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 v5.37.4 - C. F. Kettering
22 L<Announced on 2022-09-20 by Karen Etheridge|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2022/09/msg264815.html>
24 "A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
26 =head2 v5.37.3 - John Steinbeck, "East of Eden"
28 L<Announced on 2022-08-20 by Neil B|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2022/08/msg264651.html>
30 And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.
32 =head2 v5.37.2 - James Clear, "Atomic Habits"
34 L<Announced on 2022-07-20 by Nicolas R.|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2022/07/msg264438.html>
36 If you can get one percent better each day for one year,
37 you'll end up thiry-seven times better by the time you are done
39 =head2 v5.37.1 - Squirt, "Finding Nemo"
41 L<Announced on 2022-06-20 by Matthew Horsfall|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2022/06/msg264107.html>
43 Good afternoon! We're gonna have a great jump today!
44 Okay, crank a hard cutback as you hit the wall.
45 There's a screaming bottom curve, so watch out.
46 Remember: Rip it! Roll it! And punch it!
48 =head2 v5.37.0 - John Cage, "Lecture on Nothing"
50 L<Announced on 2022-05-27 by Ricardo Signes|http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/263786>
52 I have nothing to say, and I am saying it.
54 =head2 v5.36.0 - Alexandre Dumas, "The Three Musketeers"
56 L<Announced on 2022-05-27 by Ricardo Signes|http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/263783>
58 “What!" cried he, in an accent of greater astonishment than before "your second
59 witness is Monsieur Aramis?"
61 "Doubtless! Are you not aware that we are never seen one without the others,
62 and that we are called among the Musketeers and the Guards, at the court and in
63 the city, Athos, Porthos, and Aramis, or the Three Inseparables?”
65 =head2 v5.36.0-RC3 - The Three Amigos
67 L<Announced on 2022-05-22 by Ricardo Signes|http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/263750>
69 Lucky Day: I'll come back one day
73 =head2 v5.36.0-RC1 - The Three Amigos
75 L<Announced on 2022-05-20 by Ricardo Signes|http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/263728>
77 Jefe: I have put many beautiful piñatas in the storeroom, each of them filled
78 with little surprises.
79 El Guapo: Many piñatas?
81 El Guapo: Would you say I have a plethora of piñatas?
84 Jefe: Oh yes, you have a plethora.
88 =head2 v5.35.11 - Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre, "Fantômas"
90 L<Announced on 2022-04-20 by Steve Hay|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2022/04/msg263644.html>
95 "And what does that mean?"
96 "Nothing. . . . Everything!"
98 "Nobody. . . . And yet, yes, it is somebody!"
99 "And what does the somebody do?"
102 =head2 v5.35.10 - John Connolly, The Killing Kind
104 L<Announced on 2022-03-20 by Sawyer X|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2022/03/msg263388.html>
106 Tante Marie knew the nature of this world. She roamed through it, saw it
107 for what it was, and understood her place in it, her responsibility to
108 those who dwelt within it and beyond. Now, slowly, I too have begun to
109 understand, to recognize a duty to the rest, to those whom I have never
110 known as much as to those whom I have loved. The nature of humanity, its
111 essence, is to feel another's pain as one's own, and to act to take that
112 pain away. There is a nobility in compassion, a beauty in empathy,
113 a grace in forgiveness.
115 =head2 v5.35.9 - Sten Nadolny, The discovery of slowness
117 L<Announced on 2022-02-20 by Renee Baecker|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2022/02/msg262928.html>
119 "John's eyes and ears," Dr. Orme wrote to the captain,
120 "retain every impression for a peculiarly long time. His apparent
121 slowness of mind and his inertia are nothing but the result of
122 exaggerated care taken by his brain in contemplating every kind
123 of detail. His enormous patience..." He crossed out the last phrase.
125 =head2 v5.35.8 - Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quijote
127 L<Announced on 2022-01-20 by Nicolas R|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2022/01/msg262478.html>
129 Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading,
130 his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind.
132 =head2 v5.35.7 - Charles Dickens, Bleak House
134 L<Announced on 2021-12-20 by Neil Bowers|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2021/12/msg262290.html>
136 There were two classes of charitable people:
137 one, the people who did a little and made a great deal of noise;
138 the other, the people who did a great deal and made no noise at all.
140 =head2 v5.35.6 - Hannu Rajaniemi, The Quantum Thief
142 L<Announced on 2021-11-22 by Richard Leach|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2021/11/msg261958.html>
144 "I have to say you were very clever. The chocolate tasted subtly wrong.
145 He is in the dress, isn't he? His mind. You used the fabber to put it
146 there. They had just finished the original: you melted it and made a
149 =head2 v5.35.5 - Frank Herbert, Heretics of Dune
151 L<Announced on 2021-10-21 by Leon Timmermans|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2021/10/msg261779.html>
153 Again, she sent the light beam along the mounded melange. Her attention was
154 drawn to a strip of the wall above the spice. More words! Still in Chakobsa,
155 written with a cutter in a fine flowing script, there was another message:
156 "A REVERENT MOTHER WILL READ MY WORDS"
157 Something cold settled in Odrade's guts. She moved to her right with the light,
158 plowing through an empire's ransom in melange. There was more to the message.
159 "I BEQUEATH TO YOU MY FEAR AND LONELINESS. TO YOU I GIVE THE CERTAINTY THAT
160 THE BODY AND SOUL OF THE BENE GESSERIT WILL MEET THE SAME FATE AS ALL OTHER
161 BODIES AND ALL OTHER SOULS".
162 Another paragraph of the message beckoned to the right of this one. She plowed
163 through the cloying melange and stopped to read.
164 "WHAT IS SURVIVAL IF YOU DO NOT SURVIVE AS A WHOLE? ASK THE BENE TLEILAX THAT!
165 WHAT IF YOU NO LONGER HEAR THE MUSIC OF LIFE? MEMORIES ARE NOT ENOUGH UNLESS
166 THEY CALL YOU TO NOBLE PURPOSE!"
168 =head2 v5.35.4 - Tom Scharpling, "Comet", from Steven Universe
170 L<Announced on 2021-09-20 by Matthew Horsfall|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2021/09/msg261577.html>
172 Some say I have no direction
173 That I'm a light-speed distraction
174 That's a knee-jerk reaction
176 Still, this is the final frontier
177 Everything is so clear
178 To my destiny I steer
180 This life in the stars is all I've ever known
181 Stars and stardust in infinite space is my only home
183 But the moment that I hit the stage
184 Thousands of voices are calling my name
185 And I know in my heart it's been worth it all of the while
187 And as my albums fly off of the shelves
188 Handing out autographed pics of myself
189 This life I chose isn't easy but sure is one heck of a ride
191 At the moment that I hit the stage
192 I hear the universe calling my name
193 And I know deep down in my heart I have nothing to fear
195 And as the solar wind blows through my hair,
196 Knowing I have so much more left to share
197 A wandering spirit who's tearing its way through the cold atmosphere
199 I'll fly like a comet
204 =head2 v5.35.3 - Logan Pearsall Smith
206 L<Announced on 2021-08-20 by Karen Etheridge|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2021/08/msg261393.html>
208 The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves.
210 =head2 v5.35.2 - Freeman Dyson
212 L<Announced on 2021-07-23 by Neil Bowers|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2021/07/msg260926.html>
214 There is a great satisfaction in building good tools for other people to use.
216 =head2 v5.35.1 - Sam Schube
218 L<Announced on 2021-06-20 by Max Maischein|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2021/06/msg260592.html>
220 His first marriage ended. A new relationship with an old friend
221 straightened him out. “I realized that I can't live like I was and be
222 with Naomi,” he said. “I wanted to become a better man for her. At
223 first. Then it was for myself too.” He started seeing a therapist. There
224 were limits: He told her he wasn't interested in exploring the part of
225 him that wanted to do stunts. “I know that needs looking at,” he said.
226 “But I didn't want to break the machine.”
228 It wasn't just about jeopardizing his livelihood, he explained. Doing
229 stunts “was exciting. It's something that I did with my friends. And I
230 was decent at it.” It wasn't so much about the stunts themselves, which
231 were terrifying, as about how completing them made him feel. He loved,
232 he said, “the exhilaration and relief, once you get on the other side of
233 the stunt. Or when you come to. You wake up, you're like, ‘Oh, was that
234 good?’ And they're like, ‘That was great.’ You got a good bit when
235 there's seven people standing over you, snapping their fingers.” When we
236 spoke, he still hadn't broached the topic in therapy. “I'll talk about
237 it eventually,” he said. “It's not something I need to know this second.”
239 =head2 v5.35.0 - Miguel de Unamuno
241 L<Announced on 2021-05-20 by Ricardo Signes|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2021/05/msg260116.html>
243 We should try to be the parents of our future rather than the offspring of our
246 =head2 v5.34.1 - Edward Lear, ed. Vivien Noakes, "The Complete Nonsense and Other Verse": Limericks published in "More Nonsense"
248 L<Announced on 2022-03-13 by Steve Hay|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2022/03/msg263342.html>
250 There was a Young Lady whose nose,
251 Continually prospers and grows;
252 When it grew out of sight, she exclaimed in a fright,
253 'Oh! Farewell to the end of my nose!'
255 =head2 v5.34.1-RC2 - Edward Lear, ed. Vivien Noakes, "The Complete Nonsense and Other Verse": Limericks for the 1846 and 1855 editions of "A Book of Nonsense"
257 L<Announced on 2022-03-06 by Steve Hay|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2022/03/msg263261.html>
259 There was an Old Lady whose folly,
260 Induced her to sit in a holly;
261 Whereon by a thorn, her dress being torn,
262 She quickly became melancholy.
264 =head2 v5.34.1-RC1 - Edward Lear, ed. Vivien Noakes, "The Complete Nonsense and Other Verse": Additional limericks for the 1861 edition of "A Book of Nonsense"
266 L<Announced on 2022-02-27 by Steve Hay|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2022/02/msg263129.html>
268 There was an Old Person whose habits,
269 Induced him to feed upon Rabbits;
270 When he'd eaten eighteen, he turned perfectly green,
271 Upon which he relinquished those habits.
273 =head2 v5.34.0 - Aberjhani
275 L<Announced on 2021-05-20 by Sawyer X|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2021/05/msg260110.html>
277 Our greatest power as nations and individuals is not the ability to employ assault weapons, suicide bombers, and drones to destroy each other.
278 The greater more creative powers with which we may arm ourselves are grace and compassion sufficient enough to love and save each other.
280 =head2 v5.34.0-RC2 - Nelson Mandela, The Long Walk to Freedom
282 L<Announced on 2021-05-15 by Sawyer X|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2021/05/msg260066.html>
284 No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.
286 =head2 v5.34.0-RC1 - Paul Tremblay, The Cabin at the End of the World
288 L<Announced on 2021-05-04 by Sawyer X|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2021/05/msg260029.html>
290 He’d irrationally hoped he could somehow put off indefinitely the future day on which she would recognize cruelty, ignorance, and injustice were the struts and pillars of the social order, as unavoidable and inevitable as the weather.
292 =head2 v5.33.9 - Abraham Lincoln
294 L<Announced on 2021-04-20 by toddr|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2021/04/msg259954.html>
296 Seven minutes ago... we, your forefathers, were brought forth upon a most excellent adventure conceived by our new friends, Bill... and Ted. These two great gentlemen are dedicated to a proposition which was true in my time, just as it's true today. Be excellent to each other!
298 =head2 v5.33.8 - David Bowie, "Heroes"
300 L<Announced on 2021-03-20 by atoomic|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2021/03/msg259358.html>
302 Tomorrow belongs to those who can hear it coming.
304 =head2 v5.33.7 - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther
306 L<Announced on 2021-02-20 by Renée Bäcker|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2021/02/msg259169.html>
308 The human race is a monotonous affair. Most people spend the greatest part of
309 their time working in order to live, and what little freedom remains so fills
310 them with fear that they seek out any and every means to be rid of it.
312 =head2 v5.33.6 - Edward R. Murrow
314 L<Announced on 2021-01-20 by Richard Leach|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2021/01/msg258843.html>
316 This instrument can teach, it can illuminate; yes, and it can even
317 inspire. But it can do so only to the extent that humans are determined
318 to use it to those ends. Otherwise it is merely wires and lights in a box.
320 =head2 v5.33.5 - Max Weber, (from "Understanding Administration", by Wolfgang Seibel)
322 L<Announced on 2020-12-20 by Max Maischein|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2020/12/msg258683.html>
324 Authority is primarily: Administration
327 =head2 v5.33.4 - George Eliot, "Adam Bede"
329 L<Announced on 2020-11-20 by Tom Hukins|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2020/11/msg258597.html>
331 It was more than two o'clock in the afternoon when Adam came in sight of
332 the grey town on the hill-side and looked searchingly towards the green
333 valley below, for the first glimpse of the old thatched roof near the
336 =head2 v5.33.3 - Ludwig van Beethoven, "Heiligenstadt Testament"; translated and quoted in: Maynard Solomon, "Beethoven"
338 L<Announced on 2020-10-20 by Steve Hay|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2020/10/msg258502.html>
340 Oh you men who think or say that I am malevolent, stubborn, or
341 misanthropic, how greatly do you wrong me. You do not know the secret
342 cause which makes me seem that way to you. From childhood on, my
343 heart and soul have been full of the tender feeling of goodwill, and I
344 was ever inclined to accomplish great things. But, think that for six
345 years now I have been hopelessly afflicted, made worse by senseless
346 physicians, from year to year deceived with hopes of improvement,
347 finally compelled to face the prospect of a lasting malady (whose cure
348 will take years or, perhaps, be impossible). Though born with a
349 fiery, active temperament, even susceptible to the diversions of
350 society, I was soon compelled to withdraw myself, to live life alone.
351 [...] I endured this wretched existence--truly wretched for so
352 susceptible a body, which can be thrown by a sudden change from the
353 best condition to the very worst.--Patience, they say, is what I must
354 now choose for my guide, and I have done so--I hope my determination
355 will remain firm to endure until it pleases the inexorable Parcae to
356 break the thread. [...] Recommend virtue to your children; it alone,
357 not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience; this was
358 what upheld me in time of misery. [...] Do not wholly forget me when I
359 am dead; I deserve this from you, for during my lifetime I was
360 thinking of you often and of ways to make you happy--please be so--
362 =head2 v5.33.2 - Elizabeth Warren
364 L<Announced on 2020-09-20 by Sawyer X|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2020/09/msg258369.html>
366 What I've learned is that real change is very, very hard. But I've
367 also learned that change is possible - if you fight for it.
369 =head2 v5.33.1 - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956 (1973)
371 L<Announced on 2020-08-20 by Karen Etheridge|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2020/08/msg258282.html>
373 If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds,
374 and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy
375 them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every
376 human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?
378 =head2 v5.33.0 - Confucius, "Confucius: The Analects"
380 L<Announed on 2020-07-17 by Sawyer X|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2020/07/msg258033.html>
382 The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.
384 =head2 v5.32.1 - Mikhail Bulgakov, trans. Michael Glenny, "The Master and Margarita"
386 L<Announced on 2021-01-23 by Steve Hay|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2021/01/msg258868.html>
388 As the warning bells rang, inquisitive people were peeping into the star
389 dressing room. Among them were jugglers in bright robes and turbans, a
390 roller-skater in a knitted cardigan, a comedian with a powdered white
391 face and a make-up man. The celebrated guest artiste amazed everyone
392 with his unusually long, superbly cut tail coat and by wearing a black
393 domino. Even more astounding were the black magician's two companions:
394 a tall man in checks with an unsteady pince-nez and a fat black cat
395 which walked into the dressing room on its hind legs and casually sat
396 down on the divan, blinking in the light of the unshaded lamps round the
399 =head2 v5.32.1-RC1 - Mikhail Bulgakov, trans. Michael Glenny, "The Heart of a Dog"
401 L<Announced on 2021-01-09 by Steve Hay|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2021/01/msg258762.html>
403 Why bother to learn to read when you can smell meat a mile away? If you
404 live in Moscow, though, and if you've got an ounce of brain in your head
405 you can't help learning to read - and without going to night-school
406 either. There are forty-thousand dogs in Moscow and I'll bet there's
407 not one of them so stupid he can't spell out the word 'sausage'.
409 =head2 v5.32.0 - Bob Dylan, "The Times They Are A Changing"
411 L<Announced on 2020-06-20 by Sawyer X|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2020/06/msg257547.html>
413 Come gather 'round, people
415 And admit that the waters
416 Around you have grown
417 And accept it that soon
418 You'll be drenched to the bone
419 If your time to you is worth savin'
420 And you better start swimmin'
421 Or you'll sink like a stone
422 For the times they are a-changin'
424 =head2 v5.32.0-RC1 - Coretta Scott King
426 L<Announced on 2020-06-08 by Sawyer X|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2020/06/msg257521.html>
428 Struggle is a never ending process. Freedom is never really won,
429 you earn it and win it in every generation.
431 =head2 v5.32.0-RC0 - Franz Kafka
433 L<Announced on 2020-05-30 by Sawyer X|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2020/05/msg257486.html>
435 There are some things one can only achieve by a deliberate leap
436 in the opposite direction.
438 =head2 v5.31.11 - John F. Kennedy, National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy
440 L<Announced on 2020-04-28 by Sawyer X|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2020/04/msg257385.html>
442 Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind.
444 =head2 v5.31.10 - Christina Rossetti, "Remember"
446 L<Announced on 2020-03-20 by Sawyer X|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2020/03/msg257274.html>
448 Remember me when I am gone away,
449 Gone far away into the silent land;
450 When you can no more hold me by the hand,
451 Nor I half turn to go yet turning stay.
452 Remember me when no more day by day
453 You tell me of our future that you plann'd:
454 Only remember me; you understand
455 It will be late to counsel then or pray.
456 Yet if you should forget me for a while
457 And afterwards remember, do not grieve:
458 For if the darkness and corruption leave
459 A vestige of the thoughts that once I had,
460 Better by far you should forget and smile
461 Than that you should remember and be sad.
463 =head2 v5.31.9 - Sten Nadolny, book The Discovery of Slowness
465 L<Announced on 2020-02-20 by Renee Bäcker|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2020/02/msg257144.html>
467 „When people talk too fast the content becomes as superfluous as the speed.“
469 =head2 v5.31.8 - Joe Perham, "Joe Perham's Guide to Hunting and Guide to Fishing in Maine"
471 L<Announced on 2020-01-20 by Matthew Horsfall|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2020/01/msg256894.html>
473 Harry used to cut wood for the Brown company over in Stoneham Red
474 Rock Basin. And of course he was the best shot in camp. One day the
475 foreman told him to go get some meat.
477 "Take any gun you want."
479 Harry says "I'll take the .45-70."
481 Foreman said "That gun's only got one bullet."
483 Harry says "I only need one bullet."
485 Took the .45-70, went out, an hour later he was back with two Moose,
486 a dozen trout you see, and a fluffy partridge. Went back to work.
488 Well at supper that night foreman says "Harry, um, something's
489 bothering me here a little bit. How did you get all that food with
490 only one bullet. I'm a little confused about the... the partridge,
491 there ain't a mark on him."
493 "Well", Harry says, "I'll tell ya. I took that .45-70, went back into
494 the woods a piece there I come to this brook. And I just uh, got to
495 the other side when I happen to see two moose in the swamp off
496 there. I figured I could get both of 'em. So I took out my huntin'
497 knife and stuck it into the mud, hilt foremost, sharp edge on the
498 blade towards me of course. I took dead aim on that knife, fired,
499 split that bullet and killed those two moose. Well you know the
500 recoil knocked me back into the brook. When I come up out of the
501 water, my pants were so full of fish that it popped a button off my
502 fly and killed that bird."
504 =head2 v5.31.7 - Bernard Werber
506 L<Announced on 2019-12-20 by Atoomic|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/12/msg256802.html>
508 Be quiet. Look at the stars and appreciate what you live.
510 =head2 v5.31.6 - Neal Stephenson, "Quicksilver"
512 L<Announced on 2019-11-20 by Chris 'BinGOs' Williams|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/11/msg256646.html>
516 State your intentions, Muse. I know you're there.
517 Dead bards who pined for you have said
518 You're bright as flame, but fickle as the air.
519 My pen and I, submerged in liquid shade,
520 Much dark can spread, on days and over reams
521 But without you, no radiance can shed.
522 Why rustle in the dark, when fledged with fire?
523 Craze the night with flails of light. Reave
524 Your turbid shroud. Bestow what I require.
526 But you're not in the dark. I do believe
527 I swim, like squid, in clouds of my own make,
528 To you, offensive. To us both, opaque.
529 What's constituted so, only a pen
530 Can penetrate. I have one here; let's go.
532 =head2 v5.31.5 - Edward Lear, ed. Vivien Noakes, "The Complete Nonsense and Other Verse": The Daddy Long-legs and the Fly
534 L<Announced on 2019-10-20 by Steve Hay|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/10/msg256478.html>
536 'O Mr Daddy Long-legs,'
538 'It's true I never go to court,
539 And I will tell you why.
540 If I had six long legs like yours,
541 At once I'd go to court!
542 But oh! I can't, because my legs
543 Are so extremely short.
544 And I'm afraid the King and Queen
545 (One in red, and one in green)
546 Would say aloud, "You are not fit,
547 You Fly, to come to court a bit!"'
549 =head2 v5.31.4 - Ann Leckie, "The Raven Tower"
551 L<Announced on 2019-09-20 by Max Maischein|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/09/msg256254.html>
553 Stories can be risky for someone like me. What I say must be true, or it
554 will be made true, and if it cannot be made true - if I don't have the
555 power, or if what I have said is an impossibility - then I will pay the
556 price. I might more or less safely say, "Once there was a man who rode
557 home to attend his father's funeral and claim his inheritance, but
558 matters were not as he expected them to be." I do not doubt that such a
559 thing has happened more than once in all the time there have been
560 fathers to die and sons to succeed them. But to go any further, I must
561 supply more details - the specific actions of specific people, and their
562 specific consequences - and there I might blunder, all unknowing, into
563 untruth. It's safer for me to speak of what I know. Or to speak only in
564 the safest of generalities. Or else to say plainly at the beginning,
565 "Here is a story I have heard," placing the burden of truth or not on
566 the teller whose words I am merely accurately reporting.
568 But what is the story that I am telling? Here is another story I have
570 Once there were two brothers, and one of them wanted what the other had.
571 Bent all his will to obtain what the other had, no matter the cost.
572 Here is another story: Once there was a prisoner in a tower.
574 Once someone risked their life out of duty and loyalty to a friend.
575 Ah, there's a story that I might tell, and truthfully.
577 =head2 v5.31.3 - Samantha Harvey, "All Is Song"
579 L<Announced on 2019-08-20 by Tom Hukins|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/08/msg256012.html>
581 We are born from unity, we divide into isolation. We winnow ourselves
582 out from the thing that first made sense of us and then expect to find
583 meaning, yet a fraction makes no sense without the number of which
584 it's a fractional part. We see loss, feel grief, give ourselves
585 illness, we're cells that have over-divided and we call the division
586 growth; the only real growth is in the return to unity, God, the
589 Tired to his core, he turned the video off. The rain still poured as
590 he went upstairs, and in bed as he tripped down into the deep open
591 shaft of sleep he kept thinking that to divide by zero was to end up
592 with infinity, as was to divide by God. To divide by God, to divide
593 by God, over and over he thought it without sense; to divide by God; I
594 must tell my students that the way to pass their exams is to divide by
595 God. Then he must have slept, for it was morning.
597 =head2 v5.31.2 - Edward Lear, ed. Vivien Noakes, "The Complete Nonsense and Other Verse": The Duck and the Kangaroo
599 L<Announced on 2019-07-20 by Steve Hay|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/07/msg255639.html>
601 Said the Duck to the Kangaroo,
602 'Good gracious! how you hop!
603 Over the fields and the water too,
604 As if you never would stop!
605 My life is a bore in this nasty pond,
606 And I long to go out in the world beyond!
607 I wish I could hop like you!'
608 Said the Duck to the Kangaroo.
610 =head2 v5.31.1 - Kurt Vonnegut, _A Man without a Country_
612 L<Announced on 2019-06-20 by Karen Etheridge|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/06/msg255243.html>
614 On Tuesday, January 20, 2004, I sent Joel Bleifuss, my editor at _In These
617 ON ORANGE ALERT HERE.
618 ECONOMIC TERRORIST ATTACK
619 EXPECTED AT 8 PM EST. KV
621 Worried, he called, asking what was up. I said I would tell him when I had
622 more complete information on the bombs George Bush was set to deliver in his
623 State of the Union address.
625 That night I got a call from my friend, the out-of-print-science-fiction
626 writer Kilgore Trout. He asked me, "Did you watch the State of the Union
629 "Yes, and it certainly helped to remember what the great British socialist
630 playwright George Bernard Shaw said about this planet."
634 "He said, 'I don't know if there are men on the moon, but if there are, they
635 must be using the earth as their lunatic asylum.' And he wasn't talking
636 about the germs or the elephants. He meant we the people."
640 "You don't think this is the Lunatic Asylum of the Universe?"
642 "Kurt, I don't think I expressed an opinion one way of the other."
644 "We are killing this planet as a life-support system with the poisons from
645 all the thermodynamic whoopee we're making with atomic energy and fossil
646 fuels, and everybody knows it, and practically nobody cares. This is how
647 crazy we are. I think the planet's immune system is trying to get rid of us
648 with AIDS and new strains of flu and tuberculosis, and so on. I think the
649 planet should get rid of us. We're really awful animals. I mean, that dumb
650 Barbra Streisand song, 'People who need people are the luckiest people in
651 the world' -- she's talking about cannibals. Lots to eat. Yes, the planet is
652 trying to get rid of us, but I think it's too late."
654 And I said good-bye to my friend, hung up the phone, sat down and wrote this
655 epitaph: "The good Earth -- we could have saved it, but we were too damn
658 =head2 v5.31.0 - Fumiko Enchi, Masks
660 L<Announced on 2019-05-24 by Sawyer X|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/05/msg254886.html>
662 The secrets inside her mind are like flowers in a garden at
663 nighttime, filling the darkness with perfume.
665 =head2 v5.30.3 - Ben Aaronovitch, "Rivers of London"
667 L<Announced on 2020-06-01 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2020/01/msg257498.html>
669 Trewsbury Mead [...] According to the Ordnance Survey, this is where the
670 Thames first rises 130 straight-line kilometres west of London. Just to
671 the north is the site either of an Iron Age hill fort or a Roman
672 encampment, the exact nature of which is awaiting an episode of Time
673 Team. Apparently there is a soggy field, a stone to mark the spot and a
674 chance, after a particularly wet winter, that you might see some water.
676 =head2 v5.30.2 - Francesco Maria Piave, trans. Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, "La traviata", Act II, Scene 2
678 L<Announced on 2020-03-14 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2020/03/msg257227.html>
680 FLORA, GASTON, DOCTOR, MARQUIS, CHORUS
682 Yes, you have suffered, but take heart!
683 Every one of us has shared your pain;
684 friends are around you to dry the tears
688 (I alone know the true devotion
689 this poor girl hides within her breast;
690 I know her faithful heart,
691 but I'm vowed so cruelly to silence.)
695 Your deadly insult to this lady
696 offends us all, but such an outrage
697 shall not go unavenged!
698 I shall find a way to humble your pride!
701 (Alas, what have I done? I feel terrible about it.
702 She will never forgive me.)
706 Alfredo, how should you understand
707 all the love that's in my heart?
708 How should you know that I have proved it,
709 even at the price of your contempt?
711 But the time will come when you will know,
712 when you'll admit how much I loved you.
713 God save you then from all remorse!
714 Even after death I shall still love you.
716 =head2 v5.30.2-RC1 - Francesco Maria Piave, trans. Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, "La traviata", Act II, Scene 2
718 L<Announced on 2020-02-29 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2020/02/msg257163.html>
721 For me this woman lost
723 I was blind, a wretched coward,
725 But it's time now for me to clear
727 I call you all to witness here
728 that I've paid her back!
730 (Contemptuously, he throws his winnings at Violetta's feet.
731 She swoons in Flora's arms. Alfredo's father arrives suddenly.)
737 a tender heart that way!
741 We've no use for the likes of you!
745 (dignified in his anger)
746 A man who offends a woman, even in anger,
747 deserves nothing but scorn.
748 Where is my son? I no longer see him
752 (What have I done? Yes, I despise myself!
753 Jealous madness, love deceived,
754 ravaged my soul, destroyed my reason.
755 How can I ever gain her pardon?
756 I would have left her, but I couldn't;
757 I came here to vent my anger,
758 But now I've done that, wretch that I am,
759 I feel nothing but deep remorse!)
761 =head2 v5.30.1 - Francesco Maria Piave, trans. Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, "La traviata", Act I: Brindisi
763 L<Announced on 2019-11-10 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/11/msg256610.html>
766 With you I would share
767 my days of happiness;
768 everything is folly in this world
769 that does not give us pleasure.
771 for the pleasures of love are swift and fleeting
772 as a flower that lives and dies
773 and can be enjoyed no more.
774 Let's take our pleasure while its ardent,
775 brilliant summons lures us on!
777 =head2 v5.30.1-RC1 - Francesco Maria Piave, trans. Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, "La traviata", Act I: Brindisi
779 L<Announced on 2019-10-27 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/10/msg256542.html>
782 Let's drink from the joyous chalice
783 where beauty flowers...
784 Let the fleeting hour
785 to pleasure's intoxication yield.
787 to love's sweet tremors --
789 that pierce the heart.
790 Let's drink to love -- to wine
791 that warms our kisses.
793 =head2 v5.30.0 - Morihei Ueshiba
795 L<Announced on 2019-05-22 by Sawyer X|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/05/msg254844.html>
797 Life is growth. If we stop growing, technically and spiritually, we
800 =head2 v5.30.0-RC2 - Derek Walcott
802 L<Announced on 2019-05-17 by Sawyer X|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/05/msg254824.html>
804 The truest writers are those who see language not as linguistic process but
809 =head2 v5.30.0-RC1 - Marcel Proust
811 L<Announced on 2019-05-11 by Sawyer X|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/05/msg254748.html>
813 If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream
814 less but to dream more, to dream all the time.
818 =head2 v5.29.10 - Maya Angelou, Alone
820 L<Announced on 2019-04-20 by Sawyer X|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/04/msg254467.html>
824 How to find my soul a home
825 Where water is not thirsty
826 And bread loaf is not stone
827 I came up with one thing
828 And I don't believe I'm wrong
831 Can make it out here alone.
835 Can make it out here alone.
837 There are some millionaires
838 With money they can't use
839 Their wives run round like banshees
840 Their children sing the blues
841 They've got expensive doctors
842 To cure their hearts of stone.
845 Can make it out here alone.
849 Can make it out here alone.
851 Now if you listen closely
852 I'll tell you what I know
853 Storm clouds are gathering
854 The wind is gonna blow
855 The race of man is suffering
856 And I can hear the moan,
859 Can make it out here alone.
863 Can make it out here alone.
865 =head2 v5.29.9 - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Dancing Men
867 L<Announced on 2019-03-21 by Zak Elep|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/03/msg253978.html>
869 What one man can invent, another can discover.
871 =head2 v5.29.8 - Isaac Asimov, Foundation: “Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.”
873 L<Announced on 2019-02-20 by Atoomic|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/02/msg253750.html>
875 =head2 v5.29.7 - Edsger W. Dijkstra: "Programming Considered as a Human Activity", IFIP Congress, New York, 1965.
877 L<Announced on 2019-01-20 by Abigail|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/01/msg253444.html>
879 When I became acquainted with the notion of algorithmic languages I
880 never challenged the then prevailing notion that the problems of
881 language design and implementation were mostly a question of
882 compromises: every new convenience for the user had to be paid for
883 by the implementation, either in the form of increased trouble
884 during translation, or during execution or during both. Well, we
885 are most certainly not living in Heaven and I am not going to deny
886 the possibility of a conflict between convenience and efficiency,
887 but now I do protest when this conflict is presented as a complete
888 summing up of the situation. I am of the opinion that is worth-while
889 to investigate what extent the needs of Man and Machine go hand in
890 hand and to see what techniques we can devise of the benefit of all
891 of us. I trust that this investigation will bear fruits and if this
892 talk made some of you share this fervent hope, it has achieved its aim.
894 =head2 v5.29.6 - Rudyard Kipling: "How the Camel Got His Hump"
896 L<Announced on 2018-12-18 by Abigail|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/12/msg253187.html>
898 The Camel's hump is an ugly lump
899 Which well you may see at the Zoo;
900 But uglier yet is the hump we get
901 From having little to do.
903 Kiddies and grown-ups too-oo-oo
904 If we haven't enough to do-oo-oo,
907 The hump that is black and blue!
909 We climb out of bed with a frouzly head
910 And a snarly-yarly voice.
911 We shiver and scowl and we grunt and we growl
912 At our bath and our boots and our toys;
914 And there ought to be a corner for me
915 (And I know there is one for you)
916 When we get the hump -
918 The hump that is black and blue!
920 The cure for this ill is to not sit still,
921 Or frowst with a book by the fire;
922 But to take a large hoe and a shovel also,
923 And dig till you gentle perspire;
925 And then you will find that the sun and the wind,
926 And the Djinn of the Garden too,
927 Have lifted the hump -
929 The hump that is black and blue!
931 I get it as well as you-oo-oo -
932 If I haven't enough to do-oo-oo!
935 Kiddies and grown-ups too!
938 =head2 v5.29.5 - T. S. Eliot, "The Naming Of Cats"
940 L<Announced on 2018-11-20 by Karen Etheridge|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/11/msg252839.html>
942 The Naming of Cats is a difficult matter,
943 It isn't just one of your holiday games;
944 You may think at first I'm as mad as a hatter
945 When I tell you, a cat must have THREE DIFFERENT NAMES.
946 First of all, there's the name that the family use daily,
947 Such as Peter, Augustus, Alonzo or James,
948 Such as Victor or Jonathan, George or Bill Bailey--
949 All of them sensible everyday names.
950 There are fancier names if you think they sound sweeter,
951 Some for the gentlemen, some for the dames:
952 Such as Plato, Admetus, Electra, Demeter--
953 But all of them sensible everyday names.
954 But I tell you, a cat needs a name that's particular,
955 A name that's peculiar, and more dignified,
956 Else how can he keep up his tail perpendicular,
957 Or spread out his whiskers, or cherish his pride?
958 Of names of this kind, I can give you a quorum,
959 Such as Munkustrap, Quaxo, or Coricopat,
960 Such as Bombalurina, or else Jellylorum-
961 Names that never belong to more than one cat.
962 But above and beyond there's still one name left over,
963 And that is the name that you never will guess;
964 The name that no human research can discover--
965 But THE CAT HIMSELF KNOWS, and will never confess.
966 When you notice a cat in profound meditation,
967 The reason, I tell you, is always the same:
968 His mind is engaged in a rapt contemplation
969 Of the thought, of the thought, of the thought of his name:
970 His ineffable effable
972 Deep and inscrutable singular Name.
974 =head2 v5.29.4 - The Mountain Goats, "Oceanographer's Choice"
976 L<Announced on 2018-10-20 by Aaron Crane|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/10/msg252575.html>
979 Guy in a skeleton costume
980 Comes up to the guy in the Superman suit
981 Runs through him with a broadsword
982 I flipped the television off
983 Bring all the bright lights up
984 Turn the radio up loud
985 I don't know why I'm so persuaded
986 That if I think things through
987 Long enough and hard enough
988 I'll somehow get to you
989 But then you came in and we locked eyes
990 You kicked the ashtray over as we came toward each other
991 Stubbed my cigarette out against the west wall
994 Would you look at that?
995 We're throwing off sparks
996 What will I do when I don't have you
997 To hold onto in the dark?
999 =head2 v5.29.3 - Mac Miller, "Senior Skip Day"
1001 L<Announced on 2018-09-20 by John 'genehack' Anderson|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/09/msg252255.html>
1003 Enjoy the best things in your life
1004 ’Cause you ain’t gonna get to live it twice
1005 They say you waste time asleep
1006 But I’m just tryin’ to dream
1008 =head2 v5.29.2 - Rick Riordan, "The Lightning Thief"
1010 L<Announced on 2018-08-20 by Chris 'BinGOs' Williams|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/08/msg251918.html>
1012 Look, I didn't want to be a half-blood.
1014 If you're reading this because you think you might be one,
1015 my advice is: close this book right now. Believe whatever
1016 lie your mom or dad told you about your birth, and try
1017 to lead a normal life.
1019 Being a half-blood is dangerous. It's scary. Most of the time,
1020 it gets you killed in painful, nasty ways.
1022 If you're a normal kid, reading this because you think it's
1023 fiction, great. Read on. I envy you for being able to believe
1024 that none of this ever happened.
1026 But if you recognize yourself in these pages - if you feel
1027 something stirring inside - stop reading immediately.
1028 You might be one of us. And once you know that, it's only a
1029 matter of time before they sense it too, and they'll come for you.
1031 =head2 v5.29.1 - Richard Curtis & Ben Elton, "Blackadder, Series 3, Episode 2: Ink and Incapability"
1033 L<Announced on 2018-07-20 by Steve Hay|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/07/msg251605.html>
1035 Dr. Samuel Johnson: Here it is, sir: the very cornerstone of English
1036 scholarship. This book, sir, contains every word in our beloved
1039 Prince Regent George: Hmm.
1041 Edmund Blackadder: Every single one, sir?
1043 Johnson: (confidently) Every single word, sir!
1045 Blackadder: (to Prince) Oh, well, in that case, sir, I hope you will
1046 not object if I also offer the Doctor my most enthusiastic
1047 contrafribularities.
1051 Blackadder: 'Contrafribularities,' sir? It is a common word down our
1054 Johnson: Damn! (writes in the book)
1056 Blackadder: Oh, I'm sorry, sir. I'm anaspeptic, phrasmotic, even
1057 compunctious to have caused you such pericombobulation.
1059 Johnson: What? What? WHAT?
1061 =head2 v5.29.0 - Erle Stanley Gardner, The Case of the Grinning Gorilla
1063 L<Announced on 2018-06-26 by Sawyer X|http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/251297>
1065 Courage is the only antidote for danger.
1067 =head2 v5.28.3 - Ben Aaronovitch, "Rivers of London"
1069 L<Announced on 2020-06-01 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2020/01/msg257497.html>
1071 The north end of the London Borough of Camden is dominated by two hills,
1072 Hampstead on the west, Highgate on the east, with the Heath, one of the
1073 largest parks in London, slung between them like a green saddle. From
1074 these heights the land slopes down towards the River Thames and the
1075 floodplains that lurk below the built-up centre of London.
1077 =head2 v5.28.2 - Edward Lear, ed. Vivien Noakes, "The Complete Nonsense and Other Verse": The Jumblies
1079 L<Announced on 2019-04-19 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/04/msg254456.html>
1081 They went to sea in a Sieve, they did,
1082 In a Sieve they went to sea:
1083 In spite of all their friends could say,
1084 On a winter's morn, on a stormy day,
1085 In a Sieve they went to sea!
1086 And when the Sieve turned round and round,
1087 And every one cried, 'You'll all be drowned!'
1088 They called aloud, 'Our Sieve ain't big,
1089 But we don't care a button! we don't care a fig!
1090 In a Sieve we'll go to sea!'
1091 Far and few, far and few,
1092 Are the lands where the Jumblies live;
1093 Their heads are green, and their hands are blue,
1094 And they went to sea in a Sieve.
1096 =head2 v5.28.2-RC1 - Edward Lear, ed. Vivien Noakes, "The Complete Nonsense and Other Verse": The Quangle Wangle's Hat
1098 L<Announced on 2019-04-05 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/04/msg254218.html>
1100 On the top of the Crumpetty Tree
1101 The Quangle Wangle sat,
1102 But his face you could not see,
1103 On account of his Beaver Hat.
1104 For his Hat was a hundred and two feet wide,
1105 With ribbons and bibbons on every side,
1106 And bells, and buttons, and loops, and lace,
1107 So that nobody ever could see the face
1108 Of the Quangle Wangle Quee.
1110 =head2 v5.28.1 - Humphrey Burton, "Leonard Bernstein"
1112 L<Announced on 2018-11-29 by Steve Hay|http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/11/msg252975.html>
1114 On August 25, 1983, Leonard Bernstein celebrated his sixty-fifth
1115 birthday in his birthplace, Lawrence, Massachusetts. He had actually
1116 lived in the town for only a few weeks as a newborn baby, and had last
1117 visited it forty-nine years previously, in 1934, to get the name on his
1118 birth certificate altered from Louis to Leonard. But the citizens of
1119 Lawrence proposed to dedicate an outdoor theater to him in their
1120 heritage park and to provide not one but two local orchestras--the
1121 Merrimack Valley Philharmonic to play excerpts from his own compositions
1122 and the Greater Boston Youth Symphony and Chorus to perform the "Ode to
1123 Joy" and accompany Bernstein himself reading (for the only time in his
1124 life) the text of A Lincoln Portrait. So Bernstein turned down birthday
1125 invitations from Tanglewood and Central Park, New York, and the
1126 Hollywood Bowl and drove through the cheering if slightly bewildered
1127 crowds lining the streets of Lawrence in an open-topped 1928 Ford
1128 roadster, looking as homespun as James Stewart in Frank Capra's classic,
1129 It's a Wonderful Life.
1131 =head2 v5.28.0 - Martin Luther King, Jr., 1967
1133 L<Announced on 2018-06-22 by Sawyer X|http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/251240>
1135 When we look at modern man we have to face the fact that modern man
1136 suffers from a kind of poverty of the spirit which stands in glaring
1137 contrast with his scientific and technological abundance. We've learned
1138 to fly the air as birds, we've learned to swim the seas as fish, yet we
1139 haven't learned to walk the earth as brothers and sisters.
1141 =head2 v5.28.0-RC4 - Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book
1143 L<Announced on 2018-06-19 by Sawyer X|http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/251212>
1145 You're alive, Bod. That means you have infinite potential. You can do
1146 anything, make anything, dream anything. If you can change the world,
1147 the world will change. Potential. Once you're dead, it's gone. Over.
1148 You've made what you've made, dreamed your dream, written your name.
1149 You may be buried here, you may even walk. But that potential is
1152 =head2 v5.28.0-RC3 - Anthony Horowitz, Magpie Murders
1154 L<Announced on 2018-06-18 by Sawyer X|http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/251204>
1156 These had been his plans. But if there was one thing that life had
1157 taught him, it was the futility of making plans. Life had its own
1160 =head2 v5.28.0-RC2 - Oliver Sacks, The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat: And Other Clinical Tales
1162 L<Announced on 2018-06-06 by Sawyer X|http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/251122>
1164 Had she not been of exceptional intelligence and literacy, with an
1165 imagination filled and sustained, so to speak, by the images of
1166 others, images conveyed by language, by the word, she might have
1167 remained almost as helpless as a baby.
1169 =head2 v5.28.0-RC1 - Anu Garg, A Word A Day
1171 L<Announced on 2018-05-21 by Sawyer X|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/05/msg250999.html>
1173 One doesn't have to know the unit of pain (dol) to realize that the
1174 unit of joy is not the dollar, or any other currency for that matter.
1176 =head2 v5.27.11 - Tana French, In the Woods
1178 L<Announced on 2018-04-20 by Sawyer X|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/04/msg250571.html>
1180 And then, too, I had learned early to assume something dark and
1181 lethal hidden at the heart of anything I loved. When I couldn't find
1182 it, I responded, bewildered and wary, in the only way I knew how: by
1183 planting it there myself.
1185 =head2 v5.27.10 - Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, p. 248
1187 L<Announced on 2018-03-20 by Todd Rinaldo|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/03/msg250042.html>
1189 A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher
1190 a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts,
1191 build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders,
1192 cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure,
1193 program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly.
1194 Specialization is for insects.
1196 =head2 v5.27.9 - Agatha Christie, "The Mysterious Affair at Styles"
1198 L<Announced on 2018-02-20 by Renee Bäcker|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/02/msg249549.html>
1200 Poirot was an extraordinary looking little man. He was hardly more
1201 than five feet, four inches, but carried himself with great dignity.
1202 His head was exactly the shape of an egg, and he always perched it
1203 a little on one side. His moustache was very stiff and military.
1204 The neatness of his attire was almost incredible. I believe a
1205 speck of dust would have caused him more pain than a bullet wound.
1206 Yet this quaint dandified little man who, I was sorry to see, now
1207 limped badly, had been in his time one of the most celebrated members
1208 of the Belgian police. As a detective, his flair had been extraordinary,
1209 and he had achieved triumphs by unravelling some of the most baffling
1211 He pointed out to me the little house inhabited by him and his fellow
1212 Belgians, and I promised to go and see him at an early date. Then he
1213 raised his hat with a flourish to Cynthia, and we drove away.
1214 "He's a dear little man," said Cynthia. "I'd no idea you knew him."
1215 "You've been entertaining a celebrity unawares," I replied.
1216 And, for the rest of the way home, I recited to them the various
1217 exploits and triumphs of Hercule Poirot.
1219 =head2 v5.27.8 - Jasper Fforde, "Shades of Grey"
1221 L<Announced on 2018-01-20 by Abigail|http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/248914>
1223 2.4.16.55.021: Males are to wear dresscode #6 during inter-Collective
1224 travel. Hats are encouraged, but not required.
1226 9.3.88.32.025: The cucumber and tomato are both fruit; the avocado
1227 is a nut. To assist with the dietary requirements of vegetarians,
1228 on the first Tuesday of the month a chicken is officially a vegetable.
1230 5.3.21.01.002: Once allocated, postcodes are permanent, and for life.
1232 6.1.02.11.235: Artifacture from before the Something That Happened
1233 may be collected, so long it does not appear on the Leapback list
1234 or possess color above 23 percent saturation.
1236 2.3.06.02.087: Unnecessary sharpening of pencils constitutes a waste
1237 of public resources, and will be punished as appropriate.
1239 2.1.01.05.002: All children are to attent school until the age of
1240 sixteen or until they have learned everything, whichever be the sooner.
1242 1.3.02.06.023: There shall be no staring at the sun, however good
1245 1.1.19.02.006: Team sports are mandatory in order to build character.
1246 Character is there to give purpose to team sports.
1248 2.3.03.01.006: Juggling shall not be practiced after 4:00 pm.
1251 =head2 v5.27.7 - Terry Pratchett, "Hogfather"
1253 L<Announced on 2017-12-20 by Chris 'BinGOs' Williams|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/12/msg248274.html>
1255 Death looked at the sacks.
1257 It was a strange but demonstrable fact that the sacks of
1258 toys carried by the Hogfather, no matter what they
1259 really contained, always appeared to have sticking out
1260 of the top a teddy bear, a toy soldier in the kind of
1261 colorful uniform that would stand out in a disco, a
1262 drum and a red-and-white candy cane. The actual
1263 contents always turned out to be something a bit
1264 garish and costing $5.99.
1266 Death had investigated one or two. There had been a
1267 Real Agatean Ninja, for example, with Fearsome
1268 Death Grip, and a Captain Carrot One-Man Night
1269 Watch with a complete wardrobe of toy weapons, each
1270 of which cost as much as the original wooden doll in
1273 Mind you, the stuff for the girls was just as
1274 depressing. It seemed to be nearly all horses. Most of
1275 them were grinning. Horses, Death felt, shouldn't grin.
1277 Any horse that was grinning was planning something.
1279 =head2 v5.27.6 - Ogden Nash, "Behold the Duck"
1281 L<Announced on 2017-11-20 by Karen Etheridge|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/11/msg247489.html>
1288 It is 'specially fond
1289 of puddles or ponds;
1290 when it dines or sups
1294 =head2 v5.27.5 - Frank Birch, Dilly Knox & G. P. Mackeson, "Alice in I.D.25"
1296 L<Announced on 2017-10-20 by Steve Hay|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/10/msg246785.html>
1298 'Can I do anything?' Alice suggested timidly, thinking that something
1299 dreadful must have happened.
1300 The Waterflap jumped as if it had been shot. 'What are you doing
1301 here?' it snapped. 'Take this at once into the Directional room,' and it
1302 thrust the paper which had caused all the fuss into her hands.
1303 'But where is the Directional room?' she inquired, bewildered.
1304 'Why, there of course,' howled the Waterflap, pointing to a door.
1305 'How could I possibly know that!' Alice exclaimed, angered by his
1307 'Silly girl,' it hissed. 'Why, it's called the Directional room
1308 because it's in that direction,' and it pushed her roughly through the
1311 =head2 v5.27.4 - Richard Brautigan, "All Watched Over By Machines Of Loving Grace"
1313 L<Announced on 2017-09-20 by John SJ Anderson|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/09/msg246371.html>
1315 I like to think (and
1316 the sooner the better!)
1317 of a cybernetic meadow
1318 where mammals and computers
1319 live together in mutually
1325 (right now, please!)
1326 of a cybernetic forest
1327 filled with pines and electronics
1328 where deer stroll peacefully
1330 as if they were flowers
1331 with spinning blossoms.
1335 of a cybernetic ecology
1336 where we are free of our labors
1337 and joined back to nature,
1338 returned to our mammal
1339 brothers and sisters,
1340 and all watched over
1341 by machines of loving grace.
1343 =head2 v5.27.3 - Rodgers and Hammerstein, "You'll Never Walk Alone"
1345 L<Announced on 2017-08-21 by Matthew Horsfall|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/08/msg245988.html>
1347 When you walk through a storm
1348 Hold your head up high
1349 And don't be afraid of the dark
1351 At the end of a storm
1352 There's a golden sky
1353 And the sweet silver song of a lark
1355 Walk on through the wind
1356 Walk on through the rain
1357 Though your dreams be tossed and blown
1360 With hope in your heart
1361 And you'll never walk alone
1363 You'll never walk alone
1366 With hope in your heart
1367 And you'll never walk alone
1369 You'll never walk alone
1371 =head2 v5.27.2 - Lev Grossman, Codex
1373 L<Announced on 2017-07-20 by Aaron Crane|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/07/msg245585.html>
1375 He went back for another stack of books: a three-volume English legal
1376 treatise; a travel guide to Tuscany from the '20s crammed with faded
1377 Italian wildflowers that fluttered out from between the pages like
1378 moths; a French edition of Turgeniev so decayed that it came apart in
1379 his hands; a register of London society from 1863. In a way it was
1380 idiotic. He was treating these books like they were holy relics. It
1381 wasn't like he would ever actually read them. But there was something
1382 magnetic about them, something that compelled respect, even the silly
1383 ones, like the Enlightenment treatise about how lightning was caused
1384 by bees. They were information, data, but not in the form he was used
1385 to dealing with it. They were non-digital, nonelectrical chunks of
1386 memory, not stamped out of silicon but laboriously crafted out of wood
1387 pulp and ink, leather and glue. Somebody had cared enough to write
1388 these things; somebody else had cared enough to buy them, possibly
1389 even read them, at the very least keep them safe for 150 years,
1390 sometimes longer, when they could have vanished at the touch of a
1391 spark. That made them worth something, didn't it, just by itself?
1392 Though most of them would have bored him rigid the second he cracked
1393 them open, which there wasn't much chance of. Maybe that was what he
1394 found so appealing: the sight of so many books that he'd never have to
1395 read, so much work he'd never have to do.
1397 =head2 v5.27.1 - Rona Munro, Doctor Who: Survival
1399 L<Announced on 2017-06-20 by Eric Herman|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/06/msg245055.html>
1401 There are worlds out there where the sky is burning,
1402 where the sea's asleep and the rivers dream,
1403 people made of smoke and cities made of song.
1404 Somewhere there's danger,
1405 somewhere there's injustice
1406 and somewhere else the tea is getting cold.
1407 Come on, Ace, we've got work to do.
1409 =head2 v5.27.0 - Bertrand Russell, The Road to Happiness
1411 L<Announced on 2017-05-31 by Sawyer X|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/05/msg244580.html>
1413 People who have theories as to how one should live tend to forget the
1414 limitations of nature. If your way of life involves constant
1415 restraint of impulse for the sake of some one supreme aim that you
1416 have set yourself, it is likely that the aim will become increasingly
1417 distasteful because of the efforts that it demands; impulse, denied
1418 its normal outlets, will find others, probably in spite; pleasure, if
1419 you allow yourself any at all, will be dissociated from the main
1420 current of your life, and will become Bacchic and frivolous. Such
1421 pleasure brings no happiness, but only a deeper despair.
1423 -- Bertrand Russell, The Road to Happiness
1425 =head2 v5.26.3 - Humphrey Burton, "Leonard Bernstein"
1427 L<Announced on 2018-11-29 by Steve Hay|http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/11/msg252974.html>
1429 The origins of the name "Bernstein" are sometimes linked with the German
1430 noun Bernstein, which means "amber"--a translucent yellowish fossilized
1431 resin, used for ornaments and thought to possess magical properties.
1432 Leonard Bernstein would later call himself "Lenny Amber" when he needed
1433 a pseudonym for the popular piano transcriptions he published in his
1434 mid-twenties, and his business affairs would be organized within a
1435 company called Amberson Enterprises. There are several towns and
1436 villages named Bernstein in Germany and Austria (where the pronunciation
1437 is BernSTINE), but Bernstein's parents came from Jewish ghettos in
1438 northwestern Ukraine, where the last syllable is usually pronounced
1439 BernSHTAYN or STEEN. Sam insisted, however, on the mid-European style
1440 employed by the earlier immigrants.
1442 =head2 v5.26.2 - Desmond Morris, "Catwatching: The Essential Guide to Cat Behaviour"
1444 L<Announced on 2018-04-14 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/04/msg250440.html>
1446 How does a cat use its whiskers? The usual answer is that the whiskers
1447 are feelers that enable a cat to tell whether a gap is wide enough for
1448 it to squeeze through, but the truth is more complicated and more
1449 remarkable. In addition to their obvious role as feelers sensitive to
1450 touch, the whiskers also operate as air-current detectors. As the cat
1451 moves along in the dark it needs to manoeuvre past solid objects without
1452 touching them. Each solid object it approaches causes slight eddies in
1453 the air, minute disturbances in the currents of air movements, and the
1454 cat's whiskers are so amazingly sensitive that they can read these air
1455 changes and respond to the presence of solid obstacles even without
1458 =head2 v5.26.2-RC1 - Desmond Morris, "Catwatching: The Essential Guide to Cat Behaviour"
1460 L<Announced on 2018-03-24 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/03/msg250103.html>
1462 Cats have a way of endearing themselves to their owners, not just by
1463 their 'kittenoid' behaviour, which stimulates strong parental feelings,
1464 but also by their sheer gracefulness. There is an elegance and a
1465 composure about them that captivates the human eye. To the sensitive
1466 human being it becomes a privilege to share a room with a cat, exchange
1467 its glance, feel its greeting rub, or watch it gently luxuriate itself
1468 into a snoozing ball on a soft cushion.
1470 =head2 v5.26.1 - Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
1472 L<Announced on 2017-09-22 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/09/msg246408.html>
1474 And soon I heard a roaring wind:
1475 It did not come anear;
1476 But with its sound it shook the sails,
1477 That were so thin and sere.
1479 The upper air burst into life!
1480 And a hundred fire-flags sheen,
1481 To and fro they were hurried about!
1482 And to and fro, and in and out,
1483 The wan stars danced between.
1485 =head2 v5.26.1-RC1 - Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
1487 L<Announced on 2017-09-10 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/09/msg246202.html>
1489 At length did cross an Albatross,
1490 Thorough the fog it came;
1491 As if it had been a Christian soul,
1492 We hailed it in God's name.
1494 It ate the food it ne'er had eat,
1495 And round and round it flew.
1496 The ice did split with a thunder-fit;
1497 The helmsman steered us through!
1499 And a good south wind sprung up behind;
1500 The Albatross did follow,
1501 And every day, for food or play,
1502 Came to the mariner's hollo!
1504 In mist or cloud, on mast or shroud,
1505 It perched for vespers nine;
1506 Whiles all the night, through fog-smoke white,
1507 Glimmered the white Moon-shine.'
1509 'God save thee, ancient Mariner!
1510 From the fiends, that plague thee thus!—
1511 Why look'st thou so?'—With my cross-bow
1512 I shot the ALBATROSS.
1514 =head2 v5.26.0 - Nine Simone, Ain't Got No / I Got Life
1516 L<Announced on 2017-05-30 by Sawyer X|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/05/msg244573.html>
1519 And I'm gonna keep it
1521 And nobody's gonna take it away
1524 =head2 v5.26.0-RC2 - Richard Condon, The Manchurian Candidate
1526 L<Announced on 2017-05-23 by Sawyer X|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/05/msg244511.html>
1528 Amateur psychiatric prognosis can be fascinating when there is
1529 absolutely nothing else to do.
1531 =head2 v5.26.0-RC1 - Thomas Paine, Common Sense
1533 L<Announced on 2017-05-11 by Sawyer X|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/05/msg244337.html>
1535 A long habit of not thinking a thing WRONG, gives it a superficial
1536 appearance of being RIGHT, and raises at first a formidable outcry in
1537 defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more
1538 converts than reason.
1540 =head2 v5.25.12 - Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
1542 L<Announced on 2017-04-20 by Sawyer X|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/04/msg244146.html>
1544 I have told my sons that they are not under any circumstances to take
1545 part in massacres, and that the news of massacres of enemies is not
1546 to fill them with satisfaction or glee.
1548 I have also told them not to work for companies which make massacre
1549 machinery, and to express contempt for people who think we need
1550 machinery like that.
1552 =head2 v5.25.11 - Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow
1554 L<Announced on 2017-03-20 by Sawyer X|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/03/msg243624.html>
1556 Subjective confidence in a judgment is not a reasoned evaluation of
1557 the probability that this judgment is correct. Confidence is a
1558 feeling, which reflects the coherence of the information and the
1559 cognitive ease of processing it. It is wise to take admissions of
1560 uncertainty seriously, but declarations of high confidence mainly
1561 tell you that an individual has constructed a coherent story in his
1562 mind, not necessarily that the story is true.
1564 =head2 v5.25.10 - Erich Fried, 1968
1566 L<Announced on 2017-02-20 by Renee Bäcker|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/02/msg243173.html>
1568 He who wants the world to remain as it is
1569 doesn't want it to remain.
1571 =head2 v5.25.9 - A. A. Milne, "Winnie-the-Pooh", 1926
1573 L<Announced on 2017-01-20 by Abigail|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/01/msg242405.html>
1575 Pooh always liked a little something at eleven o'clock in the
1576 morning, and he was very glad to see Rabbit getting out the plates
1577 and mugs; and when Rabbit said, "Honey or condensed milk with
1578 your bread?" he was so excited that he said, "Both," and then,
1579 so as not to seem greedy, he added, "But don't bother about the
1582 =head2 v5.25.8 - Langston Hughes, So long
1584 L<Announced on 2016-12-20 by Sawyer X|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/12/msg241739.html>
1588 and it's in the way you're gone
1589 but it's like a foreign language
1591 and maybe was I blind
1597 =head2 v5.25.7 - J.R.R. Tolkien, "The Silmarillion"
1599 L<Announced on 2016-11-20 by Chad 'Exodist' Granum|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/11/msg241120.html>
1601 Of Beren and Lúthien
1603 Among the tales of sorrow and of ruin that come down to us from the darkness of
1604 those days there are yet some in which amid weeping there is joy and under the
1605 shadow of death light that endures. And of these histories most fair still in
1606 the ears of the Elves is the tale of Beren and Lúthien. Of their lives was made
1607 the Lay of Leithian, Release from Bondage, which is the longest save one of the
1608 songs concerning the world of old; but here is told in fewer words and without
1611 =head2 v5.25.6 - Alan Warner, "The Sopranos"
1613 L<Announced on 2016-10-10 by Aaron Crane|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/10/msg240406.html>
1615 I'm up on all the pop trivia, says the guy with the stud in his tongue.
1617 Yes. Do you know who the lead singer of Echo and the Bunnymen is?
1618 Let me guess, is he called Echo?
1619 Good guess but no, anyway when they played Glastonbury it was so
1620 muddy he had two roadies to hold up a binliner on each of his legs so
1621 they wouldn't get covered in mud.
1622 That's what being rich and famous is all about, having someone
1623 else hold up your binliners on each leg when you're wandering across
1625 Do you know what Sammy Davis Junior said being black and famous in
1628 He said being black and famous in America meant he could be
1629 refused entry to exclusive clubs and restaurants that other people
1630 could only ever dream of going to. Do you know Michael Stipe likes to
1631 send his remote control toy cars onto stage while his support band are
1632 playing to freak them out?
1633 Who's Michael Stipe?
1634 You're not really a pop trivia person, are you, Kylah?
1635 No, I'm not, Stephen.
1637 =head2 v5.25.5 - Philip K. Dick, VALIS
1639 L<Announced on 2016-09-20 by Stevan Little|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/09/msg239887.html>
1641 We hypostatize information into objects. Rearrangement of objects is
1642 change in the content of the information; the message has changed.
1643 This is a language which we have lost the ability to read. We ourselves
1644 are a part of this language; changes in us are changes in the content
1645 of the information. We ourselves are information-rich; information
1646 enters us, is processed and is then projected outward once more, now
1647 in an altered form. We are not aware that we are doing this, that in
1648 fact this is all we are doing
1650 =head2 v5.25.4 - Terry Pratchett, "Truckers"
1652 L<Announced on 2016-08-20 by Chris 'BinGOs' Williams|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/08/msg239191.html>
1654 Concerning Nomes and Time
1656 Nomes are small. On the whole, small creatures don't live for a long
1657 time. But perhaps they do live fast.
1661 One of the shortest-lived creatures on the planet Earth is the adult
1662 common mayfly. It lasts for one day. The longest-living things are
1663 bristlecone pine trees, at 4,700 years and still counting.
1665 This may seem tough on the mayflies. But the important thing is not
1666 how long your life is, but how long it seems.
1668 To a mayfly, a single hour may last as long as a century. Perhaps
1669 old mayflies sit around complaining about how life this minute isn't a
1670 patch on the good old minutes of long ago, when the world was
1671 young and the sun seemed so much brighter and larvae showed you a
1672 bit of respect. Whereas the trees, which are not famous to their
1673 quick reactions, may just have time to notice the way the sky keeps
1674 flickering before the dry rot and woodworm set in.
1676 It's all a sort of relativity. The faster you live, the more time
1677 stretches out. To a nome, a year lasts as long as ten years does to a
1678 human. Remember it. Don't let it concern you. They don't. They don't
1681 =head2 v5.25.3 - Edward Lear, ed. Vivien Noakes, "The Complete Nonsense and Other Verse": The Dong with a Luminous Nose
1683 L<Announced on 2016-07-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/07/msg238158.html>
1685 When awful darkness and silence reign
1686 Over the great Gromboolian plain,
1687 Through the long, long wintry nights; -
1688 When the angry breakers roar
1689 As they beat on the rocky shore; -
1690 When Storm-clouds brood on the towering heights
1691 Of the Hills of the Chankly Bore: -
1693 Then, through the vast and gloomy dark,
1694 There moves what seems a fiery spark,
1695 A lonely spark with silvery rays
1696 Piercing the coal-black night, -
1697 A Meteor strange and bright: -
1698 Hither and thither the vision strays,
1699 A single lurid light.
1701 Slowly it wanders, - pauses, - creeps, -
1702 Anon it sparkles, - flashes and leaps;
1703 And ever as onward it gleaming goes
1704 A light on the Bong-tree stems it throws.
1705 And those who watch at that midnight hour
1706 From Hall or Terrace, or lofty Tower,
1707 Cry, as the wild light passes along, -
1708 'The Dong! - the Dong!
1709 The wandering Dong through the forest goes!
1711 The Dong with a luminous Nose!'
1713 =head2 v5.25.2 - Dan le Sac Vs Scroobius Pip "Waiting For The Beat To Kick In"
1715 L<Announced on 2016-06-20 by Matthew Horsfall|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/06/msg237274.html>
1717 Waiting for the beat to kick in
1719 Waiting for my feet to grow wings
1721 All of these tiresome things
1722 That we know and love
1723 Waiting for the beat to kick in
1726 =head2 v5.25.1 - Eli Pariser, "The Filter Bubble"
1728 L<Announced on 2016-05-20 by Sawyer X|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/05/msg236566.html>
1730 Imagine that you're a smart high school student on the low end of the social
1731 totem pole. You're alienated from adult authority, but unlike many teenagers,
1732 you're also alienated from the power structures of your peers -- an existence
1733 that can feel lonely and peripheral. Systems and equations are intuitive, but
1734 people aren't -- social signals are confusing and messy, difficult to interpret.
1736 Then you discover code. You may be powerless at the lunch table, but code
1737 gives you power over an infinitely malleable world and opens the door to a
1738 symbolic system that's perfectly clear and ordered. The jostling for position
1739 and status fades away. The nagging parental voices disappear. There's just a
1740 clean, white page for you to fill, an opportunity to build a better place, a
1741 home, from the ground up.
1743 No wonder you're a geek.
1745 =head2 v5.25.0 - Robert Frost, "The Trial by Existence"
1747 L<Announced on 2016-05-09 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/05/msg236244.html>
1749 Even the bravest that are slain
1750 Shall not dissemble their surprise
1751 On waking to find valor reign,
1752 Even as on earth, in paradise;
1753 And where they sought without the sword
1754 Wide fields of asphodel fore’er,
1755 To find that the utmost reward
1756 Of daring should be still to dare.
1758 =head2 v5.24.4 - Desmond Morris, "Catwatching: The Essential Guide to Cat Behaviour"
1760 L<Announced on 2018-04-14 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/04/msg250439.html>
1762 Cats hate doors. Doors simply do not register in the evolutionary story
1763 of the cat family. They constantly block patrolling activities and
1764 prevent cats from exploring their home range and then returning to their
1765 central, secure base at will. Humans often do not understand that a cat
1766 needs to make only a brief survey of its territory before returning with
1767 all the necessary information about the activities of other cats in the
1768 vicinity. It likes to make these tours of inspection at frequent
1769 intervals, but does not want to stay outside for very long, unless there
1770 has been some special and unexpected change in the condition of the
1771 local feline population.
1773 =head2 v5.24.4-RC1 - Desmond Morris, "Catwatching: The Essential Guide to Cat Behaviour"
1775 L<Announced on 2018-03-24 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/03/msg250102.html>
1777 The domestic cat is a contradiction. No animal has developed such an
1778 intimate relationship with mankind, while at the same time demanding and
1779 getting such independence of movement and action. The dog may be man's
1780 best friend, but it is rarely allowed out on its own to wander from
1781 garden to garden or street to street. The obedient dog has to be taken
1782 for a walk. The headstrong cat walks alone.
1784 =head2 v5.24.3 - Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
1786 L<Announced on 2017-09-22 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/09/msg246407.html>
1788 Oh sleep! it is a gentle thing,
1789 Beloved from pole to pole!
1790 To Mary Queen the praise be given!
1791 She sent the gentle sleep from Heaven,
1792 That slid into my soul.
1794 The silly buckets on the deck,
1795 That had so long remained,
1796 I dreamt that they were filled with dew;
1797 And when I awoke, it rained.
1799 =head2 v5.24.3-RC1 - Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
1801 L<Announced on 2017-09-10 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/09/msg246201.html>
1803 'And now the STORM-BLAST came, and he
1804 Was tyrannous and strong:
1805 He struck with his o'ertaking wings,
1806 And chased us south along.
1808 With sloping masts and dipping prow,
1809 As who pursued with yell and blow
1810 Still treads the shadow of his foe,
1811 And forward bends his head,
1812 The ship drove fast, loud roared the blast,
1813 And southward aye we fled.
1815 And now there came both mist and snow,
1816 And it grew wondrous cold:
1817 And ice, mast-high, came floating by,
1818 As green as emerald.
1820 And through the drifts the snowy clifts
1821 Did send a dismal sheen:
1822 Nor shapes of men nor beasts we ken—
1823 The ice was all between.
1825 The ice was here, the ice was there,
1826 The ice was all around:
1827 It cracked and growled, and roared and howled,
1828 Like noises in a swound!
1830 =head2 v5.24.2 - Roald Dahl, "The Three Little Pigs"
1832 L<Announced on 2017-07-15 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/07/msg245527.html>
1834 A short while later, through the wood,
1835 Came striding brave Miss Riding Hood.
1836 The Wolf stood there, his eyes ablaze
1837 And yellowish, like mayonnaise.
1838 His teeth were sharp, his gums were raw,
1839 And spit was dripping from his jaw.
1840 Once more the maiden's eyelid flickers.
1841 She draws the pistol from her knickers.
1842 Once more, she hits the vital spot,
1843 And kills him with a single shot.
1844 Pig, peeping through the window, stood
1845 And yelled, 'Well done, Miss Riding Hood!'
1847 Ah, Piglet, you must never trust
1848 Young ladies from the upper crust.
1849 For now, Miss Riding Hood, one notes,
1850 Not only has two wolfskin coats,
1851 But when she goes from place to place,
1852 She has a PIGSKIN TRAVELLING CASE.
1854 =head2 v5.24.2-RC1 - Roald Dahl, "The Three Little Pigs"
1856 L<Announced on 2017-07-01 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/07/msg245292.html>
1858 The animal I really dig
1859 Above all others is the pig.
1860 Pigs are noble. Pigs are clever,
1861 Pig are courteous. However,
1862 Now and then, to break this rule,
1863 One meets a pig who is a fool.
1864 What, for example, would you say
1865 If strolling through the woods one day,
1866 Right there in front of you you saw
1867 A pig who'd built his house of STRAW?
1868 The Wolf who saw it licked his lips,
1869 And said, 'That pig has had his chips.'
1871 =head2 v5.24.1 - Charles Dodgson [as "Lewis Carroll"], "The Hunting of the Snark", Fit 4: The Hunting
1873 L<Announced on 2017-01-14 by Steve Hay|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/01/msg242259.html>
1875 The Bellman looked uffish, and wrinkled his brow.
1876 'If only you'd spoken before!
1877 It's excessively awkward to mention it now,
1878 With the Snark, so to speak, at the door!
1880 'We should all of us grieve, as you well may believe,
1881 If you never were met with again -
1882 But surely, my man, when the voyage began,
1883 You might have suggested it then?
1885 'It's excessively awkward to mention it now -
1886 As I think I've already remarked.'
1887 And the man they called 'Hi!' replied, with a sigh,
1888 'I informed you the day we embarked.
1890 'You may charge me with murder - or want of sense -
1891 (We are all of us weak at times):
1892 But the slightest approach to a false pretence
1893 Was never among my crimes!
1895 'I said it in Hebrew - I said it in Dutch -
1896 I said it in German and Greek:
1897 But I wholly forgot (and it vexes me much)
1898 That English is what you speak!'
1900 ''Tis a pitiful tale,' said the Bellman, whose face
1901 Had grown longer at every word:
1902 'But, now that you've stated the whole of your case,
1903 More debate would be simply absurd.
1905 'The rest of my speech' (he exclaimed to his men)
1906 'You shall hear when I've leisure to speak it.
1907 But the Snark is at hand, let me tell you again!
1908 'Tis your glorious duty to seek it!
1910 =head2 v5.24.1-RC5 - John Milton, ed. Gordon Campbell, "Paradise Regained", Book IV
1912 L<Announced on 2017-01-02 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/01/msg242016.html>
1914 Thus passed the night so foul, till Morning fair
1915 Came forth with pilgrim steps, in amice grey;
1916 Who with her radiant finger stilled the roar
1917 Of thunder, chased the clouds, and laid the winds,
1918 And grisly spectres, which the fiend had raised
1919 To tempt the Son of God with terrors dire.
1920 And now the sun with more effectual beams
1921 Had cheered the face of earth, and dried the wet
1922 From drooping plant, or dropping tree; the birds,
1923 Who all things now behold more fresh and green,
1924 After a night of storm so ruinous,
1925 Cleared up their choicest notes in bush and spray,
1926 To gratulate the sweet return of morn.
1928 =head2 v5.24.1-RC4 - John Milton, ed. Gordon Campbell, "Paradise Lost", Book II
1930 L<Announced on 2016-10-12 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/10/msg240224.html>
1932 Before the gates there sat
1933 On either side a formidable shape;
1934 The one seemed woman to the waste, and fair,
1935 But ended foul in many a scaly fold,
1936 Voluminous and vast -- a serpent armed
1937 With mortal sting; about her middle round
1938 A cry of hell hounds never ceasing barked
1939 With wide Cerberean mouths full loud, and rung
1940 A hideous peal; yet, when they list, would creep,
1941 If aught disturbed their noise, into her womb,
1942 And kennel there; yet there still barked and howled
1943 Within unseen. Far less abhorred than these
1944 Vexed Scylla, bathing in the sea that parts
1945 Calabria from the hoarse Trinacrian shore;
1946 Nor uglier follow the night-hag, when, called
1947 In secret, riding through the air she comes,
1948 Lured with the smell of infant blood, to dance
1949 With Lapland witches, while the labouring moon
1950 Eclipses at their charms. The other shape --
1951 If shape it might be called that shape had none
1952 Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb;
1953 Or substance might be called that shadow seemed,
1954 For each seemed either -- black it stood as night,
1955 Fierce as ten Furies, terrible as hell,
1956 And shook a dreadful dart: what seemed his head
1957 The likeness of a kingly crown had on.
1958 Satan was now at hand, and from his seat
1959 The monster moving onward came as fast
1960 With horrid strides; hell trembled as he strode.
1962 =head2 v5.24.1-RC3 - Dante Alighieri, trans. Dorothy L. Sayers and Barbara Reynolds, "The Divine Comedy", Cantica III: Paradise, Canto XXIII
1964 L<Announced on 2016-08-11 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/08/msg238909.html>
1966 A bird within the bower of her delight,
1967 Quiet upon the nest with her sweet brood
1968 Throughout the dark concealment of the night,
1970 Anxious to look on them and gather food -
1971 No weary task for her, for as at play
1972 Blithely she toils to seek her fledglings' good -
1974 Before the time, upon the topmost spray
1975 Eager awaits the sun and on the East
1976 Fixes her wakeful eye till break of day.
1978 =head2 v5.24.1-RC2 - Dante Alighieri, trans. Dorothy L. Sayers, "The Divine Comedy", Cantica II: Purgatory, Canto X
1980 L<Announced on 2016-07-25 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/07/msg238269.html>
1982 When we had crossed the threshold of that gate
1983 Which the soul's evil loves put out of use,
1984 Because they make the crooked path seem straight,
1986 I heard its closing clang ring clamorous,
1987 And had I then turned back my eyes to it
1988 How could my fault have found the least excuse?
1990 We had to climb now through a rocky slit
1991 Which ran from side to side in many a swerve,
1992 As runs the wave in onset and retreat.
1994 "Now here," the master said, "we must observe
1995 Some little caution, hugging now this wall,
1996 Now that, upon the far side of the curve."
1998 =head2 v5.24.1-RC1 - Dante Alighieri, trans. Dorothy L. Sayers, "The Divine Comedy", Cantica I: Hell, Canto XX
2000 L<Announced on 2016-07-17 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/07/msg238072.html>
2002 New punishments behoves me sing in this
2003 Twentieth canto of my first canticle,
2004 Which tells of spirits sunk in the Abyss.
2006 I now stood ready to observe the full
2007 Extent of the new chasm thus laid bare,
2008 Drenched as it was in tears most miserable.
2010 Through the round vale I saw folk drawing near,
2011 Weeping and silent, and at such slow pace
2012 As Litany processions keep, up here.
2014 And presently, when I had dropped my gaze
2015 Lower than the head, I saw them strangely wried
2016 'Twixt collar-bone and chin, so that the face
2018 Of each was turned towards his own backside,
2019 And backwards must they needs creep with their feet,
2020 All power of looking forward being denied.
2022 =head2 v5.24.0 - Robert Frost, "The Black Cottage"
2024 L<Announced on 2016-05-09 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/05/msg236242.html>
2026 As I sit here, and oftentimes, I wish
2027 I could be monarch of a desert land
2028 I could devote and dedicate forever
2029 To the truths we keep coming back and back to.
2030 So desert it would have to be, so walled
2031 By mountain ranges half in summer snow,
2032 No one would covet it or think it worth
2033 The pains of conquering to force change on.
2034 Scattered oases where men dwelt, but mostly
2035 Sand dunes held loosely in tamarisk
2036 Blown over and over themselves in idleness.
2037 Sand grains should sugar in the natal dew
2038 The babe born to the desert, the sand storm
2039 Retard mid-waste my cowering caravans—
2041 “There are bees in this wall.” He struck the clapboards,
2042 Fierce heads looked out; small bodies pivoted.
2043 We rose to go. Sunset blazed on the windows.
2045 =head2 v5.24.0-RC5 - The Mountain Goats, "No Children"
2047 L<Announced on 2016-05-04 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/05/msg236198.html>
2049 And I hope when you think of me years down the line
2050 You can't find one good thing to say
2051 And I'd hope that if I found the strength to walk out
2052 You'd stay the hell out of my way
2054 I am drowning, there is no sign of land
2055 You are coming down with me, hand in unlovable hand
2057 =head2 v5.24.0-RC4 - The Joker in "The Killing Joke"
2059 L<Announced on 2016-05-02 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/05/msg236145.html>
2061 "See, there were these two guys in a lunatic asylum…"
2063 =head2 v5.24.0-RC3 - Jesse Vincent
2065 L<Announced on 2016-04-27 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/04/msg236066.html>
2067 The Great Pumpkin is a Santa-Claus like figure. He does bring toys like
2068 Santa. But unlike Santa, who gives away toys because it's his job, he
2069 gives away toys because it's the right thing to do.
2071 =head2 v5.24.0-RC2 - Joseph Heller, "Catch-22"
2073 L<Announced on 2016-04-23 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/04/msg235999.html>
2075 “How do you feel, Yossarian?”
2077 “Fine. No, I’m very frightened.”
2079 “That’s good,” said Major Danby. “It proves you’re still alive. It won’t
2082 Yossarian started out. “Yes it will.”
2084 “I mean it, Yossarian. You’ll have to keep on your toes every minute of
2085 every day. They’ll bend heaven and earth to catch you.”
2087 “I’ll keep on my toes every minute.”
2089 “You’ll have to jump.”
2093 “Jump!” Major Danby cried.
2097 Nately’s [girl] was hiding just outside the door. The knife came down,
2098 missing him by inches, and he took off.
2100 =head2 v5.24.0-RC1 - Robert Frost, "The Census-Taker"
2102 L<Announced on 2016-04-14 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/04/msg235807.html>
2104 Nothing was left to do that I could see
2105 Unless to find that there was no one there
2106 And declare to the cliffs too far for echo,
2107 "The place is desert, and let whoso lurks
2108 In silence, if in this he is aggrieved,
2109 Break silence now or be forever silent.
2110 Let him say why it should not be declared so."
2111 The melancholy of having to count souls
2112 Where they grow fewer and fewer every year
2113 Is extreme where they shrink to none at all.
2114 It must be I want life to go on living.
2116 =head2 v5.23.9 - Tom Kitchin, "from nature to plate"
2118 L<Announced on 2016-03-20 by Abigail|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/03/msg235251.html>
2122 Spring is the proper beginning of my kitchen and a season that I
2123 look forward to with great anticipation. By the time spring arrives
2124 I am desperate to welcome all the spring produce into my kitchen
2125 and I long to work with fresh green vegetables again. As much as I
2126 love root vegetables, such as celeriac and parsnips, and the heaver
2127 meat and game dishes, I'm ready to leave those behind with winter
2128 and begin a new adventure.
2130 Somehow spring always gives me a little bit of bounce in my feet
2131 -- I feel like I want to kick off my shoes and dance around in my
2132 kitchen. Not that I do, of course, but I feel lighter somehow. My
2133 adrenalin kicks in with spring and so does the level of excitement,
2134 as I think about all the produce that is about to come in.
2136 The moment spring arrives I'm eager to cook peas, broad beans, green
2137 asparagus and other fresh vegetables! I want to create lighter,
2138 brighter dishes and I can't wait to get my hands on the first greens
2139 and the first morels, not to mention the first wild Scottish salmon.
2140 Thanks to my network of trusted suppliers, I always get to first
2141 produce of the season delivered to my restaurant as soon as it is
2142 possible. I want my customers to experience and understand the
2143 beauty of locally grown produce and to try things the minute they
2144 are available so they can taste how incredibly fresh the ingredients
2145 are. I also want them to understand the relationship between
2146 seasonality and flavours. One of the most important things to
2147 remember is to allow the seasons to inspire your dishes and help
2148 you make natural matches. Wild spring herbs, such as sorrel, sweet
2149 cicely and wild garlic, as well as spring salad leaves and green
2150 lettuce served with wild salmon, wild sea trout, lamb or rabbit are
2151 marriages made in heaven.
2154 =head2 v5.23.8 - Patrick Rothfuss, "The Wise Man's Fear (The Kingkiller's Chronicle: Day Two)"
2156 L<Announced on 2016-02-20 by Sawyer X|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/02/msg234535.html>
2158 Denna, on the other hand, had never been trained. She knew nothing
2159 of shortcuts. You'd think she'd be forced to wander the city, lost and
2160 helpless, trapped in a twisting maze of mortared stone.
2162 But instead, she simply walked throught the walls. She didn't know
2163 any better. Nobody had ever told her she couldn't. Because of this,
2164 she moved through the city like some faerie creature. She walked roads
2165 no one else could see, and it made her music wild and strange and
2168 =head2 v5.23.7 - William Gibson, "Neuromancer"
2170 L<Announced on 2016-01-20 by Stevan Little|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/01/msg233856.html>
2172 A year here and he still dreamed of cyberspace, hope fading
2173 nightly. All the speed he took, all the turns he'd taken and
2174 the corners he cut in Night City, and he'd still see the matrix
2175 in his dreams, bright lattices of logic unfolding across that
2176 colourless void...The Sprawl was a long, strange way home now
2177 over the Pacific, and he was no Console Man, no cyberspace
2178 cowboy. Just another hustler, trying to make it through. But
2179 the dreams came on in the Japanese night like livewire voodoo,
2180 and he'd cry for it, cry in his sleep, and wake alone in the
2181 dark, curled in his capsule in some coffin hotel, hands clawed
2182 into the bedslab, temper foam bunched between his fingers,
2183 trying to reach the console that wasn't there.
2185 =head2 v5.23.6 - 5.23 Episode VII
2187 L<Announced on 2015-12-21 by David Golden|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/12/msg233475.html>
2189 A long time ago in microseconds, in a galaxy not very far away...
2195 unrest as separatists
2196 announce their intentions
2197 to fork PERL and return the
2198 galaxy to speed and stability.
2200 Chancellor Rik Hoolian struggles
2201 to hold together the remains of the
2202 once mighty Republic against a tide of
2203 incivility and the depredations of a new
2204 foe, the FUZZ RAIDERS.
2206 Meanwhile, after 15 years of preparation and
2207 high expectations, Supreme Leader Toady prepares
2208 to unleash a devastating new weapon, PERL SIXDOTOH,
2209 that could splinter the Republic forever and usher in
2210 a new Empire of gradual typing....
2212 =head2 v5.23.5 - utastro!nather (Ed Nather), "The Story of Mel", in net.jokes, May 21, 1983.
2214 L<Announced on 2015-11-20 by Abigail|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/11/msg232758.html>
2216 After Mel had left the company for greener pa$ture$, the Big Boss asked
2217 me to look at the code and see if I could find the test and reverse it.
2218 Somewhat reluctantly, I agreed to look. Tracking Mel's code was a real
2221 I have often felt that programming is an art form, whose real value can
2222 only be appreciated by another versed in the same arcane art; there are
2223 lovely gems and brilliant coups hidden from human view and admiration,
2224 sometimes forever, by the very nature of the process. You can learn a
2225 lot about an individual just by reading through his code, even in
2226 hexadecimal. Mel was, I think, an unsung genius.
2228 Perhaps my greatest shock came when I found an innocent loop that had
2229 no test in it. No test. None. Common sense said it had to be a closed
2230 loop, where the program would circle, forever, endlessly. Program
2231 control passed right through it, however, and safely out the other side.
2232 It took me two weeks to figure it out.
2234 The RPC-4000 computer had a really modern facility called an index
2235 register. It allowed the programmer to write a program loop that used
2236 an indexed instruction inside; each time through, the number in the
2237 index register was added to the address of that instruction, so it
2238 would refer to the next datum in a series. He had only to increment
2239 the index register each time through. Mel never used it.
2241 Instead, he would pull the instruction into a machine register, add one
2242 to its address, and store it back. He would then execute the modified
2243 instruction right from the register. The loop was written so this
2244 additional execution time was taken into account -- just as this
2245 instruction finished, the next one was right under the drum's read head,
2246 ready to go. But the loop had no test in it.
2248 The vital clue came when I noticed the index register bit, the bit that
2249 lay between the address and the operation code in the instruction word,
2250 was turned on -- yet Mel never used the index register, leaving it zero
2251 all the time. When the light went on it nearly blinded me.
2253 He had located the data he was working on near the top of memory -- the
2254 largest locations the instructions could address -- so, after the last
2255 datum was handled, incrementing the instruction address would make it
2256 overflow. The carry would add one to the operation code, changing it to
2257 the next one in the instruction set: a jump instruction. Sure enough,
2258 the next program instruction was in address location zero, and the
2259 program went happily on its way.
2261 =head2 v5.23.4 - Denis Diderot, trans. David Coward, "Jacques the Fatalist"
2263 L<Announced on 2015-10-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/10/msg232040.html>
2265 Well, everybody's got a dog. The prime minister is the king's dog. The
2266 first secretary is the prime minister's dog. A wife is a husband's dog,
2267 or a husband is a wife's dog. Favourite is Madame So-and-so's dog and
2268 Thibaut is the man on the corner's dog. When my Master tells me to talk
2269 when I'd prefer not to, which to be honest doesn't happen very often,
2270 when he tells me to shut up when I feel like talking, which I find very
2271 difficult, when he asks me to tell the story of my love-life and then
2272 keeps interrupting, what am I if not his dog? Weak men are the dogs of
2275 =head2 v5.23.3 - Oliver Wendell Holmes, "The Deacon’s Masterpiece or The Wonderful 'One-Hoss Shay': A Logical Story"
2277 L<Announced on 2015-09-20 by Peter Martini|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/09/msg231173.html>
2279 Little of of all we value here
2280 Wakes on the morn of its hundredth year
2281 Without both feeling and looking queer.
2282 In fact, there’s nothing that keeps its youth,
2283 So far as I know, but a tree and truth.
2284 (This is a moral that runs at large;
2285 Take it. — You’re welcome. — No extra charge.)
2287 =head2 v5.23.2 - Blind Guardian, "Skalds and Shadows"
2289 L<Announced on 2015-08-20 by Matthew Horsfall|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/08/msg230298.html>
2291 Would you believe in a night like this
2292 A night like this, when visions come true
2293 Would you believe in a tale like this
2294 A lay of bliss, praise in the old lore
2295 Come to the blazing fire and
2297 See me in the shadows
2298 See me in the shadows
2301 Just hand me my harp
2302 This night turns into myth
2305 The world we live in is another skald's
2306 Dream in the shadows
2307 Dream in the shadows
2309 Do you believe there is sense in it
2310 Is it truth or myth?
2311 They´re one in my rhymes
2312 Nobody knows the meaning behind
2314 Well nobody else but the Norns can
2315 See through the blazing fires of time and
2316 All things will proceed as the
2317 Child of the hallowed
2318 Will speak to you now
2320 See me in the shadows
2321 See me in the shadows
2322 Songs I will sing of tribes and kings
2323 The carrion bird and the hall of the slain
2326 The world we live in is another skald´s
2327 Dream in the shadows
2328 Dream in the shadows
2330 Do not fear for my reason
2331 There's nothing to hide
2332 How bitter your treason
2334 Remember the runes and remember the light
2335 All I ever want is to be at your side
2336 We'll gladden the raven now I will
2337 Run through the blazing fires
2339 Cause things shall proceed as foreseen
2341 =head2 v5.23.1 - Elizabeth Haydon, "The Assassin King"
2343 L<Announced on 2015-07-20 by Matthew Horsfall|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/07/msg229413.html>
2345 I was born beneath this willow,
2346 Where my sire the earth did farm
2347 Had the green grass as my pillow
2348 The east wind as a blanket warm.
2350 But away! away! called the wind from the west
2351 And in answer I did run
2352 Seeking glory and adventure
2353 Promised by the rising sun.
2355 I found love beneath this willow,
2356 As true a love as life could hold,
2357 Pledged my heart and swore my fealty
2358 Sealed with a kiss and a band of gold.
2360 But to arms! to arms! called the wind from the west
2361 In faithful answer I did run
2362 Marching forth for king and country
2363 In battles 'neath the midday sun.
2365 Oft I dreamt of that fair willow
2366 As the seven seas I plied
2367 And the girl who I left waiting
2368 Longing to be at her side.
2370 But about! about! called the wind from the west
2371 As once again my ship did run
2372 Down the coast, about the wide world
2373 Flying sails in the setting sun.
2375 Now I lie beneath the willow
2376 Now at last no more to roam,
2377 My bride and earth so tightly hold me
2378 In their arms I'm finally home.
2380 While away! away! calls the wind from the west
2381 Beyond the grave my spirit, free
2382 Will chase the sun into the morning
2383 Beyond the sky, beyond the sea.
2385 =head2 v5.23.0 - Bob Dylan, "Maggie's Farm"
2387 L<Announced on 2015-06-20 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/06/msg228807.html>
2389 I ain't gonna work on Maggie's farm no more
2390 I ain't gonna work on Maggie's farm no more
2392 To be just like I am
2393 But everybody wants you
2394 To be just like them
2395 They sing while you slave and I just get bored
2396 I ain't gonna work on Maggie's farm no more
2398 =head2 v5.22.4 - Roald Dahl, "Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf"
2400 L<Announced on 2017-07-15 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/07/msg245526.html>
2402 Then Little Red Riding Hood said, 'But Grandma,
2403 what a lovely great big furry coat you have on.'
2404 'That's wrong!' cried Wolf. 'Have you forgot
2405 'To tell me what BIG TEETH I've got?
2406 'Ah well, no matter what you say,
2407 'I'm going to eat you anyway.'
2408 The small girl smiles. One eyelid flickers.
2409 She whips a pistol from her knickers.
2410 She aims it at the creature's head
2411 And bang bang bang, she shoots him dead.
2413 A few weeks later, in the wood,
2414 I came across Miss Riding Hood.
2415 But what a change! No cloak of red,
2416 No silly hood upon her head.
2417 She said, 'Hello, and do please note
2418 'My lovely furry WOLFSKIN COAT.'
2420 =head2 v5.22.4-RC1 - Roald Dahl, "Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf"
2422 L<Announced on 2017-07-01 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/07/msg245293.html>
2424 As soon as Wolf began to feel
2425 That he would like a decent meal,
2426 He went and knocked on Grandma's door.
2427 When Grandma opened it, she saw
2428 The sharp white teeth, the horrid grin,
2429 And Wolfie said, 'May I come in?'
2430 Poor Grandmamma was terrified,
2431 'He's going to eat me up!' she cried.
2432 And she was absolutely right.
2433 He ate her up in one big bite.
2435 =head2 v5.22.3 - Charles Dodgson [as "Lewis Carroll"], "Phantasmagoria", Canto 6: Discomfyture
2437 L<Announced on 2017-01-14 by Steve Hay|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/01/msg242258.html>
2439 As one who strives a hill to climb,
2440 Who never climbed before:
2441 Who finds it, in a little time,
2442 Grow every moment less sublime,
2443 And votes the thing a bore:
2445 Yet, having once begun to try,
2446 Dares not desert his quest,
2447 But, climbing, ever keeps his eye
2448 On one small hut against the sky
2449 Wherein he hopes to rest:
2451 Who climbs till nerve and force are spent,
2452 With many a puff and pant:
2453 Who still, as rises the ascent,
2454 In language grows more violent,
2455 Although in breath more scant:
2457 Who, climbing, gains at length the place
2458 That crowns the upward track:
2459 And, entering with unsteady pace,
2460 Receives a buffet in the face
2461 That lands him on his back:
2463 And feels himself, like one in sleep,
2464 Glide swiftly down again,
2465 A helpless weight, from steep to steep,
2466 Till, with a headlong giddy sweep,
2467 He drops upon the plain -
2469 So I, that had resolved to bring
2470 Conviction to a ghost,
2471 And found it quite a different thing
2472 From any human arguing,
2473 Yet dared not quit my post.
2475 =head2 v5.22.3-RC5 - John Milton, ed. Gordon Campbell, "Paradise Regained", Book II
2477 L<Announced on 2017-01-02 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/01/msg242017.html>
2479 Thus wore out night; and now the herald lark
2480 Left his ground-nest, high towering to descry
2481 The Morn's approach, and greet her with his song;
2482 As lightly from his grassy couch up rose
2483 Our Saviour, and found all was but a dream;
2484 Fasting he went to sleep, and fasting waked.
2485 Up to a hill anon his steps he reared,
2486 From whose high top to ken the prospect round,
2487 If cottage were in view, sheep-cote, or herd;
2488 But cottage, herd, or sheep-cote, none he saw --
2489 Only in a bottom saw a pleasant grove,
2490 With chant of tuneful birds resounding loud;
2491 Thither he bent his way, determined there
2492 To rest at noon, and entered soon the shade,
2493 High-roofed and walks beneath, and alleys brown,
2494 That opened in the midst a woody scene;
2495 Nature's own work it seemed (Nature taught Art),
2496 And, to a superstitious eye, the haunt
2497 Of wood-gods and wood-nymphs.
2499 =head2 v5.22.3-RC4 - John Milton, ed. Gordon Campbell, "Paradise Lost", Book II
2501 L<Announced on 2016-10-12 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/10/msg240223.html>
2503 Far off from these, a slow and silent stream,
2504 Lethe, the river of oblivion, rolls
2505 Her watery labyrinth, whereof who drinks
2506 Forthwith his former state and being forgets --
2507 Forgets both joy and grief, pleasure and pain.
2508 Beyond this flood a frozen continent
2509 Lies dark and wild, beat with perpetual storms
2510 Of Whirlwind and dire hail, which on firm land
2511 Thaws not, but gathers heap, and ruin seems
2512 Of ancient pile; all else deep snow and ice,
2513 A gulf profound as that Serbonian bog
2514 Betwixt Damiata and Mount Casius old,
2515 Where armies whole have sunk: the parching air
2516 Burns frore, and cold performs the effect of fire.
2517 Thither, by harpy-footed Furies haled,
2518 At certain revolutions all the damned
2519 Are brought; and feel by turns the bitter change
2520 Of fierce extremes, extremes by change more fierce,
2521 From beds of raging fire to starve in ice
2522 Their soft ethereal warmth, and there to pine
2523 Immovable, infixed, and frozen round
2524 Periods of time -- thence hurried back to fire.
2525 They ferry over this Lethean sound
2526 Both to and fro, their sorrow to augment,
2527 And wish and struggle, as they pass, to reach
2528 The tempting stream, with one small drop to lose
2529 In sweet forgetfulness all pain and woe,
2530 All in one moment, and so near the brink;
2531 But fate withstands, and, to oppose the attempt,
2532 Medusa with Gorgonian terror guards
2533 The ford, and of itself the water flies
2534 All taste of living wight, as once it fled
2535 The lip of Tantalus.
2537 =head2 v5.22.3-RC3 - Dante Alighieri, trans. Dorothy L. Sayers and Barbara Reynolds, "The Divine Comedy", Cantica III: Paradise, Canto IV
2539 L<Announced on 2016-08-11 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/08/msg238908.html>
2541 Between two dishes, equally attractive
2542 And near to him, a free man, I suppose,
2543 Would starve to death before his teeth got active;
2545 So would a lamb 'twixt two fierce wolfish foes,
2546 Fearing the fangs both ways, not stir a foot;
2547 So would a deerhound halt between two does;
2549 So I can't blame myself for standing mute,
2550 Nor praise myself: for I must needs so do,
2551 Suspended 'twixt two doubts, alike acute.
2553 =head2 v5.22.3-RC2 - Dante Alighieri, trans. Dorothy L. Sayers, "The Divine Comedy", Cantica II: Purgatory, Canto I
2555 L<Announced on 2016-07-25 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/07/msg238270.html>
2557 For better waters heading with the wind
2558 My ship of genius now shakes out her sail
2559 And leaves that ocean of despair behind;
2561 For to the second realm I tune my tale,
2562 Where human spirits purge themselves, and train
2563 To leap up into joy celestial.
2565 Now from the grave wake poetry again,
2566 O sacred Muses I have served so long!
2567 Now let Calliope uplift her strain
2569 And lift my voice up on the mighty song
2570 That smote the miserable Magpies nine
2571 Out of all hope of pardon for their wrong!
2573 =head2 v5.22.3-RC1 - Dante Alighieri, trans. Dorothy L. Sayers, "The Divine Comedy", Cantica I: Hell, Canto XII
2575 L<Announced on 2016-07-17 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/07/msg238071.html>
2577 The place we came to, to descend the brink from,
2578 Was sheer crag; and there was a Thing there - making,
2579 All told, a prospect any eye would shrink from.
2581 Like the great landslide that rushed downward, shaking
2582 The bank of Adige on this side Trent,
2583 (Whether through faulty shoring or the earth's quaking)
2585 So that the rock, down from the summit rent
2586 Far as the plain, lies strewn, and one might crawl
2587 From top to bottom by that unsure descent,
2589 Such was the precipice; and there we spied,
2590 Topping the cleft that split the rocky wall,
2591 That which was wombed in the false heifer's side,
2593 The infamy of Crete, stretched out a-sprawl;
2594 And seeing us, he gnawed himself, like one
2595 Inly devoured with spite and burning gall.
2597 =head2 v5.22.2 - Gaston Leroux, trans. Mireille Ribière, "The Phantom of the Opera"
2599 L<Announced on 2016-04-29 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/04/msg236120.html>
2601 A silence; and then: 'If, in just two minutes' time by my watch--and a
2602 splendid watch it is--you have not turned the scorpion, mademoiselle, I
2603 shall turn the grasshopper... and the grasshopper, remember, _leaps
2604 straight up into the air!_'
2605 The silence that ensued was terrifying, worse than any we had
2606 experienced before. I knew that when Erik spoke with that quiet,
2607 gentle, slightly weary voice, it meant that he had reached the end of
2608 his tether: that he was capable of the most abominable crimes or the
2609 most selfless devotion; that the slightest irritation might unleash a
2611 Realizing that our fate was out of our hands, the Viscount fell to his
2612 knees and prayed. As for me, I pressed both hands to my chest, for my
2613 heart was pounding so fiercely that I thought it would burst. We were
2614 intensely aware of the excruciating dilemma Christine Daaé faced in
2615 those final seconds. We understood why she hesitated to turn the
2616 scorpion. What if the scorpion, rather than the grasshopper, were to
2617 set off the explosion? What if Erik was simply intent on destroying
2618 everything, regardless?
2619 At last he spoke: 'The two minutes are up,' he said in a soft, angelic
2620 voice. 'Goodbye, mademoiselle. Off you go, little grasshopper!'
2622 =head2 v5.22.2-RC1 - Gaston Leroux, trans. Mireille Ribière, "The Phantom of the Opera"
2624 L<Announced on 2016-04-10 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/04/msg235732.html>
2626 This annual ball was quite a magnificent affair. It was given some time
2627 before Shrovetide to celebrate the birthday of a famous illustrator
2628 whose pencil had immortalized, in the style of Gavarni, the extravagant
2629 carnival parade down La Courtille. As such, the ball was an altogether
2630 merrier, noisier and more Bohemian occasion than was usual for a masked
2631 ball. Many artists had arranged to meet there; they arrived with an
2632 entourage of models and pupils, who, by midnight, had become quite
2634 Raoul climbed the grand staircase at five minutes to midnight. He did
2635 not linger to admire the many-coloured costumes on display all the way
2636 up the marble steps of one of the most luxurious settings in the world;
2637 nor did he allow himself to be drawn into the facetious conversation of
2638 masked guests. He simply ignored all the jesting remarks, and shook off
2639 the attentions of several all too merry couples.
2640 Crossing the big crush-room and escaping from the dancers' farandole
2641 that had encircled him awhile, he at last entered the salon mentioned by
2642 Christine in her letter. The small room was crammed with people either
2643 on their way to supper at the restaurant in the Rotunda or back from
2644 raising a glass of champagne.
2645 In the midst of the gay and lively hubbub, Raoul thought that, for their
2646 mysterious assignation, Christine must have preferred this crowd to some
2648 He leaned against a door-jamb and waited. He did not have to wait long;
2649 a black domino passed him and deftly touched his hand. He understood
2650 that it was Christine and followed her.
2651 'Is that you, Christine?' he murmured, barely moving his slips.
2652 The black domino promptly looked back and raised her finger to her lips,
2653 no doubt to caution him against uttering her name again. Raoul followed
2656 =head2 v5.22.1 - Wilhelm Müller, trans. Anon., "Courage" (No. 22 in Schubert's song-cycle, "Winterreise")
2658 L<Announced on 2015-12-13 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/12/msg233318.html>
2660 If the snow flies in my face,
2661 Let me shake it off me!
2662 If my heart within me speaks,
2663 I'll sing bright and gaily!
2665 Will not listen what it says,
2666 Have no ears for moaning.
2667 Do not feel what it complains,--
2668 Only fools like groaning!
2670 Jolly brave into the world,
2671 'Gainst all wind and weather,--
2672 If there is no God on earth,
2673 Let 's be gods down nether!
2675 =head2 v5.22.1-RC4 - Wilhelm Müller, trans. Anon., "The Signpost" (No. 20 in Schubert's song-cycle, "Winterreise")
2677 L<Announced on 2015-12-08 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/12/msg233215.html>
2679 Why do I shun all those highways
2680 Which the other wanderer seeks?
2681 Why do I find bridged by-ways
2682 Through snow-covered deep creeks?
2684 For I have no crime committed,
2685 Why I should now run from men,--
2686 What demented heart's desire
2687 Drives me to a desert glen?
2689 Signposts on all highways stationed
2690 Point their signs toward the towns,
2691 Whilst I wonder 'yond moderation,
2692 Without rest, yet seeking rest!
2694 One such signpost I see planted
2695 Of my question unconcerned,
2696 One road must my choice be granted,
2697 Whence no man has yet returned!
2699 =head2 v5.22.1-RC3 - Wilhelm Müller, trans. Anon., "Stormy Morning" (No. 18 in Schubert's song-cycle, "Winterreise")
2701 L<Announced on 2015-12-02 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/12/msg233032.html>
2703 How the storm tore rents
2704 In heavens gray attired!
2705 The rags of cloud are flying
2706 Around, of combat tired.
2708 And flames of fire lambent,
2709 Fly between them and part,
2710 That 's what I call a morning,
2711 A morning after my heart!
2713 My heart sees in the heavens
2714 Its own picture unspoilt--
2715 It's nothing but the Winter,
2716 The Winter, cold and wild.
2718 =head2 v5.22.1-RC2 - Wilhelm Müller, trans. Anon., "The Old Head" (No. 14 in Schubert's song-cycle, "Winterreise")
2720 L<Announced on 2015-11-15 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/11/msg232632.html>
2722 The hoary frost has a white sheen
2723 Strewn all over my hair,
2724 So I thought I was an old man
2725 And thought life dealt me fair.
2727 Yet soon was thawed my old white mane,
2728 And I have my black hair again.
2729 How I abhor my young fair years,
2730 How long to wait for death and biers?
2732 From setting sun to morning's hue
2733 Many a head turns white.
2734 Who'll credit it? My hair did not
2735 In all this lifelong plight!
2737 =head2 v5.22.1-RC1 - Wilhelm Müller, trans. Anon., "Will-o'-the Wisp" (No. 9 in Schubert's song-cycle, "Winterreise")
2739 L<Announced on 2015-10-31 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/10/msg232321.html>
2741 In the deepest rocky crevice
2742 A will-o'-the wisp lured me;
2743 How I could find my way from here,
2744 For me it's easy memory!
2746 For I am used to straying ways,
2747 Every path to th'end a way,
2748 All our joys and all our suffering,--
2749 To a will-o'-the wisp it 's all play!
2751 Through the dried-up bed of torrents
2752 I quite calmly downward stroll;
2753 Every stream its sea will enter,
2754 Every suffering finds its goal!
2756 =head2 v5.22.0 - Gene Wolfe, The Citadel of the Autarch
2758 L<Announced on 2015-06-01 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/06/msg228300.html>
2760 “You are the advocate of the dead.”
2762 The old man nodded. “I am. People talk about being fair to this one and
2763 that one, but nobody I ever heard talks about doing right by them. We
2764 take everything they had, which is all right. And spit, most often, on
2765 their opinions, which I suppose is all right too. But we ought to
2766 remember now and then how much of what we have we got from them. I
2767 figure while I’m still here I ought to put a word in for them.”
2769 =head2 v5.22.0-RC2 - T.S. Eliot, unpublished work
2771 L<Announced on 2015-05-21 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/05/msg228142.html>
2773 And when thyself with silver foot shall pass
2774 Among the theories scattered on the grass
2775 Take up my good intentions with the rest
2777 =head2 v5.22.0-RC1 - Gene Wolfe, Citadel of the Autarch
2779 L<Announced on 2015-05-19 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/05/msg228059.html>
2781 There is no limit to stupidity. Space itself is said to be bounded by
2782 its own curvature, but stupidity continues beyond infinity.
2784 =head2 v5.21.11 - Algernon Charles Swinburne, "Dolores (Notre-Dame des Sept Douleurs)"
2786 L<Announced on 2015-04-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/04/msg227472.html>
2788 They shall pass and their places be taken,
2789 The gods and the priests that are pure.
2790 They shall pass, and shalt thou not be shaken?
2791 They shall perish, and shalt thou endure?
2792 Death laughs, breathing close and relentless
2793 In the nostrils and eyelids of lust,
2794 With a pinch in his fingers of scentless
2797 But the worm shall revive thee with kisses;
2798 Thou shalt change and transmute as a god,
2799 As the rod to a serpent that hisses,
2800 As the serpent again to a rod.
2801 Thy life shall not cease though thou doff it;
2802 Thou shalt live until evil be slain,
2803 And good shall die first, said thy prophet,
2806 =head2 v5.21.10 - Aldous Huxley, "The Devils of Loudun"
2808 L<Announced on 2015-03-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/03/msg226847.html>
2810 The fire burned on, the good fathers continued to sprinkle and intone.
2811 Suddenly a flock of pigeons came swooping down from the church and
2812 started to wheel around the roaring column of flame and smoke. The
2813 crowd shouted, the archers waved their halberds at the birds, Lactance
2814 and Tranquille splashed them on the wing with holy water. In vain. The
2815 pigeons were not to be driven away. Round and round they flew, diving
2816 through the smoke, singeing their feathers in the flames. Both parties
2817 claimed a miracle. For the parson's enemies the birds, quite obviously,
2818 were a troop of devils, come to fetch away his soul. For his friends,
2819 they were emblems of the Holy Ghost and living proof of his innocence.
2820 It never seems to have occurred to anyone that they were just pigeons,
2821 obeying the laws of their own, their blessedly other-than-human nature.
2823 =head2 v5.21.9 - Emily Dickinson, "There is Another Sky"
2825 L<Announced on 2015-02-20 by Sawyer X|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/02/msg226002.html>
2827 There is another sky,
2828 Ever serene and fair,
2829 And there is another sunshine,
2830 Though it be darkness there;
2831 Never mind faded forests, Austin,
2832 Never mind silent fields -
2833 Here is a little forest,
2834 Whose leaf is ever green;
2835 Here is a brighter garden,
2836 Where not a frost has been;
2837 In its unfading flowers
2838 I hear the bright bee hum:
2839 Prithee, my brother,
2840 Into my garden come!
2842 =head2 v5.21.8 - Bill Watterson, "Scientific Progress Goes 'Boink': A Calvin and Hobbes Collection"
2844 L<Announced on 2015-01-20 by Matthew Horsfall|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/01/msg224869.html>
2846 Calvin: OK Hobbes, press the button and duplicate me.
2847 Hobbes: Are you sure this is such a good idea?
2848 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?
2849 Hobbes: I'd hate to be accused of inhibiting scientific progress... Here you go.
2851 Hobbes: Scientific progress goes "BOINK"?
2852 Calvin?: It worked! It worked! I'm a genius!
2853 Cavlin??: No you're not, you liar! *I* invented this!
2855 =head2 v5.21.7 - Robert Heinlein, "The Number of the Beast"
2857 L<Announced on 2014-12-20 by Max Maischein|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/12/msg223774.html>
2859 "Zebadiah, Hilda and I salvaged and put everything into the basket.
2860 Hilda started to put it into our wardrobe-and it was heavy. So
2861 we looked. Packed as tight as when we left Oz. Six bananas-and
2862 everything else. Cross my heart. No, go look."
2863 "Hmmm- Jake, can you write equations for a picnic basket that
2864 refills itself? Will it go on doing so?"
2865 "Zeb, equations can be written to describe anything. The description
2866 would be simpler for a basket that replenishes itself indefinitely
2867 than for one that does it once and stops-I would have to describe
2870 =head2 v5.21.6 - Jeff Noon, "Vurt"
2872 L<Announced on 2014-11-20 by Chris 'BinGOs' Williams|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/11/msg222448.html>
2876 EXCHANGE MECHANISMS. Sometimes we lose precious
2877 things. Friends and colleagues, fellow travellers in the
2878 Vurt, sometimes we lose them; even lovers we sometimes
2879 lose. And get bad things in exchange: aliens, objects,
2880 snakes, and sometimes even death. Things we don't want.
2881 This is part of the deal, part of the game deal;
2882 all things, in all worlds, must be kept in balance.
2883 Kittlings often ask, who decides on the swappings? Now then,
2884 some say it's all accidental; that some poor Vurt thing
2885 finds himself too close to a door, at too critical a time,
2886 just when something real is being lost. Whoosh! Swap time!
2887 Others say that some kind of overseer is working the
2888 MECHANISMS OF EXCHANGE, deciding the fate of innocents.
2889 The Cat can only tease at this, because of the big secrets
2890 involved, and because of the levels between you, the reader,
2891 and me, the Game Cat. Hey, listen; I've struggled to get
2892 where I am today; why should I give you the easy route?
2893 Get working, kittlings! Reach up higher. Work the Vurt.
2895 =head2 v5.21.5 - Friso Wiegersma (text), Jean Ferrat (music), Wim Sonneveld (performer), "Het Dorp"
2897 L<Announced on 2014-10-20 by Abigail|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/10/msg221399.html>
2901 Thuis heb ik nog een ansichtkaart
2902 waarop een kerk, een kar met paard,
2903 een slagerij J. van der Ven.
2904 Een kroeg, een juffrouw op de fiets
2905 het zegt u hoogstwaarschijnlijk niets,
2906 maar 't is waar ik geboren ben.
2907 Dit dorp, ik weet nog hoe het was,
2908 de boerenkind'ren in de klas,
2909 een kar die ratelt op de keien,
2910 het raadhuis met een pomp ervoor,
2911 een zandweg tussen koren door,
2912 het vee, de boerderijen.
2914 En langs het tuinpad van m'n vader
2915 zag ik de hoge bomen staan.
2916 Ik was een kind en wist niet beter,
2917 dan dat dat nooit voorbij zou gaan.
2919 Wat leefden ze eenvoudig toen
2920 in simp'le huizen tussen groen
2921 met boerenbloemen en een heg.
2922 Maar blijkbaar leefden ze verkeerd,
2923 het dorp is gemoderniseerd
2924 en nu zijn ze op de goeie weg.
2925 Want ziet, hoe rijk het leven is,
2926 ze zien de televisiequiz
2927 en wonen in betonnen dozen,
2928 met flink veel glas, dan kun je zien
2929 hoe of het bankstel staat bij Mien
2930 en d'r dressoir met plastic rozen.
2932 En langs het tuinpad van m'n vader
2933 zag ik de hoge bomen staan.
2934 Ik was een kind en wist niet beter,
2935 dan dat dat nooit voorbij zou gaan.
2937 De dorpsjeugd klit wat bij elkaar
2938 in minirok en beatle-haar
2939 en joelt wat mee met beat-muziek.
2940 Ik weet wel, het is hun goeie recht,
2941 de nieuwe tijd, net wat u zegt,
2942 maar het maakt me wat melancholiek.
2943 Ik heb hun vaders nog gekend
2944 ze kochten zoethout voor een cent
2945 ik zag hun moeders touwtjespringen.
2946 Dat dorp van toen, het is voorbij,
2947 dit is al wat er bleef voor mij:
2948 een ansicht en herinneringen.
2950 Toen ik langs het tuinpad van m'n vader
2951 de hoge bomen nog zag staan.
2952 Ik was een kind, hoe kon ik weten
2953 dat dat voorgoed voorbij zou gaan.
2955 =head2 v5.21.4 - Edgar Allan Poe, "The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket"
2957 L<Announced on 2014-09-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/09/msg220267.html>
2959 To-day, being in latitude 83° 20', longitude 43° 5' W. (the sea being
2960 of an extraordinarily dark colour), we again saw land from the
2961 masthead, and, upon a closer scrutiny, found it to be one of a group
2962 of very large islands. The shore was precipitous, and the interior
2963 seemed to be well wooded, a circumstance which occasioned us great
2964 joy. In about four hours from our first discovering the land we came
2965 to anchor in ten fathoms, sandy bottom, a league from the coast, as a
2966 high surf, with strong ripples here and there, rendered a nearer
2967 approach of doubtful expediency. The two largest boats were now
2968 ordered out, and a party, well armed (among whome were Peters and
2969 myself), proceeded to look for an opening in the reef which appeared
2970 to encircle the island. After searching about for some time, we
2971 discovered an inlet, which we were entering, when we saw four large
2972 canoes put off from the shore, filled with men who seemed to be well
2973 armed. We waited for them to come up, and, as they moved with great
2974 rapidity, they were soon within hail. Captain Guy now held up a white
2975 handkerchief on the blade of an oar, when the strangers made a full
2976 stop, and commenced a loud jabbering all at once, intermingled with
2977 occasional shouts, in which we could distinguish the words Anamoo-moo!
2978 and Lama-Lama! They continued this for at least half an hour, during
2979 which we had a good opportunity of observing their appearance.
2981 =head2 v5.21.3 - Robert Service, "The Men that Don't Fit In"
2983 L<Announced on 2014-08-20 by Peter Martini|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/08/msg218826.html>
2985 If they just went straight they might go far,
2986 They are strong and brave and true;
2987 But they're always tired of the things that are,
2988 And they want the strange and new.
2989 They say: "Could I find my proper groove,
2990 What a deep mark I would make!"
2991 So they chop and change, and each fresh move
2992 Is only a fresh mistake.
2994 =head2 v5.21.2 - Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, Charlie Duke, Final minutes of communication of the first manned moon landing, July 20, 1969
2996 L<Announced on 2014-07-20 by Abigail|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/07/msg217937.html>
2998 Armstrong: Okay. Here's a...Looks like a good area here.
2999 Aldrin: I got the shadow out there.
3000 Aldrin: 250, down at 2 1/2, 19 forward.
3001 Aldrin: Altitude, velocity lights.
3002 Aldrin: 3 1/2 down, 220 feet, 13 forward.
3003 Aldrin: 11 forward. Coming down nicely.
3004 Armstrong: Gonna be right over that crater.
3005 Aldrin: 200 feet, 4 1/2 down.
3007 Armstrong: I got a good spot [garbled].
3008 Aldrin: 160 feet, 6 1/2 down.
3009 Aldrin: 5 1/2 down, 9 forward. You're looking good.
3011 Aldrin: 100 feet, 3 1/2 down, 9 forward. Five percent. Quantity light.
3012 Aldrin: Okay. 75 feet. And it's looking good. Down a half, 6 forward.
3015 Aldrin: 60 feet, down 2 1/2. 2 forward. 2 forward. That's good.
3016 Aldrin: 40 feet, down 2 1/2. Picking up some dust.
3017 Aldrin: 30 feet, 2 1/2 down. [Garbled] shadow.
3018 Aldrin: 4 forward. 4 forward. Drifting to the right a little. 20 feet,
3021 Aldrin: Drifting forward just a little bit; that's good.
3022 Aldrin: Contact Light.
3023 Armstrong: Shutdown.
3024 Aldrin: Okay. Engine Stop.
3025 Aldrin: ACA out of Detent.
3026 Armstrong: Out of Detent. Auto.
3027 Aldrin: Mode Control, both Auto. Descent Engine Command Override, Off.
3028 Engine Arm, Off. 413 is in.
3029 Duke: We copy you down, Eagle.
3030 Armstrong: Engine arm is off.
3031 Armstrong: Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed.
3032 Duke: Roger, Twan...[correcting himself] Tranquility. We copy you on
3033 the ground. You got a bunch of guys about to turn blue.
3034 We're breathing again. Thanks a lot.
3037 =head2 v5.21.1 - Robert Jordan, "The Crossroads of Twilights", Book 10 of "The Wheel of Time"
3039 L<Announced on 2014-06-20 by Matthew Horsfall|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/06/msg217030.html>
3041 We rode on the winds of the rising storm,
3042 We ran to the sounds of the thunder.
3043 We danced among the lightning bolts,
3044 and tore the world asunder.
3046 -- Anonymous fragment of a poem believed
3047 written near the end of the previous Age,
3048 known by some as the Third Age.
3049 Sometimes attributed to the Dragon
3052 =head2 v5.21.0 - Friedrich von Schiller, "The Song of the Bell"
3054 L<Announced on 2014-05-27 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/05/msg215826.html>
3056 Walled in fast within the earth
3057 Stands the form burnt out of clay.
3058 This must be the bell’s great birth!
3059 Fellows, lend a hand to-day.
3060 Sweat must trickle now
3061 From the burning brow,
3062 Till the work its master honour.
3063 Blessing comes from Heaven’s Donor.
3065 =head2 v5.20.3 - Elias Lönnrot, trans. Keith Bosley, "The Kalevala", Canto 42: Stealing the Sampo
3067 L<Announced on 2015-09-12 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/09/msg230945.html>
3069 Steady old Väinämöinen
3070 uttered a word and spoke thus:
3071 'No lilting on the waters
3072 and no singing on the waves!
3075 Precious day would pass and night
3076 would overtake us midway
3077 on these wide waters
3078 upon these vast waves.'
3080 The wanton Lemminkäinen
3081 uttered a word and spoke thus:
3082 'The time will pass anyway
3083 the fair day will flee
3084 and the night will come panting
3085 and the twilight will steal in
3086 if you don't sing while you live
3087 nor hum in this world.'
3089 =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"
3091 L<Announced on 2015-08-29 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/08/msg230544.html>
3093 'I fled from Basra, sad and tearful, with no idea where I was going,
3094 and I was reciting these lines:
3096 The pain of parting makes me melt away,
3097 As lovers do when those they love are harsh.
3098 I wonder at the patience that I showed
3099 When I had lost my love, for that was wonderful.
3100 Beloved, do you know that since you left,
3101 I have remained confused in misery.
3103 I then heard a voice that said: "Damn you, have you no fear of
3104 Almighty God that you hand over a girl to an unbelieving 'ifrit?" I
3105 walked for a time amongst the palm-trees until I caught sight of a
3106 person, whom I approached. When I asked him who he was he said: "I
3107 am one of the jinn who were converted to Islam at the hands of 'Ali
3108 ibn Abi Talib, may God ennoble him." "How can I get to my wife?" I
3109 asked him, and he said: "Wretched fellow, you had a bird which you
3110 allowed to fly away and now you want to fly after it." But he
3111 added: "Follow this road with God's blessing all night until dawn
3112 and then by the shore you will see a huge cave in which there is an
3113 idol made of white stone. You must drink of the water that there is
3114 coming out of the cave and smear your face with its mud. Stay there
3115 and a barge will pass you as you stand opposite the statue. Various
3116 different creatures will emerge, heads without bodies and bodies
3117 without heads, and they will prostrate themselves in adoration to
3118 the idol rather than to Almighty God. When you see that, embark on
3119 the barge and cross to the other bank and walk along it until
3120 sunset. On a high point you will see a castle built of bricks of
3121 gold and silver. That is where your 'ifrit will be. I have now
3122 told you about this, so goodbye."
3124 =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"
3126 L<Announced on 2015-08-22 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/08/msg230359.html>
3128 'On the night of the wedding the ape came to sit in front of me and
3129 asked me what I intended to do. "Whatever you tell me," I replied,
3130 and he said: "Take care not to covet the girl, or I shall come back
3131 and burn you up and leave you as a lesson for those who can learn."
3132 I agreed to this and when evening came I found the world full of
3133 candles and torches burning in holders of gold and silver. There
3134 were servants and serving girls, and everyone who saw me
3135 congratulated me on my good fortune, as there was no girl on the
3136 face of the earth more beautiful than my bride.
3138 'Next morning I went out to the market, and people went in and asked
3139 her how the night had been. "He never looked up at me," she told
3140 them. Then, when it was afternoon, I went to my house, where the
3141 ape was sitting by the door. "Tell me what you did," it said, and I
3142 told it: "By God, I did not learn and do not know whether this was a
3143 man or a girl." "That's what I want," it said.
3145 'On the second night my bride was brought to me, after which the
3146 servants left her and went away. She fell asleep, and, while she
3147 was sleeping, I killed the cock, wrapped it in the cloth and put the
3148 four poles from the couch over it. Suddenly there was a huge crash
3149 like a peal of thunder and a fiery 'ifrit swooped on the girl. I
3150 fainted at the sight and when I recovered I heard a voice saying:
3151 "By the Lord of the Ka'ba, the girl has been carried off!" and there
3152 was a sound like the rustling of wind and bitter weeping. At this I
3153 shed tears, struck my head and was filled with regret when it was no
3154 longer of any use, for to me the whole world was worth no more than
3157 =head2 v5.20.2 - Jonathan "Jonti" Picking, L<"Magical Trevor"|http://weebls-stuff.com/toons/magical-trevor-episode-01-animated-music-video-mrweebl/>
3159 L<Announced on 2015-02-14 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/02/msg225777.html>
3161 Everyone loves Magical Trevor,
3162 'Cos the tricks that he does are ever so clever;
3163 Look at him now, disappearin' the cow,
3164 Where is the cow hidden right now?
3166 Taking a bow, it's Magical Trevor,
3167 Everybody's seen that the trick is clever;
3168 Look at him there with his leathery, leathery whip!
3169 It's made of magic, and with a little flip--
3171 Yeah, yeah, yeah, the cow is back,
3172 Yeah, yeah, yeah, the cow is back;
3173 Back, back, back from his magical journey,
3176 What did he see in the parallel dimension?
3177 He saw beans, lots of beans, lots of beans, lots of beans;
3178 Oh, beans, lots of beans, lots of beans, lots of beans,
3181 =head2 v5.20.2-RC1 - Jonathan "Jonti" Picking, L<"Scampi"|http://weebls-stuff.com/toons/ive-seen-things-scampi-animated-music-video-mrweebl/>
3183 L<Announced on 2015-02-01 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/02/msg225273.html>
3186 I've seen them with my eyes;
3188 They're often in disguise.
3190 Like carrots, handbags, cheese, toilets,
3191 Russians, planets, hamsters, weddings,
3192 Poets, Stalin, Kuala Lumpur!
3193 Pygmies, budgies, Kuala Lumpur!
3196 I've seen them with my eyes;
3198 They're often in disguise.
3200 Like carrots, handbags, cheese...
3202 =head2 v5.20.1 - Lorenzo da Ponte, trans. Diana Reed, "Così fan tutte"
3204 L<Announced on 2014-09-14 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/09/msg219789.html>
3206 DORABELLA (as if waking from a daze): Where are they?
3207 DON ALFONSO: They've gone.
3208 FIORDILIGI: Oh, the cruel bitterness of parting!
3211 Take heart, my dearest children.
3212 Look, in the distance, your lovers are waving to you.
3214 FIORDILIGI: Bon voyage, my darling!
3215 DORABELLA: Bon voyage!
3218 O heavens! How swiftly the ship is sailing away!
3219 It is disappearing already!
3220 It is no longer in sight!
3221 Oh, may heaven grant it a prosperous voyage!
3223 DORABELLA: May good luck attend it to the battlefield!
3224 DON ALFONSO: And may your sweethearts and my friends be safe!
3226 FIORDILIGI, DORABELLA, DON ALFONSO:
3227 May the wind be gentle,
3228 may the sea be calm,
3229 and may the elements
3233 =head2 v5.20.1-RC2 - Lorenzo da Ponte, trans. William Weaver, "Così fan tutte"
3235 L<Announced on 2014-09-07 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/09/msg219446.html>
3238 Oh God, I feel that this foot of mine
3239 is reluctant to come before her.
3246 The hero displays his manliness
3247 in the most terrible moments.
3249 FIORDILIGI, DORABELLA:
3250 Now that we have heard the news,
3251 you have the lesser duty:
3252 Take heart, and plunge your swords
3253 into both our hearts.
3255 FERRANDO, GUGLIELMO:
3257 that I must abandon you.
3259 DORABELLA: Ah no, you shall not leave...
3260 FIORDILIGI: No, cruel one, you shall not go...
3261 DORABELLA: First I want to tear out my heart.
3262 FIORDILIGI: First I want to die at your feet.
3263 FERRANDO (softly to Don Alfonso): What do you say to that?
3264 GUGLIELMO (softly to Don Alfonso): You realise?
3265 DON ALFONSO (softly): Steady, friend, finem lauda.
3268 Thus destiny defrauds
3269 the hopes of mortals.
3270 Ah, among so many misfortunes,
3271 who can ever love life?
3273 =head2 v5.20.1-RC1 - Lorenzo da Ponte, trans. William Weaver, "Così fan tutte"
3275 L<Announced on 2014-08-25 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/08/msg218975.html>
3278 I'd like to speak, but I haven't the heart:
3280 My voice cannot emerge,
3281 but remains in my throat.
3282 What will you do? What shall I do?
3283 Oh what a great catastrophe!
3284 There can be nothing worse.
3285 I feel pity for you and for them.
3287 FIORDILIGI: Heavens! For mercy's sake, Signor Alfonso, don't make us
3289 DON ALFONSO: My children, you must arm yourselves with constancy.
3290 DORABELLA: Ye Gods! What evil has occurred? What horrible event? Is my
3292 FIORDILIGI: Is mine dead?
3293 DON ALFONSO: They are not dead, but they are not far from it.
3297 DON ALFONSO: Nor that.
3298 FIORDILIGI: What, then?
3299 DON ALFONSO: A royal command summons them to the field of battle.
3300 FIORDILIGI, DORABELLA: Alas, what do I hear? And they will leave?
3301 DON ALFONSO: Immediately.
3302 DORABELLA: And there is no way of preventing it?
3303 DON ALFONSO: There is none.
3304 FIORDILIGI: And not even a single farewell...
3305 DON ALFONSO: The unhappy men haven't the courage to see you; but if
3306 you wish it, they are ready...
3307 DORABELLA: Where are they?
3308 DON ALFONSO: Come in, friends.
3310 =head2 v5.20.0 - William Shakespeare, Sonnet 18
3312 L<Announced on 2014-05-27 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/05/msg215815.html>
3314 But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
3315 Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st;
3316 Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
3317 When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st:
3318 So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
3319 So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
3321 =head2 v5.20.0-RC1 - Lindsey Buckingham, "Second Hand News"
3323 L<Announced on 2014-05-17 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/05/msg215479.html>
3327 Won't you lay me down in tall grass
3328 And let me do my stuff
3330 =head2 v5.19.11 - Isidore-Lucien Ducasse [as "Comte de Lautréamont"], trans. Paul Knight, "Les Chants de Maldoror"
3332 L<Announced on 2014-04-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/04/msg214580.html>
3334 O rigorous mathematics, I have not forgotten you since your wise lessons,
3335 sweeter than honey, filtered into my heart like a refreshing wave.
3336 Instinctively, from the cradle, I had longed to drink from your source, older
3337 than the sun, and I continue to tread the sacred sanctuary of your solemn
3338 temple, I, the most faithful of your devotees. There was a vagueness in my
3339 mind, something thick as smoke; but I managed to mount the steps which lead to
3340 your altar, and you drove away this dark veil, as the wind blows the
3341 draught-board. You replaced it with excessive coldness, consummate prudence and
3342 implacable logic. With the aid of your fortifying milk, my intellect developed
3343 rapidly and took on immense proportions amid the ravishing lucidity which you
3344 bestow as a gift on all those who sincerely love you. Arithmetic! Algebra!
3345 Geometry! Awe-inspiring trinity! Luminous triangle! He who has not known you
3348 =head2 v5.19.10 - John Chadwick, "The Decipherment of Linear B"
3350 L<Announced on 2014-03-20 by Aaron Crane|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/03/msg213851.html>
3352 The urge to discover secrets is deeply ingrained in human nature; even
3353 the least curious mind is roused by the promise of sharing knowledge
3354 withheld from others. Some are fortunate enough to find a job which
3355 consists in the solution of mysteries, whether it be the physicist who
3356 tracks down a hitherto unknown nuclear particle or the policeman who
3357 detects a criminal. But most of us are driven to sublimate this urge
3358 by the solving of artificial puzzles devised for our entertainment.
3360 =head2 v5.19.9 - R. A. MacAvoy, "Tea with the Black Dragon"
3362 L<Announced on 2014-02-20 by Tony Cook|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/02/msg213047.html>
3364 Old hands. The smell of rain--the smell of Ch'an. Quiet words in
3365 rough Cantonese. "I am not to be your master. Your master has to be
3366 stronger than you are--has to tell you you are a fool and make you
3367 know it. And make you feel content in being a fool. How could I do
3368 that for you? I'm old. You are too strong for me; you are full of
3369 chi." The old man has paused then, huddled against the wind while
3370 clouds thickened above them.
3372 "I will tell you this, Long," he continued, "Before you find yourself
3373 you will lose your chi. Also you will leave behind you all pride of
3374 body, pride of mind. You will be reduced. Like me." The old man
3375 closed his eyes, and rain began to beat against his gray, crew-cut
3376 hair. He pulled his coat closer. Suddenly his eyes snapped open and
3377 he looked Long in the face.
3379 "You must leave China. Go across the ocean. There you will meet your
3380 master." He set down his teacup with a palsied hand. His voice rose,
3383 "I tell you this, most honored and impressive visitor. You are a
3384 fool, yes, but you will find the very thing you seek. You will find
3387 =head2 v5.19.8 - Joseph Heller, "Catch-22"
3389 L<Announced on 2014-01-20 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/01/msg211729.html>
3391 “I used to get a big kick out of saving people’s lives. Now I wonder what the
3392 hell’s the point, since they all have to die anyway.”
3394 “Oh, there’s a point, all right,” Dunbar assured him.
3396 “Is there? What is the point?”
3398 “The point is to keep them from dying for as long as you can.”
3400 “Yeah, but what’s the point, since they all have to die anyway?”
3402 “The trick is not to think about that.”
3404 “Never mind the trick. What the hell’s the point?”
3406 Dunbar pondered in silence for a few moments. “Who the hell knows?”
3408 =head2 v5.19.7 - Kurt Vonnegut, "Slaughterhouse-Five"
3410 L<Announced on 2013-12-20 by Abigail|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/12/msg210882.html>
3412 And somewhere in there was springtime. The corpse mines were closed
3413 down. The soldiers all left to fight the Russians. In the suburbs,
3414 the women and children dug rifle pits. Billy and the rest of his group
3415 were locked up in the stable in the suburbs. And then, one morning,
3416 they got up to discover that the door was unlocked. World War Two in
3419 Billy and the rest wandered out onto the shady street. The trees were
3420 leafing out. There was nothing going on out there, no traffic of any
3421 kind. There was only one vehicle, an abandoned wagon drawn by two
3422 horses. The wagon was green and coffin-shaped.
3426 One bird said to Billy Pilgrim, "Pee-tee-weet?"
3428 =head2 v5.19.6 - Monty Python's Flying Circus, "Spam"
3430 L<Announced on 2013-11-20 by Chris 'BinGOs' Williams|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/11/msg210043.html>
3432 Interior: cheap cafe. All the customers are Vikings. Mr and Mrs Bun enter downwards (on wires).
3436 Mr. Bun: What have you got, then?
3437 Waitress: Well there's egg and bacon; egg, sausage and bacon; egg and spam; egg, bacon and spam;
3438 egg, bacon, sausage and spam; spam, bacon, sausage and spam; spam, egg, spam, spam, bacon and spam;
3439 spam, spam, spam, egg and spam; spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, baked beans, spam, spam, spam and spam;
3440 or lobster thermidor aux crevettes, with a mornay sauce garnished with truffle pate, brandy and a fried
3442 Mrs. Bun: Have you got anything without spam in it?
3443 Waitress: Well, there's spam, egg, sausage and spam. That's not got MUCH spam in it.
3444 Mrs. Bun: I don't want ANY spam.
3445 Mr. Bun: Why can't she have egg, bacon, spam and sausage?
3446 Mrs. Bun: That's got spam in it!
3447 Mr. Bun: Not as much as spam, egg, sausage and spam.
3448 Mrs. Bun: Look, could I have egg, bacon, spam and sausage, without the spam.
3449 Waitress: Uuuuuuggggh!
3450 Mrs. Bun: What d'you mean, uugggh! I don't like spam.
3451 Vikings: (singing) Spam, spam, spam, spam, spam ... spam, spam, spam, spam ... lovely spam, wonderful spam ...
3453 (Brief shot of a Viking ship)
3455 Waitress: Shut up. Shut up! Shut up! You can't have egg, bacon, spam and sausage without the spam.
3457 Waitress: No, it wouldn't be egg, bacon, spam and sausage, would it?
3458 Mrs. Bun: I don't like spam!
3460 =head2 v5.19.5 - Charles Baudelaire, trans. James McGowan, "The Flowers of Evil", 51. The Cat
3462 L<Announced on 2013-10-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/10/msg208752.html>
3466 A cat is strolling through my mind
3467 Acting as though he owned the place,
3468 A lovely cat -- strong, charming, sweet.
3469 When he meows, one scarcely hears,
3471 So tender and discreet his tone;
3472 But whether he should growl or purr
3473 His voice is always rich and deep.
3474 That is the secret of his charm.
3476 This purling voice that filters down
3477 Into my darkest depths of soul
3478 Fulfils me like a balanced verse,
3479 Delights me as a potion would.
3481 It puts to sleep the cruellest ills
3482 And keeps a rein on ecstasies --
3483 Without the need for any words
3484 It can pronounce the longest phrase.
3486 Oh no, there is no bow that draws
3487 Across my heart, fine instrument,
3488 And makes to sing so royally
3489 The strongest and the purest chord,
3491 More than your voice, mysterious cat,
3492 Exotic cat, seraphic cat,
3493 In whom all is, angelically,
3494 As subtle as harmonious.
3498 From his soft fur, golden and brown,
3499 Goes out so sweet a scent, one night
3500 I might have been embalmed in it
3501 By giving him one little pet.
3503 He is my household's guardian soul;
3504 He judges, he presides, inspires
3505 All matters in hos royal realm;
3506 Might he be fairy? or a god?
3508 When my eyes, to this cat I love
3509 Drawn as by a magnet's force,
3510 Turn tamely back from that appeal,
3511 And when I look within myself,
3513 I notice with astonishment
3514 The fire of his opal eyes,
3515 Clear beacons glowing, living jewels,
3516 Taking my measure, steadily.
3518 =head2 v5.19.4 - Washington Irving, "The Widow and Her Son"
3520 L<Announced on 2013-09-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/09/msg207969.html>
3522 There is something in sickness that breaks down the pride of manhood;
3523 that softens the heart and brings it back to the feelings of infancy.
3524 Who that has languished, even in advanced life, in sickness and
3525 despondency — who that has pined on a weary bed in the neglect and
3526 loneliness of a foreign land — but has thought on the mother "that
3527 looked on his childhood," that smoothed his pillow and administered to
3528 his helplessness. — Oh! there is an enduring tenderness in the love
3529 of a mother to her son that transcends all other affections of the
3530 heart. It is neither to be chilled by selfishness — nor daunted by
3531 danger — nor weakened by worthlessness — nor stifled by ingratitude.
3532 She will sacrifice every comfort to his convenience — she will
3533 surrender every pleasure to his enjoyment — she will glory in his fame
3534 and exult in his prosperity. And if misfortune overtake him he will
3535 be the dearer to her from misfortune — and if disgrace settle upon his
3536 name, she will still love and cherish him in spite of his disgrace —
3537 and if all the world beside cast him off, she will be all the world to
3540 =head2 v5.19.3 - Andrew Hodges, "Alan Turing: The Enigma"
3542 L<Announced on 2013-08-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/08/msg206318.html>
3544 E.M. Forster, outdoing the King's heresy with grand bravura, had
3545 written in 1938 that if he were faced with the choice between
3546 betraying his country and betraying his friends, he hoped he would
3547 have the courage to betray his country. He would always put the
3548 personal above the political. But for Alan Turing, unlike Forster, or
3549 Wittgenstein, or G.H. Hardy, it was more than a theoretical question.
3550 For him not only had the personal become the political, but the
3551 political was the personal. He had chosen and promised for himself in
3552 working for the government. The choice for him therefore was that
3553 between betraying one part of himself and betraying another part. And
3554 however much he wavered between these alternatives, there was a solid
3555 logic to the mind of security, one that could not be expected to take
3556 an interest in notions of freedom and development. He had no rights
3557 to such things, as he would have had to admit. He might have
3558 outwitted the Home Guard, but when it came to questions that mattered,
3559 there was no doubt that he had placed himself under military law.
3560 There was a war on; there was always a war on now.
3562 =head2 v5.19.2 - Fred Brooks, "The Mythical Man-Month"
3564 L<Announced on 2013-07-22 by Aristotle Pagaltzis|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/07/msg204905.html>
3566 The magic of myth and legend has come true in our time. One types the
3567 correct incantation on a keyboard, and a display screen comes to life,
3568 showing things that never were nor could be. [...] Not all is delight,
3569 however [...] One must perform perfectly. The computer resembles the
3570 magic of legend in this respect, too. If one character, one pause, of
3571 the incantation is not strictly in proper form, the magic doesn't work.
3573 =head2 v5.19.1 - William Shakespeare, "A Midsummer Night's Dream"
3575 L<Announced on 2013-06-21 by David Golden|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/06/msg203449.html>
3577 Over hill, over dale,
3578 Thorough bush, thorough briar,
3579 Over park, over pale,
3580 Thorough flood, thorough fire,
3581 I do wander everywhere,
3582 Swifter than the moon's sphere;
3583 And I serve the fairy queen,
3584 To dew her orbs upon the green.
3585 The cowslips tall her pensioners be;
3586 In their gold coats, spots you see;
3587 Those be rubies, fairy favours,
3588 In their freckles live our savours.
3589 I must go seek some dew-drops here,
3590 And hang a perl in every cowslip's ear.
3591 Farewell, thou lob of spirits, I'll be gone;
3592 My queen and all her elves come here anon!
3594 =head2 v5.19.0 - Batman, of the Joker, in "The Dark Knight Returns"
3596 L<Announced on 2013-05-20 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/05/msg201980.html>
3598 From the beginning, I knew…
3599 …that there was nothing wrong with you…
3603 =head2 v5.18.4 - Robert W. Chambers, Cassilda's Song in "The King in Yellow," Act I, Scene 2
3605 L<Announced on 2014-10-01 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/10/msg220770.html>
3607 Along the shore the cloud waves break,
3608 The twin suns sink beneath the lake,
3609 The shadows lengthen
3612 Strange is the night where black stars rise,
3613 And strange moons circle through the skies
3614 But stranger still is
3617 Songs that the Hyades shall sing,
3618 Where flap the tatters of the King,
3622 Song of my soul, my voice is dead;
3623 Die thou, unsung, as tears unshed
3624 Shall dry and die in
3627 =head2 v5.18.3 - (no epigraph)
3631 =head2 v5.18.3-RC2 - Robert W. Chambers, "The King in Yellow", Act I, Scene 2
3633 L<Announced on 2014-09-27 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/09/msg220613.html>
3635 "Ah! I see it now!" I shrieked. "You have seized the throne and the
3636 empire. Woe! woe to you who are crowned with the crown of the King in
3639 =head2 v5.18.3-RC1 - Robert W. Chambers, "The King in Yellow", Act I, Scene 2
3641 L<Announced on 2014-09-17 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/09/msg220072.html>
3643 CAMILLA: You, sir, should unmask.
3647 CASSILDA: Indeed it's time. We all have laid aside disguise but you.
3649 STRANGER: I wear no mask.
3651 CAMILLA: (Terrified, aside to Cassilda.) No mask? No mask!
3653 =head2 v5.18.2 - Miss Manners
3655 L<Announced on 2014-01-06 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/01/msg211224.html>
3657 One of the major mistakes people make is that they think manners are
3658 only the expression of happy ideas. There's a whole range of behavior
3659 that can be expressed in a mannerly way. That's what civilization is all
3660 about – doing it in a mannerly and not an antagonistic way. One of the
3661 places we went wrong was the naturalistic Rousseauean movement of the
3662 Sixties in which people said, "Why can't you just say what's on your
3663 mind?" In civilization there have to be some restraints. If we followed
3664 every impulse, we'd be killing one another.
3666 =head2 v5.18.1 - Chuck Moore
3668 L<Announced on 2013-08-12 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/08/msg205897.html>
3670 The operating system is another concept that is curious. Operating
3671 systems are dauntingly complex and totally unnecessary. It’s a brilliant
3672 thing that Bill Gates has done in selling the world on the notion of
3673 operating systems. It’s probably the greatest con game the world has
3676 An operating system does absolutely nothing for you. As long as you had
3677 something — a subroutine called disk driver, a subroutine called some
3678 kind of communication support, in the modern world, it doesn’t do
3679 anything else. In fact, Windows spends a lot of time with overlays and
3680 disk management all stuff like that which are irrelevant. You’ve got
3681 gigabyte disks; you’ve got megabyte RAMs. The world has changed in a way
3682 that renders the operating system unnecessary.
3684 =head2 v5.18.1-RC1 - Chuck Moore
3686 L<Announced on 2013-08-02 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/08/msg205445.html>
3688 Compilers are probably the worst code ever written. They are written by
3689 someone who has never written a compiler before and will never do so
3690 again. The more elaborate the language, the more complex, bug-ridden,
3691 and unusable is the compiler. But a simple compiler for a simple
3692 language is an essential tool—if only for documentation.
3694 =head2 v5.18.0 - Yevgeny Zamyatin
3696 L<Announced on 2013-05-18 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/05/msg201940.html>
3698 It is an error to divide people into the living and the dead: there are people
3699 who are dead-alive, and people who are alive-alive. The dead-alive also write,
3700 walk, speak, act. But they make no mistakes; only machines make no mistakes,
3701 and they produce only dead things. The alive-alive are constantly in error, in
3702 search, in questions, in torment.
3704 =head2 v5.18.0-RC4 - Joseph Heller, "Catch-22"
3706 L<Announced on 2013-05-16 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/05/msg201889.html>
3708 Clevinger was dead. That was the basic flaw in his philosophy.
3710 =head2 v5.18.0-RC3 - Tom Waits, "The Ocean Doesn't Want Me"
3712 L<Announced on 2013-05-14 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/05/msg201823.html>
3714 I'd love to go drowning
3715 And to stay and to stay
3716 But the ocean doesn't want me today
3717 I'll go in up to here
3718 It can't possibly hurt
3719 All they will find is my beer
3722 =head2 v5.18.0-RC2 - Tom Waits, "Earth Died Screaming"
3724 L<Announced on 2013-05-12 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/05/msg201723.html>
3726 And the great day of wrath has come
3727 And here's mud in your big red eye
3728 The poker's in the fire
3729 And the locusts take the sky
3730 And the earth died screaming
3731 While I lay dreaming of you
3733 =head2 v5.18.0-RC1 - Tom Waits, "What's He Building in There?"
3735 L<Announced on 2013-05-11 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/05/msg201651.html>
3737 What's he building in there?
3739 We have a right to know…
3741 =head2 v5.17.11 - Nigel Tufnel in "This is Spın̈al Tap"
3743 L<Announced on 2013-04-20 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/04/msg201056.html>
3745 It's very special because, if you can see, the numbers all go to…
3746 eleven! Look, right across the board: eleven, eleven, eleven, eleven!
3748 =head2 v5.17.10 - Vernor Vinge, "A Fire Upon The Deep"
3750 L<Announced on 2013-03-23 by Max Maischein|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/03/msg200504.html>
3752 The archive informed the automation. Data structures were built, recipes
3753 followed. A local network was built, faster than anything on Straum, but surely
3754 safe. Nodes were added, modified by other recipes. The archive was a friendly
3755 place, with hierarchies of translation keys that led them along. Straum itself
3756 would be famous for this.
3758 Six months passed. A year.
3760 The omniscient view. Not self-aware really. Self-awareness is much over-rated.
3761 Most automation works far better as a part of a whole, and even if human-
3762 powerful, it does not need to self-know.
3764 =head2 v5.17.9 - Douglas Adams, "The Hitch-Hikers Guide to the Galaxy"
3766 L<Announced on 2013-02-20 by Chris 'BinGOs' Williams|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/02/msg199115.html>
3768 Vogon poetry is of course, the third worst in the universe.
3769 The second worst is that of the Azgoths of Kria. During a
3770 recitation by their poet master Grunthos the Flatulent of
3771 his poem 'Ode To A Small Lump of Green Putty I Found In My
3772 Armpit One Midsummer Morning' four of his audience died
3773 of internal haemorrhaging and the president of the
3774 Mid-Galactic Arts Nobbling Council survived by gnawing one
3775 of his own legs off. Grunthos is reported to have been
3776 'disappointed' by the poem's reception, and was about to
3777 embark on a reading of his twelve-book epic entitled
3778 'My Favourite Bathtime Gurgles' when his own major intestine,
3779 in a desperate attempt to save life and civilisation,
3780 leapt straight up through his neck and throttled his brain.
3782 The very worst poetry of all perished along with its creator
3783 Paula Nancy Millstone Jennings of Greenbridge, Essex, England,
3784 in the destruction of the planet Earth.
3786 =head2 v5.17.8 - Iain Pears, "An Instance of the Fingerpost"
3788 L<Announced on 2013-01-20 by Aaron Crane|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/01/msg197571.html>
3790 I must here declare myself as someone who does not for a moment subscribe to
3791 the general view that a willingness to perform oneself is detrimental to the
3792 dignity of experimental philosophy. There is, after all, a clear distinction
3793 between labour carried out for financial reward, and that done for the
3794 improvement of mankind: to put it another way, Lower as a philosopher was
3795 fully my equal even if he fell away when he became the practising physician.
3796 I think ridiculous of certain professors of anatomy, who find it beneath
3797 them to pick up the knife themselves, but merely comment while hired hands
3798 do the cutting. Sylvius would never have dreamt of sitting on a dais reading
3799 from an authority while others cut — when he taught, the knife was
3800 in his hand and the blood spattered his coat. Boyle also did not scruple to
3801 perform his own experiments and, on one occasion in my presence, even showed
3802 himself willing to anatomise a rat with his very own hands. Nor was he less
3803 a gentleman when he had finished. Indeed, in my opinion, his stature was all
3804 the greater, for in Boyle wealth, humility and curiosity mingled, and the
3805 world is richer for it.
3807 =head2 v5.17.7 - R. Scott Bakker, "The Darkness That Comes Before"
3809 L<Announced on 2012-12-18 by Dave Rolsky|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/12/msg196707.html>
3813 The boy extinguished. Only a place.
3817 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.
3819 A place without breath or sound. A place of sight alone. A place without before or after . . . almost.
3821 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.
3823 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 . . .
3825 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.
3827 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.
3829 I have been legion . . .
3831 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.
3835 =head2 v5.17.6 - Kurt Vonnegut, "The Sirens of Titan"
3837 L<Announced on 2012-11-20 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/11/msg195659.html>
3839 Beatrice, looking like a gypsy queen, smoldered at the foot of a statue
3840 of a young physical student. At first glance, the laboratory-gowned
3841 scientist seemed to be a perfect servant of nothing but truth. At first
3842 glance, one was convinced that nothing but truth could please him as he
3843 beamed at his test tube. At first glance, one thought that he was as
3844 much above the beastly concerns of mankind as the harmoniums in the
3845 caves of Mercury. There, at first glance, was a young man without
3846 vanity, without lust — and one accepted at its face value the title Salo
3847 had engraved on the statue, "Discovery of Atomic Power."
3849 =head2 v5.17.5 - Charles Stross, "Singularity Sky"
3851 L<Announced on 2012-10-20 by Florian Ragwitz|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/10/msg194349.html>
3853 Neither of them noticed the pair of polka-dotted knickers hiding
3854 behind the ventilation duct overhead, listening patiently and
3855 recording everything.
3857 =head2 v5.17.4 - Roald Dahl, "Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf"
3859 L<Announced on 2012-09-19 by Florian Ragwitz|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/09/msg192635.html>
3861 The small girl smiles. One eyelid flickers.
3862 She whips a pistol from her knickers.
3863 She aims it at the creature's head,
3864 And bang bang bang, she shoots him dead.
3866 A few weeks later, in the wood,
3867 I came across Miss Riding Hood.
3868 But what a change! No cloak of red,
3869 No silly hood upon her head.
3870 She said, "Hello, and do please note
3871 My lovely furry wolfskin coat."
3873 =head2 v5.17.3 - Kris Ta-belle, "Smoked Perl Onion Soup"
3875 L<Announced on 2012-08-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/08/msg190775.html>
3879 Cut 16 Perl Onions into quarters and put them in a grill smoker rack
3880 or a perforated pan over a BBQ using hickory wood chips or Special
3881 Blend Smoker Bisquettes. Smoke them for an hour and remove once they
3883 Let them cool and put them in the fridge (or freezer) until you are
3884 ready to create the soup.
3888 16 diced, pre-smoked, Perl Onions
3891 2 small garlic cloves, finely minced
3894 black pepper to taste
3896 1/4 cup all purpose flour
3897 6 cups of beef or vegetable stock
3898 1 cup of thick cream (milk can be used as a substitute)
3902 Melt the butter in a pan and then add olive oil.
3903 Heat and add the onions to caramelize over a medium-high heat for up
3905 Add the garlic, turn down the heat and cook for a further 5 minutes.
3906 Add the salt, pepper and sugar.
3907 Now add the red wine and reduce to a jam like consistency.
3908 Add the flour, stir well and add the stock a cup at a time.
3909 Simmer for 30 minutes, add the cream and heat to almost boiling.
3913 =head2 v5.17.2 - Terry Pratchet, "The Colour of Magic"
3915 L<Announced on 2012-07-21 by TonyC|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/07/msg189828.html>
3917 ‘I knew it,’ said Rincewind. ‘We're in a strong magical field.’
3919 Twoflower and Hrun looked around the little hollow where they had made
3920 their noonday halt. Then they looked at each other.
3922 The horses were quietly cropping the rich grass by the stream. Yellow
3923 butterflies skittered among the bushes. There was a smell of thyme
3924 and a buzzing of bees. The wild pigs on the spit sizzled gently.
3926 Hrun shrugged and went back to oiling his biceps. They gleamed.
3928 ‘Looks alright to me,’ he said.
3930 ‘Try tossing a coin,’ said Rincewind.
3934 ‘Go on. Toss a coin.’
3936 ‘Hokay,’ said Hrun. 'If that gives you any pleasure.’ He reached into
3937 his pouch and withdrew a handful of loose change plundered from a
3938 dozen realms. With some care he selected a Zchloty leaden
3939 quarter-iotum and balanced it on a purple thumbnail.
3941 ‘You call,’ he said. ‘Heads or—’ he inspected the obverse with
3942 an air of intense concentration, ‘some sort of a fish with legs.’
3944 ‘When it's in the air,’ said Rincewind. Hrun grinned and flicked his thumb.
3946 The iotum rose, spinning.
3948 ‘Edge,’ said Rincewind, without looking at it.
3950 =head2 v5.17.1 - Rand Miller, "Myst: The Book of Ti'ana"
3952 L<Announced on 2012-06-20 by doy|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/06/msg188354.html>
3954 On their return from Ko'ah, Aitrus had shown her the Book, patiently
3955 taking her through page after page, and showing her how such an Age was
3956 "made." She had seen at once the differences between this archaic form
3957 and the ordinary written speech of the D'ni, noting how it was not
3958 merely more elaborate but more specific: a language of precise yet
3959 subtle descriptive power. Yet seeing was one thing, believing another.
3960 Given all the evidence, her rational mind still fought against accepting
3963 =head2 v5.17.0 - Charles Stross, "Singularity Sky"
3965 L<Announced on 2012-05-26 by Zefram|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/05/msg187214.html>
3967 `Welcome, comrades!' Burya opened his arms toward the soldier.
3968 `Yes it is true! With help from our allies of the Festival, the iron
3969 hand of the reactionary junta is about to be overthrown for all time!
3970 The new economy is being born; the marginal cost of production has
3971 been abolished, and from now on, if any item is produced once, it can
3972 be replicated infinitely. From each according to his imagination,
3973 to each according to his needs! Join us or better still, bring your
3974 fellow soldiers and workers to join us!'
3976 There was a sharp bang from the roof of the Corn Exchange, right at the
3977 climax of his impromptu speech; heads turned in alarm. Something had
3978 broken inside the spork factory and a stream of rainbow-hued plastic
3979 implements fountained toward the sky and clattered to the cobblestones
3980 on every side, like a harbinger of the postindustrial society to come.
3981 Workers and peasants alike stared in open-mouthed bewilderment at this
3982 astounding display of productivity, then bent to scrabble in the muck
3983 for the brightly colored sporks of revolution. A volley of shots rang
3984 out and Burya Rubenstein raised his hands, grinning wildly, to accept
3985 the salute of the soldiers from the Skull Hill garrison.
3987 =head2 v5.16.3 - Devo, "Freedom of Choice"
3989 L<Announced on 2013-03-11 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/03/msg200009.html>
3991 A victim of collision on the open sea
3992 Nobody ever said that life was free
3993 Sink, swim, go down with the ship
3994 But use your freedom of choice
3996 =head2 v5.16.2 - Stanislaw Lem, "The Cyberiad", Trurl's Machine
3998 L<Announced on 2012-11-01 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/11/msg194915.html>
4000 Once upon a time Trurl the constructor built an eight-story thinking
4001 machine. When it was finished, he gave it a coat of white paint,
4002 trimmed the edges in lavender, stepped back, squinted, then added a
4003 little curlicue on the front and, where one might imagine the forehead
4004 to be, a few pale orange polkadots. Extremely pleased with himself,
4005 he whistled an air and, as is always done on such occasions, asked it
4006 the ritual question of how much is two plus two.
4008 The machine stirred. Its tubes began to glow, its coils warmed up,
4009 current coursed through all its circuits like a waterfall,
4010 transformers hummed and throbbed, there was a clanging, and a
4011 chugging, and such an ungodly racket that Trurl began to think of
4012 adding a special mentation muffler. Meanwhile the machine labored on,
4013 as if it had been given the most difficult problem in the Universe to
4014 solve; the ground shook, the sand slid underfoot from the vibration,
4015 valves popped like champagne corks, the relays nearly gave way under
4016 the strain. At last, when Trurl had grown extremely impatient, the
4017 machine ground to a halt and said in a voice like thunder: SEVEN!
4019 =head2 v5.16.1 - Emerald Rose, "Never Split The Party"
4021 L<Announced on 2012-08-08 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/08/msg190413.html>
4023 Don't you know? You never split the party
4024 Clerics in the back to keep those fighters hale and hearty
4025 The wizard in the middle, where he can shed some light
4026 And you never let that damn thief out of sight…
4028 =head2 v5.16.1-RC1 - Tom Moldvay, Foreward to the "Dungeons & Dragons Basic Rulebook"
4030 L<Announced on 2012-08-03 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/08/msg190264.html>
4032 I was busy rescuing the captured maiden when the dragon showed up.
4033 Fifty feed of scaled terror glared down at us with smoldering red eyes.
4034 Tendrils of smoke drifted out from between fangs larger than daggers.
4035 The dragon blocked the only exit from the cave.
4039 I unwrapped the sword which the mysterious cleric had given me. The
4040 sword was golden-tinted steel. Its hilt was set with a rainbow
4041 collection of precious gems. I shouted my battle cry and charged
4043 My charge caught the dragon by surprise. Its titanic jaws snapped shut
4044 inches from my face. I swung the golden sword with both arms. The
4045 swordblade bit into the dragon's neck and continued through to the other
4046 side. With an earth-shaking crash, the dragon dropped dead at my feet.
4047 The magic sword had saved my life and ended the reign of the
4048 dragon-tyrant. The countryside was freed and I could return as a hero.
4050 =head2 v5.16.0 - W.H. Auden, "September 1, 1939"
4052 L<Announced on 2012-05-20 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/05/msg186903.html>
4054 All I have is a voice
4055 To undo the folded lie,
4056 The romantic lie in the brain
4057 Of the sensual man-in-the-street
4058 And the lie of Authority
4059 Whose buildings grope the sky:
4060 There is no such thing as the State
4061 And no one exists alone;
4062 Hunger allows no choice
4063 To the citizen or the police;
4064 We must love one another or die.
4066 =head2 v5.15.9 - Bob Dylan, "Blowin' In The Wind"
4068 L<Announced on 2012-03-20 by Abigail|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/03/msg184824.html>
4070 How many roads must a man walk down
4071 Before you call him a man?
4072 Yes, 'n' how many seas must a white dove sail
4073 Before she sleeps in the sand?
4074 Yes, 'n' how many times must the cannonballs fly
4075 Before they're forever banned?
4076 The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind
4077 The answer is blowin' in the wind
4079 How many years can a mountain exist
4080 Before it's washed to the sea?
4081 Yes, 'n' how many years can some people exist
4082 Before they're allowed to be free?
4083 Yes, 'n' how many times can a man turn his head
4084 Pretending he just doesn't see?
4085 The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind
4086 The answer is blowin' in the wind
4088 How many times must a man look up
4089 Before he can see the sky?
4090 Yes, 'n' how many ears must one man have
4091 Before he can hear people cry?
4092 Yes, 'n' how many deaths will it take till he knows
4093 That too many people have died?
4094 The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind
4095 The answer is blowin' in the wind
4097 =head2 v5.15.8 - The KLF, "The Manual-How To Have A Number One The Easy Way"
4099 L<Announced on 2012-02-20 by Max Maischein|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/02/msg183919.html>
4101 "Doctor Who, hey Doctor Who
4102 Doctor Who, in the Tardis
4103 Doctor Who, hey Doctor Who
4104 Doctor Who, Doc, Doctor Who
4105 Doctor Who, Doc, Doctor Who"
4107 Gibberish of course, but every lad in the country under a certain
4108 age related instinctively to what it was about. The ones slightly
4109 older needed a couple of pints inside them to clear away the mind
4110 debris left by the passing years before it made sense. As for
4111 girls and our chorus, we think they must have seen it as pure crap.
4112 A fact that must have limited to zero our chances of staying at The
4113 Top for more than one week.
4115 Stock, Aitkin and Waterman, however, are kings of writing chorus
4116 lyrics that go straight to the emotional heart of the 7" single
4117 buying girls in this country. Their most successful records will kick
4118 into the chorus with a line which encapsulates the entire emotional
4119 meaning of the song. This will obviously be used as the title. As
4120 soon as Rick Astley hit the first line of the chorus on his debut
4121 single it was all over - the Number One position was guaranteed:
4123 "I'm never going to give you up"
4125 =head2 v5.15.7 - Penelope Lively, "The Voyage of QV66"
4127 L<Announced on 2012-01-20 by Chris 'BinGOs' Williams|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/01/msg182230.html>
4129 "Laboratories," announced Henry. "Kindly don't touch anything."
4131 He led us into a long low brick shed. Outside there was a
4132 notice on a piece of board, crudely printed in red paint,
4133 which said GRATE SIENCE DISCOVERYS DONE HERE SSSH! BRING YOUR
4134 OWN BUKKIT NO PINCHING ANYWUN ELSE'S EXPERRYMENTS CANTEEN OPEN
4135 ALL DAY CHIMPS ONLY.
4137 There were a lot of large black monkeys inside, all intently
4138 busy on what they were doing. Some of them were pouring stuff
4139 out of bottles into buckets and carefully stirring the ensuing
4140 mixture; others were at work with glass tubes and jars, blowing
4141 and measuring and mixing; others were crouched over long benches
4142 with tools and heaps of bits and pieces of metal, cutting and
4143 bending and constructing. There was a great deal of noise and
4144 chatter. Every now and then one of them would give a whoop of
4145 excitement and all the others would gather round and jump up and
4146 down cheering and applauding.
4148 "Chimps," said Henry. "They're awfully clever."
4150 =head2 v5.15.6 - Ursula K. Leguin, "A Wizard of Earthsea"
4152 L<Announced on 2011-12-20 by Dave Rolsky|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/12/msg180962.html>
4154 Ged had thought that as the prentice of a great mage he would enter at once
4155 into the mystery and mastery of power. He would understand the language of the
4156 beasts and the speech of the leaves of the forest, he thought, and sway the
4157 winds with his word, and learn to change himself into any shape he
4158 wished. Maybe he and his master would run together as stags, or fly to Re Albi
4159 over the mountain on the wings of eagles.
4161 But it was not so at all. They wandered, first down into the Vale and then
4162 gradually south and westward around the mountain, given lodging in little
4163 villages or spending the night out in the wilderness, like poor
4164 journeyman-sorcerers, or tinkers, or beggars. They entered no mysterious
4165 domain. Nothing happened. The mage's oaken staff that Ged had watched at first
4166 with eager dread was nothing but a stout staff to walk with. Three days went
4167 by and four days went by and still Ogion had not spoken a single charm in
4168 Ged's hearing, and had not taught him a single name or rune or spell.
4170 =head2 v5.15.5 - Nikolai Gogol, trans. Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, "The Diary of a Madman"
4172 L<Announced on 2011-11-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/11/msg179588.html>
4174 This day - is a day of the greatest solemnity! Spain has a king. He has
4175 been found. I am that king. Only this very day did I learn of it. I
4176 confess, it came to me suddenly in a flash of lightning. I don't understand
4177 how I could have thought and imagined that I was a titular councillor. How
4178 could such a wild notion enter my head? It's a good thing no one thought of
4179 putting me in an insane asylum. Now everything is laid open before me. Now
4180 I see everything as on the palm of my hand. And before, I don't understand,
4181 before everything around me was in some sort of fog. And all this happens, I
4182 think, because people imagine that the human brain is in the head. Not at
4183 all: it is brought by a wind from the direction of the Caspian Sea. First
4184 off, I announced to Mavra who I am. When she heard that the king of Spain
4185 was standing before her, she clasped her hands and nearly died of fright.
4186 The stupid woman had never seen a king of Spain before. However, I
4187 endeavoured to calm her down and assured her in gracious words of my
4188 benevolence and that I was not at all angry that she sometimes polished my
4189 boots poorly. They're benighted folk. It's impossible to tell them about
4190 lofty matters. She got frightened because she's convinced that all kings of
4191 Spain are like Philip II. But I explained to her that there was no
4192 resemblance between me and Philip II, and that I didn't have a single
4193 Capuchin . . . I didn't go to the office . . . To hell with it! No friends,
4194 you won't lure me there now; I'm not going to copy your vile papers!
4196 =head2 v5.15.4 - Steve Jobs
4198 L<Announced on 2011-10-20 by Florian Ragwitz|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/10/msg178412.html>
4200 A lot of people in our industry haven't had very diverse experiences. So they
4201 don't have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions
4202 without a broad perspective on the problem. The broader one's understanding of
4203 the human experience, the better design we will have.
4205 =head2 v5.15.3 - Oscar Wilde, From the preface to "The Picture of Dorian Gray"
4207 L<Announced on 2011-09-20 by Stevan Little|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/09/msg177427.html>
4209 All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath
4210 the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol
4211 do so at their peril.
4213 It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.
4214 Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the
4215 work is new, complex, and vital. When critics disagree, the
4216 artist is in accord with himself.
4218 We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as
4219 he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless
4220 thing is that one admires it intensely.
4222 All art is quite useless.
4224 =head2 v5.15.2 - Rainer Maria Rilke, trans., C. F. MacIntyre, "Duino", The First Elegy
4226 L<Announced on 2011-08-20 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/08/msg176067.html>
4228 True, it is strange to live no more on earth,
4229 no longer follow the folkways scarecely learned;
4230 not to give roses and other especially auspicious
4231 things the significance of a human future;
4232 to be no more what one was in infinitely anxious hands,
4233 and to put aside even one's name, like a broken plaything.
4234 Strange, to wish wishes no longer. Strange, to see
4235 all that was related fluttering so loosely in space.
4236 And being dead is hard, full of catching-up,
4237 so that finally one feels a little eternity.–
4238 But the living all make the mistake of too sharp discrimination.
4239 Often angels (it's said) don't know if they move
4240 among the quick or the dead. The eternal current
4241 hurtles all ages along with it forever
4242 through both realms and drowns their voices in both.
4244 =head2 v5.15.1 - Greg Egan, "Permutation City"
4246 L<Announced on 2011-07-20 by Zefram|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/07/msg175014.html>
4248 Carter held out a hand towards the middle of the room. `See that
4249 fountain?' A ten-metre-wide marble wedding cake, topped with a
4250 winged cherub wrestling a serpent, duly appeared. Water cascaded
4251 down from a gushing wound in the cherub's neck. Carter said, `It's
4252 being computed by redundancies in the sketch of the city. I can
4253 extract the results, because I know exactly where to look for them --
4254 but nobody else would have a hope in hell of picking them out.'
4256 Peer walked up to the fountain. Even as he approached, he noticed
4257 that the spray was intangible; when he dipped his hand in the water
4258 around the base he felt nothing, and the motion he made with his
4259 fingers left the foaming surface unchanged. They were spying on
4260 the calculations, not interacting with them; the fountain was a
4263 Carter said, `In your case, of course, nobody will need to know
4264 the results. Except you -- and you'll know them because you'll
4267 =head2 v5.15.0 - Neil Gaiman, "The Graveyard Book"
4269 L<Announced on 2011-06-20 by David Golden|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/06/msg173748.html>
4271 If you dare nothing, then when the day is over, nothing is all you will have gained.
4273 =head2 v5.14.4 - Arthur C. Clarke, "The Nine Billion Names of God"
4275 L<Announced on 2013-03-11 by Dave Mitchell|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/03/msg199988.html>
4277 He began to sing, but gave it up after a while. This vast arena of
4278 mountains, gleaming like whitely hooded ghosts on every side, did not
4279 encourage such ebullience. Presently George glanced at his watch.
4281 'Should be there in an hour,' he called back over his shoulder to
4282 Chuck. Then he added, in an afterthought: 'Wonder if the computer's
4283 finished its run. It was due about now.'
4285 Chuck didn't reply, so George swung round in his saddle. He could just
4286 see Chuck's face, a white oval turned towards the sky.
4288 'Look,' whispered Chuck, and George lifted his eyes to heaven. (There
4289 is always a last time for everything.)
4291 Overhead, without any fuss, the stars were going out.
4293 =head2 v5.14.3 - William Shakespeare, "As You Like It"
4295 L<Announced on 2012-10-12 by Dominic Hargreaves|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/10/msg194057.html>
4297 The poor world is almost six thousand years old, and in all
4298 this time there was not any man died in his own person,
4299 videlicit, in a love-cause. Troilus had his brains dashed
4300 out with a Grecian club; yet he did what he could to die
4301 before, and he is one of the patterns of love. Leander, he
4302 would have lived many a fair year, though Hero had turned
4303 nun, if it had not been for a hot midsummer night; for, good
4304 youth, he went but forth to wash him in the Hellespont and
4305 being taken with the cramp was drowned and the foolish
4306 coroners of that age found it was 'Hero of Sestos.' But these
4307 are all lies: men have died from time to time and worms have
4308 eaten them, but not for love.
4310 =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 >>
4312 L<Announced on 2011-09-26 by Florian Ragwitz|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/09/msg177618.html>
4314 It's not so much that people don't value the programs after they have them--they
4315 do value them. But they're not the sort of thing that would ever catch on if
4316 they had to overcome the marketing barrier. (I don't yet know if perl will
4317 catch on at all--I'm worried enough about it that I specifically included an
4318 awk-to-perl translator just to help it catch on.) Maybe it's all just an
4319 inferiority complex. Or maybe I don't like to be mercenary.
4321 So I guess I'd say that the reason some software comes free is that the
4322 mechanism for selling it is missing, either from the work environment, or from
4323 the heart of the programmer.
4325 =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 >>
4327 L<Announced on 2011-06-16 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/06/msg173650.html>
4329 At this point I'm no longer working for a company that makes me sign
4330 my life away, but by now I'm in the habit. Besides, I still harbor
4331 the deep-down suspicion that nobody would pay money for what I write,
4332 since most of it just helps you do something better that you could
4333 already do some other way. How much money would you personally pay
4334 to upgrade from readnews to rn? How much money would you pay for
4335 the patch program? As for warp, it's a mere game. And anything you
4336 can do with perl you can eventually do with an amazing and totally
4337 unreadable conglomeration of awk, sed, sh and C.
4339 =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 >>
4341 L<Announced on 2011-05-14 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/05/msg172326.html>
4343 At the start of any project, I'm programming primarily to please
4344 myself. (The two chief virtues in a programmer are laziness and
4345 impatience.) After a while somebody looks over my shoulder and says,
4346 "That's neat. It'd be neater if it did such-and-so." So the thing
4347 gets neater. Pretty soon (a year or two) I have an rn, a warp, a patch,
4348 or a perl. One of these years I'll have a metaconfig.
4350 I then say to myself, "I don't want my life's work to die when this
4351 computer is scrapped, so I should let some other people use this. If I
4352 ask my company to sell this, it'll never see the light of day, and nobody
4353 would pay much for it anyway. If I sell it myself, I'll be in trouble with
4354 my company, to whom I signed my life away when I was hired. If I give it
4355 away, I can pretend it was worthless in the first place, so my company
4356 won't care. In any event, it's easier to ask forgiveness than permission."
4358 So a freely distributable program is born.
4360 =head2 v5.14.0-RC3 - American Airlines Gate Agent, last call
4362 L<Announced on 2011-05-11 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/05/msg172282.html>
4364 This is the last call for flight 1697 with service to Chicago and
4365 continuing service to San Francisco. All passengers should already be
4366 aboard. If you aren't aboard at this time, you will be denied boarding
4367 and your bags will be offloaded.
4369 =head2 v5.14.0-RC2 - Greg Grandin, "Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City"
4371 L<Announced on 2011-05-04 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/05/msg171879.html>
4373 Over the course of nearly two decades, Ford would spend tens of millions
4374 of dollars founding not one but, after the plantation was defastated
4375 by leaf blight, two American towns, complete with central squares,
4376 sidewalks, indoor plumbing, hospitals, manicured lawns, movie theaters,
4377 swimming pools, golf courses, and, of course, Model Ts and As rolling
4378 down their paved streets.
4380 Back in America, newspapers kept up their drumbeat celebration, only
4381 obliquely referencing reports that things were not progressing as the
4382 company had hoped. But there was one note of skepticism. In late 1928,
4383 the Washington Post ran an editorial that read in its entirety: "Ford will
4384 govern a rubber plantation in Brazil larger than North Carolina. This is
4385 the first time he has applied quantity production methods to trouble"
4387 =head2 v5.14.0-RC1 - Bill Bryson, "In a Sunburned Country"
4389 L<Announced on 2011-04-20 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/04/msg171253.html>
4391 But then Australia is such a difficult country to keep track of. On
4392 my first visit, some years ago, I passed the time on the long flight
4393 reading a history of Australian politics in the twentieth century,
4394 wherein I encountered the startling fact that in 1967 the prime minister,
4395 Harold Holt, was strolling along a beach in Victoria when he plunged into
4396 the surf and vanished. No trace of the poor man was ever seen again.
4397 This seemed doubly astounding to me—first that Australia could
4398 just I<lose> a prime minister (I mean, come on) and second that news of
4399 this had never reached me.
4401 =head2 v5.13.11 - Walt Whitman, L<"Leaves of Grass"|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leaves_of_Grass>
4403 L<Announced on 2011-03-20 by Florian Ragwitz|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/03/msg170206.html>
4405 When the full-grown poet came,
4406 Out spake pleased Nature (the round impassive globe, with all its
4407 shows of day and night,) saying, He is mine;
4408 But out spake too the Soul of man, proud, jealous and unreconciled,
4409 Nay he is mine alone;
4410 --Then the full-grown poet stood between the two, and took each
4412 And to-day and ever so stands, as blender, uniter, tightly
4414 Which he will never release until he reconciles the two,
4415 And wholly and joyously blends them.
4417 =head2 v5.13.10 - Egill Skalla-Grímsson, L<"Egils saga Skalla-Grímssonar"|http://www.heimskringla.no/wiki/Egils_saga_Skalla-Gr%C3%ADmssonar>
4419 L<Announced on 2011-02-20 by Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/02/msg169340.html>
4421 Skalat maðr rúnar rísta,
4422 nema ráða vel kunni.
4423 Þat verðr mörgum manni,
4424 es of myrkvan staf villisk.
4426 tíu launstafi ristna.
4427 Þat hefr lauka lindi
4428 langs ofrtrega fengit.
4430 =head2 v5.13.9 - John F Kennedy, L<Inaugural Address January 20, 1961|http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/John_F._Kennedy%27s_Inaugural_Address>
4432 L<Announced on 2011-01-20 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/01/msg168335.html>
4434 In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been
4435 granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I
4436 do not shrink from this responsibility -- I welcome it. I do not believe
4437 that any of us would exchange places with any other people or any other
4438 generation. The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this
4439 endeavor will light our country and all who serve it. And the glow from
4440 that fire can truly light the world.
4442 And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you;
4443 ask what you can do for your country.
4445 My fellow citizens of the world, ask not what America will do for you,
4446 but what together we can do for the freedom of man.
4448 Finally, whether you are citizens of America or citizens of the world,
4449 ask of us here the same high standards of strength and sacrifice which
4450 we ask of you. With a good conscience our only sure reward, with history
4451 the final judge of our deeds, let us go forth to lead the land we love,
4452 asking His blessing and His help, but knowing that here on earth God's
4453 work must truly be our own.
4455 =head2 v5.13.8 - Roger Williams, L<"The Fifth Gift"|http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2005/8/19/21304/8493>
4457 L<Announced on 2010-12-19 by Zefram|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/12/msg167271.html>
4459 The aliens called the box a "matter generator," but we'd be more inclined
4460 to call it a matter duplicator. By connecting switches and potentiometers
4461 between the copper posts it was possible to make the box mark off two
4462 cubic rectangular areas of volume. Make a certain contact, and these
4463 areas would be isolated within perfectly reflective fields. They could
4464 be expanded or contracted by altering resistances between other posts.
4465 As I worked out the user interface I built a little control panel for
4466 the device. It was actually a clever way for the aliens to do things;
4467 instead of trying to build controls we could use, they built us an
4468 interface we could attach to controls that made sense to us. It could
4471 Once you had made the contact that established the shielded volumes,
4472 if you made another certain contact the contents of the first volume
4473 were copied to the second. The machine copied metal, plastic, steel,
4474 and diamond with equal ease. Copies of copies of copies of copies were
4475 indistinguishable from the originals at any magnification, even using
4476 techniques like X-ray crystallography.
4478 =head2 v5.13.7 - Andy Wachowski and Lana Wachowski, "The Matrix"
4480 L<Announced on 2010-11-20 by Chris 'BinGOs' Williams|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/11/msg166162.html>
4482 [Neo sees a black cat walk by them, and then a similar black cat walk by them just like the first one]
4486 [Everyone freezes right in their tracks]
4488 Trinity: What did you just say?
4489 Neo: Nothing. Just had a little deja vu.
4490 Trinity: What did you see?
4491 Cypher: What happened?
4492 Neo: A black cat went past us, and then another that looked just
4494 Trinity: How much like it? Was it the same cat?
4495 Neo: It might have been. I'm not sure.
4496 Morpheus: Switch! Apoc!
4498 Trinity: A deja vu is usually a glitch in the Matrix. It happens when
4499 they change something.
4501 =head2 v5.13.6 - Haruki Murakami, "Kafka on the Shore"
4503 L<Announced on 2010-10-20 by Tatsuhiko Miyagawa|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/10/msg165183.html>
4505 The boy called Crow softly rests a hand on my shoulder, and with that
4508 "From now on -- no matter what -- you've got to be the world's toughest
4509 fifteen-year-old. That's the only way you're going to survive. And in order
4510 to do that, you've got to figure out what it means to be tough. You following
4513 I keep my eyes closed and don't reply. I just want to sink off into sleep
4514 like this, his hand on my shoulder. I hear the faint flutter of wings.
4516 "You're going to be the world's toughest fifteen-year-old," Crow whispers
4517 as I try to fall asleep. Like he was carving the words in a deep blue tattoo
4520 (Translated from Japanese by Philip Gabriel)
4522 =head2 v5.13.5 - Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, "The Room in the Dragon Volant"
4524 L<Announced on 2010-09-19 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/09/msg164238.html>
4526 Candle in hand I stepped in. I do not know whether the quality of
4527 air, long undisturbed, is peculiar; to me it has always seemed so, and
4528 the damp smell of the old masonry hung in this atmosphere. My candle
4529 faintly lighted the bare stone wall that enclosed the stair, the foot
4530 of which I could not see. Down I went, and a few turns brought me to
4531 the stone floor. Here was another door, of the simple, old, oak kind,
4532 deep sunk in the thickness of the wall. The large end of the key
4533 fitted this. The lock was stiff; I set the candle down upon the
4534 stair, and applied both hands; it turned with difficulty, and as it
4535 revolved, uttered a shriek that alarmed me for my secret.
4537 For some minutes I did not move. In a little time, however, I took
4538 courage, and opened the door. The night-air floating in puffed out
4539 the candle. There was a thicket of holly and underwood, as dense as a
4540 jungle, close about the door. I should have been in pitch-darkness,
4541 were it not that through the topmost leaves there twinkled, here and
4542 there, a glimmer of moonshine.
4544 Softly, lest any one should have opened his window at the sound of the
4545 rusty bolt, I struggled through this till I gained a view of the open
4546 grounds. Here I found that the brushwood spread a good way up the
4547 park, uniting with the wood that approached the little temple I have
4550 =head2 v5.13.4 - Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
4552 L<Announced on 2010-08-20 by Florian Ragwitz|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/08/msg163150.html>
4554 `How the creatures order one about, and make one repeat lessons!' thought Alice;
4555 `I might as well be at school at once.' However, she got up, and began to repeat
4556 it, but her head was so full of the Lobster Quadrille, that she hardly knew what
4557 she was saying, and the words came very queer indeed:--
4559 "'Tis the voice of the Lobster; I heard him declare,
4560 "You have baked me too brown, I must sugar my hair."
4561 As a duck with its eyelids, so he with his nose
4562 Trims his belt and his buttons, and turns out his toes.'
4565 `That's different from what I used to say when I was a child,' said the Gryphon.
4567 `Well, I never heard it before,' said the Mock Turtle; `but it sounds uncommon
4570 Alice said nothing; she had sat down with her face in her hands, wondering if
4571 anything would ever happen in a natural way again.
4573 `I should like to have it explained,' said the Mock Turtle.
4575 `She can't explain it,' said the Gryphon hastily. `Go on with the next verse.'
4577 `But about his toes?' the Mock Turtle persisted. `How could he turn them out
4578 with his nose, you know?'
4580 `It's the first position in dancing.' Alice said; but was dreadfully puzzled by
4581 the whole thing, and longed to change the subject.
4583 =head2 v5.13.3 - Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, "Good Omens"
4585 L<Announced on 2010-07-20 by David Golden|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/07/msg162230.html>
4587 Look at Crowley, doing 110 mph on the M40 heading towards
4588 Oxfordshire. Even the most resolutely casual observer would
4589 notice a number of strange things about him. The clenched teeth,
4590 for example, or the dull red glow coming from behind his
4591 sunglasses. And the car. The car was a definite hint.
4593 Crowley had started the journey in his Bentley, and he was
4594 dammned if he wasn't going to finish it in the Bentley as well.
4595 Not that even the kind of car buff who owns his own pair of
4596 motoring goggles would have been able to tell it was a vintage
4597 Bentley. Not any more. They wouldn't have been able to tell
4598 that it was a Bentley. They would only offer fifty-fifty that it
4599 had ever even been a car.
4601 There was no paint left on it, for a start. It might still have
4602 been black, where it wasn't a rusty, smudged reddish-brown, but
4603 this was a dull charcoal black. It traveled in its own ball of
4604 flame, like a space capsule making a particularly difficult
4607 There was a thin skin of crusted, melted rubber left around the
4608 metal wheel rims, but seeing that the wheel rims were still
4609 somhow riding an inch above the road surface this didn't seem to
4610 make an awful lot of difference to the suspension.
4612 It should have fallen apart miles back.
4614 =head2 v5.13.2 - Iain M Banks, "Use of Weapons"
4616 L<Announced on 2010-06-22 by Matt S Trout|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/06/msg161112.html>
4618 We deal in the moral equivalent of black holes, where the normal laws -
4619 the rules of right and wrong that people imagine apply everywhere else
4620 in the universe - break down; beyond those metaphysical event-horizons,
4621 there exist ... special circumstances.
4623 =head2 v5.13.1 - Miguel de Unamuno, "The Sepulchre of Don Quixote"
4625 L<Announced on 2010-05-20 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/05/msg160275.html>
4627 And if anyone shall come to you and say that he knows how to construct
4628 bridges and that perhaps a time will come when you will wish to avail
4629 yourself of his science in order to cross over a river, out with him! Out
4630 with the engineer! Rivers will be crossed by wading or swimming them, even
4631 if half the crusaders drown themselves. Let the engineer go off and build
4632 bridges somewhere else, where they are badly wanted. For those who go in
4633 quest of the sepulchre, faith is bridge enough.
4635 =head2 v5.13.0 - Jules Verne, "A Journey to the Centre of the Earth"
4637 L<Announced on 2010-04-20 by LE<0xe9>on Brocard|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/04/msg159275.html>
4639 The heat still remained at quite a supportable degree. With an
4640 involuntary shudder, I reflected on what the heat must have been
4641 when the volcano of Sneffels was pouring its smoke, flames, and
4642 streams of boiling lava -- all of which must have come up by the
4643 road we were now following. I could imagine the torrents of hot
4644 seething stone darting on, bubbling up with accompaniments of
4645 smoke, steam, and sulphurous stench!
4647 "Only to think of the consequences," I mused, "if the old
4648 volcano were once more to set to work."
4650 =head2 v5.12.5 - William Shakespeare, "Measure for Measure"
4652 L<Announced on 2012-11-10 by Dominic Hargreaves|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/11/msg195171.html>
4654 Music oft hath such a charm
4655 To make bad good, and good provoke to harm.
4657 =head2 v5.12.4 - William Schwenck Gilbert, "Trial By Jury"
4659 L<Announced on 2011-06-20 by Leon Brocard|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/06/msg173725.html>
4661 You cannot eat breakfast all day,
4662 Nor is it the act of a sinner,
4663 When breakfast is taken away,
4664 To turn his attention to dinner;
4665 And it's not in the range of belief,
4666 To look upon him as a glutton,
4667 Who, when he is tired of beef,
4668 Determines to tackle the mutton.
4669 Ah! But this I am willing to say,
4670 If it will appease her sorrow,
4671 I'll marry this lady today,
4672 And I'll marry the other tomorrow!
4674 =head2 v5.12.4-RC2 - James Russell Lowell, "Eleanor makes macaroons"
4676 L<Announced on 2011-06-15 by Leon Brocard|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/06/msg173609.html>
4678 Now for sugar, -- nay, our plan
4679 Tolerates no work of man.
4680 Hurry, then, ye golden bees;
4681 Fetch your clearest honey, please,
4682 Garnered on a Yorkshire moor,
4683 While the last larks sing and soar,
4684 From the heather-blossoms sweet
4685 Where sea-breeze and sunshine meet,
4686 And the Augusts mask as Junes, --
4687 Eleanor makes macaroons!
4689 =head2 v5.12.4-RC1 - Ogden Nash, "The Clean Plater"
4691 L<Announced on 2011-06-08 by Leon Brocard|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/06/msg173352.html>
4693 Pheasant is pleasant, of course,
4694 And terrapin, too, is tasty,
4695 Lobster I freely endorse,
4696 In pate or patty or pasty.
4697 But there's nothing the matter with butter,
4698 And nothing the matter with jam,
4699 And the warmest greetings I utter
4700 To the ham and the yam and the clam.
4703 And I think very fondly of food.
4704 Through I'm broody at times
4705 When bothered by rhymes,
4709 =head2 v5.12.3 - Howard W. Campbell, Jr., "Reflections on Not Participating in Current Events"
4711 L<Announced on 2011-01-21 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/01/msg168368.html>
4713 I saw a huge steam roller,
4714 It blotted out the sun.
4715 The people all lay down, lay down;
4716 They did not try to run.
4717 My love and I, we looked amazed
4718 Upon the gory mystery.
4719 'Lie down, lie down!' the people cried.
4720 'The great machine is history!'
4721 My love and I, we ran away,
4722 The engine did not find us.
4723 We ran up to a mountain top,
4724 Left history far behind us.
4725 Perhaps we should have stayed and died,
4726 But somehow we don't think so.
4727 We went to see where history'd been,
4728 And my, the dead did stink so.
4730 =head2 v5.12.2 - William Gibson, "Pattern Recognition"
4732 L<Announced on 2010-09-06 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/09/msg163852.html>
4734 CPUs. Cayce Pollard Units. That's what Damien calls the clothing
4735 she wears. CPUs are either black, white, or gray, and ideally
4736 seem to have come into this world without human intervention.
4738 What people take for relentless minimalism is a side effect
4739 of too much exposure to the reactor-cores of fashion. This
4740 has resulted in a remorseless paring-down of what she can and
4741 will wear. She is, literally, allergic to fashion. She can
4742 only tolerate things that could have been worn, to a general
4743 lack of comment, during any year between 1945 and 2000. She's a
4744 design-free zone, a one-woman school of and whose very austerity
4745 periodically threatens to spawn its own cult.
4747 =head2 v5.12.2-RC1 - William Gibson, "Pattern Recognition"
4749 L<Announced on 2010-08-31 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/08/msg163670.html>
4751 The front page opens, familiar as a friend's living room. A frame-grab
4752 from #48 serves as backdrop, dim and almost monochrome, no characters in
4753 view. This is one of the sequences that generate comparisons with
4754 Tarkovsky. She only knows Tarkovsky from stills, really, though she did
4755 once fall asleep during a screening of The Stalker, going under on an
4756 endless pan, the camera aimed straight down, in close-up, at a puddle on
4757 a ruined mosaic floor. But she is not one of those who think that much
4758 will be gained by analysis of the maker's imagined influences. The cult
4759 of the footage is rife with subcults, claiming every possible influence.
4760 Truffaut, Peckinpah -- The Peckinpah people, among the least likely, are
4761 still waiting for the guns to be drawn.
4763 =head2 v5.12.1 - Kurt Vonnegut, "Cat's Cradle"
4765 L<Announced on 2010-05-16 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/05/msg160109.html>
4767 "Now suppose," chortled Dr. Breed, enjoying himself, "that there were
4768 many possible ways in which water could crystallize, could freeze.
4769 Suppose that the sort of ice we skate upon and put into highballs --
4770 what we might call ice-one -- is only one of several types of ice.
4771 Suppose water always froze as ice-one on Earth because it had never
4772 had a seed to teach it how to form ice-two, ice-three, ice-four
4773 ...? And suppose," he rapped on his desk with his old hand again,
4774 "that there were one form, which we will call ice-nine -- a crystal as
4775 hard as this desk -- with a melting point of, let us say, one-hundred
4776 degrees Fahrenheit, or, better still, a melting point of one-hundred-
4777 and-thirty degrees."
4779 =head2 v5.12.1-RC2 - Kurt Vonnegut, "Cat's Cradle"
4781 L<Announced on 2010-05-13 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/05/msg160066.html>
4783 San Lorenzo was fifty miles long and twenty miles wide, I learned from
4784 the supplement to the New York Sunday Times. Its population was four
4785 hundred, fifty thousand souls, "...all fiercely dedicated to the ideals
4788 Its highest point, Mount McCabe, was eleven thousand feet above sea
4789 level. Its capital was Bolivar, "...a strikingly modern city built on a
4790 harbor capable of sheltering the entire United States Navy." The principal
4791 exports were sugar, coffee, bananas, indigo, and handcrafted novelties.
4793 =head2 v5.12.1-RC1 - Kurt Vonnegut, "Cat's Cradle"
4795 L<Announced on 2010-05-09 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/05/msg159971.html>
4797 Which brings me to the Bokononist concept of a wampeter. A wampeter is
4798 the pivot of a karass. No karass is without a wampeter, Bokonon tells us,
4799 just as no wheel is without a hub. Anything can be a wampeter: a tree,
4800 a rock, an animal, an idea, a book, a melody, the Holy Grail. Whatever
4801 it is, the members of its karass revolve about it in the majestic chaos
4802 of a spiral nebula. The orbits of the members of a karass about their
4803 common wampeter are spiritual orbits, naturally. It is souls and not
4804 bodies that revolve. As Bokonon invites us to sing:
4806 Around and around and around we spin,
4807 With feet of lead and wings of tin . . .
4809 =head2 v5.12.0 - Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
4811 L<Announced on 2010-04-12 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/04/msg158820.html>
4813 'Please would you tell me,' said Alice, a little timidly, for she was
4814 not quite sure whether it was good manners for her to speak first, 'why
4815 your cat grins like that?'
4817 'It's a Cheshire cat,' said the Duchess, 'and that's why. Pig!'
4819 She said the last word with such sudden violence that Alice quite
4820 jumped; but she saw in another moment that it was addressed to the baby,
4821 and not to her, so she took courage, and went on again:--
4823 'I didn't know that Cheshire cats always grinned; in fact, I didn't know
4824 that cats COULD grin.'
4826 'They all can,' said the Duchess; 'and most of 'em do.'
4828 =head2 v5.12.0-RC5 - Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
4830 L<Announced on 2010-04-09 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/04/msg158720.html>
4832 'Not QUITE right, I'm afraid,' said Alice, timidly; 'some of the words
4835 'It is wrong from beginning to end,' said the Caterpillar decidedly, and
4836 there was silence for some minutes.
4838 =head2 v5.12.0-RC4 - Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
4840 L<Announced on 2010-04-06 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/04/msg158567.html>
4842 'It was much pleasanter at home,' thought poor Alice, 'when one wasn't
4843 always growing larger and smaller, and being ordered about by mice and
4844 rabbits. I almost wish I hadn't gone down that rabbit-hole--and yet--and
4845 yet--it's rather curious, you know, this sort of life! I do wonder what
4846 can have happened to me! When I used to read fairy-tales, I fancied that
4847 kind of thing never happened, and now here I am in the middle of one!
4849 =head2 v5.12.0-RC3 - Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
4851 L<Announced on 2010-04-02 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/04/msg158346.html>
4853 At last the Mouse, who seemed to be a person of authority among them,
4854 called out, 'Sit down, all of you, and listen to me! I'LL soon make you
4855 dry enough!' They all sat down at once, in a large ring, with the Mouse
4856 in the middle. Alice kept her eyes anxiously fixed on it, for she felt
4857 sure she would catch a bad cold if she did not get dry very soon.
4859 'Ahem!' said the Mouse with an important air, 'are you all ready? This
4860 is the driest thing I know. Silence all round, if you please! "William
4861 the Conqueror, whose cause was favoured by the pope, was soon submitted
4862 to by the English, who wanted leaders, and had been of late much
4863 accustomed to usurpation and conquest. Edwin and Morcar, the earls of
4864 Mercia and Northumbria --"'
4866 =head2 v5.12.0-RC2 - no announcement
4868 Available on CPAN since 2010-04-01.
4870 =head2 v5.12.0-RC1 - Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
4872 L<Announced on 2010-03-29 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/03/msg158060.html>
4874 So she was considering in her own mind (as well as she could, for the
4875 hot day made her feel very sleepy and stupid), whether the pleasure of
4876 making a daisy-chain would be worth the trouble of getting up and
4877 picking the daisies, when suddenly a White Rabbit with pink eyes ran
4880 There was nothing so VERY remarkable in that; nor did Alice think it so
4881 VERY much out of the way to hear the Rabbit say to itself, 'Oh dear! Oh
4882 dear! I shall be late!' (when she thought it over afterwards, it
4883 occurred to her that she ought to have wondered at this, but at the time
4884 it all seemed quite natural); but when the Rabbit actually TOOK A WATCH
4885 OUT OF ITS WAISTCOAT-POCKET, and looked at it, and then hurried on,
4886 Alice started to her feet, for it flashed across her mind that she had
4887 never before seen a rabbit with either a waistcoat-pocket, or a watch to
4888 take out of it, and burning with curiosity, she ran across the field
4889 after it, and fortunately was just in time to see it pop down a large
4890 rabbit-hole under the hedge.
4892 In another moment down went Alice after it, never once considering how
4893 in the world she was to get out again.
4895 =head2 v5.12.0-RC0 - no epigraph
4897 L<Announced on 2020-03-21 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/03/msg157761.html>
4899 =head2 v5.11.5 - Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "Christabel"
4901 L<Announced on 2010-02-21 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/02/msg156957.html>
4903 A little child, a limber elf,
4904 Singing, dancing to itself,
4905 A fairy thing with red round cheeks,
4906 That always finds, and never seeks,
4907 Makes such a vision to the sight
4908 As fills a father's eyes with light;
4909 And pleasures flow in so thick and fast
4910 Upon his heart, that he at last
4911 Must needs express his love's excess
4912 With words of unmeant bitterness.
4913 Perhaps 'tis pretty to force together
4914 Thoughts so all unlike each other;
4915 To mutter and mock a broken charm,
4916 To dally with wrong that does no harm.
4917 Perhaps 'tis tender too and pretty
4918 At each wild word to feel within
4919 A sweet recoil of love and pity.
4920 And what, if in a world of sin
4921 (O sorrow and shame should this be true!)
4922 Such giddiness of heart and brain
4923 Comes seldom save from rage and pain,
4924 So talks as it's most used to do.
4926 =head2 v5.11.4 - Fyodor Dostoevsky, "Crime and Punishment"
4928 L<Announced on 2010-01-20 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/01/msg155848.html>
4930 And you don't suppose that I went into it headlong like a fool? I went
4931 into it like a wise man, and that was just my destruction. And you
4932 mustn't suppose that I didn't know, for instance, that if I began to
4933 question myself whether I had the right to gain power -- I certainly
4934 hadn't the right -- or that if I asked myself whether a human being is a
4935 louse it proved that it wasn't so for me, though it might be for a man
4936 who would go straight to his goal without asking questions.... If I
4937 worried myself all those days, wondering whether Napoleon would have
4938 done it or not, I felt clearly of course that I wasn't Napoleon.
4940 =head2 v5.11.3 - Mark Twain, "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer"
4942 L<Announced on 2009-12-20 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2009/12/msg154838.html>
4944 "Say -- I'm going in a swimming, I am. Don't you wish you could? But of
4945 course you'd druther work -- wouldn't you? Course you would!"
4947 Tom contemplated the boy a bit, and said: "What do you call work?"
4949 "Why ain't that work?"
4951 Tom resumed his whitewashing, and answered carelessly: "Well, maybe it
4952 is, and maybe it aint. All I know, is, it suits Tom Sawyer."
4954 "Oh come, now, you don't mean to let on that you like it?"
4956 The brush continued to move. "Like it? Well I don't see why I oughtn't
4957 to like it. Does a boy get a chance to whitewash a fence every day?"
4959 That put the thing in a new light. Ben stopped nibbling his apple. Tom
4960 swept his brush daintily back and forth -- stepped back to note the effect
4961 -- added a touch here and there-criticised the effect again -- Ben
4962 watching every move and getting more and more interested, more and more
4963 absorbed. Presently he said: "Say, Tom, let me whitewash a little."
4965 =head2 v5.11.2 - Michael Marshall Smith, "Only Forward"
4967 L<Announced on 2009-11-20 by Léon Brocard|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2009/11/msg153646.html>
4969 The streets were pretty quiet, which was nice. They're always quiet here
4970 at that time: you have to be wearing a black jacket to be out on the
4971 streets between seven and nine in the evening, and not many people in
4972 the area have black jackets. It's just one of those things. I currently
4973 live in Colour Neighbourhood, which is for people who are heavily into
4974 colour. All the streets and buildings are set for instant colourmatch:
4975 as you walk down the road they change hue to offset whatever you're
4976 wearing. When the streets are busy it's kind of intense, and anyone
4977 prone to epileptic seizures isn't allowed to live in the Neighbourhood,
4978 however much they're into colour.
4980 =head2 v5.11.1 - Joseph Heller, "Catch-22"
4982 L<Announced on 2009-10-20 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2009/10/msg152360.html>
4984 Milo had been caught red-handed in the act of plundering his countrymen,
4985 and, as a result, his stock had never been higher. He proved good as his
4986 word when a rawboned major from Minnesota curled his lip in rebellious
4987 disavowal and demanded his share of the syndicate Milo kept saying
4988 everybody owned. Milo met the challenge by writing the words "A Share"
4989 on the nearest scrap of paper and handing it away with a virtuous disdain
4990 that won the envy and admiration of almost everyone who knew him. His
4991 glory was at a peak, and Colonel Cathcart, who knew and admired his
4992 war record, was astonished by the deferential humility with which Milo
4993 presented himself at Group Headquarters and made his fantastic appeal
4994 for more hazardous assignment.
4996 =head2 v5.11.0 - Mikhail Bulgakov, "The Master and Margarita"
4998 L<Announced on 2009-10-02 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2009/10/msg151376.html>
5000 Whispers of an "evil power" were heard in lines at dairy shops, in
5001 streetcars, stores, arguments, kitchens, suburban and long-distance
5002 trains, at stations large and small, in dachas and on beaches. Needless
5003 to say, truly mature and cultured people did not tell these stories
5004 about an evil power's visit to the capital. In fact, they even made fun
5005 of them and tried to talk sense into those who told them. Nevertheless,
5006 facts are facts, as they say, and cannot simply be dismissed without
5007 explanation: somebody had visited the capital. The charred cinders of
5008 Griboyedov alone, and many other things besides, confirmed it. Cultured
5009 people shared the point of view of the investigating team: it was the
5010 work of a gang of hypnotists and ventriloquists magnificently skilled in
5013 =head2 v5.10.1 - Right Hon. James Hacker MP, "The Complete Yes Minister: The Diaries of a Cabinet Minister"
5015 L<Announced on 2009-08-23 by Dave Mitchell|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2009/08/msg150172.html>
5017 'Briefly, sir, I am the Permanent Under-Secretary of State, known as
5018 the Permanent Secretary. Woolley here is your Principal Private
5019 Secretary. I, too, have a Principal Private Secretary, and he is the
5020 Principal Private Secretary to the Permanent Secretary. Directly
5021 responsible to me are ten Deputy Secretaries, eighty-seven Under
5022 Secretaries and two hundred and nineteen Assistant Secretaries.
5023 Directly responsible to the Principal Private Secretaries are plain
5024 Private Secretaries. The Prime Minister will be appointing two
5025 Parliamentary Under-Secretaries and you will be appointing your own
5026 Parliamentary Private Secretary.'
5028 'Can they all type?' I joked.
5030 'None of us can type, Minister,' replied Sir Humphrey smoothly. 'Mrs
5031 McKay types - she is your Secretary.'
5033 I couldn't tell whether or not he was joking. 'What a pity,' I said.
5034 'We could have opened an agency.'
5036 Sir Humphrey and Bernard laughed. 'Very droll, sir,' said Sir
5037 Humphrey. 'Most amusing, sir,' said Bernard. Were they genuinely
5038 amused at my wit, or just being rather patronising? 'I suppose they
5039 all say that, do they?' I ventured.
5041 Sir Humphrey reassured me on that. 'Certainly not, Minister,' he
5042 replied. 'Not quite all.'
5044 =head2 v5.10.1-RC2 - no epigraph
5046 L<Announced on 2009-08-18 by Dave Mitchell|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2009/08/msg150015.html>
5048 =head2 v5.10.1-RC1 - no epigraph
5050 L<Announced on 2009-08-06 by Dave Mitchell|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2009/08/msg149498.html>
5052 =head2 v5.10.0 - Laurence Sterne, "Tristram Shandy"
5054 L<Announced on 2007-12-18 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2007/12/msg131636.html>
5056 He would often declare, in speaking his thoughts upon the subject, that
5057 he did not conceive how the greatest family in England could stand it
5058 out against an uninterrupted succession of six or seven short
5059 noses.--And for the contrary reason, he would generally add, That it
5060 must be one of the greatest problems in civil life, where the same
5061 number of long and jolly noses, following one another in a direct line,
5062 did not raise and hoist it up into the best vacancies in the kingdom.
5064 =head2 v5.10.0-RC2 - no epigraph
5066 L<Announced on 2007-11-25 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2007/11/msg130978.html>
5068 =head2 v5.10.0-RC1 - no epigraph
5070 L<Announced on 2007-11-17 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2007/11/msg130653.html>
5072 =head2 v5.9.5 - no announcement
5074 L<Pre-announced on 2007-07-07 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2007/07/msg126358.html>,
5075 available on CPAN with same date, but never actually announced.
5077 =head2 v5.9.4 - no epigraph
5079 L<Announced on 2006-08-15 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2006/08/msg115782.html>
5081 =head2 v5.9.3 - no epigraph
5083 L<Announced on 2006-01-28 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2006/01/msg109086.html>
5085 =head2 v5.9.2 - Thomas Pynchon, "V"
5087 L<Announced on 2005-04-01 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2005/04/msg99421.html>
5089 This word flip was weird. Every recording date of McClintic's he'd
5090 gotten into the habit of talking electricity with the audio men and
5091 technicians of the studio. McClintic once couldn't have cared less
5092 about electricity, but now it seemed if that was helping him reach a
5093 bigger audience, some digging, some who would never dig, but all
5094 paying and those royalties keeping the Triumph in gas and McClintic
5095 in J. Press suits, then McClintic ought to be grateful to
5096 electricity, ought maybe to learn a little more about it. So he'd
5097 picked up some here and there, and one day last summer he got around
5098 to talking stochastic music and digital computers with one
5099 technician. Out of the conversation had come Set/Reset, which was
5100 getting to be a signature for the group. He had found out from this
5101 sound man about a two-triode circuit called a flip-flop, which when
5102 it turned on could be one of two ways, depending on which tube was
5103 conducting and which was cut off: set or reset, flip or flop.
5105 "And that," the man said, "can be yes or no, or one or zero. And
5106 that is what you might call one of the basic units, or specialized
5107 `cells' in a big `electronic brain.' "
5109 "Crazy," said McClintic, having lost him back there someplace. But
5110 one thing that did occur to him was if a computer's brain could go
5111 flip or flop, why so could a musician's. As long as you were flop,
5112 everything was cool. But where did the trigger-pulse come from to
5115 =head2 v5.9.1 - Tom Stoppard, "Arcadia"
5117 L<Announced on 2004-03-16 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/03/msg89722.html>
5119 Aren't you supposed to have a pony?
5121 =head2 v5.9.0 - Doris Lessing, "Martha Quest"
5123 L<Announced on 2003-10-27 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/10/msg84147.html>
5125 What of October, that ambiguous month
5127 =head2 v5.8.9 - Right Hon. James Hacker MP, "The Complete Yes Minister: The Diaries of a Cabinet Minister"
5129 L<Announced on 2008-12-14 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2008/12/msg142571.html>
5131 Frank and I, unlike the civil servants, were still puzzled that such a
5132 proposal as the Europass could even be seriously under consideration by
5133 the FCO. We can both see clearly that it is wonderful ammunition for the
5134 anti-Europeans. I asked Humphrey if the Foreign Office doesn't realise
5135 how damaging this would be to the European ideal?
5137 'I'm sure they do, Minister, he said. That's why they support it.'
5139 This was even more puzzling, since I'd always been under the impression
5140 that the FO is pro-Europe. 'Is it or isn't it?' I asked Humphrey.
5142 'Yes and no,' he replied of course, 'if you'll pardon the
5143 expression. The Foreign Office is pro-Europe because it is really
5144 anti-Europe. In fact the Civil Service was united in its desire to make
5145 sure the Common Market didn't work. That's why we went into it.'
5147 This sounded like a riddle to me. I asked him to explain further. And
5148 basically his argument was as follows: Britain has had the same foreign
5149 policy objective for at least the last five hundred years - to create a
5150 disunited Europe. In that cause we have fought with the Dutch against
5151 the Spanish, with the Germans against the French, with the French and
5152 Italians against the Germans, and with the French against the Italians
5153 and Germans. [The Dutch rebellion against Phillip II of Spain, the
5154 Napoleonic Wars, the First World War, and the Second World War - Ed.]
5156 In other words, divide and rule. And the Foreign Office can see no
5157 reason to change when it has worked so well until now.
5159 I was aware of this, naturally, but I regarded it as ancient history.
5160 Humphrey thinks that it is, in fact, current policy. It was necessary
5161 for us to break up the EEC, he explained, so we had to get inside. We
5162 had previously tried to break it up from the outside, but that didn't
5163 work. [A reference to our futile and short-lived involvement in EFTA,
5164 the European Free Trade Association, founded in 1960 and which the UK
5165 left in 1972 - Ed.] Now that we're in, we are able to make a complete
5166 pig's breakfast out of it. We've now set the Germans against the French,
5167 the French against the Italians, the Italians against the Dutch... and
5168 the Foreign office is terribly happy. It's just like old time.
5170 I was staggered by all of this. I thought that the all of us who are
5171 publicly pro-European believed in the European ideal. I said this to Sir
5172 Humphrey, and he simply chuckled.
5174 So I asked him: if we don't believe in the European Ideal, why are we
5175 pushing to increase the membership?
5177 'Same reason,' came the reply. 'It's just like the United Nations. The
5178 more members it has, the more arguments you can stir up, and the more
5179 futile and impotent it becomes.'
5181 This all strikes me as the most appalling cynicism, and I said so.
5183 Sir Humphrey agreed completely. 'Yes Minister. We call it
5184 diplomacy. It's what made Britain great, you know.'
5186 =head2 v5.8.9-RC2 - Right Hon. James Hacker MP, "The Complete Yes Minister: The Diaries of a Cabinet Minister"
5188 L<Announced on 2008-12-06 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2008/12/msg142422.html>
5190 There was silence in the office. I didn't know what we were going to do
5191 about the four hundred new people supervising our economy drive or the
5192 four hundred new people for the Bureaucratic Watchdog Office, or
5193 anything! I simply sat and waited and hoped that my head would stop
5194 thumping and that some idea would be suggested by someone sometime soon.
5196 Sir Humphrey obliged. 'Minister... if we were to end the economy drive
5197 and close the Bureaucratic Watchdog Office we could issue an immediate
5198 press announcement that you had axed eight hundred jobs.' He had
5199 obviously thought this out carefully in advance, for at this moment he
5200 produced a slim folder from under his arm. 'If you'd like to approve
5203 I couldn't believe the impertinence of the suggestion. Axed eight
5204 hundred jobs? 'But no one was ever doing these jobs,' I pointed out
5205 incredulously. 'No one's been appointed yet.'
5207 'Even greater economy,' he replied instantly. 'We've saved eight hundred
5208 redundancy payments as well.'
5210 'But...' I attempted to explain '... that's just phony. It's dishonest,
5211 it's juggling with figures, it's pulling the wool over people's eyes.'
5213 'A government press release, in fact.' said Humphrey.
5215 =head2 v5.8.9-RC1 - Right Hon. James Hacker MP, "The Complete Yes Minister: The Diaries of a Cabinet Minister"
5217 L<Announced on 2008-11-10 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2008/11/msg141515.html>
5219 A jumbo jet touched down, with BURANDAN AIRWAYS written on the side. I
5220 was hugely impressed. British Airways are having to pawn their Concordes,
5221 and here is this little tiny African state with its own airline, jumbo
5224 I asked Bernard how many planes Burandan Airways had. 'None,' he said.
5226 I told him not to be silly and use his eyes. 'No Minister, it belongs to
5227 Freddie Laker,' he said. 'They chartered it last week and repainted it
5228 specially.' Apparently most of the Have-Nots (I mean, LDCs) do this - at
5229 the opening of the UN General Assembly the runways of Kennedy Airport are
5230 jam-packed with phoney flag-carriers. 'In fact,' said Bernard with a sly
5231 grin, 'there was one 747 that belonged to nine different African airlines
5232 in a month. They called it the mumbo-jumbo.'
5234 While we watched nothing much happening on the TV except the mumbo-jumbo
5235 taxiing around Prestwick and the Queen looking a bit chilly, Bernard gave
5236 me the next day's schedule and explained that I was booked on the night
5237 sleeper from King's Cross to Edinburgh because I had to vote in a
5238 three-line whip at the House tonight and would have to miss the last
5239 plane. Then the commentator, in that special hushed BBC voice used for any
5240 occasion with which Royalty is connected, announced reverentially that we
5241 were about to catch our first glimpse of President Selim.
5243 And out of the plane stepped Charlie. My old friend Charlie Umtali. We
5244 were at LSE together. Not Selim Mohammed at all, but Charlie.
5246 Bernard asked me if I were sure. Silly question. How could you forget a
5247 name like Charlie Umtali?
5249 I sent Bernard for Sir Humphrey, who was delighted to hear that we now
5250 know something about our official visitor.
5252 Bernard's official brief said nothing. Amazing! Amazing how little the FCO
5253 has been able to find out. Perhaps they were hoping it would all be on the
5254 car radio. All the brief says is that Colonel Selim Mohammed had converted
5255 to Islam some years ago, they didn't know his original name, and therefore
5256 knew little of his background.
5258 I was able to tell Humphrey and Bernard /all/ about his background.
5259 Charlie was a red-hot political economist, I informed them. Got the top
5260 first. Wiped the floor with everyone.
5262 Bernard seemed relieved. 'Well that's all right then.'
5266 'I think Bernard means,' said Sir Humphrey helpfully, 'that he'll know how
5267 to behave if he was at an English University. Even if it was the LSE.' I
5268 never know whether or not Humphrey is insulting me intentionally.
5270 Humphrey was concerned about Charlie's political colour. 'When you said
5271 that he was red-hot, were you speaking politically?'
5273 In a way I was. 'The thing about Charlie is that you never quite know
5274 where you are with him. He's the sort of chap who follows you into a
5275 revolving door and comes out in front.'
5277 'No deeply held convictions?' asked Sir Humphrey.
5279 'No. The only thing Charlie was committed too was Charlie.'
5281 'Ah, I see. A politician, Minister.'
5283 =head2 v5.8.8 - Joe Raposo, "Bein' Green"
5285 L<Announced on 2006-01-31 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2006/01/msg109190.html>
5287 It's not that easy bein' green
5288 Having to spend each day the color of the leaves
5289 When I think it could be nicer being red or yellow or gold
5290 Or something much more colorful like that
5292 It's not easy bein' green
5293 It seems you blend in with so many other ordinary things
5294 And people tend to pass you over 'cause you're
5295 Not standing out like flashy sparkles in the water
5298 But green's the color of Spring
5299 And green can be cool and friendly-like
5300 And green can be big like an ocean
5301 Or important like a mountain
5304 When green is all there is to be
5305 It could make you wonder why, but why wonder why?
5306 Wonder I am green and it'll do fine, it's beautiful
5307 And I think it's what I want to be
5309 =head2 v5.8.8-RC1 - Cosgrove Hall Productions, "Dangermouse"
5311 L<Announced on 2006-01-20 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2006/01/msg108833.html>
5313 Greenback: And the world is mine, all mine. Muhahahahaha. See to it!
5315 Stiletto: Si, Barone. Subito, Barone.
5317 =head2 v5.8.7 - Sergei Prokofiev, "Peter and the Wolf"
5319 L<Announced on 2005-05-31 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2005/05/msg101088.html>
5321 And now, imagine the triumphant procession: Peter at the head; after him the
5322 hunters leading the wolf; and winding up the procession, grandfather and the
5325 Grandfather shook his head discontentedly: "Well, and if Peter hadn't caught
5326 the wolf? What then?"
5328 =head2 v5.8.7-RC1 - Sergei Prokofiev, "Peter and the Wolf"
5330 L<Announced on 2005-05-20 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2005/05/msg100711.html>
5332 And now this is how things stood: The cat was sitting on one branch. The
5333 bird on another, not too close to the cat. And the wolf walked round and
5334 round the tree, looking at them with greedy eyes.
5336 In the meantime, Peter, without the slightest fear, stood behind the
5337 gate, watching all that was going on. He ran home,got a strong rope and
5338 climbed up the high stone wall.
5340 One of the branches of the tree, around which the wolf was walking,
5341 stretched out over the wall.
5343 Grabbing hold of the branch, Peter lightly climbed over on to the tree.
5344 Peter said to the bird: "Fly down and circle round the wolf's head, only
5345 take care that he doesn't catch you!".
5347 The bird almost touched the wolf's head with its wings, while the wolf
5348 snapped angrily at him from this side and that.
5350 How that bird teased the wolf, how that wolf wanted to catch him! But
5351 the bird was clever and the wolf simply couldn't do anything about it.
5353 =head2 v5.8.6 - A. A. Milne, "The House at Pooh Corner"
5355 L<Announced on 2004-11-27 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/11/msg96304.html>
5357 "Hallo, Pooh," said Piglet, giving a jump of surprise. "I knew it was
5360 "So did I,", said Pooh. "What are you doing?"
5362 "I'm planting a haycorn, Pooh, so that it can grow up into an oak-tree,
5363 and have lots of haycorns just outside the front door instead of having
5364 to walk miles and miles, do you see, Pooh?"
5366 "Supposing it doesn't?" said Pooh.
5368 "It will, because Christopher Robin says it will, so that's why I'm
5371 "Well," aid Pooh, "if I plant a honeycomb outside my house, then it will
5372 grow up into a beehive."
5374 Piglet wasn't quite sure about this.
5376 "Or a /piece/ of a honeycomb," said Pooh, "so as not to waste too much.
5377 Only then I might only get a piece of a beehive, and it might be the
5378 wrong piece, where the bees were buzzing and not hunnying. Bother"
5380 Piglet agreed that that would be rather bothering.
5382 "Besides, Pooh, it's a very difficult thing, planting unless you know
5383 how to do it," he said; and he put the acorn in the hole he had made,
5384 and covered it up with earth, and jumped on it.
5386 =head2 v5.8.6-RC1 - A. A. Milne, "Winnie the Pooh"
5388 L<Announced on 2004-11-11 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/11/msg95786.html>
5390 "Hallo!" said Piglet, "whare are /you/ doing?"
5392 "Hunting," said Pooh.
5396 "Tracking something," said Winnie-the-Pooh very mysteriously.
5398 "Tracking what?" said Piglet, coming closer.
5400 "That's just what I ask myself, I ask myself, What?"
5402 "What do you think you'll answer?"
5404 "I shall have to wait until I catch up with it," said Winnie-the-Pooh.
5405 "Now, look there." He pointed to the ground in front of him. "What do
5408 "Track," said Piglet. "Paw-marks." He gave a little squeak of
5409 excitement. "Oh, Pooh!" Do you think it's a--a--a Woozle?"
5411 =head2 v5.8.5 - wikipedia, "Yew"
5413 L<Announced on 2004-07-19 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/07/msg93189.html>
5415 Yews are relatively slow growing trees, widely used in landscaping and
5416 ornamental horticulture. They have flat, dark-green needles, reddish
5417 bark, and bear seeds with red arils, which are eaten by thrushes,
5418 waxwings and other birds, dispersing the hard seeds undamaged in their
5419 droppings. Yew wood is reddish brown (with white sapwood), and very
5420 hard. It was traditionally used to make bows, especially the English
5423 In England, the Common Yew (Taxus baccata, also known as English Yew) is
5424 often found in churchyards. It is sometimes suggested that these are
5425 placed there as a symbol of long life or trees of death, and some are
5426 likely to be over 3,000 years old. It is also suggested that yew trees
5427 may have a pre-Christian association with old pagan holy sites, and the
5428 Christian church found it expedient to use and take over existing sites.
5429 Another explanation is that the poisonous berries and foliage discourage
5430 farmers and drovers from letting their animals wander into the burial
5431 grounds. The yew tree is a frequent symbol in the Christian poetry of
5432 T.S. Eliot, especially his Four Quartets.
5434 =head2 v5.8.5-RC2 - wikipedia, "Beech"
5436 L<Announced on 2004-07-09 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/07/msg92934.html>
5438 Beeches are trees of the Genus Fagus, family Fagaceae, including about
5439 ten species in Europe, Asia, and North America. The leaves are entire or
5440 sparsely toothed. The fruit is a small, sharply-angled nut, borne in
5441 pairs in spiny husks. The beech most commonly grown as an ornamental or
5442 shade tree is the European beech (Fagus sylvatica).
5444 The southern beeches belong to a different but related genus,
5445 Nothofagus. They are found in Australia, New Zealand, New Guinea, New
5446 Caledonia and South America.
5448 =head2 v5.8.5-RC1 - wikipedia, "Pedunculate Oak" (abridged)
5450 L<Announced on 2004-07-07 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/07/msg92840.html>
5452 The Pedunculate Oak is called the Common Oak in Britain, and is also
5453 often called the English Oak in other English speaking countries It is a
5454 large deciduous tree to 25-35m tall (exceptionally to 40m), with lobed
5455 and sessile (stalk-less) leaves. Flowering takes place in early to mid
5456 spring, and their fruit, called "acorns", ripen by autumn of the same
5457 year. The acorns are pedunculate (having a peduncle or acorn-stalk) and
5458 may occur singly, or several acorns may occur on a stalk.
5460 It forms a long-lived tree, with a large widespreading head of rugged
5461 branches. While it may naturally live to an age of a few centuries, many
5462 of the oldest trees are pollarded or coppiced, both pruning techniques
5463 that extend the tree's potential lifespan, if not its health.
5465 Within its native range it is valued for its importance to insects and
5466 other wildlife. Numerous insects live on the leaves, buds, and in the
5467 acorns. The acorns form a valuable food resource for several small
5468 mammals and some birds, notably Jays Garrulus glandarius.
5470 It is planted for forestry, and produces a long-lasting and durable
5471 heartwood, much in demand for interior and furniture work.
5473 =head2 v5.8.4 - T. S. Eliot, "The Old Gumbie Cat"
5475 L<Announced on 2004-04-22 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/04/msg90984.html>
5477 I have a Gumbie Cat in mind, her name is Jennyanydots;
5478 The curtain-cord she likes to wind, and tie it into sailor-knots.
5479 She sits upon the window-sill, or anything that's smooth and flat:
5480 She sits and sits and sits and sits -- and that's what makes a Gumbie Cat!
5482 But when the day's hustle and bustle is done,
5483 Then the Gumbie Cat's work is but hardly begun.
5484 She thinks that the cockroaches just need employment
5485 To prevent them from idle and wanton destroyment.
5486 So she's formed, from that a lot of disorderly louts,
5487 A troop of well-disciplined helpful boy-scouts,
5488 With a purpose in life and a good deed to do--
5489 And she's even created a Beetles' Tattoo.
5491 So for Old Gumbie Cats let us now give three cheers --
5492 On whom well-ordered households depend, it appears.
5495 =head2 v5.8.4-RC2 - T. S. Eliot, "Macavity: The Mystery Cat"
5497 L<Announced on 2004-04-16 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/04/msg90796.html>
5499 Macavity's a Mystery Cat: he's called the Hidden Paw --
5500 For he's the master criminal who can defy the Law.
5501 He's the bafflement of Scotland Yard, the Flying Squad's despair:
5502 For when they reach the scene of crime -- /Macavity's not there/!
5504 Macavity, Macavity, there's no one like Macavity,
5505 He's broken every human law, he breaks the law of gravity.
5506 His powers of levitation would make a fakir stare,
5507 And when you reach the scene of crime -- /Macavity's not there/!
5508 You may seek him in the basement, you may look up in the air --
5509 But I tell you once and once again, /Macavity's not there/!
5511 =head2 v5.8.4-RC1 - T. S. Eliot, "Skimbleshanks: The Railway Cat"
5513 L<Announced on 2004-04-05 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/04/msg90422.html>
5515 There's a whisper down the line at 11.39
5516 When the Night Mail's ready to depart,
5517 Saying 'Skimble where is Skimble has he gone to hunt the thimble?
5518 We must find him of the train can't start.'
5519 All the guards and all the porters and the stationmaster's daughters
5520 They are searching high and low,
5521 Saying 'Skimble where is Skimble for unless he's very nimble
5522 Then the Night Mail just can't go'
5523 At 11.42 then the signal's overdue
5524 And the passengers are frantic to a man--
5525 Then Skimble will appear and he'll saunter to the rear:
5526 He's been busy in the luggage van!
5527 He gives one flash of his glass-green eyes
5528 And the signal goes 'All Clear!'
5529 And we're off at last of the northern part
5530 Of the Northern Hemisphere!
5532 =head2 v5.8.3 - Arthur William Edgar O'Shaugnessy, "Ode"
5534 L<Announced on 2004-01-14 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/01/msg87317.html>
5536 We are the music makers,
5537 And we are the dreamers of dreams,
5538 Wandering by lonely sea-breakers,
5539 And sitting by desolate streams; --
5540 World-losers and world-forsakers,
5541 On whom the pale moon gleams:
5542 Yet we are the movers and shakers
5543 Of the world for ever, it seems.
5545 =head2 v5.8.3-RC1 - Irving Berlin, "Let's Face the Music and Dance"
5547 L<Announced on 2004-01-07 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/01/msg86969.html>
5549 There may be trouble ahead,
5550 But while there's music and moonlight,
5551 And love and romance,
5552 Let's face the music and dance.
5554 Before the fiddlers have fled,
5555 Before they ask us to pay the bill,
5556 And while we still have that chance,
5557 Let's face the music and dance.
5559 Soon, we'll be without the moon,
5560 Humming a different tune, and then,
5562 There may be teardrops to shed,
5563 So while there's music and moonlight,
5564 And love and romance,
5565 Let's face the music and dance.
5567 =head2 v5.8.2 - Walt Whitman, "Passage to India"
5569 L<Announced on 2003-11-05 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/11/msg84822.html>
5571 Passage, immediate passage! the blood burns in my veins!
5572 Away O soul! hoist instantly the anchor!
5573 Cut the hawsers - hall out - shake out every sail!
5574 Have we not stood here like trees in the ground long enough?
5575 Have we not grovel'd here long enough, eating and drinking like mere brutes?
5576 Have we not darken'd and dazed ourselves with books long enough?
5578 Sail forth - steer for the deep waters only,
5579 Reckless O soul, exploring, I with the and thou with me,
5580 For we are bound where mariner has not yet dared to go,
5581 And we will risk the ship, ourselves and all.
5584 O farther farther sail!
5585 O daring job, but safe! are they not all the seas of God?
5586 O farther, farther, farther sail!
5588 =head2 v5.8.2-RC2 - Eric Idle and John Du Prez, "Accountancy Shanty"
5590 L<Announced on 2003-11-03 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/11/msg84645.html>
5592 It's fun to charter an accountant
5593 And sail the wide accountan-cy,
5594 To find, explore the funds offshore
5595 And skirt the shoals of bankruptcy.
5597 =head2 v5.8.2-RC1 - Edward Lear, "The Jumblies"
5599 L<Announced on 2003-10-27 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/10/msg84194.html>
5601 They went to sea in a Sieve, they did,
5602 In a Sieve they went to sea:
5603 In spite of all their friends could say,
5604 On a winter's morn, on a stormy day,
5605 In a Sieve they went to sea!
5606 And when the Sieve turned round and round,
5607 And everyone cried, "You'll all be drowned!"
5608 They cried aloud, "Our Sieve ain't big,
5609 But we don't care a button, we don't care a fig!
5610 In a Sieve we'll go to sea!"
5612 Far and few, far and few,
5613 Are the lands where the Jumblies live;
5614 Their heads are green, and their hands are blue,
5615 And they went to sea in a Sieve.
5617 =head2 v5.8.1 - epigraph same as v5.7.1
5619 L<Announced on 2003-09-25 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/09/msg82678.html>
5621 =head2 v5.8.1-RC5 - Terry Pratchett, "Lords and Ladies"
5623 L<Announced on 2003-09-22 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/09/msg82476.html>
5625 No matter what she did with her hair it took about
5626 three minutes for it to tangle itself up again,
5627 like a garden hosepipe in a shed [Footnote: Which,
5628 no matter how carefully coiled, will always uncoil
5629 overnight and tie the lawnmower to the bicycles].
5631 =head2 v5.8.1-RC4 - Terry Pratchett, "Interesting Times"
5633 L<Announced on 2003-08-01 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/08/msg79184.html>
5635 Grand Viziers were /always/ scheming megalomaniacs.
5636 It was probably in the job description: "Are you a
5637 devious, plotting, unreliable madman? Ah, good,
5638 then you can be my most trusted minister."
5640 =head2 v5.8.1-RC3 - Terry Pratchett, "Interesting Times"
5642 L<Announced on 2003-07-30 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/07/msg79048.html>
5644 Lord Hong had a mind like a knife, although possibly
5645 a knife with a curved blade.
5647 =head2 v5.8.1-RC2 - Terry Pratchett, "Interesting Times"
5649 L<Announced on 2003-07-11 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/07/msg78102.html>
5651 Many an ancient lord's last words had been, "You can't kill
5652 me because I've got magic aaargh."
5654 =head2 v5.8.1-RC1 - Terry Pratchett, "Interesting Times"
5656 L<Announced on 2003-07-10 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/07/msg78009.html>
5658 Cohen was familiar with city gates. He'd broken down a number
5659 in his time, by battering ram, siege gun, and on one occasion
5662 But the gates of Hunghung were pretty damn good gates. They
5663 weren't like the gates of Ankh-Morpork, which were usually wide
5664 open to attract the spending customer and whose concession to
5665 defense was the sign "Thank You For Not Attacking Our City.
5666 Bonum Diem." These things were big and made of metal and there
5667 was a guardhouse and a squad of unhelpful men in black armor.
5669 =head2 v5.8.0 - Terry Pratchett, "Reaper Man"
5671 L<Announced on 2002-07-18 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2002/07/msg63720.html>
5673 There was the faint sound of footsteps.
5674 "Chap with a whip got as far as the big sharp spikes last week,"
5675 said the low priest.
5676 There was a sound like the flushing of a very old dry lavatory.
5677 The footsteps stopped. The High Priest smiled to himself.
5678 "Right," he said. "See your two pebbles and raise you two pebbles."
5679 The low priest threw down his cards. "Double Onion," he said.
5680 The High Priest looked down suspiciously.
5681 The low priest consulted a scrap of paper. "That's three hundred
5682 thousand, nine hundred and sixty-four pebbles you owe me," he said.
5683 There was the sound of footsteps. The priests exchanged glances.
5684 "Haven't had one for poisoned-dart alley for quite some time,"
5685 said the High Priest.
5686 "Five says he makes it", said the low priest. "You're on."
5687 There was a faint clatter of metal points on stone.
5688 "It's a shame to take your pebbles."
5689 There were footsteps again.
5691 =head2 v5.8.0-RC3 - no epigraph
5693 L<Announced on 2002-07-13 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2002/07/msg63234.html>
5695 =head2 v5.8.0-RC2 - no epigraph
5697 L<Announced on 2002-06-21 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2002/06/msg62013.html>
5699 =head2 v5.8.0-RC1 - no epigraph
5701 L<Announced on 2002-06-01 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2002/06/msg60317.html>
5703 =head2 v5.7.3 - Terry Pratchett, "Reaper Man"
5705 L<Announced on 2002-03-04 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2002/03/msg53652.html>
5707 Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong.
5708 No matter how fast light travels it finds the darkness has always
5709 got there first, and is waiting for it.
5711 =head2 v5.7.2 - Terry Pratchett, "Small Gods"
5713 L<Announced on 2001-07-13 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2001/07/msg40370.html>
5715 His philosophy was a mixture of three famous schools --
5716 the Cynics, the Stoics and the Epicureans -- and summed up
5717 all three of them in his famous phrase, "You can't trust any
5718 bugger further than you can throw him, and there's nothing
5719 you can do about it, so let's have a drink."
5721 =head2 v5.7.1 - Terry Pratchett, "The Colour of Magic"
5723 L<Announced on 2001-04-09 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2001/04/msg33851.html>
5725 "What happens next?" asked Twoflower.
5727 Hrun screwed a finger in his ear and inspected it absently.
5729 "Oh,", he said, "I expect in a minute the door will be
5730 flung back and I'll be dragged off to some sort of temple
5731 arena where I'll fight maybe a couple of giant spiders
5732 and an eight-foot slave from the jungles of Klatch and then
5733 I'll rescue some kind of a princess from the altar and then
5734 I'll kill off a few guards or whatever and then this girl
5735 will show me the secret passage out of the place and we'll
5736 liberate a couple of horses and escape with the treasure."
5737 Hrun leaned his head back on his hands and looked at the
5738 ceiling, whistling tunelessly.
5740 "All that?" said Twoflower.
5744 =head2 v5.7.0 - Terry Pratchett, "Moving Pictures"
5746 L<Announced on 2000-09-02 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2000/09/msg17730.html>
5748 The Librarian had seen many weird things in his time,
5749 but that had to be the 57th strangest.
5750 [footnote: he had a tidy mind]
5752 =head2 v5.6.2 - Laurence Sterne, "Tristram Shandy"
5754 L<Announced on 2003-11-15 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/11/msg85222.html>
5756 When great or unexpected events fall out upon the stage of this
5757 sublunary word--the mind of man, which is an inquisitive kind of
5758 a substance, naturally takes a flight, behind the scenes, to see
5759 what is the cause and first spring of them--The search was not
5760 long in this instance.
5762 =head2 v5.6.2-RC1 - Laurence Sterne, "Tristram Shandy"
5764 L<Announced on 2003-11-08 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/11/msg84953.html>
5766 "Pray, my dear", quoth my mother, "have you not forgot to wind up the clock?"
5768 =head2 v5.6.1 - J R R Tolkien, "The Hobbit", Riddles in the Dark
5770 L<Announced on 2001-04-08 by Gurusamy Sarathy|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2001/04/msg33823.html>
5772 `What have I got in my pocket?' he said aloud. He was talking to
5773 himself, but Gollum thought it was a riddle, and he was frightfully
5776 `Not fair! not fair!' he hissed. `It isn't fair, my precious, is it,
5777 to ask us what it's got in its nassty little pocketses?'
5779 Bilbo seeing what had happened and having nothing better to ask
5780 stuck to his question, `What have I got in my pocket?' he said
5783 `S-s-s-s-s,' hissed Gollum. `It must give us three guesseses,
5784 my precious, three guesseses.'
5786 =head2 v5.6.1-foolish - no epigraph
5788 L<Announced on 2001-04-01 by Gurusamy Sarathy|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2001/04/msg33421.html>
5790 =head2 v5.6.1-TRIAL3 - I can't find the announcement
5792 No announcement available.
5794 =head2 v5.6.1-TRIAL2 - no epigraph
5796 L<Announced on 2001-01-31 by Gurusamy Sarathy|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2001/01/msg29934.html>
5798 =head2 v5.6.1-TRIAL1 - no epigraph
5800 L<Announced on 2000-12-18 by Gurusamy Sarathy|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2000/12/msg27738.html>
5802 =head2 v5.6.0 - J R R Tolkien, "The Hobbit", The Last Stage
5804 L<Announced on 2000-03-23 by Gurusamy Sarathy|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2000/03/msg10341.html>
5806 The dragon is withered,
5807 His bones are now crumbled;
5808 His armour is shivered,
5809 His splendour is humbled!
5810 Though sword shall be rusted,
5811 And throne and crown perish
5812 With strength that men trusted
5813 And wealth that they cherish,
5814 Here grass is still growing,
5815 And leaves are a yet swinging,
5816 The white water flowing,
5817 And elves are yet singing
5818 Come! Tra-la-la-lally!
5819 Come back to the valley.
5821 =head2 v5.6.0-RC3 - no epigraph
5823 L<Announced on 2000-03-22 by Gurusamy Sarathy|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2000/03/msg10140.html>
5825 =head2 v5.005_05-RC1 - no epigraph
5827 L<Announced on 2009-02-16 by LE<0xe9>on Brocard|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2009/02/msg144227.html>
5829 =head2 v5.005_04 - no epigraph
5831 L<Announced on 2004-03-01 by LE<0xe9>on Brocard|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/03/msg89047.html>
5833 =head2 v5.005_04-RC2 - Rudyard Kipling, "The Jungle Book"
5835 L<Announced on 2004-02-19 by LE<0xe9>on Brocard|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/02/msg88672.html>
5837 The monkeys called the place their city, and pretended to despise
5838 the Jungle-People because they lived in the forest. And yet they
5839 never knew what the buildings were made for nor how to use
5840 them. They would sit in circles on the hall of the king's council
5841 chamber, and scratch for fleas and pretend to be men; or they would
5842 run in and out of the roofless houses and collect pieces of plaster
5843 and old bricks in a corner, and forget where they had hidden them,
5844 and fight and cry in scuffling crowds, and then break off to play up
5845 and down the terraces of the king's garden, where they would shake
5846 the rose trees and the oranges in sport to see the fruit and flowers
5849 =head2 v5.005_04-RC1 - Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
5851 L<Announced on 2004-02-05 by LE<0xe9>on Brocard|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/02/msg88312.html>
5853 Either the well was very deep, or she fell very slowly, for she had
5854 plenty of time as she went down to look about her and to wonder what was
5855 going to happen next. First, she tried to look down and make out what
5856 she was coming to, but it was too dark to see anything; then she looked
5857 at the sides of the well, and noticed that they were filled with
5858 cupboards and book-shelves; here and there she saw maps and pictures
5859 hung upon pegs. She took down a jar from one of the shelves as she
5860 passed; it was labelled 'ORANGE MARMALADE', but to her great
5861 disappointment it was empty: she did not like to drop the jar for fear
5862 of killing somebody, so managed to put it into one of the cupboards as
5865 =head2 v1.0_16 - Johan Vromans, extemporarily
5867 L<Announced on 2003-12-18 by Richard Clamp|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/12/msg86423.html>
5869 't was 16 years ago today
5870 Larry taught us a new game
5871 of lazyness, impatience, and hubris
5872 Happy birthday, Perl!
5874 =head1 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
5876 This document was originally compiled based on a list of epigraphs
5877 on L<Perl Monks|http://perlmonks.org> titled
5878 L<Recent Perl Release Announcement|http://perlmonks.org/?node_id=372406>