+=encoding utf8
+
=head1 NAME
perlepigraphs - list of Perl release epigraphs
=head1 DESCRIPTION
Many Perl release announcements included an I<epigraph>, a short excerpt
-from a literary or other creative work, chosen by the pumpking or
-release manager. This file assembles the known list of epigraph for
-posterity.
+from a literary or other creative work, chosen by the pumpking or release
+manager. This file assembles the known list of epigraph for posterity,
+and also links to the release announcements in mailing list archives.
I<Note>: these have also been referred to as <epigrams>, but the
definition of I<epigraph> is closer to the way they have been used.
=head1 EPIGRAPHS
+=head2 v5.15.6 - Ursula K. Leguin, A Wizard of Earthsea
+
+Announced on 2011-12-20 by Dave Rolsky
+
+Ged had thought that as the prentice of a great mage he would enter at once
+into the mystery and mastery of power. He would understand the language of the
+beasts and the speech of the leaves of the forest, he thought, and sway the
+winds with his word, and learn to change himself into any shape he
+wished. Maybe he and his master would run together as stags, or fly to Re Albi
+over the mountain on the wings of eagles.
+
+But it was not so at all. They wandered, first down into the Vale and then
+gradually south and westward around the mountain, given lodging in little
+villages or spending the night out in the wilderness, like poor
+journeyman-sorcerers, or tinkers, or beggars. They entered no mysterious
+domain. Nothing happened. The mage's oaken staff that Ged had watched at first
+with eager dread was nothing but a stout staff to walk with. Three days went
+by and four days went by and still Ogion had not spoken a single charm in
+Ged's hearing, and had not taught him a single name or rune or spell.
+
+=head2 v5.15.5 - Nikolai Gogol, The Diary of a Madman
+
+L<Announced on 2011-11-20 by Steve
+Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/11/msg179588.html>
+
+This day - is a day of the greatest solemnity! Spain has a king. He has
+been found. I am that king. Only this very day did I learn of it. I
+confess, it came to me suddenly in a flash of lightning. I don't understand
+how I could have thought and imagined that I was a titular councillor. How
+could such a wild notion enter my head? It's a good thing no one thought of
+putting me in an insane asylum. Now everything is laid open before me. Now
+I see everything as on the palm of my hand. And before, I don't understand,
+before everything around me was in some sort of fog. And all this happens, I
+think, because people imagine that the human brain is in the head. Not at
+all: it is brought by a wind from the direction of the Caspian Sea. First
+off, I announced to Mavra who I am. When she heard that the king of Spain
+was standing before her, she clasped her hands and nearly died of fright.
+The stupid woman had never seen a king of Spain before. However, I
+endeavoured to calm her down and assured her in gracious words of my
+benevolence and that I was not at all angry that she sometimes polished my
+boots poorly. They're benighted folk. It's impossible to tell them about
+lofty matters. She got frightened because she's convinced that all kings of
+Spain are like Philip II. But I explained to her that there was no
+resemblance between me and Philip II, and that I didn't have a single
+Capuchin . . . I didn't go to the office . . . To hell with it! No friends,
+you won't lure me there now; I'm not going to copy your vile papers!
+
+ -- Nikolai Gogol, The Diary of a Madman,
+ trans. Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky
+
+=head2 v5.15.4 - Steve Jobs
+
+L<Announced on 2011-10-20 by Florian
+Ragwitz|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/10/msg178412.html>
+
+A lot of people in our industry haven't had very diverse experiences. So they
+don't have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions
+without a broad perspective on the problem. The broader one's understanding of
+the human experience, the better design we will have.
+
+=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 >>
+
+L<Announced on 2011-09-26 by Florian
+Ragwitz|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/09/msg177618.html>
+
+
+It's not so much that people don't value the programs after they have them--they
+do value them. But they're not the sort of thing that would ever catch on if
+they had to overcome the marketing barrier. (I don't yet know if perl will
+catch on at all--I'm worried enough about it that I specifically included an
+awk-to-perl translator just to help it catch on.) Maybe it's all just an
+inferiority complex. Or maybe I don't like to be mercenary.
+
+So I guess I'd say that the reason some software comes free is that the
+mechanism for selling it is missing, either from the work environment, or from
+the heart of the programmer.
+
+
+=head2 v5.15.3 - Oscar Wilde, All Art is Quite Useless
+
+L<Announced on 2011-09-20 by Stevan
+Little|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/09/msg177427.html>
+
+ All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath
+ the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol
+ do so at their peril.
+
+ It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.
+ Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the
+ work is new, complex, and vital. When critics disagree, the
+ artist is in accord with himself.
+
+ We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as
+ he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless
+ thing is that one admires it intensely.
+
+ All art is quite useless.
+
+ -- Oscar Wilde, From the preface to The Picture of Dorian Gray
+
+
+=head2 v5.15.2 - Rainer Maria Rilke, The Third Duina Elegy
+
+L<Announced on 2011-08-20 by Ricardo
+Signes|http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2011-08/msg00694.html>
+
+True, it is strange to live no more on earth,
+no longer follow the folkways scarecely learned;
+not to give roses and other especially auspicious
+things the significance of a human future;
+to be no more what one was in infinitely anxious hands,
+and to put aside even one's name, like a broken plaything.
+Strange, to wish wishes no longer. Strange, to see
+all that was related fluttering so loosely in space.
+And being dead is hard, full of catching-up,
+so that finally one feels a little eternity.–
+But the living all make the mistake of too sharp discrimination.
+Often angels (it's said) don't know if they move
+among the quick or the dead. The eternal current
+hurtles all ages along with it forever
+through both realms and drowns their voices in both.
+
+ -- Rainer Maria Rilke, Duino, The First Elegy
+ trans., C. F. MacIntyre
+
+=head2 v5.15.1 - Greg Egan, "Permutation City"
+
+L<Announced on 2011-07-20 by Zefram|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/07/msg175014.html>
+
+Carter held out a hand towards the middle of the room. `See that
+fountain?' A ten-metre-wide marble wedding cake, topped with a
+winged cherub wrestling a serpent, duly appeared. Water cascaded
+down from a gushing wound in the cherub's neck. Carter said, `It's
+being computed by redundancies in the sketch of the city. I can
+extract the results, because I know exactly where to look for them --
+but nobody else would have a hope in hell of picking them out.'
+
+Peer walked up to the fountain. Even as he approached, he noticed
+that the spray was intangible; when he dipped his hand in the water
+around the base he felt nothing, and the motion he made with his
+fingers left the foaming surface unchanged. They were spying on
+the calculations, not interacting with them; the fountain was a
+closed system.
+
+Carter said, `In your case, of course, nobody will need to know
+the results. Except you -- and you'll know them because you'll
+/be/ them.'
+
+=head2 v5.15.0 - Neil Gaiman, "The Graveyard Book"
+
+L<Announced on 2011-06-20 by David Golden|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/06/msg173748.html>
+
+ If you dare nothing, then when the day is over, nothing is all
+ you will have gained.
+
+=head2 v5.12.4 - William Schwenck Gilbert, "Trial By Jury"
+
+L<Announced on 2011-06-20 by Leon Brocard|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/06/msg173725.html>
+
+You cannot eat breakfast all day,
+Nor is it the act of a sinner,
+When breakfast is taken away,
+To turn his attention to dinner;
+And it's not in the range of belief,
+To look upon him as a glutton,
+Who, when he is tired of beef,
+Determines to tackle the mutton.
+Ah! But this I am willing to say,
+If it will appease her sorrow,
+I'll marry this lady today,
+And I'll marry the other tomorrow!
+
+=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 >>
+
+L<Announced on 2011-06-16 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/06/msg173650.html>
+
+At this point I'm no longer working for a company that makes me sign
+my life away, but by now I'm in the habit. Besides, I still harbor
+the deep-down suspicion that nobody would pay money for what I write,
+since most of it just helps you do something better that you could
+already do some other way. How much money would you personally pay
+to upgrade from readnews to rn? How much money would you pay for
+the patch program? As for warp, it's a mere game. And anything you
+can do with perl you can eventually do with an amazing and totally
+unreadable conglomeration of awk, sed, sh and C.
+
+=head2 v5.12.4-RC2 - James Russell Lowell, "Eleanor makes macaroons"
+
+L<Announced on 2011-06-15 by Leon Brocard|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/06/msg173609.html>
+
+Now for sugar, -- nay, our plan
+Tolerates no work of man.
+Hurry, then, ye golden bees;
+Fetch your clearest honey, please,
+Garnered on a Yorkshire moor,
+While the last larks sing and soar,
+From the heather-blossoms sweet
+Where sea-breeze and sunshine meet,
+And the Augusts mask as Junes, --
+Eleanor makes macaroons!
+
+=head2 v5.12.4-RC1 - Ogden Nash, "The Clean Plater"
+
+L<Announced on 2011-06-08 by Leon Brocard|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/06/msg173352.html>
+
+Pheasant is pleasant, of course,
+And terrapin, too, is tasty,
+Lobster I freely endorse,
+In pate or patty or pasty.
+But there's nothing the matter with butter,
+And nothing the matter with jam,
+And the warmest greetings I utter
+To the ham and the yam and the clam.
+For they're food,
+All food,
+And I think very fondly of food.
+Through I'm broody at times
+When bothered by rhymes,
+I brood
+On food.
+
+=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 >>
+
+L<Announced on 2011-05-14 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/05/msg172326.html>
+
+At the start of any project, I'm programming primarily to please
+myself. (The two chief virtues in a programmer are laziness and
+impatience.) After a while somebody looks over my shoulder and says,
+"That's neat. It'd be neater if it did such-and-so." So the thing
+gets neater. Pretty soon (a year or two) I have an rn, a warp, a patch,
+or a perl. One of these years I'll have a metaconfig.
+
+I then say to myself, "I don't want my life's work to die when this
+computer is scrapped, so I should let some other people use this. If I
+ask my company to sell this, it'll never see the light of day, and nobody
+would pay much for it anyway. If I sell it myself, I'll be in trouble with
+my company, to whom I signed my life away when I was hired. If I give it
+away, I can pretend it was worthless in the first place, so my company
+won't care. In any event, it's easier to ask forgiveness than permission."
+
+So a freely distributable program is born.
+
+=head2 v5.14.0-RC3 - American Airlines Gate Agent, last call
+
+L<Announced on 2011-05-11 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/05/msg172282.html>
+
+This is the last call for flight 1697 with service to Chicago and
+continuing service to San Francisco. All passengers should already be
+aboard. If you aren't aboard at this time, you will be denied boarding
+and your bags will be offloaded.
+
+=head2 v5.14.0-RC2 - Greg Grandin, Fordlandia, "the Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City"
+
+L<Announced on 2011-05-04 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/05/msg171879.html>
+
+Over the course of nearly two decades, Ford would spend tens of millions
+of dollars founding not one but, after the plantation was defastated
+by leaf blight, two American towns, complete with central squares,
+sidewalks, indoor plumbing, hospitals, manicured lawns, movie theaters,
+swimming pools, golf courses, and, of course, Model Ts and As rolling
+down their paved streets.
+
+Back in America, newspapers kept up their drumbeat celebration, only
+obliquely referencing reports that things were not progressing as the
+company had hoped. But there was one note of skepticism. In late 1928,
+the Washington Post ran an editorial that read in its entirety: "Ford will
+govern a rubber plantation in Brazil larger than North Carolina. This is
+the first time he has applied quantity production methods to trouble"
+
+=head2 v5.14.0-RC1 - Bill Bryson, "In a Sunburned Country"
+
+L<Announced on 2011-04-20 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/04/msg171253.html>
+
+But then Australia is such a difficult country to keep track of. On
+my first visit, some years ago, I passed the time on the long flight
+reading a history of Australian politics in the twentieth century,
+wherein I encountered the startling fact that in 1967 the prime minister,
+Harold Holt, was strolling along a beach in Victoria when he plunged into
+the surf and vanished. No trace of the poor man was ever seen again.
+This seemed doubly astounding to meE<0x2014>first that Australia could
+just I<lose> a prime minister (I mean, come on) and second that news of
+this had never reached me.
+
+=head2 v5.13.11 - Walt Whitman, L<Leaves of Grass|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leaves_of_Grass>
+
+L<Announced on 2011-02-20 by Florian Ragwitz|http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2011-03/msg00560.html>
+
+ When the full-grown poet came,
+ Out spake pleased Nature (the round impassive globe, with all its
+ shows of day and night,) saying, He is mine;
+ But out spake too the Soul of man, proud, jealous and unreconciled,
+ Nay he is mine alone;
+ --Then the full-grown poet stood between the two, and took each
+ by the hand;
+ And to-day and ever so stands, as blender, uniter, tightly holding hands,
+ Which he will never release until he reconciles the two,
+ And wholly and joyously blends them.
+
+=head2 v5.13.10 - Egill Skalla-Grímsson, L<Egils saga Skalla-Grímssonar|http://www.heimskringla.no/wiki/Egils_saga_Skalla-Gr%C3%ADmssonar>
+
+L<Announced on 2011-02-20 by Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/02/msg169340.html>
+
+ Skalat maðr rúnar rísta,
+ nema ráða vel kunni.
+ Þat verðr mörgum manni,
+ es of myrkvan staf villisk.
+ Sák á telgðu talkni
+ tíu launstafi ristna.
+ Þat hefr lauka lindi
+ langs ofrtrega fengit.
+
+=head2 v5.13.9 - John F Kennedy, L<Inaugural Address January 20, 1961|http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/John_F._Kennedy%27s_Inaugural_Address>
+
+L<Announced on 2011-01-20 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/01/msg168335.html>
+
+In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been
+granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I
+do not shrink from this responsibility -- I welcome it. I do not believe
+that any of us would exchange places with any other people or any other
+generation. The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this
+endeavor will light our country and all who serve it. And the glow from
+that fire can truly light the world.
+
+And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you;
+ask what you can do for your country.
+
+My fellow citizens of the world, ask not what America will do for you,
+but what together we can do for the freedom of man.
+
+Finally, whether you are citizens of America or citizens of the world,
+ask of us here the same high standards of strength and sacrifice which
+we ask of you. With a good conscience our only sure reward, with history
+the final judge of our deeds, let us go forth to lead the land we love,
+asking His blessing and His help, but knowing that here on earth God's
+work must truly be our own.
+
+=head2 v5.13.8 - Roger Williams, L<"The Fifth Gift"|http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2005/8/19/21304/8493>
+
+L<Announced on 2010-12-19 by Zefram|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/12/msg167271.html>
+
+The aliens called the box a "matter generator," but we'd be more inclined
+to call it a matter duplicator. By connecting switches and potentiometers
+between the copper posts it was possible to make the box mark off two
+cubic rectangular areas of volume. Make a certain contact, and these
+areas would be isolated within perfectly reflective fields. They could
+be expanded or contracted by altering resistances between other posts.
+As I worked out the user interface I built a little control panel for
+the device. It was actually a clever way for the aliens to do things;
+instead of trying to build controls we could use, they built us an
+interface we could attach to controls that made sense to us. It could
+also be automated.
+
+Once you had made the contact that established the shielded volumes,
+if you made another certain contact the contents of the first volume
+were copied to the second. The machine copied metal, plastic, steel,
+and diamond with equal ease. Copies of copies of copies of copies were
+indistinguishable from the originals at any magnification, even using
+techniques like X-ray crystallography.
+
+=head2 v5.13.7 - Andy Wachowski and Lana Wachowski, 'The Matrix'
+
+L<Announced on 2010-11-20 by Chris 'BinGOs' Williams|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/11/msg166162.html>
+
+[Neo sees a black cat walk by them, and then a similar black cat walk by them just like the first one]
+
+Neo: Whoa. Deja vu.
+
+[Everyone freezes right in their tracks]
+
+Trinity: What did you just say?
+Neo: Nothing. Just had a little deja vu.
+Trinity: What did you see?
+Cypher: What happened?
+Neo: A black cat went past us, and then another that looked just like it.
+Trinity: How much like it? Was it the same cat?
+Neo: It might have been. I'm not sure.
+Morpheus: Switch! Apoc!
+Neo: What is it?
+Trinity: A deja vu is usually a glitch in the Matrix. It happens when they change something.
+
+=head2 v5.13.6 - Haruki Murakami, "Kafka on the Shore"
+
+L<Announced on 2010-10-20 by Tatsuhiko Miyagawa|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/10/msg165183.html>
+
+The boy called Crow softly rests a hand on my shoulder, and with that
+he storm vanishes.
+
+"From now on -- no matter what -- you've got to be the world's toughest
+fifteen-year-old. That's the only way you're going to survive. And in order
+to do that, you've got to figure out what it means to be tough. You following
+me?"
+
+I keep my eyes closed and don't reply. I just want to sink off into sleep
+like this, his hand on my shoulder. I hear the faint flutter of wings.
+
+"You're going to be the world's toughest fifteen-year-old," Crow whispers
+as I try to fall asleep. Like he was carving the words in a deep blue tattoo
+on my heart.
+
+(Translated from Japanese by Philip Gabriel)
+
+=head2 v5.13.5 - Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, "The Room in the Dragon Volant"
+
+L<Announced on 2010-09-19 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/09/msg164238.html>
+
+Candle in hand I stepped in. I do not know whether the quality of
+air, long undisturbed, is peculiar; to me it has always seemed so, and
+the damp smell of the old masonry hung in this atmosphere. My candle
+faintly lighted the bare stone wall that enclosed the stair, the foot
+of which I could not see. Down I went, and a few turns brought me to
+the stone floor. Here was another door, of the simple, old, oak kind,
+deep sunk in the thickness of the wall. The large end of the key
+fitted this. The lock was stiff; I set the candle down upon the
+stair, and applied both hands; it turned with difficulty, and as it
+revolved, uttered a shriek that alarmed me for my secret.
+
+For some minutes I did not move. In a little time, however, I took
+courage, and opened the door. The night-air floating in puffed out
+the candle. There was a thicket of holly and underwood, as dense as a
+jungle, close about the door. I should have been in pitch-darkness,
+were it not that through the topmost leaves there twinkled, here and
+there, a glimmer of moonshine.
+
+Softly, lest any one should have opened his window at the sound of the
+rusty bolt, I struggled through this till I gained a view of the open
+grounds. Here I found that the brushwood spread a good way up the
+park, uniting with the wood that approached the little temple I have
+described.
+
+=head2 v5.13.4 - Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
+
+L<Announced on 2010-08-20 by Florian Ragwitz|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/08/msg163150.html>
+
+`How the creatures order one about, and make one repeat lessons!' thought Alice;
+`I might as well be at school at once.' However, she got up, and began to repeat
+it, but her head was so full of the Lobster Quadrille, that she hardly knew what
+she was saying, and the words came very queer indeed:--
+
+ "'Tis the voice of the Lobster; I heard him declare,
+ "You have baked me too brown, I must sugar my hair."
+ As a duck with its eyelids, so he with his nose
+ Trims his belt and his buttons, and turns out his toes.'
+
+
+`That's different from what I used to say when I was a child,' said the Gryphon.
+
+`Well, I never heard it before,' said the Mock Turtle; `but it sounds uncommon
+nonsense.'
+
+Alice said nothing; she had sat down with her face in her hands, wondering if
+anything would ever happen in a natural way again.
+
+`I should like to have it explained,' said the Mock Turtle.
+
+`She can't explain it,' said the Gryphon hastily. `Go on with the next verse.'
+
+`But about his toes?' the Mock Turtle persisted. `How could he turn them out
+with his nose, you know?'
+
+`It's the first position in dancing.' Alice said; but was dreadfully puzzled by
+the whole thing, and longed to change the subject.
+
=head2 v5.13.3 - Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, "Good Omens"
+L<Announced on 2010-07-20 by David Golden|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/07/msg162230.html>
+
Look at Crowley, doing 110 mph on the M40 heading towards
Oxfordshire. Even the most resolutely casual observer would
notice a number of strange things about him. The clenched teeth,
=head2 v5.13.2 - Iain M Banks, "Use of Weapons"
+L<Announced on 2010-06-22 by Matt S Trout|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/06/msg161112.html>
+
We deal in the moral equivalent of black holes, where the normal laws -
the rules of right and wrong that people imagine apply everywhere else
in the universe - break down; beyond those metaphysical event-horizons,
=head2 v5.13.1 - Miguel de Unamuno, "The Sepulchre of Don Quixote"
+L<Announced on 2010-05-20 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/05/msg160275.html>
+
And if anyone shall come to you and say that he knows how to construct
bridges and that perhaps a time will come when you will wish to avail
yourself of his science in order to cross over a river, out with him! Out
=head2 v5.13.0 - Jules Verne, "A Journey to the Centre of the Earth"
+L<Announced on 2010-04-20 by LE<0xe9>on Brocard|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/04/msg159275.html>
+
The heat still remained at quite a supportable degree. With an
involuntary shudder, I reflected on what the heat must have been
when the volcano of Sneffels was pouring its smoke, flames, and
"Only to think of the consequences," I mused, "if the old
volcano were once more to set to work."
+=head2 v5.12.3 - Howard W. Campbell, Jr., "Reflections on Not Participating in Current Events"
+
+L<Announced on 2011-01-21 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/01/msg168368.html>
+
+ I saw a huge steam roller,
+ It blotted out the sun.
+ The people all lay down, lay down;
+ They did not try to run.
+ My love and I, we looked amazed
+ Upon the gory mystery.
+ 'Lie down, lie down!' the people cried.
+ 'The great machine is history!'
+ My love and I, we ran away,
+ The engine did not find us.
+ We ran up to a mountain top,
+ Left history far behind us.
+ Perhaps we should have stayed and died,
+ But somehow we don't think so.
+ We went to see where history'd been,
+ And my, the dead did stink so.
+
+=head2 v5.12.2 - William Gibson, "Pattern Recognition"
+
+L<Announced on 2010-09-06 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/09/msg163852.html>
+
+CPUs. Cayce Pollard Units. That's what Damien calls the clothing
+she wears. CPUs are either black, white, or gray, and ideally
+seem to have come into this world without human intervention.
+
+What people take for relentless minimalism is a side effect
+of too much exposure to the reactor-cores of fashion. This
+has resulted in a remorseless paring-down of what she can and
+will wear. She is, literally, allergic to fashion. She can
+only tolerate things that could have been worn, to a general
+lack of comment, during any year between 1945 and 2000. She's a
+design-free zone, a one-woman school of and whose very austerity
+periodically threatens to spawn its own cult.
+
+=head2 v5.12.2-RC1 - William Gibson, "Pattern Recognition"
+
+L<Announced on 2010-08-31 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/08/msg163670.html>
+
+The front page opens, familiar as a friend's living room. A frame-grab
+from #48 serves as backdrop, dim and almost monochrome, no characters in
+view. This is one of the sequences that generate comparisons with
+Tarkovsky. She only knows Tarkovsky from stills, really, though she did
+once fall asleep during a screening of The Stalker, going under on an
+endless pan, the camera aimed straight down, in close-up, at a puddle on
+a ruined mosaic floor. But she is not one of those who think that much
+will be gained by analysis of the maker's imagined influences. The cult
+of the footage is rife with subcults, claiming every possible influence.
+Truffaut, Peckinpah -- The Peckinpah people, among the least likely, are
+still waiting for the guns to be drawn.
+
=head2 v5.12.1 - Kurt Vonnegut, "Cat's Cradle"
+L<Announced on 2010-05-16 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/05/msg160109.html>
+
"Now suppose," chortled Dr. Breed, enjoying himself, "that there were
many possible ways in which water could crystallize, could freeze.
-Suppose that the sort of ice we skate upon and put into highballs—
-what we might call ice-one—is only one of several types of ice.
+Suppose that the sort of ice we skate upon and put into highballs --
+what we might call ice-one -- is only one of several types of ice.
Suppose water always froze as ice-one on Earth because it had never
had a seed to teach it how to form ice-two, ice-three, ice-four
...? And suppose," he rapped on his desk with his old hand again,
-"that there were one form, which we will call ice-nine—a crystal as
-hard as this desk—with a melting point of, let us say, one-hundred
+"that there were one form, which we will call ice-nine -- a crystal as
+hard as this desk -- with a melting point of, let us say, one-hundred
degrees Fahrenheit, or, better still, a melting point of one-hundred-
and-thirty degrees."
=head2 v5.12.1-RC2 - Kurt Vonnegut, "Cat's Cradle"
+L<Announced on 2010-05-13 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/05/msg160066.html>
+
San Lorenzo was fifty miles long and twenty miles wide, I learned from
the supplement to the New York Sunday Times. Its population was four
hundred, fifty thousand souls, "...all fiercely dedicated to the ideals
harbor capable of sheltering the entire United States Navy." The principal
exports were sugar, coffee, bananas, indigo, and handcrafted novelties.
-=head2 v5.12.1-RC2 - Kurt Vonnegut, "Cat's Cradle"
+=head2 v5.12.1-RC1 - Kurt Vonnegut, "Cat's Cradle"
+
+L<Announced on 2010-05-09 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/05/msg159971.html>
Which brings me to the Bokononist concept of a wampeter. A wampeter is
the pivot of a karass. No karass is without a wampeter, Bokonon tells us,
=head2 v5.12.0 - Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
+L<Announced on 2010-04-12 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/04/msg158820.html>
+
'Please would you tell me,' said Alice, a little timidly, for she was
not quite sure whether it was good manners for her to speak first, 'why
your cat grins like that?'
=head2 v5.12.0-RC5 - Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
+L<Announced on 2010-04-09 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/04/msg158720.html>
+
'Not QUITE right, I'm afraid,' said Alice, timidly; 'some of the words
have got altered.'
=head2 v5.12.0-RC4 - Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
+L<Announced on 2010-04-06 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/04/msg158567.html>
+
'It was much pleasanter at home,' thought poor Alice, 'when one wasn't
always growing larger and smaller, and being ordered about by mice and
rabbits. I almost wish I hadn't gone down that rabbit-hole--and yet--and
=head2 v5.12.0-RC3 - Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
+L<Announced on 2010-04-02 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/04/msg158346.html>
+
At last the Mouse, who seemed to be a person of authority among them,
called out, 'Sit down, all of you, and listen to me! I'LL soon make you
dry enough!' They all sat down at once, in a large ring, with the Mouse
the Conqueror, whose cause was favoured by the pope, was soon submitted
to by the English, who wanted leaders, and had been of late much
accustomed to usurpation and conquest. Edwin and Morcar, the earls of
-Mercia and Northumbria—"'
+Mercia and Northumbria --"'
-=head2 v5.12.0-RC2 - no epigraph
+=head2 v5.12.0-RC2 - no announcement
-Z<>
+Available on CPAN since 2010-04-01.
=head2 v5.12.0-RC1 - Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
+L<Announced on 2010-03-29 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/03/msg158060.html>
+
So she was considering in her own mind (as well as she could, for the
hot day made her feel very sleepy and stupid), whether the pleasure of
making a daisy-chain would be worth the trouble of getting up and
=head2 v5.12.0-RC0 - no epigraph
-Z<>
+L<Announced on 2020-03-21 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/03/msg157761.html>
=head2 v5.11.5 - Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "Christabel"
+L<Announced on 2010-02-21 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/02/msg156957.html>
+
A little child, a limber elf,
Singing, dancing to itself,
A fairy thing with red round cheeks,
=head2 v5.11.4 - Fyodor Dostoevsky, "Crime and Punishment"
+L<Announced on 2010-01-20 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/01/msg155848.html>
+
And you don't suppose that I went into it headlong like a fool? I went
into it like a wise man, and that was just my destruction. And you
mustn't suppose that I didn't know, for instance, that if I began to
=head2 v5.11.3 - Mark Twain, "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer"
+L<Announced on 2009-12-20 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2009/12/msg154838.html>
+
"Say -- I'm going in a swimming, I am. Don't you wish you could? But of
-course you'd druther work—wouldn't you? Course you would!"
+course you'd druther work -- wouldn't you? Course you would!"
Tom contemplated the boy a bit, and said: "What do you call work?"
watching every move and getting more and more interested, more and more
absorbed. Presently he said: "Say, Tom, let me whitewash a little."
-
=head2 v5.11.2 - Michael Marshall Smith, "Only Forward"
+L<Announced on 2009-11-20 by |http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2009/11/msg153646.html>
+
The streets were pretty quiet, which was nice. They're always quiet here
at that time: you have to be wearing a black jacket to be out on the
streets between seven and nine in the evening, and not many people in
=head2 v5.11.1 - Joseph Heller, "Catch-22"
+L<Announced on 2009-10-20 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2009/10/msg152360.html>
+
Milo had been caught red-handed in the act of plundering his countrymen,
and, as a result, his stock had never been higher. He proved good as his
word when a rawboned major from Minnesota curled his lip in rebellious
=head2 v5.11.0 - Mikhail Bulgakov, "The Master and Margarita"
+L<Announced on 2009-10-02 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2009/10/msg151376.html>
+
Whispers of an "evil power" were heard in lines at dairy shops, in
streetcars, stores, arguments, kitchens, suburban and long-distance
trains, at stations large and small, in dachas and on beaches. Needless
work of a gang of hypnotists and ventriloquists magnificently skilled in
their art.
-
=head2 v5.10.1 - Right Hon. James Hacker MP, "The Complete Yes Minister: The Diaries of a Cabinet Minister"
+L<Announced on 2009-09-23 by Dave Mitchell|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2009/08/msg150172.html>
+
'Briefly, sir, I am the Permanent Under-Secretary of State, known as
the Permanent Secretary. Woolley here is your Principal Private
Secretary. I, too, have a Principal Private Secretary, and he is the
=head2 v5.10.1-RC2 - no epigraph
-Z<>
+L<Announced on 2009-08-18 by Dave Mitchell|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2009/08/msg150015.html>
=head2 v5.10.1-RC1 - no epigraph
-Z<>
+L<Announced on 2009-08-06 by Dave Mitchell|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2009/08/msg149498.html>
=head2 v5.10.0 - Laurence Sterne, "Tristram Shandy"
+L<Announced on 2007-12-18 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2007/12/msg131636.html>
+
He would often declare, in speaking his thoughts upon the subject, that
he did not conceive how the greatest family in England could stand it
out against an uninterrupted succession of six or seven short
=head2 v5.10.0-RC2 - no epigraph
-Z<>
+L<Announced on 2007-11-25 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2007/11/msg130978.html>
=head2 v5.10.0-RC1 - no epigraph
-Z<>
+L<Announced on 2007-11-17 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2007/11/msg130653.html>
-=head2 v5.9.5 - no epigraph
+=head2 v5.9.5 - no announcement
-Z<>
+L<Pre-announced on 2007-07-07 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2007/07/msg126358.html>,
+available on CPAN with same date, but never actually announced.
=head2 v5.9.4 - no epigraph
-Z<>
+L<Announced on 2006-08-15 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2006/08/msg115782.html>
=head2 v5.9.3 - no epigraph
-Z<>
+L<Announced on 2006-01-28 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2006/01/msg109086.html>
=head2 v5.9.2 - Thomas Pynchon, "V"
+L<Announced on 2005-04-01 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=20050401150702.2b4a70d5@grubert.mandrakesoft.com>
+
This word flip was weird. Every recording date of McClintic's he'd
gotten into the habit of talking electricity with the audio men and
technicians of the studio. McClintic once couldn't have cared less
=head2 v5.9.1 - Tom Stoppard, "Arcadia"
+L<Announced on 2004-03-16 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://groups.google.com/group/perl.perl5.porters/msg/8587d77c565f2d43>
+
Aren't you supposed to have a pony?
=head2 v5.9.0 - Doris Lessing, "Martha Quest"
+L<Announced on 2003-10-27 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://groups.google.com/group/perl.perl5.porters/msg/63a8c34385de82a1>
+
What of October, that ambiguous month
=head2 v5.8.9 - Right Hon. James Hacker MP, "The Complete Yes Minister: The Diaries of a Cabinet Minister"
+L<Announced on 2008-12-14 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2008/12/msg142571.html>
+
Frank and I, unlike the civil servants, were still puzzled that such a
proposal as the Europass could even be seriously under consideration by
the FCO. We can both see clearly that it is wonderful ammunition for the
=head2 v5.8.9-RC2 - Right Hon. James Hacker MP, "The Complete Yes Minister: The Diaries of a Cabinet Minister"
+L<Announced on 2008-12-06 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2008/11/msg142422.html>
+
There was silence in the office. I didn't know what we were going to do
about the four hundred new people supervising our economy drive or the
four hundred new people for the Bureaucratic Watchdog Office, or
=head2 v5.8.9-RC1 - Right Hon. James Hacker MP, "The Complete Yes Minister: The Diaries of a Cabinet Minister"
+L<Announced on 2008-11-10 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2008/11/msg141515.html>
+
A jumbo jet touched down, with BURANDAN AIRWAYS written on the side. I
was hugely impressed. British Airways are having to pawn their Concordes,
and here is this little tiny African state with its own airline, jumbo
=head2 v5.8.8 - Joe Raposo, "Bein' Green"
+L<Announced on 2006-02-01 by Nicholas Clark|http://groups.google.com/group/perl.perl5.porters/msg/28caf52e41ebe723>
+
It's not that easy bein' green
Having to spend each day the color of the leaves
When I think it could be nicer being red or yellow or gold
=head2 v5.8.8-RC1 - Cosgrove Hall Productions, "Dangermouse"
- Greenback: And the world is mine, all mine. Muhahahahaha. See to it!
+L<Announced on 2006-01-20 by Nicholas Clark|http://groups.google.com/group/perl.perl5.porters/msg/d231fc554af8cc51>
+
+Greenback: And the world is mine, all mine. Muhahahahaha. See to it!
- Stiletto: Si, Barone. Subito, Barone.
+Stiletto: Si, Barone. Subito, Barone.
=head2 v5.8.7 - Sergei Prokofiev, "Peter and the Wolf"
+L<Announced on 2005-05-31 by Nicholas Clark|http://groups.google.com/group/perl.perl5.porters/msg/9a545704a0062f16>
+
And now, imagine the triumphant procession: Peter at the head; after him the
hunters leading the wolf; and winding up the procession, grandfather and the
cat.
=head2 v5.8.7-RC1 - Sergei Prokofiev, "Peter and the Wolf"
+L<Announced on 2005-05-20 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2005/05/msg100711.html>
+
And now this is how things stood: The cat was sitting on one branch. The
bird on another, not too close to the cat. And the wolf walked round and
round the tree, looking at them with greedy eyes.
=head2 v5.8.6 - A. A. Milne, "The House at Pooh Corner"
+L<Announced on 2004-11-28 by Nicholas Clark|http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=20041128000836.GA304@Bagpuss.unfortu.net>
+
"Hallo, Pooh," said Piglet, giving a jump of surprise. "I knew it was
you."
=head2 v5.8.6-RC1 - A. A. Milne, "Winnie the Pooh"
+L<Announced on 2004-11-11 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/11/msg95786.html>
+
"Hallo!" said Piglet, "whare are /you/ doing?"
"Hunting," said Pooh.
=head2 v5.8.5 - wikipedia, "Yew"
+L<Announced on 2004-07-19 by Nicholas Clark|http://groups.google.com/group/perl.perl5.porters/msg/68340e2e4c39222c>
+
Yews are relatively slow growing trees, widely used in landscaping and
ornamental horticulture. They have flat, dark-green needles, reddish
bark, and bear seeds with red arils, which are eaten by thrushes,
=head2 v5.8.5-RC2 - wikipedia, "Beech"
+L<Announced on 2004-07-09 by Nicholas Clark|http://groups.google.com/group/perl.perl5.porters/msg/f92175725af7a5ad>
+
Beeches are trees of the Genus Fagus, family Fagaceae, including about
ten species in Europe, Asia, and North America. The leaves are entire or
sparsely toothed. The fruit is a small, sharply-angled nut, borne in
=head2 v5.8.5-RC1 - wikipedia, "Pedunculate Oak" (abridged)
+L<Announced on 2004-07-07 by Nicholas Clark|http://groups.google.com/group/perl.perl5.porters/msg/ca6ce4a7ed9f219c?pli=1>
+
The Pedunculate Oak is called the Common Oak in Britain, and is also
often called the English Oak in other English speaking countries It is a
large deciduous tree to 25-35m tall (exceptionally to 40m), with lobed
=head2 v5.8.4 - T. S. Eliot, "The Old Gumbie Cat"
+L<Announced on 2004-04-22 by Nicholas Clark|http://groups.google.com/group/perl.perl5.porters/msg/c7333acf03ef4015>
+
I have a Gumbie Cat in mind, her name is Jennyanydots;
The curtain-cord she likes to wind, and tie it into sailor-knots.
She sits upon the window-sill, or anything that's smooth and flat:
=head2 v5.8.4-RC2 - T. S. Eliot, "Macavity: The Mystery Cat"
+L<Announced on 2004-04-16 by Nicholas Clark|http://groups.google.com/group/perl.perl5.porters/msg/84f6fdd73cc56a1b>
+
Macavity's a Mystery Cat: he's called the Hidden Paw --
For he's the master criminal who can defy the Law.
He's the bafflement of Scotland Yard, the Flying Squad's despair:
=head2 v5.8.4-RC1 - T. S. Eliot, "Skimbleshanks: The Railway Cat"
+L<Announced on 2004-04-05 by Nicholas Clark|http://groups.google.com/group/perl.perl5.porters/msg/e500353440769ebf>
+
There's a whisper down the line at 11.39
When the Night Mail's ready to depart,
Saying 'Skimble where is Skimble has he gone to hunt the thimble?
=head2 v5.8.3 - Arthur William Edgar O'Shaugnessy, "Ode"
+L<Announced on 2004-01-14 by Nicholas Clark|http://groups.google.com/group/perl.perl5.porters/msg/968fb8d71e23af69>
+
We are the music makers,
And we are the dreamers of dreams,
Wandering by lonely sea-breakers,
=head2 v5.8.3-RC1 - Irving Berlin, "Let's Face the Music and Dance"
+L<Announced on 2004-01-07 by Nicholas Clark|http://groups.google.com/group/perl.perl5.porters/msg/5ced50bebcd11c96>
+
There may be trouble ahead,
But while there's music and moonlight,
And love and romance,
=head2 v5.8.2 - Walt Whitman, "Passage to India"
+L<Announced on 2003-11-06 by Nicholas Clark|http://groups.google.com/group/perl.perl5.porters/msg/4714574f93967673>
+
Passage, immediate passage! the blood burns in my veins!
Away O soul! hoist instantly the anchor!
Cut the hawsers - hall out - shake out every sail!
=head2 v5.8.2-RC2 - Eric Idle/John Du Prez, "Accountancy Shanty"
+L<Announced on 2003-11-03 by Nicholas Clark|http://groups.google.com/group/perl.perl5.porters/msg/7669de5804b792f6>
+
It's fun to charter an accountant
And sail the wide accountan-cy,
To find, explore the funds offshore
=head2 v5.8.2-RC1 - Edward Lear, "The Jumblies"
+L<Announced on 2003-10-28 by Nicholas Clark|http://groups.google.com/group/perl.perl5.porters/msg/83680ef3bbf7378d>
+
They went to sea in a Sieve, they did,
In a Sieve they went to sea:
In spite of all their friends could say,
Their heads are green, and their hands are blue,
And they went to sea in a Sieve.
-=head2 v5.8.1 - Terry Pratchett, "The Color of Magic"
+=head2 v5.8.1 - epigraph same as v5.7.1
+
+L<Announced on 2003-09-25 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/09/msg82678.html>
+
+=head2 v5.8.1-RC5 - Terry Pratchett, "Lords and Ladies"
+
+L<Announced on 2003-09-22 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/09/msg82476.html>
+
+No matter what she did with her hair it took about
+three minutes for it to tangle itself up again,
+like a garden hosepipe in a shed [Footnote: Which,
+no matter how carefully coiled, will always uncoil
+overnight and tie the lawnmower to the bicycles].
+
+=head2 v5.8.1-RC4 - Terry Pratchett, "Interesting Times"
+
+L<Announced on 2003-08-01 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/08/msg79184.html>
+
+Grand Viziers were /always/ scheming megalomaniacs.
+It was probably in the job description: "Are you a
+devious, plotting, unreliable madman? Ah, good,
+then you can be my most trusted minister."
+
+=head2 v5.8.1-RC3 - Terry Pratchett, "Interesting Times"
+
+L<Announced on 2003-07-30 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/07/msg79048.html>
+
+Lord Hong had a mind like a knife, although possibly
+a knife with a curved blade.
+
+=head2 v5.8.1-RC2 - Terry Pratchett, "Interesting Times"
+
+L<Announced on 2003-07-11 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/07/msg78102.html>
+
+Many an ancient lord's last words had been, "You can't kill
+me because I've got magic aaargh."
+
+=head2 v5.8.1-RC1 - Terry Pratchett, "Interesting Times"
+
+L<Announced on 2003-07-10 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/07/msg78009.html>
+
+Cohen was familiar with city gates. He'd broken down a number
+in his time, by battering ram, siege gun, and on one occasion
+with his head.
+
+But the gates of Hunghung were pretty damn good gates. They
+weren't like the gates of Ankh-Morpork, which were usually wide
+open to attract the spending customer and whose concession to
+defense was the sign "Thank You For Not Attacking Our City.
+Bonum Diem." These things were big and made of metal and there
+was a guardhouse and a squad of unhelpful men in black armor.
+
+=head2 v5.8.0 - Terry Pratchett, "Reaper Man"
+
+L<Announced on 2002-07-18 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2002/07/msg63720.html>
+
+There was the faint sound of footsteps.
+"Chap with a whip got as far as the big sharp spikes last week,"
+said the low priest.
+There was a sound like the flushing of a very old dry lavatory.
+The footsteps stopped. The High Priest smiled to himself.
+"Right," he said. "See your two pebbles and raise you two pebbles."
+The low priest threw down his cards. "Double Onion," he said.
+The High Priest looked down suspiciously.
+The low priest consulted a scrap of paper. "That's three hundred
+thousand, nine hundred and sixty-four pebbles you owe me," he said.
+There was the sound of footsteps. The priests exchanged glances.
+"Haven't had one for poisoned-dart alley for quite some time,"
+said the High Priest.
+"Five says he makes it", said the low priest. "You're on."
+There was a faint clatter of metal points on stone.
+"It's a shame to take your pebbles."
+There were footsteps again.
+
+=head2 v5.8.0-RC3 - no epigraph
+
+L<Announced on 2002-07-13 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2002/07/msg63234.html>
+
+=head2 v5.8.0-RC2 - no epigraph
+
+L<Announced on 2002-06-21 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2002/06/msg62013.html>
+
+=head2 v5.8.0-RC1 - no epigraph
+
+L<Announced on 2002-06-01 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2002/06/msg60317.html>
+
+=head2 v5.7.3 - Terry Pratchett, "Reaper Man"
+
+L<Announced on 2002-03-04 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2002/03/msg53652.html>
+
+Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong.
+No matter how fast light travels it finds the darkness has always
+got there first, and is waiting for it.
+
+=head2 v5.7.2 - Terry Pratchett, "Small Gods"
+
+L<Announced on 2001-07-13 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2001/07/msg40370.html>
+
+His philosophy was a mixture of three famous schools --
+the Cynics, the Stoics and the Epicureans -- and summed up
+all three of them in his famous phrase, "You can't trust any
+bugger further than you can throw him, and there's nothing
+you can do about it, so let's have a drink."
+
+=head2 v5.7.1 - Terry Pratchett, "The Colour of Magic"
+
+L<Announced on 2001-07-13 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2001/04/msg33851.html>
"What happens next?" asked Twoflower.
"Usually."
-=head2 v5.8.1-RC5 - Terry Pratchett, "Lords and Ladies"
+=head2 v5.7.0 - Terry Pratchett, "Moving Pictures"
-No matter what she did with her hair it took about
-three minutes for it to tangle itself up again,
-like a garden hosepipe in a shed [Footnote: Which,
-no matter how carefully coiled, will always uncoil
-overnight and tie the lawnmower to the bicycles].
+L<Announced on 2000-09-02 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2000/09/msg17730.html>
+
+The Librarian had seen many weird things in his time,
+but that had to be the 57th strangest.
+[footnote: he had a tidy mind]
=head2 v5.6.2 - Sterne, "Tristram Shandy"
+L<Announced on 2003-11-15 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://groups.google.com/group/perl.perl5.porters/msg/deb8cb9ad918716f>
+
When great or unexpected events fall out upon the stage of this
sublunary word--the mind of man, which is an inquisitive kind of
a substance, naturally takes a flight, behind the scenes, to see
=head2 v5.6.2-RC1 - Sterne, "Tristram Shandy"
+L<Announced on 2003-11-15 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://groups.google.com/group/perl.perl5.porters/msg/e3d4acc7a8dd3ce5>
+
"Pray, my dear", quoth my mother, "have you not forgot to wind up the clock?"
-=head2 5.005_05-RC1 - no epigraph
+=head2 v5.6.1 - J R R Tolkien, "The Hobbit", Riddles in the Dark
+
+L<Announced on 2001-04-08 by Gurusamy Sarathy|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2001/04/msg33823.html>
+
+`What have I got in my pocket?' he said aloud. He was talking to
+himself, but Gollum thought it was a riddle, and he was frightfully
+upset.
+
+`Not fair! not fair!' he hissed. `It isn't fair, my precious, is it,
+to ask us what it's got in its nassty little pocketses?'
+
+Bilbo seeing what had happened and having nothing better to ask
+stuck to his question, `What have I got in my pocket?' he said
+louder.
-Z<>
+`S-s-s-s-s,' hissed Gollum. `It must give us three guesseses,
+my precious, three guesseses.'
-=head2 5.005_04 - no epigraph
+=head2 v5.6.1-foolish - no epigraph
-Z<>
+L<Announced on 2001-08-04 by Gurusamy Sarathy|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2001/04/msg33421.html>
-=head2 5.005_04-RC2 - Rudyard Kipling, "The Jungle Book"
+=head2 v5.6.1-TRIAL3 - I can't find the announcement
+
+No announcement available.
+
+=head2 v5.6.1-TRIAL2 - no epigraph
+
+L<Announced on 2001-01-31 by Gurusamy Sarathy|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2001/01/msg29934.html>
+
+=head2 v5.6.1-TRIAL1 - no epigraph
+
+L<Announced on 2000-12-18 by Gurusamy Sarathy|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2000/12/msg27738.html>
+
+=head2 v5.6.0 - J R R Tolkien, "The Hobbit", The Last Stage
+
+L<Announced on 2000-03-23 by Gurusamy Sarathy|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2000/03/msg10341.html>
+
+ The dragon is withered,
+ His bones are now crumbled;
+ His armour is shivered,
+ His splendour is humbled!
+ Though sword shall be rusted,
+ And throne and crown perish
+ With strength that men trusted
+ And wealth that they cherish,
+ Here grass is still growing,
+ And leaves are a yet swinging,
+ The white water flowing,
+ And elves are yet singing
+ Come! Tra-la-la-lally!
+ Come back to the valley.
+
+=head2 v5.6.0-RC3 - no epigraph
+
+L<Announced on 2000-03-22 by Gurusamy Sarathy|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2000/03/msg10140.html>
+
+=head2 v5.005_05-RC1 - no epigraph
+
+L<Announced on 2009-02-16 by LE<0xe9>on Brocard|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2009/02/msg144227.html>
+
+=head2 v5.005_04 - no epigraph
+
+L<Announced on 2004-03-01 by LE<0xe9>on Brocard|http://groups.google.com/group/perl.perl5.porters/msg/6c240ad0b189cb47>
+
+=head2 v5.005_04-RC2 - Rudyard Kipling, "The Jungle Book"
+
+L<Announced on 2004-02-19 by LE<0xe9>on Brocard|http://groups.google.com/group/perl.perl5.porters/msg/83e5421124a7b49d>
The monkeys called the place their city, and pretended to despise
the Jungle-People because they lived in the forest. And yet they
the rose trees and the oranges in sport to see the fruit and flowers
fall.
-=head2 5.005_04-RC1 - Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
+=head2 v5.005_04-RC1 - Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
+
+L<Announced on 2004-02-05 by LE<0xe9>on Brocard|http://groups.google.com/group/perl.perl5.porters/msg/6aaeb6ec699bd116>
Either the well was very deep, or she fell very slowly, for she had
plenty of time as she went down to look about her and to wonder what was
of killing somebody, so managed to put it into one of the cupboards as
she fell past it.
+=head2 v1.0_16 - Johan Vromans, extemporarily
+
+L<Announced on 2003-12-18 by Richard Clamp|http://groups.google.com/group/perl.perl5.porters/msg/9281dc6194d15940>
+
=head1 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
This document was originally compiled based on a list of epigraphs
https://perl5.git.perl.org / perl5.git / blobdiff