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 v5.23.3 - Oliver Wendell Holmes, "The Deacon’s Masterpiece or The Wonderful 'One-Hoss Shay': A Logical Story"
22 L<Announced on 2015-09-20 by Peter Martini|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/09/msg231173.html>
24 Little of of all we value here
25 Wakes on the morn of its hundredth year
26 Without both feeling and looking queer.
27 In fact, there’s nothing that keeps its youth,
28 So far as I know, but a tree and truth.
29 (This is a moral that runs at large;
30 Take it. — You’re welcome. — No extra charge.)
32 =head2 v5.23.2 - Blind Guardian, "Skalds and Shadows"
34 L<Announced on 2015-08-20 by Matthew Horsfall|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/08/msg230298.html>
36 Would you believe in a night like this
37 A night like this, when visions come true
38 Would you believe in a tale like this
39 A lay of bliss, praise in the old lore
40 Come to the blazing fire and
47 This night turns into myth
50 The world we live in is another skald's
54 Do you believe there is sense in it
56 They´re one in my rhymes
57 Nobody knows the meaning behind
59 Well nobody else but the Norns can
60 See through the blazing fires of time and
61 All things will proceed as the
67 Songs I will sing of tribes and kings
68 The carrion bird and the hall of the slain
71 The world we live in is another skald´s
75 Do not fear for my reason
76 There's nothing to hide
77 How bitter your treason
79 Remember the runes and remember the light
80 All I ever want is to be at your side
81 We'll gladden the raven now I will
82 Run through the blazing fires
84 Cause things shall proceed as foreseen
86 =head2 v5.23.1 - Elizabeth Haydon, "The Assassin King"
88 L<Announced on 2015-07-20 by Matthew Horsfall|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/07/msg229413.html>
90 I was born beneath this willow,
91 Where my sire the earth did farm
92 Had the green grass as my pillow
93 The east wind as a blanket warm.
95 But away! away! called the wind from the west
96 And in answer I did run
97 Seeking glory and adventure
98 Promised by the rising sun.
100 I found love beneath this willow,
101 As true a love as life could hold,
102 Pledged my heart and swore my fealty
103 Sealed with a kiss and a band of gold.
105 But to arms! to arms! called the wind from the west
106 In faithful answer I did run
107 Marching forth for king and country
108 In battles 'neath the midday sun.
110 Oft I dreamt of that fair willow
111 As the seven seas I plied
112 And the girl who I left waiting
113 Longing to be at her side.
115 But about! about! called the wind from the west
116 As once again my ship did run
117 Down the coast, about the wide world
118 Flying sails in the setting sun.
120 Now I lie beneath the willow
121 Now at last no more to roam,
122 My bride and earth so tightly hold me
123 In their arms I'm finally home.
125 While away! away! calls the wind from the west
126 Beyond the grave my spirit, free
127 Will chase the sun into the morning
128 Beyond the sky, beyond the sea.
130 =head2 v5.23.0 - Bob Dylan, Maggie's Farm
132 L<Announced on 2015-06-20 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/06/msg228807.html>
134 I ain't gonna work on Maggie's farm no more
135 I ain't gonna work on Maggie's farm no more
138 But everybody wants you
140 They sing while you slave and I just get bored
141 I ain't gonna work on Maggie's farm no more
143 =head2 v5.22.0 - Gene Wolfe, The Citadel of the Autarch
145 L<Announced on 2015-06-01 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/06/msg228300.html>
147 “You are the advocate of the dead.”
149 The old man nodded. “I am. People talk about being fair to this one and
150 that one, but nobody I ever heard talks about doing right by them. We
151 take everything they had, which is all right. And spit, most often, on
152 their opinions, which I suppose is all right too. But we ought to
153 remember now and then how much of what we have we got from them. I
154 figure while I’m still here I ought to put a word in for them.”
156 =head2 v5.22.0-RC2 - T.S. Eliot, unpublished work
158 L<Announced on 2015-05-21 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/05/msg228142.html>
160 And when thyself with silver foot shall pass
161 Among the theories scattered on the grass
162 Take up my good intentions with the rest
164 =head2 v5.22.0-RC1 - Gene Wolfe, Citadel of the Autarch
166 L<Announced on 2015-05-19 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/05/msg228059.html>
168 There is no limit to stupidity. Space itself is said to be bounded by
169 its own curvature, but stupidity continues beyond infinity.
171 =head2 v5.21.11 - Algernon Charles Swinburne, "Dolores (Notre-Dame des Sept Douleurs)"
173 L<Announced on 2015-04-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/04/msg227472.html>
175 They shall pass and their places be taken,
176 The gods and the priests that are pure.
177 They shall pass, and shalt thou not be shaken?
178 They shall perish, and shalt thou endure?
179 Death laughs, breathing close and relentless
180 In the nostrils and eyelids of lust,
181 With a pinch in his fingers of scentless
184 But the worm shall revive thee with kisses;
185 Thou shalt change and transmute as a god,
186 As the rod to a serpent that hisses,
187 As the serpent again to a rod.
188 Thy life shall not cease though thou doff it;
189 Thou shalt live until evil be slain,
190 And good shall die first, said thy prophet,
193 =head2 v5.21.10 - Aldous Huxley, "The Devils of Loudun"
195 L<Announced on 2015-03-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/03/msg226847.html>
197 The fire burned on, the good fathers continued to sprinkle and intone.
198 Suddenly a flock of pigeons came swooping down from the church and
199 started to wheel around the roaring column of flame and smoke. The
200 crowd shouted, the archers waved their halberds at the birds, Lactance
201 and Tranquille splashed them on the wing with holy water. In vain. The
202 pigeons were not to be driven away. Round and round they flew, diving
203 through the smoke, singeing their feathers in the flames. Both parties
204 claimed a miracle. For the parson's enemies the birds, quite obviously,
205 were a troop of devils, come to fetch away his soul. For his friends,
206 they were emblems of the Holy Ghost and living proof of his innocence.
207 It never seems to have occurred to anyone that they were just pigeons,
208 obeying the laws of their own, their blessedly other-than-human nature.
210 =head2 v5.21.9 - Emily Dickinson, "There is Another Sky"
212 L<Announced on 2015-02-20 by Sawyer X|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/02/msg226002.html>
214 There is another sky,
215 Ever serene and fair,
216 And there is another sunshine,
217 Though it be darkness there;
218 Never mind faded forests, Austin,
219 Never mind silent fields -
220 Here is a little forest,
221 Whose leaf is ever green;
222 Here is a brighter garden,
223 Where not a frost has been;
224 In its unfading flowers
225 I hear the bright bee hum:
229 =head2 v5.21.8 - Bill Watterson, "Scientific Progress Goes 'Boink': A Calvin and Hobbes Collection"
231 L<Announced on 2015-01-20 by Matthew Horsfall|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/01/msg224869.html>
233 Calvin: OK Hobbes, press the button and duplicate me.
234 Hobbes: Are you sure this is such a good idea?
235 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?
236 Hobbes: I'd hate to be accused of inhibiting scientific progress... Here you go.
238 Hobbes: Scientific progress goes "BOINK"?
239 Calvin?: It worked! It worked! I'm a genius!
240 Cavlin??: No you're not, you liar! *I* invented this!
242 =head2 v5.21.7 - Robert Heinlein, "The Number of the Beast"
244 L<Announced on 2014-12-20 by Max Maischein|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/12/msg223774.html>
246 "Zebadiah, Hilda and I salvaged and put everything into the basket.
247 Hilda started to put it into our wardrobe-and it was heavy. So
248 we looked. Packed as tight as when we left Oz. Six bananas-and
249 everything else. Cross my heart. No, go look."
250 "Hmmm- Jake, can you write equations for a picnic basket that
251 refills itself? Will it go on doing so?"
252 "Zeb, equations can be written to describe anything. The description
253 would be simpler for a basket that replenishes itself indefinitely
254 than for one that does it once and stops-I would have to describe
257 =head2 v5.21.6 - Jeff Noon, "Vurt"
259 L<Announced on 2014-11-20 by Chris 'BinGOs' Williams|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/11/msg222448.html>
263 EXCHANGE MECHANISMS. Sometimes we lose precious
264 things. Friends and colleagues, fellow travellers in the
265 Vurt, sometimes we lose them; even lovers we sometimes
266 lose. And get bad things in exchange: aliens, objects,
267 snakes, and sometimes even death. Things we don't want.
268 This is part of the deal, part of the game deal;
269 all things, in all worlds, must be kept in balance.
270 Kittlings often ask, who decides on the swappings? Now then,
271 some say it's all accidental; that some poor Vurt thing
272 finds himself too close to a door, at too critical a time,
273 just when something real is being lost. Whoosh! Swap time!
274 Others say that some kind of overseer is working the
275 MECHANISMS OF EXCHANGE, deciding the fate of innocents.
276 The Cat can only tease at this, because of the big secrets
277 involved, and because of the levels between you, the reader,
278 and me, the Game Cat. Hey, listen; I've struggled to get
279 where I am today; why should I give you the easy route?
280 Get working, kittlings! Reach up higher. Work the Vurt.
282 =head2 v5.21.5 - Friso Wiegersma (text), Jean Ferrat (music), Wim Sonneveld (performer), "Het Dorp"
284 L<Announced on 2014-10-20 by Abigail|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/10/msg221399.html>
288 Thuis heb ik nog een ansichtkaart
289 waarop een kerk, een kar met paard,
290 een slagerij J. van der Ven.
291 Een kroeg, een juffrouw op de fiets
292 het zegt u hoogstwaarschijnlijk niets,
293 maar 't is waar ik geboren ben.
294 Dit dorp, ik weet nog hoe het was,
295 de boerenkind'ren in de klas,
296 een kar die ratelt op de keien,
297 het raadhuis met een pomp ervoor,
298 een zandweg tussen koren door,
299 het vee, de boerderijen.
301 En langs het tuinpad van m'n vader
302 zag ik de hoge bomen staan.
303 Ik was een kind en wist niet beter,
304 dan dat dat nooit voorbij zou gaan.
306 Wat leefden ze eenvoudig toen
307 in simp'le huizen tussen groen
308 met boerenbloemen en een heg.
309 Maar blijkbaar leefden ze verkeerd,
310 het dorp is gemoderniseerd
311 en nu zijn ze op de goeie weg.
312 Want ziet, hoe rijk het leven is,
313 ze zien de televisiequiz
314 en wonen in betonnen dozen,
315 met flink veel glas, dan kun je zien
316 hoe of het bankstel staat bij Mien
317 en d'r dressoir met plastic rozen.
319 En langs het tuinpad van m'n vader
320 zag ik de hoge bomen staan.
321 Ik was een kind en wist niet beter,
322 dan dat dat nooit voorbij zou gaan.
324 De dorpsjeugd klit wat bij elkaar
325 in minirok en beatle-haar
326 en joelt wat mee met beat-muziek.
327 Ik weet wel, het is hun goeie recht,
328 de nieuwe tijd, net wat u zegt,
329 maar het maakt me wat melancholiek.
330 Ik heb hun vaders nog gekend
331 ze kochten zoethout voor een cent
332 ik zag hun moeders touwtjespringen.
333 Dat dorp van toen, het is voorbij,
334 dit is al wat er bleef voor mij:
335 een ansicht en herinneringen.
337 Toen ik langs het tuinpad van m'n vader
338 de hoge bomen nog zag staan.
339 Ik was een kind, hoe kon ik weten
340 dat dat voorgoed voorbij zou gaan.
342 =head2 v5.21.4 - Edgar Allan Poe, "The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket"
344 L<Announced on 2014-09-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/09/msg220267.html>
346 To-day, being in latitude 83° 20', longitude 43° 5' W. (the sea being
347 of an extraordinarily dark colour), we again saw land from the
348 masthead, and, upon a closer scrutiny, found it to be one of a group
349 of very large islands. The shore was precipitous, and the interior
350 seemed to be well wooded, a circumstance which occasioned us great
351 joy. In about four hours from our first discovering the land we came
352 to anchor in ten fathoms, sandy bottom, a league from the coast, as a
353 high surf, with strong ripples here and there, rendered a nearer
354 approach of doubtful expediency. The two largest boats were now
355 ordered out, and a party, well armed (among whome were Peters and
356 myself), proceeded to look for an opening in the reef which appeared
357 to encircle the island. After searching about for some time, we
358 discovered an inlet, which we were entering, when we saw four large
359 canoes put off from the shore, filled with men who seemed to be well
360 armed. We waited for them to come up, and, as they moved with great
361 rapidity, they were soon within hail. Captain Guy now held up a white
362 handkerchief on the blade of an oar, when the strangers made a full
363 stop, and commenced a loud jabbering all at once, intermingled with
364 occasional shouts, in which we could distinguish the words Anamoo-moo!
365 and Lama-Lama! They continued this for at least half an hour, during
366 which we had a good opportunity of observing their appearance.
368 =head2 v5.21.3 - Robert Service, "The Men that Don't Fit In"
370 L<Announced on 2014-08-20 by Peter Martini|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/08/msg218826.html>
372 If they just went straight they might go far,
373 They are strong and brave and true;
374 But they're always tired of the things that are,
375 And they want the strange and new.
376 They say: "Could I find my proper groove,
377 What a deep mark I would make!"
378 So they chop and change, and each fresh move
379 Is only a fresh mistake.
381 =head2 v5.21.2 - Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, Charlie Duke, Final minutes of communication of the first manned moon landing, July 20, 1969
383 L<Announced on 2014-07-20 by Abigail|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/07/msg217937.html>
385 Armstrong: Okay. Here's a...Looks like a good area here.
386 Aldrin: I got the shadow out there.
387 Aldrin: 250, down at 2 1/2, 19 forward.
388 Aldrin: Altitude, velocity lights.
389 Aldrin: 3 1/2 down, 220 feet, 13 forward.
390 Aldrin: 11 forward. Coming down nicely.
391 Armstrong: Gonna be right over that crater.
392 Aldrin: 200 feet, 4 1/2 down.
394 Armstrong: I got a good spot [garbled].
395 Aldrin: 160 feet, 6 1/2 down.
396 Aldrin: 5 1/2 down, 9 forward. You're looking good.
398 Aldrin: 100 feet, 3 1/2 down, 9 forward. Five percent. Quantity light.
399 Aldrin: Okay. 75 feet. And it's looking good. Down a half, 6 forward.
402 Aldrin: 60 feet, down 2 1/2. 2 forward. 2 forward. That's good.
403 Aldrin: 40 feet, down 2 1/2. Picking up some dust.
404 Aldrin: 30 feet, 2 1/2 down. [Garbled] shadow.
405 Aldrin: 4 forward. 4 forward. Drifting to the right a little. 20 feet,
408 Aldrin: Drifting forward just a little bit; that's good.
409 Aldrin: Contact Light.
411 Aldrin: Okay. Engine Stop.
412 Aldrin: ACA out of Detent.
413 Armstrong: Out of Detent. Auto.
414 Aldrin: Mode Control, both Auto. Descent Engine Command Override, Off.
415 Engine Arm, Off. 413 is in.
416 Duke: We copy you down, Eagle.
417 Armstrong: Engine arm is off.
418 Armstrong: Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed.
419 Duke: Roger, Twan...[correcting himself] Tranquility. We copy you on
420 the ground. You got a bunch of guys about to turn blue.
421 We're breathing again. Thanks a lot.
424 =head2 v5.21.1 - Robert Jordan, "The Crossroads of Twilights", Book 10 of "The Wheel of Time"
426 L<Announced on 2014-06-20 by Matthew Horsfall|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/06/msg217030.html>
428 We rode on the winds of the rising storm,
429 We ran to the sounds of the thunder.
430 We danced among the lightning bolts,
431 and tore the world asunder.
433 -- Anonymous fragment of a poem believed
434 written near the end of the previous Age,
435 known by some as the Third Age.
436 Sometimes attributed to the Dragon
439 =head2 v5.21.0 - Friedrich von Schiller, "The Song of the Bell"
441 L<Announced on 2014-05-27 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/05/msg215826.html>
443 Walled in fast within the earth
444 Stands the form burnt out of clay.
445 This must be the bell’s great birth!
446 Fellows, lend a hand to-day.
447 Sweat must trickle now
448 From the burning brow,
449 Till the work its master honour.
450 Blessing comes from Heaven’s Donor.
452 =head2 v5.20.3 - Elias Lönnrot, trans. Keith Bosley, "The Kalevala", Canto 42: Stealing the Sampo
454 L<Announced on 2015-09-12 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/09/msg230945.html>
456 Steady old Väinämöinen
457 uttered a word and spoke thus:
458 'No lilting on the waters
459 and no singing on the waves!
462 Precious day would pass and night
463 would overtake us midway
465 upon these vast waves.'
467 The wanton Lemminkäinen
468 uttered a word and spoke thus:
469 'The time will pass anyway
470 the fair day will flee
471 and the night will come panting
472 and the twilight will steal in
473 if you don't sing while you live
474 nor hum in this world.'
476 =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"
478 L<Announced on 2015-08-29 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/08/msg230544.html>
480 'I fled from Basra, sad and tearful, with no idea where I was going,
481 and I was reciting these lines:
483 The pain of parting makes me melt away,
484 As lovers do when those they love are harsh.
485 I wonder at the patience that I showed
486 When I had lost my love, for that was wonderful.
487 Beloved, do you know that since you left,
488 I have remained confused in misery.
490 I then heard a voice that said: "Damn you, have you no fear of
491 Almighty God that you hand over a girl to an unbelieving 'ifrit?" I
492 walked for a time amongst the palm-trees until I caught sight of a
493 person, whom I approached. When I asked him who he was he said: "I
494 am one of the jinn who were converted to Islam at the hands of 'Ali
495 ibn Abi Talib, may God ennoble him." "How can I get to my wife?" I
496 asked him, and he said: "Wretched fellow, you had a bird which you
497 allowed to fly away and now you want to fly after it." But he
498 added: "Follow this road with God's blessing all night until dawn
499 and then by the shore you will see a huge cave in which there is an
500 idol made of white stone. You must drink of the water that there is
501 coming out of the cave and smear your face with its mud. Stay there
502 and a barge will pass you as you stand opposite the statue. Various
503 different creatures will emerge, heads without bodies and bodies
504 without heads, and they will prostrate themselves in adoration to
505 the idol rather than to Almighty God. When you see that, embark on
506 the barge and cross to the other bank and walk along it until
507 sunset. On a high point you will see a castle built of bricks of
508 gold and silver. That is where your 'ifrit will be. I have now
509 told you about this, so goodbye."
511 =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"
513 L<Announced on 2015-08-22 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/08/msg230359.html>
515 'On the night of the wedding the ape came to sit in front of me and
516 asked me what I intended to do. "Whatever you tell me," I replied,
517 and he said: "Take care not to covet the girl, or I shall come back
518 and burn you up and leave you as a lesson for those who can learn."
519 I agreed to this and when evening came I found the world full of
520 candles and torches burning in holders of gold and silver. There
521 were servants and serving girls, and everyone who saw me
522 congratulated me on my good fortune, as there was no girl on the
523 face of the earth more beautiful than my bride.
525 'Next morning I went out to the market, and people went in and asked
526 her how the night had been. "He never looked up at me," she told
527 them. Then, when it was afternoon, I went to my house, where the
528 ape was sitting by the door. "Tell me what you did," it said, and I
529 told it: "By God, I did not learn and do not know whether this was a
530 man or a girl." "That's what I want," it said.
532 'On the second night my bride was brought to me, after which the
533 servants left her and went away. She fell asleep, and, while she
534 was sleeping, I killed the cock, wrapped it in the cloth and put the
535 four poles from the couch over it. Suddenly there was a huge crash
536 like a peal of thunder and a fiery 'ifrit swooped on the girl. I
537 fainted at the sight and when I recovered I heard a voice saying:
538 "By the Lord of the Ka'ba, the girl has been carried off!" and there
539 was a sound like the rustling of wind and bitter weeping. At this I
540 shed tears, struck my head and was filled with regret when it was no
541 longer of any use, for to me the whole world was worth no more than
544 =head2 v5.20.2 - Jonathan "Jonti" Picking, L<"Magical Trevor"|http://www.weebls-stuff.com/other-toons/video/magical-trevor.html>
546 L<Announced on 2015-02-14 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/02/msg225777.html>
548 Everyone loves Magical Trevor,
549 'Cos the tricks that he does are ever so clever;
550 Look at him now, disappearin' the cow,
551 Where is the cow hidden right now?
553 Taking a bow, it's Magical Trevor,
554 Everybody's seen that the trick is clever;
555 Look at him there with his leathery, leathery whip!
556 It's made of magic, and with a little flip--
558 Yeah, yeah, yeah, the cow is back,
559 Yeah, yeah, yeah, the cow is back;
560 Back, back, back from his magical journey,
563 What did he see in the parallel dimension?
564 He saw beans, lots of beans, lots of beans, lots of beans;
565 Oh, beans, lots of beans, lots of beans, lots of beans,
568 =head2 v5.20.2-RC1 - Jonathan "Jonti" Picking, L<"Scampi"|http://www.weebls-stuff.com/other-toons/video/scampi.html>
570 L<Announced on 2015-02-01 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/02/msg225273.html>
573 I've seen them with my eyes;
575 They're often in disguise.
577 Like carrots, handbags, cheese, toilets,
578 Russians, planets, hamsters, weddings,
579 Poets, Stalin, Kuala Lumpur!
580 Pygmies, budgies, Kuala Lumpur!
583 I've seen them with my eyes;
585 They're often in disguise.
587 Like carrots, handbags, cheese...
589 =head2 v5.20.1 - Lorenzo da Ponte, trans. Diana Reed, "Così fan tutte"
591 L<Announced on 2014-09-14 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/09/msg219789.html>
593 DORABELLA (as if waking from a daze): Where are they?
594 DON ALFONSO: They've gone.
595 FIORDILIGI: Oh, the cruel bitterness of parting!
598 Take heart, my dearest children.
599 Look, in the distance, your lovers are waving to you.
601 FIORDILIGI: Bon voyage, my darling!
602 DORABELLA: Bon voyage!
605 O heavens! How swiftly the ship is sailing away!
606 It is disappearing already!
607 It is no longer in sight!
608 Oh, may heaven grant it a prosperous voyage!
610 DORABELLA: May good luck attend it to the battlefield!
611 DON ALFONSO: And may your sweethearts and my friends be safe!
613 FIORDILIGI, DORABELLA, DON ALFONSO:
614 May the wind be gentle,
620 =head2 v5.20.1-RC2 - Lorenzo da Ponte, trans. William Weaver, "Così fan tutte"
622 L<Announced on 2014-09-07 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/09/msg219446.html>
625 Oh God, I feel that this foot of mine
626 is reluctant to come before her.
633 The hero displays his manliness
634 in the most terrible moments.
636 FIORDILIGI, DORABELLA:
637 Now that we have heard the news,
638 you have the lesser duty:
639 Take heart, and plunge your swords
640 into both our hearts.
644 that I must abandon you.
646 DORABELLA: Ah no, you shall not leave...
647 FIORDILIGI: No, cruel one, you shall not go...
648 DORABELLA: First I want to tear out my heart.
649 FIORDILIGI: First I want to die at your feet.
650 FERRANDO (softly to Don Alfonso): What do you say to that?
651 GUGLIELMO (softly to Don Alfonso): You realise?
652 DON ALFONSO (softly): Steady, friend, finem lauda.
655 Thus destiny defrauds
656 the hopes of mortals.
657 Ah, among so many misfortunes,
658 who can ever love life?
660 =head2 v5.20.1-RC1 - Lorenzo da Ponte, trans. William Weaver, "Così fan tutte"
662 L<Announced on 2014-08-25 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/08/msg218975.html>
665 I'd like to speak, but I haven't the heart:
667 My voice cannot emerge,
668 but remains in my throat.
669 What will you do? What shall I do?
670 Oh what a great catastrophe!
671 There can be nothing worse.
672 I feel pity for you and for them.
674 FIORDILIGI: Heavens! For mercy's sake, Signor Alfonso, don't make us
676 DON ALFONSO: My children, you must arm yourselves with constancy.
677 DORABELLA: Ye Gods! What evil has occurred? What horrible event? Is my
679 FIORDILIGI: Is mine dead?
680 DON ALFONSO: They are not dead, but they are not far from it.
684 DON ALFONSO: Nor that.
685 FIORDILIGI: What, then?
686 DON ALFONSO: A royal command summons them to the field of battle.
687 FIORDILIGI, DORABELLA: Alas, what do I hear? And they will leave?
688 DON ALFONSO: Immediately.
689 DORABELLA: And there is no way of preventing it?
690 DON ALFONSO: There is none.
691 FIORDILIGI: And not even a single farewell...
692 DON ALFONSO: The unhappy men haven't the courage to see you; but if
693 you wish it, they are ready...
694 DORABELLA: Where are they?
695 DON ALFONSO: Come in, friends.
697 =head2 v5.20.0 - William Shakespeare, Sonnet 18
699 L<Announced on 2014-05-27 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/05/msg215815.html>
701 But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
702 Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st;
703 Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
704 When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st:
705 So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
706 So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
708 =head2 v5.20.0-RC1 - Lindsey Buckingham, "Second Hand News"
710 L<Announced on 2014-05-17 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/05/msg215479.html>
714 Won't you lay me down in tall grass
715 And let me do my stuff
717 =head2 v5.19.11 - Isidore-Lucien Ducasse [as "Comte de Lautréamont"], trans. Paul Knight, "Les Chants de Maldoror"
719 L<Announced on 2014-04-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/04/msg214580.html>
721 O rigorous mathematics, I have not forgotten you since your wise lessons,
722 sweeter than honey, filtered into my heart like a refreshing wave.
723 Instinctively, from the cradle, I had longed to drink from your source, older
724 than the sun, and I continue to tread the sacred sanctuary of your solemn
725 temple, I, the most faithful of your devotees. There was a vagueness in my
726 mind, something thick as smoke; but I managed to mount the steps which lead to
727 your altar, and you drove away this dark veil, as the wind blows the
728 draught-board. You replaced it with excessive coldness, consummate prudence and
729 implacable logic. With the aid of your fortifying milk, my intellect developed
730 rapidly and took on immense proportions amid the ravishing lucidity which you
731 bestow as a gift on all those who sincerely love you. Arithmetic! Algebra!
732 Geometry! Awe-inspiring trinity! Luminous triangle! He who has not known you
735 =head2 v5.19.10 - John Chadwick, "The Decipherment of Linear B"
737 L<Announced on 2014-03-20 by Aaron Crane|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/03/msg213851.html>
739 The urge to discover secrets is deeply ingrained in human nature; even
740 the least curious mind is roused by the promise of sharing knowledge
741 withheld from others. Some are fortunate enough to find a job which
742 consists in the solution of mysteries, whether it be the physicist who
743 tracks down a hitherto unknown nuclear particle or the policeman who
744 detects a criminal. But most of us are driven to sublimate this urge
745 by the solving of artificial puzzles devised for our entertainment.
747 =head2 v5.19.9 - R. A. MacAvoy, "Tea with the Black Dragon"
749 L<Announced on 2014-02-20 by Tony Cook|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/02/msg213047.html>
751 Old hands. The smell of rain--the smell of Ch'an. Quiet words in
752 rough Cantonese. "I am not to be your master. Your master has to be
753 stronger than you are--has to tell you you are a fool and make you
754 know it. And make you feel content in being a fool. How could I do
755 that for you? I'm old. You are too strong for me; you are full of
756 chi." The old man has paused then, huddled against the wind while
757 clouds thickened above them.
759 "I will tell you this, Long," he continued, "Before you find yourself
760 you will lose your chi. Also you will leave behind you all pride of
761 body, pride of mind. You will be reduced. Like me." The old man
762 closed his eyes, and rain began to beat against his gray, crew-cut
763 hair. He pulled his coat closer. Suddenly his eyes snapped open and
764 he looked Long in the face.
766 "You must leave China. Go across the ocean. There you will meet your
767 master." He set down his teacup with a palsied hand. His voice rose,
770 "I tell you this, most honored and impressive visitor. You are a
771 fool, yes, but you will find the very thing you seek. You will find
774 =head2 v5.19.8 - Joseph Heller, "Catch-22"
776 L<Announced on 2014-01-20 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/01/msg211729.html>
778 “I used to get a big kick out of saving people’s lives. Now I wonder what the
779 hell’s the point, since they all have to die anyway.”
781 “Oh, there’s a point, all right,” Dunbar assured him.
783 “Is there? What is the point?”
785 “The point is to keep them from dying for as long as you can.”
787 “Yeah, but what’s the point, since they all have to die anyway?”
789 “The trick is not to think about that.”
791 “Never mind the trick. What the hell’s the point?”
793 Dunbar pondered in silence for a few moments. “Who the hell knows?”
795 =head2 v5.19.7 - Kurt Vonnegut, "Slaughterhouse-Five"
797 L<Announced on 2013-12-20 by Abigail|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/12/msg210882.html>
799 And somewhere in there was springtime. The corpse mines were closed
800 down. The soldiers all left to fight the Russians. In the suburbs,
801 the women and children dug rifle pits. Billy and the rest of his group
802 were locked up in the stable in the suburbs. And then, one morning,
803 they got up to discover that the door was unlocked. World War Two in
806 Billy and the rest wandered out onto the shady street. The trees were
807 leafing out. There was nothing going on out there, no traffic of any
808 kind. There was only one vehicle, an abandoned wagon drawn by two
809 horses. The wagon was green and coffin-shaped.
813 One bird said to Billy Pilgrim, "Pee-tee-weet?"
815 =head2 v5.19.6 - Monty Python's Flying Circus, "Spam"
817 L<Announced on 2013-11-20 by Chris 'BinGOs' Williams|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/11/msg210043.html>
819 Interior: cheap cafe. All the customers are Vikings. Mr and Mrs Bun enter downwards (on wires).
823 Mr. Bun: What have you got, then?
824 Waitress: Well there's egg and bacon; egg, sausage and bacon; egg and spam; egg, bacon and spam;
825 egg, bacon, sausage and spam; spam, bacon, sausage and spam; spam, egg, spam, spam, bacon and spam;
826 spam, spam, spam, egg and spam; spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, baked beans, spam, spam, spam and spam;
827 or lobster thermidor aux crevettes, with a mornay sauce garnished with truffle pate, brandy and a fried
829 Mrs. Bun: Have you got anything without spam in it?
830 Waitress: Well, there's spam, egg, sausage and spam. That's not got MUCH spam in it.
831 Mrs. Bun: I don't want ANY spam.
832 Mr. Bun: Why can't she have egg, bacon, spam and sausage?
833 Mrs. Bun: That's got spam in it!
834 Mr. Bun: Not as much as spam, egg, sausage and spam.
835 Mrs. Bun: Look, could I have egg, bacon, spam and sausage, without the spam.
836 Waitress: Uuuuuuggggh!
837 Mrs. Bun: What d'you mean, uugggh! I don't like spam.
838 Vikings: (singing) Spam, spam, spam, spam, spam ... spam, spam, spam, spam ... lovely spam, wonderful spam ...
840 (Brief shot of a Viking ship)
842 Waitress: Shut up. Shut up! Shut up! You can't have egg, bacon, spam and sausage without the spam.
844 Waitress: No, it wouldn't be egg, bacon, spam and sausage, would it?
845 Mrs. Bun: I don't like spam!
847 =head2 v5.19.5 - Charles Baudelaire, trans. James McGowan, "The Flowers of Evil", 51. The Cat
849 L<Announced on 2013-10-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/10/msg208752.html>
853 A cat is strolling through my mind
854 Acting as though he owned the place,
855 A lovely cat -- strong, charming, sweet.
856 When he meows, one scarcely hears,
858 So tender and discreet his tone;
859 But whether he should growl or purr
860 His voice is always rich and deep.
861 That is the secret of his charm.
863 This purling voice that filters down
864 Into my darkest depths of soul
865 Fulfils me like a balanced verse,
866 Delights me as a potion would.
868 It puts to sleep the cruellest ills
869 And keeps a rein on ecstasies --
870 Without the need for any words
871 It can pronounce the longest phrase.
873 Oh no, there is no bow that draws
874 Across my heart, fine instrument,
875 And makes to sing so royally
876 The strongest and the purest chord,
878 More than your voice, mysterious cat,
879 Exotic cat, seraphic cat,
880 In whom all is, angelically,
881 As subtle as harmonious.
885 From his soft fur, golden and brown,
886 Goes out so sweet a scent, one night
887 I might have been embalmed in it
888 By giving him one little pet.
890 He is my household's guardian soul;
891 He judges, he presides, inspires
892 All matters in hos royal realm;
893 Might he be fairy? or a god?
895 When my eyes, to this cat I love
896 Drawn as by a magnet's force,
897 Turn tamely back from that appeal,
898 And when I look within myself,
900 I notice with astonishment
901 The fire of his opal eyes,
902 Clear beacons glowing, living jewels,
903 Taking my measure, steadily.
905 =head2 v5.19.4 - Washington Irving, "The Widow and Her Son"
907 L<Announced on 2013-09-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/09/msg207969.html>
909 There is something in sickness that breaks down the pride of manhood;
910 that softens the heart and brings it back to the feelings of infancy.
911 Who that has languished, even in advanced life, in sickness and
912 despondency — who that has pined on a weary bed in the neglect and
913 loneliness of a foreign land — but has thought on the mother "that
914 looked on his childhood," that smoothed his pillow and administered to
915 his helplessness. — Oh! there is an enduring tenderness in the love
916 of a mother to her son that transcends all other affections of the
917 heart. It is neither to be chilled by selfishness — nor daunted by
918 danger — nor weakened by worthlessness — nor stifled by ingratitude.
919 She will sacrifice every comfort to his convenience — she will
920 surrender every pleasure to his enjoyment — she will glory in his fame
921 and exult in his prosperity. And if misfortune overtake him he will
922 be the dearer to her from misfortune — and if disgrace settle upon his
923 name, she will still love and cherish him in spite of his disgrace —
924 and if all the world beside cast him off, she will be all the world to
927 =head2 v5.19.3 - Andrew Hodges, "Alan Turing: The Enigma"
929 L<Announced on 2013-08-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/08/msg206318.html>
931 E.M. Forster, outdoing the King's heresy with grand bravura, had
932 written in 1938 that if he were faced with the choice between
933 betraying his country and betraying his friends, he hoped he would
934 have the courage to betray his country. He would always put the
935 personal above the political. But for Alan Turing, unlike Forster, or
936 Wittgenstein, or G.H. Hardy, it was more than a theoretical question.
937 For him not only had the personal become the political, but the
938 political was the personal. He had chosen and promised for himself in
939 working for the government. The choice for him therefore was that
940 between betraying one part of himself and betraying another part. And
941 however much he wavered between these alternatives, there was a solid
942 logic to the mind of security, one that could not be expected to take
943 an interest in notions of freedom and development. He had no rights
944 to such things, as he would have had to admit. He might have
945 outwitted the Home Guard, but when it came to questions that mattered,
946 there was no doubt that he had placed himself under military law.
947 There was a war on; there was always a war on now.
949 =head2 v5.19.2 - Fred Brooks, "The Mythical Man-Month"
951 L<Announced on 2013-07-22 by Aristotle Pagaltzis|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/07/msg204905.html>
953 The magic of myth and legend has come true in our time. One types the
954 correct incantation on a keyboard, and a display screen comes to life,
955 showing things that never were nor could be. [...] Not all is delight,
956 however [...] One must perform perfectly. The computer resembles the
957 magic of legend in this respect, too. If one character, one pause, of
958 the incantation is not strictly in proper form, the magic doesn't work.
960 =head2 v5.19.1 - William Shakespeare, "A Midsummer Night's Dream"
962 L<Announced on 2013-06-21 by David Golden|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/06/msg203449.html>
964 Over hill, over dale,
965 Thorough bush, thorough briar,
966 Over park, over pale,
967 Thorough flood, thorough fire,
968 I do wander everywhere,
969 Swifter than the moon's sphere;
970 And I serve the fairy queen,
971 To dew her orbs upon the green.
972 The cowslips tall her pensioners be;
973 In their gold coats, spots you see;
974 Those be rubies, fairy favours,
975 In their freckles live our savours.
976 I must go seek some dew-drops here,
977 And hang a perl in every cowslip's ear.
978 Farewell, thou lob of spirits, I'll be gone;
979 My queen and all her elves come here anon!
981 =head2 v5.19.0 - Batman, of the Joker, in "The Dark Knight Returns"
983 L<Announced on 2013-05-20 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/05/msg201980.html>
985 From the beginning, I knew…
986 …that there was nothing wrong with you…
990 =head2 v5.18.4 - Robert W. Chambers, Cassilda's Song in "The King in Yellow," Act I, Scene 2
992 L<Announced on 2014-10-01 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/10/msg220770.html>
994 Along the shore the cloud waves break,
995 The twin suns sink beneath the lake,
999 Strange is the night where black stars rise,
1000 And strange moons circle through the skies
1001 But stranger still is
1004 Songs that the Hyades shall sing,
1005 Where flap the tatters of the King,
1009 Song of my soul, my voice is dead;
1010 Die thou, unsung, as tears unshed
1011 Shall dry and die in
1014 =head2 v5.18.3 - (no epigraph)
1018 =head2 v5.18.3-RC2 - Robert W. Chambers, "The King in Yellow", Act I, Scene 2
1020 L<Announced on 2014-09-27 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/09/msg220613.html>
1022 "Ah! I see it now!" I shrieked. "You have seized the throne and the
1023 empire. Woe! woe to you who are crowned with the crown of the King in
1026 =head2 v5.18.3-RC1 - Robert W. Chambers, "The King in Yellow", Act I, Scene 2
1028 L<Announced on 2014-09-17 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/09/msg220072.html>
1030 CAMILLA: You, sir, should unmask.
1034 CASSILDA: Indeed it's time. We all have laid aside disguise but you.
1036 STRANGER: I wear no mask.
1038 CAMILLA: (Terrified, aside to Cassilda.) No mask? No mask!
1040 =head2 v5.18.2 - Miss Manners
1042 L<Announced on 2014-01-06 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/01/msg211224.html>
1044 One of the major mistakes people make is that they think manners are
1045 only the expression of happy ideas. There's a whole range of behavior
1046 that can be expressed in a mannerly way. That's what civilization is all
1047 about – doing it in a mannerly and not an antagonistic way. One of the
1048 places we went wrong was the naturalistic Rousseauean movement of the
1049 Sixties in which people said, "Why can't you just say what's on your
1050 mind?" In civilization there have to be some restraints. If we followed
1051 every impulse, we'd be killing one another.
1053 =head2 v5.18.1 - Chuck Moore
1055 L<Announced on 2013-08-12 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/08/msg205897.html>
1057 The operating system is another concept that is curious. Operating
1058 systems are dauntingly complex and totally unnecessary. It’s a brilliant
1059 thing that Bill Gates has done in selling the world on the notion of
1060 operating systems. It’s probably the greatest con game the world has
1063 An operating system does absolutely nothing for you. As long as you had
1064 something — a subroutine called disk driver, a subroutine called some
1065 kind of communication support, in the modern world, it doesn’t do
1066 anything else. In fact, Windows spends a lot of time with overlays and
1067 disk management all stuff like that which are irrelevant. You’ve got
1068 gigabyte disks; you’ve got megabyte RAMs. The world has changed in a way
1069 that renders the operating system unnecessary.
1071 =head2 v5.18.1-RC1 - Chuck Moore
1073 L<Announced on 2013-08-02 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/08/msg205445.html>
1075 Compilers are probably the worst code ever written. They are written by
1076 someone who has never written a compiler before and will never do so
1077 again. The more elaborate the language, the more complex, bug-ridden,
1078 and unusable is the compiler. But a simple compiler for a simple
1079 language is an essential tool—if only for documentation.
1081 =head2 v5.18.0 - Yevgeny Zamyatin
1083 L<Announced on 2013-05-18 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/05/msg201940.html>
1085 It is an error to divide people into the living and the dead: there are people
1086 who are dead-alive, and people who are alive-alive. The dead-alive also write,
1087 walk, speak, act. But they make no mistakes; only machines make no mistakes,
1088 and they produce only dead things. The alive-alive are constantly in error, in
1089 search, in questions, in torment.
1091 =head2 v5.18.0-RC4 - Joseph Heller, "Catch-22"
1093 L<Announced on 2013-05-16 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/05/msg201889.html>
1095 Clevinger was dead. That was the basic flaw in his philosophy.
1097 =head2 v5.18.0-RC3 - Tom Waits, "The Ocean Doesn't Want Me"
1099 L<Announced on 2013-05-14 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/05/msg201823.html>
1101 I'd love to go drowning
1102 And to stay and to stay
1103 But the ocean doesn't want me today
1104 I'll go in up to here
1105 It can't possibly hurt
1106 All they will find is my beer
1109 =head2 v5.18.0-RC2 - Tom Waits, "Earth Died Screaming"
1111 L<Announced on 2013-05-12 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/05/msg201723.html>
1113 And the great day of wrath has come
1114 And here's mud in your big red eye
1115 The poker's in the fire
1116 And the locusts take the sky
1117 And the earth died screaming
1118 While I lay dreaming of you
1120 =head2 v5.18.0-RC1 - Tom Waits, "What's He Building in There?"
1122 L<Announced on 2013-05-11 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/05/msg201651.html>
1124 What's he building in there?
1126 We have a right to know…
1128 =head2 v5.17.11 - Nigel Tufnel in "This is Spın̈al Tap"
1130 L<Announced on 2013-04-20 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/04/msg201056.html>
1132 It's very special because, if you can see, the numbers all go to…
1133 eleven! Look, right across the board: eleven, eleven, eleven, eleven!
1135 =head2 v5.17.10 - Vernor Vinge, "A Fire Upon The Deep"
1137 L<Announced on 2013-03-23 by Max Maischein|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/03/msg200504.html>
1139 The archive informed the automation. Data structures were built, recipes
1140 followed. A local network was built, faster than anything on Straum, but surely
1141 safe. Nodes were added, modified by other recipes. The archive was a friendly
1142 place, with hierarchies of translation keys that led them along. Straum itself
1143 would be famous for this.
1145 Six months passed. A year.
1147 The omniscient view. Not self-aware really. Self-awareness is much over-rated.
1148 Most automation works far better as a part of a whole, and even if human-
1149 powerful, it does not need to self-know.
1151 =head2 v5.17.9 - Douglas Adams, "The Hitch-Hikers Guide to the Galaxy"
1153 L<Announced on 2013-02-20 by Chris 'BinGOs' Williams|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/02/msg199115.html>
1155 Vogon poetry is of course, the third worst in the universe.
1156 The second worst is that of the Azgoths of Kria. During a
1157 recitation by their poet master Grunthos the Flatulent of
1158 his poem 'Ode To A Small Lump of Green Putty I Found In My
1159 Armpit One Midsummer Morning' four of his audience died
1160 of internal haemorrhaging and the president of the
1161 Mid-Galactic Arts Nobbling Council survived by gnawing one
1162 of his own legs off. Grunthos is reported to have been
1163 'disappointed' by the poem's reception, and was about to
1164 embark on a reading of his twelve-book epic entitled
1165 'My Favourite Bathtime Gurgles' when his own major intestine,
1166 in a desperate attempt to save life and civilisation,
1167 leapt straight up through his neck and throttled his brain.
1169 The very worst poetry of all perished along with its creator
1170 Paula Nancy Millstone Jennings of Greenbridge, Essex, England,
1171 in the destruction of the planet Earth.
1173 =head2 v5.17.8 - Iain Pears, "An Instance of the Fingerpost"
1175 L<Announced on 2013-01-20 by Aaron Crane|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/01/msg197571.html>
1177 I must here declare myself as someone who does not for a moment subscribe to
1178 the general view that a willingness to perform oneself is detrimental to the
1179 dignity of experimental philosophy. There is, after all, a clear distinction
1180 between labour carried out for financial reward, and that done for the
1181 improvement of mankind: to put it another way, Lower as a philosopher was
1182 fully my equal even if he fell away when he became the practising physician.
1183 I think ridiculous of certain professors of anatomy, who find it beneath
1184 them to pick up the knife themselves, but merely comment while hired hands
1185 do the cutting. Sylvius would never have dreamt of sitting on a dais reading
1186 from an authority while others cut — when he taught, the knife was
1187 in his hand and the blood spattered his coat. Boyle also did not scruple to
1188 perform his own experiments and, on one occasion in my presence, even showed
1189 himself willing to anatomise a rat with his very own hands. Nor was he less
1190 a gentleman when he had finished. Indeed, in my opinion, his stature was all
1191 the greater, for in Boyle wealth, humility and curiosity mingled, and the
1192 world is richer for it.
1194 =head2 v5.17.7 - R. Scott Bakker, "The Darkness That Comes Before"
1196 L<Announced on 2012-12-18 by Dave Rolsky|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/12/msg196707.html>
1200 The boy extinguished. Only a place.
1204 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.
1206 A place without breath or sound. A place of sight alone. A place without before or after . . . almost.
1208 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.
1210 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 . . .
1212 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.
1214 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.
1216 I have been legion . . .
1218 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.
1222 =head2 v5.17.6 - Kurt Vonnegut, "The Sirens of Titan"
1224 L<Announced on 2012-11-20 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/11/msg195659.html>
1226 Beatrice, looking like a gypsy queen, smoldered at the foot of a statue
1227 of a young physical student. At first glance, the laboratory-gowned
1228 scientist seemed to be a perfect servant of nothing but truth. At first
1229 glance, one was convinced that nothing but truth could please him as he
1230 beamed at his test tube. At first glance, one thought that he was as
1231 much above the beastly concerns of mankind as the harmoniums in the
1232 caves of Mercury. There, at first glance, was a young man without
1233 vanity, without lust — and one accepted at its face value the title Salo
1234 had engraved on the statue, "Discovery of Atomic Power."
1236 =head2 v5.17.5 - Charles Stross, "Singularity Sky"
1238 L<Announced on 2012-10-20 by Florian Ragwitz|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/10/msg194349.html>
1240 Neither of them noticed the pair of polka-dotted knickers hiding
1241 behind the ventilation duct overhead, listening patiently and
1242 recording everything.
1244 =head2 v5.17.4 - Roald Dahl, "Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf"
1246 L<Announced on 2012-09-19 by Florian Ragwitz|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/09/msg192635.html>
1248 The small girl smiles. One eyelid flickers.
1249 She whips a pistol from her knickers.
1250 She aims it at the creature's head,
1251 And bang bang bang, she shoots him dead.
1253 A few weeks later, in the wood,
1254 I came across Miss Riding Hood.
1255 But what a change! No cloak of red,
1256 No silly hood upon her head.
1257 She said, "Hello, and do please note
1258 My lovely furry wolfskin coat."
1260 =head2 v5.17.3 - Kris Ta-belle, "Smoked Perl Onion Soup"
1262 L<Announced on 2012-08-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/08/msg190775.html>
1266 Cut 16 Perl Onions into quarters and put them in a grill smoker rack
1267 or a perforated pan over a BBQ using hickory wood chips or Special
1268 Blend Smoker Bisquettes. Smoke them for an hour and remove once they
1270 Let them cool and put them in the fridge (or freezer) until you are
1271 ready to create the soup.
1275 16 diced, pre-smoked, Perl Onions
1278 2 small garlic cloves, finely minced
1281 black pepper to taste
1283 1/4 cup all purpose flour
1284 6 cups of beef or vegetable stock
1285 1 cup of thick cream (milk can be used as a substitute)
1289 Melt the butter in a pan and then add olive oil.
1290 Heat and add the onions to caramelize over a medium-high heat for up
1292 Add the garlic, turn down the heat and cook for a further 5 minutes.
1293 Add the salt, pepper and sugar.
1294 Now add the red wine and reduce to a jam like consistency.
1295 Add the flour, stir well and add the stock a cup at a time.
1296 Simmer for 30 minutes, add the cream and heat to almost boiling.
1300 =head2 v5.17.2 - Terry Pratchet, "The Colour of Magic"
1302 L<Announced on 2012-07-21 by TonyC|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/07/msg189828.html>
1304 ‘I knew it,’ said Rincewind. ‘We're in a strong magical field.’
1306 Twoflower and Hrun looked around the little hollow where they had made
1307 their noonday halt. Then they looked at each other.
1309 The horses were quietly cropping the rich grass by the stream. Yellow
1310 butterflies skittered among the bushes. There was a smell of thyme
1311 and a buzzing of bees. The wild pigs on the spit sizzled gently.
1313 Hrun shrugged and went back to oiling his biceps. They gleamed.
1315 ‘Looks alright to me,’ he said.
1317 ‘Try tossing a coin,’ said Rincewind.
1321 ‘Go on. Toss a coin.’
1323 ‘Hokay,’ said Hrun. 'If that gives you any pleasure.’ He reached into
1324 his pouch and withdrew a handful of loose change plundered from a
1325 dozen realms. With some care he selected a Zchloty leaden
1326 quarter-iotum and balanced it on a purple thumbnail.
1328 ‘You call,’ he said. ‘Heads or—’ he inspected the obverse with
1329 an air of intense concentration, ‘some sort of a fish with legs.’
1331 ‘When it's in the air,’ said Rincewind. Hrun grinned and flicked his thumb.
1333 The iotum rose, spinning.
1335 ‘Edge,’ said Rincewind, without looking at it.
1337 =head2 v5.17.1 - Rand Miller, "Myst: The Book of Ti'ana"
1339 L<Announced on 2012-06-20 by doy|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/06/msg188354.html>
1341 On their return from Ko'ah, Aitrus had shown her the Book, patiently
1342 taking her through page after page, and showing her how such an Age was
1343 "made." She had seen at once the differences between this archaic form
1344 and the ordinary written speech of the D'ni, noting how it was not
1345 merely more elaborate but more specific: a language of precise yet
1346 subtle descriptive power. Yet seeing was one thing, believing another.
1347 Given all the evidence, her rational mind still fought against accepting
1350 =head2 v5.17.0 - Charles Stross, "Singularity Sky"
1352 L<Announced on 2012-05-26 by Zefram|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/05/msg187214.html>
1354 `Welcome, comrades!' Burya opened his arms toward the soldier.
1355 `Yes it is true! With help from our allies of the Festival, the iron
1356 hand of the reactionary junta is about to be overthrown for all time!
1357 The new economy is being born; the marginal cost of production has
1358 been abolished, and from now on, if any item is produced once, it can
1359 be replicated infinitely. From each according to his imagination,
1360 to each according to his needs! Join us or better still, bring your
1361 fellow soldiers and workers to join us!'
1363 There was a sharp bang from the roof of the Corn Exchange, right at the
1364 climax of his impromptu speech; heads turned in alarm. Something had
1365 broken inside the spork factory and a stream of rainbow-hued plastic
1366 implements fountained toward the sky and clattered to the cobblestones
1367 on every side, like a harbinger of the postindustrial society to come.
1368 Workers and peasants alike stared in open-mouthed bewilderment at this
1369 astounding display of productivity, then bent to scrabble in the muck
1370 for the brightly colored sporks of revolution. A volley of shots rang
1371 out and Burya Rubenstein raised his hands, grinning wildly, to accept
1372 the salute of the soldiers from the Skull Hill garrison.
1374 =head2 v5.16.3 - Devo, "Freedom of Choice"
1376 L<Announced on 2013-03-11 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/03/msg200009.html>
1378 A victim of collision on the open sea
1379 Nobody ever said that life was free
1380 Sink, swim, go down with the ship
1381 But use your freedom of choice
1383 =head2 v5.16.2 - Stanislaw Lem, "The Cyberiad", Trurl's Machine
1385 L<Announced on 2012-11-01 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/11/msg194915.html>
1387 Once upon a time Trurl the constructor built an eight-story thinking
1388 machine. When it was finished, he gave it a coat of white paint,
1389 trimmed the edges in lavender, stepped back, squinted, then added a
1390 little curlicue on the front and, where one might imagine the forehead
1391 to be, a few pale orange polkadots. Extremely pleased with himself,
1392 he whistled an air and, as is always done on such occasions, asked it
1393 the ritual question of how much is two plus two.
1395 The machine stirred. Its tubes began to glow, its coils warmed up,
1396 current coursed through all its circuits like a waterfall,
1397 transformers hummed and throbbed, there was a clanging, and a
1398 chugging, and such an ungodly racket that Trurl began to think of
1399 adding a special mentation muffler. Meanwhile the machine labored on,
1400 as if it had been given the most difficult problem in the Universe to
1401 solve; the ground shook, the sand slid underfoot from the vibration,
1402 valves popped like champagne corks, the relays nearly gave way under
1403 the strain. At last, when Trurl had grown extremely impatient, the
1404 machine ground to a halt and said in a voice like thunder: SEVEN!
1406 =head2 v5.16.1 - Emerald Rose, "Never Split The Party"
1408 L<Announced on 2012-08-08 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/08/msg190413.html>
1410 Don't you know? You never split the party
1411 Clerics in the back to keep those fighters hale and hearty
1412 The wizard in the middle, where he can shed some light
1413 And you never let that damn thief out of sight…
1415 =head2 v5.16.1-RC1 - Tom Moldvay, Foreward to the "Dungeons & Dragons Basic Rulebook"
1417 L<Announced on 2012-08-03 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/08/msg190264.html>
1419 I was busy rescuing the captured maiden when the dragon showed up.
1420 Fifty feed of scaled terror glared down at us with smoldering red eyes.
1421 Tendrils of smoke drifted out from between fangs larger than daggers.
1422 The dragon blocked the only exit from the cave.
1426 I unwrapped the sword which the mysterious cleric had given me. The
1427 sword was golden-tinted steel. Its hilt was set with a rainbow
1428 collection of precious gems. I shouted my battle cry and charged
1430 My charge caught the dragon by surprise. Its titanic jaws snapped shut
1431 inches from my face. I swung the golden sword with both arms. The
1432 swordblade bit into the dragon's neck and continued through to the other
1433 side. With an earth-shaking crash, the dragon dropped dead at my feet.
1434 The magic sword had saved my life and ended the reign of the
1435 dragon-tyrant. The countryside was freed and I could return as a hero.
1437 =head2 v5.16.0 - W.H. Auden, "September 1, 1939"
1439 L<Announced on 2012-05-20 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/05/msg186903.html>
1441 All I have is a voice
1442 To undo the folded lie,
1443 The romantic lie in the brain
1444 Of the sensual man-in-the-street
1445 And the lie of Authority
1446 Whose buildings grope the sky:
1447 There is no such thing as the State
1448 And no one exists alone;
1449 Hunger allows no choice
1450 To the citizen or the police;
1451 We must love one another or die.
1453 =head2 v5.15.9 - Bob Dylan, "Blowin' In The Wind"
1455 L<Announced on 2012-03-20 by Abigail|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/03/msg184824.html>
1457 How many roads must a man walk down
1458 Before you call him a man?
1459 Yes, 'n' how many seas must a white dove sail
1460 Before she sleeps in the sand?
1461 Yes, 'n' how many times must the cannonballs fly
1462 Before they're forever banned?
1463 The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind
1464 The answer is blowin' in the wind
1466 How many years can a mountain exist
1467 Before it's washed to the sea?
1468 Yes, 'n' how many years can some people exist
1469 Before they're allowed to be free?
1470 Yes, 'n' how many times can a man turn his head
1471 Pretending he just doesn't see?
1472 The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind
1473 The answer is blowin' in the wind
1475 How many times must a man look up
1476 Before he can see the sky?
1477 Yes, 'n' how many ears must one man have
1478 Before he can hear people cry?
1479 Yes, 'n' how many deaths will it take till he knows
1480 That too many people have died?
1481 The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind
1482 The answer is blowin' in the wind
1484 =head2 v5.15.8 - The KLF, "The Manual-How To Have A Number One The Easy Way"
1486 L<Announced on 2012-02-20 by Max Maischein|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/02/msg183919.html>
1488 "Doctor Who, hey Doctor Who
1489 Doctor Who, in the Tardis
1490 Doctor Who, hey Doctor Who
1491 Doctor Who, Doc, Doctor Who
1492 Doctor Who, Doc, Doctor Who"
1494 Gibberish of course, but every lad in the country under a certain
1495 age related instinctively to what it was about. The ones slightly
1496 older needed a couple of pints inside them to clear away the mind
1497 debris left by the passing years before it made sense. As for
1498 girls and our chorus, we think they must have seen it as pure crap.
1499 A fact that must have limited to zero our chances of staying at The
1500 Top for more than one week.
1502 Stock, Aitkin and Waterman, however, are kings of writing chorus
1503 lyrics that go straight to the emotional heart of the 7" single
1504 buying girls in this country. Their most successful records will kick
1505 into the chorus with a line which encapsulates the entire emotional
1506 meaning of the song. This will obviously be used as the title. As
1507 soon as Rick Astley hit the first line of the chorus on his debut
1508 single it was all over - the Number One position was guaranteed:
1510 "I'm never going to give you up"
1512 =head2 v5.15.7 - Penelope Lively, "The Voyage of QV66"
1514 L<Announced on 2012-01-20 by Chris 'BinGOs' Williams|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/01/msg182230.html>
1516 "Laboratories," announced Henry. "Kindly don't touch anything."
1518 He led us into a long low brick shed. Outside there was a
1519 notice on a piece of board, crudely printed in red paint,
1520 which said GRATE SIENCE DISCOVERYS DONE HERE SSSH! BRING YOUR
1521 OWN BUKKIT NO PINCHING ANYWUN ELSE'S EXPERRYMENTS CANTEEN OPEN
1522 ALL DAY CHIMPS ONLY.
1524 There were a lot of large black monkeys inside, all intently
1525 busy on what they were doing. Some of them were pouring stuff
1526 out of bottles into buckets and carefully stirring the ensuing
1527 mixture; others were at work with glass tubes and jars, blowing
1528 and measuring and mixing; others were crouched over long benches
1529 with tools and heaps of bits and pieces of metal, cutting and
1530 bending and constructing. There was a great deal of noise and
1531 chatter. Every now and then one of them would give a whoop of
1532 excitement and all the others would gather round and jump up and
1533 down cheering and applauding.
1535 "Chimps," said Henry. "They're awfully clever."
1537 =head2 v5.15.6 - Ursula K. Leguin, "A Wizard of Earthsea"
1539 L<Announced on 2011-12-20 by Dave Rolsky|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/12/msg180962.html>
1541 Ged had thought that as the prentice of a great mage he would enter at once
1542 into the mystery and mastery of power. He would understand the language of the
1543 beasts and the speech of the leaves of the forest, he thought, and sway the
1544 winds with his word, and learn to change himself into any shape he
1545 wished. Maybe he and his master would run together as stags, or fly to Re Albi
1546 over the mountain on the wings of eagles.
1548 But it was not so at all. They wandered, first down into the Vale and then
1549 gradually south and westward around the mountain, given lodging in little
1550 villages or spending the night out in the wilderness, like poor
1551 journeyman-sorcerers, or tinkers, or beggars. They entered no mysterious
1552 domain. Nothing happened. The mage's oaken staff that Ged had watched at first
1553 with eager dread was nothing but a stout staff to walk with. Three days went
1554 by and four days went by and still Ogion had not spoken a single charm in
1555 Ged's hearing, and had not taught him a single name or rune or spell.
1557 =head2 v5.15.5 - Nikolai Gogol, trans. Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, "The Diary of a Madman"
1559 L<Announced on 2011-11-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/11/msg179588.html>
1561 This day - is a day of the greatest solemnity! Spain has a king. He has
1562 been found. I am that king. Only this very day did I learn of it. I
1563 confess, it came to me suddenly in a flash of lightning. I don't understand
1564 how I could have thought and imagined that I was a titular councillor. How
1565 could such a wild notion enter my head? It's a good thing no one thought of
1566 putting me in an insane asylum. Now everything is laid open before me. Now
1567 I see everything as on the palm of my hand. And before, I don't understand,
1568 before everything around me was in some sort of fog. And all this happens, I
1569 think, because people imagine that the human brain is in the head. Not at
1570 all: it is brought by a wind from the direction of the Caspian Sea. First
1571 off, I announced to Mavra who I am. When she heard that the king of Spain
1572 was standing before her, she clasped her hands and nearly died of fright.
1573 The stupid woman had never seen a king of Spain before. However, I
1574 endeavoured to calm her down and assured her in gracious words of my
1575 benevolence and that I was not at all angry that she sometimes polished my
1576 boots poorly. They're benighted folk. It's impossible to tell them about
1577 lofty matters. She got frightened because she's convinced that all kings of
1578 Spain are like Philip II. But I explained to her that there was no
1579 resemblance between me and Philip II, and that I didn't have a single
1580 Capuchin . . . I didn't go to the office . . . To hell with it! No friends,
1581 you won't lure me there now; I'm not going to copy your vile papers!
1583 =head2 v5.15.4 - Steve Jobs
1585 L<Announced on 2011-10-20 by Florian Ragwitz|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/10/msg178412.html>
1587 A lot of people in our industry haven't had very diverse experiences. So they
1588 don't have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions
1589 without a broad perspective on the problem. The broader one's understanding of
1590 the human experience, the better design we will have.
1592 =head2 v5.15.3 - Oscar Wilde, From the preface to "The Picture of Dorian Gray"
1594 L<Announced on 2011-09-20 by Stevan Little|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/09/msg177427.html>
1596 All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath
1597 the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol
1598 do so at their peril.
1600 It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.
1601 Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the
1602 work is new, complex, and vital. When critics disagree, the
1603 artist is in accord with himself.
1605 We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as
1606 he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless
1607 thing is that one admires it intensely.
1609 All art is quite useless.
1611 =head2 v5.15.2 - Rainer Maria Rilke, trans., C. F. MacIntyre, "Duino", The First Elegy
1613 L<Announced on 2011-08-20 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/08/msg176067.html>
1615 True, it is strange to live no more on earth,
1616 no longer follow the folkways scarecely learned;
1617 not to give roses and other especially auspicious
1618 things the significance of a human future;
1619 to be no more what one was in infinitely anxious hands,
1620 and to put aside even one's name, like a broken plaything.
1621 Strange, to wish wishes no longer. Strange, to see
1622 all that was related fluttering so loosely in space.
1623 And being dead is hard, full of catching-up,
1624 so that finally one feels a little eternity.–
1625 But the living all make the mistake of too sharp discrimination.
1626 Often angels (it's said) don't know if they move
1627 among the quick or the dead. The eternal current
1628 hurtles all ages along with it forever
1629 through both realms and drowns their voices in both.
1631 =head2 v5.15.1 - Greg Egan, "Permutation City"
1633 L<Announced on 2011-07-20 by Zefram|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/07/msg175014.html>
1635 Carter held out a hand towards the middle of the room. `See that
1636 fountain?' A ten-metre-wide marble wedding cake, topped with a
1637 winged cherub wrestling a serpent, duly appeared. Water cascaded
1638 down from a gushing wound in the cherub's neck. Carter said, `It's
1639 being computed by redundancies in the sketch of the city. I can
1640 extract the results, because I know exactly where to look for them --
1641 but nobody else would have a hope in hell of picking them out.'
1643 Peer walked up to the fountain. Even as he approached, he noticed
1644 that the spray was intangible; when he dipped his hand in the water
1645 around the base he felt nothing, and the motion he made with his
1646 fingers left the foaming surface unchanged. They were spying on
1647 the calculations, not interacting with them; the fountain was a
1650 Carter said, `In your case, of course, nobody will need to know
1651 the results. Except you -- and you'll know them because you'll
1654 =head2 v5.15.0 - Neil Gaiman, "The Graveyard Book"
1656 L<Announced on 2011-06-20 by David Golden|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/06/msg173748.html>
1658 If you dare nothing, then when the day is over, nothing is all you will have gained.
1660 =head2 v5.14.4 - Arthur C. Clarke, "The Nine Billion Names of God"
1662 L<Announced on 2013-03-11 by Dave Mitchell|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/03/msg199988.html>
1664 He began to sing, but gave it up after a while. This vast arena of
1665 mountains, gleaming like whitely hooded ghosts on every side, did not
1666 encourage such ebullience. Presently George glanced at his watch.
1668 'Should be there in an hour,' he called back over his shoulder to
1669 Chuck. Then he added, in an afterthought: 'Wonder if the computer's
1670 finished its run. It was due about now.'
1672 Chuck didn't reply, so George swung round in his saddle. He could just
1673 see Chuck's face, a white oval turned towards the sky.
1675 'Look,' whispered Chuck, and George lifted his eyes to heaven. (There
1676 is always a last time for everything.)
1678 Overhead, without any fuss, the stars were going out.
1680 =head2 v5.14.3 - William Shakespeare, "As You Like It"
1682 L<Announced on 2012-10-12 by Dominic Hargreaves|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/10/msg194057.html>
1684 The poor world is almost six thousand years old, and in all
1685 this time there was not any man died in his own person,
1686 videlicit, in a love-cause. Troilus had his brains dashed
1687 out with a Grecian club; yet he did what he could to die
1688 before, and he is one of the patterns of love. Leander, he
1689 would have lived many a fair year, though Hero had turned
1690 nun, if it had not been for a hot midsummer night; for, good
1691 youth, he went but forth to wash him in the Hellespont and
1692 being taken with the cramp was drowned and the foolish
1693 coroners of that age found it was 'Hero of Sestos.' But these
1694 are all lies: men have died from time to time and worms have
1695 eaten them, but not for love.
1697 =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 >>
1699 L<Announced on 2011-09-26 by Florian Ragwitz|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/09/msg177618.html>
1701 It's not so much that people don't value the programs after they have them--they
1702 do value them. But they're not the sort of thing that would ever catch on if
1703 they had to overcome the marketing barrier. (I don't yet know if perl will
1704 catch on at all--I'm worried enough about it that I specifically included an
1705 awk-to-perl translator just to help it catch on.) Maybe it's all just an
1706 inferiority complex. Or maybe I don't like to be mercenary.
1708 So I guess I'd say that the reason some software comes free is that the
1709 mechanism for selling it is missing, either from the work environment, or from
1710 the heart of the programmer.
1712 =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 >>
1714 L<Announced on 2011-06-16 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/06/msg173650.html>
1716 At this point I'm no longer working for a company that makes me sign
1717 my life away, but by now I'm in the habit. Besides, I still harbor
1718 the deep-down suspicion that nobody would pay money for what I write,
1719 since most of it just helps you do something better that you could
1720 already do some other way. How much money would you personally pay
1721 to upgrade from readnews to rn? How much money would you pay for
1722 the patch program? As for warp, it's a mere game. And anything you
1723 can do with perl you can eventually do with an amazing and totally
1724 unreadable conglomeration of awk, sed, sh and C.
1726 =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 >>
1728 L<Announced on 2011-05-14 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/05/msg172326.html>
1730 At the start of any project, I'm programming primarily to please
1731 myself. (The two chief virtues in a programmer are laziness and
1732 impatience.) After a while somebody looks over my shoulder and says,
1733 "That's neat. It'd be neater if it did such-and-so." So the thing
1734 gets neater. Pretty soon (a year or two) I have an rn, a warp, a patch,
1735 or a perl. One of these years I'll have a metaconfig.
1737 I then say to myself, "I don't want my life's work to die when this
1738 computer is scrapped, so I should let some other people use this. If I
1739 ask my company to sell this, it'll never see the light of day, and nobody
1740 would pay much for it anyway. If I sell it myself, I'll be in trouble with
1741 my company, to whom I signed my life away when I was hired. If I give it
1742 away, I can pretend it was worthless in the first place, so my company
1743 won't care. In any event, it's easier to ask forgiveness than permission."
1745 So a freely distributable program is born.
1747 =head2 v5.14.0-RC3 - American Airlines Gate Agent, last call
1749 L<Announced on 2011-05-11 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/05/msg172282.html>
1751 This is the last call for flight 1697 with service to Chicago and
1752 continuing service to San Francisco. All passengers should already be
1753 aboard. If you aren't aboard at this time, you will be denied boarding
1754 and your bags will be offloaded.
1756 =head2 v5.14.0-RC2 - Greg Grandin, "Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City"
1758 L<Announced on 2011-05-04 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/05/msg171879.html>
1760 Over the course of nearly two decades, Ford would spend tens of millions
1761 of dollars founding not one but, after the plantation was defastated
1762 by leaf blight, two American towns, complete with central squares,
1763 sidewalks, indoor plumbing, hospitals, manicured lawns, movie theaters,
1764 swimming pools, golf courses, and, of course, Model Ts and As rolling
1765 down their paved streets.
1767 Back in America, newspapers kept up their drumbeat celebration, only
1768 obliquely referencing reports that things were not progressing as the
1769 company had hoped. But there was one note of skepticism. In late 1928,
1770 the Washington Post ran an editorial that read in its entirety: "Ford will
1771 govern a rubber plantation in Brazil larger than North Carolina. This is
1772 the first time he has applied quantity production methods to trouble"
1774 =head2 v5.14.0-RC1 - Bill Bryson, "In a Sunburned Country"
1776 L<Announced on 2011-04-20 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/04/msg171253.html>
1778 But then Australia is such a difficult country to keep track of. On
1779 my first visit, some years ago, I passed the time on the long flight
1780 reading a history of Australian politics in the twentieth century,
1781 wherein I encountered the startling fact that in 1967 the prime minister,
1782 Harold Holt, was strolling along a beach in Victoria when he plunged into
1783 the surf and vanished. No trace of the poor man was ever seen again.
1784 This seemed doubly astounding to me—first that Australia could
1785 just I<lose> a prime minister (I mean, come on) and second that news of
1786 this had never reached me.
1788 =head2 v5.13.11 - Walt Whitman, L<"Leaves of Grass"|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leaves_of_Grass>
1790 L<Announced on 2011-03-20 by Florian Ragwitz|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/03/msg170206.html>
1792 When the full-grown poet came,
1793 Out spake pleased Nature (the round impassive globe, with all its
1794 shows of day and night,) saying, He is mine;
1795 But out spake too the Soul of man, proud, jealous and unreconciled,
1796 Nay he is mine alone;
1797 --Then the full-grown poet stood between the two, and took each
1799 And to-day and ever so stands, as blender, uniter, tightly
1801 Which he will never release until he reconciles the two,
1802 And wholly and joyously blends them.
1804 =head2 v5.13.10 - Egill Skalla-Grímsson, L<"Egils saga Skalla-Grímssonar"|http://www.heimskringla.no/wiki/Egils_saga_Skalla-Gr%C3%ADmssonar>
1806 L<Announced on 2011-02-20 by Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/02/msg169340.html>
1808 Skalat maðr rúnar rísta,
1809 nema ráða vel kunni.
1810 Þat verðr mörgum manni,
1811 es of myrkvan staf villisk.
1813 tíu launstafi ristna.
1814 Þat hefr lauka lindi
1815 langs ofrtrega fengit.
1817 =head2 v5.13.9 - John F Kennedy, L<Inaugural Address January 20, 1961|http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/John_F._Kennedy%27s_Inaugural_Address>
1819 L<Announced on 2011-01-20 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/01/msg168335.html>
1821 In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been
1822 granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I
1823 do not shrink from this responsibility -- I welcome it. I do not believe
1824 that any of us would exchange places with any other people or any other
1825 generation. The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this
1826 endeavor will light our country and all who serve it. And the glow from
1827 that fire can truly light the world.
1829 And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you;
1830 ask what you can do for your country.
1832 My fellow citizens of the world, ask not what America will do for you,
1833 but what together we can do for the freedom of man.
1835 Finally, whether you are citizens of America or citizens of the world,
1836 ask of us here the same high standards of strength and sacrifice which
1837 we ask of you. With a good conscience our only sure reward, with history
1838 the final judge of our deeds, let us go forth to lead the land we love,
1839 asking His blessing and His help, but knowing that here on earth God's
1840 work must truly be our own.
1842 =head2 v5.13.8 - Roger Williams, L<"The Fifth Gift"|http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2005/8/19/21304/8493>
1844 L<Announced on 2010-12-19 by Zefram|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/12/msg167271.html>
1846 The aliens called the box a "matter generator," but we'd be more inclined
1847 to call it a matter duplicator. By connecting switches and potentiometers
1848 between the copper posts it was possible to make the box mark off two
1849 cubic rectangular areas of volume. Make a certain contact, and these
1850 areas would be isolated within perfectly reflective fields. They could
1851 be expanded or contracted by altering resistances between other posts.
1852 As I worked out the user interface I built a little control panel for
1853 the device. It was actually a clever way for the aliens to do things;
1854 instead of trying to build controls we could use, they built us an
1855 interface we could attach to controls that made sense to us. It could
1858 Once you had made the contact that established the shielded volumes,
1859 if you made another certain contact the contents of the first volume
1860 were copied to the second. The machine copied metal, plastic, steel,
1861 and diamond with equal ease. Copies of copies of copies of copies were
1862 indistinguishable from the originals at any magnification, even using
1863 techniques like X-ray crystallography.
1865 =head2 v5.13.7 - Andy Wachowski and Lana Wachowski, "The Matrix"
1867 L<Announced on 2010-11-20 by Chris 'BinGOs' Williams|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/11/msg166162.html>
1869 [Neo sees a black cat walk by them, and then a similar black cat walk by them just like the first one]
1873 [Everyone freezes right in their tracks]
1875 Trinity: What did you just say?
1876 Neo: Nothing. Just had a little deja vu.
1877 Trinity: What did you see?
1878 Cypher: What happened?
1879 Neo: A black cat went past us, and then another that looked just
1881 Trinity: How much like it? Was it the same cat?
1882 Neo: It might have been. I'm not sure.
1883 Morpheus: Switch! Apoc!
1885 Trinity: A deja vu is usually a glitch in the Matrix. It happens when
1886 they change something.
1888 =head2 v5.13.6 - Haruki Murakami, "Kafka on the Shore"
1890 L<Announced on 2010-10-20 by Tatsuhiko Miyagawa|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/10/msg165183.html>
1892 The boy called Crow softly rests a hand on my shoulder, and with that
1895 "From now on -- no matter what -- you've got to be the world's toughest
1896 fifteen-year-old. That's the only way you're going to survive. And in order
1897 to do that, you've got to figure out what it means to be tough. You following
1900 I keep my eyes closed and don't reply. I just want to sink off into sleep
1901 like this, his hand on my shoulder. I hear the faint flutter of wings.
1903 "You're going to be the world's toughest fifteen-year-old," Crow whispers
1904 as I try to fall asleep. Like he was carving the words in a deep blue tattoo
1907 (Translated from Japanese by Philip Gabriel)
1909 =head2 v5.13.5 - Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, "The Room in the Dragon Volant"
1911 L<Announced on 2010-09-19 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/09/msg164238.html>
1913 Candle in hand I stepped in. I do not know whether the quality of
1914 air, long undisturbed, is peculiar; to me it has always seemed so, and
1915 the damp smell of the old masonry hung in this atmosphere. My candle
1916 faintly lighted the bare stone wall that enclosed the stair, the foot
1917 of which I could not see. Down I went, and a few turns brought me to
1918 the stone floor. Here was another door, of the simple, old, oak kind,
1919 deep sunk in the thickness of the wall. The large end of the key
1920 fitted this. The lock was stiff; I set the candle down upon the
1921 stair, and applied both hands; it turned with difficulty, and as it
1922 revolved, uttered a shriek that alarmed me for my secret.
1924 For some minutes I did not move. In a little time, however, I took
1925 courage, and opened the door. The night-air floating in puffed out
1926 the candle. There was a thicket of holly and underwood, as dense as a
1927 jungle, close about the door. I should have been in pitch-darkness,
1928 were it not that through the topmost leaves there twinkled, here and
1929 there, a glimmer of moonshine.
1931 Softly, lest any one should have opened his window at the sound of the
1932 rusty bolt, I struggled through this till I gained a view of the open
1933 grounds. Here I found that the brushwood spread a good way up the
1934 park, uniting with the wood that approached the little temple I have
1937 =head2 v5.13.4 - Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
1939 L<Announced on 2010-08-20 by Florian Ragwitz|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/08/msg163150.html>
1941 `How the creatures order one about, and make one repeat lessons!' thought Alice;
1942 `I might as well be at school at once.' However, she got up, and began to repeat
1943 it, but her head was so full of the Lobster Quadrille, that she hardly knew what
1944 she was saying, and the words came very queer indeed:--
1946 "'Tis the voice of the Lobster; I heard him declare,
1947 "You have baked me too brown, I must sugar my hair."
1948 As a duck with its eyelids, so he with his nose
1949 Trims his belt and his buttons, and turns out his toes.'
1952 `That's different from what I used to say when I was a child,' said the Gryphon.
1954 `Well, I never heard it before,' said the Mock Turtle; `but it sounds uncommon
1957 Alice said nothing; she had sat down with her face in her hands, wondering if
1958 anything would ever happen in a natural way again.
1960 `I should like to have it explained,' said the Mock Turtle.
1962 `She can't explain it,' said the Gryphon hastily. `Go on with the next verse.'
1964 `But about his toes?' the Mock Turtle persisted. `How could he turn them out
1965 with his nose, you know?'
1967 `It's the first position in dancing.' Alice said; but was dreadfully puzzled by
1968 the whole thing, and longed to change the subject.
1970 =head2 v5.13.3 - Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, "Good Omens"
1972 L<Announced on 2010-07-20 by David Golden|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/07/msg162230.html>
1974 Look at Crowley, doing 110 mph on the M40 heading towards
1975 Oxfordshire. Even the most resolutely casual observer would
1976 notice a number of strange things about him. The clenched teeth,
1977 for example, or the dull red glow coming from behind his
1978 sunglasses. And the car. The car was a definite hint.
1980 Crowley had started the journey in his Bentley, and he was
1981 dammned if he wasn't going to finish it in the Bentley as well.
1982 Not that even the kind of car buff who owns his own pair of
1983 motoring goggles would have been able to tell it was a vintage
1984 Bentley. Not any more. They wouldn't have been able to tell
1985 that it was a Bentley. They would only offer fifty-fifty that it
1986 had ever even been a car.
1988 There was no paint left on it, for a start. It might still have
1989 been black, where it wasn't a rusty, smudged reddish-brown, but
1990 this was a dull charcoal black. It traveled in its own ball of
1991 flame, like a space capsule making a particularly difficult
1994 There was a thin skin of crusted, melted rubber left around the
1995 metal wheel rims, but seeing that the wheel rims were still
1996 somhow riding an inch above the road surface this didn't seem to
1997 make an awful lot of difference to the suspension.
1999 It should have fallen apart miles back.
2001 =head2 v5.13.2 - Iain M Banks, "Use of Weapons"
2003 L<Announced on 2010-06-22 by Matt S Trout|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/06/msg161112.html>
2005 We deal in the moral equivalent of black holes, where the normal laws -
2006 the rules of right and wrong that people imagine apply everywhere else
2007 in the universe - break down; beyond those metaphysical event-horizons,
2008 there exist ... special circumstances.
2010 =head2 v5.13.1 - Miguel de Unamuno, "The Sepulchre of Don Quixote"
2012 L<Announced on 2010-05-20 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/05/msg160275.html>
2014 And if anyone shall come to you and say that he knows how to construct
2015 bridges and that perhaps a time will come when you will wish to avail
2016 yourself of his science in order to cross over a river, out with him! Out
2017 with the engineer! Rivers will be crossed by wading or swimming them, even
2018 if half the crusaders drown themselves. Let the engineer go off and build
2019 bridges somewhere else, where they are badly wanted. For those who go in
2020 quest of the sepulchre, faith is bridge enough.
2022 =head2 v5.13.0 - Jules Verne, "A Journey to the Centre of the Earth"
2024 L<Announced on 2010-04-20 by LE<0xe9>on Brocard|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/04/msg159275.html>
2026 The heat still remained at quite a supportable degree. With an
2027 involuntary shudder, I reflected on what the heat must have been
2028 when the volcano of Sneffels was pouring its smoke, flames, and
2029 streams of boiling lava -- all of which must have come up by the
2030 road we were now following. I could imagine the torrents of hot
2031 seething stone darting on, bubbling up with accompaniments of
2032 smoke, steam, and sulphurous stench!
2034 "Only to think of the consequences," I mused, "if the old
2035 volcano were once more to set to work."
2037 =head2 v5.12.5 - William Shakespeare, "Measure for Measure"
2039 L<Announced on 2012-11-10 by Dominic Hargreaves|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/11/msg195171.html>
2041 Music oft hath such a charm
2042 To make bad good, and good provoke to harm.
2044 =head2 v5.12.4 - William Schwenck Gilbert, "Trial By Jury"
2046 L<Announced on 2011-06-20 by Leon Brocard|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/06/msg173725.html>
2048 You cannot eat breakfast all day,
2049 Nor is it the act of a sinner,
2050 When breakfast is taken away,
2051 To turn his attention to dinner;
2052 And it's not in the range of belief,
2053 To look upon him as a glutton,
2054 Who, when he is tired of beef,
2055 Determines to tackle the mutton.
2056 Ah! But this I am willing to say,
2057 If it will appease her sorrow,
2058 I'll marry this lady today,
2059 And I'll marry the other tomorrow!
2061 =head2 v5.12.4-RC2 - James Russell Lowell, "Eleanor makes macaroons"
2063 L<Announced on 2011-06-15 by Leon Brocard|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/06/msg173609.html>
2065 Now for sugar, -- nay, our plan
2066 Tolerates no work of man.
2067 Hurry, then, ye golden bees;
2068 Fetch your clearest honey, please,
2069 Garnered on a Yorkshire moor,
2070 While the last larks sing and soar,
2071 From the heather-blossoms sweet
2072 Where sea-breeze and sunshine meet,
2073 And the Augusts mask as Junes, --
2074 Eleanor makes macaroons!
2076 =head2 v5.12.4-RC1 - Ogden Nash, "The Clean Plater"
2078 L<Announced on 2011-06-08 by Leon Brocard|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/06/msg173352.html>
2080 Pheasant is pleasant, of course,
2081 And terrapin, too, is tasty,
2082 Lobster I freely endorse,
2083 In pate or patty or pasty.
2084 But there's nothing the matter with butter,
2085 And nothing the matter with jam,
2086 And the warmest greetings I utter
2087 To the ham and the yam and the clam.
2090 And I think very fondly of food.
2091 Through I'm broody at times
2092 When bothered by rhymes,
2096 =head2 v5.12.3 - Howard W. Campbell, Jr., "Reflections on Not Participating in Current Events"
2098 L<Announced on 2011-01-21 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/01/msg168368.html>
2100 I saw a huge steam roller,
2101 It blotted out the sun.
2102 The people all lay down, lay down;
2103 They did not try to run.
2104 My love and I, we looked amazed
2105 Upon the gory mystery.
2106 'Lie down, lie down!' the people cried.
2107 'The great machine is history!'
2108 My love and I, we ran away,
2109 The engine did not find us.
2110 We ran up to a mountain top,
2111 Left history far behind us.
2112 Perhaps we should have stayed and died,
2113 But somehow we don't think so.
2114 We went to see where history'd been,
2115 And my, the dead did stink so.
2117 =head2 v5.12.2 - William Gibson, "Pattern Recognition"
2119 L<Announced on 2010-09-06 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/09/msg163852.html>
2121 CPUs. Cayce Pollard Units. That's what Damien calls the clothing
2122 she wears. CPUs are either black, white, or gray, and ideally
2123 seem to have come into this world without human intervention.
2125 What people take for relentless minimalism is a side effect
2126 of too much exposure to the reactor-cores of fashion. This
2127 has resulted in a remorseless paring-down of what she can and
2128 will wear. She is, literally, allergic to fashion. She can
2129 only tolerate things that could have been worn, to a general
2130 lack of comment, during any year between 1945 and 2000. She's a
2131 design-free zone, a one-woman school of and whose very austerity
2132 periodically threatens to spawn its own cult.
2134 =head2 v5.12.2-RC1 - William Gibson, "Pattern Recognition"
2136 L<Announced on 2010-08-31 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/08/msg163670.html>
2138 The front page opens, familiar as a friend's living room. A frame-grab
2139 from #48 serves as backdrop, dim and almost monochrome, no characters in
2140 view. This is one of the sequences that generate comparisons with
2141 Tarkovsky. She only knows Tarkovsky from stills, really, though she did
2142 once fall asleep during a screening of The Stalker, going under on an
2143 endless pan, the camera aimed straight down, in close-up, at a puddle on
2144 a ruined mosaic floor. But she is not one of those who think that much
2145 will be gained by analysis of the maker's imagined influences. The cult
2146 of the footage is rife with subcults, claiming every possible influence.
2147 Truffaut, Peckinpah -- The Peckinpah people, among the least likely, are
2148 still waiting for the guns to be drawn.
2150 =head2 v5.12.1 - Kurt Vonnegut, "Cat's Cradle"
2152 L<Announced on 2010-05-16 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/05/msg160109.html>
2154 "Now suppose," chortled Dr. Breed, enjoying himself, "that there were
2155 many possible ways in which water could crystallize, could freeze.
2156 Suppose that the sort of ice we skate upon and put into highballs --
2157 what we might call ice-one -- is only one of several types of ice.
2158 Suppose water always froze as ice-one on Earth because it had never
2159 had a seed to teach it how to form ice-two, ice-three, ice-four
2160 ...? And suppose," he rapped on his desk with his old hand again,
2161 "that there were one form, which we will call ice-nine -- a crystal as
2162 hard as this desk -- with a melting point of, let us say, one-hundred
2163 degrees Fahrenheit, or, better still, a melting point of one-hundred-
2164 and-thirty degrees."
2166 =head2 v5.12.1-RC2 - Kurt Vonnegut, "Cat's Cradle"
2168 L<Announced on 2010-05-13 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/05/msg160066.html>
2170 San Lorenzo was fifty miles long and twenty miles wide, I learned from
2171 the supplement to the New York Sunday Times. Its population was four
2172 hundred, fifty thousand souls, "...all fiercely dedicated to the ideals
2175 Its highest point, Mount McCabe, was eleven thousand feet above sea
2176 level. Its capital was Bolivar, "...a strikingly modern city built on a
2177 harbor capable of sheltering the entire United States Navy." The principal
2178 exports were sugar, coffee, bananas, indigo, and handcrafted novelties.
2180 =head2 v5.12.1-RC1 - Kurt Vonnegut, "Cat's Cradle"
2182 L<Announced on 2010-05-09 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/05/msg159971.html>
2184 Which brings me to the Bokononist concept of a wampeter. A wampeter is
2185 the pivot of a karass. No karass is without a wampeter, Bokonon tells us,
2186 just as no wheel is without a hub. Anything can be a wampeter: a tree,
2187 a rock, an animal, an idea, a book, a melody, the Holy Grail. Whatever
2188 it is, the members of its karass revolve about it in the majestic chaos
2189 of a spiral nebula. The orbits of the members of a karass about their
2190 common wampeter are spiritual orbits, naturally. It is souls and not
2191 bodies that revolve. As Bokonon invites us to sing:
2193 Around and around and around we spin,
2194 With feet of lead and wings of tin . . .
2196 =head2 v5.12.0 - Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
2198 L<Announced on 2010-04-12 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/04/msg158820.html>
2200 'Please would you tell me,' said Alice, a little timidly, for she was
2201 not quite sure whether it was good manners for her to speak first, 'why
2202 your cat grins like that?'
2204 'It's a Cheshire cat,' said the Duchess, 'and that's why. Pig!'
2206 She said the last word with such sudden violence that Alice quite
2207 jumped; but she saw in another moment that it was addressed to the baby,
2208 and not to her, so she took courage, and went on again:--
2210 'I didn't know that Cheshire cats always grinned; in fact, I didn't know
2211 that cats COULD grin.'
2213 'They all can,' said the Duchess; 'and most of 'em do.'
2215 =head2 v5.12.0-RC5 - Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
2217 L<Announced on 2010-04-09 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/04/msg158720.html>
2219 'Not QUITE right, I'm afraid,' said Alice, timidly; 'some of the words
2222 'It is wrong from beginning to end,' said the Caterpillar decidedly, and
2223 there was silence for some minutes.
2225 =head2 v5.12.0-RC4 - Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
2227 L<Announced on 2010-04-06 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/04/msg158567.html>
2229 'It was much pleasanter at home,' thought poor Alice, 'when one wasn't
2230 always growing larger and smaller, and being ordered about by mice and
2231 rabbits. I almost wish I hadn't gone down that rabbit-hole--and yet--and
2232 yet--it's rather curious, you know, this sort of life! I do wonder what
2233 can have happened to me! When I used to read fairy-tales, I fancied that
2234 kind of thing never happened, and now here I am in the middle of one!
2236 =head2 v5.12.0-RC3 - Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
2238 L<Announced on 2010-04-02 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/04/msg158346.html>
2240 At last the Mouse, who seemed to be a person of authority among them,
2241 called out, 'Sit down, all of you, and listen to me! I'LL soon make you
2242 dry enough!' They all sat down at once, in a large ring, with the Mouse
2243 in the middle. Alice kept her eyes anxiously fixed on it, for she felt
2244 sure she would catch a bad cold if she did not get dry very soon.
2246 'Ahem!' said the Mouse with an important air, 'are you all ready? This
2247 is the driest thing I know. Silence all round, if you please! "William
2248 the Conqueror, whose cause was favoured by the pope, was soon submitted
2249 to by the English, who wanted leaders, and had been of late much
2250 accustomed to usurpation and conquest. Edwin and Morcar, the earls of
2251 Mercia and Northumbria --"'
2253 =head2 v5.12.0-RC2 - no announcement
2255 Available on CPAN since 2010-04-01.
2257 =head2 v5.12.0-RC1 - Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
2259 L<Announced on 2010-03-29 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/03/msg158060.html>
2261 So she was considering in her own mind (as well as she could, for the
2262 hot day made her feel very sleepy and stupid), whether the pleasure of
2263 making a daisy-chain would be worth the trouble of getting up and
2264 picking the daisies, when suddenly a White Rabbit with pink eyes ran
2267 There was nothing so VERY remarkable in that; nor did Alice think it so
2268 VERY much out of the way to hear the Rabbit say to itself, 'Oh dear! Oh
2269 dear! I shall be late!' (when she thought it over afterwards, it
2270 occurred to her that she ought to have wondered at this, but at the time
2271 it all seemed quite natural); but when the Rabbit actually TOOK A WATCH
2272 OUT OF ITS WAISTCOAT-POCKET, and looked at it, and then hurried on,
2273 Alice started to her feet, for it flashed across her mind that she had
2274 never before seen a rabbit with either a waistcoat-pocket, or a watch to
2275 take out of it, and burning with curiosity, she ran across the field
2276 after it, and fortunately was just in time to see it pop down a large
2277 rabbit-hole under the hedge.
2279 In another moment down went Alice after it, never once considering how
2280 in the world she was to get out again.
2282 =head2 v5.12.0-RC0 - no epigraph
2284 L<Announced on 2020-03-21 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/03/msg157761.html>
2286 =head2 v5.11.5 - Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "Christabel"
2288 L<Announced on 2010-02-21 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/02/msg156957.html>
2290 A little child, a limber elf,
2291 Singing, dancing to itself,
2292 A fairy thing with red round cheeks,
2293 That always finds, and never seeks,
2294 Makes such a vision to the sight
2295 As fills a father's eyes with light;
2296 And pleasures flow in so thick and fast
2297 Upon his heart, that he at last
2298 Must needs express his love's excess
2299 With words of unmeant bitterness.
2300 Perhaps 'tis pretty to force together
2301 Thoughts so all unlike each other;
2302 To mutter and mock a broken charm,
2303 To dally with wrong that does no harm.
2304 Perhaps 'tis tender too and pretty
2305 At each wild word to feel within
2306 A sweet recoil of love and pity.
2307 And what, if in a world of sin
2308 (O sorrow and shame should this be true!)
2309 Such giddiness of heart and brain
2310 Comes seldom save from rage and pain,
2311 So talks as it's most used to do.
2313 =head2 v5.11.4 - Fyodor Dostoevsky, "Crime and Punishment"
2315 L<Announced on 2010-01-20 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/01/msg155848.html>
2317 And you don't suppose that I went into it headlong like a fool? I went
2318 into it like a wise man, and that was just my destruction. And you
2319 mustn't suppose that I didn't know, for instance, that if I began to
2320 question myself whether I had the right to gain power -- I certainly
2321 hadn't the right -- or that if I asked myself whether a human being is a
2322 louse it proved that it wasn't so for me, though it might be for a man
2323 who would go straight to his goal without asking questions.... If I
2324 worried myself all those days, wondering whether Napoleon would have
2325 done it or not, I felt clearly of course that I wasn't Napoleon.
2327 =head2 v5.11.3 - Mark Twain, "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer"
2329 L<Announced on 2009-12-20 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2009/12/msg154838.html>
2331 "Say -- I'm going in a swimming, I am. Don't you wish you could? But of
2332 course you'd druther work -- wouldn't you? Course you would!"
2334 Tom contemplated the boy a bit, and said: "What do you call work?"
2336 "Why ain't that work?"
2338 Tom resumed his whitewashing, and answered carelessly: "Well, maybe it
2339 is, and maybe it aint. All I know, is, it suits Tom Sawyer."
2341 "Oh come, now, you don't mean to let on that you like it?"
2343 The brush continued to move. "Like it? Well I don't see why I oughtn't
2344 to like it. Does a boy get a chance to whitewash a fence every day?"
2346 That put the thing in a new light. Ben stopped nibbling his apple. Tom
2347 swept his brush daintily back and forth -- stepped back to note the effect
2348 -- added a touch here and there-criticised the effect again -- Ben
2349 watching every move and getting more and more interested, more and more
2350 absorbed. Presently he said: "Say, Tom, let me whitewash a little."
2352 =head2 v5.11.2 - Michael Marshall Smith, "Only Forward"
2354 L<Announced on 2009-11-20 by Léon Brocard|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2009/11/msg153646.html>
2356 The streets were pretty quiet, which was nice. They're always quiet here
2357 at that time: you have to be wearing a black jacket to be out on the
2358 streets between seven and nine in the evening, and not many people in
2359 the area have black jackets. It's just one of those things. I currently
2360 live in Colour Neighbourhood, which is for people who are heavily into
2361 colour. All the streets and buildings are set for instant colourmatch:
2362 as you walk down the road they change hue to offset whatever you're
2363 wearing. When the streets are busy it's kind of intense, and anyone
2364 prone to epileptic seizures isn't allowed to live in the Neighbourhood,
2365 however much they're into colour.
2367 =head2 v5.11.1 - Joseph Heller, "Catch-22"
2369 L<Announced on 2009-10-20 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2009/10/msg152360.html>
2371 Milo had been caught red-handed in the act of plundering his countrymen,
2372 and, as a result, his stock had never been higher. He proved good as his
2373 word when a rawboned major from Minnesota curled his lip in rebellious
2374 disavowal and demanded his share of the syndicate Milo kept saying
2375 everybody owned. Milo met the challenge by writing the words "A Share"
2376 on the nearest scrap of paper and handing it away with a virtuous disdain
2377 that won the envy and admiration of almost everyone who knew him. His
2378 glory was at a peak, and Colonel Cathcart, who knew and admired his
2379 war record, was astonished by the deferential humility with which Milo
2380 presented himself at Group Headquarters and made his fantastic appeal
2381 for more hazardous assignment.
2383 =head2 v5.11.0 - Mikhail Bulgakov, "The Master and Margarita"
2385 L<Announced on 2009-10-02 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2009/10/msg151376.html>
2387 Whispers of an "evil power" were heard in lines at dairy shops, in
2388 streetcars, stores, arguments, kitchens, suburban and long-distance
2389 trains, at stations large and small, in dachas and on beaches. Needless
2390 to say, truly mature and cultured people did not tell these stories
2391 about an evil power's visit to the capital. In fact, they even made fun
2392 of them and tried to talk sense into those who told them. Nevertheless,
2393 facts are facts, as they say, and cannot simply be dismissed without
2394 explanation: somebody had visited the capital. The charred cinders of
2395 Griboyedov alone, and many other things besides, confirmed it. Cultured
2396 people shared the point of view of the investigating team: it was the
2397 work of a gang of hypnotists and ventriloquists magnificently skilled in
2400 =head2 v5.10.1 - Right Hon. James Hacker MP, "The Complete Yes Minister: The Diaries of a Cabinet Minister"
2402 L<Announced on 2009-08-23 by Dave Mitchell|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2009/08/msg150172.html>
2404 'Briefly, sir, I am the Permanent Under-Secretary of State, known as
2405 the Permanent Secretary. Woolley here is your Principal Private
2406 Secretary. I, too, have a Principal Private Secretary, and he is the
2407 Principal Private Secretary to the Permanent Secretary. Directly
2408 responsible to me are ten Deputy Secretaries, eighty-seven Under
2409 Secretaries and two hundred and nineteen Assistant Secretaries.
2410 Directly responsible to the Principal Private Secretaries are plain
2411 Private Secretaries. The Prime Minister will be appointing two
2412 Parliamentary Under-Secretaries and you will be appointing your own
2413 Parliamentary Private Secretary.'
2415 'Can they all type?' I joked.
2417 'None of us can type, Minister,' replied Sir Humphrey smoothly. 'Mrs
2418 McKay types - she is your Secretary.'
2420 I couldn't tell whether or not he was joking. 'What a pity,' I said.
2421 'We could have opened an agency.'
2423 Sir Humphrey and Bernard laughed. 'Very droll, sir,' said Sir
2424 Humphrey. 'Most amusing, sir,' said Bernard. Were they genuinely
2425 amused at my wit, or just being rather patronising? 'I suppose they
2426 all say that, do they?' I ventured.
2428 Sir Humphrey reassured me on that. 'Certainly not, Minister,' he
2429 replied. 'Not quite all.'
2431 =head2 v5.10.1-RC2 - no epigraph
2433 L<Announced on 2009-08-18 by Dave Mitchell|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2009/08/msg150015.html>
2435 =head2 v5.10.1-RC1 - no epigraph
2437 L<Announced on 2009-08-06 by Dave Mitchell|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2009/08/msg149498.html>
2439 =head2 v5.10.0 - Laurence Sterne, "Tristram Shandy"
2441 L<Announced on 2007-12-18 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2007/12/msg131636.html>
2443 He would often declare, in speaking his thoughts upon the subject, that
2444 he did not conceive how the greatest family in England could stand it
2445 out against an uninterrupted succession of six or seven short
2446 noses.--And for the contrary reason, he would generally add, That it
2447 must be one of the greatest problems in civil life, where the same
2448 number of long and jolly noses, following one another in a direct line,
2449 did not raise and hoist it up into the best vacancies in the kingdom.
2451 =head2 v5.10.0-RC2 - no epigraph
2453 L<Announced on 2007-11-25 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2007/11/msg130978.html>
2455 =head2 v5.10.0-RC1 - no epigraph
2457 L<Announced on 2007-11-17 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2007/11/msg130653.html>
2459 =head2 v5.9.5 - no announcement
2461 L<Pre-announced on 2007-07-07 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2007/07/msg126358.html>,
2462 available on CPAN with same date, but never actually announced.
2464 =head2 v5.9.4 - no epigraph
2466 L<Announced on 2006-08-15 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2006/08/msg115782.html>
2468 =head2 v5.9.3 - no epigraph
2470 L<Announced on 2006-01-28 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2006/01/msg109086.html>
2472 =head2 v5.9.2 - Thomas Pynchon, "V"
2474 L<Announced on 2005-04-01 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2005/04/msg99421.html>
2476 This word flip was weird. Every recording date of McClintic's he'd
2477 gotten into the habit of talking electricity with the audio men and
2478 technicians of the studio. McClintic once couldn't have cared less
2479 about electricity, but now it seemed if that was helping him reach a
2480 bigger audience, some digging, some who would never dig, but all
2481 paying and those royalties keeping the Triumph in gas and McClintic
2482 in J. Press suits, then McClintic ought to be grateful to
2483 electricity, ought maybe to learn a little more about it. So he'd
2484 picked up some here and there, and one day last summer he got around
2485 to talking stochastic music and digital computers with one
2486 technician. Out of the conversation had come Set/Reset, which was
2487 getting to be a signature for the group. He had found out from this
2488 sound man about a two-triode circuit called a flip-flop, which when
2489 it turned on could be one of two ways, depending on which tube was
2490 conducting and which was cut off: set or reset, flip or flop.
2492 "And that," the man said, "can be yes or no, or one or zero. And
2493 that is what you might call one of the basic units, or specialized
2494 `cells' in a big `electronic brain.' "
2496 "Crazy," said McClintic, having lost him back there someplace. But
2497 one thing that did occur to him was if a computer's brain could go
2498 flip or flop, why so could a musician's. As long as you were flop,
2499 everything was cool. But where did the trigger-pulse come from to
2502 =head2 v5.9.1 - Tom Stoppard, "Arcadia"
2504 L<Announced on 2004-03-16 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/03/msg89722.html>
2506 Aren't you supposed to have a pony?
2508 =head2 v5.9.0 - Doris Lessing, "Martha Quest"
2510 L<Announced on 2003-10-27 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/10/msg84147.html>
2512 What of October, that ambiguous month
2514 =head2 v5.8.9 - Right Hon. James Hacker MP, "The Complete Yes Minister: The Diaries of a Cabinet Minister"
2516 L<Announced on 2008-12-14 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2008/12/msg142571.html>
2518 Frank and I, unlike the civil servants, were still puzzled that such a
2519 proposal as the Europass could even be seriously under consideration by
2520 the FCO. We can both see clearly that it is wonderful ammunition for the
2521 anti-Europeans. I asked Humphrey if the Foreign Office doesn't realise
2522 how damaging this would be to the European ideal?
2524 'I'm sure they do, Minister, he said. That's why they support it.'
2526 This was even more puzzling, since I'd always been under the impression
2527 that the FO is pro-Europe. 'Is it or isn't it?' I asked Humphrey.
2529 'Yes and no,' he replied of course, 'if you'll pardon the
2530 expression. The Foreign Office is pro-Europe because it is really
2531 anti-Europe. In fact the Civil Service was united in its desire to make
2532 sure the Common Market didn't work. That's why we went into it.'
2534 This sounded like a riddle to me. I asked him to explain further. And
2535 basically his argument was as follows: Britain has had the same foreign
2536 policy objective for at least the last five hundred years - to create a
2537 disunited Europe. In that cause we have fought with the Dutch against
2538 the Spanish, with the Germans against the French, with the French and
2539 Italians against the Germans, and with the French against the Italians
2540 and Germans. [The Dutch rebellion against Phillip II of Spain, the
2541 Napoleonic Wars, the First World War, and the Second World War - Ed.]
2543 In other words, divide and rule. And the Foreign Office can see no
2544 reason to change when it has worked so well until now.
2546 I was aware of this, naturally, but I regarded it as ancient history.
2547 Humphrey thinks that it is, in fact, current policy. It was necessary
2548 for us to break up the EEC, he explained, so we had to get inside. We
2549 had previously tried to break it up from the outside, but that didn't
2550 work. [A reference to our futile and short-lived involvement in EFTA,
2551 the European Free Trade Association, founded in 1960 and which the UK
2552 left in 1972 - Ed.] Now that we're in, we are able to make a complete
2553 pig's breakfast out of it. We've now set the Germans against the French,
2554 the French against the Italians, the Italians against the Dutch... and
2555 the Foreign office is terribly happy. It's just like old time.
2557 I was staggered by all of this. I thought that the all of us who are
2558 publicly pro-European believed in the European ideal. I said this to Sir
2559 Humphrey, and he simply chuckled.
2561 So I asked him: if we don't believe in the European Ideal, why are we
2562 pushing to increase the membership?
2564 'Same reason,' came the reply. 'It's just like the United Nations. The
2565 more members it has, the more arguments you can stir up, and the more
2566 futile and impotent it becomes.'
2568 This all strikes me as the most appalling cynicism, and I said so.
2570 Sir Humphrey agreed completely. 'Yes Minister. We call it
2571 diplomacy. It's what made Britain great, you know.'
2573 =head2 v5.8.9-RC2 - Right Hon. James Hacker MP, "The Complete Yes Minister: The Diaries of a Cabinet Minister"
2575 L<Announced on 2008-12-06 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2008/12/msg142422.html>
2577 There was silence in the office. I didn't know what we were going to do
2578 about the four hundred new people supervising our economy drive or the
2579 four hundred new people for the Bureaucratic Watchdog Office, or
2580 anything! I simply sat and waited and hoped that my head would stop
2581 thumping and that some idea would be suggested by someone sometime soon.
2583 Sir Humphrey obliged. 'Minister... if we were to end the economy drive
2584 and close the Bureaucratic Watchdog Office we could issue an immediate
2585 press announcement that you had axed eight hundred jobs.' He had
2586 obviously thought this out carefully in advance, for at this moment he
2587 produced a slim folder from under his arm. 'If you'd like to approve
2590 I couldn't believe the impertinence of the suggestion. Axed eight
2591 hundred jobs? 'But no one was ever doing these jobs,' I pointed out
2592 incredulously. 'No one's been appointed yet.'
2594 'Even greater economy,' he replied instantly. 'We've saved eight hundred
2595 redundancy payments as well.'
2597 'But...' I attempted to explain '... that's just phony. It's dishonest,
2598 it's juggling with figures, it's pulling the wool over people's eyes.'
2600 'A government press release, in fact.' said Humphrey.
2602 =head2 v5.8.9-RC1 - Right Hon. James Hacker MP, "The Complete Yes Minister: The Diaries of a Cabinet Minister"
2604 L<Announced on 2008-11-10 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2008/11/msg141515.html>
2606 A jumbo jet touched down, with BURANDAN AIRWAYS written on the side. I
2607 was hugely impressed. British Airways are having to pawn their Concordes,
2608 and here is this little tiny African state with its own airline, jumbo
2611 I asked Bernard how many planes Burandan Airways had. 'None,' he said.
2613 I told him not to be silly and use his eyes. 'No Minister, it belongs to
2614 Freddie Laker,' he said. 'They chartered it last week and repainted it
2615 specially.' Apparently most of the Have-Nots (I mean, LDCs) do this - at
2616 the opening of the UN General Assembly the runways of Kennedy Airport are
2617 jam-packed with phoney flag-carriers. 'In fact,' said Bernard with a sly
2618 grin, 'there was one 747 that belonged to nine different African airlines
2619 in a month. They called it the mumbo-jumbo.'
2621 While we watched nothing much happening on the TV except the mumbo-jumbo
2622 taxiing around Prestwick and the Queen looking a bit chilly, Bernard gave
2623 me the next day's schedule and explained that I was booked on the night
2624 sleeper from King's Cross to Edinburgh because I had to vote in a
2625 three-line whip at the House tonight and would have to miss the last
2626 plane. Then the commentator, in that special hushed BBC voice used for any
2627 occasion with which Royalty is connected, announced reverentially that we
2628 were about to catch our first glimpse of President Selim.
2630 And out of the plane stepped Charlie. My old friend Charlie Umtali. We
2631 were at LSE together. Not Selim Mohammed at all, but Charlie.
2633 Bernard asked me if I were sure. Silly question. How could you forget a
2634 name like Charlie Umtali?
2636 I sent Bernard for Sir Humphrey, who was delighted to hear that we now
2637 know something about our official visitor.
2639 Bernard's official brief said nothing. Amazing! Amazing how little the FCO
2640 has been able to find out. Perhaps they were hoping it would all be on the
2641 car radio. All the brief says is that Colonel Selim Mohammed had converted
2642 to Islam some years ago, they didn't know his original name, and therefore
2643 knew little of his background.
2645 I was able to tell Humphrey and Bernard /all/ about his background.
2646 Charlie was a red-hot political economist, I informed them. Got the top
2647 first. Wiped the floor with everyone.
2649 Bernard seemed relieved. 'Well that's all right then.'
2653 'I think Bernard means,' said Sir Humphrey helpfully, 'that he'll know how
2654 to behave if he was at an English University. Even if it was the LSE.' I
2655 never know whether or not Humphrey is insulting me intentionally.
2657 Humphrey was concerned about Charlie's political colour. 'When you said
2658 that he was red-hot, were you speaking politically?'
2660 In a way I was. 'The thing about Charlie is that you never quite know
2661 where you are with him. He's the sort of chap who follows you into a
2662 revolving door and comes out in front.'
2664 'No deeply held convictions?' asked Sir Humphrey.
2666 'No. The only thing Charlie was committed too was Charlie.'
2668 'Ah, I see. A politician, Minister.'
2670 =head2 v5.8.8 - Joe Raposo, "Bein' Green"
2672 L<Announced on 2006-01-31 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2006/01/msg109190.html>
2674 It's not that easy bein' green
2675 Having to spend each day the color of the leaves
2676 When I think it could be nicer being red or yellow or gold
2677 Or something much more colorful like that
2679 It's not easy bein' green
2680 It seems you blend in with so many other ordinary things
2681 And people tend to pass you over 'cause you're
2682 Not standing out like flashy sparkles in the water
2685 But green's the color of Spring
2686 And green can be cool and friendly-like
2687 And green can be big like an ocean
2688 Or important like a mountain
2691 When green is all there is to be
2692 It could make you wonder why, but why wonder why?
2693 Wonder I am green and it'll do fine, it's beautiful
2694 And I think it's what I want to be
2696 =head2 v5.8.8-RC1 - Cosgrove Hall Productions, "Dangermouse"
2698 L<Announced on 2006-01-20 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2006/01/msg108833.html>
2700 Greenback: And the world is mine, all mine. Muhahahahaha. See to it!
2702 Stiletto: Si, Barone. Subito, Barone.
2704 =head2 v5.8.7 - Sergei Prokofiev, "Peter and the Wolf"
2706 L<Announced on 2005-05-31 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2005/05/msg101088.html>
2708 And now, imagine the triumphant procession: Peter at the head; after him the
2709 hunters leading the wolf; and winding up the procession, grandfather and the
2712 Grandfather shook his head discontentedly: "Well, and if Peter hadn't caught
2713 the wolf? What then?"
2715 =head2 v5.8.7-RC1 - Sergei Prokofiev, "Peter and the Wolf"
2717 L<Announced on 2005-05-20 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2005/05/msg100711.html>
2719 And now this is how things stood: The cat was sitting on one branch. The
2720 bird on another, not too close to the cat. And the wolf walked round and
2721 round the tree, looking at them with greedy eyes.
2723 In the meantime, Peter, without the slightest fear, stood behind the
2724 gate, watching all that was going on. He ran home,got a strong rope and
2725 climbed up the high stone wall.
2727 One of the branches of the tree, around which the wolf was walking,
2728 stretched out over the wall.
2730 Grabbing hold of the branch, Peter lightly climbed over on to the tree.
2731 Peter said to the bird: "Fly down and circle round the wolf's head, only
2732 take care that he doesn't catch you!".
2734 The bird almost touched the wolf's head with its wings, while the wolf
2735 snapped angrily at him from this side and that.
2737 How that bird teased the wolf, how that wolf wanted to catch him! But
2738 the bird was clever and the wolf simply couldn't do anything about it.
2740 =head2 v5.8.6 - A. A. Milne, "The House at Pooh Corner"
2742 L<Announced on 2004-11-27 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/11/msg96304.html>
2744 "Hallo, Pooh," said Piglet, giving a jump of surprise. "I knew it was
2747 "So did I,", said Pooh. "What are you doing?"
2749 "I'm planting a haycorn, Pooh, so that it can grow up into an oak-tree,
2750 and have lots of haycorns just outside the front door instead of having
2751 to walk miles and miles, do you see, Pooh?"
2753 "Supposing it doesn't?" said Pooh.
2755 "It will, because Christopher Robin says it will, so that's why I'm
2758 "Well," aid Pooh, "if I plant a honeycomb outside my house, then it will
2759 grow up into a beehive."
2761 Piglet wasn't quite sure about this.
2763 "Or a /piece/ of a honeycomb," said Pooh, "so as not to waste too much.
2764 Only then I might only get a piece of a beehive, and it might be the
2765 wrong piece, where the bees were buzzing and not hunnying. Bother"
2767 Piglet agreed that that would be rather bothering.
2769 "Besides, Pooh, it's a very difficult thing, planting unless you know
2770 how to do it," he said; and he put the acorn in the hole he had made,
2771 and covered it up with earth, and jumped on it.
2773 =head2 v5.8.6-RC1 - A. A. Milne, "Winnie the Pooh"
2775 L<Announced on 2004-11-11 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/11/msg95786.html>
2777 "Hallo!" said Piglet, "whare are /you/ doing?"
2779 "Hunting," said Pooh.
2783 "Tracking something," said Winnie-the-Pooh very mysteriously.
2785 "Tracking what?" said Piglet, coming closer.
2787 "That's just what I ask myself, I ask myself, What?"
2789 "What do you think you'll answer?"
2791 "I shall have to wait until I catch up with it," said Winnie-the-Pooh.
2792 "Now, look there." He pointed to the ground in front of him. "What do
2795 "Track," said Piglet. "Paw-marks." He gave a little squeak of
2796 excitement. "Oh, Pooh!" Do you think it's a--a--a Woozle?"
2798 =head2 v5.8.5 - wikipedia, "Yew"
2800 L<Announced on 2004-07-19 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/07/msg93189.html>
2802 Yews are relatively slow growing trees, widely used in landscaping and
2803 ornamental horticulture. They have flat, dark-green needles, reddish
2804 bark, and bear seeds with red arils, which are eaten by thrushes,
2805 waxwings and other birds, dispersing the hard seeds undamaged in their
2806 droppings. Yew wood is reddish brown (with white sapwood), and very
2807 hard. It was traditionally used to make bows, especially the English
2810 In England, the Common Yew (Taxus baccata, also known as English Yew) is
2811 often found in churchyards. It is sometimes suggested that these are
2812 placed there as a symbol of long life or trees of death, and some are
2813 likely to be over 3,000 years old. It is also suggested that yew trees
2814 may have a pre-Christian association with old pagan holy sites, and the
2815 Christian church found it expedient to use and take over existing sites.
2816 Another explanation is that the poisonous berries and foliage discourage
2817 farmers and drovers from letting their animals wander into the burial
2818 grounds. The yew tree is a frequent symbol in the Christian poetry of
2819 T.S. Eliot, especially his Four Quartets.
2821 =head2 v5.8.5-RC2 - wikipedia, "Beech"
2823 L<Announced on 2004-07-09 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/07/msg92934.html>
2825 Beeches are trees of the Genus Fagus, family Fagaceae, including about
2826 ten species in Europe, Asia, and North America. The leaves are entire or
2827 sparsely toothed. The fruit is a small, sharply-angled nut, borne in
2828 pairs in spiny husks. The beech most commonly grown as an ornamental or
2829 shade tree is the European beech (Fagus sylvatica).
2831 The southern beeches belong to a different but related genus,
2832 Nothofagus. They are found in Australia, New Zealand, New Guinea, New
2833 Caledonia and South America.
2835 =head2 v5.8.5-RC1 - wikipedia, "Pedunculate Oak" (abridged)
2837 L<Announced on 2004-07-07 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/07/msg92840.html>
2839 The Pedunculate Oak is called the Common Oak in Britain, and is also
2840 often called the English Oak in other English speaking countries It is a
2841 large deciduous tree to 25-35m tall (exceptionally to 40m), with lobed
2842 and sessile (stalk-less) leaves. Flowering takes place in early to mid
2843 spring, and their fruit, called "acorns", ripen by autumn of the same
2844 year. The acorns are pedunculate (having a peduncle or acorn-stalk) and
2845 may occur singly, or several acorns may occur on a stalk.
2847 It forms a long-lived tree, with a large widespreading head of rugged
2848 branches. While it may naturally live to an age of a few centuries, many
2849 of the oldest trees are pollarded or coppiced, both pruning techniques
2850 that extend the tree's potential lifespan, if not its health.
2852 Within its native range it is valued for its importance to insects and
2853 other wildlife. Numerous insects live on the leaves, buds, and in the
2854 acorns. The acorns form a valuable food resource for several small
2855 mammals and some birds, notably Jays Garrulus glandarius.
2857 It is planted for forestry, and produces a long-lasting and durable
2858 heartwood, much in demand for interior and furniture work.
2860 =head2 v5.8.4 - T. S. Eliot, "The Old Gumbie Cat"
2862 L<Announced on 2004-04-22 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/04/msg90984.html>
2864 I have a Gumbie Cat in mind, her name is Jennyanydots;
2865 The curtain-cord she likes to wind, and tie it into sailor-knots.
2866 She sits upon the window-sill, or anything that's smooth and flat:
2867 She sits and sits and sits and sits -- and that's what makes a Gumbie Cat!
2869 But when the day's hustle and bustle is done,
2870 Then the Gumbie Cat's work is but hardly begun.
2871 She thinks that the cockroaches just need employment
2872 To prevent them from idle and wanton destroyment.
2873 So she's formed, from that a lot of disorderly louts,
2874 A troop of well-disciplined helpful boy-scouts,
2875 With a purpose in life and a good deed to do--
2876 And she's even created a Beetles' Tattoo.
2878 So for Old Gumbie Cats let us now give three cheers --
2879 On whom well-ordered households depend, it appears.
2882 =head2 v5.8.4-RC2 - T. S. Eliot, "Macavity: The Mystery Cat"
2884 L<Announced on 2004-04-16 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/04/msg90796.html>
2886 Macavity's a Mystery Cat: he's called the Hidden Paw --
2887 For he's the master criminal who can defy the Law.
2888 He's the bafflement of Scotland Yard, the Flying Squad's despair:
2889 For when they reach the scene of crime -- /Macavity's not there/!
2891 Macavity, Macavity, there's no one like Macavity,
2892 He's broken every human law, he breaks the law of gravity.
2893 His powers of levitation would make a fakir stare,
2894 And when you reach the scene of crime -- /Macavity's not there/!
2895 You may seek him in the basement, you may look up in the air --
2896 But I tell you once and once again, /Macavity's not there/!
2898 =head2 v5.8.4-RC1 - T. S. Eliot, "Skimbleshanks: The Railway Cat"
2900 L<Announced on 2004-04-05 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/04/msg90422.html>
2902 There's a whisper down the line at 11.39
2903 When the Night Mail's ready to depart,
2904 Saying 'Skimble where is Skimble has he gone to hunt the thimble?
2905 We must find him of the train can't start.'
2906 All the guards and all the porters and the stationmaster's daughters
2907 They are searching high and low,
2908 Saying 'Skimble where is Skimble for unless he's very nimble
2909 Then the Night Mail just can't go'
2910 At 11.42 then the signal's overdue
2911 And the passengers are frantic to a man--
2912 Then Skimble will appear and he'll saunter to the rear:
2913 He's been busy in the luggage van!
2914 He gives one flash of his glass-green eyes
2915 And the signal goes 'All Clear!'
2916 And we're off at last of the northern part
2917 Of the Northern Hemisphere!
2919 =head2 v5.8.3 - Arthur William Edgar O'Shaugnessy, "Ode"
2921 L<Announced on 2004-01-14 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/01/msg87317.html>
2923 We are the music makers,
2924 And we are the dreamers of dreams,
2925 Wandering by lonely sea-breakers,
2926 And sitting by desolate streams; --
2927 World-losers and world-forsakers,
2928 On whom the pale moon gleams:
2929 Yet we are the movers and shakers
2930 Of the world for ever, it seems.
2932 =head2 v5.8.3-RC1 - Irving Berlin, "Let's Face the Music and Dance"
2934 L<Announced on 2004-01-07 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/01/msg86969.html>
2936 There may be trouble ahead,
2937 But while there's music and moonlight,
2938 And love and romance,
2939 Let's face the music and dance.
2941 Before the fiddlers have fled,
2942 Before they ask us to pay the bill,
2943 And while we still have that chance,
2944 Let's face the music and dance.
2946 Soon, we'll be without the moon,
2947 Humming a different tune, and then,
2949 There may be teardrops to shed,
2950 So while there's music and moonlight,
2951 And love and romance,
2952 Let's face the music and dance.
2954 =head2 v5.8.2 - Walt Whitman, "Passage to India"
2956 L<Announced on 2003-11-05 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/11/msg84822.html>
2958 Passage, immediate passage! the blood burns in my veins!
2959 Away O soul! hoist instantly the anchor!
2960 Cut the hawsers - hall out - shake out every sail!
2961 Have we not stood here like trees in the ground long enough?
2962 Have we not grovel'd here long enough, eating and drinking like mere brutes?
2963 Have we not darken'd and dazed ourselves with books long enough?
2965 Sail forth - steer for the deep waters only,
2966 Reckless O soul, exploring, I with the and thou with me,
2967 For we are bound where mariner has not yet dared to go,
2968 And we will risk the ship, ourselves and all.
2971 O farther farther sail!
2972 O daring job, but safe! are they not all the seas of God?
2973 O farther, farther, farther sail!
2975 =head2 v5.8.2-RC2 - Eric Idle and John Du Prez, "Accountancy Shanty"
2977 L<Announced on 2003-11-03 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/11/msg84645.html>
2979 It's fun to charter an accountant
2980 And sail the wide accountan-cy,
2981 To find, explore the funds offshore
2982 And skirt the shoals of bankruptcy.
2984 =head2 v5.8.2-RC1 - Edward Lear, "The Jumblies"
2986 L<Announced on 2003-10-27 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/10/msg84194.html>
2988 They went to sea in a Sieve, they did,
2989 In a Sieve they went to sea:
2990 In spite of all their friends could say,
2991 On a winter's morn, on a stormy day,
2992 In a Sieve they went to sea!
2993 And when the Sieve turned round and round,
2994 And everyone cried, "You'll all be drowned!"
2995 They cried aloud, "Our Sieve ain't big,
2996 But we don't care a button, we don't care a fig!
2997 In a Sieve we'll go to sea!"
2999 Far and few, far and few,
3000 Are the lands where the Jumblies live;
3001 Their heads are green, and their hands are blue,
3002 And they went to sea in a Sieve.
3004 =head2 v5.8.1 - epigraph same as v5.7.1
3006 L<Announced on 2003-09-25 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/09/msg82678.html>
3008 =head2 v5.8.1-RC5 - Terry Pratchett, "Lords and Ladies"
3010 L<Announced on 2003-09-22 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/09/msg82476.html>
3012 No matter what she did with her hair it took about
3013 three minutes for it to tangle itself up again,
3014 like a garden hosepipe in a shed [Footnote: Which,
3015 no matter how carefully coiled, will always uncoil
3016 overnight and tie the lawnmower to the bicycles].
3018 =head2 v5.8.1-RC4 - Terry Pratchett, "Interesting Times"
3020 L<Announced on 2003-08-01 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/08/msg79184.html>
3022 Grand Viziers were /always/ scheming megalomaniacs.
3023 It was probably in the job description: "Are you a
3024 devious, plotting, unreliable madman? Ah, good,
3025 then you can be my most trusted minister."
3027 =head2 v5.8.1-RC3 - Terry Pratchett, "Interesting Times"
3029 L<Announced on 2003-07-30 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/07/msg79048.html>
3031 Lord Hong had a mind like a knife, although possibly
3032 a knife with a curved blade.
3034 =head2 v5.8.1-RC2 - Terry Pratchett, "Interesting Times"
3036 L<Announced on 2003-07-11 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/07/msg78102.html>
3038 Many an ancient lord's last words had been, "You can't kill
3039 me because I've got magic aaargh."
3041 =head2 v5.8.1-RC1 - Terry Pratchett, "Interesting Times"
3043 L<Announced on 2003-07-10 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/07/msg78009.html>
3045 Cohen was familiar with city gates. He'd broken down a number
3046 in his time, by battering ram, siege gun, and on one occasion
3049 But the gates of Hunghung were pretty damn good gates. They
3050 weren't like the gates of Ankh-Morpork, which were usually wide
3051 open to attract the spending customer and whose concession to
3052 defense was the sign "Thank You For Not Attacking Our City.
3053 Bonum Diem." These things were big and made of metal and there
3054 was a guardhouse and a squad of unhelpful men in black armor.
3056 =head2 v5.8.0 - Terry Pratchett, "Reaper Man"
3058 L<Announced on 2002-07-18 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2002/07/msg63720.html>
3060 There was the faint sound of footsteps.
3061 "Chap with a whip got as far as the big sharp spikes last week,"
3062 said the low priest.
3063 There was a sound like the flushing of a very old dry lavatory.
3064 The footsteps stopped. The High Priest smiled to himself.
3065 "Right," he said. "See your two pebbles and raise you two pebbles."
3066 The low priest threw down his cards. "Double Onion," he said.
3067 The High Priest looked down suspiciously.
3068 The low priest consulted a scrap of paper. "That's three hundred
3069 thousand, nine hundred and sixty-four pebbles you owe me," he said.
3070 There was the sound of footsteps. The priests exchanged glances.
3071 "Haven't had one for poisoned-dart alley for quite some time,"
3072 said the High Priest.
3073 "Five says he makes it", said the low priest. "You're on."
3074 There was a faint clatter of metal points on stone.
3075 "It's a shame to take your pebbles."
3076 There were footsteps again.
3078 =head2 v5.8.0-RC3 - no epigraph
3080 L<Announced on 2002-07-13 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2002/07/msg63234.html>
3082 =head2 v5.8.0-RC2 - no epigraph
3084 L<Announced on 2002-06-21 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2002/06/msg62013.html>
3086 =head2 v5.8.0-RC1 - no epigraph
3088 L<Announced on 2002-06-01 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2002/06/msg60317.html>
3090 =head2 v5.7.3 - Terry Pratchett, "Reaper Man"
3092 L<Announced on 2002-03-04 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2002/03/msg53652.html>
3094 Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong.
3095 No matter how fast light travels it finds the darkness has always
3096 got there first, and is waiting for it.
3098 =head2 v5.7.2 - Terry Pratchett, "Small Gods"
3100 L<Announced on 2001-07-13 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2001/07/msg40370.html>
3102 His philosophy was a mixture of three famous schools --
3103 the Cynics, the Stoics and the Epicureans -- and summed up
3104 all three of them in his famous phrase, "You can't trust any
3105 bugger further than you can throw him, and there's nothing
3106 you can do about it, so let's have a drink."
3108 =head2 v5.7.1 - Terry Pratchett, "The Colour of Magic"
3110 L<Announced on 2001-04-09 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2001/04/msg33851.html>
3112 "What happens next?" asked Twoflower.
3114 Hrun screwed a finger in his ear and inspected it absently.
3116 "Oh,", he said, "I expect in a minute the door will be
3117 flung back and I'll be dragged off to some sort of temple
3118 arena where I'll fight maybe a couple of giant spiders
3119 and an eight-foot slave from the jungles of Klatch and then
3120 I'll rescue some kind of a princess from the altar and then
3121 I'll kill off a few guards or whatever and then this girl
3122 will show me the secret passage out of the place and we'll
3123 liberate a couple of horses and escape with the treasure."
3124 Hrun leaned his head back on his hands and looked at the
3125 ceiling, whistling tunelessly.
3127 "All that?" said Twoflower.
3131 =head2 v5.7.0 - Terry Pratchett, "Moving Pictures"
3133 L<Announced on 2000-09-02 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2000/09/msg17730.html>
3135 The Librarian had seen many weird things in his time,
3136 but that had to be the 57th strangest.
3137 [footnote: he had a tidy mind]
3139 =head2 v5.6.2 - Laurence Sterne, "Tristram Shandy"
3141 L<Announced on 2003-11-15 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/11/msg85222.html>
3143 When great or unexpected events fall out upon the stage of this
3144 sublunary word--the mind of man, which is an inquisitive kind of
3145 a substance, naturally takes a flight, behind the scenes, to see
3146 what is the cause and first spring of them--The search was not
3147 long in this instance.
3149 =head2 v5.6.2-RC1 - Laurence Sterne, "Tristram Shandy"
3151 L<Announced on 2003-11-08 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/11/msg84953.html>
3153 "Pray, my dear", quoth my mother, "have you not forgot to wind up the clock?"
3155 =head2 v5.6.1 - J R R Tolkien, "The Hobbit", Riddles in the Dark
3157 L<Announced on 2001-04-08 by Gurusamy Sarathy|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2001/04/msg33823.html>
3159 `What have I got in my pocket?' he said aloud. He was talking to
3160 himself, but Gollum thought it was a riddle, and he was frightfully
3163 `Not fair! not fair!' he hissed. `It isn't fair, my precious, is it,
3164 to ask us what it's got in its nassty little pocketses?'
3166 Bilbo seeing what had happened and having nothing better to ask
3167 stuck to his question, `What have I got in my pocket?' he said
3170 `S-s-s-s-s,' hissed Gollum. `It must give us three guesseses,
3171 my precious, three guesseses.'
3173 =head2 v5.6.1-foolish - no epigraph
3175 L<Announced on 2001-04-01 by Gurusamy Sarathy|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2001/04/msg33421.html>
3177 =head2 v5.6.1-TRIAL3 - I can't find the announcement
3179 No announcement available.
3181 =head2 v5.6.1-TRIAL2 - no epigraph
3183 L<Announced on 2001-01-31 by Gurusamy Sarathy|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2001/01/msg29934.html>
3185 =head2 v5.6.1-TRIAL1 - no epigraph
3187 L<Announced on 2000-12-18 by Gurusamy Sarathy|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2000/12/msg27738.html>
3189 =head2 v5.6.0 - J R R Tolkien, "The Hobbit", The Last Stage
3191 L<Announced on 2000-03-23 by Gurusamy Sarathy|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2000/03/msg10341.html>
3193 The dragon is withered,
3194 His bones are now crumbled;
3195 His armour is shivered,
3196 His splendour is humbled!
3197 Though sword shall be rusted,
3198 And throne and crown perish
3199 With strength that men trusted
3200 And wealth that they cherish,
3201 Here grass is still growing,
3202 And leaves are a yet swinging,
3203 The white water flowing,
3204 And elves are yet singing
3205 Come! Tra-la-la-lally!
3206 Come back to the valley.
3208 =head2 v5.6.0-RC3 - no epigraph
3210 L<Announced on 2000-03-22 by Gurusamy Sarathy|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2000/03/msg10140.html>
3212 =head2 v5.005_05-RC1 - no epigraph
3214 L<Announced on 2009-02-16 by LE<0xe9>on Brocard|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2009/02/msg144227.html>
3216 =head2 v5.005_04 - no epigraph
3218 L<Announced on 2004-03-01 by LE<0xe9>on Brocard|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/03/msg89047.html>
3220 =head2 v5.005_04-RC2 - Rudyard Kipling, "The Jungle Book"
3222 L<Announced on 2004-02-19 by LE<0xe9>on Brocard|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/02/msg88672.html>
3224 The monkeys called the place their city, and pretended to despise
3225 the Jungle-People because they lived in the forest. And yet they
3226 never knew what the buildings were made for nor how to use
3227 them. They would sit in circles on the hall of the king's council
3228 chamber, and scratch for fleas and pretend to be men; or they would
3229 run in and out of the roofless houses and collect pieces of plaster
3230 and old bricks in a corner, and forget where they had hidden them,
3231 and fight and cry in scuffling crowds, and then break off to play up
3232 and down the terraces of the king's garden, where they would shake
3233 the rose trees and the oranges in sport to see the fruit and flowers
3236 =head2 v5.005_04-RC1 - Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
3238 L<Announced on 2004-02-05 by LE<0xe9>on Brocard|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/02/msg88312.html>
3240 Either the well was very deep, or she fell very slowly, for she had
3241 plenty of time as she went down to look about her and to wonder what was
3242 going to happen next. First, she tried to look down and make out what
3243 she was coming to, but it was too dark to see anything; then she looked
3244 at the sides of the well, and noticed that they were filled with
3245 cupboards and book-shelves; here and there she saw maps and pictures
3246 hung upon pegs. She took down a jar from one of the shelves as she
3247 passed; it was labelled 'ORANGE MARMALADE', but to her great
3248 disappointment it was empty: she did not like to drop the jar for fear
3249 of killing somebody, so managed to put it into one of the cupboards as
3252 =head2 v1.0_16 - Johan Vromans, extemporarily
3254 L<Announced on 2003-12-18 by Richard Clamp|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/12/msg86423.html>
3256 't was 16 years ago today
3257 Larry taught us a new game
3258 of lazyness, impatience, and hubris
3259 Happy birthday, Perl!
3261 =head1 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
3263 This document was originally compiled based on a list of epigraphs
3264 on L<Perl Monks|http://perlmonks.org> titled
3265 L<Recent Perl Release Announcement|http://perlmonks.org/?node_id=372406>