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 <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 v5.19.9 - R. A. MacAvoy, Tea with the Black Dragon
22 L<Announced on 2014-02-20 by Tony Cook|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/02/msg213047.html>
24 Old hands. The smell of rain--the smell of Ch'an. Quiet words in
25 rough Cantonese. "I am not to be your master. Your master has to be
26 stronger than you are--has to tell you you are a fool and make you
27 know it. And make you feel content in being a fool. How could I do
28 that for you? I'm old. You are too strong for me; you are full of
29 chi." The old man has paused then, huddled against the wind while
30 clouds thickened above them.
32 "I will tell you this, Long," he continued, "Before you find yourself
33 you will lose your chi. Also you will leave behind you all pride of
34 body, pride of mind. You will be reduced. Like me." The old man
35 closed his eyes, and rain began to beat against his gray, crew-cut
36 hair. He pulled his coat closer. Suddenly his eyes snapped open and
37 he looked Long in the face.
39 "You must leave China. Go across the ocean. There you will meet your
40 master." He set down his teacup with a palsied hand. His voice rose,
43 "I tell you this, most honored and impressive visitor. You are a
44 fool, yes, but you will find the very thing you seek. You will find
47 =head2 v5.19.8 - Joseph Heller, Catch-22
49 L<Announced on 2014-01-20 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/01/msg211729.html>
51 “I used to get a big kick out of saving people’s lives. Now I wonder what the
52 hell’s the point, since they all have to die anyway.”
54 “Oh, there’s a point, all right,” Dunbar assured him.
56 “Is there? What is the point?”
58 “The point is to keep them from dying for as long as you can.”
60 “Yeah, but what’s the point, since they all have to die anyway?”
62 “The trick is not to think about that.”
64 “Never mind the trick. What the hell’s the point?”
66 Dunbar pondered in silence for a few moments. “Who the hell knows?”
68 =head2 v5.19.7 - Kurt Vonnegut, "Slaughterhouse-Five"
70 L<Announced on 2013-12-20 by Abigail|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/12/msg210882.html>
74 And somewhere in there was springtime. The corpse mines were closed
75 down. The soldiers all left to fight the Russians. In the suburbs,
76 the women and children dug rifle pits. Billy and the rest of his group
77 were locked up in the stable in the suburbs. And then, one morning,
78 they got up to discover that the door was unlocked. World War Two in
81 Billy and the rest wandered out onto the shady street. The trees were
82 leafing out. There was nothing going on out there, no traffic of any
83 kind. There was only one vehicle, an abandoned wagon drawn by two
84 horses. The wagon was green and coffin-shaped.
88 One bird said to Billy Pilgrim, "Pee-tee-weet?"
92 =head2 v5.19.6 - Monty Python's Flying Circus, "Spam"
94 L<Announced on 2013-11-20 by Chris 'BinGOs' Williams|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/11/msg210043.html>
98 Interior: cheap cafe. All the customers are Vikings. Mr and Mrs Bun enter downwards (on wires).
102 Mr. Bun: What have you got, then?
103 Waitress: Well there's egg and bacon; egg, sausage and bacon; egg and spam; egg, bacon and spam;
104 egg, bacon, sausage and spam; spam, bacon, sausage and spam; spam, egg, spam, spam, bacon and spam;
105 spam, spam, spam, egg and spam; spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, baked beans, spam, spam, spam and spam;
106 or lobster thermidor aux crevettes, with a mornay sauce garnished with truffle pate, brandy and a fried
108 Mrs. Bun: Have you got anything without spam in it?
109 Waitress: Well, there's spam, egg, sausage and spam. That's not got MUCH spam in it.
110 Mrs. Bun: I don't want ANY spam.
111 Mr. Bun: Why can't she have egg, bacon, spam and sausage?
112 Mrs. Bun: That's got spam in it!
113 Mr. Bun: Not as much as spam, egg, sausage and spam.
114 Mrs. Bun: Look, could I have egg, bacon, spam and sausage, without the spam.
115 Waitress: Uuuuuuggggh!
116 Mrs. Bun: What d'you mean, uugggh! I don't like spam.
117 Vikings: (singing) Spam, spam, spam, spam, spam ... spam, spam, spam, spam ... lovely spam, wonderful spam ...
119 (Brief shot of a Viking ship)
121 Waitress: Shut up. Shut up! Shut up! You can't have egg, bacon, spam and sausage without the spam.
123 Waitress: No, it wouldn't be egg, bacon, spam and sausage, would it?
124 Mrs. Bun: I don't like spam!
128 =head2 v5.19.5 - Charles Baudelaire, "The Flowers of Evil", 51. The Cat
130 L<Announced on 2013-10-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/10/msg208752.html>
136 A cat is strolling through my mind
137 Acting as though he owned the place,
138 A lovely cat -- strong, charming, sweet.
139 When he meows, one scarcely hears,
141 So tender and discreet his tone;
142 But whether he should growl or purr
143 His voice is always rich and deep.
144 That is the secret of his charm.
146 This purling voice that filters down
147 Into my darkest depths of soul
148 Fulfils me like a balanced verse,
149 Delights me as a potion would.
151 It puts to sleep the cruellest ills
152 And keeps a rein on ecstasies --
153 Without the need for any words
154 It can pronounce the longest phrase.
156 Oh no, there is no bow that draws
157 Across my heart, fine instrument,
158 And makes to sing so royally
159 The strongest and the purest chord,
161 More than your voice, mysterious cat,
162 Exotic cat, seraphic cat,
163 In whom all is, angelically,
164 As subtle as harmonious.
168 From his soft fur, golden and brown,
169 Goes out so sweet a scent, one night
170 I might have been embalmed in it
171 By giving him one little pet.
173 He is my household's guardian soul;
174 He judges, he presides, inspires
175 All matters in hos royal realm;
176 Might he be fairy? or a god?
178 When my eyes, to this cat I love
179 Drawn as by a magnet's force,
180 Turn tamely back from that appeal,
181 And when I look within myself,
183 I notice with astonishment
184 The fire of his opal eyes,
185 Clear beacons glowing, living jewels,
186 Taking my measure, steadily.
188 -- Charles Baudelaire, /The Flowers of Evil, 51. The Cat/,
193 =head2 v5.19.4 - Washington Irving, "The Widow and Her Son"
195 L<Announced on 2013-09-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/09/msg207969.html>
199 There is something in sickness that breaks down the pride of manhood;
200 that softens the heart and brings it back to the feelings of infancy.
201 Who that has languished, even in advanced life, in sickness and
202 despondency — who that has pined on a weary bed in the neglect and
203 loneliness of a foreign land — but has thought on the mother "that
204 looked on his childhood," that smoothed his pillow and administered to
205 his helplessness. — Oh! there is an enduring tenderness in the love
206 of a mother to her son that transcends all other affections of the
207 heart. It is neither to be chilled by selfishness — nor daunted by
208 danger — nor weakened by worthlessness — nor stifled by ingratitude.
209 She will sacrifice every comfort to his convenience — she will
210 surrender every pleasure to his enjoyment — she will glory in his fame
211 and exult in his prosperity. And if misfortune overtake him he will
212 be the dearer to her from misfortune — and if disgrace settle upon his
213 name, she will still love and cherish him in spite of his disgrace —
214 and if all the world beside cast him off, she will be all the world to
219 =head2 v5.19.3 - Andrew Hodges, "Alan Turing: The Enigma"
221 L<Announced on 2013-08-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/08/msg206318.html>
225 E.M. Forster, outdoing the King's heresy with grand bravura, had
226 written in 1938 that if he were faced with the choice between
227 betraying his country and betraying his friends, he hoped he would
228 have the courage to betray his country. He would always put the
229 personal above the political. But for Alan Turing, unlike Forster, or
230 Wittgenstein, or G.H. Hardy, it was more than a theoretical question.
231 For him not only had the personal become the political, but the
232 political was the personal. He had chosen and promised for himself in
233 working for the government. The choice for him therefore was that
234 between betraying one part of himself and betraying another part. And
235 however much he wavered between these alternatives, there was a solid
236 logic to the mind of security, one that could not be expected to take
237 an interest in notions of freedom and development. He had no rights
238 to such things, as he would have had to admit. He might have
239 outwitted the Home Guard, but when it came to questions that mattered,
240 there was no doubt that he had placed himself under military law.
241 There was a war on; there was always a war on now.
245 =head2 v5.19.2 - Fred Brooks, "The Mythical Man-Month"
247 L<Announced on 2013-07-22 by Aristotle Pagaltzis|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/07/msg204905.html>
251 The magic of myth and legend has come true in our time. One types the
252 correct incantation on a keyboard, and a display screen comes to life,
253 showing things that never were nor could be. [...] Not all is delight,
254 however [...] One must perform perfectly. The computer resembles the
255 magic of legend in this respect, too. If one character, one pause, of
256 the incantation is not strictly in proper form, the magic doesn't work.
260 =head2 v5.19.1 - William Shakespeare, "A Midsummer Night's Dream"
262 L<Announced on 2013-06-21 by David Golden|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/06/msg203449.html>
264 Over hill, over dale,
265 Thorough bush, thorough briar,
266 Over park, over pale,
267 Thorough flood, thorough fire,
268 I do wander everywhere,
269 Swifter than the moon's sphere;
270 And I serve the fairy queen,
271 To dew her orbs upon the green.
272 The cowslips tall her pensioners be;
273 In their gold coats, spots you see;
274 Those be rubies, fairy favours,
275 In their freckles live our savours.
276 I must go seek some dew-drops here,
277 And hang a perl in every cowslip's ear.
278 Farewell, thou lob of spirits, I'll be gone;
279 My queen and all her elves come here anon!
281 =head2 v5.19.0 - Batman, of the Joker, in "The Dark Knight Returns"
283 L<Announced on 2013-05-20 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/05/msg201980.html>
285 From the beginning, I knew…
286 …that there was nothing wrong with you…
290 =head2 v5.18.2 - Miss Manners
292 L<Announced on 2014-01-06 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/01/msg211224.html>
294 One of the major mistakes people make is that they think manners are
295 only the expression of happy ideas. There's a whole range of behavior
296 that can be expressed in a mannerly way. That's what civilization is all
297 about – doing it in a mannerly and not an antagonistic way. One of the
298 places we went wrong was the naturalistic Rousseauean movement of the
299 Sixties in which people said, "Why can't you just say what's on your
300 mind?" In civilization there have to be some restraints. If we followed
301 every impulse, we'd be killing one another.
303 =head2 v5.18.1 - Chuck Moore
305 L<Announced on 2013-08-12 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/08/msg205897.html>
307 The operating system is another concept that is curious. Operating
308 systems are dauntingly complex and totally unnecessary. It’s a brilliant
309 thing that Bill Gates has done in selling the world on the notion of
310 operating systems. It’s probably the greatest con game the world has
313 An operating system does absolutely nothing for you. As long as you had
314 something — a subroutine called disk driver, a subroutine called some
315 kind of communication support, in the modern world, it doesn’t do
316 anything else. In fact, Windows spends a lot of time with overlays and
317 disk management all stuff like that which are irrelevant. You’ve got
318 gigabyte disks; you’ve got megabyte RAMs. The world has changed in a way
319 that renders the operating system unnecessary.
321 =head2 v5.18.1-RC1 - Chuck Moore
323 L<Announced on 2013-08-02 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/08/msg205445.html>
325 Compilers are probably the worst code ever written. They are written by
326 someone who has never written a compiler before and will never do so
327 again. The more elaborate the language, the more complex, bug-ridden,
328 and unusable is the compiler. But a simple compiler for a simple
329 language is an essential tool—if only for documentation.
331 =head2 v5.18.0 - Yevgeny Zamyatin
333 L<Announced on 2013-05-18 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/05/msg201940.html>
335 It is an error to divide people into the living and the dead: there are people
336 who are dead-alive, and people who are alive-alive. The dead-alive also write,
337 walk, speak, act. But they make no mistakes; only machines make no mistakes,
338 and they produce only dead things. The alive-alive are constantly in error, in
339 search, in questions, in torment.
341 =head2 v5.18.0-RC4 - Joseph Heller, Catch-22
343 L<Announced on 2013-04-16 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/05/msg201889.html>
345 Clevinger was dead. That was the basic flaw in his philosophy.
347 =head2 v5.18.0-RC3 - Tom Waits, "The Ocean Doesn't Want Me"
349 L<Announced on 2013-04-14 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/05/msg201823.html>
351 I'd love to go drowning
352 And to stay and to stay
353 But the ocean doesn't want me today
354 I'll go in up to here
355 It can't possibly hurt
356 All they will find is my beer
359 =head2 v5.18.0-RC2 - Tom Waits, "Earth Died Screaming"
361 L<Announced on 2013-05-12 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/05/msg201723.html>
363 And the great day of wrath has come
364 And here's mud in your big red eye
365 The poker's in the fire
366 And the locusts take the sky
367 And the earth died screaming
368 While I lay dreaming of you
370 =head2 v5.18.0-RC1 - Tom Waits, "What's He Building in There?"
372 L<Announced on 2013-05-11 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/05/msg201651.html>
374 What's he building in there?
376 We have a right to know…
378 =head2 v5.17.11 - Nigel Tufnel, This is Spın̈al Tap
380 L<Announced on 2013-04-20 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/04/msg201056.html>
382 It's very special because, if you can see, the numbers all go to…
383 eleven! Look, right across the board: eleven, eleven, eleven, eleven!
385 =head2 v5.17.10 - Vernor Vinge, A Fire Upon The Deep
387 L<Announced on 2013-03-22 by Max Maischein|http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2013-03/msg00908.html>
389 The archive informed the automation. Data structures were built, recipes
390 followed. A local network was built, faster than anything on Straum, but surely
391 safe. Nodes were added, modified by other recipes. The archive was a friendly
392 place, with hierarchies of translation keys that led them along. Straum itself
393 would be famous for this.
395 Six months passed. A year.
397 The omniscient view. Not self-aware really. Self-awareness is much over-rated.
398 Most automation works far better as a part of a whole, and even if human-
399 powerful, it does not need to self-know.
401 =head2 v5.16.3 - Devo, Freedom of Choice
403 L<Announced on 2013-03-11 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2013-03/msg00414.html>
405 A victim of collision on the open sea
406 Nobody ever said that life was free
407 Sink, swim, go down with the ship
408 But use your freedom of choice
410 =head2 v5.14.4 - Arthur C. Clarke, The Nine Billion Names of God
412 L<Announced on 2013-03-11 by Dave Mitchell|http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2013-03/msg00393.html>
414 He began to sing, but gave it up after a while. This vast arena of
415 mountains, gleaming like whitely hooded ghosts on every side, did not
416 encourage such ebullience. Presently George glanced at his watch.
418 'Should be there in an hour,' he called back over his shoulder to
419 Chuck. Then he added, in an afterthought: 'Wonder if the computer's
420 finished its run. It was due about now.'
422 Chuck didn't reply, so George swung round in his saddle. He could just
423 see Chuck's face, a white oval turned towards the sky.
425 'Look,' whispered Chuck, and George lifted his eyes to heaven. (There
426 is always a last time for everything.)
428 Overhead, without any fuss, the stars were going out.
431 =head2 v5.17.9 - Douglas Adams, The Hitch-Hikers Guide to the Galaxy
433 L<Announced on 2013-02-20 by Chris 'BinGOs' Williams|http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2013-02/msg01146.html>
435 Vogon poetry is of course, the third worst in the universe.
436 The second worst is that of the Azgoths of Kria. During a
437 recitation by their poet master Grunthos the Flatulent of
438 his poem 'Ode To A Small Lump of Green Putty I Found In My
439 Armpit One Midsummer Morning' four of his audience died
440 of internal haemorrhaging and the president of the
441 Mid-Galactic Arts Nobbling Council survived by gnawing one
442 of his own legs off. Grunthos is reported to have been
443 'disappointed' by the poem's reception, and was about to
444 embark on a reading of his twelve-book epic entitled
445 'My Favourite Bathtime Gurgles' when his own major intestine,
446 in a desperate attempt to save life and civilisation,
447 leapt straight up through his neck and throttled his brain.
449 The very worst poetry of all perished along with its creator
450 Paula Nancy Millstone Jennings of Greenbridge, Essex, England,
451 in the destruction of the planet Earth.
453 =head2 v5.17.8 - Iain Pears, An Instance of the Fingerpost
455 L<Announced on 2013-01-20 by Aaron Crane|http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2013-01/msg00518.html>
457 I must here declare myself as someone who does not for a moment subscribe to
458 the general view that a willingness to perform oneself is detrimental to the
459 dignity of experimental philosophy. There is, after all, a clear distinction
460 between labour carried out for financial reward, and that done for the
461 improvement of mankind: to put it another way, Lower as a philosopher was
462 fully my equal even if he fell away when he became the practising physician.
463 I think ridiculous of certain professors of anatomy, who find it beneath
464 them to pick up the knife themselves, but merely comment while hired hands
465 do the cutting. Sylvius would never have dreamt of sitting on a dais reading
466 from an authority while others cut — when he taught, the knife was
467 in his hand and the blood spattered his coat. Boyle also did not scruple to
468 perform his own experiments and, on one occasion in my presence, even showed
469 himself willing to anatomise a rat with his very own hands. Nor was he less
470 a gentleman when he had finished. Indeed, in my opinion, his stature was all
471 the greater, for in Boyle wealth, humility and curiosity mingled, and the
472 world is richer for it.
474 =head2 v5.17.7 - R. Scott Bakker, The Darkness That Comes Before
476 L<Announced on 2012-12-18 by Dave Rolsky|http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2012-12/msg00679.html>
479 The boy extinguished. Only a place.
481 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.
482 A place without breath or sound. A place of sight alone. A place without before or after . . . almost.
483 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.
484 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 . . .
485 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.
486 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.
487 I have been legion . . .
488 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.
491 =head2 v5.17.6 - Kurt Vonnegut, The Sirens of Titan
493 L<Announced on 2012-11-20 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2012-11/msg00760.html>
495 Beatrice, looking like a gypsy queen, smoldered at the foot of a statue
496 of a young physical student. At first glance, the laboratory-gowned
497 scientist seemed to be a perfect servant of nothing but truth. At first
498 glance, one was convinced that nothing but truth could please him as he
499 beamed at his test tube. At first glance, one thought that he was as
500 much above the beastly concerns of mankind as the harmoniums in the
501 caves of Mercury. There, at first glance, was a young man without
502 vanity, without lust — and one accepted at its face value the title Salo
503 had engraved on the statue, "Discovery of Atomic Power."
505 =head2 v5.12.5 - William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure
507 Announced on 2012-11-10 by Dominic Hargreaves
509 Music oft hath such a charm
510 To make bad good, and good provoke to harm.
512 =head2 v5.16.2 - Stanislaw Lem, The Cyberiad, Trurl's Machine
514 L<Announced on 2012-11-01 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2012-11/msg00017.html>
516 Once upon a time Trurl the constructor built an eight-story thinking
517 machine. When it was finished, he gave it a coat of white paint,
518 trimmed the edges in lavender, stepped back, squinted, then added a
519 little curlicue on the front and, where one might imagine the forehead
520 to be, a few pale orange polkadots. Extremely pleased with himself,
521 he whistled an air and, as is always done on such occasions, asked it
522 the ritual question of how much is two plus two.
524 The machine stirred. Its tubes began to glow, its coils warmed up,
525 current coursed through all its circuits like a waterfall,
526 transformers hummed and throbbed, there was a clanging, and a
527 chugging, and such an ungodly racket that Trurl began to think of
528 adding a special mentation muffler. Meanwhile the machine labored on,
529 as if it had been given the most difficult problem in the Universe to
530 solve; the ground shook, the sand slid underfoot from the vibration,
531 valves popped like champagne corks, the relays nearly gave way under
532 the strain. At last, when Trurl had grown extremely impatient, the
533 machine ground to a halt and said in a voice like thunder: SEVEN!
535 =head2 v5.17.5 - Charles Stross, "Singularity Sky"
537 L<Announced on 2012-10-20 by Florian Ragwitz|http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2012-10/msg01007.html>
539 Neither of them noticed the pair of polka-dotted knickers hiding
540 behind the ventilation duct overhead, listening patiently and
541 recording everything.
543 =head2 v5.17.4 - Roald Dahl, "Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf"
545 L<Announced on 2012-09-20 by Florian Ragwitz|http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2012-09/msg01226.html>
547 The small girl smiles. One eyelid flickers.
548 She whips a pistol from her knickers.
549 She aims it at the creature's head,
550 And bang bang bang, she shoots him dead.
552 A few weeks later, in the wood,
553 I came across Miss Riding Hood.
554 But what a change! No cloak of red,
555 No silly hood upon her head.
556 She said, "Hello, and do please note
557 My lovely furry wolfskin coat."
559 =head2 v5.17.3 - Kris Ta-belle, "Smoked Perl Onion Soup"
561 L<Announced on 2012-08-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/08/msg190775.html>
565 Cut 16 Perl Onions into quarters and put them in a grill smoker rack
566 or a perforated pan over a BBQ using hickory wood chips or Special
567 Blend Smoker Bisquettes. Smoke them for an hour and remove once they
569 Let them cool and put them in the fridge (or freezer) until you are
570 ready to create the soup.
574 16 diced, pre-smoked, Perl Onions
577 2 small garlic cloves, finely minced
580 black pepper to taste
582 1/4 cup all purpose flour
583 6 cups of beef or vegetable stock
584 1 cup of thick cream (milk can be used as a substitute)
588 Melt the butter in a pan and then add olive oil.
589 Heat and add the onions to caramelize over a medium-high heat for up
591 Add the garlic, turn down the heat and cook for a further 5 minutes.
592 Add the salt, pepper and sugar.
593 Now add the red wine and reduce to a jam like consistency.
594 Add the flour, stir well and add the stock a cup at a time.
595 Simmer for 30 minutes, add the cream and heat to almost boiling.
599 =head2 v5.17.2 - Terry Pratchet, "The Colour of Magic"
601 L<Announced on 2012-07-21 by TonyC|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/07/msg189828.html>
603 ‘I knew it,’ said Rincewind. ‘We're in a strong magical field.’
605 Twoflower and Hrun looked around the little hollow where they had made
606 their noonday halt. Then they looked at each other.
608 The horses were quietly cropping the rich grass by the stream. Yellow
609 butterflies skittered among the bushes. There was a smell of thyme
610 and a buzzing of bees. The wild pigs on the spit sizzled gently.
612 Hrun shrugged and went back to oiling his biceps. They gleamed.
614 ‘Looks alright to me,’ he said.
616 ‘Try tossing a coin,’ said Rincewind.
620 ‘Go on. Toss a coin.’
622 ‘Hokay,’ said Hrun. 'If that gives you any pleasure.’ He reached into
623 his pouch and withdrew a handful of loose change plundered from a
624 dozen realms. With some care he selected a Zchloty leaden
625 quarter-iotum and balanced it on a purple thumbnail.
627 ‘You call,’ he said. ‘Heads or—’ he inspected the obverse with
628 an air of intense concentration, ‘some sort of a fish with legs.’
630 ‘When it's in the air,’ said Rincewind. Hrun grinned and flicked his thumb.
632 The iotum rose, spinning.
634 ‘Edge,’ said Rincewind, without looking at it.
636 =head2 v5.17.1 - Rand Miller, "Myst: The Book of Ti'ana"
638 L<Announced on 2012-06-20 by doy|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/06/msg188354.html>
640 On their return from Ko'ah, Aitrus had shown her the Book, patiently
641 taking her through page after page, and showing her how such an Age was
642 "made." She had seen at once the differences between this archaic form
643 and the ordinary written speech of the D'ni, noting how it was not
644 merely more elaborate but more specific: a language of precise yet
645 subtle descriptive power. Yet seeing was one thing, believing another.
646 Given all the evidence, her rational mind still fought against accepting
649 =head2 v5.17.0 - Charles Stross, "Singularity Sky"
651 L<Announced on 2012-05-26 by Zefram|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/05/msg187214.html>
653 `Welcome, comrades!' Burya opened his arms toward the soldier.
654 `Yes it is true! With help from our allies of the Festival, the iron
655 hand of the reactionary junta is about to be overthrown for all time!
656 The new economy is being born; the marginal cost of production has
657 been abolished, and from now on, if any item is produced once, it can
658 be replicated infinitely. From each according to his imagination,
659 to each according to his needs! Join us or better still, bring your
660 fellow soldiers and workers to join us!'
662 There was a sharp bang from the roof of the Corn Exchange, right at the
663 climax of his impromptu speech; heads turned in alarm. Something had
664 broken inside the spork factory and a stream of rainbow-hued plastic
665 implements fountained toward the sky and clattered to the cobblestones
666 on every side, like a harbinger of the postindustrial society to come.
667 Workers and peasants alike stared in open-mouthed bewilderment at this
668 astounding display of productivity, then bent to scrabble in the muck
669 for the brightly colored sporks of revolution. A volley of shots rang
670 out and Burya Rubenstein raised his hands, grinning wildly, to accept
671 the salute of the soldiers from the Skull Hill garrison.
673 =head2 v5.16.1 - Emerald Rose - Never Split The Party
675 L<Announced on 2012-08-08 by Ricardo
676 Signes|http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2012-08/msg00307.html>
678 Don't you know? You never split the party
679 Clerics in the back to keep those fighters hale and hearty
680 The wizard in the middle, where he can shed some light
681 And you never let that damn thief out of sight…
683 -- Emerald Rose, Never Split The Party
685 =head2 v5.16.1 RC1 - Tom Moldvay - Dungeons & Dragons
687 L<Announced on 2012-08-03 by Ricardo
688 Signes|http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2012-08/msg00157.html>
690 I was busy rescuing the captured maiden when the dragon showed up.
691 Fifty feed of scaled terror glared down at us with smoldering red eyes.
692 Tendrils of smoke drifted out from between fangs larger than daggers.
693 The dragon blocked the only exit from the cave.
697 I unwrapped the sword which the mysterious cleric had given me. The
698 sword was golden-tinted steel. Its hilt was set with a rainbow
699 collection of precious gems. I shouted my battle cry and charged
701 My charge caught the dragon by surprise. Its titanic jaws snapped shut
702 inches from my face. I swung the golden sword with both arms. The
703 swordblade bit into the dragon's neck and continued through to the other
704 side. With an earth-shaking crash, the dragon dropped dead at my feet.
705 The magic sword had saved my life and ended the reign of the
706 dragon-tyrant. The countryside was freed and I could return as a hero.
708 -- Tom Moldvay, Foreward to the Dungeons & Dragons Basic Rulebook
710 =head2 v5.16.0 - W.H. Auden - September 1, 1939
712 L<Announced on 2012-05-20 by Ricardo
713 Signes|http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2012-05/msg00728.html>
715 All I have is a voice
716 To undo the folded lie,
717 The romantic lie in the brain
718 Of the sensual man-in-the-street
719 And the lie of Authority
720 Whose buildings grope the sky:
721 There is no such thing as the State
722 And no one exists alone;
723 Hunger allows no choice
724 To the citizen or the police;
725 We must love one another or die.
727 -- W.H. Auden, September 1, 1939
729 =head2 v5.15.9 - Bob Dylan - Blowin' In The Wind
731 L<Announced on 2012-03-20 by
732 Abigail|http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/184824>
734 How many roads must a man walk down
735 Before you call him a man?
736 Yes, 'n' how many seas must a white dove sail
737 Before she sleeps in the sand?
738 Yes, 'n' how many times must the cannonballs fly
739 Before they're forever banned?
740 The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind
741 The answer is blowin' in the wind
743 How many years can a mountain exist
744 Before it's washed to the sea?
745 Yes, 'n' how many years can some people exist
746 Before they're allowed to be free?
747 Yes, 'n' how many times can a man turn his head
748 Pretending he just doesn't see?
749 The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind
750 The answer is blowin' in the wind
752 How many times must a man look up
753 Before he can see the sky?
754 Yes, 'n' how many ears must one man have
755 Before he can hear people cry?
756 Yes, 'n' how many deaths will it take till he knows
757 That too many people have died?
758 The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind
759 The answer is blowin' in the wind
761 -- Bob Dylan, Spring 1962
763 =head2 v5.15.8 - The KLF - The Manual-How To Have A Number One The Easy Way
765 L<Announced on 2012-02-20 by Max
766 Maischein|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/02/msg183919.html>
768 "Doctor Who, hey Doctor Who
769 Doctor Who, in the Tardis
770 Doctor Who, hey Doctor Who
771 Doctor Who, Doc, Doctor Who
772 Doctor Who, Doc, Doctor Who"
774 Gibberish of course, but every lad in the country under a certain
775 age related instinctively to what it was about. The ones slightly
776 older needed a couple of pints inside them to clear away the mind
777 debris left by the passing years before it made sense. As for
778 girls and our chorus, we think they must have seen it as pure crap.
779 A fact that must have limited to zero our chances of staying at The
780 Top for more than one week.
782 Stock, Aitkin and Waterman, however, are kings of writing chorus
783 lyrics that go straight to the emotional heart of the 7" single
784 buying girls in this country. Their most successful records will kick
785 into the chorus with a line which encapsulates the entire emotional
786 meaning of the song. This will obviously be used as the title. As
787 soon as Rick Astley hit the first line of the chorus on his debut
788 single it was all over - the Number One position was guaranteed:
790 "I'm never going to give you up"
792 =head2 v5.15.7 - Penelope Lively, The Voyage of QV66
794 L<Announced on 2012-01-20 by Chris 'BinGOs' Williams
795 |http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/01/msg182230.html>
797 "Laboratories," announced Henry. "Kindly don't touch anything."
799 He led us into a long low brick shed. Outside there was a
800 notice on a piece of board, crudely printed in red paint,
801 which said GRATE SIENCE DISCOVERYS DONE HERE SSSH! BRING YOUR
802 OWN BUKKIT NO PINCHING ANYWUN ELSE'S EXPERRYMENTS CANTEEN OPEN
805 There were a lot of large black monkeys inside, all intently
806 busy on what they were doing. Some of them were pouring stuff
807 out of bottles into buckets and carefully stirring the ensuing
808 mixture; others were at work with glass tubes and jars, blowing
809 and measuring and mixing; others were crouched over long benches
810 with tools and heaps of bits and pieces of metal, cutting and
811 bending and constructing. There was a great deal of noise and
812 chatter. Every now and then one of them would give a whoop of
813 excitement and all the others would gather round and jump up and
814 down cheering and applauding.
816 "Chimps," said Henry. "They're awfully clever."
818 =head2 v5.15.6 - Ursula K. Leguin, A Wizard of Earthsea
820 L<Announced on 2011-12-20 by Dave
821 Rolsky|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/12/msg180962.html>
823 Ged had thought that as the prentice of a great mage he would enter at once
824 into the mystery and mastery of power. He would understand the language of the
825 beasts and the speech of the leaves of the forest, he thought, and sway the
826 winds with his word, and learn to change himself into any shape he
827 wished. Maybe he and his master would run together as stags, or fly to Re Albi
828 over the mountain on the wings of eagles.
830 But it was not so at all. They wandered, first down into the Vale and then
831 gradually south and westward around the mountain, given lodging in little
832 villages or spending the night out in the wilderness, like poor
833 journeyman-sorcerers, or tinkers, or beggars. They entered no mysterious
834 domain. Nothing happened. The mage's oaken staff that Ged had watched at first
835 with eager dread was nothing but a stout staff to walk with. Three days went
836 by and four days went by and still Ogion had not spoken a single charm in
837 Ged's hearing, and had not taught him a single name or rune or spell.
839 =head2 v5.15.5 - Nikolai Gogol, The Diary of a Madman
841 L<Announced on 2011-11-20 by Steve
842 Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/11/msg179588.html>
844 This day - is a day of the greatest solemnity! Spain has a king. He has
845 been found. I am that king. Only this very day did I learn of it. I
846 confess, it came to me suddenly in a flash of lightning. I don't understand
847 how I could have thought and imagined that I was a titular councillor. How
848 could such a wild notion enter my head? It's a good thing no one thought of
849 putting me in an insane asylum. Now everything is laid open before me. Now
850 I see everything as on the palm of my hand. And before, I don't understand,
851 before everything around me was in some sort of fog. And all this happens, I
852 think, because people imagine that the human brain is in the head. Not at
853 all: it is brought by a wind from the direction of the Caspian Sea. First
854 off, I announced to Mavra who I am. When she heard that the king of Spain
855 was standing before her, she clasped her hands and nearly died of fright.
856 The stupid woman had never seen a king of Spain before. However, I
857 endeavoured to calm her down and assured her in gracious words of my
858 benevolence and that I was not at all angry that she sometimes polished my
859 boots poorly. They're benighted folk. It's impossible to tell them about
860 lofty matters. She got frightened because she's convinced that all kings of
861 Spain are like Philip II. But I explained to her that there was no
862 resemblance between me and Philip II, and that I didn't have a single
863 Capuchin . . . I didn't go to the office . . . To hell with it! No friends,
864 you won't lure me there now; I'm not going to copy your vile papers!
866 -- Nikolai Gogol, The Diary of a Madman,
867 trans. Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky
869 =head2 v5.15.4 - Steve Jobs
871 L<Announced on 2011-10-20 by Florian
872 Ragwitz|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/10/msg178412.html>
874 A lot of people in our industry haven't had very diverse experiences. So they
875 don't have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions
876 without a broad perspective on the problem. The broader one's understanding of
877 the human experience, the better design we will have.
879 =head2 v5.14.3 - William Shakespeare, As You Like It
881 L<Announced on 2012-10-12 by Dominic Hargreaves|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/10/msg194057.html>
883 The poor world is almost six thousand years old, and in all
884 this time there was not any man died in his own person,
885 videlicit, in a love-cause. Troilus had his brains dashed
886 out with a Grecian club; yet he did what he could to die
887 before, and he is one of the patterns of love. Leander, he
888 would have lived many a fair year, though Hero had turned
889 nun, if it had not been for a hot midsummer night; for, good
890 youth, he went but forth to wash him in the Hellespont and
891 being taken with the cramp was drowned and the foolish
892 coroners of that age found it was 'Hero of Sestos.' But these
893 are all lies: men have died from time to time and worms have
894 eaten them, but not for love.
896 -- As You Like It, William Shakespeare
898 =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 >>
900 L<Announced on 2011-09-26 by Florian
901 Ragwitz|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/09/msg177618.html>
904 It's not so much that people don't value the programs after they have them--they
905 do value them. But they're not the sort of thing that would ever catch on if
906 they had to overcome the marketing barrier. (I don't yet know if perl will
907 catch on at all--I'm worried enough about it that I specifically included an
908 awk-to-perl translator just to help it catch on.) Maybe it's all just an
909 inferiority complex. Or maybe I don't like to be mercenary.
911 So I guess I'd say that the reason some software comes free is that the
912 mechanism for selling it is missing, either from the work environment, or from
913 the heart of the programmer.
916 =head2 v5.15.3 - Oscar Wilde, All Art is Quite Useless
918 L<Announced on 2011-09-20 by Stevan
919 Little|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/09/msg177427.html>
921 All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath
922 the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol
923 do so at their peril.
925 It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.
926 Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the
927 work is new, complex, and vital. When critics disagree, the
928 artist is in accord with himself.
930 We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as
931 he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless
932 thing is that one admires it intensely.
934 All art is quite useless.
936 -- Oscar Wilde, From the preface to The Picture of Dorian Gray
939 =head2 v5.15.2 - Rainer Maria Rilke, The Third Duina Elegy
941 L<Announced on 2011-08-20 by Ricardo
942 Signes|http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2011-08/msg00694.html>
944 True, it is strange to live no more on earth,
945 no longer follow the folkways scarecely learned;
946 not to give roses and other especially auspicious
947 things the significance of a human future;
948 to be no more what one was in infinitely anxious hands,
949 and to put aside even one's name, like a broken plaything.
950 Strange, to wish wishes no longer. Strange, to see
951 all that was related fluttering so loosely in space.
952 And being dead is hard, full of catching-up,
953 so that finally one feels a little eternity.–
954 But the living all make the mistake of too sharp discrimination.
955 Often angels (it's said) don't know if they move
956 among the quick or the dead. The eternal current
957 hurtles all ages along with it forever
958 through both realms and drowns their voices in both.
960 -- Rainer Maria Rilke, Duino, The First Elegy
961 trans., C. F. MacIntyre
963 =head2 v5.15.1 - Greg Egan, "Permutation City"
965 L<Announced on 2011-07-20 by Zefram|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/07/msg175014.html>
967 Carter held out a hand towards the middle of the room. `See that
968 fountain?' A ten-metre-wide marble wedding cake, topped with a
969 winged cherub wrestling a serpent, duly appeared. Water cascaded
970 down from a gushing wound in the cherub's neck. Carter said, `It's
971 being computed by redundancies in the sketch of the city. I can
972 extract the results, because I know exactly where to look for them --
973 but nobody else would have a hope in hell of picking them out.'
975 Peer walked up to the fountain. Even as he approached, he noticed
976 that the spray was intangible; when he dipped his hand in the water
977 around the base he felt nothing, and the motion he made with his
978 fingers left the foaming surface unchanged. They were spying on
979 the calculations, not interacting with them; the fountain was a
982 Carter said, `In your case, of course, nobody will need to know
983 the results. Except you -- and you'll know them because you'll
986 =head2 v5.15.0 - Neil Gaiman, "The Graveyard Book"
988 L<Announced on 2011-06-20 by David Golden|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/06/msg173748.html>
990 If you dare nothing, then when the day is over, nothing is all
991 you will have gained.
993 =head2 v5.12.4 - William Schwenck Gilbert, "Trial By Jury"
995 L<Announced on 2011-06-20 by Leon Brocard|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/06/msg173725.html>
997 You cannot eat breakfast all day,
998 Nor is it the act of a sinner,
999 When breakfast is taken away,
1000 To turn his attention to dinner;
1001 And it's not in the range of belief,
1002 To look upon him as a glutton,
1003 Who, when he is tired of beef,
1004 Determines to tackle the mutton.
1005 Ah! But this I am willing to say,
1006 If it will appease her sorrow,
1007 I'll marry this lady today,
1008 And I'll marry the other tomorrow!
1010 =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 >>
1012 L<Announced on 2011-06-16 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/06/msg173650.html>
1014 At this point I'm no longer working for a company that makes me sign
1015 my life away, but by now I'm in the habit. Besides, I still harbor
1016 the deep-down suspicion that nobody would pay money for what I write,
1017 since most of it just helps you do something better that you could
1018 already do some other way. How much money would you personally pay
1019 to upgrade from readnews to rn? How much money would you pay for
1020 the patch program? As for warp, it's a mere game. And anything you
1021 can do with perl you can eventually do with an amazing and totally
1022 unreadable conglomeration of awk, sed, sh and C.
1024 =head2 v5.12.4-RC2 - James Russell Lowell, "Eleanor makes macaroons"
1026 L<Announced on 2011-06-15 by Leon Brocard|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/06/msg173609.html>
1028 Now for sugar, -- nay, our plan
1029 Tolerates no work of man.
1030 Hurry, then, ye golden bees;
1031 Fetch your clearest honey, please,
1032 Garnered on a Yorkshire moor,
1033 While the last larks sing and soar,
1034 From the heather-blossoms sweet
1035 Where sea-breeze and sunshine meet,
1036 And the Augusts mask as Junes, --
1037 Eleanor makes macaroons!
1039 =head2 v5.12.4-RC1 - Ogden Nash, "The Clean Plater"
1041 L<Announced on 2011-06-08 by Leon Brocard|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/06/msg173352.html>
1043 Pheasant is pleasant, of course,
1044 And terrapin, too, is tasty,
1045 Lobster I freely endorse,
1046 In pate or patty or pasty.
1047 But there's nothing the matter with butter,
1048 And nothing the matter with jam,
1049 And the warmest greetings I utter
1050 To the ham and the yam and the clam.
1053 And I think very fondly of food.
1054 Through I'm broody at times
1055 When bothered by rhymes,
1059 =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 >>
1061 L<Announced on 2011-05-14 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/05/msg172326.html>
1063 At the start of any project, I'm programming primarily to please
1064 myself. (The two chief virtues in a programmer are laziness and
1065 impatience.) After a while somebody looks over my shoulder and says,
1066 "That's neat. It'd be neater if it did such-and-so." So the thing
1067 gets neater. Pretty soon (a year or two) I have an rn, a warp, a patch,
1068 or a perl. One of these years I'll have a metaconfig.
1070 I then say to myself, "I don't want my life's work to die when this
1071 computer is scrapped, so I should let some other people use this. If I
1072 ask my company to sell this, it'll never see the light of day, and nobody
1073 would pay much for it anyway. If I sell it myself, I'll be in trouble with
1074 my company, to whom I signed my life away when I was hired. If I give it
1075 away, I can pretend it was worthless in the first place, so my company
1076 won't care. In any event, it's easier to ask forgiveness than permission."
1078 So a freely distributable program is born.
1080 =head2 v5.14.0-RC3 - American Airlines Gate Agent, last call
1082 L<Announced on 2011-05-11 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/05/msg172282.html>
1084 This is the last call for flight 1697 with service to Chicago and
1085 continuing service to San Francisco. All passengers should already be
1086 aboard. If you aren't aboard at this time, you will be denied boarding
1087 and your bags will be offloaded.
1089 =head2 v5.14.0-RC2 - Greg Grandin, Fordlandia, "the Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City"
1091 L<Announced on 2011-05-04 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/05/msg171879.html>
1093 Over the course of nearly two decades, Ford would spend tens of millions
1094 of dollars founding not one but, after the plantation was defastated
1095 by leaf blight, two American towns, complete with central squares,
1096 sidewalks, indoor plumbing, hospitals, manicured lawns, movie theaters,
1097 swimming pools, golf courses, and, of course, Model Ts and As rolling
1098 down their paved streets.
1100 Back in America, newspapers kept up their drumbeat celebration, only
1101 obliquely referencing reports that things were not progressing as the
1102 company had hoped. But there was one note of skepticism. In late 1928,
1103 the Washington Post ran an editorial that read in its entirety: "Ford will
1104 govern a rubber plantation in Brazil larger than North Carolina. This is
1105 the first time he has applied quantity production methods to trouble"
1107 =head2 v5.14.0-RC1 - Bill Bryson, "In a Sunburned Country"
1109 L<Announced on 2011-04-20 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/04/msg171253.html>
1111 But then Australia is such a difficult country to keep track of. On
1112 my first visit, some years ago, I passed the time on the long flight
1113 reading a history of Australian politics in the twentieth century,
1114 wherein I encountered the startling fact that in 1967 the prime minister,
1115 Harold Holt, was strolling along a beach in Victoria when he plunged into
1116 the surf and vanished. No trace of the poor man was ever seen again.
1117 This seemed doubly astounding to me—first that Australia could
1118 just I<lose> a prime minister (I mean, come on) and second that news of
1119 this had never reached me.
1121 =head2 v5.13.11 - Walt Whitman, L<Leaves of Grass|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leaves_of_Grass>
1123 L<Announced on 2011-02-20 by Florian Ragwitz|http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2011-03/msg00560.html>
1125 When the full-grown poet came,
1126 Out spake pleased Nature (the round impassive globe, with all its
1127 shows of day and night,) saying, He is mine;
1128 But out spake too the Soul of man, proud, jealous and unreconciled,
1129 Nay he is mine alone;
1130 --Then the full-grown poet stood between the two, and took each
1132 And to-day and ever so stands, as blender, uniter, tightly
1134 Which he will never release until he reconciles the two,
1135 And wholly and joyously blends them.
1137 =head2 v5.13.10 - Egill Skalla-Grímsson, L<Egils saga Skalla-Grímssonar|http://www.heimskringla.no/wiki/Egils_saga_Skalla-Gr%C3%ADmssonar>
1139 L<Announced on 2011-02-20 by Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/02/msg169340.html>
1141 Skalat maðr rúnar rísta,
1142 nema ráða vel kunni.
1143 Þat verðr mörgum manni,
1144 es of myrkvan staf villisk.
1146 tíu launstafi ristna.
1147 Þat hefr lauka lindi
1148 langs ofrtrega fengit.
1150 =head2 v5.13.9 - John F Kennedy, L<Inaugural Address January 20, 1961|http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/John_F._Kennedy%27s_Inaugural_Address>
1152 L<Announced on 2011-01-20 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/01/msg168335.html>
1154 In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been
1155 granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I
1156 do not shrink from this responsibility -- I welcome it. I do not believe
1157 that any of us would exchange places with any other people or any other
1158 generation. The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this
1159 endeavor will light our country and all who serve it. And the glow from
1160 that fire can truly light the world.
1162 And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you;
1163 ask what you can do for your country.
1165 My fellow citizens of the world, ask not what America will do for you,
1166 but what together we can do for the freedom of man.
1168 Finally, whether you are citizens of America or citizens of the world,
1169 ask of us here the same high standards of strength and sacrifice which
1170 we ask of you. With a good conscience our only sure reward, with history
1171 the final judge of our deeds, let us go forth to lead the land we love,
1172 asking His blessing and His help, but knowing that here on earth God's
1173 work must truly be our own.
1175 =head2 v5.13.8 - Roger Williams, L<"The Fifth Gift"|http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2005/8/19/21304/8493>
1177 L<Announced on 2010-12-19 by Zefram|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/12/msg167271.html>
1179 The aliens called the box a "matter generator," but we'd be more inclined
1180 to call it a matter duplicator. By connecting switches and potentiometers
1181 between the copper posts it was possible to make the box mark off two
1182 cubic rectangular areas of volume. Make a certain contact, and these
1183 areas would be isolated within perfectly reflective fields. They could
1184 be expanded or contracted by altering resistances between other posts.
1185 As I worked out the user interface I built a little control panel for
1186 the device. It was actually a clever way for the aliens to do things;
1187 instead of trying to build controls we could use, they built us an
1188 interface we could attach to controls that made sense to us. It could
1191 Once you had made the contact that established the shielded volumes,
1192 if you made another certain contact the contents of the first volume
1193 were copied to the second. The machine copied metal, plastic, steel,
1194 and diamond with equal ease. Copies of copies of copies of copies were
1195 indistinguishable from the originals at any magnification, even using
1196 techniques like X-ray crystallography.
1198 =head2 v5.13.7 - Andy Wachowski and Lana Wachowski, 'The Matrix'
1200 L<Announced on 2010-11-20 by Chris 'BinGOs' Williams|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/11/msg166162.html>
1202 [Neo sees a black cat walk by them, and then a similar black cat walk by them just like the first one]
1206 [Everyone freezes right in their tracks]
1208 Trinity: What did you just say?
1209 Neo: Nothing. Just had a little deja vu.
1210 Trinity: What did you see?
1211 Cypher: What happened?
1212 Neo: A black cat went past us, and then another that looked just
1214 Trinity: How much like it? Was it the same cat?
1215 Neo: It might have been. I'm not sure.
1216 Morpheus: Switch! Apoc!
1218 Trinity: A deja vu is usually a glitch in the Matrix. It happens when
1219 they change something.
1221 =head2 v5.13.6 - Haruki Murakami, "Kafka on the Shore"
1223 L<Announced on 2010-10-20 by Tatsuhiko Miyagawa|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/10/msg165183.html>
1225 The boy called Crow softly rests a hand on my shoulder, and with that
1228 "From now on -- no matter what -- you've got to be the world's toughest
1229 fifteen-year-old. That's the only way you're going to survive. And in order
1230 to do that, you've got to figure out what it means to be tough. You following
1233 I keep my eyes closed and don't reply. I just want to sink off into sleep
1234 like this, his hand on my shoulder. I hear the faint flutter of wings.
1236 "You're going to be the world's toughest fifteen-year-old," Crow whispers
1237 as I try to fall asleep. Like he was carving the words in a deep blue tattoo
1240 (Translated from Japanese by Philip Gabriel)
1242 =head2 v5.13.5 - Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, "The Room in the Dragon Volant"
1244 L<Announced on 2010-09-19 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/09/msg164238.html>
1246 Candle in hand I stepped in. I do not know whether the quality of
1247 air, long undisturbed, is peculiar; to me it has always seemed so, and
1248 the damp smell of the old masonry hung in this atmosphere. My candle
1249 faintly lighted the bare stone wall that enclosed the stair, the foot
1250 of which I could not see. Down I went, and a few turns brought me to
1251 the stone floor. Here was another door, of the simple, old, oak kind,
1252 deep sunk in the thickness of the wall. The large end of the key
1253 fitted this. The lock was stiff; I set the candle down upon the
1254 stair, and applied both hands; it turned with difficulty, and as it
1255 revolved, uttered a shriek that alarmed me for my secret.
1257 For some minutes I did not move. In a little time, however, I took
1258 courage, and opened the door. The night-air floating in puffed out
1259 the candle. There was a thicket of holly and underwood, as dense as a
1260 jungle, close about the door. I should have been in pitch-darkness,
1261 were it not that through the topmost leaves there twinkled, here and
1262 there, a glimmer of moonshine.
1264 Softly, lest any one should have opened his window at the sound of the
1265 rusty bolt, I struggled through this till I gained a view of the open
1266 grounds. Here I found that the brushwood spread a good way up the
1267 park, uniting with the wood that approached the little temple I have
1270 =head2 v5.13.4 - Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
1272 L<Announced on 2010-08-20 by Florian Ragwitz|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/08/msg163150.html>
1274 `How the creatures order one about, and make one repeat lessons!' thought Alice;
1275 `I might as well be at school at once.' However, she got up, and began to repeat
1276 it, but her head was so full of the Lobster Quadrille, that she hardly knew what
1277 she was saying, and the words came very queer indeed:--
1279 "'Tis the voice of the Lobster; I heard him declare,
1280 "You have baked me too brown, I must sugar my hair."
1281 As a duck with its eyelids, so he with his nose
1282 Trims his belt and his buttons, and turns out his toes.'
1285 `That's different from what I used to say when I was a child,' said the Gryphon.
1287 `Well, I never heard it before,' said the Mock Turtle; `but it sounds uncommon
1290 Alice said nothing; she had sat down with her face in her hands, wondering if
1291 anything would ever happen in a natural way again.
1293 `I should like to have it explained,' said the Mock Turtle.
1295 `She can't explain it,' said the Gryphon hastily. `Go on with the next verse.'
1297 `But about his toes?' the Mock Turtle persisted. `How could he turn them out
1298 with his nose, you know?'
1300 `It's the first position in dancing.' Alice said; but was dreadfully puzzled by
1301 the whole thing, and longed to change the subject.
1303 =head2 v5.13.3 - Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, "Good Omens"
1305 L<Announced on 2010-07-20 by David Golden|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/07/msg162230.html>
1307 Look at Crowley, doing 110 mph on the M40 heading towards
1308 Oxfordshire. Even the most resolutely casual observer would
1309 notice a number of strange things about him. The clenched teeth,
1310 for example, or the dull red glow coming from behind his
1311 sunglasses. And the car. The car was a definite hint.
1313 Crowley had started the journey in his Bentley, and he was
1314 dammned if he wasn't going to finish it in the Bentley as well.
1315 Not that even the kind of car buff who owns his own pair of
1316 motoring goggles would have been able to tell it was a vintage
1317 Bentley. Not any more. They wouldn't have been able to tell
1318 that it was a Bentley. They would only offer fifty-fifty that it
1319 had ever even been a car.
1321 There was no paint left on it, for a start. It might still have
1322 been black, where it wasn't a rusty, smudged reddish-brown, but
1323 this was a dull charcoal black. It traveled in its own ball of
1324 flame, like a space capsule making a particularly difficult
1327 There was a thin skin of crusted, melted rubber left around the
1328 metal wheel rims, but seeing that the wheel rims were still
1329 somhow riding an inch above the road surface this didn't seem to
1330 make an awful lot of difference to the suspension.
1332 It should have fallen apart miles back.
1334 =head2 v5.13.2 - Iain M Banks, "Use of Weapons"
1336 L<Announced on 2010-06-22 by Matt S Trout|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/06/msg161112.html>
1338 We deal in the moral equivalent of black holes, where the normal laws -
1339 the rules of right and wrong that people imagine apply everywhere else
1340 in the universe - break down; beyond those metaphysical event-horizons,
1341 there exist ... special circumstances.
1343 =head2 v5.13.1 - Miguel de Unamuno, "The Sepulchre of Don Quixote"
1345 L<Announced on 2010-05-20 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/05/msg160275.html>
1347 And if anyone shall come to you and say that he knows how to construct
1348 bridges and that perhaps a time will come when you will wish to avail
1349 yourself of his science in order to cross over a river, out with him! Out
1350 with the engineer! Rivers will be crossed by wading or swimming them, even
1351 if half the crusaders drown themselves. Let the engineer go off and build
1352 bridges somewhere else, where they are badly wanted. For those who go in
1353 quest of the sepulchre, faith is bridge enough.
1355 =head2 v5.13.0 - Jules Verne, "A Journey to the Centre of the Earth"
1357 L<Announced on 2010-04-20 by LE<0xe9>on Brocard|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/04/msg159275.html>
1359 The heat still remained at quite a supportable degree. With an
1360 involuntary shudder, I reflected on what the heat must have been
1361 when the volcano of Sneffels was pouring its smoke, flames, and
1362 streams of boiling lava -- all of which must have come up by the
1363 road we were now following. I could imagine the torrents of hot
1364 seething stone darting on, bubbling up with accompaniments of
1365 smoke, steam, and sulphurous stench!
1367 "Only to think of the consequences," I mused, "if the old
1368 volcano were once more to set to work."
1370 =head2 v5.12.3 - Howard W. Campbell, Jr., "Reflections on Not Participating in Current Events"
1372 L<Announced on 2011-01-21 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/01/msg168368.html>
1374 I saw a huge steam roller,
1375 It blotted out the sun.
1376 The people all lay down, lay down;
1377 They did not try to run.
1378 My love and I, we looked amazed
1379 Upon the gory mystery.
1380 'Lie down, lie down!' the people cried.
1381 'The great machine is history!'
1382 My love and I, we ran away,
1383 The engine did not find us.
1384 We ran up to a mountain top,
1385 Left history far behind us.
1386 Perhaps we should have stayed and died,
1387 But somehow we don't think so.
1388 We went to see where history'd been,
1389 And my, the dead did stink so.
1391 =head2 v5.12.2 - William Gibson, "Pattern Recognition"
1393 L<Announced on 2010-09-06 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/09/msg163852.html>
1395 CPUs. Cayce Pollard Units. That's what Damien calls the clothing
1396 she wears. CPUs are either black, white, or gray, and ideally
1397 seem to have come into this world without human intervention.
1399 What people take for relentless minimalism is a side effect
1400 of too much exposure to the reactor-cores of fashion. This
1401 has resulted in a remorseless paring-down of what she can and
1402 will wear. She is, literally, allergic to fashion. She can
1403 only tolerate things that could have been worn, to a general
1404 lack of comment, during any year between 1945 and 2000. She's a
1405 design-free zone, a one-woman school of and whose very austerity
1406 periodically threatens to spawn its own cult.
1408 =head2 v5.12.2-RC1 - William Gibson, "Pattern Recognition"
1410 L<Announced on 2010-08-31 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/08/msg163670.html>
1412 The front page opens, familiar as a friend's living room. A frame-grab
1413 from #48 serves as backdrop, dim and almost monochrome, no characters in
1414 view. This is one of the sequences that generate comparisons with
1415 Tarkovsky. She only knows Tarkovsky from stills, really, though she did
1416 once fall asleep during a screening of The Stalker, going under on an
1417 endless pan, the camera aimed straight down, in close-up, at a puddle on
1418 a ruined mosaic floor. But she is not one of those who think that much
1419 will be gained by analysis of the maker's imagined influences. The cult
1420 of the footage is rife with subcults, claiming every possible influence.
1421 Truffaut, Peckinpah -- The Peckinpah people, among the least likely, are
1422 still waiting for the guns to be drawn.
1424 =head2 v5.12.1 - Kurt Vonnegut, "Cat's Cradle"
1426 L<Announced on 2010-05-16 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/05/msg160109.html>
1428 "Now suppose," chortled Dr. Breed, enjoying himself, "that there were
1429 many possible ways in which water could crystallize, could freeze.
1430 Suppose that the sort of ice we skate upon and put into highballs --
1431 what we might call ice-one -- is only one of several types of ice.
1432 Suppose water always froze as ice-one on Earth because it had never
1433 had a seed to teach it how to form ice-two, ice-three, ice-four
1434 ...? And suppose," he rapped on his desk with his old hand again,
1435 "that there were one form, which we will call ice-nine -- a crystal as
1436 hard as this desk -- with a melting point of, let us say, one-hundred
1437 degrees Fahrenheit, or, better still, a melting point of one-hundred-
1438 and-thirty degrees."
1440 =head2 v5.12.1-RC2 - Kurt Vonnegut, "Cat's Cradle"
1442 L<Announced on 2010-05-13 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/05/msg160066.html>
1444 San Lorenzo was fifty miles long and twenty miles wide, I learned from
1445 the supplement to the New York Sunday Times. Its population was four
1446 hundred, fifty thousand souls, "...all fiercely dedicated to the ideals
1449 Its highest point, Mount McCabe, was eleven thousand feet above sea
1450 level. Its capital was Bolivar, "...a strikingly modern city built on a
1451 harbor capable of sheltering the entire United States Navy." The principal
1452 exports were sugar, coffee, bananas, indigo, and handcrafted novelties.
1454 =head2 v5.12.1-RC1 - Kurt Vonnegut, "Cat's Cradle"
1456 L<Announced on 2010-05-09 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/05/msg159971.html>
1458 Which brings me to the Bokononist concept of a wampeter. A wampeter is
1459 the pivot of a karass. No karass is without a wampeter, Bokonon tells us,
1460 just as no wheel is without a hub. Anything can be a wampeter: a tree,
1461 a rock, an animal, an idea, a book, a melody, the Holy Grail. Whatever
1462 it is, the members of its karass revolve about it in the majestic chaos
1463 of a spiral nebula. The orbits of the members of a karass about their
1464 common wampeter are spiritual orbits, naturally. It is souls and not
1465 bodies that revolve. As Bokonon invites us to sing:
1467 Around and around and around we spin,
1468 With feet of lead and wings of tin . . .
1470 =head2 v5.12.0 - Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
1472 L<Announced on 2010-04-12 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/04/msg158820.html>
1474 'Please would you tell me,' said Alice, a little timidly, for she was
1475 not quite sure whether it was good manners for her to speak first, 'why
1476 your cat grins like that?'
1478 'It's a Cheshire cat,' said the Duchess, 'and that's why. Pig!'
1480 She said the last word with such sudden violence that Alice quite
1481 jumped; but she saw in another moment that it was addressed to the baby,
1482 and not to her, so she took courage, and went on again:--
1484 'I didn't know that Cheshire cats always grinned; in fact, I didn't know
1485 that cats COULD grin.'
1487 'They all can,' said the Duchess; 'and most of 'em do.'
1489 =head2 v5.12.0-RC5 - Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
1491 L<Announced on 2010-04-09 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/04/msg158720.html>
1493 'Not QUITE right, I'm afraid,' said Alice, timidly; 'some of the words
1496 'It is wrong from beginning to end,' said the Caterpillar decidedly, and
1497 there was silence for some minutes.
1499 =head2 v5.12.0-RC4 - Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
1501 L<Announced on 2010-04-06 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/04/msg158567.html>
1503 'It was much pleasanter at home,' thought poor Alice, 'when one wasn't
1504 always growing larger and smaller, and being ordered about by mice and
1505 rabbits. I almost wish I hadn't gone down that rabbit-hole--and yet--and
1506 yet--it's rather curious, you know, this sort of life! I do wonder what
1507 can have happened to me! When I used to read fairy-tales, I fancied that
1508 kind of thing never happened, and now here I am in the middle of one!
1510 =head2 v5.12.0-RC3 - Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
1512 L<Announced on 2010-04-02 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/04/msg158346.html>
1514 At last the Mouse, who seemed to be a person of authority among them,
1515 called out, 'Sit down, all of you, and listen to me! I'LL soon make you
1516 dry enough!' They all sat down at once, in a large ring, with the Mouse
1517 in the middle. Alice kept her eyes anxiously fixed on it, for she felt
1518 sure she would catch a bad cold if she did not get dry very soon.
1520 'Ahem!' said the Mouse with an important air, 'are you all ready? This
1521 is the driest thing I know. Silence all round, if you please! "William
1522 the Conqueror, whose cause was favoured by the pope, was soon submitted
1523 to by the English, who wanted leaders, and had been of late much
1524 accustomed to usurpation and conquest. Edwin and Morcar, the earls of
1525 Mercia and Northumbria --"'
1527 =head2 v5.12.0-RC2 - no announcement
1529 Available on CPAN since 2010-04-01.
1531 =head2 v5.12.0-RC1 - Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
1533 L<Announced on 2010-03-29 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/03/msg158060.html>
1535 So she was considering in her own mind (as well as she could, for the
1536 hot day made her feel very sleepy and stupid), whether the pleasure of
1537 making a daisy-chain would be worth the trouble of getting up and
1538 picking the daisies, when suddenly a White Rabbit with pink eyes ran
1541 There was nothing so VERY remarkable in that; nor did Alice think it so
1542 VERY much out of the way to hear the Rabbit say to itself, 'Oh dear! Oh
1543 dear! I shall be late!' (when she thought it over afterwards, it
1544 occurred to her that she ought to have wondered at this, but at the time
1545 it all seemed quite natural); but when the Rabbit actually TOOK A WATCH
1546 OUT OF ITS WAISTCOAT-POCKET, and looked at it, and then hurried on,
1547 Alice started to her feet, for it flashed across her mind that she had
1548 never before seen a rabbit with either a waistcoat-pocket, or a watch to
1549 take out of it, and burning with curiosity, she ran across the field
1550 after it, and fortunately was just in time to see it pop down a large
1551 rabbit-hole under the hedge.
1553 In another moment down went Alice after it, never once considering how
1554 in the world she was to get out again.
1556 =head2 v5.12.0-RC0 - no epigraph
1558 L<Announced on 2020-03-21 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/03/msg157761.html>
1560 =head2 v5.11.5 - Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "Christabel"
1562 L<Announced on 2010-02-21 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/02/msg156957.html>
1564 A little child, a limber elf,
1565 Singing, dancing to itself,
1566 A fairy thing with red round cheeks,
1567 That always finds, and never seeks,
1568 Makes such a vision to the sight
1569 As fills a father's eyes with light;
1570 And pleasures flow in so thick and fast
1571 Upon his heart, that he at last
1572 Must needs express his love's excess
1573 With words of unmeant bitterness.
1574 Perhaps 'tis pretty to force together
1575 Thoughts so all unlike each other;
1576 To mutter and mock a broken charm,
1577 To dally with wrong that does no harm.
1578 Perhaps 'tis tender too and pretty
1579 At each wild word to feel within
1580 A sweet recoil of love and pity.
1581 And what, if in a world of sin
1582 (O sorrow and shame should this be true!)
1583 Such giddiness of heart and brain
1584 Comes seldom save from rage and pain,
1585 So talks as it's most used to do.
1587 =head2 v5.11.4 - Fyodor Dostoevsky, "Crime and Punishment"
1589 L<Announced on 2010-01-20 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/01/msg155848.html>
1591 And you don't suppose that I went into it headlong like a fool? I went
1592 into it like a wise man, and that was just my destruction. And you
1593 mustn't suppose that I didn't know, for instance, that if I began to
1594 question myself whether I had the right to gain power -- I certainly
1595 hadn't the right -- or that if I asked myself whether a human being is a
1596 louse it proved that it wasn't so for me, though it might be for a man
1597 who would go straight to his goal without asking questions.... If I
1598 worried myself all those days, wondering whether Napoleon would have
1599 done it or not, I felt clearly of course that I wasn't Napoleon.
1601 =head2 v5.11.3 - Mark Twain, "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer"
1603 L<Announced on 2009-12-20 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2009/12/msg154838.html>
1605 "Say -- I'm going in a swimming, I am. Don't you wish you could? But of
1606 course you'd druther work -- wouldn't you? Course you would!"
1608 Tom contemplated the boy a bit, and said: "What do you call work?"
1610 "Why ain't that work?"
1612 Tom resumed his whitewashing, and answered carelessly: "Well, maybe it
1613 is, and maybe it aint. All I know, is, it suits Tom Sawyer."
1615 "Oh come, now, you don't mean to let on that you like it?"
1617 The brush continued to move. "Like it? Well I don't see why I oughtn't
1618 to like it. Does a boy get a chance to whitewash a fence every day?"
1620 That put the thing in a new light. Ben stopped nibbling his apple. Tom
1621 swept his brush daintily back and forth -- stepped back to note the effect
1622 -- added a touch here and there-criticised the effect again -- Ben
1623 watching every move and getting more and more interested, more and more
1624 absorbed. Presently he said: "Say, Tom, let me whitewash a little."
1626 =head2 v5.11.2 - Michael Marshall Smith, "Only Forward"
1628 L<Announced on 2009-11-20 by Léon Brocard|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2009/11/msg153646.html>
1630 The streets were pretty quiet, which was nice. They're always quiet here
1631 at that time: you have to be wearing a black jacket to be out on the
1632 streets between seven and nine in the evening, and not many people in
1633 the area have black jackets. It's just one of those things. I currently
1634 live in Colour Neighbourhood, which is for people who are heavily into
1635 colour. All the streets and buildings are set for instant colourmatch:
1636 as you walk down the road they change hue to offset whatever you're
1637 wearing. When the streets are busy it's kind of intense, and anyone
1638 prone to epileptic seizures isn't allowed to live in the Neighbourhood,
1639 however much they're into colour.
1641 =head2 v5.11.1 - Joseph Heller, "Catch-22"
1643 L<Announced on 2009-10-20 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2009/10/msg152360.html>
1645 Milo had been caught red-handed in the act of plundering his countrymen,
1646 and, as a result, his stock had never been higher. He proved good as his
1647 word when a rawboned major from Minnesota curled his lip in rebellious
1648 disavowal and demanded his share of the syndicate Milo kept saying
1649 everybody owned. Milo met the challenge by writing the words "A Share"
1650 on the nearest scrap of paper and handing it away with a virtuous disdain
1651 that won the envy and admiration of almost everyone who knew him. His
1652 glory was at a peak, and Colonel Cathcart, who knew and admired his
1653 war record, was astonished by the deferential humility with which Milo
1654 presented himself at Group Headquarters and made his fantastic appeal
1655 for more hazardous assignment.
1657 =head2 v5.11.0 - Mikhail Bulgakov, "The Master and Margarita"
1659 L<Announced on 2009-10-02 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2009/10/msg151376.html>
1661 Whispers of an "evil power" were heard in lines at dairy shops, in
1662 streetcars, stores, arguments, kitchens, suburban and long-distance
1663 trains, at stations large and small, in dachas and on beaches. Needless
1664 to say, truly mature and cultured people did not tell these stories
1665 about an evil power's visit to the capital. In fact, they even made fun
1666 of them and tried to talk sense into those who told them. Nevertheless,
1667 facts are facts, as they say, and cannot simply be dismissed without
1668 explanation: somebody had visited the capital. The charred cinders of
1669 Griboyedov alone, and many other things besides, confirmed it. Cultured
1670 people shared the point of view of the investigating team: it was the
1671 work of a gang of hypnotists and ventriloquists magnificently skilled in
1674 =head2 v5.10.1 - Right Hon. James Hacker MP, "The Complete Yes Minister: The Diaries of a Cabinet Minister"
1676 L<Announced on 2009-09-23 by Dave Mitchell|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2009/08/msg150172.html>
1678 'Briefly, sir, I am the Permanent Under-Secretary of State, known as
1679 the Permanent Secretary. Woolley here is your Principal Private
1680 Secretary. I, too, have a Principal Private Secretary, and he is the
1681 Principal Private Secretary to the Permanent Secretary. Directly
1682 responsible to me are ten Deputy Secretaries, eighty-seven Under
1683 Secretaries and two hundred and nineteen Assistant Secretaries.
1684 Directly responsible to the Principal Private Secretaries are plain
1685 Private Secretaries. The Prime Minister will be appointing two
1686 Parliamentary Under-Secretaries and you will be appointing your own
1687 Parliamentary Private Secretary.'
1689 'Can they all type?' I joked.
1691 'None of us can type, Minister,' replied Sir Humphrey smoothly. 'Mrs
1692 McKay types - she is your Secretary.'
1694 I couldn't tell whether or not he was joking. 'What a pity,' I said.
1695 'We could have opened an agency.'
1697 Sir Humphrey and Bernard laughed. 'Very droll, sir,' said Sir
1698 Humphrey. 'Most amusing, sir,' said Bernard. Were they genuinely
1699 amused at my wit, or just being rather patronising? 'I suppose they
1700 all say that, do they?' I ventured.
1702 Sir Humphrey reassured me on that. 'Certainly not, Minister,' he
1703 replied. 'Not quite all.'
1705 =head2 v5.10.1-RC2 - no epigraph
1707 L<Announced on 2009-08-18 by Dave Mitchell|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2009/08/msg150015.html>
1709 =head2 v5.10.1-RC1 - no epigraph
1711 L<Announced on 2009-08-06 by Dave Mitchell|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2009/08/msg149498.html>
1713 =head2 v5.10.0 - Laurence Sterne, "Tristram Shandy"
1715 L<Announced on 2007-12-18 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2007/12/msg131636.html>
1717 He would often declare, in speaking his thoughts upon the subject, that
1718 he did not conceive how the greatest family in England could stand it
1719 out against an uninterrupted succession of six or seven short
1720 noses.--And for the contrary reason, he would generally add, That it
1721 must be one of the greatest problems in civil life, where the same
1722 number of long and jolly noses, following one another in a direct line,
1723 did not raise and hoist it up into the best vacancies in the kingdom.
1725 =head2 v5.10.0-RC2 - no epigraph
1727 L<Announced on 2007-11-25 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2007/11/msg130978.html>
1729 =head2 v5.10.0-RC1 - no epigraph
1731 L<Announced on 2007-11-17 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2007/11/msg130653.html>
1733 =head2 v5.9.5 - no announcement
1735 L<Pre-announced on 2007-07-07 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2007/07/msg126358.html>,
1736 available on CPAN with same date, but never actually announced.
1738 =head2 v5.9.4 - no epigraph
1740 L<Announced on 2006-08-15 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2006/08/msg115782.html>
1742 =head2 v5.9.3 - no epigraph
1744 L<Announced on 2006-01-28 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2006/01/msg109086.html>
1746 =head2 v5.9.2 - Thomas Pynchon, "V"
1748 L<Announced on 2005-04-01 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=20050401150702.2b4a70d5@grubert.mandrakesoft.com>
1750 This word flip was weird. Every recording date of McClintic's he'd
1751 gotten into the habit of talking electricity with the audio men and
1752 technicians of the studio. McClintic once couldn't have cared less
1753 about electricity, but now it seemed if that was helping him reach a
1754 bigger audience, some digging, some who would never dig, but all
1755 paying and those royalties keeping the Triumph in gas and McClintic
1756 in J. Press suits, then McClintic ought to be grateful to
1757 electricity, ought maybe to learn a little more about it. So he'd
1758 picked up some here and there, and one day last summer he got around
1759 to talking stochastic music and digital computers with one
1760 technician. Out of the conversation had come Set/Reset, which was
1761 getting to be a signature for the group. He had found out from this
1762 sound man about a two-triode circuit called a flip-flop, which when
1763 it turned on could be one of two ways, depending on which tube was
1764 conducting and which was cut off: set or reset, flip or flop.
1766 "And that," the man said, "can be yes or no, or one or zero. And
1767 that is what you might call one of the basic units, or specialized
1768 `cells' in a big `electronic brain.' "
1770 "Crazy," said McClintic, having lost him back there someplace. But
1771 one thing that did occur to him was if a computer's brain could go
1772 flip or flop, why so could a musician's. As long as you were flop,
1773 everything was cool. But where did the trigger-pulse come from to
1776 =head2 v5.9.1 - Tom Stoppard, "Arcadia"
1778 L<Announced on 2004-03-16 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://groups.google.com/group/perl.perl5.porters/msg/8587d77c565f2d43>
1780 Aren't you supposed to have a pony?
1782 =head2 v5.9.0 - Doris Lessing, "Martha Quest"
1784 L<Announced on 2003-10-27 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://groups.google.com/group/perl.perl5.porters/msg/63a8c34385de82a1>
1786 What of October, that ambiguous month
1788 =head2 v5.8.9 - Right Hon. James Hacker MP, "The Complete Yes Minister: The Diaries of a Cabinet Minister"
1790 L<Announced on 2008-12-14 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2008/12/msg142571.html>
1792 Frank and I, unlike the civil servants, were still puzzled that such a
1793 proposal as the Europass could even be seriously under consideration by
1794 the FCO. We can both see clearly that it is wonderful ammunition for the
1795 anti-Europeans. I asked Humphrey if the Foreign Office doesn't realise
1796 how damaging this would be to the European ideal?
1798 'I'm sure they do, Minister, he said. That's why they support it.'
1800 This was even more puzzling, since I'd always been under the impression
1801 that the FO is pro-Europe. 'Is it or isn't it?' I asked Humphrey.
1803 'Yes and no,' he replied of course, 'if you'll pardon the
1804 expression. The Foreign Office is pro-Europe because it is really
1805 anti-Europe. In fact the Civil Service was united in its desire to make
1806 sure the Common Market didn't work. That's why we went into it.'
1808 This sounded like a riddle to me. I asked him to explain further. And
1809 basically his argument was as follows: Britain has had the same foreign
1810 policy objective for at least the last five hundred years - to create a
1811 disunited Europe. In that cause we have fought with the Dutch against
1812 the Spanish, with the Germans against the French, with the French and
1813 Italians against the Germans, and with the French against the Italians
1814 and Germans. [The Dutch rebellion against Phillip II of Spain, the
1815 Napoleonic Wars, the First World War, and the Second World War - Ed.]
1817 In other words, divide and rule. And the Foreign Office can see no
1818 reason to change when it has worked so well until now.
1820 I was aware of this, naturally, but I regarded it as ancient history.
1821 Humphrey thinks that it is, in fact, current policy. It was necessary
1822 for us to break up the EEC, he explained, so we had to get inside. We
1823 had previously tried to break it up from the outside, but that didn't
1824 work. [A reference to our futile and short-lived involvement in EFTA,
1825 the European Free Trade Association, founded in 1960 and which the UK
1826 left in 1972 - Ed.] Now that we're in, we are able to make a complete
1827 pig's breakfast out of it. We've now set the Germans against the French,
1828 the French against the Italians, the Italians against the Dutch... and
1829 the Foreign office is terribly happy. It's just like old time.
1831 I was staggered by all of this. I thought that the all of us who are
1832 publicly pro-European believed in the European ideal. I said this to Sir
1833 Humphrey, and he simply chuckled.
1835 So I asked him: if we don't believe in the European Ideal, why are we
1836 pushing to increase the membership?
1838 'Same reason,' came the reply. 'It's just like the United Nations. The
1839 more members it has, the more arguments you can stir up, and the more
1840 futile and impotent it becomes.'
1842 This all strikes me as the most appalling cynicism, and I said so.
1844 Sir Humphrey agreed completely. 'Yes Minister. We call it
1845 diplomacy. It's what made Britain great, you know.'
1847 =head2 v5.8.9-RC2 - Right Hon. James Hacker MP, "The Complete Yes Minister: The Diaries of a Cabinet Minister"
1849 L<Announced on 2008-12-06 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2008/11/msg142422.html>
1851 There was silence in the office. I didn't know what we were going to do
1852 about the four hundred new people supervising our economy drive or the
1853 four hundred new people for the Bureaucratic Watchdog Office, or
1854 anything! I simply sat and waited and hoped that my head would stop
1855 thumping and that some idea would be suggested by someone sometime soon.
1857 Sir Humphrey obliged. 'Minister... if we were to end the economy drive
1858 and close the Bureaucratic Watchdog Office we could issue an immediate
1859 press announcement that you had axed eight hundred jobs.' He had
1860 obviously thought this out carefully in advance, for at this moment he
1861 produced a slim folder from under his arm. 'If you'd like to approve
1864 I couldn't believe the impertinence of the suggestion. Axed eight
1865 hundred jobs? 'But no one was ever doing these jobs,' I pointed out
1866 incredulously. 'No one's been appointed yet.'
1868 'Even greater economy,' he replied instantly. 'We've saved eight hundred
1869 redundancy payments as well.'
1871 'But...' I attempted to explain '... that's just phony. It's dishonest,
1872 it's juggling with figures, it's pulling the wool over people's eyes.'
1874 'A government press release, in fact.' said Humphrey.
1876 =head2 v5.8.9-RC1 - Right Hon. James Hacker MP, "The Complete Yes Minister: The Diaries of a Cabinet Minister"
1878 L<Announced on 2008-11-10 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2008/11/msg141515.html>
1880 A jumbo jet touched down, with BURANDAN AIRWAYS written on the side. I
1881 was hugely impressed. British Airways are having to pawn their Concordes,
1882 and here is this little tiny African state with its own airline, jumbo
1885 I asked Bernard how many planes Burandan Airways had. 'None,' he said.
1887 I told him not to be silly and use his eyes. 'No Minister, it belongs to
1888 Freddie Laker,' he said. 'They chartered it last week and repainted it
1889 specially.' Apparently most of the Have-Nots (I mean, LDCs) do this - at
1890 the opening of the UN General Assembly the runways of Kennedy Airport are
1891 jam-packed with phoney flag-carriers. 'In fact,' said Bernard with a sly
1892 grin, 'there was one 747 that belonged to nine different African airlines
1893 in a month. They called it the mumbo-jumbo.'
1895 While we watched nothing much happening on the TV except the mumbo-jumbo
1896 taxiing around Prestwick and the Queen looking a bit chilly, Bernard gave
1897 me the next day's schedule and explained that I was booked on the night
1898 sleeper from King's Cross to Edinburgh because I had to vote in a
1899 three-line whip at the House tonight and would have to miss the last
1900 plane. Then the commentator, in that special hushed BBC voice used for any
1901 occasion with which Royalty is connected, announced reverentially that we
1902 were about to catch our first glimpse of President Selim.
1904 And out of the plane stepped Charlie. My old friend Charlie Umtali. We
1905 were at LSE together. Not Selim Mohammed at all, but Charlie.
1907 Bernard asked me if I were sure. Silly question. How could you forget a
1908 name like Charlie Umtali?
1910 I sent Bernard for Sir Humphrey, who was delighted to hear that we now
1911 know something about our official visitor.
1913 Bernard's official brief said nothing. Amazing! Amazing how little the FCO
1914 has been able to find out. Perhaps they were hoping it would all be on the
1915 car radio. All the brief says is that Colonel Selim Mohammed had converted
1916 to Islam some years ago, they didn't know his original name, and therefore
1917 knew little of his background.
1919 I was able to tell Humphrey and Bernard /all/ about his background.
1920 Charlie was a red-hot political economist, I informed them. Got the top
1921 first. Wiped the floor with everyone.
1923 Bernard seemed relieved. 'Well that's all right then.'
1927 'I think Bernard means,' said Sir Humphrey helpfully, 'that he'll know how
1928 to behave if he was at an English University. Even if it was the LSE.' I
1929 never know whether or not Humphrey is insulting me intentionally.
1931 Humphrey was concerned about Charlie's political colour. 'When you said
1932 that he was red-hot, were you speaking politically?'
1934 In a way I was. 'The thing about Charlie is that you never quite know
1935 where you are with him. He's the sort of chap who follows you into a
1936 revolving door and comes out in front.'
1938 'No deeply held convictions?' asked Sir Humphrey.
1940 'No. The only thing Charlie was committed too was Charlie.'
1942 'Ah, I see. A politician, Minister.'
1944 =head2 v5.8.8 - Joe Raposo, "Bein' Green"
1946 L<Announced on 2006-02-01 by Nicholas Clark|http://groups.google.com/group/perl.perl5.porters/msg/28caf52e41ebe723>
1948 It's not that easy bein' green
1949 Having to spend each day the color of the leaves
1950 When I think it could be nicer being red or yellow or gold
1951 Or something much more colorful like that
1953 It's not easy bein' green
1954 It seems you blend in with so many other ordinary things
1955 And people tend to pass you over 'cause you're
1956 Not standing out like flashy sparkles in the water
1959 But green's the color of Spring
1960 And green can be cool and friendly-like
1961 And green can be big like an ocean
1962 Or important like a mountain
1965 When green is all there is to be
1966 It could make you wonder why, but why wonder why?
1967 Wonder I am green and it'll do fine, it's beautiful
1968 And I think it's what I want to be
1970 =head2 v5.8.8-RC1 - Cosgrove Hall Productions, "Dangermouse"
1972 L<Announced on 2006-01-20 by Nicholas Clark|http://groups.google.com/group/perl.perl5.porters/msg/d231fc554af8cc51>
1974 Greenback: And the world is mine, all mine. Muhahahahaha. See to it!
1976 Stiletto: Si, Barone. Subito, Barone.
1978 =head2 v5.8.7 - Sergei Prokofiev, "Peter and the Wolf"
1980 L<Announced on 2005-05-31 by Nicholas Clark|http://groups.google.com/group/perl.perl5.porters/msg/9a545704a0062f16>
1982 And now, imagine the triumphant procession: Peter at the head; after him the
1983 hunters leading the wolf; and winding up the procession, grandfather and the
1986 Grandfather shook his head discontentedly: "Well, and if Peter hadn't caught
1987 the wolf? What then?"
1989 =head2 v5.8.7-RC1 - Sergei Prokofiev, "Peter and the Wolf"
1991 L<Announced on 2005-05-20 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2005/05/msg100711.html>
1993 And now this is how things stood: The cat was sitting on one branch. The
1994 bird on another, not too close to the cat. And the wolf walked round and
1995 round the tree, looking at them with greedy eyes.
1997 In the meantime, Peter, without the slightest fear, stood behind the
1998 gate, watching all that was going on. He ran home,got a strong rope and
1999 climbed up the high stone wall.
2001 One of the branches of the tree, around which the wolf was walking,
2002 stretched out over the wall.
2004 Grabbing hold of the branch, Peter lightly climbed over on to the tree.
2005 Peter said to the bird: "Fly down and circle round the wolf's head, only
2006 take care that he doesn't catch you!".
2008 The bird almost touched the wolf's head with its wings, while the wolf
2009 snapped angrily at him from this side and that.
2011 How that bird teased the wolf, how that wolf wanted to catch him! But
2012 the bird was clever and the wolf simply couldn't do anything about it.
2014 =head2 v5.8.6 - A. A. Milne, "The House at Pooh Corner"
2016 L<Announced on 2004-11-28 by Nicholas Clark|http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=20041128000836.GA304@Bagpuss.unfortu.net>
2018 "Hallo, Pooh," said Piglet, giving a jump of surprise. "I knew it was
2021 "So did I,", said Pooh. "What are you doing?"
2023 "I'm planting a haycorn, Pooh, so that it can grow up into an oak-tree,
2024 and have lots of haycorns just outside the front door instead of having
2025 to walk miles and miles, do you see, Pooh?"
2027 "Supposing it doesn't?" said Pooh.
2029 "It will, because Christopher Robin says it will, so that's why I'm
2032 "Well," aid Pooh, "if I plant a honeycomb outside my house, then it will
2033 grow up into a beehive."
2035 Piglet wasn't quite sure about this.
2037 "Or a /piece/ of a honeycomb," said Pooh, "so as not to waste too much.
2038 Only then I might only get a piece of a beehive, and it might be the
2039 wrong piece, where the bees were buzzing and not hunnying. Bother"
2041 Piglet agreed that that would be rather bothering.
2043 "Besides, Pooh, it's a very difficult thing, planting unless you know
2044 how to do it," he said; and he put the acorn in the hole he had made,
2045 and covered it up with earth, and jumped on it.
2047 =head2 v5.8.6-RC1 - A. A. Milne, "Winnie the Pooh"
2049 L<Announced on 2004-11-11 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/11/msg95786.html>
2051 "Hallo!" said Piglet, "whare are /you/ doing?"
2053 "Hunting," said Pooh.
2057 "Tracking something," said Winnie-the-Pooh very mysteriously.
2059 "Tracking what?" said Piglet, coming closer.
2061 "That's just what I ask myself, I ask myself, What?"
2063 "What do you think you'll answer?"
2065 "I shall have to wait until I catch up with it," said Winnie-the-Pooh.
2066 "Now, look there." He pointed to the ground in front of him. "What do
2069 "Track," said Piglet. "Paw-marks." He gave a little squeak of
2070 excitement. "Oh, Pooh!" Do you think it's a--a--a Woozle?"
2072 =head2 v5.8.5 - wikipedia, "Yew"
2074 L<Announced on 2004-07-19 by Nicholas Clark|http://groups.google.com/group/perl.perl5.porters/msg/68340e2e4c39222c>
2076 Yews are relatively slow growing trees, widely used in landscaping and
2077 ornamental horticulture. They have flat, dark-green needles, reddish
2078 bark, and bear seeds with red arils, which are eaten by thrushes,
2079 waxwings and other birds, dispersing the hard seeds undamaged in their
2080 droppings. Yew wood is reddish brown (with white sapwood), and very
2081 hard. It was traditionally used to make bows, especially the English
2084 In England, the Common Yew (Taxus baccata, also known as English Yew) is
2085 often found in churchyards. It is sometimes suggested that these are
2086 placed there as a symbol of long life or trees of death, and some are
2087 likely to be over 3,000 years old. It is also suggested that yew trees
2088 may have a pre-Christian association with old pagan holy sites, and the
2089 Christian church found it expedient to use and take over existing sites.
2090 Another explanation is that the poisonous berries and foliage discourage
2091 farmers and drovers from letting their animals wander into the burial
2092 grounds. The yew tree is a frequent symbol in the Christian poetry of
2093 T.S. Eliot, especially his Four Quartets.
2095 =head2 v5.8.5-RC2 - wikipedia, "Beech"
2097 L<Announced on 2004-07-09 by Nicholas Clark|http://groups.google.com/group/perl.perl5.porters/msg/f92175725af7a5ad>
2099 Beeches are trees of the Genus Fagus, family Fagaceae, including about
2100 ten species in Europe, Asia, and North America. The leaves are entire or
2101 sparsely toothed. The fruit is a small, sharply-angled nut, borne in
2102 pairs in spiny husks. The beech most commonly grown as an ornamental or
2103 shade tree is the European beech (Fagus sylvatica).
2105 The southern beeches belong to a different but related genus,
2106 Nothofagus. They are found in Australia, New Zealand, New Guinea, New
2107 Caledonia and South America.
2109 =head2 v5.8.5-RC1 - wikipedia, "Pedunculate Oak" (abridged)
2111 L<Announced on 2004-07-07 by Nicholas Clark|http://groups.google.com/group/perl.perl5.porters/msg/ca6ce4a7ed9f219c?pli=1>
2113 The Pedunculate Oak is called the Common Oak in Britain, and is also
2114 often called the English Oak in other English speaking countries It is a
2115 large deciduous tree to 25-35m tall (exceptionally to 40m), with lobed
2116 and sessile (stalk-less) leaves. Flowering takes place in early to mid
2117 spring, and their fruit, called "acorns", ripen by autumn of the same
2118 year. The acorns are pedunculate (having a peduncle or acorn-stalk) and
2119 may occur singly, or several acorns may occur on a stalk.
2121 It forms a long-lived tree, with a large widespreading head of rugged
2122 branches. While it may naturally live to an age of a few centuries, many
2123 of the oldest trees are pollarded or coppiced, both pruning techniques
2124 that extend the tree's potential lifespan, if not its health.
2126 Within its native range it is valued for its importance to insects and
2127 other wildlife. Numerous insects live on the leaves, buds, and in the
2128 acorns. The acorns form a valuable food resource for several small
2129 mammals and some birds, notably Jays Garrulus glandarius.
2131 It is planted for forestry, and produces a long-lasting and durable
2132 heartwood, much in demand for interior and furniture work.
2134 =head2 v5.8.4 - T. S. Eliot, "The Old Gumbie Cat"
2136 L<Announced on 2004-04-22 by Nicholas Clark|http://groups.google.com/group/perl.perl5.porters/msg/c7333acf03ef4015>
2138 I have a Gumbie Cat in mind, her name is Jennyanydots;
2139 The curtain-cord she likes to wind, and tie it into sailor-knots.
2140 She sits upon the window-sill, or anything that's smooth and flat:
2141 She sits and sits and sits and sits -- and that's what makes a Gumbie Cat!
2143 But when the day's hustle and bustle is done,
2144 Then the Gumbie Cat's work is but hardly begun.
2145 She thinks that the cockroaches just need employment
2146 To prevent them from idle and wanton destroyment.
2147 So she's formed, from that a lot of disorderly louts,
2148 A troop of well-disciplined helpful boy-scouts,
2149 With a purpose in life and a good deed to do--
2150 And she's even created a Beetles' Tattoo.
2152 So for Old Gumbie Cats let us now give three cheers --
2153 On whom well-ordered households depend, it appears.
2156 =head2 v5.8.4-RC2 - T. S. Eliot, "Macavity: The Mystery Cat"
2158 L<Announced on 2004-04-16 by Nicholas Clark|http://groups.google.com/group/perl.perl5.porters/msg/84f6fdd73cc56a1b>
2160 Macavity's a Mystery Cat: he's called the Hidden Paw --
2161 For he's the master criminal who can defy the Law.
2162 He's the bafflement of Scotland Yard, the Flying Squad's despair:
2163 For when they reach the scene of crime -- /Macavity's not there/!
2165 Macavity, Macavity, there's no one like Macavity,
2166 He's broken every human law, he breaks the law of gravity.
2167 His powers of levitation would make a fakir stare,
2168 And when you reach the scene of crime -- /Macavity's not there/!
2169 You may seek him in the basement, you may look up in the air --
2170 But I tell you once and once again, /Macavity's not there/!
2172 =head2 v5.8.4-RC1 - T. S. Eliot, "Skimbleshanks: The Railway Cat"
2174 L<Announced on 2004-04-05 by Nicholas Clark|http://groups.google.com/group/perl.perl5.porters/msg/e500353440769ebf>
2176 There's a whisper down the line at 11.39
2177 When the Night Mail's ready to depart,
2178 Saying 'Skimble where is Skimble has he gone to hunt the thimble?
2179 We must find him of the train can't start.'
2180 All the guards and all the porters and the stationmaster's daughters
2181 They are searching high and low,
2182 Saying 'Skimble where is Skimble for unless he's very nimble
2183 Then the Night Mail just can't go'
2184 At 11.42 then the signal's overdue
2185 And the passengers are frantic to a man--
2186 Then Skimble will appear and he'll saunter to the rear:
2187 He's been busy in the luggage van!
2188 He gives one flash of his glass-green eyes
2189 And the signal goes 'All Clear!'
2190 And we're off at last of the northern part
2191 Of the Northern Hemisphere!
2193 =head2 v5.8.3 - Arthur William Edgar O'Shaugnessy, "Ode"
2195 L<Announced on 2004-01-14 by Nicholas Clark|http://groups.google.com/group/perl.perl5.porters/msg/968fb8d71e23af69>
2197 We are the music makers,
2198 And we are the dreamers of dreams,
2199 Wandering by lonely sea-breakers,
2200 And sitting by desolate streams; --
2201 World-losers and world-forsakers,
2202 On whom the pale moon gleams:
2203 Yet we are the movers and shakers
2204 Of the world for ever, it seems.
2206 =head2 v5.8.3-RC1 - Irving Berlin, "Let's Face the Music and Dance"
2208 L<Announced on 2004-01-07 by Nicholas Clark|http://groups.google.com/group/perl.perl5.porters/msg/5ced50bebcd11c96>
2210 There may be trouble ahead,
2211 But while there's music and moonlight,
2212 And love and romance,
2213 Let's face the music and dance.
2215 Before the fiddlers have fled,
2216 Before they ask us to pay the bill,
2217 And while we still have that chance,
2218 Let's face the music and dance.
2220 Soon, we'll be without the moon,
2221 Humming a different tune, and then,
2223 There may be teardrops to shed,
2224 So while there's music and moonlight,
2225 And love and romance,
2226 Let's face the music and dance.
2228 =head2 v5.8.2 - Walt Whitman, "Passage to India"
2230 L<Announced on 2003-11-06 by Nicholas Clark|http://groups.google.com/group/perl.perl5.porters/msg/4714574f93967673>
2232 Passage, immediate passage! the blood burns in my veins!
2233 Away O soul! hoist instantly the anchor!
2234 Cut the hawsers - hall out - shake out every sail!
2235 Have we not stood here like trees in the ground long enough?
2236 Have we not grovel'd here long enough, eating and drinking like mere brutes?
2237 Have we not darken'd and dazed ourselves with books long enough?
2239 Sail forth - steer for the deep waters only,
2240 Reckless O soul, exploring, I with the and thou with me,
2241 For we are bound where mariner has not yet dared to go,
2242 And we will risk the ship, ourselves and all.
2245 O farther farther sail!
2246 O daring job, but safe! are they not all the seas of God?
2247 O farther, farther, farther sail!
2249 =head2 v5.8.2-RC2 - Eric Idle/John Du Prez, "Accountancy Shanty"
2251 L<Announced on 2003-11-03 by Nicholas Clark|http://groups.google.com/group/perl.perl5.porters/msg/7669de5804b792f6>
2253 It's fun to charter an accountant
2254 And sail the wide accountan-cy,
2255 To find, explore the funds offshore
2256 And skirt the shoals of bankruptcy.
2258 =head2 v5.8.2-RC1 - Edward Lear, "The Jumblies"
2260 L<Announced on 2003-10-28 by Nicholas Clark|http://groups.google.com/group/perl.perl5.porters/msg/83680ef3bbf7378d>
2262 They went to sea in a Sieve, they did,
2263 In a Sieve they went to sea:
2264 In spite of all their friends could say,
2265 On a winter's morn, on a stormy day,
2266 In a Sieve they went to sea!
2267 And when the Sieve turned round and round,
2268 And everyone cried, "You'll all be drowned!"
2269 They cried aloud, "Our Sieve ain't big,
2270 But we don't care a button, we don't care a fig!
2271 In a Sieve we'll go to sea!"
2273 Far and few, far and few,
2274 Are the lands where the Jumblies live;
2275 Their heads are green, and their hands are blue,
2276 And they went to sea in a Sieve.
2278 =head2 v5.8.1 - epigraph same as v5.7.1
2280 L<Announced on 2003-09-25 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/09/msg82678.html>
2282 =head2 v5.8.1-RC5 - Terry Pratchett, "Lords and Ladies"
2284 L<Announced on 2003-09-22 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/09/msg82476.html>
2286 No matter what she did with her hair it took about
2287 three minutes for it to tangle itself up again,
2288 like a garden hosepipe in a shed [Footnote: Which,
2289 no matter how carefully coiled, will always uncoil
2290 overnight and tie the lawnmower to the bicycles].
2292 =head2 v5.8.1-RC4 - Terry Pratchett, "Interesting Times"
2294 L<Announced on 2003-08-01 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/08/msg79184.html>
2296 Grand Viziers were /always/ scheming megalomaniacs.
2297 It was probably in the job description: "Are you a
2298 devious, plotting, unreliable madman? Ah, good,
2299 then you can be my most trusted minister."
2301 =head2 v5.8.1-RC3 - Terry Pratchett, "Interesting Times"
2303 L<Announced on 2003-07-30 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/07/msg79048.html>
2305 Lord Hong had a mind like a knife, although possibly
2306 a knife with a curved blade.
2308 =head2 v5.8.1-RC2 - Terry Pratchett, "Interesting Times"
2310 L<Announced on 2003-07-11 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/07/msg78102.html>
2312 Many an ancient lord's last words had been, "You can't kill
2313 me because I've got magic aaargh."
2315 =head2 v5.8.1-RC1 - Terry Pratchett, "Interesting Times"
2317 L<Announced on 2003-07-10 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/07/msg78009.html>
2319 Cohen was familiar with city gates. He'd broken down a number
2320 in his time, by battering ram, siege gun, and on one occasion
2323 But the gates of Hunghung were pretty damn good gates. They
2324 weren't like the gates of Ankh-Morpork, which were usually wide
2325 open to attract the spending customer and whose concession to
2326 defense was the sign "Thank You For Not Attacking Our City.
2327 Bonum Diem." These things were big and made of metal and there
2328 was a guardhouse and a squad of unhelpful men in black armor.
2330 =head2 v5.8.0 - Terry Pratchett, "Reaper Man"
2332 L<Announced on 2002-07-18 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2002/07/msg63720.html>
2334 There was the faint sound of footsteps.
2335 "Chap with a whip got as far as the big sharp spikes last week,"
2336 said the low priest.
2337 There was a sound like the flushing of a very old dry lavatory.
2338 The footsteps stopped. The High Priest smiled to himself.
2339 "Right," he said. "See your two pebbles and raise you two pebbles."
2340 The low priest threw down his cards. "Double Onion," he said.
2341 The High Priest looked down suspiciously.
2342 The low priest consulted a scrap of paper. "That's three hundred
2343 thousand, nine hundred and sixty-four pebbles you owe me," he said.
2344 There was the sound of footsteps. The priests exchanged glances.
2345 "Haven't had one for poisoned-dart alley for quite some time,"
2346 said the High Priest.
2347 "Five says he makes it", said the low priest. "You're on."
2348 There was a faint clatter of metal points on stone.
2349 "It's a shame to take your pebbles."
2350 There were footsteps again.
2352 =head2 v5.8.0-RC3 - no epigraph
2354 L<Announced on 2002-07-13 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2002/07/msg63234.html>
2356 =head2 v5.8.0-RC2 - no epigraph
2358 L<Announced on 2002-06-21 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2002/06/msg62013.html>
2360 =head2 v5.8.0-RC1 - no epigraph
2362 L<Announced on 2002-06-01 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2002/06/msg60317.html>
2364 =head2 v5.7.3 - Terry Pratchett, "Reaper Man"
2366 L<Announced on 2002-03-04 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2002/03/msg53652.html>
2368 Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong.
2369 No matter how fast light travels it finds the darkness has always
2370 got there first, and is waiting for it.
2372 =head2 v5.7.2 - Terry Pratchett, "Small Gods"
2374 L<Announced on 2001-07-13 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2001/07/msg40370.html>
2376 His philosophy was a mixture of three famous schools --
2377 the Cynics, the Stoics and the Epicureans -- and summed up
2378 all three of them in his famous phrase, "You can't trust any
2379 bugger further than you can throw him, and there's nothing
2380 you can do about it, so let's have a drink."
2382 =head2 v5.7.1 - Terry Pratchett, "The Colour of Magic"
2384 L<Announced on 2001-07-13 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2001/04/msg33851.html>
2386 "What happens next?" asked Twoflower.
2388 Hrun screwed a finger in his ear and inspected it absently.
2390 "Oh,", he said, "I expect in a minute the door will be
2391 flung back and I'll be dragged off to some sort of temple
2392 arena where I'll fight maybe a couple of giant spiders
2393 and an eight-foot slave from the jungles of Klatch and then
2394 I'll rescue some kind of a princess from the altar and then
2395 I'll kill off a few guards or whatever and then this girl
2396 will show me the secret passage out of the place and we'll
2397 liberate a couple of horses and escape with the treasure."
2398 Hrun leaned his head back on his hands and looked at the
2399 ceiling, whistling tunelessly.
2401 "All that?" said Twoflower.
2405 =head2 v5.7.0 - Terry Pratchett, "Moving Pictures"
2407 L<Announced on 2000-09-02 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2000/09/msg17730.html>
2409 The Librarian had seen many weird things in his time,
2410 but that had to be the 57th strangest.
2411 [footnote: he had a tidy mind]
2413 =head2 v5.6.2 - Sterne, "Tristram Shandy"
2415 L<Announced on 2003-11-15 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://groups.google.com/group/perl.perl5.porters/msg/deb8cb9ad918716f>
2417 When great or unexpected events fall out upon the stage of this
2418 sublunary word--the mind of man, which is an inquisitive kind of
2419 a substance, naturally takes a flight, behind the scenes, to see
2420 what is the cause and first spring of them--The search was not
2421 long in this instance.
2423 =head2 v5.6.2-RC1 - Sterne, "Tristram Shandy"
2425 L<Announced on 2003-11-15 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://groups.google.com/group/perl.perl5.porters/msg/e3d4acc7a8dd3ce5>
2427 "Pray, my dear", quoth my mother, "have you not forgot to wind up the clock?"
2429 =head2 v5.6.1 - J R R Tolkien, "The Hobbit", Riddles in the Dark
2431 L<Announced on 2001-04-08 by Gurusamy Sarathy|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2001/04/msg33823.html>
2433 `What have I got in my pocket?' he said aloud. He was talking to
2434 himself, but Gollum thought it was a riddle, and he was frightfully
2437 `Not fair! not fair!' he hissed. `It isn't fair, my precious, is it,
2438 to ask us what it's got in its nassty little pocketses?'
2440 Bilbo seeing what had happened and having nothing better to ask
2441 stuck to his question, `What have I got in my pocket?' he said
2444 `S-s-s-s-s,' hissed Gollum. `It must give us three guesseses,
2445 my precious, three guesseses.'
2447 =head2 v5.6.1-foolish - no epigraph
2449 L<Announced on 2001-08-04 by Gurusamy Sarathy|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2001/04/msg33421.html>
2451 =head2 v5.6.1-TRIAL3 - I can't find the announcement
2453 No announcement available.
2455 =head2 v5.6.1-TRIAL2 - no epigraph
2457 L<Announced on 2001-01-31 by Gurusamy Sarathy|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2001/01/msg29934.html>
2459 =head2 v5.6.1-TRIAL1 - no epigraph
2461 L<Announced on 2000-12-18 by Gurusamy Sarathy|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2000/12/msg27738.html>
2463 =head2 v5.6.0 - J R R Tolkien, "The Hobbit", The Last Stage
2465 L<Announced on 2000-03-23 by Gurusamy Sarathy|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2000/03/msg10341.html>
2467 The dragon is withered,
2468 His bones are now crumbled;
2469 His armour is shivered,
2470 His splendour is humbled!
2471 Though sword shall be rusted,
2472 And throne and crown perish
2473 With strength that men trusted
2474 And wealth that they cherish,
2475 Here grass is still growing,
2476 And leaves are a yet swinging,
2477 The white water flowing,
2478 And elves are yet singing
2479 Come! Tra-la-la-lally!
2480 Come back to the valley.
2482 =head2 v5.6.0-RC3 - no epigraph
2484 L<Announced on 2000-03-22 by Gurusamy Sarathy|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2000/03/msg10140.html>
2486 =head2 v5.005_05-RC1 - no epigraph
2488 L<Announced on 2009-02-16 by LE<0xe9>on Brocard|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2009/02/msg144227.html>
2490 =head2 v5.005_04 - no epigraph
2492 L<Announced on 2004-03-01 by LE<0xe9>on Brocard|http://groups.google.com/group/perl.perl5.porters/msg/6c240ad0b189cb47>
2494 =head2 v5.005_04-RC2 - Rudyard Kipling, "The Jungle Book"
2496 L<Announced on 2004-02-19 by LE<0xe9>on Brocard|http://groups.google.com/group/perl.perl5.porters/msg/83e5421124a7b49d>
2498 The monkeys called the place their city, and pretended to despise
2499 the Jungle-People because they lived in the forest. And yet they
2500 never knew what the buildings were made for nor how to use
2501 them. They would sit in circles on the hall of the king's council
2502 chamber, and scratch for fleas and pretend to be men; or they would
2503 run in and out of the roofless houses and collect pieces of plaster
2504 and old bricks in a corner, and forget where they had hidden them,
2505 and fight and cry in scuffling crowds, and then break off to play up
2506 and down the terraces of the king's garden, where they would shake
2507 the rose trees and the oranges in sport to see the fruit and flowers
2510 =head2 v5.005_04-RC1 - Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
2512 L<Announced on 2004-02-05 by LE<0xe9>on Brocard|http://groups.google.com/group/perl.perl5.porters/msg/6aaeb6ec699bd116>
2514 Either the well was very deep, or she fell very slowly, for she had
2515 plenty of time as she went down to look about her and to wonder what was
2516 going to happen next. First, she tried to look down and make out what
2517 she was coming to, but it was too dark to see anything; then she looked
2518 at the sides of the well, and noticed that they were filled with
2519 cupboards and book-shelves; here and there she saw maps and pictures
2520 hung upon pegs. She took down a jar from one of the shelves as she
2521 passed; it was labelled 'ORANGE MARMALADE', but to her great
2522 disappointment it was empty: she did not like to drop the jar for fear
2523 of killing somebody, so managed to put it into one of the cupboards as
2526 =head2 v1.0_16 - Johan Vromans, extemporarily
2528 L<Announced on 2003-12-18 by Richard Clamp|http://groups.google.com/group/perl.perl5.porters/msg/9281dc6194d15940>
2530 =head1 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
2532 This document was originally compiled based on a list of epigraphs
2533 on L<Perl Monks|http://perlmonks.org> titled
2534 L<Recent Perl Release Announcement|http://perlmonks.org/?node_id=372406>