and swore my fealty
2026 Sealed with a kiss and a band of gold.
2028 But to arms! to arms! called the wind from the west
2029 In faithful answer I did run
2030 Marching forth for king and country
2031 In battles 'neath the midday sun.
2033 Oft I dreamt of that fair willow
2034 As the seven seas I plied
2035 And the girl who I left waiting
2036 Longing to be at her side.
2038 But about! about! called the wind from the west
2039 As once again my ship did run
2040 Down the coast, about the wide world
2041 Flying sails in the setting sun.
2043 Now I lie beneath the willow
2044 Now at last no more to roam,
2045 My bride and earth so tightly hold me
2046 In their arms I'm finally home.
2048 While away! away! calls the wind from the west
2049 Beyond the grave my spirit, free
2050 Will chase the sun into the morning
2051 Beyond the sky, beyond the sea.
2053 =head2 v5.23.0 - Bob Dylan, "Maggie's Farm"
2055 L<Announced on 2015-06-20 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/06/msg228807.html>
2057 I ain't gonna work on Maggie's farm no more
2058 I ain't gonna work on Maggie's farm no more
2060 To be just like I am
2061 But everybody wants you
2062 To be just like them
2063 They sing while you slave and I just get bored
2064 I ain't gonna work on Maggie's farm no more
2066 =head2 v5.22.4 - Roald Dahl, "Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf"
2068 L<Announced on 2017-07-15 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/07/msg245526.html>
2070 Then Little Red Riding Hood said, 'But Grandma,
2071 what a lovely great big furry coat you have on.'
2072 'That's wrong!' cried Wolf. 'Have you forgot
2073 'To tell me what BIG TEETH I've got?
2074 'Ah well, no matter what you say,
2075 'I'm going to eat you anyway.'
2076 The small girl smiles. One eyelid flickers.
2077 She whips a pistol from her knickers.
2078 She aims it at the creature's head
2079 And bang bang bang, she shoots him dead.
2081 A few weeks later, in the wood,
2082 I came across Miss Riding Hood.
2083 But what a change! No cloak of red,
2084 No silly hood upon her head.
2085 She said, 'Hello, and do please note
2086 'My lovely furry WOLFSKIN COAT.'
2088 =head2 v5.22.4-RC1 - Roald Dahl, "Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf"
2090 L<Announced on 2017-07-01 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/07/msg245293.html>
2092 As soon as Wolf began to feel
2093 That he would like a decent meal,
2094 He went and knocked on Grandma's door.
2095 When Grandma opened it, she saw
2096 The sharp white teeth, the horrid grin,
2097 And Wolfie said, 'May I come in?'
2098 Poor Grandmamma was terrified,
2099 'He's going to eat me up!' she cried.
2100 And she was absolutely right.
2101 He ate her up in one big bite.
2103 =head2 v5.22.3 - Charles Dodgson [as "Lewis Carroll"], "Phantasmagoria", Canto 6: Discomfyture
2105 L<Announced on 2017-01-14 by Steve Hay|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/01/msg242258.html>
2107 As one who strives a hill to climb,
2108 Who never climbed before:
2109 Who finds it, in a little time,
2110 Grow every moment less sublime,
2111 And votes the thing a bore:
2113 Yet, having once begun to try,
2114 Dares not desert his quest,
2115 But, climbing, ever keeps his eye
2116 On one small hut against the sky
2117 Wherein he hopes to rest:
2119 Who climbs till nerve and force are spent,
2120 With many a puff and pant:
2121 Who still, as rises the ascent,
2122 In language grows more violent,
2123 Although in breath more scant:
2125 Who, climbing, gains at length the place
2126 That crowns the upward track:
2127 And, entering with unsteady pace,
2128 Receives a buffet in the face
2129 That lands him on his back:
2131 And feels himself, like one in sleep,
2132 Glide swiftly down again,
2133 A helpless weight, from steep to steep,
2134 Till, with a headlong giddy sweep,
2135 He drops upon the plain -
2137 So I, that had resolved to bring
2138 Conviction to a ghost,
2139 And found it quite a different thing
2140 From any human arguing,
2141 Yet dared not quit my post.
2143 =head2 v5.22.3-RC5 - John Milton, ed. Gordon Campbell, "Paradise Regained", Book II
2145 L<Announced on 2017-01-02 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/01/msg242017.html>
2147 Thus wore out night; and now the herald lark
2148 Left his ground-nest, high towering to descry
2149 The Morn's approach, and greet her with his song;
2150 As lightly from his grassy couch up rose
2151 Our Saviour, and found all was but a dream;
2152 Fasting he went to sleep, and fasting waked.
2153 Up to a hill anon his steps he reared,
2154 From whose high top to ken the prospect round,
2155 If cottage were in view, sheep-cote, or herd;
2156 But cottage, herd, or sheep-cote, none he saw --
2157 Only in a bottom saw a pleasant grove,
2158 With chant of tuneful birds resounding loud;
2159 Thither he bent his way, determined there
2160 To rest at noon, and entered soon the shade,
2161 High-roofed and walks beneath, and alleys brown,
2162 That opened in the midst a woody scene;
2163 Nature's own work it seemed (Nature taught Art),
2164 And, to a superstitious eye, the haunt
2165 Of wood-gods and wood-nymphs.
2167 =head2 v5.22.3-RC4 - John Milton, ed. Gordon Campbell, "Paradise Lost", Book II
2169 L<Announced on 2016-10-12 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/10/msg240223.html>
2171 Far off from these, a slow and silent stream,
2172 Lethe, the river of oblivion, rolls
2173 Her watery labyrinth, whereof who drinks
2174 Forthwith his former state and being forgets --
2175 Forgets both joy and grief, pleasure and pain.
2176 Beyond this flood a frozen continent
2177 Lies dark and wild, beat with perpetual storms
2178 Of Whirlwind and dire hail, which on firm land
2179 Thaws not, but gathers heap, and ruin seems
2180 Of ancient pile; all else deep snow and ice,
2181 A gulf profound as that Serbonian bog
2182 Betwixt Damiata and Mount Casius old,
2183 Where armies whole have sunk: the parching air
2184 Burns frore, and cold performs the effect of fire.
2185 Thither, by harpy-footed Furies haled,
2186 At certain revolutions all the damned
2187 Are brought; and feel by turns the bitter change
2188 Of fierce extremes, extremes by change more fierce,
2189 From beds of raging fire to starve in ice
2190 Their soft ethereal warmth, and there to pine
2191 Immovable, infixed, and frozen round
2192 Periods of time -- thence hurried back to fire.
2193 They ferry over this Lethean sound
2194 Both to and fro, their sorrow to augment,
2195 And wish and struggle, as they pass, to reach
2196 The tempting stream, with one small drop to lose
2197 In sweet forgetfulness all pain and woe,
2198 All in one moment, and so near the brink;
2199 But fate withstands, and, to oppose the attempt,
2200 Medusa with Gorgonian terror guards
2201 The ford, and of itself the water flies
2202 All taste of living wight, as once it fled
2203 The lip of Tantalus.
2205 =head2 v5.22.3-RC3 - Dante Alighieri, trans. Dorothy L. Sayers and Barbara Reynolds, "The Divine Comedy", Cantica III: Paradise, Canto IV
2207 L<Announced on 2016-08-11 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/08/msg238908.html>
2209 Between two dishes, equally attractive
2210 And near to him, a free man, I suppose,
2211 Would starve to death before his teeth got active;
2213 So would a lamb 'twixt two fierce wolfish foes,
2214 Fearing the fangs both ways, not stir a foot;
2215 So would a deerhound halt between two does;
2217 So I can't blame myself for standing mute,
2218 Nor praise myself: for I must needs so do,
2219 Suspended 'twixt two doubts, alike acute.
2221 =head2 v5.22.3-RC2 - Dante Alighieri, trans. Dorothy L. Sayers, "The Divine Comedy", Cantica II: Purgatory, Canto I
2223 L<Announced on 2016-07-25 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/07/msg238270.html>
2225 For better waters heading with the wind
2226 My ship of genius now shakes out her sail
2227 And leaves that ocean of despair behind;
2229 For to the second realm I tune my tale,
2230 Where human spirits purge themselves, and train
2231 To leap up into joy celestial.
2233 Now from the grave wake poetry again,
2234 O sacred Muses I have served so long!
2235 Now let Calliope uplift her strain
2237 And lift my voice up on the mighty song
2238 That smote the miserable Magpies nine
2239 Out of all hope of pardon for their wrong!
2241 =head2 v5.22.3-RC1 - Dante Alighieri, trans. Dorothy L. Sayers, "The Divine Comedy", Cantica I: Hell, Canto XII
2243 L<Announced on 2016-07-17 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/07/msg238071.html>
2245 The place we came to, to descend the brink from,
2246 Was sheer crag; and there was a Thing there - making,
2247 All told, a prospect any eye would shrink from.
2249 Like the great landslide that rushed downward, shaking
2250 The bank of Adige on this side Trent,
2251 (Whether through faulty shoring or the earth's quaking)
2253 So that the rock, down from the summit rent
2254 Far as the plain, lies strewn, and one might crawl
2255 From top to bottom by that unsure descent,
2257 Such was the precipice; and there we spied,
2258 Topping the cleft that split the rocky wall,
2259 That which was wombed in the false heifer's side,
2261 The infamy of Crete, stretched out a-sprawl;
2262 And seeing us, he gnawed himself, like one
2263 Inly devoured with spite and burning gall.
2265 =head2 v5.22.2 - Gaston Leroux, trans. Mireille Ribière, "The Phantom of the Opera"
2267 L<Announced on 2016-04-29 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/04/msg236120.html>
2269 A silence; and then: 'If, in just two minutes' time by my watch--and a
2270 splendid watch it is--you have not turned the scorpion, mademoiselle, I
2271 shall turn the grasshopper... and the grasshopper, remember, _leaps
2272 straight up into the air!_'
2273 The silence that ensued was terrifying, worse than any we had
2274 experienced before. I knew that when Erik spoke with that quiet,
2275 gentle, slightly weary voice, it meant that he had reached the end of
2276 his tether: that he was capable of the most abominable crimes or the
2277 most selfless devotion; that the slightest irritation might unleash a
2279 Realizing that our fate was out of our hands, the Viscount fell to his
2280 knees and prayed. As for me, I pressed both hands to my chest, for my
2281 heart was pounding so fiercely that I thought it would burst. We were
2282 intensely aware of the excruciating dilemma Christine Daaé faced in
2283 those final seconds. We understood why she hesitated to turn the
2284 scorpion. What if the scorpion, rather than the grasshopper, were to
2285 set off the explosion? What if Erik was simply intent on destroying
2286 everything, regardless?
2287 At last he spoke: 'The two minutes are up,' he said in a soft, angelic
2288 voice. 'Goodbye, mademoiselle. Off you go, little grasshopper!'
2290 =head2 v5.22.2-RC1 - Gaston Leroux, trans. Mireille Ribière, "The Phantom of the Opera"
2292 L<Announced on 2016-04-10 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/04/msg235732.html>
2294 This annual ball was quite a magnificent affair. It was given some time
2295 before Shrovetide to celebrate the birthday of a famous illustrator
2296 whose pencil had immortalized, in the style of Gavarni, the extravagant
2297 carnival parade down La Courtille. As such, the ball was an altogether
2298 merrier, noisier and more Bohemian occasion than was usual for a masked
2299 ball. Many artists had arranged to meet there; they arrived with an
2300 entourage of models and pupils, who, by midnight, had become quite
2302 Raoul climbed the grand staircase at five minutes to midnight. He did
2303 not linger to admire the many-coloured costumes on display all the way
2304 up the marble steps of one of the most luxurious settings in the world;
2305 nor did he allow himself to be drawn into the facetious conversation of
2306 masked guests. He simply ignored all the jesting remarks, and shook off
2307 the attentions of several all too merry couples.
2308 Crossing the big crush-room and escaping from the dancers' farandole
2309 that had encircled him awhile, he at last entered the salon mentioned by
2310 Christine in her letter. The small room was crammed with people either
2311 on their way to supper at the restaurant in the Rotunda or back from
2312 raising a glass of champagne.
2313 In the midst of the gay and lively hubbub, Raoul thought that, for their
2314 mysterious assignation, Christine must have preferred this crowd to some
2316 He leaned against a door-jamb and waited. He did not have to wait long;
2317 a black domino passed him and deftly touched his hand. He understood
2318 that it was Christine and followed her.
2319 'Is that you, Christine?' he murmured, barely moving his slips.
2320 The black domino promptly looked back and raised her finger to her lips,
2321 no doubt to caution him against uttering her name again. Raoul followed
2324 =head2 v5.22.1 - Wilhelm Müller, trans. Anon., "Courage" (No. 22 in Schubert's song-cycle, "Winterreise")
2326 L<Announced on 2015-12-13 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/12/msg233318.html>
2328 If the snow flies in my face,
2329 Let me shake it off me!
2330 If my heart within me speaks,
2331 I'll sing bright and gaily!
2333 Will not listen what it says,
2334 Have no ears for moaning.
2335 Do not feel what it complains,--
2336 Only fools like groaning!
2338 Jolly brave into the world,
2339 'Gainst all wind and weather,--
2340 If there is no God on earth,
2341 Let 's be gods down nether!
2343 =head2 v5.22.1-RC4 - Wilhelm Müller, trans. Anon., "The Signpost" (No. 20 in Schubert's song-cycle, "Winterreise")
2345 L<Announced on 2015-12-08 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/12/msg233215.html>
2347 Why do I shun all those highways
2348 Which the other wanderer seeks?
2349 Why do I find bridged by-ways
2350 Through snow-covered deep creeks?
2352 For I have no crime committed,
2353 Why I should now run from men,--
2354 What demented heart's desire
2355 Drives me to a desert glen?
2357 Signposts on all highways stationed
2358 Point their signs toward the towns,
2359 Whilst I wonder 'yond moderation,
2360 Without rest, yet seeking rest!
2362 One such signpost I see planted
2363 Of my question unconcerned,
2364 One road must my choice be granted,
2365 Whence no man has yet returned!
2367 =head2 v5.22.1-RC3 - Wilhelm Müller, trans. Anon., "Stormy Morning" (No. 18 in Schubert's song-cycle, "Winterreise")
2369 L<Announced on 2015-12-02 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/12/msg233032.html>
2371 How the storm tore rents
2372 In heavens gray attired!
2373 The rags of cloud are flying
2374 Around, of combat tired.
2376 And flames of fire lambent,
2377 Fly between them and part,
2378 That 's what I call a morning,
2379 A morning after my heart!
2381 My heart sees in the heavens
2382 Its own picture unspoilt--
2383 It's nothing but the Winter,
2384 The Winter, cold and wild.
2386 =head2 v5.22.1-RC2 - Wilhelm Müller, trans. Anon., "The Old Head" (No. 14 in Schubert's song-cycle, "Winterreise")
2388 L<Announced on 2015-11-15 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/11/msg232632.html>
2390 The hoary frost has a white sheen
2391 Strewn all over my hair,
2392 So I thought I was an old man
2393 And thought life dealt me fair.
2395 Yet soon was thawed my old white mane,
2396 And I have my black hair again.
2397 How I abhor my young fair years,
2398 How long to wait for death and biers?
2400 From setting sun to morning's hue
2401 Many a head turns white.
2402 Who'll credit it? My hair did not
2403 In all this lifelong plight!
2405 =head2 v5.22.1-RC1 - Wilhelm Müller, trans. Anon., "Will-o'-the Wisp" (No. 9 in Schubert's song-cycle, "Winterreise")
2407 L<Announced on 2015-10-31 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/10/msg232321.html>
2409 In the deepest rocky crevice
2410 A will-o'-the wisp lured me;
2411 How I could find my way from here,
2412 For me it's easy memory!
2414 For I am used to straying ways,
2415 Every path to th'end a way,
2416 All our joys and all our suffering,--
2417 To a will-o'-the wisp it 's all play!
2419 Through the dried-up bed of torrents
2420 I quite calmly downward stroll;
2421 Every stream its sea will enter,
2422 Every suffering finds its goal!
2424 =head2 v5.22.0 - Gene Wolfe, The Citadel of the Autarch
2426 L<Announced on 2015-06-01 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/06/msg228300.html>
2428 “You are the advocate of the dead.”
2430 The old man nodded. “I am. People talk about being fair to this one and
2431 that one, but nobody I ever heard talks about doing right by them. We
2432 take everything they had, which is all right. And spit, most often, on
2433 their opinions, which I suppose is all right too. But we ought to
2434 remember now and then how much of what we have we got from them. I
2435 figure while I’m still here I ought to put a word in for them.”
2437 =head2 v5.22.0-RC2 - T.S. Eliot, unpublished work
2439 L<Announced on 2015-05-21 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/05/msg228142.html>
2441 And when thyself with silver foot shall pass
2442 Among the theories scattered on the grass
2443 Take up my good intentions with the rest
2445 =head2 v5.22.0-RC1 - Gene Wolfe, Citadel of the Autarch
2447 L<Announced on 2015-05-19 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/05/msg228059.html>
2449 There is no limit to stupidity. Space itself is said to be bounded by
2450 its own curvature, but stupidity continues beyond infinity.
2452 =head2 v5.21.11 - Algernon Charles Swinburne, "Dolores (Notre-Dame des Sept Douleurs)"
2454 L<Announced on 2015-04-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/04/msg227472.html>
2456 They shall pass and their places be taken,
2457 The gods and the priests that are pure.
2458 They shall pass, and shalt thou not be shaken?
2459 They shall perish, and shalt thou endure?
2460 Death laughs, breathing close and relentless
2461 In the nostrils and eyelids of lust,
2462 With a pinch in his fingers of scentless
2465 But the worm shall revive thee with kisses;
2466 Thou shalt change and transmute as a god,
2467 As the rod to a serpent that hisses,
2468 As the serpent again to a rod.
2469 Thy life shall not cease though thou doff it;
2470 Thou shalt live until evil be slain,
2471 And good shall die first, said thy prophet,
2474 =head2 v5.21.10 - Aldous Huxley, "The Devils of Loudun"
2476 L<Announced on 2015-03-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/03/msg226847.html>
2478 The fire burned on, the good fathers continued to sprinkle and intone.
2479 Suddenly a flock of pigeons came swooping down from the church and
2480 started to wheel around the roaring column of flame and smoke. The
2481 crowd shouted, the archers waved their halberds at the birds, Lactance
2482 and Tranquille splashed them on the wing with holy water. In vain. The
2483 pigeons were not to be driven away. Round and round they flew, diving
2484 through the smoke, singeing their feathers in the flames. Both parties
2485 claimed a miracle. For the parson's enemies the birds, quite obviously,
2486 were a troop of devils, come to fetch away his soul. For his friends,
2487 they were emblems of the Holy Ghost and living proof of his innocence.
2488 It never seems to have occurred to anyone that they were just pigeons,
2489 obeying the laws of their own, their blessedly other-than-human nature.
2491 =head2 v5.21.9 - Emily Dickinson, "There is Another Sky"
2493 L<Announced on 2015-02-20 by Sawyer X|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/02/msg226002.html>
2495 There is another sky,
2496 Ever serene and fair,
2497 And there is another sunshine,
2498 Though it be darkness there;
2499 Never mind faded forests, Austin,
2500 Never mind silent fields -
2501 Here is a little forest,
2502 Whose leaf is ever green;
2503 Here is a brighter garden,
2504 Where not a frost has been;
2505 In its unfading flowers
2506 I hear the bright bee hum:
2507 Prithee, my brother,
2508 Into my garden come!
2510 =head2 v5.21.8 - Bill Watterson, "Scientific Progress Goes 'Boink': A Calvin and Hobbes Collection"
2512 L<Announced on 2015-01-20 by Matthew Horsfall|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/01/msg224869.html>
2514 Calvin: OK Hobbes, press the button and duplicate me.
2515 Hobbes: Are you sure this is such a good idea?
2516 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?
2517 Hobbes: I'd hate to be accused of inhibiting scientific progress... Here you go.
2519 Hobbes: Scientific progress goes "BOINK"?
2520 Calvin?: It worked! It worked! I'm a genius!
2521 Cavlin??: No you're not, you liar! *I* invented this!
2523 =head2 v5.21.7 - Robert Heinlein, "The Number of the Beast"
2525 L<Announced on 2014-12-20 by Max Maischein|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/12/msg223774.html>
2527 "Zebadiah, Hilda and I salvaged and put everything into the basket.
2528 Hilda started to put it into our wardrobe-and it was heavy. So
2529 we looked. Packed as tight as when we left Oz. Six bananas-and
2530 everything else. Cross my heart. No, go look."
2531 "Hmmm- Jake, can you write equations for a picnic basket that
2532 refills itself? Will it go on doing so?"
2533 "Zeb, equations can be written to describe anything. The description
2534 would be simpler for a basket that replenishes itself indefinitely
2535 than for one that does it once and stops-I would have to describe
2538 =head2 v5.21.6 - Jeff Noon, "Vurt"
2540 L<Announced on 2014-11-20 by Chris 'BinGOs' Williams|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/11/msg222448.html>
2544 EXCHANGE MECHANISMS. Sometimes we lose precious
2545 things. Friends and colleagues, fellow travellers in the
2546 Vurt, sometimes we lose them; even lovers we sometimes
2547 lose. And get bad things in exchange: aliens, objects,
2548 snakes, and sometimes even death. Things we don't want.
2549 This is part of the deal, part of the game deal;
2550 all things, in all worlds, must be kept in balance.
2551 Kittlings often ask, who decides on the swappings? Now then,
2552 some say it's all accidental; that some poor Vurt thing
2553 finds himself too close to a door, at too critical a time,
2554 just when something real is being lost. Whoosh! Swap time!
2555 Others say that some kind of overseer is working the
2556 MECHANISMS OF EXCHANGE, deciding the fate of innocents.
2557 The Cat can only tease at this, because of the big secrets
2558 involved, and because of the levels between you, the reader,
2559 and me, the Game Cat. Hey, listen; I've struggled to get
2560 where I am today; why should I give you the easy route?
2561 Get working, kittlings! Reach up higher. Work the Vurt.
2563 =head2 v5.21.5 - Friso Wiegersma (text), Jean Ferrat (music), Wim Sonneveld (performer), "Het Dorp"
2565 L<Announced on 2014-10-20 by Abigail|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/10/msg221399.html>
2569 Thuis heb ik nog een ansichtkaart
2570 waarop een kerk, een kar met paard,
2571 een slagerij J. van der Ven.
2572 Een kroeg, een juffrouw op de fiets
2573 het zegt u hoogstwaarschijnlijk niets,
2574 maar 't is waar ik geboren ben.
2575 Dit dorp, ik weet nog hoe het was,
2576 de boerenkind'ren in de klas,
2577 een kar die ratelt op de keien,
2578 het raadhuis met een pomp ervoor,
2579 een zandweg tussen koren door,
2580 het vee, de boerderijen.
2582 En langs het tuinpad van m'n vader
2583 zag ik de hoge bomen staan.
2584 Ik was een kind en wist niet beter,
2585 dan dat dat nooit voorbij zou gaan.
2587 Wat leefden ze eenvoudig toen
2588 in simp'le huizen tussen groen
2589 met boerenbloemen en een heg.
2590 Maar blijkbaar leefden ze verkeerd,
2591 het dorp is gemoderniseerd
2592 en nu zijn ze op de goeie weg.
2593 Want ziet, hoe rijk het leven is,
2594 ze zien de televisiequiz
2595 en wonen in betonnen dozen,
2596 met flink veel glas, dan kun je zien
2597 hoe of het bankstel staat bij Mien
2598 en d'r dressoir met plastic rozen.
2600 En langs het tuinpad van m'n vader
2601 zag ik de hoge bomen staan.
2602 Ik was een kind en wist niet beter,
2603 dan dat dat nooit voorbij zou gaan.
2605 De dorpsjeugd klit wat bij elkaar
2606 in minirok en beatle-haar
2607 en joelt wat mee met beat-muziek.
2608 Ik weet wel, het is hun goeie recht,
2609 de nieuwe tijd, net wat u zegt,
2610 maar het maakt me wat melancholiek.
2611 Ik heb hun vaders nog gekend
2612 ze kochten zoethout voor een cent
2613 ik zag hun moeders touwtjespringen.
2614 Dat dorp van toen, het is voorbij,
2615 dit is al wat er bleef voor mij:
2616 een ansicht en herinneringen.
2618 Toen ik langs het tuinpad van m'n vader
2619 de hoge bomen nog zag staan.
2620 Ik was een kind, hoe kon ik weten
2621 dat dat voorgoed voorbij zou gaan.
2623 =head2 v5.21.4 - Edgar Allan Poe, "The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket"
2625 L<Announced on 2014-09-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/09/msg220267.html>
2627 To-day, being in latitude 83° 20', longitude 43° 5' W. (the sea being
2628 of an extraordinarily dark colour), we again saw land from the
2629 masthead, and, upon a closer scrutiny, found it to be one of a group
2630 of very large islands. The shore was precipitous, and the interior
2631 seemed to be well wooded, a circumstance which occasioned us great
2632 joy. In about four hours from our first discovering the land we came
2633 to anchor in ten fathoms, sandy bottom, a league from the coast, as a
2634 high surf, with strong ripples here and there, rendered a nearer
2635 approach of doubtful expediency. The two largest boats were now
2636 ordered out, and a party, well armed (among whome were Peters and
2637 myself), proceeded to look for an opening in the reef which appeared
2638 to encircle the island. After searching about for some time, we
2639 discovered an inlet, which we were entering, when we saw four large
2640 canoes put off from the shore, filled with men who seemed to be well
2641 armed. We waited for them to come up, and, as they moved with great
2642 rapidity, they were soon within hail. Captain Guy now held up a white
2643 handkerchief on the blade of an oar, when the strangers made a full
2644 stop, and commenced a loud jabbering all at once, intermingled with
2645 occasional shouts, in which we could distinguish the words Anamoo-moo!
2646 and Lama-Lama! They continued this for at least half an hour, during
2647 which we had a good opportunity of observing their appearance.
2649 =head2 v5.21.3 - Robert Service, "The Men that Don't Fit In"
2651 L<Announced on 2014-08-20 by Peter Martini|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/08/msg218826.html>
2653 If they just went straight they might go far,
2654 They are strong and brave and true;
2655 But they're always tired of the things that are,
2656 And they want the strange and new.
2657 They say: "Could I find my proper groove,
2658 What a deep mark I would make!"
2659 So they chop and change, and each fresh move
2660 Is only a fresh mistake.
2662 =head2 v5.21.2 - Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, Charlie Duke, Final minutes of communication of the first manned moon landing, July 20, 1969
2664 L<Announced on 2014-07-20 by Abigail|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/07/msg217937.html>
2666 Armstrong: Okay. Here's a...Looks like a good area here.
2667 Aldrin: I got the shadow out there.
2668 Aldrin: 250, down at 2 1/2, 19 forward.
2669 Aldrin: Altitude, velocity lights.
2670 Aldrin: 3 1/2 down, 220 feet, 13 forward.
2671 Aldrin: 11 forward. Coming down nicely.
2672 Armstrong: Gonna be right over that crater.
2673 Aldrin: 200 feet, 4 1/2 down.
2675 Armstrong: I got a good spot [garbled].
2676 Aldrin: 160 feet, 6 1/2 down.
2677 Aldrin: 5 1/2 down, 9 forward. You're looking good.
2679 Aldrin: 100 feet, 3 1/2 down, 9 forward. Five percent. Quantity light.
2680 Aldrin: Okay. 75 feet. And it's looking good. Down a half, 6 forward.
2683 Aldrin: 60 feet, down 2 1/2. 2 forward. 2 forward. That's good.
2684 Aldrin: 40 feet, down 2 1/2. Picking up some dust.
2685 Aldrin: 30 feet, 2 1/2 down. [Garbled] shadow.
2686 Aldrin: 4 forward. 4 forward. Drifting to the right a little. 20 feet,
2689 Aldrin: Drifting forward just a little bit; that's good.
2690 Aldrin: Contact Light.
2691 Armstrong: Shutdown.
2692 Aldrin: Okay. Engine Stop.
2693 Aldrin: ACA out of Detent.
2694 Armstrong: Out of Detent. Auto.
2695 Aldrin: Mode Control, both Auto. Descent Engine Command Override, Off.
2696 Engine Arm, Off. 413 is in.
2697 Duke: We copy you down, Eagle.
2698 Armstrong: Engine arm is off.
2699 Armstrong: Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed.
2700 Duke: Roger, Twan...[correcting himself] Tranquility. We copy you on
2701 the ground. You got a bunch of guys about to turn blue.
2702 We're breathing again. Thanks a lot.
2705 =head2 v5.21.1 - Robert Jordan, "The Crossroads of Twilights", Book 10 of "The Wheel of Time"
2707 L<Announced on 2014-06-20 by Matthew Horsfall|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/06/msg217030.html>
2709 We rode on the winds of the rising storm,
2710 We ran to the sounds of the thunder.
2711 We danced among the lightning bolts,
2712 and tore the world asunder.
2714 -- Anonymous fragment of a poem believed
2715 written near the end of the previous Age,
2716 known by some as the Third Age.
2717 Sometimes attributed to the Dragon
2720 =head2 v5.21.0 - Friedrich von Schiller, "The Song of the Bell"
2722 L<Announced on 2014-05-27 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/05/msg215826.html>
2724 Walled in fast within the earth
2725 Stands the form burnt out of clay.
2726 This must be the bell’s great birth!
2727 Fellows, lend a hand to-day.
2728 Sweat must trickle now
2729 From the burning brow,
2730 Till the work its master honour.
2731 Blessing comes from Heaven’s Donor.
2733 =head2 v5.20.3 - Elias Lönnrot, trans. Keith Bosley, "The Kalevala", Canto 42: Stealing the Sampo
2735 L<Announced on 2015-09-12 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/09/msg230945.html>
2737 Steady old Väinämöinen
2738 uttered a word and spoke thus:
2739 'No lilting on the waters
2740 and no singing on the waves!
2743 Precious day would pass and night
2744 would overtake us midway
2745 on these wide waters
2746 upon these vast waves.'
2748 The wanton Lemminkäinen
2749 uttered a word and spoke thus:
2750 'The time will pass anyway
2751 the fair day will flee
2752 and the night will come panting
2753 and the twilight will steal in
2754 if you don't sing while you live
2755 nor hum in this world.'
2757 =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"
2759 L<Announced on 2015-08-29 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/08/msg230544.html>
2761 'I fled from Basra, sad and tearful, with no idea where I was going,
2762 and I was reciting these lines:
2764 The pain of parting makes me melt away,
2765 As lovers do when those they love are harsh.
2766 I wonder at the patience that I showed
2767 When I had lost my love, for that was wonderful.
2768 Beloved, do you know that since you left,
2769 I have remained confused in misery.
2771 I then heard a voice that said: "Damn you, have you no fear of
2772 Almighty God that you hand over a girl to an unbelieving 'ifrit?" I
2773 walked for a time amongst the palm-trees until I caught sight of a
2774 person, whom I approached. When I asked him who he was he said: "I
2775 am one of the jinn who were converted to Islam at the hands of 'Ali
2776 ibn Abi Talib, may God ennoble him." "How can I get to my wife?" I
2777 asked him, and he said: "Wretched fellow, you had a bird which you
2778 allowed to fly away and now you want to fly after it." But he
2779 added: "Follow this road with God's blessing all night until dawn
2780 and then by the shore you will see a huge cave in which there is an
2781 idol made of white stone. You must drink of the water that there is
2782 coming out of the cave and smear your face with its mud. Stay there
2783 and a barge will pass you as you stand opposite the statue. Various
2784 different creatures will emerge, heads without bodies and bodies
2785 without heads, and they will prostrate themselves in adoration to
2786 the idol rather than to Almighty God. When you see that, embark on
2787 the barge and cross to the other bank and walk along it until
2788 sunset. On a high point you will see a castle built of bricks of
2789 gold and silver. That is where your 'ifrit will be. I have now
2790 told you about this, so goodbye."
2792 =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"
2794 L<Announced on 2015-08-22 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/08/msg230359.html>
2796 'On the night of the wedding the ape came to sit in front of me and
2797 asked me what I intended to do. "Whatever you tell me," I replied,
2798 and he said: "Take care not to covet the girl, or I shall come back
2799 and burn you up and leave you as a lesson for those who can learn."
2800 I agreed to this and when evening came I found the world full of
2801 candles and torches burning in holders of gold and silver. There
2802 were servants and serving girls, and everyone who saw me
2803 congratulated me on my good fortune, as there was no girl on the
2804 face of the earth more beautiful than my bride.
2806 'Next morning I went out to the market, and people went in and asked
2807 her how the night had been. "He never looked up at me," she told
2808 them. Then, when it was afternoon, I went to my house, where the
2809 ape was sitting by the door. "Tell me what you did," it said, and I
2810 told it: "By God, I did not learn and do not know whether this was a
2811 man or a girl." "That's what I want," it said.
2813 'On the second night my bride was brought to me, after which the
2814 servants left her and went away. She fell asleep, and, while she
2815 was sleeping, I killed the cock, wrapped it in the cloth and put the
2816 four poles from the couch over it. Suddenly there was a huge crash
2817 like a peal of thunder and a fiery 'ifrit swooped on the girl. I
2818 fainted at the sight and when I recovered I heard a voice saying:
2819 "By the Lord of the Ka'ba, the girl has been carried off!" and there
2820 was a sound like the rustling of wind and bitter weeping. At this I
2821 shed tears, struck my head and was filled with regret when it was no
2822 longer of any use, for to me the whole world was worth no more than
2825 =head2 v5.20.2 - Jonathan "Jonti" Picking, L<"Magical Trevor"|http://weebls-stuff.com/toons/magical-trevor-episode-01-animated-music-video-mrweebl/>
2827 L<Announced on 2015-02-14 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/02/msg225777.html>
2829 Everyone loves Magical Trevor,
2830 'Cos the tricks that he does are ever so clever;
2831 Look at him now, disappearin' the cow,
2832 Where is the cow hidden right now?
2834 Taking a bow, it's Magical Trevor,
2835 Everybody's seen that the trick is clever;
2836 Look at him there with his leathery, leathery whip!
2837 It's made of magic, and with a little flip--
2839 Yeah, yeah, yeah, the cow is back,
2840 Yeah, yeah, yeah, the cow is back;
2841 Back, back, back from his magical journey,
2844 What did he see in the parallel dimension?
2845 He saw beans, lots of beans, lots of beans, lots of beans;
2846 Oh, beans, lots of beans, lots of beans, lots of beans,
2849 =head2 v5.20.2-RC1 - Jonathan "Jonti" Picking, L<"Scampi"|http://weebls-stuff.com/toons/ive-seen-things-scampi-animated-music-video-mrweebl/>
2851 L<Announced on 2015-02-01 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/02/msg225273.html>
2854 I've seen them with my eyes;
2856 They're often in disguise.
2858 Like carrots, handbags, cheese, toilets,
2859 Russians, planets, hamsters, weddings,
2860 Poets, Stalin, Kuala Lumpur!
2861 Pygmies, budgies, Kuala Lumpur!
2864 I've seen them with my eyes;
2866 They're often in disguise.
2868 Like carrots, handbags, cheese...
2870 =head2 v5.20.1 - Lorenzo da Ponte, trans. Diana Reed, "Così fan tutte"
2872 L<Announced on 2014-09-14 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/09/msg219789.html>
2874 DORABELLA (as if waking from a daze): Where are they?
2875 DON ALFONSO: They've gone.
2876 FIORDILIGI: Oh, the cruel bitterness of parting!
2879 Take heart, my dearest children.
2880 Look, in the distance, your lovers are waving to you.
2882 FIORDILIGI: Bon voyage, my darling!
2883 DORABELLA: Bon voyage!
2886 O heavens! How swiftly the ship is sailing away!
2887 It is disappearing already!
2888 It is no longer in sight!
2889 Oh, may heaven grant it a prosperous voyage!
2891 DORABELLA: May good luck attend it to the battlefield!
2892 DON ALFONSO: And may your sweethearts and my friends be safe!
2894 FIORDILIGI, DORABELLA, DON ALFONSO:
2895 May the wind be gentle,
2896 may the sea be calm,
2897 and may the elements
2901 =head2 v5.20.1-RC2 - Lorenzo da Ponte, trans. William Weaver, "Così fan tutte"
2903 L<Announced on 2014-09-07 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/09/msg219446.html>
2906 Oh God, I feel that this foot of mine
2907 is reluctant to come before her.
2914 The hero displays his manliness
2915 in the most terrible moments.
2917 FIORDILIGI, DORABELLA:
2918 Now that we have heard the news,
2919 you have the lesser duty:
2920 Take heart, and plunge your swords
2921 into both our hearts.
2923 FERRANDO, GUGLIELMO:
2925 that I must abandon you.
2927 DORABELLA: Ah no, you shall not leave...
2928 FIORDILIGI: No, cruel one, you shall not go...
2929 DORABELLA: First I want to tear out my heart.
2930 FIORDILIGI: First I want to die at your feet.
2931 FERRANDO (softly to Don Alfonso): What do you say to that?
2932 GUGLIELMO (softly to Don Alfonso): You realise?
2933 DON ALFONSO (softly): Steady, friend, finem lauda.
2936 Thus destiny defrauds
2937 the hopes of mortals.
2938 Ah, among so many misfortunes,
2939 who can ever love life?
2941 =head2 v5.20.1-RC1 - Lorenzo da Ponte, trans. William Weaver, "Così fan tutte"
2943 L<Announced on 2014-08-25 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/08/msg218975.html>
2946 I'd like to speak, but I haven't the heart:
2948 My voice cannot emerge,
2949 but remains in my throat.
2950 What will you do? What shall I do?
2951 Oh what a great catastrophe!
2952 There can be nothing worse.
2953 I feel pity for you and for them.
2955 FIORDILIGI: Heavens! For mercy's sake, Signor Alfonso, don't make us
2957 DON ALFONSO: My children, you must arm yourselves with constancy.
2958 DORABELLA: Ye Gods! What evil has occurred? What horrible event? Is my
2960 FIORDILIGI: Is mine dead?
2961 DON ALFONSO: They are not dead, but they are not far from it.
2965 DON ALFONSO: Nor that.
2966 FIORDILIGI: What, then?
2967 DON ALFONSO: A royal command summons them to the field of battle.
2968 FIORDILIGI, DORABELLA: Alas, what do I hear? And they will leave?
2969 DON ALFONSO: Immediately.
2970 DORABELLA: And there is no way of preventing it?
2971 DON ALFONSO: There is none.
2972 FIORDILIGI: And not even a single farewell...
2973 DON ALFONSO: The unhappy men haven't the courage to see you; but if
2974 you wish it, they are ready...
2975 DORABELLA: Where are they?
2976 DON ALFONSO: Come in, friends.
2978 =head2 v5.20.0 - William Shakespeare, Sonnet 18
2980 L<Announced on 2014-05-27 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/05/msg215815.html>
2982 But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
2983 Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st;
2984 Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
2985 When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st:
2986 So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
2987 So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
2989 =head2 v5.20.0-RC1 - Lindsey Buckingham, "Second Hand News"
2991 L<Announced on 2014-05-17 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/05/msg215479.html>
2995 Won't you lay me down in tall grass
2996 And let me do my stuff
2998 =head2 v5.19.11 - Isidore-Lucien Ducasse [as "Comte de Lautréamont"], trans. Paul Knight, "Les Chants de Maldoror"
3000 L<Announced on 2014-04-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/04/msg214580.html>
3002 O rigorous mathematics, I have not forgotten you since your wise lessons,
3003 sweeter than honey, filtered into my heart like a refreshing wave.
3004 Instinctively, from the cradle, I had longed to drink from your source, older
3005 than the sun, and I continue to tread the sacred sanctuary of your solemn
3006 temple, I, the most faithful of your devotees. There was a vagueness in my
3007 mind, something thick as smoke; but I managed to mount the steps which lead to
3008 your altar, and you drove away this dark veil, as the wind blows the
3009 draught-board. You replaced it with excessive coldness, consummate prudence and
3010 implacable logic. With the aid of your fortifying milk, my intellect developed
3011 rapidly and took on immense proportions amid the ravishing lucidity which you
3012 bestow as a gift on all those who sincerely love you. Arithmetic! Algebra!
3013 Geometry! Awe-inspiring trinity! Luminous triangle! He who has not known you
3016 =head2 v5.19.10 - John Chadwick, "The Decipherment of Linear B"
3018 L<Announced on 2014-03-20 by Aaron Crane|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/03/msg213851.html>
3020 The urge to discover secrets is deeply ingrained in human nature; even
3021 the least curious mind is roused by the promise of sharing knowledge
3022 withheld from others. Some are fortunate enough to find a job which
3023 consists in the solution of mysteries, whether it be the physicist who
3024 tracks down a hitherto unknown nuclear particle or the policeman who
3025 detects a criminal. But most of us are driven to sublimate this urge
3026 by the solving of artificial puzzles devised for our entertainment.
3028 =head2 v5.19.9 - R. A. MacAvoy, "Tea with the Black Dragon"
3030 L<Announced on 2014-02-20 by Tony Cook|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/02/msg213047.html>
3032 Old hands. The smell of rain--the smell of Ch'an. Quiet words in
3033 rough Cantonese. "I am not to be your master. Your master has to be
3034 stronger than you are--has to tell you you are a fool and make you
3035 know it. And make you feel content in being a fool. How could I do
3036 that for you? I'm old. You are too strong for me; you are full of
3037 chi." The old man has paused then, huddled against the wind while
3038 clouds thickened above them.
3040 "I will tell you this, Long," he continued, "Before you find yourself
3041 you will lose your chi. Also you will leave behind you all pride of
3042 body, pride of mind. You will be reduced. Like me." The old man
3043 closed his eyes, and rain began to beat against his gray, crew-cut
3044 hair. He pulled his coat closer. Suddenly his eyes snapped open and
3045 he looked Long in the face.
3047 "You must leave China. Go across the ocean. There you will meet your
3048 master." He set down his teacup with a palsied hand. His voice rose,
3051 "I tell you this, most honored and impressive visitor. You are a
3052 fool, yes, but you will find the very thing you seek. You will find
3055 =head2 v5.19.8 - Joseph Heller, "Catch-22"
3057 L<Announced on 2014-01-20 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/01/msg211729.html>
3059 “I used to get a big kick out of saving people’s lives. Now I wonder what the
3060 hell’s the point, since they all have to die anyway.”
3062 “Oh, there’s a point, all right,” Dunbar assured him.
3064 “Is there? What is the point?”
3066 “The point is to keep them from dying for as long as you can.”
3068 “Yeah, but what’s the point, since they all have to die anyway?”
3070 “The trick is not to think about that.”
3072 “Never mind the trick. What the hell’s the point?”
3074 Dunbar pondered in silence for a few moments. “Who the hell knows?”
3076 =head2 v5.19.7 - Kurt Vonnegut, "Slaughterhouse-Five"
3078 L<Announced on 2013-12-20 by Abigail|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/12/msg210882.html>
3080 And somewhere in there was springtime. The corpse mines were closed
3081 down. The soldiers all left to fight the Russians. In the suburbs,
3082 the women and children dug rifle pits. Billy and the rest of his group
3083 were locked up in the stable in the suburbs. And then, one morning,
3084 they got up to discover that the door was unlocked. World War Two in
3087 Billy and the rest wandered out onto the shady street. The trees were
3088 leafing out. There was nothing going on out there, no traffic of any
3089 kind. There was only one vehicle, an abandoned wagon drawn by two
3090 horses. The wagon was green and coffin-shaped.
3094 One bird said to Billy Pilgrim, "Pee-tee-weet?"
3096 =head2 v5.19.6 - Monty Python's Flying Circus, "Spam"
3098 L<Announced on 2013-11-20 by Chris 'BinGOs' Williams|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/11/msg210043.html>
3100 Interior: cheap cafe. All the customers are Vikings. Mr and Mrs Bun enter downwards (on wires).
3104 Mr. Bun: What have you got, then?
3105 Waitress: Well there's egg and bacon; egg, sausage and bacon; egg and spam; egg, bacon and spam;
3106 egg, bacon, sausage and spam; spam, bacon, sausage and spam; spam, egg, spam, spam, bacon and spam;
3107 spam, spam, spam, egg and spam; spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, baked beans, spam, spam, spam and spam;
3108 or lobster thermidor aux crevettes, with a mornay sauce garnished with truffle pate, brandy and a fried
3110 Mrs. Bun: Have you got anything without spam in it?
3111 Waitress: Well, there's spam, egg, sausage and spam. That's not got MUCH spam in it.
3112 Mrs. Bun: I don't want ANY spam.
3113 Mr. Bun: Why can't she have egg, bacon, spam and sausage?
3114 Mrs. Bun: That's got spam in it!
3115 Mr. Bun: Not as much as spam, egg, sausage and spam.
3116 Mrs. Bun: Look, could I have egg, bacon, spam and sausage, without the spam.
3117 Waitress: Uuuuuuggggh!
3118 Mrs. Bun: What d'you mean, uugggh! I don't like spam.
3119 Vikings: (singing) Spam, spam, spam, spam, spam ... spam, spam, spam, spam ... lovely spam, wonderful spam ...
3121 (Brief shot of a Viking ship)
3123 Waitress: Shut up. Shut up! Shut up! You can't have egg, bacon, spam and sausage without the spam.
3125 Waitress: No, it wouldn't be egg, bacon, spam and sausage, would it?
3126 Mrs. Bun: I don't like spam!
3128 =head2 v5.19.5 - Charles Baudelaire, trans. James McGowan, "The Flowers of Evil", 51. The Cat
3130 L<Announced on 2013-10-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/10/msg208752.html>
3134 A cat is strolling through my mind
3135 Acting as though he owned the place,
3136 A lovely cat -- strong, charming, sweet.
3137 When he meows, one scarcely hears,
3139 So tender and discreet his tone;
3140 But whether he should growl or purr
3141 His voice is always rich and deep.
3142 That is the secret of his charm.
3144 This purling voice that filters down
3145 Into my darkest depths of soul
3146 Fulfils me like a balanced verse,
3147 Delights me as a potion would.
3149 It puts to sleep the cruellest ills
3150 And keeps a rein on ecstasies --
3151 Without the need for any words
3152 It can pronounce the longest phrase.
3154 Oh no, there is no bow that draws
3155 Across my heart, fine instrument,
3156 And makes to sing so royally
3157 The strongest and the purest chord,
3159 More than your voice, mysterious cat,
3160 Exotic cat, seraphic cat,
3161 In whom all is, angelically,
3162 As subtle as harmonious.
3166 From his soft fur, golden and brown,
3167 Goes out so sweet a scent, one night
3168 I might have been embalmed in it
3169 By giving him one little pet.
3171 He is my household's guardian soul;
3172 He judges, he presides, inspires
3173 All matters in hos royal realm;
3174 Might he be fairy? or a god?
3176 When my eyes, to this cat I love
3177 Drawn as by a magnet's force,
3178 Turn tamely back from that appeal,
3179 And when I look within myself,
3181 I notice with astonishment
3182 The fire of his opal eyes,
3183 Clear beacons glowing, living jewels,
3184 Taking my measure, steadily.
3186 =head2 v5.19.4 - Washington Irving, "The Widow and Her Son"
3188 L<Announced on 2013-09-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/09/msg207969.html>
3190 There is something in sickness that breaks down the pride of manhood;
3191 that softens the heart and brings it back to the feelings of infancy.
3192 Who that has languished, even in advanced life, in sickness and
3193 despondency — who that has pined on a weary bed in the neglect and
3194 loneliness of a foreign land — but has thought on the mother "that
3195 looked on his childhood," that smoothed his pillow and administered to
3196 his helplessness. — Oh! there is an enduring tenderness in the love
3197 of a mother to her son that transcends all other affections of the
3198 heart. It is neither to be chilled by selfishness — nor daunted by
3199 danger — nor weakened by worthlessness — nor stifled by ingratitude.
3200 She will sacrifice every comfort to his convenience — she will
3201 surrender every pleasure to his enjoyment — she will glory in his fame
3202 and exult in his prosperity. And if misfortune overtake him he will
3203 be the dearer to her from misfortune — and if disgrace settle upon his
3204 name, she will still love and cherish him in spite of his disgrace —
3205 and if all the world beside cast him off, she will be all the world to
3208 =head2 v5.19.3 - Andrew Hodges, "Alan Turing: The Enigma"
3210 L<Announced on 2013-08-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/08/msg206318.html>
3212 E.M. Forster, outdoing the King's heresy with grand bravura, had
3213 written in 1938 that if he were faced with the choice between
3214 betraying his country and betraying his friends, he hoped he would
3215 have the courage to betray his country. He would always put the
3216 personal above the political. But for Alan Turing, unlike Forster, or
3217 Wittgenstein, or G.H. Hardy, it was more than a theoretical question.
3218 For him not only had the personal become the political, but the
3219 political was the personal. He had chosen and promised for himself in
3220 working for the government. The choice for him therefore was that
3221 between betraying one part of himself and betraying another part. And
3222 however much he wavered between these alternatives, there was a solid
3223 logic to the mind of security, one that could not be expected to take
3224 an interest in notions of freedom and development. He had no rights
3225 to such things, as he would have had to admit. He might have
3226 outwitted the Home Guard, but when it came to questions that mattered,
3227 there was no doubt that he had placed himself under military law.
3228 There was a war on; there was always a war on now.
3230 =head2 v5.19.2 - Fred Brooks, "The Mythical Man-Month"
3232 L<Announced on 2013-07-22 by Aristotle Pagaltzis|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/07/msg204905.html>
3234 The magic of myth and legend has come true in our time. One types the
3235 correct incantation on a keyboard, and a display screen comes to life,
3236 showing things that never were nor could be. [...] Not all is delight,
3237 however [...] One must perform perfectly. The computer resembles the
3238 magic of legend in this respect, too. If one character, one pause, of
3239 the incantation is not strictly in proper form, the magic doesn't work.
3241 =head2 v5.19.1 - William Shakespeare, "A Midsummer Night's Dream"
3243 L<Announced on 2013-06-21 by David Golden|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/06/msg203449.html>
3245 Over hill, over dale,
3246 Thorough bush, thorough briar,
3247 Over park, over pale,
3248 Thorough flood, thorough fire,
3249 I do wander everywhere,
3250 Swifter than the moon's sphere;
3251 And I serve the fairy queen,
3252 To dew her orbs upon the green.
3253 The cowslips tall her pensioners be;
3254 In their gold coats, spots you see;
3255 Those be rubies, fairy favours,
3256 In their freckles live our savours.
3257 I must go seek some dew-drops here,
3258 And hang a perl in every cowslip's ear.
3259 Farewell, thou lob of spirits, I'll be gone;
3260 My queen and all her elves come here anon!
3262 =head2 v5.19.0 - Batman, of the Joker, in "The Dark Knight Returns"
3264 L<Announced on 2013-05-20 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/05/msg201980.html>
3266 From the beginning, I knew…
3267 …that there was nothing wrong with you…
3271 =head2 v5.18.4 - Robert W. Chambers, Cassilda's Song in "The King in Yellow," Act I, Scene 2
3273 L<Announced on 2014-10-01 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/10/msg220770.html>
3275 Along the shore the cloud waves break,
3276 The twin suns sink beneath the lake,
3277 The shadows lengthen
3280 Strange is the night where black stars rise,
3281 And strange moons circle through the skies
3282 But stranger still is
3285 Songs that the Hyades shall sing,
3286 Where flap the tatters of the King,
3290 Song of my soul, my voice is dead;
3291 Die thou, unsung, as tears unshed
3292 Shall dry and die in
3295 =head2 v5.18.3 - (no epigraph)
3299 =head2 v5.18.3-RC2 - Robert W. Chambers, "The King in Yellow", Act I, Scene 2
3301 L<Announced on 2014-09-27 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/09/msg220613.html>
3303 "Ah! I see it now!" I shrieked. "You have seized the throne and the
3304 empire. Woe! woe to you who are crowned with the crown of the King in
3307 =head2 v5.18.3-RC1 - Robert W. Chambers, "The King in Yellow", Act I, Scene 2
3309 L<Announced on 2014-09-17 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/09/msg220072.html>
3311 CAMILLA: You, sir, should unmask.
3315 CASSILDA: Indeed it's time. We all have laid aside disguise but you.
3317 STRANGER: I wear no mask.
3319 CAMILLA: (Terrified, aside to Cassilda.) No mask? No mask!
3321 =head2 v5.18.2 - Miss Manners
3323 L<Announced on 2014-01-06 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/01/msg211224.html>
3325 One of the major mistakes people make is that they think manners are
3326 only the expression of happy ideas. There's a whole range of behavior
3327 that can be expressed in a mannerly way. That's what civilization is all
3328 about – doing it in a mannerly and not an antagonistic way. One of the
3329 places we went wrong was the naturalistic Rousseauean movement of the
3330 Sixties in which people said, "Why can't you just say what's on your
3331 mind?" In civilization there have to be some restraints. If we followed
3332 every impulse, we'd be killing one another.
3334 =head2 v5.18.1 - Chuck Moore
3336 L<Announced on 2013-08-12 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/08/msg205897.html>
3338 The operating system is another concept that is curious. Operating
3339 systems are dauntingly complex and totally unnecessary. It’s a brilliant
3340 thing that Bill Gates has done in selling the world on the notion of
3341 operating systems. It’s probably the greatest con game the world has
3344 An operating system does absolutely nothing for you. As long as you had
3345 something — a subroutine called disk driver, a subroutine called some
3346 kind of communication support, in the modern world, it doesn’t do
3347 anything else. In fact, Windows spends a lot of time with overlays and
3348 disk management all stuff like that which are irrelevant. You’ve got
3349 gigabyte disks; you’ve got megabyte RAMs. The world has changed in a way
3350 that renders the operating system unnecessary.
3352 =head2 v5.18.1-RC1 - Chuck Moore
3354 L<Announced on 2013-08-02 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/08/msg205445.html>
3356 Compilers are probably the worst code ever written. They are written by
3357 someone who has never written a compiler before and will never do so
3358 again. The more elaborate the language, the more complex, bug-ridden,
3359 and unusable is the compiler. But a simple compiler for a simple
3360 language is an essential tool—if only for documentation.
3362 =head2 v5.18.0 - Yevgeny Zamyatin
3364 L<Announced on 2013-05-18 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/05/msg201940.html>
3366 It is an error to divide people into the living and the dead: there are people
3367 who are dead-alive, and people who are alive-alive. The dead-alive also write,
3368 walk, speak, act. But they make no mistakes; only machines make no mistakes,
3369 and they produce only dead things. The alive-alive are constantly in error, in
3370 search, in questions, in torment.
3372 =head2 v5.18.0-RC4 - Joseph Heller, "Catch-22"
3374 L<Announced on 2013-05-16 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/05/msg201889.html>
3376 Clevinger was dead. That was the basic flaw in his philosophy.
3378 =head2 v5.18.0-RC3 - Tom Waits, "The Ocean Doesn't Want Me"
3380 L<Announced on 2013-05-14 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/05/msg201823.html>
3382 I'd love to go drowning
3383 And to stay and to stay
3384 But the ocean doesn't want me today
3385 I'll go in up to here
3386 It can't possibly hurt
3387 All they will find is my beer
3390 =head2 v5.18.0-RC2 - Tom Waits, "Earth Died Screaming"
3392 L<Announced on 2013-05-12 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/05/msg201723.html>
3394 And the great day of wrath has come
3395 And here's mud in your big red eye
3396 The poker's in the fire
3397 And the locusts take the sky
3398 And the earth died screaming
3399 While I lay dreaming of you
3401 =head2 v5.18.0-RC1 - Tom Waits, "What's He Building in There?"
3403 L<Announced on 2013-05-11 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/05/msg201651.html>
3405 What's he building in there?
3407 We have a right to know…
3409 =head2 v5.17.11 - Nigel Tufnel in "This is Spın̈al Tap"
3411 L<Announced on 2013-04-20 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/04/msg201056.html>
3413 It's very special because, if you can see, the numbers all go to…
3414 eleven! Look, right across the board: eleven, eleven, eleven, eleven!
3416 =head2 v5.17.10 - Vernor Vinge, "A Fire Upon The Deep"
3418 L<Announced on 2013-03-23 by Max Maischein|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/03/msg200504.html>
3420 The archive informed the automation. Data structures were built, recipes
3421 followed. A local network was built, faster than anything on Straum, but surely
3422 safe. Nodes were added, modified by other recipes. The archive was a friendly
3423 place, with hierarchies of translation keys that led them along. Straum itself
3424 would be famous for this.
3426 Six months passed. A year.
3428 The omniscient view. Not self-aware really. Self-awareness is much over-rated.
3429 Most automation works far better as a part of a whole, and even if human-
3430 powerful, it does not need to self-know.
3432 =head2 v5.17.9 - Douglas Adams, "The Hitch-Hikers Guide to the Galaxy"
3434 L<Announced on 2013-02-20 by Chris 'BinGOs' Williams|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/02/msg199115.html>
3436 Vogon poetry is of course, the third worst in the universe.
3437 The second worst is that of the Azgoths of Kria. During a
3438 recitation by their poet master Grunthos the Flatulent of
3439 his poem 'Ode To A Small Lump of Green Putty I Found In My
3440 Armpit One Midsummer Morning' four of his audience died
3441 of internal haemorrhaging and the president of the
3442 Mid-Galactic Arts Nobbling Council survived by gnawing one
3443 of his own legs off. Grunthos is reported to have been
3444 'disappointed' by the poem's reception, and was about to
3445 embark on a reading of his twelve-book epic entitled
3446 'My Favourite Bathtime Gurgles' when his own major intestine,
3447 in a desperate attempt to save life and civilisation,
3448 leapt straight up through his neck and throttled his brain.
3450 The very worst poetry of all perished along with its creator
3451 Paula Nancy Millstone Jennings of Greenbridge, Essex, England,
3452 in the destruction of the planet Earth.
3454 =head2 v5.17.8 - Iain Pears, "An Instance of the Fingerpost"
3456 L<Announced on 2013-01-20 by Aaron Crane|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/01/msg197571.html>
3458 I must here declare myself as someone who does not for a moment subscribe to
3459 the general view that a willingness to perform oneself is detrimental to the
3460 dignity of experimental philosophy. There is, after all, a clear distinction
3461 between labour carried out for financial reward, and that done for the
3462 improvement of mankind: to put it another way, Lower as a philosopher was
3463 fully my equal even if he fell away when he became the practising physician.
3464 I think ridiculous of certain professors of anatomy, who find it beneath
3465 them to pick up the knife themselves, but merely comment while hired hands
3466 do the cutting. Sylvius would never have dreamt of sitting on a dais reading
3467 from an authority while others cut — when he taught, the knife was
3468 in his hand and the blood spattered his coat. Boyle also did not scruple to
3469 perform his own experiments and, on one occasion in my presence, even showed
3470 himself willing to anatomise a rat with his very own hands. Nor was he less
3471 a gentleman when he had finished. Indeed, in my opinion, his stature was all
3472 the greater, for in Boyle wealth, humility and curiosity mingled, and the
3473 world is richer for it.
3475 =head2 v5.17.7 - R. Scott Bakker, "The Darkness That Comes Before"
3477 L<Announced on 2012-12-18 by Dave Rolsky|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/12/msg196707.html>
3481 The boy extinguished. Only a place.
3485 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.
3487 A place without breath or sound. A place of sight alone. A place without before or after . . . almost.
3489 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.
3491 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 . . .
3493 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.
3495 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.
3497 I have been legion . . .
3499 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.
3503 =head2 v5.17.6 - Kurt Vonnegut, "The Sirens of Titan"
3505 L<Announced on 2012-11-20 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/11/msg195659.html>
3507 Beatrice, looking like a gypsy queen, smoldered at the foot of a statue
3508 of a young physical student. At first glance, the laboratory-gowned
3509 scientist seemed to be a perfect servant of nothing but truth. At first
3510 glance, one was convinced that nothing but truth could please him as he
3511 beamed at his test tube. At first glance, one thought that he was as
3512 much above the beastly concerns of mankind as the harmoniums in the
3513 caves of Mercury. There, at first glance, was a young man without
3514 vanity, without lust — and one accepted at its face value the title Salo
3515 had engraved on the statue, "Discovery of Atomic Power."
3517 =head2 v5.17.5 - Charles Stross, "Singularity Sky"
3519 L<Announced on 2012-10-20 by Florian Ragwitz|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/10/msg194349.html>
3521 Neither of them noticed the pair of polka-dotted knickers hiding
3522 behind the ventilation duct overhead, listening patiently and
3523 recording everything.
3525 =head2 v5.17.4 - Roald Dahl, "Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf"
3527 L<Announced on 2012-09-19 by Florian Ragwitz|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/09/msg192635.html>
3529 The small girl smiles. One eyelid flickers.
3530 She whips a pistol from her knickers.
3531 She aims it at the creature's head,
3532 And bang bang bang, she shoots him dead.
3534 A few weeks later, in the wood,
3535 I came across Miss Riding Hood.
3536 But what a change! No cloak of red,
3537 No silly hood upon her head.
3538 She said, "Hello, and do please note
3539 My lovely furry wolfskin coat."
3541 =head2 v5.17.3 - Kris Ta-belle, "Smoked Perl Onion Soup"
3543 L<Announced on 2012-08-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/08/msg190775.html>
3547 Cut 16 Perl Onions into quarters and put them in a grill smoker rack
3548 or a perforated pan over a BBQ using hickory wood chips or Special
3549 Blend Smoker Bisquettes. Smoke them for an hour and remove once they
3551 Let them cool and put them in the fridge (or freezer) until you are
3552 ready to create the soup.
3556 16 diced, pre-smoked, Perl Onions
3559 2 small garlic cloves, finely minced
3562 black pepper to taste
3564 1/4 cup all purpose flour
3565 6 cups of beef or vegetable stock
3566 1 cup of thick cream (milk can be used as a substitute)
3570 Melt the butter in a pan and then add olive oil.
3571 Heat and add the onions to caramelize over a medium-high heat for up
3573 Add the garlic, turn down the heat and cook for a further 5 minutes.
3574 Add the salt, pepper and sugar.
3575 Now add the red wine and reduce to a jam like consistency.
3576 Add the flour, stir well and add the stock a cup at a time.
3577 Simmer for 30 minutes, add the cream and heat to almost boiling.
3581 =head2 v5.17.2 - Terry Pratchet, "The Colour of Magic"
3583 L<Announced on 2012-07-21 by TonyC|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/07/msg189828.html>
3585 ‘I knew it,’ said Rincewind. ‘We're in a strong magical field.’
3587 Twoflower and Hrun looked around the little hollow where they had made
3588 their noonday halt. Then they looked at each other.
3590 The horses were quietly cropping the rich grass by the stream. Yellow
3591 butterflies skittered among the bushes. There was a smell of thyme
3592 and a buzzing of bees. The wild pigs on the spit sizzled gently.
3594 Hrun shrugged and went back to oiling his biceps. They gleamed.
3596 ‘Looks alright to me,’ he said.
3598 ‘Try tossing a coin,’ said Rincewind.
3602 ‘Go on. Toss a coin.’
3604 ‘Hokay,’ said Hrun. 'If that gives you any pleasure.’ He reached into
3605 his pouch and withdrew a handful of loose change plundered from a
3606 dozen realms. With some care he selected a Zchloty leaden
3607 quarter-iotum and balanced it on a purple thumbnail.
3609 ‘You call,’ he said. ‘Heads or—’ he inspected the obverse with
3610 an air of intense concentration, ‘some sort of a fish with legs.’
3612 ‘When it's in the air,’ said Rincewind. Hrun grinned and flicked his thumb.
3614 The iotum rose, spinning.
3616 ‘Edge,’ said Rincewind, without looking at it.
3618 =head2 v5.17.1 - Rand Miller, "Myst: The Book of Ti'ana"
3620 L<Announced on 2012-06-20 by doy|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/06/msg188354.html>
3622 On their return from Ko'ah, Aitrus had shown her the Book, patiently
3623 taking her through page after page, and showing her how such an Age was
3624 "made." She had seen at once the differences between this archaic form
3625 and the ordinary written speech of the D'ni, noting how it was not
3626 merely more elaborate but more specific: a language of precise yet
3627 subtle descriptive power. Yet seeing was one thing, believing another.
3628 Given all the evidence, her rational mind still fought against accepting
3631 =head2 v5.17.0 - Charles Stross, "Singularity Sky"
3633 L<Announced on 2012-05-26 by Zefram|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/05/msg187214.html>
3635 `Welcome, comrades!' Burya opened his arms toward the soldier.
3636 `Yes it is true! With help from our allies of the Festival, the iron
3637 hand of the reactionary junta is about to be overthrown for all time!
3638 The new economy is being born; the marginal cost of production has
3639 been abolished, and from now on, if any item is produced once, it can
3640 be replicated infinitely. From each according to his imagination,
3641 to each according to his needs! Join us or better still, bring your
3642 fellow soldiers and workers to join us!'
3644 There was a sharp bang from the roof of the Corn Exchange, right at the
3645 climax of his impromptu speech; heads turned in alarm. Something had
3646 broken inside the spork factory and a stream of rainbow-hued plastic
3647 implements fountained toward the sky and clattered to the cobblestones
3648 on every side, like a harbinger of the postindustrial society to come.
3649 Workers and peasants alike stared in open-mouthed bewilderment at this
3650 astounding display of productivity, then bent to scrabble in the muck
3651 for the brightly colored sporks of revolution. A volley of shots rang
3652 out and Burya Rubenstein raised his hands, grinning wildly, to accept
3653 the salute of the soldiers from the Skull Hill garrison.
3655 =head2 v5.16.3 - Devo, "Freedom of Choice"
3657 L<Announced on 2013-03-11 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/03/msg200009.html>
3659 A victim of collision on the open sea
3660 Nobody ever said that life was free
3661 Sink, swim, go down with the ship
3662 But use your freedom of choice
3664 =head2 v5.16.2 - Stanislaw Lem, "The Cyberiad", Trurl's Machine
3666 L<Announced on 2012-11-01 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/11/msg194915.html>
3668 Once upon a time Trurl the constructor built an eight-story thinking
3669 machine. When it was finished, he gave it a coat of white paint,
3670 trimmed the edges in lavender, stepped back, squinted, then added a
3671 little curlicue on the front and, where one might imagine the forehead
3672 to be, a few pale orange polkadots. Extremely pleased with himself,
3673 he whistled an air and, as is always done on such occasions, asked it
3674 the ritual question of how much is two plus two.
3676 The machine stirred. Its tubes began to glow, its coils warmed up,
3677 current coursed through all its circuits like a waterfall,
3678 transformers hummed and throbbed, there was a clanging, and a
3679 chugging, and such an ungodly racket that Trurl began to think of
3680 adding a special mentation muffler. Meanwhile the machine labored on,
3681 as if it had been given the most difficult problem in the Universe to
3682 solve; the ground shook, the sand slid underfoot from the vibration,
3683 valves popped like champagne corks, the relays nearly gave way under
3684 the strain. At last, when Trurl had grown extremely impatient, the
3685 machine ground to a halt and said in a voice like thunder: SEVEN!
3687 =head2 v5.16.1 - Emerald Rose, "Never Split The Party"
3689 L<Announced on 2012-08-08 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/08/msg190413.html>
3691 Don't you know? You never split the party
3692 Clerics in the back to keep those fighters hale and hearty
3693 The wizard in the middle, where he can shed some light
3694 And you never let that damn thief out of sight…
3696 =head2 v5.16.1-RC1 - Tom Moldvay, Foreward to the "Dungeons & Dragons Basic Rulebook"
3698 L<Announced on 2012-08-03 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/08/msg190264.html>
3700 I was busy rescuing the captured maiden when the dragon showed up.
3701 Fifty feed of scaled terror glared down at us with smoldering red eyes.
3702 Tendrils of smoke drifted out from between fangs larger than daggers.
3703 The dragon blocked the only exit from the cave.
3707 I unwrapped the sword which the mysterious cleric had given me. The
3708 sword was golden-tinted steel. Its hilt was set with a rainbow
3709 collection of precious gems. I shouted my battle cry and charged
3711 My charge caught the dragon by surprise. Its titanic jaws snapped shut
3712 inches from my face. I swung the golden sword with both arms. The
3713 swordblade bit into the dragon's neck and continued through to the other
3714 side. With an earth-shaking crash, the dragon dropped dead at my feet.
3715 The magic sword had saved my life and ended the reign of the
3716 dragon-tyrant. The countryside was freed and I could return as a hero.
3718 =head2 v5.16.0 - W.H. Auden, "September 1, 1939"
3720 L<Announced on 2012-05-20 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/05/msg186903.html>
3722 All I have is a voice
3723 To undo the folded lie,
3724 The romantic lie in the brain
3725 Of the sensual man-in-the-street
3726 And the lie of Authority
3727 Whose buildings grope the sky:
3728 There is no such thing as the State
3729 And no one exists alone;
3730 Hunger allows no choice
3731 To the citizen or the police;
3732 We must love one another or die.
3734 =head2 v5.15.9 - Bob Dylan, "Blowin' In The Wind"
3736 L<Announced on 2012-03-20 by Abigail|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/03/msg184824.html>
3738 How many roads must a man walk down
3739 Before you call him a man?
3740 Yes, 'n' how many seas must a white dove sail
3741 Before she sleeps in the sand?
3742 Yes, 'n' how many times must the cannonballs fly
3743 Before they're forever banned?
3744 The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind
3745 The answer is blowin' in the wind
3747 How many years can a mountain exist
3748 Before it's washed to the sea?
3749 Yes, 'n' how many years can some people exist
3750 Before they're allowed to be free?
3751 Yes, 'n' how many times can a man turn his head
3752 Pretending he just doesn't see?
3753 The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind
3754 The answer is blowin' in the wind
3756 How many times must a man look up
3757 Before he can see the sky?
3758 Yes, 'n' how many ears must one man have
3759 Before he can hear people cry?
3760 Yes, 'n' how many deaths will it take till he knows
3761 That too many people have died?
3762 The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind
3763 The answer is blowin' in the wind
3765 =head2 v5.15.8 - The KLF, "The Manual-How To Have A Number One The Easy Way"
3767 L<Announced on 2012-02-20 by Max Maischein|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/02/msg183919.html>
3769 "Doctor Who, hey Doctor Who
3770 Doctor Who, in the Tardis
3771 Doctor Who, hey Doctor Who
3772 Doctor Who, Doc, Doctor Who
3773 Doctor Who, Doc, Doctor Who"
3775 Gibberish of course, but every lad in the country under a certain
3776 age related instinctively to what it was about. The ones slightly
3777 older needed a couple of pints inside them to clear away the mind
3778 debris left by the passing years before it made sense. As for
3779 girls and our chorus, we think they must have seen it as pure crap.
3780 A fact that must have limited to zero our chances of staying at The
3781 Top for more than one week.
3783 Stock, Aitkin and Waterman, however, are kings of writing chorus
3784 lyrics that go straight to the emotional heart of the 7" single
3785 buying girls in this country. Their most successful records will kick
3786 into the chorus with a line which encapsulates the entire emotional
3787 meaning of the song. This will obviously be used as the title. As
3788 soon as Rick Astley hit the first line of the chorus on his debut
3789 single it was all over - the Number One position was guaranteed:
3791 "I'm never going to give you up"
3793 =head2 v5.15.7 - Penelope Lively, "The Voyage of QV66"
3795 L<Announced on 2012-01-20 by Chris 'BinGOs' Williams|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/01/msg182230.html>
3797 "Laboratories," announced Henry. "Kindly don't touch anything."
3799 He led us into a long low brick shed. Outside there was a
3800 notice on a piece of board, crudely printed in red paint,
3801 which said GRATE SIENCE DISCOVERYS DONE HERE SSSH! BRING YOUR
3802 OWN BUKKIT NO PINCHING ANYWUN ELSE'S EXPERRYMENTS CANTEEN OPEN
3803 ALL DAY CHIMPS ONLY.
3805 There were a lot of large black monkeys inside, all intently
3806 busy on what they were doing. Some of them were pouring stuff
3807 out of bottles into buckets and carefully stirring the ensuing
3808 mixture; others were at work with glass tubes and jars, blowing
3809 and measuring and mixing; others were crouched over long benches
3810 with tools and heaps of bits and pieces of metal, cutting and
3811 bending and constructing. There was a great deal of noise and
3812 chatter. Every now and then one of them would give a whoop of
3813 excitement and all the others would gather round and jump up and
3814 down cheering and applauding.
3816 "Chimps," said Henry. "They're awfully clever."
3818 =head2 v5.15.6 - Ursula K. Leguin, "A Wizard of Earthsea"
3820 L<Announced on 2011-12-20 by Dave Rolsky|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/12/msg180962.html>
3822 Ged had thought that as the prentice of a great mage he would enter at once
3823 into the mystery and mastery of power. He would understand the language of the
3824 beasts and the speech of the leaves of the forest, he thought, and sway the
3825 winds with his word, and learn to change himself into any shape he
3826 wished. Maybe he and his master would run together as stags, or fly to Re Albi
3827 over the mountain on the wings of eagles.
3829 But it was not so at all. They wandered, first down into the Vale and then
3830 gradually south and westward around the mountain, given lodging in little
3831 villages or spending the night out in the wilderness, like poor
3832 journeyman-sorcerers, or tinkers, or beggars. They entered no mysterious
3833 domain. Nothing happened. The mage's oaken staff that Ged had watched at first
3834 with eager dread was nothing but a stout staff to walk with. Three days went
3835 by and four days went by and still Ogion had not spoken a single charm in
3836 Ged's hearing, and had not taught him a single name or rune or spell.
3838 =head2 v5.15.5 - Nikolai Gogol, trans. Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, "The Diary of a Madman"
3840 L<Announced on 2011-11-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/11/msg179588.html>
3842 This day - is a day of the greatest solemnity! Spain has a king. He has
3843 been found. I am that king. Only this very day did I learn of it. I
3844 confess, it came to me suddenly in a flash of lightning. I don't understand
3845 how I could have thought and imagined that I was a titular councillor. How
3846 could such a wild notion enter my head? It's a good thing no one thought of
3847 putting me in an insane asylum. Now everything is laid open before me. Now
3848 I see everything as on the palm of my hand. And before, I don't understand,
3849 before everything around me was in some sort of fog. And all this happens, I
3850 think, because people imagine that the human brain is in the head. Not at
3851 all: it is brought by a wind from the direction of the Caspian Sea. First
3852 off, I announced to Mavra who I am. When she heard that the king of Spain
3853 was standing before her, she clasped her hands and nearly died of fright.
3854 The stupid woman had never seen a king of Spain before. However, I
3855 endeavoured to calm her down and assured her in gracious words of my
3856 benevolence and that I was not at all angry that she sometimes polished my
3857 boots poorly. They're benighted folk. It's impossible to tell them about
3858 lofty matters. She got frightened because she's convinced that all kings of
3859 Spain are like Philip II. But I explained to her that there was no
3860 resemblance between me and Philip II, and that I didn't have a single
3861 Capuchin . . . I didn't go to the office . . . To hell with it! No friends,
3862 you won't lure me there now; I'm not going to copy your vile papers!
3864 =head2 v5.15.4 - Steve Jobs
3866 L<Announced on 2011-10-20 by Florian Ragwitz|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/10/msg178412.html>
3868 A lot of people in our industry haven't had very diverse experiences. So they
3869 don't have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions
3870 without a broad perspective on the problem. The broader one's understanding of
3871 the human experience, the better design we will have.
3873 =head2 v5.15.3 - Oscar Wilde, From the preface to "The Picture of Dorian Gray"
3875 L<Announced on 2011-09-20 by Stevan Little|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/09/msg177427.html>
3877 All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath
3878 the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol
3879 do so at their peril.
3881 It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.
3882 Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the
3883 work is new, complex, and vital. When critics disagree, the
3884 artist is in accord with himself.
3886 We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as
3887 he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless
3888 thing is that one admires it intensely.
3890 All art is quite useless.
3892 =head2 v5.15.2 - Rainer Maria Rilke, trans., C. F. MacIntyre, "Duino", The First Elegy
3894 L<Announced on 2011-08-20 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/08/msg176067.html>
3896 True, it is strange to live no more on earth,
3897 no longer follow the folkways scarecely learned;
3898 not to give roses and other especially auspicious
3899 things the significance of a human future;
3900 to be no more what one was in infinitely anxious hands,
3901 and to put aside even one's name, like a broken plaything.
3902 Strange, to wish wishes no longer. Strange, to see
3903 all that was related fluttering so loosely in space.
3904 And being dead is hard, full of catching-up,
3905 so that finally one feels a little eternity.–
3906 But the living all make the mistake of too sharp discrimination.
3907 Often angels (it's said) don't know if they move
3908 among the quick or the dead. The eternal current
3909 hurtles all ages along with it forever
3910 through both realms and drowns their voices in both.
3912 =head2 v5.15.1 - Greg Egan, "Permutation City"
3914 L<Announced on 2011-07-20 by Zefram|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/07/msg175014.html>
3916 Carter held out a hand towards the middle of the room. `See that
3917 fountain?' A ten-metre-wide marble wedding cake, topped with a
3918 winged cherub wrestling a serpent, duly appeared. Water cascaded
3919 down from a gushing wound in the cherub's neck. Carter said, `It's
3920 being computed by redundancies in the sketch of the city. I can
3921 extract the results, because I know exactly where to look for them --
3922 but nobody else would have a hope in hell of picking them out.'
3924 Peer walked up to the fountain. Even as he approached, he noticed
3925 that the spray was intangible; when he dipped his hand in the water
3926 around the base he felt nothing, and the motion he made with his
3927 fingers left the foaming surface unchanged. They were spying on
3928 the calculations, not interacting with them; the fountain was a
3931 Carter said, `In your case, of course, nobody will need to know
3932 the results. Except you -- and you'll know them because you'll
3935 =head2 v5.15.0 - Neil Gaiman, "The Graveyard Book"
3937 L<Announced on 2011-06-20 by David Golden|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/06/msg173748.html>
3939 If you dare nothing, then when the day is over, nothing is all you will have gained.
3941 =head2 v5.14.4 - Arthur C. Clarke, "The Nine Billion Names of God"
3943 L<Announced on 2013-03-11 by Dave Mitchell|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/03/msg199988.html>
3945 He began to sing, but gave it up after a while. This vast arena of
3946 mountains, gleaming like whitely hooded ghosts on every side, did not
3947 encourage such ebullience. Presently George glanced at his watch.
3949 'Should be there in an hour,' he called back over his shoulder to
3950 Chuck. Then he added, in an afterthought: 'Wonder if the computer's
3951 finished its run. It was due about now.'
3953 Chuck didn't reply, so George swung round in his saddle. He could just
3954 see Chuck's face, a white oval turned towards the sky.
3956 'Look,' whispered Chuck, and George lifted his eyes to heaven. (There
3957 is always a last time for everything.)
3959 Overhead, without any fuss, the stars were going out.
3961 =head2 v5.14.3 - William Shakespeare, "As You Like It"
3963 L<Announced on 2012-10-12 by Dominic Hargreaves|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/10/msg194057.html>
3965 The poor world is almost six thousand years old, and in all
3966 this time there was not any man died in his own person,
3967 videlicit, in a love-cause. Troilus had his brains dashed
3968 out with a Grecian club; yet he did what he could to die
3969 before, and he is one of the patterns of love. Leander, he
3970 would have lived many a fair year, though Hero had turned
3971 nun, if it had not been for a hot midsummer night; for, good
3972 youth, he went but forth to wash him in the Hellespont and
3973 being taken with the cramp was drowned and the foolish
3974 coroners of that age found it was 'Hero of Sestos.' But these
3975 are all lies: men have died from time to time and worms have
3976 eaten them, but not for love.
3978 =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 >>
3980 L<Announced on 2011-09-26 by Florian Ragwitz|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/09/msg177618.html>
3982 It's not so much that people don't value the programs after they have them--they
3983 do value them. But they're not the sort of thing that would ever catch on if
3984 they had to overcome the marketing barrier. (I don't yet know if perl will
3985 catch on at all--I'm worried enough about it that I specifically included an
3986 awk-to-perl translator just to help it catch on.) Maybe it's all just an
3987 inferiority complex. Or maybe I don't like to be mercenary.
3989 So I guess I'd say that the reason some software comes free is that the
3990 mechanism for selling it is missing, either from the work environment, or from
3991 the heart of the programmer.
3993 =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 >>
3995 L<Announced on 2011-06-16 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/06/msg173650.html>
3997 At this point I'm no longer working for a company that makes me sign
3998 my life away, but by now I'm in the habit. Besides, I still harbor
3999 the deep-down suspicion that nobody would pay money for what I write,
4000 since most of it just helps you do something better that you could
4001 already do some other way. How much money would you personally pay
4002 to upgrade from readnews to rn? How much money would you pay for
4003 the patch program? As for warp, it's a mere game. And anything you
4004 can do with perl you can eventually do with an amazing and totally
4005 unreadable conglomeration of awk, sed, sh and C.
4007 =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 >>
4009 L<Announced on 2011-05-14 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/05/msg172326.html>
4011 At the start of any project, I'm programming primarily to please
4012 myself. (The two chief virtues in a programmer are laziness and
4013 impatience.) After a while somebody looks over my shoulder and says,
4014 "That's neat. It'd be neater if it did such-and-so." So the thing
4015 gets neater. Pretty soon (a year or two) I have an rn, a warp, a patch,
4016 or a perl. One of these years I'll have a metaconfig.
4018 I then say to myself, "I don't want my life's work to die when this
4019 computer is scrapped, so I should let some other people use this. If I
4020 ask my company to sell this, it'll never see the light of day, and nobody
4021 would pay much for it anyway. If I sell it myself, I'll be in trouble with
4022 my company, to whom I signed my life away when I was hired. If I give it
4023 away, I can pretend it was worthless in the first place, so my company
4024 won't care. In any event, it's easier to ask forgiveness than permission."
4026 So a freely distributable program is born.
4028 =head2 v5.14.0-RC3 - American Airlines Gate Agent, last call
4030 L<Announced on 2011-05-11 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/05/msg172282.html>
4032 This is the last call for flight 1697 with service to Chicago and
4033 continuing service to San Francisco. All passengers should already be
4034 aboard. If you aren't aboard at this time, you will be denied boarding
4035 and your bags will be offloaded.
4037 =head2 v5.14.0-RC2 - Greg Grandin, "Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City"
4039 L<Announced on 2011-05-04 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/05/msg171879.html>
4041 Over the course of nearly two decades, Ford would spend tens of millions
4042 of dollars founding not one but, after the plantation was defastated
4043 by leaf blight, two American towns, complete with central squares,
4044 sidewalks, indoor plumbing, hospitals, manicured lawns, movie theaters,
4045 swimming pools, golf courses, and, of course, Model Ts and As rolling
4046 down their paved streets.
4048 Back in America, newspapers kept up their drumbeat celebration, only
4049 obliquely referencing reports that things were not progressing as the
4050 company had hoped. But there was one note of skepticism. In late 1928,
4051 the Washington Post ran an editorial that read in its entirety: "Ford will
4052 govern a rubber plantation in Brazil larger than North Carolina. This is
4053 the first time he has applied quantity production methods to trouble"
4055 =head2 v5.14.0-RC1 - Bill Bryson, "In a Sunburned Country"
4057 L<Announced on 2011-04-20 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/04/msg171253.html>
4059 But then Australia is such a difficult country to keep track of. On
4060 my first visit, some years ago, I passed the time on the long flight
4061 reading a history of Australian politics in the twentieth century,
4062 wherein I encountered the startling fact that in 1967 the prime minister,
4063 Harold Holt, was strolling along a beach in Victoria when he plunged into
4064 the surf and vanished. No trace of the poor man was ever seen again.
4065 This seemed doubly astounding to me—first that Australia could
4066 just I<lose> a prime minister (I mean, come on) and second that news of
4067 this had never reached me.
4069 =head2 v5.13.11 - Walt Whitman, L<"Leaves of Grass"|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leaves_of_Grass>
4071 L<Announced on 2011-03-20 by Florian Ragwitz|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/03/msg170206.html>
4073 When the full-grown poet came,
4074 Out spake pleased Nature (the round impassive globe, with all its
4075 shows of day and night,) saying, He is mine;
4076 But out spake too the Soul of man, proud, jealous and unreconciled,
4077 Nay he is mine alone;
4078 --Then the full-grown poet stood between the two, and took each
4080 And to-day and ever so stands, as blender, uniter, tightly
4082 Which he will never release until he reconciles the two,
4083 And wholly and joyously blends them.
4085 =head2 v5.13.10 - Egill Skalla-Grímsson, L<"Egils saga Skalla-Grímssonar"|http://www.heimskringla.no/wiki/Egils_saga_Skalla-Gr%C3%ADmssonar>
4087 L<Announced on 2011-02-20 by Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/02/msg169340.html>
4089 Skalat maðr rúnar rísta,
4090 nema ráða vel kunni.
4091 Þat verðr mörgum manni,
4092 es of myrkvan staf villisk.
4094 tíu launstafi ristna.
4095 Þat hefr lauka lindi
4096 langs ofrtrega fengit.
4098 =head2 v5.13.9 - John F Kennedy, L<Inaugural Address January 20, 1961|http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/John_F._Kennedy%27s_Inaugural_Address>
4100 L<Announced on 2011-01-20 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/01/msg168335.html>
4102 In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been
4103 granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I
4104 do not shrink from this responsibility -- I welcome it. I do not believe
4105 that any of us would exchange places with any other people or any other
4106 generation. The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this
4107 endeavor will light our country and all who serve it. And the glow from
4108 that fire can truly light the world.
4110 And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you;
4111 ask what you can do for your country.
4113 My fellow citizens of the world, ask not what America will do for you,
4114 but what together we can do for the freedom of man.
4116 Finally, whether you are citizens of America or citizens of the world,
4117 ask of us here the same high standards of strength and sacrifice which
4118 we ask of you. With a good conscience our only sure reward, with history
4119 the final judge of our deeds, let us go forth to lead the land we love,
4120 asking His blessing and His help, but knowing that here on earth God's
4121 work must truly be our own.
4123 =head2 v5.13.8 - Roger Williams, L<"The Fifth Gift"|http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2005/8/19/21304/8493>
4125 L<Announced on 2010-12-19 by Zefram|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/12/msg167271.html>
4127 The aliens called the box a "matter generator," but we'd be more inclined
4128 to call it a matter duplicator. By connecting switches and potentiometers
4129 between the copper posts it was possible to make the box mark off two
4130 cubic rectangular areas of volume. Make a certain contact, and these
4131 areas would be isolated within perfectly reflective fields. They could
4132 be expanded or contracted by altering resistances between other posts.
4133 As I worked out the user interface I built a little control panel for
4134 the device. It was actually a clever way for the aliens to do things;
4135 instead of trying to build controls we could use, they built us an
4136 interface we could attach to controls that made sense to us. It could
4139 Once you had made the contact that established the shielded volumes,
4140 if you made another certain contact the contents of the first volume
4141 were copied to the second. The machine copied metal, plastic, steel,
4142 and diamond with equal ease. Copies of copies of copies of copies were
4143 indistinguishable from the originals at any magnification, even using
4144 techniques like X-ray crystallography.
4146 =head2 v5.13.7 - Andy Wachowski and Lana Wachowski, "The Matrix"
4148 L<Announced on 2010-11-20 by Chris 'BinGOs' Williams|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/11/msg166162.html>
4150 [Neo sees a black cat walk by them, and then a similar black cat walk by them just like the first one]
4154 [Everyone freezes right in their tracks]
4156 Trinity: What did you just say?
4157 Neo: Nothing. Just had a little deja vu.
4158 Trinity: What did you see?
4159 Cypher: What happened?
4160 Neo: A black cat went past us, and then another that looked just
4162 Trinity: How much like it? Was it the same cat?
4163 Neo: It might have been. I'm not sure.
4164 Morpheus: Switch! Apoc!
4166 Trinity: A deja vu is usually a glitch in the Matrix. It happens when
4167 they change something.
4169 =head2 v5.13.6 - Haruki Murakami, "Kafka on the Shore"
4171 L<Announced on 2010-10-20 by Tatsuhiko Miyagawa|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/10/msg165183.html>
4173 The boy called Crow softly rests a hand on my shoulder, and with that
4176 "From now on -- no matter what -- you've got to be the world's toughest
4177 fifteen-year-old. That's the only way you're going to survive. And in order
4178 to do that, you've got to figure out what it means to be tough. You following
4181 I keep my eyes closed and don't reply. I just want to sink off into sleep
4182 like this, his hand on my shoulder. I hear the faint flutter of wings.
4184 "You're going to be the world's toughest fifteen-year-old," Crow whispers
4185 as I try to fall asleep. Like he was carving the words in a deep blue tattoo
4188 (Translated from Japanese by Philip Gabriel)
4190 =head2 v5.13.5 - Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, "The Room in the Dragon Volant"
4192 L<Announced on 2010-09-19 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/09/msg164238.html>
4194 Candle in hand I stepped in. I do not know whether the quality of
4195 air, long undisturbed, is peculiar; to me it has always seemed so, and
4196 the damp smell of the old masonry hung in this atmosphere. My candle
4197 faintly lighted the bare stone wall that enclosed the stair, the foot
4198 of which I could not see. Down I went, and a few turns brought me to
4199 the stone floor. Here was another door, of the simple, old, oak kind,
4200 deep sunk in the thickness of the wall. The large end of the key
4201 fitted this. The lock was stiff; I set the candle down upon the
4202 stair, and applied both hands; it turned with difficulty, and as it
4203 revolved, uttered a shriek that alarmed me for my secret.
4205 For some minutes I did not move. In a little time, however, I took
4206 courage, and opened the door. The night-air floating in puffed out
4207 the candle. There was a thicket of holly and underwood, as dense as a
4208 jungle, close about the door. I should have been in pitch-darkness,
4209 were it not that through the topmost leaves there twinkled, here and
4210 there, a glimmer of moonshine.
4212 Softly, lest any one should have opened his window at the sound of the
4213 rusty bolt, I struggled through this till I gained a view of the open
4214 grounds. Here I found that the brushwood spread a good way up the
4215 park, uniting with the wood that approached the little temple I have
4218 =head2 v5.13.4 - Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
4220 L<Announced on 2010-08-20 by Florian Ragwitz|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/08/msg163150.html>
4222 `How the creatures order one about, and make one repeat lessons!' thought Alice;
4223 `I might as well be at school at once.' However, she got up, and began to repeat
4224 it, but her head was so full of the Lobster Quadrille, that she hardly knew what
4225 she was saying, and the words came very queer indeed:--
4227 "'Tis the voice of the Lobster; I heard him declare,
4228 "You have baked me too brown, I must sugar my hair."
4229 As a duck with its eyelids, so he with his nose
4230 Trims his belt and his buttons, and turns out his toes.'
4233 `That's different from what I used to say when I was a child,' said the Gryphon.
4235 `Well, I never heard it before,' said the Mock Turtle; `but it sounds uncommon
4238 Alice said nothing; she had sat down with her face in her hands, wondering if
4239 anything would ever happen in a natural way again.
4241 `I should like to have it explained,' said the Mock Turtle.
4243 `She can't explain it,' said the Gryphon hastily. `Go on with the next verse.'
4245 `But about his toes?' the Mock Turtle persisted. `How could he turn them out
4246 with his nose, you know?'
4248 `It's the first position in dancing.' Alice said; but was dreadfully puzzled by
4249 the whole thing, and longed to change the subject.
4251 =head2 v5.13.3 - Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, "Good Omens"
4253 L<Announced on 2010-07-20 by David Golden|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/07/msg162230.html>
4255 Look at Crowley, doing 110 mph on the M40 heading towards
4256 Oxfordshire. Even the most resolutely casual observer would
4257 notice a number of strange things about him. The clenched teeth,
4258 for example, or the dull red glow coming from behind his
4259 sunglasses. And the car. The car was a definite hint.
4261 Crowley had started the journey in his Bentley, and he was
4262 dammned if he wasn't going to finish it in the Bentley as well.
4263 Not that even the kind of car buff who owns his own pair of
4264 motoring goggles would have been able to tell it was a vintage
4265 Bentley. Not any more. They wouldn't have been able to tell
4266 that it was a Bentley. They would only offer fifty-fifty that it
4267 had ever even been a car.
4269 There was no paint left on it, for a start. It might still have
4270 been black, where it wasn't a rusty, smudged reddish-brown, but
4271 this was a dull charcoal black. It traveled in its own ball of
4272 flame, like a space capsule making a particularly difficult
4275 There was a thin skin of crusted, melted rubber left around the
4276 metal wheel rims, but seeing that the wheel rims were still
4277 somhow riding an inch above the road surface this didn't seem to
4278 make an awful lot of difference to the suspension.
4280 It should have fallen apart miles back.
4282 =head2 v5.13.2 - Iain M Banks, "Use of Weapons"
4284 L<Announced on 2010-06-22 by Matt S Trout|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/06/msg161112.html>
4286 We deal in the moral equivalent of black holes, where the normal laws -
4287 the rules of right and wrong that people imagine apply everywhere else
4288 in the universe - break down; beyond those metaphysical event-horizons,
4289 there exist ... special circumstances.
4291 =head2 v5.13.1 - Miguel de Unamuno, "The Sepulchre of Don Quixote"
4293 L<Announced on 2010-05-20 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/05/msg160275.html>
4295 And if anyone shall come to you and say that he knows how to construct
4296 bridges and that perhaps a time will come when you will wish to avail
4297 yourself of his science in order to cross over a river, out with him! Out
4298 with the engineer! Rivers will be crossed by wading or swimming them, even
4299 if half the crusaders drown themselves. Let the engineer go off and build
4300 bridges somewhere else, where they are badly wanted. For those who go in
4301 quest of the sepulchre, faith is bridge enough.
4303 =head2 v5.13.0 - Jules Verne, "A Journey to the Centre of the Earth"
4305 L<Announced on 2010-04-20 by LE<0xe9>on Brocard|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/04/msg159275.html>
4307 The heat still remained at quite a supportable degree. With an
4308 involuntary shudder, I reflected on what the heat must have been
4309 when the volcano of Sneffels was pouring its smoke, flames, and
4310 streams of boiling lava -- all of which must have come up by the
4311 road we were now following. I could imagine the torrents of hot
4312 seething stone darting on, bubbling up with accompaniments of
4313 smoke, steam, and sulphurous stench!
4315 "Only to think of the consequences," I mused, "if the old
4316 volcano were once more to set to work."
4318 =head2 v5.12.5 - William Shakespeare, "Measure for Measure"
4320 L<Announced on 2012-11-10 by Dominic Hargreaves|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/11/msg195171.html>
4322 Music oft hath such a charm
4323 To make bad good, and good provoke to harm.
4325 =head2 v5.12.4 - William Schwenck Gilbert, "Trial By Jury"
4327 L<Announced on 2011-06-20 by Leon Brocard|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/06/msg173725.html>
4329 You cannot eat breakfast all day,
4330 Nor is it the act of a sinner,
4331 When breakfast is taken away,
4332 To turn his attention to dinner;
4333 And it's not in the range of belief,
4334 To look upon him as a glutton,
4335 Who, when he is tired of beef,
4336 Determines to tackle the mutton.
4337 Ah! But this I am willing to say,
4338 If it will appease her sorrow,
4339 I'll marry this lady today,
4340 And I'll marry the other tomorrow!
4342 =head2 v5.12.4-RC2 - James Russell Lowell, "Eleanor makes macaroons"
4344 L<Announced on 2011-06-15 by Leon Brocard|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/06/msg173609.html>
4346 Now for sugar, -- nay, our plan
4347 Tolerates no work of man.
4348 Hurry, then, ye golden bees;
4349 Fetch your clearest honey, please,
4350 Garnered on a Yorkshire moor,
4351 While the last larks sing and soar,
4352 From the heather-blossoms sweet
4353 Where sea-breeze and sunshine meet,
4354 And the Augusts mask as Junes, --
4355 Eleanor makes macaroons!
4357 =head2 v5.12.4-RC1 - Ogden Nash, "The Clean Plater"
4359 L<Announced on 2011-06-08 by Leon Brocard|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/06/msg173352.html>
4361 Pheasant is pleasant, of course,
4362 And terrapin, too, is tasty,
4363 Lobster I freely endorse,
4364 In pate or patty or pasty.
4365 But there's nothing the matter with butter,
4366 And nothing the matter with jam,
4367 And the warmest greetings I utter
4368 To the ham and the yam and the clam.
4371 And I think very fondly of food.
4372 Through I'm broody at times
4373 When bothered by rhymes,
4377 =head2 v5.12.3 - Howard W. Campbell, Jr., "Reflections on Not Participating in Current Events"
4379 L<Announced on 2011-01-21 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/01/msg168368.html>
4381 I saw a huge steam roller,
4382 It blotted out the sun.
4383 The people all lay down, lay down;
4384 They did not try to run.
4385 My love and I, we looked amazed
4386 Upon the gory mystery.
4387 'Lie down, lie down!' the people cried.
4388 'The great machine is history!'
4389 My love and I, we ran away,
4390 The engine did not find us.
4391 We ran up to a mountain top,
4392 Left history far behind us.
4393 Perhaps we should have stayed and died,
4394 But somehow we don't think so.
4395 We went to see where history'd been,
4396 And my, the dead did stink so.
4398 =head2 v5.12.2 - William Gibson, "Pattern Recognition"
4400 L<Announced on 2010-09-06 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/09/msg163852.html>
4402 CPUs. Cayce Pollard Units. That's what Damien calls the clothing
4403 she wears. CPUs are either black, white, or gray, and ideally
4404 seem to have come into this world without human intervention.
4406 What people take for relentless minimalism is a side effect
4407 of too much exposure to the reactor-cores of fashion. This
4408 has resulted in a remorseless paring-down of what she can and
4409 will wear. She is, literally, allergic to fashion. She can
4410 only tolerate things that could have been worn, to a general
4411 lack of comment, during any year between 1945 and 2000. She's a
4412 design-free zone, a one-woman school of and whose very austerity
4413 periodically threatens to spawn its own cult.
4415 =head2 v5.12.2-RC1 - William Gibson, "Pattern Recognition"
4417 L<Announced on 2010-08-31 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/08/msg163670.html>
4419 The front page opens, familiar as a friend's living room. A frame-grab
4420 from #48 serves as backdrop, dim and almost monochrome, no characters in
4421 view. This is one of the sequences that generate comparisons with
4422 Tarkovsky. She only knows Tarkovsky from stills, really, though she did
4423 once fall asleep during a screening of The Stalker, going under on an
4424 endless pan, the camera aimed straight down, in close-up, at a puddle on
4425 a ruined mosaic floor. But she is not one of those who think that much
4426 will be gained by analysis of the maker's imagined influences. The cult
4427 of the footage is rife with subcults, claiming every possible influence.
4428 Truffaut, Peckinpah -- The Peckinpah people, among the least likely, are
4429 still waiting for the guns to be drawn.
4431 =head2 v5.12.1 - Kurt Vonnegut, "Cat's Cradle"
4433 L<Announced on 2010-05-16 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/05/msg160109.html>
4435 "Now suppose," chortled Dr. Breed, enjoying himself, "that there were
4436 many possible ways in which water could crystallize, could freeze.
4437 Suppose that the sort of ice we skate upon and put into highballs --
4438 what we might call ice-one -- is only one of several types of ice.
4439 Suppose water always froze as ice-one on Earth because it had never
4440 had a seed to teach it how to form ice-two, ice-three, ice-four
4441 ...? And suppose," he rapped on his desk with his old hand again,
4442 "that there were one form, which we will call ice-nine -- a crystal as
4443 hard as this desk -- with a melting point of, let us say, one-hundred
4444 degrees Fahrenheit, or, better still, a melting point of one-hundred-
4445 and-thirty degrees."
4447 =head2 v5.12.1-RC2 - Kurt Vonnegut, "Cat's Cradle"
4449 L<Announced on 2010-05-13 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/05/msg160066.html>
4451 San Lorenzo was fifty miles long and twenty miles wide, I learned from
4452 the supplement to the New York Sunday Times. Its population was four
4453 hundred, fifty thousand souls, "...all fiercely dedicated to the ideals
4456 Its highest point, Mount McCabe, was eleven thousand feet above sea
4457 level. Its capital was Bolivar, "...a strikingly modern city built on a
4458 harbor capable of sheltering the entire United States Navy." The principal
4459 exports were sugar, coffee, bananas, indigo, and handcrafted novelties.
4461 =head2 v5.12.1-RC1 - Kurt Vonnegut, "Cat's Cradle"
4463 L<Announced on 2010-05-09 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/05/msg159971.html>
4465 Which brings me to the Bokononist concept of a wampeter. A wampeter is
4466 the pivot of a karass. No karass is without a wampeter, Bokonon tells us,
4467 just as no wheel is without a hub. Anything can be a wampeter: a tree,
4468 a rock, an animal, an idea, a book, a melody, the Holy Grail. Whatever
4469 it is, the members of its karass revolve about it in the majestic chaos
4470 of a spiral nebula. The orbits of the members of a karass about their
4471 common wampeter are spiritual orbits, naturally. It is souls and not
4472 bodies that revolve. As Bokonon invites us to sing:
4474 Around and around and around we spin,
4475 With feet of lead and wings of tin . . .
4477 =head2 v5.12.0 - Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
4479 L<Announced on 2010-04-12 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/04/msg158820.html>
4481 'Please would you tell me,' said Alice, a little timidly, for she was
4482 not quite sure whether it was good manners for her to speak first, 'why
4483 your cat grins like that?'
4485 'It's a Cheshire cat,' said the Duchess, 'and that's why. Pig!'
4487 She said the last word with such sudden violence that Alice quite
4488 jumped; but she saw in another moment that it was addressed to the baby,
4489 and not to her, so she took courage, and went on again:--
4491 'I didn't know that Cheshire cats always grinned; in fact, I didn't know
4492 that cats COULD grin.'
4494 'They all can,' said the Duchess; 'and most of 'em do.'
4496 =head2 v5.12.0-RC5 - Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
4498 L<Announced on 2010-04-09 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/04/msg158720.html>
4500 'Not QUITE right, I'm afraid,' said Alice, timidly; 'some of the words
4503 'It is wrong from beginning to end,' said the Caterpillar decidedly, and
4504 there was silence for some minutes.
4506 =head2 v5.12.0-RC4 - Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
4508 L<Announced on 2010-04-06 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/04/msg158567.html>
4510 'It was much pleasanter at home,' thought poor Alice, 'when one wasn't
4511 always growing larger and smaller, and being ordered about by mice and
4512 rabbits. I almost wish I hadn't gone down that rabbit-hole--and yet--and
4513 yet--it's rather curious, you know, this sort of life! I do wonder what
4514 can have happened to me! When I used to read fairy-tales, I fancied that
4515 kind of thing never happened, and now here I am in the middle of one!
4517 =head2 v5.12.0-RC3 - Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
4519 L<Announced on 2010-04-02 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/04/msg158346.html>
4521 At last the Mouse, who seemed to be a person of authority among them,
4522 called out, 'Sit down, all of you, and listen to me! I'LL soon make you
4523 dry enough!' They all sat down at once, in a large ring, with the Mouse
4524 in the middle. Alice kept her eyes anxiously fixed on it, for she felt
4525 sure she would catch a bad cold if she did not get dry very soon.
4527 'Ahem!' said the Mouse with an important air, 'are you all ready? This
4528 is the driest thing I know. Silence all round, if you please! "William
4529 the Conqueror, whose cause was favoured by the pope, was soon submitted
4530 to by the English, who wanted leaders, and had been of late much
4531 accustomed to usurpation and conquest. Edwin and Morcar, the earls of
4532 Mercia and Northumbria --"'
4534 =head2 v5.12.0-RC2 - no announcement
4536 Available on CPAN since 2010-04-01.
4538 =head2 v5.12.0-RC1 - Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
4540 L<Announced on 2010-03-29 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/03/msg158060.html>
4542 So she was considering in her own mind (as well as she could, for the
4543 hot day made her feel very sleepy and stupid), whether the pleasure of
4544 making a daisy-chain would be worth the trouble of getting up and
4545 picking the daisies, when suddenly a White Rabbit with pink eyes ran
4548 There was nothing so VERY remarkable in that; nor did Alice think it so
4549 VERY much out of the way to hear the Rabbit say to itself, 'Oh dear! Oh
4550 dear! I shall be late!' (when she thought it over afterwards, it
4551 occurred to her that she ought to have wondered at this, but at the time
4552 it all seemed quite natural); but when the Rabbit actually TOOK A WATCH
4553 OUT OF ITS WAISTCOAT-POCKET, and looked at it, and then hurried on,
4554 Alice started to her feet, for it flashed across her mind that she had
4555 never before seen a rabbit with either a waistcoat-pocket, or a watch to
4556 take out of it, and burning with curiosity, she ran across the field
4557 after it, and fortunately was just in time to see it pop down a large
4558 rabbit-hole under the hedge.
4560 In another moment down went Alice after it, never once considering how
4561 in the world she was to get out again.
4563 =head2 v5.12.0-RC0 - no epigraph
4565 L<Announced on 2020-03-21 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/03/msg157761.html>
4567 =head2 v5.11.5 - Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "Christabel"
4569 L<Announced on 2010-02-21 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/02/msg156957.html>
4571 A little child, a limber elf,
4572 Singing, dancing to itself,
4573 A fairy thing with red round cheeks,
4574 That always finds, and never seeks,
4575 Makes such a vision to the sight
4576 As fills a father's eyes with light;
4577 And pleasures flow in so thick and fast
4578 Upon his heart, that he at last
4579 Must needs express his love's excess
4580 With words of unmeant bitterness.
4581 Perhaps 'tis pretty to force together
4582 Thoughts so all unlike each other;
4583 To mutter and mock a broken charm,
4584 To dally with wrong that does no harm.
4585 Perhaps 'tis tender too and pretty
4586 At each wild word to feel within
4587 A sweet recoil of love and pity.
4588 And what, if in a world of sin
4589 (O sorrow and shame should this be true!)
4590 Such giddiness of heart and brain
4591 Comes seldom save from rage and pain,
4592 So talks as it's most used to do.
4594 =head2 v5.11.4 - Fyodor Dostoevsky, "Crime and Punishment"
4596 L<Announced on 2010-01-20 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/01/msg155848.html>
4598 And you don't suppose that I went into it headlong like a fool? I went
4599 into it like a wise man, and that was just my destruction. And you
4600 mustn't suppose that I didn't know, for instance, that if I began to
4601 question myself whether I had the right to gain power -- I certainly
4602 hadn't the right -- or that if I asked myself whether a human being is a
4603 louse it proved that it wasn't so for me, though it might be for a man
4604 who would go straight to his goal without asking questions.... If I
4605 worried myself all those days, wondering whether Napoleon would have
4606 done it or not, I felt clearly of course that I wasn't Napoleon.
4608 =head2 v5.11.3 - Mark Twain, "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer"
4610 L<Announced on 2009-12-20 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2009/12/msg154838.html>
4612 "Say -- I'm going in a swimming, I am. Don't you wish you could? But of
4613 course you'd druther work -- wouldn't you? Course you would!"
4615 Tom contemplated the boy a bit, and said: "What do you call work?"
4617 "Why ain't that work?"
4619 Tom resumed his whitewashing, and answered carelessly: "Well, maybe it
4620 is, and maybe it aint. All I know, is, it suits Tom Sawyer."
4622 "Oh come, now, you don't mean to let on that you like it?"
4624 The brush continued to move. "Like it? Well I don't see why I oughtn't
4625 to like it. Does a boy get a chance to whitewash a fence every day?"
4627 That put the thing in a new light. Ben stopped nibbling his apple. Tom
4628 swept his brush daintily back and forth -- stepped back to note the effect
4629 -- added a touch here and there-criticised the effect again -- Ben
4630 watching every move and getting more and more interested, more and more
4631 absorbed. Presently he said: "Say, Tom, let me whitewash a little."
4633 =head2 v5.11.2 - Michael Marshall Smith, "Only Forward"
4635 L<Announced on 2009-11-20 by Léon Brocard|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2009/11/msg153646.html>
4637 The streets were pretty quiet, which was nice. They're always quiet here
4638 at that time: you have to be wearing a black jacket to be out on the
4639 streets between seven and nine in the evening, and not many people in
4640 the area have black jackets. It's just one of those things. I currently
4641 live in Colour Neighbourhood, which is for people who are heavily into
4642 colour. All the streets and buildings are set for instant colourmatch:
4643 as you walk down the road they change hue to offset whatever you're
4644 wearing. When the streets are busy it's kind of intense, and anyone
4645 prone to epileptic seizures isn't allowed to live in the Neighbourhood,
4646 however much they're into colour.
4648 =head2 v5.11.1 - Joseph Heller, "Catch-22"
4650 L<Announced on 2009-10-20 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2009/10/msg152360.html>
4652 Milo had been caught red-handed in the act of plundering his countrymen,
4653 and, as a result, his stock had never been higher. He proved good as his
4654 word when a rawboned major from Minnesota curled his lip in rebellious
4655 disavowal and demanded his share of the syndicate Milo kept saying
4656 everybody owned. Milo met the challenge by writing the words "A Share"
4657 on the nearest scrap of paper and handing it away with a virtuous disdain
4658 that won the envy and admiration of almost everyone who knew him. His
4659 glory was at a peak, and Colonel Cathcart, who knew and admired his
4660 war record, was astonished by the deferential humility with which Milo
4661 presented himself at Group Headquarters and made his fantastic appeal
4662 for more hazardous assignment.
4664 =head2 v5.11.0 - Mikhail Bulgakov, "The Master and Margarita"
4666 L<Announced on 2009-10-02 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2009/10/msg151376.html>
4668 Whispers of an "evil power" were heard in lines at dairy shops, in
4669 streetcars, stores, arguments, kitchens, suburban and long-distance
4670 trains, at stations large and small, in dachas and on beaches. Needless
4671 to say, truly mature and cultured people did not tell these stories
4672 about an evil power's visit to the capital. In fact, they even made fun
4673 of them and tried to talk sense into those who told them. Nevertheless,
4674 facts are facts, as they say, and cannot simply be dismissed without
4675 explanation: somebody had visited the capital. The charred cinders of
4676 Griboyedov alone, and many other things besides, confirmed it. Cultured
4677 people shared the point of view of the investigating team: it was the
4678 work of a gang of hypnotists and ventriloquists magnificently skilled in
4681 =head2 v5.10.1 - Right Hon. James Hacker MP, "The Complete Yes Minister: The Diaries of a Cabinet Minister"
4683 L<Announced on 2009-08-23 by Dave Mitchell|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2009/08/msg150172.html>
4685 'Briefly, sir, I am the Permanent Under-Secretary of State, known as
4686 the Permanent Secretary. Woolley here is your Principal Private
4687 Secretary. I, too, have a Principal Private Secretary, and he is the
4688 Principal Private Secretary to the Permanent Secretary. Directly
4689 responsible to me are ten Deputy Secretaries, eighty-seven Under
4690 Secretaries and two hundred and nineteen Assistant Secretaries.
4691 Directly responsible to the Principal Private Secretaries are plain
4692 Private Secretaries. The Prime Minister will be appointing two
4693 Parliamentary Under-Secretaries and you will be appointing your own
4694 Parliamentary Private Secretary.'
4696 'Can they all type?' I joked.
4698 'None of us can type, Minister,' replied Sir Humphrey smoothly. 'Mrs
4699 McKay types - she is your Secretary.'
4701 I couldn't tell whether or not he was joking. 'What a pity,' I said.
4702 'We could have opened an agency.'
4704 Sir Humphrey and Bernard laughed. 'Very droll, sir,' said Sir
4705 Humphrey. 'Most amusing, sir,' said Bernard. Were they genuinely
4706 amused at my wit, or just being rather patronising? 'I suppose they
4707 all say that, do they?' I ventured.
4709 Sir Humphrey reassured me on that. 'Certainly not, Minister,' he
4710 replied. 'Not quite all.'
4712 =head2 v5.10.1-RC2 - no epigraph
4714 L<Announced on 2009-08-18 by Dave Mitchell|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2009/08/msg150015.html>
4716 =head2 v5.10.1-RC1 - no epigraph
4718 L<Announced on 2009-08-06 by Dave Mitchell|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2009/08/msg149498.html>
4720 =head2 v5.10.0 - Laurence Sterne, "Tristram Shandy"
4722 L<Announced on 2007-12-18 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2007/12/msg131636.html>
4724 He would often declare, in speaking his thoughts upon the subject, that
4725 he did not conceive how the greatest family in England could stand it
4726 out against an uninterrupted succession of six or seven short
4727 noses.--And for the contrary reason, he would generally add, That it
4728 must be one of the greatest problems in civil life, where the same
4729 number of long and jolly noses, following one another in a direct line,
4730 did not raise and hoist it up into the best vacancies in the kingdom.
4732 =head2 v5.10.0-RC2 - no epigraph
4734 L<Announced on 2007-11-25 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2007/11/msg130978.html>
4736 =head2 v5.10.0-RC1 - no epigraph
4738 L<Announced on 2007-11-17 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2007/11/msg130653.html>
4740 =head2 v5.9.5 - no announcement
4742 L<Pre-announced on 2007-07-07 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2007/07/msg126358.html>,
4743 available on CPAN with same date, but never actually announced.
4745 =head2 v5.9.4 - no epigraph
4747 L<Announced on 2006-08-15 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2006/08/msg115782.html>
4749 =head2 v5.9.3 - no epigraph
4751 L<Announced on 2006-01-28 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2006/01/msg109086.html>
4753 =head2 v5.9.2 - Thomas Pynchon, "V"
4755 L<Announced on 2005-04-01 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2005/04/msg99421.html>
4757 This word flip was weird. Every recording date of McClintic's he'd
4758 gotten into the habit of talking electricity with the audio men and
4759 technicians of the studio. McClintic once couldn't have cared less
4760 about electricity, but now it seemed if that was helping him reach a
4761 bigger audience, some digging, some who would never dig, but all
4762 paying and those royalties keeping the Triumph in gas and McClintic
4763 in J. Press suits, then McClintic ought to be grateful to
4764 electricity, ought maybe to learn a little more about it. So he'd
4765 picked up some here and there, and one day last summer he got around
4766 to talking stochastic music and digital computers with one
4767 technician. Out of the conversation had come Set/Reset, which was
4768 getting to be a signature for the group. He had found out from this
4769 sound man about a two-triode circuit called a flip-flop, which when
4770 it turned on could be one of two ways, depending on which tube was
4771 conducting and which was cut off: set or reset, flip or flop.
4773 "And that," the man said, "can be yes or no, or one or zero. And
4774 that is what you might call one of the basic units, or specialized
4775 `cells' in a big `electronic brain.' "
4777 "Crazy," said McClintic, having lost him back there someplace. But
4778 one thing that did occur to him was if a computer's brain could go
4779 flip or flop, why so could a musician's. As long as you were flop,
4780 everything was cool. But where did the trigger-pulse come from to
4783 =head2 v5.9.1 - Tom Stoppard, "Arcadia"
4785 L<Announced on 2004-03-16 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/03/msg89722.html>
4787 Aren't you supposed to have a pony?
4789 =head2 v5.9.0 - Doris Lessing, "Martha Quest"
4791 L<Announced on 2003-10-27 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/10/msg84147.html>
4793 What of October, that ambiguous month
4795 =head2 v5.8.9 - Right Hon. James Hacker MP, "The Complete Yes Minister: The Diaries of a Cabinet Minister"
4797 L<Announced on 2008-12-14 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2008/12/msg142571.html>
4799 Frank and I, unlike the civil servants, were still puzzled that such a
4800 proposal as the Europass could even be seriously under consideration by
4801 the FCO. We can both see clearly that it is wonderful ammunition for the
4802 anti-Europeans. I asked Humphrey if the Foreign Office doesn't realise
4803 how damaging this would be to the European ideal?
4805 'I'm sure they do, Minister, he said. That's why they support it.'
4807 This was even more puzzling, since I'd always been under the impression
4808 that the FO is pro-Europe. 'Is it or isn't it?' I asked Humphrey.
4810 'Yes and no,' he replied of course, 'if you'll pardon the
4811 expression. The Foreign Office is pro-Europe because it is really
4812 anti-Europe. In fact the Civil Service was united in its desire to make
4813 sure the Common Market didn't work. That's why we went into it.'
4815 This sounded like a riddle to me. I asked him to explain further. And
4816 basically his argument was as follows: Britain has had the same foreign
4817 policy objective for at least the last five hundred years - to create a
4818 disunited Europe. In that cause we have fought with the Dutch against
4819 the Spanish, with the Germans against the French, with the French and
4820 Italians against the Germans, and with the French against the Italians
4821 and Germans. [The Dutch rebellion against Phillip II of Spain, the
4822 Napoleonic Wars, the First World War, and the Second World War - Ed.]
4824 In other words, divide and rule. And the Foreign Office can see no
4825 reason to change when it has worked so well until now.
4827 I was aware of this, naturally, but I regarded it as ancient history.
4828 Humphrey thinks that it is, in fact, current policy. It was necessary
4829 for us to break up the EEC, he explained, so we had to get inside. We
4830 had previously tried to break it up from the outside, but that didn't
4831 work. [A reference to our futile and short-lived involvement in EFTA,
4832 the European Free Trade Association, founded in 1960 and which the UK
4833 left in 1972 - Ed.] Now that we're in, we are able to make a complete
4834 pig's breakfast out of it. We've now set the Germans against the French,
4835 the French against the Italians, the Italians against the Dutch... and
4836 the Foreign office is terribly happy. It's just like old time.
4838 I was staggered by all of this. I thought that the all of us who are
4839 publicly pro-European believed in the European ideal. I said this to Sir
4840 Humphrey, and he simply chuckled.
4842 So I asked him: if we don't believe in the European Ideal, why are we
4843 pushing to increase the membership?
4845 'Same reason,' came the reply. 'It's just like the United Nations. The
4846 more members it has, the more arguments you can stir up, and the more
4847 futile and impotent it becomes.'
4849 This all strikes me as the most appalling cynicism, and I said so.
4851 Sir Humphrey agreed completely. 'Yes Minister. We call it
4852 diplomacy. It's what made Britain great, you know.'
4854 =head2 v5.8.9-RC2 - Right Hon. James Hacker MP, "The Complete Yes Minister: The Diaries of a Cabinet Minister"
4856 L<Announced on 2008-12-06 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2008/12/msg142422.html>
4858 There was silence in the office. I didn't know what we were going to do
4859 about the four hundred new people supervising our economy drive or the
4860 four hundred new people for the Bureaucratic Watchdog Office, or
4861 anything! I simply sat and waited and hoped that my head would stop
4862 thumping and that some idea would be suggested by someone sometime soon.
4864 Sir Humphrey obliged. 'Minister... if we were to end the economy drive
4865 and close the Bureaucratic Watchdog Office we could issue an immediate
4866 press announcement that you had axed eight hundred jobs.' He had
4867 obviously thought this out carefully in advance, for at this moment he
4868 produced a slim folder from under his arm. 'If you'd like to approve
4871 I couldn't believe the impertinence of the suggestion. Axed eight
4872 hundred jobs? 'But no one was ever doing these jobs,' I pointed out
4873 incredulously. 'No one's been appointed yet.'
4875 'Even greater economy,' he replied instantly. 'We've saved eight hundred
4876 redundancy payments as well.'
4878 'But...' I attempted to explain '... that's just phony. It's dishonest,
4879 it's juggling with figures, it's pulling the wool over people's eyes.'
4881 'A government press release, in fact.' said Humphrey.
4883 =head2 v5.8.9-RC1 - Right Hon. James Hacker MP, "The Complete Yes Minister: The Diaries of a Cabinet Minister"
4885 L<Announced on 2008-11-10 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2008/11/msg141515.html>
4887 A jumbo jet touched down, with BURANDAN AIRWAYS written on the side. I
4888 was hugely impressed. British Airways are having to pawn their Concordes,
4889 and here is this little tiny African state with its own airline, jumbo
4892 I asked Bernard how many planes Burandan Airways had. 'None,' he said.
4894 I told him not to be silly and use his eyes. 'No Minister, it belongs to
4895 Freddie Laker,' he said. 'They chartered it last week and repainted it
4896 specially.' Apparently most of the Have-Nots (I mean, LDCs) do this - at
4897 the opening of the UN General Assembly the runways of Kennedy Airport are
4898 jam-packed with phoney flag-carriers. 'In fact,' said Bernard with a sly
4899 grin, 'there was one 747 that belonged to nine different African airlines
4900 in a month. They called it the mumbo-jumbo.'
4902 While we watched nothing much happening on the TV except the mumbo-jumbo
4903 taxiing around Prestwick and the Queen looking a bit chilly, Bernard gave
4904 me the next day's schedule and explained that I was booked on the night
4905 sleeper from King's Cross to Edinburgh because I had to vote in a
4906 three-line whip at the House tonight and would have to miss the last
4907 plane. Then the commentator, in that special hushed BBC voice used for any
4908 occasion with which Royalty is connected, announced reverentially that we
4909 were about to catch our first glimpse of President Selim.
4911 And out of the plane stepped Charlie. My old friend Charlie Umtali. We
4912 were at LSE together. Not Selim Mohammed at all, but Charlie.
4914 Bernard asked me if I were sure. Silly question. How could you forget a
4915 name like Charlie Umtali?
4917 I sent Bernard for Sir Humphrey, who was delighted to hear that we now
4918 know something about our official visitor.
4920 Bernard's official brief said nothing. Amazing! Amazing how little the FCO
4921 has been able to find out. Perhaps they were hoping it would all be on the
4922 car radio. All the brief says is that Colonel Selim Mohammed had converted
4923 to Islam some years ago, they didn't know his original name, and therefore
4924 knew little of his background.
4926 I was able to tell Humphrey and Bernard /all/ about his background.
4927 Charlie was a red-hot political economist, I informed them. Got the top
4928 first. Wiped the floor with everyone.
4930 Bernard seemed relieved. 'Well that's all right then.'
4934 'I think Bernard means,' said Sir Humphrey helpfully, 'that he'll know how
4935 to behave if he was at an English University. Even if it was the LSE.' I
4936 never know whether or not Humphrey is insulting me intentionally.
4938 Humphrey was concerned about Charlie's political colour. 'When you said
4939 that he was red-hot, were you speaking politically?'
4941 In a way I was. 'The thing about Charlie is that you never quite know
4942 where you are with him. He's the sort of chap who follows you into a
4943 revolving door and comes out in front.'
4945 'No deeply held convictions?' asked Sir Humphrey.
4947 'No. The only thing Charlie was committed too was Charlie.'
4949 'Ah, I see. A politician, Minister.'
4951 =head2 v5.8.8 - Joe Raposo, "Bein' Green"
4953 L<Announced on 2006-01-31 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2006/01/msg109190.html>
4955 It's not that easy bein' green
4956 Having to spend each day the color of the leaves
4957 When I think it could be nicer being red or yellow or gold
4958 Or something much more colorful like that
4960 It's not easy bein' green
4961 It seems you blend in with so many other ordinary things
4962 And people tend to pass you over 'cause you're
4963 Not standing out like flashy sparkles in the water
4966 But green's the color of Spring
4967 And green can be cool and friendly-like
4968 And green can be big like an ocean
4969 Or important like a mountain
4972 When green is all there is to be
4973 It could make you wonder why, but why wonder why?
4974 Wonder I am green and it'll do fine, it's beautiful
4975 And I think it's what I want to be
4977 =head2 v5.8.8-RC1 - Cosgrove Hall Productions, "Dangermouse"
4979 L<Announced on 2006-01-20 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2006/01/msg108833.html>
4981 Greenback: And the world is mine, all mine. Muhahahahaha. See to it!
4983 Stiletto: Si, Barone. Subito, Barone.
4985 =head2 v5.8.7 - Sergei Prokofiev, "Peter and the Wolf"
4987 L<Announced on 2005-05-31 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2005/05/msg101088.html>
4989 And now, imagine the triumphant procession: Peter at the head; after him the
4990 hunters leading the wolf; and winding up the procession, grandfather and the
4993 Grandfather shook his head discontentedly: "Well, and if Peter hadn't caught
4994 the wolf? What then?"
4996 =head2 v5.8.7-RC1 - Sergei Prokofiev, "Peter and the Wolf"
4998 L<Announced on 2005-05-20 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2005/05/msg100711.html>
5000 And now this is how things stood: The cat was sitting on one branch. The
5001 bird on another, not too close to the cat. And the wolf walked round and
5002 round the tree, looking at them with greedy eyes.
5004 In the meantime, Peter, without the slightest fear, stood behind the
5005 gate, watching all that was going on. He ran home,got a strong rope and
5006 climbed up the high stone wall.
5008 One of the branches of the tree, around which the wolf was walking,
5009 stretched out over the wall.
5011 Grabbing hold of the branch, Peter lightly climbed over on to the tree.
5012 Peter said to the bird: "Fly down and circle round the wolf's head, only
5013 take care that he doesn't catch you!".
5015 The bird almost touched the wolf's head with its wings, while the wolf
5016 snapped angrily at him from this side and that.
5018 How that bird teased the wolf, how that wolf wanted to catch him! But
5019 the bird was clever and the wolf simply couldn't do anything about it.
5021 =head2 v5.8.6 - A. A. Milne, "The House at Pooh Corner"
5023 L<Announced on 2004-11-27 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/11/msg96304.html>
5025 "Hallo, Pooh," said Piglet, giving a jump of surprise. "I knew it was
5028 "So did I,", said Pooh. "What are you doing?"
5030 "I'm planting a haycorn, Pooh, so that it can grow up into an oak-tree,
5031 and have lots of haycorns just outside the front door instead of having
5032 to walk miles and miles, do you see, Pooh?"
5034 "Supposing it doesn't?" said Pooh.
5036 "It will, because Christopher Robin says it will, so that's why I'm
5039 "Well," aid Pooh, "if I plant a honeycomb outside my house, then it will
5040 grow up into a beehive."
5042 Piglet wasn't quite sure about this.
5044 "Or a /piece/ of a honeycomb," said Pooh, "so as not to waste too much.
5045 Only then I might only get a piece of a beehive, and it might be the
5046 wrong piece, where the bees were buzzing and not hunnying. Bother"
5048 Piglet agreed that that would be rather bothering.
5050 "Besides, Pooh, it's a very difficult thing, planting unless you know
5051 how to do it," he said; and he put the acorn in the hole he had made,
5052 and covered it up with earth, and jumped on it.
5054 =head2 v5.8.6-RC1 - A. A. Milne, "Winnie the Pooh"
5056 L<Announced on 2004-11-11 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/11/msg95786.html>
5058 "Hallo!" said Piglet, "whare are /you/ doing?"
5060 "Hunting," said Pooh.
5064 "Tracking something," said Winnie-the-Pooh very mysteriously.
5066 "Tracking what?" said Piglet, coming closer.
5068 "That's just what I ask myself, I ask myself, What?"
5070 "What do you think you'll answer?"
5072 "I shall have to wait until I catch up with it," said Winnie-the-Pooh.
5073 "Now, look there." He pointed to the ground in front of him. "What do
5076 "Track," said Piglet. "Paw-marks." He gave a little squeak of
5077 excitement. "Oh, Pooh!" Do you think it's a--a--a Woozle?"
5079 =head2 v5.8.5 - wikipedia, "Yew"
5081 L<Announced on 2004-07-19 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/07/msg93189.html>
5083 Yews are relatively slow growing trees, widely used in landscaping and
5084 ornamental horticulture. They have flat, dark-green needles, reddish
5085 bark, and bear seeds with red arils, which are eaten by thrushes,
5086 waxwings and other birds, dispersing the hard seeds undamaged in their
5087 droppings. Yew wood is reddish brown (with white sapwood), and very
5088 hard. It was traditionally used to make bows, especially the English
5091 In England, the Common Yew (Taxus baccata, also known as English Yew) is
5092 often found in churchyards. It is sometimes suggested that these are
5093 placed there as a symbol of long life or trees of death, and some are
5094 likely to be over 3,000 years old. It is also suggested that yew trees
5095 may have a pre-Christian association with old pagan holy sites, and the
5096 Christian church found it expedient to use and take over existing sites.
5097 Another explanation is that the poisonous berries and foliage discourage
5098 farmers and drovers from letting their animals wander into the burial
5099 grounds. The yew tree is a frequent symbol in the Christian poetry of
5100 T.S. Eliot, especially his Four Quartets.
5102 =head2 v5.8.5-RC2 - wikipedia, "Beech"
5104 L<Announced on 2004-07-09 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/07/msg92934.html>
5106 Beeches are trees of the Genus Fagus, family Fagaceae, including about
5107 ten species in Europe, Asia, and North America. The leaves are entire or
5108 sparsely toothed. The fruit is a small, sharply-angled nut, borne in
5109 pairs in spiny husks. The beech most commonly grown as an ornamental or
5110 shade tree is the European beech (Fagus sylvatica).
5112 The southern beeches belong to a different but related genus,
5113 Nothofagus. They are found in Australia, New Zealand, New Guinea, New
5114 Caledonia and South America.
5116 =head2 v5.8.5-RC1 - wikipedia, "Pedunculate Oak" (abridged)
5118 L<Announced on 2004-07-07 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/07/msg92840.html>
5120 The Pedunculate Oak is called the Common Oak in Britain, and is also
5121 often called the English Oak in other English speaking countries It is a
5122 large deciduous tree to 25-35m tall (exceptionally to 40m), with lobed
5123 and sessile (stalk-less) leaves. Flowering takes place in early to mid
5124 spring, and their fruit, called "acorns", ripen by autumn of the same
5125 year. The acorns are pedunculate (having a peduncle or acorn-stalk) and
5126 may occur singly, or several acorns may occur on a stalk.
5128 It forms a long-lived tree, with a large widespreading head of rugged
5129 branches. While it may naturally live to an age of a few centuries, many
5130 of the oldest trees are pollarded or coppiced, both pruning techniques
5131 that extend the tree's potential lifespan, if not its health.
5133 Within its native range it is valued for its importance to insects and
5134 other wildlife. Numerous insects live on the leaves, buds, and in the
5135 acorns. The acorns form a valuable food resource for several small
5136 mammals and some birds, notably Jays Garrulus glandarius.
5138 It is planted for forestry, and produces a long-lasting and durable
5139 heartwood, much in demand for interior and furniture work.
5141 =head2 v5.8.4 - T. S. Eliot, "The Old Gumbie Cat"
5143 L<Announced on 2004-04-22 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/04/msg90984.html>
5145 I have a Gumbie Cat in mind, her name is Jennyanydots;
5146 The curtain-cord she likes to wind, and tie it into sailor-knots.
5147 She sits upon the window-sill, or anything that's smooth and flat:
5148 She sits and sits and sits and sits -- and that's what makes a Gumbie Cat!
5150 But when the day's hustle and bustle is done,
5151 Then the Gumbie Cat's work is but hardly begun.
5152 She thinks that the cockroaches just need employment
5153 To prevent them from idle and wanton destroyment.
5154 So she's formed, from that a lot of disorderly louts,
5155 A troop of well-disciplined helpful boy-scouts,
5156 With a purpose in life and a good deed to do--
5157 And she's even created a Beetles' Tattoo.
5159 So for Old Gumbie Cats let us now give three cheers --
5160 On whom well-ordered households depend, it appears.
5163 =head2 v5.8.4-RC2 - T. S. Eliot, "Macavity: The Mystery Cat"
5165 L<Announced on 2004-04-16 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/04/msg90796.html>
5167 Macavity's a Mystery Cat: he's called the Hidden Paw --
5168 For he's the master criminal who can defy the Law.
5169 He's the bafflement of Scotland Yard, the Flying Squad's despair:
5170 For when they reach the scene of crime -- /Macavity's not there/!
5172 Macavity, Macavity, there's no one like Macavity,
5173 He's broken every human law, he breaks the law of gravity.
5174 His powers of levitation would make a fakir stare,
5175 And when you reach the scene of crime -- /Macavity's not there/!
5176 You may seek him in the basement, you may look up in the air --
5177 But I tell you once and once again, /Macavity's not there/!
5179 =head2 v5.8.4-RC1 - T. S. Eliot, "Skimbleshanks: The Railway Cat"
5181 L<Announced on 2004-04-05 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/04/msg90422.html>
5183 There's a whisper down the line at 11.39
5184 When the Night Mail's ready to depart,
5185 Saying 'Skimble where is Skimble has he gone to hunt the thimble?
5186 We must find him of the train can't start.'
5187 All the guards and all the porters and the stationmaster's daughters
5188 They are searching high and low,
5189 Saying 'Skimble where is Skimble for unless he's very nimble
5190 Then the Night Mail just can't go'
5191 At 11.42 then the signal's overdue
5192 And the passengers are frantic to a man--
5193 Then Skimble will appear and he'll saunter to the rear:
5194 He's been busy in the luggage van!
5195 He gives one flash of his glass-green eyes
5196 And the signal goes 'All Clear!'
5197 And we're off at last of the northern part
5198 Of the Northern Hemisphere!
5200 =head2 v5.8.3 - Arthur William Edgar O'Shaugnessy, "Ode"
5202 L<Announced on 2004-01-14 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/01/msg87317.html>
5204 We are the music makers,
5205 And we are the dreamers of dreams,
5206 Wandering by lonely sea-breakers,
5207 And sitting by desolate streams; --
5208 World-losers and world-forsakers,
5209 On whom the pale moon gleams:
5210 Yet we are the movers and shakers
5211 Of the world for ever, it seems.
5213 =head2 v5.8.3-RC1 - Irving Berlin, "Let's Face the Music and Dance"
5215 L<Announced on 2004-01-07 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/01/msg86969.html>
5217 There may be trouble ahead,
5218 But while there's music and moonlight,
5219 And love and romance,
5220 Let's face the music and dance.
5222 Before the fiddlers have fled,
5223 Before they ask us to pay the bill,
5224 And while we still have that chance,
5225 Let's face the music and dance.
5227 Soon, we'll be without the moon,
5228 Humming a different tune, and then,
5230 There may be teardrops to shed,
5231 So while there's music and moonlight,
5232 And love and romance,
5233 Let's face the music and dance.
5235 =head2 v5.8.2 - Walt Whitman, "Passage to India"
5237 L<Announced on 2003-11-05 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/11/msg84822.html>
5239 Passage, immediate passage! the blood burns in my veins!
5240 Away O soul! hoist instantly the anchor!
5241 Cut the hawsers - hall out - shake out every sail!
5242 Have we not stood here like trees in the ground long enough?
5243 Have we not grovel'd here long enough, eating and drinking like mere brutes?
5244 Have we not darken'd and dazed ourselves with books long enough?
5246 Sail forth - steer for the deep waters only,
5247 Reckless O soul, exploring, I with the and thou with me,
5248 For we are bound where mariner has not yet dared to go,
5249 And we will risk the ship, ourselves and all.
5252 O farther farther sail!
5253 O daring job, but safe! are they not all the seas of God?
5254 O farther, farther, farther sail!
5256 =head2 v5.8.2-RC2 - Eric Idle and John Du Prez, "Accountancy Shanty"
5258 L<Announced on 2003-11-03 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/11/msg84645.html>
5260 It's fun to charter an accountant
5261 And sail the wide accountan-cy,
5262 To find, explore the funds offshore
5263 And skirt the shoals of bankruptcy.
5265 =head2 v5.8.2-RC1 - Edward Lear, "The Jumblies"
5267 L<Announced on 2003-10-27 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/10/msg84194.html>
5269 They went to sea in a Sieve, they did,
5270 In a Sieve they went to sea:
5271 In spite of all their friends could say,
5272 On a winter's morn, on a stormy day,
5273 In a Sieve they went to sea!
5274 And when the Sieve turned round and round,
5275 And everyone cried, "You'll all be drowned!"
5276 They cried aloud, "Our Sieve ain't big,
5277 But we don't care a button, we don't care a fig!
5278 In a Sieve we'll go to sea!"
5280 Far and few, far and few,
5281 Are the lands where the Jumblies live;
5282 Their heads are green, and their hands are blue,
5283 And they went to sea in a Sieve.
5285 =head2 v5.8.1 - epigraph same as v5.7.1
5287 L<Announced on 2003-09-25 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/09/msg82678.html>
5289 =head2 v5.8.1-RC5 - Terry Pratchett, "Lords and Ladies"
5291 L<Announced on 2003-09-22 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/09/msg82476.html>
5293 No matter what she did with her hair it took about
5294 three minutes for it to tangle itself up again,
5295 like a garden hosepipe in a shed [Footnote: Which,
5296 no matter how carefully coiled, will always uncoil
5297 overnight and tie the lawnmower to the bicycles].
5299 =head2 v5.8.1-RC4 - Terry Pratchett, "Interesting Times"
5301 L<Announced on 2003-08-01 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/08/msg79184.html>
5303 Grand Viziers were /always/ scheming megalomaniacs.
5304 It was probably in the job description: "Are you a
5305 devious, plotting, unreliable madman? Ah, good,
5306 then you can be my most trusted minister."
5308 =head2 v5.8.1-RC3 - Terry Pratchett, "Interesting Times"
5310 L<Announced on 2003-07-30 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/07/msg79048.html>
5312 Lord Hong had a mind like a knife, although possibly
5313 a knife with a curved blade.
5315 =head2 v5.8.1-RC2 - Terry Pratchett, "Interesting Times"
5317 L<Announced on 2003-07-11 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/07/msg78102.html>
5319 Many an ancient lord's last words had been, "You can't kill
5320 me because I've got magic aaargh."
5322 =head2 v5.8.1-RC1 - Terry Pratchett, "Interesting Times"
5324 L<Announced on 2003-07-10 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/07/msg78009.html>
5326 Cohen was familiar with city gates. He'd broken down a number
5327 in his time, by battering ram, siege gun, and on one occasion
5330 But the gates of Hunghung were pretty damn good gates. They
5331 weren't like the gates of Ankh-Morpork, which were usually wide
5332 open to attract the spending customer and whose concession to
5333 defense was the sign "Thank You For Not Attacking Our City.
5334 Bonum Diem." These things were big and made of metal and there
5335 was a guardhouse and a squad of unhelpful men in black armor.
5337 =head2 v5.8.0 - Terry Pratchett, "Reaper Man"
5339 L<Announced on 2002-07-18 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2002/07/msg63720.html>
5341 There was the faint sound of footsteps.
5342 "Chap with a whip got as far as the big sharp spikes last week,"
5343 said the low priest.
5344 There was a sound like the flushing of a very old dry lavatory.
5345 The footsteps stopped. The High Priest smiled to himself.
5346 "Right," he said. "See your two pebbles and raise you two pebbles."
5347 The low priest threw down his cards. "Double Onion," he said.
5348 The High Priest looked down suspiciously.
5349 The low priest consulted a scrap of paper. "That's three hundred
5350 thousand, nine hundred and sixty-four pebbles you owe me," he said.
5351 There was the sound of footsteps. The priests exchanged glances.
5352 "Haven't had one for poisoned-dart alley for quite some time,"
5353 said the High Priest.
5354 "Five says he makes it", said the low priest. "You're on."
5355 There was a faint clatter of metal points on stone.
5356 "It's a shame to take your pebbles."
5357 There were footsteps again.
5359 =head2 v5.8.0-RC3 - no epigraph
5361 L<Announced on 2002-07-13 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2002/07/msg63234.html>
5363 =head2 v5.8.0-RC2 - no epigraph
5365 L<Announced on 2002-06-21 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2002/06/msg62013.html>
5367 =head2 v5.8.0-RC1 - no epigraph
5369 L<Announced on 2002-06-01 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2002/06/msg60317.html>
5371 =head2 v5.7.3 - Terry Pratchett, "Reaper Man"
5373 L<Announced on 2002-03-04 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2002/03/msg53652.html>
5375 Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong.
5376 No matter how fast light travels it finds the darkness has always
5377 got there first, and is waiting for it.
5379 =head2 v5.7.2 - Terry Pratchett, "Small Gods"
5381 L<Announced on 2001-07-13 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2001/07/msg40370.html>
5383 His philosophy was a mixture of three famous schools --
5384 the Cynics, the Stoics and the Epicureans -- and summed up
5385 all three of them in his famous phrase, "You can't trust any
5386 bugger further than you can throw him, and there's nothing
5387 you can do about it, so let's have a drink."
5389 =head2 v5.7.1 - Terry Pratchett, "The Colour of Magic"
5391 L<Announced on 2001-04-09 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2001/04/msg33851.html>
5393 "What happens next?" asked Twoflower.
5395 Hrun screwed a finger in his ear and inspected it absently.
5397 "Oh,", he said, "I expect in a minute the door will be
5398 flung back and I'll be dragged off to some sort of temple
5399 arena where I'll fight maybe a couple of giant spiders
5400 and an eight-foot slave from the jungles of Klatch and then
5401 I'll rescue some kind of a princess from the altar and then
5402 I'll kill off a few guards or whatever and then this girl
5403 will show me the secret passage out of the place and we'll
5404 liberate a couple of horses and escape with the treasure."
5405 Hrun leaned his head back on his hands and looked at the
5406 ceiling, whistling tunelessly.
5408 "All that?" said Twoflower.
5412 =head2 v5.7.0 - Terry Pratchett, "Moving Pictures"
5414 L<Announced on 2000-09-02 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2000/09/msg17730.html>
5416 The Librarian had seen many weird things in his time,
5417 but that had to be the 57th strangest.
5418 [footnote: he had a tidy mind]
5420 =head2 v5.6.2 - Laurence Sterne, "Tristram Shandy"
5422 L<Announced on 2003-11-15 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/11/msg85222.html>
5424 When great or unexpected events fall out upon the stage of this
5425 sublunary word--the mind of man, which is an inquisitive kind of
5426 a substance, naturally takes a flight, behind the scenes, to see
5427 what is the cause and first spring of them--The search was not
5428 long in this instance.
5430 =head2 v5.6.2-RC1 - Laurence Sterne, "Tristram Shandy"
5432 L<Announced on 2003-11-08 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/11/msg84953.html>
5434 "Pray, my dear", quoth my mother, "have you not forgot to wind up the clock?"
5436 =head2 v5.6.1 - J R R Tolkien, "The Hobbit", Riddles in the Dark
5438 L<Announced on 2001-04-08 by Gurusamy Sarathy|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2001/04/msg33823.html>
5440 `What have I got in my pocket?' he said aloud. He was talking to
5441 himself, but Gollum thought it was a riddle, and he was frightfully
5444 `Not fair! not fair!' he hissed. `It isn't fair, my precious, is it,
5445 to ask us what it's got in its nassty little pocketses?'
5447 Bilbo seeing what had happened and having nothing better to ask
5448 stuck to his question, `What have I got in my pocket?' he said
5451 `S-s-s-s-s,' hissed Gollum. `It must give us three guesseses,
5452 my precious, three guesseses.'
5454 =head2 v5.6.1-foolish - no epigraph
5456 L<Announced on 2001-04-01 by Gurusamy Sarathy|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2001/04/msg33421.html>
5458 =head2 v5.6.1-TRIAL3 - I can't find the announcement
5460 No announcement available.
5462 =head2 v5.6.1-TRIAL2 - no epigraph
5464 L<Announced on 2001-01-31 by Gurusamy Sarathy|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2001/01/msg29934.html>
5466 =head2 v5.6.1-TRIAL1 - no epigraph
5468 L<Announced on 2000-12-18 by Gurusamy Sarathy|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2000/12/msg27738.html>
5470 =head2 v5.6.0 - J R R Tolkien, "The Hobbit", The Last Stage
5472 L<Announced on 2000-03-23 by Gurusamy Sarathy|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2000/03/msg10341.html>
5474 The dragon is withered,
5475 His bones are now crumbled;
5476 His armour is shivered,
5477 His splendour is humbled!
5478 Though sword shall be rusted,
5479 And throne and crown perish
5480 With strength that men trusted
5481 And wealth that they cherish,
5482 Here grass is still growing,
5483 And leaves are a yet swinging,
5484 The white water flowing,
5485 And elves are yet singing
5486 Come! Tra-la-la-lally!
5487 Come back to the valley.
5489 =head2 v5.6.0-RC3 - no epigraph
5491 L<Announced on 2000-03-22 by Gurusamy Sarathy|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2000/03/msg10140.html>
5493 =head2 v5.005_05-RC1 - no epigraph
5495 L<Announced on 2009-02-16 by LE<0xe9>on Brocard|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2009/02/msg144227.html>
5497 =head2 v5.005_04 - no epigraph
5499 L<Announced on 2004-03-01 by LE<0xe9>on Brocard|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/03/msg89047.html>
5501 =head2 v5.005_04-RC2 - Rudyard Kipling, "The Jungle Book"
5503 L<Announced on 2004-02-19 by LE<0xe9>on Brocard|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/02/msg88672.html>
5505 The monkeys called the place their city, and pretended to despise
5506 the Jungle-People because they lived in the forest. And yet they
5507 never knew what the buildings were made for nor how to use
5508 them. They would sit in circles on the hall of the king's council
5509 chamber, and scratch for fleas and pretend to be men; or they would
5510 run in and out of the roofless houses and collect pieces of plaster
5511 and old bricks in a corner, and forget where they had hidden them,
5512 and fight and cry in scuffling crowds, and then break off to play up
5513 and down the terraces of the king's garden, where they would shake
5514 the rose trees and the oranges in sport to see the fruit and flowers
5517 =head2 v5.005_04-RC1 - Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
5519 L<Announced on 2004-02-05 by LE<0xe9>on Brocard|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/02/msg88312.html>
5521 Either the well was very deep, or she fell very slowly, for she had
5522 plenty of time as she went down to look about her and to wonder what was
5523 going to happen next. First, she tried to look down and make out what
5524 she was coming to, but it was too dark to see anything; then she looked
5525 at the sides of the well, and noticed that they were filled with
5526 cupboards and book-shelves; here and there she saw maps and pictures
5527 hung upon pegs. She took down a jar from one of the shelves as she
5528 passed; it was labelled 'ORANGE MARMALADE', but to her great
5529 disappointment it was empty: she did not like to drop the jar for fear
5530 of killing somebody, so managed to put it into one of the cupboards as
5533 =head2 v1.0_16 - Johan Vromans, extemporarily
5535 L<Announced on 2003-12-18 by Richard Clamp|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/12/msg86423.html>
5537 't was 16 years ago today
5538 Larry taught us a new game
5539 of lazyness, impatience, and hubris
5540 Happy birthday, Perl!
5542 =head1 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
5544 This document was originally compiled based on a list of epigraphs
5545 on L<Perl Monks|http://perlmonks.org> titled
5546 L<Recent Perl Release Announcement|http://perlmonks.org/?node_id=372406>