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
+I<Note>: these have also been referred to as I<epigrams>, but the
definition of I<epigraph> is closer to the way they have been used.
Consult your favorite dictionary for details.
=head1 EPIGRAPHS
+=head2 v5.23.2 - Blind Guardian, "Skalds and Shadows"
+
+L<Announced on 2015-08-20 by Matthew Horsfall|http://TBD>
+
+ Would you believe in a night like this
+ A night like this, when visions come true
+ Would you believe in a tale like this
+ A lay of bliss, praise in the old lore
+ Come to the blazing fire and
+
+ See me in the shadows
+ See me in the shadows
+ Songs I will sing
+ Of runes and rings
+ Just hand me my harp
+ This night turns into myth
+ Nothing seems real
+ You soon will feel
+ The world we live in is another skald's
+ Dream in the shadows
+ Dream in the shadows
+
+ Do you believe there is sense in it
+ Is it truth or myth?
+ They´re one in my rhymes
+ Nobody knows the meaning behind
+ The weaver's line
+ Well nobody else but the Norns can
+ See through the blazing fires of time and
+ All things will proceed as the
+ Child of the hallowed
+ Will speak to you now
+
+ See me in the shadows
+ See me in the shadows
+ Songs I will sing of tribes and kings
+ The carrion bird and the hall of the slain
+ Nothing seems real
+ You soon will feel
+ The world we live in is another skald´s
+ Dream in the shadows
+ Dream in the shadows
+
+ Do not fear for my reason
+ There's nothing to hide
+ How bitter your treason
+ How bitter the lie
+ Remember the runes and remember the light
+ All I ever want is to be at your side
+ We'll gladden the raven now I will
+ Run through the blazing fires
+ That's my choice
+ Cause things shall proceed as foreseen
+
+=head2 v5.23.1 - Elizabeth Haydon, "The Assassin King"
+
+L<Announced on 2015-07-20 by Matthew Horsfall|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/07/msg229413.html>
+
+ I was born beneath this willow,
+ Where my sire the earth did farm
+ Had the green grass as my pillow
+ The east wind as a blanket warm.
+
+ But away! away! called the wind from the west
+ And in answer I did run
+ Seeking glory and adventure
+ Promised by the rising sun.
+
+ I found love beneath this willow,
+ As true a love as life could hold,
+ Pledged my heart and swore my fealty
+ Sealed with a kiss and a band of gold.
+
+ But to arms! to arms! called the wind from the west
+ In faithful answer I did run
+ Marching forth for king and country
+ In battles 'neath the midday sun.
+
+ Oft I dreamt of that fair willow
+ As the seven seas I plied
+ And the girl who I left waiting
+ Longing to be at her side.
+
+ But about! about! called the wind from the west
+ As once again my ship did run
+ Down the coast, about the wide world
+ Flying sails in the setting sun.
+
+ Now I lie beneath the willow
+ Now at last no more to roam,
+ My bride and earth so tightly hold me
+ In their arms I'm finally home.
+
+ While away! away! calls the wind from the west
+ Beyond the grave my spirit, free
+ Will chase the sun into the morning
+ Beyond the sky, beyond the sea.
+
+=head2 v5.23.0 - Bob Dylan, Maggie's Farm
+
+L<Announced on 2015-06-20 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/06/msg228807.html>
+
+ I ain't gonna work on Maggie's farm no more
+ I ain't gonna work on Maggie's farm no more
+ Well, I try my best
+ To be just like I am
+ But everybody wants you
+ To be just like them
+ They sing while you slave and I just get bored
+ I ain't gonna work on Maggie's farm no more
+
+=head2 v5.22.0 - Gene Wolfe, The Citadel of the Autarch
+
+L<Announced on 2015-06-01 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/06/msg228300.html>
+
+“You are the advocate of the dead.”
+
+The old man nodded. “I am. People talk about being fair to this one and
+that one, but nobody I ever heard talks about doing right by them. We
+take everything they had, which is all right. And spit, most often, on
+their opinions, which I suppose is all right too. But we ought to
+remember now and then how much of what we have we got from them. I
+figure while I’m still here I ought to put a word in for them.”
+
+=head2 v5.22.0-RC2 - T.S. Eliot, unpublished work
+
+L<Announced on 2015-05-21 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/05/msg228142.html>
+
+ And when thyself with silver foot shall pass
+ Among the theories scattered on the grass
+ Take up my good intentions with the rest
+
+=head2 v5.22.0-RC1 - Gene Wolfe, Citadel of the Autarch
+
+L<Announced on 2015-05-19 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/05/msg228059.html>
+
+There is no limit to stupidity. Space itself is said to be bounded by
+its own curvature, but stupidity continues beyond infinity.
+
+=head2 v5.21.11 - Algernon Charles Swinburne, "Dolores (Notre-Dame des Sept Douleurs)"
+
+L<Announced on 2015-04-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/04/msg227472.html>
+
+ They shall pass and their places be taken,
+ The gods and the priests that are pure.
+ They shall pass, and shalt thou not be shaken?
+ They shall perish, and shalt thou endure?
+ Death laughs, breathing close and relentless
+ In the nostrils and eyelids of lust,
+ With a pinch in his fingers of scentless
+ And delicate dust.
+
+ But the worm shall revive thee with kisses;
+ Thou shalt change and transmute as a god,
+ As the rod to a serpent that hisses,
+ As the serpent again to a rod.
+ Thy life shall not cease though thou doff it;
+ Thou shalt live until evil be slain,
+ And good shall die first, said thy prophet,
+ Our Lady of Pain.
+
+=head2 v5.21.10 - Aldous Huxley, "The Devils of Loudun"
+
+L<Announced on 2015-03-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/03/msg226847.html>
+
+The fire burned on, the good fathers continued to sprinkle and intone.
+Suddenly a flock of pigeons came swooping down from the church and
+started to wheel around the roaring column of flame and smoke. The
+crowd shouted, the archers waved their halberds at the birds, Lactance
+and Tranquille splashed them on the wing with holy water. In vain. The
+pigeons were not to be driven away. Round and round they flew, diving
+through the smoke, singeing their feathers in the flames. Both parties
+claimed a miracle. For the parson's enemies the birds, quite obviously,
+were a troop of devils, come to fetch away his soul. For his friends,
+they were emblems of the Holy Ghost and living proof of his innocence.
+It never seems to have occurred to anyone that they were just pigeons,
+obeying the laws of their own, their blessedly other-than-human nature.
+
+=head2 v5.21.9 - Emily Dickinson, "There is Another Sky"
+
+L<Announced on 2015-02-20 by Sawyer X|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/02/msg226002.html>
+
+ There is another sky,
+ Ever serene and fair,
+ And there is another sunshine,
+ Though it be darkness there;
+ Never mind faded forests, Austin,
+ Never mind silent fields -
+ Here is a little forest,
+ Whose leaf is ever green;
+ Here is a brighter garden,
+ Where not a frost has been;
+ In its unfading flowers
+ I hear the bright bee hum:
+ Prithee, my brother,
+ Into my garden come!
+
+=head2 v5.21.8 - Bill Watterson, "Scientific Progress Goes 'Boink': A Calvin and Hobbes Collection"
+
+L<Announced on 2015-01-20 by Matthew Horsfall|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/01/msg224869.html>
+
+Calvin: OK Hobbes, press the button and duplicate me.
+Hobbes: Are you sure this is such a good idea?
+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?
+Hobbes: I'd hate to be accused of inhibiting scientific progress... Here you go.
+[Box]: *BOINK*
+Hobbes: Scientific progress goes "BOINK"?
+Calvin?: It worked! It worked! I'm a genius!
+Cavlin??: No you're not, you liar! *I* invented this!
+
=head2 v5.21.7 - Robert Heinlein, "The Number of the Beast"
L<Announced on 2014-12-20 by Max Maischein|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/12/msg223774.html>
and Lama-Lama! They continued this for at least half an hour, during
which we had a good opportunity of observing their appearance.
+=head2 v5.21.3 - Robert Service, "The Men that Don't Fit In"
+
+L<Announced on 2014-08-20 by Peter Martini|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/08/msg218826.html>
+
+ If they just went straight they might go far,
+ They are strong and brave and true;
+ But they're always tired of the things that are,
+ And they want the strange and new.
+ They say: "Could I find my proper groove,
+ What a deep mark I would make!"
+ So they chop and change, and each fresh move
+ Is only a fresh mistake.
+
+=head2 v5.21.2 - Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, Charlie Duke, Final minutes of communication of the first manned moon landing, July 20, 1969
+
+L<Announced on 2014-07-20 by Abigail|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/07/msg217937.html>
+
+ Armstrong: Okay. Here's a...Looks like a good area here.
+ Aldrin: I got the shadow out there.
+ Aldrin: 250, down at 2 1/2, 19 forward.
+ Aldrin: Altitude, velocity lights.
+ Aldrin: 3 1/2 down, 220 feet, 13 forward.
+ Aldrin: 11 forward. Coming down nicely.
+ Armstrong: Gonna be right over that crater.
+ Aldrin: 200 feet, 4 1/2 down.
+ Aldrin: 5 1/2 down.
+ Armstrong: I got a good spot [garbled].
+ Aldrin: 160 feet, 6 1/2 down.
+ Aldrin: 5 1/2 down, 9 forward. You're looking good.
+ Aldrin: 120 feet.
+ Aldrin: 100 feet, 3 1/2 down, 9 forward. Five percent. Quantity light.
+ Aldrin: Okay. 75 feet. And it's looking good. Down a half, 6 forward.
+ Duke: 60 seconds.
+ Aldrin: Light's on.
+ Aldrin: 60 feet, down 2 1/2. 2 forward. 2 forward. That's good.
+ Aldrin: 40 feet, down 2 1/2. Picking up some dust.
+ Aldrin: 30 feet, 2 1/2 down. [Garbled] shadow.
+ Aldrin: 4 forward. 4 forward. Drifting to the right a little. 20 feet,
+ down a half.
+ Duke: 30 seconds.
+ Aldrin: Drifting forward just a little bit; that's good.
+ Aldrin: Contact Light.
+ Armstrong: Shutdown.
+ Aldrin: Okay. Engine Stop.
+ Aldrin: ACA out of Detent.
+ Armstrong: Out of Detent. Auto.
+ Aldrin: Mode Control, both Auto. Descent Engine Command Override, Off.
+ Engine Arm, Off. 413 is in.
+ Duke: We copy you down, Eagle.
+ Armstrong: Engine arm is off.
+ Armstrong: Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed.
+ Duke: Roger, Twan...[correcting himself] Tranquility. We copy you on
+ the ground. You got a bunch of guys about to turn blue.
+ We're breathing again. Thanks a lot.
+ Aldrin: Thank you.
+
+=head2 v5.21.1 - Robert Jordan, "The Crossroads of Twilights", Book 10 of "The Wheel of Time"
+
+L<Announced on 2014-06-20 by Matthew Horsfall|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/06/msg217030.html>
+
+ We rode on the winds of the rising storm,
+ We ran to the sounds of the thunder.
+ We danced among the lightning bolts,
+ and tore the world asunder.
+
+ -- Anonymous fragment of a poem believed
+ written near the end of the previous Age,
+ known by some as the Third Age.
+ Sometimes attributed to the Dragon
+ Reborn.
+
+=head2 v5.21.0 - Friedrich von Schiller, "The Song of the Bell"
+
+L<Announced on 2014-05-27 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/05/msg215826.html>
+
+ Walled in fast within the earth
+ Stands the form burnt out of clay.
+ This must be the bell’s great birth!
+ Fellows, lend a hand to-day.
+ Sweat must trickle now
+ From the burning brow,
+ Till the work its master honour.
+ Blessing comes from Heaven’s Donor.
+
+=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"
+
+L<Announced on 2015-08-22 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/08/msg230359.html>
+
+'On the night of the wedding the ape came to sit in front of me and
+asked me what I intended to do. "Whatever you tell me," I replied,
+and he said: "Take care not to covet the girl, or I shall come back
+and burn you up and leave you as a lesson for those who can learn."
+I agreed to this and when evening came I found the world full of
+candles and torches burning in holders of gold and silver. There
+were servants and serving girls, and everyone who saw me
+congratulated me on my good fortune, as there was no girl on the
+face of the earth more beautiful than my bride.
+[...]
+'Next morning I went out to the market, and people went in and asked
+her how the night had been. "He never looked up at me," she told
+them. Then, when it was afternoon, I went to my house, where the
+ape was sitting by the door. "Tell me what you did," it said, and I
+told it: "By God, I did not learn and do not know whether this was a
+man or a girl." "That's what I want," it said.
+[...]
+'On the second night my bride was brought to me, after which the
+servants left her and went away. She fell asleep, and, while she
+was sleeping, I killed the cock, wrapped it in the cloth and put the
+four poles from the couch over it. Suddenly there was a huge crash
+like a peal of thunder and a fiery 'ifrit swooped on the girl. I
+fainted at the sight and when I recovered I heard a voice saying:
+"By the Lord of the Ka'ba, the girl has been carried off!" and there
+was a sound like the rustling of wind and bitter weeping. At this I
+shed tears, struck my head and was filled with regret when it was no
+longer of any use, for to me the whole world was worth no more than
+a bean.
+
+=head2 v5.20.2 - Jonathan "Jonti" Picking, L<"Magical Trevor"|http://www.weebls-stuff.com/other-toons/video/magical-trevor.html>
+
+L<Announced on 2015-02-14 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/02/msg225777.html>
+
+ Everyone loves Magical Trevor,
+ 'Cos the tricks that he does are ever so clever;
+ Look at him now, disappearin' the cow,
+ Where is the cow hidden right now?
+
+ Taking a bow, it's Magical Trevor,
+ Everybody's seen that the trick is clever;
+ Look at him there with his leathery, leathery whip!
+ It's made of magic, and with a little flip--
+
+ Yeah, yeah, yeah, the cow is back,
+ Yeah, yeah, yeah, the cow is back;
+ Back, back, back from his magical journey,
+ Yeah!
+
+ What did he see in the parallel dimension?
+ He saw beans, lots of beans, lots of beans, lots of beans;
+ Oh, beans, lots of beans, lots of beans, lots of beans,
+ Yeah, yeah!
+
+=head2 v5.20.2-RC1 - Jonathan "Jonti" Picking, L<"Scampi"|http://www.weebls-stuff.com/other-toons/video/scampi.html>
+
+L<Announced on 2015-02-01 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/02/msg225273.html>
+
+ I've seen things,
+ I've seen them with my eyes;
+ I've seen things,
+ They're often in disguise.
+
+ Like carrots, handbags, cheese, toilets,
+ Russians, planets, hamsters, weddings,
+ Poets, Stalin, Kuala Lumpur!
+ Pygmies, budgies, Kuala Lumpur!
+
+ I've seen things,
+ I've seen them with my eyes;
+ I've seen things,
+ They're often in disguise.
+
+ Like carrots, handbags, cheese...
+
=head2 v5.20.1 - Lorenzo da Ponte, trans. Diana Reed, "Così fan tutte"
L<Announced on 2014-09-14 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/09/msg219789.html>
DORABELLA: Where are they?
DON ALFONSO: Come in, friends.
-=head2 v5.21.3 - Robert Service, "The Men that Don't Fit In"
-
-L<Announced on 2014-08-20 by Peter Martini|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/08/msg218826.html>
-
- If they just went straight they might go far,
- They are strong and brave and true;
- But they're always tired of the things that are,
- And they want the strange and new.
- They say: "Could I find my proper groove,
- What a deep mark I would make!"
- So they chop and change, and each fresh move
- Is only a fresh mistake.
-
-=head2 v5.21.2 - Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, Charlie Duke, Final minutes of communication of the first manned moon landing, July 20, 1969
-
-L<Announced on 2014-07-20 by Abigail|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/07/msg217937.html>
-
- Armstrong: Okay. Here's a...Looks like a good area here.
- Aldrin: I got the shadow out there.
- Aldrin: 250, down at 2 1/2, 19 forward.
- Aldrin: Altitude, velocity lights.
- Aldrin: 3 1/2 down, 220 feet, 13 forward.
- Aldrin: 11 forward. Coming down nicely.
- Armstrong: Gonna be right over that crater.
- Aldrin: 200 feet, 4 1/2 down.
- Aldrin: 5 1/2 down.
- Armstrong: I got a good spot [garbled].
- Aldrin: 160 feet, 6 1/2 down.
- Aldrin: 5 1/2 down, 9 forward. You're looking good.
- Aldrin: 120 feet.
- Aldrin: 100 feet, 3 1/2 down, 9 forward. Five percent. Quantity light.
- Aldrin: Okay. 75 feet. And it's looking good. Down a half, 6 forward.
- Duke: 60 seconds.
- Aldrin: Light's on.
- Aldrin: 60 feet, down 2 1/2. 2 forward. 2 forward. That's good.
- Aldrin: 40 feet, down 2 1/2. Picking up some dust.
- Aldrin: 30 feet, 2 1/2 down. [Garbled] shadow.
- Aldrin: 4 forward. 4 forward. Drifting to the right a little. 20 feet,
- down a half.
- Duke: 30 seconds.
- Aldrin: Drifting forward just a little bit; that's good.
- Aldrin: Contact Light.
- Armstrong: Shutdown.
- Aldrin: Okay. Engine Stop.
- Aldrin: ACA out of Detent.
- Armstrong: Out of Detent. Auto.
- Aldrin: Mode Control, both Auto. Descent Engine Command Override, Off.
- Engine Arm, Off. 413 is in.
- Duke: We copy you down, Eagle.
- Armstrong: Engine arm is off.
- Armstrong: Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed.
- Duke: Roger, Twan...[correcting himself] Tranquility. We copy you on
- the ground. You got a bunch of guys about to turn blue.
- We're breathing again. Thanks a lot.
- Aldrin: Thank you.
-
-=head2 v5.21.1 - Robert Jordan, "The Crossroads of Twilights", Book 10 of "The Wheel of Time"
-
-L<Announced on 2014-06-20 by Matthew Horsfall|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/06/msg217030.html>
-
- We rode on the winds of the rising storm,
- We ran to the sounds of the thunder.
- We danced among the lightning bolts,
- and tore the world asunder.
-
- -- Anonymous fragment of a poem believed
- written near the end of the previous Age,
- known by some as the Third Age.
- Sometimes attributed to the Dragon
- Reborn.
-
-=head2 v5.21.0 - Friedrich von Schiller, "The Song of the Bell"
-
-L<Announced on 2014-05-27 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/05/msg215826.html>
-
- Walled in fast within the earth
- Stands the form burnt out of clay.
- This must be the bell’s great birth!
- Fellows, lend a hand to-day.
- Sweat must trickle now
- From the burning brow,
- Till the work its master honour.
- Blessing comes from Heaven’s Donor.
-
=head2 v5.20.0 - William Shakespeare, Sonnet 18
L<Announced on 2014-05-27 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/05/msg215815.html>
Most automation works far better as a part of a whole, and even if human-
powerful, it does not need to self-know.
-=head2 v5.16.3 - Devo, "Freedom of Choice"
-
-L<Announced on 2013-03-11 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/03/msg200009.html>
-
- A victim of collision on the open sea
- Nobody ever said that life was free
- Sink, swim, go down with the ship
- But use your freedom of choice
-
-=head2 v5.14.4 - Arthur C. Clarke, "The Nine Billion Names of God"
-
-L<Announced on 2013-03-11 by Dave Mitchell|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/03/msg199988.html>
-
-He began to sing, but gave it up after a while. This vast arena of
-mountains, gleaming like whitely hooded ghosts on every side, did not
-encourage such ebullience. Presently George glanced at his watch.
-
-'Should be there in an hour,' he called back over his shoulder to
-Chuck. Then he added, in an afterthought: 'Wonder if the computer's
-finished its run. It was due about now.'
-
-Chuck didn't reply, so George swung round in his saddle. He could just
-see Chuck's face, a white oval turned towards the sky.
-
-'Look,' whispered Chuck, and George lifted his eyes to heaven. (There
-is always a last time for everything.)
-
-Overhead, without any fuss, the stars were going out.
-
-
=head2 v5.17.9 - Douglas Adams, "The Hitch-Hikers Guide to the Galaxy"
L<Announced on 2013-02-20 by Chris 'BinGOs' Williams|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/02/msg199115.html>
vanity, without lust — and one accepted at its face value the title Salo
had engraved on the statue, "Discovery of Atomic Power."
-=head2 v5.12.5 - William Shakespeare, "Measure for Measure"
-
-L<Announced on 2012-11-10 by Dominic Hargreaves|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/11/msg195171.html>
-
- Music oft hath such a charm
- To make bad good, and good provoke to harm.
-
-=head2 v5.16.2 - Stanislaw Lem, "The Cyberiad", Trurl's Machine
-
-L<Announced on 2012-11-01 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/11/msg194915.html>
-
-Once upon a time Trurl the constructor built an eight-story thinking
-machine. When it was finished, he gave it a coat of white paint,
-trimmed the edges in lavender, stepped back, squinted, then added a
-little curlicue on the front and, where one might imagine the forehead
-to be, a few pale orange polkadots. Extremely pleased with himself,
-he whistled an air and, as is always done on such occasions, asked it
-the ritual question of how much is two plus two.
-
-The machine stirred. Its tubes began to glow, its coils warmed up,
-current coursed through all its circuits like a waterfall,
-transformers hummed and throbbed, there was a clanging, and a
-chugging, and such an ungodly racket that Trurl began to think of
-adding a special mentation muffler. Meanwhile the machine labored on,
-as if it had been given the most difficult problem in the Universe to
-solve; the ground shook, the sand slid underfoot from the vibration,
-valves popped like champagne corks, the relays nearly gave way under
-the strain. At last, when Trurl had grown extremely impatient, the
-machine ground to a halt and said in a voice like thunder: SEVEN!
-
=head2 v5.17.5 - Charles Stross, "Singularity Sky"
L<Announced on 2012-10-20 by Florian Ragwitz|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/10/msg194349.html>
out and Burya Rubenstein raised his hands, grinning wildly, to accept
the salute of the soldiers from the Skull Hill garrison.
+=head2 v5.16.3 - Devo, "Freedom of Choice"
+
+L<Announced on 2013-03-11 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/03/msg200009.html>
+
+ A victim of collision on the open sea
+ Nobody ever said that life was free
+ Sink, swim, go down with the ship
+ But use your freedom of choice
+
+=head2 v5.16.2 - Stanislaw Lem, "The Cyberiad", Trurl's Machine
+
+L<Announced on 2012-11-01 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/11/msg194915.html>
+
+Once upon a time Trurl the constructor built an eight-story thinking
+machine. When it was finished, he gave it a coat of white paint,
+trimmed the edges in lavender, stepped back, squinted, then added a
+little curlicue on the front and, where one might imagine the forehead
+to be, a few pale orange polkadots. Extremely pleased with himself,
+he whistled an air and, as is always done on such occasions, asked it
+the ritual question of how much is two plus two.
+
+The machine stirred. Its tubes began to glow, its coils warmed up,
+current coursed through all its circuits like a waterfall,
+transformers hummed and throbbed, there was a clanging, and a
+chugging, and such an ungodly racket that Trurl began to think of
+adding a special mentation muffler. Meanwhile the machine labored on,
+as if it had been given the most difficult problem in the Universe to
+solve; the ground shook, the sand slid underfoot from the vibration,
+valves popped like champagne corks, the relays nearly gave way under
+the strain. At last, when Trurl had grown extremely impatient, the
+machine ground to a halt and said in a voice like thunder: SEVEN!
+
=head2 v5.16.1 - Emerald Rose, "Never Split The Party"
L<Announced on 2012-08-08 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/08/msg190413.html>
The wizard in the middle, where he can shed some light
And you never let that damn thief out of sight…
-=head2 v5.16.1 RC1 - Tom Moldvay, Foreward to the "Dungeons & Dragons Basic Rulebook"
+=head2 v5.16.1-RC1 - Tom Moldvay, Foreward to the "Dungeons & Dragons Basic Rulebook"
L<Announced on 2012-08-03 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/08/msg190264.html>
without a broad perspective on the problem. The broader one's understanding of
the human experience, the better design we will have.
-=head2 v5.14.3 - William Shakespeare, "As You Like It"
-
-L<Announced on 2012-10-12 by Dominic Hargreaves|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/10/msg194057.html>
-
- The poor world is almost six thousand years old, and in all
- this time there was not any man died in his own person,
- videlicit, in a love-cause. Troilus had his brains dashed
- out with a Grecian club; yet he did what he could to die
- before, and he is one of the patterns of love. Leander, he
- would have lived many a fair year, though Hero had turned
- nun, if it had not been for a hot midsummer night; for, good
- youth, he went but forth to wash him in the Hellespont and
- being taken with the cramp was drowned and the foolish
- coroners of that age found it was 'Hero of Sestos.' But these
- are all lies: men have died from time to time and worms have
- eaten them, but not for love.
-
-=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, From the preface to "The Picture of Dorian Gray"
L<Announced on 2011-09-20 by Stevan Little|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/09/msg177427.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"
+=head2 v5.14.4 - Arthur C. Clarke, "The Nine Billion Names of God"
-L<Announced on 2011-06-20 by Leon Brocard|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/06/msg173725.html>
+L<Announced on 2013-03-11 by Dave Mitchell|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/03/msg199988.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!
+He began to sing, but gave it up after a while. This vast arena of
+mountains, gleaming like whitely hooded ghosts on every side, did not
+encourage such ebullience. Presently George glanced at his watch.
+
+'Should be there in an hour,' he called back over his shoulder to
+Chuck. Then he added, in an afterthought: 'Wonder if the computer's
+finished its run. It was due about now.'
+
+Chuck didn't reply, so George swung round in his saddle. He could just
+see Chuck's face, a white oval turned towards the sky.
+
+'Look,' whispered Chuck, and George lifted his eyes to heaven. (There
+is always a last time for everything.)
+
+Overhead, without any fuss, the stars were going out.
+
+=head2 v5.14.3 - William Shakespeare, "As You Like It"
+
+L<Announced on 2012-10-12 by Dominic Hargreaves|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/10/msg194057.html>
+
+ The poor world is almost six thousand years old, and in all
+ this time there was not any man died in his own person,
+ videlicit, in a love-cause. Troilus had his brains dashed
+ out with a Grecian club; yet he did what he could to die
+ before, and he is one of the patterns of love. Leander, he
+ would have lived many a fair year, though Hero had turned
+ nun, if it had not been for a hot midsummer night; for, good
+ youth, he went but forth to wash him in the Hellespont and
+ being taken with the cramp was drowned and the foolish
+ coroners of that age found it was 'Hero of Sestos.' But these
+ are all lies: men have died from time to time and worms have
+ eaten them, but not for love.
+
+=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 v5.14.1 - L<< Larry Wall, January 12, 1988 <992@devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV> |http://groups.google.com/group/comp.sources.d/msg/5d17fa68c250b9b2 >>
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>
"Only to think of the consequences," I mused, "if the old
volcano were once more to set to work."
+=head2 v5.12.5 - William Shakespeare, "Measure for Measure"
+
+L<Announced on 2012-11-10 by Dominic Hargreaves|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/11/msg195171.html>
+
+ Music oft hath such a charm
+ To make bad good, and good provoke to harm.
+
+=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 v5.12.4-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 v5.12.3 - 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>
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