5 perlepigraphs - list of Perl release epigraphs
9 Many Perl release announcements included an I<epigraph>, a short excerpt
10 from a literary or other creative work, chosen by the pumpking or release
11 manager. This file assembles the known list of epigraph for posterity,
12 and also links to the release announcements in mailing list archives.
14 I<Note>: these have also been referred to as I<epigrams>, but the
15 definition of I<epigraph> is closer to the way they have been used.
16 Consult your favorite dictionary for details.
20 =head2 v5.35.3 - Logan Pearsall Smith
22 L<Announced on 2021-08-20 by Karen Etheridge|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2021/08/msg261393.html>
24 The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves.
26 =head2 v5.35.2 - Freeman Dyson
28 L<Announced on 2021-07-23 by Neil Bowers|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2021/07/msg260926.html>
30 There is a great satisfaction in building good tools for other people to use.
32 =head2 v5.35.1 - Sam Schube
34 L<Announced on 2021-06-20 by Max Maischein|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2021/06/msg260592.html>
36 His first marriage ended. A new relationship with an old friend
37 straightened him out. “I realized that I can't live like I was and be
38 with Naomi,” he said. “I wanted to become a better man for her. At
39 first. Then it was for myself too.” He started seeing a therapist. There
40 were limits: He told her he wasn't interested in exploring the part of
41 him that wanted to do stunts. “I know that needs looking at,” he said.
42 “But I didn't want to break the machine.”
44 It wasn't just about jeopardizing his livelihood, he explained. Doing
45 stunts “was exciting. It's something that I did with my friends. And I
46 was decent at it.” It wasn't so much about the stunts themselves, which
47 were terrifying, as about how completing them made him feel. He loved,
48 he said, “the exhilaration and relief, once you get on the other side of
49 the stunt. Or when you come to. You wake up, you're like, ‘Oh, was that
50 good?’ And they're like, ‘That was great.’ You got a good bit when
51 there's seven people standing over you, snapping their fingers.” When we
52 spoke, he still hadn't broached the topic in therapy. “I'll talk about
53 it eventually,” he said. “It's not something I need to know this second.”
55 =head2 v5.35.0 - Miguel de Unamuno
57 L<Announced on 2021-05-20 by Ricardo Signes|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2021/05/msg260116.html>
59 We should try to be the parents of our future rather than the offspring of our
62 =head2 v5.34.0 - Aberjhani
64 L<Announced on 2021-05-20 by Sawyer X|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2021/05/msg260110.html>
66 Our greatest power as nations and individuals is not the ability to employ assault weapons, suicide bombers, and drones to destroy each other.
67 The greater more creative powers with which we may arm ourselves are grace and compassion sufficient enough to love and save each other.
69 =head2 v5.34.0-RC2 - Nelson Mandela, The Long Walk to Freedom
71 L<Announced on 2021-05-15 by Sawyer X|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2021/05/msg260066.html>
73 No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.
75 =head2 v5.34.0-RC1 - Paul Tremblay, The Cabin at the End of the World
77 L<Announced on 2021-05-04 by Sawyer X|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2021/05/msg260029.html>
79 He’d irrationally hoped he could somehow put off indefinitely the future day on which she would recognize cruelty, ignorance, and injustice were the struts and pillars of the social order, as unavoidable and inevitable as the weather.
81 =head2 v5.33.9 - Abraham Lincoln
83 L<Announced on 2021-04-20 by toddr|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2021/04/msg259954.html>
85 Seven minutes ago... we, your forefathers, were brought forth upon a most excellent adventure conceived by our new friends, Bill... and Ted. These two great gentlemen are dedicated to a proposition which was true in my time, just as it's true today. Be excellent to each other!
87 =head2 v5.33.8 - David Bowie, "Heroes"
89 L<Announced on 2021-03-20 by atoomic|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2021/03/msg259358.html>
91 Tomorrow belongs to those who can hear it coming.
93 =head2 v5.33.7 - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther
95 L<Announced on 2021-02-20 by Renée Bäcker|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2021/02/msg259169.html>
97 The human race is a monotonous affair. Most people spend the greatest part of
98 their time working in order to live, and what little freedom remains so fills
99 them with fear that they seek out any and every means to be rid of it.
101 =head2 v5.33.6 - Edward R. Murrow
103 L<Announced on 2021-01-20 by Richard Leach|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2021/01/msg258843.html>
105 This instrument can teach, it can illuminate; yes, and it can even
106 inspire. But it can do so only to the extent that humans are determined
107 to use it to those ends. Otherwise it is merely wires and lights in a box.
109 =head2 v5.33.5 - Max Weber, (from "Understanding Administration", by Wolfgang Seibel)
111 L<Announced on 2020-12-20 by Max Maischein|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2020/12/msg258683.html>
113 Authority is primarily: Administration
116 =head2 v5.33.4 - George Eliot, "Adam Bede"
118 L<Announced on 2020-11-20 by Tom Hukins|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2020/11/msg258597.html>
120 It was more than two o'clock in the afternoon when Adam came in sight of
121 the grey town on the hill-side and looked searchingly towards the green
122 valley below, for the first glimpse of the old thatched roof near the
125 =head2 v5.33.3 - Ludwig van Beethoven, "Heiligenstadt Testament"; translated and quoted in: Maynard Solomon, "Beethoven"
127 L<Announced on 2020-10-20 by Steve Hay|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2020/10/msg258502.html>
129 Oh you men who think or say that I am malevolent, stubborn, or
130 misanthropic, how greatly do you wrong me. You do not know the secret
131 cause which makes me seem that way to you. From childhood on, my
132 heart and soul have been full of the tender feeling of goodwill, and I
133 was ever inclined to accomplish great things. But, think that for six
134 years now I have been hopelessly afflicted, made worse by senseless
135 physicians, from year to year deceived with hopes of improvement,
136 finally compelled to face the prospect of a lasting malady (whose cure
137 will take years or, perhaps, be impossible). Though born with a
138 fiery, active temperament, even susceptible to the diversions of
139 society, I was soon compelled to withdraw myself, to live life alone.
140 [...] I endured this wretched existence--truly wretched for so
141 susceptible a body, which can be thrown by a sudden change from the
142 best condition to the very worst.--Patience, they say, is what I must
143 now choose for my guide, and I have done so--I hope my determination
144 will remain firm to endure until it pleases the inexorable Parcae to
145 break the thread. [...] Recommend virtue to your children; it alone,
146 not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience; this was
147 what upheld me in time of misery. [...] Do not wholly forget me when I
148 am dead; I deserve this from you, for during my lifetime I was
149 thinking of you often and of ways to make you happy--please be so--
151 =head2 v5.33.2 - Elizabeth Warren
153 L<Announced on 2020-09-20 by Sawyer X|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2020/09/msg258369.html>
155 What I've learned is that real change is very, very hard. But I've
156 also learned that change is possible - if you fight for it.
158 =head2 v5.33.1 - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956 (1973)
160 L<Announced on 2020-08-20 by Karen Etheridge|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2020/08/msg258282.html>
162 If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds,
163 and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy
164 them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every
165 human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?
167 =head2 v5.33.0 - Confucius, "Confucius: The Analects"
169 L<Announed on 2020-07-17 by Sawyer X|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2020/07/msg258033.html>
171 The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.
173 =head2 v5.32.1 - Mikhail Bulgakov, trans. Michael Glenny, "The Master and Margarita"
175 L<Announced on 2021-01-23 by Steve Hay|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2021/01/msg258868.html>
177 As the warning bells rang, inquisitive people were peeping into the star
178 dressing room. Among them were jugglers in bright robes and turbans, a
179 roller-skater in a knitted cardigan, a comedian with a powdered white
180 face and a make-up man. The celebrated guest artiste amazed everyone
181 with his unusually long, superbly cut tail coat and by wearing a black
182 domino. Even more astounding were the black magician's two companions:
183 a tall man in checks with an unsteady pince-nez and a fat black cat
184 which walked into the dressing room on its hind legs and casually sat
185 down on the divan, blinking in the light of the unshaded lamps round the
188 =head2 v5.32.1-RC1 - Mikhail Bulgakov, trans. Michael Glenny, "The Heart of a Dog"
190 L<Announced on 2021-01-09 by Steve Hay|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2021/01/msg258762.html>
192 Why bother to learn to read when you can smell meat a mile away? If you
193 live in Moscow, though, and if you've got an ounce of brain in your head
194 you can't help learning to read - and without going to night-school
195 either. There are forty-thousand dogs in Moscow and I'll bet there's
196 not one of them so stupid he can't spell out the word 'sausage'.
198 =head2 v5.32.0 - Bob Dylan, "The Times They Are A Changing"
200 L<Announced on 2020-06-20 by Sawyer X|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2020/06/msg257547.html>
202 Come gather 'round, people
204 And admit that the waters
205 Around you have grown
206 And accept it that soon
207 You'll be drenched to the bone
208 If your time to you is worth savin'
209 And you better start swimmin'
210 Or you'll sink like a stone
211 For the times they are a-changin'
213 =head2 v5.32.0-RC1 - Coretta Scott King
215 L<Announced on 2020-06-08 by Sawyer X|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2020/06/msg257521.html>
217 Struggle is a never ending process. Freedom is never really won,
218 you earn it and win it in every generation.
220 =head2 v5.32.0-RC0 - Franz Kafka
222 L<Announced on 2020-05-30 by Sawyer X|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2020/05/msg257486.html>
224 There are some things one can only achieve by a deliberate leap
225 in the opposite direction.
227 =head2 v5.31.11 - John F. Kennedy, National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy
229 L<Announced on 2020-04-28 by Sawyer X|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2020/04/msg257385.html>
231 Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind.
233 =head2 v5.31.10 - Christina Rossetti, "Remember"
235 L<Announced on 2020-03-20 by Sawyer X|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2020/03/msg257274.html>
237 Remember me when I am gone away,
238 Gone far away into the silent land;
239 When you can no more hold me by the hand,
240 Nor I half turn to go yet turning stay.
241 Remember me when no more day by day
242 You tell me of our future that you plann'd:
243 Only remember me; you understand
244 It will be late to counsel then or pray.
245 Yet if you should forget me for a while
246 And afterwards remember, do not grieve:
247 For if the darkness and corruption leave
248 A vestige of the thoughts that once I had,
249 Better by far you should forget and smile
250 Than that you should remember and be sad.
252 =head2 v5.31.9 - Sten Nadolny, book The Discovery of Slowness
254 L<Announced on 2020-02-20 by Renee Bäcker|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2020/02/msg257144.html>
256 „When people talk too fast the content becomes as superfluous as the speed.“
258 =head2 v5.31.8 - Joe Perham, "Joe Perham's Guide to Hunting and Guide to Fishing in Maine"
260 L<Announced on 2020-01-20 by Matthew Horsfall|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2020/01/msg256894.html>
262 Harry used to cut wood for the Brown company over in Stoneham Red
263 Rock Basin. And of course he was the best shot in camp. One day the
264 foreman told him to go get some meat.
266 "Take any gun you want."
268 Harry says "I'll take the .45-70."
270 Foreman said "That gun's only got one bullet."
272 Harry says "I only need one bullet."
274 Took the .45-70, went out, an hour later he was back with two Moose,
275 a dozen trout you see, and a fluffy partridge. Went back to work.
277 Well at supper that night foreman says "Harry, um, something's
278 bothering me here a little bit. How did you get all that food with
279 only one bullet. I'm a little confused about the... the partridge,
280 there ain't a mark on him."
282 "Well", Harry says, "I'll tell ya. I took that .45-70, went back into
283 the woods a piece there I come to this brook. And I just uh, got to
284 the other side when I happen to see two moose in the swamp off
285 there. I figured I could get both of 'em. So I took out my huntin'
286 knife and stuck it into the mud, hilt foremost, sharp edge on the
287 blade towards me of course. I took dead aim on that knife, fired,
288 split that bullet and killed those two moose. Well you know the
289 recoil knocked me back into the brook. When I come up out of the
290 water, my pants were so full of fish that it popped a button off my
291 fly and killed that bird."
293 =head2 v5.31.7 - Bernard Werber
295 L<Announced on 2019-12-20 by Atoomic|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/12/msg256802.html>
297 Be quiet. Look at the stars and appreciate what you live.
299 =head2 v5.31.6 - Neal Stephenson, "Quicksilver"
301 L<Announced on 2019-11-20 by Chris 'BinGOs' Williams|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/11/msg256646.html>
305 State your intentions, Muse. I know you're there.
306 Dead bards who pined for you have said
307 You're bright as flame, but fickle as the air.
308 My pen and I, submerged in liquid shade,
309 Much dark can spread, on days and over reams
310 But without you, no radiance can shed.
311 Why rustle in the dark, when fledged with fire?
312 Craze the night with flails of light. Reave
313 Your turbid shroud. Bestow what I require.
315 But you're not in the dark. I do believe
316 I swim, like squid, in clouds of my own make,
317 To you, offensive. To us both, opaque.
318 What's constituted so, only a pen
319 Can penetrate. I have one here; let's go.
321 =head2 v5.31.5 - Edward Lear, ed. Vivien Noakes, "The Complete Nonsense and Other Verse": The Daddy Long-legs and the Fly
323 L<Announced on 2019-10-20 by Steve Hay|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/10/msg256478.html>
325 'O Mr Daddy Long-legs,'
327 'It's true I never go to court,
328 And I will tell you why.
329 If I had six long legs like yours,
330 At once I'd go to court!
331 But oh! I can't, because my legs
332 Are so extremely short.
333 And I'm afraid the King and Queen
334 (One in red, and one in green)
335 Would say aloud, "You are not fit,
336 You Fly, to come to court a bit!"'
338 =head2 v5.31.4 - Ann Leckie, "The Raven Tower"
340 L<Announced on 2019-09-20 by Max Maischein|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/09/msg256254.html>
342 Stories can be risky for someone like me. What I say must be true, or it
343 will be made true, and if it cannot be made true - if I don't have the
344 power, or if what I have said is an impossibility - then I will pay the
345 price. I might more or less safely say, "Once there was a man who rode
346 home to attend his father's funeral and claim his inheritance, but
347 matters were not as he expected them to be." I do not doubt that such a
348 thing has happened more than once in all the time there have been
349 fathers to die and sons to succeed them. But to go any further, I must
350 supply more details - the specific actions of specific people, and their
351 specific consequences - and there I might blunder, all unknowing, into
352 untruth. It's safer for me to speak of what I know. Or to speak only in
353 the safest of generalities. Or else to say plainly at the beginning,
354 "Here is a story I have heard," placing the burden of truth or not on
355 the teller whose words I am merely accurately reporting.
357 But what is the story that I am telling? Here is another story I have
359 Once there were two brothers, and one of them wanted what the other had.
360 Bent all his will to obtain what the other had, no matter the cost.
361 Here is another story: Once there was a prisoner in a tower.
363 Once someone risked their life out of duty and loyalty to a friend.
364 Ah, there's a story that I might tell, and truthfully.
366 =head2 v5.31.3 - Samantha Harvey, "All Is Song"
368 L<Announced on 2019-08-20 by Tom Hukins|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/08/msg256012.html>
370 We are born from unity, we divide into isolation. We winnow ourselves
371 out from the thing that first made sense of us and then expect to find
372 meaning, yet a fraction makes no sense without the number of which
373 it's a fractional part. We see loss, feel grief, give ourselves
374 illness, we're cells that have over-divided and we call the division
375 growth; the only real growth is in the return to unity, God, the
378 Tired to his core, he turned the video off. The rain still poured as
379 he went upstairs, and in bed as he tripped down into the deep open
380 shaft of sleep he kept thinking that to divide by zero was to end up
381 with infinity, as was to divide by God. To divide by God, to divide
382 by God, over and over he thought it without sense; to divide by God; I
383 must tell my students that the way to pass their exams is to divide by
384 God. Then he must have slept, for it was morning.
386 =head2 v5.31.2 - Edward Lear, ed. Vivien Noakes, "The Complete Nonsense and Other Verse": The Duck and the Kangaroo
388 L<Announced on 2019-07-20 by Steve Hay|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/07/msg255639.html>
390 Said the Duck to the Kangaroo,
391 'Good gracious! how you hop!
392 Over the fields and the water too,
393 As if you never would stop!
394 My life is a bore in this nasty pond,
395 And I long to go out in the world beyond!
396 I wish I could hop like you!'
397 Said the Duck to the Kangaroo.
399 =head2 v5.31.1 - Kurt Vonnegut, _A Man without a Country_
401 L<Announced on 2019-06-20 by Karen Etheridge|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/06/msg255243.html>
403 On Tuesday, January 20, 2004, I sent Joel Bleifuss, my editor at _In These
406 ON ORANGE ALERT HERE.
407 ECONOMIC TERRORIST ATTACK
408 EXPECTED AT 8 PM EST. KV
410 Worried, he called, asking what was up. I said I would tell him when I had
411 more complete information on the bombs George Bush was set to deliver in his
412 State of the Union address.
414 That night I got a call from my friend, the out-of-print-science-fiction
415 writer Kilgore Trout. He asked me, "Did you watch the State of the Union
418 "Yes, and it certainly helped to remember what the great British socialist
419 playwright George Bernard Shaw said about this planet."
423 "He said, 'I don't know if there are men on the moon, but if there are, they
424 must be using the earth as their lunatic asylum.' And he wasn't talking
425 about the germs or the elephants. He meant we the people."
429 "You don't think this is the Lunatic Asylum of the Universe?"
431 "Kurt, I don't think I expressed an opinion one way of the other."
433 "We are killing this planet as a life-support system with the poisons from
434 all the thermodynamic whoopee we're making with atomic energy and fossil
435 fuels, and everybody knows it, and practically nobody cares. This is how
436 crazy we are. I think the planet's immune system is trying to get rid of us
437 with AIDS and new strains of flu and tuberculosis, and so on. I think the
438 planet should get rid of us. We're really awful animals. I mean, that dumb
439 Barbra Streisand song, 'People who need people are the luckiest people in
440 the world' -- she's talking about cannibals. Lots to eat. Yes, the planet is
441 trying to get rid of us, but I think it's too late."
443 And I said good-bye to my friend, hung up the phone, sat down and wrote this
444 epitaph: "The good Earth -- we could have saved it, but we were too damn
447 =head2 v5.31.0 - Fumiko Enchi, Masks
449 L<Announced on 2019-05-24 by Sawyer X|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/05/msg254886.html>
451 The secrets inside her mind are like flowers in a garden at
452 nighttime, filling the darkness with perfume.
454 =head2 v5.30.3 - Ben Aaronovitch, "Rivers of London"
456 L<Announced on 2020-06-01 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2020/01/msg257498.html>
458 Trewsbury Mead [...] According to the Ordnance Survey, this is where the
459 Thames first rises 130 straight-line kilometres west of London. Just to
460 the north is the site either of an Iron Age hill fort or a Roman
461 encampment, the exact nature of which is awaiting an episode of Time
462 Team. Apparently there is a soggy field, a stone to mark the spot and a
463 chance, after a particularly wet winter, that you might see some water.
465 =head2 v5.30.2 - Francesco Maria Piave, trans. Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, "La traviata", Act II, Scene 2
467 L<Announced on 2020-03-14 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2020/03/msg257227.html>
469 FLORA, GASTON, DOCTOR, MARQUIS, CHORUS
471 Yes, you have suffered, but take heart!
472 Every one of us has shared your pain;
473 friends are around you to dry the tears
477 (I alone know the true devotion
478 this poor girl hides within her breast;
479 I know her faithful heart,
480 but I'm vowed so cruelly to silence.)
484 Your deadly insult to this lady
485 offends us all, but such an outrage
486 shall not go unavenged!
487 I shall find a way to humble your pride!
490 (Alas, what have I done? I feel terrible about it.
491 She will never forgive me.)
495 Alfredo, how should you understand
496 all the love that's in my heart?
497 How should you know that I have proved it,
498 even at the price of your contempt?
500 But the time will come when you will know,
501 when you'll admit how much I loved you.
502 God save you then from all remorse!
503 Even after death I shall still love you.
505 =head2 v5.30.2-RC1 - Francesco Maria Piave, trans. Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, "La traviata", Act II, Scene 2
507 L<Announced on 2020-02-29 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2020/02/msg257163.html>
510 For me this woman lost
512 I was blind, a wretched coward,
514 But it's time now for me to clear
516 I call you all to witness here
517 that I've paid her back!
519 (Contemptuously, he throws his winnings at Violetta's feet.
520 She swoons in Flora's arms. Alfredo's father arrives suddenly.)
526 a tender heart that way!
530 We've no use for the likes of you!
534 (dignified in his anger)
535 A man who offends a woman, even in anger,
536 deserves nothing but scorn.
537 Where is my son? I no longer see him
541 (What have I done? Yes, I despise myself!
542 Jealous madness, love deceived,
543 ravaged my soul, destroyed my reason.
544 How can I ever gain her pardon?
545 I would have left her, but I couldn't;
546 I came here to vent my anger,
547 But now I've done that, wretch that I am,
548 I feel nothing but deep remorse!)
550 =head2 v5.30.1 - Francesco Maria Piave, trans. Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, "La traviata", Act I: Brindisi
552 L<Announced on 2019-11-10 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/11/msg256610.html>
555 With you I would share
556 my days of happiness;
557 everything is folly in this world
558 that does not give us pleasure.
560 for the pleasures of love are swift and fleeting
561 as a flower that lives and dies
562 and can be enjoyed no more.
563 Let's take our pleasure while its ardent,
564 brilliant summons lures us on!
566 =head2 v5.30.1-RC1 - Francesco Maria Piave, trans. Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, "La traviata", Act I: Brindisi
568 L<Announced on 2019-10-27 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/10/msg256542.html>
571 Let's drink from the joyous chalice
572 where beauty flowers...
573 Let the fleeting hour
574 to pleasure's intoxication yield.
576 to love's sweet tremors --
578 that pierce the heart.
579 Let's drink to love -- to wine
580 that warms our kisses.
582 =head2 v5.30.0 - Morihei Ueshiba
584 L<Announced on 2019-05-22 by Sawyer X|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/05/msg254844.html>
586 Life is growth. If we stop growing, technically and spiritually, we
589 =head2 v5.30.0-RC2 - Derek Walcott
591 L<Announced on 2019-05-17 by Sawyer X|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/05/msg254824.html>
593 The truest writers are those who see language not as linguistic process but
598 =head2 v5.30.0-RC1 - Marcel Proust
600 L<Announced on 2019-05-11 by Sawyer X|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/05/msg254748.html>
602 If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream
603 less but to dream more, to dream all the time.
607 =head2 v5.29.10 - Maya Angelou, Alone
609 L<Announced on 2019-04-20 by Sawyer X|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/04/msg254467.html>
613 How to find my soul a home
614 Where water is not thirsty
615 And bread loaf is not stone
616 I came up with one thing
617 And I don't believe I'm wrong
620 Can make it out here alone.
624 Can make it out here alone.
626 There are some millionaires
627 With money they can't use
628 Their wives run round like banshees
629 Their children sing the blues
630 They've got expensive doctors
631 To cure their hearts of stone.
634 Can make it out here alone.
638 Can make it out here alone.
640 Now if you listen closely
641 I'll tell you what I know
642 Storm clouds are gathering
643 The wind is gonna blow
644 The race of man is suffering
645 And I can hear the moan,
648 Can make it out here alone.
652 Can make it out here alone.
654 =head2 v5.29.9 - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Dancing Men
656 L<Announced on 2019-03-21 by Zak Elep|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/03/msg253978.html>
658 What one man can invent, another can discover.
660 =head2 v5.29.8 - Isaac Asimov, Foundation: “Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.”
662 L<Announced on 2019-02-20 by Atoomic|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/02/msg253750.html>
664 =head2 v5.29.7 - Edsger W. Dijkstra: "Programming Considered as a Human Activity", IFIP Congress, New York, 1965.
666 L<Announced on 2019-01-20 by Abigail|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/01/msg253444.html>
668 When I became acquainted with the notion of algorithmic languages I
669 never challenged the then prevailing notion that the problems of
670 language design and implementation were mostly a question of
671 compromises: every new convenience for the user had to be paid for
672 by the implementation, either in the form of increased trouble
673 during translation, or during execution or during both. Well, we
674 are most certainly not living in Heaven and I am not going to deny
675 the possibility of a conflict between convenience and efficiency,
676 but now I do protest when this conflict is presented as a complete
677 summing up of the situation. I am of the opinion that is worth-while
678 to investigate what extent the needs of Man and Machine go hand in
679 hand and to see what techniques we can devise of the benefit of all
680 of us. I trust that this investigation will bear fruits and if this
681 talk made some of you share this fervent hope, it has achieved its aim.
683 =head2 v5.29.6 - Rudyard Kipling: "How the Camel Got His Hump"
685 L<Announced on 2018-12-18 by Abigail|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/12/msg253187.html>
687 The Camel's hump is an ugly lump
688 Which well you may see at the Zoo;
689 But uglier yet is the hump we get
690 From having little to do.
692 Kiddies and grown-ups too-oo-oo
693 If we haven't enough to do-oo-oo,
696 The hump that is black and blue!
698 We climb out of bed with a frouzly head
699 And a snarly-yarly voice.
700 We shiver and scowl and we grunt and we growl
701 At our bath and our boots and our toys;
703 And there ought to be a corner for me
704 (And I know there is one for you)
705 When we get the hump -
707 The hump that is black and blue!
709 The cure for this ill is to not sit still,
710 Or frowst with a book by the fire;
711 But to take a large hoe and a shovel also,
712 And dig till you gentle perspire;
714 And then you will find that the sun and the wind,
715 And the Djinn of the Garden too,
716 Have lifted the hump -
718 The hump that is black and blue!
720 I get it as well as you-oo-oo -
721 If I haven't enough to do-oo-oo!
724 Kiddies and grown-ups too!
727 =head2 v5.29.5 - T. S. Eliot, "The Naming Of Cats"
729 L<Announced on 2018-11-20 by Karen Etheridge|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/11/msg252839.html>
731 The Naming of Cats is a difficult matter,
732 It isn't just one of your holiday games;
733 You may think at first I'm as mad as a hatter
734 When I tell you, a cat must have THREE DIFFERENT NAMES.
735 First of all, there's the name that the family use daily,
736 Such as Peter, Augustus, Alonzo or James,
737 Such as Victor or Jonathan, George or Bill Bailey--
738 All of them sensible everyday names.
739 There are fancier names if you think they sound sweeter,
740 Some for the gentlemen, some for the dames:
741 Such as Plato, Admetus, Electra, Demeter--
742 But all of them sensible everyday names.
743 But I tell you, a cat needs a name that's particular,
744 A name that's peculiar, and more dignified,
745 Else how can he keep up his tail perpendicular,
746 Or spread out his whiskers, or cherish his pride?
747 Of names of this kind, I can give you a quorum,
748 Such as Munkustrap, Quaxo, or Coricopat,
749 Such as Bombalurina, or else Jellylorum-
750 Names that never belong to more than one cat.
751 But above and beyond there's still one name left over,
752 And that is the name that you never will guess;
753 The name that no human research can discover--
754 But THE CAT HIMSELF KNOWS, and will never confess.
755 When you notice a cat in profound meditation,
756 The reason, I tell you, is always the same:
757 His mind is engaged in a rapt contemplation
758 Of the thought, of the thought, of the thought of his name:
759 His ineffable effable
761 Deep and inscrutable singular Name.
763 =head2 v5.29.4 - The Mountain Goats, "Oceanographer's Choice"
765 L<Announced on 2018-10-20 by Aaron Crane|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/10/msg252575.html>
768 Guy in a skeleton costume
769 Comes up to the guy in the Superman suit
770 Runs through him with a broadsword
771 I flipped the television off
772 Bring all the bright lights up
773 Turn the radio up loud
774 I don't know why I'm so persuaded
775 That if I think things through
776 Long enough and hard enough
777 I'll somehow get to you
778 But then you came in and we locked eyes
779 You kicked the ashtray over as we came toward each other
780 Stubbed my cigarette out against the west wall
783 Would you look at that?
784 We're throwing off sparks
785 What will I do when I don't have you
786 To hold onto in the dark?
788 =head2 v5.29.3 - Mac Miller, "Senior Skip Day"
790 L<Announced on 2018-09-20 by John 'genehack' Anderson|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/09/msg252255.html>
792 Enjoy the best things in your life
793 ’Cause you ain’t gonna get to live it twice
794 They say you waste time asleep
795 But I’m just tryin’ to dream
797 =head2 v5.29.2 - Rick Riordan, "The Lightning Thief"
799 L<Announced on 2018-08-20 by Chris 'BinGOs' Williams|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/08/msg251918.html>
801 Look, I didn't want to be a half-blood.
803 If you're reading this because you think you might be one,
804 my advice is: close this book right now. Believe whatever
805 lie your mom or dad told you about your birth, and try
806 to lead a normal life.
808 Being a half-blood is dangerous. It's scary. Most of the time,
809 it gets you killed in painful, nasty ways.
811 If you're a normal kid, reading this because you think it's
812 fiction, great. Read on. I envy you for being able to believe
813 that none of this ever happened.
815 But if you recognize yourself in these pages - if you feel
816 something stirring inside - stop reading immediately.
817 You might be one of us. And once you know that, it's only a
818 matter of time before they sense it too, and they'll come for you.
820 =head2 v5.29.1 - Richard Curtis & Ben Elton, "Blackadder, Series 3, Episode 2: Ink and Incapability"
822 L<Announced on 2018-07-20 by Steve Hay|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/07/msg251605.html>
824 Dr. Samuel Johnson: Here it is, sir: the very cornerstone of English
825 scholarship. This book, sir, contains every word in our beloved
828 Prince Regent George: Hmm.
830 Edmund Blackadder: Every single one, sir?
832 Johnson: (confidently) Every single word, sir!
834 Blackadder: (to Prince) Oh, well, in that case, sir, I hope you will
835 not object if I also offer the Doctor my most enthusiastic
840 Blackadder: 'Contrafribularities,' sir? It is a common word down our
843 Johnson: Damn! (writes in the book)
845 Blackadder: Oh, I'm sorry, sir. I'm anaspeptic, phrasmotic, even
846 compunctious to have caused you such pericombobulation.
848 Johnson: What? What? WHAT?
850 =head2 v5.29.0 - Erle Stanley Gardner, The Case of the Grinning Gorilla
852 L<Announced on 2018-06-26 by Sawyer X|http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/251297>
854 Courage is the only antidote for danger.
856 =head2 v5.28.3 - Ben Aaronovitch, "Rivers of London"
858 L<Announced on 2020-06-01 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2020/01/msg257497.html>
860 The north end of the London Borough of Camden is dominated by two hills,
861 Hampstead on the west, Highgate on the east, with the Heath, one of the
862 largest parks in London, slung between them like a green saddle. From
863 these heights the land slopes down towards the River Thames and the
864 floodplains that lurk below the built-up centre of London.
866 =head2 v5.28.2 - Edward Lear, ed. Vivien Noakes, "The Complete Nonsense and Other Verse": The Jumblies
868 L<Announced on 2019-04-19 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/04/msg254456.html>
870 They went to sea in a Sieve, they did,
871 In a Sieve they went to sea:
872 In spite of all their friends could say,
873 On a winter's morn, on a stormy day,
874 In a Sieve they went to sea!
875 And when the Sieve turned round and round,
876 And every one cried, 'You'll all be drowned!'
877 They called aloud, 'Our Sieve ain't big,
878 But we don't care a button! we don't care a fig!
879 In a Sieve we'll go to sea!'
880 Far and few, far and few,
881 Are the lands where the Jumblies live;
882 Their heads are green, and their hands are blue,
883 And they went to sea in a Sieve.
885 =head2 v5.28.2-RC1 - Edward Lear, ed. Vivien Noakes, "The Complete Nonsense and Other Verse": The Quangle Wangle's Hat
887 L<Announced on 2019-04-05 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/04/msg254218.html>
889 On the top of the Crumpetty Tree
890 The Quangle Wangle sat,
891 But his face you could not see,
892 On account of his Beaver Hat.
893 For his Hat was a hundred and two feet wide,
894 With ribbons and bibbons on every side,
895 And bells, and buttons, and loops, and lace,
896 So that nobody ever could see the face
897 Of the Quangle Wangle Quee.
899 =head2 v5.28.1 - Humphrey Burton, "Leonard Bernstein"
901 L<Announced on 2018-11-29 by Steve Hay|http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/11/msg252975.html>
903 On August 25, 1983, Leonard Bernstein celebrated his sixty-fifth
904 birthday in his birthplace, Lawrence, Massachusetts. He had actually
905 lived in the town for only a few weeks as a newborn baby, and had last
906 visited it forty-nine years previously, in 1934, to get the name on his
907 birth certificate altered from Louis to Leonard. But the citizens of
908 Lawrence proposed to dedicate an outdoor theater to him in their
909 heritage park and to provide not one but two local orchestras--the
910 Merrimack Valley Philharmonic to play excerpts from his own compositions
911 and the Greater Boston Youth Symphony and Chorus to perform the "Ode to
912 Joy" and accompany Bernstein himself reading (for the only time in his
913 life) the text of A Lincoln Portrait. So Bernstein turned down birthday
914 invitations from Tanglewood and Central Park, New York, and the
915 Hollywood Bowl and drove through the cheering if slightly bewildered
916 crowds lining the streets of Lawrence in an open-topped 1928 Ford
917 roadster, looking as homespun as James Stewart in Frank Capra's classic,
918 It's a Wonderful Life.
920 =head2 v5.28.0 - Martin Luther King, Jr., 1967
922 L<Announced on 2018-06-22 by Sawyer X|http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/251240>
924 When we look at modern man we have to face the fact that modern man
925 suffers from a kind of poverty of the spirit which stands in glaring
926 contrast with his scientific and technological abundance. We've learned
927 to fly the air as birds, we've learned to swim the seas as fish, yet we
928 haven't learned to walk the earth as brothers and sisters.
930 =head2 v5.28.0-RC4 - Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book
932 L<Announced on 2018-06-19 by Sawyer X|http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/251212>
934 You're alive, Bod. That means you have infinite potential. You can do
935 anything, make anything, dream anything. If you can change the world,
936 the world will change. Potential. Once you're dead, it's gone. Over.
937 You've made what you've made, dreamed your dream, written your name.
938 You may be buried here, you may even walk. But that potential is
941 =head2 v5.28.0-RC3 - Anthony Horowitz, Magpie Murders
943 L<Announced on 2018-06-18 by Sawyer X|http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/251204>
945 These had been his plans. But if there was one thing that life had
946 taught him, it was the futility of making plans. Life had its own
949 =head2 v5.28.0-RC2 - Oliver Sacks, The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat: And Other Clinical Tales
951 L<Announced on 2018-06-06 by Sawyer X|http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/251122>
953 Had she not been of exceptional intelligence and literacy, with an
954 imagination filled and sustained, so to speak, by the images of
955 others, images conveyed by language, by the word, she might have
956 remained almost as helpless as a baby.
958 =head2 v5.28.0-RC1 - Anu Garg, A Word A Day
960 L<Announced on 2018-05-21 by Sawyer X|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/05/msg250999.html>
962 One doesn't have to know the unit of pain (dol) to realize that the
963 unit of joy is not the dollar, or any other currency for that matter.
965 =head2 v5.27.11 - Tana French, In the Woods
967 L<Announced on 2018-04-20 by Sawyer X|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/04/msg250571.html>
969 And then, too, I had learned early to assume something dark and
970 lethal hidden at the heart of anything I loved. When I couldn't find
971 it, I responded, bewildered and wary, in the only way I knew how: by
972 planting it there myself.
974 =head2 v5.27.10 - Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, p. 248
976 L<Announced on 2018-03-20 by Todd Rinaldo|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/03/msg250042.html>
978 A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher
979 a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts,
980 build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders,
981 cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure,
982 program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly.
983 Specialization is for insects.
985 =head2 v5.27.9 - Agatha Christie, "The Mysterious Affair at Styles"
987 L<Announced on 2018-02-20 by Renee Bäcker|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/02/msg249549.html>
989 Poirot was an extraordinary looking little man. He was hardly more
990 than five feet, four inches, but carried himself with great dignity.
991 His head was exactly the shape of an egg, and he always perched it
992 a little on one side. His moustache was very stiff and military.
993 The neatness of his attire was almost incredible. I believe a
994 speck of dust would have caused him more pain than a bullet wound.
995 Yet this quaint dandified little man who, I was sorry to see, now
996 limped badly, had been in his time one of the most celebrated members
997 of the Belgian police. As a detective, his flair had been extraordinary,
998 and he had achieved triumphs by unravelling some of the most baffling
1000 He pointed out to me the little house inhabited by him and his fellow
1001 Belgians, and I promised to go and see him at an early date. Then he
1002 raised his hat with a flourish to Cynthia, and we drove away.
1003 "He's a dear little man," said Cynthia. "I'd no idea you knew him."
1004 "You've been entertaining a celebrity unawares," I replied.
1005 And, for the rest of the way home, I recited to them the various
1006 exploits and triumphs of Hercule Poirot.
1008 =head2 v5.27.8 - Jasper Fforde, "Shades of Grey"
1010 L<Announced on 2018-01-20 by Abigail|http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/248914>
1012 2.4.16.55.021: Males are to wear dresscode #6 during inter-Collective
1013 travel. Hats are encouraged, but not required.
1015 9.3.88.32.025: The cucumber and tomato are both fruit; the avocado
1016 is a nut. To assist with the dietary requirements of vegetarians,
1017 on the first Tuesday of the month a chicken is officially a vegetable.
1019 5.3.21.01.002: Once allocated, postcodes are permanent, and for life.
1021 6.1.02.11.235: Artifacture from before the Something That Happened
1022 may be collected, so long it does not appear on the Leapback list
1023 or possess color above 23 percent saturation.
1025 2.3.06.02.087: Unnecessary sharpening of pencils constitutes a waste
1026 of public resources, and will be punished as appropriate.
1028 2.1.01.05.002: All children are to attent school until the age of
1029 sixteen or until they have learned everything, whichever be the sooner.
1031 1.3.02.06.023: There shall be no staring at the sun, however good
1034 1.1.19.02.006: Team sports are mandatory in order to build character.
1035 Character is there to give purpose to team sports.
1037 2.3.03.01.006: Juggling shall not be practiced after 4:00 pm.
1040 =head2 v5.27.7 - Terry Pratchett, "Hogfather"
1042 L<Announced on 2017-12-20 by Chris 'BinGOs' Williams|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/12/msg248274.html>
1044 Death looked at the sacks.
1046 It was a strange but demonstrable fact that the sacks of
1047 toys carried by the Hogfather, no matter what they
1048 really contained, always appeared to have sticking out
1049 of the top a teddy bear, a toy soldier in the kind of
1050 colorful uniform that would stand out in a disco, a
1051 drum and a red-and-white candy cane. The actual
1052 contents always turned out to be something a bit
1053 garish and costing $5.99.
1055 Death had investigated one or two. There had been a
1056 Real Agatean Ninja, for example, with Fearsome
1057 Death Grip, and a Captain Carrot One-Man Night
1058 Watch with a complete wardrobe of toy weapons, each
1059 of which cost as much as the original wooden doll in
1062 Mind you, the stuff for the girls was just as
1063 depressing. It seemed to be nearly all horses. Most of
1064 them were grinning. Horses, Death felt, shouldn't grin.
1066 Any horse that was grinning was planning something.
1068 =head2 v5.27.6 - Ogden Nash, "Behold the Duck"
1070 L<Announced on 2017-11-20 by Karen Etheridge|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/11/msg247489.html>
1077 It is 'specially fond
1078 of puddles or ponds;
1079 when it dines or sups
1083 =head2 v5.27.5 - Frank Birch, Dilly Knox & G. P. Mackeson, "Alice in I.D.25"
1085 L<Announced on 2017-10-20 by Steve Hay|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/10/msg246785.html>
1087 'Can I do anything?' Alice suggested timidly, thinking that something
1088 dreadful must have happened.
1089 The Waterflap jumped as if it had been shot. 'What are you doing
1090 here?' it snapped. 'Take this at once into the Directional room,' and it
1091 thrust the paper which had caused all the fuss into her hands.
1092 'But where is the Directional room?' she inquired, bewildered.
1093 'Why, there of course,' howled the Waterflap, pointing to a door.
1094 'How could I possibly know that!' Alice exclaimed, angered by his
1096 'Silly girl,' it hissed. 'Why, it's called the Directional room
1097 because it's in that direction,' and it pushed her roughly through the
1100 =head2 v5.27.4 - Richard Brautigan, "All Watched Over By Machines Of Loving Grace"
1102 L<Announced on 2017-09-20 by John SJ Anderson|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/09/msg246371.html>
1104 I like to think (and
1105 the sooner the better!)
1106 of a cybernetic meadow
1107 where mammals and computers
1108 live together in mutually
1114 (right now, please!)
1115 of a cybernetic forest
1116 filled with pines and electronics
1117 where deer stroll peacefully
1119 as if they were flowers
1120 with spinning blossoms.
1124 of a cybernetic ecology
1125 where we are free of our labors
1126 and joined back to nature,
1127 returned to our mammal
1128 brothers and sisters,
1129 and all watched over
1130 by machines of loving grace.
1132 =head2 v5.27.3 - Rodgers and Hammerstein, "You'll Never Walk Alone"
1134 L<Announced on 2017-08-21 by Matthew Horsfall|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/08/msg245988.html>
1136 When you walk through a storm
1137 Hold your head up high
1138 And don't be afraid of the dark
1140 At the end of a storm
1141 There's a golden sky
1142 And the sweet silver song of a lark
1144 Walk on through the wind
1145 Walk on through the rain
1146 Though your dreams be tossed and blown
1149 With hope in your heart
1150 And you'll never walk alone
1152 You'll never walk alone
1155 With hope in your heart
1156 And you'll never walk alone
1158 You'll never walk alone
1160 =head2 v5.27.2 - Lev Grossman, Codex
1162 L<Announced on 2017-07-20 by Aaron Crane|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/07/msg245585.html>
1164 He went back for another stack of books: a three-volume English legal
1165 treatise; a travel guide to Tuscany from the '20s crammed with faded
1166 Italian wildflowers that fluttered out from between the pages like
1167 moths; a French edition of Turgeniev so decayed that it came apart in
1168 his hands; a register of London society from 1863. In a way it was
1169 idiotic. He was treating these books like they were holy relics. It
1170 wasn't like he would ever actually read them. But there was something
1171 magnetic about them, something that compelled respect, even the silly
1172 ones, like the Enlightenment treatise about how lightning was caused
1173 by bees. They were information, data, but not in the form he was used
1174 to dealing with it. They were non-digital, nonelectrical chunks of
1175 memory, not stamped out of silicon but laboriously crafted out of wood
1176 pulp and ink, leather and glue. Somebody had cared enough to write
1177 these things; somebody else had cared enough to buy them, possibly
1178 even read them, at the very least keep them safe for 150 years,
1179 sometimes longer, when they could have vanished at the touch of a
1180 spark. That made them worth something, didn't it, just by itself?
1181 Though most of them would have bored him rigid the second he cracked
1182 them open, which there wasn't much chance of. Maybe that was what he
1183 found so appealing: the sight of so many books that he'd never have to
1184 read, so much work he'd never have to do.
1186 =head2 v5.27.1 - Rona Munro, Doctor Who: Survival
1188 L<Announced on 2017-06-20 by Eric Herman|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/06/msg245055.html>
1190 There are worlds out there where the sky is burning,
1191 where the sea's asleep and the rivers dream,
1192 people made of smoke and cities made of song.
1193 Somewhere there's danger,
1194 somewhere there's injustice
1195 and somewhere else the tea is getting cold.
1196 Come on, Ace, we've got work to do.
1198 =head2 v5.27.0 - Bertrand Russell, The Road to Happiness
1200 L<Announced on 2017-05-31 by Sawyer X|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/05/msg244580.html>
1202 People who have theories as to how one should live tend to forget the
1203 limitations of nature. If your way of life involves constant
1204 restraint of impulse for the sake of some one supreme aim that you
1205 have set yourself, it is likely that the aim will become increasingly
1206 distasteful because of the efforts that it demands; impulse, denied
1207 its normal outlets, will find others, probably in spite; pleasure, if
1208 you allow yourself any at all, will be dissociated from the main
1209 current of your life, and will become Bacchic and frivolous. Such
1210 pleasure brings no happiness, but only a deeper despair.
1212 -- Bertrand Russell, The Road to Happiness
1214 =head2 v5.26.3 - Humphrey Burton, "Leonard Bernstein"
1216 L<Announced on 2018-11-29 by Steve Hay|http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/11/msg252974.html>
1218 The origins of the name "Bernstein" are sometimes linked with the German
1219 noun Bernstein, which means "amber"--a translucent yellowish fossilized
1220 resin, used for ornaments and thought to possess magical properties.
1221 Leonard Bernstein would later call himself "Lenny Amber" when he needed
1222 a pseudonym for the popular piano transcriptions he published in his
1223 mid-twenties, and his business affairs would be organized within a
1224 company called Amberson Enterprises. There are several towns and
1225 villages named Bernstein in Germany and Austria (where the pronunciation
1226 is BernSTINE), but Bernstein's parents came from Jewish ghettos in
1227 northwestern Ukraine, where the last syllable is usually pronounced
1228 BernSHTAYN or STEEN. Sam insisted, however, on the mid-European style
1229 employed by the earlier immigrants.
1231 =head2 v5.26.2 - Desmond Morris, "Catwatching: The Essential Guide to Cat Behaviour"
1233 L<Announced on 2018-04-14 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/04/msg250440.html>
1235 How does a cat use its whiskers? The usual answer is that the whiskers
1236 are feelers that enable a cat to tell whether a gap is wide enough for
1237 it to squeeze through, but the truth is more complicated and more
1238 remarkable. In addition to their obvious role as feelers sensitive to
1239 touch, the whiskers also operate as air-current detectors. As the cat
1240 moves along in the dark it needs to manoeuvre past solid objects without
1241 touching them. Each solid object it approaches causes slight eddies in
1242 the air, minute disturbances in the currents of air movements, and the
1243 cat's whiskers are so amazingly sensitive that they can read these air
1244 changes and respond to the presence of solid obstacles even without
1247 =head2 v5.26.2-RC1 - Desmond Morris, "Catwatching: The Essential Guide to Cat Behaviour"
1249 L<Announced on 2018-03-24 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/03/msg250103.html>
1251 Cats have a way of endearing themselves to their owners, not just by
1252 their 'kittenoid' behaviour, which stimulates strong parental feelings,
1253 but also by their sheer gracefulness. There is an elegance and a
1254 composure about them that captivates the human eye. To the sensitive
1255 human being it becomes a privilege to share a room with a cat, exchange
1256 its glance, feel its greeting rub, or watch it gently luxuriate itself
1257 into a snoozing ball on a soft cushion.
1259 =head2 v5.26.1 - Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
1261 L<Announced on 2017-09-22 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/09/msg246408.html>
1263 And soon I heard a roaring wind:
1264 It did not come anear;
1265 But with its sound it shook the sails,
1266 That were so thin and sere.
1268 The upper air burst into life!
1269 And a hundred fire-flags sheen,
1270 To and fro they were hurried about!
1271 And to and fro, and in and out,
1272 The wan stars danced between.
1274 =head2 v5.26.1-RC1 - Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
1276 L<Announced on 2017-09-10 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/09/msg246202.html>
1278 At length did cross an Albatross,
1279 Thorough the fog it came;
1280 As if it had been a Christian soul,
1281 We hailed it in God's name.
1283 It ate the food it ne'er had eat,
1284 And round and round it flew.
1285 The ice did split with a thunder-fit;
1286 The helmsman steered us through!
1288 And a good south wind sprung up behind;
1289 The Albatross did follow,
1290 And every day, for food or play,
1291 Came to the mariner's hollo!
1293 In mist or cloud, on mast or shroud,
1294 It perched for vespers nine;
1295 Whiles all the night, through fog-smoke white,
1296 Glimmered the white Moon-shine.'
1298 'God save thee, ancient Mariner!
1299 From the fiends, that plague thee thus!—
1300 Why look'st thou so?'—With my cross-bow
1301 I shot the ALBATROSS.
1303 =head2 v5.26.0 - Nine Simone, Ain't Got No / I Got Life
1305 L<Announced on 2017-05-30 by Sawyer X|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/05/msg244573.html>
1308 And I'm gonna keep it
1310 And nobody's gonna take it away
1313 =head2 v5.26.0-RC2 - Richard Condon, The Manchurian Candidate
1315 L<Announced on 2017-05-23 by Sawyer X|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/05/msg244511.html>
1317 Amateur psychiatric prognosis can be fascinating when there is
1318 absolutely nothing else to do.
1320 =head2 v5.26.0-RC1 - Thomas Paine, Common Sense
1322 L<Announced on 2017-05-11 by Sawyer X|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/05/msg244337.html>
1324 A long habit of not thinking a thing WRONG, gives it a superficial
1325 appearance of being RIGHT, and raises at first a formidable outcry in
1326 defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more
1327 converts than reason.
1329 =head2 v5.25.12 - Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
1331 L<Announced on 2017-04-20 by Sawyer X|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/04/msg244146.html>
1333 I have told my sons that they are not under any circumstances to take
1334 part in massacres, and that the news of massacres of enemies is not
1335 to fill them with satisfaction or glee.
1337 I have also told them not to work for companies which make massacre
1338 machinery, and to express contempt for people who think we need
1339 machinery like that.
1341 =head2 v5.25.11 - Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow
1343 L<Announced on 2017-03-20 by Sawyer X|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/03/msg243624.html>
1345 Subjective confidence in a judgment is not a reasoned evaluation of
1346 the probability that this judgment is correct. Confidence is a
1347 feeling, which reflects the coherence of the information and the
1348 cognitive ease of processing it. It is wise to take admissions of
1349 uncertainty seriously, but declarations of high confidence mainly
1350 tell you that an individual has constructed a coherent story in his
1351 mind, not necessarily that the story is true.
1353 =head2 v5.25.10 - Erich Fried, 1968
1355 L<Announced on 2017-02-20 by Renee Bäcker|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/02/msg243173.html>
1357 He who wants the world to remain as it is
1358 doesn't want it to remain.
1360 =head2 v5.25.9 - A. A. Milne, "Winnie-the-Pooh", 1926
1362 L<Announced on 2017-01-20 by Abigail|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/01/msg242405.html>
1364 Pooh always liked a little something at eleven o'clock in the
1365 morning, and he was very glad to see Rabbit getting out the plates
1366 and mugs; and when Rabbit said, "Honey or condensed milk with
1367 your bread?" he was so excited that he said, "Both," and then,
1368 so as not to seem greedy, he added, "But don't bother about the
1371 =head2 v5.25.8 - Langston Hughes, So long
1373 L<Announced on 2016-12-20 by Sawyer X|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/12/msg241739.html>
1377 and it's in the way you're gone
1378 but it's like a foreign language
1380 and maybe was I blind
1386 =head2 v5.25.7 - J.R.R. Tolkien, "The Silmarillion"
1388 L<Announced on 2016-11-20 by Chad 'Exodist' Granum|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/11/msg241120.html>
1390 Of Beren and Lúthien
1392 Among the tales of sorrow and of ruin that come down to us from the darkness of
1393 those days there are yet some in which amid weeping there is joy and under the
1394 shadow of death light that endures. And of these histories most fair still in
1395 the ears of the Elves is the tale of Beren and Lúthien. Of their lives was made
1396 the Lay of Leithian, Release from Bondage, which is the longest save one of the
1397 songs concerning the world of old; but here is told in fewer words and without
1400 =head2 v5.25.6 - Alan Warner, "The Sopranos"
1402 L<Announced on 2016-10-10 by Aaron Crane|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/10/msg240406.html>
1404 I'm up on all the pop trivia, says the guy with the stud in his tongue.
1406 Yes. Do you know who the lead singer of Echo and the Bunnymen is?
1407 Let me guess, is he called Echo?
1408 Good guess but no, anyway when they played Glastonbury it was so
1409 muddy he had two roadies to hold up a binliner on each of his legs so
1410 they wouldn't get covered in mud.
1411 That's what being rich and famous is all about, having someone
1412 else hold up your binliners on each leg when you're wandering across
1414 Do you know what Sammy Davis Junior said being black and famous in
1417 He said being black and famous in America meant he could be
1418 refused entry to exclusive clubs and restaurants that other people
1419 could only ever dream of going to. Do you know Michael Stipe likes to
1420 send his remote control toy cars onto stage while his support band are
1421 playing to freak them out?
1422 Who's Michael Stipe?
1423 You're not really a pop trivia person, are you, Kylah?
1424 No, I'm not, Stephen.
1426 =head2 v5.25.5 - Philip K. Dick, VALIS
1428 L<Announced on 2016-09-20 by Stevan Little|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/09/msg239887.html>
1430 We hypostatize information into objects. Rearrangement of objects is
1431 change in the content of the information; the message has changed.
1432 This is a language which we have lost the ability to read. We ourselves
1433 are a part of this language; changes in us are changes in the content
1434 of the information. We ourselves are information-rich; information
1435 enters us, is processed and is then projected outward once more, now
1436 in an altered form. We are not aware that we are doing this, that in
1437 fact this is all we are doing
1439 =head2 v5.25.4 - Terry Pratchett, "Truckers"
1441 L<Announced on 2016-08-20 by Chris 'BinGOs' Williams|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/08/msg239191.html>
1443 Concerning Nomes and Time
1445 Nomes are small. On the whole, small creatures don't live for a long
1446 time. But perhaps they do live fast.
1450 One of the shortest-lived creatures on the planet Earth is the adult
1451 common mayfly. It lasts for one day. The longest-living things are
1452 bristlecone pine trees, at 4,700 years and still counting.
1454 This may seem tough on the mayflies. But the important thing is not
1455 how long your life is, but how long it seems.
1457 To a mayfly, a single hour may last as long as a century. Perhaps
1458 old mayflies sit around complaining about how life this minute isn't a
1459 patch on the good old minutes of long ago, when the world was
1460 young and the sun seemed so much brighter and larvae showed you a
1461 bit of respect. Whereas the trees, which are not famous to their
1462 quick reactions, may just have time to notice the way the sky keeps
1463 flickering before the dry rot and woodworm set in.
1465 It's all a sort of relativity. The faster you live, the more time
1466 stretches out. To a nome, a year lasts as long as ten years does to a
1467 human. Remember it. Don't let it concern you. They don't. They don't
1470 =head2 v5.25.3 - Edward Lear, ed. Vivien Noakes, "The Complete Nonsense and Other Verse": The Dong with a Luminous Nose
1472 L<Announced on 2016-07-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/07/msg238158.html>
1474 When awful darkness and silence reign
1475 Over the great Gromboolian plain,
1476 Through the long, long wintry nights; -
1477 When the angry breakers roar
1478 As they beat on the rocky shore; -
1479 When Storm-clouds brood on the towering heights
1480 Of the Hills of the Chankly Bore: -
1482 Then, through the vast and gloomy dark,
1483 There moves what seems a fiery spark,
1484 A lonely spark with silvery rays
1485 Piercing the coal-black night, -
1486 A Meteor strange and bright: -
1487 Hither and thither the vision strays,
1488 A single lurid light.
1490 Slowly it wanders, - pauses, - creeps, -
1491 Anon it sparkles, - flashes and leaps;
1492 And ever as onward it gleaming goes
1493 A light on the Bong-tree stems it throws.
1494 And those who watch at that midnight hour
1495 From Hall or Terrace, or lofty Tower,
1496 Cry, as the wild light passes along, -
1497 'The Dong! - the Dong!
1498 The wandering Dong through the forest goes!
1500 The Dong with a luminous Nose!'
1502 =head2 v5.25.2 - Dan le Sac Vs Scroobius Pip "Waiting For The Beat To Kick In"
1504 L<Announced on 2016-06-20 by Matthew Horsfall|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/06/msg237274.html>
1506 Waiting for the beat to kick in
1508 Waiting for my feet to grow wings
1510 All of these tiresome things
1511 That we know and love
1512 Waiting for the beat to kick in
1515 =head2 v5.25.1 - Eli Pariser, "The Filter Bubble"
1517 L<Announced on 2016-05-20 by Sawyer X|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/05/msg236566.html>
1519 Imagine that you're a smart high school student on the low end of the social
1520 totem pole. You're alienated from adult authority, but unlike many teenagers,
1521 you're also alienated from the power structures of your peers -- an existence
1522 that can feel lonely and peripheral. Systems and equations are intuitive, but
1523 people aren't -- social signals are confusing and messy, difficult to interpret.
1525 Then you discover code. You may be powerless at the lunch table, but code
1526 gives you power over an infinitely malleable world and opens the door to a
1527 symbolic system that's perfectly clear and ordered. The jostling for position
1528 and status fades away. The nagging parental voices disappear. There's just a
1529 clean, white page for you to fill, an opportunity to build a better place, a
1530 home, from the ground up.
1532 No wonder you're a geek.
1534 =head2 v5.25.0 - Robert Frost, "The Trial by Existence"
1536 L<Announced on 2016-05-09 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/05/msg236244.html>
1538 Even the bravest that are slain
1539 Shall not dissemble their surprise
1540 On waking to find valor reign,
1541 Even as on earth, in paradise;
1542 And where they sought without the sword
1543 Wide fields of asphodel fore’er,
1544 To find that the utmost reward
1545 Of daring should be still to dare.
1547 =head2 v5.24.4 - Desmond Morris, "Catwatching: The Essential Guide to Cat Behaviour"
1549 L<Announced on 2018-04-14 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/04/msg250439.html>
1551 Cats hate doors. Doors simply do not register in the evolutionary story
1552 of the cat family. They constantly block patrolling activities and
1553 prevent cats from exploring their home range and then returning to their
1554 central, secure base at will. Humans often do not understand that a cat
1555 needs to make only a brief survey of its territory before returning with
1556 all the necessary information about the activities of other cats in the
1557 vicinity. It likes to make these tours of inspection at frequent
1558 intervals, but does not want to stay outside for very long, unless there
1559 has been some special and unexpected change in the condition of the
1560 local feline population.
1562 =head2 v5.24.4-RC1 - Desmond Morris, "Catwatching: The Essential Guide to Cat Behaviour"
1564 L<Announced on 2018-03-24 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/03/msg250102.html>
1566 The domestic cat is a contradiction. No animal has developed such an
1567 intimate relationship with mankind, while at the same time demanding and
1568 getting such independence of movement and action. The dog may be man's
1569 best friend, but it is rarely allowed out on its own to wander from
1570 garden to garden or street to street. The obedient dog has to be taken
1571 for a walk. The headstrong cat walks alone.
1573 =head2 v5.24.3 - Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
1575 L<Announced on 2017-09-22 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/09/msg246407.html>
1577 Oh sleep! it is a gentle thing,
1578 Beloved from pole to pole!
1579 To Mary Queen the praise be given!
1580 She sent the gentle sleep from Heaven,
1581 That slid into my soul.
1583 The silly buckets on the deck,
1584 That had so long remained,
1585 I dreamt that they were filled with dew;
1586 And when I awoke, it rained.
1588 =head2 v5.24.3-RC1 - Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
1590 L<Announced on 2017-09-10 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/09/msg246201.html>
1592 'And now the STORM-BLAST came, and he
1593 Was tyrannous and strong:
1594 He struck with his o'ertaking wings,
1595 And chased us south along.
1597 With sloping masts and dipping prow,
1598 As who pursued with yell and blow
1599 Still treads the shadow of his foe,
1600 And forward bends his head,
1601 The ship drove fast, loud roared the blast,
1602 And southward aye we fled.
1604 And now there came both mist and snow,
1605 And it grew wondrous cold:
1606 And ice, mast-high, came floating by,
1607 As green as emerald.
1609 And through the drifts the snowy clifts
1610 Did send a dismal sheen:
1611 Nor shapes of men nor beasts we ken—
1612 The ice was all between.
1614 The ice was here, the ice was there,
1615 The ice was all around:
1616 It cracked and growled, and roared and howled,
1617 Like noises in a swound!
1619 =head2 v5.24.2 - Roald Dahl, "The Three Little Pigs"
1621 L<Announced on 2017-07-15 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/07/msg245527.html>
1623 A short while later, through the wood,
1624 Came striding brave Miss Riding Hood.
1625 The Wolf stood there, his eyes ablaze
1626 And yellowish, like mayonnaise.
1627 His teeth were sharp, his gums were raw,
1628 And spit was dripping from his jaw.
1629 Once more the maiden's eyelid flickers.
1630 She draws the pistol from her knickers.
1631 Once more, she hits the vital spot,
1632 And kills him with a single shot.
1633 Pig, peeping through the window, stood
1634 And yelled, 'Well done, Miss Riding Hood!'
1636 Ah, Piglet, you must never trust
1637 Young ladies from the upper crust.
1638 For now, Miss Riding Hood, one notes,
1639 Not only has two wolfskin coats,
1640 But when she goes from place to place,
1641 She has a PIGSKIN TRAVELLING CASE.
1643 =head2 v5.24.2-RC1 - Roald Dahl, "The Three Little Pigs"
1645 L<Announced on 2017-07-01 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/07/msg245292.html>
1647 The animal I really dig
1648 Above all others is the pig.
1649 Pigs are noble. Pigs are clever,
1650 Pig are courteous. However,
1651 Now and then, to break this rule,
1652 One meets a pig who is a fool.
1653 What, for example, would you say
1654 If strolling through the woods one day,
1655 Right there in front of you you saw
1656 A pig who'd built his house of STRAW?
1657 The Wolf who saw it licked his lips,
1658 And said, 'That pig has had his chips.'
1660 =head2 v5.24.1 - Charles Dodgson [as "Lewis Carroll"], "The Hunting of the Snark", Fit 4: The Hunting
1662 L<Announced on 2017-01-14 by Steve Hay|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/01/msg242259.html>
1664 The Bellman looked uffish, and wrinkled his brow.
1665 'If only you'd spoken before!
1666 It's excessively awkward to mention it now,
1667 With the Snark, so to speak, at the door!
1669 'We should all of us grieve, as you well may believe,
1670 If you never were met with again -
1671 But surely, my man, when the voyage began,
1672 You might have suggested it then?
1674 'It's excessively awkward to mention it now -
1675 As I think I've already remarked.'
1676 And the man they called 'Hi!' replied, with a sigh,
1677 'I informed you the day we embarked.
1679 'You may charge me with murder - or want of sense -
1680 (We are all of us weak at times):
1681 But the slightest approach to a false pretence
1682 Was never among my crimes!
1684 'I said it in Hebrew - I said it in Dutch -
1685 I said it in German and Greek:
1686 But I wholly forgot (and it vexes me much)
1687 That English is what you speak!'
1689 ''Tis a pitiful tale,' said the Bellman, whose face
1690 Had grown longer at every word:
1691 'But, now that you've stated the whole of your case,
1692 More debate would be simply absurd.
1694 'The rest of my speech' (he exclaimed to his men)
1695 'You shall hear when I've leisure to speak it.
1696 But the Snark is at hand, let me tell you again!
1697 'Tis your glorious duty to seek it!
1699 =head2 v5.24.1-RC5 - John Milton, ed. Gordon Campbell, "Paradise Regained", Book IV
1701 L<Announced on 2017-01-02 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/01/msg242016.html>
1703 Thus passed the night so foul, till Morning fair
1704 Came forth with pilgrim steps, in amice grey;
1705 Who with her radiant finger stilled the roar
1706 Of thunder, chased the clouds, and laid the winds,
1707 And grisly spectres, which the fiend had raised
1708 To tempt the Son of God with terrors dire.
1709 And now the sun with more effectual beams
1710 Had cheered the face of earth, and dried the wet
1711 From drooping plant, or dropping tree; the birds,
1712 Who all things now behold more fresh and green,
1713 After a night of storm so ruinous,
1714 Cleared up their choicest notes in bush and spray,
1715 To gratulate the sweet return of morn.
1717 =head2 v5.24.1-RC4 - John Milton, ed. Gordon Campbell, "Paradise Lost", Book II
1719 L<Announced on 2016-10-12 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/10/msg240224.html>
1721 Before the gates there sat
1722 On either side a formidable shape;
1723 The one seemed woman to the waste, and fair,
1724 But ended foul in many a scaly fold,
1725 Voluminous and vast -- a serpent armed
1726 With mortal sting; about her middle round
1727 A cry of hell hounds never ceasing barked
1728 With wide Cerberean mouths full loud, and rung
1729 A hideous peal; yet, when they list, would creep,
1730 If aught disturbed their noise, into her womb,
1731 And kennel there; yet there still barked and howled
1732 Within unseen. Far less abhorred than these
1733 Vexed Scylla, bathing in the sea that parts
1734 Calabria from the hoarse Trinacrian shore;
1735 Nor uglier follow the night-hag, when, called
1736 In secret, riding through the air she comes,
1737 Lured with the smell of infant blood, to dance
1738 With Lapland witches, while the labouring moon
1739 Eclipses at their charms. The other shape --
1740 If shape it might be called that shape had none
1741 Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb;
1742 Or substance might be called that shadow seemed,
1743 For each seemed either -- black it stood as night,
1744 Fierce as ten Furies, terrible as hell,
1745 And shook a dreadful dart: what seemed his head
1746 The likeness of a kingly crown had on.
1747 Satan was now at hand, and from his seat
1748 The monster moving onward came as fast
1749 With horrid strides; hell trembled as he strode.
1751 =head2 v5.24.1-RC3 - Dante Alighieri, trans. Dorothy L. Sayers and Barbara Reynolds, "The Divine Comedy", Cantica III: Paradise, Canto XXIII
1753 L<Announced on 2016-08-11 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/08/msg238909.html>
1755 A bird within the bower of her delight,
1756 Quiet upon the nest with her sweet brood
1757 Throughout the dark concealment of the night,
1759 Anxious to look on them and gather food -
1760 No weary task for her, for as at play
1761 Blithely she toils to seek her fledglings' good -
1763 Before the time, upon the topmost spray
1764 Eager awaits the sun and on the East
1765 Fixes her wakeful eye till break of day.
1767 =head2 v5.24.1-RC2 - Dante Alighieri, trans. Dorothy L. Sayers, "The Divine Comedy", Cantica II: Purgatory, Canto X
1769 L<Announced on 2016-07-25 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/07/msg238269.html>
1771 When we had crossed the threshold of that gate
1772 Which the soul's evil loves put out of use,
1773 Because they make the crooked path seem straight,
1775 I heard its closing clang ring clamorous,
1776 And had I then turned back my eyes to it
1777 How could my fault have found the least excuse?
1779 We had to climb now through a rocky slit
1780 Which ran from side to side in many a swerve,
1781 As runs the wave in onset and retreat.
1783 "Now here," the master said, "we must observe
1784 Some little caution, hugging now this wall,
1785 Now that, upon the far side of the curve."
1787 =head2 v5.24.1-RC1 - Dante Alighieri, trans. Dorothy L. Sayers, "The Divine Comedy", Cantica I: Hell, Canto XX
1789 L<Announced on 2016-07-17 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/07/msg238072.html>
1791 New punishments behoves me sing in this
1792 Twentieth canto of my first canticle,
1793 Which tells of spirits sunk in the Abyss.
1795 I now stood ready to observe the full
1796 Extent of the new chasm thus laid bare,
1797 Drenched as it was in tears most miserable.
1799 Through the round vale I saw folk drawing near,
1800 Weeping and silent, and at such slow pace
1801 As Litany processions keep, up here.
1803 And presently, when I had dropped my gaze
1804 Lower than the head, I saw them strangely wried
1805 'Twixt collar-bone and chin, so that the face
1807 Of each was turned towards his own backside,
1808 And backwards must they needs creep with their feet,
1809 All power of looking forward being denied.
1811 =head2 v5.24.0 - Robert Frost, "The Black Cottage"
1813 L<Announced on 2016-05-09 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/05/msg236242.html>
1815 As I sit here, and oftentimes, I wish
1816 I could be monarch of a desert land
1817 I could devote and dedicate forever
1818 To the truths we keep coming back and back to.
1819 So desert it would have to be, so walled
1820 By mountain ranges half in summer snow,
1821 No one would covet it or think it worth
1822 The pains of conquering to force change on.
1823 Scattered oases where men dwelt, but mostly
1824 Sand dunes held loosely in tamarisk
1825 Blown over and over themselves in idleness.
1826 Sand grains should sugar in the natal dew
1827 The babe born to the desert, the sand storm
1828 Retard mid-waste my cowering caravans—
1830 “There are bees in this wall.” He struck the clapboards,
1831 Fierce heads looked out; small bodies pivoted.
1832 We rose to go. Sunset blazed on the windows.
1834 =head2 v5.24.0-RC5 - The Mountain Goats, "No Children"
1836 L<Announced on 2016-05-04 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/05/msg236198.html>
1838 And I hope when you think of me years down the line
1839 You can't find one good thing to say
1840 And I'd hope that if I found the strength to walk out
1841 You'd stay the hell out of my way
1843 I am drowning, there is no sign of land
1844 You are coming down with me, hand in unlovable hand
1846 =head2 v5.24.0-RC4 - The Joker in "The Killing Joke"
1848 L<Announced on 2016-05-02 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/05/msg236145.html>
1850 "See, there were these two guys in a lunatic asylum…"
1852 =head2 v5.24.0-RC3 - Jesse Vincent
1854 L<Announced on 2016-04-27 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/04/msg236066.html>
1856 The Great Pumpkin is a Santa-Claus like figure. He does bring toys like
1857 Santa. But unlike Santa, who gives away toys because it's his job, he
1858 gives away toys because it's the right thing to do.
1860 =head2 v5.24.0-RC2 - Joseph Heller, "Catch-22"
1862 L<Announced on 2016-04-23 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/04/msg235999.html>
1864 “How do you feel, Yossarian?”
1866 “Fine. No, I’m very frightened.”
1868 “That’s good,” said Major Danby. “It proves you’re still alive. It won’t
1871 Yossarian started out. “Yes it will.”
1873 “I mean it, Yossarian. You’ll have to keep on your toes every minute of
1874 every day. They’ll bend heaven and earth to catch you.”
1876 “I’ll keep on my toes every minute.”
1878 “You’ll have to jump.”
1882 “Jump!” Major Danby cried.
1886 Nately’s [girl] was hiding just outside the door. The knife came down,
1887 missing him by inches, and he took off.
1889 =head2 v5.24.0-RC1 - Robert Frost, "The Census-Taker"
1891 L<Announced on 2016-04-14 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/04/msg235807.html>
1893 Nothing was left to do that I could see
1894 Unless to find that there was no one there
1895 And declare to the cliffs too far for echo,
1896 "The place is desert, and let whoso lurks
1897 In silence, if in this he is aggrieved,
1898 Break silence now or be forever silent.
1899 Let him say why it should not be declared so."
1900 The melancholy of having to count souls
1901 Where they grow fewer and fewer every year
1902 Is extreme where they shrink to none at all.
1903 It must be I want life to go on living.
1905 =head2 v5.23.9 - Tom Kitchin, "from nature to plate"
1907 L<Announced on 2016-03-20 by Abigail|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/03/msg235251.html>
1911 Spring is the proper beginning of my kitchen and a season that I
1912 look forward to with great anticipation. By the time spring arrives
1913 I am desperate to welcome all the spring produce into my kitchen
1914 and I long to work with fresh green vegetables again. As much as I
1915 love root vegetables, such as celeriac and parsnips, and the heaver
1916 meat and game dishes, I'm ready to leave those behind with winter
1917 and begin a new adventure.
1919 Somehow spring always gives me a little bit of bounce in my feet
1920 -- I feel like I want to kick off my shoes and dance around in my
1921 kitchen. Not that I do, of course, but I feel lighter somehow. My
1922 adrenalin kicks in with spring and so does the level of excitement,
1923 as I think about all the produce that is about to come in.
1925 The moment spring arrives I'm eager to cook peas, broad beans, green
1926 asparagus and other fresh vegetables! I want to create lighter,
1927 brighter dishes and I can't wait to get my hands on the first greens
1928 and the first morels, not to mention the first wild Scottish salmon.
1929 Thanks to my network of trusted suppliers, I always get to first
1930 produce of the season delivered to my restaurant as soon as it is
1931 possible. I want my customers to experience and understand the
1932 beauty of locally grown produce and to try things the minute they
1933 are available so they can taste how incredibly fresh the ingredients
1934 are. I also want them to understand the relationship between
1935 seasonality and flavours. One of the most important things to
1936 remember is to allow the seasons to inspire your dishes and help
1937 you make natural matches. Wild spring herbs, such as sorrel, sweet
1938 cicely and wild garlic, as well as spring salad leaves and green
1939 lettuce served with wild salmon, wild sea trout, lamb or rabbit are
1940 marriages made in heaven.
1943 =head2 v5.23.8 - Patrick Rothfuss, "The Wise Man's Fear (The Kingkiller's Chronicle: Day Two)"
1945 L<Announced on 2016-02-20 by Sawyer X|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/02/msg234535.html>
1947 Denna, on the other hand, had never been trained. She knew nothing
1948 of shortcuts. You'd think she'd be forced to wander the city, lost and
1949 helpless, trapped in a twisting maze of mortared stone.
1951 But instead, she simply walked throught the walls. She didn't know
1952 any better. Nobody had ever told her she couldn't. Because of this,
1953 she moved through the city like some faerie creature. She walked roads
1954 no one else could see, and it made her music wild and strange and
1957 =head2 v5.23.7 - William Gibson, "Neuromancer"
1959 L<Announced on 2016-01-20 by Stevan Little|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/01/msg233856.html>
1961 A year here and he still dreamed of cyberspace, hope fading
1962 nightly. All the speed he took, all the turns he'd taken and
1963 the corners he cut in Night City, and he'd still see the matrix
1964 in his dreams, bright lattices of logic unfolding across that
1965 colourless void...The Sprawl was a long, strange way home now
1966 over the Pacific, and he was no Console Man, no cyberspace
1967 cowboy. Just another hustler, trying to make it through. But
1968 the dreams came on in the Japanese night like livewire voodoo,
1969 and he'd cry for it, cry in his sleep, and wake alone in the
1970 dark, curled in his capsule in some coffin hotel, hands clawed
1971 into the bedslab, temper foam bunched between his fingers,
1972 trying to reach the console that wasn't there.
1974 =head2 v5.23.6 - 5.23 Episode VII
1976 L<Announced on 2015-12-21 by David Golden|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/12/msg233475.html>
1978 A long time ago in microseconds, in a galaxy not very far away...
1984 unrest as separatists
1985 announce their intentions
1986 to fork PERL and return the
1987 galaxy to speed and stability.
1989 Chancellor Rik Hoolian struggles
1990 to hold together the remains of the
1991 once mighty Republic against a tide of
1992 incivility and the depredations of a new
1993 foe, the FUZZ RAIDERS.
1995 Meanwhile, after 15 years of preparation and
1996 high expectations, Supreme Leader Toady prepares
1997 to unleash a devastating new weapon, PERL SIXDOTOH,
1998 that could splinter the Republic forever and usher in
1999 a new Empire of gradual typing....
2001 =head2 v5.23.5 - utastro!nather (Ed Nather), "The Story of Mel", in net.jokes, May 21, 1983.
2003 L<Announced on 2015-11-20 by Abigail|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/11/msg232758.html>
2005 After Mel had left the company for greener pa$ture$, the Big Boss asked
2006 me to look at the code and see if I could find the test and reverse it.
2007 Somewhat reluctantly, I agreed to look. Tracking Mel's code was a real
2010 I have often felt that programming is an art form, whose real value can
2011 only be appreciated by another versed in the same arcane art; there are
2012 lovely gems and brilliant coups hidden from human view and admiration,
2013 sometimes forever, by the very nature of the process. You can learn a
2014 lot about an individual just by reading through his code, even in
2015 hexadecimal. Mel was, I think, an unsung genius.
2017 Perhaps my greatest shock came when I found an innocent loop that had
2018 no test in it. No test. None. Common sense said it had to be a closed
2019 loop, where the program would circle, forever, endlessly. Program
2020 control passed right through it, however, and safely out the other side.
2021 It took me two weeks to figure it out.
2023 The RPC-4000 computer had a really modern facility called an index
2024 register. It allowed the programmer to write a program loop that used
2025 an indexed instruction inside; each time through, the number in the
2026 index register was added to the address of that instruction, so it
2027 would refer to the next datum in a series. He had only to increment
2028 the index register each time through. Mel never used it.
2030 Instead, he would pull the instruction into a machine register, add one
2031 to its address, and store it back. He would then execute the modified
2032 instruction right from the register. The loop was written so this
2033 additional execution time was taken into account -- just as this
2034 instruction finished, the next one was right under the drum's read head,
2035 ready to go. But the loop had no test in it.
2037 The vital clue came when I noticed the index register bit, the bit that
2038 lay between the address and the operation code in the instruction word,
2039 was turned on -- yet Mel never used the index register, leaving it zero
2040 all the time. When the light went on it nearly blinded me.
2042 He had located the data he was working on near the top of memory -- the
2043 largest locations the instructions could address -- so, after the last
2044 datum was handled, incrementing the instruction address would make it
2045 overflow. The carry would add one to the operation code, changing it to
2046 the next one in the instruction set: a jump instruction. Sure enough,
2047 the next program instruction was in address location zero, and the
2048 program went happily on its way.
2050 =head2 v5.23.4 - Denis Diderot, trans. David Coward, "Jacques the Fatalist"
2052 L<Announced on 2015-10-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/10/msg232040.html>
2054 Well, everybody's got a dog. The prime minister is the king's dog. The
2055 first secretary is the prime minister's dog. A wife is a husband's dog,
2056 or a husband is a wife's dog. Favourite is Madame So-and-so's dog and
2057 Thibaut is the man on the corner's dog. When my Master tells me to talk
2058 when I'd prefer not to, which to be honest doesn't happen very often,
2059 when he tells me to shut up when I feel like talking, which I find very
2060 difficult, when he asks me to tell the story of my love-life and then
2061 keeps interrupting, what am I if not his dog? Weak men are the dogs of
2064 =head2 v5.23.3 - Oliver Wendell Holmes, "The Deacon’s Masterpiece or The Wonderful 'One-Hoss Shay': A Logical Story"
2066 L<Announced on 2015-09-20 by Peter Martini|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/09/msg231173.html>
2068 Little of of all we value here
2069 Wakes on the morn of its hundredth year
2070 Without both feeling and looking queer.
2071 In fact, there’s nothing that keeps its youth,
2072 So far as I know, but a tree and truth.
2073 (This is a moral that runs at large;
2074 Take it. — You’re welcome. — No extra charge.)
2076 =head2 v5.23.2 - Blind Guardian, "Skalds and Shadows"
2078 L<Announced on 2015-08-20 by Matthew Horsfall|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/08/msg230298.html>
2080 Would you believe in a night like this
2081 A night like this, when visions come true
2082 Would you believe in a tale like this
2083 A lay of bliss, praise in the old lore
2084 Come to the blazing fire and
2086 See me in the shadows
2087 See me in the shadows
2090 Just hand me my harp
2091 This night turns into myth
2094 The world we live in is another skald's
2095 Dream in the shadows
2096 Dream in the shadows
2098 Do you believe there is sense in it
2099 Is it truth or myth?
2100 They´re one in my rhymes
2101 Nobody knows the meaning behind
2103 Well nobody else but the Norns can
2104 See through the blazing fires of time and
2105 All things will proceed as the
2106 Child of the hallowed
2107 Will speak to you now
2109 See me in the shadows
2110 See me in the shadows
2111 Songs I will sing of tribes and kings
2112 The carrion bird and the hall of the slain
2115 The world we live in is another skald´s
2116 Dream in the shadows
2117 Dream in the shadows
2119 Do not fear for my reason
2120 There's nothing to hide
2121 How bitter your treason
2123 Remember the runes and remember the light
2124 All I ever want is to be at your side
2125 We'll gladden the raven now I will
2126 Run through the blazing fires
2128 Cause things shall proceed as foreseen
2130 =head2 v5.23.1 - Elizabeth Haydon, "The Assassin King"
2132 L<Announced on 2015-07-20 by Matthew Horsfall|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/07/msg229413.html>
2134 I was born beneath this willow,
2135 Where my sire the earth did farm
2136 Had the green grass as my pillow
2137 The east wind as a blanket warm.
2139 But away! away! called the wind from the west
2140 And in answer I did run
2141 Seeking glory and adventure
2142 Promised by the rising sun.
2144 I found love beneath this willow,
2145 As true a love as life could hold,
2146 Pledged my heart and swore my fealty
2147 Sealed with a kiss and a band of gold.
2149 But to arms! to arms! called the wind from the west
2150 In faithful answer I did run
2151 Marching forth for king and country
2152 In battles 'neath the midday sun.
2154 Oft I dreamt of that fair willow
2155 As the seven seas I plied
2156 And the girl who I left waiting
2157 Longing to be at her side.
2159 But about! about! called the wind from the west
2160 As once again my ship did run
2161 Down the coast, about the wide world
2162 Flying sails in the setting sun.
2164 Now I lie beneath the willow
2165 Now at last no more to roam,
2166 My bride and earth so tightly hold me
2167 In their arms I'm finally home.
2169 While away! away! calls the wind from the west
2170 Beyond the grave my spirit, free
2171 Will chase the sun into the morning
2172 Beyond the sky, beyond the sea.
2174 =head2 v5.23.0 - Bob Dylan, "Maggie's Farm"
2176 L<Announced on 2015-06-20 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/06/msg228807.html>
2178 I ain't gonna work on Maggie's farm no more
2179 I ain't gonna work on Maggie's farm no more
2181 To be just like I am
2182 But everybody wants you
2183 To be just like them
2184 They sing while you slave and I just get bored
2185 I ain't gonna work on Maggie's farm no more
2187 =head2 v5.22.4 - Roald Dahl, "Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf"
2189 L<Announced on 2017-07-15 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/07/msg245526.html>
2191 Then Little Red Riding Hood said, 'But Grandma,
2192 what a lovely great big furry coat you have on.'
2193 'That's wrong!' cried Wolf. 'Have you forgot
2194 'To tell me what BIG TEETH I've got?
2195 'Ah well, no matter what you say,
2196 'I'm going to eat you anyway.'
2197 The small girl smiles. One eyelid flickers.
2198 She whips a pistol from her knickers.
2199 She aims it at the creature's head
2200 And bang bang bang, she shoots him dead.
2202 A few weeks later, in the wood,
2203 I came across Miss Riding Hood.
2204 But what a change! No cloak of red,
2205 No silly hood upon her head.
2206 She said, 'Hello, and do please note
2207 'My lovely furry WOLFSKIN COAT.'
2209 =head2 v5.22.4-RC1 - Roald Dahl, "Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf"
2211 L<Announced on 2017-07-01 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/07/msg245293.html>
2213 As soon as Wolf began to feel
2214 That he would like a decent meal,
2215 He went and knocked on Grandma's door.
2216 When Grandma opened it, she saw
2217 The sharp white teeth, the horrid grin,
2218 And Wolfie said, 'May I come in?'
2219 Poor Grandmamma was terrified,
2220 'He's going to eat me up!' she cried.
2221 And she was absolutely right.
2222 He ate her up in one big bite.
2224 =head2 v5.22.3 - Charles Dodgson [as "Lewis Carroll"], "Phantasmagoria", Canto 6: Discomfyture
2226 L<Announced on 2017-01-14 by Steve Hay|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/01/msg242258.html>
2228 As one who strives a hill to climb,
2229 Who never climbed before:
2230 Who finds it, in a little time,
2231 Grow every moment less sublime,
2232 And votes the thing a bore:
2234 Yet, having once begun to try,
2235 Dares not desert his quest,
2236 But, climbing, ever keeps his eye
2237 On one small hut against the sky
2238 Wherein he hopes to rest:
2240 Who climbs till nerve and force are spent,
2241 With many a puff and pant:
2242 Who still, as rises the ascent,
2243 In language grows more violent,
2244 Although in breath more scant:
2246 Who, climbing, gains at length the place
2247 That crowns the upward track:
2248 And, entering with unsteady pace,
2249 Receives a buffet in the face
2250 That lands him on his back:
2252 And feels himself, like one in sleep,
2253 Glide swiftly down again,
2254 A helpless weight, from steep to steep,
2255 Till, with a headlong giddy sweep,
2256 He drops upon the plain -
2258 So I, that had resolved to bring
2259 Conviction to a ghost,
2260 And found it quite a different thing
2261 From any human arguing,
2262 Yet dared not quit my post.
2264 =head2 v5.22.3-RC5 - John Milton, ed. Gordon Campbell, "Paradise Regained", Book II
2266 L<Announced on 2017-01-02 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/01/msg242017.html>
2268 Thus wore out night; and now the herald lark
2269 Left his ground-nest, high towering to descry
2270 The Morn's approach, and greet her with his song;
2271 As lightly from his grassy couch up rose
2272 Our Saviour, and found all was but a dream;
2273 Fasting he went to sleep, and fasting waked.
2274 Up to a hill anon his steps he reared,
2275 From whose high top to ken the prospect round,
2276 If cottage were in view, sheep-cote, or herd;
2277 But cottage, herd, or sheep-cote, none he saw --
2278 Only in a bottom saw a pleasant grove,
2279 With chant of tuneful birds resounding loud;
2280 Thither he bent his way, determined there
2281 To rest at noon, and entered soon the shade,
2282 High-roofed and walks beneath, and alleys brown,
2283 That opened in the midst a woody scene;
2284 Nature's own work it seemed (Nature taught Art),
2285 And, to a superstitious eye, the haunt
2286 Of wood-gods and wood-nymphs.
2288 =head2 v5.22.3-RC4 - John Milton, ed. Gordon Campbell, "Paradise Lost", Book II
2290 L<Announced on 2016-10-12 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/10/msg240223.html>
2292 Far off from these, a slow and silent stream,
2293 Lethe, the river of oblivion, rolls
2294 Her watery labyrinth, whereof who drinks
2295 Forthwith his former state and being forgets --
2296 Forgets both joy and grief, pleasure and pain.
2297 Beyond this flood a frozen continent
2298 Lies dark and wild, beat with perpetual storms
2299 Of Whirlwind and dire hail, which on firm land
2300 Thaws not, but gathers heap, and ruin seems
2301 Of ancient pile; all else deep snow and ice,
2302 A gulf profound as that Serbonian bog
2303 Betwixt Damiata and Mount Casius old,
2304 Where armies whole have sunk: the parching air
2305 Burns frore, and cold performs the effect of fire.
2306 Thither, by harpy-footed Furies haled,
2307 At certain revolutions all the damned
2308 Are brought; and feel by turns the bitter change
2309 Of fierce extremes, extremes by change more fierce,
2310 From beds of raging fire to starve in ice
2311 Their soft ethereal warmth, and there to pine
2312 Immovable, infixed, and frozen round
2313 Periods of time -- thence hurried back to fire.
2314 They ferry over this Lethean sound
2315 Both to and fro, their sorrow to augment,
2316 And wish and struggle, as they pass, to reach
2317 The tempting stream, with one small drop to lose
2318 In sweet forgetfulness all pain and woe,
2319 All in one moment, and so near the brink;
2320 But fate withstands, and, to oppose the attempt,
2321 Medusa with Gorgonian terror guards
2322 The ford, and of itself the water flies
2323 All taste of living wight, as once it fled
2324 The lip of Tantalus.
2326 =head2 v5.22.3-RC3 - Dante Alighieri, trans. Dorothy L. Sayers and Barbara Reynolds, "The Divine Comedy", Cantica III: Paradise, Canto IV
2328 L<Announced on 2016-08-11 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/08/msg238908.html>
2330 Between two dishes, equally attractive
2331 And near to him, a free man, I suppose,
2332 Would starve to death before his teeth got active;
2334 So would a lamb 'twixt two fierce wolfish foes,
2335 Fearing the fangs both ways, not stir a foot;
2336 So would a deerhound halt between two does;
2338 So I can't blame myself for standing mute,
2339 Nor praise myself: for I must needs so do,
2340 Suspended 'twixt two doubts, alike acute.
2342 =head2 v5.22.3-RC2 - Dante Alighieri, trans. Dorothy L. Sayers, "The Divine Comedy", Cantica II: Purgatory, Canto I
2344 L<Announced on 2016-07-25 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/07/msg238270.html>
2346 For better waters heading with the wind
2347 My ship of genius now shakes out her sail
2348 And leaves that ocean of despair behind;
2350 For to the second realm I tune my tale,
2351 Where human spirits purge themselves, and train
2352 To leap up into joy celestial.
2354 Now from the grave wake poetry again,
2355 O sacred Muses I have served so long!
2356 Now let Calliope uplift her strain
2358 And lift my voice up on the mighty song
2359 That smote the miserable Magpies nine
2360 Out of all hope of pardon for their wrong!
2362 =head2 v5.22.3-RC1 - Dante Alighieri, trans. Dorothy L. Sayers, "The Divine Comedy", Cantica I: Hell, Canto XII
2364 L<Announced on 2016-07-17 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/07/msg238071.html>
2366 The place we came to, to descend the brink from,
2367 Was sheer crag; and there was a Thing there - making,
2368 All told, a prospect any eye would shrink from.
2370 Like the great landslide that rushed downward, shaking
2371 The bank of Adige on this side Trent,
2372 (Whether through faulty shoring or the earth's quaking)
2374 So that the rock, down from the summit rent
2375 Far as the plain, lies strewn, and one might crawl
2376 From top to bottom by that unsure descent,
2378 Such was the precipice; and there we spied,
2379 Topping the cleft that split the rocky wall,
2380 That which was wombed in the false heifer's side,
2382 The infamy of Crete, stretched out a-sprawl;
2383 And seeing us, he gnawed himself, like one
2384 Inly devoured with spite and burning gall.
2386 =head2 v5.22.2 - Gaston Leroux, trans. Mireille Ribière, "The Phantom of the Opera"
2388 L<Announced on 2016-04-29 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/04/msg236120.html>
2390 A silence; and then: 'If, in just two minutes' time by my watch--and a
2391 splendid watch it is--you have not turned the scorpion, mademoiselle, I
2392 shall turn the grasshopper... and the grasshopper, remember, _leaps
2393 straight up into the air!_'
2394 The silence that ensued was terrifying, worse than any we had
2395 experienced before. I knew that when Erik spoke with that quiet,
2396 gentle, slightly weary voice, it meant that he had reached the end of
2397 his tether: that he was capable of the most abominable crimes or the
2398 most selfless devotion; that the slightest irritation might unleash a
2400 Realizing that our fate was out of our hands, the Viscount fell to his
2401 knees and prayed. As for me, I pressed both hands to my chest, for my
2402 heart was pounding so fiercely that I thought it would burst. We were
2403 intensely aware of the excruciating dilemma Christine Daaé faced in
2404 those final seconds. We understood why she hesitated to turn the
2405 scorpion. What if the scorpion, rather than the grasshopper, were to
2406 set off the explosion? What if Erik was simply intent on destroying
2407 everything, regardless?
2408 At last he spoke: 'The two minutes are up,' he said in a soft, angelic
2409 voice. 'Goodbye, mademoiselle. Off you go, little grasshopper!'
2411 =head2 v5.22.2-RC1 - Gaston Leroux, trans. Mireille Ribière, "The Phantom of the Opera"
2413 L<Announced on 2016-04-10 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/04/msg235732.html>
2415 This annual ball was quite a magnificent affair. It was given some time
2416 before Shrovetide to celebrate the birthday of a famous illustrator
2417 whose pencil had immortalized, in the style of Gavarni, the extravagant
2418 carnival parade down La Courtille. As such, the ball was an altogether
2419 merrier, noisier and more Bohemian occasion than was usual for a masked
2420 ball. Many artists had arranged to meet there; they arrived with an
2421 entourage of models and pupils, who, by midnight, had become quite
2423 Raoul climbed the grand staircase at five minutes to midnight. He did
2424 not linger to admire the many-coloured costumes on display all the way
2425 up the marble steps of one of the most luxurious settings in the world;
2426 nor did he allow himself to be drawn into the facetious conversation of
2427 masked guests. He simply ignored all the jesting remarks, and shook off
2428 the attentions of several all too merry couples.
2429 Crossing the big crush-room and escaping from the dancers' farandole
2430 that had encircled him awhile, he at last entered the salon mentioned by
2431 Christine in her letter. The small room was crammed with people either
2432 on their way to supper at the restaurant in the Rotunda or back from
2433 raising a glass of champagne.
2434 In the midst of the gay and lively hubbub, Raoul thought that, for their
2435 mysterious assignation, Christine must have preferred this crowd to some
2437 He leaned against a door-jamb and waited. He did not have to wait long;
2438 a black domino passed him and deftly touched his hand. He understood
2439 that it was Christine and followed her.
2440 'Is that you, Christine?' he murmured, barely moving his slips.
2441 The black domino promptly looked back and raised her finger to her lips,
2442 no doubt to caution him against uttering her name again. Raoul followed
2445 =head2 v5.22.1 - Wilhelm Müller, trans. Anon., "Courage" (No. 22 in Schubert's song-cycle, "Winterreise")
2447 L<Announced on 2015-12-13 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/12/msg233318.html>
2449 If the snow flies in my face,
2450 Let me shake it off me!
2451 If my heart within me speaks,
2452 I'll sing bright and gaily!
2454 Will not listen what it says,
2455 Have no ears for moaning.
2456 Do not feel what it complains,--
2457 Only fools like groaning!
2459 Jolly brave into the world,
2460 'Gainst all wind and weather,--
2461 If there is no God on earth,
2462 Let 's be gods down nether!
2464 =head2 v5.22.1-RC4 - Wilhelm Müller, trans. Anon., "The Signpost" (No. 20 in Schubert's song-cycle, "Winterreise")
2466 L<Announced on 2015-12-08 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/12/msg233215.html>
2468 Why do I shun all those highways
2469 Which the other wanderer seeks?
2470 Why do I find bridged by-ways
2471 Through snow-covered deep creeks?
2473 For I have no crime committed,
2474 Why I should now run from men,--
2475 What demented heart's desire
2476 Drives me to a desert glen?
2478 Signposts on all highways stationed
2479 Point their signs toward the towns,
2480 Whilst I wonder 'yond moderation,
2481 Without rest, yet seeking rest!
2483 One such signpost I see planted
2484 Of my question unconcerned,
2485 One road must my choice be granted,
2486 Whence no man has yet returned!
2488 =head2 v5.22.1-RC3 - Wilhelm Müller, trans. Anon., "Stormy Morning" (No. 18 in Schubert's song-cycle, "Winterreise")
2490 L<Announced on 2015-12-02 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/12/msg233032.html>
2492 How the storm tore rents
2493 In heavens gray attired!
2494 The rags of cloud are flying
2495 Around, of combat tired.
2497 And flames of fire lambent,
2498 Fly between them and part,
2499 That 's what I call a morning,
2500 A morning after my heart!
2502 My heart sees in the heavens
2503 Its own picture unspoilt--
2504 It's nothing but the Winter,
2505 The Winter, cold and wild.
2507 =head2 v5.22.1-RC2 - Wilhelm Müller, trans. Anon., "The Old Head" (No. 14 in Schubert's song-cycle, "Winterreise")
2509 L<Announced on 2015-11-15 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/11/msg232632.html>
2511 The hoary frost has a white sheen
2512 Strewn all over my hair,
2513 So I thought I was an old man
2514 And thought life dealt me fair.
2516 Yet soon was thawed my old white mane,
2517 And I have my black hair again.
2518 How I abhor my young fair years,
2519 How long to wait for death and biers?
2521 From setting sun to morning's hue
2522 Many a head turns white.
2523 Who'll credit it? My hair did not
2524 In all this lifelong plight!
2526 =head2 v5.22.1-RC1 - Wilhelm Müller, trans. Anon., "Will-o'-the Wisp" (No. 9 in Schubert's song-cycle, "Winterreise")
2528 L<Announced on 2015-10-31 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/10/msg232321.html>
2530 In the deepest rocky crevice
2531 A will-o'-the wisp lured me;
2532 How I could find my way from here,
2533 For me it's easy memory!
2535 For I am used to straying ways,
2536 Every path to th'end a way,
2537 All our joys and all our suffering,--
2538 To a will-o'-the wisp it 's all play!
2540 Through the dried-up bed of torrents
2541 I quite calmly downward stroll;
2542 Every stream its sea will enter,
2543 Every suffering finds its goal!
2545 =head2 v5.22.0 - Gene Wolfe, The Citadel of the Autarch
2547 L<Announced on 2015-06-01 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/06/msg228300.html>
2549 “You are the advocate of the dead.”
2551 The old man nodded. “I am. People talk about being fair to this one and
2552 that one, but nobody I ever heard talks about doing right by them. We
2553 take everything they had, which is all right. And spit, most often, on
2554 their opinions, which I suppose is all right too. But we ought to
2555 remember now and then how much of what we have we got from them. I
2556 figure while I’m still here I ought to put a word in for them.”
2558 =head2 v5.22.0-RC2 - T.S. Eliot, unpublished work
2560 L<Announced on 2015-05-21 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/05/msg228142.html>
2562 And when thyself with silver foot shall pass
2563 Among the theories scattered on the grass
2564 Take up my good intentions with the rest
2566 =head2 v5.22.0-RC1 - Gene Wolfe, Citadel of the Autarch
2568 L<Announced on 2015-05-19 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/05/msg228059.html>
2570 There is no limit to stupidity. Space itself is said to be bounded by
2571 its own curvature, but stupidity continues beyond infinity.
2573 =head2 v5.21.11 - Algernon Charles Swinburne, "Dolores (Notre-Dame des Sept Douleurs)"
2575 L<Announced on 2015-04-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/04/msg227472.html>
2577 They shall pass and their places be taken,
2578 The gods and the priests that are pure.
2579 They shall pass, and shalt thou not be shaken?
2580 They shall perish, and shalt thou endure?
2581 Death laughs, breathing close and relentless
2582 In the nostrils and eyelids of lust,
2583 With a pinch in his fingers of scentless
2586 But the worm shall revive thee with kisses;
2587 Thou shalt change and transmute as a god,
2588 As the rod to a serpent that hisses,
2589 As the serpent again to a rod.
2590 Thy life shall not cease though thou doff it;
2591 Thou shalt live until evil be slain,
2592 And good shall die first, said thy prophet,
2595 =head2 v5.21.10 - Aldous Huxley, "The Devils of Loudun"
2597 L<Announced on 2015-03-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/03/msg226847.html>
2599 The fire burned on, the good fathers continued to sprinkle and intone.
2600 Suddenly a flock of pigeons came swooping down from the church and
2601 started to wheel around the roaring column of flame and smoke. The
2602 crowd shouted, the archers waved their halberds at the birds, Lactance
2603 and Tranquille splashed them on the wing with holy water. In vain. The
2604 pigeons were not to be driven away. Round and round they flew, diving
2605 through the smoke, singeing their feathers in the flames. Both parties
2606 claimed a miracle. For the parson's enemies the birds, quite obviously,
2607 were a troop of devils, come to fetch away his soul. For his friends,
2608 they were emblems of the Holy Ghost and living proof of his innocence.
2609 It never seems to have occurred to anyone that they were just pigeons,
2610 obeying the laws of their own, their blessedly other-than-human nature.
2612 =head2 v5.21.9 - Emily Dickinson, "There is Another Sky"
2614 L<Announced on 2015-02-20 by Sawyer X|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/02/msg226002.html>
2616 There is another sky,
2617 Ever serene and fair,
2618 And there is another sunshine,
2619 Though it be darkness there;
2620 Never mind faded forests, Austin,
2621 Never mind silent fields -
2622 Here is a little forest,
2623 Whose leaf is ever green;
2624 Here is a brighter garden,
2625 Where not a frost has been;
2626 In its unfading flowers
2627 I hear the bright bee hum:
2628 Prithee, my brother,
2629 Into my garden come!
2631 =head2 v5.21.8 - Bill Watterson, "Scientific Progress Goes 'Boink': A Calvin and Hobbes Collection"
2633 L<Announced on 2015-01-20 by Matthew Horsfall|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/01/msg224869.html>
2635 Calvin: OK Hobbes, press the button and duplicate me.
2636 Hobbes: Are you sure this is such a good idea?
2637 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?
2638 Hobbes: I'd hate to be accused of inhibiting scientific progress... Here you go.
2640 Hobbes: Scientific progress goes "BOINK"?
2641 Calvin?: It worked! It worked! I'm a genius!
2642 Cavlin??: No you're not, you liar! *I* invented this!
2644 =head2 v5.21.7 - Robert Heinlein, "The Number of the Beast"
2646 L<Announced on 2014-12-20 by Max Maischein|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/12/msg223774.html>
2648 "Zebadiah, Hilda and I salvaged and put everything into the basket.
2649 Hilda started to put it into our wardrobe-and it was heavy. So
2650 we looked. Packed as tight as when we left Oz. Six bananas-and
2651 everything else. Cross my heart. No, go look."
2652 "Hmmm- Jake, can you write equations for a picnic basket that
2653 refills itself? Will it go on doing so?"
2654 "Zeb, equations can be written to describe anything. The description
2655 would be simpler for a basket that replenishes itself indefinitely
2656 than for one that does it once and stops-I would have to describe
2659 =head2 v5.21.6 - Jeff Noon, "Vurt"
2661 L<Announced on 2014-11-20 by Chris 'BinGOs' Williams|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/11/msg222448.html>
2665 EXCHANGE MECHANISMS. Sometimes we lose precious
2666 things. Friends and colleagues, fellow travellers in the
2667 Vurt, sometimes we lose them; even lovers we sometimes
2668 lose. And get bad things in exchange: aliens, objects,
2669 snakes, and sometimes even death. Things we don't want.
2670 This is part of the deal, part of the game deal;
2671 all things, in all worlds, must be kept in balance.
2672 Kittlings often ask, who decides on the swappings? Now then,
2673 some say it's all accidental; that some poor Vurt thing
2674 finds himself too close to a door, at too critical a time,
2675 just when something real is being lost. Whoosh! Swap time!
2676 Others say that some kind of overseer is working the
2677 MECHANISMS OF EXCHANGE, deciding the fate of innocents.
2678 The Cat can only tease at this, because of the big secrets
2679 involved, and because of the levels between you, the reader,
2680 and me, the Game Cat. Hey, listen; I've struggled to get
2681 where I am today; why should I give you the easy route?
2682 Get working, kittlings! Reach up higher. Work the Vurt.
2684 =head2 v5.21.5 - Friso Wiegersma (text), Jean Ferrat (music), Wim Sonneveld (performer), "Het Dorp"
2686 L<Announced on 2014-10-20 by Abigail|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/10/msg221399.html>
2690 Thuis heb ik nog een ansichtkaart
2691 waarop een kerk, een kar met paard,
2692 een slagerij J. van der Ven.
2693 Een kroeg, een juffrouw op de fiets
2694 het zegt u hoogstwaarschijnlijk niets,
2695 maar 't is waar ik geboren ben.
2696 Dit dorp, ik weet nog hoe het was,
2697 de boerenkind'ren in de klas,
2698 een kar die ratelt op de keien,
2699 het raadhuis met een pomp ervoor,
2700 een zandweg tussen koren door,
2701 het vee, de boerderijen.
2703 En langs het tuinpad van m'n vader
2704 zag ik de hoge bomen staan.
2705 Ik was een kind en wist niet beter,
2706 dan dat dat nooit voorbij zou gaan.
2708 Wat leefden ze eenvoudig toen
2709 in simp'le huizen tussen groen
2710 met boerenbloemen en een heg.
2711 Maar blijkbaar leefden ze verkeerd,
2712 het dorp is gemoderniseerd
2713 en nu zijn ze op de goeie weg.
2714 Want ziet, hoe rijk het leven is,
2715 ze zien de televisiequiz
2716 en wonen in betonnen dozen,
2717 met flink veel glas, dan kun je zien
2718 hoe of het bankstel staat bij Mien
2719 en d'r dressoir met plastic rozen.
2721 En langs het tuinpad van m'n vader
2722 zag ik de hoge bomen staan.
2723 Ik was een kind en wist niet beter,
2724 dan dat dat nooit voorbij zou gaan.
2726 De dorpsjeugd klit wat bij elkaar
2727 in minirok en beatle-haar
2728 en joelt wat mee met beat-muziek.
2729 Ik weet wel, het is hun goeie recht,
2730 de nieuwe tijd, net wat u zegt,
2731 maar het maakt me wat melancholiek.
2732 Ik heb hun vaders nog gekend
2733 ze kochten zoethout voor een cent
2734 ik zag hun moeders touwtjespringen.
2735 Dat dorp van toen, het is voorbij,
2736 dit is al wat er bleef voor mij:
2737 een ansicht en herinneringen.
2739 Toen ik langs het tuinpad van m'n vader
2740 de hoge bomen nog zag staan.
2741 Ik was een kind, hoe kon ik weten
2742 dat dat voorgoed voorbij zou gaan.
2744 =head2 v5.21.4 - Edgar Allan Poe, "The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket"
2746 L<Announced on 2014-09-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/09/msg220267.html>
2748 To-day, being in latitude 83° 20', longitude 43° 5' W. (the sea being
2749 of an extraordinarily dark colour), we again saw land from the
2750 masthead, and, upon a closer scrutiny, found it to be one of a group
2751 of very large islands. The shore was precipitous, and the interior
2752 seemed to be well wooded, a circumstance which occasioned us great
2753 joy. In about four hours from our first discovering the land we came
2754 to anchor in ten fathoms, sandy bottom, a league from the coast, as a
2755 high surf, with strong ripples here and there, rendered a nearer
2756 approach of doubtful expediency. The two largest boats were now
2757 ordered out, and a party, well armed (among whome were Peters and
2758 myself), proceeded to look for an opening in the reef which appeared
2759 to encircle the island. After searching about for some time, we
2760 discovered an inlet, which we were entering, when we saw four large
2761 canoes put off from the shore, filled with men who seemed to be well
2762 armed. We waited for them to come up, and, as they moved with great
2763 rapidity, they were soon within hail. Captain Guy now held up a white
2764 handkerchief on the blade of an oar, when the strangers made a full
2765 stop, and commenced a loud jabbering all at once, intermingled with
2766 occasional shouts, in which we could distinguish the words Anamoo-moo!
2767 and Lama-Lama! They continued this for at least half an hour, during
2768 which we had a good opportunity of observing their appearance.
2770 =head2 v5.21.3 - Robert Service, "The Men that Don't Fit In"
2772 L<Announced on 2014-08-20 by Peter Martini|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/08/msg218826.html>
2774 If they just went straight they might go far,
2775 They are strong and brave and true;
2776 But they're always tired of the things that are,
2777 And they want the strange and new.
2778 They say: "Could I find my proper groove,
2779 What a deep mark I would make!"
2780 So they chop and change, and each fresh move
2781 Is only a fresh mistake.
2783 =head2 v5.21.2 - Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, Charlie Duke, Final minutes of communication of the first manned moon landing, July 20, 1969
2785 L<Announced on 2014-07-20 by Abigail|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/07/msg217937.html>
2787 Armstrong: Okay. Here's a...Looks like a good area here.
2788 Aldrin: I got the shadow out there.
2789 Aldrin: 250, down at 2 1/2, 19 forward.
2790 Aldrin: Altitude, velocity lights.
2791 Aldrin: 3 1/2 down, 220 feet, 13 forward.
2792 Aldrin: 11 forward. Coming down nicely.
2793 Armstrong: Gonna be right over that crater.
2794 Aldrin: 200 feet, 4 1/2 down.
2796 Armstrong: I got a good spot [garbled].
2797 Aldrin: 160 feet, 6 1/2 down.
2798 Aldrin: 5 1/2 down, 9 forward. You're looking good.
2800 Aldrin: 100 feet, 3 1/2 down, 9 forward. Five percent. Quantity light.
2801 Aldrin: Okay. 75 feet. And it's looking good. Down a half, 6 forward.
2804 Aldrin: 60 feet, down 2 1/2. 2 forward. 2 forward. That's good.
2805 Aldrin: 40 feet, down 2 1/2. Picking up some dust.
2806 Aldrin: 30 feet, 2 1/2 down. [Garbled] shadow.
2807 Aldrin: 4 forward. 4 forward. Drifting to the right a little. 20 feet,
2810 Aldrin: Drifting forward just a little bit; that's good.
2811 Aldrin: Contact Light.
2812 Armstrong: Shutdown.
2813 Aldrin: Okay. Engine Stop.
2814 Aldrin: ACA out of Detent.
2815 Armstrong: Out of Detent. Auto.
2816 Aldrin: Mode Control, both Auto. Descent Engine Command Override, Off.
2817 Engine Arm, Off. 413 is in.
2818 Duke: We copy you down, Eagle.
2819 Armstrong: Engine arm is off.
2820 Armstrong: Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed.
2821 Duke: Roger, Twan...[correcting himself] Tranquility. We copy you on
2822 the ground. You got a bunch of guys about to turn blue.
2823 We're breathing again. Thanks a lot.
2826 =head2 v5.21.1 - Robert Jordan, "The Crossroads of Twilights", Book 10 of "The Wheel of Time"
2828 L<Announced on 2014-06-20 by Matthew Horsfall|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/06/msg217030.html>
2830 We rode on the winds of the rising storm,
2831 We ran to the sounds of the thunder.
2832 We danced among the lightning bolts,
2833 and tore the world asunder.
2835 -- Anonymous fragment of a poem believed
2836 written near the end of the previous Age,
2837 known by some as the Third Age.
2838 Sometimes attributed to the Dragon
2841 =head2 v5.21.0 - Friedrich von Schiller, "The Song of the Bell"
2843 L<Announced on 2014-05-27 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/05/msg215826.html>
2845 Walled in fast within the earth
2846 Stands the form burnt out of clay.
2847 This must be the bell’s great birth!
2848 Fellows, lend a hand to-day.
2849 Sweat must trickle now
2850 From the burning brow,
2851 Till the work its master honour.
2852 Blessing comes from Heaven’s Donor.
2854 =head2 v5.20.3 - Elias Lönnrot, trans. Keith Bosley, "The Kalevala", Canto 42: Stealing the Sampo
2856 L<Announced on 2015-09-12 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/09/msg230945.html>
2858 Steady old Väinämöinen
2859 uttered a word and spoke thus:
2860 'No lilting on the waters
2861 and no singing on the waves!
2864 Precious day would pass and night
2865 would overtake us midway
2866 on these wide waters
2867 upon these vast waves.'
2869 The wanton Lemminkäinen
2870 uttered a word and spoke thus:
2871 'The time will pass anyway
2872 the fair day will flee
2873 and the night will come panting
2874 and the twilight will steal in
2875 if you don't sing while you live
2876 nor hum in this world.'
2878 =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"
2880 L<Announced on 2015-08-29 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/08/msg230544.html>
2882 'I fled from Basra, sad and tearful, with no idea where I was going,
2883 and I was reciting these lines:
2885 The pain of parting makes me melt away,
2886 As lovers do when those they love are harsh.
2887 I wonder at the patience that I showed
2888 When I had lost my love, for that was wonderful.
2889 Beloved, do you know that since you left,
2890 I have remained confused in misery.
2892 I then heard a voice that said: "Damn you, have you no fear of
2893 Almighty God that you hand over a girl to an unbelieving 'ifrit?" I
2894 walked for a time amongst the palm-trees until I caught sight of a
2895 person, whom I approached. When I asked him who he was he said: "I
2896 am one of the jinn who were converted to Islam at the hands of 'Ali
2897 ibn Abi Talib, may God ennoble him." "How can I get to my wife?" I
2898 asked him, and he said: "Wretched fellow, you had a bird which you
2899 allowed to fly away and now you want to fly after it." But he
2900 added: "Follow this road with God's blessing all night until dawn
2901 and then by the shore you will see a huge cave in which there is an
2902 idol made of white stone. You must drink of the water that there is
2903 coming out of the cave and smear your face with its mud. Stay there
2904 and a barge will pass you as you stand opposite the statue. Various
2905 different creatures will emerge, heads without bodies and bodies
2906 without heads, and they will prostrate themselves in adoration to
2907 the idol rather than to Almighty God. When you see that, embark on
2908 the barge and cross to the other bank and walk along it until
2909 sunset. On a high point you will see a castle built of bricks of
2910 gold and silver. That is where your 'ifrit will be. I have now
2911 told you about this, so goodbye."
2913 =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"
2915 L<Announced on 2015-08-22 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/08/msg230359.html>
2917 'On the night of the wedding the ape came to sit in front of me and
2918 asked me what I intended to do. "Whatever you tell me," I replied,
2919 and he said: "Take care not to covet the girl, or I shall come back
2920 and burn you up and leave you as a lesson for those who can learn."
2921 I agreed to this and when evening came I found the world full of
2922 candles and torches burning in holders of gold and silver. There
2923 were servants and serving girls, and everyone who saw me
2924 congratulated me on my good fortune, as there was no girl on the
2925 face of the earth more beautiful than my bride.
2927 'Next morning I went out to the market, and people went in and asked
2928 her how the night had been. "He never looked up at me," she told
2929 them. Then, when it was afternoon, I went to my house, where the
2930 ape was sitting by the door. "Tell me what you did," it said, and I
2931 told it: "By God, I did not learn and do not know whether this was a
2932 man or a girl." "That's what I want," it said.
2934 'On the second night my bride was brought to me, after which the
2935 servants left her and went away. She fell asleep, and, while she
2936 was sleeping, I killed the cock, wrapped it in the cloth and put the
2937 four poles from the couch over it. Suddenly there was a huge crash
2938 like a peal of thunder and a fiery 'ifrit swooped on the girl. I
2939 fainted at the sight and when I recovered I heard a voice saying:
2940 "By the Lord of the Ka'ba, the girl has been carried off!" and there
2941 was a sound like the rustling of wind and bitter weeping. At this I
2942 shed tears, struck my head and was filled with regret when it was no
2943 longer of any use, for to me the whole world was worth no more than
2946 =head2 v5.20.2 - Jonathan "Jonti" Picking, L<"Magical Trevor"|http://weebls-stuff.com/toons/magical-trevor-episode-01-animated-music-video-mrweebl/>
2948 L<Announced on 2015-02-14 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/02/msg225777.html>
2950 Everyone loves Magical Trevor,
2951 'Cos the tricks that he does are ever so clever;
2952 Look at him now, disappearin' the cow,
2953 Where is the cow hidden right now?
2955 Taking a bow, it's Magical Trevor,
2956 Everybody's seen that the trick is clever;
2957 Look at him there with his leathery, leathery whip!
2958 It's made of magic, and with a little flip--
2960 Yeah, yeah, yeah, the cow is back,
2961 Yeah, yeah, yeah, the cow is back;
2962 Back, back, back from his magical journey,
2965 What did he see in the parallel dimension?
2966 He saw beans, lots of beans, lots of beans, lots of beans;
2967 Oh, beans, lots of beans, lots of beans, lots of beans,
2970 =head2 v5.20.2-RC1 - Jonathan "Jonti" Picking, L<"Scampi"|http://weebls-stuff.com/toons/ive-seen-things-scampi-animated-music-video-mrweebl/>
2972 L<Announced on 2015-02-01 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/02/msg225273.html>
2975 I've seen them with my eyes;
2977 They're often in disguise.
2979 Like carrots, handbags, cheese, toilets,
2980 Russians, planets, hamsters, weddings,
2981 Poets, Stalin, Kuala Lumpur!
2982 Pygmies, budgies, Kuala Lumpur!
2985 I've seen them with my eyes;
2987 They're often in disguise.
2989 Like carrots, handbags, cheese...
2991 =head2 v5.20.1 - Lorenzo da Ponte, trans. Diana Reed, "Così fan tutte"
2993 L<Announced on 2014-09-14 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/09/msg219789.html>
2995 DORABELLA (as if waking from a daze): Where are they?
2996 DON ALFONSO: They've gone.
2997 FIORDILIGI: Oh, the cruel bitterness of parting!
3000 Take heart, my dearest children.
3001 Look, in the distance, your lovers are waving to you.
3003 FIORDILIGI: Bon voyage, my darling!
3004 DORABELLA: Bon voyage!
3007 O heavens! How swiftly the ship is sailing away!
3008 It is disappearing already!
3009 It is no longer in sight!
3010 Oh, may heaven grant it a prosperous voyage!
3012 DORABELLA: May good luck attend it to the battlefield!
3013 DON ALFONSO: And may your sweethearts and my friends be safe!
3015 FIORDILIGI, DORABELLA, DON ALFONSO:
3016 May the wind be gentle,
3017 may the sea be calm,
3018 and may the elements
3022 =head2 v5.20.1-RC2 - Lorenzo da Ponte, trans. William Weaver, "Così fan tutte"
3024 L<Announced on 2014-09-07 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/09/msg219446.html>
3027 Oh God, I feel that this foot of mine
3028 is reluctant to come before her.
3035 The hero displays his manliness
3036 in the most terrible moments.
3038 FIORDILIGI, DORABELLA:
3039 Now that we have heard the news,
3040 you have the lesser duty:
3041 Take heart, and plunge your swords
3042 into both our hearts.
3044 FERRANDO, GUGLIELMO:
3046 that I must abandon you.
3048 DORABELLA: Ah no, you shall not leave...
3049 FIORDILIGI: No, cruel one, you shall not go...
3050 DORABELLA: First I want to tear out my heart.
3051 FIORDILIGI: First I want to die at your feet.
3052 FERRANDO (softly to Don Alfonso): What do you say to that?
3053 GUGLIELMO (softly to Don Alfonso): You realise?
3054 DON ALFONSO (softly): Steady, friend, finem lauda.
3057 Thus destiny defrauds
3058 the hopes of mortals.
3059 Ah, among so many misfortunes,
3060 who can ever love life?
3062 =head2 v5.20.1-RC1 - Lorenzo da Ponte, trans. William Weaver, "Così fan tutte"
3064 L<Announced on 2014-08-25 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/08/msg218975.html>
3067 I'd like to speak, but I haven't the heart:
3069 My voice cannot emerge,
3070 but remains in my throat.
3071 What will you do? What shall I do?
3072 Oh what a great catastrophe!
3073 There can be nothing worse.
3074 I feel pity for you and for them.
3076 FIORDILIGI: Heavens! For mercy's sake, Signor Alfonso, don't make us
3078 DON ALFONSO: My children, you must arm yourselves with constancy.
3079 DORABELLA: Ye Gods! What evil has occurred? What horrible event? Is my
3081 FIORDILIGI: Is mine dead?
3082 DON ALFONSO: They are not dead, but they are not far from it.
3086 DON ALFONSO: Nor that.
3087 FIORDILIGI: What, then?
3088 DON ALFONSO: A royal command summons them to the field of battle.
3089 FIORDILIGI, DORABELLA: Alas, what do I hear? And they will leave?
3090 DON ALFONSO: Immediately.
3091 DORABELLA: And there is no way of preventing it?
3092 DON ALFONSO: There is none.
3093 FIORDILIGI: And not even a single farewell...
3094 DON ALFONSO: The unhappy men haven't the courage to see you; but if
3095 you wish it, they are ready...
3096 DORABELLA: Where are they?
3097 DON ALFONSO: Come in, friends.
3099 =head2 v5.20.0 - William Shakespeare, Sonnet 18
3101 L<Announced on 2014-05-27 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/05/msg215815.html>
3103 But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
3104 Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st;
3105 Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
3106 When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st:
3107 So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
3108 So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
3110 =head2 v5.20.0-RC1 - Lindsey Buckingham, "Second Hand News"
3112 L<Announced on 2014-05-17 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/05/msg215479.html>
3116 Won't you lay me down in tall grass
3117 And let me do my stuff
3119 =head2 v5.19.11 - Isidore-Lucien Ducasse [as "Comte de Lautréamont"], trans. Paul Knight, "Les Chants de Maldoror"
3121 L<Announced on 2014-04-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/04/msg214580.html>
3123 O rigorous mathematics, I have not forgotten you since your wise lessons,
3124 sweeter than honey, filtered into my heart like a refreshing wave.
3125 Instinctively, from the cradle, I had longed to drink from your source, older
3126 than the sun, and I continue to tread the sacred sanctuary of your solemn
3127 temple, I, the most faithful of your devotees. There was a vagueness in my
3128 mind, something thick as smoke; but I managed to mount the steps which lead to
3129 your altar, and you drove away this dark veil, as the wind blows the
3130 draught-board. You replaced it with excessive coldness, consummate prudence and
3131 implacable logic. With the aid of your fortifying milk, my intellect developed
3132 rapidly and took on immense proportions amid the ravishing lucidity which you
3133 bestow as a gift on all those who sincerely love you. Arithmetic! Algebra!
3134 Geometry! Awe-inspiring trinity! Luminous triangle! He who has not known you
3137 =head2 v5.19.10 - John Chadwick, "The Decipherment of Linear B"
3139 L<Announced on 2014-03-20 by Aaron Crane|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/03/msg213851.html>
3141 The urge to discover secrets is deeply ingrained in human nature; even
3142 the least curious mind is roused by the promise of sharing knowledge
3143 withheld from others. Some are fortunate enough to find a job which
3144 consists in the solution of mysteries, whether it be the physicist who
3145 tracks down a hitherto unknown nuclear particle or the policeman who
3146 detects a criminal. But most of us are driven to sublimate this urge
3147 by the solving of artificial puzzles devised for our entertainment.
3149 =head2 v5.19.9 - R. A. MacAvoy, "Tea with the Black Dragon"
3151 L<Announced on 2014-02-20 by Tony Cook|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/02/msg213047.html>
3153 Old hands. The smell of rain--the smell of Ch'an. Quiet words in
3154 rough Cantonese. "I am not to be your master. Your master has to be
3155 stronger than you are--has to tell you you are a fool and make you
3156 know it. And make you feel content in being a fool. How could I do
3157 that for you? I'm old. You are too strong for me; you are full of
3158 chi." The old man has paused then, huddled against the wind while
3159 clouds thickened above them.
3161 "I will tell you this, Long," he continued, "Before you find yourself
3162 you will lose your chi. Also you will leave behind you all pride of
3163 body, pride of mind. You will be reduced. Like me." The old man
3164 closed his eyes, and rain began to beat against his gray, crew-cut
3165 hair. He pulled his coat closer. Suddenly his eyes snapped open and
3166 he looked Long in the face.
3168 "You must leave China. Go across the ocean. There you will meet your
3169 master." He set down his teacup with a palsied hand. His voice rose,
3172 "I tell you this, most honored and impressive visitor. You are a
3173 fool, yes, but you will find the very thing you seek. You will find
3176 =head2 v5.19.8 - Joseph Heller, "Catch-22"
3178 L<Announced on 2014-01-20 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/01/msg211729.html>
3180 “I used to get a big kick out of saving people’s lives. Now I wonder what the
3181 hell’s the point, since they all have to die anyway.”
3183 “Oh, there’s a point, all right,” Dunbar assured him.
3185 “Is there? What is the point?”
3187 “The point is to keep them from dying for as long as you can.”
3189 “Yeah, but what’s the point, since they all have to die anyway?”
3191 “The trick is not to think about that.”
3193 “Never mind the trick. What the hell’s the point?”
3195 Dunbar pondered in silence for a few moments. “Who the hell knows?”
3197 =head2 v5.19.7 - Kurt Vonnegut, "Slaughterhouse-Five"
3199 L<Announced on 2013-12-20 by Abigail|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/12/msg210882.html>
3201 And somewhere in there was springtime. The corpse mines were closed
3202 down. The soldiers all left to fight the Russians. In the suburbs,
3203 the women and children dug rifle pits. Billy and the rest of his group
3204 were locked up in the stable in the suburbs. And then, one morning,
3205 they got up to discover that the door was unlocked. World War Two in
3208 Billy and the rest wandered out onto the shady street. The trees were
3209 leafing out. There was nothing going on out there, no traffic of any
3210 kind. There was only one vehicle, an abandoned wagon drawn by two
3211 horses. The wagon was green and coffin-shaped.
3215 One bird said to Billy Pilgrim, "Pee-tee-weet?"
3217 =head2 v5.19.6 - Monty Python's Flying Circus, "Spam"
3219 L<Announced on 2013-11-20 by Chris 'BinGOs' Williams|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/11/msg210043.html>
3221 Interior: cheap cafe. All the customers are Vikings. Mr and Mrs Bun enter downwards (on wires).
3225 Mr. Bun: What have you got, then?
3226 Waitress: Well there's egg and bacon; egg, sausage and bacon; egg and spam; egg, bacon and spam;
3227 egg, bacon, sausage and spam; spam, bacon, sausage and spam; spam, egg, spam, spam, bacon and spam;
3228 spam, spam, spam, egg and spam; spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, baked beans, spam, spam, spam and spam;
3229 or lobster thermidor aux crevettes, with a mornay sauce garnished with truffle pate, brandy and a fried
3231 Mrs. Bun: Have you got anything without spam in it?
3232 Waitress: Well, there's spam, egg, sausage and spam. That's not got MUCH spam in it.
3233 Mrs. Bun: I don't want ANY spam.
3234 Mr. Bun: Why can't she have egg, bacon, spam and sausage?
3235 Mrs. Bun: That's got spam in it!
3236 Mr. Bun: Not as much as spam, egg, sausage and spam.
3237 Mrs. Bun: Look, could I have egg, bacon, spam and sausage, without the spam.
3238 Waitress: Uuuuuuggggh!
3239 Mrs. Bun: What d'you mean, uugggh! I don't like spam.
3240 Vikings: (singing) Spam, spam, spam, spam, spam ... spam, spam, spam, spam ... lovely spam, wonderful spam ...
3242 (Brief shot of a Viking ship)
3244 Waitress: Shut up. Shut up! Shut up! You can't have egg, bacon, spam and sausage without the spam.
3246 Waitress: No, it wouldn't be egg, bacon, spam and sausage, would it?
3247 Mrs. Bun: I don't like spam!
3249 =head2 v5.19.5 - Charles Baudelaire, trans. James McGowan, "The Flowers of Evil", 51. The Cat
3251 L<Announced on 2013-10-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/10/msg208752.html>
3255 A cat is strolling through my mind
3256 Acting as though he owned the place,
3257 A lovely cat -- strong, charming, sweet.
3258 When he meows, one scarcely hears,
3260 So tender and discreet his tone;
3261 But whether he should growl or purr
3262 His voice is always rich and deep.
3263 That is the secret of his charm.
3265 This purling voice that filters down
3266 Into my darkest depths of soul
3267 Fulfils me like a balanced verse,
3268 Delights me as a potion would.
3270 It puts to sleep the cruellest ills
3271 And keeps a rein on ecstasies --
3272 Without the need for any words
3273 It can pronounce the longest phrase.
3275 Oh no, there is no bow that draws
3276 Across my heart, fine instrument,
3277 And makes to sing so royally
3278 The strongest and the purest chord,
3280 More than your voice, mysterious cat,
3281 Exotic cat, seraphic cat,
3282 In whom all is, angelically,
3283 As subtle as harmonious.
3287 From his soft fur, golden and brown,
3288 Goes out so sweet a scent, one night
3289 I might have been embalmed in it
3290 By giving him one little pet.
3292 He is my household's guardian soul;
3293 He judges, he presides, inspires
3294 All matters in hos royal realm;
3295 Might he be fairy? or a god?
3297 When my eyes, to this cat I love
3298 Drawn as by a magnet's force,
3299 Turn tamely back from that appeal,
3300 And when I look within myself,
3302 I notice with astonishment
3303 The fire of his opal eyes,
3304 Clear beacons glowing, living jewels,
3305 Taking my measure, steadily.
3307 =head2 v5.19.4 - Washington Irving, "The Widow and Her Son"
3309 L<Announced on 2013-09-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/09/msg207969.html>
3311 There is something in sickness that breaks down the pride of manhood;
3312 that softens the heart and brings it back to the feelings of infancy.
3313 Who that has languished, even in advanced life, in sickness and
3314 despondency — who that has pined on a weary bed in the neglect and
3315 loneliness of a foreign land — but has thought on the mother "that
3316 looked on his childhood," that smoothed his pillow and administered to
3317 his helplessness. — Oh! there is an enduring tenderness in the love
3318 of a mother to her son that transcends all other affections of the
3319 heart. It is neither to be chilled by selfishness — nor daunted by
3320 danger — nor weakened by worthlessness — nor stifled by ingratitude.
3321 She will sacrifice every comfort to his convenience — she will
3322 surrender every pleasure to his enjoyment — she will glory in his fame
3323 and exult in his prosperity. And if misfortune overtake him he will
3324 be the dearer to her from misfortune — and if disgrace settle upon his
3325 name, she will still love and cherish him in spite of his disgrace —
3326 and if all the world beside cast him off, she will be all the world to
3329 =head2 v5.19.3 - Andrew Hodges, "Alan Turing: The Enigma"
3331 L<Announced on 2013-08-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/08/msg206318.html>
3333 E.M. Forster, outdoing the King's heresy with grand bravura, had
3334 written in 1938 that if he were faced with the choice between
3335 betraying his country and betraying his friends, he hoped he would
3336 have the courage to betray his country. He would always put the
3337 personal above the political. But for Alan Turing, unlike Forster, or
3338 Wittgenstein, or G.H. Hardy, it was more than a theoretical question.
3339 For him not only had the personal become the political, but the
3340 political was the personal. He had chosen and promised for himself in
3341 working for the government. The choice for him therefore was that
3342 between betraying one part of himself and betraying another part. And
3343 however much he wavered between these alternatives, there was a solid
3344 logic to the mind of security, one that could not be expected to take
3345 an interest in notions of freedom and development. He had no rights
3346 to such things, as he would have had to admit. He might have
3347 outwitted the Home Guard, but when it came to questions that mattered,
3348 there was no doubt that he had placed himself under military law.
3349 There was a war on; there was always a war on now.
3351 =head2 v5.19.2 - Fred Brooks, "The Mythical Man-Month"
3353 L<Announced on 2013-07-22 by Aristotle Pagaltzis|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/07/msg204905.html>
3355 The magic of myth and legend has come true in our time. One types the
3356 correct incantation on a keyboard, and a display screen comes to life,
3357 showing things that never were nor could be. [...] Not all is delight,
3358 however [...] One must perform perfectly. The computer resembles the
3359 magic of legend in this respect, too. If one character, one pause, of
3360 the incantation is not strictly in proper form, the magic doesn't work.
3362 =head2 v5.19.1 - William Shakespeare, "A Midsummer Night's Dream"
3364 L<Announced on 2013-06-21 by David Golden|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/06/msg203449.html>
3366 Over hill, over dale,
3367 Thorough bush, thorough briar,
3368 Over park, over pale,
3369 Thorough flood, thorough fire,
3370 I do wander everywhere,
3371 Swifter than the moon's sphere;
3372 And I serve the fairy queen,
3373 To dew her orbs upon the green.
3374 The cowslips tall her pensioners be;
3375 In their gold coats, spots you see;
3376 Those be rubies, fairy favours,
3377 In their freckles live our savours.
3378 I must go seek some dew-drops here,
3379 And hang a perl in every cowslip's ear.
3380 Farewell, thou lob of spirits, I'll be gone;
3381 My queen and all her elves come here anon!
3383 =head2 v5.19.0 - Batman, of the Joker, in "The Dark Knight Returns"
3385 L<Announced on 2013-05-20 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/05/msg201980.html>
3387 From the beginning, I knew…
3388 …that there was nothing wrong with you…
3392 =head2 v5.18.4 - Robert W. Chambers, Cassilda's Song in "The King in Yellow," Act I, Scene 2
3394 L<Announced on 2014-10-01 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/10/msg220770.html>
3396 Along the shore the cloud waves break,
3397 The twin suns sink beneath the lake,
3398 The shadows lengthen
3401 Strange is the night where black stars rise,
3402 And strange moons circle through the skies
3403 But stranger still is
3406 Songs that the Hyades shall sing,
3407 Where flap the tatters of the King,
3411 Song of my soul, my voice is dead;
3412 Die thou, unsung, as tears unshed
3413 Shall dry and die in
3416 =head2 v5.18.3 - (no epigraph)
3420 =head2 v5.18.3-RC2 - Robert W. Chambers, "The King in Yellow", Act I, Scene 2
3422 L<Announced on 2014-09-27 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/09/msg220613.html>
3424 "Ah! I see it now!" I shrieked. "You have seized the throne and the
3425 empire. Woe! woe to you who are crowned with the crown of the King in
3428 =head2 v5.18.3-RC1 - Robert W. Chambers, "The King in Yellow", Act I, Scene 2
3430 L<Announced on 2014-09-17 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/09/msg220072.html>
3432 CAMILLA: You, sir, should unmask.
3436 CASSILDA: Indeed it's time. We all have laid aside disguise but you.
3438 STRANGER: I wear no mask.
3440 CAMILLA: (Terrified, aside to Cassilda.) No mask? No mask!
3442 =head2 v5.18.2 - Miss Manners
3444 L<Announced on 2014-01-06 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/01/msg211224.html>
3446 One of the major mistakes people make is that they think manners are
3447 only the expression of happy ideas. There's a whole range of behavior
3448 that can be expressed in a mannerly way. That's what civilization is all
3449 about – doing it in a mannerly and not an antagonistic way. One of the
3450 places we went wrong was the naturalistic Rousseauean movement of the
3451 Sixties in which people said, "Why can't you just say what's on your
3452 mind?" In civilization there have to be some restraints. If we followed
3453 every impulse, we'd be killing one another.
3455 =head2 v5.18.1 - Chuck Moore
3457 L<Announced on 2013-08-12 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/08/msg205897.html>
3459 The operating system is another concept that is curious. Operating
3460 systems are dauntingly complex and totally unnecessary. It’s a brilliant
3461 thing that Bill Gates has done in selling the world on the notion of
3462 operating systems. It’s probably the greatest con game the world has
3465 An operating system does absolutely nothing for you. As long as you had
3466 something — a subroutine called disk driver, a subroutine called some
3467 kind of communication support, in the modern world, it doesn’t do
3468 anything else. In fact, Windows spends a lot of time with overlays and
3469 disk management all stuff like that which are irrelevant. You’ve got
3470 gigabyte disks; you’ve got megabyte RAMs. The world has changed in a way
3471 that renders the operating system unnecessary.
3473 =head2 v5.18.1-RC1 - Chuck Moore
3475 L<Announced on 2013-08-02 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/08/msg205445.html>
3477 Compilers are probably the worst code ever written. They are written by
3478 someone who has never written a compiler before and will never do so
3479 again. The more elaborate the language, the more complex, bug-ridden,
3480 and unusable is the compiler. But a simple compiler for a simple
3481 language is an essential tool—if only for documentation.
3483 =head2 v5.18.0 - Yevgeny Zamyatin
3485 L<Announced on 2013-05-18 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/05/msg201940.html>
3487 It is an error to divide people into the living and the dead: there are people
3488 who are dead-alive, and people who are alive-alive. The dead-alive also write,
3489 walk, speak, act. But they make no mistakes; only machines make no mistakes,
3490 and they produce only dead things. The alive-alive are constantly in error, in
3491 search, in questions, in torment.
3493 =head2 v5.18.0-RC4 - Joseph Heller, "Catch-22"
3495 L<Announced on 2013-05-16 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/05/msg201889.html>
3497 Clevinger was dead. That was the basic flaw in his philosophy.
3499 =head2 v5.18.0-RC3 - Tom Waits, "The Ocean Doesn't Want Me"
3501 L<Announced on 2013-05-14 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/05/msg201823.html>
3503 I'd love to go drowning
3504 And to stay and to stay
3505 But the ocean doesn't want me today
3506 I'll go in up to here
3507 It can't possibly hurt
3508 All they will find is my beer
3511 =head2 v5.18.0-RC2 - Tom Waits, "Earth Died Screaming"
3513 L<Announced on 2013-05-12 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/05/msg201723.html>
3515 And the great day of wrath has come
3516 And here's mud in your big red eye
3517 The poker's in the fire
3518 And the locusts take the sky
3519 And the earth died screaming
3520 While I lay dreaming of you
3522 =head2 v5.18.0-RC1 - Tom Waits, "What's He Building in There?"
3524 L<Announced on 2013-05-11 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/05/msg201651.html>
3526 What's he building in there?
3528 We have a right to know…
3530 =head2 v5.17.11 - Nigel Tufnel in "This is Spın̈al Tap"
3532 L<Announced on 2013-04-20 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/04/msg201056.html>
3534 It's very special because, if you can see, the numbers all go to…
3535 eleven! Look, right across the board: eleven, eleven, eleven, eleven!
3537 =head2 v5.17.10 - Vernor Vinge, "A Fire Upon The Deep"
3539 L<Announced on 2013-03-23 by Max Maischein|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/03/msg200504.html>
3541 The archive informed the automation. Data structures were built, recipes
3542 followed. A local network was built, faster than anything on Straum, but surely
3543 safe. Nodes were added, modified by other recipes. The archive was a friendly
3544 place, with hierarchies of translation keys that led them along. Straum itself
3545 would be famous for this.
3547 Six months passed. A year.
3549 The omniscient view. Not self-aware really. Self-awareness is much over-rated.
3550 Most automation works far better as a part of a whole, and even if human-
3551 powerful, it does not need to self-know.
3553 =head2 v5.17.9 - Douglas Adams, "The Hitch-Hikers Guide to the Galaxy"
3555 L<Announced on 2013-02-20 by Chris 'BinGOs' Williams|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/02/msg199115.html>
3557 Vogon poetry is of course, the third worst in the universe.
3558 The second worst is that of the Azgoths of Kria. During a
3559 recitation by their poet master Grunthos the Flatulent of
3560 his poem 'Ode To A Small Lump of Green Putty I Found In My
3561 Armpit One Midsummer Morning' four of his audience died
3562 of internal haemorrhaging and the president of the
3563 Mid-Galactic Arts Nobbling Council survived by gnawing one
3564 of his own legs off. Grunthos is reported to have been
3565 'disappointed' by the poem's reception, and was about to
3566 embark on a reading of his twelve-book epic entitled
3567 'My Favourite Bathtime Gurgles' when his own major intestine,
3568 in a desperate attempt to save life and civilisation,
3569 leapt straight up through his neck and throttled his brain.
3571 The very worst poetry of all perished along with its creator
3572 Paula Nancy Millstone Jennings of Greenbridge, Essex, England,
3573 in the destruction of the planet Earth.
3575 =head2 v5.17.8 - Iain Pears, "An Instance of the Fingerpost"
3577 L<Announced on 2013-01-20 by Aaron Crane|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/01/msg197571.html>
3579 I must here declare myself as someone who does not for a moment subscribe to
3580 the general view that a willingness to perform oneself is detrimental to the
3581 dignity of experimental philosophy. There is, after all, a clear distinction
3582 between labour carried out for financial reward, and that done for the
3583 improvement of mankind: to put it another way, Lower as a philosopher was
3584 fully my equal even if he fell away when he became the practising physician.
3585 I think ridiculous of certain professors of anatomy, who find it beneath
3586 them to pick up the knife themselves, but merely comment while hired hands
3587 do the cutting. Sylvius would never have dreamt of sitting on a dais reading
3588 from an authority while others cut — when he taught, the knife was
3589 in his hand and the blood spattered his coat. Boyle also did not scruple to
3590 perform his own experiments and, on one occasion in my presence, even showed
3591 himself willing to anatomise a rat with his very own hands. Nor was he less
3592 a gentleman when he had finished. Indeed, in my opinion, his stature was all
3593 the greater, for in Boyle wealth, humility and curiosity mingled, and the
3594 world is richer for it.
3596 =head2 v5.17.7 - R. Scott Bakker, "The Darkness That Comes Before"
3598 L<Announced on 2012-12-18 by Dave Rolsky|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/12/msg196707.html>
3602 The boy extinguished. Only a place.
3606 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.
3608 A place without breath or sound. A place of sight alone. A place without before or after . . . almost.
3610 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.
3612 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 . . .
3614 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.
3616 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.
3618 I have been legion . . .
3620 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.
3624 =head2 v5.17.6 - Kurt Vonnegut, "The Sirens of Titan"
3626 L<Announced on 2012-11-20 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/11/msg195659.html>
3628 Beatrice, looking like a gypsy queen, smoldered at the foot of a statue
3629 of a young physical student. At first glance, the laboratory-gowned
3630 scientist seemed to be a perfect servant of nothing but truth. At first
3631 glance, one was convinced that nothing but truth could please him as he
3632 beamed at his test tube. At first glance, one thought that he was as
3633 much above the beastly concerns of mankind as the harmoniums in the
3634 caves of Mercury. There, at first glance, was a young man without
3635 vanity, without lust — and one accepted at its face value the title Salo
3636 had engraved on the statue, "Discovery of Atomic Power."
3638 =head2 v5.17.5 - Charles Stross, "Singularity Sky"
3640 L<Announced on 2012-10-20 by Florian Ragwitz|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/10/msg194349.html>
3642 Neither of them noticed the pair of polka-dotted knickers hiding
3643 behind the ventilation duct overhead, listening patiently and
3644 recording everything.
3646 =head2 v5.17.4 - Roald Dahl, "Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf"
3648 L<Announced on 2012-09-19 by Florian Ragwitz|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/09/msg192635.html>
3650 The small girl smiles. One eyelid flickers.
3651 She whips a pistol from her knickers.
3652 She aims it at the creature's head,
3653 And bang bang bang, she shoots him dead.
3655 A few weeks later, in the wood,
3656 I came across Miss Riding Hood.
3657 But what a change! No cloak of red,
3658 No silly hood upon her head.
3659 She said, "Hello, and do please note
3660 My lovely furry wolfskin coat."
3662 =head2 v5.17.3 - Kris Ta-belle, "Smoked Perl Onion Soup"
3664 L<Announced on 2012-08-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/08/msg190775.html>
3668 Cut 16 Perl Onions into quarters and put them in a grill smoker rack
3669 or a perforated pan over a BBQ using hickory wood chips or Special
3670 Blend Smoker Bisquettes. Smoke them for an hour and remove once they
3672 Let them cool and put them in the fridge (or freezer) until you are
3673 ready to create the soup.
3677 16 diced, pre-smoked, Perl Onions
3680 2 small garlic cloves, finely minced
3683 black pepper to taste
3685 1/4 cup all purpose flour
3686 6 cups of beef or vegetable stock
3687 1 cup of thick cream (milk can be used as a substitute)
3691 Melt the butter in a pan and then add olive oil.
3692 Heat and add the onions to caramelize over a medium-high heat for up
3694 Add the garlic, turn down the heat and cook for a further 5 minutes.
3695 Add the salt, pepper and sugar.
3696 Now add the red wine and reduce to a jam like consistency.
3697 Add the flour, stir well and add the stock a cup at a time.
3698 Simmer for 30 minutes, add the cream and heat to almost boiling.
3702 =head2 v5.17.2 - Terry Pratchet, "The Colour of Magic"
3704 L<Announced on 2012-07-21 by TonyC|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/07/msg189828.html>
3706 ‘I knew it,’ said Rincewind. ‘We're in a strong magical field.’
3708 Twoflower and Hrun looked around the little hollow where they had made
3709 their noonday halt. Then they looked at each other.
3711 The horses were quietly cropping the rich grass by the stream. Yellow
3712 butterflies skittered among the bushes. There was a smell of thyme
3713 and a buzzing of bees. The wild pigs on the spit sizzled gently.
3715 Hrun shrugged and went back to oiling his biceps. They gleamed.
3717 ‘Looks alright to me,’ he said.
3719 ‘Try tossing a coin,’ said Rincewind.
3723 ‘Go on. Toss a coin.’
3725 ‘Hokay,’ said Hrun. 'If that gives you any pleasure.’ He reached into
3726 his pouch and withdrew a handful of loose change plundered from a
3727 dozen realms. With some care he selected a Zchloty leaden
3728 quarter-iotum and balanced it on a purple thumbnail.
3730 ‘You call,’ he said. ‘Heads or—’ he inspected the obverse with
3731 an air of intense concentration, ‘some sort of a fish with legs.’
3733 ‘When it's in the air,’ said Rincewind. Hrun grinned and flicked his thumb.
3735 The iotum rose, spinning.
3737 ‘Edge,’ said Rincewind, without looking at it.
3739 =head2 v5.17.1 - Rand Miller, "Myst: The Book of Ti'ana"
3741 L<Announced on 2012-06-20 by doy|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/06/msg188354.html>
3743 On their return from Ko'ah, Aitrus had shown her the Book, patiently
3744 taking her through page after page, and showing her how such an Age was
3745 "made." She had seen at once the differences between this archaic form
3746 and the ordinary written speech of the D'ni, noting how it was not
3747 merely more elaborate but more specific: a language of precise yet
3748 subtle descriptive power. Yet seeing was one thing, believing another.
3749 Given all the evidence, her rational mind still fought against accepting
3752 =head2 v5.17.0 - Charles Stross, "Singularity Sky"
3754 L<Announced on 2012-05-26 by Zefram|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/05/msg187214.html>
3756 `Welcome, comrades!' Burya opened his arms toward the soldier.
3757 `Yes it is true! With help from our allies of the Festival, the iron
3758 hand of the reactionary junta is about to be overthrown for all time!
3759 The new economy is being born; the marginal cost of production has
3760 been abolished, and from now on, if any item is produced once, it can
3761 be replicated infinitely. From each according to his imagination,
3762 to each according to his needs! Join us or better still, bring your
3763 fellow soldiers and workers to join us!'
3765 There was a sharp bang from the roof of the Corn Exchange, right at the
3766 climax of his impromptu speech; heads turned in alarm. Something had
3767 broken inside the spork factory and a stream of rainbow-hued plastic
3768 implements fountained toward the sky and clattered to the cobblestones
3769 on every side, like a harbinger of the postindustrial society to come.
3770 Workers and peasants alike stared in open-mouthed bewilderment at this
3771 astounding display of productivity, then bent to scrabble in the muck
3772 for the brightly colored sporks of revolution. A volley of shots rang
3773 out and Burya Rubenstein raised his hands, grinning wildly, to accept
3774 the salute of the soldiers from the Skull Hill garrison.
3776 =head2 v5.16.3 - Devo, "Freedom of Choice"
3778 L<Announced on 2013-03-11 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/03/msg200009.html>
3780 A victim of collision on the open sea
3781 Nobody ever said that life was free
3782 Sink, swim, go down with the ship
3783 But use your freedom of choice
3785 =head2 v5.16.2 - Stanislaw Lem, "The Cyberiad", Trurl's Machine
3787 L<Announced on 2012-11-01 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/11/msg194915.html>
3789 Once upon a time Trurl the constructor built an eight-story thinking
3790 machine. When it was finished, he gave it a coat of white paint,
3791 trimmed the edges in lavender, stepped back, squinted, then added a
3792 little curlicue on the front and, where one might imagine the forehead
3793 to be, a few pale orange polkadots. Extremely pleased with himself,
3794 he whistled an air and, as is always done on such occasions, asked it
3795 the ritual question of how much is two plus two.
3797 The machine stirred. Its tubes began to glow, its coils warmed up,
3798 current coursed through all its circuits like a waterfall,
3799 transformers hummed and throbbed, there was a clanging, and a
3800 chugging, and such an ungodly racket that Trurl began to think of
3801 adding a special mentation muffler. Meanwhile the machine labored on,
3802 as if it had been given the most difficult problem in the Universe to
3803 solve; the ground shook, the sand slid underfoot from the vibration,
3804 valves popped like champagne corks, the relays nearly gave way under
3805 the strain. At last, when Trurl had grown extremely impatient, the
3806 machine ground to a halt and said in a voice like thunder: SEVEN!
3808 =head2 v5.16.1 - Emerald Rose, "Never Split The Party"
3810 L<Announced on 2012-08-08 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/08/msg190413.html>
3812 Don't you know? You never split the party
3813 Clerics in the back to keep those fighters hale and hearty
3814 The wizard in the middle, where he can shed some light
3815 And you never let that damn thief out of sight…
3817 =head2 v5.16.1-RC1 - Tom Moldvay, Foreward to the "Dungeons & Dragons Basic Rulebook"
3819 L<Announced on 2012-08-03 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/08/msg190264.html>
3821 I was busy rescuing the captured maiden when the dragon showed up.
3822 Fifty feed of scaled terror glared down at us with smoldering red eyes.
3823 Tendrils of smoke drifted out from between fangs larger than daggers.
3824 The dragon blocked the only exit from the cave.
3828 I unwrapped the sword which the mysterious cleric had given me. The
3829 sword was golden-tinted steel. Its hilt was set with a rainbow
3830 collection of precious gems. I shouted my battle cry and charged
3832 My charge caught the dragon by surprise. Its titanic jaws snapped shut
3833 inches from my face. I swung the golden sword with both arms. The
3834 swordblade bit into the dragon's neck and continued through to the other
3835 side. With an earth-shaking crash, the dragon dropped dead at my feet.
3836 The magic sword had saved my life and ended the reign of the
3837 dragon-tyrant. The countryside was freed and I could return as a hero.
3839 =head2 v5.16.0 - W.H. Auden, "September 1, 1939"
3841 L<Announced on 2012-05-20 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/05/msg186903.html>
3843 All I have is a voice
3844 To undo the folded lie,
3845 The romantic lie in the brain
3846 Of the sensual man-in-the-street
3847 And the lie of Authority
3848 Whose buildings grope the sky:
3849 There is no such thing as the State
3850 And no one exists alone;
3851 Hunger allows no choice
3852 To the citizen or the police;
3853 We must love one another or die.
3855 =head2 v5.15.9 - Bob Dylan, "Blowin' In The Wind"
3857 L<Announced on 2012-03-20 by Abigail|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/03/msg184824.html>
3859 How many roads must a man walk down
3860 Before you call him a man?
3861 Yes, 'n' how many seas must a white dove sail
3862 Before she sleeps in the sand?
3863 Yes, 'n' how many times must the cannonballs fly
3864 Before they're forever banned?
3865 The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind
3866 The answer is blowin' in the wind
3868 How many years can a mountain exist
3869 Before it's washed to the sea?
3870 Yes, 'n' how many years can some people exist
3871 Before they're allowed to be free?
3872 Yes, 'n' how many times can a man turn his head
3873 Pretending he just doesn't see?
3874 The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind
3875 The answer is blowin' in the wind
3877 How many times must a man look up
3878 Before he can see the sky?
3879 Yes, 'n' how many ears must one man have
3880 Before he can hear people cry?
3881 Yes, 'n' how many deaths will it take till he knows
3882 That too many people have died?
3883 The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind
3884 The answer is blowin' in the wind
3886 =head2 v5.15.8 - The KLF, "The Manual-How To Have A Number One The Easy Way"
3888 L<Announced on 2012-02-20 by Max Maischein|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/02/msg183919.html>
3890 "Doctor Who, hey Doctor Who
3891 Doctor Who, in the Tardis
3892 Doctor Who, hey Doctor Who
3893 Doctor Who, Doc, Doctor Who
3894 Doctor Who, Doc, Doctor Who"
3896 Gibberish of course, but every lad in the country under a certain
3897 age related instinctively to what it was about. The ones slightly
3898 older needed a couple of pints inside them to clear away the mind
3899 debris left by the passing years before it made sense. As for
3900 girls and our chorus, we think they must have seen it as pure crap.
3901 A fact that must have limited to zero our chances of staying at The
3902 Top for more than one week.
3904 Stock, Aitkin and Waterman, however, are kings of writing chorus
3905 lyrics that go straight to the emotional heart of the 7" single
3906 buying girls in this country. Their most successful records will kick
3907 into the chorus with a line which encapsulates the entire emotional
3908 meaning of the song. This will obviously be used as the title. As
3909 soon as Rick Astley hit the first line of the chorus on his debut
3910 single it was all over - the Number One position was guaranteed:
3912 "I'm never going to give you up"
3914 =head2 v5.15.7 - Penelope Lively, "The Voyage of QV66"
3916 L<Announced on 2012-01-20 by Chris 'BinGOs' Williams|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/01/msg182230.html>
3918 "Laboratories," announced Henry. "Kindly don't touch anything."
3920 He led us into a long low brick shed. Outside there was a
3921 notice on a piece of board, crudely printed in red paint,
3922 which said GRATE SIENCE DISCOVERYS DONE HERE SSSH! BRING YOUR
3923 OWN BUKKIT NO PINCHING ANYWUN ELSE'S EXPERRYMENTS CANTEEN OPEN
3924 ALL DAY CHIMPS ONLY.
3926 There were a lot of large black monkeys inside, all intently
3927 busy on what they were doing. Some of them were pouring stuff
3928 out of bottles into buckets and carefully stirring the ensuing
3929 mixture; others were at work with glass tubes and jars, blowing
3930 and measuring and mixing; others were crouched over long benches
3931 with tools and heaps of bits and pieces of metal, cutting and
3932 bending and constructing. There was a great deal of noise and
3933 chatter. Every now and then one of them would give a whoop of
3934 excitement and all the others would gather round and jump up and
3935 down cheering and applauding.
3937 "Chimps," said Henry. "They're awfully clever."
3939 =head2 v5.15.6 - Ursula K. Leguin, "A Wizard of Earthsea"
3941 L<Announced on 2011-12-20 by Dave Rolsky|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/12/msg180962.html>
3943 Ged had thought that as the prentice of a great mage he would enter at once
3944 into the mystery and mastery of power. He would understand the language of the
3945 beasts and the speech of the leaves of the forest, he thought, and sway the
3946 winds with his word, and learn to change himself into any shape he
3947 wished. Maybe he and his master would run together as stags, or fly to Re Albi
3948 over the mountain on the wings of eagles.
3950 But it was not so at all. They wandered, first down into the Vale and then
3951 gradually south and westward around the mountain, given lodging in little
3952 villages or spending the night out in the wilderness, like poor
3953 journeyman-sorcerers, or tinkers, or beggars. They entered no mysterious
3954 domain. Nothing happened. The mage's oaken staff that Ged had watched at first
3955 with eager dread was nothing but a stout staff to walk with. Three days went
3956 by and four days went by and still Ogion had not spoken a single charm in
3957 Ged's hearing, and had not taught him a single name or rune or spell.
3959 =head2 v5.15.5 - Nikolai Gogol, trans. Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, "The Diary of a Madman"
3961 L<Announced on 2011-11-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/11/msg179588.html>
3963 This day - is a day of the greatest solemnity! Spain has a king. He has
3964 been found. I am that king. Only this very day did I learn of it. I
3965 confess, it came to me suddenly in a flash of lightning. I don't understand
3966 how I could have thought and imagined that I was a titular councillor. How
3967 could such a wild notion enter my head? It's a good thing no one thought of
3968 putting me in an insane asylum. Now everything is laid open before me. Now
3969 I see everything as on the palm of my hand. And before, I don't understand,
3970 before everything around me was in some sort of fog. And all this happens, I
3971 think, because people imagine that the human brain is in the head. Not at
3972 all: it is brought by a wind from the direction of the Caspian Sea. First
3973 off, I announced to Mavra who I am. When she heard that the king of Spain
3974 was standing before her, she clasped her hands and nearly died of fright.
3975 The stupid woman had never seen a king of Spain before. However, I
3976 endeavoured to calm her down and assured her in gracious words of my
3977 benevolence and that I was not at all angry that she sometimes polished my
3978 boots poorly. They're benighted folk. It's impossible to tell them about
3979 lofty matters. She got frightened because she's convinced that all kings of
3980 Spain are like Philip II. But I explained to her that there was no
3981 resemblance between me and Philip II, and that I didn't have a single
3982 Capuchin . . . I didn't go to the office . . . To hell with it! No friends,
3983 you won't lure me there now; I'm not going to copy your vile papers!
3985 =head2 v5.15.4 - Steve Jobs
3987 L<Announced on 2011-10-20 by Florian Ragwitz|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/10/msg178412.html>
3989 A lot of people in our industry haven't had very diverse experiences. So they
3990 don't have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions
3991 without a broad perspective on the problem. The broader one's understanding of
3992 the human experience, the better design we will have.
3994 =head2 v5.15.3 - Oscar Wilde, From the preface to "The Picture of Dorian Gray"
3996 L<Announced on 2011-09-20 by Stevan Little|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/09/msg177427.html>
3998 All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath
3999 the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol
4000 do so at their peril.
4002 It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.
4003 Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the
4004 work is new, complex, and vital. When critics disagree, the
4005 artist is in accord with himself.
4007 We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as
4008 he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless
4009 thing is that one admires it intensely.
4011 All art is quite useless.
4013 =head2 v5.15.2 - Rainer Maria Rilke, trans., C. F. MacIntyre, "Duino", The First Elegy
4015 L<Announced on 2011-08-20 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/08/msg176067.html>
4017 True, it is strange to live no more on earth,
4018 no longer follow the folkways scarecely learned;
4019 not to give roses and other especially auspicious
4020 things the significance of a human future;
4021 to be no more what one was in infinitely anxious hands,
4022 and to put aside even one's name, like a broken plaything.
4023 Strange, to wish wishes no longer. Strange, to see
4024 all that was related fluttering so loosely in space.
4025 And being dead is hard, full of catching-up,
4026 so that finally one feels a little eternity.–
4027 But the living all make the mistake of too sharp discrimination.
4028 Often angels (it's said) don't know if they move
4029 among the quick or the dead. The eternal current
4030 hurtles all ages along with it forever
4031 through both realms and drowns their voices in both.
4033 =head2 v5.15.1 - Greg Egan, "Permutation City"
4035 L<Announced on 2011-07-20 by Zefram|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/07/msg175014.html>
4037 Carter held out a hand towards the middle of the room. `See that
4038 fountain?' A ten-metre-wide marble wedding cake, topped with a
4039 winged cherub wrestling a serpent, duly appeared. Water cascaded
4040 down from a gushing wound in the cherub's neck. Carter said, `It's
4041 being computed by redundancies in the sketch of the city. I can
4042 extract the results, because I know exactly where to look for them --
4043 but nobody else would have a hope in hell of picking them out.'
4045 Peer walked up to the fountain. Even as he approached, he noticed
4046 that the spray was intangible; when he dipped his hand in the water
4047 around the base he felt nothing, and the motion he made with his
4048 fingers left the foaming surface unchanged. They were spying on
4049 the calculations, not interacting with them; the fountain was a
4052 Carter said, `In your case, of course, nobody will need to know
4053 the results. Except you -- and you'll know them because you'll
4056 =head2 v5.15.0 - Neil Gaiman, "The Graveyard Book"
4058 L<Announced on 2011-06-20 by David Golden|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/06/msg173748.html>
4060 If you dare nothing, then when the day is over, nothing is all you will have gained.
4062 =head2 v5.14.4 - Arthur C. Clarke, "The Nine Billion Names of God"
4064 L<Announced on 2013-03-11 by Dave Mitchell|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/03/msg199988.html>
4066 He began to sing, but gave it up after a while. This vast arena of
4067 mountains, gleaming like whitely hooded ghosts on every side, did not
4068 encourage such ebullience. Presently George glanced at his watch.
4070 'Should be there in an hour,' he called back over his shoulder to
4071 Chuck. Then he added, in an afterthought: 'Wonder if the computer's
4072 finished its run. It was due about now.'
4074 Chuck didn't reply, so George swung round in his saddle. He could just
4075 see Chuck's face, a white oval turned towards the sky.
4077 'Look,' whispered Chuck, and George lifted his eyes to heaven. (There
4078 is always a last time for everything.)
4080 Overhead, without any fuss, the stars were going out.
4082 =head2 v5.14.3 - William Shakespeare, "As You Like It"
4084 L<Announced on 2012-10-12 by Dominic Hargreaves|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/10/msg194057.html>
4086 The poor world is almost six thousand years old, and in all
4087 this time there was not any man died in his own person,
4088 videlicit, in a love-cause. Troilus had his brains dashed
4089 out with a Grecian club; yet he did what he could to die
4090 before, and he is one of the patterns of love. Leander, he
4091 would have lived many a fair year, though Hero had turned
4092 nun, if it had not been for a hot midsummer night; for, good
4093 youth, he went but forth to wash him in the Hellespont and
4094 being taken with the cramp was drowned and the foolish
4095 coroners of that age found it was 'Hero of Sestos.' But these
4096 are all lies: men have died from time to time and worms have
4097 eaten them, but not for love.
4099 =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 >>
4101 L<Announced on 2011-09-26 by Florian Ragwitz|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/09/msg177618.html>
4103 It's not so much that people don't value the programs after they have them--they
4104 do value them. But they're not the sort of thing that would ever catch on if
4105 they had to overcome the marketing barrier. (I don't yet know if perl will
4106 catch on at all--I'm worried enough about it that I specifically included an
4107 awk-to-perl translator just to help it catch on.) Maybe it's all just an
4108 inferiority complex. Or maybe I don't like to be mercenary.
4110 So I guess I'd say that the reason some software comes free is that the
4111 mechanism for selling it is missing, either from the work environment, or from
4112 the heart of the programmer.
4114 =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 >>
4116 L<Announced on 2011-06-16 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/06/msg173650.html>
4118 At this point I'm no longer working for a company that makes me sign
4119 my life away, but by now I'm in the habit. Besides, I still harbor
4120 the deep-down suspicion that nobody would pay money for what I write,
4121 since most of it just helps you do something better that you could
4122 already do some other way. How much money would you personally pay
4123 to upgrade from readnews to rn? How much money would you pay for
4124 the patch program? As for warp, it's a mere game. And anything you
4125 can do with perl you can eventually do with an amazing and totally
4126 unreadable conglomeration of awk, sed, sh and C.
4128 =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 >>
4130 L<Announced on 2011-05-14 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/05/msg172326.html>
4132 At the start of any project, I'm programming primarily to please
4133 myself. (The two chief virtues in a programmer are laziness and
4134 impatience.) After a while somebody looks over my shoulder and says,
4135 "That's neat. It'd be neater if it did such-and-so." So the thing
4136 gets neater. Pretty soon (a year or two) I have an rn, a warp, a patch,
4137 or a perl. One of these years I'll have a metaconfig.
4139 I then say to myself, "I don't want my life's work to die when this
4140 computer is scrapped, so I should let some other people use this. If I
4141 ask my company to sell this, it'll never see the light of day, and nobody
4142 would pay much for it anyway. If I sell it myself, I'll be in trouble with
4143 my company, to whom I signed my life away when I was hired. If I give it
4144 away, I can pretend it was worthless in the first place, so my company
4145 won't care. In any event, it's easier to ask forgiveness than permission."
4147 So a freely distributable program is born.
4149 =head2 v5.14.0-RC3 - American Airlines Gate Agent, last call
4151 L<Announced on 2011-05-11 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/05/msg172282.html>
4153 This is the last call for flight 1697 with service to Chicago and
4154 continuing service to San Francisco. All passengers should already be
4155 aboard. If you aren't aboard at this time, you will be denied boarding
4156 and your bags will be offloaded.
4158 =head2 v5.14.0-RC2 - Greg Grandin, "Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City"
4160 L<Announced on 2011-05-04 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/05/msg171879.html>
4162 Over the course of nearly two decades, Ford would spend tens of millions
4163 of dollars founding not one but, after the plantation was defastated
4164 by leaf blight, two American towns, complete with central squares,
4165 sidewalks, indoor plumbing, hospitals, manicured lawns, movie theaters,
4166 swimming pools, golf courses, and, of course, Model Ts and As rolling
4167 down their paved streets.
4169 Back in America, newspapers kept up their drumbeat celebration, only
4170 obliquely referencing reports that things were not progressing as the
4171 company had hoped. But there was one note of skepticism. In late 1928,
4172 the Washington Post ran an editorial that read in its entirety: "Ford will
4173 govern a rubber plantation in Brazil larger than North Carolina. This is
4174 the first time he has applied quantity production methods to trouble"
4176 =head2 v5.14.0-RC1 - Bill Bryson, "In a Sunburned Country"
4178 L<Announced on 2011-04-20 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/04/msg171253.html>
4180 But then Australia is such a difficult country to keep track of. On
4181 my first visit, some years ago, I passed the time on the long flight
4182 reading a history of Australian politics in the twentieth century,
4183 wherein I encountered the startling fact that in 1967 the prime minister,
4184 Harold Holt, was strolling along a beach in Victoria when he plunged into
4185 the surf and vanished. No trace of the poor man was ever seen again.
4186 This seemed doubly astounding to me—first that Australia could
4187 just I<lose> a prime minister (I mean, come on) and second that news of
4188 this had never reached me.
4190 =head2 v5.13.11 - Walt Whitman, L<"Leaves of Grass"|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leaves_of_Grass>
4192 L<Announced on 2011-03-20 by Florian Ragwitz|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/03/msg170206.html>
4194 When the full-grown poet came,
4195 Out spake pleased Nature (the round impassive globe, with all its
4196 shows of day and night,) saying, He is mine;
4197 But out spake too the Soul of man, proud, jealous and unreconciled,
4198 Nay he is mine alone;
4199 --Then the full-grown poet stood between the two, and took each
4201 And to-day and ever so stands, as blender, uniter, tightly
4203 Which he will never release until he reconciles the two,
4204 And wholly and joyously blends them.
4206 =head2 v5.13.10 - Egill Skalla-Grímsson, L<"Egils saga Skalla-Grímssonar"|http://www.heimskringla.no/wiki/Egils_saga_Skalla-Gr%C3%ADmssonar>
4208 L<Announced on 2011-02-20 by Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/02/msg169340.html>
4210 Skalat maðr rúnar rísta,
4211 nema ráða vel kunni.
4212 Þat verðr mörgum manni,
4213 es of myrkvan staf villisk.
4215 tíu launstafi ristna.
4216 Þat hefr lauka lindi
4217 langs ofrtrega fengit.
4219 =head2 v5.13.9 - John F Kennedy, L<Inaugural Address January 20, 1961|http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/John_F._Kennedy%27s_Inaugural_Address>
4221 L<Announced on 2011-01-20 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/01/msg168335.html>
4223 In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been
4224 granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I
4225 do not shrink from this responsibility -- I welcome it. I do not believe
4226 that any of us would exchange places with any other people or any other
4227 generation. The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this
4228 endeavor will light our country and all who serve it. And the glow from
4229 that fire can truly light the world.
4231 And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you;
4232 ask what you can do for your country.
4234 My fellow citizens of the world, ask not what America will do for you,
4235 but what together we can do for the freedom of man.
4237 Finally, whether you are citizens of America or citizens of the world,
4238 ask of us here the same high standards of strength and sacrifice which
4239 we ask of you. With a good conscience our only sure reward, with history
4240 the final judge of our deeds, let us go forth to lead the land we love,
4241 asking His blessing and His help, but knowing that here on earth God's
4242 work must truly be our own.
4244 =head2 v5.13.8 - Roger Williams, L<"The Fifth Gift"|http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2005/8/19/21304/8493>
4246 L<Announced on 2010-12-19 by Zefram|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/12/msg167271.html>
4248 The aliens called the box a "matter generator," but we'd be more inclined
4249 to call it a matter duplicator. By connecting switches and potentiometers
4250 between the copper posts it was possible to make the box mark off two
4251 cubic rectangular areas of volume. Make a certain contact, and these
4252 areas would be isolated within perfectly reflective fields. They could
4253 be expanded or contracted by altering resistances between other posts.
4254 As I worked out the user interface I built a little control panel for
4255 the device. It was actually a clever way for the aliens to do things;
4256 instead of trying to build controls we could use, they built us an
4257 interface we could attach to controls that made sense to us. It could
4260 Once you had made the contact that established the shielded volumes,
4261 if you made another certain contact the contents of the first volume
4262 were copied to the second. The machine copied metal, plastic, steel,
4263 and diamond with equal ease. Copies of copies of copies of copies were
4264 indistinguishable from the originals at any magnification, even using
4265 techniques like X-ray crystallography.
4267 =head2 v5.13.7 - Andy Wachowski and Lana Wachowski, "The Matrix"
4269 L<Announced on 2010-11-20 by Chris 'BinGOs' Williams|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/11/msg166162.html>
4271 [Neo sees a black cat walk by them, and then a similar black cat walk by them just like the first one]
4275 [Everyone freezes right in their tracks]
4277 Trinity: What did you just say?
4278 Neo: Nothing. Just had a little deja vu.
4279 Trinity: What did you see?
4280 Cypher: What happened?
4281 Neo: A black cat went past us, and then another that looked just
4283 Trinity: How much like it? Was it the same cat?
4284 Neo: It might have been. I'm not sure.
4285 Morpheus: Switch! Apoc!
4287 Trinity: A deja vu is usually a glitch in the Matrix. It happens when
4288 they change something.
4290 =head2 v5.13.6 - Haruki Murakami, "Kafka on the Shore"
4292 L<Announced on 2010-10-20 by Tatsuhiko Miyagawa|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/10/msg165183.html>
4294 The boy called Crow softly rests a hand on my shoulder, and with that
4297 "From now on -- no matter what -- you've got to be the world's toughest
4298 fifteen-year-old. That's the only way you're going to survive. And in order
4299 to do that, you've got to figure out what it means to be tough. You following
4302 I keep my eyes closed and don't reply. I just want to sink off into sleep
4303 like this, his hand on my shoulder. I hear the faint flutter of wings.
4305 "You're going to be the world's toughest fifteen-year-old," Crow whispers
4306 as I try to fall asleep. Like he was carving the words in a deep blue tattoo
4309 (Translated from Japanese by Philip Gabriel)
4311 =head2 v5.13.5 - Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, "The Room in the Dragon Volant"
4313 L<Announced on 2010-09-19 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/09/msg164238.html>
4315 Candle in hand I stepped in. I do not know whether the quality of
4316 air, long undisturbed, is peculiar; to me it has always seemed so, and
4317 the damp smell of the old masonry hung in this atmosphere. My candle
4318 faintly lighted the bare stone wall that enclosed the stair, the foot
4319 of which I could not see. Down I went, and a few turns brought me to
4320 the stone floor. Here was another door, of the simple, old, oak kind,
4321 deep sunk in the thickness of the wall. The large end of the key
4322 fitted this. The lock was stiff; I set the candle down upon the
4323 stair, and applied both hands; it turned with difficulty, and as it
4324 revolved, uttered a shriek that alarmed me for my secret.
4326 For some minutes I did not move. In a little time, however, I took
4327 courage, and opened the door. The night-air floating in puffed out
4328 the candle. There was a thicket of holly and underwood, as dense as a
4329 jungle, close about the door. I should have been in pitch-darkness,
4330 were it not that through the topmost leaves there twinkled, here and
4331 there, a glimmer of moonshine.
4333 Softly, lest any one should have opened his window at the sound of the
4334 rusty bolt, I struggled through this till I gained a view of the open
4335 grounds. Here I found that the brushwood spread a good way up the
4336 park, uniting with the wood that approached the little temple I have
4339 =head2 v5.13.4 - Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
4341 L<Announced on 2010-08-20 by Florian Ragwitz|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/08/msg163150.html>
4343 `How the creatures order one about, and make one repeat lessons!' thought Alice;
4344 `I might as well be at school at once.' However, she got up, and began to repeat
4345 it, but her head was so full of the Lobster Quadrille, that she hardly knew what
4346 she was saying, and the words came very queer indeed:--
4348 "'Tis the voice of the Lobster; I heard him declare,
4349 "You have baked me too brown, I must sugar my hair."
4350 As a duck with its eyelids, so he with his nose
4351 Trims his belt and his buttons, and turns out his toes.'
4354 `That's different from what I used to say when I was a child,' said the Gryphon.
4356 `Well, I never heard it before,' said the Mock Turtle; `but it sounds uncommon
4359 Alice said nothing; she had sat down with her face in her hands, wondering if
4360 anything would ever happen in a natural way again.
4362 `I should like to have it explained,' said the Mock Turtle.
4364 `She can't explain it,' said the Gryphon hastily. `Go on with the next verse.'
4366 `But about his toes?' the Mock Turtle persisted. `How could he turn them out
4367 with his nose, you know?'
4369 `It's the first position in dancing.' Alice said; but was dreadfully puzzled by
4370 the whole thing, and longed to change the subject.
4372 =head2 v5.13.3 - Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, "Good Omens"
4374 L<Announced on 2010-07-20 by David Golden|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/07/msg162230.html>
4376 Look at Crowley, doing 110 mph on the M40 heading towards
4377 Oxfordshire. Even the most resolutely casual observer would
4378 notice a number of strange things about him. The clenched teeth,
4379 for example, or the dull red glow coming from behind his
4380 sunglasses. And the car. The car was a definite hint.
4382 Crowley had started the journey in his Bentley, and he was
4383 dammned if he wasn't going to finish it in the Bentley as well.
4384 Not that even the kind of car buff who owns his own pair of
4385 motoring goggles would have been able to tell it was a vintage
4386 Bentley. Not any more. They wouldn't have been able to tell
4387 that it was a Bentley. They would only offer fifty-fifty that it
4388 had ever even been a car.
4390 There was no paint left on it, for a start. It might still have
4391 been black, where it wasn't a rusty, smudged reddish-brown, but
4392 this was a dull charcoal black. It traveled in its own ball of
4393 flame, like a space capsule making a particularly difficult
4396 There was a thin skin of crusted, melted rubber left around the
4397 metal wheel rims, but seeing that the wheel rims were still
4398 somhow riding an inch above the road surface this didn't seem to
4399 make an awful lot of difference to the suspension.
4401 It should have fallen apart miles back.
4403 =head2 v5.13.2 - Iain M Banks, "Use of Weapons"
4405 L<Announced on 2010-06-22 by Matt S Trout|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/06/msg161112.html>
4407 We deal in the moral equivalent of black holes, where the normal laws -
4408 the rules of right and wrong that people imagine apply everywhere else
4409 in the universe - break down; beyond those metaphysical event-horizons,
4410 there exist ... special circumstances.
4412 =head2 v5.13.1 - Miguel de Unamuno, "The Sepulchre of Don Quixote"
4414 L<Announced on 2010-05-20 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/05/msg160275.html>
4416 And if anyone shall come to you and say that he knows how to construct
4417 bridges and that perhaps a time will come when you will wish to avail
4418 yourself of his science in order to cross over a river, out with him! Out
4419 with the engineer! Rivers will be crossed by wading or swimming them, even
4420 if half the crusaders drown themselves. Let the engineer go off and build
4421 bridges somewhere else, where they are badly wanted. For those who go in
4422 quest of the sepulchre, faith is bridge enough.
4424 =head2 v5.13.0 - Jules Verne, "A Journey to the Centre of the Earth"
4426 L<Announced on 2010-04-20 by LE<0xe9>on Brocard|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/04/msg159275.html>
4428 The heat still remained at quite a supportable degree. With an
4429 involuntary shudder, I reflected on what the heat must have been
4430 when the volcano of Sneffels was pouring its smoke, flames, and
4431 streams of boiling lava -- all of which must have come up by the
4432 road we were now following. I could imagine the torrents of hot
4433 seething stone darting on, bubbling up with accompaniments of
4434 smoke, steam, and sulphurous stench!
4436 "Only to think of the consequences," I mused, "if the old
4437 volcano were once more to set to work."
4439 =head2 v5.12.5 - William Shakespeare, "Measure for Measure"
4441 L<Announced on 2012-11-10 by Dominic Hargreaves|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/11/msg195171.html>
4443 Music oft hath such a charm
4444 To make bad good, and good provoke to harm.
4446 =head2 v5.12.4 - William Schwenck Gilbert, "Trial By Jury"
4448 L<Announced on 2011-06-20 by Leon Brocard|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/06/msg173725.html>
4450 You cannot eat breakfast all day,
4451 Nor is it the act of a sinner,
4452 When breakfast is taken away,
4453 To turn his attention to dinner;
4454 And it's not in the range of belief,
4455 To look upon him as a glutton,
4456 Who, when he is tired of beef,
4457 Determines to tackle the mutton.
4458 Ah! But this I am willing to say,
4459 If it will appease her sorrow,
4460 I'll marry this lady today,
4461 And I'll marry the other tomorrow!
4463 =head2 v5.12.4-RC2 - James Russell Lowell, "Eleanor makes macaroons"
4465 L<Announced on 2011-06-15 by Leon Brocard|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/06/msg173609.html>
4467 Now for sugar, -- nay, our plan
4468 Tolerates no work of man.
4469 Hurry, then, ye golden bees;
4470 Fetch your clearest honey, please,
4471 Garnered on a Yorkshire moor,
4472 While the last larks sing and soar,
4473 From the heather-blossoms sweet
4474 Where sea-breeze and sunshine meet,
4475 And the Augusts mask as Junes, --
4476 Eleanor makes macaroons!
4478 =head2 v5.12.4-RC1 - Ogden Nash, "The Clean Plater"
4480 L<Announced on 2011-06-08 by Leon Brocard|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/06/msg173352.html>
4482 Pheasant is pleasant, of course,
4483 And terrapin, too, is tasty,
4484 Lobster I freely endorse,
4485 In pate or patty or pasty.
4486 But there's nothing the matter with butter,
4487 And nothing the matter with jam,
4488 And the warmest greetings I utter
4489 To the ham and the yam and the clam.
4492 And I think very fondly of food.
4493 Through I'm broody at times
4494 When bothered by rhymes,
4498 =head2 v5.12.3 - Howard W. Campbell, Jr., "Reflections on Not Participating in Current Events"
4500 L<Announced on 2011-01-21 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/01/msg168368.html>
4502 I saw a huge steam roller,
4503 It blotted out the sun.
4504 The people all lay down, lay down;
4505 They did not try to run.
4506 My love and I, we looked amazed
4507 Upon the gory mystery.
4508 'Lie down, lie down!' the people cried.
4509 'The great machine is history!'
4510 My love and I, we ran away,
4511 The engine did not find us.
4512 We ran up to a mountain top,
4513 Left history far behind us.
4514 Perhaps we should have stayed and died,
4515 But somehow we don't think so.
4516 We went to see where history'd been,
4517 And my, the dead did stink so.
4519 =head2 v5.12.2 - William Gibson, "Pattern Recognition"
4521 L<Announced on 2010-09-06 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/09/msg163852.html>
4523 CPUs. Cayce Pollard Units. That's what Damien calls the clothing
4524 she wears. CPUs are either black, white, or gray, and ideally
4525 seem to have come into this world without human intervention.
4527 What people take for relentless minimalism is a side effect
4528 of too much exposure to the reactor-cores of fashion. This
4529 has resulted in a remorseless paring-down of what she can and
4530 will wear. She is, literally, allergic to fashion. She can
4531 only tolerate things that could have been worn, to a general
4532 lack of comment, during any year between 1945 and 2000. She's a
4533 design-free zone, a one-woman school of and whose very austerity
4534 periodically threatens to spawn its own cult.
4536 =head2 v5.12.2-RC1 - William Gibson, "Pattern Recognition"
4538 L<Announced on 2010-08-31 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/08/msg163670.html>
4540 The front page opens, familiar as a friend's living room. A frame-grab
4541 from #48 serves as backdrop, dim and almost monochrome, no characters in
4542 view. This is one of the sequences that generate comparisons with
4543 Tarkovsky. She only knows Tarkovsky from stills, really, though she did
4544 once fall asleep during a screening of The Stalker, going under on an
4545 endless pan, the camera aimed straight down, in close-up, at a puddle on
4546 a ruined mosaic floor. But she is not one of those who think that much
4547 will be gained by analysis of the maker's imagined influences. The cult
4548 of the footage is rife with subcults, claiming every possible influence.
4549 Truffaut, Peckinpah -- The Peckinpah people, among the least likely, are
4550 still waiting for the guns to be drawn.
4552 =head2 v5.12.1 - Kurt Vonnegut, "Cat's Cradle"
4554 L<Announced on 2010-05-16 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/05/msg160109.html>
4556 "Now suppose," chortled Dr. Breed, enjoying himself, "that there were
4557 many possible ways in which water could crystallize, could freeze.
4558 Suppose that the sort of ice we skate upon and put into highballs --
4559 what we might call ice-one -- is only one of several types of ice.
4560 Suppose water always froze as ice-one on Earth because it had never
4561 had a seed to teach it how to form ice-two, ice-three, ice-four
4562 ...? And suppose," he rapped on his desk with his old hand again,
4563 "that there were one form, which we will call ice-nine -- a crystal as
4564 hard as this desk -- with a melting point of, let us say, one-hundred
4565 degrees Fahrenheit, or, better still, a melting point of one-hundred-
4566 and-thirty degrees."
4568 =head2 v5.12.1-RC2 - Kurt Vonnegut, "Cat's Cradle"
4570 L<Announced on 2010-05-13 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/05/msg160066.html>
4572 San Lorenzo was fifty miles long and twenty miles wide, I learned from
4573 the supplement to the New York Sunday Times. Its population was four
4574 hundred, fifty thousand souls, "...all fiercely dedicated to the ideals
4577 Its highest point, Mount McCabe, was eleven thousand feet above sea
4578 level. Its capital was Bolivar, "...a strikingly modern city built on a
4579 harbor capable of sheltering the entire United States Navy." The principal
4580 exports were sugar, coffee, bananas, indigo, and handcrafted novelties.
4582 =head2 v5.12.1-RC1 - Kurt Vonnegut, "Cat's Cradle"
4584 L<Announced on 2010-05-09 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/05/msg159971.html>
4586 Which brings me to the Bokononist concept of a wampeter. A wampeter is
4587 the pivot of a karass. No karass is without a wampeter, Bokonon tells us,
4588 just as no wheel is without a hub. Anything can be a wampeter: a tree,
4589 a rock, an animal, an idea, a book, a melody, the Holy Grail. Whatever
4590 it is, the members of its karass revolve about it in the majestic chaos
4591 of a spiral nebula. The orbits of the members of a karass about their
4592 common wampeter are spiritual orbits, naturally. It is souls and not
4593 bodies that revolve. As Bokonon invites us to sing:
4595 Around and around and around we spin,
4596 With feet of lead and wings of tin . . .
4598 =head2 v5.12.0 - Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
4600 L<Announced on 2010-04-12 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/04/msg158820.html>
4602 'Please would you tell me,' said Alice, a little timidly, for she was
4603 not quite sure whether it was good manners for her to speak first, 'why
4604 your cat grins like that?'
4606 'It's a Cheshire cat,' said the Duchess, 'and that's why. Pig!'
4608 She said the last word with such sudden violence that Alice quite
4609 jumped; but she saw in another moment that it was addressed to the baby,
4610 and not to her, so she took courage, and went on again:--
4612 'I didn't know that Cheshire cats always grinned; in fact, I didn't know
4613 that cats COULD grin.'
4615 'They all can,' said the Duchess; 'and most of 'em do.'
4617 =head2 v5.12.0-RC5 - Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
4619 L<Announced on 2010-04-09 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/04/msg158720.html>
4621 'Not QUITE right, I'm afraid,' said Alice, timidly; 'some of the words
4624 'It is wrong from beginning to end,' said the Caterpillar decidedly, and
4625 there was silence for some minutes.
4627 =head2 v5.12.0-RC4 - Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
4629 L<Announced on 2010-04-06 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/04/msg158567.html>
4631 'It was much pleasanter at home,' thought poor Alice, 'when one wasn't
4632 always growing larger and smaller, and being ordered about by mice and
4633 rabbits. I almost wish I hadn't gone down that rabbit-hole--and yet--and
4634 yet--it's rather curious, you know, this sort of life! I do wonder what
4635 can have happened to me! When I used to read fairy-tales, I fancied that
4636 kind of thing never happened, and now here I am in the middle of one!
4638 =head2 v5.12.0-RC3 - Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
4640 L<Announced on 2010-04-02 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/04/msg158346.html>
4642 At last the Mouse, who seemed to be a person of authority among them,
4643 called out, 'Sit down, all of you, and listen to me! I'LL soon make you
4644 dry enough!' They all sat down at once, in a large ring, with the Mouse
4645 in the middle. Alice kept her eyes anxiously fixed on it, for she felt
4646 sure she would catch a bad cold if she did not get dry very soon.
4648 'Ahem!' said the Mouse with an important air, 'are you all ready? This
4649 is the driest thing I know. Silence all round, if you please! "William
4650 the Conqueror, whose cause was favoured by the pope, was soon submitted
4651 to by the English, who wanted leaders, and had been of late much
4652 accustomed to usurpation and conquest. Edwin and Morcar, the earls of
4653 Mercia and Northumbria --"'
4655 =head2 v5.12.0-RC2 - no announcement
4657 Available on CPAN since 2010-04-01.
4659 =head2 v5.12.0-RC1 - Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
4661 L<Announced on 2010-03-29 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/03/msg158060.html>
4663 So she was considering in her own mind (as well as she could, for the
4664 hot day made her feel very sleepy and stupid), whether the pleasure of
4665 making a daisy-chain would be worth the trouble of getting up and
4666 picking the daisies, when suddenly a White Rabbit with pink eyes ran
4669 There was nothing so VERY remarkable in that; nor did Alice think it so
4670 VERY much out of the way to hear the Rabbit say to itself, 'Oh dear! Oh
4671 dear! I shall be late!' (when she thought it over afterwards, it
4672 occurred to her that she ought to have wondered at this, but at the time
4673 it all seemed quite natural); but when the Rabbit actually TOOK A WATCH
4674 OUT OF ITS WAISTCOAT-POCKET, and looked at it, and then hurried on,
4675 Alice started to her feet, for it flashed across her mind that she had
4676 never before seen a rabbit with either a waistcoat-pocket, or a watch to
4677 take out of it, and burning with curiosity, she ran across the field
4678 after it, and fortunately was just in time to see it pop down a large
4679 rabbit-hole under the hedge.
4681 In another moment down went Alice after it, never once considering how
4682 in the world she was to get out again.
4684 =head2 v5.12.0-RC0 - no epigraph
4686 L<Announced on 2020-03-21 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/03/msg157761.html>
4688 =head2 v5.11.5 - Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "Christabel"
4690 L<Announced on 2010-02-21 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/02/msg156957.html>
4692 A little child, a limber elf,
4693 Singing, dancing to itself,
4694 A fairy thing with red round cheeks,
4695 That always finds, and never seeks,
4696 Makes such a vision to the sight
4697 As fills a father's eyes with light;
4698 And pleasures flow in so thick and fast
4699 Upon his heart, that he at last
4700 Must needs express his love's excess
4701 With words of unmeant bitterness.
4702 Perhaps 'tis pretty to force together
4703 Thoughts so all unlike each other;
4704 To mutter and mock a broken charm,
4705 To dally with wrong that does no harm.
4706 Perhaps 'tis tender too and pretty
4707 At each wild word to feel within
4708 A sweet recoil of love and pity.
4709 And what, if in a world of sin
4710 (O sorrow and shame should this be true!)
4711 Such giddiness of heart and brain
4712 Comes seldom save from rage and pain,
4713 So talks as it's most used to do.
4715 =head2 v5.11.4 - Fyodor Dostoevsky, "Crime and Punishment"
4717 L<Announced on 2010-01-20 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/01/msg155848.html>
4719 And you don't suppose that I went into it headlong like a fool? I went
4720 into it like a wise man, and that was just my destruction. And you
4721 mustn't suppose that I didn't know, for instance, that if I began to
4722 question myself whether I had the right to gain power -- I certainly
4723 hadn't the right -- or that if I asked myself whether a human being is a
4724 louse it proved that it wasn't so for me, though it might be for a man
4725 who would go straight to his goal without asking questions.... If I
4726 worried myself all those days, wondering whether Napoleon would have
4727 done it or not, I felt clearly of course that I wasn't Napoleon.
4729 =head2 v5.11.3 - Mark Twain, "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer"
4731 L<Announced on 2009-12-20 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2009/12/msg154838.html>
4733 "Say -- I'm going in a swimming, I am. Don't you wish you could? But of
4734 course you'd druther work -- wouldn't you? Course you would!"
4736 Tom contemplated the boy a bit, and said: "What do you call work?"
4738 "Why ain't that work?"
4740 Tom resumed his whitewashing, and answered carelessly: "Well, maybe it
4741 is, and maybe it aint. All I know, is, it suits Tom Sawyer."
4743 "Oh come, now, you don't mean to let on that you like it?"
4745 The brush continued to move. "Like it? Well I don't see why I oughtn't
4746 to like it. Does a boy get a chance to whitewash a fence every day?"
4748 That put the thing in a new light. Ben stopped nibbling his apple. Tom
4749 swept his brush daintily back and forth -- stepped back to note the effect
4750 -- added a touch here and there-criticised the effect again -- Ben
4751 watching every move and getting more and more interested, more and more
4752 absorbed. Presently he said: "Say, Tom, let me whitewash a little."
4754 =head2 v5.11.2 - Michael Marshall Smith, "Only Forward"
4756 L<Announced on 2009-11-20 by Léon Brocard|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2009/11/msg153646.html>
4758 The streets were pretty quiet, which was nice. They're always quiet here
4759 at that time: you have to be wearing a black jacket to be out on the
4760 streets between seven and nine in the evening, and not many people in
4761 the area have black jackets. It's just one of those things. I currently
4762 live in Colour Neighbourhood, which is for people who are heavily into
4763 colour. All the streets and buildings are set for instant colourmatch:
4764 as you walk down the road they change hue to offset whatever you're
4765 wearing. When the streets are busy it's kind of intense, and anyone
4766 prone to epileptic seizures isn't allowed to live in the Neighbourhood,
4767 however much they're into colour.
4769 =head2 v5.11.1 - Joseph Heller, "Catch-22"
4771 L<Announced on 2009-10-20 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2009/10/msg152360.html>
4773 Milo had been caught red-handed in the act of plundering his countrymen,
4774 and, as a result, his stock had never been higher. He proved good as his
4775 word when a rawboned major from Minnesota curled his lip in rebellious
4776 disavowal and demanded his share of the syndicate Milo kept saying
4777 everybody owned. Milo met the challenge by writing the words "A Share"
4778 on the nearest scrap of paper and handing it away with a virtuous disdain
4779 that won the envy and admiration of almost everyone who knew him. His
4780 glory was at a peak, and Colonel Cathcart, who knew and admired his
4781 war record, was astonished by the deferential humility with which Milo
4782 presented himself at Group Headquarters and made his fantastic appeal
4783 for more hazardous assignment.
4785 =head2 v5.11.0 - Mikhail Bulgakov, "The Master and Margarita"
4787 L<Announced on 2009-10-02 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2009/10/msg151376.html>
4789 Whispers of an "evil power" were heard in lines at dairy shops, in
4790 streetcars, stores, arguments, kitchens, suburban and long-distance
4791 trains, at stations large and small, in dachas and on beaches. Needless
4792 to say, truly mature and cultured people did not tell these stories
4793 about an evil power's visit to the capital. In fact, they even made fun
4794 of them and tried to talk sense into those who told them. Nevertheless,
4795 facts are facts, as they say, and cannot simply be dismissed without
4796 explanation: somebody had visited the capital. The charred cinders of
4797 Griboyedov alone, and many other things besides, confirmed it. Cultured
4798 people shared the point of view of the investigating team: it was the
4799 work of a gang of hypnotists and ventriloquists magnificently skilled in
4802 =head2 v5.10.1 - Right Hon. James Hacker MP, "The Complete Yes Minister: The Diaries of a Cabinet Minister"
4804 L<Announced on 2009-08-23 by Dave Mitchell|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2009/08/msg150172.html>
4806 'Briefly, sir, I am the Permanent Under-Secretary of State, known as
4807 the Permanent Secretary. Woolley here is your Principal Private
4808 Secretary. I, too, have a Principal Private Secretary, and he is the
4809 Principal Private Secretary to the Permanent Secretary. Directly
4810 responsible to me are ten Deputy Secretaries, eighty-seven Under
4811 Secretaries and two hundred and nineteen Assistant Secretaries.
4812 Directly responsible to the Principal Private Secretaries are plain
4813 Private Secretaries. The Prime Minister will be appointing two
4814 Parliamentary Under-Secretaries and you will be appointing your own
4815 Parliamentary Private Secretary.'
4817 'Can they all type?' I joked.
4819 'None of us can type, Minister,' replied Sir Humphrey smoothly. 'Mrs
4820 McKay types - she is your Secretary.'
4822 I couldn't tell whether or not he was joking. 'What a pity,' I said.
4823 'We could have opened an agency.'
4825 Sir Humphrey and Bernard laughed. 'Very droll, sir,' said Sir
4826 Humphrey. 'Most amusing, sir,' said Bernard. Were they genuinely
4827 amused at my wit, or just being rather patronising? 'I suppose they
4828 all say that, do they?' I ventured.
4830 Sir Humphrey reassured me on that. 'Certainly not, Minister,' he
4831 replied. 'Not quite all.'
4833 =head2 v5.10.1-RC2 - no epigraph
4835 L<Announced on 2009-08-18 by Dave Mitchell|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2009/08/msg150015.html>
4837 =head2 v5.10.1-RC1 - no epigraph
4839 L<Announced on 2009-08-06 by Dave Mitchell|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2009/08/msg149498.html>
4841 =head2 v5.10.0 - Laurence Sterne, "Tristram Shandy"
4843 L<Announced on 2007-12-18 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2007/12/msg131636.html>
4845 He would often declare, in speaking his thoughts upon the subject, that
4846 he did not conceive how the greatest family in England could stand it
4847 out against an uninterrupted succession of six or seven short
4848 noses.--And for the contrary reason, he would generally add, That it
4849 must be one of the greatest problems in civil life, where the same
4850 number of long and jolly noses, following one another in a direct line,
4851 did not raise and hoist it up into the best vacancies in the kingdom.
4853 =head2 v5.10.0-RC2 - no epigraph
4855 L<Announced on 2007-11-25 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2007/11/msg130978.html>
4857 =head2 v5.10.0-RC1 - no epigraph
4859 L<Announced on 2007-11-17 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2007/11/msg130653.html>
4861 =head2 v5.9.5 - no announcement
4863 L<Pre-announced on 2007-07-07 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2007/07/msg126358.html>,
4864 available on CPAN with same date, but never actually announced.
4866 =head2 v5.9.4 - no epigraph
4868 L<Announced on 2006-08-15 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2006/08/msg115782.html>
4870 =head2 v5.9.3 - no epigraph
4872 L<Announced on 2006-01-28 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2006/01/msg109086.html>
4874 =head2 v5.9.2 - Thomas Pynchon, "V"
4876 L<Announced on 2005-04-01 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2005/04/msg99421.html>
4878 This word flip was weird. Every recording date of McClintic's he'd
4879 gotten into the habit of talking electricity with the audio men and
4880 technicians of the studio. McClintic once couldn't have cared less
4881 about electricity, but now it seemed if that was helping him reach a
4882 bigger audience, some digging, some who would never dig, but all
4883 paying and those royalties keeping the Triumph in gas and McClintic
4884 in J. Press suits, then McClintic ought to be grateful to
4885 electricity, ought maybe to learn a little more about it. So he'd
4886 picked up some here and there, and one day last summer he got around
4887 to talking stochastic music and digital computers with one
4888 technician. Out of the conversation had come Set/Reset, which was
4889 getting to be a signature for the group. He had found out from this
4890 sound man about a two-triode circuit called a flip-flop, which when
4891 it turned on could be one of two ways, depending on which tube was
4892 conducting and which was cut off: set or reset, flip or flop.
4894 "And that," the man said, "can be yes or no, or one or zero. And
4895 that is what you might call one of the basic units, or specialized
4896 `cells' in a big `electronic brain.' "
4898 "Crazy," said McClintic, having lost him back there someplace. But
4899 one thing that did occur to him was if a computer's brain could go
4900 flip or flop, why so could a musician's. As long as you were flop,
4901 everything was cool. But where did the trigger-pulse come from to
4904 =head2 v5.9.1 - Tom Stoppard, "Arcadia"
4906 L<Announced on 2004-03-16 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/03/msg89722.html>
4908 Aren't you supposed to have a pony?
4910 =head2 v5.9.0 - Doris Lessing, "Martha Quest"
4912 L<Announced on 2003-10-27 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/10/msg84147.html>
4914 What of October, that ambiguous month
4916 =head2 v5.8.9 - Right Hon. James Hacker MP, "The Complete Yes Minister: The Diaries of a Cabinet Minister"
4918 L<Announced on 2008-12-14 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2008/12/msg142571.html>
4920 Frank and I, unlike the civil servants, were still puzzled that such a
4921 proposal as the Europass could even be seriously under consideration by
4922 the FCO. We can both see clearly that it is wonderful ammunition for the
4923 anti-Europeans. I asked Humphrey if the Foreign Office doesn't realise
4924 how damaging this would be to the European ideal?
4926 'I'm sure they do, Minister, he said. That's why they support it.'
4928 This was even more puzzling, since I'd always been under the impression
4929 that the FO is pro-Europe. 'Is it or isn't it?' I asked Humphrey.
4931 'Yes and no,' he replied of course, 'if you'll pardon the
4932 expression. The Foreign Office is pro-Europe because it is really
4933 anti-Europe. In fact the Civil Service was united in its desire to make
4934 sure the Common Market didn't work. That's why we went into it.'
4936 This sounded like a riddle to me. I asked him to explain further. And
4937 basically his argument was as follows: Britain has had the same foreign
4938 policy objective for at least the last five hundred years - to create a
4939 disunited Europe. In that cause we have fought with the Dutch against
4940 the Spanish, with the Germans against the French, with the French and
4941 Italians against the Germans, and with the French against the Italians
4942 and Germans. [The Dutch rebellion against Phillip II of Spain, the
4943 Napoleonic Wars, the First World War, and the Second World War - Ed.]
4945 In other words, divide and rule. And the Foreign Office can see no
4946 reason to change when it has worked so well until now.
4948 I was aware of this, naturally, but I regarded it as ancient history.
4949 Humphrey thinks that it is, in fact, current policy. It was necessary
4950 for us to break up the EEC, he explained, so we had to get inside. We
4951 had previously tried to break it up from the outside, but that didn't
4952 work. [A reference to our futile and short-lived involvement in EFTA,
4953 the European Free Trade Association, founded in 1960 and which the UK
4954 left in 1972 - Ed.] Now that we're in, we are able to make a complete
4955 pig's breakfast out of it. We've now set the Germans against the French,
4956 the French against the Italians, the Italians against the Dutch... and
4957 the Foreign office is terribly happy. It's just like old time.
4959 I was staggered by all of this. I thought that the all of us who are
4960 publicly pro-European believed in the European ideal. I said this to Sir
4961 Humphrey, and he simply chuckled.
4963 So I asked him: if we don't believe in the European Ideal, why are we
4964 pushing to increase the membership?
4966 'Same reason,' came the reply. 'It's just like the United Nations. The
4967 more members it has, the more arguments you can stir up, and the more
4968 futile and impotent it becomes.'
4970 This all strikes me as the most appalling cynicism, and I said so.
4972 Sir Humphrey agreed completely. 'Yes Minister. We call it
4973 diplomacy. It's what made Britain great, you know.'
4975 =head2 v5.8.9-RC2 - Right Hon. James Hacker MP, "The Complete Yes Minister: The Diaries of a Cabinet Minister"
4977 L<Announced on 2008-12-06 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2008/12/msg142422.html>
4979 There was silence in the office. I didn't know what we were going to do
4980 about the four hundred new people supervising our economy drive or the
4981 four hundred new people for the Bureaucratic Watchdog Office, or
4982 anything! I simply sat and waited and hoped that my head would stop
4983 thumping and that some idea would be suggested by someone sometime soon.
4985 Sir Humphrey obliged. 'Minister... if we were to end the economy drive
4986 and close the Bureaucratic Watchdog Office we could issue an immediate
4987 press announcement that you had axed eight hundred jobs.' He had
4988 obviously thought this out carefully in advance, for at this moment he
4989 produced a slim folder from under his arm. 'If you'd like to approve
4992 I couldn't believe the impertinence of the suggestion. Axed eight
4993 hundred jobs? 'But no one was ever doing these jobs,' I pointed out
4994 incredulously. 'No one's been appointed yet.'
4996 'Even greater economy,' he replied instantly. 'We've saved eight hundred
4997 redundancy payments as well.'
4999 'But...' I attempted to explain '... that's just phony. It's dishonest,
5000 it's juggling with figures, it's pulling the wool over people's eyes.'
5002 'A government press release, in fact.' said Humphrey.
5004 =head2 v5.8.9-RC1 - Right Hon. James Hacker MP, "The Complete Yes Minister: The Diaries of a Cabinet Minister"
5006 L<Announced on 2008-11-10 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2008/11/msg141515.html>
5008 A jumbo jet touched down, with BURANDAN AIRWAYS written on the side. I
5009 was hugely impressed. British Airways are having to pawn their Concordes,
5010 and here is this little tiny African state with its own airline, jumbo
5013 I asked Bernard how many planes Burandan Airways had. 'None,' he said.
5015 I told him not to be silly and use his eyes. 'No Minister, it belongs to
5016 Freddie Laker,' he said. 'They chartered it last week and repainted it
5017 specially.' Apparently most of the Have-Nots (I mean, LDCs) do this - at
5018 the opening of the UN General Assembly the runways of Kennedy Airport are
5019 jam-packed with phoney flag-carriers. 'In fact,' said Bernard with a sly
5020 grin, 'there was one 747 that belonged to nine different African airlines
5021 in a month. They called it the mumbo-jumbo.'
5023 While we watched nothing much happening on the TV except the mumbo-jumbo
5024 taxiing around Prestwick and the Queen looking a bit chilly, Bernard gave
5025 me the next day's schedule and explained that I was booked on the night
5026 sleeper from King's Cross to Edinburgh because I had to vote in a
5027 three-line whip at the House tonight and would have to miss the last
5028 plane. Then the commentator, in that special hushed BBC voice used for any
5029 occasion with which Royalty is connected, announced reverentially that we
5030 were about to catch our first glimpse of President Selim.
5032 And out of the plane stepped Charlie. My old friend Charlie Umtali. We
5033 were at LSE together. Not Selim Mohammed at all, but Charlie.
5035 Bernard asked me if I were sure. Silly question. How could you forget a
5036 name like Charlie Umtali?
5038 I sent Bernard for Sir Humphrey, who was delighted to hear that we now
5039 know something about our official visitor.
5041 Bernard's official brief said nothing. Amazing! Amazing how little the FCO
5042 has been able to find out. Perhaps they were hoping it would all be on the
5043 car radio. All the brief says is that Colonel Selim Mohammed had converted
5044 to Islam some years ago, they didn't know his original name, and therefore
5045 knew little of his background.
5047 I was able to tell Humphrey and Bernard /all/ about his background.
5048 Charlie was a red-hot political economist, I informed them. Got the top
5049 first. Wiped the floor with everyone.
5051 Bernard seemed relieved. 'Well that's all right then.'
5055 'I think Bernard means,' said Sir Humphrey helpfully, 'that he'll know how
5056 to behave if he was at an English University. Even if it was the LSE.' I
5057 never know whether or not Humphrey is insulting me intentionally.
5059 Humphrey was concerned about Charlie's political colour. 'When you said
5060 that he was red-hot, were you speaking politically?'
5062 In a way I was. 'The thing about Charlie is that you never quite know
5063 where you are with him. He's the sort of chap who follows you into a
5064 revolving door and comes out in front.'
5066 'No deeply held convictions?' asked Sir Humphrey.
5068 'No. The only thing Charlie was committed too was Charlie.'
5070 'Ah, I see. A politician, Minister.'
5072 =head2 v5.8.8 - Joe Raposo, "Bein' Green"
5074 L<Announced on 2006-01-31 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2006/01/msg109190.html>
5076 It's not that easy bein' green
5077 Having to spend each day the color of the leaves
5078 When I think it could be nicer being red or yellow or gold
5079 Or something much more colorful like that
5081 It's not easy bein' green
5082 It seems you blend in with so many other ordinary things
5083 And people tend to pass you over 'cause you're
5084 Not standing out like flashy sparkles in the water
5087 But green's the color of Spring
5088 And green can be cool and friendly-like
5089 And green can be big like an ocean
5090 Or important like a mountain
5093 When green is all there is to be
5094 It could make you wonder why, but why wonder why?
5095 Wonder I am green and it'll do fine, it's beautiful
5096 And I think it's what I want to be
5098 =head2 v5.8.8-RC1 - Cosgrove Hall Productions, "Dangermouse"
5100 L<Announced on 2006-01-20 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2006/01/msg108833.html>
5102 Greenback: And the world is mine, all mine. Muhahahahaha. See to it!
5104 Stiletto: Si, Barone. Subito, Barone.
5106 =head2 v5.8.7 - Sergei Prokofiev, "Peter and the Wolf"
5108 L<Announced on 2005-05-31 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2005/05/msg101088.html>
5110 And now, imagine the triumphant procession: Peter at the head; after him the
5111 hunters leading the wolf; and winding up the procession, grandfather and the
5114 Grandfather shook his head discontentedly: "Well, and if Peter hadn't caught
5115 the wolf? What then?"
5117 =head2 v5.8.7-RC1 - Sergei Prokofiev, "Peter and the Wolf"
5119 L<Announced on 2005-05-20 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2005/05/msg100711.html>
5121 And now this is how things stood: The cat was sitting on one branch. The
5122 bird on another, not too close to the cat. And the wolf walked round and
5123 round the tree, looking at them with greedy eyes.
5125 In the meantime, Peter, without the slightest fear, stood behind the
5126 gate, watching all that was going on. He ran home,got a strong rope and
5127 climbed up the high stone wall.
5129 One of the branches of the tree, around which the wolf was walking,
5130 stretched out over the wall.
5132 Grabbing hold of the branch, Peter lightly climbed over on to the tree.
5133 Peter said to the bird: "Fly down and circle round the wolf's head, only
5134 take care that he doesn't catch you!".
5136 The bird almost touched the wolf's head with its wings, while the wolf
5137 snapped angrily at him from this side and that.
5139 How that bird teased the wolf, how that wolf wanted to catch him! But
5140 the bird was clever and the wolf simply couldn't do anything about it.
5142 =head2 v5.8.6 - A. A. Milne, "The House at Pooh Corner"
5144 L<Announced on 2004-11-27 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/11/msg96304.html>
5146 "Hallo, Pooh," said Piglet, giving a jump of surprise. "I knew it was
5149 "So did I,", said Pooh. "What are you doing?"
5151 "I'm planting a haycorn, Pooh, so that it can grow up into an oak-tree,
5152 and have lots of haycorns just outside the front door instead of having
5153 to walk miles and miles, do you see, Pooh?"
5155 "Supposing it doesn't?" said Pooh.
5157 "It will, because Christopher Robin says it will, so that's why I'm
5160 "Well," aid Pooh, "if I plant a honeycomb outside my house, then it will
5161 grow up into a beehive."
5163 Piglet wasn't quite sure about this.
5165 "Or a /piece/ of a honeycomb," said Pooh, "so as not to waste too much.
5166 Only then I might only get a piece of a beehive, and it might be the
5167 wrong piece, where the bees were buzzing and not hunnying. Bother"
5169 Piglet agreed that that would be rather bothering.
5171 "Besides, Pooh, it's a very difficult thing, planting unless you know
5172 how to do it," he said; and he put the acorn in the hole he had made,
5173 and covered it up with earth, and jumped on it.
5175 =head2 v5.8.6-RC1 - A. A. Milne, "Winnie the Pooh"
5177 L<Announced on 2004-11-11 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/11/msg95786.html>
5179 "Hallo!" said Piglet, "whare are /you/ doing?"
5181 "Hunting," said Pooh.
5185 "Tracking something," said Winnie-the-Pooh very mysteriously.
5187 "Tracking what?" said Piglet, coming closer.
5189 "That's just what I ask myself, I ask myself, What?"
5191 "What do you think you'll answer?"
5193 "I shall have to wait until I catch up with it," said Winnie-the-Pooh.
5194 "Now, look there." He pointed to the ground in front of him. "What do
5197 "Track," said Piglet. "Paw-marks." He gave a little squeak of
5198 excitement. "Oh, Pooh!" Do you think it's a--a--a Woozle?"
5200 =head2 v5.8.5 - wikipedia, "Yew"
5202 L<Announced on 2004-07-19 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/07/msg93189.html>
5204 Yews are relatively slow growing trees, widely used in landscaping and
5205 ornamental horticulture. They have flat, dark-green needles, reddish
5206 bark, and bear seeds with red arils, which are eaten by thrushes,
5207 waxwings and other birds, dispersing the hard seeds undamaged in their
5208 droppings. Yew wood is reddish brown (with white sapwood), and very
5209 hard. It was traditionally used to make bows, especially the English
5212 In England, the Common Yew (Taxus baccata, also known as English Yew) is
5213 often found in churchyards. It is sometimes suggested that these are
5214 placed there as a symbol of long life or trees of death, and some are
5215 likely to be over 3,000 years old. It is also suggested that yew trees
5216 may have a pre-Christian association with old pagan holy sites, and the
5217 Christian church found it expedient to use and take over existing sites.
5218 Another explanation is that the poisonous berries and foliage discourage
5219 farmers and drovers from letting their animals wander into the burial
5220 grounds. The yew tree is a frequent symbol in the Christian poetry of
5221 T.S. Eliot, especially his Four Quartets.
5223 =head2 v5.8.5-RC2 - wikipedia, "Beech"
5225 L<Announced on 2004-07-09 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/07/msg92934.html>
5227 Beeches are trees of the Genus Fagus, family Fagaceae, including about
5228 ten species in Europe, Asia, and North America. The leaves are entire or
5229 sparsely toothed. The fruit is a small, sharply-angled nut, borne in
5230 pairs in spiny husks. The beech most commonly grown as an ornamental or
5231 shade tree is the European beech (Fagus sylvatica).
5233 The southern beeches belong to a different but related genus,
5234 Nothofagus. They are found in Australia, New Zealand, New Guinea, New
5235 Caledonia and South America.
5237 =head2 v5.8.5-RC1 - wikipedia, "Pedunculate Oak" (abridged)
5239 L<Announced on 2004-07-07 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/07/msg92840.html>
5241 The Pedunculate Oak is called the Common Oak in Britain, and is also
5242 often called the English Oak in other English speaking countries It is a
5243 large deciduous tree to 25-35m tall (exceptionally to 40m), with lobed
5244 and sessile (stalk-less) leaves. Flowering takes place in early to mid
5245 spring, and their fruit, called "acorns", ripen by autumn of the same
5246 year. The acorns are pedunculate (having a peduncle or acorn-stalk) and
5247 may occur singly, or several acorns may occur on a stalk.
5249 It forms a long-lived tree, with a large widespreading head of rugged
5250 branches. While it may naturally live to an age of a few centuries, many
5251 of the oldest trees are pollarded or coppiced, both pruning techniques
5252 that extend the tree's potential lifespan, if not its health.
5254 Within its native range it is valued for its importance to insects and
5255 other wildlife. Numerous insects live on the leaves, buds, and in the
5256 acorns. The acorns form a valuable food resource for several small
5257 mammals and some birds, notably Jays Garrulus glandarius.
5259 It is planted for forestry, and produces a long-lasting and durable
5260 heartwood, much in demand for interior and furniture work.
5262 =head2 v5.8.4 - T. S. Eliot, "The Old Gumbie Cat"
5264 L<Announced on 2004-04-22 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/04/msg90984.html>
5266 I have a Gumbie Cat in mind, her name is Jennyanydots;
5267 The curtain-cord she likes to wind, and tie it into sailor-knots.
5268 She sits upon the window-sill, or anything that's smooth and flat:
5269 She sits and sits and sits and sits -- and that's what makes a Gumbie Cat!
5271 But when the day's hustle and bustle is done,
5272 Then the Gumbie Cat's work is but hardly begun.
5273 She thinks that the cockroaches just need employment
5274 To prevent them from idle and wanton destroyment.
5275 So she's formed, from that a lot of disorderly louts,
5276 A troop of well-disciplined helpful boy-scouts,
5277 With a purpose in life and a good deed to do--
5278 And she's even created a Beetles' Tattoo.
5280 So for Old Gumbie Cats let us now give three cheers --
5281 On whom well-ordered households depend, it appears.
5284 =head2 v5.8.4-RC2 - T. S. Eliot, "Macavity: The Mystery Cat"
5286 L<Announced on 2004-04-16 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/04/msg90796.html>
5288 Macavity's a Mystery Cat: he's called the Hidden Paw --
5289 For he's the master criminal who can defy the Law.
5290 He's the bafflement of Scotland Yard, the Flying Squad's despair:
5291 For when they reach the scene of crime -- /Macavity's not there/!
5293 Macavity, Macavity, there's no one like Macavity,
5294 He's broken every human law, he breaks the law of gravity.
5295 His powers of levitation would make a fakir stare,
5296 And when you reach the scene of crime -- /Macavity's not there/!
5297 You may seek him in the basement, you may look up in the air --
5298 But I tell you once and once again, /Macavity's not there/!
5300 =head2 v5.8.4-RC1 - T. S. Eliot, "Skimbleshanks: The Railway Cat"
5302 L<Announced on 2004-04-05 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/04/msg90422.html>
5304 There's a whisper down the line at 11.39
5305 When the Night Mail's ready to depart,
5306 Saying 'Skimble where is Skimble has he gone to hunt the thimble?
5307 We must find him of the train can't start.'
5308 All the guards and all the porters and the stationmaster's daughters
5309 They are searching high and low,
5310 Saying 'Skimble where is Skimble for unless he's very nimble
5311 Then the Night Mail just can't go'
5312 At 11.42 then the signal's overdue
5313 And the passengers are frantic to a man--
5314 Then Skimble will appear and he'll saunter to the rear:
5315 He's been busy in the luggage van!
5316 He gives one flash of his glass-green eyes
5317 And the signal goes 'All Clear!'
5318 And we're off at last of the northern part
5319 Of the Northern Hemisphere!
5321 =head2 v5.8.3 - Arthur William Edgar O'Shaugnessy, "Ode"
5323 L<Announced on 2004-01-14 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/01/msg87317.html>
5325 We are the music makers,
5326 And we are the dreamers of dreams,
5327 Wandering by lonely sea-breakers,
5328 And sitting by desolate streams; --
5329 World-losers and world-forsakers,
5330 On whom the pale moon gleams:
5331 Yet we are the movers and shakers
5332 Of the world for ever, it seems.
5334 =head2 v5.8.3-RC1 - Irving Berlin, "Let's Face the Music and Dance"
5336 L<Announced on 2004-01-07 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/01/msg86969.html>
5338 There may be trouble ahead,
5339 But while there's music and moonlight,
5340 And love and romance,
5341 Let's face the music and dance.
5343 Before the fiddlers have fled,
5344 Before they ask us to pay the bill,
5345 And while we still have that chance,
5346 Let's face the music and dance.
5348 Soon, we'll be without the moon,
5349 Humming a different tune, and then,
5351 There may be teardrops to shed,
5352 So while there's music and moonlight,
5353 And love and romance,
5354 Let's face the music and dance.
5356 =head2 v5.8.2 - Walt Whitman, "Passage to India"
5358 L<Announced on 2003-11-05 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/11/msg84822.html>
5360 Passage, immediate passage! the blood burns in my veins!
5361 Away O soul! hoist instantly the anchor!
5362 Cut the hawsers - hall out - shake out every sail!
5363 Have we not stood here like trees in the ground long enough?
5364 Have we not grovel'd here long enough, eating and drinking like mere brutes?
5365 Have we not darken'd and dazed ourselves with books long enough?
5367 Sail forth - steer for the deep waters only,
5368 Reckless O soul, exploring, I with the and thou with me,
5369 For we are bound where mariner has not yet dared to go,
5370 And we will risk the ship, ourselves and all.
5373 O farther farther sail!
5374 O daring job, but safe! are they not all the seas of God?
5375 O farther, farther, farther sail!
5377 =head2 v5.8.2-RC2 - Eric Idle and John Du Prez, "Accountancy Shanty"
5379 L<Announced on 2003-11-03 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/11/msg84645.html>
5381 It's fun to charter an accountant
5382 And sail the wide accountan-cy,
5383 To find, explore the funds offshore
5384 And skirt the shoals of bankruptcy.
5386 =head2 v5.8.2-RC1 - Edward Lear, "The Jumblies"
5388 L<Announced on 2003-10-27 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/10/msg84194.html>
5390 They went to sea in a Sieve, they did,
5391 In a Sieve they went to sea:
5392 In spite of all their friends could say,
5393 On a winter's morn, on a stormy day,
5394 In a Sieve they went to sea!
5395 And when the Sieve turned round and round,
5396 And everyone cried, "You'll all be drowned!"
5397 They cried aloud, "Our Sieve ain't big,
5398 But we don't care a button, we don't care a fig!
5399 In a Sieve we'll go to sea!"
5401 Far and few, far and few,
5402 Are the lands where the Jumblies live;
5403 Their heads are green, and their hands are blue,
5404 And they went to sea in a Sieve.
5406 =head2 v5.8.1 - epigraph same as v5.7.1
5408 L<Announced on 2003-09-25 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/09/msg82678.html>
5410 =head2 v5.8.1-RC5 - Terry Pratchett, "Lords and Ladies"
5412 L<Announced on 2003-09-22 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/09/msg82476.html>
5414 No matter what she did with her hair it took about
5415 three minutes for it to tangle itself up again,
5416 like a garden hosepipe in a shed [Footnote: Which,
5417 no matter how carefully coiled, will always uncoil
5418 overnight and tie the lawnmower to the bicycles].
5420 =head2 v5.8.1-RC4 - Terry Pratchett, "Interesting Times"
5422 L<Announced on 2003-08-01 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/08/msg79184.html>
5424 Grand Viziers were /always/ scheming megalomaniacs.
5425 It was probably in the job description: "Are you a
5426 devious, plotting, unreliable madman? Ah, good,
5427 then you can be my most trusted minister."
5429 =head2 v5.8.1-RC3 - Terry Pratchett, "Interesting Times"
5431 L<Announced on 2003-07-30 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/07/msg79048.html>
5433 Lord Hong had a mind like a knife, although possibly
5434 a knife with a curved blade.
5436 =head2 v5.8.1-RC2 - Terry Pratchett, "Interesting Times"
5438 L<Announced on 2003-07-11 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/07/msg78102.html>
5440 Many an ancient lord's last words had been, "You can't kill
5441 me because I've got magic aaargh."
5443 =head2 v5.8.1-RC1 - Terry Pratchett, "Interesting Times"
5445 L<Announced on 2003-07-10 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/07/msg78009.html>
5447 Cohen was familiar with city gates. He'd broken down a number
5448 in his time, by battering ram, siege gun, and on one occasion
5451 But the gates of Hunghung were pretty damn good gates. They
5452 weren't like the gates of Ankh-Morpork, which were usually wide
5453 open to attract the spending customer and whose concession to
5454 defense was the sign "Thank You For Not Attacking Our City.
5455 Bonum Diem." These things were big and made of metal and there
5456 was a guardhouse and a squad of unhelpful men in black armor.
5458 =head2 v5.8.0 - Terry Pratchett, "Reaper Man"
5460 L<Announced on 2002-07-18 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2002/07/msg63720.html>
5462 There was the faint sound of footsteps.
5463 "Chap with a whip got as far as the big sharp spikes last week,"
5464 said the low priest.
5465 There was a sound like the flushing of a very old dry lavatory.
5466 The footsteps stopped. The High Priest smiled to himself.
5467 "Right," he said. "See your two pebbles and raise you two pebbles."
5468 The low priest threw down his cards. "Double Onion," he said.
5469 The High Priest looked down suspiciously.
5470 The low priest consulted a scrap of paper. "That's three hundred
5471 thousand, nine hundred and sixty-four pebbles you owe me," he said.
5472 There was the sound of footsteps. The priests exchanged glances.
5473 "Haven't had one for poisoned-dart alley for quite some time,"
5474 said the High Priest.
5475 "Five says he makes it", said the low priest. "You're on."
5476 There was a faint clatter of metal points on stone.
5477 "It's a shame to take your pebbles."
5478 There were footsteps again.
5480 =head2 v5.8.0-RC3 - no epigraph
5482 L<Announced on 2002-07-13 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2002/07/msg63234.html>
5484 =head2 v5.8.0-RC2 - no epigraph
5486 L<Announced on 2002-06-21 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2002/06/msg62013.html>
5488 =head2 v5.8.0-RC1 - no epigraph
5490 L<Announced on 2002-06-01 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2002/06/msg60317.html>
5492 =head2 v5.7.3 - Terry Pratchett, "Reaper Man"
5494 L<Announced on 2002-03-04 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2002/03/msg53652.html>
5496 Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong.
5497 No matter how fast light travels it finds the darkness has always
5498 got there first, and is waiting for it.
5500 =head2 v5.7.2 - Terry Pratchett, "Small Gods"
5502 L<Announced on 2001-07-13 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2001/07/msg40370.html>
5504 His philosophy was a mixture of three famous schools --
5505 the Cynics, the Stoics and the Epicureans -- and summed up
5506 all three of them in his famous phrase, "You can't trust any
5507 bugger further than you can throw him, and there's nothing
5508 you can do about it, so let's have a drink."
5510 =head2 v5.7.1 - Terry Pratchett, "The Colour of Magic"
5512 L<Announced on 2001-04-09 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2001/04/msg33851.html>
5514 "What happens next?" asked Twoflower.
5516 Hrun screwed a finger in his ear and inspected it absently.
5518 "Oh,", he said, "I expect in a minute the door will be
5519 flung back and I'll be dragged off to some sort of temple
5520 arena where I'll fight maybe a couple of giant spiders
5521 and an eight-foot slave from the jungles of Klatch and then
5522 I'll rescue some kind of a princess from the altar and then
5523 I'll kill off a few guards or whatever and then this girl
5524 will show me the secret passage out of the place and we'll
5525 liberate a couple of horses and escape with the treasure."
5526 Hrun leaned his head back on his hands and looked at the
5527 ceiling, whistling tunelessly.
5529 "All that?" said Twoflower.
5533 =head2 v5.7.0 - Terry Pratchett, "Moving Pictures"
5535 L<Announced on 2000-09-02 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2000/09/msg17730.html>
5537 The Librarian had seen many weird things in his time,
5538 but that had to be the 57th strangest.
5539 [footnote: he had a tidy mind]
5541 =head2 v5.6.2 - Laurence Sterne, "Tristram Shandy"
5543 L<Announced on 2003-11-15 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/11/msg85222.html>
5545 When great or unexpected events fall out upon the stage of this
5546 sublunary word--the mind of man, which is an inquisitive kind of
5547 a substance, naturally takes a flight, behind the scenes, to see
5548 what is the cause and first spring of them--The search was not
5549 long in this instance.
5551 =head2 v5.6.2-RC1 - Laurence Sterne, "Tristram Shandy"
5553 L<Announced on 2003-11-08 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/11/msg84953.html>
5555 "Pray, my dear", quoth my mother, "have you not forgot to wind up the clock?"
5557 =head2 v5.6.1 - J R R Tolkien, "The Hobbit", Riddles in the Dark
5559 L<Announced on 2001-04-08 by Gurusamy Sarathy|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2001/04/msg33823.html>
5561 `What have I got in my pocket?' he said aloud. He was talking to
5562 himself, but Gollum thought it was a riddle, and he was frightfully
5565 `Not fair! not fair!' he hissed. `It isn't fair, my precious, is it,
5566 to ask us what it's got in its nassty little pocketses?'
5568 Bilbo seeing what had happened and having nothing better to ask
5569 stuck to his question, `What have I got in my pocket?' he said
5572 `S-s-s-s-s,' hissed Gollum. `It must give us three guesseses,
5573 my precious, three guesseses.'
5575 =head2 v5.6.1-foolish - no epigraph
5577 L<Announced on 2001-04-01 by Gurusamy Sarathy|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2001/04/msg33421.html>
5579 =head2 v5.6.1-TRIAL3 - I can't find the announcement
5581 No announcement available.
5583 =head2 v5.6.1-TRIAL2 - no epigraph
5585 L<Announced on 2001-01-31 by Gurusamy Sarathy|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2001/01/msg29934.html>
5587 =head2 v5.6.1-TRIAL1 - no epigraph
5589 L<Announced on 2000-12-18 by Gurusamy Sarathy|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2000/12/msg27738.html>
5591 =head2 v5.6.0 - J R R Tolkien, "The Hobbit", The Last Stage
5593 L<Announced on 2000-03-23 by Gurusamy Sarathy|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2000/03/msg10341.html>
5595 The dragon is withered,
5596 His bones are now crumbled;
5597 His armour is shivered,
5598 His splendour is humbled!
5599 Though sword shall be rusted,
5600 And throne and crown perish
5601 With strength that men trusted
5602 And wealth that they cherish,
5603 Here grass is still growing,
5604 And leaves are a yet swinging,
5605 The white water flowing,
5606 And elves are yet singing
5607 Come! Tra-la-la-lally!
5608 Come back to the valley.
5610 =head2 v5.6.0-RC3 - no epigraph
5612 L<Announced on 2000-03-22 by Gurusamy Sarathy|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2000/03/msg10140.html>
5614 =head2 v5.005_05-RC1 - no epigraph
5616 L<Announced on 2009-02-16 by LE<0xe9>on Brocard|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2009/02/msg144227.html>
5618 =head2 v5.005_04 - no epigraph
5620 L<Announced on 2004-03-01 by LE<0xe9>on Brocard|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/03/msg89047.html>
5622 =head2 v5.005_04-RC2 - Rudyard Kipling, "The Jungle Book"
5624 L<Announced on 2004-02-19 by LE<0xe9>on Brocard|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/02/msg88672.html>
5626 The monkeys called the place their city, and pretended to despise
5627 the Jungle-People because they lived in the forest. And yet they
5628 never knew what the buildings were made for nor how to use
5629 them. They would sit in circles on the hall of the king's council
5630 chamber, and scratch for fleas and pretend to be men; or they would
5631 run in and out of the roofless houses and collect pieces of plaster
5632 and old bricks in a corner, and forget where they had hidden them,
5633 and fight and cry in scuffling crowds, and then break off to play up
5634 and down the terraces of the king's garden, where they would shake
5635 the rose trees and the oranges in sport to see the fruit and flowers
5638 =head2 v5.005_04-RC1 - Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
5640 L<Announced on 2004-02-05 by LE<0xe9>on Brocard|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/02/msg88312.html>
5642 Either the well was very deep, or she fell very slowly, for she had
5643 plenty of time as she went down to look about her and to wonder what was
5644 going to happen next. First, she tried to look down and make out what
5645 she was coming to, but it was too dark to see anything; then she looked
5646 at the sides of the well, and noticed that they were filled with
5647 cupboards and book-shelves; here and there she saw maps and pictures
5648 hung upon pegs. She took down a jar from one of the shelves as she
5649 passed; it was labelled 'ORANGE MARMALADE', but to her great
5650 disappointment it was empty: she did not like to drop the jar for fear
5651 of killing somebody, so managed to put it into one of the cupboards as
5654 =head2 v1.0_16 - Johan Vromans, extemporarily
5656 L<Announced on 2003-12-18 by Richard Clamp|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/12/msg86423.html>
5658 't was 16 years ago today
5659 Larry taught us a new game
5660 of lazyness, impatience, and hubris
5661 Happy birthday, Perl!
5663 =head1 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
5665 This document was originally compiled based on a list of epigraphs
5666 on L<Perl Monks|http://perlmonks.org> titled
5667 L<Recent Perl Release Announcement|http://perlmonks.org/?node_id=372406>