5 perlepigraphs - list of Perl release epigraphs
9 Many Perl release announcements included an I<epigraph>, a short excerpt
10 from a literary or other creative work, chosen by the pumpking or release
11 manager. This file assembles the known list of epigraph for posterity,
12 and also links to the release announcements in mailing list archives.
14 I<Note>: these have also been referred to as I<epigrams>, but the
15 definition of I<epigraph> is closer to the way they have been used.
16 Consult your favorite dictionary for details.
20 =head2 v5.33.2 - Elizabeth Warren
22 Announced on 2020-09-20 by Sawyer X
24 What I've learned is that real change is very, very hard. But I've
25 also learned that change is possible - if you fight for it.
27 =head2 v5.33.1 - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956 (1973)
29 Announced on 2020-08-20 by Karen Etheridge
31 If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds,
32 and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy
33 them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every
34 human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?
36 =head2 v5.33.0 - Confucius, "Confucius: The Analects"
38 Announed on 2020-07-17 by Sawyer X
40 The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.
42 =head2 v5.32.0 - Bob Dylan, "The Times They Are A Changing"
44 L<Announced on 2020-06-20 by Sawyer X|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2020/06/msg257547.html>
46 Come gather 'round, people
48 And admit that the waters
50 And accept it that soon
51 You'll be drenched to the bone
52 If your time to you is worth savin'
53 And you better start swimmin'
54 Or you'll sink like a stone
55 For the times they are a-changin'
57 =head2 v5.32.0-RC1 - Coretta Scott King
59 L<Announced on 2020-06-08 by Sawyer X|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2020/06/msg257521.html>
61 Struggle is a never ending process. Freedom is never really won,
62 you earn it and win it in every generation.
64 =head2 v5.32.0-RC0 - Franz Kafka
66 L<Announced on 2020-05-30 by Sawyer X|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2020/05/msg257486.html>
68 There are some things one can only achieve by a deliberate leap
69 in the opposite direction.
71 =head2 v5.31.11 - John F. Kennedy, National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy
73 L<Announced on 2020-04-28 by Sawyer X|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2020/04/msg257385.html>
75 Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind.
77 =head2 v5.31.10 - Christina Rossetti, "Remember"
79 L<Announced on 2020-03-20 by Sawyer X|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2020/03/msg257274.html>
81 Remember me when I am gone away,
82 Gone far away into the silent land;
83 When you can no more hold me by the hand,
84 Nor I half turn to go yet turning stay.
85 Remember me when no more day by day
86 You tell me of our future that you plann'd:
87 Only remember me; you understand
88 It will be late to counsel then or pray.
89 Yet if you should forget me for a while
90 And afterwards remember, do not grieve:
91 For if the darkness and corruption leave
92 A vestige of the thoughts that once I had,
93 Better by far you should forget and smile
94 Than that you should remember and be sad.
96 =head2 v5.31.9 - Sten Nadolny, book The Discovery of Slowness
98 L<Announced on 2020-02-20 by Renee Bäcker|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2020/02/msg257144.html>
100 „When people talk too fast the content becomes as superfluous as the speed.“
102 =head2 v5.31.8 - Joe Perham, "Joe Perham's Guide to Hunting and Guide to Fishing in Maine"
104 L<Announced on 2020-01-20 by Matthew Horsfall|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2020/01/msg256894.html>
106 Harry used to cut wood for the Brown company over in Stoneham Red
107 Rock Basin. And of course he was the best shot in camp. One day the
108 foreman told him to go get some meat.
110 "Take any gun you want."
112 Harry says "I'll take the .45-70."
114 Foreman said "That gun's only got one bullet."
116 Harry says "I only need one bullet."
118 Took the .45-70, went out, an hour later he was back with two Moose,
119 a dozen trout you see, and a fluffy partridge. Went back to work.
121 Well at supper that night foreman says "Harry, um, something's
122 bothering me here a little bit. How did you get all that food with
123 only one bullet. I'm a little confused about the... the partridge,
124 there ain't a mark on him."
126 "Well", Harry says, "I'll tell ya. I took that .45-70, went back into
127 the woods a piece there I come to this brook. And I just uh, got to
128 the other side when I happen to see two moose in the swamp off
129 there. I figured I could get both of 'em. So I took out my huntin'
130 knife and stuck it into the mud, hilt foremost, sharp edge on the
131 blade towards me of course. I took dead aim on that knife, fired,
132 split that bullet and killed those two moose. Well you know the
133 recoil knocked me back into the brook. When I come up out of the
134 water, my pants were so full of fish that it popped a button off my
135 fly and killed that bird."
137 =head2 v5.31.7 - Bernard Werber
139 L<Announced on 2019-12-20 by Atoomic|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/12/msg256802.html>
141 Be quiet. Look at the stars and appreciate what you live.
143 =head2 v5.31.6 - Neal Stephenson, "Quicksilver"
145 L<Announced on 2019-11-20 by Chris 'BinGOs' Williams|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/11/msg256646.html>
149 State your intentions, Muse. I know you're there.
150 Dead bards who pined for you have said
151 You're bright as flame, but fickle as the air.
152 My pen and I, submerged in liquid shade,
153 Much dark can spread, on days and over reams
154 But without you, no radiance can shed.
155 Why rustle in the dark, when fledged with fire?
156 Craze the night with flails of light. Reave
157 Your turbid shroud. Bestow what I require.
159 But you're not in the dark. I do believe
160 I swim, like squid, in clouds of my own make,
161 To you, offensive. To us both, opaque.
162 What's constituted so, only a pen
163 Can penetrate. I have one here; let's go.
165 =head2 v5.31.5 - Edward Lear, ed. Vivien Noakes, "The Complete Nonsense and Other Verse": The Daddy Long-legs and the Fly
167 L<Announced on 2019-10-20 by Steve Hay|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/10/msg256478.html>
169 'O Mr Daddy Long-legs,'
171 'It's true I never go to court,
172 And I will tell you why.
173 If I had six long legs like yours,
174 At once I'd go to court!
175 But oh! I can't, because my legs
176 Are so extremely short.
177 And I'm afraid the King and Queen
178 (One in red, and one in green)
179 Would say aloud, "You are not fit,
180 You Fly, to come to court a bit!"'
182 =head2 v5.31.4 - Ann Leckie, "The Raven Tower"
184 L<Announced on 2019-09-20 by Max Maischein|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/09/msg256254.html>
186 Stories can be risky for someone like me. What I say must be true, or it
187 will be made true, and if it cannot be made true - if I don't have the
188 power, or if what I have said is an impossibility - then I will pay the
189 price. I might more or less safely say, "Once there was a man who rode
190 home to attend his father's funeral and claim his inheritance, but
191 matters were not as he expected them to be." I do not doubt that such a
192 thing has happened more than once in all the time there have been
193 fathers to die and sons to succeed them. But to go any further, I must
194 supply more details - the specific actions of specific people, and their
195 specific consequences - and there I might blunder, all unknowing, into
196 untruth. It's safer for me to speak of what I know. Or to speak only in
197 the safest of generalities. Or else to say plainly at the beginning,
198 "Here is a story I have heard," placing the burden of truth or not on
199 the teller whose words I am merely accurately reporting.
201 But what is the story that I am telling? Here is another story I have
203 Once there were two brothers, and one of them wanted what the other had.
204 Bent all his will to obtain what the other had, no matter the cost.
205 Here is another story: Once there was a prisoner in a tower.
207 Once someone risked their life out of duty and loyalty to a friend.
208 Ah, there's a story that I might tell, and truthfully.
210 =head2 v5.31.3 - Samantha Harvey, "All Is Song"
212 L<Announced on 2019-08-20 by Tom Hukins|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/08/msg256012.html>
214 We are born from unity, we divide into isolation. We winnow ourselves
215 out from the thing that first made sense of us and then expect to find
216 meaning, yet a fraction makes no sense without the number of which
217 it's a fractional part. We see loss, feel grief, give ourselves
218 illness, we're cells that have over-divided and we call the division
219 growth; the only real growth is in the return to unity, God, the
222 Tired to his core, he turned the video off. The rain still poured as
223 he went upstairs, and in bed as he tripped down into the deep open
224 shaft of sleep he kept thinking that to divide by zero was to end up
225 with infinity, as was to divide by God. To divide by God, to divide
226 by God, over and over he thought it without sense; to divide by God; I
227 must tell my students that the way to pass their exams is to divide by
228 God. Then he must have slept, for it was morning.
230 =head2 v5.31.2 - Edward Lear, ed. Vivien Noakes, "The Complete Nonsense and Other Verse": The Duck and the Kangaroo
232 L<Announced on 2019-07-20 by Steve Hay|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/07/msg255639.html>
234 Said the Duck to the Kangaroo,
235 'Good gracious! how you hop!
236 Over the fields and the water too,
237 As if you never would stop!
238 My life is a bore in this nasty pond,
239 And I long to go out in the world beyond!
240 I wish I could hop like you!'
241 Said the Duck to the Kangaroo.
243 =head2 v5.31.1 - Kurt Vonnegut, _A Man without a Country_
245 L<Announced on 2019-06-20 by Karen Etheridge|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/06/msg255243.html>
247 On Tuesday, January 20, 2004, I sent Joel Bleifuss, my editor at _In These
250 ON ORANGE ALERT HERE.
251 ECONOMIC TERRORIST ATTACK
252 EXPECTED AT 8 PM EST. KV
254 Worried, he called, asking what was up. I said I would tell him when I had
255 more complete information on the bombs George Bush was set to deliver in his
256 State of the Union address.
258 That night I got a call from my friend, the out-of-print-science-fiction
259 writer Kilgore Trout. He asked me, "Did you watch the State of the Union
262 "Yes, and it certainly helped to remember what the great British socialist
263 playwright George Bernard Shaw said about this planet."
267 "He said, 'I don't know if there are men on the moon, but if there are, they
268 must be using the earth as their lunatic asylum.' And he wasn't talking
269 about the germs or the elephants. He meant we the people."
273 "You don't think this is the Lunatic Asylum of the Universe?"
275 "Kurt, I don't think I expressed an opinion one way of the other."
277 "We are killing this planet as a life-support system with the poisons from
278 all the thermodynamic whoopee we're making with atomic energy and fossil
279 fuels, and everybody knows it, and practically nobody cares. This is how
280 crazy we are. I think the planet's immune system is trying to get rid of us
281 with AIDS and new strains of flu and tuberculosis, and so on. I think the
282 planet should get rid of us. We're really awful animals. I mean, that dumb
283 Barbra Streisand song, 'People who need people are the luckiest people in
284 the world' -- she's talking about cannibals. Lots to eat. Yes, the planet is
285 trying to get rid of us, but I think it's too late."
287 And I said good-bye to my friend, hung up the phone, sat down and wrote this
288 epitaph: "The good Earth -- we could have saved it, but we were too damn
291 =head2 v5.31.0 - Fumiko Enchi, Masks
293 L<Announced on 2019-05-24 by Sawyer X|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/05/msg254886.html>
295 The secrets inside her mind are like flowers in a garden at
296 nighttime, filling the darkness with perfume.
298 =head2 v5.30.3 - Ben Aaronovitch, "Rivers of London"
300 L<Announced on 2020-06-01 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2020/01/msg257498.html>
302 Trewsbury Mead [...] According to the Ordnance Survey, this is where the
303 Thames first rises 130 straight-line kilometres west of London. Just to
304 the north is the site either of an Iron Age hill fort or a Roman
305 encampment, the exact nature of which is awaiting an episode of Time
306 Team. Apparently there is a soggy field, a stone to mark the spot and a
307 chance, after a particularly wet winter, that you might see some water.
309 =head2 v5.30.2 - Francesco Maria Piave, trans. Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, "La traviata", Act II, Scene 2
311 L<Announced on 2020-03-14 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2020/03/msg257227.html>
313 FLORA, GASTON, DOCTOR, MARQUIS, CHORUS
315 Yes, you have suffered, but take heart!
316 Every one of us has shared your pain;
317 friends are around you to dry the tears
321 (I alone know the true devotion
322 this poor girl hides within her breast;
323 I know her faithful heart,
324 but I'm vowed so cruelly to silence.)
328 Your deadly insult to this lady
329 offends us all, but such an outrage
330 shall not go unavenged!
331 I shall find a way to humble your pride!
334 (Alas, what have I done? I feel terrible about it.
335 She will never forgive me.)
339 Alfredo, how should you understand
340 all the love that's in my heart?
341 How should you know that I have proved it,
342 even at the price of your contempt?
344 But the time will come when you will know,
345 when you'll admit how much I loved you.
346 God save you then from all remorse!
347 Even after death I shall still love you.
349 =head2 v5.30.2-RC1 - Francesco Maria Piave, trans. Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, "La traviata", Act II, Scene 2
351 L<Announced on 2020-02-29 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2020/02/msg257163.html>
354 For me this woman lost
356 I was blind, a wretched coward,
358 But it's time now for me to clear
360 I call you all to witness here
361 that I've paid her back!
363 (Contemptuously, he throws his winnings at Violetta's feet.
364 She swoons in Flora's arms. Alfredo's father arrives suddenly.)
370 a tender heart that way!
374 We've no use for the likes of you!
378 (dignified in his anger)
379 A man who offends a woman, even in anger,
380 deserves nothing but scorn.
381 Where is my son? I no longer see him
385 (What have I done? Yes, I despise myself!
386 Jealous madness, love deceived,
387 ravaged my soul, destroyed my reason.
388 How can I ever gain her pardon?
389 I would have left her, but I couldn't;
390 I came here to vent my anger,
391 But now I've done that, wretch that I am,
392 I feel nothing but deep remorse!)
394 =head2 v5.30.1 - Francesco Maria Piave, trans. Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, "La traviata", Act I: Brindisi
396 L<Announced on 2019-11-10 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/11/msg256610.html>
399 With you I would share
400 my days of happiness;
401 everything is folly in this world
402 that does not give us pleasure.
404 for the pleasures of love are swift and fleeting
405 as a flower that lives and dies
406 and can be enjoyed no more.
407 Let's take our pleasure while its ardent,
408 brilliant summons lures us on!
410 =head2 v5.30.1-RC1 - Francesco Maria Piave, trans. Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, "La traviata", Act I: Brindisi
412 L<Announced on 2019-10-27 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/10/msg256542.html>
415 Let's drink from the joyous chalice
416 where beauty flowers...
417 Let the fleeting hour
418 to pleasure's intoxication yield.
420 to love's sweet tremors --
422 that pierce the heart.
423 Let's drink to love -- to wine
424 that warms our kisses.
426 =head2 v5.30.0 - Morihei Ueshiba
428 L<Announced on 2019-05-22 by Sawyer X|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/05/msg254844.html>
430 Life is growth. If we stop growing, technically and spiritually, we
433 =head2 v5.30.0-RC2 - Derek Walcott
435 L<Announced on 2019-05-17 by Sawyer X|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/05/msg254824.html>
437 The truest writers are those who see language not as linguistic process but
442 =head2 v5.30.0-RC1 - Marcel Proust
444 L<Announced on 2019-05-11 by Sawyer X|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/05/msg254748.html>
446 If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream
447 less but to dream more, to dream all the time.
451 =head2 v5.29.10 - Maya Angelou, Alone
453 L<Announced on 2019-04-20 by Sawyer X|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/04/msg254467.html>
457 How to find my soul a home
458 Where water is not thirsty
459 And bread loaf is not stone
460 I came up with one thing
461 And I don't believe I'm wrong
464 Can make it out here alone.
468 Can make it out here alone.
470 There are some millionaires
471 With money they can't use
472 Their wives run round like banshees
473 Their children sing the blues
474 They've got expensive doctors
475 To cure their hearts of stone.
478 Can make it out here alone.
482 Can make it out here alone.
484 Now if you listen closely
485 I'll tell you what I know
486 Storm clouds are gathering
487 The wind is gonna blow
488 The race of man is suffering
489 And I can hear the moan,
492 Can make it out here alone.
496 Can make it out here alone.
498 =head2 v5.29.9 - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Dancing Men
500 L<Announced on 2019-03-21 by Zak Elep|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/03/msg253978.html>
502 What one man can invent, another can discover.
504 =head2 v5.29.8 - Isaac Asimov, Foundation: “Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.”
506 L<Announced on 2019-02-20 by Atoomic|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/02/msg253750.html>
508 =head2 v5.29.7 - Edsger W. Dijkstra: "Programming Considered as a Human Activity", IFIP Congress, New York, 1965.
510 L<Announced on 2019-01-20 by Abigail|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/01/msg253444.html>
512 When I became acquainted with the notion of algorithmic languages I
513 never challenged the then prevailing notion that the problems of
514 language design and implementation were mostly a question of
515 compromises: every new convenience for the user had to be paid for
516 by the implementation, either in the form of increased trouble
517 during translation, or during execution or during both. Well, we
518 are most certainly not living in Heaven and I am not going to deny
519 the possibility of a conflict between convenience and efficiency,
520 but now I do protest when this conflict is presented as a complete
521 summing up of the situation. I am of the opinion that is worth-while
522 to investigate what extent the needs of Man and Machine go hand in
523 hand and to see what techniques we can devise of the benefit of all
524 of us. I trust that this investigation will bear fruits and if this
525 talk made some of you share this fervent hope, it has achieved its aim.
527 =head2 v5.29.6 - Rudyard Kipling: "How the Camel Got His Hump"
529 L<Announced on 2018-12-18 by Abigail|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/12/msg253187.html>
531 The Camel's hump is an ugly lump
532 Which well you may see at the Zoo;
533 But uglier yet is the hump we get
534 From having little to do.
536 Kiddies and grown-ups too-oo-oo
537 If we haven't enough to do-oo-oo,
540 The hump that is black and blue!
542 We climb out of bed with a frouzly head
543 And a snarly-yarly voice.
544 We shiver and scowl and we grunt and we growl
545 At our bath and our boots and our toys;
547 And there ought to be a corner for me
548 (And I know there is one for you)
549 When we get the hump -
551 The hump that is black and blue!
553 The cure for this ill is to not sit still,
554 Or frowst with a book by the fire;
555 But to take a large hoe and a shovel also,
556 And dig till you gentle perspire;
558 And then you will find that the sun and the wind,
559 And the Djinn of the Garden too,
560 Have lifted the hump -
562 The hump that is black and blue!
564 I get it as well as you-oo-oo -
565 If I haven't enough to do-oo-oo!
568 Kiddies and grown-ups too!
571 =head2 v5.29.5 - T. S. Eliot, "The Naming Of Cats"
573 L<Announced on 2018-11-20 by Karen Etheridge|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/11/msg252839.html>
575 The Naming of Cats is a difficult matter,
576 It isn't just one of your holiday games;
577 You may think at first I'm as mad as a hatter
578 When I tell you, a cat must have THREE DIFFERENT NAMES.
579 First of all, there's the name that the family use daily,
580 Such as Peter, Augustus, Alonzo or James,
581 Such as Victor or Jonathan, George or Bill Bailey--
582 All of them sensible everyday names.
583 There are fancier names if you think they sound sweeter,
584 Some for the gentlemen, some for the dames:
585 Such as Plato, Admetus, Electra, Demeter--
586 But all of them sensible everyday names.
587 But I tell you, a cat needs a name that's particular,
588 A name that's peculiar, and more dignified,
589 Else how can he keep up his tail perpendicular,
590 Or spread out his whiskers, or cherish his pride?
591 Of names of this kind, I can give you a quorum,
592 Such as Munkustrap, Quaxo, or Coricopat,
593 Such as Bombalurina, or else Jellylorum-
594 Names that never belong to more than one cat.
595 But above and beyond there's still one name left over,
596 And that is the name that you never will guess;
597 The name that no human research can discover--
598 But THE CAT HIMSELF KNOWS, and will never confess.
599 When you notice a cat in profound meditation,
600 The reason, I tell you, is always the same:
601 His mind is engaged in a rapt contemplation
602 Of the thought, of the thought, of the thought of his name:
603 His ineffable effable
605 Deep and inscrutable singular Name.
607 =head2 v5.29.4 - The Mountain Goats, "Oceanographer's Choice"
609 L<Announced on 2018-10-20 by Aaron Crane|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/10/msg252575.html>
612 Guy in a skeleton costume
613 Comes up to the guy in the Superman suit
614 Runs through him with a broadsword
615 I flipped the television off
616 Bring all the bright lights up
617 Turn the radio up loud
618 I don't know why I'm so persuaded
619 That if I think things through
620 Long enough and hard enough
621 I'll somehow get to you
622 But then you came in and we locked eyes
623 You kicked the ashtray over as we came toward each other
624 Stubbed my cigarette out against the west wall
627 Would you look at that?
628 We're throwing off sparks
629 What will I do when I don't have you
630 To hold onto in the dark?
632 =head2 v5.29.3 - Mac Miller, "Senior Skip Day"
634 L<Announced on 2018-09-20 by John 'genehack' Anderson|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/09/msg252255.html>
636 Enjoy the best things in your life
637 ’Cause you ain’t gonna get to live it twice
638 They say you waste time asleep
639 But I’m just tryin’ to dream
641 =head2 v5.29.2 - Rick Riordan, "The Lightning Thief"
643 L<Announced on 2018-08-20 by Chris 'BinGOs' Williams|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/08/msg251918.html>
645 Look, I didn't want to be a half-blood.
647 If you're reading this because you think you might be one,
648 my advice is: close this book right now. Believe whatever
649 lie your mom or dad told you about your birth, and try
650 to lead a normal life.
652 Being a half-blood is dangerous. It's scary. Most of the time,
653 it gets you killed in painful, nasty ways.
655 If you're a normal kid, reading this because you think it's
656 fiction, great. Read on. I envy you for being able to believe
657 that none of this ever happened.
659 But if you recognize yourself in these pages - if you feel
660 something stirring inside - stop reading immediately.
661 You might be one of us. And once you know that, it's only a
662 matter of time before they sense it too, and they'll come for you.
664 =head2 v5.29.1 - Richard Curtis & Ben Elton, "Blackadder, Series 3, Episode 2: Ink and Incapability"
666 L<Announced on 2018-07-20 by Steve Hay|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/07/msg251605.html>
668 Dr. Samuel Johnson: Here it is, sir: the very cornerstone of English
669 scholarship. This book, sir, contains every word in our beloved
672 Prince Regent George: Hmm.
674 Edmund Blackadder: Every single one, sir?
676 Johnson: (confidently) Every single word, sir!
678 Blackadder: (to Prince) Oh, well, in that case, sir, I hope you will
679 not object if I also offer the Doctor my most enthusiastic
684 Blackadder: 'Contrafribularities,' sir? It is a common word down our
687 Johnson: Damn! (writes in the book)
689 Blackadder: Oh, I'm sorry, sir. I'm anaspeptic, phrasmotic, even
690 compunctious to have caused you such pericombobulation.
692 Johnson: What? What? WHAT?
694 =head2 v5.29.0 - Erle Stanley Gardner, The Case of the Grinning Gorilla
696 L<Announced on 2018-06-26 by Sawyer X|http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/251297>
698 Courage is the only antidote for danger.
700 =head2 v5.28.3 - Ben Aaronovitch, "Rivers of London"
702 L<Announced on 2020-06-01 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2020/01/msg257497.html>
704 The north end of the London Borough of Camden is dominated by two hills,
705 Hampstead on the west, Highgate on the east, with the Heath, one of the
706 largest parks in London, slung between them like a green saddle. From
707 these heights the land slopes down towards the River Thames and the
708 floodplains that lurk below the built-up centre of London.
710 =head2 v5.28.2 - Edward Lear, ed. Vivien Noakes, "The Complete Nonsense and Other Verse": The Jumblies
712 L<Announced on 2019-04-19 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/04/msg254456.html>
714 They went to sea in a Sieve, they did,
715 In a Sieve they went to sea:
716 In spite of all their friends could say,
717 On a winter's morn, on a stormy day,
718 In a Sieve they went to sea!
719 And when the Sieve turned round and round,
720 And every one cried, 'You'll all be drowned!'
721 They called aloud, 'Our Sieve ain't big,
722 But we don't care a button! we don't care a fig!
723 In a Sieve we'll go to sea!'
724 Far and few, far and few,
725 Are the lands where the Jumblies live;
726 Their heads are green, and their hands are blue,
727 And they went to sea in a Sieve.
729 =head2 v5.28.2-RC1 - Edward Lear, ed. Vivien Noakes, "The Complete Nonsense and Other Verse": The Quangle Wangle's Hat
731 L<Announced on 2019-04-05 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/04/msg254218.html>
733 On the top of the Crumpetty Tree
734 The Quangle Wangle sat,
735 But his face you could not see,
736 On account of his Beaver Hat.
737 For his Hat was a hundred and two feet wide,
738 With ribbons and bibbons on every side,
739 And bells, and buttons, and loops, and lace,
740 So that nobody ever could see the face
741 Of the Quangle Wangle Quee.
743 =head2 v5.28.1 - Humphrey Burton, "Leonard Bernstein"
745 L<Announced on 2018-11-29 by Steve Hay|http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/11/msg252975.html>
747 On August 25, 1983, Leonard Bernstein celebrated his sixty-fifth
748 birthday in his birthplace, Lawrence, Massachusetts. He had actually
749 lived in the town for only a few weeks as a newborn baby, and had last
750 visited it forty-nine years previously, in 1934, to get the name on his
751 birth certificate altered from Louis to Leonard. But the citizens of
752 Lawrence proposed to dedicate an outdoor theater to him in their
753 heritage park and to provide not one but two local orchestras--the
754 Merrimack Valley Philharmonic to play excerpts from his own compositions
755 and the Greater Boston Youth Symphony and Chorus to perform the "Ode to
756 Joy" and accompany Bernstein himself reading (for the only time in his
757 life) the text of A Lincoln Portrait. So Bernstein turned down birthday
758 invitations from Tanglewood and Central Park, New York, and the
759 Hollywood Bowl and drove through the cheering if slightly bewildered
760 crowds lining the streets of Lawrence in an open-topped 1928 Ford
761 roadster, looking as homespun as James Stewart in Frank Capra's classic,
762 It's a Wonderful Life.
764 =head2 v5.28.0 - Martin Luther King, Jr., 1967
766 L<Announced on 2018-06-22 by Sawyer X|http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/251240>
768 When we look at modern man we have to face the fact that modern man
769 suffers from a kind of poverty of the spirit which stands in glaring
770 contrast with his scientific and technological abundance. We've learned
771 to fly the air as birds, we've learned to swim the seas as fish, yet we
772 haven't learned to walk the earth as brothers and sisters.
774 =head2 v5.28.0-RC4 - Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book
776 L<Announced on 2018-06-19 by Sawyer X|http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/251212>
778 You're alive, Bod. That means you have infinite potential. You can do
779 anything, make anything, dream anything. If you can change the world,
780 the world will change. Potential. Once you're dead, it's gone. Over.
781 You've made what you've made, dreamed your dream, written your name.
782 You may be buried here, you may even walk. But that potential is
785 =head2 v5.28.0-RC3 - Anthony Horowitz, Magpie Murders
787 L<Announced on 2018-06-18 by Sawyer X|http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/251204>
789 These had been his plans. But if there was one thing that life had
790 taught him, it was the futility of making plans. Life had its own
793 =head2 v5.28.0-RC2 - Oliver Sacks, The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat: And Other Clinical Tales
795 L<Announced on 2018-06-06 by Sawyer X|http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/251122>
797 Had she not been of exceptional intelligence and literacy, with an
798 imagination filled and sustained, so to speak, by the images of
799 others, images conveyed by language, by the word, she might have
800 remained almost as helpless as a baby.
802 =head2 v5.28.0-RC1 - Anu Garg, A Word A Day
804 L<Announced on 2018-05-21 by Sawyer X|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/05/msg250999.html>
806 One doesn't have to know the unit of pain (dol) to realize that the
807 unit of joy is not the dollar, or any other currency for that matter.
809 =head2 v5.27.11 - Tana French, In the Woods
811 L<Announced on 2018-04-20 by Sawyer X|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/04/msg250571.html>
813 And then, too, I had learned early to assume something dark and
814 lethal hidden at the heart of anything I loved. When I couldn't find
815 it, I responded, bewildered and wary, in the only way I knew how: by
816 planting it there myself.
818 =head2 v5.27.10 - Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, p. 248
820 L<Announced on 2018-03-20 by Todd Rinaldo|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/03/msg250042.html>
822 A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher
823 a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts,
824 build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders,
825 cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure,
826 program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly.
827 Specialization is for insects.
829 =head2 v5.27.9 - Agatha Christie, "The Mysterious Affair at Styles"
831 L<Announced on 2018-02-20 by Renee Bäcker|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/02/msg249549.html>
833 Poirot was an extraordinary looking little man. He was hardly more
834 than five feet, four inches, but carried himself with great dignity.
835 His head was exactly the shape of an egg, and he always perched it
836 a little on one side. His moustache was very stiff and military.
837 The neatness of his attire was almost incredible. I believe a
838 speck of dust would have caused him more pain than a bullet wound.
839 Yet this quaint dandified little man who, I was sorry to see, now
840 limped badly, had been in his time one of the most celebrated members
841 of the Belgian police. As a detective, his flair had been extraordinary,
842 and he had achieved triumphs by unravelling some of the most baffling
844 He pointed out to me the little house inhabited by him and his fellow
845 Belgians, and I promised to go and see him at an early date. Then he
846 raised his hat with a flourish to Cynthia, and we drove away.
847 "He's a dear little man," said Cynthia. "I'd no idea you knew him."
848 "You've been entertaining a celebrity unawares," I replied.
849 And, for the rest of the way home, I recited to them the various
850 exploits and triumphs of Hercule Poirot.
852 =head2 v5.27.8 - Jasper Fforde, "Shades of Grey"
854 L<Announced on 2018-01-20 by Abigail|http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/248914>
856 2.4.16.55.021: Males are to wear dresscode #6 during inter-Collective
857 travel. Hats are encouraged, but not required.
859 9.3.88.32.025: The cucumber and tomato are both fruit; the avocado
860 is a nut. To assist with the dietary requirements of vegetarians,
861 on the first Tuesday of the month a chicken is officially a vegetable.
863 5.3.21.01.002: Once allocated, postcodes are permanent, and for life.
865 6.1.02.11.235: Artifacture from before the Something That Happened
866 may be collected, so long it does not appear on the Leapback list
867 or possess color above 23 percent saturation.
869 2.3.06.02.087: Unnecessary sharpening of pencils constitutes a waste
870 of public resources, and will be punished as appropriate.
872 2.1.01.05.002: All children are to attent school until the age of
873 sixteen or until they have learned everything, whichever be the sooner.
875 1.3.02.06.023: There shall be no staring at the sun, however good
878 1.1.19.02.006: Team sports are mandatory in order to build character.
879 Character is there to give purpose to team sports.
881 2.3.03.01.006: Juggling shall not be practiced after 4:00 pm.
884 =head2 v5.27.7 - Terry Pratchett, "Hogfather"
886 L<Announced on 2017-12-20 by Chris 'BinGOs' Williams|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/12/msg248274.html>
888 Death looked at the sacks.
890 It was a strange but demonstrable fact that the sacks of
891 toys carried by the Hogfather, no matter what they
892 really contained, always appeared to have sticking out
893 of the top a teddy bear, a toy soldier in the kind of
894 colorful uniform that would stand out in a disco, a
895 drum and a red-and-white candy cane. The actual
896 contents always turned out to be something a bit
897 garish and costing $5.99.
899 Death had investigated one or two. There had been a
900 Real Agatean Ninja, for example, with Fearsome
901 Death Grip, and a Captain Carrot One-Man Night
902 Watch with a complete wardrobe of toy weapons, each
903 of which cost as much as the original wooden doll in
906 Mind you, the stuff for the girls was just as
907 depressing. It seemed to be nearly all horses. Most of
908 them were grinning. Horses, Death felt, shouldn't grin.
910 Any horse that was grinning was planning something.
912 =head2 v5.27.6 - Ogden Nash, "Behold the Duck"
914 L<Announced on 2017-11-20 by Karen Etheridge|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/11/msg247489.html>
921 It is 'specially fond
923 when it dines or sups
927 =head2 v5.27.5 - Frank Birch, Dilly Knox & G. P. Mackeson, "Alice in I.D.25"
929 L<Announced on 2017-10-20 by Steve Hay|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/10/msg246785.html>
931 'Can I do anything?' Alice suggested timidly, thinking that something
932 dreadful must have happened.
933 The Waterflap jumped as if it had been shot. 'What are you doing
934 here?' it snapped. 'Take this at once into the Directional room,' and it
935 thrust the paper which had caused all the fuss into her hands.
936 'But where is the Directional room?' she inquired, bewildered.
937 'Why, there of course,' howled the Waterflap, pointing to a door.
938 'How could I possibly know that!' Alice exclaimed, angered by his
940 'Silly girl,' it hissed. 'Why, it's called the Directional room
941 because it's in that direction,' and it pushed her roughly through the
944 =head2 v5.27.4 - Richard Brautigan, "All Watched Over By Machines Of Loving Grace"
946 L<Announced on 2017-09-20 by John SJ Anderson|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/09/msg246371.html>
949 the sooner the better!)
950 of a cybernetic meadow
951 where mammals and computers
952 live together in mutually
959 of a cybernetic forest
960 filled with pines and electronics
961 where deer stroll peacefully
963 as if they were flowers
964 with spinning blossoms.
968 of a cybernetic ecology
969 where we are free of our labors
970 and joined back to nature,
971 returned to our mammal
972 brothers and sisters,
974 by machines of loving grace.
976 =head2 v5.27.3 - Rodgers and Hammerstein, "You'll Never Walk Alone"
978 L<Announced on 2017-08-21 by Matthew Horsfall|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/08/msg245988.html>
980 When you walk through a storm
981 Hold your head up high
982 And don't be afraid of the dark
984 At the end of a storm
986 And the sweet silver song of a lark
988 Walk on through the wind
989 Walk on through the rain
990 Though your dreams be tossed and blown
993 With hope in your heart
994 And you'll never walk alone
996 You'll never walk alone
999 With hope in your heart
1000 And you'll never walk alone
1002 You'll never walk alone
1004 =head2 v5.27.2 - Lev Grossman, Codex
1006 L<Announced on 2017-07-20 by Aaron Crane|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/07/msg245585.html>
1008 He went back for another stack of books: a three-volume English legal
1009 treatise; a travel guide to Tuscany from the '20s crammed with faded
1010 Italian wildflowers that fluttered out from between the pages like
1011 moths; a French edition of Turgeniev so decayed that it came apart in
1012 his hands; a register of London society from 1863. In a way it was
1013 idiotic. He was treating these books like they were holy relics. It
1014 wasn't like he would ever actually read them. But there was something
1015 magnetic about them, something that compelled respect, even the silly
1016 ones, like the Enlightenment treatise about how lightning was caused
1017 by bees. They were information, data, but not in the form he was used
1018 to dealing with it. They were non-digital, nonelectrical chunks of
1019 memory, not stamped out of silicon but laboriously crafted out of wood
1020 pulp and ink, leather and glue. Somebody had cared enough to write
1021 these things; somebody else had cared enough to buy them, possibly
1022 even read them, at the very least keep them safe for 150 years,
1023 sometimes longer, when they could have vanished at the touch of a
1024 spark. That made them worth something, didn't it, just by itself?
1025 Though most of them would have bored him rigid the second he cracked
1026 them open, which there wasn't much chance of. Maybe that was what he
1027 found so appealing: the sight of so many books that he'd never have to
1028 read, so much work he'd never have to do.
1030 =head2 v5.27.1 - Rona Munro, Doctor Who: Survival
1032 L<Announced on 2017-06-20 by Eric Herman|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/06/msg245055.html>
1034 There are worlds out there where the sky is burning,
1035 where the sea's asleep and the rivers dream,
1036 people made of smoke and cities made of song.
1037 Somewhere there's danger,
1038 somewhere there's injustice
1039 and somewhere else the tea is getting cold.
1040 Come on, Ace, we've got work to do.
1042 =head2 v5.27.0 - Bertrand Russell, The Road to Happiness
1044 L<Announced on 2017-05-31 by Sawyer X|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/05/msg244580.html>
1046 People who have theories as to how one should live tend to forget the
1047 limitations of nature. If your way of life involves constant
1048 restraint of impulse for the sake of some one supreme aim that you
1049 have set yourself, it is likely that the aim will become increasingly
1050 distasteful because of the efforts that it demands; impulse, denied
1051 its normal outlets, will find others, probably in spite; pleasure, if
1052 you allow yourself any at all, will be dissociated from the main
1053 current of your life, and will become Bacchic and frivolous. Such
1054 pleasure brings no happiness, but only a deeper despair.
1056 -- Bertrand Russell, The Road to Happiness
1058 =head2 v5.26.3 - Humphrey Burton, "Leonard Bernstein"
1060 L<Announced on 2018-11-29 by Steve Hay|http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/11/msg252974.html>
1062 The origins of the name "Bernstein" are sometimes linked with the German
1063 noun Bernstein, which means "amber"--a translucent yellowish fossilized
1064 resin, used for ornaments and thought to possess magical properties.
1065 Leonard Bernstein would later call himself "Lenny Amber" when he needed
1066 a pseudonym for the popular piano transcriptions he published in his
1067 mid-twenties, and his business affairs would be organized within a
1068 company called Amberson Enterprises. There are several towns and
1069 villages named Bernstein in Germany and Austria (where the pronunciation
1070 is BernSTINE), but Bernstein's parents came from Jewish ghettos in
1071 northwestern Ukraine, where the last syllable is usually pronounced
1072 BernSHTAYN or STEEN. Sam insisted, however, on the mid-European style
1073 employed by the earlier immigrants.
1075 =head2 v5.26.2 - Desmond Morris, "Catwatching: The Essential Guide to Cat Behaviour"
1077 L<Announced on 2018-04-14 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/04/msg250440.html>
1079 How does a cat use its whiskers? The usual answer is that the whiskers
1080 are feelers that enable a cat to tell whether a gap is wide enough for
1081 it to squeeze through, but the truth is more complicated and more
1082 remarkable. In addition to their obvious role as feelers sensitive to
1083 touch, the whiskers also operate as air-current detectors. As the cat
1084 moves along in the dark it needs to manoeuvre past solid objects without
1085 touching them. Each solid object it approaches causes slight eddies in
1086 the air, minute disturbances in the currents of air movements, and the
1087 cat's whiskers are so amazingly sensitive that they can read these air
1088 changes and respond to the presence of solid obstacles even without
1091 =head2 v5.26.2-RC1 - Desmond Morris, "Catwatching: The Essential Guide to Cat Behaviour"
1093 L<Announced on 2018-03-24 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/03/msg250103.html>
1095 Cats have a way of endearing themselves to their owners, not just by
1096 their 'kittenoid' behaviour, which stimulates strong parental feelings,
1097 but also by their sheer gracefulness. There is an elegance and a
1098 composure about them that captivates the human eye. To the sensitive
1099 human being it becomes a privilege to share a room with a cat, exchange
1100 its glance, feel its greeting rub, or watch it gently luxuriate itself
1101 into a snoozing ball on a soft cushion.
1103 =head2 v5.26.1 - Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
1105 L<Announced on 2017-09-22 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/09/msg246408.html>
1107 And soon I heard a roaring wind:
1108 It did not come anear;
1109 But with its sound it shook the sails,
1110 That were so thin and sere.
1112 The upper air burst into life!
1113 And a hundred fire-flags sheen,
1114 To and fro they were hurried about!
1115 And to and fro, and in and out,
1116 The wan stars danced between.
1118 =head2 v5.26.1-RC1 - Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
1120 L<Announced on 2017-09-10 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/09/msg246202.html>
1122 At length did cross an Albatross,
1123 Thorough the fog it came;
1124 As if it had been a Christian soul,
1125 We hailed it in God's name.
1127 It ate the food it ne'er had eat,
1128 And round and round it flew.
1129 The ice did split with a thunder-fit;
1130 The helmsman steered us through!
1132 And a good south wind sprung up behind;
1133 The Albatross did follow,
1134 And every day, for food or play,
1135 Came to the mariner's hollo!
1137 In mist or cloud, on mast or shroud,
1138 It perched for vespers nine;
1139 Whiles all the night, through fog-smoke white,
1140 Glimmered the white Moon-shine.'
1142 'God save thee, ancient Mariner!
1143 From the fiends, that plague thee thus!—
1144 Why look'st thou so?'—With my cross-bow
1145 I shot the ALBATROSS.
1147 =head2 v5.26.0 - Nine Simone, Ain't Got No / I Got Life
1149 L<Announced on 2017-05-30 by Sawyer X|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/05/msg244573.html>
1152 And I'm gonna keep it
1154 And nobody's gonna take it away
1157 =head2 v5.26.0-RC2 - Richard Condon, The Manchurian Candidate
1159 L<Announced on 2017-05-23 by Sawyer X|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/05/msg244511.html>
1161 Amateur psychiatric prognosis can be fascinating when there is
1162 absolutely nothing else to do.
1164 =head2 v5.26.0-RC1 - Thomas Paine, Common Sense
1166 L<Announced on 2017-05-11 by Sawyer X|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/05/msg244337.html>
1168 A long habit of not thinking a thing WRONG, gives it a superficial
1169 appearance of being RIGHT, and raises at first a formidable outcry in
1170 defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more
1171 converts than reason.
1173 =head2 v5.25.12 - Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
1175 L<Announced on 2017-04-20 by Sawyer X|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/04/msg244146.html>
1177 I have told my sons that they are not under any circumstances to take
1178 part in massacres, and that the news of massacres of enemies is not
1179 to fill them with satisfaction or glee.
1181 I have also told them not to work for companies which make massacre
1182 machinery, and to express contempt for people who think we need
1183 machinery like that.
1185 =head2 v5.25.11 - Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow
1187 L<Announced on 2017-03-20 by Sawyer X|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/03/msg243624.html>
1189 Subjective confidence in a judgment is not a reasoned evaluation of
1190 the probability that this judgment is correct. Confidence is a
1191 feeling, which reflects the coherence of the information and the
1192 cognitive ease of processing it. It is wise to take admissions of
1193 uncertainty seriously, but declarations of high confidence mainly
1194 tell you that an individual has constructed a coherent story in his
1195 mind, not necessarily that the story is true.
1197 =head2 v5.25.10 - Erich Fried, 1968
1199 L<Announced on 2017-02-20 by Renee Bäcker|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/02/msg243173.html>
1201 He who wants the world to remain as it is
1202 doesn't want it to remain.
1204 =head2 v5.25.9 - A. A. Milne, "Winnie-the-Pooh", 1926
1206 L<Announced on 2017-01-20 by Abigail|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/01/msg242405.html>
1208 Pooh always liked a little something at eleven o'clock in the
1209 morning, and he was very glad to see Rabbit getting out the plates
1210 and mugs; and when Rabbit said, "Honey or condensed milk with
1211 your bread?" he was so excited that he said, "Both," and then,
1212 so as not to seem greedy, he added, "But don't bother about the
1215 =head2 v5.25.8 - Langston Hughes, So long
1217 L<Announced on 2016-12-20 by Sawyer X|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/12/msg241739.html>
1221 and it's in the way you're gone
1222 but it's like a foreign language
1224 and maybe was I blind
1230 =head2 v5.25.7 - J.R.R. Tolkien, "The Silmarillion"
1232 L<Announced on 2016-11-20 by Chad 'Exodist' Granum|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/11/msg241120.html>
1234 Of Beren and Lúthien
1236 Among the tales of sorrow and of ruin that come down to us from the darkness of
1237 those days there are yet some in which amid weeping there is joy and under the
1238 shadow of death light that endures. And of these histories most fair still in
1239 the ears of the Elves is the tale of Beren and Lúthien. Of their lives was made
1240 the Lay of Leithian, Release from Bondage, which is the longest save one of the
1241 songs concerning the world of old; but here is told in fewer words and without
1244 =head2 v5.25.6 - Alan Warner, "The Sopranos"
1246 L<Announced on 2016-10-10 by Aaron Crane|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/10/msg240406.html>
1248 I'm up on all the pop trivia, says the guy with the stud in his tongue.
1250 Yes. Do you know who the lead singer of Echo and the Bunnymen is?
1251 Let me guess, is he called Echo?
1252 Good guess but no, anyway when they played Glastonbury it was so
1253 muddy he had two roadies to hold up a binliner on each of his legs so
1254 they wouldn't get covered in mud.
1255 That's what being rich and famous is all about, having someone
1256 else hold up your binliners on each leg when you're wandering across
1258 Do you know what Sammy Davis Junior said being black and famous in
1261 He said being black and famous in America meant he could be
1262 refused entry to exclusive clubs and restaurants that other people
1263 could only ever dream of going to. Do you know Michael Stipe likes to
1264 send his remote control toy cars onto stage while his support band are
1265 playing to freak them out?
1266 Who's Michael Stipe?
1267 You're not really a pop trivia person, are you, Kylah?
1268 No, I'm not, Stephen.
1270 =head2 v5.25.5 - Philip K. Dick, VALIS
1272 L<Announced on 2016-09-20 by Stevan Little|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/09/msg239887.html>
1274 We hypostatize information into objects. Rearrangement of objects is
1275 change in the content of the information; the message has changed.
1276 This is a language which we have lost the ability to read. We ourselves
1277 are a part of this language; changes in us are changes in the content
1278 of the information. We ourselves are information-rich; information
1279 enters us, is processed and is then projected outward once more, now
1280 in an altered form. We are not aware that we are doing this, that in
1281 fact this is all we are doing
1283 =head2 v5.25.4 - Terry Pratchett, "Truckers"
1285 L<Announced on 2016-08-20 by Chris 'BinGOs' Williams|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/08/msg239191.html>
1287 Concerning Nomes and Time
1289 Nomes are small. On the whole, small creatures don't live for a long
1290 time. But perhaps they do live fast.
1294 One of the shortest-lived creatures on the planet Earth is the adult
1295 common mayfly. It lasts for one day. The longest-living things are
1296 bristlecone pine trees, at 4,700 years and still counting.
1298 This may seem tough on the mayflies. But the important thing is not
1299 how long your life is, but how long it seems.
1301 To a mayfly, a single hour may last as long as a century. Perhaps
1302 old mayflies sit around complaining about how life this minute isn't a
1303 patch on the good old minutes of long ago, when the world was
1304 young and the sun seemed so much brighter and larvae showed you a
1305 bit of respect. Whereas the trees, which are not famous to their
1306 quick reactions, may just have time to notice the way the sky keeps
1307 flickering before the dry rot and woodworm set in.
1309 It's all a sort of relativity. The faster you live, the more time
1310 stretches out. To a nome, a year lasts as long as ten years does to a
1311 human. Remember it. Don't let it concern you. They don't. They don't
1314 =head2 v5.25.3 - Edward Lear, ed. Vivien Noakes, "The Complete Nonsense and Other Verse": The Dong with a Luminous Nose
1316 L<Announced on 2016-07-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/07/msg238158.html>
1318 When awful darkness and silence reign
1319 Over the great Gromboolian plain,
1320 Through the long, long wintry nights; -
1321 When the angry breakers roar
1322 As they beat on the rocky shore; -
1323 When Storm-clouds brood on the towering heights
1324 Of the Hills of the Chankly Bore: -
1326 Then, through the vast and gloomy dark,
1327 There moves what seems a fiery spark,
1328 A lonely spark with silvery rays
1329 Piercing the coal-black night, -
1330 A Meteor strange and bright: -
1331 Hither and thither the vision strays,
1332 A single lurid light.
1334 Slowly it wanders, - pauses, - creeps, -
1335 Anon it sparkles, - flashes and leaps;
1336 And ever as onward it gleaming goes
1337 A light on the Bong-tree stems it throws.
1338 And those who watch at that midnight hour
1339 From Hall or Terrace, or lofty Tower,
1340 Cry, as the wild light passes along, -
1341 'The Dong! - the Dong!
1342 The wandering Dong through the forest goes!
1344 The Dong with a luminous Nose!'
1346 =head2 v5.25.2 - Dan le Sac Vs Scroobius Pip "Waiting For The Beat To Kick In"
1348 L<Announced on 2016-06-20 by Matthew Horsfall|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/06/msg237274.html>
1350 Waiting for the beat to kick in
1352 Waiting for my feet to grow wings
1354 All of these tiresome things
1355 That we know and love
1356 Waiting for the beat to kick in
1359 =head2 v5.25.1 - Eli Pariser, "The Filter Bubble"
1361 L<Announced on 2016-05-20 by Sawyer X|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/05/msg236566.html>
1363 Imagine that you're a smart high school student on the low end of the social
1364 totem pole. You're alienated from adult authority, but unlike many teenagers,
1365 you're also alienated from the power structures of your peers -- an existence
1366 that can feel lonely and peripheral. Systems and equations are intuitive, but
1367 people aren't -- social signals are confusing and messy, difficult to interpret.
1369 Then you discover code. You may be powerless at the lunch table, but code
1370 gives you power over an infinitely malleable world and opens the door to a
1371 symbolic system that's perfectly clear and ordered. The jostling for position
1372 and status fades away. The nagging parental voices disappear. There's just a
1373 clean, white page for you to fill, an opportunity to build a better place, a
1374 home, from the ground up.
1376 No wonder you're a geek.
1378 =head2 v5.25.0 - Robert Frost, "The Trial by Existence"
1380 L<Announced on 2016-05-09 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/05/msg236244.html>
1382 Even the bravest that are slain
1383 Shall not dissemble their surprise
1384 On waking to find valor reign,
1385 Even as on earth, in paradise;
1386 And where they sought without the sword
1387 Wide fields of asphodel fore’er,
1388 To find that the utmost reward
1389 Of daring should be still to dare.
1391 =head2 v5.24.4 - Desmond Morris, "Catwatching: The Essential Guide to Cat Behaviour"
1393 L<Announced on 2018-04-14 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/04/msg250439.html>
1395 Cats hate doors. Doors simply do not register in the evolutionary story
1396 of the cat family. They constantly block patrolling activities and
1397 prevent cats from exploring their home range and then returning to their
1398 central, secure base at will. Humans often do not understand that a cat
1399 needs to make only a brief survey of its territory before returning with
1400 all the necessary information about the activities of other cats in the
1401 vicinity. It likes to make these tours of inspection at frequent
1402 intervals, but does not want to stay outside for very long, unless there
1403 has been some special and unexpected change in the condition of the
1404 local feline population.
1406 =head2 v5.24.4-RC1 - Desmond Morris, "Catwatching: The Essential Guide to Cat Behaviour"
1408 L<Announced on 2018-03-24 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/03/msg250102.html>
1410 The domestic cat is a contradiction. No animal has developed such an
1411 intimate relationship with mankind, while at the same time demanding and
1412 getting such independence of movement and action. The dog may be man's
1413 best friend, but it is rarely allowed out on its own to wander from
1414 garden to garden or street to street. The obedient dog has to be taken
1415 for a walk. The headstrong cat walks alone.
1417 =head2 v5.24.3 - Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
1419 L<Announced on 2017-09-22 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/09/msg246407.html>
1421 Oh sleep! it is a gentle thing,
1422 Beloved from pole to pole!
1423 To Mary Queen the praise be given!
1424 She sent the gentle sleep from Heaven,
1425 That slid into my soul.
1427 The silly buckets on the deck,
1428 That had so long remained,
1429 I dreamt that they were filled with dew;
1430 And when I awoke, it rained.
1432 =head2 v5.24.3-RC1 - Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
1434 L<Announced on 2017-09-10 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/09/msg246201.html>
1436 'And now the STORM-BLAST came, and he
1437 Was tyrannous and strong:
1438 He struck with his o'ertaking wings,
1439 And chased us south along.
1441 With sloping masts and dipping prow,
1442 As who pursued with yell and blow
1443 Still treads the shadow of his foe,
1444 And forward bends his head,
1445 The ship drove fast, loud roared the blast,
1446 And southward aye we fled.
1448 And now there came both mist and snow,
1449 And it grew wondrous cold:
1450 And ice, mast-high, came floating by,
1451 As green as emerald.
1453 And through the drifts the snowy clifts
1454 Did send a dismal sheen:
1455 Nor shapes of men nor beasts we ken—
1456 The ice was all between.
1458 The ice was here, the ice was there,
1459 The ice was all around:
1460 It cracked and growled, and roared and howled,
1461 Like noises in a swound!
1463 =head2 v5.24.2 - Roald Dahl, "The Three Little Pigs"
1465 L<Announced on 2017-07-15 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/07/msg245527.html>
1467 A short while later, through the wood,
1468 Came striding brave Miss Riding Hood.
1469 The Wolf stood there, his eyes ablaze
1470 And yellowish, like mayonnaise.
1471 His teeth were sharp, his gums were raw,
1472 And spit was dripping from his jaw.
1473 Once more the maiden's eyelid flickers.
1474 She draws the pistol from her knickers.
1475 Once more, she hits the vital spot,
1476 And kills him with a single shot.
1477 Pig, peeping through the window, stood
1478 And yelled, 'Well done, Miss Riding Hood!'
1480 Ah, Piglet, you must never trust
1481 Young ladies from the upper crust.
1482 For now, Miss Riding Hood, one notes,
1483 Not only has two wolfskin coats,
1484 But when she goes from place to place,
1485 She has a PIGSKIN TRAVELLING CASE.
1487 =head2 v5.24.2-RC1 - Roald Dahl, "The Three Little Pigs"
1489 L<Announced on 2017-07-01 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/07/msg245292.html>
1491 The animal I really dig
1492 Above all others is the pig.
1493 Pigs are noble. Pigs are clever,
1494 Pig are courteous. However,
1495 Now and then, to break this rule,
1496 One meets a pig who is a fool.
1497 What, for example, would you say
1498 If strolling through the woods one day,
1499 Right there in front of you you saw
1500 A pig who'd built his house of STRAW?
1501 The Wolf who saw it licked his lips,
1502 And said, 'That pig has had his chips.'
1504 =head2 v5.24.1 - Charles Dodgson [as "Lewis Carroll"], "The Hunting of the Snark", Fit 4: The Hunting
1506 L<Announced on 2017-01-14 by Steve Hay|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/01/msg242259.html>
1508 The Bellman looked uffish, and wrinkled his brow.
1509 'If only you'd spoken before!
1510 It's excessively awkward to mention it now,
1511 With the Snark, so to speak, at the door!
1513 'We should all of us grieve, as you well may believe,
1514 If you never were met with again -
1515 But surely, my man, when the voyage began,
1516 You might have suggested it then?
1518 'It's excessively awkward to mention it now -
1519 As I think I've already remarked.'
1520 And the man they called 'Hi!' replied, with a sigh,
1521 'I informed you the day we embarked.
1523 'You may charge me with murder - or want of sense -
1524 (We are all of us weak at times):
1525 But the slightest approach to a false pretence
1526 Was never among my crimes!
1528 'I said it in Hebrew - I said it in Dutch -
1529 I said it in German and Greek:
1530 But I wholly forgot (and it vexes me much)
1531 That English is what you speak!'
1533 ''Tis a pitiful tale,' said the Bellman, whose face
1534 Had grown longer at every word:
1535 'But, now that you've stated the whole of your case,
1536 More debate would be simply absurd.
1538 'The rest of my speech' (he exclaimed to his men)
1539 'You shall hear when I've leisure to speak it.
1540 But the Snark is at hand, let me tell you again!
1541 'Tis your glorious duty to seek it!
1543 =head2 v5.24.1-RC5 - John Milton, ed. Gordon Campbell, "Paradise Regained", Book IV
1545 L<Announced on 2017-01-02 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/01/msg242016.html>
1547 Thus passed the night so foul, till Morning fair
1548 Came forth with pilgrim steps, in amice grey;
1549 Who with her radiant finger stilled the roar
1550 Of thunder, chased the clouds, and laid the winds,
1551 And grisly spectres, which the fiend had raised
1552 To tempt the Son of God with terrors dire.
1553 And now the sun with more effectual beams
1554 Had cheered the face of earth, and dried the wet
1555 From drooping plant, or dropping tree; the birds,
1556 Who all things now behold more fresh and green,
1557 After a night of storm so ruinous,
1558 Cleared up their choicest notes in bush and spray,
1559 To gratulate the sweet return of morn.
1561 =head2 v5.24.1-RC4 - John Milton, ed. Gordon Campbell, "Paradise Lost", Book II
1563 L<Announced on 2016-10-12 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/10/msg240224.html>
1565 Before the gates there sat
1566 On either side a formidable shape;
1567 The one seemed woman to the waste, and fair,
1568 But ended foul in many a scaly fold,
1569 Voluminous and vast -- a serpent armed
1570 With mortal sting; about her middle round
1571 A cry of hell hounds never ceasing barked
1572 With wide Cerberean mouths full loud, and rung
1573 A hideous peal; yet, when they list, would creep,
1574 If aught disturbed their noise, into her womb,
1575 And kennel there; yet there still barked and howled
1576 Within unseen. Far less abhorred than these
1577 Vexed Scylla, bathing in the sea that parts
1578 Calabria from the hoarse Trinacrian shore;
1579 Nor uglier follow the night-hag, when, called
1580 In secret, riding through the air she comes,
1581 Lured with the smell of infant blood, to dance
1582 With Lapland witches, while the labouring moon
1583 Eclipses at their charms. The other shape --
1584 If shape it might be called that shape had none
1585 Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb;
1586 Or substance might be called that shadow seemed,
1587 For each seemed either -- black it stood as night,
1588 Fierce as ten Furies, terrible as hell,
1589 And shook a dreadful dart: what seemed his head
1590 The likeness of a kingly crown had on.
1591 Satan was now at hand, and from his seat
1592 The monster moving onward came as fast
1593 With horrid strides; hell trembled as he strode.
1595 =head2 v5.24.1-RC3 - Dante Alighieri, trans. Dorothy L. Sayers and Barbara Reynolds, "The Divine Comedy", Cantica III: Paradise, Canto XXIII
1597 L<Announced on 2016-08-11 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/08/msg238909.html>
1599 A bird within the bower of her delight,
1600 Quiet upon the nest with her sweet brood
1601 Throughout the dark concealment of the night,
1603 Anxious to look on them and gather food -
1604 No weary task for her, for as at play
1605 Blithely she toils to seek her fledglings' good -
1607 Before the time, upon the topmost spray
1608 Eager awaits the sun and on the East
1609 Fixes her wakeful eye till break of day.
1611 =head2 v5.24.1-RC2 - Dante Alighieri, trans. Dorothy L. Sayers, "The Divine Comedy", Cantica II: Purgatory, Canto X
1613 L<Announced on 2016-07-25 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/07/msg238269.html>
1615 When we had crossed the threshold of that gate
1616 Which the soul's evil loves put out of use,
1617 Because they make the crooked path seem straight,
1619 I heard its closing clang ring clamorous,
1620 And had I then turned back my eyes to it
1621 How could my fault have found the least excuse?
1623 We had to climb now through a rocky slit
1624 Which ran from side to side in many a swerve,
1625 As runs the wave in onset and retreat.
1627 "Now here," the master said, "we must observe
1628 Some little caution, hugging now this wall,
1629 Now that, upon the far side of the curve."
1631 =head2 v5.24.1-RC1 - Dante Alighieri, trans. Dorothy L. Sayers, "The Divine Comedy", Cantica I: Hell, Canto XX
1633 L<Announced on 2016-07-17 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/07/msg238072.html>
1635 New punishments behoves me sing in this
1636 Twentieth canto of my first canticle,
1637 Which tells of spirits sunk in the Abyss.
1639 I now stood ready to observe the full
1640 Extent of the new chasm thus laid bare,
1641 Drenched as it was in tears most miserable.
1643 Through the round vale I saw folk drawing near,
1644 Weeping and silent, and at such slow pace
1645 As Litany processions keep, up here.
1647 And presently, when I had dropped my gaze
1648 Lower than the head, I saw them strangely wried
1649 'Twixt collar-bone and chin, so that the face
1651 Of each was turned towards his own backside,
1652 And backwards must they needs creep with their feet,
1653 All power of looking forward being denied.
1655 =head2 v5.24.0 - Robert Frost, "The Black Cottage"
1657 L<Announced on 2016-05-09 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/05/msg236242.html>
1659 As I sit here, and oftentimes, I wish
1660 I could be monarch of a desert land
1661 I could devote and dedicate forever
1662 To the truths we keep coming back and back to.
1663 So desert it would have to be, so walled
1664 By mountain ranges half in summer snow,
1665 No one would covet it or think it worth
1666 The pains of conquering to force change on.
1667 Scattered oases where men dwelt, but mostly
1668 Sand dunes held loosely in tamarisk
1669 Blown over and over themselves in idleness.
1670 Sand grains should sugar in the natal dew
1671 The babe born to the desert, the sand storm
1672 Retard mid-waste my cowering caravans—
1674 “There are bees in this wall.” He struck the clapboards,
1675 Fierce heads looked out; small bodies pivoted.
1676 We rose to go. Sunset blazed on the windows.
1678 =head2 v5.24.0-RC5 - The Mountain Goats, "No Children"
1680 L<Announced on 2016-05-04 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/05/msg236198.html>
1682 And I hope when you think of me years down the line
1683 You can't find one good thing to say
1684 And I'd hope that if I found the strength to walk out
1685 You'd stay the hell out of my way
1687 I am drowning, there is no sign of land
1688 You are coming down with me, hand in unlovable hand
1690 =head2 v5.24.0-RC4 - The Joker in "The Killing Joke"
1692 L<Announced on 2016-05-02 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/05/msg236145.html>
1694 "See, there were these two guys in a lunatic asylum…"
1696 =head2 v5.24.0-RC3 - Jesse Vincent
1698 L<Announced on 2016-04-27 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/04/msg236066.html>
1700 The Great Pumpkin is a Santa-Claus like figure. He does bring toys like
1701 Santa. But unlike Santa, who gives away toys because it's his job, he
1702 gives away toys because it's the right thing to do.
1704 =head2 v5.24.0-RC2 - Joseph Heller, "Catch-22"
1706 L<Announced on 2016-04-23 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/04/msg235999.html>
1708 “How do you feel, Yossarian?”
1710 “Fine. No, I’m very frightened.”
1712 “That’s good,” said Major Danby. “It proves you’re still alive. It won’t
1715 Yossarian started out. “Yes it will.”
1717 “I mean it, Yossarian. You’ll have to keep on your toes every minute of
1718 every day. They’ll bend heaven and earth to catch you.”
1720 “I’ll keep on my toes every minute.”
1722 “You’ll have to jump.”
1726 “Jump!” Major Danby cried.
1730 Nately’s [girl] was hiding just outside the door. The knife came down,
1731 missing him by inches, and he took off.
1733 =head2 v5.24.0-RC1 - Robert Frost, "The Census-Taker"
1735 L<Announced on 2016-04-14 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/04/msg235807.html>
1737 Nothing was left to do that I could see
1738 Unless to find that there was no one there
1739 And declare to the cliffs too far for echo,
1740 "The place is desert, and let whoso lurks
1741 In silence, if in this he is aggrieved,
1742 Break silence now or be forever silent.
1743 Let him say why it should not be declared so."
1744 The melancholy of having to count souls
1745 Where they grow fewer and fewer every year
1746 Is extreme where they shrink to none at all.
1747 It must be I want life to go on living.
1749 =head2 v5.23.9 - Tom Kitchin, "from nature to plate"
1751 L<Announced on 2016-03-20 by Abigail|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/03/msg235251.html>
1755 Spring is the proper beginning of my kitchen and a season that I
1756 look forward to with great anticipation. By the time spring arrives
1757 I am desperate to welcome all the spring produce into my kitchen
1758 and I long to work with fresh green vegetables again. As much as I
1759 love root vegetables, such as celeriac and parsnips, and the heaver
1760 meat and game dishes, I'm ready to leave those behind with winter
1761 and begin a new adventure.
1763 Somehow spring always gives me a little bit of bounce in my feet
1764 -- I feel like I want to kick off my shoes and dance around in my
1765 kitchen. Not that I do, of course, but I feel lighter somehow. My
1766 adrenalin kicks in with spring and so does the level of excitement,
1767 as I think about all the produce that is about to come in.
1769 The moment spring arrives I'm eager to cook peas, broad beans, green
1770 asparagus and other fresh vegetables! I want to create lighter,
1771 brighter dishes and I can't wait to get my hands on the first greens
1772 and the first morels, not to mention the first wild Scottish salmon.
1773 Thanks to my network of trusted suppliers, I always get to first
1774 produce of the season delivered to my restaurant as soon as it is
1775 possible. I want my customers to experience and understand the
1776 beauty of locally grown produce and to try things the minute they
1777 are available so they can taste how incredibly fresh the ingredients
1778 are. I also want them to understand the relationship between
1779 seasonality and flavours. One of the most important things to
1780 remember is to allow the seasons to inspire your dishes and help
1781 you make natural matches. Wild spring herbs, such as sorrel, sweet
1782 cicely and wild garlic, as well as spring salad leaves and green
1783 lettuce served with wild salmon, wild sea trout, lamb or rabbit are
1784 marriages made in heaven.
1787 =head2 v5.23.8 - Patrick Rothfuss, "The Wise Man's Fear (The Kingkiller's Chronicle: Day Two)"
1789 L<Announced on 2016-02-20 by Sawyer X|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/02/msg234535.html>
1791 Denna, on the other hand, had never been trained. She knew nothing
1792 of shortcuts. You'd think she'd be forced to wander the city, lost and
1793 helpless, trapped in a twisting maze of mortared stone.
1795 But instead, she simply walked throught the walls. She didn't know
1796 any better. Nobody had ever told her she couldn't. Because of this,
1797 she moved through the city like some faerie creature. She walked roads
1798 no one else could see, and it made her music wild and strange and
1801 =head2 v5.23.7 - William Gibson, "Neuromancer"
1803 L<Announced on 2016-01-20 by Stevan Little|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/01/msg233856.html>
1805 A year here and he still dreamed of cyberspace, hope fading
1806 nightly. All the speed he took, all the turns he'd taken and
1807 the corners he cut in Night City, and he'd still see the matrix
1808 in his dreams, bright lattices of logic unfolding across that
1809 colourless void...The Sprawl was a long, strange way home now
1810 over the Pacific, and he was no Console Man, no cyberspace
1811 cowboy. Just another hustler, trying to make it through. But
1812 the dreams came on in the Japanese night like livewire voodoo,
1813 and he'd cry for it, cry in his sleep, and wake alone in the
1814 dark, curled in his capsule in some coffin hotel, hands clawed
1815 into the bedslab, temper foam bunched between his fingers,
1816 trying to reach the console that wasn't there.
1818 =head2 v5.23.6 - 5.23 Episode VII
1820 L<Announced on 2015-12-21 by David Golden|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/12/msg233475.html>
1822 A long time ago in microseconds, in a galaxy not very far away...
1828 unrest as separatists
1829 announce their intentions
1830 to fork PERL and return the
1831 galaxy to speed and stability.
1833 Chancellor Rik Hoolian struggles
1834 to hold together the remains of the
1835 once mighty Republic against a tide of
1836 incivility and the depredations of a new
1837 foe, the FUZZ RAIDERS.
1839 Meanwhile, after 15 years of preparation and
1840 high expectations, Supreme Leader Toady prepares
1841 to unleash a devastating new weapon, PERL SIXDOTOH,
1842 that could splinter the Republic forever and usher in
1843 a new Empire of gradual typing....
1845 =head2 v5.23.5 - utastro!nather (Ed Nather), "The Story of Mel", in net.jokes, May 21, 1983.
1847 L<Announced on 2015-11-20 by Abigail|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/11/msg232758.html>
1849 After Mel had left the company for greener pa$ture$, the Big Boss asked
1850 me to look at the code and see if I could find the test and reverse it.
1851 Somewhat reluctantly, I agreed to look. Tracking Mel's code was a real
1854 I have often felt that programming is an art form, whose real value can
1855 only be appreciated by another versed in the same arcane art; there are
1856 lovely gems and brilliant coups hidden from human view and admiration,
1857 sometimes forever, by the very nature of the process. You can learn a
1858 lot about an individual just by reading through his code, even in
1859 hexadecimal. Mel was, I think, an unsung genius.
1861 Perhaps my greatest shock came when I found an innocent loop that had
1862 no test in it. No test. None. Common sense said it had to be a closed
1863 loop, where the program would circle, forever, endlessly. Program
1864 control passed right through it, however, and safely out the other side.
1865 It took me two weeks to figure it out.
1867 The RPC-4000 computer had a really modern facility called an index
1868 register. It allowed the programmer to write a program loop that used
1869 an indexed instruction inside; each time through, the number in the
1870 index register was added to the address of that instruction, so it
1871 would refer to the next datum in a series. He had only to increment
1872 the index register each time through. Mel never used it.
1874 Instead, he would pull the instruction into a machine register, add one
1875 to its address, and store it back. He would then execute the modified
1876 instruction right from the register. The loop was written so this
1877 additional execution time was taken into account -- just as this
1878 instruction finished, the next one was right under the drum's read head,
1879 ready to go. But the loop had no test in it.
1881 The vital clue came when I noticed the index register bit, the bit that
1882 lay between the address and the operation code in the instruction word,
1883 was turned on -- yet Mel never used the index register, leaving it zero
1884 all the time. When the light went on it nearly blinded me.
1886 He had located the data he was working on near the top of memory -- the
1887 largest locations the instructions could address -- so, after the last
1888 datum was handled, incrementing the instruction address would make it
1889 overflow. The carry would add one to the operation code, changing it to
1890 the next one in the instruction set: a jump instruction. Sure enough,
1891 the next program instruction was in address location zero, and the
1892 program went happily on its way.
1894 =head2 v5.23.4 - Denis Diderot, trans. David Coward, "Jacques the Fatalist"
1896 L<Announced on 2015-10-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/10/msg232040.html>
1898 Well, everybody's got a dog. The prime minister is the king's dog. The
1899 first secretary is the prime minister's dog. A wife is a husband's dog,
1900 or a husband is a wife's dog. Favourite is Madame So-and-so's dog and
1901 Thibaut is the man on the corner's dog. When my Master tells me to talk
1902 when I'd prefer not to, which to be honest doesn't happen very often,
1903 when he tells me to shut up when I feel like talking, which I find very
1904 difficult, when he asks me to tell the story of my love-life and then
1905 keeps interrupting, what am I if not his dog? Weak men are the dogs of
1908 =head2 v5.23.3 - Oliver Wendell Holmes, "The Deacon’s Masterpiece or The Wonderful 'One-Hoss Shay': A Logical Story"
1910 L<Announced on 2015-09-20 by Peter Martini|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/09/msg231173.html>
1912 Little of of all we value here
1913 Wakes on the morn of its hundredth year
1914 Without both feeling and looking queer.
1915 In fact, there’s nothing that keeps its youth,
1916 So far as I know, but a tree and truth.
1917 (This is a moral that runs at large;
1918 Take it. — You’re welcome. — No extra charge.)
1920 =head2 v5.23.2 - Blind Guardian, "Skalds and Shadows"
1922 L<Announced on 2015-08-20 by Matthew Horsfall|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/08/msg230298.html>
1924 Would you believe in a night like this
1925 A night like this, when visions come true
1926 Would you believe in a tale like this
1927 A lay of bliss, praise in the old lore
1928 Come to the blazing fire and
1930 See me in the shadows
1931 See me in the shadows
1934 Just hand me my harp
1935 This night turns into myth
1938 The world we live in is another skald's
1939 Dream in the shadows
1940 Dream in the shadows
1942 Do you believe there is sense in it
1943 Is it truth or myth?
1944 They´re one in my rhymes
1945 Nobody knows the meaning behind
1947 Well nobody else but the Norns can
1948 See through the blazing fires of time and
1949 All things will proceed as the
1950 Child of the hallowed
1951 Will speak to you now
1953 See me in the shadows
1954 See me in the shadows
1955 Songs I will sing of tribes and kings
1956 The carrion bird and the hall of the slain
1959 The world we live in is another skald´s
1960 Dream in the shadows
1961 Dream in the shadows
1963 Do not fear for my reason
1964 There's nothing to hide
1965 How bitter your treason
1967 Remember the runes and remember the light
1968 All I ever want is to be at your side
1969 We'll gladden the raven now I will
1970 Run through the blazing fires
1972 Cause things shall proceed as foreseen
1974 =head2 v5.23.1 - Elizabeth Haydon, "The Assassin King"
1976 L<Announced on 2015-07-20 by Matthew Horsfall|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/07/msg229413.html>
1978 I was born beneath this willow,
1979 Where my sire the earth did farm
1980 Had the green grass as my pillow
1981 The east wind as a blanket warm.
1983 But away! away! called the wind from the west
1984 And in answer I did run
1985 Seeking glory and adventure
1986 Promised by the rising sun.
1988 I found love beneath this willow,
1989 As true a love as life could hold,
1990 Pledged my heart and swore my fealty
1991 Sealed with a kiss and a band of gold.
1993 But to arms! to arms! called the wind from the west
1994 In faithful answer I did run
1995 Marching forth for king and country
1996 In battles 'neath the midday sun.
1998 Oft I dreamt of that fair willow
1999 As the seven seas I plied
2000 And the girl who I left waiting
2001 Longing to be at her side.
2003 But about! about! called the wind from the west
2004 As once again my ship did run
2005 Down the coast, about the wide world
2006 Flying sails in the setting sun.
2008 Now I lie beneath the willow
2009 Now at last no more to roam,
2010 My bride and earth so tightly hold me
2011 In their arms I'm finally home.
2013 While away! away! calls the wind from the west
2014 Beyond the grave my spirit, free
2015 Will chase the sun into the morning
2016 Beyond the sky, beyond the sea.
2018 =head2 v5.23.0 - Bob Dylan, "Maggie's Farm"
2020 L<Announced on 2015-06-20 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/06/msg228807.html>
2022 I ain't gonna work on Maggie's farm no more
2023 I ain't gonna work on Maggie's farm no more
2025 To be just like I am
2026 But everybody wants you
2027 To be just like them
2028 They sing while you slave and I just get bored
2029 I ain't gonna work on Maggie's farm no more
2031 =head2 v5.22.4 - Roald Dahl, "Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf"
2033 L<Announced on 2017-07-15 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/07/msg245526.html>
2035 Then Little Red Riding Hood said, 'But Grandma,
2036 what a lovely great big furry coat you have on.'
2037 'That's wrong!' cried Wolf. 'Have you forgot
2038 'To tell me what BIG TEETH I've got?
2039 'Ah well, no matter what you say,
2040 'I'm going to eat you anyway.'
2041 The small girl smiles. One eyelid flickers.
2042 She whips a pistol from her knickers.
2043 She aims it at the creature's head
2044 And bang bang bang, she shoots him dead.
2046 A few weeks later, in the wood,
2047 I came across Miss Riding Hood.
2048 But what a change! No cloak of red,
2049 No silly hood upon her head.
2050 She said, 'Hello, and do please note
2051 'My lovely furry WOLFSKIN COAT.'
2053 =head2 v5.22.4-RC1 - Roald Dahl, "Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf"
2055 L<Announced on 2017-07-01 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/07/msg245293.html>
2057 As soon as Wolf began to feel
2058 That he would like a decent meal,
2059 He went and knocked on Grandma's door.
2060 When Grandma opened it, she saw
2061 The sharp white teeth, the horrid grin,
2062 And Wolfie said, 'May I come in?'
2063 Poor Grandmamma was terrified,
2064 'He's going to eat me up!' she cried.
2065 And she was absolutely right.
2066 He ate her up in one big bite.
2068 =head2 v5.22.3 - Charles Dodgson [as "Lewis Carroll"], "Phantasmagoria", Canto 6: Discomfyture
2070 L<Announced on 2017-01-14 by Steve Hay|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/01/msg242258.html>
2072 As one who strives a hill to climb,
2073 Who never climbed before:
2074 Who finds it, in a little time,
2075 Grow every moment less sublime,
2076 And votes the thing a bore:
2078 Yet, having once begun to try,
2079 Dares not desert his quest,
2080 But, climbing, ever keeps his eye
2081 On one small hut against the sky
2082 Wherein he hopes to rest:
2084 Who climbs till nerve and force are spent,
2085 With many a puff and pant:
2086 Who still, as rises the ascent,
2087 In language grows more violent,
2088 Although in breath more scant:
2090 Who, climbing, gains at length the place
2091 That crowns the upward track:
2092 And, entering with unsteady pace,
2093 Receives a buffet in the face
2094 That lands him on his back:
2096 And feels himself, like one in sleep,
2097 Glide swiftly down again,
2098 A helpless weight, from steep to steep,
2099 Till, with a headlong giddy sweep,
2100 He drops upon the plain -
2102 So I, that had resolved to bring
2103 Conviction to a ghost,
2104 And found it quite a different thing
2105 From any human arguing,
2106 Yet dared not quit my post.
2108 =head2 v5.22.3-RC5 - John Milton, ed. Gordon Campbell, "Paradise Regained", Book II
2110 L<Announced on 2017-01-02 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/01/msg242017.html>
2112 Thus wore out night; and now the herald lark
2113 Left his ground-nest, high towering to descry
2114 The Morn's approach, and greet her with his song;
2115 As lightly from his grassy couch up rose
2116 Our Saviour, and found all was but a dream;
2117 Fasting he went to sleep, and fasting waked.
2118 Up to a hill anon his steps he reared,
2119 From whose high top to ken the prospect round,
2120 If cottage were in view, sheep-cote, or herd;
2121 But cottage, herd, or sheep-cote, none he saw --
2122 Only in a bottom saw a pleasant grove,
2123 With chant of tuneful birds resounding loud;
2124 Thither he bent his way, determined there
2125 To rest at noon, and entered soon the shade,
2126 High-roofed and walks beneath, and alleys brown,
2127 That opened in the midst a woody scene;
2128 Nature's own work it seemed (Nature taught Art),
2129 And, to a superstitious eye, the haunt
2130 Of wood-gods and wood-nymphs.
2132 =head2 v5.22.3-RC4 - John Milton, ed. Gordon Campbell, "Paradise Lost", Book II
2134 L<Announced on 2016-10-12 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/10/msg240223.html>
2136 Far off from these, a slow and silent stream,
2137 Lethe, the river of oblivion, rolls
2138 Her watery labyrinth, whereof who drinks
2139 Forthwith his former state and being forgets --
2140 Forgets both joy and grief, pleasure and pain.
2141 Beyond this flood a frozen continent
2142 Lies dark and wild, beat with perpetual storms
2143 Of Whirlwind and dire hail, which on firm land
2144 Thaws not, but gathers heap, and ruin seems
2145 Of ancient pile; all else deep snow and ice,
2146 A gulf profound as that Serbonian bog
2147 Betwixt Damiata and Mount Casius old,
2148 Where armies whole have sunk: the parching air
2149 Burns frore, and cold performs the effect of fire.
2150 Thither, by harpy-footed Furies haled,
2151 At certain revolutions all the damned
2152 Are brought; and feel by turns the bitter change
2153 Of fierce extremes, extremes by change more fierce,
2154 From beds of raging fire to starve in ice
2155 Their soft ethereal warmth, and there to pine
2156 Immovable, infixed, and frozen round
2157 Periods of time -- thence hurried back to fire.
2158 They ferry over this Lethean sound
2159 Both to and fro, their sorrow to augment,
2160 And wish and struggle, as they pass, to reach
2161 The tempting stream, with one small drop to lose
2162 In sweet forgetfulness all pain and woe,
2163 All in one moment, and so near the brink;
2164 But fate withstands, and, to oppose the attempt,
2165 Medusa with Gorgonian terror guards
2166 The ford, and of itself the water flies
2167 All taste of living wight, as once it fled
2168 The lip of Tantalus.
2170 =head2 v5.22.3-RC3 - Dante Alighieri, trans. Dorothy L. Sayers and Barbara Reynolds, "The Divine Comedy", Cantica III: Paradise, Canto IV
2172 L<Announced on 2016-08-11 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/08/msg238908.html>
2174 Between two dishes, equally attractive
2175 And near to him, a free man, I suppose,
2176 Would starve to death before his teeth got active;
2178 So would a lamb 'twixt two fierce wolfish foes,
2179 Fearing the fangs both ways, not stir a foot;
2180 So would a deerhound halt between two does;
2182 So I can't blame myself for standing mute,
2183 Nor praise myself: for I must needs so do,
2184 Suspended 'twixt two doubts, alike acute.
2186 =head2 v5.22.3-RC2 - Dante Alighieri, trans. Dorothy L. Sayers, "The Divine Comedy", Cantica II: Purgatory, Canto I
2188 L<Announced on 2016-07-25 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/07/msg238270.html>
2190 For better waters heading with the wind
2191 My ship of genius now shakes out her sail
2192 And leaves that ocean of despair behind;
2194 For to the second realm I tune my tale,
2195 Where human spirits purge themselves, and train
2196 To leap up into joy celestial.
2198 Now from the grave wake poetry again,
2199 O sacred Muses I have served so long!
2200 Now let Calliope uplift her strain
2202 And lift my voice up on the mighty song
2203 That smote the miserable Magpies nine
2204 Out of all hope of pardon for their wrong!
2206 =head2 v5.22.3-RC1 - Dante Alighieri, trans. Dorothy L. Sayers, "The Divine Comedy", Cantica I: Hell, Canto XII
2208 L<Announced on 2016-07-17 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/07/msg238071.html>
2210 The place we came to, to descend the brink from,
2211 Was sheer crag; and there was a Thing there - making,
2212 All told, a prospect any eye would shrink from.
2214 Like the great landslide that rushed downward, shaking
2215 The bank of Adige on this side Trent,
2216 (Whether through faulty shoring or the earth's quaking)
2218 So that the rock, down from the summit rent
2219 Far as the plain, lies strewn, and one might crawl
2220 From top to bottom by that unsure descent,
2222 Such was the precipice; and there we spied,
2223 Topping the cleft that split the rocky wall,
2224 That which was wombed in the false heifer's side,
2226 The infamy of Crete, stretched out a-sprawl;
2227 And seeing us, he gnawed himself, like one
2228 Inly devoured with spite and burning gall.
2230 =head2 v5.22.2 - Gaston Leroux, trans. Mireille Ribière, "The Phantom of the Opera"
2232 L<Announced on 2016-04-29 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/04/msg236120.html>
2234 A silence; and then: 'If, in just two minutes' time by my watch--and a
2235 splendid watch it is--you have not turned the scorpion, mademoiselle, I
2236 shall turn the grasshopper... and the grasshopper, remember, _leaps
2237 straight up into the air!_'
2238 The silence that ensued was terrifying, worse than any we had
2239 experienced before. I knew that when Erik spoke with that quiet,
2240 gentle, slightly weary voice, it meant that he had reached the end of
2241 his tether: that he was capable of the most abominable crimes or the
2242 most selfless devotion; that the slightest irritation might unleash a
2244 Realizing that our fate was out of our hands, the Viscount fell to his
2245 knees and prayed. As for me, I pressed both hands to my chest, for my
2246 heart was pounding so fiercely that I thought it would burst. We were
2247 intensely aware of the excruciating dilemma Christine Daaé faced in
2248 those final seconds. We understood why she hesitated to turn the
2249 scorpion. What if the scorpion, rather than the grasshopper, were to
2250 set off the explosion? What if Erik was simply intent on destroying
2251 everything, regardless?
2252 At last he spoke: 'The two minutes are up,' he said in a soft, angelic
2253 voice. 'Goodbye, mademoiselle. Off you go, little grasshopper!'
2255 =head2 v5.22.2-RC1 - Gaston Leroux, trans. Mireille Ribière, "The Phantom of the Opera"
2257 L<Announced on 2016-04-10 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/04/msg235732.html>
2259 This annual ball was quite a magnificent affair. It was given some time
2260 before Shrovetide to celebrate the birthday of a famous illustrator
2261 whose pencil had immortalized, in the style of Gavarni, the extravagant
2262 carnival parade down La Courtille. As such, the ball was an altogether
2263 merrier, noisier and more Bohemian occasion than was usual for a masked
2264 ball. Many artists had arranged to meet there; they arrived with an
2265 entourage of models and pupils, who, by midnight, had become quite
2267 Raoul climbed the grand staircase at five minutes to midnight. He did
2268 not linger to admire the many-coloured costumes on display all the way
2269 up the marble steps of one of the most luxurious settings in the world;
2270 nor did he allow himself to be drawn into the facetious conversation of
2271 masked guests. He simply ignored all the jesting remarks, and shook off
2272 the attentions of several all too merry couples.
2273 Crossing the big crush-room and escaping from the dancers' farandole
2274 that had encircled him awhile, he at last entered the salon mentioned by
2275 Christine in her letter. The small room was crammed with people either
2276 on their way to supper at the restaurant in the Rotunda or back from
2277 raising a glass of champagne.
2278 In the midst of the gay and lively hubbub, Raoul thought that, for their
2279 mysterious assignation, Christine must have preferred this crowd to some
2281 He leaned against a door-jamb and waited. He did not have to wait long;
2282 a black domino passed him and deftly touched his hand. He understood
2283 that it was Christine and followed her.
2284 'Is that you, Christine?' he murmured, barely moving his slips.
2285 The black domino promptly looked back and raised her finger to her lips,
2286 no doubt to caution him against uttering her name again. Raoul followed
2289 =head2 v5.22.1 - Wilhelm Müller, trans. Anon., "Courage" (No. 22 in Schubert's song-cycle, "Winterreise")
2291 L<Announced on 2015-12-13 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/12/msg233318.html>
2293 If the snow flies in my face,
2294 Let me shake it off me!
2295 If my heart within me speaks,
2296 I'll sing bright and gaily!
2298 Will not listen what it says,
2299 Have no ears for moaning.
2300 Do not feel what it complains,--
2301 Only fools like groaning!
2303 Jolly brave into the world,
2304 'Gainst all wind and weather,--
2305 If there is no God on earth,
2306 Let 's be gods down nether!
2308 =head2 v5.22.1-RC4 - Wilhelm Müller, trans. Anon., "The Signpost" (No. 20 in Schubert's song-cycle, "Winterreise")
2310 L<Announced on 2015-12-08 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/12/msg233215.html>
2312 Why do I shun all those highways
2313 Which the other wanderer seeks?
2314 Why do I find bridged by-ways
2315 Through snow-covered deep creeks?
2317 For I have no crime committed,
2318 Why I should now run from men,--
2319 What demented heart's desire
2320 Drives me to a desert glen?
2322 Signposts on all highways stationed
2323 Point their signs toward the towns,
2324 Whilst I wonder 'yond moderation,
2325 Without rest, yet seeking rest!
2327 One such signpost I see planted
2328 Of my question unconcerned,
2329 One road must my choice be granted,
2330 Whence no man has yet returned!
2332 =head2 v5.22.1-RC3 - Wilhelm Müller, trans. Anon., "Stormy Morning" (No. 18 in Schubert's song-cycle, "Winterreise")
2334 L<Announced on 2015-12-02 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/12/msg233032.html>
2336 How the storm tore rents
2337 In heavens gray attired!
2338 The rags of cloud are flying
2339 Around, of combat tired.
2341 And flames of fire lambent,
2342 Fly between them and part,
2343 That 's what I call a morning,
2344 A morning after my heart!
2346 My heart sees in the heavens
2347 Its own picture unspoilt--
2348 It's nothing but the Winter,
2349 The Winter, cold and wild.
2351 =head2 v5.22.1-RC2 - Wilhelm Müller, trans. Anon., "The Old Head" (No. 14 in Schubert's song-cycle, "Winterreise")
2353 L<Announced on 2015-11-15 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/11/msg232632.html>
2355 The hoary frost has a white sheen
2356 Strewn all over my hair,
2357 So I thought I was an old man
2358 And thought life dealt me fair.
2360 Yet soon was thawed my old white mane,
2361 And I have my black hair again.
2362 How I abhor my young fair years,
2363 How long to wait for death and biers?
2365 From setting sun to morning's hue
2366 Many a head turns white.
2367 Who'll credit it? My hair did not
2368 In all this lifelong plight!
2370 =head2 v5.22.1-RC1 - Wilhelm Müller, trans. Anon., "Will-o'-the Wisp" (No. 9 in Schubert's song-cycle, "Winterreise")
2372 L<Announced on 2015-10-31 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/10/msg232321.html>
2374 In the deepest rocky crevice
2375 A will-o'-the wisp lured me;
2376 How I could find my way from here,
2377 For me it's easy memory!
2379 For I am used to straying ways,
2380 Every path to th'end a way,
2381 All our joys and all our suffering,--
2382 To a will-o'-the wisp it 's all play!
2384 Through the dried-up bed of torrents
2385 I quite calmly downward stroll;
2386 Every stream its sea will enter,
2387 Every suffering finds its goal!
2389 =head2 v5.22.0 - Gene Wolfe, The Citadel of the Autarch
2391 L<Announced on 2015-06-01 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/06/msg228300.html>
2393 “You are the advocate of the dead.”
2395 The old man nodded. “I am. People talk about being fair to this one and
2396 that one, but nobody I ever heard talks about doing right by them. We
2397 take everything they had, which is all right. And spit, most often, on
2398 their opinions, which I suppose is all right too. But we ought to
2399 remember now and then how much of what we have we got from them. I
2400 figure while I’m still here I ought to put a word in for them.”
2402 =head2 v5.22.0-RC2 - T.S. Eliot, unpublished work
2404 L<Announced on 2015-05-21 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/05/msg228142.html>
2406 And when thyself with silver foot shall pass
2407 Among the theories scattered on the grass
2408 Take up my good intentions with the rest
2410 =head2 v5.22.0-RC1 - Gene Wolfe, Citadel of the Autarch
2412 L<Announced on 2015-05-19 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/05/msg228059.html>
2414 There is no limit to stupidity. Space itself is said to be bounded by
2415 its own curvature, but stupidity continues beyond infinity.
2417 =head2 v5.21.11 - Algernon Charles Swinburne, "Dolores (Notre-Dame des Sept Douleurs)"
2419 L<Announced on 2015-04-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/04/msg227472.html>
2421 They shall pass and their places be taken,
2422 The gods and the priests that are pure.
2423 They shall pass, and shalt thou not be shaken?
2424 They shall perish, and shalt thou endure?
2425 Death laughs, breathing close and relentless
2426 In the nostrils and eyelids of lust,
2427 With a pinch in his fingers of scentless
2430 But the worm shall revive thee with kisses;
2431 Thou shalt change and transmute as a god,
2432 As the rod to a serpent that hisses,
2433 As the serpent again to a rod.
2434 Thy life shall not cease though thou doff it;
2435 Thou shalt live until evil be slain,
2436 And good shall die first, said thy prophet,
2439 =head2 v5.21.10 - Aldous Huxley, "The Devils of Loudun"
2441 L<Announced on 2015-03-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/03/msg226847.html>
2443 The fire burned on, the good fathers continued to sprinkle and intone.
2444 Suddenly a flock of pigeons came swooping down from the church and
2445 started to wheel around the roaring column of flame and smoke. The
2446 crowd shouted, the archers waved their halberds at the birds, Lactance
2447 and Tranquille splashed them on the wing with holy water. In vain. The
2448 pigeons were not to be driven away. Round and round they flew, diving
2449 through the smoke, singeing their feathers in the flames. Both parties
2450 claimed a miracle. For the parson's enemies the birds, quite obviously,
2451 were a troop of devils, come to fetch away his soul. For his friends,
2452 they were emblems of the Holy Ghost and living proof of his innocence.
2453 It never seems to have occurred to anyone that they were just pigeons,
2454 obeying the laws of their own, their blessedly other-than-human nature.
2456 =head2 v5.21.9 - Emily Dickinson, "There is Another Sky"
2458 L<Announced on 2015-02-20 by Sawyer X|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/02/msg226002.html>
2460 There is another sky,
2461 Ever serene and fair,
2462 And there is another sunshine,
2463 Though it be darkness there;
2464 Never mind faded forests, Austin,
2465 Never mind silent fields -
2466 Here is a little forest,
2467 Whose leaf is ever green;
2468 Here is a brighter garden,
2469 Where not a frost has been;
2470 In its unfading flowers
2471 I hear the bright bee hum:
2472 Prithee, my brother,
2473 Into my garden come!
2475 =head2 v5.21.8 - Bill Watterson, "Scientific Progress Goes 'Boink': A Calvin and Hobbes Collection"
2477 L<Announced on 2015-01-20 by Matthew Horsfall|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/01/msg224869.html>
2479 Calvin: OK Hobbes, press the button and duplicate me.
2480 Hobbes: Are you sure this is such a good idea?
2481 Calvin: Brother! You doubting Thomases get in the way of more scientific advances with your stupid ethical questions! This is a *BRILLIANT* idea! Hit the button, will ya?
2482 Hobbes: I'd hate to be accused of inhibiting scientific progress... Here you go.
2484 Hobbes: Scientific progress goes "BOINK"?
2485 Calvin?: It worked! It worked! I'm a genius!
2486 Cavlin??: No you're not, you liar! *I* invented this!
2488 =head2 v5.21.7 - Robert Heinlein, "The Number of the Beast"
2490 L<Announced on 2014-12-20 by Max Maischein|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/12/msg223774.html>
2492 "Zebadiah, Hilda and I salvaged and put everything into the basket.
2493 Hilda started to put it into our wardrobe-and it was heavy. So
2494 we looked. Packed as tight as when we left Oz. Six bananas-and
2495 everything else. Cross my heart. No, go look."
2496 "Hmmm- Jake, can you write equations for a picnic basket that
2497 refills itself? Will it go on doing so?"
2498 "Zeb, equations can be written to describe anything. The description
2499 would be simpler for a basket that replenishes itself indefinitely
2500 than for one that does it once and stops-I would have to describe
2503 =head2 v5.21.6 - Jeff Noon, "Vurt"
2505 L<Announced on 2014-11-20 by Chris 'BinGOs' Williams|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/11/msg222448.html>
2509 EXCHANGE MECHANISMS. Sometimes we lose precious
2510 things. Friends and colleagues, fellow travellers in the
2511 Vurt, sometimes we lose them; even lovers we sometimes
2512 lose. And get bad things in exchange: aliens, objects,
2513 snakes, and sometimes even death. Things we don't want.
2514 This is part of the deal, part of the game deal;
2515 all things, in all worlds, must be kept in balance.
2516 Kittlings often ask, who decides on the swappings? Now then,
2517 some say it's all accidental; that some poor Vurt thing
2518 finds himself too close to a door, at too critical a time,
2519 just when something real is being lost. Whoosh! Swap time!
2520 Others say that some kind of overseer is working the
2521 MECHANISMS OF EXCHANGE, deciding the fate of innocents.
2522 The Cat can only tease at this, because of the big secrets
2523 involved, and because of the levels between you, the reader,
2524 and me, the Game Cat. Hey, listen; I've struggled to get
2525 where I am today; why should I give you the easy route?
2526 Get working, kittlings! Reach up higher. Work the Vurt.
2528 =head2 v5.21.5 - Friso Wiegersma (text), Jean Ferrat (music), Wim Sonneveld (performer), "Het Dorp"
2530 L<Announced on 2014-10-20 by Abigail|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/10/msg221399.html>
2534 Thuis heb ik nog een ansichtkaart
2535 waarop een kerk, een kar met paard,
2536 een slagerij J. van der Ven.
2537 Een kroeg, een juffrouw op de fiets
2538 het zegt u hoogstwaarschijnlijk niets,
2539 maar 't is waar ik geboren ben.
2540 Dit dorp, ik weet nog hoe het was,
2541 de boerenkind'ren in de klas,
2542 een kar die ratelt op de keien,
2543 het raadhuis met een pomp ervoor,
2544 een zandweg tussen koren door,
2545 het vee, de boerderijen.
2547 En langs het tuinpad van m'n vader
2548 zag ik de hoge bomen staan.
2549 Ik was een kind en wist niet beter,
2550 dan dat dat nooit voorbij zou gaan.
2552 Wat leefden ze eenvoudig toen
2553 in simp'le huizen tussen groen
2554 met boerenbloemen en een heg.
2555 Maar blijkbaar leefden ze verkeerd,
2556 het dorp is gemoderniseerd
2557 en nu zijn ze op de goeie weg.
2558 Want ziet, hoe rijk het leven is,
2559 ze zien de televisiequiz
2560 en wonen in betonnen dozen,
2561 met flink veel glas, dan kun je zien
2562 hoe of het bankstel staat bij Mien
2563 en d'r dressoir met plastic rozen.
2565 En langs het tuinpad van m'n vader
2566 zag ik de hoge bomen staan.
2567 Ik was een kind en wist niet beter,
2568 dan dat dat nooit voorbij zou gaan.
2570 De dorpsjeugd klit wat bij elkaar
2571 in minirok en beatle-haar
2572 en joelt wat mee met beat-muziek.
2573 Ik weet wel, het is hun goeie recht,
2574 de nieuwe tijd, net wat u zegt,
2575 maar het maakt me wat melancholiek.
2576 Ik heb hun vaders nog gekend
2577 ze kochten zoethout voor een cent
2578 ik zag hun moeders touwtjespringen.
2579 Dat dorp van toen, het is voorbij,
2580 dit is al wat er bleef voor mij:
2581 een ansicht en herinneringen.
2583 Toen ik langs het tuinpad van m'n vader
2584 de hoge bomen nog zag staan.
2585 Ik was een kind, hoe kon ik weten
2586 dat dat voorgoed voorbij zou gaan.
2588 =head2 v5.21.4 - Edgar Allan Poe, "The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket"
2590 L<Announced on 2014-09-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/09/msg220267.html>
2592 To-day, being in latitude 83° 20', longitude 43° 5' W. (the sea being
2593 of an extraordinarily dark colour), we again saw land from the
2594 masthead, and, upon a closer scrutiny, found it to be one of a group
2595 of very large islands. The shore was precipitous, and the interior
2596 seemed to be well wooded, a circumstance which occasioned us great
2597 joy. In about four hours from our first discovering the land we came
2598 to anchor in ten fathoms, sandy bottom, a league from the coast, as a
2599 high surf, with strong ripples here and there, rendered a nearer
2600 approach of doubtful expediency. The two largest boats were now
2601 ordered out, and a party, well armed (among whome were Peters and
2602 myself), proceeded to look for an opening in the reef which appeared
2603 to encircle the island. After searching about for some time, we
2604 discovered an inlet, which we were entering, when we saw four large
2605 canoes put off from the shore, filled with men who seemed to be well
2606 armed. We waited for them to come up, and, as they moved with great
2607 rapidity, they were soon within hail. Captain Guy now held up a white
2608 handkerchief on the blade of an oar, when the strangers made a full
2609 stop, and commenced a loud jabbering all at once, intermingled with
2610 occasional shouts, in which we could distinguish the words Anamoo-moo!
2611 and Lama-Lama! They continued this for at least half an hour, during
2612 which we had a good opportunity of observing their appearance.
2614 =head2 v5.21.3 - Robert Service, "The Men that Don't Fit In"
2616 L<Announced on 2014-08-20 by Peter Martini|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/08/msg218826.html>
2618 If they just went straight they might go far,
2619 They are strong and brave and true;
2620 But they're always tired of the things that are,
2621 And they want the strange and new.
2622 They say: "Could I find my proper groove,
2623 What a deep mark I would make!"
2624 So they chop and change, and each fresh move
2625 Is only a fresh mistake.
2627 =head2 v5.21.2 - Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, Charlie Duke, Final minutes of communication of the first manned moon landing, July 20, 1969
2629 L<Announced on 2014-07-20 by Abigail|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/07/msg217937.html>
2631 Armstrong: Okay. Here's a...Looks like a good area here.
2632 Aldrin: I got the shadow out there.
2633 Aldrin: 250, down at 2 1/2, 19 forward.
2634 Aldrin: Altitude, velocity lights.
2635 Aldrin: 3 1/2 down, 220 feet, 13 forward.
2636 Aldrin: 11 forward. Coming down nicely.
2637 Armstrong: Gonna be right over that crater.
2638 Aldrin: 200 feet, 4 1/2 down.
2640 Armstrong: I got a good spot [garbled].
2641 Aldrin: 160 feet, 6 1/2 down.
2642 Aldrin: 5 1/2 down, 9 forward. You're looking good.
2644 Aldrin: 100 feet, 3 1/2 down, 9 forward. Five percent. Quantity light.
2645 Aldrin: Okay. 75 feet. And it's looking good. Down a half, 6 forward.
2648 Aldrin: 60 feet, down 2 1/2. 2 forward. 2 forward. That's good.
2649 Aldrin: 40 feet, down 2 1/2. Picking up some dust.
2650 Aldrin: 30 feet, 2 1/2 down. [Garbled] shadow.
2651 Aldrin: 4 forward. 4 forward. Drifting to the right a little. 20 feet,
2654 Aldrin: Drifting forward just a little bit; that's good.
2655 Aldrin: Contact Light.
2656 Armstrong: Shutdown.
2657 Aldrin: Okay. Engine Stop.
2658 Aldrin: ACA out of Detent.
2659 Armstrong: Out of Detent. Auto.
2660 Aldrin: Mode Control, both Auto. Descent Engine Command Override, Off.
2661 Engine Arm, Off. 413 is in.
2662 Duke: We copy you down, Eagle.
2663 Armstrong: Engine arm is off.
2664 Armstrong: Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed.
2665 Duke: Roger, Twan...[correcting himself] Tranquility. We copy you on
2666 the ground. You got a bunch of guys about to turn blue.
2667 We're breathing again. Thanks a lot.
2670 =head2 v5.21.1 - Robert Jordan, "The Crossroads of Twilights", Book 10 of "The Wheel of Time"
2672 L<Announced on 2014-06-20 by Matthew Horsfall|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/06/msg217030.html>
2674 We rode on the winds of the rising storm,
2675 We ran to the sounds of the thunder.
2676 We danced among the lightning bolts,
2677 and tore the world asunder.
2679 -- Anonymous fragment of a poem believed
2680 written near the end of the previous Age,
2681 known by some as the Third Age.
2682 Sometimes attributed to the Dragon
2685 =head2 v5.21.0 - Friedrich von Schiller, "The Song of the Bell"
2687 L<Announced on 2014-05-27 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/05/msg215826.html>
2689 Walled in fast within the earth
2690 Stands the form burnt out of clay.
2691 This must be the bell’s great birth!
2692 Fellows, lend a hand to-day.
2693 Sweat must trickle now
2694 From the burning brow,
2695 Till the work its master honour.
2696 Blessing comes from Heaven’s Donor.
2698 =head2 v5.20.3 - Elias Lönnrot, trans. Keith Bosley, "The Kalevala", Canto 42: Stealing the Sampo
2700 L<Announced on 2015-09-12 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/09/msg230945.html>
2702 Steady old Väinämöinen
2703 uttered a word and spoke thus:
2704 'No lilting on the waters
2705 and no singing on the waves!
2708 Precious day would pass and night
2709 would overtake us midway
2710 on these wide waters
2711 upon these vast waves.'
2713 The wanton Lemminkäinen
2714 uttered a word and spoke thus:
2715 'The time will pass anyway
2716 the fair day will flee
2717 and the night will come panting
2718 and the twilight will steal in
2719 if you don't sing while you live
2720 nor hum in this world.'
2722 =head2 v5.20.3-RC2 - Anon., trans. Malcolm C. Lyons, "The Story of Abu Muhammad the Idle and the Marvels He Encountered with the Ape As Well As the Marvels of the Seas and Islands", from "Tales of the Marvellous and News of the Strange"
2724 L<Announced on 2015-08-29 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/08/msg230544.html>
2726 'I fled from Basra, sad and tearful, with no idea where I was going,
2727 and I was reciting these lines:
2729 The pain of parting makes me melt away,
2730 As lovers do when those they love are harsh.
2731 I wonder at the patience that I showed
2732 When I had lost my love, for that was wonderful.
2733 Beloved, do you know that since you left,
2734 I have remained confused in misery.
2736 I then heard a voice that said: "Damn you, have you no fear of
2737 Almighty God that you hand over a girl to an unbelieving 'ifrit?" I
2738 walked for a time amongst the palm-trees until I caught sight of a
2739 person, whom I approached. When I asked him who he was he said: "I
2740 am one of the jinn who were converted to Islam at the hands of 'Ali
2741 ibn Abi Talib, may God ennoble him." "How can I get to my wife?" I
2742 asked him, and he said: "Wretched fellow, you had a bird which you
2743 allowed to fly away and now you want to fly after it." But he
2744 added: "Follow this road with God's blessing all night until dawn
2745 and then by the shore you will see a huge cave in which there is an
2746 idol made of white stone. You must drink of the water that there is
2747 coming out of the cave and smear your face with its mud. Stay there
2748 and a barge will pass you as you stand opposite the statue. Various
2749 different creatures will emerge, heads without bodies and bodies
2750 without heads, and they will prostrate themselves in adoration to
2751 the idol rather than to Almighty God. When you see that, embark on
2752 the barge and cross to the other bank and walk along it until
2753 sunset. On a high point you will see a castle built of bricks of
2754 gold and silver. That is where your 'ifrit will be. I have now
2755 told you about this, so goodbye."
2757 =head2 v5.20.3-RC1 - Anon., trans. Malcolm C. Lyons, "The Story of Abu Muhammad the Idle and the Marvels He Encountered with the Ape As Well As the Marvels of the Seas and Islands", from "Tales of the Marvellous and News of the Strange"
2759 L<Announced on 2015-08-22 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/08/msg230359.html>
2761 'On the night of the wedding the ape came to sit in front of me and
2762 asked me what I intended to do. "Whatever you tell me," I replied,
2763 and he said: "Take care not to covet the girl, or I shall come back
2764 and burn you up and leave you as a lesson for those who can learn."
2765 I agreed to this and when evening came I found the world full of
2766 candles and torches burning in holders of gold and silver. There
2767 were servants and serving girls, and everyone who saw me
2768 congratulated me on my good fortune, as there was no girl on the
2769 face of the earth more beautiful than my bride.
2771 'Next morning I went out to the market, and people went in and asked
2772 her how the night had been. "He never looked up at me," she told
2773 them. Then, when it was afternoon, I went to my house, where the
2774 ape was sitting by the door. "Tell me what you did," it said, and I
2775 told it: "By God, I did not learn and do not know whether this was a
2776 man or a girl." "That's what I want," it said.
2778 'On the second night my bride was brought to me, after which the
2779 servants left her and went away. She fell asleep, and, while she
2780 was sleeping, I killed the cock, wrapped it in the cloth and put the
2781 four poles from the couch over it. Suddenly there was a huge crash
2782 like a peal of thunder and a fiery 'ifrit swooped on the girl. I
2783 fainted at the sight and when I recovered I heard a voice saying:
2784 "By the Lord of the Ka'ba, the girl has been carried off!" and there
2785 was a sound like the rustling of wind and bitter weeping. At this I
2786 shed tears, struck my head and was filled with regret when it was no
2787 longer of any use, for to me the whole world was worth no more than
2790 =head2 v5.20.2 - Jonathan "Jonti" Picking, L<"Magical Trevor"|http://weebls-stuff.com/toons/magical-trevor-episode-01-animated-music-video-mrweebl/>
2792 L<Announced on 2015-02-14 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/02/msg225777.html>
2794 Everyone loves Magical Trevor,
2795 'Cos the tricks that he does are ever so clever;
2796 Look at him now, disappearin' the cow,
2797 Where is the cow hidden right now?
2799 Taking a bow, it's Magical Trevor,
2800 Everybody's seen that the trick is clever;
2801 Look at him there with his leathery, leathery whip!
2802 It's made of magic, and with a little flip--
2804 Yeah, yeah, yeah, the cow is back,
2805 Yeah, yeah, yeah, the cow is back;
2806 Back, back, back from his magical journey,
2809 What did he see in the parallel dimension?
2810 He saw beans, lots of beans, lots of beans, lots of beans;
2811 Oh, beans, lots of beans, lots of beans, lots of beans,
2814 =head2 v5.20.2-RC1 - Jonathan "Jonti" Picking, L<"Scampi"|http://weebls-stuff.com/toons/ive-seen-things-scampi-animated-music-video-mrweebl/>
2816 L<Announced on 2015-02-01 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/02/msg225273.html>
2819 I've seen them with my eyes;
2821 They're often in disguise.
2823 Like carrots, handbags, cheese, toilets,
2824 Russians, planets, hamsters, weddings,
2825 Poets, Stalin, Kuala Lumpur!
2826 Pygmies, budgies, Kuala Lumpur!
2829 I've seen them with my eyes;
2831 They're often in disguise.
2833 Like carrots, handbags, cheese...
2835 =head2 v5.20.1 - Lorenzo da Ponte, trans. Diana Reed, "Così fan tutte"
2837 L<Announced on 2014-09-14 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/09/msg219789.html>
2839 DORABELLA (as if waking from a daze): Where are they?
2840 DON ALFONSO: They've gone.
2841 FIORDILIGI: Oh, the cruel bitterness of parting!
2844 Take heart, my dearest children.
2845 Look, in the distance, your lovers are waving to you.
2847 FIORDILIGI: Bon voyage, my darling!
2848 DORABELLA: Bon voyage!
2851 O heavens! How swiftly the ship is sailing away!
2852 It is disappearing already!
2853 It is no longer in sight!
2854 Oh, may heaven grant it a prosperous voyage!
2856 DORABELLA: May good luck attend it to the battlefield!
2857 DON ALFONSO: And may your sweethearts and my friends be safe!
2859 FIORDILIGI, DORABELLA, DON ALFONSO:
2860 May the wind be gentle,
2861 may the sea be calm,
2862 and may the elements
2866 =head2 v5.20.1-RC2 - Lorenzo da Ponte, trans. William Weaver, "Così fan tutte"
2868 L<Announced on 2014-09-07 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/09/msg219446.html>
2871 Oh God, I feel that this foot of mine
2872 is reluctant to come before her.
2879 The hero displays his manliness
2880 in the most terrible moments.
2882 FIORDILIGI, DORABELLA:
2883 Now that we have heard the news,
2884 you have the lesser duty:
2885 Take heart, and plunge your swords
2886 into both our hearts.
2888 FERRANDO, GUGLIELMO:
2890 that I must abandon you.
2892 DORABELLA: Ah no, you shall not leave...
2893 FIORDILIGI: No, cruel one, you shall not go...
2894 DORABELLA: First I want to tear out my heart.
2895 FIORDILIGI: First I want to die at your feet.
2896 FERRANDO (softly to Don Alfonso): What do you say to that?
2897 GUGLIELMO (softly to Don Alfonso): You realise?
2898 DON ALFONSO (softly): Steady, friend, finem lauda.
2901 Thus destiny defrauds
2902 the hopes of mortals.
2903 Ah, among so many misfortunes,
2904 who can ever love life?
2906 =head2 v5.20.1-RC1 - Lorenzo da Ponte, trans. William Weaver, "Così fan tutte"
2908 L<Announced on 2014-08-25 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/08/msg218975.html>
2911 I'd like to speak, but I haven't the heart:
2913 My voice cannot emerge,
2914 but remains in my throat.
2915 What will you do? What shall I do?
2916 Oh what a great catastrophe!
2917 There can be nothing worse.
2918 I feel pity for you and for them.
2920 FIORDILIGI: Heavens! For mercy's sake, Signor Alfonso, don't make us
2922 DON ALFONSO: My children, you must arm yourselves with constancy.
2923 DORABELLA: Ye Gods! What evil has occurred? What horrible event? Is my
2925 FIORDILIGI: Is mine dead?
2926 DON ALFONSO: They are not dead, but they are not far from it.
2930 DON ALFONSO: Nor that.
2931 FIORDILIGI: What, then?
2932 DON ALFONSO: A royal command summons them to the field of battle.
2933 FIORDILIGI, DORABELLA: Alas, what do I hear? And they will leave?
2934 DON ALFONSO: Immediately.
2935 DORABELLA: And there is no way of preventing it?
2936 DON ALFONSO: There is none.
2937 FIORDILIGI: And not even a single farewell...
2938 DON ALFONSO: The unhappy men haven't the courage to see you; but if
2939 you wish it, they are ready...
2940 DORABELLA: Where are they?
2941 DON ALFONSO: Come in, friends.
2943 =head2 v5.20.0 - William Shakespeare, Sonnet 18
2945 L<Announced on 2014-05-27 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/05/msg215815.html>
2947 But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
2948 Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st;
2949 Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
2950 When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st:
2951 So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
2952 So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
2954 =head2 v5.20.0-RC1 - Lindsey Buckingham, "Second Hand News"
2956 L<Announced on 2014-05-17 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/05/msg215479.html>
2960 Won't you lay me down in tall grass
2961 And let me do my stuff
2963 =head2 v5.19.11 - Isidore-Lucien Ducasse [as "Comte de Lautréamont"], trans. Paul Knight, "Les Chants de Maldoror"
2965 L<Announced on 2014-04-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/04/msg214580.html>
2967 O rigorous mathematics, I have not forgotten you since your wise lessons,
2968 sweeter than honey, filtered into my heart like a refreshing wave.
2969 Instinctively, from the cradle, I had longed to drink from your source, older
2970 than the sun, and I continue to tread the sacred sanctuary of your solemn
2971 temple, I, the most faithful of your devotees. There was a vagueness in my
2972 mind, something thick as smoke; but I managed to mount the steps which lead to
2973 your altar, and you drove away this dark veil, as the wind blows the
2974 draught-board. You replaced it with excessive coldness, consummate prudence and
2975 implacable logic. With the aid of your fortifying milk, my intellect developed
2976 rapidly and took on immense proportions amid the ravishing lucidity which you
2977 bestow as a gift on all those who sincerely love you. Arithmetic! Algebra!
2978 Geometry! Awe-inspiring trinity! Luminous triangle! He who has not known you
2981 =head2 v5.19.10 - John Chadwick, "The Decipherment of Linear B"
2983 L<Announced on 2014-03-20 by Aaron Crane|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/03/msg213851.html>
2985 The urge to discover secrets is deeply ingrained in human nature; even
2986 the least curious mind is roused by the promise of sharing knowledge
2987 withheld from others. Some are fortunate enough to find a job which
2988 consists in the solution of mysteries, whether it be the physicist who
2989 tracks down a hitherto unknown nuclear particle or the policeman who
2990 detects a criminal. But most of us are driven to sublimate this urge
2991 by the solving of artificial puzzles devised for our entertainment.
2993 =head2 v5.19.9 - R. A. MacAvoy, "Tea with the Black Dragon"
2995 L<Announced on 2014-02-20 by Tony Cook|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/02/msg213047.html>
2997 Old hands. The smell of rain--the smell of Ch'an. Quiet words in
2998 rough Cantonese. "I am not to be your master. Your master has to be
2999 stronger than you are--has to tell you you are a fool and make you
3000 know it. And make you feel content in being a fool. How could I do
3001 that for you? I'm old. You are too strong for me; you are full of
3002 chi." The old man has paused then, huddled against the wind while
3003 clouds thickened above them.
3005 "I will tell you this, Long," he continued, "Before you find yourself
3006 you will lose your chi. Also you will leave behind you all pride of
3007 body, pride of mind. You will be reduced. Like me." The old man
3008 closed his eyes, and rain began to beat against his gray, crew-cut
3009 hair. He pulled his coat closer. Suddenly his eyes snapped open and
3010 he looked Long in the face.
3012 "You must leave China. Go across the ocean. There you will meet your
3013 master." He set down his teacup with a palsied hand. His voice rose,
3016 "I tell you this, most honored and impressive visitor. You are a
3017 fool, yes, but you will find the very thing you seek. You will find
3020 =head2 v5.19.8 - Joseph Heller, "Catch-22"
3022 L<Announced on 2014-01-20 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/01/msg211729.html>
3024 “I used to get a big kick out of saving people’s lives. Now I wonder what the
3025 hell’s the point, since they all have to die anyway.”
3027 “Oh, there’s a point, all right,” Dunbar assured him.
3029 “Is there? What is the point?”
3031 “The point is to keep them from dying for as long as you can.”
3033 “Yeah, but what’s the point, since they all have to die anyway?”
3035 “The trick is not to think about that.”
3037 “Never mind the trick. What the hell’s the point?”
3039 Dunbar pondered in silence for a few moments. “Who the hell knows?”
3041 =head2 v5.19.7 - Kurt Vonnegut, "Slaughterhouse-Five"
3043 L<Announced on 2013-12-20 by Abigail|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/12/msg210882.html>
3045 And somewhere in there was springtime. The corpse mines were closed
3046 down. The soldiers all left to fight the Russians. In the suburbs,
3047 the women and children dug rifle pits. Billy and the rest of his group
3048 were locked up in the stable in the suburbs. And then, one morning,
3049 they got up to discover that the door was unlocked. World War Two in
3052 Billy and the rest wandered out onto the shady street. The trees were
3053 leafing out. There was nothing going on out there, no traffic of any
3054 kind. There was only one vehicle, an abandoned wagon drawn by two
3055 horses. The wagon was green and coffin-shaped.
3059 One bird said to Billy Pilgrim, "Pee-tee-weet?"
3061 =head2 v5.19.6 - Monty Python's Flying Circus, "Spam"
3063 L<Announced on 2013-11-20 by Chris 'BinGOs' Williams|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/11/msg210043.html>
3065 Interior: cheap cafe. All the customers are Vikings. Mr and Mrs Bun enter downwards (on wires).
3069 Mr. Bun: What have you got, then?
3070 Waitress: Well there's egg and bacon; egg, sausage and bacon; egg and spam; egg, bacon and spam;
3071 egg, bacon, sausage and spam; spam, bacon, sausage and spam; spam, egg, spam, spam, bacon and spam;
3072 spam, spam, spam, egg and spam; spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, baked beans, spam, spam, spam and spam;
3073 or lobster thermidor aux crevettes, with a mornay sauce garnished with truffle pate, brandy and a fried
3075 Mrs. Bun: Have you got anything without spam in it?
3076 Waitress: Well, there's spam, egg, sausage and spam. That's not got MUCH spam in it.
3077 Mrs. Bun: I don't want ANY spam.
3078 Mr. Bun: Why can't she have egg, bacon, spam and sausage?
3079 Mrs. Bun: That's got spam in it!
3080 Mr. Bun: Not as much as spam, egg, sausage and spam.
3081 Mrs. Bun: Look, could I have egg, bacon, spam and sausage, without the spam.
3082 Waitress: Uuuuuuggggh!
3083 Mrs. Bun: What d'you mean, uugggh! I don't like spam.
3084 Vikings: (singing) Spam, spam, spam, spam, spam ... spam, spam, spam, spam ... lovely spam, wonderful spam ...
3086 (Brief shot of a Viking ship)
3088 Waitress: Shut up. Shut up! Shut up! You can't have egg, bacon, spam and sausage without the spam.
3090 Waitress: No, it wouldn't be egg, bacon, spam and sausage, would it?
3091 Mrs. Bun: I don't like spam!
3093 =head2 v5.19.5 - Charles Baudelaire, trans. James McGowan, "The Flowers of Evil", 51. The Cat
3095 L<Announced on 2013-10-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/10/msg208752.html>
3099 A cat is strolling through my mind
3100 Acting as though he owned the place,
3101 A lovely cat -- strong, charming, sweet.
3102 When he meows, one scarcely hears,
3104 So tender and discreet his tone;
3105 But whether he should growl or purr
3106 His voice is always rich and deep.
3107 That is the secret of his charm.
3109 This purling voice that filters down
3110 Into my darkest depths of soul
3111 Fulfils me like a balanced verse,
3112 Delights me as a potion would.
3114 It puts to sleep the cruellest ills
3115 And keeps a rein on ecstasies --
3116 Without the need for any words
3117 It can pronounce the longest phrase.
3119 Oh no, there is no bow that draws
3120 Across my heart, fine instrument,
3121 And makes to sing so royally
3122 The strongest and the purest chord,
3124 More than your voice, mysterious cat,
3125 Exotic cat, seraphic cat,
3126 In whom all is, angelically,
3127 As subtle as harmonious.
3131 From his soft fur, golden and brown,
3132 Goes out so sweet a scent, one night
3133 I might have been embalmed in it
3134 By giving him one little pet.
3136 He is my household's guardian soul;
3137 He judges, he presides, inspires
3138 All matters in hos royal realm;
3139 Might he be fairy? or a god?
3141 When my eyes, to this cat I love
3142 Drawn as by a magnet's force,
3143 Turn tamely back from that appeal,
3144 And when I look within myself,
3146 I notice with astonishment
3147 The fire of his opal eyes,
3148 Clear beacons glowing, living jewels,
3149 Taking my measure, steadily.
3151 =head2 v5.19.4 - Washington Irving, "The Widow and Her Son"
3153 L<Announced on 2013-09-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/09/msg207969.html>
3155 There is something in sickness that breaks down the pride of manhood;
3156 that softens the heart and brings it back to the feelings of infancy.
3157 Who that has languished, even in advanced life, in sickness and
3158 despondency — who that has pined on a weary bed in the neglect and
3159 loneliness of a foreign land — but has thought on the mother "that
3160 looked on his childhood," that smoothed his pillow and administered to
3161 his helplessness. — Oh! there is an enduring tenderness in the love
3162 of a mother to her son that transcends all other affections of the
3163 heart. It is neither to be chilled by selfishness — nor daunted by
3164 danger — nor weakened by worthlessness — nor stifled by ingratitude.
3165 She will sacrifice every comfort to his convenience — she will
3166 surrender every pleasure to his enjoyment — she will glory in his fame
3167 and exult in his prosperity. And if misfortune overtake him he will
3168 be the dearer to her from misfortune — and if disgrace settle upon his
3169 name, she will still love and cherish him in spite of his disgrace —
3170 and if all the world beside cast him off, she will be all the world to
3173 =head2 v5.19.3 - Andrew Hodges, "Alan Turing: The Enigma"
3175 L<Announced on 2013-08-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/08/msg206318.html>
3177 E.M. Forster, outdoing the King's heresy with grand bravura, had
3178 written in 1938 that if he were faced with the choice between
3179 betraying his country and betraying his friends, he hoped he would
3180 have the courage to betray his country. He would always put the
3181 personal above the political. But for Alan Turing, unlike Forster, or
3182 Wittgenstein, or G.H. Hardy, it was more than a theoretical question.
3183 For him not only had the personal become the political, but the
3184 political was the personal. He had chosen and promised for himself in
3185 working for the government. The choice for him therefore was that
3186 between betraying one part of himself and betraying another part. And
3187 however much he wavered between these alternatives, there was a solid
3188 logic to the mind of security, one that could not be expected to take
3189 an interest in notions of freedom and development. He had no rights
3190 to such things, as he would have had to admit. He might have
3191 outwitted the Home Guard, but when it came to questions that mattered,
3192 there was no doubt that he had placed himself under military law.
3193 There was a war on; there was always a war on now.
3195 =head2 v5.19.2 - Fred Brooks, "The Mythical Man-Month"
3197 L<Announced on 2013-07-22 by Aristotle Pagaltzis|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/07/msg204905.html>
3199 The magic of myth and legend has come true in our time. One types the
3200 correct incantation on a keyboard, and a display screen comes to life,
3201 showing things that never were nor could be. [...] Not all is delight,
3202 however [...] One must perform perfectly. The computer resembles the
3203 magic of legend in this respect, too. If one character, one pause, of
3204 the incantation is not strictly in proper form, the magic doesn't work.
3206 =head2 v5.19.1 - William Shakespeare, "A Midsummer Night's Dream"
3208 L<Announced on 2013-06-21 by David Golden|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/06/msg203449.html>
3210 Over hill, over dale,
3211 Thorough bush, thorough briar,
3212 Over park, over pale,
3213 Thorough flood, thorough fire,
3214 I do wander everywhere,
3215 Swifter than the moon's sphere;
3216 And I serve the fairy queen,
3217 To dew her orbs upon the green.
3218 The cowslips tall her pensioners be;
3219 In their gold coats, spots you see;
3220 Those be rubies, fairy favours,
3221 In their freckles live our savours.
3222 I must go seek some dew-drops here,
3223 And hang a perl in every cowslip's ear.
3224 Farewell, thou lob of spirits, I'll be gone;
3225 My queen and all her elves come here anon!
3227 =head2 v5.19.0 - Batman, of the Joker, in "The Dark Knight Returns"
3229 L<Announced on 2013-05-20 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/05/msg201980.html>
3231 From the beginning, I knew…
3232 …that there was nothing wrong with you…
3236 =head2 v5.18.4 - Robert W. Chambers, Cassilda's Song in "The King in Yellow," Act I, Scene 2
3238 L<Announced on 2014-10-01 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/10/msg220770.html>
3240 Along the shore the cloud waves break,
3241 The twin suns sink beneath the lake,
3242 The shadows lengthen
3245 Strange is the night where black stars rise,
3246 And strange moons circle through the skies
3247 But stranger still is
3250 Songs that the Hyades shall sing,
3251 Where flap the tatters of the King,
3255 Song of my soul, my voice is dead;
3256 Die thou, unsung, as tears unshed
3257 Shall dry and die in
3260 =head2 v5.18.3 - (no epigraph)
3264 =head2 v5.18.3-RC2 - Robert W. Chambers, "The King in Yellow", Act I, Scene 2
3266 L<Announced on 2014-09-27 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/09/msg220613.html>
3268 "Ah! I see it now!" I shrieked. "You have seized the throne and the
3269 empire. Woe! woe to you who are crowned with the crown of the King in
3272 =head2 v5.18.3-RC1 - Robert W. Chambers, "The King in Yellow", Act I, Scene 2
3274 L<Announced on 2014-09-17 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/09/msg220072.html>
3276 CAMILLA: You, sir, should unmask.
3280 CASSILDA: Indeed it's time. We all have laid aside disguise but you.
3282 STRANGER: I wear no mask.
3284 CAMILLA: (Terrified, aside to Cassilda.) No mask? No mask!
3286 =head2 v5.18.2 - Miss Manners
3288 L<Announced on 2014-01-06 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/01/msg211224.html>
3290 One of the major mistakes people make is that they think manners are
3291 only the expression of happy ideas. There's a whole range of behavior
3292 that can be expressed in a mannerly way. That's what civilization is all
3293 about – doing it in a mannerly and not an antagonistic way. One of the
3294 places we went wrong was the naturalistic Rousseauean movement of the
3295 Sixties in which people said, "Why can't you just say what's on your
3296 mind?" In civilization there have to be some restraints. If we followed
3297 every impulse, we'd be killing one another.
3299 =head2 v5.18.1 - Chuck Moore
3301 L<Announced on 2013-08-12 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/08/msg205897.html>
3303 The operating system is another concept that is curious. Operating
3304 systems are dauntingly complex and totally unnecessary. It’s a brilliant
3305 thing that Bill Gates has done in selling the world on the notion of
3306 operating systems. It’s probably the greatest con game the world has
3309 An operating system does absolutely nothing for you. As long as you had
3310 something — a subroutine called disk driver, a subroutine called some
3311 kind of communication support, in the modern world, it doesn’t do
3312 anything else. In fact, Windows spends a lot of time with overlays and
3313 disk management all stuff like that which are irrelevant. You’ve got
3314 gigabyte disks; you’ve got megabyte RAMs. The world has changed in a way
3315 that renders the operating system unnecessary.
3317 =head2 v5.18.1-RC1 - Chuck Moore
3319 L<Announced on 2013-08-02 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/08/msg205445.html>
3321 Compilers are probably the worst code ever written. They are written by
3322 someone who has never written a compiler before and will never do so
3323 again. The more elaborate the language, the more complex, bug-ridden,
3324 and unusable is the compiler. But a simple compiler for a simple
3325 language is an essential tool—if only for documentation.
3327 =head2 v5.18.0 - Yevgeny Zamyatin
3329 L<Announced on 2013-05-18 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/05/msg201940.html>
3331 It is an error to divide people into the living and the dead: there are people
3332 who are dead-alive, and people who are alive-alive. The dead-alive also write,
3333 walk, speak, act. But they make no mistakes; only machines make no mistakes,
3334 and they produce only dead things. The alive-alive are constantly in error, in
3335 search, in questions, in torment.
3337 =head2 v5.18.0-RC4 - Joseph Heller, "Catch-22"
3339 L<Announced on 2013-05-16 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/05/msg201889.html>
3341 Clevinger was dead. That was the basic flaw in his philosophy.
3343 =head2 v5.18.0-RC3 - Tom Waits, "The Ocean Doesn't Want Me"
3345 L<Announced on 2013-05-14 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/05/msg201823.html>
3347 I'd love to go drowning
3348 And to stay and to stay
3349 But the ocean doesn't want me today
3350 I'll go in up to here
3351 It can't possibly hurt
3352 All they will find is my beer
3355 =head2 v5.18.0-RC2 - Tom Waits, "Earth Died Screaming"
3357 L<Announced on 2013-05-12 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/05/msg201723.html>
3359 And the great day of wrath has come
3360 And here's mud in your big red eye
3361 The poker's in the fire
3362 And the locusts take the sky
3363 And the earth died screaming
3364 While I lay dreaming of you
3366 =head2 v5.18.0-RC1 - Tom Waits, "What's He Building in There?"
3368 L<Announced on 2013-05-11 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/05/msg201651.html>
3370 What's he building in there?
3372 We have a right to know…
3374 =head2 v5.17.11 - Nigel Tufnel in "This is Spın̈al Tap"
3376 L<Announced on 2013-04-20 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/04/msg201056.html>
3378 It's very special because, if you can see, the numbers all go to…
3379 eleven! Look, right across the board: eleven, eleven, eleven, eleven!
3381 =head2 v5.17.10 - Vernor Vinge, "A Fire Upon The Deep"
3383 L<Announced on 2013-03-23 by Max Maischein|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/03/msg200504.html>
3385 The archive informed the automation. Data structures were built, recipes
3386 followed. A local network was built, faster than anything on Straum, but surely
3387 safe. Nodes were added, modified by other recipes. The archive was a friendly
3388 place, with hierarchies of translation keys that led them along. Straum itself
3389 would be famous for this.
3391 Six months passed. A year.
3393 The omniscient view. Not self-aware really. Self-awareness is much over-rated.
3394 Most automation works far better as a part of a whole, and even if human-
3395 powerful, it does not need to self-know.
3397 =head2 v5.17.9 - Douglas Adams, "The Hitch-Hikers Guide to the Galaxy"
3399 L<Announced on 2013-02-20 by Chris 'BinGOs' Williams|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/02/msg199115.html>
3401 Vogon poetry is of course, the third worst in the universe.
3402 The second worst is that of the Azgoths of Kria. During a
3403 recitation by their poet master Grunthos the Flatulent of
3404 his poem 'Ode To A Small Lump of Green Putty I Found In My
3405 Armpit One Midsummer Morning' four of his audience died
3406 of internal haemorrhaging and the president of the
3407 Mid-Galactic Arts Nobbling Council survived by gnawing one
3408 of his own legs off. Grunthos is reported to have been
3409 'disappointed' by the poem's reception, and was about to
3410 embark on a reading of his twelve-book epic entitled
3411 'My Favourite Bathtime Gurgles' when his own major intestine,
3412 in a desperate attempt to save life and civilisation,
3413 leapt straight up through his neck and throttled his brain.
3415 The very worst poetry of all perished along with its creator
3416 Paula Nancy Millstone Jennings of Greenbridge, Essex, England,
3417 in the destruction of the planet Earth.
3419 =head2 v5.17.8 - Iain Pears, "An Instance of the Fingerpost"
3421 L<Announced on 2013-01-20 by Aaron Crane|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/01/msg197571.html>
3423 I must here declare myself as someone who does not for a moment subscribe to
3424 the general view that a willingness to perform oneself is detrimental to the
3425 dignity of experimental philosophy. There is, after all, a clear distinction
3426 between labour carried out for financial reward, and that done for the
3427 improvement of mankind: to put it another way, Lower as a philosopher was
3428 fully my equal even if he fell away when he became the practising physician.
3429 I think ridiculous of certain professors of anatomy, who find it beneath
3430 them to pick up the knife themselves, but merely comment while hired hands
3431 do the cutting. Sylvius would never have dreamt of sitting on a dais reading
3432 from an authority while others cut — when he taught, the knife was
3433 in his hand and the blood spattered his coat. Boyle also did not scruple to
3434 perform his own experiments and, on one occasion in my presence, even showed
3435 himself willing to anatomise a rat with his very own hands. Nor was he less
3436 a gentleman when he had finished. Indeed, in my opinion, his stature was all
3437 the greater, for in Boyle wealth, humility and curiosity mingled, and the
3438 world is richer for it.
3440 =head2 v5.17.7 - R. Scott Bakker, "The Darkness That Comes Before"
3442 L<Announced on 2012-12-18 by Dave Rolsky|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/12/msg196707.html>
3446 The boy extinguished. Only a place.
3450 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.
3452 A place without breath or sound. A place of sight alone. A place without before or after . . . almost.
3454 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.
3456 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 . . .
3458 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.
3460 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.
3462 I have been legion . . .
3464 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.
3468 =head2 v5.17.6 - Kurt Vonnegut, "The Sirens of Titan"
3470 L<Announced on 2012-11-20 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/11/msg195659.html>
3472 Beatrice, looking like a gypsy queen, smoldered at the foot of a statue
3473 of a young physical student. At first glance, the laboratory-gowned
3474 scientist seemed to be a perfect servant of nothing but truth. At first
3475 glance, one was convinced that nothing but truth could please him as he
3476 beamed at his test tube. At first glance, one thought that he was as
3477 much above the beastly concerns of mankind as the harmoniums in the
3478 caves of Mercury. There, at first glance, was a young man without
3479 vanity, without lust — and one accepted at its face value the title Salo
3480 had engraved on the statue, "Discovery of Atomic Power."
3482 =head2 v5.17.5 - Charles Stross, "Singularity Sky"
3484 L<Announced on 2012-10-20 by Florian Ragwitz|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/10/msg194349.html>
3486 Neither of them noticed the pair of polka-dotted knickers hiding
3487 behind the ventilation duct overhead, listening patiently and
3488 recording everything.
3490 =head2 v5.17.4 - Roald Dahl, "Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf"
3492 L<Announced on 2012-09-19 by Florian Ragwitz|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/09/msg192635.html>
3494 The small girl smiles. One eyelid flickers.
3495 She whips a pistol from her knickers.
3496 She aims it at the creature's head,
3497 And bang bang bang, she shoots him dead.
3499 A few weeks later, in the wood,
3500 I came across Miss Riding Hood.
3501 But what a change! No cloak of red,
3502 No silly hood upon her head.
3503 She said, "Hello, and do please note
3504 My lovely furry wolfskin coat."
3506 =head2 v5.17.3 - Kris Ta-belle, "Smoked Perl Onion Soup"
3508 L<Announced on 2012-08-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/08/msg190775.html>
3512 Cut 16 Perl Onions into quarters and put them in a grill smoker rack
3513 or a perforated pan over a BBQ using hickory wood chips or Special
3514 Blend Smoker Bisquettes. Smoke them for an hour and remove once they
3516 Let them cool and put them in the fridge (or freezer) until you are
3517 ready to create the soup.
3521 16 diced, pre-smoked, Perl Onions
3524 2 small garlic cloves, finely minced
3527 black pepper to taste
3529 1/4 cup all purpose flour
3530 6 cups of beef or vegetable stock
3531 1 cup of thick cream (milk can be used as a substitute)
3535 Melt the butter in a pan and then add olive oil.
3536 Heat and add the onions to caramelize over a medium-high heat for up
3538 Add the garlic, turn down the heat and cook for a further 5 minutes.
3539 Add the salt, pepper and sugar.
3540 Now add the red wine and reduce to a jam like consistency.
3541 Add the flour, stir well and add the stock a cup at a time.
3542 Simmer for 30 minutes, add the cream and heat to almost boiling.
3546 =head2 v5.17.2 - Terry Pratchet, "The Colour of Magic"
3548 L<Announced on 2012-07-21 by TonyC|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/07/msg189828.html>
3550 ‘I knew it,’ said Rincewind. ‘We're in a strong magical field.’
3552 Twoflower and Hrun looked around the little hollow where they had made
3553 their noonday halt. Then they looked at each other.
3555 The horses were quietly cropping the rich grass by the stream. Yellow
3556 butterflies skittered among the bushes. There was a smell of thyme
3557 and a buzzing of bees. The wild pigs on the spit sizzled gently.
3559 Hrun shrugged and went back to oiling his biceps. They gleamed.
3561 ‘Looks alright to me,’ he said.
3563 ‘Try tossing a coin,’ said Rincewind.
3567 ‘Go on. Toss a coin.’
3569 ‘Hokay,’ said Hrun. 'If that gives you any pleasure.’ He reached into
3570 his pouch and withdrew a handful of loose change plundered from a
3571 dozen realms. With some care he selected a Zchloty leaden
3572 quarter-iotum and balanced it on a purple thumbnail.
3574 ‘You call,’ he said. ‘Heads or—’ he inspected the obverse with
3575 an air of intense concentration, ‘some sort of a fish with legs.’
3577 ‘When it's in the air,’ said Rincewind. Hrun grinned and flicked his thumb.
3579 The iotum rose, spinning.
3581 ‘Edge,’ said Rincewind, without looking at it.
3583 =head2 v5.17.1 - Rand Miller, "Myst: The Book of Ti'ana"
3585 L<Announced on 2012-06-20 by doy|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/06/msg188354.html>
3587 On their return from Ko'ah, Aitrus had shown her the Book, patiently
3588 taking her through page after page, and showing her how such an Age was
3589 "made." She had seen at once the differences between this archaic form
3590 and the ordinary written speech of the D'ni, noting how it was not
3591 merely more elaborate but more specific: a language of precise yet
3592 subtle descriptive power. Yet seeing was one thing, believing another.
3593 Given all the evidence, her rational mind still fought against accepting
3596 =head2 v5.17.0 - Charles Stross, "Singularity Sky"
3598 L<Announced on 2012-05-26 by Zefram|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/05/msg187214.html>
3600 `Welcome, comrades!' Burya opened his arms toward the soldier.
3601 `Yes it is true! With help from our allies of the Festival, the iron
3602 hand of the reactionary junta is about to be overthrown for all time!
3603 The new economy is being born; the marginal cost of production has
3604 been abolished, and from now on, if any item is produced once, it can
3605 be replicated infinitely. From each according to his imagination,
3606 to each according to his needs! Join us or better still, bring your
3607 fellow soldiers and workers to join us!'
3609 There was a sharp bang from the roof of the Corn Exchange, right at the
3610 climax of his impromptu speech; heads turned in alarm. Something had
3611 broken inside the spork factory and a stream of rainbow-hued plastic
3612 implements fountained toward the sky and clattered to the cobblestones
3613 on every side, like a harbinger of the postindustrial society to come.
3614 Workers and peasants alike stared in open-mouthed bewilderment at this
3615 astounding display of productivity, then bent to scrabble in the muck
3616 for the brightly colored sporks of revolution. A volley of shots rang
3617 out and Burya Rubenstein raised his hands, grinning wildly, to accept
3618 the salute of the soldiers from the Skull Hill garrison.
3620 =head2 v5.16.3 - Devo, "Freedom of Choice"
3622 L<Announced on 2013-03-11 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/03/msg200009.html>
3624 A victim of collision on the open sea
3625 Nobody ever said that life was free
3626 Sink, swim, go down with the ship
3627 But use your freedom of choice
3629 =head2 v5.16.2 - Stanislaw Lem, "The Cyberiad", Trurl's Machine
3631 L<Announced on 2012-11-01 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/11/msg194915.html>
3633 Once upon a time Trurl the constructor built an eight-story thinking
3634 machine. When it was finished, he gave it a coat of white paint,
3635 trimmed the edges in lavender, stepped back, squinted, then added a
3636 little curlicue on the front and, where one might imagine the forehead
3637 to be, a few pale orange polkadots. Extremely pleased with himself,
3638 he whistled an air and, as is always done on such occasions, asked it
3639 the ritual question of how much is two plus two.
3641 The machine stirred. Its tubes began to glow, its coils warmed up,
3642 current coursed through all its circuits like a waterfall,
3643 transformers hummed and throbbed, there was a clanging, and a
3644 chugging, and such an ungodly racket that Trurl began to think of
3645 adding a special mentation muffler. Meanwhile the machine labored on,
3646 as if it had been given the most difficult problem in the Universe to
3647 solve; the ground shook, the sand slid underfoot from the vibration,
3648 valves popped like champagne corks, the relays nearly gave way under
3649 the strain. At last, when Trurl had grown extremely impatient, the
3650 machine ground to a halt and said in a voice like thunder: SEVEN!
3652 =head2 v5.16.1 - Emerald Rose, "Never Split The Party"
3654 L<Announced on 2012-08-08 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/08/msg190413.html>
3656 Don't you know? You never split the party
3657 Clerics in the back to keep those fighters hale and hearty
3658 The wizard in the middle, where he can shed some light
3659 And you never let that damn thief out of sight…
3661 =head2 v5.16.1-RC1 - Tom Moldvay, Foreward to the "Dungeons & Dragons Basic Rulebook"
3663 L<Announced on 2012-08-03 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/08/msg190264.html>
3665 I was busy rescuing the captured maiden when the dragon showed up.
3666 Fifty feed of scaled terror glared down at us with smoldering red eyes.
3667 Tendrils of smoke drifted out from between fangs larger than daggers.
3668 The dragon blocked the only exit from the cave.
3672 I unwrapped the sword which the mysterious cleric had given me. The
3673 sword was golden-tinted steel. Its hilt was set with a rainbow
3674 collection of precious gems. I shouted my battle cry and charged
3676 My charge caught the dragon by surprise. Its titanic jaws snapped shut
3677 inches from my face. I swung the golden sword with both arms. The
3678 swordblade bit into the dragon's neck and continued through to the other
3679 side. With an earth-shaking crash, the dragon dropped dead at my feet.
3680 The magic sword had saved my life and ended the reign of the
3681 dragon-tyrant. The countryside was freed and I could return as a hero.
3683 =head2 v5.16.0 - W.H. Auden, "September 1, 1939"
3685 L<Announced on 2012-05-20 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/05/msg186903.html>
3687 All I have is a voice
3688 To undo the folded lie,
3689 The romantic lie in the brain
3690 Of the sensual man-in-the-street
3691 And the lie of Authority
3692 Whose buildings grope the sky:
3693 There is no such thing as the State
3694 And no one exists alone;
3695 Hunger allows no choice
3696 To the citizen or the police;
3697 We must love one another or die.
3699 =head2 v5.15.9 - Bob Dylan, "Blowin' In The Wind"
3701 L<Announced on 2012-03-20 by Abigail|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/03/msg184824.html>
3703 How many roads must a man walk down
3704 Before you call him a man?
3705 Yes, 'n' how many seas must a white dove sail
3706 Before she sleeps in the sand?
3707 Yes, 'n' how many times must the cannonballs fly
3708 Before they're forever banned?
3709 The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind
3710 The answer is blowin' in the wind
3712 How many years can a mountain exist
3713 Before it's washed to the sea?
3714 Yes, 'n' how many years can some people exist
3715 Before they're allowed to be free?
3716 Yes, 'n' how many times can a man turn his head
3717 Pretending he just doesn't see?
3718 The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind
3719 The answer is blowin' in the wind
3721 How many times must a man look up
3722 Before he can see the sky?
3723 Yes, 'n' how many ears must one man have
3724 Before he can hear people cry?
3725 Yes, 'n' how many deaths will it take till he knows
3726 That too many people have died?
3727 The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind
3728 The answer is blowin' in the wind
3730 =head2 v5.15.8 - The KLF, "The Manual-How To Have A Number One The Easy Way"
3732 L<Announced on 2012-02-20 by Max Maischein|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/02/msg183919.html>
3734 "Doctor Who, hey Doctor Who
3735 Doctor Who, in the Tardis
3736 Doctor Who, hey Doctor Who
3737 Doctor Who, Doc, Doctor Who
3738 Doctor Who, Doc, Doctor Who"
3740 Gibberish of course, but every lad in the country under a certain
3741 age related instinctively to what it was about. The ones slightly
3742 older needed a couple of pints inside them to clear away the mind
3743 debris left by the passing years before it made sense. As for
3744 girls and our chorus, we think they must have seen it as pure crap.
3745 A fact that must have limited to zero our chances of staying at The
3746 Top for more than one week.
3748 Stock, Aitkin and Waterman, however, are kings of writing chorus
3749 lyrics that go straight to the emotional heart of the 7" single
3750 buying girls in this country. Their most successful records will kick
3751 into the chorus with a line which encapsulates the entire emotional
3752 meaning of the song. This will obviously be used as the title. As
3753 soon as Rick Astley hit the first line of the chorus on his debut
3754 single it was all over - the Number One position was guaranteed:
3756 "I'm never going to give you up"
3758 =head2 v5.15.7 - Penelope Lively, "The Voyage of QV66"
3760 L<Announced on 2012-01-20 by Chris 'BinGOs' Williams|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/01/msg182230.html>
3762 "Laboratories," announced Henry. "Kindly don't touch anything."
3764 He led us into a long low brick shed. Outside there was a
3765 notice on a piece of board, crudely printed in red paint,
3766 which said GRATE SIENCE DISCOVERYS DONE HERE SSSH! BRING YOUR
3767 OWN BUKKIT NO PINCHING ANYWUN ELSE'S EXPERRYMENTS CANTEEN OPEN
3768 ALL DAY CHIMPS ONLY.
3770 There were a lot of large black monkeys inside, all intently
3771 busy on what they were doing. Some of them were pouring stuff
3772 out of bottles into buckets and carefully stirring the ensuing
3773 mixture; others were at work with glass tubes and jars, blowing
3774 and measuring and mixing; others were crouched over long benches
3775 with tools and heaps of bits and pieces of metal, cutting and
3776 bending and constructing. There was a great deal of noise and
3777 chatter. Every now and then one of them would give a whoop of
3778 excitement and all the others would gather round and jump up and
3779 down cheering and applauding.
3781 "Chimps," said Henry. "They're awfully clever."
3783 =head2 v5.15.6 - Ursula K. Leguin, "A Wizard of Earthsea"
3785 L<Announced on 2011-12-20 by Dave Rolsky|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/12/msg180962.html>
3787 Ged had thought that as the prentice of a great mage he would enter at once
3788 into the mystery and mastery of power. He would understand the language of the
3789 beasts and the speech of the leaves of the forest, he thought, and sway the
3790 winds with his word, and learn to change himself into any shape he
3791 wished. Maybe he and his master would run together as stags, or fly to Re Albi
3792 over the mountain on the wings of eagles.
3794 But it was not so at all. They wandered, first down into the Vale and then
3795 gradually south and westward around the mountain, given lodging in little
3796 villages or spending the night out in the wilderness, like poor
3797 journeyman-sorcerers, or tinkers, or beggars. They entered no mysterious
3798 domain. Nothing happened. The mage's oaken staff that Ged had watched at first
3799 with eager dread was nothing but a stout staff to walk with. Three days went
3800 by and four days went by and still Ogion had not spoken a single charm in
3801 Ged's hearing, and had not taught him a single name or rune or spell.
3803 =head2 v5.15.5 - Nikolai Gogol, trans. Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, "The Diary of a Madman"
3805 L<Announced on 2011-11-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/11/msg179588.html>
3807 This day - is a day of the greatest solemnity! Spain has a king. He has
3808 been found. I am that king. Only this very day did I learn of it. I
3809 confess, it came to me suddenly in a flash of lightning. I don't understand
3810 how I could have thought and imagined that I was a titular councillor. How
3811 could such a wild notion enter my head? It's a good thing no one thought of
3812 putting me in an insane asylum. Now everything is laid open before me. Now
3813 I see everything as on the palm of my hand. And before, I don't understand,
3814 before everything around me was in some sort of fog. And all this happens, I
3815 think, because people imagine that the human brain is in the head. Not at
3816 all: it is brought by a wind from the direction of the Caspian Sea. First
3817 off, I announced to Mavra who I am. When she heard that the king of Spain
3818 was standing before her, she clasped her hands and nearly died of fright.
3819 The stupid woman had never seen a king of Spain before. However, I
3820 endeavoured to calm her down and assured her in gracious words of my
3821 benevolence and that I was not at all angry that she sometimes polished my
3822 boots poorly. They're benighted folk. It's impossible to tell them about
3823 lofty matters. She got frightened because she's convinced that all kings of
3824 Spain are like Philip II. But I explained to her that there was no
3825 resemblance between me and Philip II, and that I didn't have a single
3826 Capuchin . . . I didn't go to the office . . . To hell with it! No friends,
3827 you won't lure me there now; I'm not going to copy your vile papers!
3829 =head2 v5.15.4 - Steve Jobs
3831 L<Announced on 2011-10-20 by Florian Ragwitz|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/10/msg178412.html>
3833 A lot of people in our industry haven't had very diverse experiences. So they
3834 don't have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions
3835 without a broad perspective on the problem. The broader one's understanding of
3836 the human experience, the better design we will have.
3838 =head2 v5.15.3 - Oscar Wilde, From the preface to "The Picture of Dorian Gray"
3840 L<Announced on 2011-09-20 by Stevan Little|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/09/msg177427.html>
3842 All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath
3843 the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol
3844 do so at their peril.
3846 It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.
3847 Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the
3848 work is new, complex, and vital. When critics disagree, the
3849 artist is in accord with himself.
3851 We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as
3852 he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless
3853 thing is that one admires it intensely.
3855 All art is quite useless.
3857 =head2 v5.15.2 - Rainer Maria Rilke, trans., C. F. MacIntyre, "Duino", The First Elegy
3859 L<Announced on 2011-08-20 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/08/msg176067.html>
3861 True, it is strange to live no more on earth,
3862 no longer follow the folkways scarecely learned;
3863 not to give roses and other especially auspicious
3864 things the significance of a human future;
3865 to be no more what one was in infinitely anxious hands,
3866 and to put aside even one's name, like a broken plaything.
3867 Strange, to wish wishes no longer. Strange, to see
3868 all that was related fluttering so loosely in space.
3869 And being dead is hard, full of catching-up,
3870 so that finally one feels a little eternity.–
3871 But the living all make the mistake of too sharp discrimination.
3872 Often angels (it's said) don't know if they move
3873 among the quick or the dead. The eternal current
3874 hurtles all ages along with it forever
3875 through both realms and drowns their voices in both.
3877 =head2 v5.15.1 - Greg Egan, "Permutation City"
3879 L<Announced on 2011-07-20 by Zefram|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/07/msg175014.html>
3881 Carter held out a hand towards the middle of the room. `See that
3882 fountain?' A ten-metre-wide marble wedding cake, topped with a
3883 winged cherub wrestling a serpent, duly appeared. Water cascaded
3884 down from a gushing wound in the cherub's neck. Carter said, `It's
3885 being computed by redundancies in the sketch of the city. I can
3886 extract the results, because I know exactly where to look for them --
3887 but nobody else would have a hope in hell of picking them out.'
3889 Peer walked up to the fountain. Even as he approached, he noticed
3890 that the spray was intangible; when he dipped his hand in the water
3891 around the base he felt nothing, and the motion he made with his
3892 fingers left the foaming surface unchanged. They were spying on
3893 the calculations, not interacting with them; the fountain was a
3896 Carter said, `In your case, of course, nobody will need to know
3897 the results. Except you -- and you'll know them because you'll
3900 =head2 v5.15.0 - Neil Gaiman, "The Graveyard Book"
3902 L<Announced on 2011-06-20 by David Golden|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/06/msg173748.html>
3904 If you dare nothing, then when the day is over, nothing is all you will have gained.
3906 =head2 v5.14.4 - Arthur C. Clarke, "The Nine Billion Names of God"
3908 L<Announced on 2013-03-11 by Dave Mitchell|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/03/msg199988.html>
3910 He began to sing, but gave it up after a while. This vast arena of
3911 mountains, gleaming like whitely hooded ghosts on every side, did not
3912 encourage such ebullience. Presently George glanced at his watch.
3914 'Should be there in an hour,' he called back over his shoulder to
3915 Chuck. Then he added, in an afterthought: 'Wonder if the computer's
3916 finished its run. It was due about now.'
3918 Chuck didn't reply, so George swung round in his saddle. He could just
3919 see Chuck's face, a white oval turned towards the sky.
3921 'Look,' whispered Chuck, and George lifted his eyes to heaven. (There
3922 is always a last time for everything.)
3924 Overhead, without any fuss, the stars were going out.
3926 =head2 v5.14.3 - William Shakespeare, "As You Like It"
3928 L<Announced on 2012-10-12 by Dominic Hargreaves|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/10/msg194057.html>
3930 The poor world is almost six thousand years old, and in all
3931 this time there was not any man died in his own person,
3932 videlicit, in a love-cause. Troilus had his brains dashed
3933 out with a Grecian club; yet he did what he could to die
3934 before, and he is one of the patterns of love. Leander, he
3935 would have lived many a fair year, though Hero had turned
3936 nun, if it had not been for a hot midsummer night; for, good
3937 youth, he went but forth to wash him in the Hellespont and
3938 being taken with the cramp was drowned and the foolish
3939 coroners of that age found it was 'Hero of Sestos.' But these
3940 are all lies: men have died from time to time and worms have
3941 eaten them, but not for love.
3943 =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 >>
3945 L<Announced on 2011-09-26 by Florian Ragwitz|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/09/msg177618.html>
3947 It's not so much that people don't value the programs after they have them--they
3948 do value them. But they're not the sort of thing that would ever catch on if
3949 they had to overcome the marketing barrier. (I don't yet know if perl will
3950 catch on at all--I'm worried enough about it that I specifically included an
3951 awk-to-perl translator just to help it catch on.) Maybe it's all just an
3952 inferiority complex. Or maybe I don't like to be mercenary.
3954 So I guess I'd say that the reason some software comes free is that the
3955 mechanism for selling it is missing, either from the work environment, or from
3956 the heart of the programmer.
3958 =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 >>
3960 L<Announced on 2011-06-16 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/06/msg173650.html>
3962 At this point I'm no longer working for a company that makes me sign
3963 my life away, but by now I'm in the habit. Besides, I still harbor
3964 the deep-down suspicion that nobody would pay money for what I write,
3965 since most of it just helps you do something better that you could
3966 already do some other way. How much money would you personally pay
3967 to upgrade from readnews to rn? How much money would you pay for
3968 the patch program? As for warp, it's a mere game. And anything you
3969 can do with perl you can eventually do with an amazing and totally
3970 unreadable conglomeration of awk, sed, sh and C.
3972 =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 >>
3974 L<Announced on 2011-05-14 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/05/msg172326.html>
3976 At the start of any project, I'm programming primarily to please
3977 myself. (The two chief virtues in a programmer are laziness and
3978 impatience.) After a while somebody looks over my shoulder and says,
3979 "That's neat. It'd be neater if it did such-and-so." So the thing
3980 gets neater. Pretty soon (a year or two) I have an rn, a warp, a patch,
3981 or a perl. One of these years I'll have a metaconfig.
3983 I then say to myself, "I don't want my life's work to die when this
3984 computer is scrapped, so I should let some other people use this. If I
3985 ask my company to sell this, it'll never see the light of day, and nobody
3986 would pay much for it anyway. If I sell it myself, I'll be in trouble with
3987 my company, to whom I signed my life away when I was hired. If I give it
3988 away, I can pretend it was worthless in the first place, so my company
3989 won't care. In any event, it's easier to ask forgiveness than permission."
3991 So a freely distributable program is born.
3993 =head2 v5.14.0-RC3 - American Airlines Gate Agent, last call
3995 L<Announced on 2011-05-11 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/05/msg172282.html>
3997 This is the last call for flight 1697 with service to Chicago and
3998 continuing service to San Francisco. All passengers should already be
3999 aboard. If you aren't aboard at this time, you will be denied boarding
4000 and your bags will be offloaded.
4002 =head2 v5.14.0-RC2 - Greg Grandin, "Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City"
4004 L<Announced on 2011-05-04 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/05/msg171879.html>
4006 Over the course of nearly two decades, Ford would spend tens of millions
4007 of dollars founding not one but, after the plantation was defastated
4008 by leaf blight, two American towns, complete with central squares,
4009 sidewalks, indoor plumbing, hospitals, manicured lawns, movie theaters,
4010 swimming pools, golf courses, and, of course, Model Ts and As rolling
4011 down their paved streets.
4013 Back in America, newspapers kept up their drumbeat celebration, only
4014 obliquely referencing reports that things were not progressing as the
4015 company had hoped. But there was one note of skepticism. In late 1928,
4016 the Washington Post ran an editorial that read in its entirety: "Ford will
4017 govern a rubber plantation in Brazil larger than North Carolina. This is
4018 the first time he has applied quantity production methods to trouble"
4020 =head2 v5.14.0-RC1 - Bill Bryson, "In a Sunburned Country"
4022 L<Announced on 2011-04-20 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/04/msg171253.html>
4024 But then Australia is such a difficult country to keep track of. On
4025 my first visit, some years ago, I passed the time on the long flight
4026 reading a history of Australian politics in the twentieth century,
4027 wherein I encountered the startling fact that in 1967 the prime minister,
4028 Harold Holt, was strolling along a beach in Victoria when he plunged into
4029 the surf and vanished. No trace of the poor man was ever seen again.
4030 This seemed doubly astounding to me—first that Australia could
4031 just I<lose> a prime minister (I mean, come on) and second that news of
4032 this had never reached me.
4034 =head2 v5.13.11 - Walt Whitman, L<"Leaves of Grass"|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leaves_of_Grass>
4036 L<Announced on 2011-03-20 by Florian Ragwitz|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/03/msg170206.html>
4038 When the full-grown poet came,
4039 Out spake pleased Nature (the round impassive globe, with all its
4040 shows of day and night,) saying, He is mine;
4041 But out spake too the Soul of man, proud, jealous and unreconciled,
4042 Nay he is mine alone;
4043 --Then the full-grown poet stood between the two, and took each
4045 And to-day and ever so stands, as blender, uniter, tightly
4047 Which he will never release until he reconciles the two,
4048 And wholly and joyously blends them.
4050 =head2 v5.13.10 - Egill Skalla-Grímsson, L<"Egils saga Skalla-Grímssonar"|http://www.heimskringla.no/wiki/Egils_saga_Skalla-Gr%C3%ADmssonar>
4052 L<Announced on 2011-02-20 by Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/02/msg169340.html>
4054 Skalat maðr rúnar rísta,
4055 nema ráða vel kunni.
4056 Þat verðr mörgum manni,
4057 es of myrkvan staf villisk.
4059 tíu launstafi ristna.
4060 Þat hefr lauka lindi
4061 langs ofrtrega fengit.
4063 =head2 v5.13.9 - John F Kennedy, L<Inaugural Address January 20, 1961|http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/John_F._Kennedy%27s_Inaugural_Address>
4065 L<Announced on 2011-01-20 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/01/msg168335.html>
4067 In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been
4068 granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I
4069 do not shrink from this responsibility -- I welcome it. I do not believe
4070 that any of us would exchange places with any other people or any other
4071 generation. The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this
4072 endeavor will light our country and all who serve it. And the glow from
4073 that fire can truly light the world.
4075 And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you;
4076 ask what you can do for your country.
4078 My fellow citizens of the world, ask not what America will do for you,
4079 but what together we can do for the freedom of man.
4081 Finally, whether you are citizens of America or citizens of the world,
4082 ask of us here the same high standards of strength and sacrifice which
4083 we ask of you. With a good conscience our only sure reward, with history
4084 the final judge of our deeds, let us go forth to lead the land we love,
4085 asking His blessing and His help, but knowing that here on earth God's
4086 work must truly be our own.
4088 =head2 v5.13.8 - Roger Williams, L<"The Fifth Gift"|http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2005/8/19/21304/8493>
4090 L<Announced on 2010-12-19 by Zefram|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/12/msg167271.html>
4092 The aliens called the box a "matter generator," but we'd be more inclined
4093 to call it a matter duplicator. By connecting switches and potentiometers
4094 between the copper posts it was possible to make the box mark off two
4095 cubic rectangular areas of volume. Make a certain contact, and these
4096 areas would be isolated within perfectly reflective fields. They could
4097 be expanded or contracted by altering resistances between other posts.
4098 As I worked out the user interface I built a little control panel for
4099 the device. It was actually a clever way for the aliens to do things;
4100 instead of trying to build controls we could use, they built us an
4101 interface we could attach to controls that made sense to us. It could
4104 Once you had made the contact that established the shielded volumes,
4105 if you made another certain contact the contents of the first volume
4106 were copied to the second. The machine copied metal, plastic, steel,
4107 and diamond with equal ease. Copies of copies of copies of copies were
4108 indistinguishable from the originals at any magnification, even using
4109 techniques like X-ray crystallography.
4111 =head2 v5.13.7 - Andy Wachowski and Lana Wachowski, "The Matrix"
4113 L<Announced on 2010-11-20 by Chris 'BinGOs' Williams|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/11/msg166162.html>
4115 [Neo sees a black cat walk by them, and then a similar black cat walk by them just like the first one]
4119 [Everyone freezes right in their tracks]
4121 Trinity: What did you just say?
4122 Neo: Nothing. Just had a little deja vu.
4123 Trinity: What did you see?
4124 Cypher: What happened?
4125 Neo: A black cat went past us, and then another that looked just
4127 Trinity: How much like it? Was it the same cat?
4128 Neo: It might have been. I'm not sure.
4129 Morpheus: Switch! Apoc!
4131 Trinity: A deja vu is usually a glitch in the Matrix. It happens when
4132 they change something.
4134 =head2 v5.13.6 - Haruki Murakami, "Kafka on the Shore"
4136 L<Announced on 2010-10-20 by Tatsuhiko Miyagawa|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/10/msg165183.html>
4138 The boy called Crow softly rests a hand on my shoulder, and with that
4141 "From now on -- no matter what -- you've got to be the world's toughest
4142 fifteen-year-old. That's the only way you're going to survive. And in order
4143 to do that, you've got to figure out what it means to be tough. You following
4146 I keep my eyes closed and don't reply. I just want to sink off into sleep
4147 like this, his hand on my shoulder. I hear the faint flutter of wings.
4149 "You're going to be the world's toughest fifteen-year-old," Crow whispers
4150 as I try to fall asleep. Like he was carving the words in a deep blue tattoo
4153 (Translated from Japanese by Philip Gabriel)
4155 =head2 v5.13.5 - Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, "The Room in the Dragon Volant"
4157 L<Announced on 2010-09-19 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/09/msg164238.html>
4159 Candle in hand I stepped in. I do not know whether the quality of
4160 air, long undisturbed, is peculiar; to me it has always seemed so, and
4161 the damp smell of the old masonry hung in this atmosphere. My candle
4162 faintly lighted the bare stone wall that enclosed the stair, the foot
4163 of which I could not see. Down I went, and a few turns brought me to
4164 the stone floor. Here was another door, of the simple, old, oak kind,
4165 deep sunk in the thickness of the wall. The large end of the key
4166 fitted this. The lock was stiff; I set the candle down upon the
4167 stair, and applied both hands; it turned with difficulty, and as it
4168 revolved, uttered a shriek that alarmed me for my secret.
4170 For some minutes I did not move. In a little time, however, I took
4171 courage, and opened the door. The night-air floating in puffed out
4172 the candle. There was a thicket of holly and underwood, as dense as a
4173 jungle, close about the door. I should have been in pitch-darkness,
4174 were it not that through the topmost leaves there twinkled, here and
4175 there, a glimmer of moonshine.
4177 Softly, lest any one should have opened his window at the sound of the
4178 rusty bolt, I struggled through this till I gained a view of the open
4179 grounds. Here I found that the brushwood spread a good way up the
4180 park, uniting with the wood that approached the little temple I have
4183 =head2 v5.13.4 - Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
4185 L<Announced on 2010-08-20 by Florian Ragwitz|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/08/msg163150.html>
4187 `How the creatures order one about, and make one repeat lessons!' thought Alice;
4188 `I might as well be at school at once.' However, she got up, and began to repeat
4189 it, but her head was so full of the Lobster Quadrille, that she hardly knew what
4190 she was saying, and the words came very queer indeed:--
4192 "'Tis the voice of the Lobster; I heard him declare,
4193 "You have baked me too brown, I must sugar my hair."
4194 As a duck with its eyelids, so he with his nose
4195 Trims his belt and his buttons, and turns out his toes.'
4198 `That's different from what I used to say when I was a child,' said the Gryphon.
4200 `Well, I never heard it before,' said the Mock Turtle; `but it sounds uncommon
4203 Alice said nothing; she had sat down with her face in her hands, wondering if
4204 anything would ever happen in a natural way again.
4206 `I should like to have it explained,' said the Mock Turtle.
4208 `She can't explain it,' said the Gryphon hastily. `Go on with the next verse.'
4210 `But about his toes?' the Mock Turtle persisted. `How could he turn them out
4211 with his nose, you know?'
4213 `It's the first position in dancing.' Alice said; but was dreadfully puzzled by
4214 the whole thing, and longed to change the subject.
4216 =head2 v5.13.3 - Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, "Good Omens"
4218 L<Announced on 2010-07-20 by David Golden|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/07/msg162230.html>
4220 Look at Crowley, doing 110 mph on the M40 heading towards
4221 Oxfordshire. Even the most resolutely casual observer would
4222 notice a number of strange things about him. The clenched teeth,
4223 for example, or the dull red glow coming from behind his
4224 sunglasses. And the car. The car was a definite hint.
4226 Crowley had started the journey in his Bentley, and he was
4227 dammned if he wasn't going to finish it in the Bentley as well.
4228 Not that even the kind of car buff who owns his own pair of
4229 motoring goggles would have been able to tell it was a vintage
4230 Bentley. Not any more. They wouldn't have been able to tell
4231 that it was a Bentley. They would only offer fifty-fifty that it
4232 had ever even been a car.
4234 There was no paint left on it, for a start. It might still have
4235 been black, where it wasn't a rusty, smudged reddish-brown, but
4236 this was a dull charcoal black. It traveled in its own ball of
4237 flame, like a space capsule making a particularly difficult
4240 There was a thin skin of crusted, melted rubber left around the
4241 metal wheel rims, but seeing that the wheel rims were still
4242 somhow riding an inch above the road surface this didn't seem to
4243 make an awful lot of difference to the suspension.
4245 It should have fallen apart miles back.
4247 =head2 v5.13.2 - Iain M Banks, "Use of Weapons"
4249 L<Announced on 2010-06-22 by Matt S Trout|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/06/msg161112.html>
4251 We deal in the moral equivalent of black holes, where the normal laws -
4252 the rules of right and wrong that people imagine apply everywhere else
4253 in the universe - break down; beyond those metaphysical event-horizons,
4254 there exist ... special circumstances.
4256 =head2 v5.13.1 - Miguel de Unamuno, "The Sepulchre of Don Quixote"
4258 L<Announced on 2010-05-20 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/05/msg160275.html>
4260 And if anyone shall come to you and say that he knows how to construct
4261 bridges and that perhaps a time will come when you will wish to avail
4262 yourself of his science in order to cross over a river, out with him! Out
4263 with the engineer! Rivers will be crossed by wading or swimming them, even
4264 if half the crusaders drown themselves. Let the engineer go off and build
4265 bridges somewhere else, where they are badly wanted. For those who go in
4266 quest of the sepulchre, faith is bridge enough.
4268 =head2 v5.13.0 - Jules Verne, "A Journey to the Centre of the Earth"
4270 L<Announced on 2010-04-20 by LE<0xe9>on Brocard|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/04/msg159275.html>
4272 The heat still remained at quite a supportable degree. With an
4273 involuntary shudder, I reflected on what the heat must have been
4274 when the volcano of Sneffels was pouring its smoke, flames, and
4275 streams of boiling lava -- all of which must have come up by the
4276 road we were now following. I could imagine the torrents of hot
4277 seething stone darting on, bubbling up with accompaniments of
4278 smoke, steam, and sulphurous stench!
4280 "Only to think of the consequences," I mused, "if the old
4281 volcano were once more to set to work."
4283 =head2 v5.12.5 - William Shakespeare, "Measure for Measure"
4285 L<Announced on 2012-11-10 by Dominic Hargreaves|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/11/msg195171.html>
4287 Music oft hath such a charm
4288 To make bad good, and good provoke to harm.
4290 =head2 v5.12.4 - William Schwenck Gilbert, "Trial By Jury"
4292 L<Announced on 2011-06-20 by Leon Brocard|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/06/msg173725.html>
4294 You cannot eat breakfast all day,
4295 Nor is it the act of a sinner,
4296 When breakfast is taken away,
4297 To turn his attention to dinner;
4298 And it's not in the range of belief,
4299 To look upon him as a glutton,
4300 Who, when he is tired of beef,
4301 Determines to tackle the mutton.
4302 Ah! But this I am willing to say,
4303 If it will appease her sorrow,
4304 I'll marry this lady today,
4305 And I'll marry the other tomorrow!
4307 =head2 v5.12.4-RC2 - James Russell Lowell, "Eleanor makes macaroons"
4309 L<Announced on 2011-06-15 by Leon Brocard|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/06/msg173609.html>
4311 Now for sugar, -- nay, our plan
4312 Tolerates no work of man.
4313 Hurry, then, ye golden bees;
4314 Fetch your clearest honey, please,
4315 Garnered on a Yorkshire moor,
4316 While the last larks sing and soar,
4317 From the heather-blossoms sweet
4318 Where sea-breeze and sunshine meet,
4319 And the Augusts mask as Junes, --
4320 Eleanor makes macaroons!
4322 =head2 v5.12.4-RC1 - Ogden Nash, "The Clean Plater"
4324 L<Announced on 2011-06-08 by Leon Brocard|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/06/msg173352.html>
4326 Pheasant is pleasant, of course,
4327 And terrapin, too, is tasty,
4328 Lobster I freely endorse,
4329 In pate or patty or pasty.
4330 But there's nothing the matter with butter,
4331 And nothing the matter with jam,
4332 And the warmest greetings I utter
4333 To the ham and the yam and the clam.
4336 And I think very fondly of food.
4337 Through I'm broody at times
4338 When bothered by rhymes,
4342 =head2 v5.12.3 - Howard W. Campbell, Jr., "Reflections on Not Participating in Current Events"
4344 L<Announced on 2011-01-21 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/01/msg168368.html>
4346 I saw a huge steam roller,
4347 It blotted out the sun.
4348 The people all lay down, lay down;
4349 They did not try to run.
4350 My love and I, we looked amazed
4351 Upon the gory mystery.
4352 'Lie down, lie down!' the people cried.
4353 'The great machine is history!'
4354 My love and I, we ran away,
4355 The engine did not find us.
4356 We ran up to a mountain top,
4357 Left history far behind us.
4358 Perhaps we should have stayed and died,
4359 But somehow we don't think so.
4360 We went to see where history'd been,
4361 And my, the dead did stink so.
4363 =head2 v5.12.2 - William Gibson, "Pattern Recognition"
4365 L<Announced on 2010-09-06 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/09/msg163852.html>
4367 CPUs. Cayce Pollard Units. That's what Damien calls the clothing
4368 she wears. CPUs are either black, white, or gray, and ideally
4369 seem to have come into this world without human intervention.
4371 What people take for relentless minimalism is a side effect
4372 of too much exposure to the reactor-cores of fashion. This
4373 has resulted in a remorseless paring-down of what she can and
4374 will wear. She is, literally, allergic to fashion. She can
4375 only tolerate things that could have been worn, to a general
4376 lack of comment, during any year between 1945 and 2000. She's a
4377 design-free zone, a one-woman school of and whose very austerity
4378 periodically threatens to spawn its own cult.
4380 =head2 v5.12.2-RC1 - William Gibson, "Pattern Recognition"
4382 L<Announced on 2010-08-31 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/08/msg163670.html>
4384 The front page opens, familiar as a friend's living room. A frame-grab
4385 from #48 serves as backdrop, dim and almost monochrome, no characters in
4386 view. This is one of the sequences that generate comparisons with
4387 Tarkovsky. She only knows Tarkovsky from stills, really, though she did
4388 once fall asleep during a screening of The Stalker, going under on an
4389 endless pan, the camera aimed straight down, in close-up, at a puddle on
4390 a ruined mosaic floor. But she is not one of those who think that much
4391 will be gained by analysis of the maker's imagined influences. The cult
4392 of the footage is rife with subcults, claiming every possible influence.
4393 Truffaut, Peckinpah -- The Peckinpah people, among the least likely, are
4394 still waiting for the guns to be drawn.
4396 =head2 v5.12.1 - Kurt Vonnegut, "Cat's Cradle"
4398 L<Announced on 2010-05-16 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/05/msg160109.html>
4400 "Now suppose," chortled Dr. Breed, enjoying himself, "that there were
4401 many possible ways in which water could crystallize, could freeze.
4402 Suppose that the sort of ice we skate upon and put into highballs --
4403 what we might call ice-one -- is only one of several types of ice.
4404 Suppose water always froze as ice-one on Earth because it had never
4405 had a seed to teach it how to form ice-two, ice-three, ice-four
4406 ...? And suppose," he rapped on his desk with his old hand again,
4407 "that there were one form, which we will call ice-nine -- a crystal as
4408 hard as this desk -- with a melting point of, let us say, one-hundred
4409 degrees Fahrenheit, or, better still, a melting point of one-hundred-
4410 and-thirty degrees."
4412 =head2 v5.12.1-RC2 - Kurt Vonnegut, "Cat's Cradle"
4414 L<Announced on 2010-05-13 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/05/msg160066.html>
4416 San Lorenzo was fifty miles long and twenty miles wide, I learned from
4417 the supplement to the New York Sunday Times. Its population was four
4418 hundred, fifty thousand souls, "...all fiercely dedicated to the ideals
4421 Its highest point, Mount McCabe, was eleven thousand feet above sea
4422 level. Its capital was Bolivar, "...a strikingly modern city built on a
4423 harbor capable of sheltering the entire United States Navy." The principal
4424 exports were sugar, coffee, bananas, indigo, and handcrafted novelties.
4426 =head2 v5.12.1-RC1 - Kurt Vonnegut, "Cat's Cradle"
4428 L<Announced on 2010-05-09 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/05/msg159971.html>
4430 Which brings me to the Bokononist concept of a wampeter. A wampeter is
4431 the pivot of a karass. No karass is without a wampeter, Bokonon tells us,
4432 just as no wheel is without a hub. Anything can be a wampeter: a tree,
4433 a rock, an animal, an idea, a book, a melody, the Holy Grail. Whatever
4434 it is, the members of its karass revolve about it in the majestic chaos
4435 of a spiral nebula. The orbits of the members of a karass about their
4436 common wampeter are spiritual orbits, naturally. It is souls and not
4437 bodies that revolve. As Bokonon invites us to sing:
4439 Around and around and around we spin,
4440 With feet of lead and wings of tin . . .
4442 =head2 v5.12.0 - Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
4444 L<Announced on 2010-04-12 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/04/msg158820.html>
4446 'Please would you tell me,' said Alice, a little timidly, for she was
4447 not quite sure whether it was good manners for her to speak first, 'why
4448 your cat grins like that?'
4450 'It's a Cheshire cat,' said the Duchess, 'and that's why. Pig!'
4452 She said the last word with such sudden violence that Alice quite
4453 jumped; but she saw in another moment that it was addressed to the baby,
4454 and not to her, so she took courage, and went on again:--
4456 'I didn't know that Cheshire cats always grinned; in fact, I didn't know
4457 that cats COULD grin.'
4459 'They all can,' said the Duchess; 'and most of 'em do.'
4461 =head2 v5.12.0-RC5 - Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
4463 L<Announced on 2010-04-09 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/04/msg158720.html>
4465 'Not QUITE right, I'm afraid,' said Alice, timidly; 'some of the words
4468 'It is wrong from beginning to end,' said the Caterpillar decidedly, and
4469 there was silence for some minutes.
4471 =head2 v5.12.0-RC4 - Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
4473 L<Announced on 2010-04-06 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/04/msg158567.html>
4475 'It was much pleasanter at home,' thought poor Alice, 'when one wasn't
4476 always growing larger and smaller, and being ordered about by mice and
4477 rabbits. I almost wish I hadn't gone down that rabbit-hole--and yet--and
4478 yet--it's rather curious, you know, this sort of life! I do wonder what
4479 can have happened to me! When I used to read fairy-tales, I fancied that
4480 kind of thing never happened, and now here I am in the middle of one!
4482 =head2 v5.12.0-RC3 - Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
4484 L<Announced on 2010-04-02 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/04/msg158346.html>
4486 At last the Mouse, who seemed to be a person of authority among them,
4487 called out, 'Sit down, all of you, and listen to me! I'LL soon make you
4488 dry enough!' They all sat down at once, in a large ring, with the Mouse
4489 in the middle. Alice kept her eyes anxiously fixed on it, for she felt
4490 sure she would catch a bad cold if she did not get dry very soon.
4492 'Ahem!' said the Mouse with an important air, 'are you all ready? This
4493 is the driest thing I know. Silence all round, if you please! "William
4494 the Conqueror, whose cause was favoured by the pope, was soon submitted
4495 to by the English, who wanted leaders, and had been of late much
4496 accustomed to usurpation and conquest. Edwin and Morcar, the earls of
4497 Mercia and Northumbria --"'
4499 =head2 v5.12.0-RC2 - no announcement
4501 Available on CPAN since 2010-04-01.
4503 =head2 v5.12.0-RC1 - Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
4505 L<Announced on 2010-03-29 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/03/msg158060.html>
4507 So she was considering in her own mind (as well as she could, for the
4508 hot day made her feel very sleepy and stupid), whether the pleasure of
4509 making a daisy-chain would be worth the trouble of getting up and
4510 picking the daisies, when suddenly a White Rabbit with pink eyes ran
4513 There was nothing so VERY remarkable in that; nor did Alice think it so
4514 VERY much out of the way to hear the Rabbit say to itself, 'Oh dear! Oh
4515 dear! I shall be late!' (when she thought it over afterwards, it
4516 occurred to her that she ought to have wondered at this, but at the time
4517 it all seemed quite natural); but when the Rabbit actually TOOK A WATCH
4518 OUT OF ITS WAISTCOAT-POCKET, and looked at it, and then hurried on,
4519 Alice started to her feet, for it flashed across her mind that she had
4520 never before seen a rabbit with either a waistcoat-pocket, or a watch to
4521 take out of it, and burning with curiosity, she ran across the field
4522 after it, and fortunately was just in time to see it pop down a large
4523 rabbit-hole under the hedge.
4525 In another moment down went Alice after it, never once considering how
4526 in the world she was to get out again.
4528 =head2 v5.12.0-RC0 - no epigraph
4530 L<Announced on 2020-03-21 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/03/msg157761.html>
4532 =head2 v5.11.5 - Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "Christabel"
4534 L<Announced on 2010-02-21 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/02/msg156957.html>
4536 A little child, a limber elf,
4537 Singing, dancing to itself,
4538 A fairy thing with red round cheeks,
4539 That always finds, and never seeks,
4540 Makes such a vision to the sight
4541 As fills a father's eyes with light;
4542 And pleasures flow in so thick and fast
4543 Upon his heart, that he at last
4544 Must needs express his love's excess
4545 With words of unmeant bitterness.
4546 Perhaps 'tis pretty to force together
4547 Thoughts so all unlike each other;
4548 To mutter and mock a broken charm,
4549 To dally with wrong that does no harm.
4550 Perhaps 'tis tender too and pretty
4551 At each wild word to feel within
4552 A sweet recoil of love and pity.
4553 And what, if in a world of sin
4554 (O sorrow and shame should this be true!)
4555 Such giddiness of heart and brain
4556 Comes seldom save from rage and pain,
4557 So talks as it's most used to do.
4559 =head2 v5.11.4 - Fyodor Dostoevsky, "Crime and Punishment"
4561 L<Announced on 2010-01-20 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/01/msg155848.html>
4563 And you don't suppose that I went into it headlong like a fool? I went
4564 into it like a wise man, and that was just my destruction. And you
4565 mustn't suppose that I didn't know, for instance, that if I began to
4566 question myself whether I had the right to gain power -- I certainly
4567 hadn't the right -- or that if I asked myself whether a human being is a
4568 louse it proved that it wasn't so for me, though it might be for a man
4569 who would go straight to his goal without asking questions.... If I
4570 worried myself all those days, wondering whether Napoleon would have
4571 done it or not, I felt clearly of course that I wasn't Napoleon.
4573 =head2 v5.11.3 - Mark Twain, "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer"
4575 L<Announced on 2009-12-20 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2009/12/msg154838.html>
4577 "Say -- I'm going in a swimming, I am. Don't you wish you could? But of
4578 course you'd druther work -- wouldn't you? Course you would!"
4580 Tom contemplated the boy a bit, and said: "What do you call work?"
4582 "Why ain't that work?"
4584 Tom resumed his whitewashing, and answered carelessly: "Well, maybe it
4585 is, and maybe it aint. All I know, is, it suits Tom Sawyer."
4587 "Oh come, now, you don't mean to let on that you like it?"
4589 The brush continued to move. "Like it? Well I don't see why I oughtn't
4590 to like it. Does a boy get a chance to whitewash a fence every day?"
4592 That put the thing in a new light. Ben stopped nibbling his apple. Tom
4593 swept his brush daintily back and forth -- stepped back to note the effect
4594 -- added a touch here and there-criticised the effect again -- Ben
4595 watching every move and getting more and more interested, more and more
4596 absorbed. Presently he said: "Say, Tom, let me whitewash a little."
4598 =head2 v5.11.2 - Michael Marshall Smith, "Only Forward"
4600 L<Announced on 2009-11-20 by Léon Brocard|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2009/11/msg153646.html>
4602 The streets were pretty quiet, which was nice. They're always quiet here
4603 at that time: you have to be wearing a black jacket to be out on the
4604 streets between seven and nine in the evening, and not many people in
4605 the area have black jackets. It's just one of those things. I currently
4606 live in Colour Neighbourhood, which is for people who are heavily into
4607 colour. All the streets and buildings are set for instant colourmatch:
4608 as you walk down the road they change hue to offset whatever you're
4609 wearing. When the streets are busy it's kind of intense, and anyone
4610 prone to epileptic seizures isn't allowed to live in the Neighbourhood,
4611 however much they're into colour.
4613 =head2 v5.11.1 - Joseph Heller, "Catch-22"
4615 L<Announced on 2009-10-20 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2009/10/msg152360.html>
4617 Milo had been caught red-handed in the act of plundering his countrymen,
4618 and, as a result, his stock had never been higher. He proved good as his
4619 word when a rawboned major from Minnesota curled his lip in rebellious
4620 disavowal and demanded his share of the syndicate Milo kept saying
4621 everybody owned. Milo met the challenge by writing the words "A Share"
4622 on the nearest scrap of paper and handing it away with a virtuous disdain
4623 that won the envy and admiration of almost everyone who knew him. His
4624 glory was at a peak, and Colonel Cathcart, who knew and admired his
4625 war record, was astonished by the deferential humility with which Milo
4626 presented himself at Group Headquarters and made his fantastic appeal
4627 for more hazardous assignment.
4629 =head2 v5.11.0 - Mikhail Bulgakov, "The Master and Margarita"
4631 L<Announced on 2009-10-02 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2009/10/msg151376.html>
4633 Whispers of an "evil power" were heard in lines at dairy shops, in
4634 streetcars, stores, arguments, kitchens, suburban and long-distance
4635 trains, at stations large and small, in dachas and on beaches. Needless
4636 to say, truly mature and cultured people did not tell these stories
4637 about an evil power's visit to the capital. In fact, they even made fun
4638 of them and tried to talk sense into those who told them. Nevertheless,
4639 facts are facts, as they say, and cannot simply be dismissed without
4640 explanation: somebody had visited the capital. The charred cinders of
4641 Griboyedov alone, and many other things besides, confirmed it. Cultured
4642 people shared the point of view of the investigating team: it was the
4643 work of a gang of hypnotists and ventriloquists magnificently skilled in
4646 =head2 v5.10.1 - Right Hon. James Hacker MP, "The Complete Yes Minister: The Diaries of a Cabinet Minister"
4648 L<Announced on 2009-08-23 by Dave Mitchell|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2009/08/msg150172.html>
4650 'Briefly, sir, I am the Permanent Under-Secretary of State, known as
4651 the Permanent Secretary. Woolley here is your Principal Private
4652 Secretary. I, too, have a Principal Private Secretary, and he is the
4653 Principal Private Secretary to the Permanent Secretary. Directly
4654 responsible to me are ten Deputy Secretaries, eighty-seven Under
4655 Secretaries and two hundred and nineteen Assistant Secretaries.
4656 Directly responsible to the Principal Private Secretaries are plain
4657 Private Secretaries. The Prime Minister will be appointing two
4658 Parliamentary Under-Secretaries and you will be appointing your own
4659 Parliamentary Private Secretary.'
4661 'Can they all type?' I joked.
4663 'None of us can type, Minister,' replied Sir Humphrey smoothly. 'Mrs
4664 McKay types - she is your Secretary.'
4666 I couldn't tell whether or not he was joking. 'What a pity,' I said.
4667 'We could have opened an agency.'
4669 Sir Humphrey and Bernard laughed. 'Very droll, sir,' said Sir
4670 Humphrey. 'Most amusing, sir,' said Bernard. Were they genuinely
4671 amused at my wit, or just being rather patronising? 'I suppose they
4672 all say that, do they?' I ventured.
4674 Sir Humphrey reassured me on that. 'Certainly not, Minister,' he
4675 replied. 'Not quite all.'
4677 =head2 v5.10.1-RC2 - no epigraph
4679 L<Announced on 2009-08-18 by Dave Mitchell|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2009/08/msg150015.html>
4681 =head2 v5.10.1-RC1 - no epigraph
4683 L<Announced on 2009-08-06 by Dave Mitchell|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2009/08/msg149498.html>
4685 =head2 v5.10.0 - Laurence Sterne, "Tristram Shandy"
4687 L<Announced on 2007-12-18 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2007/12/msg131636.html>
4689 He would often declare, in speaking his thoughts upon the subject, that
4690 he did not conceive how the greatest family in England could stand it
4691 out against an uninterrupted succession of six or seven short
4692 noses.--And for the contrary reason, he would generally add, That it
4693 must be one of the greatest problems in civil life, where the same
4694 number of long and jolly noses, following one another in a direct line,
4695 did not raise and hoist it up into the best vacancies in the kingdom.
4697 =head2 v5.10.0-RC2 - no epigraph
4699 L<Announced on 2007-11-25 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2007/11/msg130978.html>
4701 =head2 v5.10.0-RC1 - no epigraph
4703 L<Announced on 2007-11-17 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2007/11/msg130653.html>
4705 =head2 v5.9.5 - no announcement
4707 L<Pre-announced on 2007-07-07 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2007/07/msg126358.html>,
4708 available on CPAN with same date, but never actually announced.
4710 =head2 v5.9.4 - no epigraph
4712 L<Announced on 2006-08-15 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2006/08/msg115782.html>
4714 =head2 v5.9.3 - no epigraph
4716 L<Announced on 2006-01-28 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2006/01/msg109086.html>
4718 =head2 v5.9.2 - Thomas Pynchon, "V"
4720 L<Announced on 2005-04-01 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2005/04/msg99421.html>
4722 This word flip was weird. Every recording date of McClintic's he'd
4723 gotten into the habit of talking electricity with the audio men and
4724 technicians of the studio. McClintic once couldn't have cared less
4725 about electricity, but now it seemed if that was helping him reach a
4726 bigger audience, some digging, some who would never dig, but all
4727 paying and those royalties keeping the Triumph in gas and McClintic
4728 in J. Press suits, then McClintic ought to be grateful to
4729 electricity, ought maybe to learn a little more about it. So he'd
4730 picked up some here and there, and one day last summer he got around
4731 to talking stochastic music and digital computers with one
4732 technician. Out of the conversation had come Set/Reset, which was
4733 getting to be a signature for the group. He had found out from this
4734 sound man about a two-triode circuit called a flip-flop, which when
4735 it turned on could be one of two ways, depending on which tube was
4736 conducting and which was cut off: set or reset, flip or flop.
4738 "And that," the man said, "can be yes or no, or one or zero. And
4739 that is what you might call one of the basic units, or specialized
4740 `cells' in a big `electronic brain.' "
4742 "Crazy," said McClintic, having lost him back there someplace. But
4743 one thing that did occur to him was if a computer's brain could go
4744 flip or flop, why so could a musician's. As long as you were flop,
4745 everything was cool. But where did the trigger-pulse come from to
4748 =head2 v5.9.1 - Tom Stoppard, "Arcadia"
4750 L<Announced on 2004-03-16 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/03/msg89722.html>
4752 Aren't you supposed to have a pony?
4754 =head2 v5.9.0 - Doris Lessing, "Martha Quest"
4756 L<Announced on 2003-10-27 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/10/msg84147.html>
4758 What of October, that ambiguous month
4760 =head2 v5.8.9 - Right Hon. James Hacker MP, "The Complete Yes Minister: The Diaries of a Cabinet Minister"
4762 L<Announced on 2008-12-14 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2008/12/msg142571.html>
4764 Frank and I, unlike the civil servants, were still puzzled that such a
4765 proposal as the Europass could even be seriously under consideration by
4766 the FCO. We can both see clearly that it is wonderful ammunition for the
4767 anti-Europeans. I asked Humphrey if the Foreign Office doesn't realise
4768 how damaging this would be to the European ideal?
4770 'I'm sure they do, Minister, he said. That's why they support it.'
4772 This was even more puzzling, since I'd always been under the impression
4773 that the FO is pro-Europe. 'Is it or isn't it?' I asked Humphrey.
4775 'Yes and no,' he replied of course, 'if you'll pardon the
4776 expression. The Foreign Office is pro-Europe because it is really
4777 anti-Europe. In fact the Civil Service was united in its desire to make
4778 sure the Common Market didn't work. That's why we went into it.'
4780 This sounded like a riddle to me. I asked him to explain further. And
4781 basically his argument was as follows: Britain has had the same foreign
4782 policy objective for at least the last five hundred years - to create a
4783 disunited Europe. In that cause we have fought with the Dutch against
4784 the Spanish, with the Germans against the French, with the French and
4785 Italians against the Germans, and with the French against the Italians
4786 and Germans. [The Dutch rebellion against Phillip II of Spain, the
4787 Napoleonic Wars, the First World War, and the Second World War - Ed.]
4789 In other words, divide and rule. And the Foreign Office can see no
4790 reason to change when it has worked so well until now.
4792 I was aware of this, naturally, but I regarded it as ancient history.
4793 Humphrey thinks that it is, in fact, current policy. It was necessary
4794 for us to break up the EEC, he explained, so we had to get inside. We
4795 had previously tried to break it up from the outside, but that didn't
4796 work. [A reference to our futile and short-lived involvement in EFTA,
4797 the European Free Trade Association, founded in 1960 and which the UK
4798 left in 1972 - Ed.] Now that we're in, we are able to make a complete
4799 pig's breakfast out of it. We've now set the Germans against the French,
4800 the French against the Italians, the Italians against the Dutch... and
4801 the Foreign office is terribly happy. It's just like old time.
4803 I was staggered by all of this. I thought that the all of us who are
4804 publicly pro-European believed in the European ideal. I said this to Sir
4805 Humphrey, and he simply chuckled.
4807 So I asked him: if we don't believe in the European Ideal, why are we
4808 pushing to increase the membership?
4810 'Same reason,' came the reply. 'It's just like the United Nations. The
4811 more members it has, the more arguments you can stir up, and the more
4812 futile and impotent it becomes.'
4814 This all strikes me as the most appalling cynicism, and I said so.
4816 Sir Humphrey agreed completely. 'Yes Minister. We call it
4817 diplomacy. It's what made Britain great, you know.'
4819 =head2 v5.8.9-RC2 - Right Hon. James Hacker MP, "The Complete Yes Minister: The Diaries of a Cabinet Minister"
4821 L<Announced on 2008-12-06 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2008/12/msg142422.html>
4823 There was silence in the office. I didn't know what we were going to do
4824 about the four hundred new people supervising our economy drive or the
4825 four hundred new people for the Bureaucratic Watchdog Office, or
4826 anything! I simply sat and waited and hoped that my head would stop
4827 thumping and that some idea would be suggested by someone sometime soon.
4829 Sir Humphrey obliged. 'Minister... if we were to end the economy drive
4830 and close the Bureaucratic Watchdog Office we could issue an immediate
4831 press announcement that you had axed eight hundred jobs.' He had
4832 obviously thought this out carefully in advance, for at this moment he
4833 produced a slim folder from under his arm. 'If you'd like to approve
4836 I couldn't believe the impertinence of the suggestion. Axed eight
4837 hundred jobs? 'But no one was ever doing these jobs,' I pointed out
4838 incredulously. 'No one's been appointed yet.'
4840 'Even greater economy,' he replied instantly. 'We've saved eight hundred
4841 redundancy payments as well.'
4843 'But...' I attempted to explain '... that's just phony. It's dishonest,
4844 it's juggling with figures, it's pulling the wool over people's eyes.'
4846 'A government press release, in fact.' said Humphrey.
4848 =head2 v5.8.9-RC1 - Right Hon. James Hacker MP, "The Complete Yes Minister: The Diaries of a Cabinet Minister"
4850 L<Announced on 2008-11-10 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2008/11/msg141515.html>
4852 A jumbo jet touched down, with BURANDAN AIRWAYS written on the side. I
4853 was hugely impressed. British Airways are having to pawn their Concordes,
4854 and here is this little tiny African state with its own airline, jumbo
4857 I asked Bernard how many planes Burandan Airways had. 'None,' he said.
4859 I told him not to be silly and use his eyes. 'No Minister, it belongs to
4860 Freddie Laker,' he said. 'They chartered it last week and repainted it
4861 specially.' Apparently most of the Have-Nots (I mean, LDCs) do this - at
4862 the opening of the UN General Assembly the runways of Kennedy Airport are
4863 jam-packed with phoney flag-carriers. 'In fact,' said Bernard with a sly
4864 grin, 'there was one 747 that belonged to nine different African airlines
4865 in a month. They called it the mumbo-jumbo.'
4867 While we watched nothing much happening on the TV except the mumbo-jumbo
4868 taxiing around Prestwick and the Queen looking a bit chilly, Bernard gave
4869 me the next day's schedule and explained that I was booked on the night
4870 sleeper from King's Cross to Edinburgh because I had to vote in a
4871 three-line whip at the House tonight and would have to miss the last
4872 plane. Then the commentator, in that special hushed BBC voice used for any
4873 occasion with which Royalty is connected, announced reverentially that we
4874 were about to catch our first glimpse of President Selim.
4876 And out of the plane stepped Charlie. My old friend Charlie Umtali. We
4877 were at LSE together. Not Selim Mohammed at all, but Charlie.
4879 Bernard asked me if I were sure. Silly question. How could you forget a
4880 name like Charlie Umtali?
4882 I sent Bernard for Sir Humphrey, who was delighted to hear that we now
4883 know something about our official visitor.
4885 Bernard's official brief said nothing. Amazing! Amazing how little the FCO
4886 has been able to find out. Perhaps they were hoping it would all be on the
4887 car radio. All the brief says is that Colonel Selim Mohammed had converted
4888 to Islam some years ago, they didn't know his original name, and therefore
4889 knew little of his background.
4891 I was able to tell Humphrey and Bernard /all/ about his background.
4892 Charlie was a red-hot political economist, I informed them. Got the top
4893 first. Wiped the floor with everyone.
4895 Bernard seemed relieved. 'Well that's all right then.'
4899 'I think Bernard means,' said Sir Humphrey helpfully, 'that he'll know how
4900 to behave if he was at an English University. Even if it was the LSE.' I
4901 never know whether or not Humphrey is insulting me intentionally.
4903 Humphrey was concerned about Charlie's political colour. 'When you said
4904 that he was red-hot, were you speaking politically?'
4906 In a way I was. 'The thing about Charlie is that you never quite know
4907 where you are with him. He's the sort of chap who follows you into a
4908 revolving door and comes out in front.'
4910 'No deeply held convictions?' asked Sir Humphrey.
4912 'No. The only thing Charlie was committed too was Charlie.'
4914 'Ah, I see. A politician, Minister.'
4916 =head2 v5.8.8 - Joe Raposo, "Bein' Green"
4918 L<Announced on 2006-01-31 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2006/01/msg109190.html>
4920 It's not that easy bein' green
4921 Having to spend each day the color of the leaves
4922 When I think it could be nicer being red or yellow or gold
4923 Or something much more colorful like that
4925 It's not easy bein' green
4926 It seems you blend in with so many other ordinary things
4927 And people tend to pass you over 'cause you're
4928 Not standing out like flashy sparkles in the water
4931 But green's the color of Spring
4932 And green can be cool and friendly-like
4933 And green can be big like an ocean
4934 Or important like a mountain
4937 When green is all there is to be
4938 It could make you wonder why, but why wonder why?
4939 Wonder I am green and it'll do fine, it's beautiful
4940 And I think it's what I want to be
4942 =head2 v5.8.8-RC1 - Cosgrove Hall Productions, "Dangermouse"
4944 L<Announced on 2006-01-20 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2006/01/msg108833.html>
4946 Greenback: And the world is mine, all mine. Muhahahahaha. See to it!
4948 Stiletto: Si, Barone. Subito, Barone.
4950 =head2 v5.8.7 - Sergei Prokofiev, "Peter and the Wolf"
4952 L<Announced on 2005-05-31 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2005/05/msg101088.html>
4954 And now, imagine the triumphant procession: Peter at the head; after him the
4955 hunters leading the wolf; and winding up the procession, grandfather and the
4958 Grandfather shook his head discontentedly: "Well, and if Peter hadn't caught
4959 the wolf? What then?"
4961 =head2 v5.8.7-RC1 - Sergei Prokofiev, "Peter and the Wolf"
4963 L<Announced on 2005-05-20 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2005/05/msg100711.html>
4965 And now this is how things stood: The cat was sitting on one branch. The
4966 bird on another, not too close to the cat. And the wolf walked round and
4967 round the tree, looking at them with greedy eyes.
4969 In the meantime, Peter, without the slightest fear, stood behind the
4970 gate, watching all that was going on. He ran home,got a strong rope and
4971 climbed up the high stone wall.
4973 One of the branches of the tree, around which the wolf was walking,
4974 stretched out over the wall.
4976 Grabbing hold of the branch, Peter lightly climbed over on to the tree.
4977 Peter said to the bird: "Fly down and circle round the wolf's head, only
4978 take care that he doesn't catch you!".
4980 The bird almost touched the wolf's head with its wings, while the wolf
4981 snapped angrily at him from this side and that.
4983 How that bird teased the wolf, how that wolf wanted to catch him! But
4984 the bird was clever and the wolf simply couldn't do anything about it.
4986 =head2 v5.8.6 - A. A. Milne, "The House at Pooh Corner"
4988 L<Announced on 2004-11-27 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/11/msg96304.html>
4990 "Hallo, Pooh," said Piglet, giving a jump of surprise. "I knew it was
4993 "So did I,", said Pooh. "What are you doing?"
4995 "I'm planting a haycorn, Pooh, so that it can grow up into an oak-tree,
4996 and have lots of haycorns just outside the front door instead of having
4997 to walk miles and miles, do you see, Pooh?"
4999 "Supposing it doesn't?" said Pooh.
5001 "It will, because Christopher Robin says it will, so that's why I'm
5004 "Well," aid Pooh, "if I plant a honeycomb outside my house, then it will
5005 grow up into a beehive."
5007 Piglet wasn't quite sure about this.
5009 "Or a /piece/ of a honeycomb," said Pooh, "so as not to waste too much.
5010 Only then I might only get a piece of a beehive, and it might be the
5011 wrong piece, where the bees were buzzing and not hunnying. Bother"
5013 Piglet agreed that that would be rather bothering.
5015 "Besides, Pooh, it's a very difficult thing, planting unless you know
5016 how to do it," he said; and he put the acorn in the hole he had made,
5017 and covered it up with earth, and jumped on it.
5019 =head2 v5.8.6-RC1 - A. A. Milne, "Winnie the Pooh"
5021 L<Announced on 2004-11-11 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/11/msg95786.html>
5023 "Hallo!" said Piglet, "whare are /you/ doing?"
5025 "Hunting," said Pooh.
5029 "Tracking something," said Winnie-the-Pooh very mysteriously.
5031 "Tracking what?" said Piglet, coming closer.
5033 "That's just what I ask myself, I ask myself, What?"
5035 "What do you think you'll answer?"
5037 "I shall have to wait until I catch up with it," said Winnie-the-Pooh.
5038 "Now, look there." He pointed to the ground in front of him. "What do
5041 "Track," said Piglet. "Paw-marks." He gave a little squeak of
5042 excitement. "Oh, Pooh!" Do you think it's a--a--a Woozle?"
5044 =head2 v5.8.5 - wikipedia, "Yew"
5046 L<Announced on 2004-07-19 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/07/msg93189.html>
5048 Yews are relatively slow growing trees, widely used in landscaping and
5049 ornamental horticulture. They have flat, dark-green needles, reddish
5050 bark, and bear seeds with red arils, which are eaten by thrushes,
5051 waxwings and other birds, dispersing the hard seeds undamaged in their
5052 droppings. Yew wood is reddish brown (with white sapwood), and very
5053 hard. It was traditionally used to make bows, especially the English
5056 In England, the Common Yew (Taxus baccata, also known as English Yew) is
5057 often found in churchyards. It is sometimes suggested that these are
5058 placed there as a symbol of long life or trees of death, and some are
5059 likely to be over 3,000 years old. It is also suggested that yew trees
5060 may have a pre-Christian association with old pagan holy sites, and the
5061 Christian church found it expedient to use and take over existing sites.
5062 Another explanation is that the poisonous berries and foliage discourage
5063 farmers and drovers from letting their animals wander into the burial
5064 grounds. The yew tree is a frequent symbol in the Christian poetry of
5065 T.S. Eliot, especially his Four Quartets.
5067 =head2 v5.8.5-RC2 - wikipedia, "Beech"
5069 L<Announced on 2004-07-09 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/07/msg92934.html>
5071 Beeches are trees of the Genus Fagus, family Fagaceae, including about
5072 ten species in Europe, Asia, and North America. The leaves are entire or
5073 sparsely toothed. The fruit is a small, sharply-angled nut, borne in
5074 pairs in spiny husks. The beech most commonly grown as an ornamental or
5075 shade tree is the European beech (Fagus sylvatica).
5077 The southern beeches belong to a different but related genus,
5078 Nothofagus. They are found in Australia, New Zealand, New Guinea, New
5079 Caledonia and South America.
5081 =head2 v5.8.5-RC1 - wikipedia, "Pedunculate Oak" (abridged)
5083 L<Announced on 2004-07-07 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/07/msg92840.html>
5085 The Pedunculate Oak is called the Common Oak in Britain, and is also
5086 often called the English Oak in other English speaking countries It is a
5087 large deciduous tree to 25-35m tall (exceptionally to 40m), with lobed
5088 and sessile (stalk-less) leaves. Flowering takes place in early to mid
5089 spring, and their fruit, called "acorns", ripen by autumn of the same
5090 year. The acorns are pedunculate (having a peduncle or acorn-stalk) and
5091 may occur singly, or several acorns may occur on a stalk.
5093 It forms a long-lived tree, with a large widespreading head of rugged
5094 branches. While it may naturally live to an age of a few centuries, many
5095 of the oldest trees are pollarded or coppiced, both pruning techniques
5096 that extend the tree's potential lifespan, if not its health.
5098 Within its native range it is valued for its importance to insects and
5099 other wildlife. Numerous insects live on the leaves, buds, and in the
5100 acorns. The acorns form a valuable food resource for several small
5101 mammals and some birds, notably Jays Garrulus glandarius.
5103 It is planted for forestry, and produces a long-lasting and durable
5104 heartwood, much in demand for interior and furniture work.
5106 =head2 v5.8.4 - T. S. Eliot, "The Old Gumbie Cat"
5108 L<Announced on 2004-04-22 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/04/msg90984.html>
5110 I have a Gumbie Cat in mind, her name is Jennyanydots;
5111 The curtain-cord she likes to wind, and tie it into sailor-knots.
5112 She sits upon the window-sill, or anything that's smooth and flat:
5113 She sits and sits and sits and sits -- and that's what makes a Gumbie Cat!
5115 But when the day's hustle and bustle is done,
5116 Then the Gumbie Cat's work is but hardly begun.
5117 She thinks that the cockroaches just need employment
5118 To prevent them from idle and wanton destroyment.
5119 So she's formed, from that a lot of disorderly louts,
5120 A troop of well-disciplined helpful boy-scouts,
5121 With a purpose in life and a good deed to do--
5122 And she's even created a Beetles' Tattoo.
5124 So for Old Gumbie Cats let us now give three cheers --
5125 On whom well-ordered households depend, it appears.
5128 =head2 v5.8.4-RC2 - T. S. Eliot, "Macavity: The Mystery Cat"
5130 L<Announced on 2004-04-16 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/04/msg90796.html>
5132 Macavity's a Mystery Cat: he's called the Hidden Paw --
5133 For he's the master criminal who can defy the Law.
5134 He's the bafflement of Scotland Yard, the Flying Squad's despair:
5135 For when they reach the scene of crime -- /Macavity's not there/!
5137 Macavity, Macavity, there's no one like Macavity,
5138 He's broken every human law, he breaks the law of gravity.
5139 His powers of levitation would make a fakir stare,
5140 And when you reach the scene of crime -- /Macavity's not there/!
5141 You may seek him in the basement, you may look up in the air --
5142 But I tell you once and once again, /Macavity's not there/!
5144 =head2 v5.8.4-RC1 - T. S. Eliot, "Skimbleshanks: The Railway Cat"
5146 L<Announced on 2004-04-05 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/04/msg90422.html>
5148 There's a whisper down the line at 11.39
5149 When the Night Mail's ready to depart,
5150 Saying 'Skimble where is Skimble has he gone to hunt the thimble?
5151 We must find him of the train can't start.'
5152 All the guards and all the porters and the stationmaster's daughters
5153 They are searching high and low,
5154 Saying 'Skimble where is Skimble for unless he's very nimble
5155 Then the Night Mail just can't go'
5156 At 11.42 then the signal's overdue
5157 And the passengers are frantic to a man--
5158 Then Skimble will appear and he'll saunter to the rear:
5159 He's been busy in the luggage van!
5160 He gives one flash of his glass-green eyes
5161 And the signal goes 'All Clear!'
5162 And we're off at last of the northern part
5163 Of the Northern Hemisphere!
5165 =head2 v5.8.3 - Arthur William Edgar O'Shaugnessy, "Ode"
5167 L<Announced on 2004-01-14 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/01/msg87317.html>
5169 We are the music makers,
5170 And we are the dreamers of dreams,
5171 Wandering by lonely sea-breakers,
5172 And sitting by desolate streams; --
5173 World-losers and world-forsakers,
5174 On whom the pale moon gleams:
5175 Yet we are the movers and shakers
5176 Of the world for ever, it seems.
5178 =head2 v5.8.3-RC1 - Irving Berlin, "Let's Face the Music and Dance"
5180 L<Announced on 2004-01-07 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/01/msg86969.html>
5182 There may be trouble ahead,
5183 But while there's music and moonlight,
5184 And love and romance,
5185 Let's face the music and dance.
5187 Before the fiddlers have fled,
5188 Before they ask us to pay the bill,
5189 And while we still have that chance,
5190 Let's face the music and dance.
5192 Soon, we'll be without the moon,
5193 Humming a different tune, and then,
5195 There may be teardrops to shed,
5196 So while there's music and moonlight,
5197 And love and romance,
5198 Let's face the music and dance.
5200 =head2 v5.8.2 - Walt Whitman, "Passage to India"
5202 L<Announced on 2003-11-05 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/11/msg84822.html>
5204 Passage, immediate passage! the blood burns in my veins!
5205 Away O soul! hoist instantly the anchor!
5206 Cut the hawsers - hall out - shake out every sail!
5207 Have we not stood here like trees in the ground long enough?
5208 Have we not grovel'd here long enough, eating and drinking like mere brutes?
5209 Have we not darken'd and dazed ourselves with books long enough?
5211 Sail forth - steer for the deep waters only,
5212 Reckless O soul, exploring, I with the and thou with me,
5213 For we are bound where mariner has not yet dared to go,
5214 And we will risk the ship, ourselves and all.
5217 O farther farther sail!
5218 O daring job, but safe! are they not all the seas of God?
5219 O farther, farther, farther sail!
5221 =head2 v5.8.2-RC2 - Eric Idle and John Du Prez, "Accountancy Shanty"
5223 L<Announced on 2003-11-03 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/11/msg84645.html>
5225 It's fun to charter an accountant
5226 And sail the wide accountan-cy,
5227 To find, explore the funds offshore
5228 And skirt the shoals of bankruptcy.
5230 =head2 v5.8.2-RC1 - Edward Lear, "The Jumblies"
5232 L<Announced on 2003-10-27 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/10/msg84194.html>
5234 They went to sea in a Sieve, they did,
5235 In a Sieve they went to sea:
5236 In spite of all their friends could say,
5237 On a winter's morn, on a stormy day,
5238 In a Sieve they went to sea!
5239 And when the Sieve turned round and round,
5240 And everyone cried, "You'll all be drowned!"
5241 They cried aloud, "Our Sieve ain't big,
5242 But we don't care a button, we don't care a fig!
5243 In a Sieve we'll go to sea!"
5245 Far and few, far and few,
5246 Are the lands where the Jumblies live;
5247 Their heads are green, and their hands are blue,
5248 And they went to sea in a Sieve.
5250 =head2 v5.8.1 - epigraph same as v5.7.1
5252 L<Announced on 2003-09-25 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/09/msg82678.html>
5254 =head2 v5.8.1-RC5 - Terry Pratchett, "Lords and Ladies"
5256 L<Announced on 2003-09-22 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/09/msg82476.html>
5258 No matter what she did with her hair it took about
5259 three minutes for it to tangle itself up again,
5260 like a garden hosepipe in a shed [Footnote: Which,
5261 no matter how carefully coiled, will always uncoil
5262 overnight and tie the lawnmower to the bicycles].
5264 =head2 v5.8.1-RC4 - Terry Pratchett, "Interesting Times"
5266 L<Announced on 2003-08-01 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/08/msg79184.html>
5268 Grand Viziers were /always/ scheming megalomaniacs.
5269 It was probably in the job description: "Are you a
5270 devious, plotting, unreliable madman? Ah, good,
5271 then you can be my most trusted minister."
5273 =head2 v5.8.1-RC3 - Terry Pratchett, "Interesting Times"
5275 L<Announced on 2003-07-30 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/07/msg79048.html>
5277 Lord Hong had a mind like a knife, although possibly
5278 a knife with a curved blade.
5280 =head2 v5.8.1-RC2 - Terry Pratchett, "Interesting Times"
5282 L<Announced on 2003-07-11 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/07/msg78102.html>
5284 Many an ancient lord's last words had been, "You can't kill
5285 me because I've got magic aaargh."
5287 =head2 v5.8.1-RC1 - Terry Pratchett, "Interesting Times"
5289 L<Announced on 2003-07-10 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/07/msg78009.html>
5291 Cohen was familiar with city gates. He'd broken down a number
5292 in his time, by battering ram, siege gun, and on one occasion
5295 But the gates of Hunghung were pretty damn good gates. They
5296 weren't like the gates of Ankh-Morpork, which were usually wide
5297 open to attract the spending customer and whose concession to
5298 defense was the sign "Thank You For Not Attacking Our City.
5299 Bonum Diem." These things were big and made of metal and there
5300 was a guardhouse and a squad of unhelpful men in black armor.
5302 =head2 v5.8.0 - Terry Pratchett, "Reaper Man"
5304 L<Announced on 2002-07-18 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2002/07/msg63720.html>
5306 There was the faint sound of footsteps.
5307 "Chap with a whip got as far as the big sharp spikes last week,"
5308 said the low priest.
5309 There was a sound like the flushing of a very old dry lavatory.
5310 The footsteps stopped. The High Priest smiled to himself.
5311 "Right," he said. "See your two pebbles and raise you two pebbles."
5312 The low priest threw down his cards. "Double Onion," he said.
5313 The High Priest looked down suspiciously.
5314 The low priest consulted a scrap of paper. "That's three hundred
5315 thousand, nine hundred and sixty-four pebbles you owe me," he said.
5316 There was the sound of footsteps. The priests exchanged glances.
5317 "Haven't had one for poisoned-dart alley for quite some time,"
5318 said the High Priest.
5319 "Five says he makes it", said the low priest. "You're on."
5320 There was a faint clatter of metal points on stone.
5321 "It's a shame to take your pebbles."
5322 There were footsteps again.
5324 =head2 v5.8.0-RC3 - no epigraph
5326 L<Announced on 2002-07-13 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2002/07/msg63234.html>
5328 =head2 v5.8.0-RC2 - no epigraph
5330 L<Announced on 2002-06-21 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2002/06/msg62013.html>
5332 =head2 v5.8.0-RC1 - no epigraph
5334 L<Announced on 2002-06-01 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2002/06/msg60317.html>
5336 =head2 v5.7.3 - Terry Pratchett, "Reaper Man"
5338 L<Announced on 2002-03-04 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2002/03/msg53652.html>
5340 Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong.
5341 No matter how fast light travels it finds the darkness has always
5342 got there first, and is waiting for it.
5344 =head2 v5.7.2 - Terry Pratchett, "Small Gods"
5346 L<Announced on 2001-07-13 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2001/07/msg40370.html>
5348 His philosophy was a mixture of three famous schools --
5349 the Cynics, the Stoics and the Epicureans -- and summed up
5350 all three of them in his famous phrase, "You can't trust any
5351 bugger further than you can throw him, and there's nothing
5352 you can do about it, so let's have a drink."
5354 =head2 v5.7.1 - Terry Pratchett, "The Colour of Magic"
5356 L<Announced on 2001-04-09 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2001/04/msg33851.html>
5358 "What happens next?" asked Twoflower.
5360 Hrun screwed a finger in his ear and inspected it absently.
5362 "Oh,", he said, "I expect in a minute the door will be
5363 flung back and I'll be dragged off to some sort of temple
5364 arena where I'll fight maybe a couple of giant spiders
5365 and an eight-foot slave from the jungles of Klatch and then
5366 I'll rescue some kind of a princess from the altar and then
5367 I'll kill off a few guards or whatever and then this girl
5368 will show me the secret passage out of the place and we'll
5369 liberate a couple of horses and escape with the treasure."
5370 Hrun leaned his head back on his hands and looked at the
5371 ceiling, whistling tunelessly.
5373 "All that?" said Twoflower.
5377 =head2 v5.7.0 - Terry Pratchett, "Moving Pictures"
5379 L<Announced on 2000-09-02 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2000/09/msg17730.html>
5381 The Librarian had seen many weird things in his time,
5382 but that had to be the 57th strangest.
5383 [footnote: he had a tidy mind]
5385 =head2 v5.6.2 - Laurence Sterne, "Tristram Shandy"
5387 L<Announced on 2003-11-15 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/11/msg85222.html>
5389 When great or unexpected events fall out upon the stage of this
5390 sublunary word--the mind of man, which is an inquisitive kind of
5391 a substance, naturally takes a flight, behind the scenes, to see
5392 what is the cause and first spring of them--The search was not
5393 long in this instance.
5395 =head2 v5.6.2-RC1 - Laurence Sterne, "Tristram Shandy"
5397 L<Announced on 2003-11-08 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/11/msg84953.html>
5399 "Pray, my dear", quoth my mother, "have you not forgot to wind up the clock?"
5401 =head2 v5.6.1 - J R R Tolkien, "The Hobbit", Riddles in the Dark
5403 L<Announced on 2001-04-08 by Gurusamy Sarathy|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2001/04/msg33823.html>
5405 `What have I got in my pocket?' he said aloud. He was talking to
5406 himself, but Gollum thought it was a riddle, and he was frightfully
5409 `Not fair! not fair!' he hissed. `It isn't fair, my precious, is it,
5410 to ask us what it's got in its nassty little pocketses?'
5412 Bilbo seeing what had happened and having nothing better to ask
5413 stuck to his question, `What have I got in my pocket?' he said
5416 `S-s-s-s-s,' hissed Gollum. `It must give us three guesseses,
5417 my precious, three guesseses.'
5419 =head2 v5.6.1-foolish - no epigraph
5421 L<Announced on 2001-04-01 by Gurusamy Sarathy|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2001/04/msg33421.html>
5423 =head2 v5.6.1-TRIAL3 - I can't find the announcement
5425 No announcement available.
5427 =head2 v5.6.1-TRIAL2 - no epigraph
5429 L<Announced on 2001-01-31 by Gurusamy Sarathy|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2001/01/msg29934.html>
5431 =head2 v5.6.1-TRIAL1 - no epigraph
5433 L<Announced on 2000-12-18 by Gurusamy Sarathy|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2000/12/msg27738.html>
5435 =head2 v5.6.0 - J R R Tolkien, "The Hobbit", The Last Stage
5437 L<Announced on 2000-03-23 by Gurusamy Sarathy|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2000/03/msg10341.html>
5439 The dragon is withered,
5440 His bones are now crumbled;
5441 His armour is shivered,
5442 His splendour is humbled!
5443 Though sword shall be rusted,
5444 And throne and crown perish
5445 With strength that men trusted
5446 And wealth that they cherish,
5447 Here grass is still growing,
5448 And leaves are a yet swinging,
5449 The white water flowing,
5450 And elves are yet singing
5451 Come! Tra-la-la-lally!
5452 Come back to the valley.
5454 =head2 v5.6.0-RC3 - no epigraph
5456 L<Announced on 2000-03-22 by Gurusamy Sarathy|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2000/03/msg10140.html>
5458 =head2 v5.005_05-RC1 - no epigraph
5460 L<Announced on 2009-02-16 by LE<0xe9>on Brocard|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2009/02/msg144227.html>
5462 =head2 v5.005_04 - no epigraph
5464 L<Announced on 2004-03-01 by LE<0xe9>on Brocard|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/03/msg89047.html>
5466 =head2 v5.005_04-RC2 - Rudyard Kipling, "The Jungle Book"
5468 L<Announced on 2004-02-19 by LE<0xe9>on Brocard|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/02/msg88672.html>
5470 The monkeys called the place their city, and pretended to despise
5471 the Jungle-People because they lived in the forest. And yet they
5472 never knew what the buildings were made for nor how to use
5473 them. They would sit in circles on the hall of the king's council
5474 chamber, and scratch for fleas and pretend to be men; or they would
5475 run in and out of the roofless houses and collect pieces of plaster
5476 and old bricks in a corner, and forget where they had hidden them,
5477 and fight and cry in scuffling crowds, and then break off to play up
5478 and down the terraces of the king's garden, where they would shake
5479 the rose trees and the oranges in sport to see the fruit and flowers
5482 =head2 v5.005_04-RC1 - Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
5484 L<Announced on 2004-02-05 by LE<0xe9>on Brocard|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/02/msg88312.html>
5486 Either the well was very deep, or she fell very slowly, for she had
5487 plenty of time as she went down to look about her and to wonder what was
5488 going to happen next. First, she tried to look down and make out what
5489 she was coming to, but it was too dark to see anything; then she looked
5490 at the sides of the well, and noticed that they were filled with
5491 cupboards and book-shelves; here and there she saw maps and pictures
5492 hung upon pegs. She took down a jar from one of the shelves as she
5493 passed; it was labelled 'ORANGE MARMALADE', but to her great
5494 disappointment it was empty: she did not like to drop the jar for fear
5495 of killing somebody, so managed to put it into one of the cupboards as
5498 =head2 v1.0_16 - Johan Vromans, extemporarily
5500 L<Announced on 2003-12-18 by Richard Clamp|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/12/msg86423.html>
5502 't was 16 years ago today
5503 Larry taught us a new game
5504 of lazyness, impatience, and hubris
5505 Happy birthday, Perl!
5507 =head1 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
5509 This document was originally compiled based on a list of epigraphs
5510 on L<Perl Monks|http://perlmonks.org> titled
5511 L<Recent Perl Release Announcement|http://perlmonks.org/?node_id=372406>