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 v5.31.5 - Edward Lear, ed. Vivien Noakes, "The Complete Nonsense and Other Verse": The Daddy Long-legs and the Fly
22 L<Announced on 2019-10-20 by Steve Hay|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/10/msg256478.html>
24 'O Mr Daddy Long-legs,'
26 'It's true I never go to court,
27 And I will tell you why.
28 If I had six long legs like yours,
29 At once I'd go to court!
30 But oh! I can't, because my legs
31 Are so extremely short.
32 And I'm afraid the King and Queen
33 (One in red, and one in green)
34 Would say aloud, "You are not fit,
35 You Fly, to come to court a bit!"'
37 =head2 v5.31.4 - Ann Leckie, "The Raven Tower"
39 L<Announced on 2019-09-20 by Max Maischein|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/09/msg256254.html>
41 Stories can be risky for someone like me. What I say must be true, or it
42 will be made true, and if it cannot be made true - if I don't have the
43 power, or if what I have said is an impossibility - then I will pay the
44 price. I might more or less safely say, "Once there was a man who rode
45 home to attend his father's funeral and claim his inheritance, but
46 matters were not as he expected them to be." I do not doubt that such a
47 thing has happened more than once in all the time there have been
48 fathers to die and sons to succeed them. But to go any further, I must
49 supply more details - the specific actions of specific people, and their
50 specific consequences - and there I might blunder, all unknowing, into
51 untruth. It's safer for me to speak of what I know. Or to speak only in
52 the safest of generalities. Or else to say plainly at the beginning,
53 "Here is a story I have heard," placing the burden of truth or not on
54 the teller whose words I am merely accurately reporting.
56 But what is the story that I am telling? Here is another story I have
58 Once there were two brothers, and one of them wanted what the other had.
59 Bent all his will to obtain what the other had, no matter the cost.
60 Here is another story: Once there was a prisoner in a tower.
62 Once someone risked their life out of duty and loyalty to a friend.
63 Ah, there's a story that I might tell, and truthfully.
65 =head2 v5.31.3 - Samantha Harvey, "All Is Song"
67 L<Announced on 2019-08-20 by Tom Hukins|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/08/msg256012.html>
69 We are born from unity, we divide into isolation. We winnow ourselves
70 out from the thing that first made sense of us and then expect to find
71 meaning, yet a fraction makes no sense without the number of which
72 it's a fractional part. We see loss, feel grief, give ourselves
73 illness, we're cells that have over-divided and we call the division
74 growth; the only real growth is in the return to unity, God, the
77 Tired to his core, he turned the video off. The rain still poured as
78 he went upstairs, and in bed as he tripped down into the deep open
79 shaft of sleep he kept thinking that to divide by zero was to end up
80 with infinity, as was to divide by God. To divide by God, to divide
81 by God, over and over he thought it without sense; to divide by God; I
82 must tell my students that the way to pass their exams is to divide by
83 God. Then he must have slept, for it was morning.
85 =head2 v5.31.2 - Edward Lear, ed. Vivien Noakes, "The Complete Nonsense and Other Verse": The Duck and the Kangaroo
87 L<Announced on 2019-07-20 by Steve Hay|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/07/msg255639.html>
89 Said the Duck to the Kangaroo,
90 'Good gracious! how you hop!
91 Over the fields and the water too,
92 As if you never would stop!
93 My life is a bore in this nasty pond,
94 And I long to go out in the world beyond!
95 I wish I could hop like you!'
96 Said the Duck to the Kangaroo.
98 =head2 v5.31.1 - Kurt Vonnegut, _A Man without a Country_
100 L<Announced on 2019-06-20 by Karen Etheridge|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/06/msg255243.html>
102 On Tuesday, January 20, 2004, I sent Joel Bleifuss, my editor at _In These
105 ON ORANGE ALERT HERE.
106 ECONOMIC TERRORIST ATTACK
107 EXPECTED AT 8 PM EST. KV
109 Worried, he called, asking what was up. I said I would tell him when I had
110 more complete information on the bombs George Bush was set to deliver in his
111 State of the Union address.
113 That night I got a call from my friend, the out-of-print-science-fiction
114 writer Kilgore Trout. He asked me, "Did you watch the State of the Union
117 "Yes, and it certainly helped to remember what the great British socialist
118 playwright George Bernard Shaw said about this planet."
122 "He said, 'I don't know if there are men on the moon, but if there are, they
123 must be using the earth as their lunatic asylum.' And he wasn't talking
124 about the germs or the elephants. He meant we the people."
128 "You don't think this is the Lunatic Asylum of the Universe?"
130 "Kurt, I don't think I expressed an opinion one way of the other."
132 "We are killing this planet as a life-support system with the poisons from
133 all the thermodynamic whoopee we're making with atomic energy and fossil
134 fuels, and everybody knows it, and practically nobody cares. This is how
135 crazy we are. I think the planet's immune system is trying to get rid of us
136 with AIDS and new strains of flu and tuberculosis, and so on. I think the
137 planet should get rid of us. We're really awful animals. I mean, that dumb
138 Barbra Streisand song, 'People who need people are the luckiest people in
139 the world' -- she's talking about cannibals. Lots to eat. Yes, the planet is
140 trying to get rid of us, but I think it's too late."
142 And I said good-bye to my friend, hung up the phone, sat down and wrote this
143 epitaph: "The good Earth -- we could have saved it, but we were too damn
146 =head2 v5.31.0 - Fumiko Enchi, Masks
148 L<Announced on 2019-05-24 by Sawyer X|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/05/msg254886.html>
150 The secrets inside her mind are like flowers in a garden at
151 nighttime, filling the darkness with perfume.
153 =head2 v5.30.1-RC1 - Francesco Maria Piave, trans. Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, "La traviata", Act I: Brindisi
155 L<Announced on 2019-10-27 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/10/msg256542.html>
158 Let's drink from the joyous chalice
159 where beauty flowers...
160 Let the fleeting hour
161 to pleasure's intoxication yield.
163 to love's sweet tremors --
165 that pierce the heart.
166 Let's drink to love -- to wine
167 that warms our kisses.
169 =head2 v5.30.0 - Morihei Ueshiba
171 L<Announced on 2019-05-22 by Sawyer X|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/05/msg254844.html>
173 Life is growth. If we stop growing, technically and spiritually, we
176 =head2 v5.30.0-RC2 - Derek Walcott
178 L<Announced on 2019-05-17 by Sawyer X|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/05/msg254824.html>
180 The truest writers are those who see language not as linguistic process but
185 =head2 v5.30.0-RC1 - Marcel Proust
187 L<Announced on 2019-05-11 by Sawyer X|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/05/msg254748.html>
189 If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream
190 less but to dream more, to dream all the time.
194 =head2 v5.29.10 - Maya Angelou, Alone
196 L<Announced on 2019-04-20 by Sawyer X|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/04/msg254467.html>
200 How to find my soul a home
201 Where water is not thirsty
202 And bread loaf is not stone
203 I came up with one thing
204 And I don't believe I'm wrong
207 Can make it out here alone.
211 Can make it out here alone.
213 There are some millionaires
214 With money they can't use
215 Their wives run round like banshees
216 Their children sing the blues
217 They've got expensive doctors
218 To cure their hearts of stone.
221 Can make it out here alone.
225 Can make it out here alone.
227 Now if you listen closely
228 I'll tell you what I know
229 Storm clouds are gathering
230 The wind is gonna blow
231 The race of man is suffering
232 And I can hear the moan,
235 Can make it out here alone.
239 Can make it out here alone.
241 =head2 v5.29.9 - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Dancing Men
243 L<Announced on 2019-03-21 by Zak Elep|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/03/msg253978.html>
245 What one man can invent, another can discover.
247 =head2 v5.29.8 - Isaac Asimov, Foundation: “Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.”
249 L<Announced on 2019-02-20 by Atoomic|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/02/msg253750.html>
251 =head2 v5.29.7 - Edsger W. Dijkstra: "Programming Considered as a Human Activity", IFIP Congress, New York, 1965.
253 L<Announced on 2019-01-20 by Abigail|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/01/msg253444.html>
255 When I became acquainted with the notion of algorithmic languages I
256 never challenged the then prevailing notion that the problems of
257 language design and implementation were mostly a question of
258 compromises: every new convenience for the user had to be paid for
259 by the implementation, either in the form of increased trouble
260 during translation, or during execution or during both. Well, we
261 are most certainly not living in Heaven and I am not going to deny
262 the possibility of a conflict between convenience and efficiency,
263 but now I do protest when this conflict is presented as a complete
264 summing up of the situation. I am of the opinion that is worth-while
265 to investigate what extent the needs of Man and Machine go hand in
266 hand and to see what techniques we can devise of the benefit of all
267 of us. I trust that this investigation will bear fruits and if this
268 talk made some of you share this fervent hope, it has achieved its aim.
270 =head2 v5.29.6 - Rudyard Kipling: "How the Camel Got His Hump"
272 L<Announced on 2018-12-18 by Abigail|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/12/msg253187.html>
274 The Camel's hump is an ugly lump
275 Which well you may see at the Zoo;
276 But uglier yet is the hump we get
277 From having little to do.
279 Kiddies and grown-ups too-oo-oo
280 If we haven't enough to do-oo-oo,
283 The hump that is black and blue!
285 We climb out of bed with a frouzly head
286 And a snarly-yarly voice.
287 We shiver and scowl and we grunt and we growl
288 At our bath and our boots and our toys;
290 And there ought to be a corner for me
291 (And I know there is one for you)
292 When we get the hump -
294 The hump that is black and blue!
296 The cure for this ill is to not sit still,
297 Or frowst with a book by the fire;
298 But to take a large hoe and a shovel also,
299 And dig till you gentle perspire;
301 And then you will find that the sun and the wind,
302 And the Djinn of the Garden too,
303 Have lifted the hump -
305 The hump that is black and blue!
307 I get it as well as you-oo-oo -
308 If I haven't enough to do-oo-oo!
311 Kiddies and grown-ups too!
314 =head2 v5.29.5 - T. S. Eliot, "The Naming Of Cats"
316 L<Announced on 2018-11-20 by Karen Etheridge|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/11/msg252839.html>
318 The Naming of Cats is a difficult matter,
319 It isn't just one of your holiday games;
320 You may think at first I'm as mad as a hatter
321 When I tell you, a cat must have THREE DIFFERENT NAMES.
322 First of all, there's the name that the family use daily,
323 Such as Peter, Augustus, Alonzo or James,
324 Such as Victor or Jonathan, George or Bill Bailey--
325 All of them sensible everyday names.
326 There are fancier names if you think they sound sweeter,
327 Some for the gentlemen, some for the dames:
328 Such as Plato, Admetus, Electra, Demeter--
329 But all of them sensible everyday names.
330 But I tell you, a cat needs a name that's particular,
331 A name that's peculiar, and more dignified,
332 Else how can he keep up his tail perpendicular,
333 Or spread out his whiskers, or cherish his pride?
334 Of names of this kind, I can give you a quorum,
335 Such as Munkustrap, Quaxo, or Coricopat,
336 Such as Bombalurina, or else Jellylorum-
337 Names that never belong to more than one cat.
338 But above and beyond there's still one name left over,
339 And that is the name that you never will guess;
340 The name that no human research can discover--
341 But THE CAT HIMSELF KNOWS, and will never confess.
342 When you notice a cat in profound meditation,
343 The reason, I tell you, is always the same:
344 His mind is engaged in a rapt contemplation
345 Of the thought, of the thought, of the thought of his name:
346 His ineffable effable
348 Deep and inscrutable singular Name.
350 =head2 v5.29.4 - The Mountain Goats, "Oceanographer's Choice"
352 L<Announced on 2018-10-20 by Aaron Crane|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/10/msg252575.html>
355 Guy in a skeleton costume
356 Comes up to the guy in the Superman suit
357 Runs through him with a broadsword
358 I flipped the television off
359 Bring all the bright lights up
360 Turn the radio up loud
361 I don't know why I'm so persuaded
362 That if I think things through
363 Long enough and hard enough
364 I'll somehow get to you
365 But then you came in and we locked eyes
366 You kicked the ashtray over as we came toward each other
367 Stubbed my cigarette out against the west wall
370 Would you look at that?
371 We're throwing off sparks
372 What will I do when I don't have you
373 To hold onto in the dark?
375 =head2 v5.29.3 - Mac Miller, "Senior Skip Day"
377 L<Announced on 2018-09-20 by John 'genehack' Anderson|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/09/msg252255.html>
379 Enjoy the best things in your life
380 ’Cause you ain’t gonna get to live it twice
381 They say you waste time asleep
382 But I’m just tryin’ to dream
384 =head2 v5.29.2 - Rick Riordan, "The Lightning Thief"
386 L<Announced on 2018-08-20 by Chris 'BinGOs' Williams|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/08/msg251918.html>
388 Look, I didn't want to be a half-blood.
390 If you're reading this because you think you might be one,
391 my advice is: close this book right now. Believe whatever
392 lie your mom or dad told you about your birth, and try
393 to lead a normal life.
395 Being a half-blood is dangerous. It's scary. Most of the time,
396 it gets you killed in painful, nasty ways.
398 If you're a normal kid, reading this because you think it's
399 fiction, great. Read on. I envy you for being able to believe
400 that none of this ever happened.
402 But if you recognize yourself in these pages - if you feel
403 something stirring inside - stop reading immediately.
404 You might be one of us. And once you know that, it's only a
405 matter of time before they sense it too, and they'll come for you.
407 =head2 v5.29.1 - Richard Curtis & Ben Elton, "Blackadder, Series 3, Episode 2: Ink and Incapability"
409 L<Announced on 2018-07-20 by Steve Hay|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/07/msg251605.html>
411 Dr. Samuel Johnson: Here it is, sir: the very cornerstone of English
412 scholarship. This book, sir, contains every word in our beloved
415 Prince Regent George: Hmm.
417 Edmund Blackadder: Every single one, sir?
419 Johnson: (confidently) Every single word, sir!
421 Blackadder: (to Prince) Oh, well, in that case, sir, I hope you will
422 not object if I also offer the Doctor my most enthusiastic
427 Blackadder: 'Contrafribularities,' sir? It is a common word down our
430 Johnson: Damn! (writes in the book)
432 Blackadder: Oh, I'm sorry, sir. I'm anaspeptic, phrasmotic, even
433 compunctious to have caused you such pericombobulation.
435 Johnson: What? What? WHAT?
437 =head2 v5.29.0 - Erle Stanley Gardner, The Case of the Grinning Gorilla
439 L<Announced on 2018-06-26 by Sawyer X|http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/251297>
441 Courage is the only antidote for danger.
443 =head2 v5.28.2 - Edward Lear, ed. Vivien Noakes, "The Complete Nonsense and Other Verse": The Jumblies
445 L<Announced on 2019-04-19 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/04/msg254456.html>
447 They went to sea in a Sieve, they did,
448 In a Sieve they went to sea:
449 In spite of all their friends could say,
450 On a winter's morn, on a stormy day,
451 In a Sieve they went to sea!
452 And when the Sieve turned round and round,
453 And every one cried, 'You'll all be drowned!'
454 They called aloud, 'Our Sieve ain't big,
455 But we don't care a button! we don't care a fig!
456 In a Sieve we'll go to sea!'
457 Far and few, far and few,
458 Are the lands where the Jumblies live;
459 Their heads are green, and their hands are blue,
460 And they went to sea in a Sieve.
462 =head2 v5.28.2-RC1 - Edward Lear, ed. Vivien Noakes, "The Complete Nonsense and Other Verse": The Quangle Wangle's Hat
464 L<Announced on 2019-04-05 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/04/msg254218.html>
466 On the top of the Crumpetty Tree
467 The Quangle Wangle sat,
468 But his face you could not see,
469 On account of his Beaver Hat.
470 For his Hat was a hundred and two feet wide,
471 With ribbons and bibbons on every side,
472 And bells, and buttons, and loops, and lace,
473 So that nobody ever could see the face
474 Of the Quangle Wangle Quee.
476 =head2 v5.28.1 - Humphrey Burton, "Leonard Bernstein"
478 L<Announced on 2018-11-29 by Steve Hay|http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/11/msg252975.html>
480 On August 25, 1983, Leonard Bernstein celebrated his sixty-fifth
481 birthday in his birthplace, Lawrence, Massachusetts. He had actually
482 lived in the town for only a few weeks as a newborn baby, and had last
483 visited it forty-nine years previously, in 1934, to get the name on his
484 birth certificate altered from Louis to Leonard. But the citizens of
485 Lawrence proposed to dedicate an outdoor theater to him in their
486 heritage park and to provide not one but two local orchestras--the
487 Merrimack Valley Philharmonic to play excerpts from his own compositions
488 and the Greater Boston Youth Symphony and Chorus to perform the "Ode to
489 Joy" and accompany Bernstein himself reading (for the only time in his
490 life) the text of A Lincoln Portrait. So Bernstein turned down birthday
491 invitations from Tanglewood and Central Park, New York, and the
492 Hollywood Bowl and drove through the cheering if slightly bewildered
493 crowds lining the streets of Lawrence in an open-topped 1928 Ford
494 roadster, looking as homespun as James Stewart in Frank Capra's classic,
495 It's a Wonderful Life.
497 =head2 v5.28.0 - Martin Luther King, Jr., 1967
499 L<Announced on 2018-06-22 by Sawyer X|http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/251240>
501 When we look at modern man we have to face the fact that modern man
502 suffers from a kind of poverty of the spirit which stands in glaring
503 contrast with his scientific and technological abundance. We've learned
504 to fly the air as birds, we've learned to swim the seas as fish, yet we
505 haven't learned to walk the earth as brothers and sisters.
507 =head2 v5.28.0-RC4 - Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book
509 L<Announced on 2018-06-19 by Sawyer X|http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/251212>
511 You're alive, Bod. That means you have infinite potential. You can do
512 anything, make anything, dream anything. If you can change the world,
513 the world will change. Potential. Once you're dead, it's gone. Over.
514 You've made what you've made, dreamed your dream, written your name.
515 You may be buried here, you may even walk. But that potential is
518 =head2 v5.28.0-RC3 - Anthony Horowitz, Magpie Murders
520 L<Announced on 2018-06-18 by Sawyer X|http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/251204>
522 These had been his plans. But if there was one thing that life had
523 taught him, it was the futility of making plans. Life had its own
526 =head2 v5.28.0-RC2 - Oliver Sacks, The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat: And Other Clinical Tales
528 L<Announced on 2018-06-06 by Sawyer X|http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/251122>
530 Had she not been of exceptional intelligence and literacy, with an
531 imagination filled and sustained, so to speak, by the images of
532 others, images conveyed by language, by the word, she might have
533 remained almost as helpless as a baby.
535 =head2 v5.28.0-RC1 - Anu Garg, A Word A Day
537 L<Announced on 2018-05-21 by Sawyer X|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/05/msg250999.html>
539 One doesn't have to know the unit of pain (dol) to realize that the
540 unit of joy is not the dollar, or any other currency for that matter.
542 =head2 v5.27.11 - Tana French, In the Woods
544 L<Announced on 2018-04-20 by Sawyer X|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/04/msg250571.html>
546 And then, too, I had learned early to assume something dark and
547 lethal hidden at the heart of anything I loved. When I couldn't find
548 it, I responded, bewildered and wary, in the only way I knew how: by
549 planting it there myself.
551 =head2 v5.27.10 - Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, p. 248
553 L<Announced on 2018-03-20 by Todd Rinaldo|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/03/msg250042.html>
555 A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher
556 a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts,
557 build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders,
558 cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure,
559 program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly.
560 Specialization is for insects.
562 =head2 v5.27.9 - Agatha Christie, "The Mysterious Affair at Styles"
564 L<Announced on 2018-02-20 by Renee Bäcker|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/02/msg249549.html>
566 Poirot was an extraordinary looking little man. He was hardly more
567 than five feet, four inches, but carried himself with great dignity.
568 His head was exactly the shape of an egg, and he always perched it
569 a little on one side. His moustache was very stiff and military.
570 The neatness of his attire was almost incredible. I believe a
571 speck of dust would have caused him more pain than a bullet wound.
572 Yet this quaint dandified little man who, I was sorry to see, now
573 limped badly, had been in his time one of the most celebrated members
574 of the Belgian police. As a detective, his flair had been extraordinary,
575 and he had achieved triumphs by unravelling some of the most baffling
577 He pointed out to me the little house inhabited by him and his fellow
578 Belgians, and I promised to go and see him at an early date. Then he
579 raised his hat with a flourish to Cynthia, and we drove away.
580 "He's a dear little man," said Cynthia. "I'd no idea you knew him."
581 "You've been entertaining a celebrity unawares," I replied.
582 And, for the rest of the way home, I recited to them the various
583 exploits and triumphs of Hercule Poirot.
585 =head2 v5.27.8 - Jasper Fforde, "Shades of Grey"
587 L<Announced on 2018-01-20 by Abigail|http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/248914>
589 2.4.16.55.021: Males are to wear dresscode #6 during inter-Collective
590 travel. Hats are encouraged, but not required.
592 9.3.88.32.025: The cucumber and tomato are both fruit; the avocado
593 is a nut. To assist with the dietary requirements of vegetarians,
594 on the first Tuesday of the month a chicken is officially a vegetable.
596 5.3.21.01.002: Once allocated, postcodes are permanent, and for life.
598 6.1.02.11.235: Artifacture from before the Something That Happened
599 may be collected, so long it does not appear on the Leapback list
600 or possess color above 23 percent saturation.
602 2.3.06.02.087: Unnecessary sharpening of pencils constitutes a waste
603 of public resources, and will be punished as appropriate.
605 2.1.01.05.002: All children are to attent school until the age of
606 sixteen or until they have learned everything, whichever be the sooner.
608 1.3.02.06.023: There shall be no staring at the sun, however good
611 1.1.19.02.006: Team sports are mandatory in order to build character.
612 Character is there to give purpose to team sports.
614 2.3.03.01.006: Juggling shall not be practiced after 4:00 pm.
617 =head2 v5.27.7 - Terry Pratchett, "Hogfather"
619 L<Announced on 2017-12-20 by Chris 'BinGOs' Williams|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/12/msg248274.html>
621 Death looked at the sacks.
623 It was a strange but demonstrable fact that the sacks of
624 toys carried by the Hogfather, no matter what they
625 really contained, always appeared to have sticking out
626 of the top a teddy bear, a toy soldier in the kind of
627 colorful uniform that would stand out in a disco, a
628 drum and a red-and-white candy cane. The actual
629 contents always turned out to be something a bit
630 garish and costing $5.99.
632 Death had investigated one or two. There had been a
633 Real Agatean Ninja, for example, with Fearsome
634 Death Grip, and a Captain Carrot One-Man Night
635 Watch with a complete wardrobe of toy weapons, each
636 of which cost as much as the original wooden doll in
639 Mind you, the stuff for the girls was just as
640 depressing. It seemed to be nearly all horses. Most of
641 them were grinning. Horses, Death felt, shouldn't grin.
643 Any horse that was grinning was planning something.
645 =head2 v5.27.6 - Ogden Nash, "Behold the Duck"
647 L<Announced on 2017-11-20 by Karen Etheridge|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/11/msg247489.html>
654 It is 'specially fond
656 when it dines or sups
660 =head2 v5.27.5 - Frank Birch, Dilly Knox & G. P. Mackeson, "Alice in I.D.25"
662 L<Announced on 2017-10-20 by Steve Hay|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/10/msg246785.html>
664 'Can I do anything?' Alice suggested timidly, thinking that something
665 dreadful must have happened.
666 The Waterflap jumped as if it had been shot. 'What are you doing
667 here?' it snapped. 'Take this at once into the Directional room,' and it
668 thrust the paper which had caused all the fuss into her hands.
669 'But where is the Directional room?' she inquired, bewildered.
670 'Why, there of course,' howled the Waterflap, pointing to a door.
671 'How could I possibly know that!' Alice exclaimed, angered by his
673 'Silly girl,' it hissed. 'Why, it's called the Directional room
674 because it's in that direction,' and it pushed her roughly through the
677 =head2 v5.27.4 - Richard Brautigan, "All Watched Over By Machines Of Loving Grace"
679 L<Announced on 2017-09-20 by John SJ Anderson|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/09/msg246371.html>
682 the sooner the better!)
683 of a cybernetic meadow
684 where mammals and computers
685 live together in mutually
692 of a cybernetic forest
693 filled with pines and electronics
694 where deer stroll peacefully
696 as if they were flowers
697 with spinning blossoms.
701 of a cybernetic ecology
702 where we are free of our labors
703 and joined back to nature,
704 returned to our mammal
705 brothers and sisters,
707 by machines of loving grace.
709 =head2 v5.27.3 - Rodgers and Hammerstein, "You'll Never Walk Alone"
711 L<Announced on 2017-08-21 by Matthew Horsfall|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/08/msg245988.html>
713 When you walk through a storm
714 Hold your head up high
715 And don't be afraid of the dark
717 At the end of a storm
719 And the sweet silver song of a lark
721 Walk on through the wind
722 Walk on through the rain
723 Though your dreams be tossed and blown
726 With hope in your heart
727 And you'll never walk alone
729 You'll never walk alone
732 With hope in your heart
733 And you'll never walk alone
735 You'll never walk alone
737 =head2 v5.27.2 - Lev Grossman, Codex
739 L<Announced on 2017-07-20 by Aaron Crane|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/07/msg245585.html>
741 He went back for another stack of books: a three-volume English legal
742 treatise; a travel guide to Tuscany from the '20s crammed with faded
743 Italian wildflowers that fluttered out from between the pages like
744 moths; a French edition of Turgeniev so decayed that it came apart in
745 his hands; a register of London society from 1863. In a way it was
746 idiotic. He was treating these books like they were holy relics. It
747 wasn't like he would ever actually read them. But there was something
748 magnetic about them, something that compelled respect, even the silly
749 ones, like the Enlightenment treatise about how lightning was caused
750 by bees. They were information, data, but not in the form he was used
751 to dealing with it. They were non-digital, nonelectrical chunks of
752 memory, not stamped out of silicon but laboriously crafted out of wood
753 pulp and ink, leather and glue. Somebody had cared enough to write
754 these things; somebody else had cared enough to buy them, possibly
755 even read them, at the very least keep them safe for 150 years,
756 sometimes longer, when they could have vanished at the touch of a
757 spark. That made them worth something, didn't it, just by itself?
758 Though most of them would have bored him rigid the second he cracked
759 them open, which there wasn't much chance of. Maybe that was what he
760 found so appealing: the sight of so many books that he'd never have to
761 read, so much work he'd never have to do.
763 =head2 v5.27.1 - Rona Munro, Doctor Who: Survival
765 L<Announced on 2017-06-20 by Eric Herman|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/06/msg245055.html>
767 There are worlds out there where the sky is burning,
768 where the sea's asleep and the rivers dream,
769 people made of smoke and cities made of song.
770 Somewhere there's danger,
771 somewhere there's injustice
772 and somewhere else the tea is getting cold.
773 Come on, Ace, we've got work to do.
775 =head2 v5.27.0 - Bertrand Russell, The Road to Happiness
777 L<Announced on 2017-05-31 by Sawyer X|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/05/msg244580.html>
779 People who have theories as to how one should live tend to forget the
780 limitations of nature. If your way of life involves constant
781 restraint of impulse for the sake of some one supreme aim that you
782 have set yourself, it is likely that the aim will become increasingly
783 distasteful because of the efforts that it demands; impulse, denied
784 its normal outlets, will find others, probably in spite; pleasure, if
785 you allow yourself any at all, will be dissociated from the main
786 current of your life, and will become Bacchic and frivolous. Such
787 pleasure brings no happiness, but only a deeper despair.
789 -- Bertrand Russell, The Road to Happiness
791 =head2 v5.26.3 - Humphrey Burton, "Leonard Bernstein"
793 L<Announced on 2018-11-29 by Steve Hay|http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/11/msg252974.html>
795 The origins of the name "Bernstein" are sometimes linked with the German
796 noun Bernstein, which means "amber"--a translucent yellowish fossilized
797 resin, used for ornaments and thought to possess magical properties.
798 Leonard Bernstein would later call himself "Lenny Amber" when he needed
799 a pseudonym for the popular piano transcriptions he published in his
800 mid-twenties, and his business affairs would be organized within a
801 company called Amberson Enterprises. There are several towns and
802 villages named Bernstein in Germany and Austria (where the pronunciation
803 is BernSTINE), but Bernstein's parents came from Jewish ghettos in
804 northwestern Ukraine, where the last syllable is usually pronounced
805 BernSHTAYN or STEEN. Sam insisted, however, on the mid-European style
806 employed by the earlier immigrants.
808 =head2 v5.26.2 - Desmond Morris, "Catwatching: The Essential Guide to Cat Behaviour"
810 L<Announced on 2018-04-14 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/04/msg250440.html>
812 How does a cat use its whiskers? The usual answer is that the whiskers
813 are feelers that enable a cat to tell whether a gap is wide enough for
814 it to squeeze through, but the truth is more complicated and more
815 remarkable. In addition to their obvious role as feelers sensitive to
816 touch, the whiskers also operate as air-current detectors. As the cat
817 moves along in the dark it needs to manoeuvre past solid objects without
818 touching them. Each solid object it approaches causes slight eddies in
819 the air, minute disturbances in the currents of air movements, and the
820 cat's whiskers are so amazingly sensitive that they can read these air
821 changes and respond to the presence of solid obstacles even without
824 =head2 v5.26.2-RC1 - Desmond Morris, "Catwatching: The Essential Guide to Cat Behaviour"
826 L<Announced on 2018-03-24 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/03/msg250103.html>
828 Cats have a way of endearing themselves to their owners, not just by
829 their 'kittenoid' behaviour, which stimulates strong parental feelings,
830 but also by their sheer gracefulness. There is an elegance and a
831 composure about them that captivates the human eye. To the sensitive
832 human being it becomes a privilege to share a room with a cat, exchange
833 its glance, feel its greeting rub, or watch it gently luxuriate itself
834 into a snoozing ball on a soft cushion.
836 =head2 v5.26.1 - Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
838 L<Announced on 2017-09-22 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/09/msg246408.html>
840 And soon I heard a roaring wind:
841 It did not come anear;
842 But with its sound it shook the sails,
843 That were so thin and sere.
845 The upper air burst into life!
846 And a hundred fire-flags sheen,
847 To and fro they were hurried about!
848 And to and fro, and in and out,
849 The wan stars danced between.
851 =head2 v5.26.1-RC1 - Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
853 L<Announced on 2017-09-10 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/09/msg246202.html>
855 At length did cross an Albatross,
856 Thorough the fog it came;
857 As if it had been a Christian soul,
858 We hailed it in God's name.
860 It ate the food it ne'er had eat,
861 And round and round it flew.
862 The ice did split with a thunder-fit;
863 The helmsman steered us through!
865 And a good south wind sprung up behind;
866 The Albatross did follow,
867 And every day, for food or play,
868 Came to the mariner's hollo!
870 In mist or cloud, on mast or shroud,
871 It perched for vespers nine;
872 Whiles all the night, through fog-smoke white,
873 Glimmered the white Moon-shine.'
875 'God save thee, ancient Mariner!
876 From the fiends, that plague thee thus!—
877 Why look'st thou so?'—With my cross-bow
878 I shot the ALBATROSS.
880 =head2 v5.26.0 - Nine Simone, Ain't Got No / I Got Life
882 L<Announced on 2017-05-30 by Sawyer X|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/05/msg244573.html>
885 And I'm gonna keep it
887 And nobody's gonna take it away
890 =head2 v5.26.0-RC2 - Richard Condon, The Manchurian Candidate
892 L<Announced on 2017-05-23 by Sawyer X|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/05/msg244511.html>
894 Amateur psychiatric prognosis can be fascinating when there is
895 absolutely nothing else to do.
897 =head2 v5.26.0-RC1 - Thomas Paine, Common Sense
899 L<Announced on 2017-05-11 by Sawyer X|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/05/msg244337.html>
901 A long habit of not thinking a thing WRONG, gives it a superficial
902 appearance of being RIGHT, and raises at first a formidable outcry in
903 defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more
904 converts than reason.
906 =head2 v5.25.12 - Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
908 L<Announced on 2017-04-20 by Sawyer X|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/04/msg244146.html>
910 I have told my sons that they are not under any circumstances to take
911 part in massacres, and that the news of massacres of enemies is not
912 to fill them with satisfaction or glee.
914 I have also told them not to work for companies which make massacre
915 machinery, and to express contempt for people who think we need
918 =head2 v5.25.11 - Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow
920 L<Announced on 2017-03-20 by Sawyer X|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/03/msg243624.html>
922 Subjective confidence in a judgment is not a reasoned evaluation of
923 the probability that this judgment is correct. Confidence is a
924 feeling, which reflects the coherence of the information and the
925 cognitive ease of processing it. It is wise to take admissions of
926 uncertainty seriously, but declarations of high confidence mainly
927 tell you that an individual has constructed a coherent story in his
928 mind, not necessarily that the story is true.
930 =head2 v5.25.10 - Erich Fried, 1968
932 L<Announced on 2017-02-20 by Renee Bäcker|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/02/msg243173.html>
934 He who wants the world to remain as it is
935 doesn't want it to remain.
937 =head2 v5.25.9 - A. A. Milne, "Winnie-the-Pooh", 1926
939 L<Announced on 2017-01-20 by Abigail|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/01/msg242405.html>
941 Pooh always liked a little something at eleven o'clock in the
942 morning, and he was very glad to see Rabbit getting out the plates
943 and mugs; and when Rabbit said, "Honey or condensed milk with
944 your bread?" he was so excited that he said, "Both," and then,
945 so as not to seem greedy, he added, "But don't bother about the
948 =head2 v5.25.8 - Langston Hughes, So long
950 L<Announced on 2016-12-20 by Sawyer X|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/12/msg241739.html>
954 and it's in the way you're gone
955 but it's like a foreign language
957 and maybe was I blind
963 =head2 v5.25.7 - J.R.R. Tolkien, "The Silmarillion"
965 L<Announced on 2016-11-20 by Chad 'Exodist' Granum|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/11/msg241120.html>
969 Among the tales of sorrow and of ruin that come down to us from the darkness of
970 those days there are yet some in which amid weeping there is joy and under the
971 shadow of death light that endures. And of these histories most fair still in
972 the ears of the Elves is the tale of Beren and Lúthien. Of their lives was made
973 the Lay of Leithian, Release from Bondage, which is the longest save one of the
974 songs concerning the world of old; but here is told in fewer words and without
977 =head2 v5.25.6 - Alan Warner, "The Sopranos"
979 L<Announced on 2016-10-10 by Aaron Crane|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/10/msg240406.html>
981 I'm up on all the pop trivia, says the guy with the stud in his tongue.
983 Yes. Do you know who the lead singer of Echo and the Bunnymen is?
984 Let me guess, is he called Echo?
985 Good guess but no, anyway when they played Glastonbury it was so
986 muddy he had two roadies to hold up a binliner on each of his legs so
987 they wouldn't get covered in mud.
988 That's what being rich and famous is all about, having someone
989 else hold up your binliners on each leg when you're wandering across
991 Do you know what Sammy Davis Junior said being black and famous in
994 He said being black and famous in America meant he could be
995 refused entry to exclusive clubs and restaurants that other people
996 could only ever dream of going to. Do you know Michael Stipe likes to
997 send his remote control toy cars onto stage while his support band are
998 playing to freak them out?
1000 You're not really a pop trivia person, are you, Kylah?
1001 No, I'm not, Stephen.
1003 =head2 v5.25.5 - Philip K. Dick, VALIS
1005 L<Announced on 2016-09-20 by Stevan Little|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/09/msg239887.html>
1007 We hypostatize information into objects. Rearrangement of objects is
1008 change in the content of the information; the message has changed.
1009 This is a language which we have lost the ability to read. We ourselves
1010 are a part of this language; changes in us are changes in the content
1011 of the information. We ourselves are information-rich; information
1012 enters us, is processed and is then projected outward once more, now
1013 in an altered form. We are not aware that we are doing this, that in
1014 fact this is all we are doing
1016 =head2 v5.25.4 - Terry Pratchett, "Truckers"
1018 L<Announced on 2016-08-20 by Chris 'BinGOs' Williams|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/08/msg239191.html>
1020 Concerning Nomes and Time
1022 Nomes are small. On the whole, small creatures don't live for a long
1023 time. But perhaps they do live fast.
1027 One of the shortest-lived creatures on the planet Earth is the adult
1028 common mayfly. It lasts for one day. The longest-living things are
1029 bristlecone pine trees, at 4,700 years and still counting.
1031 This may seem tough on the mayflies. But the important thing is not
1032 how long your life is, but how long it seems.
1034 To a mayfly, a single hour may last as long as a century. Perhaps
1035 old mayflies sit around complaining about how life this minute isn't a
1036 patch on the good old minutes of long ago, when the world was
1037 young and the sun seemed so much brighter and larvae showed you a
1038 bit of respect. Whereas the trees, which are not famous to their
1039 quick reactions, may just have time to notice the way the sky keeps
1040 flickering before the dry rot and woodworm set in.
1042 It's all a sort of relativity. The faster you live, the more time
1043 stretches out. To a nome, a year lasts as long as ten years does to a
1044 human. Remember it. Don't let it concern you. They don't. They don't
1047 =head2 v5.25.3 - Edward Lear, ed. Vivien Noakes, "The Complete Nonsense and Other Verse": The Dong with a Luminous Nose
1049 L<Announced on 2016-07-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/07/msg238158.html>
1051 When awful darkness and silence reign
1052 Over the great Gromboolian plain,
1053 Through the long, long wintry nights; -
1054 When the angry breakers roar
1055 As they beat on the rocky shore; -
1056 When Storm-clouds brood on the towering heights
1057 Of the Hills of the Chankly Bore: -
1059 Then, through the vast and gloomy dark,
1060 There moves what seems a fiery spark,
1061 A lonely spark with silvery rays
1062 Piercing the coal-black night, -
1063 A Meteor strange and bright: -
1064 Hither and thither the vision strays,
1065 A single lurid light.
1067 Slowly it wanders, - pauses, - creeps, -
1068 Anon it sparkles, - flashes and leaps;
1069 And ever as onward it gleaming goes
1070 A light on the Bong-tree stems it throws.
1071 And those who watch at that midnight hour
1072 From Hall or Terrace, or lofty Tower,
1073 Cry, as the wild light passes along, -
1074 'The Dong! - the Dong!
1075 The wandering Dong through the forest goes!
1077 The Dong with a luminous Nose!'
1079 =head2 v5.25.2 - Dan le Sac Vs Scroobius Pip "Waiting For The Beat To Kick In"
1081 L<Announced on 2016-06-20 by Matthew Horsfall|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/06/msg237274.html>
1083 Waiting for the beat to kick in
1085 Waiting for my feet to grow wings
1087 All of these tiresome things
1088 That we know and love
1089 Waiting for the beat to kick in
1092 =head2 v5.25.1 - Eli Pariser, "The Filter Bubble"
1094 L<Announced on 2016-05-20 by Sawyer X|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/05/msg236566.html>
1096 Imagine that you're a smart high school student on the low end of the social
1097 totem pole. You're alienated from adult authority, but unlike many teenagers,
1098 you're also alienated from the power structures of your peers -- an existence
1099 that can feel lonely and peripheral. Systems and equations are intuitive, but
1100 people aren't -- social signals are confusing and messy, difficult to interpret.
1102 Then you discover code. You may be powerless at the lunch table, but code
1103 gives you power over an infinitely malleable world and opens the door to a
1104 symbolic system that's perfectly clear and ordered. The jostling for position
1105 and status fades away. The nagging parental voices disappear. There's just a
1106 clean, white page for you to fill, an opportunity to build a better place, a
1107 home, from the ground up.
1109 No wonder you're a geek.
1111 =head2 v5.25.0 - Robert Frost, "The Trial by Existence"
1113 L<Announced on 2016-05-09 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/05/msg236244.html>
1115 Even the bravest that are slain
1116 Shall not dissemble their surprise
1117 On waking to find valor reign,
1118 Even as on earth, in paradise;
1119 And where they sought without the sword
1120 Wide fields of asphodel fore’er,
1121 To find that the utmost reward
1122 Of daring should be still to dare.
1124 =head2 v5.24.4 - Desmond Morris, "Catwatching: The Essential Guide to Cat Behaviour"
1126 L<Announced on 2018-04-14 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/04/msg250439.html>
1128 Cats hate doors. Doors simply do not register in the evolutionary story
1129 of the cat family. They constantly block patrolling activities and
1130 prevent cats from exploring their home range and then returning to their
1131 central, secure base at will. Humans often do not understand that a cat
1132 needs to make only a brief survey of its territory before returning with
1133 all the necessary information about the activities of other cats in the
1134 vicinity. It likes to make these tours of inspection at frequent
1135 intervals, but does not want to stay outside for very long, unless there
1136 has been some special and unexpected change in the condition of the
1137 local feline population.
1139 =head2 v5.24.4-RC1 - Desmond Morris, "Catwatching: The Essential Guide to Cat Behaviour"
1141 L<Announced on 2018-03-24 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/03/msg250102.html>
1143 The domestic cat is a contradiction. No animal has developed such an
1144 intimate relationship with mankind, while at the same time demanding and
1145 getting such independence of movement and action. The dog may be man's
1146 best friend, but it is rarely allowed out on its own to wander from
1147 garden to garden or street to street. The obedient dog has to be taken
1148 for a walk. The headstrong cat walks alone.
1150 =head2 v5.24.3 - Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
1152 L<Announced on 2017-09-22 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/09/msg246407.html>
1154 Oh sleep! it is a gentle thing,
1155 Beloved from pole to pole!
1156 To Mary Queen the praise be given!
1157 She sent the gentle sleep from Heaven,
1158 That slid into my soul.
1160 The silly buckets on the deck,
1161 That had so long remained,
1162 I dreamt that they were filled with dew;
1163 And when I awoke, it rained.
1165 =head2 v5.24.3-RC1 - Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
1167 L<Announced on 2017-09-10 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/09/msg246201.html>
1169 'And now the STORM-BLAST came, and he
1170 Was tyrannous and strong:
1171 He struck with his o'ertaking wings,
1172 And chased us south along.
1174 With sloping masts and dipping prow,
1175 As who pursued with yell and blow
1176 Still treads the shadow of his foe,
1177 And forward bends his head,
1178 The ship drove fast, loud roared the blast,
1179 And southward aye we fled.
1181 And now there came both mist and snow,
1182 And it grew wondrous cold:
1183 And ice, mast-high, came floating by,
1184 As green as emerald.
1186 And through the drifts the snowy clifts
1187 Did send a dismal sheen:
1188 Nor shapes of men nor beasts we ken—
1189 The ice was all between.
1191 The ice was here, the ice was there,
1192 The ice was all around:
1193 It cracked and growled, and roared and howled,
1194 Like noises in a swound!
1196 =head2 v5.24.2 - Roald Dahl, "The Three Little Pigs"
1198 L<Announced on 2017-07-15 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/07/msg245527.html>
1200 A short while later, through the wood,
1201 Came striding brave Miss Riding Hood.
1202 The Wolf stood there, his eyes ablaze
1203 And yellowish, like mayonnaise.
1204 His teeth were sharp, his gums were raw,
1205 And spit was dripping from his jaw.
1206 Once more the maiden's eyelid flickers.
1207 She draws the pistol from her knickers.
1208 Once more, she hits the vital spot,
1209 And kills him with a single shot.
1210 Pig, peeping through the window, stood
1211 And yelled, 'Well done, Miss Riding Hood!'
1213 Ah, Piglet, you must never trust
1214 Young ladies from the upper crust.
1215 For now, Miss Riding Hood, one notes,
1216 Not only has two wolfskin coats,
1217 But when she goes from place to place,
1218 She has a PIGSKIN TRAVELLING CASE.
1220 =head2 v5.24.2-RC1 - Roald Dahl, "The Three Little Pigs"
1222 L<Announced on 2017-07-01 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/07/msg245292.html>
1224 The animal I really dig
1225 Above all others is the pig.
1226 Pigs are noble. Pigs are clever,
1227 Pig are courteous. However,
1228 Now and then, to break this rule,
1229 One meets a pig who is a fool.
1230 What, for example, would you say
1231 If strolling through the woods one day,
1232 Right there in front of you you saw
1233 A pig who'd built his house of STRAW?
1234 The Wolf who saw it licked his lips,
1235 And said, 'That pig has had his chips.'
1237 =head2 v5.24.1 - Charles Dodgson [as "Lewis Carroll"], "The Hunting of the Snark", Fit 4: The Hunting
1239 L<Announced on 2017-01-14 by Steve Hay|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/01/msg242259.html>
1241 The Bellman looked uffish, and wrinkled his brow.
1242 'If only you'd spoken before!
1243 It's excessively awkward to mention it now,
1244 With the Snark, so to speak, at the door!
1246 'We should all of us grieve, as you well may believe,
1247 If you never were met with again -
1248 But surely, my man, when the voyage began,
1249 You might have suggested it then?
1251 'It's excessively awkward to mention it now -
1252 As I think I've already remarked.'
1253 And the man they called 'Hi!' replied, with a sigh,
1254 'I informed you the day we embarked.
1256 'You may charge me with murder - or want of sense -
1257 (We are all of us weak at times):
1258 But the slightest approach to a false pretence
1259 Was never among my crimes!
1261 'I said it in Hebrew - I said it in Dutch -
1262 I said it in German and Greek:
1263 But I wholly forgot (and it vexes me much)
1264 That English is what you speak!'
1266 ''Tis a pitiful tale,' said the Bellman, whose face
1267 Had grown longer at every word:
1268 'But, now that you've stated the whole of your case,
1269 More debate would be simply absurd.
1271 'The rest of my speech' (he exclaimed to his men)
1272 'You shall hear when I've leisure to speak it.
1273 But the Snark is at hand, let me tell you again!
1274 'Tis your glorious duty to seek it!
1276 =head2 v5.24.1-RC5 - John Milton, ed. Gordon Campbell, "Paradise Regained", Book IV
1278 L<Announced on 2017-01-02 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/01/msg242016.html>
1280 Thus passed the night so foul, till Morning fair
1281 Came forth with pilgrim steps, in amice grey;
1282 Who with her radiant finger stilled the roar
1283 Of thunder, chased the clouds, and laid the winds,
1284 And grisly spectres, which the fiend had raised
1285 To tempt the Son of God with terrors dire.
1286 And now the sun with more effectual beams
1287 Had cheered the face of earth, and dried the wet
1288 From drooping plant, or dropping tree; the birds,
1289 Who all things now behold more fresh and green,
1290 After a night of storm so ruinous,
1291 Cleared up their choicest notes in bush and spray,
1292 To gratulate the sweet return of morn.
1294 =head2 v5.24.1-RC4 - John Milton, ed. Gordon Campbell, "Paradise Lost", Book II
1296 L<Announced on 2016-10-12 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/10/msg240224.html>
1298 Before the gates there sat
1299 On either side a formidable shape;
1300 The one seemed woman to the waste, and fair,
1301 But ended foul in many a scaly fold,
1302 Voluminous and vast -- a serpent armed
1303 With mortal sting; about her middle round
1304 A cry of hell hounds never ceasing barked
1305 With wide Cerberean mouths full loud, and rung
1306 A hideous peal; yet, when they list, would creep,
1307 If aught disturbed their noise, into her womb,
1308 And kennel there; yet there still barked and howled
1309 Within unseen. Far less abhorred than these
1310 Vexed Scylla, bathing in the sea that parts
1311 Calabria from the hoarse Trinacrian shore;
1312 Nor uglier follow the night-hag, when, called
1313 In secret, riding through the air she comes,
1314 Lured with the smell of infant blood, to dance
1315 With Lapland witches, while the labouring moon
1316 Eclipses at their charms. The other shape --
1317 If shape it might be called that shape had none
1318 Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb;
1319 Or substance might be called that shadow seemed,
1320 For each seemed either -- black it stood as night,
1321 Fierce as ten Furies, terrible as hell,
1322 And shook a dreadful dart: what seemed his head
1323 The likeness of a kingly crown had on.
1324 Satan was now at hand, and from his seat
1325 The monster moving onward came as fast
1326 With horrid strides; hell trembled as he strode.
1328 =head2 v5.24.1-RC3 - Dante Alighieri, trans. Dorothy L. Sayers and Barbara Reynolds, "The Divine Comedy", Cantica III: Paradise, Canto XXIII
1330 L<Announced on 2016-08-11 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/08/msg238909.html>
1332 A bird within the bower of her delight,
1333 Quiet upon the nest with her sweet brood
1334 Throughout the dark concealment of the night,
1336 Anxious to look on them and gather food -
1337 No weary task for her, for as at play
1338 Blithely she toils to seek her fledglings' good -
1340 Before the time, upon the topmost spray
1341 Eager awaits the sun and on the East
1342 Fixes her wakeful eye till break of day.
1344 =head2 v5.24.1-RC2 - Dante Alighieri, trans. Dorothy L. Sayers, "The Divine Comedy", Cantica II: Purgatory, Canto X
1346 L<Announced on 2016-07-25 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/07/msg238269.html>
1348 When we had crossed the threshold of that gate
1349 Which the soul's evil loves put out of use,
1350 Because they make the crooked path seem straight,
1352 I heard its closing clang ring clamorous,
1353 And had I then turned back my eyes to it
1354 How could my fault have found the least excuse?
1356 We had to climb now through a rocky slit
1357 Which ran from side to side in many a swerve,
1358 As runs the wave in onset and retreat.
1360 "Now here," the master said, "we must observe
1361 Some little caution, hugging now this wall,
1362 Now that, upon the far side of the curve."
1364 =head2 v5.24.1-RC1 - Dante Alighieri, trans. Dorothy L. Sayers, "The Divine Comedy", Cantica I: Hell, Canto XX
1366 L<Announced on 2016-07-17 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/07/msg238072.html>
1368 New punishments behoves me sing in this
1369 Twentieth canto of my first canticle,
1370 Which tells of spirits sunk in the Abyss.
1372 I now stood ready to observe the full
1373 Extent of the new chasm thus laid bare,
1374 Drenched as it was in tears most miserable.
1376 Through the round vale I saw folk drawing near,
1377 Weeping and silent, and at such slow pace
1378 As Litany processions keep, up here.
1380 And presently, when I had dropped my gaze
1381 Lower than the head, I saw them strangely wried
1382 'Twixt collar-bone and chin, so that the face
1384 Of each was turned towards his own backside,
1385 And backwards must they needs creep with their feet,
1386 All power of looking forward being denied.
1388 =head2 v5.24.0 - Robert Frost, "The Black Cottage"
1390 L<Announced on 2016-05-09 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/05/msg236242.html>
1392 As I sit here, and oftentimes, I wish
1393 I could be monarch of a desert land
1394 I could devote and dedicate forever
1395 To the truths we keep coming back and back to.
1396 So desert it would have to be, so walled
1397 By mountain ranges half in summer snow,
1398 No one would covet it or think it worth
1399 The pains of conquering to force change on.
1400 Scattered oases where men dwelt, but mostly
1401 Sand dunes held loosely in tamarisk
1402 Blown over and over themselves in idleness.
1403 Sand grains should sugar in the natal dew
1404 The babe born to the desert, the sand storm
1405 Retard mid-waste my cowering caravans—
1407 “There are bees in this wall.” He struck the clapboards,
1408 Fierce heads looked out; small bodies pivoted.
1409 We rose to go. Sunset blazed on the windows.
1411 =head2 v5.24.0-RC5 - The Mountain Goats, "No Children"
1413 L<Announced on 2016-05-04 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/05/msg236198.html>
1415 And I hope when you think of me years down the line
1416 You can't find one good thing to say
1417 And I'd hope that if I found the strength to walk out
1418 You'd stay the hell out of my way
1420 I am drowning, there is no sign of land
1421 You are coming down with me, hand in unlovable hand
1423 =head2 v5.24.0-RC4 - The Joker in "The Killing Joke"
1425 L<Announced on 2016-05-02 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/05/msg236145.html>
1427 "See, there were these two guys in a lunatic asylum…"
1429 =head2 v5.24.0-RC3 - Jesse Vincent
1431 L<Announced on 2016-04-27 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/04/msg236066.html>
1433 The Great Pumpkin is a Santa-Claus like figure. He does bring toys like
1434 Santa. But unlike Santa, who gives away toys because it's his job, he
1435 gives away toys because it's the right thing to do.
1437 =head2 v5.24.0-RC2 - Joseph Heller, "Catch-22"
1439 L<Announced on 2016-04-23 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/04/msg235999.html>
1441 “How do you feel, Yossarian?”
1443 “Fine. No, I’m very frightened.”
1445 “That’s good,” said Major Danby. “It proves you’re still alive. It won’t
1448 Yossarian started out. “Yes it will.”
1450 “I mean it, Yossarian. You’ll have to keep on your toes every minute of
1451 every day. They’ll bend heaven and earth to catch you.”
1453 “I’ll keep on my toes every minute.”
1455 “You’ll have to jump.”
1459 “Jump!” Major Danby cried.
1463 Nately’s [girl] was hiding just outside the door. The knife came down,
1464 missing him by inches, and he took off.
1466 =head2 v5.24.0-RC1 - Robert Frost, "The Census-Taker"
1468 L<Announced on 2016-04-14 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/04/msg235807.html>
1470 Nothing was left to do that I could see
1471 Unless to find that there was no one there
1472 And declare to the cliffs too far for echo,
1473 "The place is desert, and let whoso lurks
1474 In silence, if in this he is aggrieved,
1475 Break silence now or be forever silent.
1476 Let him say why it should not be declared so."
1477 The melancholy of having to count souls
1478 Where they grow fewer and fewer every year
1479 Is extreme where they shrink to none at all.
1480 It must be I want life to go on living.
1482 =head2 v5.23.9 - Tom Kitchin, "from nature to plate"
1484 L<Announced on 2016-03-20 by Abigail|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/03/msg235251.html>
1488 Spring is the proper beginning of my kitchen and a season that I
1489 look forward to with great anticipation. By the time spring arrives
1490 I am desperate to welcome all the spring produce into my kitchen
1491 and I long to work with fresh green vegetables again. As much as I
1492 love root vegetables, such as celeriac and parsnips, and the heaver
1493 meat and game dishes, I'm ready to leave those behind with winter
1494 and begin a new adventure.
1496 Somehow spring always gives me a little bit of bounce in my feet
1497 -- I feel like I want to kick off my shoes and dance around in my
1498 kitchen. Not that I do, of course, but I feel lighter somehow. My
1499 adrenalin kicks in with spring and so does the level of excitement,
1500 as I think about all the produce that is about to come in.
1502 The moment spring arrives I'm eager to cook peas, broad beans, green
1503 asparagus and other fresh vegetables! I want to create lighter,
1504 brighter dishes and I can't wait to get my hands on the first greens
1505 and the first morels, not to mention the first wild Scottish salmon.
1506 Thanks to my network of trusted suppliers, I always get to first
1507 produce of the season delivered to my restaurant as soon as it is
1508 possible. I want my customers to experience and understand the
1509 beauty of locally grown produce and to try things the minute they
1510 are available so they can taste how incredibly fresh the ingredients
1511 are. I also want them to understand the relationship between
1512 seasonality and flavours. One of the most important things to
1513 remember is to allow the seasons to inspire your dishes and help
1514 you make natural matches. Wild spring herbs, such as sorrel, sweet
1515 cicely and wild garlic, as well as spring salad leaves and green
1516 lettuce served with wild salmon, wild sea trout, lamb or rabbit are
1517 marriages made in heaven.
1520 =head2 v5.23.8 - Patrick Rothfuss, "The Wise Man's Fear (The Kingkiller's Chronicle: Day Two)"
1522 L<Announced on 2016-02-20 by Sawyer X|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/02/msg234535.html>
1524 Denna, on the other hand, had never been trained. She knew nothing
1525 of shortcuts. You'd think she'd be forced to wander the city, lost and
1526 helpless, trapped in a twisting maze of mortared stone.
1528 But instead, she simply walked throught the walls. She didn't know
1529 any better. Nobody had ever told her she couldn't. Because of this,
1530 she moved through the city like some faerie creature. She walked roads
1531 no one else could see, and it made her music wild and strange and
1534 =head2 v5.23.7 - William Gibson, "Neuromancer"
1536 L<Announced on 2016-01-20 by Stevan Little|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/01/msg233856.html>
1538 A year here and he still dreamed of cyberspace, hope fading
1539 nightly. All the speed he took, all the turns he'd taken and
1540 the corners he cut in Night City, and he'd still see the matrix
1541 in his dreams, bright lattices of logic unfolding across that
1542 colourless void...The Sprawl was a long, strange way home now
1543 over the Pacific, and he was no Console Man, no cyberspace
1544 cowboy. Just another hustler, trying to make it through. But
1545 the dreams came on in the Japanese night like livewire voodoo,
1546 and he'd cry for it, cry in his sleep, and wake alone in the
1547 dark, curled in his capsule in some coffin hotel, hands clawed
1548 into the bedslab, temper foam bunched between his fingers,
1549 trying to reach the console that wasn't there.
1551 =head2 v5.23.6 - 5.23 Episode VII
1553 L<Announced on 2015-12-21 by David Golden|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/12/msg233475.html>
1555 A long time ago in microseconds, in a galaxy not very far away...
1561 unrest as separatists
1562 announce their intentions
1563 to fork PERL and return the
1564 galaxy to speed and stability.
1566 Chancellor Rik Hoolian struggles
1567 to hold together the remains of the
1568 once mighty Republic against a tide of
1569 incivility and the depredations of a new
1570 foe, the FUZZ RAIDERS.
1572 Meanwhile, after 15 years of preparation and
1573 high expectations, Supreme Leader Toady prepares
1574 to unleash a devastating new weapon, PERL SIXDOTOH,
1575 that could splinter the Republic forever and usher in
1576 a new Empire of gradual typing....
1578 =head2 v5.23.5 - utastro!nather (Ed Nather), "The Story of Mel", in net.jokes, May 21, 1983.
1580 L<Announced on 2015-11-20 by Abigail|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/11/msg232758.html>
1582 After Mel had left the company for greener pa$ture$, the Big Boss asked
1583 me to look at the code and see if I could find the test and reverse it.
1584 Somewhat reluctantly, I agreed to look. Tracking Mel's code was a real
1587 I have often felt that programming is an art form, whose real value can
1588 only be appreciated by another versed in the same arcane art; there are
1589 lovely gems and brilliant coups hidden from human view and admiration,
1590 sometimes forever, by the very nature of the process. You can learn a
1591 lot about an individual just by reading through his code, even in
1592 hexadecimal. Mel was, I think, an unsung genius.
1594 Perhaps my greatest shock came when I found an innocent loop that had
1595 no test in it. No test. None. Common sense said it had to be a closed
1596 loop, where the program would circle, forever, endlessly. Program
1597 control passed right through it, however, and safely out the other side.
1598 It took me two weeks to figure it out.
1600 The RPC-4000 computer had a really modern facility called an index
1601 register. It allowed the programmer to write a program loop that used
1602 an indexed instruction inside; each time through, the number in the
1603 index register was added to the address of that instruction, so it
1604 would refer to the next datum in a series. He had only to increment
1605 the index register each time through. Mel never used it.
1607 Instead, he would pull the instruction into a machine register, add one
1608 to its address, and store it back. He would then execute the modified
1609 instruction right from the register. The loop was written so this
1610 additional execution time was taken into account -- just as this
1611 instruction finished, the next one was right under the drum's read head,
1612 ready to go. But the loop had no test in it.
1614 The vital clue came when I noticed the index register bit, the bit that
1615 lay between the address and the operation code in the instruction word,
1616 was turned on -- yet Mel never used the index register, leaving it zero
1617 all the time. When the light went on it nearly blinded me.
1619 He had located the data he was working on near the top of memory -- the
1620 largest locations the instructions could address -- so, after the last
1621 datum was handled, incrementing the instruction address would make it
1622 overflow. The carry would add one to the operation code, changing it to
1623 the next one in the instruction set: a jump instruction. Sure enough,
1624 the next program instruction was in address location zero, and the
1625 program went happily on its way.
1627 =head2 v5.23.4 - Denis Diderot, trans. David Coward, "Jacques the Fatalist"
1629 L<Announced on 2015-10-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/10/msg232040.html>
1631 Well, everybody's got a dog. The prime minister is the king's dog. The
1632 first secretary is the prime minister's dog. A wife is a husband's dog,
1633 or a husband is a wife's dog. Favourite is Madame So-and-so's dog and
1634 Thibaut is the man on the corner's dog. When my Master tells me to talk
1635 when I'd prefer not to, which to be honest doesn't happen very often,
1636 when he tells me to shut up when I feel like talking, which I find very
1637 difficult, when he asks me to tell the story of my love-life and then
1638 keeps interrupting, what am I if not his dog? Weak men are the dogs of
1641 =head2 v5.23.3 - Oliver Wendell Holmes, "The Deacon’s Masterpiece or The Wonderful 'One-Hoss Shay': A Logical Story"
1643 L<Announced on 2015-09-20 by Peter Martini|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/09/msg231173.html>
1645 Little of of all we value here
1646 Wakes on the morn of its hundredth year
1647 Without both feeling and looking queer.
1648 In fact, there’s nothing that keeps its youth,
1649 So far as I know, but a tree and truth.
1650 (This is a moral that runs at large;
1651 Take it. — You’re welcome. — No extra charge.)
1653 =head2 v5.23.2 - Blind Guardian, "Skalds and Shadows"
1655 L<Announced on 2015-08-20 by Matthew Horsfall|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/08/msg230298.html>
1657 Would you believe in a night like this
1658 A night like this, when visions come true
1659 Would you believe in a tale like this
1660 A lay of bliss, praise in the old lore
1661 Come to the blazing fire and
1663 See me in the shadows
1664 See me in the shadows
1667 Just hand me my harp
1668 This night turns into myth
1671 The world we live in is another skald's
1672 Dream in the shadows
1673 Dream in the shadows
1675 Do you believe there is sense in it
1676 Is it truth or myth?
1677 They´re one in my rhymes
1678 Nobody knows the meaning behind
1680 Well nobody else but the Norns can
1681 See through the blazing fires of time and
1682 All things will proceed as the
1683 Child of the hallowed
1684 Will speak to you now
1686 See me in the shadows
1687 See me in the shadows
1688 Songs I will sing of tribes and kings
1689 The carrion bird and the hall of the slain
1692 The world we live in is another skald´s
1693 Dream in the shadows
1694 Dream in the shadows
1696 Do not fear for my reason
1697 There's nothing to hide
1698 How bitter your treason
1700 Remember the runes and remember the light
1701 All I ever want is to be at your side
1702 We'll gladden the raven now I will
1703 Run through the blazing fires
1705 Cause things shall proceed as foreseen
1707 =head2 v5.23.1 - Elizabeth Haydon, "The Assassin King"
1709 L<Announced on 2015-07-20 by Matthew Horsfall|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/07/msg229413.html>
1711 I was born beneath this willow,
1712 Where my sire the earth did farm
1713 Had the green grass as my pillow
1714 The east wind as a blanket warm.
1716 But away! away! called the wind from the west
1717 And in answer I did run
1718 Seeking glory and adventure
1719 Promised by the rising sun.
1721 I found love beneath this willow,
1722 As true a love as life could hold,
1723 Pledged my heart and swore my fealty
1724 Sealed with a kiss and a band of gold.
1726 But to arms! to arms! called the wind from the west
1727 In faithful answer I did run
1728 Marching forth for king and country
1729 In battles 'neath the midday sun.
1731 Oft I dreamt of that fair willow
1732 As the seven seas I plied
1733 And the girl who I left waiting
1734 Longing to be at her side.
1736 But about! about! called the wind from the west
1737 As once again my ship did run
1738 Down the coast, about the wide world
1739 Flying sails in the setting sun.
1741 Now I lie beneath the willow
1742 Now at last no more to roam,
1743 My bride and earth so tightly hold me
1744 In their arms I'm finally home.
1746 While away! away! calls the wind from the west
1747 Beyond the grave my spirit, free
1748 Will chase the sun into the morning
1749 Beyond the sky, beyond the sea.
1751 =head2 v5.23.0 - Bob Dylan, "Maggie's Farm"
1753 L<Announced on 2015-06-20 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/06/msg228807.html>
1755 I ain't gonna work on Maggie's farm no more
1756 I ain't gonna work on Maggie's farm no more
1758 To be just like I am
1759 But everybody wants you
1760 To be just like them
1761 They sing while you slave and I just get bored
1762 I ain't gonna work on Maggie's farm no more
1764 =head2 v5.22.4 - Roald Dahl, "Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf"
1766 L<Announced on 2017-07-15 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/07/msg245526.html>
1768 Then Little Red Riding Hood said, 'But Grandma,
1769 what a lovely great big furry coat you have on.'
1770 'That's wrong!' cried Wolf. 'Have you forgot
1771 'To tell me what BIG TEETH I've got?
1772 'Ah well, no matter what you say,
1773 'I'm going to eat you anyway.'
1774 The small girl smiles. One eyelid flickers.
1775 She whips a pistol from her knickers.
1776 She aims it at the creature's head
1777 And bang bang bang, she shoots him dead.
1779 A few weeks later, in the wood,
1780 I came across Miss Riding Hood.
1781 But what a change! No cloak of red,
1782 No silly hood upon her head.
1783 She said, 'Hello, and do please note
1784 'My lovely furry WOLFSKIN COAT.'
1786 =head2 v5.22.4-RC1 - Roald Dahl, "Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf"
1788 L<Announced on 2017-07-01 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/07/msg245293.html>
1790 As soon as Wolf began to feel
1791 That he would like a decent meal,
1792 He went and knocked on Grandma's door.
1793 When Grandma opened it, she saw
1794 The sharp white teeth, the horrid grin,
1795 And Wolfie said, 'May I come in?'
1796 Poor Grandmamma was terrified,
1797 'He's going to eat me up!' she cried.
1798 And she was absolutely right.
1799 He ate her up in one big bite.
1801 =head2 v5.22.3 - Charles Dodgson [as "Lewis Carroll"], "Phantasmagoria", Canto 6: Discomfyture
1803 L<Announced on 2017-01-14 by Steve Hay|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/01/msg242258.html>
1805 As one who strives a hill to climb,
1806 Who never climbed before:
1807 Who finds it, in a little time,
1808 Grow every moment less sublime,
1809 And votes the thing a bore:
1811 Yet, having once begun to try,
1812 Dares not desert his quest,
1813 But, climbing, ever keeps his eye
1814 On one small hut against the sky
1815 Wherein he hopes to rest:
1817 Who climbs till nerve and force are spent,
1818 With many a puff and pant:
1819 Who still, as rises the ascent,
1820 In language grows more violent,
1821 Although in breath more scant:
1823 Who, climbing, gains at length the place
1824 That crowns the upward track:
1825 And, entering with unsteady pace,
1826 Receives a buffet in the face
1827 That lands him on his back:
1829 And feels himself, like one in sleep,
1830 Glide swiftly down again,
1831 A helpless weight, from steep to steep,
1832 Till, with a headlong giddy sweep,
1833 He drops upon the plain -
1835 So I, that had resolved to bring
1836 Conviction to a ghost,
1837 And found it quite a different thing
1838 From any human arguing,
1839 Yet dared not quit my post.
1841 =head2 v5.22.3-RC5 - John Milton, ed. Gordon Campbell, "Paradise Regained", Book II
1843 L<Announced on 2017-01-02 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/01/msg242017.html>
1845 Thus wore out night; and now the herald lark
1846 Left his ground-nest, high towering to descry
1847 The Morn's approach, and greet her with his song;
1848 As lightly from his grassy couch up rose
1849 Our Saviour, and found all was but a dream;
1850 Fasting he went to sleep, and fasting waked.
1851 Up to a hill anon his steps he reared,
1852 From whose high top to ken the prospect round,
1853 If cottage were in view, sheep-cote, or herd;
1854 But cottage, herd, or sheep-cote, none he saw --
1855 Only in a bottom saw a pleasant grove,
1856 With chant of tuneful birds resounding loud;
1857 Thither he bent his way, determined there
1858 To rest at noon, and entered soon the shade,
1859 High-roofed and walks beneath, and alleys brown,
1860 That opened in the midst a woody scene;
1861 Nature's own work it seemed (Nature taught Art),
1862 And, to a superstitious eye, the haunt
1863 Of wood-gods and wood-nymphs.
1865 =head2 v5.22.3-RC4 - John Milton, ed. Gordon Campbell, "Paradise Lost", Book II
1867 L<Announced on 2016-10-12 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/10/msg240223.html>
1869 Far off from these, a slow and silent stream,
1870 Lethe, the river of oblivion, rolls
1871 Her watery labyrinth, whereof who drinks
1872 Forthwith his former state and being forgets --
1873 Forgets both joy and grief, pleasure and pain.
1874 Beyond this flood a frozen continent
1875 Lies dark and wild, beat with perpetual storms
1876 Of Whirlwind and dire hail, which on firm land
1877 Thaws not, but gathers heap, and ruin seems
1878 Of ancient pile; all else deep snow and ice,
1879 A gulf profound as that Serbonian bog
1880 Betwixt Damiata and Mount Casius old,
1881 Where armies whole have sunk: the parching air
1882 Burns frore, and cold performs the effect of fire.
1883 Thither, by harpy-footed Furies haled,
1884 At certain revolutions all the damned
1885 Are brought; and feel by turns the bitter change
1886 Of fierce extremes, extremes by change more fierce,
1887 From beds of raging fire to starve in ice
1888 Their soft ethereal warmth, and there to pine
1889 Immovable, infixed, and frozen round
1890 Periods of time -- thence hurried back to fire.
1891 They ferry over this Lethean sound
1892 Both to and fro, their sorrow to augment,
1893 And wish and struggle, as they pass, to reach
1894 The tempting stream, with one small drop to lose
1895 In sweet forgetfulness all pain and woe,
1896 All in one moment, and so near the brink;
1897 But fate withstands, and, to oppose the attempt,
1898 Medusa with Gorgonian terror guards
1899 The ford, and of itself the water flies
1900 All taste of living wight, as once it fled
1901 The lip of Tantalus.
1903 =head2 v5.22.3-RC3 - Dante Alighieri, trans. Dorothy L. Sayers and Barbara Reynolds, "The Divine Comedy", Cantica III: Paradise, Canto IV
1905 L<Announced on 2016-08-11 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/08/msg238908.html>
1907 Between two dishes, equally attractive
1908 And near to him, a free man, I suppose,
1909 Would starve to death before his teeth got active;
1911 So would a lamb 'twixt two fierce wolfish foes,
1912 Fearing the fangs both ways, not stir a foot;
1913 So would a deerhound halt between two does;
1915 So I can't blame myself for standing mute,
1916 Nor praise myself: for I must needs so do,
1917 Suspended 'twixt two doubts, alike acute.
1919 =head2 v5.22.3-RC2 - Dante Alighieri, trans. Dorothy L. Sayers, "The Divine Comedy", Cantica II: Purgatory, Canto I
1921 L<Announced on 2016-07-25 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/07/msg238270.html>
1923 For better waters heading with the wind
1924 My ship of genius now shakes out her sail
1925 And leaves that ocean of despair behind;
1927 For to the second realm I tune my tale,
1928 Where human spirits purge themselves, and train
1929 To leap up into joy celestial.
1931 Now from the grave wake poetry again,
1932 O sacred Muses I have served so long!
1933 Now let Calliope uplift her strain
1935 And lift my voice up on the mighty song
1936 That smote the miserable Magpies nine
1937 Out of all hope of pardon for their wrong!
1939 =head2 v5.22.3-RC1 - Dante Alighieri, trans. Dorothy L. Sayers, "The Divine Comedy", Cantica I: Hell, Canto XII
1941 L<Announced on 2016-07-17 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/07/msg238071.html>
1943 The place we came to, to descend the brink from,
1944 Was sheer crag; and there was a Thing there - making,
1945 All told, a prospect any eye would shrink from.
1947 Like the great landslide that rushed downward, shaking
1948 The bank of Adige on this side Trent,
1949 (Whether through faulty shoring or the earth's quaking)
1951 So that the rock, down from the summit rent
1952 Far as the plain, lies strewn, and one might crawl
1953 From top to bottom by that unsure descent,
1955 Such was the precipice; and there we spied,
1956 Topping the cleft that split the rocky wall,
1957 That which was wombed in the false heifer's side,
1959 The infamy of Crete, stretched out a-sprawl;
1960 And seeing us, he gnawed himself, like one
1961 Inly devoured with spite and burning gall.
1963 =head2 v5.22.2 - Gaston Leroux, trans. Mireille Ribière, "The Phantom of the Opera"
1965 L<Announced on 2016-04-29 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/04/msg236120.html>
1967 A silence; and then: 'If, in just two minutes' time by my watch--and a
1968 splendid watch it is--you have not turned the scorpion, mademoiselle, I
1969 shall turn the grasshopper... and the grasshopper, remember, _leaps
1970 straight up into the air!_'
1971 The silence that ensued was terrifying, worse than any we had
1972 experienced before. I knew that when Erik spoke with that quiet,
1973 gentle, slightly weary voice, it meant that he had reached the end of
1974 his tether: that he was capable of the most abominable crimes or the
1975 most selfless devotion; that the slightest irritation might unleash a
1977 Realizing that our fate was out of our hands, the Viscount fell to his
1978 knees and prayed. As for me, I pressed both hands to my chest, for my
1979 heart was pounding so fiercely that I thought it would burst. We were
1980 intensely aware of the excruciating dilemma Christine Daaé faced in
1981 those final seconds. We understood why she hesitated to turn the
1982 scorpion. What if the scorpion, rather than the grasshopper, were to
1983 set off the explosion? What if Erik was simply intent on destroying
1984 everything, regardless?
1985 At last he spoke: 'The two minutes are up,' he said in a soft, angelic
1986 voice. 'Goodbye, mademoiselle. Off you go, little grasshopper!'
1988 =head2 v5.22.2-RC1 - Gaston Leroux, trans. Mireille Ribière, "The Phantom of the Opera"
1990 L<Announced on 2016-04-10 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/04/msg235732.html>
1992 This annual ball was quite a magnificent affair. It was given some time
1993 before Shrovetide to celebrate the birthday of a famous illustrator
1994 whose pencil had immortalized, in the style of Gavarni, the extravagant
1995 carnival parade down La Courtille. As such, the ball was an altogether
1996 merrier, noisier and more Bohemian occasion than was usual for a masked
1997 ball. Many artists had arranged to meet there; they arrived with an
1998 entourage of models and pupils, who, by midnight, had become quite
2000 Raoul climbed the grand staircase at five minutes to midnight. He did
2001 not linger to admire the many-coloured costumes on display all the way
2002 up the marble steps of one of the most luxurious settings in the world;
2003 nor did he allow himself to be drawn into the facetious conversation of
2004 masked guests. He simply ignored all the jesting remarks, and shook off
2005 the attentions of several all too merry couples.
2006 Crossing the big crush-room and escaping from the dancers' farandole
2007 that had encircled him awhile, he at last entered the salon mentioned by
2008 Christine in her letter. The small room was crammed with people either
2009 on their way to supper at the restaurant in the Rotunda or back from
2010 raising a glass of champagne.
2011 In the midst of the gay and lively hubbub, Raoul thought that, for their
2012 mysterious assignation, Christine must have preferred this crowd to some
2014 He leaned against a door-jamb and waited. He did not have to wait long;
2015 a black domino passed him and deftly touched his hand. He understood
2016 that it was Christine and followed her.
2017 'Is that you, Christine?' he murmured, barely moving his slips.
2018 The black domino promptly looked back and raised her finger to her lips,
2019 no doubt to caution him against uttering her name again. Raoul followed
2022 =head2 v5.22.1 - Wilhelm Müller, trans. Anon., "Courage" (No. 22 in Schubert's song-cycle, "Winterreise")
2024 L<Announced on 2015-12-13 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/12/msg233318.html>
2026 If the snow flies in my face,
2027 Let me shake it off me!
2028 If my heart within me speaks,
2029 I'll sing bright and gaily!
2031 Will not listen what it says,
2032 Have no ears for moaning.
2033 Do not feel what it complains,--
2034 Only fools like groaning!
2036 Jolly brave into the world,
2037 'Gainst all wind and weather,--
2038 If there is no God on earth,
2039 Let 's be gods down nether!
2041 =head2 v5.22.1-RC4 - Wilhelm Müller, trans. Anon., "The Signpost" (No. 20 in Schubert's song-cycle, "Winterreise")
2043 L<Announced on 2015-12-08 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/12/msg233215.html>
2045 Why do I shun all those highways
2046 Which the other wanderer seeks?
2047 Why do I find bridged by-ways
2048 Through snow-covered deep creeks?
2050 For I have no crime committed,
2051 Why I should now run from men,--
2052 What demented heart's desire
2053 Drives me to a desert glen?
2055 Signposts on all highways stationed
2056 Point their signs toward the towns,
2057 Whilst I wonder 'yond moderation,
2058 Without rest, yet seeking rest!
2060 One such signpost I see planted
2061 Of my question unconcerned,
2062 One road must my choice be granted,
2063 Whence no man has yet returned!
2065 =head2 v5.22.1-RC3 - Wilhelm Müller, trans. Anon., "Stormy Morning" (No. 18 in Schubert's song-cycle, "Winterreise")
2067 L<Announced on 2015-12-02 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/12/msg233032.html>
2069 How the storm tore rents
2070 In heavens gray attired!
2071 The rags of cloud are flying
2072 Around, of combat tired.
2074 And flames of fire lambent,
2075 Fly between them and part,
2076 That 's what I call a morning,
2077 A morning after my heart!
2079 My heart sees in the heavens
2080 Its own picture unspoilt--
2081 It's nothing but the Winter,
2082 The Winter, cold and wild.
2084 =head2 v5.22.1-RC2 - Wilhelm Müller, trans. Anon., "The Old Head" (No. 14 in Schubert's song-cycle, "Winterreise")
2086 L<Announced on 2015-11-15 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/11/msg232632.html>
2088 The hoary frost has a white sheen
2089 Strewn all over my hair,
2090 So I thought I was an old man
2091 And thought life dealt me fair.
2093 Yet soon was thawed my old white mane,
2094 And I have my black hair again.
2095 How I abhor my young fair years,
2096 How long to wait for death and biers?
2098 From setting sun to morning's hue
2099 Many a head turns white.
2100 Who'll credit it? My hair did not
2101 In all this lifelong plight!
2103 =head2 v5.22.1-RC1 - Wilhelm Müller, trans. Anon., "Will-o'-the Wisp" (No. 9 in Schubert's song-cycle, "Winterreise")
2105 L<Announced on 2015-10-31 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/10/msg232321.html>
2107 In the deepest rocky crevice
2108 A will-o'-the wisp lured me;
2109 How I could find my way from here,
2110 For me it's easy memory!
2112 For I am used to straying ways,
2113 Every path to th'end a way,
2114 All our joys and all our suffering,--
2115 To a will-o'-the wisp it 's all play!
2117 Through the dried-up bed of torrents
2118 I quite calmly downward stroll;
2119 Every stream its sea will enter,
2120 Every suffering finds its goal!
2122 =head2 v5.22.0 - Gene Wolfe, The Citadel of the Autarch
2124 L<Announced on 2015-06-01 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/06/msg228300.html>
2126 “You are the advocate of the dead.”
2128 The old man nodded. “I am. People talk about being fair to this one and
2129 that one, but nobody I ever heard talks about doing right by them. We
2130 take everything they had, which is all right. And spit, most often, on
2131 their opinions, which I suppose is all right too. But we ought to
2132 remember now and then how much of what we have we got from them. I
2133 figure while I’m still here I ought to put a word in for them.”
2135 =head2 v5.22.0-RC2 - T.S. Eliot, unpublished work
2137 L<Announced on 2015-05-21 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/05/msg228142.html>
2139 And when thyself with silver foot shall pass
2140 Among the theories scattered on the grass
2141 Take up my good intentions with the rest
2143 =head2 v5.22.0-RC1 - Gene Wolfe, Citadel of the Autarch
2145 L<Announced on 2015-05-19 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/05/msg228059.html>
2147 There is no limit to stupidity. Space itself is said to be bounded by
2148 its own curvature, but stupidity continues beyond infinity.
2150 =head2 v5.21.11 - Algernon Charles Swinburne, "Dolores (Notre-Dame des Sept Douleurs)"
2152 L<Announced on 2015-04-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/04/msg227472.html>
2154 They shall pass and their places be taken,
2155 The gods and the priests that are pure.
2156 They shall pass, and shalt thou not be shaken?
2157 They shall perish, and shalt thou endure?
2158 Death laughs, breathing close and relentless
2159 In the nostrils and eyelids of lust,
2160 With a pinch in his fingers of scentless
2163 But the worm shall revive thee with kisses;
2164 Thou shalt change and transmute as a god,
2165 As the rod to a serpent that hisses,
2166 As the serpent again to a rod.
2167 Thy life shall not cease though thou doff it;
2168 Thou shalt live until evil be slain,
2169 And good shall die first, said thy prophet,
2172 =head2 v5.21.10 - Aldous Huxley, "The Devils of Loudun"
2174 L<Announced on 2015-03-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/03/msg226847.html>
2176 The fire burned on, the good fathers continued to sprinkle and intone.
2177 Suddenly a flock of pigeons came swooping down from the church and
2178 started to wheel around the roaring column of flame and smoke. The
2179 crowd shouted, the archers waved their halberds at the birds, Lactance
2180 and Tranquille splashed them on the wing with holy water. In vain. The
2181 pigeons were not to be driven away. Round and round they flew, diving
2182 through the smoke, singeing their feathers in the flames. Both parties
2183 claimed a miracle. For the parson's enemies the birds, quite obviously,
2184 were a troop of devils, come to fetch away his soul. For his friends,
2185 they were emblems of the Holy Ghost and living proof of his innocence.
2186 It never seems to have occurred to anyone that they were just pigeons,
2187 obeying the laws of their own, their blessedly other-than-human nature.
2189 =head2 v5.21.9 - Emily Dickinson, "There is Another Sky"
2191 L<Announced on 2015-02-20 by Sawyer X|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/02/msg226002.html>
2193 There is another sky,
2194 Ever serene and fair,
2195 And there is another sunshine,
2196 Though it be darkness there;
2197 Never mind faded forests, Austin,
2198 Never mind silent fields -
2199 Here is a little forest,
2200 Whose leaf is ever green;
2201 Here is a brighter garden,
2202 Where not a frost has been;
2203 In its unfading flowers
2204 I hear the bright bee hum:
2205 Prithee, my brother,
2206 Into my garden come!
2208 =head2 v5.21.8 - Bill Watterson, "Scientific Progress Goes 'Boink': A Calvin and Hobbes Collection"
2210 L<Announced on 2015-01-20 by Matthew Horsfall|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/01/msg224869.html>
2212 Calvin: OK Hobbes, press the button and duplicate me.
2213 Hobbes: Are you sure this is such a good idea?
2214 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?
2215 Hobbes: I'd hate to be accused of inhibiting scientific progress... Here you go.
2217 Hobbes: Scientific progress goes "BOINK"?
2218 Calvin?: It worked! It worked! I'm a genius!
2219 Cavlin??: No you're not, you liar! *I* invented this!
2221 =head2 v5.21.7 - Robert Heinlein, "The Number of the Beast"
2223 L<Announced on 2014-12-20 by Max Maischein|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/12/msg223774.html>
2225 "Zebadiah, Hilda and I salvaged and put everything into the basket.
2226 Hilda started to put it into our wardrobe-and it was heavy. So
2227 we looked. Packed as tight as when we left Oz. Six bananas-and
2228 everything else. Cross my heart. No, go look."
2229 "Hmmm- Jake, can you write equations for a picnic basket that
2230 refills itself? Will it go on doing so?"
2231 "Zeb, equations can be written to describe anything. The description
2232 would be simpler for a basket that replenishes itself indefinitely
2233 than for one that does it once and stops-I would have to describe
2236 =head2 v5.21.6 - Jeff Noon, "Vurt"
2238 L<Announced on 2014-11-20 by Chris 'BinGOs' Williams|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/11/msg222448.html>
2242 EXCHANGE MECHANISMS. Sometimes we lose precious
2243 things. Friends and colleagues, fellow travellers in the
2244 Vurt, sometimes we lose them; even lovers we sometimes
2245 lose. And get bad things in exchange: aliens, objects,
2246 snakes, and sometimes even death. Things we don't want.
2247 This is part of the deal, part of the game deal;
2248 all things, in all worlds, must be kept in balance.
2249 Kittlings often ask, who decides on the swappings? Now then,
2250 some say it's all accidental; that some poor Vurt thing
2251 finds himself too close to a door, at too critical a time,
2252 just when something real is being lost. Whoosh! Swap time!
2253 Others say that some kind of overseer is working the
2254 MECHANISMS OF EXCHANGE, deciding the fate of innocents.
2255 The Cat can only tease at this, because of the big secrets
2256 involved, and because of the levels between you, the reader,
2257 and me, the Game Cat. Hey, listen; I've struggled to get
2258 where I am today; why should I give you the easy route?
2259 Get working, kittlings! Reach up higher. Work the Vurt.
2261 =head2 v5.21.5 - Friso Wiegersma (text), Jean Ferrat (music), Wim Sonneveld (performer), "Het Dorp"
2263 L<Announced on 2014-10-20 by Abigail|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/10/msg221399.html>
2267 Thuis heb ik nog een ansichtkaart
2268 waarop een kerk, een kar met paard,
2269 een slagerij J. van der Ven.
2270 Een kroeg, een juffrouw op de fiets
2271 het zegt u hoogstwaarschijnlijk niets,
2272 maar 't is waar ik geboren ben.
2273 Dit dorp, ik weet nog hoe het was,
2274 de boerenkind'ren in de klas,
2275 een kar die ratelt op de keien,
2276 het raadhuis met een pomp ervoor,
2277 een zandweg tussen koren door,
2278 het vee, de boerderijen.
2280 En langs het tuinpad van m'n vader
2281 zag ik de hoge bomen staan.
2282 Ik was een kind en wist niet beter,
2283 dan dat dat nooit voorbij zou gaan.
2285 Wat leefden ze eenvoudig toen
2286 in simp'le huizen tussen groen
2287 met boerenbloemen en een heg.
2288 Maar blijkbaar leefden ze verkeerd,
2289 het dorp is gemoderniseerd
2290 en nu zijn ze op de goeie weg.
2291 Want ziet, hoe rijk het leven is,
2292 ze zien de televisiequiz
2293 en wonen in betonnen dozen,
2294 met flink veel glas, dan kun je zien
2295 hoe of het bankstel staat bij Mien
2296 en d'r dressoir met plastic rozen.
2298 En langs het tuinpad van m'n vader
2299 zag ik de hoge bomen staan.
2300 Ik was een kind en wist niet beter,
2301 dan dat dat nooit voorbij zou gaan.
2303 De dorpsjeugd klit wat bij elkaar
2304 in minirok en beatle-haar
2305 en joelt wat mee met beat-muziek.
2306 Ik weet wel, het is hun goeie recht,
2307 de nieuwe tijd, net wat u zegt,
2308 maar het maakt me wat melancholiek.
2309 Ik heb hun vaders nog gekend
2310 ze kochten zoethout voor een cent
2311 ik zag hun moeders touwtjespringen.
2312 Dat dorp van toen, het is voorbij,
2313 dit is al wat er bleef voor mij:
2314 een ansicht en herinneringen.
2316 Toen ik langs het tuinpad van m'n vader
2317 de hoge bomen nog zag staan.
2318 Ik was een kind, hoe kon ik weten
2319 dat dat voorgoed voorbij zou gaan.
2321 =head2 v5.21.4 - Edgar Allan Poe, "The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket"
2323 L<Announced on 2014-09-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/09/msg220267.html>
2325 To-day, being in latitude 83° 20', longitude 43° 5' W. (the sea being
2326 of an extraordinarily dark colour), we again saw land from the
2327 masthead, and, upon a closer scrutiny, found it to be one of a group
2328 of very large islands. The shore was precipitous, and the interior
2329 seemed to be well wooded, a circumstance which occasioned us great
2330 joy. In about four hours from our first discovering the land we came
2331 to anchor in ten fathoms, sandy bottom, a league from the coast, as a
2332 high surf, with strong ripples here and there, rendered a nearer
2333 approach of doubtful expediency. The two largest boats were now
2334 ordered out, and a party, well armed (among whome were Peters and
2335 myself), proceeded to look for an opening in the reef which appeared
2336 to encircle the island. After searching about for some time, we
2337 discovered an inlet, which we were entering, when we saw four large
2338 canoes put off from the shore, filled with men who seemed to be well
2339 armed. We waited for them to come up, and, as they moved with great
2340 rapidity, they were soon within hail. Captain Guy now held up a white
2341 handkerchief on the blade of an oar, when the strangers made a full
2342 stop, and commenced a loud jabbering all at once, intermingled with
2343 occasional shouts, in which we could distinguish the words Anamoo-moo!
2344 and Lama-Lama! They continued this for at least half an hour, during
2345 which we had a good opportunity of observing their appearance.
2347 =head2 v5.21.3 - Robert Service, "The Men that Don't Fit In"
2349 L<Announced on 2014-08-20 by Peter Martini|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/08/msg218826.html>
2351 If they just went straight they might go far,
2352 They are strong and brave and true;
2353 But they're always tired of the things that are,
2354 And they want the strange and new.
2355 They say: "Could I find my proper groove,
2356 What a deep mark I would make!"
2357 So they chop and change, and each fresh move
2358 Is only a fresh mistake.
2360 =head2 v5.21.2 - Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, Charlie Duke, Final minutes of communication of the first manned moon landing, July 20, 1969
2362 L<Announced on 2014-07-20 by Abigail|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/07/msg217937.html>
2364 Armstrong: Okay. Here's a...Looks like a good area here.
2365 Aldrin: I got the shadow out there.
2366 Aldrin: 250, down at 2 1/2, 19 forward.
2367 Aldrin: Altitude, velocity lights.
2368 Aldrin: 3 1/2 down, 220 feet, 13 forward.
2369 Aldrin: 11 forward. Coming down nicely.
2370 Armstrong: Gonna be right over that crater.
2371 Aldrin: 200 feet, 4 1/2 down.
2373 Armstrong: I got a good spot [garbled].
2374 Aldrin: 160 feet, 6 1/2 down.
2375 Aldrin: 5 1/2 down, 9 forward. You're looking good.
2377 Aldrin: 100 feet, 3 1/2 down, 9 forward. Five percent. Quantity light.
2378 Aldrin: Okay. 75 feet. And it's looking good. Down a half, 6 forward.
2381 Aldrin: 60 feet, down 2 1/2. 2 forward. 2 forward. That's good.
2382 Aldrin: 40 feet, down 2 1/2. Picking up some dust.
2383 Aldrin: 30 feet, 2 1/2 down. [Garbled] shadow.
2384 Aldrin: 4 forward. 4 forward. Drifting to the right a little. 20 feet,
2387 Aldrin: Drifting forward just a little bit; that's good.
2388 Aldrin: Contact Light.
2389 Armstrong: Shutdown.
2390 Aldrin: Okay. Engine Stop.
2391 Aldrin: ACA out of Detent.
2392 Armstrong: Out of Detent. Auto.
2393 Aldrin: Mode Control, both Auto. Descent Engine Command Override, Off.
2394 Engine Arm, Off. 413 is in.
2395 Duke: We copy you down, Eagle.
2396 Armstrong: Engine arm is off.
2397 Armstrong: Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed.
2398 Duke: Roger, Twan...[correcting himself] Tranquility. We copy you on
2399 the ground. You got a bunch of guys about to turn blue.
2400 We're breathing again. Thanks a lot.
2403 =head2 v5.21.1 - Robert Jordan, "The Crossroads of Twilights", Book 10 of "The Wheel of Time"
2405 L<Announced on 2014-06-20 by Matthew Horsfall|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/06/msg217030.html>
2407 We rode on the winds of the rising storm,
2408 We ran to the sounds of the thunder.
2409 We danced among the lightning bolts,
2410 and tore the world asunder.
2412 -- Anonymous fragment of a poem believed
2413 written near the end of the previous Age,
2414 known by some as the Third Age.
2415 Sometimes attributed to the Dragon
2418 =head2 v5.21.0 - Friedrich von Schiller, "The Song of the Bell"
2420 L<Announced on 2014-05-27 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/05/msg215826.html>
2422 Walled in fast within the earth
2423 Stands the form burnt out of clay.
2424 This must be the bell’s great birth!
2425 Fellows, lend a hand to-day.
2426 Sweat must trickle now
2427 From the burning brow,
2428 Till the work its master honour.
2429 Blessing comes from Heaven’s Donor.
2431 =head2 v5.20.3 - Elias Lönnrot, trans. Keith Bosley, "The Kalevala", Canto 42: Stealing the Sampo
2433 L<Announced on 2015-09-12 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/09/msg230945.html>
2435 Steady old Väinämöinen
2436 uttered a word and spoke thus:
2437 'No lilting on the waters
2438 and no singing on the waves!
2441 Precious day would pass and night
2442 would overtake us midway
2443 on these wide waters
2444 upon these vast waves.'
2446 The wanton Lemminkäinen
2447 uttered a word and spoke thus:
2448 'The time will pass anyway
2449 the fair day will flee
2450 and the night will come panting
2451 and the twilight will steal in
2452 if you don't sing while you live
2453 nor hum in this world.'
2455 =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"
2457 L<Announced on 2015-08-29 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/08/msg230544.html>
2459 'I fled from Basra, sad and tearful, with no idea where I was going,
2460 and I was reciting these lines:
2462 The pain of parting makes me melt away,
2463 As lovers do when those they love are harsh.
2464 I wonder at the patience that I showed
2465 When I had lost my love, for that was wonderful.
2466 Beloved, do you know that since you left,
2467 I have remained confused in misery.
2469 I then heard a voice that said: "Damn you, have you no fear of
2470 Almighty God that you hand over a girl to an unbelieving 'ifrit?" I
2471 walked for a time amongst the palm-trees until I caught sight of a
2472 person, whom I approached. When I asked him who he was he said: "I
2473 am one of the jinn who were converted to Islam at the hands of 'Ali
2474 ibn Abi Talib, may God ennoble him." "How can I get to my wife?" I
2475 asked him, and he said: "Wretched fellow, you had a bird which you
2476 allowed to fly away and now you want to fly after it." But he
2477 added: "Follow this road with God's blessing all night until dawn
2478 and then by the shore you will see a huge cave in which there is an
2479 idol made of white stone. You must drink of the water that there is
2480 coming out of the cave and smear your face with its mud. Stay there
2481 and a barge will pass you as you stand opposite the statue. Various
2482 different creatures will emerge, heads without bodies and bodies
2483 without heads, and they will prostrate themselves in adoration to
2484 the idol rather than to Almighty God. When you see that, embark on
2485 the barge and cross to the other bank and walk along it until
2486 sunset. On a high point you will see a castle built of bricks of
2487 gold and silver. That is where your 'ifrit will be. I have now
2488 told you about this, so goodbye."
2490 =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"
2492 L<Announced on 2015-08-22 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/08/msg230359.html>
2494 'On the night of the wedding the ape came to sit in front of me and
2495 asked me what I intended to do. "Whatever you tell me," I replied,
2496 and he said: "Take care not to covet the girl, or I shall come back
2497 and burn you up and leave you as a lesson for those who can learn."
2498 I agreed to this and when evening came I found the world full of
2499 candles and torches burning in holders of gold and silver. There
2500 were servants and serving girls, and everyone who saw me
2501 congratulated me on my good fortune, as there was no girl on the
2502 face of the earth more beautiful than my bride.
2504 'Next morning I went out to the market, and people went in and asked
2505 her how the night had been. "He never looked up at me," she told
2506 them. Then, when it was afternoon, I went to my house, where the
2507 ape was sitting by the door. "Tell me what you did," it said, and I
2508 told it: "By God, I did not learn and do not know whether this was a
2509 man or a girl." "That's what I want," it said.
2511 'On the second night my bride was brought to me, after which the
2512 servants left her and went away. She fell asleep, and, while she
2513 was sleeping, I killed the cock, wrapped it in the cloth and put the
2514 four poles from the couch over it. Suddenly there was a huge crash
2515 like a peal of thunder and a fiery 'ifrit swooped on the girl. I
2516 fainted at the sight and when I recovered I heard a voice saying:
2517 "By the Lord of the Ka'ba, the girl has been carried off!" and there
2518 was a sound like the rustling of wind and bitter weeping. At this I
2519 shed tears, struck my head and was filled with regret when it was no
2520 longer of any use, for to me the whole world was worth no more than
2523 =head2 v5.20.2 - Jonathan "Jonti" Picking, L<"Magical Trevor"|http://weebls-stuff.com/toons/magical-trevor-episode-01-animated-music-video-mrweebl/>
2525 L<Announced on 2015-02-14 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/02/msg225777.html>
2527 Everyone loves Magical Trevor,
2528 'Cos the tricks that he does are ever so clever;
2529 Look at him now, disappearin' the cow,
2530 Where is the cow hidden right now?
2532 Taking a bow, it's Magical Trevor,
2533 Everybody's seen that the trick is clever;
2534 Look at him there with his leathery, leathery whip!
2535 It's made of magic, and with a little flip--
2537 Yeah, yeah, yeah, the cow is back,
2538 Yeah, yeah, yeah, the cow is back;
2539 Back, back, back from his magical journey,
2542 What did he see in the parallel dimension?
2543 He saw beans, lots of beans, lots of beans, lots of beans;
2544 Oh, beans, lots of beans, lots of beans, lots of beans,
2547 =head2 v5.20.2-RC1 - Jonathan "Jonti" Picking, L<"Scampi"|http://weebls-stuff.com/toons/ive-seen-things-scampi-animated-music-video-mrweebl/>
2549 L<Announced on 2015-02-01 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/02/msg225273.html>
2552 I've seen them with my eyes;
2554 They're often in disguise.
2556 Like carrots, handbags, cheese, toilets,
2557 Russians, planets, hamsters, weddings,
2558 Poets, Stalin, Kuala Lumpur!
2559 Pygmies, budgies, Kuala Lumpur!
2562 I've seen them with my eyes;
2564 They're often in disguise.
2566 Like carrots, handbags, cheese...
2568 =head2 v5.20.1 - Lorenzo da Ponte, trans. Diana Reed, "Così fan tutte"
2570 L<Announced on 2014-09-14 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/09/msg219789.html>
2572 DORABELLA (as if waking from a daze): Where are they?
2573 DON ALFONSO: They've gone.
2574 FIORDILIGI: Oh, the cruel bitterness of parting!
2577 Take heart, my dearest children.
2578 Look, in the distance, your lovers are waving to you.
2580 FIORDILIGI: Bon voyage, my darling!
2581 DORABELLA: Bon voyage!
2584 O heavens! How swiftly the ship is sailing away!
2585 It is disappearing already!
2586 It is no longer in sight!
2587 Oh, may heaven grant it a prosperous voyage!
2589 DORABELLA: May good luck attend it to the battlefield!
2590 DON ALFONSO: And may your sweethearts and my friends be safe!
2592 FIORDILIGI, DORABELLA, DON ALFONSO:
2593 May the wind be gentle,
2594 may the sea be calm,
2595 and may the elements
2599 =head2 v5.20.1-RC2 - Lorenzo da Ponte, trans. William Weaver, "Così fan tutte"
2601 L<Announced on 2014-09-07 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/09/msg219446.html>
2604 Oh God, I feel that this foot of mine
2605 is reluctant to come before her.
2612 The hero displays his manliness
2613 in the most terrible moments.
2615 FIORDILIGI, DORABELLA:
2616 Now that we have heard the news,
2617 you have the lesser duty:
2618 Take heart, and plunge your swords
2619 into both our hearts.
2621 FERRANDO, GUGLIELMO:
2623 that I must abandon you.
2625 DORABELLA: Ah no, you shall not leave...
2626 FIORDILIGI: No, cruel one, you shall not go...
2627 DORABELLA: First I want to tear out my heart.
2628 FIORDILIGI: First I want to die at your feet.
2629 FERRANDO (softly to Don Alfonso): What do you say to that?
2630 GUGLIELMO (softly to Don Alfonso): You realise?
2631 DON ALFONSO (softly): Steady, friend, finem lauda.
2634 Thus destiny defrauds
2635 the hopes of mortals.
2636 Ah, among so many misfortunes,
2637 who can ever love life?
2639 =head2 v5.20.1-RC1 - Lorenzo da Ponte, trans. William Weaver, "Così fan tutte"
2641 L<Announced on 2014-08-25 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/08/msg218975.html>
2644 I'd like to speak, but I haven't the heart:
2646 My voice cannot emerge,
2647 but remains in my throat.
2648 What will you do? What shall I do?
2649 Oh what a great catastrophe!
2650 There can be nothing worse.
2651 I feel pity for you and for them.
2653 FIORDILIGI: Heavens! For mercy's sake, Signor Alfonso, don't make us
2655 DON ALFONSO: My children, you must arm yourselves with constancy.
2656 DORABELLA: Ye Gods! What evil has occurred? What horrible event? Is my
2658 FIORDILIGI: Is mine dead?
2659 DON ALFONSO: They are not dead, but they are not far from it.
2663 DON ALFONSO: Nor that.
2664 FIORDILIGI: What, then?
2665 DON ALFONSO: A royal command summons them to the field of battle.
2666 FIORDILIGI, DORABELLA: Alas, what do I hear? And they will leave?
2667 DON ALFONSO: Immediately.
2668 DORABELLA: And there is no way of preventing it?
2669 DON ALFONSO: There is none.
2670 FIORDILIGI: And not even a single farewell...
2671 DON ALFONSO: The unhappy men haven't the courage to see you; but if
2672 you wish it, they are ready...
2673 DORABELLA: Where are they?
2674 DON ALFONSO: Come in, friends.
2676 =head2 v5.20.0 - William Shakespeare, Sonnet 18
2678 L<Announced on 2014-05-27 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/05/msg215815.html>
2680 But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
2681 Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st;
2682 Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
2683 When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st:
2684 So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
2685 So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
2687 =head2 v5.20.0-RC1 - Lindsey Buckingham, "Second Hand News"
2689 L<Announced on 2014-05-17 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/05/msg215479.html>
2693 Won't you lay me down in tall grass
2694 And let me do my stuff
2696 =head2 v5.19.11 - Isidore-Lucien Ducasse [as "Comte de Lautréamont"], trans. Paul Knight, "Les Chants de Maldoror"
2698 L<Announced on 2014-04-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/04/msg214580.html>
2700 O rigorous mathematics, I have not forgotten you since your wise lessons,
2701 sweeter than honey, filtered into my heart like a refreshing wave.
2702 Instinctively, from the cradle, I had longed to drink from your source, older
2703 than the sun, and I continue to tread the sacred sanctuary of your solemn
2704 temple, I, the most faithful of your devotees. There was a vagueness in my
2705 mind, something thick as smoke; but I managed to mount the steps which lead to
2706 your altar, and you drove away this dark veil, as the wind blows the
2707 draught-board. You replaced it with excessive coldness, consummate prudence and
2708 implacable logic. With the aid of your fortifying milk, my intellect developed
2709 rapidly and took on immense proportions amid the ravishing lucidity which you
2710 bestow as a gift on all those who sincerely love you. Arithmetic! Algebra!
2711 Geometry! Awe-inspiring trinity! Luminous triangle! He who has not known you
2714 =head2 v5.19.10 - John Chadwick, "The Decipherment of Linear B"
2716 L<Announced on 2014-03-20 by Aaron Crane|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/03/msg213851.html>
2718 The urge to discover secrets is deeply ingrained in human nature; even
2719 the least curious mind is roused by the promise of sharing knowledge
2720 withheld from others. Some are fortunate enough to find a job which
2721 consists in the solution of mysteries, whether it be the physicist who
2722 tracks down a hitherto unknown nuclear particle or the policeman who
2723 detects a criminal. But most of us are driven to sublimate this urge
2724 by the solving of artificial puzzles devised for our entertainment.
2726 =head2 v5.19.9 - R. A. MacAvoy, "Tea with the Black Dragon"
2728 L<Announced on 2014-02-20 by Tony Cook|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/02/msg213047.html>
2730 Old hands. The smell of rain--the smell of Ch'an. Quiet words in
2731 rough Cantonese. "I am not to be your master. Your master has to be
2732 stronger than you are--has to tell you you are a fool and make you
2733 know it. And make you feel content in being a fool. How could I do
2734 that for you? I'm old. You are too strong for me; you are full of
2735 chi." The old man has paused then, huddled against the wind while
2736 clouds thickened above them.
2738 "I will tell you this, Long," he continued, "Before you find yourself
2739 you will lose your chi. Also you will leave behind you all pride of
2740 body, pride of mind. You will be reduced. Like me." The old man
2741 closed his eyes, and rain began to beat against his gray, crew-cut
2742 hair. He pulled his coat closer. Suddenly his eyes snapped open and
2743 he looked Long in the face.
2745 "You must leave China. Go across the ocean. There you will meet your
2746 master." He set down his teacup with a palsied hand. His voice rose,
2749 "I tell you this, most honored and impressive visitor. You are a
2750 fool, yes, but you will find the very thing you seek. You will find
2753 =head2 v5.19.8 - Joseph Heller, "Catch-22"
2755 L<Announced on 2014-01-20 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/01/msg211729.html>
2757 “I used to get a big kick out of saving people’s lives. Now I wonder what the
2758 hell’s the point, since they all have to die anyway.”
2760 “Oh, there’s a point, all right,” Dunbar assured him.
2762 “Is there? What is the point?”
2764 “The point is to keep them from dying for as long as you can.”
2766 “Yeah, but what’s the point, since they all have to die anyway?”
2768 “The trick is not to think about that.”
2770 “Never mind the trick. What the hell’s the point?”
2772 Dunbar pondered in silence for a few moments. “Who the hell knows?”
2774 =head2 v5.19.7 - Kurt Vonnegut, "Slaughterhouse-Five"
2776 L<Announced on 2013-12-20 by Abigail|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/12/msg210882.html>
2778 And somewhere in there was springtime. The corpse mines were closed
2779 down. The soldiers all left to fight the Russians. In the suburbs,
2780 the women and children dug rifle pits. Billy and the rest of his group
2781 were locked up in the stable in the suburbs. And then, one morning,
2782 they got up to discover that the door was unlocked. World War Two in
2785 Billy and the rest wandered out onto the shady street. The trees were
2786 leafing out. There was nothing going on out there, no traffic of any
2787 kind. There was only one vehicle, an abandoned wagon drawn by two
2788 horses. The wagon was green and coffin-shaped.
2792 One bird said to Billy Pilgrim, "Pee-tee-weet?"
2794 =head2 v5.19.6 - Monty Python's Flying Circus, "Spam"
2796 L<Announced on 2013-11-20 by Chris 'BinGOs' Williams|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/11/msg210043.html>
2798 Interior: cheap cafe. All the customers are Vikings. Mr and Mrs Bun enter downwards (on wires).
2802 Mr. Bun: What have you got, then?
2803 Waitress: Well there's egg and bacon; egg, sausage and bacon; egg and spam; egg, bacon and spam;
2804 egg, bacon, sausage and spam; spam, bacon, sausage and spam; spam, egg, spam, spam, bacon and spam;
2805 spam, spam, spam, egg and spam; spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, baked beans, spam, spam, spam and spam;
2806 or lobster thermidor aux crevettes, with a mornay sauce garnished with truffle pate, brandy and a fried
2808 Mrs. Bun: Have you got anything without spam in it?
2809 Waitress: Well, there's spam, egg, sausage and spam. That's not got MUCH spam in it.
2810 Mrs. Bun: I don't want ANY spam.
2811 Mr. Bun: Why can't she have egg, bacon, spam and sausage?
2812 Mrs. Bun: That's got spam in it!
2813 Mr. Bun: Not as much as spam, egg, sausage and spam.
2814 Mrs. Bun: Look, could I have egg, bacon, spam and sausage, without the spam.
2815 Waitress: Uuuuuuggggh!
2816 Mrs. Bun: What d'you mean, uugggh! I don't like spam.
2817 Vikings: (singing) Spam, spam, spam, spam, spam ... spam, spam, spam, spam ... lovely spam, wonderful spam ...
2819 (Brief shot of a Viking ship)
2821 Waitress: Shut up. Shut up! Shut up! You can't have egg, bacon, spam and sausage without the spam.
2823 Waitress: No, it wouldn't be egg, bacon, spam and sausage, would it?
2824 Mrs. Bun: I don't like spam!
2826 =head2 v5.19.5 - Charles Baudelaire, trans. James McGowan, "The Flowers of Evil", 51. The Cat
2828 L<Announced on 2013-10-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/10/msg208752.html>
2832 A cat is strolling through my mind
2833 Acting as though he owned the place,
2834 A lovely cat -- strong, charming, sweet.
2835 When he meows, one scarcely hears,
2837 So tender and discreet his tone;
2838 But whether he should growl or purr
2839 His voice is always rich and deep.
2840 That is the secret of his charm.
2842 This purling voice that filters down
2843 Into my darkest depths of soul
2844 Fulfils me like a balanced verse,
2845 Delights me as a potion would.
2847 It puts to sleep the cruellest ills
2848 And keeps a rein on ecstasies --
2849 Without the need for any words
2850 It can pronounce the longest phrase.
2852 Oh no, there is no bow that draws
2853 Across my heart, fine instrument,
2854 And makes to sing so royally
2855 The strongest and the purest chord,
2857 More than your voice, mysterious cat,
2858 Exotic cat, seraphic cat,
2859 In whom all is, angelically,
2860 As subtle as harmonious.
2864 From his soft fur, golden and brown,
2865 Goes out so sweet a scent, one night
2866 I might have been embalmed in it
2867 By giving him one little pet.
2869 He is my household's guardian soul;
2870 He judges, he presides, inspires
2871 All matters in hos royal realm;
2872 Might he be fairy? or a god?
2874 When my eyes, to this cat I love
2875 Drawn as by a magnet's force,
2876 Turn tamely back from that appeal,
2877 And when I look within myself,
2879 I notice with astonishment
2880 The fire of his opal eyes,
2881 Clear beacons glowing, living jewels,
2882 Taking my measure, steadily.
2884 =head2 v5.19.4 - Washington Irving, "The Widow and Her Son"
2886 L<Announced on 2013-09-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/09/msg207969.html>
2888 There is something in sickness that breaks down the pride of manhood;
2889 that softens the heart and brings it back to the feelings of infancy.
2890 Who that has languished, even in advanced life, in sickness and
2891 despondency — who that has pined on a weary bed in the neglect and
2892 loneliness of a foreign land — but has thought on the mother "that
2893 looked on his childhood," that smoothed his pillow and administered to
2894 his helplessness. — Oh! there is an enduring tenderness in the love
2895 of a mother to her son that transcends all other affections of the
2896 heart. It is neither to be chilled by selfishness — nor daunted by
2897 danger — nor weakened by worthlessness — nor stifled by ingratitude.
2898 She will sacrifice every comfort to his convenience — she will
2899 surrender every pleasure to his enjoyment — she will glory in his fame
2900 and exult in his prosperity. And if misfortune overtake him he will
2901 be the dearer to her from misfortune — and if disgrace settle upon his
2902 name, she will still love and cherish him in spite of his disgrace —
2903 and if all the world beside cast him off, she will be all the world to
2906 =head2 v5.19.3 - Andrew Hodges, "Alan Turing: The Enigma"
2908 L<Announced on 2013-08-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/08/msg206318.html>
2910 E.M. Forster, outdoing the King's heresy with grand bravura, had
2911 written in 1938 that if he were faced with the choice between
2912 betraying his country and betraying his friends, he hoped he would
2913 have the courage to betray his country. He would always put the
2914 personal above the political. But for Alan Turing, unlike Forster, or
2915 Wittgenstein, or G.H. Hardy, it was more than a theoretical question.
2916 For him not only had the personal become the political, but the
2917 political was the personal. He had chosen and promised for himself in
2918 working for the government. The choice for him therefore was that
2919 between betraying one part of himself and betraying another part. And
2920 however much he wavered between these alternatives, there was a solid
2921 logic to the mind of security, one that could not be expected to take
2922 an interest in notions of freedom and development. He had no rights
2923 to such things, as he would have had to admit. He might have
2924 outwitted the Home Guard, but when it came to questions that mattered,
2925 there was no doubt that he had placed himself under military law.
2926 There was a war on; there was always a war on now.
2928 =head2 v5.19.2 - Fred Brooks, "The Mythical Man-Month"
2930 L<Announced on 2013-07-22 by Aristotle Pagaltzis|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/07/msg204905.html>
2932 The magic of myth and legend has come true in our time. One types the
2933 correct incantation on a keyboard, and a display screen comes to life,
2934 showing things that never were nor could be. [...] Not all is delight,
2935 however [...] One must perform perfectly. The computer resembles the
2936 magic of legend in this respect, too. If one character, one pause, of
2937 the incantation is not strictly in proper form, the magic doesn't work.
2939 =head2 v5.19.1 - William Shakespeare, "A Midsummer Night's Dream"
2941 L<Announced on 2013-06-21 by David Golden|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/06/msg203449.html>
2943 Over hill, over dale,
2944 Thorough bush, thorough briar,
2945 Over park, over pale,
2946 Thorough flood, thorough fire,
2947 I do wander everywhere,
2948 Swifter than the moon's sphere;
2949 And I serve the fairy queen,
2950 To dew her orbs upon the green.
2951 The cowslips tall her pensioners be;
2952 In their gold coats, spots you see;
2953 Those be rubies, fairy favours,
2954 In their freckles live our savours.
2955 I must go seek some dew-drops here,
2956 And hang a perl in every cowslip's ear.
2957 Farewell, thou lob of spirits, I'll be gone;
2958 My queen and all her elves come here anon!
2960 =head2 v5.19.0 - Batman, of the Joker, in "The Dark Knight Returns"
2962 L<Announced on 2013-05-20 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/05/msg201980.html>
2964 From the beginning, I knew…
2965 …that there was nothing wrong with you…
2969 =head2 v5.18.4 - Robert W. Chambers, Cassilda's Song in "The King in Yellow," Act I, Scene 2
2971 L<Announced on 2014-10-01 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/10/msg220770.html>
2973 Along the shore the cloud waves break,
2974 The twin suns sink beneath the lake,
2975 The shadows lengthen
2978 Strange is the night where black stars rise,
2979 And strange moons circle through the skies
2980 But stranger still is
2983 Songs that the Hyades shall sing,
2984 Where flap the tatters of the King,
2988 Song of my soul, my voice is dead;
2989 Die thou, unsung, as tears unshed
2990 Shall dry and die in
2993 =head2 v5.18.3 - (no epigraph)
2997 =head2 v5.18.3-RC2 - Robert W. Chambers, "The King in Yellow", Act I, Scene 2
2999 L<Announced on 2014-09-27 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/09/msg220613.html>
3001 "Ah! I see it now!" I shrieked. "You have seized the throne and the
3002 empire. Woe! woe to you who are crowned with the crown of the King in
3005 =head2 v5.18.3-RC1 - Robert W. Chambers, "The King in Yellow", Act I, Scene 2
3007 L<Announced on 2014-09-17 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/09/msg220072.html>
3009 CAMILLA: You, sir, should unmask.
3013 CASSILDA: Indeed it's time. We all have laid aside disguise but you.
3015 STRANGER: I wear no mask.
3017 CAMILLA: (Terrified, aside to Cassilda.) No mask? No mask!
3019 =head2 v5.18.2 - Miss Manners
3021 L<Announced on 2014-01-06 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/01/msg211224.html>
3023 One of the major mistakes people make is that they think manners are
3024 only the expression of happy ideas. There's a whole range of behavior
3025 that can be expressed in a mannerly way. That's what civilization is all
3026 about – doing it in a mannerly and not an antagonistic way. One of the
3027 places we went wrong was the naturalistic Rousseauean movement of the
3028 Sixties in which people said, "Why can't you just say what's on your
3029 mind?" In civilization there have to be some restraints. If we followed
3030 every impulse, we'd be killing one another.
3032 =head2 v5.18.1 - Chuck Moore
3034 L<Announced on 2013-08-12 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/08/msg205897.html>
3036 The operating system is another concept that is curious. Operating
3037 systems are dauntingly complex and totally unnecessary. It’s a brilliant
3038 thing that Bill Gates has done in selling the world on the notion of
3039 operating systems. It’s probably the greatest con game the world has
3042 An operating system does absolutely nothing for you. As long as you had
3043 something — a subroutine called disk driver, a subroutine called some
3044 kind of communication support, in the modern world, it doesn’t do
3045 anything else. In fact, Windows spends a lot of time with overlays and
3046 disk management all stuff like that which are irrelevant. You’ve got
3047 gigabyte disks; you’ve got megabyte RAMs. The world has changed in a way
3048 that renders the operating system unnecessary.
3050 =head2 v5.18.1-RC1 - Chuck Moore
3052 L<Announced on 2013-08-02 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/08/msg205445.html>
3054 Compilers are probably the worst code ever written. They are written by
3055 someone who has never written a compiler before and will never do so
3056 again. The more elaborate the language, the more complex, bug-ridden,
3057 and unusable is the compiler. But a simple compiler for a simple
3058 language is an essential tool—if only for documentation.
3060 =head2 v5.18.0 - Yevgeny Zamyatin
3062 L<Announced on 2013-05-18 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/05/msg201940.html>
3064 It is an error to divide people into the living and the dead: there are people
3065 who are dead-alive, and people who are alive-alive. The dead-alive also write,
3066 walk, speak, act. But they make no mistakes; only machines make no mistakes,
3067 and they produce only dead things. The alive-alive are constantly in error, in
3068 search, in questions, in torment.
3070 =head2 v5.18.0-RC4 - Joseph Heller, "Catch-22"
3072 L<Announced on 2013-05-16 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/05/msg201889.html>
3074 Clevinger was dead. That was the basic flaw in his philosophy.
3076 =head2 v5.18.0-RC3 - Tom Waits, "The Ocean Doesn't Want Me"
3078 L<Announced on 2013-05-14 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/05/msg201823.html>
3080 I'd love to go drowning
3081 And to stay and to stay
3082 But the ocean doesn't want me today
3083 I'll go in up to here
3084 It can't possibly hurt
3085 All they will find is my beer
3088 =head2 v5.18.0-RC2 - Tom Waits, "Earth Died Screaming"
3090 L<Announced on 2013-05-12 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/05/msg201723.html>
3092 And the great day of wrath has come
3093 And here's mud in your big red eye
3094 The poker's in the fire
3095 And the locusts take the sky
3096 And the earth died screaming
3097 While I lay dreaming of you
3099 =head2 v5.18.0-RC1 - Tom Waits, "What's He Building in There?"
3101 L<Announced on 2013-05-11 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/05/msg201651.html>
3103 What's he building in there?
3105 We have a right to know…
3107 =head2 v5.17.11 - Nigel Tufnel in "This is Spın̈al Tap"
3109 L<Announced on 2013-04-20 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/04/msg201056.html>
3111 It's very special because, if you can see, the numbers all go to…
3112 eleven! Look, right across the board: eleven, eleven, eleven, eleven!
3114 =head2 v5.17.10 - Vernor Vinge, "A Fire Upon The Deep"
3116 L<Announced on 2013-03-23 by Max Maischein|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/03/msg200504.html>
3118 The archive informed the automation. Data structures were built, recipes
3119 followed. A local network was built, faster than anything on Straum, but surely
3120 safe. Nodes were added, modified by other recipes. The archive was a friendly
3121 place, with hierarchies of translation keys that led them along. Straum itself
3122 would be famous for this.
3124 Six months passed. A year.
3126 The omniscient view. Not self-aware really. Self-awareness is much over-rated.
3127 Most automation works far better as a part of a whole, and even if human-
3128 powerful, it does not need to self-know.
3130 =head2 v5.17.9 - Douglas Adams, "The Hitch-Hikers Guide to the Galaxy"
3132 L<Announced on 2013-02-20 by Chris 'BinGOs' Williams|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/02/msg199115.html>
3134 Vogon poetry is of course, the third worst in the universe.
3135 The second worst is that of the Azgoths of Kria. During a
3136 recitation by their poet master Grunthos the Flatulent of
3137 his poem 'Ode To A Small Lump of Green Putty I Found In My
3138 Armpit One Midsummer Morning' four of his audience died
3139 of internal haemorrhaging and the president of the
3140 Mid-Galactic Arts Nobbling Council survived by gnawing one
3141 of his own legs off. Grunthos is reported to have been
3142 'disappointed' by the poem's reception, and was about to
3143 embark on a reading of his twelve-book epic entitled
3144 'My Favourite Bathtime Gurgles' when his own major intestine,
3145 in a desperate attempt to save life and civilisation,
3146 leapt straight up through his neck and throttled his brain.
3148 The very worst poetry of all perished along with its creator
3149 Paula Nancy Millstone Jennings of Greenbridge, Essex, England,
3150 in the destruction of the planet Earth.
3152 =head2 v5.17.8 - Iain Pears, "An Instance of the Fingerpost"
3154 L<Announced on 2013-01-20 by Aaron Crane|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/01/msg197571.html>
3156 I must here declare myself as someone who does not for a moment subscribe to
3157 the general view that a willingness to perform oneself is detrimental to the
3158 dignity of experimental philosophy. There is, after all, a clear distinction
3159 between labour carried out for financial reward, and that done for the
3160 improvement of mankind: to put it another way, Lower as a philosopher was
3161 fully my equal even if he fell away when he became the practising physician.
3162 I think ridiculous of certain professors of anatomy, who find it beneath
3163 them to pick up the knife themselves, but merely comment while hired hands
3164 do the cutting. Sylvius would never have dreamt of sitting on a dais reading
3165 from an authority while others cut — when he taught, the knife was
3166 in his hand and the blood spattered his coat. Boyle also did not scruple to
3167 perform his own experiments and, on one occasion in my presence, even showed
3168 himself willing to anatomise a rat with his very own hands. Nor was he less
3169 a gentleman when he had finished. Indeed, in my opinion, his stature was all
3170 the greater, for in Boyle wealth, humility and curiosity mingled, and the
3171 world is richer for it.
3173 =head2 v5.17.7 - R. Scott Bakker, "The Darkness That Comes Before"
3175 L<Announced on 2012-12-18 by Dave Rolsky|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/12/msg196707.html>
3179 The boy extinguished. Only a place.
3183 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.
3185 A place without breath or sound. A place of sight alone. A place without before or after . . . almost.
3187 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.
3189 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 . . .
3191 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.
3193 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.
3195 I have been legion . . .
3197 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.
3201 =head2 v5.17.6 - Kurt Vonnegut, "The Sirens of Titan"
3203 L<Announced on 2012-11-20 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/11/msg195659.html>
3205 Beatrice, looking like a gypsy queen, smoldered at the foot of a statue
3206 of a young physical student. At first glance, the laboratory-gowned
3207 scientist seemed to be a perfect servant of nothing but truth. At first
3208 glance, one was convinced that nothing but truth could please him as he
3209 beamed at his test tube. At first glance, one thought that he was as
3210 much above the beastly concerns of mankind as the harmoniums in the
3211 caves of Mercury. There, at first glance, was a young man without
3212 vanity, without lust — and one accepted at its face value the title Salo
3213 had engraved on the statue, "Discovery of Atomic Power."
3215 =head2 v5.17.5 - Charles Stross, "Singularity Sky"
3217 L<Announced on 2012-10-20 by Florian Ragwitz|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/10/msg194349.html>
3219 Neither of them noticed the pair of polka-dotted knickers hiding
3220 behind the ventilation duct overhead, listening patiently and
3221 recording everything.
3223 =head2 v5.17.4 - Roald Dahl, "Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf"
3225 L<Announced on 2012-09-19 by Florian Ragwitz|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/09/msg192635.html>
3227 The small girl smiles. One eyelid flickers.
3228 She whips a pistol from her knickers.
3229 She aims it at the creature's head,
3230 And bang bang bang, she shoots him dead.
3232 A few weeks later, in the wood,
3233 I came across Miss Riding Hood.
3234 But what a change! No cloak of red,
3235 No silly hood upon her head.
3236 She said, "Hello, and do please note
3237 My lovely furry wolfskin coat."
3239 =head2 v5.17.3 - Kris Ta-belle, "Smoked Perl Onion Soup"
3241 L<Announced on 2012-08-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/08/msg190775.html>
3245 Cut 16 Perl Onions into quarters and put them in a grill smoker rack
3246 or a perforated pan over a BBQ using hickory wood chips or Special
3247 Blend Smoker Bisquettes. Smoke them for an hour and remove once they
3249 Let them cool and put them in the fridge (or freezer) until you are
3250 ready to create the soup.
3254 16 diced, pre-smoked, Perl Onions
3257 2 small garlic cloves, finely minced
3260 black pepper to taste
3262 1/4 cup all purpose flour
3263 6 cups of beef or vegetable stock
3264 1 cup of thick cream (milk can be used as a substitute)
3268 Melt the butter in a pan and then add olive oil.
3269 Heat and add the onions to caramelize over a medium-high heat for up
3271 Add the garlic, turn down the heat and cook for a further 5 minutes.
3272 Add the salt, pepper and sugar.
3273 Now add the red wine and reduce to a jam like consistency.
3274 Add the flour, stir well and add the stock a cup at a time.
3275 Simmer for 30 minutes, add the cream and heat to almost boiling.
3279 =head2 v5.17.2 - Terry Pratchet, "The Colour of Magic"
3281 L<Announced on 2012-07-21 by TonyC|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/07/msg189828.html>
3283 ‘I knew it,’ said Rincewind. ‘We're in a strong magical field.’
3285 Twoflower and Hrun looked around the little hollow where they had made
3286 their noonday halt. Then they looked at each other.
3288 The horses were quietly cropping the rich grass by the stream. Yellow
3289 butterflies skittered among the bushes. There was a smell of thyme
3290 and a buzzing of bees. The wild pigs on the spit sizzled gently.
3292 Hrun shrugged and went back to oiling his biceps. They gleamed.
3294 ‘Looks alright to me,’ he said.
3296 ‘Try tossing a coin,’ said Rincewind.
3300 ‘Go on. Toss a coin.’
3302 ‘Hokay,’ said Hrun. 'If that gives you any pleasure.’ He reached into
3303 his pouch and withdrew a handful of loose change plundered from a
3304 dozen realms. With some care he selected a Zchloty leaden
3305 quarter-iotum and balanced it on a purple thumbnail.
3307 ‘You call,’ he said. ‘Heads or—’ he inspected the obverse with
3308 an air of intense concentration, ‘some sort of a fish with legs.’
3310 ‘When it's in the air,’ said Rincewind. Hrun grinned and flicked his thumb.
3312 The iotum rose, spinning.
3314 ‘Edge,’ said Rincewind, without looking at it.
3316 =head2 v5.17.1 - Rand Miller, "Myst: The Book of Ti'ana"
3318 L<Announced on 2012-06-20 by doy|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/06/msg188354.html>
3320 On their return from Ko'ah, Aitrus had shown her the Book, patiently
3321 taking her through page after page, and showing her how such an Age was
3322 "made." She had seen at once the differences between this archaic form
3323 and the ordinary written speech of the D'ni, noting how it was not
3324 merely more elaborate but more specific: a language of precise yet
3325 subtle descriptive power. Yet seeing was one thing, believing another.
3326 Given all the evidence, her rational mind still fought against accepting
3329 =head2 v5.17.0 - Charles Stross, "Singularity Sky"
3331 L<Announced on 2012-05-26 by Zefram|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/05/msg187214.html>
3333 `Welcome, comrades!' Burya opened his arms toward the soldier.
3334 `Yes it is true! With help from our allies of the Festival, the iron
3335 hand of the reactionary junta is about to be overthrown for all time!
3336 The new economy is being born; the marginal cost of production has
3337 been abolished, and from now on, if any item is produced once, it can
3338 be replicated infinitely. From each according to his imagination,
3339 to each according to his needs! Join us or better still, bring your
3340 fellow soldiers and workers to join us!'
3342 There was a sharp bang from the roof of the Corn Exchange, right at the
3343 climax of his impromptu speech; heads turned in alarm. Something had
3344 broken inside the spork factory and a stream of rainbow-hued plastic
3345 implements fountained toward the sky and clattered to the cobblestones
3346 on every side, like a harbinger of the postindustrial society to come.
3347 Workers and peasants alike stared in open-mouthed bewilderment at this
3348 astounding display of productivity, then bent to scrabble in the muck
3349 for the brightly colored sporks of revolution. A volley of shots rang
3350 out and Burya Rubenstein raised his hands, grinning wildly, to accept
3351 the salute of the soldiers from the Skull Hill garrison.
3353 =head2 v5.16.3 - Devo, "Freedom of Choice"
3355 L<Announced on 2013-03-11 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/03/msg200009.html>
3357 A victim of collision on the open sea
3358 Nobody ever said that life was free
3359 Sink, swim, go down with the ship
3360 But use your freedom of choice
3362 =head2 v5.16.2 - Stanislaw Lem, "The Cyberiad", Trurl's Machine
3364 L<Announced on 2012-11-01 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/11/msg194915.html>
3366 Once upon a time Trurl the constructor built an eight-story thinking
3367 machine. When it was finished, he gave it a coat of white paint,
3368 trimmed the edges in lavender, stepped back, squinted, then added a
3369 little curlicue on the front and, where one might imagine the forehead
3370 to be, a few pale orange polkadots. Extremely pleased with himself,
3371 he whistled an air and, as is always done on such occasions, asked it
3372 the ritual question of how much is two plus two.
3374 The machine stirred. Its tubes began to glow, its coils warmed up,
3375 current coursed through all its circuits like a waterfall,
3376 transformers hummed and throbbed, there was a clanging, and a
3377 chugging, and such an ungodly racket that Trurl began to think of
3378 adding a special mentation muffler. Meanwhile the machine labored on,
3379 as if it had been given the most difficult problem in the Universe to
3380 solve; the ground shook, the sand slid underfoot from the vibration,
3381 valves popped like champagne corks, the relays nearly gave way under
3382 the strain. At last, when Trurl had grown extremely impatient, the
3383 machine ground to a halt and said in a voice like thunder: SEVEN!
3385 =head2 v5.16.1 - Emerald Rose, "Never Split The Party"
3387 L<Announced on 2012-08-08 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/08/msg190413.html>
3389 Don't you know? You never split the party
3390 Clerics in the back to keep those fighters hale and hearty
3391 The wizard in the middle, where he can shed some light
3392 And you never let that damn thief out of sight…
3394 =head2 v5.16.1-RC1 - Tom Moldvay, Foreward to the "Dungeons & Dragons Basic Rulebook"
3396 L<Announced on 2012-08-03 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/08/msg190264.html>
3398 I was busy rescuing the captured maiden when the dragon showed up.
3399 Fifty feed of scaled terror glared down at us with smoldering red eyes.
3400 Tendrils of smoke drifted out from between fangs larger than daggers.
3401 The dragon blocked the only exit from the cave.
3405 I unwrapped the sword which the mysterious cleric had given me. The
3406 sword was golden-tinted steel. Its hilt was set with a rainbow
3407 collection of precious gems. I shouted my battle cry and charged
3409 My charge caught the dragon by surprise. Its titanic jaws snapped shut
3410 inches from my face. I swung the golden sword with both arms. The
3411 swordblade bit into the dragon's neck and continued through to the other
3412 side. With an earth-shaking crash, the dragon dropped dead at my feet.
3413 The magic sword had saved my life and ended the reign of the
3414 dragon-tyrant. The countryside was freed and I could return as a hero.
3416 =head2 v5.16.0 - W.H. Auden, "September 1, 1939"
3418 L<Announced on 2012-05-20 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/05/msg186903.html>
3420 All I have is a voice
3421 To undo the folded lie,
3422 The romantic lie in the brain
3423 Of the sensual man-in-the-street
3424 And the lie of Authority
3425 Whose buildings grope the sky:
3426 There is no such thing as the State
3427 And no one exists alone;
3428 Hunger allows no choice
3429 To the citizen or the police;
3430 We must love one another or die.
3432 =head2 v5.15.9 - Bob Dylan, "Blowin' In The Wind"
3434 L<Announced on 2012-03-20 by Abigail|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/03/msg184824.html>
3436 How many roads must a man walk down
3437 Before you call him a man?
3438 Yes, 'n' how many seas must a white dove sail
3439 Before she sleeps in the sand?
3440 Yes, 'n' how many times must the cannonballs fly
3441 Before they're forever banned?
3442 The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind
3443 The answer is blowin' in the wind
3445 How many years can a mountain exist
3446 Before it's washed to the sea?
3447 Yes, 'n' how many years can some people exist
3448 Before they're allowed to be free?
3449 Yes, 'n' how many times can a man turn his head
3450 Pretending he just doesn't see?
3451 The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind
3452 The answer is blowin' in the wind
3454 How many times must a man look up
3455 Before he can see the sky?
3456 Yes, 'n' how many ears must one man have
3457 Before he can hear people cry?
3458 Yes, 'n' how many deaths will it take till he knows
3459 That too many people have died?
3460 The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind
3461 The answer is blowin' in the wind
3463 =head2 v5.15.8 - The KLF, "The Manual-How To Have A Number One The Easy Way"
3465 L<Announced on 2012-02-20 by Max Maischein|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/02/msg183919.html>
3467 "Doctor Who, hey Doctor Who
3468 Doctor Who, in the Tardis
3469 Doctor Who, hey Doctor Who
3470 Doctor Who, Doc, Doctor Who
3471 Doctor Who, Doc, Doctor Who"
3473 Gibberish of course, but every lad in the country under a certain
3474 age related instinctively to what it was about. The ones slightly
3475 older needed a couple of pints inside them to clear away the mind
3476 debris left by the passing years before it made sense. As for
3477 girls and our chorus, we think they must have seen it as pure crap.
3478 A fact that must have limited to zero our chances of staying at The
3479 Top for more than one week.
3481 Stock, Aitkin and Waterman, however, are kings of writing chorus
3482 lyrics that go straight to the emotional heart of the 7" single
3483 buying girls in this country. Their most successful records will kick
3484 into the chorus with a line which encapsulates the entire emotional
3485 meaning of the song. This will obviously be used as the title. As
3486 soon as Rick Astley hit the first line of the chorus on his debut
3487 single it was all over - the Number One position was guaranteed:
3489 "I'm never going to give you up"
3491 =head2 v5.15.7 - Penelope Lively, "The Voyage of QV66"
3493 L<Announced on 2012-01-20 by Chris 'BinGOs' Williams|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/01/msg182230.html>
3495 "Laboratories," announced Henry. "Kindly don't touch anything."
3497 He led us into a long low brick shed. Outside there was a
3498 notice on a piece of board, crudely printed in red paint,
3499 which said GRATE SIENCE DISCOVERYS DONE HERE SSSH! BRING YOUR
3500 OWN BUKKIT NO PINCHING ANYWUN ELSE'S EXPERRYMENTS CANTEEN OPEN
3501 ALL DAY CHIMPS ONLY.
3503 There were a lot of large black monkeys inside, all intently
3504 busy on what they were doing. Some of them were pouring stuff
3505 out of bottles into buckets and carefully stirring the ensuing
3506 mixture; others were at work with glass tubes and jars, blowing
3507 and measuring and mixing; others were crouched over long benches
3508 with tools and heaps of bits and pieces of metal, cutting and
3509 bending and constructing. There was a great deal of noise and
3510 chatter. Every now and then one of them would give a whoop of
3511 excitement and all the others would gather round and jump up and
3512 down cheering and applauding.
3514 "Chimps," said Henry. "They're awfully clever."
3516 =head2 v5.15.6 - Ursula K. Leguin, "A Wizard of Earthsea"
3518 L<Announced on 2011-12-20 by Dave Rolsky|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/12/msg180962.html>
3520 Ged had thought that as the prentice of a great mage he would enter at once
3521 into the mystery and mastery of power. He would understand the language of the
3522 beasts and the speech of the leaves of the forest, he thought, and sway the
3523 winds with his word, and learn to change himself into any shape he
3524 wished. Maybe he and his master would run together as stags, or fly to Re Albi
3525 over the mountain on the wings of eagles.
3527 But it was not so at all. They wandered, first down into the Vale and then
3528 gradually south and westward around the mountain, given lodging in little
3529 villages or spending the night out in the wilderness, like poor
3530 journeyman-sorcerers, or tinkers, or beggars. They entered no mysterious
3531 domain. Nothing happened. The mage's oaken staff that Ged had watched at first
3532 with eager dread was nothing but a stout staff to walk with. Three days went
3533 by and four days went by and still Ogion had not spoken a single charm in
3534 Ged's hearing, and had not taught him a single name or rune or spell.
3536 =head2 v5.15.5 - Nikolai Gogol, trans. Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, "The Diary of a Madman"
3538 L<Announced on 2011-11-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/11/msg179588.html>
3540 This day - is a day of the greatest solemnity! Spain has a king. He has
3541 been found. I am that king. Only this very day did I learn of it. I
3542 confess, it came to me suddenly in a flash of lightning. I don't understand
3543 how I could have thought and imagined that I was a titular councillor. How
3544 could such a wild notion enter my head? It's a good thing no one thought of
3545 putting me in an insane asylum. Now everything is laid open before me. Now
3546 I see everything as on the palm of my hand. And before, I don't understand,
3547 before everything around me was in some sort of fog. And all this happens, I
3548 think, because people imagine that the human brain is in the head. Not at
3549 all: it is brought by a wind from the direction of the Caspian Sea. First
3550 off, I announced to Mavra who I am. When she heard that the king of Spain
3551 was standing before her, she clasped her hands and nearly died of fright.
3552 The stupid woman had never seen a king of Spain before. However, I
3553 endeavoured to calm her down and assured her in gracious words of my
3554 benevolence and that I was not at all angry that she sometimes polished my
3555 boots poorly. They're benighted folk. It's impossible to tell them about
3556 lofty matters. She got frightened because she's convinced that all kings of
3557 Spain are like Philip II. But I explained to her that there was no
3558 resemblance between me and Philip II, and that I didn't have a single
3559 Capuchin . . . I didn't go to the office . . . To hell with it! No friends,
3560 you won't lure me there now; I'm not going to copy your vile papers!
3562 =head2 v5.15.4 - Steve Jobs
3564 L<Announced on 2011-10-20 by Florian Ragwitz|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/10/msg178412.html>
3566 A lot of people in our industry haven't had very diverse experiences. So they
3567 don't have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions
3568 without a broad perspective on the problem. The broader one's understanding of
3569 the human experience, the better design we will have.
3571 =head2 v5.15.3 - Oscar Wilde, From the preface to "The Picture of Dorian Gray"
3573 L<Announced on 2011-09-20 by Stevan Little|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/09/msg177427.html>
3575 All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath
3576 the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol
3577 do so at their peril.
3579 It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.
3580 Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the
3581 work is new, complex, and vital. When critics disagree, the
3582 artist is in accord with himself.
3584 We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as
3585 he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless
3586 thing is that one admires it intensely.
3588 All art is quite useless.
3590 =head2 v5.15.2 - Rainer Maria Rilke, trans., C. F. MacIntyre, "Duino", The First Elegy
3592 L<Announced on 2011-08-20 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/08/msg176067.html>
3594 True, it is strange to live no more on earth,
3595 no longer follow the folkways scarecely learned;
3596 not to give roses and other especially auspicious
3597 things the significance of a human future;
3598 to be no more what one was in infinitely anxious hands,
3599 and to put aside even one's name, like a broken plaything.
3600 Strange, to wish wishes no longer. Strange, to see
3601 all that was related fluttering so loosely in space.
3602 And being dead is hard, full of catching-up,
3603 so that finally one feels a little eternity.–
3604 But the living all make the mistake of too sharp discrimination.
3605 Often angels (it's said) don't know if they move
3606 among the quick or the dead. The eternal current
3607 hurtles all ages along with it forever
3608 through both realms and drowns their voices in both.
3610 =head2 v5.15.1 - Greg Egan, "Permutation City"
3612 L<Announced on 2011-07-20 by Zefram|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/07/msg175014.html>
3614 Carter held out a hand towards the middle of the room. `See that
3615 fountain?' A ten-metre-wide marble wedding cake, topped with a
3616 winged cherub wrestling a serpent, duly appeared. Water cascaded
3617 down from a gushing wound in the cherub's neck. Carter said, `It's
3618 being computed by redundancies in the sketch of the city. I can
3619 extract the results, because I know exactly where to look for them --
3620 but nobody else would have a hope in hell of picking them out.'
3622 Peer walked up to the fountain. Even as he approached, he noticed
3623 that the spray was intangible; when he dipped his hand in the water
3624 around the base he felt nothing, and the motion he made with his
3625 fingers left the foaming surface unchanged. They were spying on
3626 the calculations, not interacting with them; the fountain was a
3629 Carter said, `In your case, of course, nobody will need to know
3630 the results. Except you -- and you'll know them because you'll
3633 =head2 v5.15.0 - Neil Gaiman, "The Graveyard Book"
3635 L<Announced on 2011-06-20 by David Golden|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/06/msg173748.html>
3637 If you dare nothing, then when the day is over, nothing is all you will have gained.
3639 =head2 v5.14.4 - Arthur C. Clarke, "The Nine Billion Names of God"
3641 L<Announced on 2013-03-11 by Dave Mitchell|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/03/msg199988.html>
3643 He began to sing, but gave it up after a while. This vast arena of
3644 mountains, gleaming like whitely hooded ghosts on every side, did not
3645 encourage such ebullience. Presently George glanced at his watch.
3647 'Should be there in an hour,' he called back over his shoulder to
3648 Chuck. Then he added, in an afterthought: 'Wonder if the computer's
3649 finished its run. It was due about now.'
3651 Chuck didn't reply, so George swung round in his saddle. He could just
3652 see Chuck's face, a white oval turned towards the sky.
3654 'Look,' whispered Chuck, and George lifted his eyes to heaven. (There
3655 is always a last time for everything.)
3657 Overhead, without any fuss, the stars were going out.
3659 =head2 v5.14.3 - William Shakespeare, "As You Like It"
3661 L<Announced on 2012-10-12 by Dominic Hargreaves|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/10/msg194057.html>
3663 The poor world is almost six thousand years old, and in all
3664 this time there was not any man died in his own person,
3665 videlicit, in a love-cause. Troilus had his brains dashed
3666 out with a Grecian club; yet he did what he could to die
3667 before, and he is one of the patterns of love. Leander, he
3668 would have lived many a fair year, though Hero had turned
3669 nun, if it had not been for a hot midsummer night; for, good
3670 youth, he went but forth to wash him in the Hellespont and
3671 being taken with the cramp was drowned and the foolish
3672 coroners of that age found it was 'Hero of Sestos.' But these
3673 are all lies: men have died from time to time and worms have
3674 eaten them, but not for love.
3676 =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 >>
3678 L<Announced on 2011-09-26 by Florian Ragwitz|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/09/msg177618.html>
3680 It's not so much that people don't value the programs after they have them--they
3681 do value them. But they're not the sort of thing that would ever catch on if
3682 they had to overcome the marketing barrier. (I don't yet know if perl will
3683 catch on at all--I'm worried enough about it that I specifically included an
3684 awk-to-perl translator just to help it catch on.) Maybe it's all just an
3685 inferiority complex. Or maybe I don't like to be mercenary.
3687 So I guess I'd say that the reason some software comes free is that the
3688 mechanism for selling it is missing, either from the work environment, or from
3689 the heart of the programmer.
3691 =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 >>
3693 L<Announced on 2011-06-16 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/06/msg173650.html>
3695 At this point I'm no longer working for a company that makes me sign
3696 my life away, but by now I'm in the habit. Besides, I still harbor
3697 the deep-down suspicion that nobody would pay money for what I write,
3698 since most of it just helps you do something better that you could
3699 already do some other way. How much money would you personally pay
3700 to upgrade from readnews to rn? How much money would you pay for
3701 the patch program? As for warp, it's a mere game. And anything you
3702 can do with perl you can eventually do with an amazing and totally
3703 unreadable conglomeration of awk, sed, sh and C.
3705 =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 >>
3707 L<Announced on 2011-05-14 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/05/msg172326.html>
3709 At the start of any project, I'm programming primarily to please
3710 myself. (The two chief virtues in a programmer are laziness and
3711 impatience.) After a while somebody looks over my shoulder and says,
3712 "That's neat. It'd be neater if it did such-and-so." So the thing
3713 gets neater. Pretty soon (a year or two) I have an rn, a warp, a patch,
3714 or a perl. One of these years I'll have a metaconfig.
3716 I then say to myself, "I don't want my life's work to die when this
3717 computer is scrapped, so I should let some other people use this. If I
3718 ask my company to sell this, it'll never see the light of day, and nobody
3719 would pay much for it anyway. If I sell it myself, I'll be in trouble with
3720 my company, to whom I signed my life away when I was hired. If I give it
3721 away, I can pretend it was worthless in the first place, so my company
3722 won't care. In any event, it's easier to ask forgiveness than permission."
3724 So a freely distributable program is born.
3726 =head2 v5.14.0-RC3 - American Airlines Gate Agent, last call
3728 L<Announced on 2011-05-11 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/05/msg172282.html>
3730 This is the last call for flight 1697 with service to Chicago and
3731 continuing service to San Francisco. All passengers should already be
3732 aboard. If you aren't aboard at this time, you will be denied boarding
3733 and your bags will be offloaded.
3735 =head2 v5.14.0-RC2 - Greg Grandin, "Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City"
3737 L<Announced on 2011-05-04 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/05/msg171879.html>
3739 Over the course of nearly two decades, Ford would spend tens of millions
3740 of dollars founding not one but, after the plantation was defastated
3741 by leaf blight, two American towns, complete with central squares,
3742 sidewalks, indoor plumbing, hospitals, manicured lawns, movie theaters,
3743 swimming pools, golf courses, and, of course, Model Ts and As rolling
3744 down their paved streets.
3746 Back in America, newspapers kept up their drumbeat celebration, only
3747 obliquely referencing reports that things were not progressing as the
3748 company had hoped. But there was one note of skepticism. In late 1928,
3749 the Washington Post ran an editorial that read in its entirety: "Ford will
3750 govern a rubber plantation in Brazil larger than North Carolina. This is
3751 the first time he has applied quantity production methods to trouble"
3753 =head2 v5.14.0-RC1 - Bill Bryson, "In a Sunburned Country"
3755 L<Announced on 2011-04-20 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/04/msg171253.html>
3757 But then Australia is such a difficult country to keep track of. On
3758 my first visit, some years ago, I passed the time on the long flight
3759 reading a history of Australian politics in the twentieth century,
3760 wherein I encountered the startling fact that in 1967 the prime minister,
3761 Harold Holt, was strolling along a beach in Victoria when he plunged into
3762 the surf and vanished. No trace of the poor man was ever seen again.
3763 This seemed doubly astounding to me—first that Australia could
3764 just I<lose> a prime minister (I mean, come on) and second that news of
3765 this had never reached me.
3767 =head2 v5.13.11 - Walt Whitman, L<"Leaves of Grass"|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leaves_of_Grass>
3769 L<Announced on 2011-03-20 by Florian Ragwitz|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/03/msg170206.html>
3771 When the full-grown poet came,
3772 Out spake pleased Nature (the round impassive globe, with all its
3773 shows of day and night,) saying, He is mine;
3774 But out spake too the Soul of man, proud, jealous and unreconciled,
3775 Nay he is mine alone;
3776 --Then the full-grown poet stood between the two, and took each
3778 And to-day and ever so stands, as blender, uniter, tightly
3780 Which he will never release until he reconciles the two,
3781 And wholly and joyously blends them.
3783 =head2 v5.13.10 - Egill Skalla-Grímsson, L<"Egils saga Skalla-Grímssonar"|http://www.heimskringla.no/wiki/Egils_saga_Skalla-Gr%C3%ADmssonar>
3785 L<Announced on 2011-02-20 by Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/02/msg169340.html>
3787 Skalat maðr rúnar rísta,
3788 nema ráða vel kunni.
3789 Þat verðr mörgum manni,
3790 es of myrkvan staf villisk.
3792 tíu launstafi ristna.
3793 Þat hefr lauka lindi
3794 langs ofrtrega fengit.
3796 =head2 v5.13.9 - John F Kennedy, L<Inaugural Address January 20, 1961|http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/John_F._Kennedy%27s_Inaugural_Address>
3798 L<Announced on 2011-01-20 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/01/msg168335.html>
3800 In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been
3801 granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I
3802 do not shrink from this responsibility -- I welcome it. I do not believe
3803 that any of us would exchange places with any other people or any other
3804 generation. The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this
3805 endeavor will light our country and all who serve it. And the glow from
3806 that fire can truly light the world.
3808 And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you;
3809 ask what you can do for your country.
3811 My fellow citizens of the world, ask not what America will do for you,
3812 but what together we can do for the freedom of man.
3814 Finally, whether you are citizens of America or citizens of the world,
3815 ask of us here the same high standards of strength and sacrifice which
3816 we ask of you. With a good conscience our only sure reward, with history
3817 the final judge of our deeds, let us go forth to lead the land we love,
3818 asking His blessing and His help, but knowing that here on earth God's
3819 work must truly be our own.
3821 =head2 v5.13.8 - Roger Williams, L<"The Fifth Gift"|http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2005/8/19/21304/8493>
3823 L<Announced on 2010-12-19 by Zefram|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/12/msg167271.html>
3825 The aliens called the box a "matter generator," but we'd be more inclined
3826 to call it a matter duplicator. By connecting switches and potentiometers
3827 between the copper posts it was possible to make the box mark off two
3828 cubic rectangular areas of volume. Make a certain contact, and these
3829 areas would be isolated within perfectly reflective fields. They could
3830 be expanded or contracted by altering resistances between other posts.
3831 As I worked out the user interface I built a little control panel for
3832 the device. It was actually a clever way for the aliens to do things;
3833 instead of trying to build controls we could use, they built us an
3834 interface we could attach to controls that made sense to us. It could
3837 Once you had made the contact that established the shielded volumes,
3838 if you made another certain contact the contents of the first volume
3839 were copied to the second. The machine copied metal, plastic, steel,
3840 and diamond with equal ease. Copies of copies of copies of copies were
3841 indistinguishable from the originals at any magnification, even using
3842 techniques like X-ray crystallography.
3844 =head2 v5.13.7 - Andy Wachowski and Lana Wachowski, "The Matrix"
3846 L<Announced on 2010-11-20 by Chris 'BinGOs' Williams|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/11/msg166162.html>
3848 [Neo sees a black cat walk by them, and then a similar black cat walk by them just like the first one]
3852 [Everyone freezes right in their tracks]
3854 Trinity: What did you just say?
3855 Neo: Nothing. Just had a little deja vu.
3856 Trinity: What did you see?
3857 Cypher: What happened?
3858 Neo: A black cat went past us, and then another that looked just
3860 Trinity: How much like it? Was it the same cat?
3861 Neo: It might have been. I'm not sure.
3862 Morpheus: Switch! Apoc!
3864 Trinity: A deja vu is usually a glitch in the Matrix. It happens when
3865 they change something.
3867 =head2 v5.13.6 - Haruki Murakami, "Kafka on the Shore"
3869 L<Announced on 2010-10-20 by Tatsuhiko Miyagawa|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/10/msg165183.html>
3871 The boy called Crow softly rests a hand on my shoulder, and with that
3874 "From now on -- no matter what -- you've got to be the world's toughest
3875 fifteen-year-old. That's the only way you're going to survive. And in order
3876 to do that, you've got to figure out what it means to be tough. You following
3879 I keep my eyes closed and don't reply. I just want to sink off into sleep
3880 like this, his hand on my shoulder. I hear the faint flutter of wings.
3882 "You're going to be the world's toughest fifteen-year-old," Crow whispers
3883 as I try to fall asleep. Like he was carving the words in a deep blue tattoo
3886 (Translated from Japanese by Philip Gabriel)
3888 =head2 v5.13.5 - Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, "The Room in the Dragon Volant"
3890 L<Announced on 2010-09-19 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/09/msg164238.html>
3892 Candle in hand I stepped in. I do not know whether the quality of
3893 air, long undisturbed, is peculiar; to me it has always seemed so, and
3894 the damp smell of the old masonry hung in this atmosphere. My candle
3895 faintly lighted the bare stone wall that enclosed the stair, the foot
3896 of which I could not see. Down I went, and a few turns brought me to
3897 the stone floor. Here was another door, of the simple, old, oak kind,
3898 deep sunk in the thickness of the wall. The large end of the key
3899 fitted this. The lock was stiff; I set the candle down upon the
3900 stair, and applied both hands; it turned with difficulty, and as it
3901 revolved, uttered a shriek that alarmed me for my secret.
3903 For some minutes I did not move. In a little time, however, I took
3904 courage, and opened the door. The night-air floating in puffed out
3905 the candle. There was a thicket of holly and underwood, as dense as a
3906 jungle, close about the door. I should have been in pitch-darkness,
3907 were it not that through the topmost leaves there twinkled, here and
3908 there, a glimmer of moonshine.
3910 Softly, lest any one should have opened his window at the sound of the
3911 rusty bolt, I struggled through this till I gained a view of the open
3912 grounds. Here I found that the brushwood spread a good way up the
3913 park, uniting with the wood that approached the little temple I have
3916 =head2 v5.13.4 - Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
3918 L<Announced on 2010-08-20 by Florian Ragwitz|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/08/msg163150.html>
3920 `How the creatures order one about, and make one repeat lessons!' thought Alice;
3921 `I might as well be at school at once.' However, she got up, and began to repeat
3922 it, but her head was so full of the Lobster Quadrille, that she hardly knew what
3923 she was saying, and the words came very queer indeed:--
3925 "'Tis the voice of the Lobster; I heard him declare,
3926 "You have baked me too brown, I must sugar my hair."
3927 As a duck with its eyelids, so he with his nose
3928 Trims his belt and his buttons, and turns out his toes.'
3931 `That's different from what I used to say when I was a child,' said the Gryphon.
3933 `Well, I never heard it before,' said the Mock Turtle; `but it sounds uncommon
3936 Alice said nothing; she had sat down with her face in her hands, wondering if
3937 anything would ever happen in a natural way again.
3939 `I should like to have it explained,' said the Mock Turtle.
3941 `She can't explain it,' said the Gryphon hastily. `Go on with the next verse.'
3943 `But about his toes?' the Mock Turtle persisted. `How could he turn them out
3944 with his nose, you know?'
3946 `It's the first position in dancing.' Alice said; but was dreadfully puzzled by
3947 the whole thing, and longed to change the subject.
3949 =head2 v5.13.3 - Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, "Good Omens"
3951 L<Announced on 2010-07-20 by David Golden|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/07/msg162230.html>
3953 Look at Crowley, doing 110 mph on the M40 heading towards
3954 Oxfordshire. Even the most resolutely casual observer would
3955 notice a number of strange things about him. The clenched teeth,
3956 for example, or the dull red glow coming from behind his
3957 sunglasses. And the car. The car was a definite hint.
3959 Crowley had started the journey in his Bentley, and he was
3960 dammned if he wasn't going to finish it in the Bentley as well.
3961 Not that even the kind of car buff who owns his own pair of
3962 motoring goggles would have been able to tell it was a vintage
3963 Bentley. Not any more. They wouldn't have been able to tell
3964 that it was a Bentley. They would only offer fifty-fifty that it
3965 had ever even been a car.
3967 There was no paint left on it, for a start. It might still have
3968 been black, where it wasn't a rusty, smudged reddish-brown, but
3969 this was a dull charcoal black. It traveled in its own ball of
3970 flame, like a space capsule making a particularly difficult
3973 There was a thin skin of crusted, melted rubber left around the
3974 metal wheel rims, but seeing that the wheel rims were still
3975 somhow riding an inch above the road surface this didn't seem to
3976 make an awful lot of difference to the suspension.
3978 It should have fallen apart miles back.
3980 =head2 v5.13.2 - Iain M Banks, "Use of Weapons"
3982 L<Announced on 2010-06-22 by Matt S Trout|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/06/msg161112.html>
3984 We deal in the moral equivalent of black holes, where the normal laws -
3985 the rules of right and wrong that people imagine apply everywhere else
3986 in the universe - break down; beyond those metaphysical event-horizons,
3987 there exist ... special circumstances.
3989 =head2 v5.13.1 - Miguel de Unamuno, "The Sepulchre of Don Quixote"
3991 L<Announced on 2010-05-20 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/05/msg160275.html>
3993 And if anyone shall come to you and say that he knows how to construct
3994 bridges and that perhaps a time will come when you will wish to avail
3995 yourself of his science in order to cross over a river, out with him! Out
3996 with the engineer! Rivers will be crossed by wading or swimming them, even
3997 if half the crusaders drown themselves. Let the engineer go off and build
3998 bridges somewhere else, where they are badly wanted. For those who go in
3999 quest of the sepulchre, faith is bridge enough.
4001 =head2 v5.13.0 - Jules Verne, "A Journey to the Centre of the Earth"
4003 L<Announced on 2010-04-20 by LE<0xe9>on Brocard|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/04/msg159275.html>
4005 The heat still remained at quite a supportable degree. With an
4006 involuntary shudder, I reflected on what the heat must have been
4007 when the volcano of Sneffels was pouring its smoke, flames, and
4008 streams of boiling lava -- all of which must have come up by the
4009 road we were now following. I could imagine the torrents of hot
4010 seething stone darting on, bubbling up with accompaniments of
4011 smoke, steam, and sulphurous stench!
4013 "Only to think of the consequences," I mused, "if the old
4014 volcano were once more to set to work."
4016 =head2 v5.12.5 - William Shakespeare, "Measure for Measure"
4018 L<Announced on 2012-11-10 by Dominic Hargreaves|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/11/msg195171.html>
4020 Music oft hath such a charm
4021 To make bad good, and good provoke to harm.
4023 =head2 v5.12.4 - William Schwenck Gilbert, "Trial By Jury"
4025 L<Announced on 2011-06-20 by Leon Brocard|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/06/msg173725.html>
4027 You cannot eat breakfast all day,
4028 Nor is it the act of a sinner,
4029 When breakfast is taken away,
4030 To turn his attention to dinner;
4031 And it's not in the range of belief,
4032 To look upon him as a glutton,
4033 Who, when he is tired of beef,
4034 Determines to tackle the mutton.
4035 Ah! But this I am willing to say,
4036 If it will appease her sorrow,
4037 I'll marry this lady today,
4038 And I'll marry the other tomorrow!
4040 =head2 v5.12.4-RC2 - James Russell Lowell, "Eleanor makes macaroons"
4042 L<Announced on 2011-06-15 by Leon Brocard|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/06/msg173609.html>
4044 Now for sugar, -- nay, our plan
4045 Tolerates no work of man.
4046 Hurry, then, ye golden bees;
4047 Fetch your clearest honey, please,
4048 Garnered on a Yorkshire moor,
4049 While the last larks sing and soar,
4050 From the heather-blossoms sweet
4051 Where sea-breeze and sunshine meet,
4052 And the Augusts mask as Junes, --
4053 Eleanor makes macaroons!
4055 =head2 v5.12.4-RC1 - Ogden Nash, "The Clean Plater"
4057 L<Announced on 2011-06-08 by Leon Brocard|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/06/msg173352.html>
4059 Pheasant is pleasant, of course,
4060 And terrapin, too, is tasty,
4061 Lobster I freely endorse,
4062 In pate or patty or pasty.
4063 But there's nothing the matter with butter,
4064 And nothing the matter with jam,
4065 And the warmest greetings I utter
4066 To the ham and the yam and the clam.
4069 And I think very fondly of food.
4070 Through I'm broody at times
4071 When bothered by rhymes,
4075 =head2 v5.12.3 - Howard W. Campbell, Jr., "Reflections on Not Participating in Current Events"
4077 L<Announced on 2011-01-21 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/01/msg168368.html>
4079 I saw a huge steam roller,
4080 It blotted out the sun.
4081 The people all lay down, lay down;
4082 They did not try to run.
4083 My love and I, we looked amazed
4084 Upon the gory mystery.
4085 'Lie down, lie down!' the people cried.
4086 'The great machine is history!'
4087 My love and I, we ran away,
4088 The engine did not find us.
4089 We ran up to a mountain top,
4090 Left history far behind us.
4091 Perhaps we should have stayed and died,
4092 But somehow we don't think so.
4093 We went to see where history'd been,
4094 And my, the dead did stink so.
4096 =head2 v5.12.2 - William Gibson, "Pattern Recognition"
4098 L<Announced on 2010-09-06 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/09/msg163852.html>
4100 CPUs. Cayce Pollard Units. That's what Damien calls the clothing
4101 she wears. CPUs are either black, white, or gray, and ideally
4102 seem to have come into this world without human intervention.
4104 What people take for relentless minimalism is a side effect
4105 of too much exposure to the reactor-cores of fashion. This
4106 has resulted in a remorseless paring-down of what she can and
4107 will wear. She is, literally, allergic to fashion. She can
4108 only tolerate things that could have been worn, to a general
4109 lack of comment, during any year between 1945 and 2000. She's a
4110 design-free zone, a one-woman school of and whose very austerity
4111 periodically threatens to spawn its own cult.
4113 =head2 v5.12.2-RC1 - William Gibson, "Pattern Recognition"
4115 L<Announced on 2010-08-31 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/08/msg163670.html>
4117 The front page opens, familiar as a friend's living room. A frame-grab
4118 from #48 serves as backdrop, dim and almost monochrome, no characters in
4119 view. This is one of the sequences that generate comparisons with
4120 Tarkovsky. She only knows Tarkovsky from stills, really, though she did
4121 once fall asleep during a screening of The Stalker, going under on an
4122 endless pan, the camera aimed straight down, in close-up, at a puddle on
4123 a ruined mosaic floor. But she is not one of those who think that much
4124 will be gained by analysis of the maker's imagined influences. The cult
4125 of the footage is rife with subcults, claiming every possible influence.
4126 Truffaut, Peckinpah -- The Peckinpah people, among the least likely, are
4127 still waiting for the guns to be drawn.
4129 =head2 v5.12.1 - Kurt Vonnegut, "Cat's Cradle"
4131 L<Announced on 2010-05-16 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/05/msg160109.html>
4133 "Now suppose," chortled Dr. Breed, enjoying himself, "that there were
4134 many possible ways in which water could crystallize, could freeze.
4135 Suppose that the sort of ice we skate upon and put into highballs --
4136 what we might call ice-one -- is only one of several types of ice.
4137 Suppose water always froze as ice-one on Earth because it had never
4138 had a seed to teach it how to form ice-two, ice-three, ice-four
4139 ...? And suppose," he rapped on his desk with his old hand again,
4140 "that there were one form, which we will call ice-nine -- a crystal as
4141 hard as this desk -- with a melting point of, let us say, one-hundred
4142 degrees Fahrenheit, or, better still, a melting point of one-hundred-
4143 and-thirty degrees."
4145 =head2 v5.12.1-RC2 - Kurt Vonnegut, "Cat's Cradle"
4147 L<Announced on 2010-05-13 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/05/msg160066.html>
4149 San Lorenzo was fifty miles long and twenty miles wide, I learned from
4150 the supplement to the New York Sunday Times. Its population was four
4151 hundred, fifty thousand souls, "...all fiercely dedicated to the ideals
4154 Its highest point, Mount McCabe, was eleven thousand feet above sea
4155 level. Its capital was Bolivar, "...a strikingly modern city built on a
4156 harbor capable of sheltering the entire United States Navy." The principal
4157 exports were sugar, coffee, bananas, indigo, and handcrafted novelties.
4159 =head2 v5.12.1-RC1 - Kurt Vonnegut, "Cat's Cradle"
4161 L<Announced on 2010-05-09 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/05/msg159971.html>
4163 Which brings me to the Bokononist concept of a wampeter. A wampeter is
4164 the pivot of a karass. No karass is without a wampeter, Bokonon tells us,
4165 just as no wheel is without a hub. Anything can be a wampeter: a tree,
4166 a rock, an animal, an idea, a book, a melody, the Holy Grail. Whatever
4167 it is, the members of its karass revolve about it in the majestic chaos
4168 of a spiral nebula. The orbits of the members of a karass about their
4169 common wampeter are spiritual orbits, naturally. It is souls and not
4170 bodies that revolve. As Bokonon invites us to sing:
4172 Around and around and around we spin,
4173 With feet of lead and wings of tin . . .
4175 =head2 v5.12.0 - Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
4177 L<Announced on 2010-04-12 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/04/msg158820.html>
4179 'Please would you tell me,' said Alice, a little timidly, for she was
4180 not quite sure whether it was good manners for her to speak first, 'why
4181 your cat grins like that?'
4183 'It's a Cheshire cat,' said the Duchess, 'and that's why. Pig!'
4185 She said the last word with such sudden violence that Alice quite
4186 jumped; but she saw in another moment that it was addressed to the baby,
4187 and not to her, so she took courage, and went on again:--
4189 'I didn't know that Cheshire cats always grinned; in fact, I didn't know
4190 that cats COULD grin.'
4192 'They all can,' said the Duchess; 'and most of 'em do.'
4194 =head2 v5.12.0-RC5 - Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
4196 L<Announced on 2010-04-09 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/04/msg158720.html>
4198 'Not QUITE right, I'm afraid,' said Alice, timidly; 'some of the words
4201 'It is wrong from beginning to end,' said the Caterpillar decidedly, and
4202 there was silence for some minutes.
4204 =head2 v5.12.0-RC4 - Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
4206 L<Announced on 2010-04-06 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/04/msg158567.html>
4208 'It was much pleasanter at home,' thought poor Alice, 'when one wasn't
4209 always growing larger and smaller, and being ordered about by mice and
4210 rabbits. I almost wish I hadn't gone down that rabbit-hole--and yet--and
4211 yet--it's rather curious, you know, this sort of life! I do wonder what
4212 can have happened to me! When I used to read fairy-tales, I fancied that
4213 kind of thing never happened, and now here I am in the middle of one!
4215 =head2 v5.12.0-RC3 - Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
4217 L<Announced on 2010-04-02 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/04/msg158346.html>
4219 At last the Mouse, who seemed to be a person of authority among them,
4220 called out, 'Sit down, all of you, and listen to me! I'LL soon make you
4221 dry enough!' They all sat down at once, in a large ring, with the Mouse
4222 in the middle. Alice kept her eyes anxiously fixed on it, for she felt
4223 sure she would catch a bad cold if she did not get dry very soon.
4225 'Ahem!' said the Mouse with an important air, 'are you all ready? This
4226 is the driest thing I know. Silence all round, if you please! "William
4227 the Conqueror, whose cause was favoured by the pope, was soon submitted
4228 to by the English, who wanted leaders, and had been of late much
4229 accustomed to usurpation and conquest. Edwin and Morcar, the earls of
4230 Mercia and Northumbria --"'
4232 =head2 v5.12.0-RC2 - no announcement
4234 Available on CPAN since 2010-04-01.
4236 =head2 v5.12.0-RC1 - Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
4238 L<Announced on 2010-03-29 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/03/msg158060.html>
4240 So she was considering in her own mind (as well as she could, for the
4241 hot day made her feel very sleepy and stupid), whether the pleasure of
4242 making a daisy-chain would be worth the trouble of getting up and
4243 picking the daisies, when suddenly a White Rabbit with pink eyes ran
4246 There was nothing so VERY remarkable in that; nor did Alice think it so
4247 VERY much out of the way to hear the Rabbit say to itself, 'Oh dear! Oh
4248 dear! I shall be late!' (when she thought it over afterwards, it
4249 occurred to her that she ought to have wondered at this, but at the time
4250 it all seemed quite natural); but when the Rabbit actually TOOK A WATCH
4251 OUT OF ITS WAISTCOAT-POCKET, and looked at it, and then hurried on,
4252 Alice started to her feet, for it flashed across her mind that she had
4253 never before seen a rabbit with either a waistcoat-pocket, or a watch to
4254 take out of it, and burning with curiosity, she ran across the field
4255 after it, and fortunately was just in time to see it pop down a large
4256 rabbit-hole under the hedge.
4258 In another moment down went Alice after it, never once considering how
4259 in the world she was to get out again.
4261 =head2 v5.12.0-RC0 - no epigraph
4263 L<Announced on 2020-03-21 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/03/msg157761.html>
4265 =head2 v5.11.5 - Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "Christabel"
4267 L<Announced on 2010-02-21 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/02/msg156957.html>
4269 A little child, a limber elf,
4270 Singing, dancing to itself,
4271 A fairy thing with red round cheeks,
4272 That always finds, and never seeks,
4273 Makes such a vision to the sight
4274 As fills a father's eyes with light;
4275 And pleasures flow in so thick and fast
4276 Upon his heart, that he at last
4277 Must needs express his love's excess
4278 With words of unmeant bitterness.
4279 Perhaps 'tis pretty to force together
4280 Thoughts so all unlike each other;
4281 To mutter and mock a broken charm,
4282 To dally with wrong that does no harm.
4283 Perhaps 'tis tender too and pretty
4284 At each wild word to feel within
4285 A sweet recoil of love and pity.
4286 And what, if in a world of sin
4287 (O sorrow and shame should this be true!)
4288 Such giddiness of heart and brain
4289 Comes seldom save from rage and pain,
4290 So talks as it's most used to do.
4292 =head2 v5.11.4 - Fyodor Dostoevsky, "Crime and Punishment"
4294 L<Announced on 2010-01-20 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/01/msg155848.html>
4296 And you don't suppose that I went into it headlong like a fool? I went
4297 into it like a wise man, and that was just my destruction. And you
4298 mustn't suppose that I didn't know, for instance, that if I began to
4299 question myself whether I had the right to gain power -- I certainly
4300 hadn't the right -- or that if I asked myself whether a human being is a
4301 louse it proved that it wasn't so for me, though it might be for a man
4302 who would go straight to his goal without asking questions.... If I
4303 worried myself all those days, wondering whether Napoleon would have
4304 done it or not, I felt clearly of course that I wasn't Napoleon.
4306 =head2 v5.11.3 - Mark Twain, "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer"
4308 L<Announced on 2009-12-20 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2009/12/msg154838.html>
4310 "Say -- I'm going in a swimming, I am. Don't you wish you could? But of
4311 course you'd druther work -- wouldn't you? Course you would!"
4313 Tom contemplated the boy a bit, and said: "What do you call work?"
4315 "Why ain't that work?"
4317 Tom resumed his whitewashing, and answered carelessly: "Well, maybe it
4318 is, and maybe it aint. All I know, is, it suits Tom Sawyer."
4320 "Oh come, now, you don't mean to let on that you like it?"
4322 The brush continued to move. "Like it? Well I don't see why I oughtn't
4323 to like it. Does a boy get a chance to whitewash a fence every day?"
4325 That put the thing in a new light. Ben stopped nibbling his apple. Tom
4326 swept his brush daintily back and forth -- stepped back to note the effect
4327 -- added a touch here and there-criticised the effect again -- Ben
4328 watching every move and getting more and more interested, more and more
4329 absorbed. Presently he said: "Say, Tom, let me whitewash a little."
4331 =head2 v5.11.2 - Michael Marshall Smith, "Only Forward"
4333 L<Announced on 2009-11-20 by Léon Brocard|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2009/11/msg153646.html>
4335 The streets were pretty quiet, which was nice. They're always quiet here
4336 at that time: you have to be wearing a black jacket to be out on the
4337 streets between seven and nine in the evening, and not many people in
4338 the area have black jackets. It's just one of those things. I currently
4339 live in Colour Neighbourhood, which is for people who are heavily into
4340 colour. All the streets and buildings are set for instant colourmatch:
4341 as you walk down the road they change hue to offset whatever you're
4342 wearing. When the streets are busy it's kind of intense, and anyone
4343 prone to epileptic seizures isn't allowed to live in the Neighbourhood,
4344 however much they're into colour.
4346 =head2 v5.11.1 - Joseph Heller, "Catch-22"
4348 L<Announced on 2009-10-20 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2009/10/msg152360.html>
4350 Milo had been caught red-handed in the act of plundering his countrymen,
4351 and, as a result, his stock had never been higher. He proved good as his
4352 word when a rawboned major from Minnesota curled his lip in rebellious
4353 disavowal and demanded his share of the syndicate Milo kept saying
4354 everybody owned. Milo met the challenge by writing the words "A Share"
4355 on the nearest scrap of paper and handing it away with a virtuous disdain
4356 that won the envy and admiration of almost everyone who knew him. His
4357 glory was at a peak, and Colonel Cathcart, who knew and admired his
4358 war record, was astonished by the deferential humility with which Milo
4359 presented himself at Group Headquarters and made his fantastic appeal
4360 for more hazardous assignment.
4362 =head2 v5.11.0 - Mikhail Bulgakov, "The Master and Margarita"
4364 L<Announced on 2009-10-02 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2009/10/msg151376.html>
4366 Whispers of an "evil power" were heard in lines at dairy shops, in
4367 streetcars, stores, arguments, kitchens, suburban and long-distance
4368 trains, at stations large and small, in dachas and on beaches. Needless
4369 to say, truly mature and cultured people did not tell these stories
4370 about an evil power's visit to the capital. In fact, they even made fun
4371 of them and tried to talk sense into those who told them. Nevertheless,
4372 facts are facts, as they say, and cannot simply be dismissed without
4373 explanation: somebody had visited the capital. The charred cinders of
4374 Griboyedov alone, and many other things besides, confirmed it. Cultured
4375 people shared the point of view of the investigating team: it was the
4376 work of a gang of hypnotists and ventriloquists magnificently skilled in
4379 =head2 v5.10.1 - Right Hon. James Hacker MP, "The Complete Yes Minister: The Diaries of a Cabinet Minister"
4381 L<Announced on 2009-08-23 by Dave Mitchell|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2009/08/msg150172.html>
4383 'Briefly, sir, I am the Permanent Under-Secretary of State, known as
4384 the Permanent Secretary. Woolley here is your Principal Private
4385 Secretary. I, too, have a Principal Private Secretary, and he is the
4386 Principal Private Secretary to the Permanent Secretary. Directly
4387 responsible to me are ten Deputy Secretaries, eighty-seven Under
4388 Secretaries and two hundred and nineteen Assistant Secretaries.
4389 Directly responsible to the Principal Private Secretaries are plain
4390 Private Secretaries. The Prime Minister will be appointing two
4391 Parliamentary Under-Secretaries and you will be appointing your own
4392 Parliamentary Private Secretary.'
4394 'Can they all type?' I joked.
4396 'None of us can type, Minister,' replied Sir Humphrey smoothly. 'Mrs
4397 McKay types - she is your Secretary.'
4399 I couldn't tell whether or not he was joking. 'What a pity,' I said.
4400 'We could have opened an agency.'
4402 Sir Humphrey and Bernard laughed. 'Very droll, sir,' said Sir
4403 Humphrey. 'Most amusing, sir,' said Bernard. Were they genuinely
4404 amused at my wit, or just being rather patronising? 'I suppose they
4405 all say that, do they?' I ventured.
4407 Sir Humphrey reassured me on that. 'Certainly not, Minister,' he
4408 replied. 'Not quite all.'
4410 =head2 v5.10.1-RC2 - no epigraph
4412 L<Announced on 2009-08-18 by Dave Mitchell|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2009/08/msg150015.html>
4414 =head2 v5.10.1-RC1 - no epigraph
4416 L<Announced on 2009-08-06 by Dave Mitchell|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2009/08/msg149498.html>
4418 =head2 v5.10.0 - Laurence Sterne, "Tristram Shandy"
4420 L<Announced on 2007-12-18 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2007/12/msg131636.html>
4422 He would often declare, in speaking his thoughts upon the subject, that
4423 he did not conceive how the greatest family in England could stand it
4424 out against an uninterrupted succession of six or seven short
4425 noses.--And for the contrary reason, he would generally add, That it
4426 must be one of the greatest problems in civil life, where the same
4427 number of long and jolly noses, following one another in a direct line,
4428 did not raise and hoist it up into the best vacancies in the kingdom.
4430 =head2 v5.10.0-RC2 - no epigraph
4432 L<Announced on 2007-11-25 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2007/11/msg130978.html>
4434 =head2 v5.10.0-RC1 - no epigraph
4436 L<Announced on 2007-11-17 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2007/11/msg130653.html>
4438 =head2 v5.9.5 - no announcement
4440 L<Pre-announced on 2007-07-07 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2007/07/msg126358.html>,
4441 available on CPAN with same date, but never actually announced.
4443 =head2 v5.9.4 - no epigraph
4445 L<Announced on 2006-08-15 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2006/08/msg115782.html>
4447 =head2 v5.9.3 - no epigraph
4449 L<Announced on 2006-01-28 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2006/01/msg109086.html>
4451 =head2 v5.9.2 - Thomas Pynchon, "V"
4453 L<Announced on 2005-04-01 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2005/04/msg99421.html>
4455 This word flip was weird. Every recording date of McClintic's he'd
4456 gotten into the habit of talking electricity with the audio men and
4457 technicians of the studio. McClintic once couldn't have cared less
4458 about electricity, but now it seemed if that was helping him reach a
4459 bigger audience, some digging, some who would never dig, but all
4460 paying and those royalties keeping the Triumph in gas and McClintic
4461 in J. Press suits, then McClintic ought to be grateful to
4462 electricity, ought maybe to learn a little more about it. So he'd
4463 picked up some here and there, and one day last summer he got around
4464 to talking stochastic music and digital computers with one
4465 technician. Out of the conversation had come Set/Reset, which was
4466 getting to be a signature for the group. He had found out from this
4467 sound man about a two-triode circuit called a flip-flop, which when
4468 it turned on could be one of two ways, depending on which tube was
4469 conducting and which was cut off: set or reset, flip or flop.
4471 "And that," the man said, "can be yes or no, or one or zero. And
4472 that is what you might call one of the basic units, or specialized
4473 `cells' in a big `electronic brain.' "
4475 "Crazy," said McClintic, having lost him back there someplace. But
4476 one thing that did occur to him was if a computer's brain could go
4477 flip or flop, why so could a musician's. As long as you were flop,
4478 everything was cool. But where did the trigger-pulse come from to
4481 =head2 v5.9.1 - Tom Stoppard, "Arcadia"
4483 L<Announced on 2004-03-16 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/03/msg89722.html>
4485 Aren't you supposed to have a pony?
4487 =head2 v5.9.0 - Doris Lessing, "Martha Quest"
4489 L<Announced on 2003-10-27 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/10/msg84147.html>
4491 What of October, that ambiguous month
4493 =head2 v5.8.9 - Right Hon. James Hacker MP, "The Complete Yes Minister: The Diaries of a Cabinet Minister"
4495 L<Announced on 2008-12-14 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2008/12/msg142571.html>
4497 Frank and I, unlike the civil servants, were still puzzled that such a
4498 proposal as the Europass could even be seriously under consideration by
4499 the FCO. We can both see clearly that it is wonderful ammunition for the
4500 anti-Europeans. I asked Humphrey if the Foreign Office doesn't realise
4501 how damaging this would be to the European ideal?
4503 'I'm sure they do, Minister, he said. That's why they support it.'
4505 This was even more puzzling, since I'd always been under the impression
4506 that the FO is pro-Europe. 'Is it or isn't it?' I asked Humphrey.
4508 'Yes and no,' he replied of course, 'if you'll pardon the
4509 expression. The Foreign Office is pro-Europe because it is really
4510 anti-Europe. In fact the Civil Service was united in its desire to make
4511 sure the Common Market didn't work. That's why we went into it.'
4513 This sounded like a riddle to me. I asked him to explain further. And
4514 basically his argument was as follows: Britain has had the same foreign
4515 policy objective for at least the last five hundred years - to create a
4516 disunited Europe. In that cause we have fought with the Dutch against
4517 the Spanish, with the Germans against the French, with the French and
4518 Italians against the Germans, and with the French against the Italians
4519 and Germans. [The Dutch rebellion against Phillip II of Spain, the
4520 Napoleonic Wars, the First World War, and the Second World War - Ed.]
4522 In other words, divide and rule. And the Foreign Office can see no
4523 reason to change when it has worked so well until now.
4525 I was aware of this, naturally, but I regarded it as ancient history.
4526 Humphrey thinks that it is, in fact, current policy. It was necessary
4527 for us to break up the EEC, he explained, so we had to get inside. We
4528 had previously tried to break it up from the outside, but that didn't
4529 work. [A reference to our futile and short-lived involvement in EFTA,
4530 the European Free Trade Association, founded in 1960 and which the UK
4531 left in 1972 - Ed.] Now that we're in, we are able to make a complete
4532 pig's breakfast out of it. We've now set the Germans against the French,
4533 the French against the Italians, the Italians against the Dutch... and
4534 the Foreign office is terribly happy. It's just like old time.
4536 I was staggered by all of this. I thought that the all of us who are
4537 publicly pro-European believed in the European ideal. I said this to Sir
4538 Humphrey, and he simply chuckled.
4540 So I asked him: if we don't believe in the European Ideal, why are we
4541 pushing to increase the membership?
4543 'Same reason,' came the reply. 'It's just like the United Nations. The
4544 more members it has, the more arguments you can stir up, and the more
4545 futile and impotent it becomes.'
4547 This all strikes me as the most appalling cynicism, and I said so.
4549 Sir Humphrey agreed completely. 'Yes Minister. We call it
4550 diplomacy. It's what made Britain great, you know.'
4552 =head2 v5.8.9-RC2 - Right Hon. James Hacker MP, "The Complete Yes Minister: The Diaries of a Cabinet Minister"
4554 L<Announced on 2008-12-06 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2008/12/msg142422.html>
4556 There was silence in the office. I didn't know what we were going to do
4557 about the four hundred new people supervising our economy drive or the
4558 four hundred new people for the Bureaucratic Watchdog Office, or
4559 anything! I simply sat and waited and hoped that my head would stop
4560 thumping and that some idea would be suggested by someone sometime soon.
4562 Sir Humphrey obliged. 'Minister... if we were to end the economy drive
4563 and close the Bureaucratic Watchdog Office we could issue an immediate
4564 press announcement that you had axed eight hundred jobs.' He had
4565 obviously thought this out carefully in advance, for at this moment he
4566 produced a slim folder from under his arm. 'If you'd like to approve
4569 I couldn't believe the impertinence of the suggestion. Axed eight
4570 hundred jobs? 'But no one was ever doing these jobs,' I pointed out
4571 incredulously. 'No one's been appointed yet.'
4573 'Even greater economy,' he replied instantly. 'We've saved eight hundred
4574 redundancy payments as well.'
4576 'But...' I attempted to explain '... that's just phony. It's dishonest,
4577 it's juggling with figures, it's pulling the wool over people's eyes.'
4579 'A government press release, in fact.' said Humphrey.
4581 =head2 v5.8.9-RC1 - Right Hon. James Hacker MP, "The Complete Yes Minister: The Diaries of a Cabinet Minister"
4583 L<Announced on 2008-11-10 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2008/11/msg141515.html>
4585 A jumbo jet touched down, with BURANDAN AIRWAYS written on the side. I
4586 was hugely impressed. British Airways are having to pawn their Concordes,
4587 and here is this little tiny African state with its own airline, jumbo
4590 I asked Bernard how many planes Burandan Airways had. 'None,' he said.
4592 I told him not to be silly and use his eyes. 'No Minister, it belongs to
4593 Freddie Laker,' he said. 'They chartered it last week and repainted it
4594 specially.' Apparently most of the Have-Nots (I mean, LDCs) do this - at
4595 the opening of the UN General Assembly the runways of Kennedy Airport are
4596 jam-packed with phoney flag-carriers. 'In fact,' said Bernard with a sly
4597 grin, 'there was one 747 that belonged to nine different African airlines
4598 in a month. They called it the mumbo-jumbo.'
4600 While we watched nothing much happening on the TV except the mumbo-jumbo
4601 taxiing around Prestwick and the Queen looking a bit chilly, Bernard gave
4602 me the next day's schedule and explained that I was booked on the night
4603 sleeper from King's Cross to Edinburgh because I had to vote in a
4604 three-line whip at the House tonight and would have to miss the last
4605 plane. Then the commentator, in that special hushed BBC voice used for any
4606 occasion with which Royalty is connected, announced reverentially that we
4607 were about to catch our first glimpse of President Selim.
4609 And out of the plane stepped Charlie. My old friend Charlie Umtali. We
4610 were at LSE together. Not Selim Mohammed at all, but Charlie.
4612 Bernard asked me if I were sure. Silly question. How could you forget a
4613 name like Charlie Umtali?
4615 I sent Bernard for Sir Humphrey, who was delighted to hear that we now
4616 know something about our official visitor.
4618 Bernard's official brief said nothing. Amazing! Amazing how little the FCO
4619 has been able to find out. Perhaps they were hoping it would all be on the
4620 car radio. All the brief says is that Colonel Selim Mohammed had converted
4621 to Islam some years ago, they didn't know his original name, and therefore
4622 knew little of his background.
4624 I was able to tell Humphrey and Bernard /all/ about his background.
4625 Charlie was a red-hot political economist, I informed them. Got the top
4626 first. Wiped the floor with everyone.
4628 Bernard seemed relieved. 'Well that's all right then.'
4632 'I think Bernard means,' said Sir Humphrey helpfully, 'that he'll know how
4633 to behave if he was at an English University. Even if it was the LSE.' I
4634 never know whether or not Humphrey is insulting me intentionally.
4636 Humphrey was concerned about Charlie's political colour. 'When you said
4637 that he was red-hot, were you speaking politically?'
4639 In a way I was. 'The thing about Charlie is that you never quite know
4640 where you are with him. He's the sort of chap who follows you into a
4641 revolving door and comes out in front.'
4643 'No deeply held convictions?' asked Sir Humphrey.
4645 'No. The only thing Charlie was committed too was Charlie.'
4647 'Ah, I see. A politician, Minister.'
4649 =head2 v5.8.8 - Joe Raposo, "Bein' Green"
4651 L<Announced on 2006-01-31 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2006/01/msg109190.html>
4653 It's not that easy bein' green
4654 Having to spend each day the color of the leaves
4655 When I think it could be nicer being red or yellow or gold
4656 Or something much more colorful like that
4658 It's not easy bein' green
4659 It seems you blend in with so many other ordinary things
4660 And people tend to pass you over 'cause you're
4661 Not standing out like flashy sparkles in the water
4664 But green's the color of Spring
4665 And green can be cool and friendly-like
4666 And green can be big like an ocean
4667 Or important like a mountain
4670 When green is all there is to be
4671 It could make you wonder why, but why wonder why?
4672 Wonder I am green and it'll do fine, it's beautiful
4673 And I think it's what I want to be
4675 =head2 v5.8.8-RC1 - Cosgrove Hall Productions, "Dangermouse"
4677 L<Announced on 2006-01-20 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2006/01/msg108833.html>
4679 Greenback: And the world is mine, all mine. Muhahahahaha. See to it!
4681 Stiletto: Si, Barone. Subito, Barone.
4683 =head2 v5.8.7 - Sergei Prokofiev, "Peter and the Wolf"
4685 L<Announced on 2005-05-31 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2005/05/msg101088.html>
4687 And now, imagine the triumphant procession: Peter at the head; after him the
4688 hunters leading the wolf; and winding up the procession, grandfather and the
4691 Grandfather shook his head discontentedly: "Well, and if Peter hadn't caught
4692 the wolf? What then?"
4694 =head2 v5.8.7-RC1 - Sergei Prokofiev, "Peter and the Wolf"
4696 L<Announced on 2005-05-20 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2005/05/msg100711.html>
4698 And now this is how things stood: The cat was sitting on one branch. The
4699 bird on another, not too close to the cat. And the wolf walked round and
4700 round the tree, looking at them with greedy eyes.
4702 In the meantime, Peter, without the slightest fear, stood behind the
4703 gate, watching all that was going on. He ran home,got a strong rope and
4704 climbed up the high stone wall.
4706 One of the branches of the tree, around which the wolf was walking,
4707 stretched out over the wall.
4709 Grabbing hold of the branch, Peter lightly climbed over on to the tree.
4710 Peter said to the bird: "Fly down and circle round the wolf's head, only
4711 take care that he doesn't catch you!".
4713 The bird almost touched the wolf's head with its wings, while the wolf
4714 snapped angrily at him from this side and that.
4716 How that bird teased the wolf, how that wolf wanted to catch him! But
4717 the bird was clever and the wolf simply couldn't do anything about it.
4719 =head2 v5.8.6 - A. A. Milne, "The House at Pooh Corner"
4721 L<Announced on 2004-11-27 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/11/msg96304.html>
4723 "Hallo, Pooh," said Piglet, giving a jump of surprise. "I knew it was
4726 "So did I,", said Pooh. "What are you doing?"
4728 "I'm planting a haycorn, Pooh, so that it can grow up into an oak-tree,
4729 and have lots of haycorns just outside the front door instead of having
4730 to walk miles and miles, do you see, Pooh?"
4732 "Supposing it doesn't?" said Pooh.
4734 "It will, because Christopher Robin says it will, so that's why I'm
4737 "Well," aid Pooh, "if I plant a honeycomb outside my house, then it will
4738 grow up into a beehive."
4740 Piglet wasn't quite sure about this.
4742 "Or a /piece/ of a honeycomb," said Pooh, "so as not to waste too much.
4743 Only then I might only get a piece of a beehive, and it might be the
4744 wrong piece, where the bees were buzzing and not hunnying. Bother"
4746 Piglet agreed that that would be rather bothering.
4748 "Besides, Pooh, it's a very difficult thing, planting unless you know
4749 how to do it," he said; and he put the acorn in the hole he had made,
4750 and covered it up with earth, and jumped on it.
4752 =head2 v5.8.6-RC1 - A. A. Milne, "Winnie the Pooh"
4754 L<Announced on 2004-11-11 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/11/msg95786.html>
4756 "Hallo!" said Piglet, "whare are /you/ doing?"
4758 "Hunting," said Pooh.
4762 "Tracking something," said Winnie-the-Pooh very mysteriously.
4764 "Tracking what?" said Piglet, coming closer.
4766 "That's just what I ask myself, I ask myself, What?"
4768 "What do you think you'll answer?"
4770 "I shall have to wait until I catch up with it," said Winnie-the-Pooh.
4771 "Now, look there." He pointed to the ground in front of him. "What do
4774 "Track," said Piglet. "Paw-marks." He gave a little squeak of
4775 excitement. "Oh, Pooh!" Do you think it's a--a--a Woozle?"
4777 =head2 v5.8.5 - wikipedia, "Yew"
4779 L<Announced on 2004-07-19 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/07/msg93189.html>
4781 Yews are relatively slow growing trees, widely used in landscaping and
4782 ornamental horticulture. They have flat, dark-green needles, reddish
4783 bark, and bear seeds with red arils, which are eaten by thrushes,
4784 waxwings and other birds, dispersing the hard seeds undamaged in their
4785 droppings. Yew wood is reddish brown (with white sapwood), and very
4786 hard. It was traditionally used to make bows, especially the English
4789 In England, the Common Yew (Taxus baccata, also known as English Yew) is
4790 often found in churchyards. It is sometimes suggested that these are
4791 placed there as a symbol of long life or trees of death, and some are
4792 likely to be over 3,000 years old. It is also suggested that yew trees
4793 may have a pre-Christian association with old pagan holy sites, and the
4794 Christian church found it expedient to use and take over existing sites.
4795 Another explanation is that the poisonous berries and foliage discourage
4796 farmers and drovers from letting their animals wander into the burial
4797 grounds. The yew tree is a frequent symbol in the Christian poetry of
4798 T.S. Eliot, especially his Four Quartets.
4800 =head2 v5.8.5-RC2 - wikipedia, "Beech"
4802 L<Announced on 2004-07-09 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/07/msg92934.html>
4804 Beeches are trees of the Genus Fagus, family Fagaceae, including about
4805 ten species in Europe, Asia, and North America. The leaves are entire or
4806 sparsely toothed. The fruit is a small, sharply-angled nut, borne in
4807 pairs in spiny husks. The beech most commonly grown as an ornamental or
4808 shade tree is the European beech (Fagus sylvatica).
4810 The southern beeches belong to a different but related genus,
4811 Nothofagus. They are found in Australia, New Zealand, New Guinea, New
4812 Caledonia and South America.
4814 =head2 v5.8.5-RC1 - wikipedia, "Pedunculate Oak" (abridged)
4816 L<Announced on 2004-07-07 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/07/msg92840.html>
4818 The Pedunculate Oak is called the Common Oak in Britain, and is also
4819 often called the English Oak in other English speaking countries It is a
4820 large deciduous tree to 25-35m tall (exceptionally to 40m), with lobed
4821 and sessile (stalk-less) leaves. Flowering takes place in early to mid
4822 spring, and their fruit, called "acorns", ripen by autumn of the same
4823 year. The acorns are pedunculate (having a peduncle or acorn-stalk) and
4824 may occur singly, or several acorns may occur on a stalk.
4826 It forms a long-lived tree, with a large widespreading head of rugged
4827 branches. While it may naturally live to an age of a few centuries, many
4828 of the oldest trees are pollarded or coppiced, both pruning techniques
4829 that extend the tree's potential lifespan, if not its health.
4831 Within its native range it is valued for its importance to insects and
4832 other wildlife. Numerous insects live on the leaves, buds, and in the
4833 acorns. The acorns form a valuable food resource for several small
4834 mammals and some birds, notably Jays Garrulus glandarius.
4836 It is planted for forestry, and produces a long-lasting and durable
4837 heartwood, much in demand for interior and furniture work.
4839 =head2 v5.8.4 - T. S. Eliot, "The Old Gumbie Cat"
4841 L<Announced on 2004-04-22 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/04/msg90984.html>
4843 I have a Gumbie Cat in mind, her name is Jennyanydots;
4844 The curtain-cord she likes to wind, and tie it into sailor-knots.
4845 She sits upon the window-sill, or anything that's smooth and flat:
4846 She sits and sits and sits and sits -- and that's what makes a Gumbie Cat!
4848 But when the day's hustle and bustle is done,
4849 Then the Gumbie Cat's work is but hardly begun.
4850 She thinks that the cockroaches just need employment
4851 To prevent them from idle and wanton destroyment.
4852 So she's formed, from that a lot of disorderly louts,
4853 A troop of well-disciplined helpful boy-scouts,
4854 With a purpose in life and a good deed to do--
4855 And she's even created a Beetles' Tattoo.
4857 So for Old Gumbie Cats let us now give three cheers --
4858 On whom well-ordered households depend, it appears.
4861 =head2 v5.8.4-RC2 - T. S. Eliot, "Macavity: The Mystery Cat"
4863 L<Announced on 2004-04-16 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/04/msg90796.html>
4865 Macavity's a Mystery Cat: he's called the Hidden Paw --
4866 For he's the master criminal who can defy the Law.
4867 He's the bafflement of Scotland Yard, the Flying Squad's despair:
4868 For when they reach the scene of crime -- /Macavity's not there/!
4870 Macavity, Macavity, there's no one like Macavity,
4871 He's broken every human law, he breaks the law of gravity.
4872 His powers of levitation would make a fakir stare,
4873 And when you reach the scene of crime -- /Macavity's not there/!
4874 You may seek him in the basement, you may look up in the air --
4875 But I tell you once and once again, /Macavity's not there/!
4877 =head2 v5.8.4-RC1 - T. S. Eliot, "Skimbleshanks: The Railway Cat"
4879 L<Announced on 2004-04-05 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/04/msg90422.html>
4881 There's a whisper down the line at 11.39
4882 When the Night Mail's ready to depart,
4883 Saying 'Skimble where is Skimble has he gone to hunt the thimble?
4884 We must find him of the train can't start.'
4885 All the guards and all the porters and the stationmaster's daughters
4886 They are searching high and low,
4887 Saying 'Skimble where is Skimble for unless he's very nimble
4888 Then the Night Mail just can't go'
4889 At 11.42 then the signal's overdue
4890 And the passengers are frantic to a man--
4891 Then Skimble will appear and he'll saunter to the rear:
4892 He's been busy in the luggage van!
4893 He gives one flash of his glass-green eyes
4894 And the signal goes 'All Clear!'
4895 And we're off at last of the northern part
4896 Of the Northern Hemisphere!
4898 =head2 v5.8.3 - Arthur William Edgar O'Shaugnessy, "Ode"
4900 L<Announced on 2004-01-14 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/01/msg87317.html>
4902 We are the music makers,
4903 And we are the dreamers of dreams,
4904 Wandering by lonely sea-breakers,
4905 And sitting by desolate streams; --
4906 World-losers and world-forsakers,
4907 On whom the pale moon gleams:
4908 Yet we are the movers and shakers
4909 Of the world for ever, it seems.
4911 =head2 v5.8.3-RC1 - Irving Berlin, "Let's Face the Music and Dance"
4913 L<Announced on 2004-01-07 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/01/msg86969.html>
4915 There may be trouble ahead,
4916 But while there's music and moonlight,
4917 And love and romance,
4918 Let's face the music and dance.
4920 Before the fiddlers have fled,
4921 Before they ask us to pay the bill,
4922 And while we still have that chance,
4923 Let's face the music and dance.
4925 Soon, we'll be without the moon,
4926 Humming a different tune, and then,
4928 There may be teardrops to shed,
4929 So while there's music and moonlight,
4930 And love and romance,
4931 Let's face the music and dance.
4933 =head2 v5.8.2 - Walt Whitman, "Passage to India"
4935 L<Announced on 2003-11-05 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/11/msg84822.html>
4937 Passage, immediate passage! the blood burns in my veins!
4938 Away O soul! hoist instantly the anchor!
4939 Cut the hawsers - hall out - shake out every sail!
4940 Have we not stood here like trees in the ground long enough?
4941 Have we not grovel'd here long enough, eating and drinking like mere brutes?
4942 Have we not darken'd and dazed ourselves with books long enough?
4944 Sail forth - steer for the deep waters only,
4945 Reckless O soul, exploring, I with the and thou with me,
4946 For we are bound where mariner has not yet dared to go,
4947 And we will risk the ship, ourselves and all.
4950 O farther farther sail!
4951 O daring job, but safe! are they not all the seas of God?
4952 O farther, farther, farther sail!
4954 =head2 v5.8.2-RC2 - Eric Idle and John Du Prez, "Accountancy Shanty"
4956 L<Announced on 2003-11-03 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/11/msg84645.html>
4958 It's fun to charter an accountant
4959 And sail the wide accountan-cy,
4960 To find, explore the funds offshore
4961 And skirt the shoals of bankruptcy.
4963 =head2 v5.8.2-RC1 - Edward Lear, "The Jumblies"
4965 L<Announced on 2003-10-27 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/10/msg84194.html>
4967 They went to sea in a Sieve, they did,
4968 In a Sieve they went to sea:
4969 In spite of all their friends could say,
4970 On a winter's morn, on a stormy day,
4971 In a Sieve they went to sea!
4972 And when the Sieve turned round and round,
4973 And everyone cried, "You'll all be drowned!"
4974 They cried aloud, "Our Sieve ain't big,
4975 But we don't care a button, we don't care a fig!
4976 In a Sieve we'll go to sea!"
4978 Far and few, far and few,
4979 Are the lands where the Jumblies live;
4980 Their heads are green, and their hands are blue,
4981 And they went to sea in a Sieve.
4983 =head2 v5.8.1 - epigraph same as v5.7.1
4985 L<Announced on 2003-09-25 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/09/msg82678.html>
4987 =head2 v5.8.1-RC5 - Terry Pratchett, "Lords and Ladies"
4989 L<Announced on 2003-09-22 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/09/msg82476.html>
4991 No matter what she did with her hair it took about
4992 three minutes for it to tangle itself up again,
4993 like a garden hosepipe in a shed [Footnote: Which,
4994 no matter how carefully coiled, will always uncoil
4995 overnight and tie the lawnmower to the bicycles].
4997 =head2 v5.8.1-RC4 - Terry Pratchett, "Interesting Times"
4999 L<Announced on 2003-08-01 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/08/msg79184.html>
5001 Grand Viziers were /always/ scheming megalomaniacs.
5002 It was probably in the job description: "Are you a
5003 devious, plotting, unreliable madman? Ah, good,
5004 then you can be my most trusted minister."
5006 =head2 v5.8.1-RC3 - Terry Pratchett, "Interesting Times"
5008 L<Announced on 2003-07-30 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/07/msg79048.html>
5010 Lord Hong had a mind like a knife, although possibly
5011 a knife with a curved blade.
5013 =head2 v5.8.1-RC2 - Terry Pratchett, "Interesting Times"
5015 L<Announced on 2003-07-11 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/07/msg78102.html>
5017 Many an ancient lord's last words had been, "You can't kill
5018 me because I've got magic aaargh."
5020 =head2 v5.8.1-RC1 - Terry Pratchett, "Interesting Times"
5022 L<Announced on 2003-07-10 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/07/msg78009.html>
5024 Cohen was familiar with city gates. He'd broken down a number
5025 in his time, by battering ram, siege gun, and on one occasion
5028 But the gates of Hunghung were pretty damn good gates. They
5029 weren't like the gates of Ankh-Morpork, which were usually wide
5030 open to attract the spending customer and whose concession to
5031 defense was the sign "Thank You For Not Attacking Our City.
5032 Bonum Diem." These things were big and made of metal and there
5033 was a guardhouse and a squad of unhelpful men in black armor.
5035 =head2 v5.8.0 - Terry Pratchett, "Reaper Man"
5037 L<Announced on 2002-07-18 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2002/07/msg63720.html>
5039 There was the faint sound of footsteps.
5040 "Chap with a whip got as far as the big sharp spikes last week,"
5041 said the low priest.
5042 There was a sound like the flushing of a very old dry lavatory.
5043 The footsteps stopped. The High Priest smiled to himself.
5044 "Right," he said. "See your two pebbles and raise you two pebbles."
5045 The low priest threw down his cards. "Double Onion," he said.
5046 The High Priest looked down suspiciously.
5047 The low priest consulted a scrap of paper. "That's three hundred
5048 thousand, nine hundred and sixty-four pebbles you owe me," he said.
5049 There was the sound of footsteps. The priests exchanged glances.
5050 "Haven't had one for poisoned-dart alley for quite some time,"
5051 said the High Priest.
5052 "Five says he makes it", said the low priest. "You're on."
5053 There was a faint clatter of metal points on stone.
5054 "It's a shame to take your pebbles."
5055 There were footsteps again.
5057 =head2 v5.8.0-RC3 - no epigraph
5059 L<Announced on 2002-07-13 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2002/07/msg63234.html>
5061 =head2 v5.8.0-RC2 - no epigraph
5063 L<Announced on 2002-06-21 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2002/06/msg62013.html>
5065 =head2 v5.8.0-RC1 - no epigraph
5067 L<Announced on 2002-06-01 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2002/06/msg60317.html>
5069 =head2 v5.7.3 - Terry Pratchett, "Reaper Man"
5071 L<Announced on 2002-03-04 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2002/03/msg53652.html>
5073 Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong.
5074 No matter how fast light travels it finds the darkness has always
5075 got there first, and is waiting for it.
5077 =head2 v5.7.2 - Terry Pratchett, "Small Gods"
5079 L<Announced on 2001-07-13 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2001/07/msg40370.html>
5081 His philosophy was a mixture of three famous schools --
5082 the Cynics, the Stoics and the Epicureans -- and summed up
5083 all three of them in his famous phrase, "You can't trust any
5084 bugger further than you can throw him, and there's nothing
5085 you can do about it, so let's have a drink."
5087 =head2 v5.7.1 - Terry Pratchett, "The Colour of Magic"
5089 L<Announced on 2001-04-09 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2001/04/msg33851.html>
5091 "What happens next?" asked Twoflower.
5093 Hrun screwed a finger in his ear and inspected it absently.
5095 "Oh,", he said, "I expect in a minute the door will be
5096 flung back and I'll be dragged off to some sort of temple
5097 arena where I'll fight maybe a couple of giant spiders
5098 and an eight-foot slave from the jungles of Klatch and then
5099 I'll rescue some kind of a princess from the altar and then
5100 I'll kill off a few guards or whatever and then this girl
5101 will show me the secret passage out of the place and we'll
5102 liberate a couple of horses and escape with the treasure."
5103 Hrun leaned his head back on his hands and looked at the
5104 ceiling, whistling tunelessly.
5106 "All that?" said Twoflower.
5110 =head2 v5.7.0 - Terry Pratchett, "Moving Pictures"
5112 L<Announced on 2000-09-02 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2000/09/msg17730.html>
5114 The Librarian had seen many weird things in his time,
5115 but that had to be the 57th strangest.
5116 [footnote: he had a tidy mind]
5118 =head2 v5.6.2 - Laurence Sterne, "Tristram Shandy"
5120 L<Announced on 2003-11-15 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/11/msg85222.html>
5122 When great or unexpected events fall out upon the stage of this
5123 sublunary word--the mind of man, which is an inquisitive kind of
5124 a substance, naturally takes a flight, behind the scenes, to see
5125 what is the cause and first spring of them--The search was not
5126 long in this instance.
5128 =head2 v5.6.2-RC1 - Laurence Sterne, "Tristram Shandy"
5130 L<Announced on 2003-11-08 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/11/msg84953.html>
5132 "Pray, my dear", quoth my mother, "have you not forgot to wind up the clock?"
5134 =head2 v5.6.1 - J R R Tolkien, "The Hobbit", Riddles in the Dark
5136 L<Announced on 2001-04-08 by Gurusamy Sarathy|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2001/04/msg33823.html>
5138 `What have I got in my pocket?' he said aloud. He was talking to
5139 himself, but Gollum thought it was a riddle, and he was frightfully
5142 `Not fair! not fair!' he hissed. `It isn't fair, my precious, is it,
5143 to ask us what it's got in its nassty little pocketses?'
5145 Bilbo seeing what had happened and having nothing better to ask
5146 stuck to his question, `What have I got in my pocket?' he said
5149 `S-s-s-s-s,' hissed Gollum. `It must give us three guesseses,
5150 my precious, three guesseses.'
5152 =head2 v5.6.1-foolish - no epigraph
5154 L<Announced on 2001-04-01 by Gurusamy Sarathy|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2001/04/msg33421.html>
5156 =head2 v5.6.1-TRIAL3 - I can't find the announcement
5158 No announcement available.
5160 =head2 v5.6.1-TRIAL2 - no epigraph
5162 L<Announced on 2001-01-31 by Gurusamy Sarathy|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2001/01/msg29934.html>
5164 =head2 v5.6.1-TRIAL1 - no epigraph
5166 L<Announced on 2000-12-18 by Gurusamy Sarathy|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2000/12/msg27738.html>
5168 =head2 v5.6.0 - J R R Tolkien, "The Hobbit", The Last Stage
5170 L<Announced on 2000-03-23 by Gurusamy Sarathy|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2000/03/msg10341.html>
5172 The dragon is withered,
5173 His bones are now crumbled;
5174 His armour is shivered,
5175 His splendour is humbled!
5176 Though sword shall be rusted,
5177 And throne and crown perish
5178 With strength that men trusted
5179 And wealth that they cherish,
5180 Here grass is still growing,
5181 And leaves are a yet swinging,
5182 The white water flowing,
5183 And elves are yet singing
5184 Come! Tra-la-la-lally!
5185 Come back to the valley.
5187 =head2 v5.6.0-RC3 - no epigraph
5189 L<Announced on 2000-03-22 by Gurusamy Sarathy|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2000/03/msg10140.html>
5191 =head2 v5.005_05-RC1 - no epigraph
5193 L<Announced on 2009-02-16 by LE<0xe9>on Brocard|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2009/02/msg144227.html>
5195 =head2 v5.005_04 - no epigraph
5197 L<Announced on 2004-03-01 by LE<0xe9>on Brocard|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/03/msg89047.html>
5199 =head2 v5.005_04-RC2 - Rudyard Kipling, "The Jungle Book"
5201 L<Announced on 2004-02-19 by LE<0xe9>on Brocard|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/02/msg88672.html>
5203 The monkeys called the place their city, and pretended to despise
5204 the Jungle-People because they lived in the forest. And yet they
5205 never knew what the buildings were made for nor how to use
5206 them. They would sit in circles on the hall of the king's council
5207 chamber, and scratch for fleas and pretend to be men; or they would
5208 run in and out of the roofless houses and collect pieces of plaster
5209 and old bricks in a corner, and forget where they had hidden them,
5210 and fight and cry in scuffling crowds, and then break off to play up
5211 and down the terraces of the king's garden, where they would shake
5212 the rose trees and the oranges in sport to see the fruit and flowers
5215 =head2 v5.005_04-RC1 - Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
5217 L<Announced on 2004-02-05 by LE<0xe9>on Brocard|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/02/msg88312.html>
5219 Either the well was very deep, or she fell very slowly, for she had
5220 plenty of time as she went down to look about her and to wonder what was
5221 going to happen next. First, she tried to look down and make out what
5222 she was coming to, but it was too dark to see anything; then she looked
5223 at the sides of the well, and noticed that they were filled with
5224 cupboards and book-shelves; here and there she saw maps and pictures
5225 hung upon pegs. She took down a jar from one of the shelves as she
5226 passed; it was labelled 'ORANGE MARMALADE', but to her great
5227 disappointment it was empty: she did not like to drop the jar for fear
5228 of killing somebody, so managed to put it into one of the cupboards as
5231 =head2 v1.0_16 - Johan Vromans, extemporarily
5233 L<Announced on 2003-12-18 by Richard Clamp|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/12/msg86423.html>
5235 't was 16 years ago today
5236 Larry taught us a new game
5237 of lazyness, impatience, and hubris
5238 Happy birthday, Perl!
5240 =head1 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
5242 This document was originally compiled based on a list of epigraphs
5243 on L<Perl Monks|http://perlmonks.org> titled
5244 L<Recent Perl Release Announcement|http://perlmonks.org/?node_id=372406>