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 v5.35.2 - Freeman Dyson
22 L<Announced on 2021-07-23 by Neil Bowers|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2021/07/msg260926.html>
24 There is a great satisfaction in building good tools for other people to use.
26 =head2 v5.35.1 - Sam Schube
28 L<Announced on 2021-06-20 by Max Maischein|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2021/06/msg260592.html>
30 His first marriage ended. A new relationship with an old friend
31 straightened him out. “I realized that I can't live like I was and be
32 with Naomi,” he said. “I wanted to become a better man for her. At
33 first. Then it was for myself too.” He started seeing a therapist. There
34 were limits: He told her he wasn't interested in exploring the part of
35 him that wanted to do stunts. “I know that needs looking at,” he said.
36 “But I didn't want to break the machine.”
38 It wasn't just about jeopardizing his livelihood, he explained. Doing
39 stunts “was exciting. It's something that I did with my friends. And I
40 was decent at it.” It wasn't so much about the stunts themselves, which
41 were terrifying, as about how completing them made him feel. He loved,
42 he said, “the exhilaration and relief, once you get on the other side of
43 the stunt. Or when you come to. You wake up, you're like, ‘Oh, was that
44 good?’ And they're like, ‘That was great.’ You got a good bit when
45 there's seven people standing over you, snapping their fingers.” When we
46 spoke, he still hadn't broached the topic in therapy. “I'll talk about
47 it eventually,” he said. “It's not something I need to know this second.”
49 =head2 v5.35.0 - Miguel de Unamuno
51 L<Announced on 2021-05-20 by Ricardo Signes|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2021/05/msg260116.html>
53 We should try to be the parents of our future rather than the offspring of our
56 =head2 v5.34.0 - Aberjhani
58 L<Announced on 2021-05-20 by Sawyer X|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2021/05/msg260110.html>
60 Our greatest power as nations and individuals is not the ability to employ assault weapons, suicide bombers, and drones to destroy each other.
61 The greater more creative powers with which we may arm ourselves are grace and compassion sufficient enough to love and save each other.
63 =head2 v5.34.0-RC2 - Nelson Mandela, The Long Walk to Freedom
65 L<Announced on 2021-05-15 by Sawyer X|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2021/05/msg260066.html>
67 No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.
69 =head2 v5.34.0-RC1 - Paul Tremblay, The Cabin at the End of the World
71 L<Announced on 2021-05-04 by Sawyer X|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2021/05/msg260029.html>
73 He’d irrationally hoped he could somehow put off indefinitely the future day on which she would recognize cruelty, ignorance, and injustice were the struts and pillars of the social order, as unavoidable and inevitable as the weather.
75 =head2 v5.33.9 - Abraham Lincoln
77 L<Announced on 2021-04-20 by toddr|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2021/04/msg259954.html>
79 Seven minutes ago... we, your forefathers, were brought forth upon a most excellent adventure conceived by our new friends, Bill... and Ted. These two great gentlemen are dedicated to a proposition which was true in my time, just as it's true today. Be excellent to each other!
81 =head2 v5.33.8 - David Bowie, "Heroes"
83 L<Announced on 2021-03-20 by atoomic|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2021/03/msg259358.html>
85 Tomorrow belongs to those who can hear it coming.
87 =head2 v5.33.7 - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther
89 L<Announced on 2021-02-20 by Renée Bäcker|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2021/02/msg259169.html>
91 The human race is a monotonous affair. Most people spend the greatest part of
92 their time working in order to live, and what little freedom remains so fills
93 them with fear that they seek out any and every means to be rid of it.
95 =head2 v5.33.6 - Edward R. Murrow
97 L<Announced on 2021-01-20 by Richard Leach|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2021/01/msg258843.html>
99 This instrument can teach, it can illuminate; yes, and it can even
100 inspire. But it can do so only to the extent that humans are determined
101 to use it to those ends. Otherwise it is merely wires and lights in a box.
103 =head2 v5.33.5 - Max Weber, (from "Understanding Administration", by Wolfgang Seibel)
105 L<Announced on 2020-12-20 by Max Maischein|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2020/12/msg258683.html>
107 Authority is primarily: Administration
110 =head2 v5.33.4 - George Eliot, "Adam Bede"
112 L<Announced on 2020-11-20 by Tom Hukins|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2020/11/msg258597.html>
114 It was more than two o'clock in the afternoon when Adam came in sight of
115 the grey town on the hill-side and looked searchingly towards the green
116 valley below, for the first glimpse of the old thatched roof near the
119 =head2 v5.33.3 - Ludwig van Beethoven, "Heiligenstadt Testament"; translated and quoted in: Maynard Solomon, "Beethoven"
121 L<Announced on 2020-10-20 by Steve Hay|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2020/10/msg258502.html>
123 Oh you men who think or say that I am malevolent, stubborn, or
124 misanthropic, how greatly do you wrong me. You do not know the secret
125 cause which makes me seem that way to you. From childhood on, my
126 heart and soul have been full of the tender feeling of goodwill, and I
127 was ever inclined to accomplish great things. But, think that for six
128 years now I have been hopelessly afflicted, made worse by senseless
129 physicians, from year to year deceived with hopes of improvement,
130 finally compelled to face the prospect of a lasting malady (whose cure
131 will take years or, perhaps, be impossible). Though born with a
132 fiery, active temperament, even susceptible to the diversions of
133 society, I was soon compelled to withdraw myself, to live life alone.
134 [...] I endured this wretched existence--truly wretched for so
135 susceptible a body, which can be thrown by a sudden change from the
136 best condition to the very worst.--Patience, they say, is what I must
137 now choose for my guide, and I have done so--I hope my determination
138 will remain firm to endure until it pleases the inexorable Parcae to
139 break the thread. [...] Recommend virtue to your children; it alone,
140 not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience; this was
141 what upheld me in time of misery. [...] Do not wholly forget me when I
142 am dead; I deserve this from you, for during my lifetime I was
143 thinking of you often and of ways to make you happy--please be so--
145 =head2 v5.33.2 - Elizabeth Warren
147 L<Announced on 2020-09-20 by Sawyer X|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2020/09/msg258369.html>
149 What I've learned is that real change is very, very hard. But I've
150 also learned that change is possible - if you fight for it.
152 =head2 v5.33.1 - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956 (1973)
154 L<Announced on 2020-08-20 by Karen Etheridge|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2020/08/msg258282.html>
156 If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds,
157 and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy
158 them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every
159 human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?
161 =head2 v5.33.0 - Confucius, "Confucius: The Analects"
163 L<Announed on 2020-07-17 by Sawyer X|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2020/07/msg258033.html>
165 The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.
167 =head2 v5.32.1 - Mikhail Bulgakov, trans. Michael Glenny, "The Master and Margarita"
169 L<Announced on 2021-01-23 by Steve Hay|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2021/01/msg258868.html>
171 As the warning bells rang, inquisitive people were peeping into the star
172 dressing room. Among them were jugglers in bright robes and turbans, a
173 roller-skater in a knitted cardigan, a comedian with a powdered white
174 face and a make-up man. The celebrated guest artiste amazed everyone
175 with his unusually long, superbly cut tail coat and by wearing a black
176 domino. Even more astounding were the black magician's two companions:
177 a tall man in checks with an unsteady pince-nez and a fat black cat
178 which walked into the dressing room on its hind legs and casually sat
179 down on the divan, blinking in the light of the unshaded lamps round the
182 =head2 v5.32.1-RC1 - Mikhail Bulgakov, trans. Michael Glenny, "The Heart of a Dog"
184 L<Announced on 2021-01-09 by Steve Hay|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2021/01/msg258762.html>
186 Why bother to learn to read when you can smell meat a mile away? If you
187 live in Moscow, though, and if you've got an ounce of brain in your head
188 you can't help learning to read - and without going to night-school
189 either. There are forty-thousand dogs in Moscow and I'll bet there's
190 not one of them so stupid he can't spell out the word 'sausage'.
192 =head2 v5.32.0 - Bob Dylan, "The Times They Are A Changing"
194 L<Announced on 2020-06-20 by Sawyer X|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2020/06/msg257547.html>
196 Come gather 'round, people
198 And admit that the waters
199 Around you have grown
200 And accept it that soon
201 You'll be drenched to the bone
202 If your time to you is worth savin'
203 And you better start swimmin'
204 Or you'll sink like a stone
205 For the times they are a-changin'
207 =head2 v5.32.0-RC1 - Coretta Scott King
209 L<Announced on 2020-06-08 by Sawyer X|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2020/06/msg257521.html>
211 Struggle is a never ending process. Freedom is never really won,
212 you earn it and win it in every generation.
214 =head2 v5.32.0-RC0 - Franz Kafka
216 L<Announced on 2020-05-30 by Sawyer X|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2020/05/msg257486.html>
218 There are some things one can only achieve by a deliberate leap
219 in the opposite direction.
221 =head2 v5.31.11 - John F. Kennedy, National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy
223 L<Announced on 2020-04-28 by Sawyer X|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2020/04/msg257385.html>
225 Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind.
227 =head2 v5.31.10 - Christina Rossetti, "Remember"
229 L<Announced on 2020-03-20 by Sawyer X|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2020/03/msg257274.html>
231 Remember me when I am gone away,
232 Gone far away into the silent land;
233 When you can no more hold me by the hand,
234 Nor I half turn to go yet turning stay.
235 Remember me when no more day by day
236 You tell me of our future that you plann'd:
237 Only remember me; you understand
238 It will be late to counsel then or pray.
239 Yet if you should forget me for a while
240 And afterwards remember, do not grieve:
241 For if the darkness and corruption leave
242 A vestige of the thoughts that once I had,
243 Better by far you should forget and smile
244 Than that you should remember and be sad.
246 =head2 v5.31.9 - Sten Nadolny, book The Discovery of Slowness
248 L<Announced on 2020-02-20 by Renee Bäcker|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2020/02/msg257144.html>
250 „When people talk too fast the content becomes as superfluous as the speed.“
252 =head2 v5.31.8 - Joe Perham, "Joe Perham's Guide to Hunting and Guide to Fishing in Maine"
254 L<Announced on 2020-01-20 by Matthew Horsfall|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2020/01/msg256894.html>
256 Harry used to cut wood for the Brown company over in Stoneham Red
257 Rock Basin. And of course he was the best shot in camp. One day the
258 foreman told him to go get some meat.
260 "Take any gun you want."
262 Harry says "I'll take the .45-70."
264 Foreman said "That gun's only got one bullet."
266 Harry says "I only need one bullet."
268 Took the .45-70, went out, an hour later he was back with two Moose,
269 a dozen trout you see, and a fluffy partridge. Went back to work.
271 Well at supper that night foreman says "Harry, um, something's
272 bothering me here a little bit. How did you get all that food with
273 only one bullet. I'm a little confused about the... the partridge,
274 there ain't a mark on him."
276 "Well", Harry says, "I'll tell ya. I took that .45-70, went back into
277 the woods a piece there I come to this brook. And I just uh, got to
278 the other side when I happen to see two moose in the swamp off
279 there. I figured I could get both of 'em. So I took out my huntin'
280 knife and stuck it into the mud, hilt foremost, sharp edge on the
281 blade towards me of course. I took dead aim on that knife, fired,
282 split that bullet and killed those two moose. Well you know the
283 recoil knocked me back into the brook. When I come up out of the
284 water, my pants were so full of fish that it popped a button off my
285 fly and killed that bird."
287 =head2 v5.31.7 - Bernard Werber
289 L<Announced on 2019-12-20 by Atoomic|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/12/msg256802.html>
291 Be quiet. Look at the stars and appreciate what you live.
293 =head2 v5.31.6 - Neal Stephenson, "Quicksilver"
295 L<Announced on 2019-11-20 by Chris 'BinGOs' Williams|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/11/msg256646.html>
299 State your intentions, Muse. I know you're there.
300 Dead bards who pined for you have said
301 You're bright as flame, but fickle as the air.
302 My pen and I, submerged in liquid shade,
303 Much dark can spread, on days and over reams
304 But without you, no radiance can shed.
305 Why rustle in the dark, when fledged with fire?
306 Craze the night with flails of light. Reave
307 Your turbid shroud. Bestow what I require.
309 But you're not in the dark. I do believe
310 I swim, like squid, in clouds of my own make,
311 To you, offensive. To us both, opaque.
312 What's constituted so, only a pen
313 Can penetrate. I have one here; let's go.
315 =head2 v5.31.5 - Edward Lear, ed. Vivien Noakes, "The Complete Nonsense and Other Verse": The Daddy Long-legs and the Fly
317 L<Announced on 2019-10-20 by Steve Hay|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/10/msg256478.html>
319 'O Mr Daddy Long-legs,'
321 'It's true I never go to court,
322 And I will tell you why.
323 If I had six long legs like yours,
324 At once I'd go to court!
325 But oh! I can't, because my legs
326 Are so extremely short.
327 And I'm afraid the King and Queen
328 (One in red, and one in green)
329 Would say aloud, "You are not fit,
330 You Fly, to come to court a bit!"'
332 =head2 v5.31.4 - Ann Leckie, "The Raven Tower"
334 L<Announced on 2019-09-20 by Max Maischein|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/09/msg256254.html>
336 Stories can be risky for someone like me. What I say must be true, or it
337 will be made true, and if it cannot be made true - if I don't have the
338 power, or if what I have said is an impossibility - then I will pay the
339 price. I might more or less safely say, "Once there was a man who rode
340 home to attend his father's funeral and claim his inheritance, but
341 matters were not as he expected them to be." I do not doubt that such a
342 thing has happened more than once in all the time there have been
343 fathers to die and sons to succeed them. But to go any further, I must
344 supply more details - the specific actions of specific people, and their
345 specific consequences - and there I might blunder, all unknowing, into
346 untruth. It's safer for me to speak of what I know. Or to speak only in
347 the safest of generalities. Or else to say plainly at the beginning,
348 "Here is a story I have heard," placing the burden of truth or not on
349 the teller whose words I am merely accurately reporting.
351 But what is the story that I am telling? Here is another story I have
353 Once there were two brothers, and one of them wanted what the other had.
354 Bent all his will to obtain what the other had, no matter the cost.
355 Here is another story: Once there was a prisoner in a tower.
357 Once someone risked their life out of duty and loyalty to a friend.
358 Ah, there's a story that I might tell, and truthfully.
360 =head2 v5.31.3 - Samantha Harvey, "All Is Song"
362 L<Announced on 2019-08-20 by Tom Hukins|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/08/msg256012.html>
364 We are born from unity, we divide into isolation. We winnow ourselves
365 out from the thing that first made sense of us and then expect to find
366 meaning, yet a fraction makes no sense without the number of which
367 it's a fractional part. We see loss, feel grief, give ourselves
368 illness, we're cells that have over-divided and we call the division
369 growth; the only real growth is in the return to unity, God, the
372 Tired to his core, he turned the video off. The rain still poured as
373 he went upstairs, and in bed as he tripped down into the deep open
374 shaft of sleep he kept thinking that to divide by zero was to end up
375 with infinity, as was to divide by God. To divide by God, to divide
376 by God, over and over he thought it without sense; to divide by God; I
377 must tell my students that the way to pass their exams is to divide by
378 God. Then he must have slept, for it was morning.
380 =head2 v5.31.2 - Edward Lear, ed. Vivien Noakes, "The Complete Nonsense and Other Verse": The Duck and the Kangaroo
382 L<Announced on 2019-07-20 by Steve Hay|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/07/msg255639.html>
384 Said the Duck to the Kangaroo,
385 'Good gracious! how you hop!
386 Over the fields and the water too,
387 As if you never would stop!
388 My life is a bore in this nasty pond,
389 And I long to go out in the world beyond!
390 I wish I could hop like you!'
391 Said the Duck to the Kangaroo.
393 =head2 v5.31.1 - Kurt Vonnegut, _A Man without a Country_
395 L<Announced on 2019-06-20 by Karen Etheridge|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/06/msg255243.html>
397 On Tuesday, January 20, 2004, I sent Joel Bleifuss, my editor at _In These
400 ON ORANGE ALERT HERE.
401 ECONOMIC TERRORIST ATTACK
402 EXPECTED AT 8 PM EST. KV
404 Worried, he called, asking what was up. I said I would tell him when I had
405 more complete information on the bombs George Bush was set to deliver in his
406 State of the Union address.
408 That night I got a call from my friend, the out-of-print-science-fiction
409 writer Kilgore Trout. He asked me, "Did you watch the State of the Union
412 "Yes, and it certainly helped to remember what the great British socialist
413 playwright George Bernard Shaw said about this planet."
417 "He said, 'I don't know if there are men on the moon, but if there are, they
418 must be using the earth as their lunatic asylum.' And he wasn't talking
419 about the germs or the elephants. He meant we the people."
423 "You don't think this is the Lunatic Asylum of the Universe?"
425 "Kurt, I don't think I expressed an opinion one way of the other."
427 "We are killing this planet as a life-support system with the poisons from
428 all the thermodynamic whoopee we're making with atomic energy and fossil
429 fuels, and everybody knows it, and practically nobody cares. This is how
430 crazy we are. I think the planet's immune system is trying to get rid of us
431 with AIDS and new strains of flu and tuberculosis, and so on. I think the
432 planet should get rid of us. We're really awful animals. I mean, that dumb
433 Barbra Streisand song, 'People who need people are the luckiest people in
434 the world' -- she's talking about cannibals. Lots to eat. Yes, the planet is
435 trying to get rid of us, but I think it's too late."
437 And I said good-bye to my friend, hung up the phone, sat down and wrote this
438 epitaph: "The good Earth -- we could have saved it, but we were too damn
441 =head2 v5.31.0 - Fumiko Enchi, Masks
443 L<Announced on 2019-05-24 by Sawyer X|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/05/msg254886.html>
445 The secrets inside her mind are like flowers in a garden at
446 nighttime, filling the darkness with perfume.
448 =head2 v5.30.3 - Ben Aaronovitch, "Rivers of London"
450 L<Announced on 2020-06-01 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2020/01/msg257498.html>
452 Trewsbury Mead [...] According to the Ordnance Survey, this is where the
453 Thames first rises 130 straight-line kilometres west of London. Just to
454 the north is the site either of an Iron Age hill fort or a Roman
455 encampment, the exact nature of which is awaiting an episode of Time
456 Team. Apparently there is a soggy field, a stone to mark the spot and a
457 chance, after a particularly wet winter, that you might see some water.
459 =head2 v5.30.2 - Francesco Maria Piave, trans. Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, "La traviata", Act II, Scene 2
461 L<Announced on 2020-03-14 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2020/03/msg257227.html>
463 FLORA, GASTON, DOCTOR, MARQUIS, CHORUS
465 Yes, you have suffered, but take heart!
466 Every one of us has shared your pain;
467 friends are around you to dry the tears
471 (I alone know the true devotion
472 this poor girl hides within her breast;
473 I know her faithful heart,
474 but I'm vowed so cruelly to silence.)
478 Your deadly insult to this lady
479 offends us all, but such an outrage
480 shall not go unavenged!
481 I shall find a way to humble your pride!
484 (Alas, what have I done? I feel terrible about it.
485 She will never forgive me.)
489 Alfredo, how should you understand
490 all the love that's in my heart?
491 How should you know that I have proved it,
492 even at the price of your contempt?
494 But the time will come when you will know,
495 when you'll admit how much I loved you.
496 God save you then from all remorse!
497 Even after death I shall still love you.
499 =head2 v5.30.2-RC1 - Francesco Maria Piave, trans. Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, "La traviata", Act II, Scene 2
501 L<Announced on 2020-02-29 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2020/02/msg257163.html>
504 For me this woman lost
506 I was blind, a wretched coward,
508 But it's time now for me to clear
510 I call you all to witness here
511 that I've paid her back!
513 (Contemptuously, he throws his winnings at Violetta's feet.
514 She swoons in Flora's arms. Alfredo's father arrives suddenly.)
520 a tender heart that way!
524 We've no use for the likes of you!
528 (dignified in his anger)
529 A man who offends a woman, even in anger,
530 deserves nothing but scorn.
531 Where is my son? I no longer see him
535 (What have I done? Yes, I despise myself!
536 Jealous madness, love deceived,
537 ravaged my soul, destroyed my reason.
538 How can I ever gain her pardon?
539 I would have left her, but I couldn't;
540 I came here to vent my anger,
541 But now I've done that, wretch that I am,
542 I feel nothing but deep remorse!)
544 =head2 v5.30.1 - Francesco Maria Piave, trans. Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, "La traviata", Act I: Brindisi
546 L<Announced on 2019-11-10 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/11/msg256610.html>
549 With you I would share
550 my days of happiness;
551 everything is folly in this world
552 that does not give us pleasure.
554 for the pleasures of love are swift and fleeting
555 as a flower that lives and dies
556 and can be enjoyed no more.
557 Let's take our pleasure while its ardent,
558 brilliant summons lures us on!
560 =head2 v5.30.1-RC1 - Francesco Maria Piave, trans. Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, "La traviata", Act I: Brindisi
562 L<Announced on 2019-10-27 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/10/msg256542.html>
565 Let's drink from the joyous chalice
566 where beauty flowers...
567 Let the fleeting hour
568 to pleasure's intoxication yield.
570 to love's sweet tremors --
572 that pierce the heart.
573 Let's drink to love -- to wine
574 that warms our kisses.
576 =head2 v5.30.0 - Morihei Ueshiba
578 L<Announced on 2019-05-22 by Sawyer X|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/05/msg254844.html>
580 Life is growth. If we stop growing, technically and spiritually, we
583 =head2 v5.30.0-RC2 - Derek Walcott
585 L<Announced on 2019-05-17 by Sawyer X|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/05/msg254824.html>
587 The truest writers are those who see language not as linguistic process but
592 =head2 v5.30.0-RC1 - Marcel Proust
594 L<Announced on 2019-05-11 by Sawyer X|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/05/msg254748.html>
596 If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream
597 less but to dream more, to dream all the time.
601 =head2 v5.29.10 - Maya Angelou, Alone
603 L<Announced on 2019-04-20 by Sawyer X|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/04/msg254467.html>
607 How to find my soul a home
608 Where water is not thirsty
609 And bread loaf is not stone
610 I came up with one thing
611 And I don't believe I'm wrong
614 Can make it out here alone.
618 Can make it out here alone.
620 There are some millionaires
621 With money they can't use
622 Their wives run round like banshees
623 Their children sing the blues
624 They've got expensive doctors
625 To cure their hearts of stone.
628 Can make it out here alone.
632 Can make it out here alone.
634 Now if you listen closely
635 I'll tell you what I know
636 Storm clouds are gathering
637 The wind is gonna blow
638 The race of man is suffering
639 And I can hear the moan,
642 Can make it out here alone.
646 Can make it out here alone.
648 =head2 v5.29.9 - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Dancing Men
650 L<Announced on 2019-03-21 by Zak Elep|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/03/msg253978.html>
652 What one man can invent, another can discover.
654 =head2 v5.29.8 - Isaac Asimov, Foundation: “Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.”
656 L<Announced on 2019-02-20 by Atoomic|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/02/msg253750.html>
658 =head2 v5.29.7 - Edsger W. Dijkstra: "Programming Considered as a Human Activity", IFIP Congress, New York, 1965.
660 L<Announced on 2019-01-20 by Abigail|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/01/msg253444.html>
662 When I became acquainted with the notion of algorithmic languages I
663 never challenged the then prevailing notion that the problems of
664 language design and implementation were mostly a question of
665 compromises: every new convenience for the user had to be paid for
666 by the implementation, either in the form of increased trouble
667 during translation, or during execution or during both. Well, we
668 are most certainly not living in Heaven and I am not going to deny
669 the possibility of a conflict between convenience and efficiency,
670 but now I do protest when this conflict is presented as a complete
671 summing up of the situation. I am of the opinion that is worth-while
672 to investigate what extent the needs of Man and Machine go hand in
673 hand and to see what techniques we can devise of the benefit of all
674 of us. I trust that this investigation will bear fruits and if this
675 talk made some of you share this fervent hope, it has achieved its aim.
677 =head2 v5.29.6 - Rudyard Kipling: "How the Camel Got His Hump"
679 L<Announced on 2018-12-18 by Abigail|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/12/msg253187.html>
681 The Camel's hump is an ugly lump
682 Which well you may see at the Zoo;
683 But uglier yet is the hump we get
684 From having little to do.
686 Kiddies and grown-ups too-oo-oo
687 If we haven't enough to do-oo-oo,
690 The hump that is black and blue!
692 We climb out of bed with a frouzly head
693 And a snarly-yarly voice.
694 We shiver and scowl and we grunt and we growl
695 At our bath and our boots and our toys;
697 And there ought to be a corner for me
698 (And I know there is one for you)
699 When we get the hump -
701 The hump that is black and blue!
703 The cure for this ill is to not sit still,
704 Or frowst with a book by the fire;
705 But to take a large hoe and a shovel also,
706 And dig till you gentle perspire;
708 And then you will find that the sun and the wind,
709 And the Djinn of the Garden too,
710 Have lifted the hump -
712 The hump that is black and blue!
714 I get it as well as you-oo-oo -
715 If I haven't enough to do-oo-oo!
718 Kiddies and grown-ups too!
721 =head2 v5.29.5 - T. S. Eliot, "The Naming Of Cats"
723 L<Announced on 2018-11-20 by Karen Etheridge|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/11/msg252839.html>
725 The Naming of Cats is a difficult matter,
726 It isn't just one of your holiday games;
727 You may think at first I'm as mad as a hatter
728 When I tell you, a cat must have THREE DIFFERENT NAMES.
729 First of all, there's the name that the family use daily,
730 Such as Peter, Augustus, Alonzo or James,
731 Such as Victor or Jonathan, George or Bill Bailey--
732 All of them sensible everyday names.
733 There are fancier names if you think they sound sweeter,
734 Some for the gentlemen, some for the dames:
735 Such as Plato, Admetus, Electra, Demeter--
736 But all of them sensible everyday names.
737 But I tell you, a cat needs a name that's particular,
738 A name that's peculiar, and more dignified,
739 Else how can he keep up his tail perpendicular,
740 Or spread out his whiskers, or cherish his pride?
741 Of names of this kind, I can give you a quorum,
742 Such as Munkustrap, Quaxo, or Coricopat,
743 Such as Bombalurina, or else Jellylorum-
744 Names that never belong to more than one cat.
745 But above and beyond there's still one name left over,
746 And that is the name that you never will guess;
747 The name that no human research can discover--
748 But THE CAT HIMSELF KNOWS, and will never confess.
749 When you notice a cat in profound meditation,
750 The reason, I tell you, is always the same:
751 His mind is engaged in a rapt contemplation
752 Of the thought, of the thought, of the thought of his name:
753 His ineffable effable
755 Deep and inscrutable singular Name.
757 =head2 v5.29.4 - The Mountain Goats, "Oceanographer's Choice"
759 L<Announced on 2018-10-20 by Aaron Crane|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/10/msg252575.html>
762 Guy in a skeleton costume
763 Comes up to the guy in the Superman suit
764 Runs through him with a broadsword
765 I flipped the television off
766 Bring all the bright lights up
767 Turn the radio up loud
768 I don't know why I'm so persuaded
769 That if I think things through
770 Long enough and hard enough
771 I'll somehow get to you
772 But then you came in and we locked eyes
773 You kicked the ashtray over as we came toward each other
774 Stubbed my cigarette out against the west wall
777 Would you look at that?
778 We're throwing off sparks
779 What will I do when I don't have you
780 To hold onto in the dark?
782 =head2 v5.29.3 - Mac Miller, "Senior Skip Day"
784 L<Announced on 2018-09-20 by John 'genehack' Anderson|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/09/msg252255.html>
786 Enjoy the best things in your life
787 ’Cause you ain’t gonna get to live it twice
788 They say you waste time asleep
789 But I’m just tryin’ to dream
791 =head2 v5.29.2 - Rick Riordan, "The Lightning Thief"
793 L<Announced on 2018-08-20 by Chris 'BinGOs' Williams|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/08/msg251918.html>
795 Look, I didn't want to be a half-blood.
797 If you're reading this because you think you might be one,
798 my advice is: close this book right now. Believe whatever
799 lie your mom or dad told you about your birth, and try
800 to lead a normal life.
802 Being a half-blood is dangerous. It's scary. Most of the time,
803 it gets you killed in painful, nasty ways.
805 If you're a normal kid, reading this because you think it's
806 fiction, great. Read on. I envy you for being able to believe
807 that none of this ever happened.
809 But if you recognize yourself in these pages - if you feel
810 something stirring inside - stop reading immediately.
811 You might be one of us. And once you know that, it's only a
812 matter of time before they sense it too, and they'll come for you.
814 =head2 v5.29.1 - Richard Curtis & Ben Elton, "Blackadder, Series 3, Episode 2: Ink and Incapability"
816 L<Announced on 2018-07-20 by Steve Hay|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/07/msg251605.html>
818 Dr. Samuel Johnson: Here it is, sir: the very cornerstone of English
819 scholarship. This book, sir, contains every word in our beloved
822 Prince Regent George: Hmm.
824 Edmund Blackadder: Every single one, sir?
826 Johnson: (confidently) Every single word, sir!
828 Blackadder: (to Prince) Oh, well, in that case, sir, I hope you will
829 not object if I also offer the Doctor my most enthusiastic
834 Blackadder: 'Contrafribularities,' sir? It is a common word down our
837 Johnson: Damn! (writes in the book)
839 Blackadder: Oh, I'm sorry, sir. I'm anaspeptic, phrasmotic, even
840 compunctious to have caused you such pericombobulation.
842 Johnson: What? What? WHAT?
844 =head2 v5.29.0 - Erle Stanley Gardner, The Case of the Grinning Gorilla
846 L<Announced on 2018-06-26 by Sawyer X|http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/251297>
848 Courage is the only antidote for danger.
850 =head2 v5.28.3 - Ben Aaronovitch, "Rivers of London"
852 L<Announced on 2020-06-01 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2020/01/msg257497.html>
854 The north end of the London Borough of Camden is dominated by two hills,
855 Hampstead on the west, Highgate on the east, with the Heath, one of the
856 largest parks in London, slung between them like a green saddle. From
857 these heights the land slopes down towards the River Thames and the
858 floodplains that lurk below the built-up centre of London.
860 =head2 v5.28.2 - Edward Lear, ed. Vivien Noakes, "The Complete Nonsense and Other Verse": The Jumblies
862 L<Announced on 2019-04-19 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/04/msg254456.html>
864 They went to sea in a Sieve, they did,
865 In a Sieve they went to sea:
866 In spite of all their friends could say,
867 On a winter's morn, on a stormy day,
868 In a Sieve they went to sea!
869 And when the Sieve turned round and round,
870 And every one cried, 'You'll all be drowned!'
871 They called aloud, 'Our Sieve ain't big,
872 But we don't care a button! we don't care a fig!
873 In a Sieve we'll go to sea!'
874 Far and few, far and few,
875 Are the lands where the Jumblies live;
876 Their heads are green, and their hands are blue,
877 And they went to sea in a Sieve.
879 =head2 v5.28.2-RC1 - Edward Lear, ed. Vivien Noakes, "The Complete Nonsense and Other Verse": The Quangle Wangle's Hat
881 L<Announced on 2019-04-05 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/04/msg254218.html>
883 On the top of the Crumpetty Tree
884 The Quangle Wangle sat,
885 But his face you could not see,
886 On account of his Beaver Hat.
887 For his Hat was a hundred and two feet wide,
888 With ribbons and bibbons on every side,
889 And bells, and buttons, and loops, and lace,
890 So that nobody ever could see the face
891 Of the Quangle Wangle Quee.
893 =head2 v5.28.1 - Humphrey Burton, "Leonard Bernstein"
895 L<Announced on 2018-11-29 by Steve Hay|http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/11/msg252975.html>
897 On August 25, 1983, Leonard Bernstein celebrated his sixty-fifth
898 birthday in his birthplace, Lawrence, Massachusetts. He had actually
899 lived in the town for only a few weeks as a newborn baby, and had last
900 visited it forty-nine years previously, in 1934, to get the name on his
901 birth certificate altered from Louis to Leonard. But the citizens of
902 Lawrence proposed to dedicate an outdoor theater to him in their
903 heritage park and to provide not one but two local orchestras--the
904 Merrimack Valley Philharmonic to play excerpts from his own compositions
905 and the Greater Boston Youth Symphony and Chorus to perform the "Ode to
906 Joy" and accompany Bernstein himself reading (for the only time in his
907 life) the text of A Lincoln Portrait. So Bernstein turned down birthday
908 invitations from Tanglewood and Central Park, New York, and the
909 Hollywood Bowl and drove through the cheering if slightly bewildered
910 crowds lining the streets of Lawrence in an open-topped 1928 Ford
911 roadster, looking as homespun as James Stewart in Frank Capra's classic,
912 It's a Wonderful Life.
914 =head2 v5.28.0 - Martin Luther King, Jr., 1967
916 L<Announced on 2018-06-22 by Sawyer X|http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/251240>
918 When we look at modern man we have to face the fact that modern man
919 suffers from a kind of poverty of the spirit which stands in glaring
920 contrast with his scientific and technological abundance. We've learned
921 to fly the air as birds, we've learned to swim the seas as fish, yet we
922 haven't learned to walk the earth as brothers and sisters.
924 =head2 v5.28.0-RC4 - Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book
926 L<Announced on 2018-06-19 by Sawyer X|http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/251212>
928 You're alive, Bod. That means you have infinite potential. You can do
929 anything, make anything, dream anything. If you can change the world,
930 the world will change. Potential. Once you're dead, it's gone. Over.
931 You've made what you've made, dreamed your dream, written your name.
932 You may be buried here, you may even walk. But that potential is
935 =head2 v5.28.0-RC3 - Anthony Horowitz, Magpie Murders
937 L<Announced on 2018-06-18 by Sawyer X|http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/251204>
939 These had been his plans. But if there was one thing that life had
940 taught him, it was the futility of making plans. Life had its own
943 =head2 v5.28.0-RC2 - Oliver Sacks, The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat: And Other Clinical Tales
945 L<Announced on 2018-06-06 by Sawyer X|http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/251122>
947 Had she not been of exceptional intelligence and literacy, with an
948 imagination filled and sustained, so to speak, by the images of
949 others, images conveyed by language, by the word, she might have
950 remained almost as helpless as a baby.
952 =head2 v5.28.0-RC1 - Anu Garg, A Word A Day
954 L<Announced on 2018-05-21 by Sawyer X|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/05/msg250999.html>
956 One doesn't have to know the unit of pain (dol) to realize that the
957 unit of joy is not the dollar, or any other currency for that matter.
959 =head2 v5.27.11 - Tana French, In the Woods
961 L<Announced on 2018-04-20 by Sawyer X|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/04/msg250571.html>
963 And then, too, I had learned early to assume something dark and
964 lethal hidden at the heart of anything I loved. When I couldn't find
965 it, I responded, bewildered and wary, in the only way I knew how: by
966 planting it there myself.
968 =head2 v5.27.10 - Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, p. 248
970 L<Announced on 2018-03-20 by Todd Rinaldo|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/03/msg250042.html>
972 A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher
973 a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts,
974 build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders,
975 cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure,
976 program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly.
977 Specialization is for insects.
979 =head2 v5.27.9 - Agatha Christie, "The Mysterious Affair at Styles"
981 L<Announced on 2018-02-20 by Renee Bäcker|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/02/msg249549.html>
983 Poirot was an extraordinary looking little man. He was hardly more
984 than five feet, four inches, but carried himself with great dignity.
985 His head was exactly the shape of an egg, and he always perched it
986 a little on one side. His moustache was very stiff and military.
987 The neatness of his attire was almost incredible. I believe a
988 speck of dust would have caused him more pain than a bullet wound.
989 Yet this quaint dandified little man who, I was sorry to see, now
990 limped badly, had been in his time one of the most celebrated members
991 of the Belgian police. As a detective, his flair had been extraordinary,
992 and he had achieved triumphs by unravelling some of the most baffling
994 He pointed out to me the little house inhabited by him and his fellow
995 Belgians, and I promised to go and see him at an early date. Then he
996 raised his hat with a flourish to Cynthia, and we drove away.
997 "He's a dear little man," said Cynthia. "I'd no idea you knew him."
998 "You've been entertaining a celebrity unawares," I replied.
999 And, for the rest of the way home, I recited to them the various
1000 exploits and triumphs of Hercule Poirot.
1002 =head2 v5.27.8 - Jasper Fforde, "Shades of Grey"
1004 L<Announced on 2018-01-20 by Abigail|http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/248914>
1006 2.4.16.55.021: Males are to wear dresscode #6 during inter-Collective
1007 travel. Hats are encouraged, but not required.
1009 9.3.88.32.025: The cucumber and tomato are both fruit; the avocado
1010 is a nut. To assist with the dietary requirements of vegetarians,
1011 on the first Tuesday of the month a chicken is officially a vegetable.
1013 5.3.21.01.002: Once allocated, postcodes are permanent, and for life.
1015 6.1.02.11.235: Artifacture from before the Something That Happened
1016 may be collected, so long it does not appear on the Leapback list
1017 or possess color above 23 percent saturation.
1019 2.3.06.02.087: Unnecessary sharpening of pencils constitutes a waste
1020 of public resources, and will be punished as appropriate.
1022 2.1.01.05.002: All children are to attent school until the age of
1023 sixteen or until they have learned everything, whichever be the sooner.
1025 1.3.02.06.023: There shall be no staring at the sun, however good
1028 1.1.19.02.006: Team sports are mandatory in order to build character.
1029 Character is there to give purpose to team sports.
1031 2.3.03.01.006: Juggling shall not be practiced after 4:00 pm.
1034 =head2 v5.27.7 - Terry Pratchett, "Hogfather"
1036 L<Announced on 2017-12-20 by Chris 'BinGOs' Williams|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/12/msg248274.html>
1038 Death looked at the sacks.
1040 It was a strange but demonstrable fact that the sacks of
1041 toys carried by the Hogfather, no matter what they
1042 really contained, always appeared to have sticking out
1043 of the top a teddy bear, a toy soldier in the kind of
1044 colorful uniform that would stand out in a disco, a
1045 drum and a red-and-white candy cane. The actual
1046 contents always turned out to be something a bit
1047 garish and costing $5.99.
1049 Death had investigated one or two. There had been a
1050 Real Agatean Ninja, for example, with Fearsome
1051 Death Grip, and a Captain Carrot One-Man Night
1052 Watch with a complete wardrobe of toy weapons, each
1053 of which cost as much as the original wooden doll in
1056 Mind you, the stuff for the girls was just as
1057 depressing. It seemed to be nearly all horses. Most of
1058 them were grinning. Horses, Death felt, shouldn't grin.
1060 Any horse that was grinning was planning something.
1062 =head2 v5.27.6 - Ogden Nash, "Behold the Duck"
1064 L<Announced on 2017-11-20 by Karen Etheridge|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/11/msg247489.html>
1071 It is 'specially fond
1072 of puddles or ponds;
1073 when it dines or sups
1077 =head2 v5.27.5 - Frank Birch, Dilly Knox & G. P. Mackeson, "Alice in I.D.25"
1079 L<Announced on 2017-10-20 by Steve Hay|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/10/msg246785.html>
1081 'Can I do anything?' Alice suggested timidly, thinking that something
1082 dreadful must have happened.
1083 The Waterflap jumped as if it had been shot. 'What are you doing
1084 here?' it snapped. 'Take this at once into the Directional room,' and it
1085 thrust the paper which had caused all the fuss into her hands.
1086 'But where is the Directional room?' she inquired, bewildered.
1087 'Why, there of course,' howled the Waterflap, pointing to a door.
1088 'How could I possibly know that!' Alice exclaimed, angered by his
1090 'Silly girl,' it hissed. 'Why, it's called the Directional room
1091 because it's in that direction,' and it pushed her roughly through the
1094 =head2 v5.27.4 - Richard Brautigan, "All Watched Over By Machines Of Loving Grace"
1096 L<Announced on 2017-09-20 by John SJ Anderson|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/09/msg246371.html>
1098 I like to think (and
1099 the sooner the better!)
1100 of a cybernetic meadow
1101 where mammals and computers
1102 live together in mutually
1108 (right now, please!)
1109 of a cybernetic forest
1110 filled with pines and electronics
1111 where deer stroll peacefully
1113 as if they were flowers
1114 with spinning blossoms.
1118 of a cybernetic ecology
1119 where we are free of our labors
1120 and joined back to nature,
1121 returned to our mammal
1122 brothers and sisters,
1123 and all watched over
1124 by machines of loving grace.
1126 =head2 v5.27.3 - Rodgers and Hammerstein, "You'll Never Walk Alone"
1128 L<Announced on 2017-08-21 by Matthew Horsfall|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/08/msg245988.html>
1130 When you walk through a storm
1131 Hold your head up high
1132 And don't be afraid of the dark
1134 At the end of a storm
1135 There's a golden sky
1136 And the sweet silver song of a lark
1138 Walk on through the wind
1139 Walk on through the rain
1140 Though your dreams be tossed and blown
1143 With hope in your heart
1144 And you'll never walk alone
1146 You'll never walk alone
1149 With hope in your heart
1150 And you'll never walk alone
1152 You'll never walk alone
1154 =head2 v5.27.2 - Lev Grossman, Codex
1156 L<Announced on 2017-07-20 by Aaron Crane|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/07/msg245585.html>
1158 He went back for another stack of books: a three-volume English legal
1159 treatise; a travel guide to Tuscany from the '20s crammed with faded
1160 Italian wildflowers that fluttered out from between the pages like
1161 moths; a French edition of Turgeniev so decayed that it came apart in
1162 his hands; a register of London society from 1863. In a way it was
1163 idiotic. He was treating these books like they were holy relics. It
1164 wasn't like he would ever actually read them. But there was something
1165 magnetic about them, something that compelled respect, even the silly
1166 ones, like the Enlightenment treatise about how lightning was caused
1167 by bees. They were information, data, but not in the form he was used
1168 to dealing with it. They were non-digital, nonelectrical chunks of
1169 memory, not stamped out of silicon but laboriously crafted out of wood
1170 pulp and ink, leather and glue. Somebody had cared enough to write
1171 these things; somebody else had cared enough to buy them, possibly
1172 even read them, at the very least keep them safe for 150 years,
1173 sometimes longer, when they could have vanished at the touch of a
1174 spark. That made them worth something, didn't it, just by itself?
1175 Though most of them would have bored him rigid the second he cracked
1176 them open, which there wasn't much chance of. Maybe that was what he
1177 found so appealing: the sight of so many books that he'd never have to
1178 read, so much work he'd never have to do.
1180 =head2 v5.27.1 - Rona Munro, Doctor Who: Survival
1182 L<Announced on 2017-06-20 by Eric Herman|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/06/msg245055.html>
1184 There are worlds out there where the sky is burning,
1185 where the sea's asleep and the rivers dream,
1186 people made of smoke and cities made of song.
1187 Somewhere there's danger,
1188 somewhere there's injustice
1189 and somewhere else the tea is getting cold.
1190 Come on, Ace, we've got work to do.
1192 =head2 v5.27.0 - Bertrand Russell, The Road to Happiness
1194 L<Announced on 2017-05-31 by Sawyer X|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/05/msg244580.html>
1196 People who have theories as to how one should live tend to forget the
1197 limitations of nature. If your way of life involves constant
1198 restraint of impulse for the sake of some one supreme aim that you
1199 have set yourself, it is likely that the aim will become increasingly
1200 distasteful because of the efforts that it demands; impulse, denied
1201 its normal outlets, will find others, probably in spite; pleasure, if
1202 you allow yourself any at all, will be dissociated from the main
1203 current of your life, and will become Bacchic and frivolous. Such
1204 pleasure brings no happiness, but only a deeper despair.
1206 -- Bertrand Russell, The Road to Happiness
1208 =head2 v5.26.3 - Humphrey Burton, "Leonard Bernstein"
1210 L<Announced on 2018-11-29 by Steve Hay|http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/11/msg252974.html>
1212 The origins of the name "Bernstein" are sometimes linked with the German
1213 noun Bernstein, which means "amber"--a translucent yellowish fossilized
1214 resin, used for ornaments and thought to possess magical properties.
1215 Leonard Bernstein would later call himself "Lenny Amber" when he needed
1216 a pseudonym for the popular piano transcriptions he published in his
1217 mid-twenties, and his business affairs would be organized within a
1218 company called Amberson Enterprises. There are several towns and
1219 villages named Bernstein in Germany and Austria (where the pronunciation
1220 is BernSTINE), but Bernstein's parents came from Jewish ghettos in
1221 northwestern Ukraine, where the last syllable is usually pronounced
1222 BernSHTAYN or STEEN. Sam insisted, however, on the mid-European style
1223 employed by the earlier immigrants.
1225 =head2 v5.26.2 - Desmond Morris, "Catwatching: The Essential Guide to Cat Behaviour"
1227 L<Announced on 2018-04-14 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/04/msg250440.html>
1229 How does a cat use its whiskers? The usual answer is that the whiskers
1230 are feelers that enable a cat to tell whether a gap is wide enough for
1231 it to squeeze through, but the truth is more complicated and more
1232 remarkable. In addition to their obvious role as feelers sensitive to
1233 touch, the whiskers also operate as air-current detectors. As the cat
1234 moves along in the dark it needs to manoeuvre past solid objects without
1235 touching them. Each solid object it approaches causes slight eddies in
1236 the air, minute disturbances in the currents of air movements, and the
1237 cat's whiskers are so amazingly sensitive that they can read these air
1238 changes and respond to the presence of solid obstacles even without
1241 =head2 v5.26.2-RC1 - Desmond Morris, "Catwatching: The Essential Guide to Cat Behaviour"
1243 L<Announced on 2018-03-24 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/03/msg250103.html>
1245 Cats have a way of endearing themselves to their owners, not just by
1246 their 'kittenoid' behaviour, which stimulates strong parental feelings,
1247 but also by their sheer gracefulness. There is an elegance and a
1248 composure about them that captivates the human eye. To the sensitive
1249 human being it becomes a privilege to share a room with a cat, exchange
1250 its glance, feel its greeting rub, or watch it gently luxuriate itself
1251 into a snoozing ball on a soft cushion.
1253 =head2 v5.26.1 - Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
1255 L<Announced on 2017-09-22 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/09/msg246408.html>
1257 And soon I heard a roaring wind:
1258 It did not come anear;
1259 But with its sound it shook the sails,
1260 That were so thin and sere.
1262 The upper air burst into life!
1263 And a hundred fire-flags sheen,
1264 To and fro they were hurried about!
1265 And to and fro, and in and out,
1266 The wan stars danced between.
1268 =head2 v5.26.1-RC1 - Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
1270 L<Announced on 2017-09-10 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/09/msg246202.html>
1272 At length did cross an Albatross,
1273 Thorough the fog it came;
1274 As if it had been a Christian soul,
1275 We hailed it in God's name.
1277 It ate the food it ne'er had eat,
1278 And round and round it flew.
1279 The ice did split with a thunder-fit;
1280 The helmsman steered us through!
1282 And a good south wind sprung up behind;
1283 The Albatross did follow,
1284 And every day, for food or play,
1285 Came to the mariner's hollo!
1287 In mist or cloud, on mast or shroud,
1288 It perched for vespers nine;
1289 Whiles all the night, through fog-smoke white,
1290 Glimmered the white Moon-shine.'
1292 'God save thee, ancient Mariner!
1293 From the fiends, that plague thee thus!—
1294 Why look'st thou so?'—With my cross-bow
1295 I shot the ALBATROSS.
1297 =head2 v5.26.0 - Nine Simone, Ain't Got No / I Got Life
1299 L<Announced on 2017-05-30 by Sawyer X|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/05/msg244573.html>
1302 And I'm gonna keep it
1304 And nobody's gonna take it away
1307 =head2 v5.26.0-RC2 - Richard Condon, The Manchurian Candidate
1309 L<Announced on 2017-05-23 by Sawyer X|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/05/msg244511.html>
1311 Amateur psychiatric prognosis can be fascinating when there is
1312 absolutely nothing else to do.
1314 =head2 v5.26.0-RC1 - Thomas Paine, Common Sense
1316 L<Announced on 2017-05-11 by Sawyer X|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/05/msg244337.html>
1318 A long habit of not thinking a thing WRONG, gives it a superficial
1319 appearance of being RIGHT, and raises at first a formidable outcry in
1320 defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more
1321 converts than reason.
1323 =head2 v5.25.12 - Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
1325 L<Announced on 2017-04-20 by Sawyer X|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/04/msg244146.html>
1327 I have told my sons that they are not under any circumstances to take
1328 part in massacres, and that the news of massacres of enemies is not
1329 to fill them with satisfaction or glee.
1331 I have also told them not to work for companies which make massacre
1332 machinery, and to express contempt for people who think we need
1333 machinery like that.
1335 =head2 v5.25.11 - Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow
1337 L<Announced on 2017-03-20 by Sawyer X|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/03/msg243624.html>
1339 Subjective confidence in a judgment is not a reasoned evaluation of
1340 the probability that this judgment is correct. Confidence is a
1341 feeling, which reflects the coherence of the information and the
1342 cognitive ease of processing it. It is wise to take admissions of
1343 uncertainty seriously, but declarations of high confidence mainly
1344 tell you that an individual has constructed a coherent story in his
1345 mind, not necessarily that the story is true.
1347 =head2 v5.25.10 - Erich Fried, 1968
1349 L<Announced on 2017-02-20 by Renee Bäcker|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/02/msg243173.html>
1351 He who wants the world to remain as it is
1352 doesn't want it to remain.
1354 =head2 v5.25.9 - A. A. Milne, "Winnie-the-Pooh", 1926
1356 L<Announced on 2017-01-20 by Abigail|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/01/msg242405.html>
1358 Pooh always liked a little something at eleven o'clock in the
1359 morning, and he was very glad to see Rabbit getting out the plates
1360 and mugs; and when Rabbit said, "Honey or condensed milk with
1361 your bread?" he was so excited that he said, "Both," and then,
1362 so as not to seem greedy, he added, "But don't bother about the
1365 =head2 v5.25.8 - Langston Hughes, So long
1367 L<Announced on 2016-12-20 by Sawyer X|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/12/msg241739.html>
1371 and it's in the way you're gone
1372 but it's like a foreign language
1374 and maybe was I blind
1380 =head2 v5.25.7 - J.R.R. Tolkien, "The Silmarillion"
1382 L<Announced on 2016-11-20 by Chad 'Exodist' Granum|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/11/msg241120.html>
1384 Of Beren and Lúthien
1386 Among the tales of sorrow and of ruin that come down to us from the darkness of
1387 those days there are yet some in which amid weeping there is joy and under the
1388 shadow of death light that endures. And of these histories most fair still in
1389 the ears of the Elves is the tale of Beren and Lúthien. Of their lives was made
1390 the Lay of Leithian, Release from Bondage, which is the longest save one of the
1391 songs concerning the world of old; but here is told in fewer words and without
1394 =head2 v5.25.6 - Alan Warner, "The Sopranos"
1396 L<Announced on 2016-10-10 by Aaron Crane|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/10/msg240406.html>
1398 I'm up on all the pop trivia, says the guy with the stud in his tongue.
1400 Yes. Do you know who the lead singer of Echo and the Bunnymen is?
1401 Let me guess, is he called Echo?
1402 Good guess but no, anyway when they played Glastonbury it was so
1403 muddy he had two roadies to hold up a binliner on each of his legs so
1404 they wouldn't get covered in mud.
1405 That's what being rich and famous is all about, having someone
1406 else hold up your binliners on each leg when you're wandering across
1408 Do you know what Sammy Davis Junior said being black and famous in
1411 He said being black and famous in America meant he could be
1412 refused entry to exclusive clubs and restaurants that other people
1413 could only ever dream of going to. Do you know Michael Stipe likes to
1414 send his remote control toy cars onto stage while his support band are
1415 playing to freak them out?
1416 Who's Michael Stipe?
1417 You're not really a pop trivia person, are you, Kylah?
1418 No, I'm not, Stephen.
1420 =head2 v5.25.5 - Philip K. Dick, VALIS
1422 L<Announced on 2016-09-20 by Stevan Little|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/09/msg239887.html>
1424 We hypostatize information into objects. Rearrangement of objects is
1425 change in the content of the information; the message has changed.
1426 This is a language which we have lost the ability to read. We ourselves
1427 are a part of this language; changes in us are changes in the content
1428 of the information. We ourselves are information-rich; information
1429 enters us, is processed and is then projected outward once more, now
1430 in an altered form. We are not aware that we are doing this, that in
1431 fact this is all we are doing
1433 =head2 v5.25.4 - Terry Pratchett, "Truckers"
1435 L<Announced on 2016-08-20 by Chris 'BinGOs' Williams|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/08/msg239191.html>
1437 Concerning Nomes and Time
1439 Nomes are small. On the whole, small creatures don't live for a long
1440 time. But perhaps they do live fast.
1444 One of the shortest-lived creatures on the planet Earth is the adult
1445 common mayfly. It lasts for one day. The longest-living things are
1446 bristlecone pine trees, at 4,700 years and still counting.
1448 This may seem tough on the mayflies. But the important thing is not
1449 how long your life is, but how long it seems.
1451 To a mayfly, a single hour may last as long as a century. Perhaps
1452 old mayflies sit around complaining about how life this minute isn't a
1453 patch on the good old minutes of long ago, when the world was
1454 young and the sun seemed so much brighter and larvae showed you a
1455 bit of respect. Whereas the trees, which are not famous to their
1456 quick reactions, may just have time to notice the way the sky keeps
1457 flickering before the dry rot and woodworm set in.
1459 It's all a sort of relativity. The faster you live, the more time
1460 stretches out. To a nome, a year lasts as long as ten years does to a
1461 human. Remember it. Don't let it concern you. They don't. They don't
1464 =head2 v5.25.3 - Edward Lear, ed. Vivien Noakes, "The Complete Nonsense and Other Verse": The Dong with a Luminous Nose
1466 L<Announced on 2016-07-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/07/msg238158.html>
1468 When awful darkness and silence reign
1469 Over the great Gromboolian plain,
1470 Through the long, long wintry nights; -
1471 When the angry breakers roar
1472 As they beat on the rocky shore; -
1473 When Storm-clouds brood on the towering heights
1474 Of the Hills of the Chankly Bore: -
1476 Then, through the vast and gloomy dark,
1477 There moves what seems a fiery spark,
1478 A lonely spark with silvery rays
1479 Piercing the coal-black night, -
1480 A Meteor strange and bright: -
1481 Hither and thither the vision strays,
1482 A single lurid light.
1484 Slowly it wanders, - pauses, - creeps, -
1485 Anon it sparkles, - flashes and leaps;
1486 And ever as onward it gleaming goes
1487 A light on the Bong-tree stems it throws.
1488 And those who watch at that midnight hour
1489 From Hall or Terrace, or lofty Tower,
1490 Cry, as the wild light passes along, -
1491 'The Dong! - the Dong!
1492 The wandering Dong through the forest goes!
1494 The Dong with a luminous Nose!'
1496 =head2 v5.25.2 - Dan le Sac Vs Scroobius Pip "Waiting For The Beat To Kick In"
1498 L<Announced on 2016-06-20 by Matthew Horsfall|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/06/msg237274.html>
1500 Waiting for the beat to kick in
1502 Waiting for my feet to grow wings
1504 All of these tiresome things
1505 That we know and love
1506 Waiting for the beat to kick in
1509 =head2 v5.25.1 - Eli Pariser, "The Filter Bubble"
1511 L<Announced on 2016-05-20 by Sawyer X|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/05/msg236566.html>
1513 Imagine that you're a smart high school student on the low end of the social
1514 totem pole. You're alienated from adult authority, but unlike many teenagers,
1515 you're also alienated from the power structures of your peers -- an existence
1516 that can feel lonely and peripheral. Systems and equations are intuitive, but
1517 people aren't -- social signals are confusing and messy, difficult to interpret.
1519 Then you discover code. You may be powerless at the lunch table, but code
1520 gives you power over an infinitely malleable world and opens the door to a
1521 symbolic system that's perfectly clear and ordered. The jostling for position
1522 and status fades away. The nagging parental voices disappear. There's just a
1523 clean, white page for you to fill, an opportunity to build a better place, a
1524 home, from the ground up.
1526 No wonder you're a geek.
1528 =head2 v5.25.0 - Robert Frost, "The Trial by Existence"
1530 L<Announced on 2016-05-09 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/05/msg236244.html>
1532 Even the bravest that are slain
1533 Shall not dissemble their surprise
1534 On waking to find valor reign,
1535 Even as on earth, in paradise;
1536 And where they sought without the sword
1537 Wide fields of asphodel fore’er,
1538 To find that the utmost reward
1539 Of daring should be still to dare.
1541 =head2 v5.24.4 - Desmond Morris, "Catwatching: The Essential Guide to Cat Behaviour"
1543 L<Announced on 2018-04-14 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/04/msg250439.html>
1545 Cats hate doors. Doors simply do not register in the evolutionary story
1546 of the cat family. They constantly block patrolling activities and
1547 prevent cats from exploring their home range and then returning to their
1548 central, secure base at will. Humans often do not understand that a cat
1549 needs to make only a brief survey of its territory before returning with
1550 all the necessary information about the activities of other cats in the
1551 vicinity. It likes to make these tours of inspection at frequent
1552 intervals, but does not want to stay outside for very long, unless there
1553 has been some special and unexpected change in the condition of the
1554 local feline population.
1556 =head2 v5.24.4-RC1 - Desmond Morris, "Catwatching: The Essential Guide to Cat Behaviour"
1558 L<Announced on 2018-03-24 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/03/msg250102.html>
1560 The domestic cat is a contradiction. No animal has developed such an
1561 intimate relationship with mankind, while at the same time demanding and
1562 getting such independence of movement and action. The dog may be man's
1563 best friend, but it is rarely allowed out on its own to wander from
1564 garden to garden or street to street. The obedient dog has to be taken
1565 for a walk. The headstrong cat walks alone.
1567 =head2 v5.24.3 - Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
1569 L<Announced on 2017-09-22 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/09/msg246407.html>
1571 Oh sleep! it is a gentle thing,
1572 Beloved from pole to pole!
1573 To Mary Queen the praise be given!
1574 She sent the gentle sleep from Heaven,
1575 That slid into my soul.
1577 The silly buckets on the deck,
1578 That had so long remained,
1579 I dreamt that they were filled with dew;
1580 And when I awoke, it rained.
1582 =head2 v5.24.3-RC1 - Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
1584 L<Announced on 2017-09-10 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/09/msg246201.html>
1586 'And now the STORM-BLAST came, and he
1587 Was tyrannous and strong:
1588 He struck with his o'ertaking wings,
1589 And chased us south along.
1591 With sloping masts and dipping prow,
1592 As who pursued with yell and blow
1593 Still treads the shadow of his foe,
1594 And forward bends his head,
1595 The ship drove fast, loud roared the blast,
1596 And southward aye we fled.
1598 And now there came both mist and snow,
1599 And it grew wondrous cold:
1600 And ice, mast-high, came floating by,
1601 As green as emerald.
1603 And through the drifts the snowy clifts
1604 Did send a dismal sheen:
1605 Nor shapes of men nor beasts we ken—
1606 The ice was all between.
1608 The ice was here, the ice was there,
1609 The ice was all around:
1610 It cracked and growled, and roared and howled,
1611 Like noises in a swound!
1613 =head2 v5.24.2 - Roald Dahl, "The Three Little Pigs"
1615 L<Announced on 2017-07-15 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/07/msg245527.html>
1617 A short while later, through the wood,
1618 Came striding brave Miss Riding Hood.
1619 The Wolf stood there, his eyes ablaze
1620 And yellowish, like mayonnaise.
1621 His teeth were sharp, his gums were raw,
1622 And spit was dripping from his jaw.
1623 Once more the maiden's eyelid flickers.
1624 She draws the pistol from her knickers.
1625 Once more, she hits the vital spot,
1626 And kills him with a single shot.
1627 Pig, peeping through the window, stood
1628 And yelled, 'Well done, Miss Riding Hood!'
1630 Ah, Piglet, you must never trust
1631 Young ladies from the upper crust.
1632 For now, Miss Riding Hood, one notes,
1633 Not only has two wolfskin coats,
1634 But when she goes from place to place,
1635 She has a PIGSKIN TRAVELLING CASE.
1637 =head2 v5.24.2-RC1 - Roald Dahl, "The Three Little Pigs"
1639 L<Announced on 2017-07-01 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/07/msg245292.html>
1641 The animal I really dig
1642 Above all others is the pig.
1643 Pigs are noble. Pigs are clever,
1644 Pig are courteous. However,
1645 Now and then, to break this rule,
1646 One meets a pig who is a fool.
1647 What, for example, would you say
1648 If strolling through the woods one day,
1649 Right there in front of you you saw
1650 A pig who'd built his house of STRAW?
1651 The Wolf who saw it licked his lips,
1652 And said, 'That pig has had his chips.'
1654 =head2 v5.24.1 - Charles Dodgson [as "Lewis Carroll"], "The Hunting of the Snark", Fit 4: The Hunting
1656 L<Announced on 2017-01-14 by Steve Hay|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/01/msg242259.html>
1658 The Bellman looked uffish, and wrinkled his brow.
1659 'If only you'd spoken before!
1660 It's excessively awkward to mention it now,
1661 With the Snark, so to speak, at the door!
1663 'We should all of us grieve, as you well may believe,
1664 If you never were met with again -
1665 But surely, my man, when the voyage began,
1666 You might have suggested it then?
1668 'It's excessively awkward to mention it now -
1669 As I think I've already remarked.'
1670 And the man they called 'Hi!' replied, with a sigh,
1671 'I informed you the day we embarked.
1673 'You may charge me with murder - or want of sense -
1674 (We are all of us weak at times):
1675 But the slightest approach to a false pretence
1676 Was never among my crimes!
1678 'I said it in Hebrew - I said it in Dutch -
1679 I said it in German and Greek:
1680 But I wholly forgot (and it vexes me much)
1681 That English is what you speak!'
1683 ''Tis a pitiful tale,' said the Bellman, whose face
1684 Had grown longer at every word:
1685 'But, now that you've stated the whole of your case,
1686 More debate would be simply absurd.
1688 'The rest of my speech' (he exclaimed to his men)
1689 'You shall hear when I've leisure to speak it.
1690 But the Snark is at hand, let me tell you again!
1691 'Tis your glorious duty to seek it!
1693 =head2 v5.24.1-RC5 - John Milton, ed. Gordon Campbell, "Paradise Regained", Book IV
1695 L<Announced on 2017-01-02 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/01/msg242016.html>
1697 Thus passed the night so foul, till Morning fair
1698 Came forth with pilgrim steps, in amice grey;
1699 Who with her radiant finger stilled the roar
1700 Of thunder, chased the clouds, and laid the winds,
1701 And grisly spectres, which the fiend had raised
1702 To tempt the Son of God with terrors dire.
1703 And now the sun with more effectual beams
1704 Had cheered the face of earth, and dried the wet
1705 From drooping plant, or dropping tree; the birds,
1706 Who all things now behold more fresh and green,
1707 After a night of storm so ruinous,
1708 Cleared up their choicest notes in bush and spray,
1709 To gratulate the sweet return of morn.
1711 =head2 v5.24.1-RC4 - John Milton, ed. Gordon Campbell, "Paradise Lost", Book II
1713 L<Announced on 2016-10-12 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/10/msg240224.html>
1715 Before the gates there sat
1716 On either side a formidable shape;
1717 The one seemed woman to the waste, and fair,
1718 But ended foul in many a scaly fold,
1719 Voluminous and vast -- a serpent armed
1720 With mortal sting; about her middle round
1721 A cry of hell hounds never ceasing barked
1722 With wide Cerberean mouths full loud, and rung
1723 A hideous peal; yet, when they list, would creep,
1724 If aught disturbed their noise, into her womb,
1725 And kennel there; yet there still barked and howled
1726 Within unseen. Far less abhorred than these
1727 Vexed Scylla, bathing in the sea that parts
1728 Calabria from the hoarse Trinacrian shore;
1729 Nor uglier follow the night-hag, when, called
1730 In secret, riding through the air she comes,
1731 Lured with the smell of infant blood, to dance
1732 With Lapland witches, while the labouring moon
1733 Eclipses at their charms. The other shape --
1734 If shape it might be called that shape had none
1735 Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb;
1736 Or substance might be called that shadow seemed,
1737 For each seemed either -- black it stood as night,
1738 Fierce as ten Furies, terrible as hell,
1739 And shook a dreadful dart: what seemed his head
1740 The likeness of a kingly crown had on.
1741 Satan was now at hand, and from his seat
1742 The monster moving onward came as fast
1743 With horrid strides; hell trembled as he strode.
1745 =head2 v5.24.1-RC3 - Dante Alighieri, trans. Dorothy L. Sayers and Barbara Reynolds, "The Divine Comedy", Cantica III: Paradise, Canto XXIII
1747 L<Announced on 2016-08-11 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/08/msg238909.html>
1749 A bird within the bower of her delight,
1750 Quiet upon the nest with her sweet brood
1751 Throughout the dark concealment of the night,
1753 Anxious to look on them and gather food -
1754 No weary task for her, for as at play
1755 Blithely she toils to seek her fledglings' good -
1757 Before the time, upon the topmost spray
1758 Eager awaits the sun and on the East
1759 Fixes her wakeful eye till break of day.
1761 =head2 v5.24.1-RC2 - Dante Alighieri, trans. Dorothy L. Sayers, "The Divine Comedy", Cantica II: Purgatory, Canto X
1763 L<Announced on 2016-07-25 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/07/msg238269.html>
1765 When we had crossed the threshold of that gate
1766 Which the soul's evil loves put out of use,
1767 Because they make the crooked path seem straight,
1769 I heard its closing clang ring clamorous,
1770 And had I then turned back my eyes to it
1771 How could my fault have found the least excuse?
1773 We had to climb now through a rocky slit
1774 Which ran from side to side in many a swerve,
1775 As runs the wave in onset and retreat.
1777 "Now here," the master said, "we must observe
1778 Some little caution, hugging now this wall,
1779 Now that, upon the far side of the curve."
1781 =head2 v5.24.1-RC1 - Dante Alighieri, trans. Dorothy L. Sayers, "The Divine Comedy", Cantica I: Hell, Canto XX
1783 L<Announced on 2016-07-17 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/07/msg238072.html>
1785 New punishments behoves me sing in this
1786 Twentieth canto of my first canticle,
1787 Which tells of spirits sunk in the Abyss.
1789 I now stood ready to observe the full
1790 Extent of the new chasm thus laid bare,
1791 Drenched as it was in tears most miserable.
1793 Through the round vale I saw folk drawing near,
1794 Weeping and silent, and at such slow pace
1795 As Litany processions keep, up here.
1797 And presently, when I had dropped my gaze
1798 Lower than the head, I saw them strangely wried
1799 'Twixt collar-bone and chin, so that the face
1801 Of each was turned towards his own backside,
1802 And backwards must they needs creep with their feet,
1803 All power of looking forward being denied.
1805 =head2 v5.24.0 - Robert Frost, "The Black Cottage"
1807 L<Announced on 2016-05-09 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/05/msg236242.html>
1809 As I sit here, and oftentimes, I wish
1810 I could be monarch of a desert land
1811 I could devote and dedicate forever
1812 To the truths we keep coming back and back to.
1813 So desert it would have to be, so walled
1814 By mountain ranges half in summer snow,
1815 No one would covet it or think it worth
1816 The pains of conquering to force change on.
1817 Scattered oases where men dwelt, but mostly
1818 Sand dunes held loosely in tamarisk
1819 Blown over and over themselves in idleness.
1820 Sand grains should sugar in the natal dew
1821 The babe born to the desert, the sand storm
1822 Retard mid-waste my cowering caravans—
1824 “There are bees in this wall.” He struck the clapboards,
1825 Fierce heads looked out; small bodies pivoted.
1826 We rose to go. Sunset blazed on the windows.
1828 =head2 v5.24.0-RC5 - The Mountain Goats, "No Children"
1830 L<Announced on 2016-05-04 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/05/msg236198.html>
1832 And I hope when you think of me years down the line
1833 You can't find one good thing to say
1834 And I'd hope that if I found the strength to walk out
1835 You'd stay the hell out of my way
1837 I am drowning, there is no sign of land
1838 You are coming down with me, hand in unlovable hand
1840 =head2 v5.24.0-RC4 - The Joker in "The Killing Joke"
1842 L<Announced on 2016-05-02 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/05/msg236145.html>
1844 "See, there were these two guys in a lunatic asylum…"
1846 =head2 v5.24.0-RC3 - Jesse Vincent
1848 L<Announced on 2016-04-27 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/04/msg236066.html>
1850 The Great Pumpkin is a Santa-Claus like figure. He does bring toys like
1851 Santa. But unlike Santa, who gives away toys because it's his job, he
1852 gives away toys because it's the right thing to do.
1854 =head2 v5.24.0-RC2 - Joseph Heller, "Catch-22"
1856 L<Announced on 2016-04-23 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/04/msg235999.html>
1858 “How do you feel, Yossarian?”
1860 “Fine. No, I’m very frightened.”
1862 “That’s good,” said Major Danby. “It proves you’re still alive. It won’t
1865 Yossarian started out. “Yes it will.”
1867 “I mean it, Yossarian. You’ll have to keep on your toes every minute of
1868 every day. They’ll bend heaven and earth to catch you.”
1870 “I’ll keep on my toes every minute.”
1872 “You’ll have to jump.”
1876 “Jump!” Major Danby cried.
1880 Nately’s [girl] was hiding just outside the door. The knife came down,
1881 missing him by inches, and he took off.
1883 =head2 v5.24.0-RC1 - Robert Frost, "The Census-Taker"
1885 L<Announced on 2016-04-14 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/04/msg235807.html>
1887 Nothing was left to do that I could see
1888 Unless to find that there was no one there
1889 And declare to the cliffs too far for echo,
1890 "The place is desert, and let whoso lurks
1891 In silence, if in this he is aggrieved,
1892 Break silence now or be forever silent.
1893 Let him say why it should not be declared so."
1894 The melancholy of having to count souls
1895 Where they grow fewer and fewer every year
1896 Is extreme where they shrink to none at all.
1897 It must be I want life to go on living.
1899 =head2 v5.23.9 - Tom Kitchin, "from nature to plate"
1901 L<Announced on 2016-03-20 by Abigail|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/03/msg235251.html>
1905 Spring is the proper beginning of my kitchen and a season that I
1906 look forward to with great anticipation. By the time spring arrives
1907 I am desperate to welcome all the spring produce into my kitchen
1908 and I long to work with fresh green vegetables again. As much as I
1909 love root vegetables, such as celeriac and parsnips, and the heaver
1910 meat and game dishes, I'm ready to leave those behind with winter
1911 and begin a new adventure.
1913 Somehow spring always gives me a little bit of bounce in my feet
1914 -- I feel like I want to kick off my shoes and dance around in my
1915 kitchen. Not that I do, of course, but I feel lighter somehow. My
1916 adrenalin kicks in with spring and so does the level of excitement,
1917 as I think about all the produce that is about to come in.
1919 The moment spring arrives I'm eager to cook peas, broad beans, green
1920 asparagus and other fresh vegetables! I want to create lighter,
1921 brighter dishes and I can't wait to get my hands on the first greens
1922 and the first morels, not to mention the first wild Scottish salmon.
1923 Thanks to my network of trusted suppliers, I always get to first
1924 produce of the season delivered to my restaurant as soon as it is
1925 possible. I want my customers to experience and understand the
1926 beauty of locally grown produce and to try things the minute they
1927 are available so they can taste how incredibly fresh the ingredients
1928 are. I also want them to understand the relationship between
1929 seasonality and flavours. One of the most important things to
1930 remember is to allow the seasons to inspire your dishes and help
1931 you make natural matches. Wild spring herbs, such as sorrel, sweet
1932 cicely and wild garlic, as well as spring salad leaves and green
1933 lettuce served with wild salmon, wild sea trout, lamb or rabbit are
1934 marriages made in heaven.
1937 =head2 v5.23.8 - Patrick Rothfuss, "The Wise Man's Fear (The Kingkiller's Chronicle: Day Two)"
1939 L<Announced on 2016-02-20 by Sawyer X|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/02/msg234535.html>
1941 Denna, on the other hand, had never been trained. She knew nothing
1942 of shortcuts. You'd think she'd be forced to wander the city, lost and
1943 helpless, trapped in a twisting maze of mortared stone.
1945 But instead, she simply walked throught the walls. She didn't know
1946 any better. Nobody had ever told her she couldn't. Because of this,
1947 she moved through the city like some faerie creature. She walked roads
1948 no one else could see, and it made her music wild and strange and
1951 =head2 v5.23.7 - William Gibson, "Neuromancer"
1953 L<Announced on 2016-01-20 by Stevan Little|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/01/msg233856.html>
1955 A year here and he still dreamed of cyberspace, hope fading
1956 nightly. All the speed he took, all the turns he'd taken and
1957 the corners he cut in Night City, and he'd still see the matrix
1958 in his dreams, bright lattices of logic unfolding across that
1959 colourless void...The Sprawl was a long, strange way home now
1960 over the Pacific, and he was no Console Man, no cyberspace
1961 cowboy. Just another hustler, trying to make it through. But
1962 the dreams came on in the Japanese night like livewire voodoo,
1963 and he'd cry for it, cry in his sleep, and wake alone in the
1964 dark, curled in his capsule in some coffin hotel, hands clawed
1965 into the bedslab, temper foam bunched between his fingers,
1966 trying to reach the console that wasn't there.
1968 =head2 v5.23.6 - 5.23 Episode VII
1970 L<Announced on 2015-12-21 by David Golden|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/12/msg233475.html>
1972 A long time ago in microseconds, in a galaxy not very far away...
1978 unrest as separatists
1979 announce their intentions
1980 to fork PERL and return the
1981 galaxy to speed and stability.
1983 Chancellor Rik Hoolian struggles
1984 to hold together the remains of the
1985 once mighty Republic against a tide of
1986 incivility and the depredations of a new
1987 foe, the FUZZ RAIDERS.
1989 Meanwhile, after 15 years of preparation and
1990 high expectations, Supreme Leader Toady prepares
1991 to unleash a devastating new weapon, PERL SIXDOTOH,
1992 that could splinter the Republic forever and usher in
1993 a new Empire of gradual typing....
1995 =head2 v5.23.5 - utastro!nather (Ed Nather), "The Story of Mel", in net.jokes, May 21, 1983.
1997 L<Announced on 2015-11-20 by Abigail|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/11/msg232758.html>
1999 After Mel had left the company for greener pa$ture$, the Big Boss asked
2000 me to look at the code and see if I could find the test and reverse it.
2001 Somewhat reluctantly, I agreed to look. Tracking Mel's code was a real
2004 I have often felt that programming is an art form, whose real value can
2005 only be appreciated by another versed in the same arcane art; there are
2006 lovely gems and brilliant coups hidden from human view and admiration,
2007 sometimes forever, by the very nature of the process. You can learn a
2008 lot about an individual just by reading through his code, even in
2009 hexadecimal. Mel was, I think, an unsung genius.
2011 Perhaps my greatest shock came when I found an innocent loop that had
2012 no test in it. No test. None. Common sense said it had to be a closed
2013 loop, where the program would circle, forever, endlessly. Program
2014 control passed right through it, however, and safely out the other side.
2015 It took me two weeks to figure it out.
2017 The RPC-4000 computer had a really modern facility called an index
2018 register. It allowed the programmer to write a program loop that used
2019 an indexed instruction inside; each time through, the number in the
2020 index register was added to the address of that instruction, so it
2021 would refer to the next datum in a series. He had only to increment
2022 the index register each time through. Mel never used it.
2024 Instead, he would pull the instruction into a machine register, add one
2025 to its address, and store it back. He would then execute the modified
2026 instruction right from the register. The loop was written so this
2027 additional execution time was taken into account -- just as this
2028 instruction finished, the next one was right under the drum's read head,
2029 ready to go. But the loop had no test in it.
2031 The vital clue came when I noticed the index register bit, the bit that
2032 lay between the address and the operation code in the instruction word,
2033 was turned on -- yet Mel never used the index register, leaving it zero
2034 all the time. When the light went on it nearly blinded me.
2036 He had located the data he was working on near the top of memory -- the
2037 largest locations the instructions could address -- so, after the last
2038 datum was handled, incrementing the instruction address would make it
2039 overflow. The carry would add one to the operation code, changing it to
2040 the next one in the instruction set: a jump instruction. Sure enough,
2041 the next program instruction was in address location zero, and the
2042 program went happily on its way.
2044 =head2 v5.23.4 - Denis Diderot, trans. David Coward, "Jacques the Fatalist"
2046 L<Announced on 2015-10-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/10/msg232040.html>
2048 Well, everybody's got a dog. The prime minister is the king's dog. The
2049 first secretary is the prime minister's dog. A wife is a husband's dog,
2050 or a husband is a wife's dog. Favourite is Madame So-and-so's dog and
2051 Thibaut is the man on the corner's dog. When my Master tells me to talk
2052 when I'd prefer not to, which to be honest doesn't happen very often,
2053 when he tells me to shut up when I feel like talking, which I find very
2054 difficult, when he asks me to tell the story of my love-life and then
2055 keeps interrupting, what am I if not his dog? Weak men are the dogs of
2058 =head2 v5.23.3 - Oliver Wendell Holmes, "The Deacon’s Masterpiece or The Wonderful 'One-Hoss Shay': A Logical Story"
2060 L<Announced on 2015-09-20 by Peter Martini|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/09/msg231173.html>
2062 Little of of all we value here
2063 Wakes on the morn of its hundredth year
2064 Without both feeling and looking queer.
2065 In fact, there’s nothing that keeps its youth,
2066 So far as I know, but a tree and truth.
2067 (This is a moral that runs at large;
2068 Take it. — You’re welcome. — No extra charge.)
2070 =head2 v5.23.2 - Blind Guardian, "Skalds and Shadows"
2072 L<Announced on 2015-08-20 by Matthew Horsfall|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/08/msg230298.html>
2074 Would you believe in a night like this
2075 A night like this, when visions come true
2076 Would you believe in a tale like this
2077 A lay of bliss, praise in the old lore
2078 Come to the blazing fire and
2080 See me in the shadows
2081 See me in the shadows
2084 Just hand me my harp
2085 This night turns into myth
2088 The world we live in is another skald's
2089 Dream in the shadows
2090 Dream in the shadows
2092 Do you believe there is sense in it
2093 Is it truth or myth?
2094 They´re one in my rhymes
2095 Nobody knows the meaning behind
2097 Well nobody else but the Norns can
2098 See through the blazing fires of time and
2099 All things will proceed as the
2100 Child of the hallowed
2101 Will speak to you now
2103 See me in the shadows
2104 See me in the shadows
2105 Songs I will sing of tribes and kings
2106 The carrion bird and the hall of the slain
2109 The world we live in is another skald´s
2110 Dream in the shadows
2111 Dream in the shadows
2113 Do not fear for my reason
2114 There's nothing to hide
2115 How bitter your treason
2117 Remember the runes and remember the light
2118 All I ever want is to be at your side
2119 We'll gladden the raven now I will
2120 Run through the blazing fires
2122 Cause things shall proceed as foreseen
2124 =head2 v5.23.1 - Elizabeth Haydon, "The Assassin King"
2126 L<Announced on 2015-07-20 by Matthew Horsfall|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/07/msg229413.html>
2128 I was born beneath this willow,
2129 Where my sire the earth did farm
2130 Had the green grass as my pillow
2131 The east wind as a blanket warm.
2133 But away! away! called the wind from the west
2134 And in answer I did run
2135 Seeking glory and adventure
2136 Promised by the rising sun.
2138 I found love beneath this willow,
2139 As true a love as life could hold,
2140 Pledged my heart and swore my fealty
2141 Sealed with a kiss and a band of gold.
2143 But to arms! to arms! called the wind from the west
2144 In faithful answer I did run
2145 Marching forth for king and country
2146 In battles 'neath the midday sun.
2148 Oft I dreamt of that fair willow
2149 As the seven seas I plied
2150 And the girl who I left waiting
2151 Longing to be at her side.
2153 But about! about! called the wind from the west
2154 As once again my ship did run
2155 Down the coast, about the wide world
2156 Flying sails in the setting sun.
2158 Now I lie beneath the willow
2159 Now at last no more to roam,
2160 My bride and earth so tightly hold me
2161 In their arms I'm finally home.
2163 While away! away! calls the wind from the west
2164 Beyond the grave my spirit, free
2165 Will chase the sun into the morning
2166 Beyond the sky, beyond the sea.
2168 =head2 v5.23.0 - Bob Dylan, "Maggie's Farm"
2170 L<Announced on 2015-06-20 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/06/msg228807.html>
2172 I ain't gonna work on Maggie's farm no more
2173 I ain't gonna work on Maggie's farm no more
2175 To be just like I am
2176 But everybody wants you
2177 To be just like them
2178 They sing while you slave and I just get bored
2179 I ain't gonna work on Maggie's farm no more
2181 =head2 v5.22.4 - Roald Dahl, "Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf"
2183 L<Announced on 2017-07-15 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/07/msg245526.html>
2185 Then Little Red Riding Hood said, 'But Grandma,
2186 what a lovely great big furry coat you have on.'
2187 'That's wrong!' cried Wolf. 'Have you forgot
2188 'To tell me what BIG TEETH I've got?
2189 'Ah well, no matter what you say,
2190 'I'm going to eat you anyway.'
2191 The small girl smiles. One eyelid flickers.
2192 She whips a pistol from her knickers.
2193 She aims it at the creature's head
2194 And bang bang bang, she shoots him dead.
2196 A few weeks later, in the wood,
2197 I came across Miss Riding Hood.
2198 But what a change! No cloak of red,
2199 No silly hood upon her head.
2200 She said, 'Hello, and do please note
2201 'My lovely furry WOLFSKIN COAT.'
2203 =head2 v5.22.4-RC1 - Roald Dahl, "Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf"
2205 L<Announced on 2017-07-01 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/07/msg245293.html>
2207 As soon as Wolf began to feel
2208 That he would like a decent meal,
2209 He went and knocked on Grandma's door.
2210 When Grandma opened it, she saw
2211 The sharp white teeth, the horrid grin,
2212 And Wolfie said, 'May I come in?'
2213 Poor Grandmamma was terrified,
2214 'He's going to eat me up!' she cried.
2215 And she was absolutely right.
2216 He ate her up in one big bite.
2218 =head2 v5.22.3 - Charles Dodgson [as "Lewis Carroll"], "Phantasmagoria", Canto 6: Discomfyture
2220 L<Announced on 2017-01-14 by Steve Hay|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/01/msg242258.html>
2222 As one who strives a hill to climb,
2223 Who never climbed before:
2224 Who finds it, in a little time,
2225 Grow every moment less sublime,
2226 And votes the thing a bore:
2228 Yet, having once begun to try,
2229 Dares not desert his quest,
2230 But, climbing, ever keeps his eye
2231 On one small hut against the sky
2232 Wherein he hopes to rest:
2234 Who climbs till nerve and force are spent,
2235 With many a puff and pant:
2236 Who still, as rises the ascent,
2237 In language grows more violent,
2238 Although in breath more scant:
2240 Who, climbing, gains at length the place
2241 That crowns the upward track:
2242 And, entering with unsteady pace,
2243 Receives a buffet in the face
2244 That lands him on his back:
2246 And feels himself, like one in sleep,
2247 Glide swiftly down again,
2248 A helpless weight, from steep to steep,
2249 Till, with a headlong giddy sweep,
2250 He drops upon the plain -
2252 So I, that had resolved to bring
2253 Conviction to a ghost,
2254 And found it quite a different thing
2255 From any human arguing,
2256 Yet dared not quit my post.
2258 =head2 v5.22.3-RC5 - John Milton, ed. Gordon Campbell, "Paradise Regained", Book II
2260 L<Announced on 2017-01-02 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/01/msg242017.html>
2262 Thus wore out night; and now the herald lark
2263 Left his ground-nest, high towering to descry
2264 The Morn's approach, and greet her with his song;
2265 As lightly from his grassy couch up rose
2266 Our Saviour, and found all was but a dream;
2267 Fasting he went to sleep, and fasting waked.
2268 Up to a hill anon his steps he reared,
2269 From whose high top to ken the prospect round,
2270 If cottage were in view, sheep-cote, or herd;
2271 But cottage, herd, or sheep-cote, none he saw --
2272 Only in a bottom saw a pleasant grove,
2273 With chant of tuneful birds resounding loud;
2274 Thither he bent his way, determined there
2275 To rest at noon, and entered soon the shade,
2276 High-roofed and walks beneath, and alleys brown,
2277 That opened in the midst a woody scene;
2278 Nature's own work it seemed (Nature taught Art),
2279 And, to a superstitious eye, the haunt
2280 Of wood-gods and wood-nymphs.
2282 =head2 v5.22.3-RC4 - John Milton, ed. Gordon Campbell, "Paradise Lost", Book II
2284 L<Announced on 2016-10-12 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/10/msg240223.html>
2286 Far off from these, a slow and silent stream,
2287 Lethe, the river of oblivion, rolls
2288 Her watery labyrinth, whereof who drinks
2289 Forthwith his former state and being forgets --
2290 Forgets both joy and grief, pleasure and pain.
2291 Beyond this flood a frozen continent
2292 Lies dark and wild, beat with perpetual storms
2293 Of Whirlwind and dire hail, which on firm land
2294 Thaws not, but gathers heap, and ruin seems
2295 Of ancient pile; all else deep snow and ice,
2296 A gulf profound as that Serbonian bog
2297 Betwixt Damiata and Mount Casius old,
2298 Where armies whole have sunk: the parching air
2299 Burns frore, and cold performs the effect of fire.
2300 Thither, by harpy-footed Furies haled,
2301 At certain revolutions all the damned
2302 Are brought; and feel by turns the bitter change
2303 Of fierce extremes, extremes by change more fierce,
2304 From beds of raging fire to starve in ice
2305 Their soft ethereal warmth, and there to pine
2306 Immovable, infixed, and frozen round
2307 Periods of time -- thence hurried back to fire.
2308 They ferry over this Lethean sound
2309 Both to and fro, their sorrow to augment,
2310 And wish and struggle, as they pass, to reach
2311 The tempting stream, with one small drop to lose
2312 In sweet forgetfulness all pain and woe,
2313 All in one moment, and so near the brink;
2314 But fate withstands, and, to oppose the attempt,
2315 Medusa with Gorgonian terror guards
2316 The ford, and of itself the water flies
2317 All taste of living wight, as once it fled
2318 The lip of Tantalus.
2320 =head2 v5.22.3-RC3 - Dante Alighieri, trans. Dorothy L. Sayers and Barbara Reynolds, "The Divine Comedy", Cantica III: Paradise, Canto IV
2322 L<Announced on 2016-08-11 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/08/msg238908.html>
2324 Between two dishes, equally attractive
2325 And near to him, a free man, I suppose,
2326 Would starve to death before his teeth got active;
2328 So would a lamb 'twixt two fierce wolfish foes,
2329 Fearing the fangs both ways, not stir a foot;
2330 So would a deerhound halt between two does;
2332 So I can't blame myself for standing mute,
2333 Nor praise myself: for I must needs so do,
2334 Suspended 'twixt two doubts, alike acute.
2336 =head2 v5.22.3-RC2 - Dante Alighieri, trans. Dorothy L. Sayers, "The Divine Comedy", Cantica II: Purgatory, Canto I
2338 L<Announced on 2016-07-25 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/07/msg238270.html>
2340 For better waters heading with the wind
2341 My ship of genius now shakes out her sail
2342 And leaves that ocean of despair behind;
2344 For to the second realm I tune my tale,
2345 Where human spirits purge themselves, and train
2346 To leap up into joy celestial.
2348 Now from the grave wake poetry again,
2349 O sacred Muses I have served so long!
2350 Now let Calliope uplift her strain
2352 And lift my voice up on the mighty song
2353 That smote the miserable Magpies nine
2354 Out of all hope of pardon for their wrong!
2356 =head2 v5.22.3-RC1 - Dante Alighieri, trans. Dorothy L. Sayers, "The Divine Comedy", Cantica I: Hell, Canto XII
2358 L<Announced on 2016-07-17 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/07/msg238071.html>
2360 The place we came to, to descend the brink from,
2361 Was sheer crag; and there was a Thing there - making,
2362 All told, a prospect any eye would shrink from.
2364 Like the great landslide that rushed downward, shaking
2365 The bank of Adige on this side Trent,
2366 (Whether through faulty shoring or the earth's quaking)
2368 So that the rock, down from the summit rent
2369 Far as the plain, lies strewn, and one might crawl
2370 From top to bottom by that unsure descent,
2372 Such was the precipice; and there we spied,
2373 Topping the cleft that split the rocky wall,
2374 That which was wombed in the false heifer's side,
2376 The infamy of Crete, stretched out a-sprawl;
2377 And seeing us, he gnawed himself, like one
2378 Inly devoured with spite and burning gall.
2380 =head2 v5.22.2 - Gaston Leroux, trans. Mireille Ribière, "The Phantom of the Opera"
2382 L<Announced on 2016-04-29 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/04/msg236120.html>
2384 A silence; and then: 'If, in just two minutes' time by my watch--and a
2385 splendid watch it is--you have not turned the scorpion, mademoiselle, I
2386 shall turn the grasshopper... and the grasshopper, remember, _leaps
2387 straight up into the air!_'
2388 The silence that ensued was terrifying, worse than any we had
2389 experienced before. I knew that when Erik spoke with that quiet,
2390 gentle, slightly weary voice, it meant that he had reached the end of
2391 his tether: that he was capable of the most abominable crimes or the
2392 most selfless devotion; that the slightest irritation might unleash a
2394 Realizing that our fate was out of our hands, the Viscount fell to his
2395 knees and prayed. As for me, I pressed both hands to my chest, for my
2396 heart was pounding so fiercely that I thought it would burst. We were
2397 intensely aware of the excruciating dilemma Christine Daaé faced in
2398 those final seconds. We understood why she hesitated to turn the
2399 scorpion. What if the scorpion, rather than the grasshopper, were to
2400 set off the explosion? What if Erik was simply intent on destroying
2401 everything, regardless?
2402 At last he spoke: 'The two minutes are up,' he said in a soft, angelic
2403 voice. 'Goodbye, mademoiselle. Off you go, little grasshopper!'
2405 =head2 v5.22.2-RC1 - Gaston Leroux, trans. Mireille Ribière, "The Phantom of the Opera"
2407 L<Announced on 2016-04-10 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/04/msg235732.html>
2409 This annual ball was quite a magnificent affair. It was given some time
2410 before Shrovetide to celebrate the birthday of a famous illustrator
2411 whose pencil had immortalized, in the style of Gavarni, the extravagant
2412 carnival parade down La Courtille. As such, the ball was an altogether
2413 merrier, noisier and more Bohemian occasion than was usual for a masked
2414 ball. Many artists had arranged to meet there; they arrived with an
2415 entourage of models and pupils, who, by midnight, had become quite
2417 Raoul climbed the grand staircase at five minutes to midnight. He did
2418 not linger to admire the many-coloured costumes on display all the way
2419 up the marble steps of one of the most luxurious settings in the world;
2420 nor did he allow himself to be drawn into the facetious conversation of
2421 masked guests. He simply ignored all the jesting remarks, and shook off
2422 the attentions of several all too merry couples.
2423 Crossing the big crush-room and escaping from the dancers' farandole
2424 that had encircled him awhile, he at last entered the salon mentioned by
2425 Christine in her letter. The small room was crammed with people either
2426 on their way to supper at the restaurant in the Rotunda or back from
2427 raising a glass of champagne.
2428 In the midst of the gay and lively hubbub, Raoul thought that, for their
2429 mysterious assignation, Christine must have preferred this crowd to some
2431 He leaned against a door-jamb and waited. He did not have to wait long;
2432 a black domino passed him and deftly touched his hand. He understood
2433 that it was Christine and followed her.
2434 'Is that you, Christine?' he murmured, barely moving his slips.
2435 The black domino promptly looked back and raised her finger to her lips,
2436 no doubt to caution him against uttering her name again. Raoul followed
2439 =head2 v5.22.1 - Wilhelm Müller, trans. Anon., "Courage" (No. 22 in Schubert's song-cycle, "Winterreise")
2441 L<Announced on 2015-12-13 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/12/msg233318.html>
2443 If the snow flies in my face,
2444 Let me shake it off me!
2445 If my heart within me speaks,
2446 I'll sing bright and gaily!
2448 Will not listen what it says,
2449 Have no ears for moaning.
2450 Do not feel what it complains,--
2451 Only fools like groaning!
2453 Jolly brave into the world,
2454 'Gainst all wind and weather,--
2455 If there is no God on earth,
2456 Let 's be gods down nether!
2458 =head2 v5.22.1-RC4 - Wilhelm Müller, trans. Anon., "The Signpost" (No. 20 in Schubert's song-cycle, "Winterreise")
2460 L<Announced on 2015-12-08 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/12/msg233215.html>
2462 Why do I shun all those highways
2463 Which the other wanderer seeks?
2464 Why do I find bridged by-ways
2465 Through snow-covered deep creeks?
2467 For I have no crime committed,
2468 Why I should now run from men,--
2469 What demented heart's desire
2470 Drives me to a desert glen?
2472 Signposts on all highways stationed
2473 Point their signs toward the towns,
2474 Whilst I wonder 'yond moderation,
2475 Without rest, yet seeking rest!
2477 One such signpost I see planted
2478 Of my question unconcerned,
2479 One road must my choice be granted,
2480 Whence no man has yet returned!
2482 =head2 v5.22.1-RC3 - Wilhelm Müller, trans. Anon., "Stormy Morning" (No. 18 in Schubert's song-cycle, "Winterreise")
2484 L<Announced on 2015-12-02 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/12/msg233032.html>
2486 How the storm tore rents
2487 In heavens gray attired!
2488 The rags of cloud are flying
2489 Around, of combat tired.
2491 And flames of fire lambent,
2492 Fly between them and part,
2493 That 's what I call a morning,
2494 A morning after my heart!
2496 My heart sees in the heavens
2497 Its own picture unspoilt--
2498 It's nothing but the Winter,
2499 The Winter, cold and wild.
2501 =head2 v5.22.1-RC2 - Wilhelm Müller, trans. Anon., "The Old Head" (No. 14 in Schubert's song-cycle, "Winterreise")
2503 L<Announced on 2015-11-15 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/11/msg232632.html>
2505 The hoary frost has a white sheen
2506 Strewn all over my hair,
2507 So I thought I was an old man
2508 And thought life dealt me fair.
2510 Yet soon was thawed my old white mane,
2511 And I have my black hair again.
2512 How I abhor my young fair years,
2513 How long to wait for death and biers?
2515 From setting sun to morning's hue
2516 Many a head turns white.
2517 Who'll credit it? My hair did not
2518 In all this lifelong plight!
2520 =head2 v5.22.1-RC1 - Wilhelm Müller, trans. Anon., "Will-o'-the Wisp" (No. 9 in Schubert's song-cycle, "Winterreise")
2522 L<Announced on 2015-10-31 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/10/msg232321.html>
2524 In the deepest rocky crevice
2525 A will-o'-the wisp lured me;
2526 How I could find my way from here,
2527 For me it's easy memory!
2529 For I am used to straying ways,
2530 Every path to th'end a way,
2531 All our joys and all our suffering,--
2532 To a will-o'-the wisp it 's all play!
2534 Through the dried-up bed of torrents
2535 I quite calmly downward stroll;
2536 Every stream its sea will enter,
2537 Every suffering finds its goal!
2539 =head2 v5.22.0 - Gene Wolfe, The Citadel of the Autarch
2541 L<Announced on 2015-06-01 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/06/msg228300.html>
2543 “You are the advocate of the dead.”
2545 The old man nodded. “I am. People talk about being fair to this one and
2546 that one, but nobody I ever heard talks about doing right by them. We
2547 take everything they had, which is all right. And spit, most often, on
2548 their opinions, which I suppose is all right too. But we ought to
2549 remember now and then how much of what we have we got from them. I
2550 figure while I’m still here I ought to put a word in for them.”
2552 =head2 v5.22.0-RC2 - T.S. Eliot, unpublished work
2554 L<Announced on 2015-05-21 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/05/msg228142.html>
2556 And when thyself with silver foot shall pass
2557 Among the theories scattered on the grass
2558 Take up my good intentions with the rest
2560 =head2 v5.22.0-RC1 - Gene Wolfe, Citadel of the Autarch
2562 L<Announced on 2015-05-19 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/05/msg228059.html>
2564 There is no limit to stupidity. Space itself is said to be bounded by
2565 its own curvature, but stupidity continues beyond infinity.
2567 =head2 v5.21.11 - Algernon Charles Swinburne, "Dolores (Notre-Dame des Sept Douleurs)"
2569 L<Announced on 2015-04-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/04/msg227472.html>
2571 They shall pass and their places be taken,
2572 The gods and the priests that are pure.
2573 They shall pass, and shalt thou not be shaken?
2574 They shall perish, and shalt thou endure?
2575 Death laughs, breathing close and relentless
2576 In the nostrils and eyelids of lust,
2577 With a pinch in his fingers of scentless
2580 But the worm shall revive thee with kisses;
2581 Thou shalt change and transmute as a god,
2582 As the rod to a serpent that hisses,
2583 As the serpent again to a rod.
2584 Thy life shall not cease though thou doff it;
2585 Thou shalt live until evil be slain,
2586 And good shall die first, said thy prophet,
2589 =head2 v5.21.10 - Aldous Huxley, "The Devils of Loudun"
2591 L<Announced on 2015-03-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/03/msg226847.html>
2593 The fire burned on, the good fathers continued to sprinkle and intone.
2594 Suddenly a flock of pigeons came swooping down from the church and
2595 started to wheel around the roaring column of flame and smoke. The
2596 crowd shouted, the archers waved their halberds at the birds, Lactance
2597 and Tranquille splashed them on the wing with holy water. In vain. The
2598 pigeons were not to be driven away. Round and round they flew, diving
2599 through the smoke, singeing their feathers in the flames. Both parties
2600 claimed a miracle. For the parson's enemies the birds, quite obviously,
2601 were a troop of devils, come to fetch away his soul. For his friends,
2602 they were emblems of the Holy Ghost and living proof of his innocence.
2603 It never seems to have occurred to anyone that they were just pigeons,
2604 obeying the laws of their own, their blessedly other-than-human nature.
2606 =head2 v5.21.9 - Emily Dickinson, "There is Another Sky"
2608 L<Announced on 2015-02-20 by Sawyer X|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/02/msg226002.html>
2610 There is another sky,
2611 Ever serene and fair,
2612 And there is another sunshine,
2613 Though it be darkness there;
2614 Never mind faded forests, Austin,
2615 Never mind silent fields -
2616 Here is a little forest,
2617 Whose leaf is ever green;
2618 Here is a brighter garden,
2619 Where not a frost has been;
2620 In its unfading flowers
2621 I hear the bright bee hum:
2622 Prithee, my brother,
2623 Into my garden come!
2625 =head2 v5.21.8 - Bill Watterson, "Scientific Progress Goes 'Boink': A Calvin and Hobbes Collection"
2627 L<Announced on 2015-01-20 by Matthew Horsfall|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/01/msg224869.html>
2629 Calvin: OK Hobbes, press the button and duplicate me.
2630 Hobbes: Are you sure this is such a good idea?
2631 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?
2632 Hobbes: I'd hate to be accused of inhibiting scientific progress... Here you go.
2634 Hobbes: Scientific progress goes "BOINK"?
2635 Calvin?: It worked! It worked! I'm a genius!
2636 Cavlin??: No you're not, you liar! *I* invented this!
2638 =head2 v5.21.7 - Robert Heinlein, "The Number of the Beast"
2640 L<Announced on 2014-12-20 by Max Maischein|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/12/msg223774.html>
2642 "Zebadiah, Hilda and I salvaged and put everything into the basket.
2643 Hilda started to put it into our wardrobe-and it was heavy. So
2644 we looked. Packed as tight as when we left Oz. Six bananas-and
2645 everything else. Cross my heart. No, go look."
2646 "Hmmm- Jake, can you write equations for a picnic basket that
2647 refills itself? Will it go on doing so?"
2648 "Zeb, equations can be written to describe anything. The description
2649 would be simpler for a basket that replenishes itself indefinitely
2650 than for one that does it once and stops-I would have to describe
2653 =head2 v5.21.6 - Jeff Noon, "Vurt"
2655 L<Announced on 2014-11-20 by Chris 'BinGOs' Williams|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/11/msg222448.html>
2659 EXCHANGE MECHANISMS. Sometimes we lose precious
2660 things. Friends and colleagues, fellow travellers in the
2661 Vurt, sometimes we lose them; even lovers we sometimes
2662 lose. And get bad things in exchange: aliens, objects,
2663 snakes, and sometimes even death. Things we don't want.
2664 This is part of the deal, part of the game deal;
2665 all things, in all worlds, must be kept in balance.
2666 Kittlings often ask, who decides on the swappings? Now then,
2667 some say it's all accidental; that some poor Vurt thing
2668 finds himself too close to a door, at too critical a time,
2669 just when something real is being lost. Whoosh! Swap time!
2670 Others say that some kind of overseer is working the
2671 MECHANISMS OF EXCHANGE, deciding the fate of innocents.
2672 The Cat can only tease at this, because of the big secrets
2673 involved, and because of the levels between you, the reader,
2674 and me, the Game Cat. Hey, listen; I've struggled to get
2675 where I am today; why should I give you the easy route?
2676 Get working, kittlings! Reach up higher. Work the Vurt.
2678 =head2 v5.21.5 - Friso Wiegersma (text), Jean Ferrat (music), Wim Sonneveld (performer), "Het Dorp"
2680 L<Announced on 2014-10-20 by Abigail|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/10/msg221399.html>
2684 Thuis heb ik nog een ansichtkaart
2685 waarop een kerk, een kar met paard,
2686 een slagerij J. van der Ven.
2687 Een kroeg, een juffrouw op de fiets
2688 het zegt u hoogstwaarschijnlijk niets,
2689 maar 't is waar ik geboren ben.
2690 Dit dorp, ik weet nog hoe het was,
2691 de boerenkind'ren in de klas,
2692 een kar die ratelt op de keien,
2693 het raadhuis met een pomp ervoor,
2694 een zandweg tussen koren door,
2695 het vee, de boerderijen.
2697 En langs het tuinpad van m'n vader
2698 zag ik de hoge bomen staan.
2699 Ik was een kind en wist niet beter,
2700 dan dat dat nooit voorbij zou gaan.
2702 Wat leefden ze eenvoudig toen
2703 in simp'le huizen tussen groen
2704 met boerenbloemen en een heg.
2705 Maar blijkbaar leefden ze verkeerd,
2706 het dorp is gemoderniseerd
2707 en nu zijn ze op de goeie weg.
2708 Want ziet, hoe rijk het leven is,
2709 ze zien de televisiequiz
2710 en wonen in betonnen dozen,
2711 met flink veel glas, dan kun je zien
2712 hoe of het bankstel staat bij Mien
2713 en d'r dressoir met plastic rozen.
2715 En langs het tuinpad van m'n vader
2716 zag ik de hoge bomen staan.
2717 Ik was een kind en wist niet beter,
2718 dan dat dat nooit voorbij zou gaan.
2720 De dorpsjeugd klit wat bij elkaar
2721 in minirok en beatle-haar
2722 en joelt wat mee met beat-muziek.
2723 Ik weet wel, het is hun goeie recht,
2724 de nieuwe tijd, net wat u zegt,
2725 maar het maakt me wat melancholiek.
2726 Ik heb hun vaders nog gekend
2727 ze kochten zoethout voor een cent
2728 ik zag hun moeders touwtjespringen.
2729 Dat dorp van toen, het is voorbij,
2730 dit is al wat er bleef voor mij:
2731 een ansicht en herinneringen.
2733 Toen ik langs het tuinpad van m'n vader
2734 de hoge bomen nog zag staan.
2735 Ik was een kind, hoe kon ik weten
2736 dat dat voorgoed voorbij zou gaan.
2738 =head2 v5.21.4 - Edgar Allan Poe, "The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket"
2740 L<Announced on 2014-09-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/09/msg220267.html>
2742 To-day, being in latitude 83° 20', longitude 43° 5' W. (the sea being
2743 of an extraordinarily dark colour), we again saw land from the
2744 masthead, and, upon a closer scrutiny, found it to be one of a group
2745 of very large islands. The shore was precipitous, and the interior
2746 seemed to be well wooded, a circumstance which occasioned us great
2747 joy. In about four hours from our first discovering the land we came
2748 to anchor in ten fathoms, sandy bottom, a league from the coast, as a
2749 high surf, with strong ripples here and there, rendered a nearer
2750 approach of doubtful expediency. The two largest boats were now
2751 ordered out, and a party, well armed (among whome were Peters and
2752 myself), proceeded to look for an opening in the reef which appeared
2753 to encircle the island. After searching about for some time, we
2754 discovered an inlet, which we were entering, when we saw four large
2755 canoes put off from the shore, filled with men who seemed to be well
2756 armed. We waited for them to come up, and, as they moved with great
2757 rapidity, they were soon within hail. Captain Guy now held up a white
2758 handkerchief on the blade of an oar, when the strangers made a full
2759 stop, and commenced a loud jabbering all at once, intermingled with
2760 occasional shouts, in which we could distinguish the words Anamoo-moo!
2761 and Lama-Lama! They continued this for at least half an hour, during
2762 which we had a good opportunity of observing their appearance.
2764 =head2 v5.21.3 - Robert Service, "The Men that Don't Fit In"
2766 L<Announced on 2014-08-20 by Peter Martini|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/08/msg218826.html>
2768 If they just went straight they might go far,
2769 They are strong and brave and true;
2770 But they're always tired of the things that are,
2771 And they want the strange and new.
2772 They say: "Could I find my proper groove,
2773 What a deep mark I would make!"
2774 So they chop and change, and each fresh move
2775 Is only a fresh mistake.
2777 =head2 v5.21.2 - Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, Charlie Duke, Final minutes of communication of the first manned moon landing, July 20, 1969
2779 L<Announced on 2014-07-20 by Abigail|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/07/msg217937.html>
2781 Armstrong: Okay. Here's a...Looks like a good area here.
2782 Aldrin: I got the shadow out there.
2783 Aldrin: 250, down at 2 1/2, 19 forward.
2784 Aldrin: Altitude, velocity lights.
2785 Aldrin: 3 1/2 down, 220 feet, 13 forward.
2786 Aldrin: 11 forward. Coming down nicely.
2787 Armstrong: Gonna be right over that crater.
2788 Aldrin: 200 feet, 4 1/2 down.
2790 Armstrong: I got a good spot [garbled].
2791 Aldrin: 160 feet, 6 1/2 down.
2792 Aldrin: 5 1/2 down, 9 forward. You're looking good.
2794 Aldrin: 100 feet, 3 1/2 down, 9 forward. Five percent. Quantity light.
2795 Aldrin: Okay. 75 feet. And it's looking good. Down a half, 6 forward.
2798 Aldrin: 60 feet, down 2 1/2. 2 forward. 2 forward. That's good.
2799 Aldrin: 40 feet, down 2 1/2. Picking up some dust.
2800 Aldrin: 30 feet, 2 1/2 down. [Garbled] shadow.
2801 Aldrin: 4 forward. 4 forward. Drifting to the right a little. 20 feet,
2804 Aldrin: Drifting forward just a little bit; that's good.
2805 Aldrin: Contact Light.
2806 Armstrong: Shutdown.
2807 Aldrin: Okay. Engine Stop.
2808 Aldrin: ACA out of Detent.
2809 Armstrong: Out of Detent. Auto.
2810 Aldrin: Mode Control, both Auto. Descent Engine Command Override, Off.
2811 Engine Arm, Off. 413 is in.
2812 Duke: We copy you down, Eagle.
2813 Armstrong: Engine arm is off.
2814 Armstrong: Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed.
2815 Duke: Roger, Twan...[correcting himself] Tranquility. We copy you on
2816 the ground. You got a bunch of guys about to turn blue.
2817 We're breathing again. Thanks a lot.
2820 =head2 v5.21.1 - Robert Jordan, "The Crossroads of Twilights", Book 10 of "The Wheel of Time"
2822 L<Announced on 2014-06-20 by Matthew Horsfall|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/06/msg217030.html>
2824 We rode on the winds of the rising storm,
2825 We ran to the sounds of the thunder.
2826 We danced among the lightning bolts,
2827 and tore the world asunder.
2829 -- Anonymous fragment of a poem believed
2830 written near the end of the previous Age,
2831 known by some as the Third Age.
2832 Sometimes attributed to the Dragon
2835 =head2 v5.21.0 - Friedrich von Schiller, "The Song of the Bell"
2837 L<Announced on 2014-05-27 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/05/msg215826.html>
2839 Walled in fast within the earth
2840 Stands the form burnt out of clay.
2841 This must be the bell’s great birth!
2842 Fellows, lend a hand to-day.
2843 Sweat must trickle now
2844 From the burning brow,
2845 Till the work its master honour.
2846 Blessing comes from Heaven’s Donor.
2848 =head2 v5.20.3 - Elias Lönnrot, trans. Keith Bosley, "The Kalevala", Canto 42: Stealing the Sampo
2850 L<Announced on 2015-09-12 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/09/msg230945.html>
2852 Steady old Väinämöinen
2853 uttered a word and spoke thus:
2854 'No lilting on the waters
2855 and no singing on the waves!
2858 Precious day would pass and night
2859 would overtake us midway
2860 on these wide waters
2861 upon these vast waves.'
2863 The wanton Lemminkäinen
2864 uttered a word and spoke thus:
2865 'The time will pass anyway
2866 the fair day will flee
2867 and the night will come panting
2868 and the twilight will steal in
2869 if you don't sing while you live
2870 nor hum in this world.'
2872 =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"
2874 L<Announced on 2015-08-29 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/08/msg230544.html>
2876 'I fled from Basra, sad and tearful, with no idea where I was going,
2877 and I was reciting these lines:
2879 The pain of parting makes me melt away,
2880 As lovers do when those they love are harsh.
2881 I wonder at the patience that I showed
2882 When I had lost my love, for that was wonderful.
2883 Beloved, do you know that since you left,
2884 I have remained confused in misery.
2886 I then heard a voice that said: "Damn you, have you no fear of
2887 Almighty God that you hand over a girl to an unbelieving 'ifrit?" I
2888 walked for a time amongst the palm-trees until I caught sight of a
2889 person, whom I approached. When I asked him who he was he said: "I
2890 am one of the jinn who were converted to Islam at the hands of 'Ali
2891 ibn Abi Talib, may God ennoble him." "How can I get to my wife?" I
2892 asked him, and he said: "Wretched fellow, you had a bird which you
2893 allowed to fly away and now you want to fly after it." But he
2894 added: "Follow this road with God's blessing all night until dawn
2895 and then by the shore you will see a huge cave in which there is an
2896 idol made of white stone. You must drink of the water that there is
2897 coming out of the cave and smear your face with its mud. Stay there
2898 and a barge will pass you as you stand opposite the statue. Various
2899 different creatures will emerge, heads without bodies and bodies
2900 without heads, and they will prostrate themselves in adoration to
2901 the idol rather than to Almighty God. When you see that, embark on
2902 the barge and cross to the other bank and walk along it until
2903 sunset. On a high point you will see a castle built of bricks of
2904 gold and silver. That is where your 'ifrit will be. I have now
2905 told you about this, so goodbye."
2907 =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"
2909 L<Announced on 2015-08-22 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/08/msg230359.html>
2911 'On the night of the wedding the ape came to sit in front of me and
2912 asked me what I intended to do. "Whatever you tell me," I replied,
2913 and he said: "Take care not to covet the girl, or I shall come back
2914 and burn you up and leave you as a lesson for those who can learn."
2915 I agreed to this and when evening came I found the world full of
2916 candles and torches burning in holders of gold and silver. There
2917 were servants and serving girls, and everyone who saw me
2918 congratulated me on my good fortune, as there was no girl on the
2919 face of the earth more beautiful than my bride.
2921 'Next morning I went out to the market, and people went in and asked
2922 her how the night had been. "He never looked up at me," she told
2923 them. Then, when it was afternoon, I went to my house, where the
2924 ape was sitting by the door. "Tell me what you did," it said, and I
2925 told it: "By God, I did not learn and do not know whether this was a
2926 man or a girl." "That's what I want," it said.
2928 'On the second night my bride was brought to me, after which the
2929 servants left her and went away. She fell asleep, and, while she
2930 was sleeping, I killed the cock, wrapped it in the cloth and put the
2931 four poles from the couch over it. Suddenly there was a huge crash
2932 like a peal of thunder and a fiery 'ifrit swooped on the girl. I
2933 fainted at the sight and when I recovered I heard a voice saying:
2934 "By the Lord of the Ka'ba, the girl has been carried off!" and there
2935 was a sound like the rustling of wind and bitter weeping. At this I
2936 shed tears, struck my head and was filled with regret when it was no
2937 longer of any use, for to me the whole world was worth no more than
2940 =head2 v5.20.2 - Jonathan "Jonti" Picking, L<"Magical Trevor"|http://weebls-stuff.com/toons/magical-trevor-episode-01-animated-music-video-mrweebl/>
2942 L<Announced on 2015-02-14 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/02/msg225777.html>
2944 Everyone loves Magical Trevor,
2945 'Cos the tricks that he does are ever so clever;
2946 Look at him now, disappearin' the cow,
2947 Where is the cow hidden right now?
2949 Taking a bow, it's Magical Trevor,
2950 Everybody's seen that the trick is clever;
2951 Look at him there with his leathery, leathery whip!
2952 It's made of magic, and with a little flip--
2954 Yeah, yeah, yeah, the cow is back,
2955 Yeah, yeah, yeah, the cow is back;
2956 Back, back, back from his magical journey,
2959 What did he see in the parallel dimension?
2960 He saw beans, lots of beans, lots of beans, lots of beans;
2961 Oh, beans, lots of beans, lots of beans, lots of beans,
2964 =head2 v5.20.2-RC1 - Jonathan "Jonti" Picking, L<"Scampi"|http://weebls-stuff.com/toons/ive-seen-things-scampi-animated-music-video-mrweebl/>
2966 L<Announced on 2015-02-01 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/02/msg225273.html>
2969 I've seen them with my eyes;
2971 They're often in disguise.
2973 Like carrots, handbags, cheese, toilets,
2974 Russians, planets, hamsters, weddings,
2975 Poets, Stalin, Kuala Lumpur!
2976 Pygmies, budgies, Kuala Lumpur!
2979 I've seen them with my eyes;
2981 They're often in disguise.
2983 Like carrots, handbags, cheese...
2985 =head2 v5.20.1 - Lorenzo da Ponte, trans. Diana Reed, "Così fan tutte"
2987 L<Announced on 2014-09-14 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/09/msg219789.html>
2989 DORABELLA (as if waking from a daze): Where are they?
2990 DON ALFONSO: They've gone.
2991 FIORDILIGI: Oh, the cruel bitterness of parting!
2994 Take heart, my dearest children.
2995 Look, in the distance, your lovers are waving to you.
2997 FIORDILIGI: Bon voyage, my darling!
2998 DORABELLA: Bon voyage!
3001 O heavens! How swiftly the ship is sailing away!
3002 It is disappearing already!
3003 It is no longer in sight!
3004 Oh, may heaven grant it a prosperous voyage!
3006 DORABELLA: May good luck attend it to the battlefield!
3007 DON ALFONSO: And may your sweethearts and my friends be safe!
3009 FIORDILIGI, DORABELLA, DON ALFONSO:
3010 May the wind be gentle,
3011 may the sea be calm,
3012 and may the elements
3016 =head2 v5.20.1-RC2 - Lorenzo da Ponte, trans. William Weaver, "Così fan tutte"
3018 L<Announced on 2014-09-07 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/09/msg219446.html>
3021 Oh God, I feel that this foot of mine
3022 is reluctant to come before her.
3029 The hero displays his manliness
3030 in the most terrible moments.
3032 FIORDILIGI, DORABELLA:
3033 Now that we have heard the news,
3034 you have the lesser duty:
3035 Take heart, and plunge your swords
3036 into both our hearts.
3038 FERRANDO, GUGLIELMO:
3040 that I must abandon you.
3042 DORABELLA: Ah no, you shall not leave...
3043 FIORDILIGI: No, cruel one, you shall not go...
3044 DORABELLA: First I want to tear out my heart.
3045 FIORDILIGI: First I want to die at your feet.
3046 FERRANDO (softly to Don Alfonso): What do you say to that?
3047 GUGLIELMO (softly to Don Alfonso): You realise?
3048 DON ALFONSO (softly): Steady, friend, finem lauda.
3051 Thus destiny defrauds
3052 the hopes of mortals.
3053 Ah, among so many misfortunes,
3054 who can ever love life?
3056 =head2 v5.20.1-RC1 - Lorenzo da Ponte, trans. William Weaver, "Così fan tutte"
3058 L<Announced on 2014-08-25 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/08/msg218975.html>
3061 I'd like to speak, but I haven't the heart:
3063 My voice cannot emerge,
3064 but remains in my throat.
3065 What will you do? What shall I do?
3066 Oh what a great catastrophe!
3067 There can be nothing worse.
3068 I feel pity for you and for them.
3070 FIORDILIGI: Heavens! For mercy's sake, Signor Alfonso, don't make us
3072 DON ALFONSO: My children, you must arm yourselves with constancy.
3073 DORABELLA: Ye Gods! What evil has occurred? What horrible event? Is my
3075 FIORDILIGI: Is mine dead?
3076 DON ALFONSO: They are not dead, but they are not far from it.
3080 DON ALFONSO: Nor that.
3081 FIORDILIGI: What, then?
3082 DON ALFONSO: A royal command summons them to the field of battle.
3083 FIORDILIGI, DORABELLA: Alas, what do I hear? And they will leave?
3084 DON ALFONSO: Immediately.
3085 DORABELLA: And there is no way of preventing it?
3086 DON ALFONSO: There is none.
3087 FIORDILIGI: And not even a single farewell...
3088 DON ALFONSO: The unhappy men haven't the courage to see you; but if
3089 you wish it, they are ready...
3090 DORABELLA: Where are they?
3091 DON ALFONSO: Come in, friends.
3093 =head2 v5.20.0 - William Shakespeare, Sonnet 18
3095 L<Announced on 2014-05-27 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/05/msg215815.html>
3097 But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
3098 Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st;
3099 Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
3100 When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st:
3101 So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
3102 So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
3104 =head2 v5.20.0-RC1 - Lindsey Buckingham, "Second Hand News"
3106 L<Announced on 2014-05-17 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/05/msg215479.html>
3110 Won't you lay me down in tall grass
3111 And let me do my stuff
3113 =head2 v5.19.11 - Isidore-Lucien Ducasse [as "Comte de Lautréamont"], trans. Paul Knight, "Les Chants de Maldoror"
3115 L<Announced on 2014-04-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/04/msg214580.html>
3117 O rigorous mathematics, I have not forgotten you since your wise lessons,
3118 sweeter than honey, filtered into my heart like a refreshing wave.
3119 Instinctively, from the cradle, I had longed to drink from your source, older
3120 than the sun, and I continue to tread the sacred sanctuary of your solemn
3121 temple, I, the most faithful of your devotees. There was a vagueness in my
3122 mind, something thick as smoke; but I managed to mount the steps which lead to
3123 your altar, and you drove away this dark veil, as the wind blows the
3124 draught-board. You replaced it with excessive coldness, consummate prudence and
3125 implacable logic. With the aid of your fortifying milk, my intellect developed
3126 rapidly and took on immense proportions amid the ravishing lucidity which you
3127 bestow as a gift on all those who sincerely love you. Arithmetic! Algebra!
3128 Geometry! Awe-inspiring trinity! Luminous triangle! He who has not known you
3131 =head2 v5.19.10 - John Chadwick, "The Decipherment of Linear B"
3133 L<Announced on 2014-03-20 by Aaron Crane|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/03/msg213851.html>
3135 The urge to discover secrets is deeply ingrained in human nature; even
3136 the least curious mind is roused by the promise of sharing knowledge
3137 withheld from others. Some are fortunate enough to find a job which
3138 consists in the solution of mysteries, whether it be the physicist who
3139 tracks down a hitherto unknown nuclear particle or the policeman who
3140 detects a criminal. But most of us are driven to sublimate this urge
3141 by the solving of artificial puzzles devised for our entertainment.
3143 =head2 v5.19.9 - R. A. MacAvoy, "Tea with the Black Dragon"
3145 L<Announced on 2014-02-20 by Tony Cook|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/02/msg213047.html>
3147 Old hands. The smell of rain--the smell of Ch'an. Quiet words in
3148 rough Cantonese. "I am not to be your master. Your master has to be
3149 stronger than you are--has to tell you you are a fool and make you
3150 know it. And make you feel content in being a fool. How could I do
3151 that for you? I'm old. You are too strong for me; you are full of
3152 chi." The old man has paused then, huddled against the wind while
3153 clouds thickened above them.
3155 "I will tell you this, Long," he continued, "Before you find yourself
3156 you will lose your chi. Also you will leave behind you all pride of
3157 body, pride of mind. You will be reduced. Like me." The old man
3158 closed his eyes, and rain began to beat against his gray, crew-cut
3159 hair. He pulled his coat closer. Suddenly his eyes snapped open and
3160 he looked Long in the face.
3162 "You must leave China. Go across the ocean. There you will meet your
3163 master." He set down his teacup with a palsied hand. His voice rose,
3166 "I tell you this, most honored and impressive visitor. You are a
3167 fool, yes, but you will find the very thing you seek. You will find
3170 =head2 v5.19.8 - Joseph Heller, "Catch-22"
3172 L<Announced on 2014-01-20 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/01/msg211729.html>
3174 “I used to get a big kick out of saving people’s lives. Now I wonder what the
3175 hell’s the point, since they all have to die anyway.”
3177 “Oh, there’s a point, all right,” Dunbar assured him.
3179 “Is there? What is the point?”
3181 “The point is to keep them from dying for as long as you can.”
3183 “Yeah, but what’s the point, since they all have to die anyway?”
3185 “The trick is not to think about that.”
3187 “Never mind the trick. What the hell’s the point?”
3189 Dunbar pondered in silence for a few moments. “Who the hell knows?”
3191 =head2 v5.19.7 - Kurt Vonnegut, "Slaughterhouse-Five"
3193 L<Announced on 2013-12-20 by Abigail|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/12/msg210882.html>
3195 And somewhere in there was springtime. The corpse mines were closed
3196 down. The soldiers all left to fight the Russians. In the suburbs,
3197 the women and children dug rifle pits. Billy and the rest of his group
3198 were locked up in the stable in the suburbs. And then, one morning,
3199 they got up to discover that the door was unlocked. World War Two in
3202 Billy and the rest wandered out onto the shady street. The trees were
3203 leafing out. There was nothing going on out there, no traffic of any
3204 kind. There was only one vehicle, an abandoned wagon drawn by two
3205 horses. The wagon was green and coffin-shaped.
3209 One bird said to Billy Pilgrim, "Pee-tee-weet?"
3211 =head2 v5.19.6 - Monty Python's Flying Circus, "Spam"
3213 L<Announced on 2013-11-20 by Chris 'BinGOs' Williams|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/11/msg210043.html>
3215 Interior: cheap cafe. All the customers are Vikings. Mr and Mrs Bun enter downwards (on wires).
3219 Mr. Bun: What have you got, then?
3220 Waitress: Well there's egg and bacon; egg, sausage and bacon; egg and spam; egg, bacon and spam;
3221 egg, bacon, sausage and spam; spam, bacon, sausage and spam; spam, egg, spam, spam, bacon and spam;
3222 spam, spam, spam, egg and spam; spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, baked beans, spam, spam, spam and spam;
3223 or lobster thermidor aux crevettes, with a mornay sauce garnished with truffle pate, brandy and a fried
3225 Mrs. Bun: Have you got anything without spam in it?
3226 Waitress: Well, there's spam, egg, sausage and spam. That's not got MUCH spam in it.
3227 Mrs. Bun: I don't want ANY spam.
3228 Mr. Bun: Why can't she have egg, bacon, spam and sausage?
3229 Mrs. Bun: That's got spam in it!
3230 Mr. Bun: Not as much as spam, egg, sausage and spam.
3231 Mrs. Bun: Look, could I have egg, bacon, spam and sausage, without the spam.
3232 Waitress: Uuuuuuggggh!
3233 Mrs. Bun: What d'you mean, uugggh! I don't like spam.
3234 Vikings: (singing) Spam, spam, spam, spam, spam ... spam, spam, spam, spam ... lovely spam, wonderful spam ...
3236 (Brief shot of a Viking ship)
3238 Waitress: Shut up. Shut up! Shut up! You can't have egg, bacon, spam and sausage without the spam.
3240 Waitress: No, it wouldn't be egg, bacon, spam and sausage, would it?
3241 Mrs. Bun: I don't like spam!
3243 =head2 v5.19.5 - Charles Baudelaire, trans. James McGowan, "The Flowers of Evil", 51. The Cat
3245 L<Announced on 2013-10-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/10/msg208752.html>
3249 A cat is strolling through my mind
3250 Acting as though he owned the place,
3251 A lovely cat -- strong, charming, sweet.
3252 When he meows, one scarcely hears,
3254 So tender and discreet his tone;
3255 But whether he should growl or purr
3256 His voice is always rich and deep.
3257 That is the secret of his charm.
3259 This purling voice that filters down
3260 Into my darkest depths of soul
3261 Fulfils me like a balanced verse,
3262 Delights me as a potion would.
3264 It puts to sleep the cruellest ills
3265 And keeps a rein on ecstasies --
3266 Without the need for any words
3267 It can pronounce the longest phrase.
3269 Oh no, there is no bow that draws
3270 Across my heart, fine instrument,
3271 And makes to sing so royally
3272 The strongest and the purest chord,
3274 More than your voice, mysterious cat,
3275 Exotic cat, seraphic cat,
3276 In whom all is, angelically,
3277 As subtle as harmonious.
3281 From his soft fur, golden and brown,
3282 Goes out so sweet a scent, one night
3283 I might have been embalmed in it
3284 By giving him one little pet.
3286 He is my household's guardian soul;
3287 He judges, he presides, inspires
3288 All matters in hos royal realm;
3289 Might he be fairy? or a god?
3291 When my eyes, to this cat I love
3292 Drawn as by a magnet's force,
3293 Turn tamely back from that appeal,
3294 And when I look within myself,
3296 I notice with astonishment
3297 The fire of his opal eyes,
3298 Clear beacons glowing, living jewels,
3299 Taking my measure, steadily.
3301 =head2 v5.19.4 - Washington Irving, "The Widow and Her Son"
3303 L<Announced on 2013-09-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/09/msg207969.html>
3305 There is something in sickness that breaks down the pride of manhood;
3306 that softens the heart and brings it back to the feelings of infancy.
3307 Who that has languished, even in advanced life, in sickness and
3308 despondency — who that has pined on a weary bed in the neglect and
3309 loneliness of a foreign land — but has thought on the mother "that
3310 looked on his childhood," that smoothed his pillow and administered to
3311 his helplessness. — Oh! there is an enduring tenderness in the love
3312 of a mother to her son that transcends all other affections of the
3313 heart. It is neither to be chilled by selfishness — nor daunted by
3314 danger — nor weakened by worthlessness — nor stifled by ingratitude.
3315 She will sacrifice every comfort to his convenience — she will
3316 surrender every pleasure to his enjoyment — she will glory in his fame
3317 and exult in his prosperity. And if misfortune overtake him he will
3318 be the dearer to her from misfortune — and if disgrace settle upon his
3319 name, she will still love and cherish him in spite of his disgrace —
3320 and if all the world beside cast him off, she will be all the world to
3323 =head2 v5.19.3 - Andrew Hodges, "Alan Turing: The Enigma"
3325 L<Announced on 2013-08-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/08/msg206318.html>
3327 E.M. Forster, outdoing the King's heresy with grand bravura, had
3328 written in 1938 that if he were faced with the choice between
3329 betraying his country and betraying his friends, he hoped he would
3330 have the courage to betray his country. He would always put the
3331 personal above the political. But for Alan Turing, unlike Forster, or
3332 Wittgenstein, or G.H. Hardy, it was more than a theoretical question.
3333 For him not only had the personal become the political, but the
3334 political was the personal. He had chosen and promised for himself in
3335 working for the government. The choice for him therefore was that
3336 between betraying one part of himself and betraying another part. And
3337 however much he wavered between these alternatives, there was a solid
3338 logic to the mind of security, one that could not be expected to take
3339 an interest in notions of freedom and development. He had no rights
3340 to such things, as he would have had to admit. He might have
3341 outwitted the Home Guard, but when it came to questions that mattered,
3342 there was no doubt that he had placed himself under military law.
3343 There was a war on; there was always a war on now.
3345 =head2 v5.19.2 - Fred Brooks, "The Mythical Man-Month"
3347 L<Announced on 2013-07-22 by Aristotle Pagaltzis|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/07/msg204905.html>
3349 The magic of myth and legend has come true in our time. One types the
3350 correct incantation on a keyboard, and a display screen comes to life,
3351 showing things that never were nor could be. [...] Not all is delight,
3352 however [...] One must perform perfectly. The computer resembles the
3353 magic of legend in this respect, too. If one character, one pause, of
3354 the incantation is not strictly in proper form, the magic doesn't work.
3356 =head2 v5.19.1 - William Shakespeare, "A Midsummer Night's Dream"
3358 L<Announced on 2013-06-21 by David Golden|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/06/msg203449.html>
3360 Over hill, over dale,
3361 Thorough bush, thorough briar,
3362 Over park, over pale,
3363 Thorough flood, thorough fire,
3364 I do wander everywhere,
3365 Swifter than the moon's sphere;
3366 And I serve the fairy queen,
3367 To dew her orbs upon the green.
3368 The cowslips tall her pensioners be;
3369 In their gold coats, spots you see;
3370 Those be rubies, fairy favours,
3371 In their freckles live our savours.
3372 I must go seek some dew-drops here,
3373 And hang a perl in every cowslip's ear.
3374 Farewell, thou lob of spirits, I'll be gone;
3375 My queen and all her elves come here anon!
3377 =head2 v5.19.0 - Batman, of the Joker, in "The Dark Knight Returns"
3379 L<Announced on 2013-05-20 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/05/msg201980.html>
3381 From the beginning, I knew…
3382 …that there was nothing wrong with you…
3386 =head2 v5.18.4 - Robert W. Chambers, Cassilda's Song in "The King in Yellow," Act I, Scene 2
3388 L<Announced on 2014-10-01 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/10/msg220770.html>
3390 Along the shore the cloud waves break,
3391 The twin suns sink beneath the lake,
3392 The shadows lengthen
3395 Strange is the night where black stars rise,
3396 And strange moons circle through the skies
3397 But stranger still is
3400 Songs that the Hyades shall sing,
3401 Where flap the tatters of the King,
3405 Song of my soul, my voice is dead;
3406 Die thou, unsung, as tears unshed
3407 Shall dry and die in
3410 =head2 v5.18.3 - (no epigraph)
3414 =head2 v5.18.3-RC2 - Robert W. Chambers, "The King in Yellow", Act I, Scene 2
3416 L<Announced on 2014-09-27 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/09/msg220613.html>
3418 "Ah! I see it now!" I shrieked. "You have seized the throne and the
3419 empire. Woe! woe to you who are crowned with the crown of the King in
3422 =head2 v5.18.3-RC1 - Robert W. Chambers, "The King in Yellow", Act I, Scene 2
3424 L<Announced on 2014-09-17 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/09/msg220072.html>
3426 CAMILLA: You, sir, should unmask.
3430 CASSILDA: Indeed it's time. We all have laid aside disguise but you.
3432 STRANGER: I wear no mask.
3434 CAMILLA: (Terrified, aside to Cassilda.) No mask? No mask!
3436 =head2 v5.18.2 - Miss Manners
3438 L<Announced on 2014-01-06 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/01/msg211224.html>
3440 One of the major mistakes people make is that they think manners are
3441 only the expression of happy ideas. There's a whole range of behavior
3442 that can be expressed in a mannerly way. That's what civilization is all
3443 about – doing it in a mannerly and not an antagonistic way. One of the
3444 places we went wrong was the naturalistic Rousseauean movement of the
3445 Sixties in which people said, "Why can't you just say what's on your
3446 mind?" In civilization there have to be some restraints. If we followed
3447 every impulse, we'd be killing one another.
3449 =head2 v5.18.1 - Chuck Moore
3451 L<Announced on 2013-08-12 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/08/msg205897.html>
3453 The operating system is another concept that is curious. Operating
3454 systems are dauntingly complex and totally unnecessary. It’s a brilliant
3455 thing that Bill Gates has done in selling the world on the notion of
3456 operating systems. It’s probably the greatest con game the world has
3459 An operating system does absolutely nothing for you. As long as you had
3460 something — a subroutine called disk driver, a subroutine called some
3461 kind of communication support, in the modern world, it doesn’t do
3462 anything else. In fact, Windows spends a lot of time with overlays and
3463 disk management all stuff like that which are irrelevant. You’ve got
3464 gigabyte disks; you’ve got megabyte RAMs. The world has changed in a way
3465 that renders the operating system unnecessary.
3467 =head2 v5.18.1-RC1 - Chuck Moore
3469 L<Announced on 2013-08-02 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/08/msg205445.html>
3471 Compilers are probably the worst code ever written. They are written by
3472 someone who has never written a compiler before and will never do so
3473 again. The more elaborate the language, the more complex, bug-ridden,
3474 and unusable is the compiler. But a simple compiler for a simple
3475 language is an essential tool—if only for documentation.
3477 =head2 v5.18.0 - Yevgeny Zamyatin
3479 L<Announced on 2013-05-18 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/05/msg201940.html>
3481 It is an error to divide people into the living and the dead: there are people
3482 who are dead-alive, and people who are alive-alive. The dead-alive also write,
3483 walk, speak, act. But they make no mistakes; only machines make no mistakes,
3484 and they produce only dead things. The alive-alive are constantly in error, in
3485 search, in questions, in torment.
3487 =head2 v5.18.0-RC4 - Joseph Heller, "Catch-22"
3489 L<Announced on 2013-05-16 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/05/msg201889.html>
3491 Clevinger was dead. That was the basic flaw in his philosophy.
3493 =head2 v5.18.0-RC3 - Tom Waits, "The Ocean Doesn't Want Me"
3495 L<Announced on 2013-05-14 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/05/msg201823.html>
3497 I'd love to go drowning
3498 And to stay and to stay
3499 But the ocean doesn't want me today
3500 I'll go in up to here
3501 It can't possibly hurt
3502 All they will find is my beer
3505 =head2 v5.18.0-RC2 - Tom Waits, "Earth Died Screaming"
3507 L<Announced on 2013-05-12 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/05/msg201723.html>
3509 And the great day of wrath has come
3510 And here's mud in your big red eye
3511 The poker's in the fire
3512 And the locusts take the sky
3513 And the earth died screaming
3514 While I lay dreaming of you
3516 =head2 v5.18.0-RC1 - Tom Waits, "What's He Building in There?"
3518 L<Announced on 2013-05-11 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/05/msg201651.html>
3520 What's he building in there?
3522 We have a right to know…
3524 =head2 v5.17.11 - Nigel Tufnel in "This is Spın̈al Tap"
3526 L<Announced on 2013-04-20 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/04/msg201056.html>
3528 It's very special because, if you can see, the numbers all go to…
3529 eleven! Look, right across the board: eleven, eleven, eleven, eleven!
3531 =head2 v5.17.10 - Vernor Vinge, "A Fire Upon The Deep"
3533 L<Announced on 2013-03-23 by Max Maischein|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/03/msg200504.html>
3535 The archive informed the automation. Data structures were built, recipes
3536 followed. A local network was built, faster than anything on Straum, but surely
3537 safe. Nodes were added, modified by other recipes. The archive was a friendly
3538 place, with hierarchies of translation keys that led them along. Straum itself
3539 would be famous for this.
3541 Six months passed. A year.
3543 The omniscient view. Not self-aware really. Self-awareness is much over-rated.
3544 Most automation works far better as a part of a whole, and even if human-
3545 powerful, it does not need to self-know.
3547 =head2 v5.17.9 - Douglas Adams, "The Hitch-Hikers Guide to the Galaxy"
3549 L<Announced on 2013-02-20 by Chris 'BinGOs' Williams|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/02/msg199115.html>
3551 Vogon poetry is of course, the third worst in the universe.
3552 The second worst is that of the Azgoths of Kria. During a
3553 recitation by their poet master Grunthos the Flatulent of
3554 his poem 'Ode To A Small Lump of Green Putty I Found In My
3555 Armpit One Midsummer Morning' four of his audience died
3556 of internal haemorrhaging and the president of the
3557 Mid-Galactic Arts Nobbling Council survived by gnawing one
3558 of his own legs off. Grunthos is reported to have been
3559 'disappointed' by the poem's reception, and was about to
3560 embark on a reading of his twelve-book epic entitled
3561 'My Favourite Bathtime Gurgles' when his own major intestine,
3562 in a desperate attempt to save life and civilisation,
3563 leapt straight up through his neck and throttled his brain.
3565 The very worst poetry of all perished along with its creator
3566 Paula Nancy Millstone Jennings of Greenbridge, Essex, England,
3567 in the destruction of the planet Earth.
3569 =head2 v5.17.8 - Iain Pears, "An Instance of the Fingerpost"
3571 L<Announced on 2013-01-20 by Aaron Crane|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/01/msg197571.html>
3573 I must here declare myself as someone who does not for a moment subscribe to
3574 the general view that a willingness to perform oneself is detrimental to the
3575 dignity of experimental philosophy. There is, after all, a clear distinction
3576 between labour carried out for financial reward, and that done for the
3577 improvement of mankind: to put it another way, Lower as a philosopher was
3578 fully my equal even if he fell away when he became the practising physician.
3579 I think ridiculous of certain professors of anatomy, who find it beneath
3580 them to pick up the knife themselves, but merely comment while hired hands
3581 do the cutting. Sylvius would never have dreamt of sitting on a dais reading
3582 from an authority while others cut — when he taught, the knife was
3583 in his hand and the blood spattered his coat. Boyle also did not scruple to
3584 perform his own experiments and, on one occasion in my presence, even showed
3585 himself willing to anatomise a rat with his very own hands. Nor was he less
3586 a gentleman when he had finished. Indeed, in my opinion, his stature was all
3587 the greater, for in Boyle wealth, humility and curiosity mingled, and the
3588 world is richer for it.
3590 =head2 v5.17.7 - R. Scott Bakker, "The Darkness That Comes Before"
3592 L<Announced on 2012-12-18 by Dave Rolsky|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/12/msg196707.html>
3596 The boy extinguished. Only a place.
3600 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.
3602 A place without breath or sound. A place of sight alone. A place without before or after . . . almost.
3604 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.
3606 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 . . .
3608 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.
3610 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.
3612 I have been legion . . .
3614 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.
3618 =head2 v5.17.6 - Kurt Vonnegut, "The Sirens of Titan"
3620 L<Announced on 2012-11-20 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/11/msg195659.html>
3622 Beatrice, looking like a gypsy queen, smoldered at the foot of a statue
3623 of a young physical student. At first glance, the laboratory-gowned
3624 scientist seemed to be a perfect servant of nothing but truth. At first
3625 glance, one was convinced that nothing but truth could please him as he
3626 beamed at his test tube. At first glance, one thought that he was as
3627 much above the beastly concerns of mankind as the harmoniums in the
3628 caves of Mercury. There, at first glance, was a young man without
3629 vanity, without lust — and one accepted at its face value the title Salo
3630 had engraved on the statue, "Discovery of Atomic Power."
3632 =head2 v5.17.5 - Charles Stross, "Singularity Sky"
3634 L<Announced on 2012-10-20 by Florian Ragwitz|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/10/msg194349.html>
3636 Neither of them noticed the pair of polka-dotted knickers hiding
3637 behind the ventilation duct overhead, listening patiently and
3638 recording everything.
3640 =head2 v5.17.4 - Roald Dahl, "Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf"
3642 L<Announced on 2012-09-19 by Florian Ragwitz|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/09/msg192635.html>
3644 The small girl smiles. One eyelid flickers.
3645 She whips a pistol from her knickers.
3646 She aims it at the creature's head,
3647 And bang bang bang, she shoots him dead.
3649 A few weeks later, in the wood,
3650 I came across Miss Riding Hood.
3651 But what a change! No cloak of red,
3652 No silly hood upon her head.
3653 She said, "Hello, and do please note
3654 My lovely furry wolfskin coat."
3656 =head2 v5.17.3 - Kris Ta-belle, "Smoked Perl Onion Soup"
3658 L<Announced on 2012-08-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/08/msg190775.html>
3662 Cut 16 Perl Onions into quarters and put them in a grill smoker rack
3663 or a perforated pan over a BBQ using hickory wood chips or Special
3664 Blend Smoker Bisquettes. Smoke them for an hour and remove once they
3666 Let them cool and put them in the fridge (or freezer) until you are
3667 ready to create the soup.
3671 16 diced, pre-smoked, Perl Onions
3674 2 small garlic cloves, finely minced
3677 black pepper to taste
3679 1/4 cup all purpose flour
3680 6 cups of beef or vegetable stock
3681 1 cup of thick cream (milk can be used as a substitute)
3685 Melt the butter in a pan and then add olive oil.
3686 Heat and add the onions to caramelize over a medium-high heat for up
3688 Add the garlic, turn down the heat and cook for a further 5 minutes.
3689 Add the salt, pepper and sugar.
3690 Now add the red wine and reduce to a jam like consistency.
3691 Add the flour, stir well and add the stock a cup at a time.
3692 Simmer for 30 minutes, add the cream and heat to almost boiling.
3696 =head2 v5.17.2 - Terry Pratchet, "The Colour of Magic"
3698 L<Announced on 2012-07-21 by TonyC|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/07/msg189828.html>
3700 ‘I knew it,’ said Rincewind. ‘We're in a strong magical field.’
3702 Twoflower and Hrun looked around the little hollow where they had made
3703 their noonday halt. Then they looked at each other.
3705 The horses were quietly cropping the rich grass by the stream. Yellow
3706 butterflies skittered among the bushes. There was a smell of thyme
3707 and a buzzing of bees. The wild pigs on the spit sizzled gently.
3709 Hrun shrugged and went back to oiling his biceps. They gleamed.
3711 ‘Looks alright to me,’ he said.
3713 ‘Try tossing a coin,’ said Rincewind.
3717 ‘Go on. Toss a coin.’
3719 ‘Hokay,’ said Hrun. 'If that gives you any pleasure.’ He reached into
3720 his pouch and withdrew a handful of loose change plundered from a
3721 dozen realms. With some care he selected a Zchloty leaden
3722 quarter-iotum and balanced it on a purple thumbnail.
3724 ‘You call,’ he said. ‘Heads or—’ he inspected the obverse with
3725 an air of intense concentration, ‘some sort of a fish with legs.’
3727 ‘When it's in the air,’ said Rincewind. Hrun grinned and flicked his thumb.
3729 The iotum rose, spinning.
3731 ‘Edge,’ said Rincewind, without looking at it.
3733 =head2 v5.17.1 - Rand Miller, "Myst: The Book of Ti'ana"
3735 L<Announced on 2012-06-20 by doy|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/06/msg188354.html>
3737 On their return from Ko'ah, Aitrus had shown her the Book, patiently
3738 taking her through page after page, and showing her how such an Age was
3739 "made." She had seen at once the differences between this archaic form
3740 and the ordinary written speech of the D'ni, noting how it was not
3741 merely more elaborate but more specific: a language of precise yet
3742 subtle descriptive power. Yet seeing was one thing, believing another.
3743 Given all the evidence, her rational mind still fought against accepting
3746 =head2 v5.17.0 - Charles Stross, "Singularity Sky"
3748 L<Announced on 2012-05-26 by Zefram|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/05/msg187214.html>
3750 `Welcome, comrades!' Burya opened his arms toward the soldier.
3751 `Yes it is true! With help from our allies of the Festival, the iron
3752 hand of the reactionary junta is about to be overthrown for all time!
3753 The new economy is being born; the marginal cost of production has
3754 been abolished, and from now on, if any item is produced once, it can
3755 be replicated infinitely. From each according to his imagination,
3756 to each according to his needs! Join us or better still, bring your
3757 fellow soldiers and workers to join us!'
3759 There was a sharp bang from the roof of the Corn Exchange, right at the
3760 climax of his impromptu speech; heads turned in alarm. Something had
3761 broken inside the spork factory and a stream of rainbow-hued plastic
3762 implements fountained toward the sky and clattered to the cobblestones
3763 on every side, like a harbinger of the postindustrial society to come.
3764 Workers and peasants alike stared in open-mouthed bewilderment at this
3765 astounding display of productivity, then bent to scrabble in the muck
3766 for the brightly colored sporks of revolution. A volley of shots rang
3767 out and Burya Rubenstein raised his hands, grinning wildly, to accept
3768 the salute of the soldiers from the Skull Hill garrison.
3770 =head2 v5.16.3 - Devo, "Freedom of Choice"
3772 L<Announced on 2013-03-11 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/03/msg200009.html>
3774 A victim of collision on the open sea
3775 Nobody ever said that life was free
3776 Sink, swim, go down with the ship
3777 But use your freedom of choice
3779 =head2 v5.16.2 - Stanislaw Lem, "The Cyberiad", Trurl's Machine
3781 L<Announced on 2012-11-01 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/11/msg194915.html>
3783 Once upon a time Trurl the constructor built an eight-story thinking
3784 machine. When it was finished, he gave it a coat of white paint,
3785 trimmed the edges in lavender, stepped back, squinted, then added a
3786 little curlicue on the front and, where one might imagine the forehead
3787 to be, a few pale orange polkadots. Extremely pleased with himself,
3788 he whistled an air and, as is always done on such occasions, asked it
3789 the ritual question of how much is two plus two.
3791 The machine stirred. Its tubes began to glow, its coils warmed up,
3792 current coursed through all its circuits like a waterfall,
3793 transformers hummed and throbbed, there was a clanging, and a
3794 chugging, and such an ungodly racket that Trurl began to think of
3795 adding a special mentation muffler. Meanwhile the machine labored on,
3796 as if it had been given the most difficult problem in the Universe to
3797 solve; the ground shook, the sand slid underfoot from the vibration,
3798 valves popped like champagne corks, the relays nearly gave way under
3799 the strain. At last, when Trurl had grown extremely impatient, the
3800 machine ground to a halt and said in a voice like thunder: SEVEN!
3802 =head2 v5.16.1 - Emerald Rose, "Never Split The Party"
3804 L<Announced on 2012-08-08 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/08/msg190413.html>
3806 Don't you know? You never split the party
3807 Clerics in the back to keep those fighters hale and hearty
3808 The wizard in the middle, where he can shed some light
3809 And you never let that damn thief out of sight…
3811 =head2 v5.16.1-RC1 - Tom Moldvay, Foreward to the "Dungeons & Dragons Basic Rulebook"
3813 L<Announced on 2012-08-03 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/08/msg190264.html>
3815 I was busy rescuing the captured maiden when the dragon showed up.
3816 Fifty feed of scaled terror glared down at us with smoldering red eyes.
3817 Tendrils of smoke drifted out from between fangs larger than daggers.
3818 The dragon blocked the only exit from the cave.
3822 I unwrapped the sword which the mysterious cleric had given me. The
3823 sword was golden-tinted steel. Its hilt was set with a rainbow
3824 collection of precious gems. I shouted my battle cry and charged
3826 My charge caught the dragon by surprise. Its titanic jaws snapped shut
3827 inches from my face. I swung the golden sword with both arms. The
3828 swordblade bit into the dragon's neck and continued through to the other
3829 side. With an earth-shaking crash, the dragon dropped dead at my feet.
3830 The magic sword had saved my life and ended the reign of the
3831 dragon-tyrant. The countryside was freed and I could return as a hero.
3833 =head2 v5.16.0 - W.H. Auden, "September 1, 1939"
3835 L<Announced on 2012-05-20 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/05/msg186903.html>
3837 All I have is a voice
3838 To undo the folded lie,
3839 The romantic lie in the brain
3840 Of the sensual man-in-the-street
3841 And the lie of Authority
3842 Whose buildings grope the sky:
3843 There is no such thing as the State
3844 And no one exists alone;
3845 Hunger allows no choice
3846 To the citizen or the police;
3847 We must love one another or die.
3849 =head2 v5.15.9 - Bob Dylan, "Blowin' In The Wind"
3851 L<Announced on 2012-03-20 by Abigail|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/03/msg184824.html>
3853 How many roads must a man walk down
3854 Before you call him a man?
3855 Yes, 'n' how many seas must a white dove sail
3856 Before she sleeps in the sand?
3857 Yes, 'n' how many times must the cannonballs fly
3858 Before they're forever banned?
3859 The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind
3860 The answer is blowin' in the wind
3862 How many years can a mountain exist
3863 Before it's washed to the sea?
3864 Yes, 'n' how many years can some people exist
3865 Before they're allowed to be free?
3866 Yes, 'n' how many times can a man turn his head
3867 Pretending he just doesn't see?
3868 The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind
3869 The answer is blowin' in the wind
3871 How many times must a man look up
3872 Before he can see the sky?
3873 Yes, 'n' how many ears must one man have
3874 Before he can hear people cry?
3875 Yes, 'n' how many deaths will it take till he knows
3876 That too many people have died?
3877 The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind
3878 The answer is blowin' in the wind
3880 =head2 v5.15.8 - The KLF, "The Manual-How To Have A Number One The Easy Way"
3882 L<Announced on 2012-02-20 by Max Maischein|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/02/msg183919.html>
3884 "Doctor Who, hey Doctor Who
3885 Doctor Who, in the Tardis
3886 Doctor Who, hey Doctor Who
3887 Doctor Who, Doc, Doctor Who
3888 Doctor Who, Doc, Doctor Who"
3890 Gibberish of course, but every lad in the country under a certain
3891 age related instinctively to what it was about. The ones slightly
3892 older needed a couple of pints inside them to clear away the mind
3893 debris left by the passing years before it made sense. As for
3894 girls and our chorus, we think they must have seen it as pure crap.
3895 A fact that must have limited to zero our chances of staying at The
3896 Top for more than one week.
3898 Stock, Aitkin and Waterman, however, are kings of writing chorus
3899 lyrics that go straight to the emotional heart of the 7" single
3900 buying girls in this country. Their most successful records will kick
3901 into the chorus with a line which encapsulates the entire emotional
3902 meaning of the song. This will obviously be used as the title. As
3903 soon as Rick Astley hit the first line of the chorus on his debut
3904 single it was all over - the Number One position was guaranteed:
3906 "I'm never going to give you up"
3908 =head2 v5.15.7 - Penelope Lively, "The Voyage of QV66"
3910 L<Announced on 2012-01-20 by Chris 'BinGOs' Williams|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/01/msg182230.html>
3912 "Laboratories," announced Henry. "Kindly don't touch anything."
3914 He led us into a long low brick shed. Outside there was a
3915 notice on a piece of board, crudely printed in red paint,
3916 which said GRATE SIENCE DISCOVERYS DONE HERE SSSH! BRING YOUR
3917 OWN BUKKIT NO PINCHING ANYWUN ELSE'S EXPERRYMENTS CANTEEN OPEN
3918 ALL DAY CHIMPS ONLY.
3920 There were a lot of large black monkeys inside, all intently
3921 busy on what they were doing. Some of them were pouring stuff
3922 out of bottles into buckets and carefully stirring the ensuing
3923 mixture; others were at work with glass tubes and jars, blowing
3924 and measuring and mixing; others were crouched over long benches
3925 with tools and heaps of bits and pieces of metal, cutting and
3926 bending and constructing. There was a great deal of noise and
3927 chatter. Every now and then one of them would give a whoop of
3928 excitement and all the others would gather round and jump up and
3929 down cheering and applauding.
3931 "Chimps," said Henry. "They're awfully clever."
3933 =head2 v5.15.6 - Ursula K. Leguin, "A Wizard of Earthsea"
3935 L<Announced on 2011-12-20 by Dave Rolsky|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/12/msg180962.html>
3937 Ged had thought that as the prentice of a great mage he would enter at once
3938 into the mystery and mastery of power. He would understand the language of the
3939 beasts and the speech of the leaves of the forest, he thought, and sway the
3940 winds with his word, and learn to change himself into any shape he
3941 wished. Maybe he and his master would run together as stags, or fly to Re Albi
3942 over the mountain on the wings of eagles.
3944 But it was not so at all. They wandered, first down into the Vale and then
3945 gradually south and westward around the mountain, given lodging in little
3946 villages or spending the night out in the wilderness, like poor
3947 journeyman-sorcerers, or tinkers, or beggars. They entered no mysterious
3948 domain. Nothing happened. The mage's oaken staff that Ged had watched at first
3949 with eager dread was nothing but a stout staff to walk with. Three days went
3950 by and four days went by and still Ogion had not spoken a single charm in
3951 Ged's hearing, and had not taught him a single name or rune or spell.
3953 =head2 v5.15.5 - Nikolai Gogol, trans. Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, "The Diary of a Madman"
3955 L<Announced on 2011-11-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/11/msg179588.html>
3957 This day - is a day of the greatest solemnity! Spain has a king. He has
3958 been found. I am that king. Only this very day did I learn of it. I
3959 confess, it came to me suddenly in a flash of lightning. I don't understand
3960 how I could have thought and imagined that I was a titular councillor. How
3961 could such a wild notion enter my head? It's a good thing no one thought of
3962 putting me in an insane asylum. Now everything is laid open before me. Now
3963 I see everything as on the palm of my hand. And before, I don't understand,
3964 before everything around me was in some sort of fog. And all this happens, I
3965 think, because people imagine that the human brain is in the head. Not at
3966 all: it is brought by a wind from the direction of the Caspian Sea. First
3967 off, I announced to Mavra who I am. When she heard that the king of Spain
3968 was standing before her, she clasped her hands and nearly died of fright.
3969 The stupid woman had never seen a king of Spain before. However, I
3970 endeavoured to calm her down and assured her in gracious words of my
3971 benevolence and that I was not at all angry that she sometimes polished my
3972 boots poorly. They're benighted folk. It's impossible to tell them about
3973 lofty matters. She got frightened because she's convinced that all kings of
3974 Spain are like Philip II. But I explained to her that there was no
3975 resemblance between me and Philip II, and that I didn't have a single
3976 Capuchin . . . I didn't go to the office . . . To hell with it! No friends,
3977 you won't lure me there now; I'm not going to copy your vile papers!
3979 =head2 v5.15.4 - Steve Jobs
3981 L<Announced on 2011-10-20 by Florian Ragwitz|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/10/msg178412.html>
3983 A lot of people in our industry haven't had very diverse experiences. So they
3984 don't have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions
3985 without a broad perspective on the problem. The broader one's understanding of
3986 the human experience, the better design we will have.
3988 =head2 v5.15.3 - Oscar Wilde, From the preface to "The Picture of Dorian Gray"
3990 L<Announced on 2011-09-20 by Stevan Little|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/09/msg177427.html>
3992 All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath
3993 the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol
3994 do so at their peril.
3996 It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.
3997 Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the
3998 work is new, complex, and vital. When critics disagree, the
3999 artist is in accord with himself.
4001 We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as
4002 he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless
4003 thing is that one admires it intensely.
4005 All art is quite useless.
4007 =head2 v5.15.2 - Rainer Maria Rilke, trans., C. F. MacIntyre, "Duino", The First Elegy
4009 L<Announced on 2011-08-20 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/08/msg176067.html>
4011 True, it is strange to live no more on earth,
4012 no longer follow the folkways scarecely learned;
4013 not to give roses and other especially auspicious
4014 things the significance of a human future;
4015 to be no more what one was in infinitely anxious hands,
4016 and to put aside even one's name, like a broken plaything.
4017 Strange, to wish wishes no longer. Strange, to see
4018 all that was related fluttering so loosely in space.
4019 And being dead is hard, full of catching-up,
4020 so that finally one feels a little eternity.–
4021 But the living all make the mistake of too sharp discrimination.
4022 Often angels (it's said) don't know if they move
4023 among the quick or the dead. The eternal current
4024 hurtles all ages along with it forever
4025 through both realms and drowns their voices in both.
4027 =head2 v5.15.1 - Greg Egan, "Permutation City"
4029 L<Announced on 2011-07-20 by Zefram|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/07/msg175014.html>
4031 Carter held out a hand towards the middle of the room. `See that
4032 fountain?' A ten-metre-wide marble wedding cake, topped with a
4033 winged cherub wrestling a serpent, duly appeared. Water cascaded
4034 down from a gushing wound in the cherub's neck. Carter said, `It's
4035 being computed by redundancies in the sketch of the city. I can
4036 extract the results, because I know exactly where to look for them --
4037 but nobody else would have a hope in hell of picking them out.'
4039 Peer walked up to the fountain. Even as he approached, he noticed
4040 that the spray was intangible; when he dipped his hand in the water
4041 around the base he felt nothing, and the motion he made with his
4042 fingers left the foaming surface unchanged. They were spying on
4043 the calculations, not interacting with them; the fountain was a
4046 Carter said, `In your case, of course, nobody will need to know
4047 the results. Except you -- and you'll know them because you'll
4050 =head2 v5.15.0 - Neil Gaiman, "The Graveyard Book"
4052 L<Announced on 2011-06-20 by David Golden|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/06/msg173748.html>
4054 If you dare nothing, then when the day is over, nothing is all you will have gained.
4056 =head2 v5.14.4 - Arthur C. Clarke, "The Nine Billion Names of God"
4058 L<Announced on 2013-03-11 by Dave Mitchell|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/03/msg199988.html>
4060 He began to sing, but gave it up after a while. This vast arena of
4061 mountains, gleaming like whitely hooded ghosts on every side, did not
4062 encourage such ebullience. Presently George glanced at his watch.
4064 'Should be there in an hour,' he called back over his shoulder to
4065 Chuck. Then he added, in an afterthought: 'Wonder if the computer's
4066 finished its run. It was due about now.'
4068 Chuck didn't reply, so George swung round in his saddle. He could just
4069 see Chuck's face, a white oval turned towards the sky.
4071 'Look,' whispered Chuck, and George lifted his eyes to heaven. (There
4072 is always a last time for everything.)
4074 Overhead, without any fuss, the stars were going out.
4076 =head2 v5.14.3 - William Shakespeare, "As You Like It"
4078 L<Announced on 2012-10-12 by Dominic Hargreaves|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/10/msg194057.html>
4080 The poor world is almost six thousand years old, and in all
4081 this time there was not any man died in his own person,
4082 videlicit, in a love-cause. Troilus had his brains dashed
4083 out with a Grecian club; yet he did what he could to die
4084 before, and he is one of the patterns of love. Leander, he
4085 would have lived many a fair year, though Hero had turned
4086 nun, if it had not been for a hot midsummer night; for, good
4087 youth, he went but forth to wash him in the Hellespont and
4088 being taken with the cramp was drowned and the foolish
4089 coroners of that age found it was 'Hero of Sestos.' But these
4090 are all lies: men have died from time to time and worms have
4091 eaten them, but not for love.
4093 =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 >>
4095 L<Announced on 2011-09-26 by Florian Ragwitz|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/09/msg177618.html>
4097 It's not so much that people don't value the programs after they have them--they
4098 do value them. But they're not the sort of thing that would ever catch on if
4099 they had to overcome the marketing barrier. (I don't yet know if perl will
4100 catch on at all--I'm worried enough about it that I specifically included an
4101 awk-to-perl translator just to help it catch on.) Maybe it's all just an
4102 inferiority complex. Or maybe I don't like to be mercenary.
4104 So I guess I'd say that the reason some software comes free is that the
4105 mechanism for selling it is missing, either from the work environment, or from
4106 the heart of the programmer.
4108 =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 >>
4110 L<Announced on 2011-06-16 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/06/msg173650.html>
4112 At this point I'm no longer working for a company that makes me sign
4113 my life away, but by now I'm in the habit. Besides, I still harbor
4114 the deep-down suspicion that nobody would pay money for what I write,
4115 since most of it just helps you do something better that you could
4116 already do some other way. How much money would you personally pay
4117 to upgrade from readnews to rn? How much money would you pay for
4118 the patch program? As for warp, it's a mere game. And anything you
4119 can do with perl you can eventually do with an amazing and totally
4120 unreadable conglomeration of awk, sed, sh and C.
4122 =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 >>
4124 L<Announced on 2011-05-14 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/05/msg172326.html>
4126 At the start of any project, I'm programming primarily to please
4127 myself. (The two chief virtues in a programmer are laziness and
4128 impatience.) After a while somebody looks over my shoulder and says,
4129 "That's neat. It'd be neater if it did such-and-so." So the thing
4130 gets neater. Pretty soon (a year or two) I have an rn, a warp, a patch,
4131 or a perl. One of these years I'll have a metaconfig.
4133 I then say to myself, "I don't want my life's work to die when this
4134 computer is scrapped, so I should let some other people use this. If I
4135 ask my company to sell this, it'll never see the light of day, and nobody
4136 would pay much for it anyway. If I sell it myself, I'll be in trouble with
4137 my company, to whom I signed my life away when I was hired. If I give it
4138 away, I can pretend it was worthless in the first place, so my company
4139 won't care. In any event, it's easier to ask forgiveness than permission."
4141 So a freely distributable program is born.
4143 =head2 v5.14.0-RC3 - American Airlines Gate Agent, last call
4145 L<Announced on 2011-05-11 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/05/msg172282.html>
4147 This is the last call for flight 1697 with service to Chicago and
4148 continuing service to San Francisco. All passengers should already be
4149 aboard. If you aren't aboard at this time, you will be denied boarding
4150 and your bags will be offloaded.
4152 =head2 v5.14.0-RC2 - Greg Grandin, "Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City"
4154 L<Announced on 2011-05-04 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/05/msg171879.html>
4156 Over the course of nearly two decades, Ford would spend tens of millions
4157 of dollars founding not one but, after the plantation was defastated
4158 by leaf blight, two American towns, complete with central squares,
4159 sidewalks, indoor plumbing, hospitals, manicured lawns, movie theaters,
4160 swimming pools, golf courses, and, of course, Model Ts and As rolling
4161 down their paved streets.
4163 Back in America, newspapers kept up their drumbeat celebration, only
4164 obliquely referencing reports that things were not progressing as the
4165 company had hoped. But there was one note of skepticism. In late 1928,
4166 the Washington Post ran an editorial that read in its entirety: "Ford will
4167 govern a rubber plantation in Brazil larger than North Carolina. This is
4168 the first time he has applied quantity production methods to trouble"
4170 =head2 v5.14.0-RC1 - Bill Bryson, "In a Sunburned Country"
4172 L<Announced on 2011-04-20 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/04/msg171253.html>
4174 But then Australia is such a difficult country to keep track of. On
4175 my first visit, some years ago, I passed the time on the long flight
4176 reading a history of Australian politics in the twentieth century,
4177 wherein I encountered the startling fact that in 1967 the prime minister,
4178 Harold Holt, was strolling along a beach in Victoria when he plunged into
4179 the surf and vanished. No trace of the poor man was ever seen again.
4180 This seemed doubly astounding to me—first that Australia could
4181 just I<lose> a prime minister (I mean, come on) and second that news of
4182 this had never reached me.
4184 =head2 v5.13.11 - Walt Whitman, L<"Leaves of Grass"|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leaves_of_Grass>
4186 L<Announced on 2011-03-20 by Florian Ragwitz|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/03/msg170206.html>
4188 When the full-grown poet came,
4189 Out spake pleased Nature (the round impassive globe, with all its
4190 shows of day and night,) saying, He is mine;
4191 But out spake too the Soul of man, proud, jealous and unreconciled,
4192 Nay he is mine alone;
4193 --Then the full-grown poet stood between the two, and took each
4195 And to-day and ever so stands, as blender, uniter, tightly
4197 Which he will never release until he reconciles the two,
4198 And wholly and joyously blends them.
4200 =head2 v5.13.10 - Egill Skalla-Grímsson, L<"Egils saga Skalla-Grímssonar"|http://www.heimskringla.no/wiki/Egils_saga_Skalla-Gr%C3%ADmssonar>
4202 L<Announced on 2011-02-20 by Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/02/msg169340.html>
4204 Skalat maðr rúnar rísta,
4205 nema ráða vel kunni.
4206 Þat verðr mörgum manni,
4207 es of myrkvan staf villisk.
4209 tíu launstafi ristna.
4210 Þat hefr lauka lindi
4211 langs ofrtrega fengit.
4213 =head2 v5.13.9 - John F Kennedy, L<Inaugural Address January 20, 1961|http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/John_F._Kennedy%27s_Inaugural_Address>
4215 L<Announced on 2011-01-20 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/01/msg168335.html>
4217 In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been
4218 granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I
4219 do not shrink from this responsibility -- I welcome it. I do not believe
4220 that any of us would exchange places with any other people or any other
4221 generation. The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this
4222 endeavor will light our country and all who serve it. And the glow from
4223 that fire can truly light the world.
4225 And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you;
4226 ask what you can do for your country.
4228 My fellow citizens of the world, ask not what America will do for you,
4229 but what together we can do for the freedom of man.
4231 Finally, whether you are citizens of America or citizens of the world,
4232 ask of us here the same high standards of strength and sacrifice which
4233 we ask of you. With a good conscience our only sure reward, with history
4234 the final judge of our deeds, let us go forth to lead the land we love,
4235 asking His blessing and His help, but knowing that here on earth God's
4236 work must truly be our own.
4238 =head2 v5.13.8 - Roger Williams, L<"The Fifth Gift"|http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2005/8/19/21304/8493>
4240 L<Announced on 2010-12-19 by Zefram|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/12/msg167271.html>
4242 The aliens called the box a "matter generator," but we'd be more inclined
4243 to call it a matter duplicator. By connecting switches and potentiometers
4244 between the copper posts it was possible to make the box mark off two
4245 cubic rectangular areas of volume. Make a certain contact, and these
4246 areas would be isolated within perfectly reflective fields. They could
4247 be expanded or contracted by altering resistances between other posts.
4248 As I worked out the user interface I built a little control panel for
4249 the device. It was actually a clever way for the aliens to do things;
4250 instead of trying to build controls we could use, they built us an
4251 interface we could attach to controls that made sense to us. It could
4254 Once you had made the contact that established the shielded volumes,
4255 if you made another certain contact the contents of the first volume
4256 were copied to the second. The machine copied metal, plastic, steel,
4257 and diamond with equal ease. Copies of copies of copies of copies were
4258 indistinguishable from the originals at any magnification, even using
4259 techniques like X-ray crystallography.
4261 =head2 v5.13.7 - Andy Wachowski and Lana Wachowski, "The Matrix"
4263 L<Announced on 2010-11-20 by Chris 'BinGOs' Williams|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/11/msg166162.html>
4265 [Neo sees a black cat walk by them, and then a similar black cat walk by them just like the first one]
4269 [Everyone freezes right in their tracks]
4271 Trinity: What did you just say?
4272 Neo: Nothing. Just had a little deja vu.
4273 Trinity: What did you see?
4274 Cypher: What happened?
4275 Neo: A black cat went past us, and then another that looked just
4277 Trinity: How much like it? Was it the same cat?
4278 Neo: It might have been. I'm not sure.
4279 Morpheus: Switch! Apoc!
4281 Trinity: A deja vu is usually a glitch in the Matrix. It happens when
4282 they change something.
4284 =head2 v5.13.6 - Haruki Murakami, "Kafka on the Shore"
4286 L<Announced on 2010-10-20 by Tatsuhiko Miyagawa|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/10/msg165183.html>
4288 The boy called Crow softly rests a hand on my shoulder, and with that
4291 "From now on -- no matter what -- you've got to be the world's toughest
4292 fifteen-year-old. That's the only way you're going to survive. And in order
4293 to do that, you've got to figure out what it means to be tough. You following
4296 I keep my eyes closed and don't reply. I just want to sink off into sleep
4297 like this, his hand on my shoulder. I hear the faint flutter of wings.
4299 "You're going to be the world's toughest fifteen-year-old," Crow whispers
4300 as I try to fall asleep. Like he was carving the words in a deep blue tattoo
4303 (Translated from Japanese by Philip Gabriel)
4305 =head2 v5.13.5 - Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, "The Room in the Dragon Volant"
4307 L<Announced on 2010-09-19 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/09/msg164238.html>
4309 Candle in hand I stepped in. I do not know whether the quality of
4310 air, long undisturbed, is peculiar; to me it has always seemed so, and
4311 the damp smell of the old masonry hung in this atmosphere. My candle
4312 faintly lighted the bare stone wall that enclosed the stair, the foot
4313 of which I could not see. Down I went, and a few turns brought me to
4314 the stone floor. Here was another door, of the simple, old, oak kind,
4315 deep sunk in the thickness of the wall. The large end of the key
4316 fitted this. The lock was stiff; I set the candle down upon the
4317 stair, and applied both hands; it turned with difficulty, and as it
4318 revolved, uttered a shriek that alarmed me for my secret.
4320 For some minutes I did not move. In a little time, however, I took
4321 courage, and opened the door. The night-air floating in puffed out
4322 the candle. There was a thicket of holly and underwood, as dense as a
4323 jungle, close about the door. I should have been in pitch-darkness,
4324 were it not that through the topmost leaves there twinkled, here and
4325 there, a glimmer of moonshine.
4327 Softly, lest any one should have opened his window at the sound of the
4328 rusty bolt, I struggled through this till I gained a view of the open
4329 grounds. Here I found that the brushwood spread a good way up the
4330 park, uniting with the wood that approached the little temple I have
4333 =head2 v5.13.4 - Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
4335 L<Announced on 2010-08-20 by Florian Ragwitz|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/08/msg163150.html>
4337 `How the creatures order one about, and make one repeat lessons!' thought Alice;
4338 `I might as well be at school at once.' However, she got up, and began to repeat
4339 it, but her head was so full of the Lobster Quadrille, that she hardly knew what
4340 she was saying, and the words came very queer indeed:--
4342 "'Tis the voice of the Lobster; I heard him declare,
4343 "You have baked me too brown, I must sugar my hair."
4344 As a duck with its eyelids, so he with his nose
4345 Trims his belt and his buttons, and turns out his toes.'
4348 `That's different from what I used to say when I was a child,' said the Gryphon.
4350 `Well, I never heard it before,' said the Mock Turtle; `but it sounds uncommon
4353 Alice said nothing; she had sat down with her face in her hands, wondering if
4354 anything would ever happen in a natural way again.
4356 `I should like to have it explained,' said the Mock Turtle.
4358 `She can't explain it,' said the Gryphon hastily. `Go on with the next verse.'
4360 `But about his toes?' the Mock Turtle persisted. `How could he turn them out
4361 with his nose, you know?'
4363 `It's the first position in dancing.' Alice said; but was dreadfully puzzled by
4364 the whole thing, and longed to change the subject.
4366 =head2 v5.13.3 - Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, "Good Omens"
4368 L<Announced on 2010-07-20 by David Golden|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/07/msg162230.html>
4370 Look at Crowley, doing 110 mph on the M40 heading towards
4371 Oxfordshire. Even the most resolutely casual observer would
4372 notice a number of strange things about him. The clenched teeth,
4373 for example, or the dull red glow coming from behind his
4374 sunglasses. And the car. The car was a definite hint.
4376 Crowley had started the journey in his Bentley, and he was
4377 dammned if he wasn't going to finish it in the Bentley as well.
4378 Not that even the kind of car buff who owns his own pair of
4379 motoring goggles would have been able to tell it was a vintage
4380 Bentley. Not any more. They wouldn't have been able to tell
4381 that it was a Bentley. They would only offer fifty-fifty that it
4382 had ever even been a car.
4384 There was no paint left on it, for a start. It might still have
4385 been black, where it wasn't a rusty, smudged reddish-brown, but
4386 this was a dull charcoal black. It traveled in its own ball of
4387 flame, like a space capsule making a particularly difficult
4390 There was a thin skin of crusted, melted rubber left around the
4391 metal wheel rims, but seeing that the wheel rims were still
4392 somhow riding an inch above the road surface this didn't seem to
4393 make an awful lot of difference to the suspension.
4395 It should have fallen apart miles back.
4397 =head2 v5.13.2 - Iain M Banks, "Use of Weapons"
4399 L<Announced on 2010-06-22 by Matt S Trout|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/06/msg161112.html>
4401 We deal in the moral equivalent of black holes, where the normal laws -
4402 the rules of right and wrong that people imagine apply everywhere else
4403 in the universe - break down; beyond those metaphysical event-horizons,
4404 there exist ... special circumstances.
4406 =head2 v5.13.1 - Miguel de Unamuno, "The Sepulchre of Don Quixote"
4408 L<Announced on 2010-05-20 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/05/msg160275.html>
4410 And if anyone shall come to you and say that he knows how to construct
4411 bridges and that perhaps a time will come when you will wish to avail
4412 yourself of his science in order to cross over a river, out with him! Out
4413 with the engineer! Rivers will be crossed by wading or swimming them, even
4414 if half the crusaders drown themselves. Let the engineer go off and build
4415 bridges somewhere else, where they are badly wanted. For those who go in
4416 quest of the sepulchre, faith is bridge enough.
4418 =head2 v5.13.0 - Jules Verne, "A Journey to the Centre of the Earth"
4420 L<Announced on 2010-04-20 by LE<0xe9>on Brocard|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/04/msg159275.html>
4422 The heat still remained at quite a supportable degree. With an
4423 involuntary shudder, I reflected on what the heat must have been
4424 when the volcano of Sneffels was pouring its smoke, flames, and
4425 streams of boiling lava -- all of which must have come up by the
4426 road we were now following. I could imagine the torrents of hot
4427 seething stone darting on, bubbling up with accompaniments of
4428 smoke, steam, and sulphurous stench!
4430 "Only to think of the consequences," I mused, "if the old
4431 volcano were once more to set to work."
4433 =head2 v5.12.5 - William Shakespeare, "Measure for Measure"
4435 L<Announced on 2012-11-10 by Dominic Hargreaves|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/11/msg195171.html>
4437 Music oft hath such a charm
4438 To make bad good, and good provoke to harm.
4440 =head2 v5.12.4 - William Schwenck Gilbert, "Trial By Jury"
4442 L<Announced on 2011-06-20 by Leon Brocard|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/06/msg173725.html>
4444 You cannot eat breakfast all day,
4445 Nor is it the act of a sinner,
4446 When breakfast is taken away,
4447 To turn his attention to dinner;
4448 And it's not in the range of belief,
4449 To look upon him as a glutton,
4450 Who, when he is tired of beef,
4451 Determines to tackle the mutton.
4452 Ah! But this I am willing to say,
4453 If it will appease her sorrow,
4454 I'll marry this lady today,
4455 And I'll marry the other tomorrow!
4457 =head2 v5.12.4-RC2 - James Russell Lowell, "Eleanor makes macaroons"
4459 L<Announced on 2011-06-15 by Leon Brocard|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/06/msg173609.html>
4461 Now for sugar, -- nay, our plan
4462 Tolerates no work of man.
4463 Hurry, then, ye golden bees;
4464 Fetch your clearest honey, please,
4465 Garnered on a Yorkshire moor,
4466 While the last larks sing and soar,
4467 From the heather-blossoms sweet
4468 Where sea-breeze and sunshine meet,
4469 And the Augusts mask as Junes, --
4470 Eleanor makes macaroons!
4472 =head2 v5.12.4-RC1 - Ogden Nash, "The Clean Plater"
4474 L<Announced on 2011-06-08 by Leon Brocard|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/06/msg173352.html>
4476 Pheasant is pleasant, of course,
4477 And terrapin, too, is tasty,
4478 Lobster I freely endorse,
4479 In pate or patty or pasty.
4480 But there's nothing the matter with butter,
4481 And nothing the matter with jam,
4482 And the warmest greetings I utter
4483 To the ham and the yam and the clam.
4486 And I think very fondly of food.
4487 Through I'm broody at times
4488 When bothered by rhymes,
4492 =head2 v5.12.3 - Howard W. Campbell, Jr., "Reflections on Not Participating in Current Events"
4494 L<Announced on 2011-01-21 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/01/msg168368.html>
4496 I saw a huge steam roller,
4497 It blotted out the sun.
4498 The people all lay down, lay down;
4499 They did not try to run.
4500 My love and I, we looked amazed
4501 Upon the gory mystery.
4502 'Lie down, lie down!' the people cried.
4503 'The great machine is history!'
4504 My love and I, we ran away,
4505 The engine did not find us.
4506 We ran up to a mountain top,
4507 Left history far behind us.
4508 Perhaps we should have stayed and died,
4509 But somehow we don't think so.
4510 We went to see where history'd been,
4511 And my, the dead did stink so.
4513 =head2 v5.12.2 - William Gibson, "Pattern Recognition"
4515 L<Announced on 2010-09-06 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/09/msg163852.html>
4517 CPUs. Cayce Pollard Units. That's what Damien calls the clothing
4518 she wears. CPUs are either black, white, or gray, and ideally
4519 seem to have come into this world without human intervention.
4521 What people take for relentless minimalism is a side effect
4522 of too much exposure to the reactor-cores of fashion. This
4523 has resulted in a remorseless paring-down of what she can and
4524 will wear. She is, literally, allergic to fashion. She can
4525 only tolerate things that could have been worn, to a general
4526 lack of comment, during any year between 1945 and 2000. She's a
4527 design-free zone, a one-woman school of and whose very austerity
4528 periodically threatens to spawn its own cult.
4530 =head2 v5.12.2-RC1 - William Gibson, "Pattern Recognition"
4532 L<Announced on 2010-08-31 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/08/msg163670.html>
4534 The front page opens, familiar as a friend's living room. A frame-grab
4535 from #48 serves as backdrop, dim and almost monochrome, no characters in
4536 view. This is one of the sequences that generate comparisons with
4537 Tarkovsky. She only knows Tarkovsky from stills, really, though she did
4538 once fall asleep during a screening of The Stalker, going under on an
4539 endless pan, the camera aimed straight down, in close-up, at a puddle on
4540 a ruined mosaic floor. But she is not one of those who think that much
4541 will be gained by analysis of the maker's imagined influences. The cult
4542 of the footage is rife with subcults, claiming every possible influence.
4543 Truffaut, Peckinpah -- The Peckinpah people, among the least likely, are
4544 still waiting for the guns to be drawn.
4546 =head2 v5.12.1 - Kurt Vonnegut, "Cat's Cradle"
4548 L<Announced on 2010-05-16 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/05/msg160109.html>
4550 "Now suppose," chortled Dr. Breed, enjoying himself, "that there were
4551 many possible ways in which water could crystallize, could freeze.
4552 Suppose that the sort of ice we skate upon and put into highballs --
4553 what we might call ice-one -- is only one of several types of ice.
4554 Suppose water always froze as ice-one on Earth because it had never
4555 had a seed to teach it how to form ice-two, ice-three, ice-four
4556 ...? And suppose," he rapped on his desk with his old hand again,
4557 "that there were one form, which we will call ice-nine -- a crystal as
4558 hard as this desk -- with a melting point of, let us say, one-hundred
4559 degrees Fahrenheit, or, better still, a melting point of one-hundred-
4560 and-thirty degrees."
4562 =head2 v5.12.1-RC2 - Kurt Vonnegut, "Cat's Cradle"
4564 L<Announced on 2010-05-13 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/05/msg160066.html>
4566 San Lorenzo was fifty miles long and twenty miles wide, I learned from
4567 the supplement to the New York Sunday Times. Its population was four
4568 hundred, fifty thousand souls, "...all fiercely dedicated to the ideals
4571 Its highest point, Mount McCabe, was eleven thousand feet above sea
4572 level. Its capital was Bolivar, "...a strikingly modern city built on a
4573 harbor capable of sheltering the entire United States Navy." The principal
4574 exports were sugar, coffee, bananas, indigo, and handcrafted novelties.
4576 =head2 v5.12.1-RC1 - Kurt Vonnegut, "Cat's Cradle"
4578 L<Announced on 2010-05-09 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/05/msg159971.html>
4580 Which brings me to the Bokononist concept of a wampeter. A wampeter is
4581 the pivot of a karass. No karass is without a wampeter, Bokonon tells us,
4582 just as no wheel is without a hub. Anything can be a wampeter: a tree,
4583 a rock, an animal, an idea, a book, a melody, the Holy Grail. Whatever
4584 it is, the members of its karass revolve about it in the majestic chaos
4585 of a spiral nebula. The orbits of the members of a karass about their
4586 common wampeter are spiritual orbits, naturally. It is souls and not
4587 bodies that revolve. As Bokonon invites us to sing:
4589 Around and around and around we spin,
4590 With feet of lead and wings of tin . . .
4592 =head2 v5.12.0 - Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
4594 L<Announced on 2010-04-12 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/04/msg158820.html>
4596 'Please would you tell me,' said Alice, a little timidly, for she was
4597 not quite sure whether it was good manners for her to speak first, 'why
4598 your cat grins like that?'
4600 'It's a Cheshire cat,' said the Duchess, 'and that's why. Pig!'
4602 She said the last word with such sudden violence that Alice quite
4603 jumped; but she saw in another moment that it was addressed to the baby,
4604 and not to her, so she took courage, and went on again:--
4606 'I didn't know that Cheshire cats always grinned; in fact, I didn't know
4607 that cats COULD grin.'
4609 'They all can,' said the Duchess; 'and most of 'em do.'
4611 =head2 v5.12.0-RC5 - Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
4613 L<Announced on 2010-04-09 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/04/msg158720.html>
4615 'Not QUITE right, I'm afraid,' said Alice, timidly; 'some of the words
4618 'It is wrong from beginning to end,' said the Caterpillar decidedly, and
4619 there was silence for some minutes.
4621 =head2 v5.12.0-RC4 - Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
4623 L<Announced on 2010-04-06 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/04/msg158567.html>
4625 'It was much pleasanter at home,' thought poor Alice, 'when one wasn't
4626 always growing larger and smaller, and being ordered about by mice and
4627 rabbits. I almost wish I hadn't gone down that rabbit-hole--and yet--and
4628 yet--it's rather curious, you know, this sort of life! I do wonder what
4629 can have happened to me! When I used to read fairy-tales, I fancied that
4630 kind of thing never happened, and now here I am in the middle of one!
4632 =head2 v5.12.0-RC3 - Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
4634 L<Announced on 2010-04-02 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/04/msg158346.html>
4636 At last the Mouse, who seemed to be a person of authority among them,
4637 called out, 'Sit down, all of you, and listen to me! I'LL soon make you
4638 dry enough!' They all sat down at once, in a large ring, with the Mouse
4639 in the middle. Alice kept her eyes anxiously fixed on it, for she felt
4640 sure she would catch a bad cold if she did not get dry very soon.
4642 'Ahem!' said the Mouse with an important air, 'are you all ready? This
4643 is the driest thing I know. Silence all round, if you please! "William
4644 the Conqueror, whose cause was favoured by the pope, was soon submitted
4645 to by the English, who wanted leaders, and had been of late much
4646 accustomed to usurpation and conquest. Edwin and Morcar, the earls of
4647 Mercia and Northumbria --"'
4649 =head2 v5.12.0-RC2 - no announcement
4651 Available on CPAN since 2010-04-01.
4653 =head2 v5.12.0-RC1 - Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
4655 L<Announced on 2010-03-29 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/03/msg158060.html>
4657 So she was considering in her own mind (as well as she could, for the
4658 hot day made her feel very sleepy and stupid), whether the pleasure of
4659 making a daisy-chain would be worth the trouble of getting up and
4660 picking the daisies, when suddenly a White Rabbit with pink eyes ran
4663 There was nothing so VERY remarkable in that; nor did Alice think it so
4664 VERY much out of the way to hear the Rabbit say to itself, 'Oh dear! Oh
4665 dear! I shall be late!' (when she thought it over afterwards, it
4666 occurred to her that she ought to have wondered at this, but at the time
4667 it all seemed quite natural); but when the Rabbit actually TOOK A WATCH
4668 OUT OF ITS WAISTCOAT-POCKET, and looked at it, and then hurried on,
4669 Alice started to her feet, for it flashed across her mind that she had
4670 never before seen a rabbit with either a waistcoat-pocket, or a watch to
4671 take out of it, and burning with curiosity, she ran across the field
4672 after it, and fortunately was just in time to see it pop down a large
4673 rabbit-hole under the hedge.
4675 In another moment down went Alice after it, never once considering how
4676 in the world she was to get out again.
4678 =head2 v5.12.0-RC0 - no epigraph
4680 L<Announced on 2020-03-21 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/03/msg157761.html>
4682 =head2 v5.11.5 - Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "Christabel"
4684 L<Announced on 2010-02-21 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/02/msg156957.html>
4686 A little child, a limber elf,
4687 Singing, dancing to itself,
4688 A fairy thing with red round cheeks,
4689 That always finds, and never seeks,
4690 Makes such a vision to the sight
4691 As fills a father's eyes with light;
4692 And pleasures flow in so thick and fast
4693 Upon his heart, that he at last
4694 Must needs express his love's excess
4695 With words of unmeant bitterness.
4696 Perhaps 'tis pretty to force together
4697 Thoughts so all unlike each other;
4698 To mutter and mock a broken charm,
4699 To dally with wrong that does no harm.
4700 Perhaps 'tis tender too and pretty
4701 At each wild word to feel within
4702 A sweet recoil of love and pity.
4703 And what, if in a world of sin
4704 (O sorrow and shame should this be true!)
4705 Such giddiness of heart and brain
4706 Comes seldom save from rage and pain,
4707 So talks as it's most used to do.
4709 =head2 v5.11.4 - Fyodor Dostoevsky, "Crime and Punishment"
4711 L<Announced on 2010-01-20 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/01/msg155848.html>
4713 And you don't suppose that I went into it headlong like a fool? I went
4714 into it like a wise man, and that was just my destruction. And you
4715 mustn't suppose that I didn't know, for instance, that if I began to
4716 question myself whether I had the right to gain power -- I certainly
4717 hadn't the right -- or that if I asked myself whether a human being is a
4718 louse it proved that it wasn't so for me, though it might be for a man
4719 who would go straight to his goal without asking questions.... If I
4720 worried myself all those days, wondering whether Napoleon would have
4721 done it or not, I felt clearly of course that I wasn't Napoleon.
4723 =head2 v5.11.3 - Mark Twain, "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer"
4725 L<Announced on 2009-12-20 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2009/12/msg154838.html>
4727 "Say -- I'm going in a swimming, I am. Don't you wish you could? But of
4728 course you'd druther work -- wouldn't you? Course you would!"
4730 Tom contemplated the boy a bit, and said: "What do you call work?"
4732 "Why ain't that work?"
4734 Tom resumed his whitewashing, and answered carelessly: "Well, maybe it
4735 is, and maybe it aint. All I know, is, it suits Tom Sawyer."
4737 "Oh come, now, you don't mean to let on that you like it?"
4739 The brush continued to move. "Like it? Well I don't see why I oughtn't
4740 to like it. Does a boy get a chance to whitewash a fence every day?"
4742 That put the thing in a new light. Ben stopped nibbling his apple. Tom
4743 swept his brush daintily back and forth -- stepped back to note the effect
4744 -- added a touch here and there-criticised the effect again -- Ben
4745 watching every move and getting more and more interested, more and more
4746 absorbed. Presently he said: "Say, Tom, let me whitewash a little."
4748 =head2 v5.11.2 - Michael Marshall Smith, "Only Forward"
4750 L<Announced on 2009-11-20 by Léon Brocard|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2009/11/msg153646.html>
4752 The streets were pretty quiet, which was nice. They're always quiet here
4753 at that time: you have to be wearing a black jacket to be out on the
4754 streets between seven and nine in the evening, and not many people in
4755 the area have black jackets. It's just one of those things. I currently
4756 live in Colour Neighbourhood, which is for people who are heavily into
4757 colour. All the streets and buildings are set for instant colourmatch:
4758 as you walk down the road they change hue to offset whatever you're
4759 wearing. When the streets are busy it's kind of intense, and anyone
4760 prone to epileptic seizures isn't allowed to live in the Neighbourhood,
4761 however much they're into colour.
4763 =head2 v5.11.1 - Joseph Heller, "Catch-22"
4765 L<Announced on 2009-10-20 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2009/10/msg152360.html>
4767 Milo had been caught red-handed in the act of plundering his countrymen,
4768 and, as a result, his stock had never been higher. He proved good as his
4769 word when a rawboned major from Minnesota curled his lip in rebellious
4770 disavowal and demanded his share of the syndicate Milo kept saying
4771 everybody owned. Milo met the challenge by writing the words "A Share"
4772 on the nearest scrap of paper and handing it away with a virtuous disdain
4773 that won the envy and admiration of almost everyone who knew him. His
4774 glory was at a peak, and Colonel Cathcart, who knew and admired his
4775 war record, was astonished by the deferential humility with which Milo
4776 presented himself at Group Headquarters and made his fantastic appeal
4777 for more hazardous assignment.
4779 =head2 v5.11.0 - Mikhail Bulgakov, "The Master and Margarita"
4781 L<Announced on 2009-10-02 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2009/10/msg151376.html>
4783 Whispers of an "evil power" were heard in lines at dairy shops, in
4784 streetcars, stores, arguments, kitchens, suburban and long-distance
4785 trains, at stations large and small, in dachas and on beaches. Needless
4786 to say, truly mature and cultured people did not tell these stories
4787 about an evil power's visit to the capital. In fact, they even made fun
4788 of them and tried to talk sense into those who told them. Nevertheless,
4789 facts are facts, as they say, and cannot simply be dismissed without
4790 explanation: somebody had visited the capital. The charred cinders of
4791 Griboyedov alone, and many other things besides, confirmed it. Cultured
4792 people shared the point of view of the investigating team: it was the
4793 work of a gang of hypnotists and ventriloquists magnificently skilled in
4796 =head2 v5.10.1 - Right Hon. James Hacker MP, "The Complete Yes Minister: The Diaries of a Cabinet Minister"
4798 L<Announced on 2009-08-23 by Dave Mitchell|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2009/08/msg150172.html>
4800 'Briefly, sir, I am the Permanent Under-Secretary of State, known as
4801 the Permanent Secretary. Woolley here is your Principal Private
4802 Secretary. I, too, have a Principal Private Secretary, and he is the
4803 Principal Private Secretary to the Permanent Secretary. Directly
4804 responsible to me are ten Deputy Secretaries, eighty-seven Under
4805 Secretaries and two hundred and nineteen Assistant Secretaries.
4806 Directly responsible to the Principal Private Secretaries are plain
4807 Private Secretaries. The Prime Minister will be appointing two
4808 Parliamentary Under-Secretaries and you will be appointing your own
4809 Parliamentary Private Secretary.'
4811 'Can they all type?' I joked.
4813 'None of us can type, Minister,' replied Sir Humphrey smoothly. 'Mrs
4814 McKay types - she is your Secretary.'
4816 I couldn't tell whether or not he was joking. 'What a pity,' I said.
4817 'We could have opened an agency.'
4819 Sir Humphrey and Bernard laughed. 'Very droll, sir,' said Sir
4820 Humphrey. 'Most amusing, sir,' said Bernard. Were they genuinely
4821 amused at my wit, or just being rather patronising? 'I suppose they
4822 all say that, do they?' I ventured.
4824 Sir Humphrey reassured me on that. 'Certainly not, Minister,' he
4825 replied. 'Not quite all.'
4827 =head2 v5.10.1-RC2 - no epigraph
4829 L<Announced on 2009-08-18 by Dave Mitchell|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2009/08/msg150015.html>
4831 =head2 v5.10.1-RC1 - no epigraph
4833 L<Announced on 2009-08-06 by Dave Mitchell|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2009/08/msg149498.html>
4835 =head2 v5.10.0 - Laurence Sterne, "Tristram Shandy"
4837 L<Announced on 2007-12-18 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2007/12/msg131636.html>
4839 He would often declare, in speaking his thoughts upon the subject, that
4840 he did not conceive how the greatest family in England could stand it
4841 out against an uninterrupted succession of six or seven short
4842 noses.--And for the contrary reason, he would generally add, That it
4843 must be one of the greatest problems in civil life, where the same
4844 number of long and jolly noses, following one another in a direct line,
4845 did not raise and hoist it up into the best vacancies in the kingdom.
4847 =head2 v5.10.0-RC2 - no epigraph
4849 L<Announced on 2007-11-25 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2007/11/msg130978.html>
4851 =head2 v5.10.0-RC1 - no epigraph
4853 L<Announced on 2007-11-17 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2007/11/msg130653.html>
4855 =head2 v5.9.5 - no announcement
4857 L<Pre-announced on 2007-07-07 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2007/07/msg126358.html>,
4858 available on CPAN with same date, but never actually announced.
4860 =head2 v5.9.4 - no epigraph
4862 L<Announced on 2006-08-15 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2006/08/msg115782.html>
4864 =head2 v5.9.3 - no epigraph
4866 L<Announced on 2006-01-28 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2006/01/msg109086.html>
4868 =head2 v5.9.2 - Thomas Pynchon, "V"
4870 L<Announced on 2005-04-01 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2005/04/msg99421.html>
4872 This word flip was weird. Every recording date of McClintic's he'd
4873 gotten into the habit of talking electricity with the audio men and
4874 technicians of the studio. McClintic once couldn't have cared less
4875 about electricity, but now it seemed if that was helping him reach a
4876 bigger audience, some digging, some who would never dig, but all
4877 paying and those royalties keeping the Triumph in gas and McClintic
4878 in J. Press suits, then McClintic ought to be grateful to
4879 electricity, ought maybe to learn a little more about it. So he'd
4880 picked up some here and there, and one day last summer he got around
4881 to talking stochastic music and digital computers with one
4882 technician. Out of the conversation had come Set/Reset, which was
4883 getting to be a signature for the group. He had found out from this
4884 sound man about a two-triode circuit called a flip-flop, which when
4885 it turned on could be one of two ways, depending on which tube was
4886 conducting and which was cut off: set or reset, flip or flop.
4888 "And that," the man said, "can be yes or no, or one or zero. And
4889 that is what you might call one of the basic units, or specialized
4890 `cells' in a big `electronic brain.' "
4892 "Crazy," said McClintic, having lost him back there someplace. But
4893 one thing that did occur to him was if a computer's brain could go
4894 flip or flop, why so could a musician's. As long as you were flop,
4895 everything was cool. But where did the trigger-pulse come from to
4898 =head2 v5.9.1 - Tom Stoppard, "Arcadia"
4900 L<Announced on 2004-03-16 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/03/msg89722.html>
4902 Aren't you supposed to have a pony?
4904 =head2 v5.9.0 - Doris Lessing, "Martha Quest"
4906 L<Announced on 2003-10-27 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/10/msg84147.html>
4908 What of October, that ambiguous month
4910 =head2 v5.8.9 - Right Hon. James Hacker MP, "The Complete Yes Minister: The Diaries of a Cabinet Minister"
4912 L<Announced on 2008-12-14 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2008/12/msg142571.html>
4914 Frank and I, unlike the civil servants, were still puzzled that such a
4915 proposal as the Europass could even be seriously under consideration by
4916 the FCO. We can both see clearly that it is wonderful ammunition for the
4917 anti-Europeans. I asked Humphrey if the Foreign Office doesn't realise
4918 how damaging this would be to the European ideal?
4920 'I'm sure they do, Minister, he said. That's why they support it.'
4922 This was even more puzzling, since I'd always been under the impression
4923 that the FO is pro-Europe. 'Is it or isn't it?' I asked Humphrey.
4925 'Yes and no,' he replied of course, 'if you'll pardon the
4926 expression. The Foreign Office is pro-Europe because it is really
4927 anti-Europe. In fact the Civil Service was united in its desire to make
4928 sure the Common Market didn't work. That's why we went into it.'
4930 This sounded like a riddle to me. I asked him to explain further. And
4931 basically his argument was as follows: Britain has had the same foreign
4932 policy objective for at least the last five hundred years - to create a
4933 disunited Europe. In that cause we have fought with the Dutch against
4934 the Spanish, with the Germans against the French, with the French and
4935 Italians against the Germans, and with the French against the Italians
4936 and Germans. [The Dutch rebellion against Phillip II of Spain, the
4937 Napoleonic Wars, the First World War, and the Second World War - Ed.]
4939 In other words, divide and rule. And the Foreign Office can see no
4940 reason to change when it has worked so well until now.
4942 I was aware of this, naturally, but I regarded it as ancient history.
4943 Humphrey thinks that it is, in fact, current policy. It was necessary
4944 for us to break up the EEC, he explained, so we had to get inside. We
4945 had previously tried to break it up from the outside, but that didn't
4946 work. [A reference to our futile and short-lived involvement in EFTA,
4947 the European Free Trade Association, founded in 1960 and which the UK
4948 left in 1972 - Ed.] Now that we're in, we are able to make a complete
4949 pig's breakfast out of it. We've now set the Germans against the French,
4950 the French against the Italians, the Italians against the Dutch... and
4951 the Foreign office is terribly happy. It's just like old time.
4953 I was staggered by all of this. I thought that the all of us who are
4954 publicly pro-European believed in the European ideal. I said this to Sir
4955 Humphrey, and he simply chuckled.
4957 So I asked him: if we don't believe in the European Ideal, why are we
4958 pushing to increase the membership?
4960 'Same reason,' came the reply. 'It's just like the United Nations. The
4961 more members it has, the more arguments you can stir up, and the more
4962 futile and impotent it becomes.'
4964 This all strikes me as the most appalling cynicism, and I said so.
4966 Sir Humphrey agreed completely. 'Yes Minister. We call it
4967 diplomacy. It's what made Britain great, you know.'
4969 =head2 v5.8.9-RC2 - Right Hon. James Hacker MP, "The Complete Yes Minister: The Diaries of a Cabinet Minister"
4971 L<Announced on 2008-12-06 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2008/12/msg142422.html>
4973 There was silence in the office. I didn't know what we were going to do
4974 about the four hundred new people supervising our economy drive or the
4975 four hundred new people for the Bureaucratic Watchdog Office, or
4976 anything! I simply sat and waited and hoped that my head would stop
4977 thumping and that some idea would be suggested by someone sometime soon.
4979 Sir Humphrey obliged. 'Minister... if we were to end the economy drive
4980 and close the Bureaucratic Watchdog Office we could issue an immediate
4981 press announcement that you had axed eight hundred jobs.' He had
4982 obviously thought this out carefully in advance, for at this moment he
4983 produced a slim folder from under his arm. 'If you'd like to approve
4986 I couldn't believe the impertinence of the suggestion. Axed eight
4987 hundred jobs? 'But no one was ever doing these jobs,' I pointed out
4988 incredulously. 'No one's been appointed yet.'
4990 'Even greater economy,' he replied instantly. 'We've saved eight hundred
4991 redundancy payments as well.'
4993 'But...' I attempted to explain '... that's just phony. It's dishonest,
4994 it's juggling with figures, it's pulling the wool over people's eyes.'
4996 'A government press release, in fact.' said Humphrey.
4998 =head2 v5.8.9-RC1 - Right Hon. James Hacker MP, "The Complete Yes Minister: The Diaries of a Cabinet Minister"
5000 L<Announced on 2008-11-10 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2008/11/msg141515.html>
5002 A jumbo jet touched down, with BURANDAN AIRWAYS written on the side. I
5003 was hugely impressed. British Airways are having to pawn their Concordes,
5004 and here is this little tiny African state with its own airline, jumbo
5007 I asked Bernard how many planes Burandan Airways had. 'None,' he said.
5009 I told him not to be silly and use his eyes. 'No Minister, it belongs to
5010 Freddie Laker,' he said. 'They chartered it last week and repainted it
5011 specially.' Apparently most of the Have-Nots (I mean, LDCs) do this - at
5012 the opening of the UN General Assembly the runways of Kennedy Airport are
5013 jam-packed with phoney flag-carriers. 'In fact,' said Bernard with a sly
5014 grin, 'there was one 747 that belonged to nine different African airlines
5015 in a month. They called it the mumbo-jumbo.'
5017 While we watched nothing much happening on the TV except the mumbo-jumbo
5018 taxiing around Prestwick and the Queen looking a bit chilly, Bernard gave
5019 me the next day's schedule and explained that I was booked on the night
5020 sleeper from King's Cross to Edinburgh because I had to vote in a
5021 three-line whip at the House tonight and would have to miss the last
5022 plane. Then the commentator, in that special hushed BBC voice used for any
5023 occasion with which Royalty is connected, announced reverentially that we
5024 were about to catch our first glimpse of President Selim.
5026 And out of the plane stepped Charlie. My old friend Charlie Umtali. We
5027 were at LSE together. Not Selim Mohammed at all, but Charlie.
5029 Bernard asked me if I were sure. Silly question. How could you forget a
5030 name like Charlie Umtali?
5032 I sent Bernard for Sir Humphrey, who was delighted to hear that we now
5033 know something about our official visitor.
5035 Bernard's official brief said nothing. Amazing! Amazing how little the FCO
5036 has been able to find out. Perhaps they were hoping it would all be on the
5037 car radio. All the brief says is that Colonel Selim Mohammed had converted
5038 to Islam some years ago, they didn't know his original name, and therefore
5039 knew little of his background.
5041 I was able to tell Humphrey and Bernard /all/ about his background.
5042 Charlie was a red-hot political economist, I informed them. Got the top
5043 first. Wiped the floor with everyone.
5045 Bernard seemed relieved. 'Well that's all right then.'
5049 'I think Bernard means,' said Sir Humphrey helpfully, 'that he'll know how
5050 to behave if he was at an English University. Even if it was the LSE.' I
5051 never know whether or not Humphrey is insulting me intentionally.
5053 Humphrey was concerned about Charlie's political colour. 'When you said
5054 that he was red-hot, were you speaking politically?'
5056 In a way I was. 'The thing about Charlie is that you never quite know
5057 where you are with him. He's the sort of chap who follows you into a
5058 revolving door and comes out in front.'
5060 'No deeply held convictions?' asked Sir Humphrey.
5062 'No. The only thing Charlie was committed too was Charlie.'
5064 'Ah, I see. A politician, Minister.'
5066 =head2 v5.8.8 - Joe Raposo, "Bein' Green"
5068 L<Announced on 2006-01-31 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2006/01/msg109190.html>
5070 It's not that easy bein' green
5071 Having to spend each day the color of the leaves
5072 When I think it could be nicer being red or yellow or gold
5073 Or something much more colorful like that
5075 It's not easy bein' green
5076 It seems you blend in with so many other ordinary things
5077 And people tend to pass you over 'cause you're
5078 Not standing out like flashy sparkles in the water
5081 But green's the color of Spring
5082 And green can be cool and friendly-like
5083 And green can be big like an ocean
5084 Or important like a mountain
5087 When green is all there is to be
5088 It could make you wonder why, but why wonder why?
5089 Wonder I am green and it'll do fine, it's beautiful
5090 And I think it's what I want to be
5092 =head2 v5.8.8-RC1 - Cosgrove Hall Productions, "Dangermouse"
5094 L<Announced on 2006-01-20 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2006/01/msg108833.html>
5096 Greenback: And the world is mine, all mine. Muhahahahaha. See to it!
5098 Stiletto: Si, Barone. Subito, Barone.
5100 =head2 v5.8.7 - Sergei Prokofiev, "Peter and the Wolf"
5102 L<Announced on 2005-05-31 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2005/05/msg101088.html>
5104 And now, imagine the triumphant procession: Peter at the head; after him the
5105 hunters leading the wolf; and winding up the procession, grandfather and the
5108 Grandfather shook his head discontentedly: "Well, and if Peter hadn't caught
5109 the wolf? What then?"
5111 =head2 v5.8.7-RC1 - Sergei Prokofiev, "Peter and the Wolf"
5113 L<Announced on 2005-05-20 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2005/05/msg100711.html>
5115 And now this is how things stood: The cat was sitting on one branch. The
5116 bird on another, not too close to the cat. And the wolf walked round and
5117 round the tree, looking at them with greedy eyes.
5119 In the meantime, Peter, without the slightest fear, stood behind the
5120 gate, watching all that was going on. He ran home,got a strong rope and
5121 climbed up the high stone wall.
5123 One of the branches of the tree, around which the wolf was walking,
5124 stretched out over the wall.
5126 Grabbing hold of the branch, Peter lightly climbed over on to the tree.
5127 Peter said to the bird: "Fly down and circle round the wolf's head, only
5128 take care that he doesn't catch you!".
5130 The bird almost touched the wolf's head with its wings, while the wolf
5131 snapped angrily at him from this side and that.
5133 How that bird teased the wolf, how that wolf wanted to catch him! But
5134 the bird was clever and the wolf simply couldn't do anything about it.
5136 =head2 v5.8.6 - A. A. Milne, "The House at Pooh Corner"
5138 L<Announced on 2004-11-27 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/11/msg96304.html>
5140 "Hallo, Pooh," said Piglet, giving a jump of surprise. "I knew it was
5143 "So did I,", said Pooh. "What are you doing?"
5145 "I'm planting a haycorn, Pooh, so that it can grow up into an oak-tree,
5146 and have lots of haycorns just outside the front door instead of having
5147 to walk miles and miles, do you see, Pooh?"
5149 "Supposing it doesn't?" said Pooh.
5151 "It will, because Christopher Robin says it will, so that's why I'm
5154 "Well," aid Pooh, "if I plant a honeycomb outside my house, then it will
5155 grow up into a beehive."
5157 Piglet wasn't quite sure about this.
5159 "Or a /piece/ of a honeycomb," said Pooh, "so as not to waste too much.
5160 Only then I might only get a piece of a beehive, and it might be the
5161 wrong piece, where the bees were buzzing and not hunnying. Bother"
5163 Piglet agreed that that would be rather bothering.
5165 "Besides, Pooh, it's a very difficult thing, planting unless you know
5166 how to do it," he said; and he put the acorn in the hole he had made,
5167 and covered it up with earth, and jumped on it.
5169 =head2 v5.8.6-RC1 - A. A. Milne, "Winnie the Pooh"
5171 L<Announced on 2004-11-11 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/11/msg95786.html>
5173 "Hallo!" said Piglet, "whare are /you/ doing?"
5175 "Hunting," said Pooh.
5179 "Tracking something," said Winnie-the-Pooh very mysteriously.
5181 "Tracking what?" said Piglet, coming closer.
5183 "That's just what I ask myself, I ask myself, What?"
5185 "What do you think you'll answer?"
5187 "I shall have to wait until I catch up with it," said Winnie-the-Pooh.
5188 "Now, look there." He pointed to the ground in front of him. "What do
5191 "Track," said Piglet. "Paw-marks." He gave a little squeak of
5192 excitement. "Oh, Pooh!" Do you think it's a--a--a Woozle?"
5194 =head2 v5.8.5 - wikipedia, "Yew"
5196 L<Announced on 2004-07-19 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/07/msg93189.html>
5198 Yews are relatively slow growing trees, widely used in landscaping and
5199 ornamental horticulture. They have flat, dark-green needles, reddish
5200 bark, and bear seeds with red arils, which are eaten by thrushes,
5201 waxwings and other birds, dispersing the hard seeds undamaged in their
5202 droppings. Yew wood is reddish brown (with white sapwood), and very
5203 hard. It was traditionally used to make bows, especially the English
5206 In England, the Common Yew (Taxus baccata, also known as English Yew) is
5207 often found in churchyards. It is sometimes suggested that these are
5208 placed there as a symbol of long life or trees of death, and some are
5209 likely to be over 3,000 years old. It is also suggested that yew trees
5210 may have a pre-Christian association with old pagan holy sites, and the
5211 Christian church found it expedient to use and take over existing sites.
5212 Another explanation is that the poisonous berries and foliage discourage
5213 farmers and drovers from letting their animals wander into the burial
5214 grounds. The yew tree is a frequent symbol in the Christian poetry of
5215 T.S. Eliot, especially his Four Quartets.
5217 =head2 v5.8.5-RC2 - wikipedia, "Beech"
5219 L<Announced on 2004-07-09 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/07/msg92934.html>
5221 Beeches are trees of the Genus Fagus, family Fagaceae, including about
5222 ten species in Europe, Asia, and North America. The leaves are entire or
5223 sparsely toothed. The fruit is a small, sharply-angled nut, borne in
5224 pairs in spiny husks. The beech most commonly grown as an ornamental or
5225 shade tree is the European beech (Fagus sylvatica).
5227 The southern beeches belong to a different but related genus,
5228 Nothofagus. They are found in Australia, New Zealand, New Guinea, New
5229 Caledonia and South America.
5231 =head2 v5.8.5-RC1 - wikipedia, "Pedunculate Oak" (abridged)
5233 L<Announced on 2004-07-07 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/07/msg92840.html>
5235 The Pedunculate Oak is called the Common Oak in Britain, and is also
5236 often called the English Oak in other English speaking countries It is a
5237 large deciduous tree to 25-35m tall (exceptionally to 40m), with lobed
5238 and sessile (stalk-less) leaves. Flowering takes place in early to mid
5239 spring, and their fruit, called "acorns", ripen by autumn of the same
5240 year. The acorns are pedunculate (having a peduncle or acorn-stalk) and
5241 may occur singly, or several acorns may occur on a stalk.
5243 It forms a long-lived tree, with a large widespreading head of rugged
5244 branches. While it may naturally live to an age of a few centuries, many
5245 of the oldest trees are pollarded or coppiced, both pruning techniques
5246 that extend the tree's potential lifespan, if not its health.
5248 Within its native range it is valued for its importance to insects and
5249 other wildlife. Numerous insects live on the leaves, buds, and in the
5250 acorns. The acorns form a valuable food resource for several small
5251 mammals and some birds, notably Jays Garrulus glandarius.
5253 It is planted for forestry, and produces a long-lasting and durable
5254 heartwood, much in demand for interior and furniture work.
5256 =head2 v5.8.4 - T. S. Eliot, "The Old Gumbie Cat"
5258 L<Announced on 2004-04-22 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/04/msg90984.html>
5260 I have a Gumbie Cat in mind, her name is Jennyanydots;
5261 The curtain-cord she likes to wind, and tie it into sailor-knots.
5262 She sits upon the window-sill, or anything that's smooth and flat:
5263 She sits and sits and sits and sits -- and that's what makes a Gumbie Cat!
5265 But when the day's hustle and bustle is done,
5266 Then the Gumbie Cat's work is but hardly begun.
5267 She thinks that the cockroaches just need employment
5268 To prevent them from idle and wanton destroyment.
5269 So she's formed, from that a lot of disorderly louts,
5270 A troop of well-disciplined helpful boy-scouts,
5271 With a purpose in life and a good deed to do--
5272 And she's even created a Beetles' Tattoo.
5274 So for Old Gumbie Cats let us now give three cheers --
5275 On whom well-ordered households depend, it appears.
5278 =head2 v5.8.4-RC2 - T. S. Eliot, "Macavity: The Mystery Cat"
5280 L<Announced on 2004-04-16 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/04/msg90796.html>
5282 Macavity's a Mystery Cat: he's called the Hidden Paw --
5283 For he's the master criminal who can defy the Law.
5284 He's the bafflement of Scotland Yard, the Flying Squad's despair:
5285 For when they reach the scene of crime -- /Macavity's not there/!
5287 Macavity, Macavity, there's no one like Macavity,
5288 He's broken every human law, he breaks the law of gravity.
5289 His powers of levitation would make a fakir stare,
5290 And when you reach the scene of crime -- /Macavity's not there/!
5291 You may seek him in the basement, you may look up in the air --
5292 But I tell you once and once again, /Macavity's not there/!
5294 =head2 v5.8.4-RC1 - T. S. Eliot, "Skimbleshanks: The Railway Cat"
5296 L<Announced on 2004-04-05 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/04/msg90422.html>
5298 There's a whisper down the line at 11.39
5299 When the Night Mail's ready to depart,
5300 Saying 'Skimble where is Skimble has he gone to hunt the thimble?
5301 We must find him of the train can't start.'
5302 All the guards and all the porters and the stationmaster's daughters
5303 They are searching high and low,
5304 Saying 'Skimble where is Skimble for unless he's very nimble
5305 Then the Night Mail just can't go'
5306 At 11.42 then the signal's overdue
5307 And the passengers are frantic to a man--
5308 Then Skimble will appear and he'll saunter to the rear:
5309 He's been busy in the luggage van!
5310 He gives one flash of his glass-green eyes
5311 And the signal goes 'All Clear!'
5312 And we're off at last of the northern part
5313 Of the Northern Hemisphere!
5315 =head2 v5.8.3 - Arthur William Edgar O'Shaugnessy, "Ode"
5317 L<Announced on 2004-01-14 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/01/msg87317.html>
5319 We are the music makers,
5320 And we are the dreamers of dreams,
5321 Wandering by lonely sea-breakers,
5322 And sitting by desolate streams; --
5323 World-losers and world-forsakers,
5324 On whom the pale moon gleams:
5325 Yet we are the movers and shakers
5326 Of the world for ever, it seems.
5328 =head2 v5.8.3-RC1 - Irving Berlin, "Let's Face the Music and Dance"
5330 L<Announced on 2004-01-07 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/01/msg86969.html>
5332 There may be trouble ahead,
5333 But while there's music and moonlight,
5334 And love and romance,
5335 Let's face the music and dance.
5337 Before the fiddlers have fled,
5338 Before they ask us to pay the bill,
5339 And while we still have that chance,
5340 Let's face the music and dance.
5342 Soon, we'll be without the moon,
5343 Humming a different tune, and then,
5345 There may be teardrops to shed,
5346 So while there's music and moonlight,
5347 And love and romance,
5348 Let's face the music and dance.
5350 =head2 v5.8.2 - Walt Whitman, "Passage to India"
5352 L<Announced on 2003-11-05 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/11/msg84822.html>
5354 Passage, immediate passage! the blood burns in my veins!
5355 Away O soul! hoist instantly the anchor!
5356 Cut the hawsers - hall out - shake out every sail!
5357 Have we not stood here like trees in the ground long enough?
5358 Have we not grovel'd here long enough, eating and drinking like mere brutes?
5359 Have we not darken'd and dazed ourselves with books long enough?
5361 Sail forth - steer for the deep waters only,
5362 Reckless O soul, exploring, I with the and thou with me,
5363 For we are bound where mariner has not yet dared to go,
5364 And we will risk the ship, ourselves and all.
5367 O farther farther sail!
5368 O daring job, but safe! are they not all the seas of God?
5369 O farther, farther, farther sail!
5371 =head2 v5.8.2-RC2 - Eric Idle and John Du Prez, "Accountancy Shanty"
5373 L<Announced on 2003-11-03 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/11/msg84645.html>
5375 It's fun to charter an accountant
5376 And sail the wide accountan-cy,
5377 To find, explore the funds offshore
5378 And skirt the shoals of bankruptcy.
5380 =head2 v5.8.2-RC1 - Edward Lear, "The Jumblies"
5382 L<Announced on 2003-10-27 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/10/msg84194.html>
5384 They went to sea in a Sieve, they did,
5385 In a Sieve they went to sea:
5386 In spite of all their friends could say,
5387 On a winter's morn, on a stormy day,
5388 In a Sieve they went to sea!
5389 And when the Sieve turned round and round,
5390 And everyone cried, "You'll all be drowned!"
5391 They cried aloud, "Our Sieve ain't big,
5392 But we don't care a button, we don't care a fig!
5393 In a Sieve we'll go to sea!"
5395 Far and few, far and few,
5396 Are the lands where the Jumblies live;
5397 Their heads are green, and their hands are blue,
5398 And they went to sea in a Sieve.
5400 =head2 v5.8.1 - epigraph same as v5.7.1
5402 L<Announced on 2003-09-25 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/09/msg82678.html>
5404 =head2 v5.8.1-RC5 - Terry Pratchett, "Lords and Ladies"
5406 L<Announced on 2003-09-22 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/09/msg82476.html>
5408 No matter what she did with her hair it took about
5409 three minutes for it to tangle itself up again,
5410 like a garden hosepipe in a shed [Footnote: Which,
5411 no matter how carefully coiled, will always uncoil
5412 overnight and tie the lawnmower to the bicycles].
5414 =head2 v5.8.1-RC4 - Terry Pratchett, "Interesting Times"
5416 L<Announced on 2003-08-01 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/08/msg79184.html>
5418 Grand Viziers were /always/ scheming megalomaniacs.
5419 It was probably in the job description: "Are you a
5420 devious, plotting, unreliable madman? Ah, good,
5421 then you can be my most trusted minister."
5423 =head2 v5.8.1-RC3 - Terry Pratchett, "Interesting Times"
5425 L<Announced on 2003-07-30 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/07/msg79048.html>
5427 Lord Hong had a mind like a knife, although possibly
5428 a knife with a curved blade.
5430 =head2 v5.8.1-RC2 - Terry Pratchett, "Interesting Times"
5432 L<Announced on 2003-07-11 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/07/msg78102.html>
5434 Many an ancient lord's last words had been, "You can't kill
5435 me because I've got magic aaargh."
5437 =head2 v5.8.1-RC1 - Terry Pratchett, "Interesting Times"
5439 L<Announced on 2003-07-10 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/07/msg78009.html>
5441 Cohen was familiar with city gates. He'd broken down a number
5442 in his time, by battering ram, siege gun, and on one occasion
5445 But the gates of Hunghung were pretty damn good gates. They
5446 weren't like the gates of Ankh-Morpork, which were usually wide
5447 open to attract the spending customer and whose concession to
5448 defense was the sign "Thank You For Not Attacking Our City.
5449 Bonum Diem." These things were big and made of metal and there
5450 was a guardhouse and a squad of unhelpful men in black armor.
5452 =head2 v5.8.0 - Terry Pratchett, "Reaper Man"
5454 L<Announced on 2002-07-18 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2002/07/msg63720.html>
5456 There was the faint sound of footsteps.
5457 "Chap with a whip got as far as the big sharp spikes last week,"
5458 said the low priest.
5459 There was a sound like the flushing of a very old dry lavatory.
5460 The footsteps stopped. The High Priest smiled to himself.
5461 "Right," he said. "See your two pebbles and raise you two pebbles."
5462 The low priest threw down his cards. "Double Onion," he said.
5463 The High Priest looked down suspiciously.
5464 The low priest consulted a scrap of paper. "That's three hundred
5465 thousand, nine hundred and sixty-four pebbles you owe me," he said.
5466 There was the sound of footsteps. The priests exchanged glances.
5467 "Haven't had one for poisoned-dart alley for quite some time,"
5468 said the High Priest.
5469 "Five says he makes it", said the low priest. "You're on."
5470 There was a faint clatter of metal points on stone.
5471 "It's a shame to take your pebbles."
5472 There were footsteps again.
5474 =head2 v5.8.0-RC3 - no epigraph
5476 L<Announced on 2002-07-13 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2002/07/msg63234.html>
5478 =head2 v5.8.0-RC2 - no epigraph
5480 L<Announced on 2002-06-21 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2002/06/msg62013.html>
5482 =head2 v5.8.0-RC1 - no epigraph
5484 L<Announced on 2002-06-01 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2002/06/msg60317.html>
5486 =head2 v5.7.3 - Terry Pratchett, "Reaper Man"
5488 L<Announced on 2002-03-04 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2002/03/msg53652.html>
5490 Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong.
5491 No matter how fast light travels it finds the darkness has always
5492 got there first, and is waiting for it.
5494 =head2 v5.7.2 - Terry Pratchett, "Small Gods"
5496 L<Announced on 2001-07-13 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2001/07/msg40370.html>
5498 His philosophy was a mixture of three famous schools --
5499 the Cynics, the Stoics and the Epicureans -- and summed up
5500 all three of them in his famous phrase, "You can't trust any
5501 bugger further than you can throw him, and there's nothing
5502 you can do about it, so let's have a drink."
5504 =head2 v5.7.1 - Terry Pratchett, "The Colour of Magic"
5506 L<Announced on 2001-04-09 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2001/04/msg33851.html>
5508 "What happens next?" asked Twoflower.
5510 Hrun screwed a finger in his ear and inspected it absently.
5512 "Oh,", he said, "I expect in a minute the door will be
5513 flung back and I'll be dragged off to some sort of temple
5514 arena where I'll fight maybe a couple of giant spiders
5515 and an eight-foot slave from the jungles of Klatch and then
5516 I'll rescue some kind of a princess from the altar and then
5517 I'll kill off a few guards or whatever and then this girl
5518 will show me the secret passage out of the place and we'll
5519 liberate a couple of horses and escape with the treasure."
5520 Hrun leaned his head back on his hands and looked at the
5521 ceiling, whistling tunelessly.
5523 "All that?" said Twoflower.
5527 =head2 v5.7.0 - Terry Pratchett, "Moving Pictures"
5529 L<Announced on 2000-09-02 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2000/09/msg17730.html>
5531 The Librarian had seen many weird things in his time,
5532 but that had to be the 57th strangest.
5533 [footnote: he had a tidy mind]
5535 =head2 v5.6.2 - Laurence Sterne, "Tristram Shandy"
5537 L<Announced on 2003-11-15 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/11/msg85222.html>
5539 When great or unexpected events fall out upon the stage of this
5540 sublunary word--the mind of man, which is an inquisitive kind of
5541 a substance, naturally takes a flight, behind the scenes, to see
5542 what is the cause and first spring of them--The search was not
5543 long in this instance.
5545 =head2 v5.6.2-RC1 - Laurence Sterne, "Tristram Shandy"
5547 L<Announced on 2003-11-08 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/11/msg84953.html>
5549 "Pray, my dear", quoth my mother, "have you not forgot to wind up the clock?"
5551 =head2 v5.6.1 - J R R Tolkien, "The Hobbit", Riddles in the Dark
5553 L<Announced on 2001-04-08 by Gurusamy Sarathy|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2001/04/msg33823.html>
5555 `What have I got in my pocket?' he said aloud. He was talking to
5556 himself, but Gollum thought it was a riddle, and he was frightfully
5559 `Not fair! not fair!' he hissed. `It isn't fair, my precious, is it,
5560 to ask us what it's got in its nassty little pocketses?'
5562 Bilbo seeing what had happened and having nothing better to ask
5563 stuck to his question, `What have I got in my pocket?' he said
5566 `S-s-s-s-s,' hissed Gollum. `It must give us three guesseses,
5567 my precious, three guesseses.'
5569 =head2 v5.6.1-foolish - no epigraph
5571 L<Announced on 2001-04-01 by Gurusamy Sarathy|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2001/04/msg33421.html>
5573 =head2 v5.6.1-TRIAL3 - I can't find the announcement
5575 No announcement available.
5577 =head2 v5.6.1-TRIAL2 - no epigraph
5579 L<Announced on 2001-01-31 by Gurusamy Sarathy|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2001/01/msg29934.html>
5581 =head2 v5.6.1-TRIAL1 - no epigraph
5583 L<Announced on 2000-12-18 by Gurusamy Sarathy|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2000/12/msg27738.html>
5585 =head2 v5.6.0 - J R R Tolkien, "The Hobbit", The Last Stage
5587 L<Announced on 2000-03-23 by Gurusamy Sarathy|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2000/03/msg10341.html>
5589 The dragon is withered,
5590 His bones are now crumbled;
5591 His armour is shivered,
5592 His splendour is humbled!
5593 Though sword shall be rusted,
5594 And throne and crown perish
5595 With strength that men trusted
5596 And wealth that they cherish,
5597 Here grass is still growing,
5598 And leaves are a yet swinging,
5599 The white water flowing,
5600 And elves are yet singing
5601 Come! Tra-la-la-lally!
5602 Come back to the valley.
5604 =head2 v5.6.0-RC3 - no epigraph
5606 L<Announced on 2000-03-22 by Gurusamy Sarathy|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2000/03/msg10140.html>
5608 =head2 v5.005_05-RC1 - no epigraph
5610 L<Announced on 2009-02-16 by LE<0xe9>on Brocard|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2009/02/msg144227.html>
5612 =head2 v5.005_04 - no epigraph
5614 L<Announced on 2004-03-01 by LE<0xe9>on Brocard|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/03/msg89047.html>
5616 =head2 v5.005_04-RC2 - Rudyard Kipling, "The Jungle Book"
5618 L<Announced on 2004-02-19 by LE<0xe9>on Brocard|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/02/msg88672.html>
5620 The monkeys called the place their city, and pretended to despise
5621 the Jungle-People because they lived in the forest. And yet they
5622 never knew what the buildings were made for nor how to use
5623 them. They would sit in circles on the hall of the king's council
5624 chamber, and scratch for fleas and pretend to be men; or they would
5625 run in and out of the roofless houses and collect pieces of plaster
5626 and old bricks in a corner, and forget where they had hidden them,
5627 and fight and cry in scuffling crowds, and then break off to play up
5628 and down the terraces of the king's garden, where they would shake
5629 the rose trees and the oranges in sport to see the fruit and flowers
5632 =head2 v5.005_04-RC1 - Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
5634 L<Announced on 2004-02-05 by LE<0xe9>on Brocard|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/02/msg88312.html>
5636 Either the well was very deep, or she fell very slowly, for she had
5637 plenty of time as she went down to look about her and to wonder what was
5638 going to happen next. First, she tried to look down and make out what
5639 she was coming to, but it was too dark to see anything; then she looked
5640 at the sides of the well, and noticed that they were filled with
5641 cupboards and book-shelves; here and there she saw maps and pictures
5642 hung upon pegs. She took down a jar from one of the shelves as she
5643 passed; it was labelled 'ORANGE MARMALADE', but to her great
5644 disappointment it was empty: she did not like to drop the jar for fear
5645 of killing somebody, so managed to put it into one of the cupboards as
5648 =head2 v1.0_16 - Johan Vromans, extemporarily
5650 L<Announced on 2003-12-18 by Richard Clamp|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/12/msg86423.html>
5652 't was 16 years ago today
5653 Larry taught us a new game
5654 of lazyness, impatience, and hubris
5655 Happy birthday, Perl!
5657 =head1 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
5659 This document was originally compiled based on a list of epigraphs
5660 on L<Perl Monks|http://perlmonks.org> titled
5661 L<Recent Perl Release Announcement|http://perlmonks.org/?node_id=372406>