5 perlepigraphs - list of Perl release epigraphs
9 Many Perl release announcements included an I<epigraph>, a short excerpt
10 from a literary or other creative work, chosen by the pumpking or release
11 manager. This file assembles the known list of epigraph for posterity,
12 and also links to the release announcements in mailing list archives.
14 I<Note>: these have also been referred to as I<epigrams>, but the
15 definition of I<epigraph> is closer to the way they have been used.
16 Consult your favorite dictionary for details.
20 =head2 v5.23.4 - Denis Diderot, trans. David Coward, "Jacques the Fatalist"
22 L<Announced on 2015-10-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/10/msg232040.html>
24 Well, everybody's got a dog. The prime minister is the king's dog. The
25 first secretary is the prime minister's dog. A wife is a husband's dog,
26 or a husband is a wife's dog. Favourite is Madame So-and-so's dog and
27 Thibaut is the man on the corner's dog. When my Master tells me to talk
28 when I'd prefer not to, which to be honest doesn't happen very often,
29 when he tells me to shut up when I feel like talking, which I find very
30 difficult, when he asks me to tell the story of my love-life and then
31 keeps interrupting, what am I if not his dog? Weak men are the dogs of
34 =head2 v5.23.3 - Oliver Wendell Holmes, "The Deacon’s Masterpiece or The Wonderful 'One-Hoss Shay': A Logical Story"
36 L<Announced on 2015-09-20 by Peter Martini|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/09/msg231173.html>
38 Little of of all we value here
39 Wakes on the morn of its hundredth year
40 Without both feeling and looking queer.
41 In fact, there’s nothing that keeps its youth,
42 So far as I know, but a tree and truth.
43 (This is a moral that runs at large;
44 Take it. — You’re welcome. — No extra charge.)
46 =head2 v5.23.2 - Blind Guardian, "Skalds and Shadows"
48 L<Announced on 2015-08-20 by Matthew Horsfall|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/08/msg230298.html>
50 Would you believe in a night like this
51 A night like this, when visions come true
52 Would you believe in a tale like this
53 A lay of bliss, praise in the old lore
54 Come to the blazing fire and
61 This night turns into myth
64 The world we live in is another skald's
68 Do you believe there is sense in it
70 They´re one in my rhymes
71 Nobody knows the meaning behind
73 Well nobody else but the Norns can
74 See through the blazing fires of time and
75 All things will proceed as the
81 Songs I will sing of tribes and kings
82 The carrion bird and the hall of the slain
85 The world we live in is another skald´s
89 Do not fear for my reason
90 There's nothing to hide
91 How bitter your treason
93 Remember the runes and remember the light
94 All I ever want is to be at your side
95 We'll gladden the raven now I will
96 Run through the blazing fires
98 Cause things shall proceed as foreseen
100 =head2 v5.23.1 - Elizabeth Haydon, "The Assassin King"
102 L<Announced on 2015-07-20 by Matthew Horsfall|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/07/msg229413.html>
104 I was born beneath this willow,
105 Where my sire the earth did farm
106 Had the green grass as my pillow
107 The east wind as a blanket warm.
109 But away! away! called the wind from the west
110 And in answer I did run
111 Seeking glory and adventure
112 Promised by the rising sun.
114 I found love beneath this willow,
115 As true a love as life could hold,
116 Pledged my heart and swore my fealty
117 Sealed with a kiss and a band of gold.
119 But to arms! to arms! called the wind from the west
120 In faithful answer I did run
121 Marching forth for king and country
122 In battles 'neath the midday sun.
124 Oft I dreamt of that fair willow
125 As the seven seas I plied
126 And the girl who I left waiting
127 Longing to be at her side.
129 But about! about! called the wind from the west
130 As once again my ship did run
131 Down the coast, about the wide world
132 Flying sails in the setting sun.
134 Now I lie beneath the willow
135 Now at last no more to roam,
136 My bride and earth so tightly hold me
137 In their arms I'm finally home.
139 While away! away! calls the wind from the west
140 Beyond the grave my spirit, free
141 Will chase the sun into the morning
142 Beyond the sky, beyond the sea.
144 =head2 v5.23.0 - Bob Dylan, Maggie's Farm
146 L<Announced on 2015-06-20 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/06/msg228807.html>
148 I ain't gonna work on Maggie's farm no more
149 I ain't gonna work on Maggie's farm no more
152 But everybody wants you
154 They sing while you slave and I just get bored
155 I ain't gonna work on Maggie's farm no more
157 =head2 v5.22.0 - Gene Wolfe, The Citadel of the Autarch
159 L<Announced on 2015-06-01 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/06/msg228300.html>
161 “You are the advocate of the dead.”
163 The old man nodded. “I am. People talk about being fair to this one and
164 that one, but nobody I ever heard talks about doing right by them. We
165 take everything they had, which is all right. And spit, most often, on
166 their opinions, which I suppose is all right too. But we ought to
167 remember now and then how much of what we have we got from them. I
168 figure while I’m still here I ought to put a word in for them.”
170 =head2 v5.22.0-RC2 - T.S. Eliot, unpublished work
172 L<Announced on 2015-05-21 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/05/msg228142.html>
174 And when thyself with silver foot shall pass
175 Among the theories scattered on the grass
176 Take up my good intentions with the rest
178 =head2 v5.22.0-RC1 - Gene Wolfe, Citadel of the Autarch
180 L<Announced on 2015-05-19 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/05/msg228059.html>
182 There is no limit to stupidity. Space itself is said to be bounded by
183 its own curvature, but stupidity continues beyond infinity.
185 =head2 v5.21.11 - Algernon Charles Swinburne, "Dolores (Notre-Dame des Sept Douleurs)"
187 L<Announced on 2015-04-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/04/msg227472.html>
189 They shall pass and their places be taken,
190 The gods and the priests that are pure.
191 They shall pass, and shalt thou not be shaken?
192 They shall perish, and shalt thou endure?
193 Death laughs, breathing close and relentless
194 In the nostrils and eyelids of lust,
195 With a pinch in his fingers of scentless
198 But the worm shall revive thee with kisses;
199 Thou shalt change and transmute as a god,
200 As the rod to a serpent that hisses,
201 As the serpent again to a rod.
202 Thy life shall not cease though thou doff it;
203 Thou shalt live until evil be slain,
204 And good shall die first, said thy prophet,
207 =head2 v5.21.10 - Aldous Huxley, "The Devils of Loudun"
209 L<Announced on 2015-03-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/03/msg226847.html>
211 The fire burned on, the good fathers continued to sprinkle and intone.
212 Suddenly a flock of pigeons came swooping down from the church and
213 started to wheel around the roaring column of flame and smoke. The
214 crowd shouted, the archers waved their halberds at the birds, Lactance
215 and Tranquille splashed them on the wing with holy water. In vain. The
216 pigeons were not to be driven away. Round and round they flew, diving
217 through the smoke, singeing their feathers in the flames. Both parties
218 claimed a miracle. For the parson's enemies the birds, quite obviously,
219 were a troop of devils, come to fetch away his soul. For his friends,
220 they were emblems of the Holy Ghost and living proof of his innocence.
221 It never seems to have occurred to anyone that they were just pigeons,
222 obeying the laws of their own, their blessedly other-than-human nature.
224 =head2 v5.21.9 - Emily Dickinson, "There is Another Sky"
226 L<Announced on 2015-02-20 by Sawyer X|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/02/msg226002.html>
228 There is another sky,
229 Ever serene and fair,
230 And there is another sunshine,
231 Though it be darkness there;
232 Never mind faded forests, Austin,
233 Never mind silent fields -
234 Here is a little forest,
235 Whose leaf is ever green;
236 Here is a brighter garden,
237 Where not a frost has been;
238 In its unfading flowers
239 I hear the bright bee hum:
243 =head2 v5.21.8 - Bill Watterson, "Scientific Progress Goes 'Boink': A Calvin and Hobbes Collection"
245 L<Announced on 2015-01-20 by Matthew Horsfall|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/01/msg224869.html>
247 Calvin: OK Hobbes, press the button and duplicate me.
248 Hobbes: Are you sure this is such a good idea?
249 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?
250 Hobbes: I'd hate to be accused of inhibiting scientific progress... Here you go.
252 Hobbes: Scientific progress goes "BOINK"?
253 Calvin?: It worked! It worked! I'm a genius!
254 Cavlin??: No you're not, you liar! *I* invented this!
256 =head2 v5.21.7 - Robert Heinlein, "The Number of the Beast"
258 L<Announced on 2014-12-20 by Max Maischein|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/12/msg223774.html>
260 "Zebadiah, Hilda and I salvaged and put everything into the basket.
261 Hilda started to put it into our wardrobe-and it was heavy. So
262 we looked. Packed as tight as when we left Oz. Six bananas-and
263 everything else. Cross my heart. No, go look."
264 "Hmmm- Jake, can you write equations for a picnic basket that
265 refills itself? Will it go on doing so?"
266 "Zeb, equations can be written to describe anything. The description
267 would be simpler for a basket that replenishes itself indefinitely
268 than for one that does it once and stops-I would have to describe
271 =head2 v5.21.6 - Jeff Noon, "Vurt"
273 L<Announced on 2014-11-20 by Chris 'BinGOs' Williams|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/11/msg222448.html>
277 EXCHANGE MECHANISMS. Sometimes we lose precious
278 things. Friends and colleagues, fellow travellers in the
279 Vurt, sometimes we lose them; even lovers we sometimes
280 lose. And get bad things in exchange: aliens, objects,
281 snakes, and sometimes even death. Things we don't want.
282 This is part of the deal, part of the game deal;
283 all things, in all worlds, must be kept in balance.
284 Kittlings often ask, who decides on the swappings? Now then,
285 some say it's all accidental; that some poor Vurt thing
286 finds himself too close to a door, at too critical a time,
287 just when something real is being lost. Whoosh! Swap time!
288 Others say that some kind of overseer is working the
289 MECHANISMS OF EXCHANGE, deciding the fate of innocents.
290 The Cat can only tease at this, because of the big secrets
291 involved, and because of the levels between you, the reader,
292 and me, the Game Cat. Hey, listen; I've struggled to get
293 where I am today; why should I give you the easy route?
294 Get working, kittlings! Reach up higher. Work the Vurt.
296 =head2 v5.21.5 - Friso Wiegersma (text), Jean Ferrat (music), Wim Sonneveld (performer), "Het Dorp"
298 L<Announced on 2014-10-20 by Abigail|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/10/msg221399.html>
302 Thuis heb ik nog een ansichtkaart
303 waarop een kerk, een kar met paard,
304 een slagerij J. van der Ven.
305 Een kroeg, een juffrouw op de fiets
306 het zegt u hoogstwaarschijnlijk niets,
307 maar 't is waar ik geboren ben.
308 Dit dorp, ik weet nog hoe het was,
309 de boerenkind'ren in de klas,
310 een kar die ratelt op de keien,
311 het raadhuis met een pomp ervoor,
312 een zandweg tussen koren door,
313 het vee, de boerderijen.
315 En langs het tuinpad van m'n vader
316 zag ik de hoge bomen staan.
317 Ik was een kind en wist niet beter,
318 dan dat dat nooit voorbij zou gaan.
320 Wat leefden ze eenvoudig toen
321 in simp'le huizen tussen groen
322 met boerenbloemen en een heg.
323 Maar blijkbaar leefden ze verkeerd,
324 het dorp is gemoderniseerd
325 en nu zijn ze op de goeie weg.
326 Want ziet, hoe rijk het leven is,
327 ze zien de televisiequiz
328 en wonen in betonnen dozen,
329 met flink veel glas, dan kun je zien
330 hoe of het bankstel staat bij Mien
331 en d'r dressoir met plastic rozen.
333 En langs het tuinpad van m'n vader
334 zag ik de hoge bomen staan.
335 Ik was een kind en wist niet beter,
336 dan dat dat nooit voorbij zou gaan.
338 De dorpsjeugd klit wat bij elkaar
339 in minirok en beatle-haar
340 en joelt wat mee met beat-muziek.
341 Ik weet wel, het is hun goeie recht,
342 de nieuwe tijd, net wat u zegt,
343 maar het maakt me wat melancholiek.
344 Ik heb hun vaders nog gekend
345 ze kochten zoethout voor een cent
346 ik zag hun moeders touwtjespringen.
347 Dat dorp van toen, het is voorbij,
348 dit is al wat er bleef voor mij:
349 een ansicht en herinneringen.
351 Toen ik langs het tuinpad van m'n vader
352 de hoge bomen nog zag staan.
353 Ik was een kind, hoe kon ik weten
354 dat dat voorgoed voorbij zou gaan.
356 =head2 v5.21.4 - Edgar Allan Poe, "The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket"
358 L<Announced on 2014-09-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/09/msg220267.html>
360 To-day, being in latitude 83° 20', longitude 43° 5' W. (the sea being
361 of an extraordinarily dark colour), we again saw land from the
362 masthead, and, upon a closer scrutiny, found it to be one of a group
363 of very large islands. The shore was precipitous, and the interior
364 seemed to be well wooded, a circumstance which occasioned us great
365 joy. In about four hours from our first discovering the land we came
366 to anchor in ten fathoms, sandy bottom, a league from the coast, as a
367 high surf, with strong ripples here and there, rendered a nearer
368 approach of doubtful expediency. The two largest boats were now
369 ordered out, and a party, well armed (among whome were Peters and
370 myself), proceeded to look for an opening in the reef which appeared
371 to encircle the island. After searching about for some time, we
372 discovered an inlet, which we were entering, when we saw four large
373 canoes put off from the shore, filled with men who seemed to be well
374 armed. We waited for them to come up, and, as they moved with great
375 rapidity, they were soon within hail. Captain Guy now held up a white
376 handkerchief on the blade of an oar, when the strangers made a full
377 stop, and commenced a loud jabbering all at once, intermingled with
378 occasional shouts, in which we could distinguish the words Anamoo-moo!
379 and Lama-Lama! They continued this for at least half an hour, during
380 which we had a good opportunity of observing their appearance.
382 =head2 v5.21.3 - Robert Service, "The Men that Don't Fit In"
384 L<Announced on 2014-08-20 by Peter Martini|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/08/msg218826.html>
386 If they just went straight they might go far,
387 They are strong and brave and true;
388 But they're always tired of the things that are,
389 And they want the strange and new.
390 They say: "Could I find my proper groove,
391 What a deep mark I would make!"
392 So they chop and change, and each fresh move
393 Is only a fresh mistake.
395 =head2 v5.21.2 - Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, Charlie Duke, Final minutes of communication of the first manned moon landing, July 20, 1969
397 L<Announced on 2014-07-20 by Abigail|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/07/msg217937.html>
399 Armstrong: Okay. Here's a...Looks like a good area here.
400 Aldrin: I got the shadow out there.
401 Aldrin: 250, down at 2 1/2, 19 forward.
402 Aldrin: Altitude, velocity lights.
403 Aldrin: 3 1/2 down, 220 feet, 13 forward.
404 Aldrin: 11 forward. Coming down nicely.
405 Armstrong: Gonna be right over that crater.
406 Aldrin: 200 feet, 4 1/2 down.
408 Armstrong: I got a good spot [garbled].
409 Aldrin: 160 feet, 6 1/2 down.
410 Aldrin: 5 1/2 down, 9 forward. You're looking good.
412 Aldrin: 100 feet, 3 1/2 down, 9 forward. Five percent. Quantity light.
413 Aldrin: Okay. 75 feet. And it's looking good. Down a half, 6 forward.
416 Aldrin: 60 feet, down 2 1/2. 2 forward. 2 forward. That's good.
417 Aldrin: 40 feet, down 2 1/2. Picking up some dust.
418 Aldrin: 30 feet, 2 1/2 down. [Garbled] shadow.
419 Aldrin: 4 forward. 4 forward. Drifting to the right a little. 20 feet,
422 Aldrin: Drifting forward just a little bit; that's good.
423 Aldrin: Contact Light.
425 Aldrin: Okay. Engine Stop.
426 Aldrin: ACA out of Detent.
427 Armstrong: Out of Detent. Auto.
428 Aldrin: Mode Control, both Auto. Descent Engine Command Override, Off.
429 Engine Arm, Off. 413 is in.
430 Duke: We copy you down, Eagle.
431 Armstrong: Engine arm is off.
432 Armstrong: Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed.
433 Duke: Roger, Twan...[correcting himself] Tranquility. We copy you on
434 the ground. You got a bunch of guys about to turn blue.
435 We're breathing again. Thanks a lot.
438 =head2 v5.21.1 - Robert Jordan, "The Crossroads of Twilights", Book 10 of "The Wheel of Time"
440 L<Announced on 2014-06-20 by Matthew Horsfall|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/06/msg217030.html>
442 We rode on the winds of the rising storm,
443 We ran to the sounds of the thunder.
444 We danced among the lightning bolts,
445 and tore the world asunder.
447 -- Anonymous fragment of a poem believed
448 written near the end of the previous Age,
449 known by some as the Third Age.
450 Sometimes attributed to the Dragon
453 =head2 v5.21.0 - Friedrich von Schiller, "The Song of the Bell"
455 L<Announced on 2014-05-27 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/05/msg215826.html>
457 Walled in fast within the earth
458 Stands the form burnt out of clay.
459 This must be the bell’s great birth!
460 Fellows, lend a hand to-day.
461 Sweat must trickle now
462 From the burning brow,
463 Till the work its master honour.
464 Blessing comes from Heaven’s Donor.
466 =head2 v5.20.3 - Elias Lönnrot, trans. Keith Bosley, "The Kalevala", Canto 42: Stealing the Sampo
468 L<Announced on 2015-09-12 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/09/msg230945.html>
470 Steady old Väinämöinen
471 uttered a word and spoke thus:
472 'No lilting on the waters
473 and no singing on the waves!
476 Precious day would pass and night
477 would overtake us midway
479 upon these vast waves.'
481 The wanton Lemminkäinen
482 uttered a word and spoke thus:
483 'The time will pass anyway
484 the fair day will flee
485 and the night will come panting
486 and the twilight will steal in
487 if you don't sing while you live
488 nor hum in this world.'
490 =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"
492 L<Announced on 2015-08-29 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/08/msg230544.html>
494 'I fled from Basra, sad and tearful, with no idea where I was going,
495 and I was reciting these lines:
497 The pain of parting makes me melt away,
498 As lovers do when those they love are harsh.
499 I wonder at the patience that I showed
500 When I had lost my love, for that was wonderful.
501 Beloved, do you know that since you left,
502 I have remained confused in misery.
504 I then heard a voice that said: "Damn you, have you no fear of
505 Almighty God that you hand over a girl to an unbelieving 'ifrit?" I
506 walked for a time amongst the palm-trees until I caught sight of a
507 person, whom I approached. When I asked him who he was he said: "I
508 am one of the jinn who were converted to Islam at the hands of 'Ali
509 ibn Abi Talib, may God ennoble him." "How can I get to my wife?" I
510 asked him, and he said: "Wretched fellow, you had a bird which you
511 allowed to fly away and now you want to fly after it." But he
512 added: "Follow this road with God's blessing all night until dawn
513 and then by the shore you will see a huge cave in which there is an
514 idol made of white stone. You must drink of the water that there is
515 coming out of the cave and smear your face with its mud. Stay there
516 and a barge will pass you as you stand opposite the statue. Various
517 different creatures will emerge, heads without bodies and bodies
518 without heads, and they will prostrate themselves in adoration to
519 the idol rather than to Almighty God. When you see that, embark on
520 the barge and cross to the other bank and walk along it until
521 sunset. On a high point you will see a castle built of bricks of
522 gold and silver. That is where your 'ifrit will be. I have now
523 told you about this, so goodbye."
525 =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"
527 L<Announced on 2015-08-22 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/08/msg230359.html>
529 'On the night of the wedding the ape came to sit in front of me and
530 asked me what I intended to do. "Whatever you tell me," I replied,
531 and he said: "Take care not to covet the girl, or I shall come back
532 and burn you up and leave you as a lesson for those who can learn."
533 I agreed to this and when evening came I found the world full of
534 candles and torches burning in holders of gold and silver. There
535 were servants and serving girls, and everyone who saw me
536 congratulated me on my good fortune, as there was no girl on the
537 face of the earth more beautiful than my bride.
539 'Next morning I went out to the market, and people went in and asked
540 her how the night had been. "He never looked up at me," she told
541 them. Then, when it was afternoon, I went to my house, where the
542 ape was sitting by the door. "Tell me what you did," it said, and I
543 told it: "By God, I did not learn and do not know whether this was a
544 man or a girl." "That's what I want," it said.
546 'On the second night my bride was brought to me, after which the
547 servants left her and went away. She fell asleep, and, while she
548 was sleeping, I killed the cock, wrapped it in the cloth and put the
549 four poles from the couch over it. Suddenly there was a huge crash
550 like a peal of thunder and a fiery 'ifrit swooped on the girl. I
551 fainted at the sight and when I recovered I heard a voice saying:
552 "By the Lord of the Ka'ba, the girl has been carried off!" and there
553 was a sound like the rustling of wind and bitter weeping. At this I
554 shed tears, struck my head and was filled with regret when it was no
555 longer of any use, for to me the whole world was worth no more than
558 =head2 v5.20.2 - Jonathan "Jonti" Picking, L<"Magical Trevor"|http://www.weebls-stuff.com/other-toons/video/magical-trevor.html>
560 L<Announced on 2015-02-14 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/02/msg225777.html>
562 Everyone loves Magical Trevor,
563 'Cos the tricks that he does are ever so clever;
564 Look at him now, disappearin' the cow,
565 Where is the cow hidden right now?
567 Taking a bow, it's Magical Trevor,
568 Everybody's seen that the trick is clever;
569 Look at him there with his leathery, leathery whip!
570 It's made of magic, and with a little flip--
572 Yeah, yeah, yeah, the cow is back,
573 Yeah, yeah, yeah, the cow is back;
574 Back, back, back from his magical journey,
577 What did he see in the parallel dimension?
578 He saw beans, lots of beans, lots of beans, lots of beans;
579 Oh, beans, lots of beans, lots of beans, lots of beans,
582 =head2 v5.20.2-RC1 - Jonathan "Jonti" Picking, L<"Scampi"|http://www.weebls-stuff.com/other-toons/video/scampi.html>
584 L<Announced on 2015-02-01 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/02/msg225273.html>
587 I've seen them with my eyes;
589 They're often in disguise.
591 Like carrots, handbags, cheese, toilets,
592 Russians, planets, hamsters, weddings,
593 Poets, Stalin, Kuala Lumpur!
594 Pygmies, budgies, Kuala Lumpur!
597 I've seen them with my eyes;
599 They're often in disguise.
601 Like carrots, handbags, cheese...
603 =head2 v5.20.1 - Lorenzo da Ponte, trans. Diana Reed, "Così fan tutte"
605 L<Announced on 2014-09-14 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/09/msg219789.html>
607 DORABELLA (as if waking from a daze): Where are they?
608 DON ALFONSO: They've gone.
609 FIORDILIGI: Oh, the cruel bitterness of parting!
612 Take heart, my dearest children.
613 Look, in the distance, your lovers are waving to you.
615 FIORDILIGI: Bon voyage, my darling!
616 DORABELLA: Bon voyage!
619 O heavens! How swiftly the ship is sailing away!
620 It is disappearing already!
621 It is no longer in sight!
622 Oh, may heaven grant it a prosperous voyage!
624 DORABELLA: May good luck attend it to the battlefield!
625 DON ALFONSO: And may your sweethearts and my friends be safe!
627 FIORDILIGI, DORABELLA, DON ALFONSO:
628 May the wind be gentle,
634 =head2 v5.20.1-RC2 - Lorenzo da Ponte, trans. William Weaver, "Così fan tutte"
636 L<Announced on 2014-09-07 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/09/msg219446.html>
639 Oh God, I feel that this foot of mine
640 is reluctant to come before her.
647 The hero displays his manliness
648 in the most terrible moments.
650 FIORDILIGI, DORABELLA:
651 Now that we have heard the news,
652 you have the lesser duty:
653 Take heart, and plunge your swords
654 into both our hearts.
658 that I must abandon you.
660 DORABELLA: Ah no, you shall not leave...
661 FIORDILIGI: No, cruel one, you shall not go...
662 DORABELLA: First I want to tear out my heart.
663 FIORDILIGI: First I want to die at your feet.
664 FERRANDO (softly to Don Alfonso): What do you say to that?
665 GUGLIELMO (softly to Don Alfonso): You realise?
666 DON ALFONSO (softly): Steady, friend, finem lauda.
669 Thus destiny defrauds
670 the hopes of mortals.
671 Ah, among so many misfortunes,
672 who can ever love life?
674 =head2 v5.20.1-RC1 - Lorenzo da Ponte, trans. William Weaver, "Così fan tutte"
676 L<Announced on 2014-08-25 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/08/msg218975.html>
679 I'd like to speak, but I haven't the heart:
681 My voice cannot emerge,
682 but remains in my throat.
683 What will you do? What shall I do?
684 Oh what a great catastrophe!
685 There can be nothing worse.
686 I feel pity for you and for them.
688 FIORDILIGI: Heavens! For mercy's sake, Signor Alfonso, don't make us
690 DON ALFONSO: My children, you must arm yourselves with constancy.
691 DORABELLA: Ye Gods! What evil has occurred? What horrible event? Is my
693 FIORDILIGI: Is mine dead?
694 DON ALFONSO: They are not dead, but they are not far from it.
698 DON ALFONSO: Nor that.
699 FIORDILIGI: What, then?
700 DON ALFONSO: A royal command summons them to the field of battle.
701 FIORDILIGI, DORABELLA: Alas, what do I hear? And they will leave?
702 DON ALFONSO: Immediately.
703 DORABELLA: And there is no way of preventing it?
704 DON ALFONSO: There is none.
705 FIORDILIGI: And not even a single farewell...
706 DON ALFONSO: The unhappy men haven't the courage to see you; but if
707 you wish it, they are ready...
708 DORABELLA: Where are they?
709 DON ALFONSO: Come in, friends.
711 =head2 v5.20.0 - William Shakespeare, Sonnet 18
713 L<Announced on 2014-05-27 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/05/msg215815.html>
715 But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
716 Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st;
717 Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
718 When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st:
719 So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
720 So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
722 =head2 v5.20.0-RC1 - Lindsey Buckingham, "Second Hand News"
724 L<Announced on 2014-05-17 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/05/msg215479.html>
728 Won't you lay me down in tall grass
729 And let me do my stuff
731 =head2 v5.19.11 - Isidore-Lucien Ducasse [as "Comte de Lautréamont"], trans. Paul Knight, "Les Chants de Maldoror"
733 L<Announced on 2014-04-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/04/msg214580.html>
735 O rigorous mathematics, I have not forgotten you since your wise lessons,
736 sweeter than honey, filtered into my heart like a refreshing wave.
737 Instinctively, from the cradle, I had longed to drink from your source, older
738 than the sun, and I continue to tread the sacred sanctuary of your solemn
739 temple, I, the most faithful of your devotees. There was a vagueness in my
740 mind, something thick as smoke; but I managed to mount the steps which lead to
741 your altar, and you drove away this dark veil, as the wind blows the
742 draught-board. You replaced it with excessive coldness, consummate prudence and
743 implacable logic. With the aid of your fortifying milk, my intellect developed
744 rapidly and took on immense proportions amid the ravishing lucidity which you
745 bestow as a gift on all those who sincerely love you. Arithmetic! Algebra!
746 Geometry! Awe-inspiring trinity! Luminous triangle! He who has not known you
749 =head2 v5.19.10 - John Chadwick, "The Decipherment of Linear B"
751 L<Announced on 2014-03-20 by Aaron Crane|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/03/msg213851.html>
753 The urge to discover secrets is deeply ingrained in human nature; even
754 the least curious mind is roused by the promise of sharing knowledge
755 withheld from others. Some are fortunate enough to find a job which
756 consists in the solution of mysteries, whether it be the physicist who
757 tracks down a hitherto unknown nuclear particle or the policeman who
758 detects a criminal. But most of us are driven to sublimate this urge
759 by the solving of artificial puzzles devised for our entertainment.
761 =head2 v5.19.9 - R. A. MacAvoy, "Tea with the Black Dragon"
763 L<Announced on 2014-02-20 by Tony Cook|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/02/msg213047.html>
765 Old hands. The smell of rain--the smell of Ch'an. Quiet words in
766 rough Cantonese. "I am not to be your master. Your master has to be
767 stronger than you are--has to tell you you are a fool and make you
768 know it. And make you feel content in being a fool. How could I do
769 that for you? I'm old. You are too strong for me; you are full of
770 chi." The old man has paused then, huddled against the wind while
771 clouds thickened above them.
773 "I will tell you this, Long," he continued, "Before you find yourself
774 you will lose your chi. Also you will leave behind you all pride of
775 body, pride of mind. You will be reduced. Like me." The old man
776 closed his eyes, and rain began to beat against his gray, crew-cut
777 hair. He pulled his coat closer. Suddenly his eyes snapped open and
778 he looked Long in the face.
780 "You must leave China. Go across the ocean. There you will meet your
781 master." He set down his teacup with a palsied hand. His voice rose,
784 "I tell you this, most honored and impressive visitor. You are a
785 fool, yes, but you will find the very thing you seek. You will find
788 =head2 v5.19.8 - Joseph Heller, "Catch-22"
790 L<Announced on 2014-01-20 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/01/msg211729.html>
792 “I used to get a big kick out of saving people’s lives. Now I wonder what the
793 hell’s the point, since they all have to die anyway.”
795 “Oh, there’s a point, all right,” Dunbar assured him.
797 “Is there? What is the point?”
799 “The point is to keep them from dying for as long as you can.”
801 “Yeah, but what’s the point, since they all have to die anyway?”
803 “The trick is not to think about that.”
805 “Never mind the trick. What the hell’s the point?”
807 Dunbar pondered in silence for a few moments. “Who the hell knows?”
809 =head2 v5.19.7 - Kurt Vonnegut, "Slaughterhouse-Five"
811 L<Announced on 2013-12-20 by Abigail|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/12/msg210882.html>
813 And somewhere in there was springtime. The corpse mines were closed
814 down. The soldiers all left to fight the Russians. In the suburbs,
815 the women and children dug rifle pits. Billy and the rest of his group
816 were locked up in the stable in the suburbs. And then, one morning,
817 they got up to discover that the door was unlocked. World War Two in
820 Billy and the rest wandered out onto the shady street. The trees were
821 leafing out. There was nothing going on out there, no traffic of any
822 kind. There was only one vehicle, an abandoned wagon drawn by two
823 horses. The wagon was green and coffin-shaped.
827 One bird said to Billy Pilgrim, "Pee-tee-weet?"
829 =head2 v5.19.6 - Monty Python's Flying Circus, "Spam"
831 L<Announced on 2013-11-20 by Chris 'BinGOs' Williams|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/11/msg210043.html>
833 Interior: cheap cafe. All the customers are Vikings. Mr and Mrs Bun enter downwards (on wires).
837 Mr. Bun: What have you got, then?
838 Waitress: Well there's egg and bacon; egg, sausage and bacon; egg and spam; egg, bacon and spam;
839 egg, bacon, sausage and spam; spam, bacon, sausage and spam; spam, egg, spam, spam, bacon and spam;
840 spam, spam, spam, egg and spam; spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, baked beans, spam, spam, spam and spam;
841 or lobster thermidor aux crevettes, with a mornay sauce garnished with truffle pate, brandy and a fried
843 Mrs. Bun: Have you got anything without spam in it?
844 Waitress: Well, there's spam, egg, sausage and spam. That's not got MUCH spam in it.
845 Mrs. Bun: I don't want ANY spam.
846 Mr. Bun: Why can't she have egg, bacon, spam and sausage?
847 Mrs. Bun: That's got spam in it!
848 Mr. Bun: Not as much as spam, egg, sausage and spam.
849 Mrs. Bun: Look, could I have egg, bacon, spam and sausage, without the spam.
850 Waitress: Uuuuuuggggh!
851 Mrs. Bun: What d'you mean, uugggh! I don't like spam.
852 Vikings: (singing) Spam, spam, spam, spam, spam ... spam, spam, spam, spam ... lovely spam, wonderful spam ...
854 (Brief shot of a Viking ship)
856 Waitress: Shut up. Shut up! Shut up! You can't have egg, bacon, spam and sausage without the spam.
858 Waitress: No, it wouldn't be egg, bacon, spam and sausage, would it?
859 Mrs. Bun: I don't like spam!
861 =head2 v5.19.5 - Charles Baudelaire, trans. James McGowan, "The Flowers of Evil", 51. The Cat
863 L<Announced on 2013-10-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/10/msg208752.html>
867 A cat is strolling through my mind
868 Acting as though he owned the place,
869 A lovely cat -- strong, charming, sweet.
870 When he meows, one scarcely hears,
872 So tender and discreet his tone;
873 But whether he should growl or purr
874 His voice is always rich and deep.
875 That is the secret of his charm.
877 This purling voice that filters down
878 Into my darkest depths of soul
879 Fulfils me like a balanced verse,
880 Delights me as a potion would.
882 It puts to sleep the cruellest ills
883 And keeps a rein on ecstasies --
884 Without the need for any words
885 It can pronounce the longest phrase.
887 Oh no, there is no bow that draws
888 Across my heart, fine instrument,
889 And makes to sing so royally
890 The strongest and the purest chord,
892 More than your voice, mysterious cat,
893 Exotic cat, seraphic cat,
894 In whom all is, angelically,
895 As subtle as harmonious.
899 From his soft fur, golden and brown,
900 Goes out so sweet a scent, one night
901 I might have been embalmed in it
902 By giving him one little pet.
904 He is my household's guardian soul;
905 He judges, he presides, inspires
906 All matters in hos royal realm;
907 Might he be fairy? or a god?
909 When my eyes, to this cat I love
910 Drawn as by a magnet's force,
911 Turn tamely back from that appeal,
912 And when I look within myself,
914 I notice with astonishment
915 The fire of his opal eyes,
916 Clear beacons glowing, living jewels,
917 Taking my measure, steadily.
919 =head2 v5.19.4 - Washington Irving, "The Widow and Her Son"
921 L<Announced on 2013-09-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/09/msg207969.html>
923 There is something in sickness that breaks down the pride of manhood;
924 that softens the heart and brings it back to the feelings of infancy.
925 Who that has languished, even in advanced life, in sickness and
926 despondency — who that has pined on a weary bed in the neglect and
927 loneliness of a foreign land — but has thought on the mother "that
928 looked on his childhood," that smoothed his pillow and administered to
929 his helplessness. — Oh! there is an enduring tenderness in the love
930 of a mother to her son that transcends all other affections of the
931 heart. It is neither to be chilled by selfishness — nor daunted by
932 danger — nor weakened by worthlessness — nor stifled by ingratitude.
933 She will sacrifice every comfort to his convenience — she will
934 surrender every pleasure to his enjoyment — she will glory in his fame
935 and exult in his prosperity. And if misfortune overtake him he will
936 be the dearer to her from misfortune — and if disgrace settle upon his
937 name, she will still love and cherish him in spite of his disgrace —
938 and if all the world beside cast him off, she will be all the world to
941 =head2 v5.19.3 - Andrew Hodges, "Alan Turing: The Enigma"
943 L<Announced on 2013-08-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/08/msg206318.html>
945 E.M. Forster, outdoing the King's heresy with grand bravura, had
946 written in 1938 that if he were faced with the choice between
947 betraying his country and betraying his friends, he hoped he would
948 have the courage to betray his country. He would always put the
949 personal above the political. But for Alan Turing, unlike Forster, or
950 Wittgenstein, or G.H. Hardy, it was more than a theoretical question.
951 For him not only had the personal become the political, but the
952 political was the personal. He had chosen and promised for himself in
953 working for the government. The choice for him therefore was that
954 between betraying one part of himself and betraying another part. And
955 however much he wavered between these alternatives, there was a solid
956 logic to the mind of security, one that could not be expected to take
957 an interest in notions of freedom and development. He had no rights
958 to such things, as he would have had to admit. He might have
959 outwitted the Home Guard, but when it came to questions that mattered,
960 there was no doubt that he had placed himself under military law.
961 There was a war on; there was always a war on now.
963 =head2 v5.19.2 - Fred Brooks, "The Mythical Man-Month"
965 L<Announced on 2013-07-22 by Aristotle Pagaltzis|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/07/msg204905.html>
967 The magic of myth and legend has come true in our time. One types the
968 correct incantation on a keyboard, and a display screen comes to life,
969 showing things that never were nor could be. [...] Not all is delight,
970 however [...] One must perform perfectly. The computer resembles the
971 magic of legend in this respect, too. If one character, one pause, of
972 the incantation is not strictly in proper form, the magic doesn't work.
974 =head2 v5.19.1 - William Shakespeare, "A Midsummer Night's Dream"
976 L<Announced on 2013-06-21 by David Golden|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/06/msg203449.html>
978 Over hill, over dale,
979 Thorough bush, thorough briar,
980 Over park, over pale,
981 Thorough flood, thorough fire,
982 I do wander everywhere,
983 Swifter than the moon's sphere;
984 And I serve the fairy queen,
985 To dew her orbs upon the green.
986 The cowslips tall her pensioners be;
987 In their gold coats, spots you see;
988 Those be rubies, fairy favours,
989 In their freckles live our savours.
990 I must go seek some dew-drops here,
991 And hang a perl in every cowslip's ear.
992 Farewell, thou lob of spirits, I'll be gone;
993 My queen and all her elves come here anon!
995 =head2 v5.19.0 - Batman, of the Joker, in "The Dark Knight Returns"
997 L<Announced on 2013-05-20 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/05/msg201980.html>
999 From the beginning, I knew…
1000 …that there was nothing wrong with you…
1004 =head2 v5.18.4 - Robert W. Chambers, Cassilda's Song in "The King in Yellow," Act I, Scene 2
1006 L<Announced on 2014-10-01 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/10/msg220770.html>
1008 Along the shore the cloud waves break,
1009 The twin suns sink beneath the lake,
1010 The shadows lengthen
1013 Strange is the night where black stars rise,
1014 And strange moons circle through the skies
1015 But stranger still is
1018 Songs that the Hyades shall sing,
1019 Where flap the tatters of the King,
1023 Song of my soul, my voice is dead;
1024 Die thou, unsung, as tears unshed
1025 Shall dry and die in
1028 =head2 v5.18.3 - (no epigraph)
1032 =head2 v5.18.3-RC2 - Robert W. Chambers, "The King in Yellow", Act I, Scene 2
1034 L<Announced on 2014-09-27 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/09/msg220613.html>
1036 "Ah! I see it now!" I shrieked. "You have seized the throne and the
1037 empire. Woe! woe to you who are crowned with the crown of the King in
1040 =head2 v5.18.3-RC1 - Robert W. Chambers, "The King in Yellow", Act I, Scene 2
1042 L<Announced on 2014-09-17 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/09/msg220072.html>
1044 CAMILLA: You, sir, should unmask.
1048 CASSILDA: Indeed it's time. We all have laid aside disguise but you.
1050 STRANGER: I wear no mask.
1052 CAMILLA: (Terrified, aside to Cassilda.) No mask? No mask!
1054 =head2 v5.18.2 - Miss Manners
1056 L<Announced on 2014-01-06 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/01/msg211224.html>
1058 One of the major mistakes people make is that they think manners are
1059 only the expression of happy ideas. There's a whole range of behavior
1060 that can be expressed in a mannerly way. That's what civilization is all
1061 about – doing it in a mannerly and not an antagonistic way. One of the
1062 places we went wrong was the naturalistic Rousseauean movement of the
1063 Sixties in which people said, "Why can't you just say what's on your
1064 mind?" In civilization there have to be some restraints. If we followed
1065 every impulse, we'd be killing one another.
1067 =head2 v5.18.1 - Chuck Moore
1069 L<Announced on 2013-08-12 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/08/msg205897.html>
1071 The operating system is another concept that is curious. Operating
1072 systems are dauntingly complex and totally unnecessary. It’s a brilliant
1073 thing that Bill Gates has done in selling the world on the notion of
1074 operating systems. It’s probably the greatest con game the world has
1077 An operating system does absolutely nothing for you. As long as you had
1078 something — a subroutine called disk driver, a subroutine called some
1079 kind of communication support, in the modern world, it doesn’t do
1080 anything else. In fact, Windows spends a lot of time with overlays and
1081 disk management all stuff like that which are irrelevant. You’ve got
1082 gigabyte disks; you’ve got megabyte RAMs. The world has changed in a way
1083 that renders the operating system unnecessary.
1085 =head2 v5.18.1-RC1 - Chuck Moore
1087 L<Announced on 2013-08-02 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/08/msg205445.html>
1089 Compilers are probably the worst code ever written. They are written by
1090 someone who has never written a compiler before and will never do so
1091 again. The more elaborate the language, the more complex, bug-ridden,
1092 and unusable is the compiler. But a simple compiler for a simple
1093 language is an essential tool—if only for documentation.
1095 =head2 v5.18.0 - Yevgeny Zamyatin
1097 L<Announced on 2013-05-18 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/05/msg201940.html>
1099 It is an error to divide people into the living and the dead: there are people
1100 who are dead-alive, and people who are alive-alive. The dead-alive also write,
1101 walk, speak, act. But they make no mistakes; only machines make no mistakes,
1102 and they produce only dead things. The alive-alive are constantly in error, in
1103 search, in questions, in torment.
1105 =head2 v5.18.0-RC4 - Joseph Heller, "Catch-22"
1107 L<Announced on 2013-05-16 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/05/msg201889.html>
1109 Clevinger was dead. That was the basic flaw in his philosophy.
1111 =head2 v5.18.0-RC3 - Tom Waits, "The Ocean Doesn't Want Me"
1113 L<Announced on 2013-05-14 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/05/msg201823.html>
1115 I'd love to go drowning
1116 And to stay and to stay
1117 But the ocean doesn't want me today
1118 I'll go in up to here
1119 It can't possibly hurt
1120 All they will find is my beer
1123 =head2 v5.18.0-RC2 - Tom Waits, "Earth Died Screaming"
1125 L<Announced on 2013-05-12 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/05/msg201723.html>
1127 And the great day of wrath has come
1128 And here's mud in your big red eye
1129 The poker's in the fire
1130 And the locusts take the sky
1131 And the earth died screaming
1132 While I lay dreaming of you
1134 =head2 v5.18.0-RC1 - Tom Waits, "What's He Building in There?"
1136 L<Announced on 2013-05-11 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/05/msg201651.html>
1138 What's he building in there?
1140 We have a right to know…
1142 =head2 v5.17.11 - Nigel Tufnel in "This is Spın̈al Tap"
1144 L<Announced on 2013-04-20 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/04/msg201056.html>
1146 It's very special because, if you can see, the numbers all go to…
1147 eleven! Look, right across the board: eleven, eleven, eleven, eleven!
1149 =head2 v5.17.10 - Vernor Vinge, "A Fire Upon The Deep"
1151 L<Announced on 2013-03-23 by Max Maischein|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/03/msg200504.html>
1153 The archive informed the automation. Data structures were built, recipes
1154 followed. A local network was built, faster than anything on Straum, but surely
1155 safe. Nodes were added, modified by other recipes. The archive was a friendly
1156 place, with hierarchies of translation keys that led them along. Straum itself
1157 would be famous for this.
1159 Six months passed. A year.
1161 The omniscient view. Not self-aware really. Self-awareness is much over-rated.
1162 Most automation works far better as a part of a whole, and even if human-
1163 powerful, it does not need to self-know.
1165 =head2 v5.17.9 - Douglas Adams, "The Hitch-Hikers Guide to the Galaxy"
1167 L<Announced on 2013-02-20 by Chris 'BinGOs' Williams|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/02/msg199115.html>
1169 Vogon poetry is of course, the third worst in the universe.
1170 The second worst is that of the Azgoths of Kria. During a
1171 recitation by their poet master Grunthos the Flatulent of
1172 his poem 'Ode To A Small Lump of Green Putty I Found In My
1173 Armpit One Midsummer Morning' four of his audience died
1174 of internal haemorrhaging and the president of the
1175 Mid-Galactic Arts Nobbling Council survived by gnawing one
1176 of his own legs off. Grunthos is reported to have been
1177 'disappointed' by the poem's reception, and was about to
1178 embark on a reading of his twelve-book epic entitled
1179 'My Favourite Bathtime Gurgles' when his own major intestine,
1180 in a desperate attempt to save life and civilisation,
1181 leapt straight up through his neck and throttled his brain.
1183 The very worst poetry of all perished along with its creator
1184 Paula Nancy Millstone Jennings of Greenbridge, Essex, England,
1185 in the destruction of the planet Earth.
1187 =head2 v5.17.8 - Iain Pears, "An Instance of the Fingerpost"
1189 L<Announced on 2013-01-20 by Aaron Crane|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/01/msg197571.html>
1191 I must here declare myself as someone who does not for a moment subscribe to
1192 the general view that a willingness to perform oneself is detrimental to the
1193 dignity of experimental philosophy. There is, after all, a clear distinction
1194 between labour carried out for financial reward, and that done for the
1195 improvement of mankind: to put it another way, Lower as a philosopher was
1196 fully my equal even if he fell away when he became the practising physician.
1197 I think ridiculous of certain professors of anatomy, who find it beneath
1198 them to pick up the knife themselves, but merely comment while hired hands
1199 do the cutting. Sylvius would never have dreamt of sitting on a dais reading
1200 from an authority while others cut — when he taught, the knife was
1201 in his hand and the blood spattered his coat. Boyle also did not scruple to
1202 perform his own experiments and, on one occasion in my presence, even showed
1203 himself willing to anatomise a rat with his very own hands. Nor was he less
1204 a gentleman when he had finished. Indeed, in my opinion, his stature was all
1205 the greater, for in Boyle wealth, humility and curiosity mingled, and the
1206 world is richer for it.
1208 =head2 v5.17.7 - R. Scott Bakker, "The Darkness That Comes Before"
1210 L<Announced on 2012-12-18 by Dave Rolsky|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/12/msg196707.html>
1214 The boy extinguished. Only a place.
1218 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.
1220 A place without breath or sound. A place of sight alone. A place without before or after . . . almost.
1222 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.
1224 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 . . .
1226 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.
1228 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.
1230 I have been legion . . .
1232 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.
1236 =head2 v5.17.6 - Kurt Vonnegut, "The Sirens of Titan"
1238 L<Announced on 2012-11-20 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/11/msg195659.html>
1240 Beatrice, looking like a gypsy queen, smoldered at the foot of a statue
1241 of a young physical student. At first glance, the laboratory-gowned
1242 scientist seemed to be a perfect servant of nothing but truth. At first
1243 glance, one was convinced that nothing but truth could please him as he
1244 beamed at his test tube. At first glance, one thought that he was as
1245 much above the beastly concerns of mankind as the harmoniums in the
1246 caves of Mercury. There, at first glance, was a young man without
1247 vanity, without lust — and one accepted at its face value the title Salo
1248 had engraved on the statue, "Discovery of Atomic Power."
1250 =head2 v5.17.5 - Charles Stross, "Singularity Sky"
1252 L<Announced on 2012-10-20 by Florian Ragwitz|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/10/msg194349.html>
1254 Neither of them noticed the pair of polka-dotted knickers hiding
1255 behind the ventilation duct overhead, listening patiently and
1256 recording everything.
1258 =head2 v5.17.4 - Roald Dahl, "Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf"
1260 L<Announced on 2012-09-19 by Florian Ragwitz|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/09/msg192635.html>
1262 The small girl smiles. One eyelid flickers.
1263 She whips a pistol from her knickers.
1264 She aims it at the creature's head,
1265 And bang bang bang, she shoots him dead.
1267 A few weeks later, in the wood,
1268 I came across Miss Riding Hood.
1269 But what a change! No cloak of red,
1270 No silly hood upon her head.
1271 She said, "Hello, and do please note
1272 My lovely furry wolfskin coat."
1274 =head2 v5.17.3 - Kris Ta-belle, "Smoked Perl Onion Soup"
1276 L<Announced on 2012-08-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/08/msg190775.html>
1280 Cut 16 Perl Onions into quarters and put them in a grill smoker rack
1281 or a perforated pan over a BBQ using hickory wood chips or Special
1282 Blend Smoker Bisquettes. Smoke them for an hour and remove once they
1284 Let them cool and put them in the fridge (or freezer) until you are
1285 ready to create the soup.
1289 16 diced, pre-smoked, Perl Onions
1292 2 small garlic cloves, finely minced
1295 black pepper to taste
1297 1/4 cup all purpose flour
1298 6 cups of beef or vegetable stock
1299 1 cup of thick cream (milk can be used as a substitute)
1303 Melt the butter in a pan and then add olive oil.
1304 Heat and add the onions to caramelize over a medium-high heat for up
1306 Add the garlic, turn down the heat and cook for a further 5 minutes.
1307 Add the salt, pepper and sugar.
1308 Now add the red wine and reduce to a jam like consistency.
1309 Add the flour, stir well and add the stock a cup at a time.
1310 Simmer for 30 minutes, add the cream and heat to almost boiling.
1314 =head2 v5.17.2 - Terry Pratchet, "The Colour of Magic"
1316 L<Announced on 2012-07-21 by TonyC|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/07/msg189828.html>
1318 ‘I knew it,’ said Rincewind. ‘We're in a strong magical field.’
1320 Twoflower and Hrun looked around the little hollow where they had made
1321 their noonday halt. Then they looked at each other.
1323 The horses were quietly cropping the rich grass by the stream. Yellow
1324 butterflies skittered among the bushes. There was a smell of thyme
1325 and a buzzing of bees. The wild pigs on the spit sizzled gently.
1327 Hrun shrugged and went back to oiling his biceps. They gleamed.
1329 ‘Looks alright to me,’ he said.
1331 ‘Try tossing a coin,’ said Rincewind.
1335 ‘Go on. Toss a coin.’
1337 ‘Hokay,’ said Hrun. 'If that gives you any pleasure.’ He reached into
1338 his pouch and withdrew a handful of loose change plundered from a
1339 dozen realms. With some care he selected a Zchloty leaden
1340 quarter-iotum and balanced it on a purple thumbnail.
1342 ‘You call,’ he said. ‘Heads or—’ he inspected the obverse with
1343 an air of intense concentration, ‘some sort of a fish with legs.’
1345 ‘When it's in the air,’ said Rincewind. Hrun grinned and flicked his thumb.
1347 The iotum rose, spinning.
1349 ‘Edge,’ said Rincewind, without looking at it.
1351 =head2 v5.17.1 - Rand Miller, "Myst: The Book of Ti'ana"
1353 L<Announced on 2012-06-20 by doy|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/06/msg188354.html>
1355 On their return from Ko'ah, Aitrus had shown her the Book, patiently
1356 taking her through page after page, and showing her how such an Age was
1357 "made." She had seen at once the differences between this archaic form
1358 and the ordinary written speech of the D'ni, noting how it was not
1359 merely more elaborate but more specific: a language of precise yet
1360 subtle descriptive power. Yet seeing was one thing, believing another.
1361 Given all the evidence, her rational mind still fought against accepting
1364 =head2 v5.17.0 - Charles Stross, "Singularity Sky"
1366 L<Announced on 2012-05-26 by Zefram|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/05/msg187214.html>
1368 `Welcome, comrades!' Burya opened his arms toward the soldier.
1369 `Yes it is true! With help from our allies of the Festival, the iron
1370 hand of the reactionary junta is about to be overthrown for all time!
1371 The new economy is being born; the marginal cost of production has
1372 been abolished, and from now on, if any item is produced once, it can
1373 be replicated infinitely. From each according to his imagination,
1374 to each according to his needs! Join us or better still, bring your
1375 fellow soldiers and workers to join us!'
1377 There was a sharp bang from the roof of the Corn Exchange, right at the
1378 climax of his impromptu speech; heads turned in alarm. Something had
1379 broken inside the spork factory and a stream of rainbow-hued plastic
1380 implements fountained toward the sky and clattered to the cobblestones
1381 on every side, like a harbinger of the postindustrial society to come.
1382 Workers and peasants alike stared in open-mouthed bewilderment at this
1383 astounding display of productivity, then bent to scrabble in the muck
1384 for the brightly colored sporks of revolution. A volley of shots rang
1385 out and Burya Rubenstein raised his hands, grinning wildly, to accept
1386 the salute of the soldiers from the Skull Hill garrison.
1388 =head2 v5.16.3 - Devo, "Freedom of Choice"
1390 L<Announced on 2013-03-11 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/03/msg200009.html>
1392 A victim of collision on the open sea
1393 Nobody ever said that life was free
1394 Sink, swim, go down with the ship
1395 But use your freedom of choice
1397 =head2 v5.16.2 - Stanislaw Lem, "The Cyberiad", Trurl's Machine
1399 L<Announced on 2012-11-01 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/11/msg194915.html>
1401 Once upon a time Trurl the constructor built an eight-story thinking
1402 machine. When it was finished, he gave it a coat of white paint,
1403 trimmed the edges in lavender, stepped back, squinted, then added a
1404 little curlicue on the front and, where one might imagine the forehead
1405 to be, a few pale orange polkadots. Extremely pleased with himself,
1406 he whistled an air and, as is always done on such occasions, asked it
1407 the ritual question of how much is two plus two.
1409 The machine stirred. Its tubes began to glow, its coils warmed up,
1410 current coursed through all its circuits like a waterfall,
1411 transformers hummed and throbbed, there was a clanging, and a
1412 chugging, and such an ungodly racket that Trurl began to think of
1413 adding a special mentation muffler. Meanwhile the machine labored on,
1414 as if it had been given the most difficult problem in the Universe to
1415 solve; the ground shook, the sand slid underfoot from the vibration,
1416 valves popped like champagne corks, the relays nearly gave way under
1417 the strain. At last, when Trurl had grown extremely impatient, the
1418 machine ground to a halt and said in a voice like thunder: SEVEN!
1420 =head2 v5.16.1 - Emerald Rose, "Never Split The Party"
1422 L<Announced on 2012-08-08 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/08/msg190413.html>
1424 Don't you know? You never split the party
1425 Clerics in the back to keep those fighters hale and hearty
1426 The wizard in the middle, where he can shed some light
1427 And you never let that damn thief out of sight…
1429 =head2 v5.16.1-RC1 - Tom Moldvay, Foreward to the "Dungeons & Dragons Basic Rulebook"
1431 L<Announced on 2012-08-03 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/08/msg190264.html>
1433 I was busy rescuing the captured maiden when the dragon showed up.
1434 Fifty feed of scaled terror glared down at us with smoldering red eyes.
1435 Tendrils of smoke drifted out from between fangs larger than daggers.
1436 The dragon blocked the only exit from the cave.
1440 I unwrapped the sword which the mysterious cleric had given me. The
1441 sword was golden-tinted steel. Its hilt was set with a rainbow
1442 collection of precious gems. I shouted my battle cry and charged
1444 My charge caught the dragon by surprise. Its titanic jaws snapped shut
1445 inches from my face. I swung the golden sword with both arms. The
1446 swordblade bit into the dragon's neck and continued through to the other
1447 side. With an earth-shaking crash, the dragon dropped dead at my feet.
1448 The magic sword had saved my life and ended the reign of the
1449 dragon-tyrant. The countryside was freed and I could return as a hero.
1451 =head2 v5.16.0 - W.H. Auden, "September 1, 1939"
1453 L<Announced on 2012-05-20 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/05/msg186903.html>
1455 All I have is a voice
1456 To undo the folded lie,
1457 The romantic lie in the brain
1458 Of the sensual man-in-the-street
1459 And the lie of Authority
1460 Whose buildings grope the sky:
1461 There is no such thing as the State
1462 And no one exists alone;
1463 Hunger allows no choice
1464 To the citizen or the police;
1465 We must love one another or die.
1467 =head2 v5.15.9 - Bob Dylan, "Blowin' In The Wind"
1469 L<Announced on 2012-03-20 by Abigail|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/03/msg184824.html>
1471 How many roads must a man walk down
1472 Before you call him a man?
1473 Yes, 'n' how many seas must a white dove sail
1474 Before she sleeps in the sand?
1475 Yes, 'n' how many times must the cannonballs fly
1476 Before they're forever banned?
1477 The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind
1478 The answer is blowin' in the wind
1480 How many years can a mountain exist
1481 Before it's washed to the sea?
1482 Yes, 'n' how many years can some people exist
1483 Before they're allowed to be free?
1484 Yes, 'n' how many times can a man turn his head
1485 Pretending he just doesn't see?
1486 The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind
1487 The answer is blowin' in the wind
1489 How many times must a man look up
1490 Before he can see the sky?
1491 Yes, 'n' how many ears must one man have
1492 Before he can hear people cry?
1493 Yes, 'n' how many deaths will it take till he knows
1494 That too many people have died?
1495 The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind
1496 The answer is blowin' in the wind
1498 =head2 v5.15.8 - The KLF, "The Manual-How To Have A Number One The Easy Way"
1500 L<Announced on 2012-02-20 by Max Maischein|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/02/msg183919.html>
1502 "Doctor Who, hey Doctor Who
1503 Doctor Who, in the Tardis
1504 Doctor Who, hey Doctor Who
1505 Doctor Who, Doc, Doctor Who
1506 Doctor Who, Doc, Doctor Who"
1508 Gibberish of course, but every lad in the country under a certain
1509 age related instinctively to what it was about. The ones slightly
1510 older needed a couple of pints inside them to clear away the mind
1511 debris left by the passing years before it made sense. As for
1512 girls and our chorus, we think they must have seen it as pure crap.
1513 A fact that must have limited to zero our chances of staying at The
1514 Top for more than one week.
1516 Stock, Aitkin and Waterman, however, are kings of writing chorus
1517 lyrics that go straight to the emotional heart of the 7" single
1518 buying girls in this country. Their most successful records will kick
1519 into the chorus with a line which encapsulates the entire emotional
1520 meaning of the song. This will obviously be used as the title. As
1521 soon as Rick Astley hit the first line of the chorus on his debut
1522 single it was all over - the Number One position was guaranteed:
1524 "I'm never going to give you up"
1526 =head2 v5.15.7 - Penelope Lively, "The Voyage of QV66"
1528 L<Announced on 2012-01-20 by Chris 'BinGOs' Williams|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/01/msg182230.html>
1530 "Laboratories," announced Henry. "Kindly don't touch anything."
1532 He led us into a long low brick shed. Outside there was a
1533 notice on a piece of board, crudely printed in red paint,
1534 which said GRATE SIENCE DISCOVERYS DONE HERE SSSH! BRING YOUR
1535 OWN BUKKIT NO PINCHING ANYWUN ELSE'S EXPERRYMENTS CANTEEN OPEN
1536 ALL DAY CHIMPS ONLY.
1538 There were a lot of large black monkeys inside, all intently
1539 busy on what they were doing. Some of them were pouring stuff
1540 out of bottles into buckets and carefully stirring the ensuing
1541 mixture; others were at work with glass tubes and jars, blowing
1542 and measuring and mixing; others were crouched over long benches
1543 with tools and heaps of bits and pieces of metal, cutting and
1544 bending and constructing. There was a great deal of noise and
1545 chatter. Every now and then one of them would give a whoop of
1546 excitement and all the others would gather round and jump up and
1547 down cheering and applauding.
1549 "Chimps," said Henry. "They're awfully clever."
1551 =head2 v5.15.6 - Ursula K. Leguin, "A Wizard of Earthsea"
1553 L<Announced on 2011-12-20 by Dave Rolsky|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/12/msg180962.html>
1555 Ged had thought that as the prentice of a great mage he would enter at once
1556 into the mystery and mastery of power. He would understand the language of the
1557 beasts and the speech of the leaves of the forest, he thought, and sway the
1558 winds with his word, and learn to change himself into any shape he
1559 wished. Maybe he and his master would run together as stags, or fly to Re Albi
1560 over the mountain on the wings of eagles.
1562 But it was not so at all. They wandered, first down into the Vale and then
1563 gradually south and westward around the mountain, given lodging in little
1564 villages or spending the night out in the wilderness, like poor
1565 journeyman-sorcerers, or tinkers, or beggars. They entered no mysterious
1566 domain. Nothing happened. The mage's oaken staff that Ged had watched at first
1567 with eager dread was nothing but a stout staff to walk with. Three days went
1568 by and four days went by and still Ogion had not spoken a single charm in
1569 Ged's hearing, and had not taught him a single name or rune or spell.
1571 =head2 v5.15.5 - Nikolai Gogol, trans. Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, "The Diary of a Madman"
1573 L<Announced on 2011-11-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/11/msg179588.html>
1575 This day - is a day of the greatest solemnity! Spain has a king. He has
1576 been found. I am that king. Only this very day did I learn of it. I
1577 confess, it came to me suddenly in a flash of lightning. I don't understand
1578 how I could have thought and imagined that I was a titular councillor. How
1579 could such a wild notion enter my head? It's a good thing no one thought of
1580 putting me in an insane asylum. Now everything is laid open before me. Now
1581 I see everything as on the palm of my hand. And before, I don't understand,
1582 before everything around me was in some sort of fog. And all this happens, I
1583 think, because people imagine that the human brain is in the head. Not at
1584 all: it is brought by a wind from the direction of the Caspian Sea. First
1585 off, I announced to Mavra who I am. When she heard that the king of Spain
1586 was standing before her, she clasped her hands and nearly died of fright.
1587 The stupid woman had never seen a king of Spain before. However, I
1588 endeavoured to calm her down and assured her in gracious words of my
1589 benevolence and that I was not at all angry that she sometimes polished my
1590 boots poorly. They're benighted folk. It's impossible to tell them about
1591 lofty matters. She got frightened because she's convinced that all kings of
1592 Spain are like Philip II. But I explained to her that there was no
1593 resemblance between me and Philip II, and that I didn't have a single
1594 Capuchin . . . I didn't go to the office . . . To hell with it! No friends,
1595 you won't lure me there now; I'm not going to copy your vile papers!
1597 =head2 v5.15.4 - Steve Jobs
1599 L<Announced on 2011-10-20 by Florian Ragwitz|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/10/msg178412.html>
1601 A lot of people in our industry haven't had very diverse experiences. So they
1602 don't have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions
1603 without a broad perspective on the problem. The broader one's understanding of
1604 the human experience, the better design we will have.
1606 =head2 v5.15.3 - Oscar Wilde, From the preface to "The Picture of Dorian Gray"
1608 L<Announced on 2011-09-20 by Stevan Little|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/09/msg177427.html>
1610 All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath
1611 the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol
1612 do so at their peril.
1614 It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.
1615 Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the
1616 work is new, complex, and vital. When critics disagree, the
1617 artist is in accord with himself.
1619 We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as
1620 he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless
1621 thing is that one admires it intensely.
1623 All art is quite useless.
1625 =head2 v5.15.2 - Rainer Maria Rilke, trans., C. F. MacIntyre, "Duino", The First Elegy
1627 L<Announced on 2011-08-20 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/08/msg176067.html>
1629 True, it is strange to live no more on earth,
1630 no longer follow the folkways scarecely learned;
1631 not to give roses and other especially auspicious
1632 things the significance of a human future;
1633 to be no more what one was in infinitely anxious hands,
1634 and to put aside even one's name, like a broken plaything.
1635 Strange, to wish wishes no longer. Strange, to see
1636 all that was related fluttering so loosely in space.
1637 And being dead is hard, full of catching-up,
1638 so that finally one feels a little eternity.–
1639 But the living all make the mistake of too sharp discrimination.
1640 Often angels (it's said) don't know if they move
1641 among the quick or the dead. The eternal current
1642 hurtles all ages along with it forever
1643 through both realms and drowns their voices in both.
1645 =head2 v5.15.1 - Greg Egan, "Permutation City"
1647 L<Announced on 2011-07-20 by Zefram|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/07/msg175014.html>
1649 Carter held out a hand towards the middle of the room. `See that
1650 fountain?' A ten-metre-wide marble wedding cake, topped with a
1651 winged cherub wrestling a serpent, duly appeared. Water cascaded
1652 down from a gushing wound in the cherub's neck. Carter said, `It's
1653 being computed by redundancies in the sketch of the city. I can
1654 extract the results, because I know exactly where to look for them --
1655 but nobody else would have a hope in hell of picking them out.'
1657 Peer walked up to the fountain. Even as he approached, he noticed
1658 that the spray was intangible; when he dipped his hand in the water
1659 around the base he felt nothing, and the motion he made with his
1660 fingers left the foaming surface unchanged. They were spying on
1661 the calculations, not interacting with them; the fountain was a
1664 Carter said, `In your case, of course, nobody will need to know
1665 the results. Except you -- and you'll know them because you'll
1668 =head2 v5.15.0 - Neil Gaiman, "The Graveyard Book"
1670 L<Announced on 2011-06-20 by David Golden|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/06/msg173748.html>
1672 If you dare nothing, then when the day is over, nothing is all you will have gained.
1674 =head2 v5.14.4 - Arthur C. Clarke, "The Nine Billion Names of God"
1676 L<Announced on 2013-03-11 by Dave Mitchell|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/03/msg199988.html>
1678 He began to sing, but gave it up after a while. This vast arena of
1679 mountains, gleaming like whitely hooded ghosts on every side, did not
1680 encourage such ebullience. Presently George glanced at his watch.
1682 'Should be there in an hour,' he called back over his shoulder to
1683 Chuck. Then he added, in an afterthought: 'Wonder if the computer's
1684 finished its run. It was due about now.'
1686 Chuck didn't reply, so George swung round in his saddle. He could just
1687 see Chuck's face, a white oval turned towards the sky.
1689 'Look,' whispered Chuck, and George lifted his eyes to heaven. (There
1690 is always a last time for everything.)
1692 Overhead, without any fuss, the stars were going out.
1694 =head2 v5.14.3 - William Shakespeare, "As You Like It"
1696 L<Announced on 2012-10-12 by Dominic Hargreaves|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/10/msg194057.html>
1698 The poor world is almost six thousand years old, and in all
1699 this time there was not any man died in his own person,
1700 videlicit, in a love-cause. Troilus had his brains dashed
1701 out with a Grecian club; yet he did what he could to die
1702 before, and he is one of the patterns of love. Leander, he
1703 would have lived many a fair year, though Hero had turned
1704 nun, if it had not been for a hot midsummer night; for, good
1705 youth, he went but forth to wash him in the Hellespont and
1706 being taken with the cramp was drowned and the foolish
1707 coroners of that age found it was 'Hero of Sestos.' But these
1708 are all lies: men have died from time to time and worms have
1709 eaten them, but not for love.
1711 =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 >>
1713 L<Announced on 2011-09-26 by Florian Ragwitz|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/09/msg177618.html>
1715 It's not so much that people don't value the programs after they have them--they
1716 do value them. But they're not the sort of thing that would ever catch on if
1717 they had to overcome the marketing barrier. (I don't yet know if perl will
1718 catch on at all--I'm worried enough about it that I specifically included an
1719 awk-to-perl translator just to help it catch on.) Maybe it's all just an
1720 inferiority complex. Or maybe I don't like to be mercenary.
1722 So I guess I'd say that the reason some software comes free is that the
1723 mechanism for selling it is missing, either from the work environment, or from
1724 the heart of the programmer.
1726 =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 >>
1728 L<Announced on 2011-06-16 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/06/msg173650.html>
1730 At this point I'm no longer working for a company that makes me sign
1731 my life away, but by now I'm in the habit. Besides, I still harbor
1732 the deep-down suspicion that nobody would pay money for what I write,
1733 since most of it just helps you do something better that you could
1734 already do some other way. How much money would you personally pay
1735 to upgrade from readnews to rn? How much money would you pay for
1736 the patch program? As for warp, it's a mere game. And anything you
1737 can do with perl you can eventually do with an amazing and totally
1738 unreadable conglomeration of awk, sed, sh and C.
1740 =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 >>
1742 L<Announced on 2011-05-14 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/05/msg172326.html>
1744 At the start of any project, I'm programming primarily to please
1745 myself. (The two chief virtues in a programmer are laziness and
1746 impatience.) After a while somebody looks over my shoulder and says,
1747 "That's neat. It'd be neater if it did such-and-so." So the thing
1748 gets neater. Pretty soon (a year or two) I have an rn, a warp, a patch,
1749 or a perl. One of these years I'll have a metaconfig.
1751 I then say to myself, "I don't want my life's work to die when this
1752 computer is scrapped, so I should let some other people use this. If I
1753 ask my company to sell this, it'll never see the light of day, and nobody
1754 would pay much for it anyway. If I sell it myself, I'll be in trouble with
1755 my company, to whom I signed my life away when I was hired. If I give it
1756 away, I can pretend it was worthless in the first place, so my company
1757 won't care. In any event, it's easier to ask forgiveness than permission."
1759 So a freely distributable program is born.
1761 =head2 v5.14.0-RC3 - American Airlines Gate Agent, last call
1763 L<Announced on 2011-05-11 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/05/msg172282.html>
1765 This is the last call for flight 1697 with service to Chicago and
1766 continuing service to San Francisco. All passengers should already be
1767 aboard. If you aren't aboard at this time, you will be denied boarding
1768 and your bags will be offloaded.
1770 =head2 v5.14.0-RC2 - Greg Grandin, "Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City"
1772 L<Announced on 2011-05-04 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/05/msg171879.html>
1774 Over the course of nearly two decades, Ford would spend tens of millions
1775 of dollars founding not one but, after the plantation was defastated
1776 by leaf blight, two American towns, complete with central squares,
1777 sidewalks, indoor plumbing, hospitals, manicured lawns, movie theaters,
1778 swimming pools, golf courses, and, of course, Model Ts and As rolling
1779 down their paved streets.
1781 Back in America, newspapers kept up their drumbeat celebration, only
1782 obliquely referencing reports that things were not progressing as the
1783 company had hoped. But there was one note of skepticism. In late 1928,
1784 the Washington Post ran an editorial that read in its entirety: "Ford will
1785 govern a rubber plantation in Brazil larger than North Carolina. This is
1786 the first time he has applied quantity production methods to trouble"
1788 =head2 v5.14.0-RC1 - Bill Bryson, "In a Sunburned Country"
1790 L<Announced on 2011-04-20 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/04/msg171253.html>
1792 But then Australia is such a difficult country to keep track of. On
1793 my first visit, some years ago, I passed the time on the long flight
1794 reading a history of Australian politics in the twentieth century,
1795 wherein I encountered the startling fact that in 1967 the prime minister,
1796 Harold Holt, was strolling along a beach in Victoria when he plunged into
1797 the surf and vanished. No trace of the poor man was ever seen again.
1798 This seemed doubly astounding to me—first that Australia could
1799 just I<lose> a prime minister (I mean, come on) and second that news of
1800 this had never reached me.
1802 =head2 v5.13.11 - Walt Whitman, L<"Leaves of Grass"|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leaves_of_Grass>
1804 L<Announced on 2011-03-20 by Florian Ragwitz|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/03/msg170206.html>
1806 When the full-grown poet came,
1807 Out spake pleased Nature (the round impassive globe, with all its
1808 shows of day and night,) saying, He is mine;
1809 But out spake too the Soul of man, proud, jealous and unreconciled,
1810 Nay he is mine alone;
1811 --Then the full-grown poet stood between the two, and took each
1813 And to-day and ever so stands, as blender, uniter, tightly
1815 Which he will never release until he reconciles the two,
1816 And wholly and joyously blends them.
1818 =head2 v5.13.10 - Egill Skalla-Grímsson, L<"Egils saga Skalla-Grímssonar"|http://www.heimskringla.no/wiki/Egils_saga_Skalla-Gr%C3%ADmssonar>
1820 L<Announced on 2011-02-20 by Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/02/msg169340.html>
1822 Skalat maðr rúnar rísta,
1823 nema ráða vel kunni.
1824 Þat verðr mörgum manni,
1825 es of myrkvan staf villisk.
1827 tíu launstafi ristna.
1828 Þat hefr lauka lindi
1829 langs ofrtrega fengit.
1831 =head2 v5.13.9 - John F Kennedy, L<Inaugural Address January 20, 1961|http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/John_F._Kennedy%27s_Inaugural_Address>
1833 L<Announced on 2011-01-20 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/01/msg168335.html>
1835 In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been
1836 granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I
1837 do not shrink from this responsibility -- I welcome it. I do not believe
1838 that any of us would exchange places with any other people or any other
1839 generation. The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this
1840 endeavor will light our country and all who serve it. And the glow from
1841 that fire can truly light the world.
1843 And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you;
1844 ask what you can do for your country.
1846 My fellow citizens of the world, ask not what America will do for you,
1847 but what together we can do for the freedom of man.
1849 Finally, whether you are citizens of America or citizens of the world,
1850 ask of us here the same high standards of strength and sacrifice which
1851 we ask of you. With a good conscience our only sure reward, with history
1852 the final judge of our deeds, let us go forth to lead the land we love,
1853 asking His blessing and His help, but knowing that here on earth God's
1854 work must truly be our own.
1856 =head2 v5.13.8 - Roger Williams, L<"The Fifth Gift"|http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2005/8/19/21304/8493>
1858 L<Announced on 2010-12-19 by Zefram|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/12/msg167271.html>
1860 The aliens called the box a "matter generator," but we'd be more inclined
1861 to call it a matter duplicator. By connecting switches and potentiometers
1862 between the copper posts it was possible to make the box mark off two
1863 cubic rectangular areas of volume. Make a certain contact, and these
1864 areas would be isolated within perfectly reflective fields. They could
1865 be expanded or contracted by altering resistances between other posts.
1866 As I worked out the user interface I built a little control panel for
1867 the device. It was actually a clever way for the aliens to do things;
1868 instead of trying to build controls we could use, they built us an
1869 interface we could attach to controls that made sense to us. It could
1872 Once you had made the contact that established the shielded volumes,
1873 if you made another certain contact the contents of the first volume
1874 were copied to the second. The machine copied metal, plastic, steel,
1875 and diamond with equal ease. Copies of copies of copies of copies were
1876 indistinguishable from the originals at any magnification, even using
1877 techniques like X-ray crystallography.
1879 =head2 v5.13.7 - Andy Wachowski and Lana Wachowski, "The Matrix"
1881 L<Announced on 2010-11-20 by Chris 'BinGOs' Williams|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/11/msg166162.html>
1883 [Neo sees a black cat walk by them, and then a similar black cat walk by them just like the first one]
1887 [Everyone freezes right in their tracks]
1889 Trinity: What did you just say?
1890 Neo: Nothing. Just had a little deja vu.
1891 Trinity: What did you see?
1892 Cypher: What happened?
1893 Neo: A black cat went past us, and then another that looked just
1895 Trinity: How much like it? Was it the same cat?
1896 Neo: It might have been. I'm not sure.
1897 Morpheus: Switch! Apoc!
1899 Trinity: A deja vu is usually a glitch in the Matrix. It happens when
1900 they change something.
1902 =head2 v5.13.6 - Haruki Murakami, "Kafka on the Shore"
1904 L<Announced on 2010-10-20 by Tatsuhiko Miyagawa|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/10/msg165183.html>
1906 The boy called Crow softly rests a hand on my shoulder, and with that
1909 "From now on -- no matter what -- you've got to be the world's toughest
1910 fifteen-year-old. That's the only way you're going to survive. And in order
1911 to do that, you've got to figure out what it means to be tough. You following
1914 I keep my eyes closed and don't reply. I just want to sink off into sleep
1915 like this, his hand on my shoulder. I hear the faint flutter of wings.
1917 "You're going to be the world's toughest fifteen-year-old," Crow whispers
1918 as I try to fall asleep. Like he was carving the words in a deep blue tattoo
1921 (Translated from Japanese by Philip Gabriel)
1923 =head2 v5.13.5 - Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, "The Room in the Dragon Volant"
1925 L<Announced on 2010-09-19 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/09/msg164238.html>
1927 Candle in hand I stepped in. I do not know whether the quality of
1928 air, long undisturbed, is peculiar; to me it has always seemed so, and
1929 the damp smell of the old masonry hung in this atmosphere. My candle
1930 faintly lighted the bare stone wall that enclosed the stair, the foot
1931 of which I could not see. Down I went, and a few turns brought me to
1932 the stone floor. Here was another door, of the simple, old, oak kind,
1933 deep sunk in the thickness of the wall. The large end of the key
1934 fitted this. The lock was stiff; I set the candle down upon the
1935 stair, and applied both hands; it turned with difficulty, and as it
1936 revolved, uttered a shriek that alarmed me for my secret.
1938 For some minutes I did not move. In a little time, however, I took
1939 courage, and opened the door. The night-air floating in puffed out
1940 the candle. There was a thicket of holly and underwood, as dense as a
1941 jungle, close about the door. I should have been in pitch-darkness,
1942 were it not that through the topmost leaves there twinkled, here and
1943 there, a glimmer of moonshine.
1945 Softly, lest any one should have opened his window at the sound of the
1946 rusty bolt, I struggled through this till I gained a view of the open
1947 grounds. Here I found that the brushwood spread a good way up the
1948 park, uniting with the wood that approached the little temple I have
1951 =head2 v5.13.4 - Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
1953 L<Announced on 2010-08-20 by Florian Ragwitz|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/08/msg163150.html>
1955 `How the creatures order one about, and make one repeat lessons!' thought Alice;
1956 `I might as well be at school at once.' However, she got up, and began to repeat
1957 it, but her head was so full of the Lobster Quadrille, that she hardly knew what
1958 she was saying, and the words came very queer indeed:--
1960 "'Tis the voice of the Lobster; I heard him declare,
1961 "You have baked me too brown, I must sugar my hair."
1962 As a duck with its eyelids, so he with his nose
1963 Trims his belt and his buttons, and turns out his toes.'
1966 `That's different from what I used to say when I was a child,' said the Gryphon.
1968 `Well, I never heard it before,' said the Mock Turtle; `but it sounds uncommon
1971 Alice said nothing; she had sat down with her face in her hands, wondering if
1972 anything would ever happen in a natural way again.
1974 `I should like to have it explained,' said the Mock Turtle.
1976 `She can't explain it,' said the Gryphon hastily. `Go on with the next verse.'
1978 `But about his toes?' the Mock Turtle persisted. `How could he turn them out
1979 with his nose, you know?'
1981 `It's the first position in dancing.' Alice said; but was dreadfully puzzled by
1982 the whole thing, and longed to change the subject.
1984 =head2 v5.13.3 - Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, "Good Omens"
1986 L<Announced on 2010-07-20 by David Golden|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/07/msg162230.html>
1988 Look at Crowley, doing 110 mph on the M40 heading towards
1989 Oxfordshire. Even the most resolutely casual observer would
1990 notice a number of strange things about him. The clenched teeth,
1991 for example, or the dull red glow coming from behind his
1992 sunglasses. And the car. The car was a definite hint.
1994 Crowley had started the journey in his Bentley, and he was
1995 dammned if he wasn't going to finish it in the Bentley as well.
1996 Not that even the kind of car buff who owns his own pair of
1997 motoring goggles would have been able to tell it was a vintage
1998 Bentley. Not any more. They wouldn't have been able to tell
1999 that it was a Bentley. They would only offer fifty-fifty that it
2000 had ever even been a car.
2002 There was no paint left on it, for a start. It might still have
2003 been black, where it wasn't a rusty, smudged reddish-brown, but
2004 this was a dull charcoal black. It traveled in its own ball of
2005 flame, like a space capsule making a particularly difficult
2008 There was a thin skin of crusted, melted rubber left around the
2009 metal wheel rims, but seeing that the wheel rims were still
2010 somhow riding an inch above the road surface this didn't seem to
2011 make an awful lot of difference to the suspension.
2013 It should have fallen apart miles back.
2015 =head2 v5.13.2 - Iain M Banks, "Use of Weapons"
2017 L<Announced on 2010-06-22 by Matt S Trout|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/06/msg161112.html>
2019 We deal in the moral equivalent of black holes, where the normal laws -
2020 the rules of right and wrong that people imagine apply everywhere else
2021 in the universe - break down; beyond those metaphysical event-horizons,
2022 there exist ... special circumstances.
2024 =head2 v5.13.1 - Miguel de Unamuno, "The Sepulchre of Don Quixote"
2026 L<Announced on 2010-05-20 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/05/msg160275.html>
2028 And if anyone shall come to you and say that he knows how to construct
2029 bridges and that perhaps a time will come when you will wish to avail
2030 yourself of his science in order to cross over a river, out with him! Out
2031 with the engineer! Rivers will be crossed by wading or swimming them, even
2032 if half the crusaders drown themselves. Let the engineer go off and build
2033 bridges somewhere else, where they are badly wanted. For those who go in
2034 quest of the sepulchre, faith is bridge enough.
2036 =head2 v5.13.0 - Jules Verne, "A Journey to the Centre of the Earth"
2038 L<Announced on 2010-04-20 by LE<0xe9>on Brocard|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/04/msg159275.html>
2040 The heat still remained at quite a supportable degree. With an
2041 involuntary shudder, I reflected on what the heat must have been
2042 when the volcano of Sneffels was pouring its smoke, flames, and
2043 streams of boiling lava -- all of which must have come up by the
2044 road we were now following. I could imagine the torrents of hot
2045 seething stone darting on, bubbling up with accompaniments of
2046 smoke, steam, and sulphurous stench!
2048 "Only to think of the consequences," I mused, "if the old
2049 volcano were once more to set to work."
2051 =head2 v5.12.5 - William Shakespeare, "Measure for Measure"
2053 L<Announced on 2012-11-10 by Dominic Hargreaves|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/11/msg195171.html>
2055 Music oft hath such a charm
2056 To make bad good, and good provoke to harm.
2058 =head2 v5.12.4 - William Schwenck Gilbert, "Trial By Jury"
2060 L<Announced on 2011-06-20 by Leon Brocard|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/06/msg173725.html>
2062 You cannot eat breakfast all day,
2063 Nor is it the act of a sinner,
2064 When breakfast is taken away,
2065 To turn his attention to dinner;
2066 And it's not in the range of belief,
2067 To look upon him as a glutton,
2068 Who, when he is tired of beef,
2069 Determines to tackle the mutton.
2070 Ah! But this I am willing to say,
2071 If it will appease her sorrow,
2072 I'll marry this lady today,
2073 And I'll marry the other tomorrow!
2075 =head2 v5.12.4-RC2 - James Russell Lowell, "Eleanor makes macaroons"
2077 L<Announced on 2011-06-15 by Leon Brocard|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/06/msg173609.html>
2079 Now for sugar, -- nay, our plan
2080 Tolerates no work of man.
2081 Hurry, then, ye golden bees;
2082 Fetch your clearest honey, please,
2083 Garnered on a Yorkshire moor,
2084 While the last larks sing and soar,
2085 From the heather-blossoms sweet
2086 Where sea-breeze and sunshine meet,
2087 And the Augusts mask as Junes, --
2088 Eleanor makes macaroons!
2090 =head2 v5.12.4-RC1 - Ogden Nash, "The Clean Plater"
2092 L<Announced on 2011-06-08 by Leon Brocard|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/06/msg173352.html>
2094 Pheasant is pleasant, of course,
2095 And terrapin, too, is tasty,
2096 Lobster I freely endorse,
2097 In pate or patty or pasty.
2098 But there's nothing the matter with butter,
2099 And nothing the matter with jam,
2100 And the warmest greetings I utter
2101 To the ham and the yam and the clam.
2104 And I think very fondly of food.
2105 Through I'm broody at times
2106 When bothered by rhymes,
2110 =head2 v5.12.3 - Howard W. Campbell, Jr., "Reflections on Not Participating in Current Events"
2112 L<Announced on 2011-01-21 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/01/msg168368.html>
2114 I saw a huge steam roller,
2115 It blotted out the sun.
2116 The people all lay down, lay down;
2117 They did not try to run.
2118 My love and I, we looked amazed
2119 Upon the gory mystery.
2120 'Lie down, lie down!' the people cried.
2121 'The great machine is history!'
2122 My love and I, we ran away,
2123 The engine did not find us.
2124 We ran up to a mountain top,
2125 Left history far behind us.
2126 Perhaps we should have stayed and died,
2127 But somehow we don't think so.
2128 We went to see where history'd been,
2129 And my, the dead did stink so.
2131 =head2 v5.12.2 - William Gibson, "Pattern Recognition"
2133 L<Announced on 2010-09-06 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/09/msg163852.html>
2135 CPUs. Cayce Pollard Units. That's what Damien calls the clothing
2136 she wears. CPUs are either black, white, or gray, and ideally
2137 seem to have come into this world without human intervention.
2139 What people take for relentless minimalism is a side effect
2140 of too much exposure to the reactor-cores of fashion. This
2141 has resulted in a remorseless paring-down of what she can and
2142 will wear. She is, literally, allergic to fashion. She can
2143 only tolerate things that could have been worn, to a general
2144 lack of comment, during any year between 1945 and 2000. She's a
2145 design-free zone, a one-woman school of and whose very austerity
2146 periodically threatens to spawn its own cult.
2148 =head2 v5.12.2-RC1 - William Gibson, "Pattern Recognition"
2150 L<Announced on 2010-08-31 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/08/msg163670.html>
2152 The front page opens, familiar as a friend's living room. A frame-grab
2153 from #48 serves as backdrop, dim and almost monochrome, no characters in
2154 view. This is one of the sequences that generate comparisons with
2155 Tarkovsky. She only knows Tarkovsky from stills, really, though she did
2156 once fall asleep during a screening of The Stalker, going under on an
2157 endless pan, the camera aimed straight down, in close-up, at a puddle on
2158 a ruined mosaic floor. But she is not one of those who think that much
2159 will be gained by analysis of the maker's imagined influences. The cult
2160 of the footage is rife with subcults, claiming every possible influence.
2161 Truffaut, Peckinpah -- The Peckinpah people, among the least likely, are
2162 still waiting for the guns to be drawn.
2164 =head2 v5.12.1 - Kurt Vonnegut, "Cat's Cradle"
2166 L<Announced on 2010-05-16 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/05/msg160109.html>
2168 "Now suppose," chortled Dr. Breed, enjoying himself, "that there were
2169 many possible ways in which water could crystallize, could freeze.
2170 Suppose that the sort of ice we skate upon and put into highballs --
2171 what we might call ice-one -- is only one of several types of ice.
2172 Suppose water always froze as ice-one on Earth because it had never
2173 had a seed to teach it how to form ice-two, ice-three, ice-four
2174 ...? And suppose," he rapped on his desk with his old hand again,
2175 "that there were one form, which we will call ice-nine -- a crystal as
2176 hard as this desk -- with a melting point of, let us say, one-hundred
2177 degrees Fahrenheit, or, better still, a melting point of one-hundred-
2178 and-thirty degrees."
2180 =head2 v5.12.1-RC2 - Kurt Vonnegut, "Cat's Cradle"
2182 L<Announced on 2010-05-13 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/05/msg160066.html>
2184 San Lorenzo was fifty miles long and twenty miles wide, I learned from
2185 the supplement to the New York Sunday Times. Its population was four
2186 hundred, fifty thousand souls, "...all fiercely dedicated to the ideals
2189 Its highest point, Mount McCabe, was eleven thousand feet above sea
2190 level. Its capital was Bolivar, "...a strikingly modern city built on a
2191 harbor capable of sheltering the entire United States Navy." The principal
2192 exports were sugar, coffee, bananas, indigo, and handcrafted novelties.
2194 =head2 v5.12.1-RC1 - Kurt Vonnegut, "Cat's Cradle"
2196 L<Announced on 2010-05-09 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/05/msg159971.html>
2198 Which brings me to the Bokononist concept of a wampeter. A wampeter is
2199 the pivot of a karass. No karass is without a wampeter, Bokonon tells us,
2200 just as no wheel is without a hub. Anything can be a wampeter: a tree,
2201 a rock, an animal, an idea, a book, a melody, the Holy Grail. Whatever
2202 it is, the members of its karass revolve about it in the majestic chaos
2203 of a spiral nebula. The orbits of the members of a karass about their
2204 common wampeter are spiritual orbits, naturally. It is souls and not
2205 bodies that revolve. As Bokonon invites us to sing:
2207 Around and around and around we spin,
2208 With feet of lead and wings of tin . . .
2210 =head2 v5.12.0 - Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
2212 L<Announced on 2010-04-12 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/04/msg158820.html>
2214 'Please would you tell me,' said Alice, a little timidly, for she was
2215 not quite sure whether it was good manners for her to speak first, 'why
2216 your cat grins like that?'
2218 'It's a Cheshire cat,' said the Duchess, 'and that's why. Pig!'
2220 She said the last word with such sudden violence that Alice quite
2221 jumped; but she saw in another moment that it was addressed to the baby,
2222 and not to her, so she took courage, and went on again:--
2224 'I didn't know that Cheshire cats always grinned; in fact, I didn't know
2225 that cats COULD grin.'
2227 'They all can,' said the Duchess; 'and most of 'em do.'
2229 =head2 v5.12.0-RC5 - Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
2231 L<Announced on 2010-04-09 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/04/msg158720.html>
2233 'Not QUITE right, I'm afraid,' said Alice, timidly; 'some of the words
2236 'It is wrong from beginning to end,' said the Caterpillar decidedly, and
2237 there was silence for some minutes.
2239 =head2 v5.12.0-RC4 - Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
2241 L<Announced on 2010-04-06 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/04/msg158567.html>
2243 'It was much pleasanter at home,' thought poor Alice, 'when one wasn't
2244 always growing larger and smaller, and being ordered about by mice and
2245 rabbits. I almost wish I hadn't gone down that rabbit-hole--and yet--and
2246 yet--it's rather curious, you know, this sort of life! I do wonder what
2247 can have happened to me! When I used to read fairy-tales, I fancied that
2248 kind of thing never happened, and now here I am in the middle of one!
2250 =head2 v5.12.0-RC3 - Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
2252 L<Announced on 2010-04-02 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/04/msg158346.html>
2254 At last the Mouse, who seemed to be a person of authority among them,
2255 called out, 'Sit down, all of you, and listen to me! I'LL soon make you
2256 dry enough!' They all sat down at once, in a large ring, with the Mouse
2257 in the middle. Alice kept her eyes anxiously fixed on it, for she felt
2258 sure she would catch a bad cold if she did not get dry very soon.
2260 'Ahem!' said the Mouse with an important air, 'are you all ready? This
2261 is the driest thing I know. Silence all round, if you please! "William
2262 the Conqueror, whose cause was favoured by the pope, was soon submitted
2263 to by the English, who wanted leaders, and had been of late much
2264 accustomed to usurpation and conquest. Edwin and Morcar, the earls of
2265 Mercia and Northumbria --"'
2267 =head2 v5.12.0-RC2 - no announcement
2269 Available on CPAN since 2010-04-01.
2271 =head2 v5.12.0-RC1 - Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
2273 L<Announced on 2010-03-29 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/03/msg158060.html>
2275 So she was considering in her own mind (as well as she could, for the
2276 hot day made her feel very sleepy and stupid), whether the pleasure of
2277 making a daisy-chain would be worth the trouble of getting up and
2278 picking the daisies, when suddenly a White Rabbit with pink eyes ran
2281 There was nothing so VERY remarkable in that; nor did Alice think it so
2282 VERY much out of the way to hear the Rabbit say to itself, 'Oh dear! Oh
2283 dear! I shall be late!' (when she thought it over afterwards, it
2284 occurred to her that she ought to have wondered at this, but at the time
2285 it all seemed quite natural); but when the Rabbit actually TOOK A WATCH
2286 OUT OF ITS WAISTCOAT-POCKET, and looked at it, and then hurried on,
2287 Alice started to her feet, for it flashed across her mind that she had
2288 never before seen a rabbit with either a waistcoat-pocket, or a watch to
2289 take out of it, and burning with curiosity, she ran across the field
2290 after it, and fortunately was just in time to see it pop down a large
2291 rabbit-hole under the hedge.
2293 In another moment down went Alice after it, never once considering how
2294 in the world she was to get out again.
2296 =head2 v5.12.0-RC0 - no epigraph
2298 L<Announced on 2020-03-21 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/03/msg157761.html>
2300 =head2 v5.11.5 - Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "Christabel"
2302 L<Announced on 2010-02-21 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/02/msg156957.html>
2304 A little child, a limber elf,
2305 Singing, dancing to itself,
2306 A fairy thing with red round cheeks,
2307 That always finds, and never seeks,
2308 Makes such a vision to the sight
2309 As fills a father's eyes with light;
2310 And pleasures flow in so thick and fast
2311 Upon his heart, that he at last
2312 Must needs express his love's excess
2313 With words of unmeant bitterness.
2314 Perhaps 'tis pretty to force together
2315 Thoughts so all unlike each other;
2316 To mutter and mock a broken charm,
2317 To dally with wrong that does no harm.
2318 Perhaps 'tis tender too and pretty
2319 At each wild word to feel within
2320 A sweet recoil of love and pity.
2321 And what, if in a world of sin
2322 (O sorrow and shame should this be true!)
2323 Such giddiness of heart and brain
2324 Comes seldom save from rage and pain,
2325 So talks as it's most used to do.
2327 =head2 v5.11.4 - Fyodor Dostoevsky, "Crime and Punishment"
2329 L<Announced on 2010-01-20 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/01/msg155848.html>
2331 And you don't suppose that I went into it headlong like a fool? I went
2332 into it like a wise man, and that was just my destruction. And you
2333 mustn't suppose that I didn't know, for instance, that if I began to
2334 question myself whether I had the right to gain power -- I certainly
2335 hadn't the right -- or that if I asked myself whether a human being is a
2336 louse it proved that it wasn't so for me, though it might be for a man
2337 who would go straight to his goal without asking questions.... If I
2338 worried myself all those days, wondering whether Napoleon would have
2339 done it or not, I felt clearly of course that I wasn't Napoleon.
2341 =head2 v5.11.3 - Mark Twain, "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer"
2343 L<Announced on 2009-12-20 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2009/12/msg154838.html>
2345 "Say -- I'm going in a swimming, I am. Don't you wish you could? But of
2346 course you'd druther work -- wouldn't you? Course you would!"
2348 Tom contemplated the boy a bit, and said: "What do you call work?"
2350 "Why ain't that work?"
2352 Tom resumed his whitewashing, and answered carelessly: "Well, maybe it
2353 is, and maybe it aint. All I know, is, it suits Tom Sawyer."
2355 "Oh come, now, you don't mean to let on that you like it?"
2357 The brush continued to move. "Like it? Well I don't see why I oughtn't
2358 to like it. Does a boy get a chance to whitewash a fence every day?"
2360 That put the thing in a new light. Ben stopped nibbling his apple. Tom
2361 swept his brush daintily back and forth -- stepped back to note the effect
2362 -- added a touch here and there-criticised the effect again -- Ben
2363 watching every move and getting more and more interested, more and more
2364 absorbed. Presently he said: "Say, Tom, let me whitewash a little."
2366 =head2 v5.11.2 - Michael Marshall Smith, "Only Forward"
2368 L<Announced on 2009-11-20 by Léon Brocard|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2009/11/msg153646.html>
2370 The streets were pretty quiet, which was nice. They're always quiet here
2371 at that time: you have to be wearing a black jacket to be out on the
2372 streets between seven and nine in the evening, and not many people in
2373 the area have black jackets. It's just one of those things. I currently
2374 live in Colour Neighbourhood, which is for people who are heavily into
2375 colour. All the streets and buildings are set for instant colourmatch:
2376 as you walk down the road they change hue to offset whatever you're
2377 wearing. When the streets are busy it's kind of intense, and anyone
2378 prone to epileptic seizures isn't allowed to live in the Neighbourhood,
2379 however much they're into colour.
2381 =head2 v5.11.1 - Joseph Heller, "Catch-22"
2383 L<Announced on 2009-10-20 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2009/10/msg152360.html>
2385 Milo had been caught red-handed in the act of plundering his countrymen,
2386 and, as a result, his stock had never been higher. He proved good as his
2387 word when a rawboned major from Minnesota curled his lip in rebellious
2388 disavowal and demanded his share of the syndicate Milo kept saying
2389 everybody owned. Milo met the challenge by writing the words "A Share"
2390 on the nearest scrap of paper and handing it away with a virtuous disdain
2391 that won the envy and admiration of almost everyone who knew him. His
2392 glory was at a peak, and Colonel Cathcart, who knew and admired his
2393 war record, was astonished by the deferential humility with which Milo
2394 presented himself at Group Headquarters and made his fantastic appeal
2395 for more hazardous assignment.
2397 =head2 v5.11.0 - Mikhail Bulgakov, "The Master and Margarita"
2399 L<Announced on 2009-10-02 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2009/10/msg151376.html>
2401 Whispers of an "evil power" were heard in lines at dairy shops, in
2402 streetcars, stores, arguments, kitchens, suburban and long-distance
2403 trains, at stations large and small, in dachas and on beaches. Needless
2404 to say, truly mature and cultured people did not tell these stories
2405 about an evil power's visit to the capital. In fact, they even made fun
2406 of them and tried to talk sense into those who told them. Nevertheless,
2407 facts are facts, as they say, and cannot simply be dismissed without
2408 explanation: somebody had visited the capital. The charred cinders of
2409 Griboyedov alone, and many other things besides, confirmed it. Cultured
2410 people shared the point of view of the investigating team: it was the
2411 work of a gang of hypnotists and ventriloquists magnificently skilled in
2414 =head2 v5.10.1 - Right Hon. James Hacker MP, "The Complete Yes Minister: The Diaries of a Cabinet Minister"
2416 L<Announced on 2009-08-23 by Dave Mitchell|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2009/08/msg150172.html>
2418 'Briefly, sir, I am the Permanent Under-Secretary of State, known as
2419 the Permanent Secretary. Woolley here is your Principal Private
2420 Secretary. I, too, have a Principal Private Secretary, and he is the
2421 Principal Private Secretary to the Permanent Secretary. Directly
2422 responsible to me are ten Deputy Secretaries, eighty-seven Under
2423 Secretaries and two hundred and nineteen Assistant Secretaries.
2424 Directly responsible to the Principal Private Secretaries are plain
2425 Private Secretaries. The Prime Minister will be appointing two
2426 Parliamentary Under-Secretaries and you will be appointing your own
2427 Parliamentary Private Secretary.'
2429 'Can they all type?' I joked.
2431 'None of us can type, Minister,' replied Sir Humphrey smoothly. 'Mrs
2432 McKay types - she is your Secretary.'
2434 I couldn't tell whether or not he was joking. 'What a pity,' I said.
2435 'We could have opened an agency.'
2437 Sir Humphrey and Bernard laughed. 'Very droll, sir,' said Sir
2438 Humphrey. 'Most amusing, sir,' said Bernard. Were they genuinely
2439 amused at my wit, or just being rather patronising? 'I suppose they
2440 all say that, do they?' I ventured.
2442 Sir Humphrey reassured me on that. 'Certainly not, Minister,' he
2443 replied. 'Not quite all.'
2445 =head2 v5.10.1-RC2 - no epigraph
2447 L<Announced on 2009-08-18 by Dave Mitchell|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2009/08/msg150015.html>
2449 =head2 v5.10.1-RC1 - no epigraph
2451 L<Announced on 2009-08-06 by Dave Mitchell|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2009/08/msg149498.html>
2453 =head2 v5.10.0 - Laurence Sterne, "Tristram Shandy"
2455 L<Announced on 2007-12-18 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2007/12/msg131636.html>
2457 He would often declare, in speaking his thoughts upon the subject, that
2458 he did not conceive how the greatest family in England could stand it
2459 out against an uninterrupted succession of six or seven short
2460 noses.--And for the contrary reason, he would generally add, That it
2461 must be one of the greatest problems in civil life, where the same
2462 number of long and jolly noses, following one another in a direct line,
2463 did not raise and hoist it up into the best vacancies in the kingdom.
2465 =head2 v5.10.0-RC2 - no epigraph
2467 L<Announced on 2007-11-25 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2007/11/msg130978.html>
2469 =head2 v5.10.0-RC1 - no epigraph
2471 L<Announced on 2007-11-17 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2007/11/msg130653.html>
2473 =head2 v5.9.5 - no announcement
2475 L<Pre-announced on 2007-07-07 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2007/07/msg126358.html>,
2476 available on CPAN with same date, but never actually announced.
2478 =head2 v5.9.4 - no epigraph
2480 L<Announced on 2006-08-15 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2006/08/msg115782.html>
2482 =head2 v5.9.3 - no epigraph
2484 L<Announced on 2006-01-28 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2006/01/msg109086.html>
2486 =head2 v5.9.2 - Thomas Pynchon, "V"
2488 L<Announced on 2005-04-01 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2005/04/msg99421.html>
2490 This word flip was weird. Every recording date of McClintic's he'd
2491 gotten into the habit of talking electricity with the audio men and
2492 technicians of the studio. McClintic once couldn't have cared less
2493 about electricity, but now it seemed if that was helping him reach a
2494 bigger audience, some digging, some who would never dig, but all
2495 paying and those royalties keeping the Triumph in gas and McClintic
2496 in J. Press suits, then McClintic ought to be grateful to
2497 electricity, ought maybe to learn a little more about it. So he'd
2498 picked up some here and there, and one day last summer he got around
2499 to talking stochastic music and digital computers with one
2500 technician. Out of the conversation had come Set/Reset, which was
2501 getting to be a signature for the group. He had found out from this
2502 sound man about a two-triode circuit called a flip-flop, which when
2503 it turned on could be one of two ways, depending on which tube was
2504 conducting and which was cut off: set or reset, flip or flop.
2506 "And that," the man said, "can be yes or no, or one or zero. And
2507 that is what you might call one of the basic units, or specialized
2508 `cells' in a big `electronic brain.' "
2510 "Crazy," said McClintic, having lost him back there someplace. But
2511 one thing that did occur to him was if a computer's brain could go
2512 flip or flop, why so could a musician's. As long as you were flop,
2513 everything was cool. But where did the trigger-pulse come from to
2516 =head2 v5.9.1 - Tom Stoppard, "Arcadia"
2518 L<Announced on 2004-03-16 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/03/msg89722.html>
2520 Aren't you supposed to have a pony?
2522 =head2 v5.9.0 - Doris Lessing, "Martha Quest"
2524 L<Announced on 2003-10-27 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/10/msg84147.html>
2526 What of October, that ambiguous month
2528 =head2 v5.8.9 - Right Hon. James Hacker MP, "The Complete Yes Minister: The Diaries of a Cabinet Minister"
2530 L<Announced on 2008-12-14 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2008/12/msg142571.html>
2532 Frank and I, unlike the civil servants, were still puzzled that such a
2533 proposal as the Europass could even be seriously under consideration by
2534 the FCO. We can both see clearly that it is wonderful ammunition for the
2535 anti-Europeans. I asked Humphrey if the Foreign Office doesn't realise
2536 how damaging this would be to the European ideal?
2538 'I'm sure they do, Minister, he said. That's why they support it.'
2540 This was even more puzzling, since I'd always been under the impression
2541 that the FO is pro-Europe. 'Is it or isn't it?' I asked Humphrey.
2543 'Yes and no,' he replied of course, 'if you'll pardon the
2544 expression. The Foreign Office is pro-Europe because it is really
2545 anti-Europe. In fact the Civil Service was united in its desire to make
2546 sure the Common Market didn't work. That's why we went into it.'
2548 This sounded like a riddle to me. I asked him to explain further. And
2549 basically his argument was as follows: Britain has had the same foreign
2550 policy objective for at least the last five hundred years - to create a
2551 disunited Europe. In that cause we have fought with the Dutch against
2552 the Spanish, with the Germans against the French, with the French and
2553 Italians against the Germans, and with the French against the Italians
2554 and Germans. [The Dutch rebellion against Phillip II of Spain, the
2555 Napoleonic Wars, the First World War, and the Second World War - Ed.]
2557 In other words, divide and rule. And the Foreign Office can see no
2558 reason to change when it has worked so well until now.
2560 I was aware of this, naturally, but I regarded it as ancient history.
2561 Humphrey thinks that it is, in fact, current policy. It was necessary
2562 for us to break up the EEC, he explained, so we had to get inside. We
2563 had previously tried to break it up from the outside, but that didn't
2564 work. [A reference to our futile and short-lived involvement in EFTA,
2565 the European Free Trade Association, founded in 1960 and which the UK
2566 left in 1972 - Ed.] Now that we're in, we are able to make a complete
2567 pig's breakfast out of it. We've now set the Germans against the French,
2568 the French against the Italians, the Italians against the Dutch... and
2569 the Foreign office is terribly happy. It's just like old time.
2571 I was staggered by all of this. I thought that the all of us who are
2572 publicly pro-European believed in the European ideal. I said this to Sir
2573 Humphrey, and he simply chuckled.
2575 So I asked him: if we don't believe in the European Ideal, why are we
2576 pushing to increase the membership?
2578 'Same reason,' came the reply. 'It's just like the United Nations. The
2579 more members it has, the more arguments you can stir up, and the more
2580 futile and impotent it becomes.'
2582 This all strikes me as the most appalling cynicism, and I said so.
2584 Sir Humphrey agreed completely. 'Yes Minister. We call it
2585 diplomacy. It's what made Britain great, you know.'
2587 =head2 v5.8.9-RC2 - Right Hon. James Hacker MP, "The Complete Yes Minister: The Diaries of a Cabinet Minister"
2589 L<Announced on 2008-12-06 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2008/12/msg142422.html>
2591 There was silence in the office. I didn't know what we were going to do
2592 about the four hundred new people supervising our economy drive or the
2593 four hundred new people for the Bureaucratic Watchdog Office, or
2594 anything! I simply sat and waited and hoped that my head would stop
2595 thumping and that some idea would be suggested by someone sometime soon.
2597 Sir Humphrey obliged. 'Minister... if we were to end the economy drive
2598 and close the Bureaucratic Watchdog Office we could issue an immediate
2599 press announcement that you had axed eight hundred jobs.' He had
2600 obviously thought this out carefully in advance, for at this moment he
2601 produced a slim folder from under his arm. 'If you'd like to approve
2604 I couldn't believe the impertinence of the suggestion. Axed eight
2605 hundred jobs? 'But no one was ever doing these jobs,' I pointed out
2606 incredulously. 'No one's been appointed yet.'
2608 'Even greater economy,' he replied instantly. 'We've saved eight hundred
2609 redundancy payments as well.'
2611 'But...' I attempted to explain '... that's just phony. It's dishonest,
2612 it's juggling with figures, it's pulling the wool over people's eyes.'
2614 'A government press release, in fact.' said Humphrey.
2616 =head2 v5.8.9-RC1 - Right Hon. James Hacker MP, "The Complete Yes Minister: The Diaries of a Cabinet Minister"
2618 L<Announced on 2008-11-10 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2008/11/msg141515.html>
2620 A jumbo jet touched down, with BURANDAN AIRWAYS written on the side. I
2621 was hugely impressed. British Airways are having to pawn their Concordes,
2622 and here is this little tiny African state with its own airline, jumbo
2625 I asked Bernard how many planes Burandan Airways had. 'None,' he said.
2627 I told him not to be silly and use his eyes. 'No Minister, it belongs to
2628 Freddie Laker,' he said. 'They chartered it last week and repainted it
2629 specially.' Apparently most of the Have-Nots (I mean, LDCs) do this - at
2630 the opening of the UN General Assembly the runways of Kennedy Airport are
2631 jam-packed with phoney flag-carriers. 'In fact,' said Bernard with a sly
2632 grin, 'there was one 747 that belonged to nine different African airlines
2633 in a month. They called it the mumbo-jumbo.'
2635 While we watched nothing much happening on the TV except the mumbo-jumbo
2636 taxiing around Prestwick and the Queen looking a bit chilly, Bernard gave
2637 me the next day's schedule and explained that I was booked on the night
2638 sleeper from King's Cross to Edinburgh because I had to vote in a
2639 three-line whip at the House tonight and would have to miss the last
2640 plane. Then the commentator, in that special hushed BBC voice used for any
2641 occasion with which Royalty is connected, announced reverentially that we
2642 were about to catch our first glimpse of President Selim.
2644 And out of the plane stepped Charlie. My old friend Charlie Umtali. We
2645 were at LSE together. Not Selim Mohammed at all, but Charlie.
2647 Bernard asked me if I were sure. Silly question. How could you forget a
2648 name like Charlie Umtali?
2650 I sent Bernard for Sir Humphrey, who was delighted to hear that we now
2651 know something about our official visitor.
2653 Bernard's official brief said nothing. Amazing! Amazing how little the FCO
2654 has been able to find out. Perhaps they were hoping it would all be on the
2655 car radio. All the brief says is that Colonel Selim Mohammed had converted
2656 to Islam some years ago, they didn't know his original name, and therefore
2657 knew little of his background.
2659 I was able to tell Humphrey and Bernard /all/ about his background.
2660 Charlie was a red-hot political economist, I informed them. Got the top
2661 first. Wiped the floor with everyone.
2663 Bernard seemed relieved. 'Well that's all right then.'
2667 'I think Bernard means,' said Sir Humphrey helpfully, 'that he'll know how
2668 to behave if he was at an English University. Even if it was the LSE.' I
2669 never know whether or not Humphrey is insulting me intentionally.
2671 Humphrey was concerned about Charlie's political colour. 'When you said
2672 that he was red-hot, were you speaking politically?'
2674 In a way I was. 'The thing about Charlie is that you never quite know
2675 where you are with him. He's the sort of chap who follows you into a
2676 revolving door and comes out in front.'
2678 'No deeply held convictions?' asked Sir Humphrey.
2680 'No. The only thing Charlie was committed too was Charlie.'
2682 'Ah, I see. A politician, Minister.'
2684 =head2 v5.8.8 - Joe Raposo, "Bein' Green"
2686 L<Announced on 2006-01-31 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2006/01/msg109190.html>
2688 It's not that easy bein' green
2689 Having to spend each day the color of the leaves
2690 When I think it could be nicer being red or yellow or gold
2691 Or something much more colorful like that
2693 It's not easy bein' green
2694 It seems you blend in with so many other ordinary things
2695 And people tend to pass you over 'cause you're
2696 Not standing out like flashy sparkles in the water
2699 But green's the color of Spring
2700 And green can be cool and friendly-like
2701 And green can be big like an ocean
2702 Or important like a mountain
2705 When green is all there is to be
2706 It could make you wonder why, but why wonder why?
2707 Wonder I am green and it'll do fine, it's beautiful
2708 And I think it's what I want to be
2710 =head2 v5.8.8-RC1 - Cosgrove Hall Productions, "Dangermouse"
2712 L<Announced on 2006-01-20 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2006/01/msg108833.html>
2714 Greenback: And the world is mine, all mine. Muhahahahaha. See to it!
2716 Stiletto: Si, Barone. Subito, Barone.
2718 =head2 v5.8.7 - Sergei Prokofiev, "Peter and the Wolf"
2720 L<Announced on 2005-05-31 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2005/05/msg101088.html>
2722 And now, imagine the triumphant procession: Peter at the head; after him the
2723 hunters leading the wolf; and winding up the procession, grandfather and the
2726 Grandfather shook his head discontentedly: "Well, and if Peter hadn't caught
2727 the wolf? What then?"
2729 =head2 v5.8.7-RC1 - Sergei Prokofiev, "Peter and the Wolf"
2731 L<Announced on 2005-05-20 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2005/05/msg100711.html>
2733 And now this is how things stood: The cat was sitting on one branch. The
2734 bird on another, not too close to the cat. And the wolf walked round and
2735 round the tree, looking at them with greedy eyes.
2737 In the meantime, Peter, without the slightest fear, stood behind the
2738 gate, watching all that was going on. He ran home,got a strong rope and
2739 climbed up the high stone wall.
2741 One of the branches of the tree, around which the wolf was walking,
2742 stretched out over the wall.
2744 Grabbing hold of the branch, Peter lightly climbed over on to the tree.
2745 Peter said to the bird: "Fly down and circle round the wolf's head, only
2746 take care that he doesn't catch you!".
2748 The bird almost touched the wolf's head with its wings, while the wolf
2749 snapped angrily at him from this side and that.
2751 How that bird teased the wolf, how that wolf wanted to catch him! But
2752 the bird was clever and the wolf simply couldn't do anything about it.
2754 =head2 v5.8.6 - A. A. Milne, "The House at Pooh Corner"
2756 L<Announced on 2004-11-27 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/11/msg96304.html>
2758 "Hallo, Pooh," said Piglet, giving a jump of surprise. "I knew it was
2761 "So did I,", said Pooh. "What are you doing?"
2763 "I'm planting a haycorn, Pooh, so that it can grow up into an oak-tree,
2764 and have lots of haycorns just outside the front door instead of having
2765 to walk miles and miles, do you see, Pooh?"
2767 "Supposing it doesn't?" said Pooh.
2769 "It will, because Christopher Robin says it will, so that's why I'm
2772 "Well," aid Pooh, "if I plant a honeycomb outside my house, then it will
2773 grow up into a beehive."
2775 Piglet wasn't quite sure about this.
2777 "Or a /piece/ of a honeycomb," said Pooh, "so as not to waste too much.
2778 Only then I might only get a piece of a beehive, and it might be the
2779 wrong piece, where the bees were buzzing and not hunnying. Bother"
2781 Piglet agreed that that would be rather bothering.
2783 "Besides, Pooh, it's a very difficult thing, planting unless you know
2784 how to do it," he said; and he put the acorn in the hole he had made,
2785 and covered it up with earth, and jumped on it.
2787 =head2 v5.8.6-RC1 - A. A. Milne, "Winnie the Pooh"
2789 L<Announced on 2004-11-11 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/11/msg95786.html>
2791 "Hallo!" said Piglet, "whare are /you/ doing?"
2793 "Hunting," said Pooh.
2797 "Tracking something," said Winnie-the-Pooh very mysteriously.
2799 "Tracking what?" said Piglet, coming closer.
2801 "That's just what I ask myself, I ask myself, What?"
2803 "What do you think you'll answer?"
2805 "I shall have to wait until I catch up with it," said Winnie-the-Pooh.
2806 "Now, look there." He pointed to the ground in front of him. "What do
2809 "Track," said Piglet. "Paw-marks." He gave a little squeak of
2810 excitement. "Oh, Pooh!" Do you think it's a--a--a Woozle?"
2812 =head2 v5.8.5 - wikipedia, "Yew"
2814 L<Announced on 2004-07-19 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/07/msg93189.html>
2816 Yews are relatively slow growing trees, widely used in landscaping and
2817 ornamental horticulture. They have flat, dark-green needles, reddish
2818 bark, and bear seeds with red arils, which are eaten by thrushes,
2819 waxwings and other birds, dispersing the hard seeds undamaged in their
2820 droppings. Yew wood is reddish brown (with white sapwood), and very
2821 hard. It was traditionally used to make bows, especially the English
2824 In England, the Common Yew (Taxus baccata, also known as English Yew) is
2825 often found in churchyards. It is sometimes suggested that these are
2826 placed there as a symbol of long life or trees of death, and some are
2827 likely to be over 3,000 years old. It is also suggested that yew trees
2828 may have a pre-Christian association with old pagan holy sites, and the
2829 Christian church found it expedient to use and take over existing sites.
2830 Another explanation is that the poisonous berries and foliage discourage
2831 farmers and drovers from letting their animals wander into the burial
2832 grounds. The yew tree is a frequent symbol in the Christian poetry of
2833 T.S. Eliot, especially his Four Quartets.
2835 =head2 v5.8.5-RC2 - wikipedia, "Beech"
2837 L<Announced on 2004-07-09 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/07/msg92934.html>
2839 Beeches are trees of the Genus Fagus, family Fagaceae, including about
2840 ten species in Europe, Asia, and North America. The leaves are entire or
2841 sparsely toothed. The fruit is a small, sharply-angled nut, borne in
2842 pairs in spiny husks. The beech most commonly grown as an ornamental or
2843 shade tree is the European beech (Fagus sylvatica).
2845 The southern beeches belong to a different but related genus,
2846 Nothofagus. They are found in Australia, New Zealand, New Guinea, New
2847 Caledonia and South America.
2849 =head2 v5.8.5-RC1 - wikipedia, "Pedunculate Oak" (abridged)
2851 L<Announced on 2004-07-07 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/07/msg92840.html>
2853 The Pedunculate Oak is called the Common Oak in Britain, and is also
2854 often called the English Oak in other English speaking countries It is a
2855 large deciduous tree to 25-35m tall (exceptionally to 40m), with lobed
2856 and sessile (stalk-less) leaves. Flowering takes place in early to mid
2857 spring, and their fruit, called "acorns", ripen by autumn of the same
2858 year. The acorns are pedunculate (having a peduncle or acorn-stalk) and
2859 may occur singly, or several acorns may occur on a stalk.
2861 It forms a long-lived tree, with a large widespreading head of rugged
2862 branches. While it may naturally live to an age of a few centuries, many
2863 of the oldest trees are pollarded or coppiced, both pruning techniques
2864 that extend the tree's potential lifespan, if not its health.
2866 Within its native range it is valued for its importance to insects and
2867 other wildlife. Numerous insects live on the leaves, buds, and in the
2868 acorns. The acorns form a valuable food resource for several small
2869 mammals and some birds, notably Jays Garrulus glandarius.
2871 It is planted for forestry, and produces a long-lasting and durable
2872 heartwood, much in demand for interior and furniture work.
2874 =head2 v5.8.4 - T. S. Eliot, "The Old Gumbie Cat"
2876 L<Announced on 2004-04-22 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/04/msg90984.html>
2878 I have a Gumbie Cat in mind, her name is Jennyanydots;
2879 The curtain-cord she likes to wind, and tie it into sailor-knots.
2880 She sits upon the window-sill, or anything that's smooth and flat:
2881 She sits and sits and sits and sits -- and that's what makes a Gumbie Cat!
2883 But when the day's hustle and bustle is done,
2884 Then the Gumbie Cat's work is but hardly begun.
2885 She thinks that the cockroaches just need employment
2886 To prevent them from idle and wanton destroyment.
2887 So she's formed, from that a lot of disorderly louts,
2888 A troop of well-disciplined helpful boy-scouts,
2889 With a purpose in life and a good deed to do--
2890 And she's even created a Beetles' Tattoo.
2892 So for Old Gumbie Cats let us now give three cheers --
2893 On whom well-ordered households depend, it appears.
2896 =head2 v5.8.4-RC2 - T. S. Eliot, "Macavity: The Mystery Cat"
2898 L<Announced on 2004-04-16 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/04/msg90796.html>
2900 Macavity's a Mystery Cat: he's called the Hidden Paw --
2901 For he's the master criminal who can defy the Law.
2902 He's the bafflement of Scotland Yard, the Flying Squad's despair:
2903 For when they reach the scene of crime -- /Macavity's not there/!
2905 Macavity, Macavity, there's no one like Macavity,
2906 He's broken every human law, he breaks the law of gravity.
2907 His powers of levitation would make a fakir stare,
2908 And when you reach the scene of crime -- /Macavity's not there/!
2909 You may seek him in the basement, you may look up in the air --
2910 But I tell you once and once again, /Macavity's not there/!
2912 =head2 v5.8.4-RC1 - T. S. Eliot, "Skimbleshanks: The Railway Cat"
2914 L<Announced on 2004-04-05 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/04/msg90422.html>
2916 There's a whisper down the line at 11.39
2917 When the Night Mail's ready to depart,
2918 Saying 'Skimble where is Skimble has he gone to hunt the thimble?
2919 We must find him of the train can't start.'
2920 All the guards and all the porters and the stationmaster's daughters
2921 They are searching high and low,
2922 Saying 'Skimble where is Skimble for unless he's very nimble
2923 Then the Night Mail just can't go'
2924 At 11.42 then the signal's overdue
2925 And the passengers are frantic to a man--
2926 Then Skimble will appear and he'll saunter to the rear:
2927 He's been busy in the luggage van!
2928 He gives one flash of his glass-green eyes
2929 And the signal goes 'All Clear!'
2930 And we're off at last of the northern part
2931 Of the Northern Hemisphere!
2933 =head2 v5.8.3 - Arthur William Edgar O'Shaugnessy, "Ode"
2935 L<Announced on 2004-01-14 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/01/msg87317.html>
2937 We are the music makers,
2938 And we are the dreamers of dreams,
2939 Wandering by lonely sea-breakers,
2940 And sitting by desolate streams; --
2941 World-losers and world-forsakers,
2942 On whom the pale moon gleams:
2943 Yet we are the movers and shakers
2944 Of the world for ever, it seems.
2946 =head2 v5.8.3-RC1 - Irving Berlin, "Let's Face the Music and Dance"
2948 L<Announced on 2004-01-07 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/01/msg86969.html>
2950 There may be trouble ahead,
2951 But while there's music and moonlight,
2952 And love and romance,
2953 Let's face the music and dance.
2955 Before the fiddlers have fled,
2956 Before they ask us to pay the bill,
2957 And while we still have that chance,
2958 Let's face the music and dance.
2960 Soon, we'll be without the moon,
2961 Humming a different tune, and then,
2963 There may be teardrops to shed,
2964 So while there's music and moonlight,
2965 And love and romance,
2966 Let's face the music and dance.
2968 =head2 v5.8.2 - Walt Whitman, "Passage to India"
2970 L<Announced on 2003-11-05 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/11/msg84822.html>
2972 Passage, immediate passage! the blood burns in my veins!
2973 Away O soul! hoist instantly the anchor!
2974 Cut the hawsers - hall out - shake out every sail!
2975 Have we not stood here like trees in the ground long enough?
2976 Have we not grovel'd here long enough, eating and drinking like mere brutes?
2977 Have we not darken'd and dazed ourselves with books long enough?
2979 Sail forth - steer for the deep waters only,
2980 Reckless O soul, exploring, I with the and thou with me,
2981 For we are bound where mariner has not yet dared to go,
2982 And we will risk the ship, ourselves and all.
2985 O farther farther sail!
2986 O daring job, but safe! are they not all the seas of God?
2987 O farther, farther, farther sail!
2989 =head2 v5.8.2-RC2 - Eric Idle and John Du Prez, "Accountancy Shanty"
2991 L<Announced on 2003-11-03 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/11/msg84645.html>
2993 It's fun to charter an accountant
2994 And sail the wide accountan-cy,
2995 To find, explore the funds offshore
2996 And skirt the shoals of bankruptcy.
2998 =head2 v5.8.2-RC1 - Edward Lear, "The Jumblies"
3000 L<Announced on 2003-10-27 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/10/msg84194.html>
3002 They went to sea in a Sieve, they did,
3003 In a Sieve they went to sea:
3004 In spite of all their friends could say,
3005 On a winter's morn, on a stormy day,
3006 In a Sieve they went to sea!
3007 And when the Sieve turned round and round,
3008 And everyone cried, "You'll all be drowned!"
3009 They cried aloud, "Our Sieve ain't big,
3010 But we don't care a button, we don't care a fig!
3011 In a Sieve we'll go to sea!"
3013 Far and few, far and few,
3014 Are the lands where the Jumblies live;
3015 Their heads are green, and their hands are blue,
3016 And they went to sea in a Sieve.
3018 =head2 v5.8.1 - epigraph same as v5.7.1
3020 L<Announced on 2003-09-25 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/09/msg82678.html>
3022 =head2 v5.8.1-RC5 - Terry Pratchett, "Lords and Ladies"
3024 L<Announced on 2003-09-22 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/09/msg82476.html>
3026 No matter what she did with her hair it took about
3027 three minutes for it to tangle itself up again,
3028 like a garden hosepipe in a shed [Footnote: Which,
3029 no matter how carefully coiled, will always uncoil
3030 overnight and tie the lawnmower to the bicycles].
3032 =head2 v5.8.1-RC4 - Terry Pratchett, "Interesting Times"
3034 L<Announced on 2003-08-01 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/08/msg79184.html>
3036 Grand Viziers were /always/ scheming megalomaniacs.
3037 It was probably in the job description: "Are you a
3038 devious, plotting, unreliable madman? Ah, good,
3039 then you can be my most trusted minister."
3041 =head2 v5.8.1-RC3 - Terry Pratchett, "Interesting Times"
3043 L<Announced on 2003-07-30 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/07/msg79048.html>
3045 Lord Hong had a mind like a knife, although possibly
3046 a knife with a curved blade.
3048 =head2 v5.8.1-RC2 - Terry Pratchett, "Interesting Times"
3050 L<Announced on 2003-07-11 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/07/msg78102.html>
3052 Many an ancient lord's last words had been, "You can't kill
3053 me because I've got magic aaargh."
3055 =head2 v5.8.1-RC1 - Terry Pratchett, "Interesting Times"
3057 L<Announced on 2003-07-10 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/07/msg78009.html>
3059 Cohen was familiar with city gates. He'd broken down a number
3060 in his time, by battering ram, siege gun, and on one occasion
3063 But the gates of Hunghung were pretty damn good gates. They
3064 weren't like the gates of Ankh-Morpork, which were usually wide
3065 open to attract the spending customer and whose concession to
3066 defense was the sign "Thank You For Not Attacking Our City.
3067 Bonum Diem." These things were big and made of metal and there
3068 was a guardhouse and a squad of unhelpful men in black armor.
3070 =head2 v5.8.0 - Terry Pratchett, "Reaper Man"
3072 L<Announced on 2002-07-18 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2002/07/msg63720.html>
3074 There was the faint sound of footsteps.
3075 "Chap with a whip got as far as the big sharp spikes last week,"
3076 said the low priest.
3077 There was a sound like the flushing of a very old dry lavatory.
3078 The footsteps stopped. The High Priest smiled to himself.
3079 "Right," he said. "See your two pebbles and raise you two pebbles."
3080 The low priest threw down his cards. "Double Onion," he said.
3081 The High Priest looked down suspiciously.
3082 The low priest consulted a scrap of paper. "That's three hundred
3083 thousand, nine hundred and sixty-four pebbles you owe me," he said.
3084 There was the sound of footsteps. The priests exchanged glances.
3085 "Haven't had one for poisoned-dart alley for quite some time,"
3086 said the High Priest.
3087 "Five says he makes it", said the low priest. "You're on."
3088 There was a faint clatter of metal points on stone.
3089 "It's a shame to take your pebbles."
3090 There were footsteps again.
3092 =head2 v5.8.0-RC3 - no epigraph
3094 L<Announced on 2002-07-13 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2002/07/msg63234.html>
3096 =head2 v5.8.0-RC2 - no epigraph
3098 L<Announced on 2002-06-21 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2002/06/msg62013.html>
3100 =head2 v5.8.0-RC1 - no epigraph
3102 L<Announced on 2002-06-01 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2002/06/msg60317.html>
3104 =head2 v5.7.3 - Terry Pratchett, "Reaper Man"
3106 L<Announced on 2002-03-04 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2002/03/msg53652.html>
3108 Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong.
3109 No matter how fast light travels it finds the darkness has always
3110 got there first, and is waiting for it.
3112 =head2 v5.7.2 - Terry Pratchett, "Small Gods"
3114 L<Announced on 2001-07-13 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2001/07/msg40370.html>
3116 His philosophy was a mixture of three famous schools --
3117 the Cynics, the Stoics and the Epicureans -- and summed up
3118 all three of them in his famous phrase, "You can't trust any
3119 bugger further than you can throw him, and there's nothing
3120 you can do about it, so let's have a drink."
3122 =head2 v5.7.1 - Terry Pratchett, "The Colour of Magic"
3124 L<Announced on 2001-04-09 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2001/04/msg33851.html>
3126 "What happens next?" asked Twoflower.
3128 Hrun screwed a finger in his ear and inspected it absently.
3130 "Oh,", he said, "I expect in a minute the door will be
3131 flung back and I'll be dragged off to some sort of temple
3132 arena where I'll fight maybe a couple of giant spiders
3133 and an eight-foot slave from the jungles of Klatch and then
3134 I'll rescue some kind of a princess from the altar and then
3135 I'll kill off a few guards or whatever and then this girl
3136 will show me the secret passage out of the place and we'll
3137 liberate a couple of horses and escape with the treasure."
3138 Hrun leaned his head back on his hands and looked at the
3139 ceiling, whistling tunelessly.
3141 "All that?" said Twoflower.
3145 =head2 v5.7.0 - Terry Pratchett, "Moving Pictures"
3147 L<Announced on 2000-09-02 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2000/09/msg17730.html>
3149 The Librarian had seen many weird things in his time,
3150 but that had to be the 57th strangest.
3151 [footnote: he had a tidy mind]
3153 =head2 v5.6.2 - Laurence Sterne, "Tristram Shandy"
3155 L<Announced on 2003-11-15 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/11/msg85222.html>
3157 When great or unexpected events fall out upon the stage of this
3158 sublunary word--the mind of man, which is an inquisitive kind of
3159 a substance, naturally takes a flight, behind the scenes, to see
3160 what is the cause and first spring of them--The search was not
3161 long in this instance.
3163 =head2 v5.6.2-RC1 - Laurence Sterne, "Tristram Shandy"
3165 L<Announced on 2003-11-08 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/11/msg84953.html>
3167 "Pray, my dear", quoth my mother, "have you not forgot to wind up the clock?"
3169 =head2 v5.6.1 - J R R Tolkien, "The Hobbit", Riddles in the Dark
3171 L<Announced on 2001-04-08 by Gurusamy Sarathy|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2001/04/msg33823.html>
3173 `What have I got in my pocket?' he said aloud. He was talking to
3174 himself, but Gollum thought it was a riddle, and he was frightfully
3177 `Not fair! not fair!' he hissed. `It isn't fair, my precious, is it,
3178 to ask us what it's got in its nassty little pocketses?'
3180 Bilbo seeing what had happened and having nothing better to ask
3181 stuck to his question, `What have I got in my pocket?' he said
3184 `S-s-s-s-s,' hissed Gollum. `It must give us three guesseses,
3185 my precious, three guesseses.'
3187 =head2 v5.6.1-foolish - no epigraph
3189 L<Announced on 2001-04-01 by Gurusamy Sarathy|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2001/04/msg33421.html>
3191 =head2 v5.6.1-TRIAL3 - I can't find the announcement
3193 No announcement available.
3195 =head2 v5.6.1-TRIAL2 - no epigraph
3197 L<Announced on 2001-01-31 by Gurusamy Sarathy|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2001/01/msg29934.html>
3199 =head2 v5.6.1-TRIAL1 - no epigraph
3201 L<Announced on 2000-12-18 by Gurusamy Sarathy|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2000/12/msg27738.html>
3203 =head2 v5.6.0 - J R R Tolkien, "The Hobbit", The Last Stage
3205 L<Announced on 2000-03-23 by Gurusamy Sarathy|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2000/03/msg10341.html>
3207 The dragon is withered,
3208 His bones are now crumbled;
3209 His armour is shivered,
3210 His splendour is humbled!
3211 Though sword shall be rusted,
3212 And throne and crown perish
3213 With strength that men trusted
3214 And wealth that they cherish,
3215 Here grass is still growing,
3216 And leaves are a yet swinging,
3217 The white water flowing,
3218 And elves are yet singing
3219 Come! Tra-la-la-lally!
3220 Come back to the valley.
3222 =head2 v5.6.0-RC3 - no epigraph
3224 L<Announced on 2000-03-22 by Gurusamy Sarathy|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2000/03/msg10140.html>
3226 =head2 v5.005_05-RC1 - no epigraph
3228 L<Announced on 2009-02-16 by LE<0xe9>on Brocard|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2009/02/msg144227.html>
3230 =head2 v5.005_04 - no epigraph
3232 L<Announced on 2004-03-01 by LE<0xe9>on Brocard|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/03/msg89047.html>
3234 =head2 v5.005_04-RC2 - Rudyard Kipling, "The Jungle Book"
3236 L<Announced on 2004-02-19 by LE<0xe9>on Brocard|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/02/msg88672.html>
3238 The monkeys called the place their city, and pretended to despise
3239 the Jungle-People because they lived in the forest. And yet they
3240 never knew what the buildings were made for nor how to use
3241 them. They would sit in circles on the hall of the king's council
3242 chamber, and scratch for fleas and pretend to be men; or they would
3243 run in and out of the roofless houses and collect pieces of plaster
3244 and old bricks in a corner, and forget where they had hidden them,
3245 and fight and cry in scuffling crowds, and then break off to play up
3246 and down the terraces of the king's garden, where they would shake
3247 the rose trees and the oranges in sport to see the fruit and flowers
3250 =head2 v5.005_04-RC1 - Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
3252 L<Announced on 2004-02-05 by LE<0xe9>on Brocard|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/02/msg88312.html>
3254 Either the well was very deep, or she fell very slowly, for she had
3255 plenty of time as she went down to look about her and to wonder what was
3256 going to happen next. First, she tried to look down and make out what
3257 she was coming to, but it was too dark to see anything; then she looked
3258 at the sides of the well, and noticed that they were filled with
3259 cupboards and book-shelves; here and there she saw maps and pictures
3260 hung upon pegs. She took down a jar from one of the shelves as she
3261 passed; it was labelled 'ORANGE MARMALADE', but to her great
3262 disappointment it was empty: she did not like to drop the jar for fear
3263 of killing somebody, so managed to put it into one of the cupboards as
3266 =head2 v1.0_16 - Johan Vromans, extemporarily
3268 L<Announced on 2003-12-18 by Richard Clamp|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/12/msg86423.html>
3270 't was 16 years ago today
3271 Larry taught us a new game
3272 of lazyness, impatience, and hubris
3273 Happy birthday, Perl!
3275 =head1 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
3277 This document was originally compiled based on a list of epigraphs
3278 on L<Perl Monks|http://perlmonks.org> titled
3279 L<Recent Perl Release Announcement|http://perlmonks.org/?node_id=372406>