=head1 EPIGRAPHS
+=head2 v5.31.7 - Bernard Werber
+
+L<Announced on 2019-12-20 by Atoomic|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/12/msg256802.html>
+
+ Be quiet. Look at the stars and appreciate what you live.
+
+=head2 v5.31.6 - Neal Stephenson, "Quicksilver"
+
+L<Announced on 2019-11-20 by Chris 'BinGOs' Williams|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/11/msg256646.html>
+
+ Invocation
+
+ State your intentions, Muse. I know you're there.
+ Dead bards who pined for you have said
+ You're bright as flame, but fickle as the air.
+ My pen and I, submerged in liquid shade,
+ Much dark can spread, on days and over reams
+ But without you, no radiance can shed.
+ Why rustle in the dark, when fledged with fire?
+ Craze the night with flails of light. Reave
+ Your turbid shroud. Bestow what I require.
+
+ But you're not in the dark. I do believe
+ I swim, like squid, in clouds of my own make,
+ To you, offensive. To us both, opaque.
+ What's constituted so, only a pen
+ Can penetrate. I have one here; let's go.
+
+=head2 v5.31.5 - Edward Lear, ed. Vivien Noakes, "The Complete Nonsense and Other Verse": The Daddy Long-legs and the Fly
+
+L<Announced on 2019-10-20 by Steve Hay|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/10/msg256478.html>
+
+ 'O Mr Daddy Long-legs,'
+ Said Mr Floppy Fly,
+ 'It's true I never go to court,
+ And I will tell you why.
+ If I had six long legs like yours,
+ At once I'd go to court!
+ But oh! I can't, because my legs
+ Are so extremely short.
+ And I'm afraid the King and Queen
+ (One in red, and one in green)
+ Would say aloud, "You are not fit,
+ You Fly, to come to court a bit!"'
+
+=head2 v5.31.4 - Ann Leckie, "The Raven Tower"
+
+L<Announced on 2019-09-20 by Max Maischein|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/09/msg256254.html>
+
+ Stories can be risky for someone like me. What I say must be true, or it
+will be made true, and if it cannot be made true - if I don't have the
+power, or if what I have said is an impossibility - then I will pay the
+price. I might more or less safely say, "Once there was a man who rode
+home to attend his father's funeral and claim his inheritance, but
+matters were not as he expected them to be." I do not doubt that such a
+thing has happened more than once in all the time there have been
+fathers to die and sons to succeed them. But to go any further, I must
+supply more details - the specific actions of specific people, and their
+specific consequences - and there I might blunder, all unknowing, into
+untruth. It's safer for me to speak of what I know. Or to speak only in
+the safest of generalities. Or else to say plainly at the beginning,
+"Here is a story I have heard," placing the burden of truth or not on
+the teller whose words I am merely accurately reporting.
+
+ But what is the story that I am telling? Here is another story I have
+heard:
+Once there were two brothers, and one of them wanted what the other had.
+Bent all his will to obtain what the other had, no matter the cost.
+ Here is another story: Once there was a prisoner in a tower.
+ And another:
+Once someone risked their life out of duty and loyalty to a friend.
+ Ah, there's a story that I might tell, and truthfully.
+
+=head2 v5.31.3 - Samantha Harvey, "All Is Song"
+
+L<Announced on 2019-08-20 by Tom Hukins|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/08/msg256012.html>
+
+We are born from unity, we divide into isolation. We winnow ourselves
+out from the thing that first made sense of us and then expect to find
+meaning, yet a fraction makes no sense without the number of which
+it's a fractional part. We see loss, feel grief, give ourselves
+illness, we're cells that have over-divided and we call the division
+growth; the only real growth is in the return to unity, God, the
+unifying principle.
+
+Tired to his core, he turned the video off. The rain still poured as
+he went upstairs, and in bed as he tripped down into the deep open
+shaft of sleep he kept thinking that to divide by zero was to end up
+with infinity, as was to divide by God. To divide by God, to divide
+by God, over and over he thought it without sense; to divide by God; I
+must tell my students that the way to pass their exams is to divide by
+God. Then he must have slept, for it was morning.
+
+=head2 v5.31.2 - Edward Lear, ed. Vivien Noakes, "The Complete Nonsense and Other Verse": The Duck and the Kangaroo
+
+L<Announced on 2019-07-20 by Steve Hay|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/07/msg255639.html>
+
+ Said the Duck to the Kangaroo,
+ 'Good gracious! how you hop!
+ Over the fields and the water too,
+ As if you never would stop!
+ My life is a bore in this nasty pond,
+ And I long to go out in the world beyond!
+ I wish I could hop like you!'
+ Said the Duck to the Kangaroo.
+
+=head2 v5.31.1 - Kurt Vonnegut, _A Man without a Country_
+
+L<Announced on 2019-06-20 by Karen Etheridge|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/06/msg255243.html>
+
+On Tuesday, January 20, 2004, I sent Joel Bleifuss, my editor at _In These
+Times_, this fax:
+
+ ON ORANGE ALERT HERE.
+ ECONOMIC TERRORIST ATTACK
+ EXPECTED AT 8 PM EST. KV
+
+Worried, he called, asking what was up. I said I would tell him when I had
+more complete information on the bombs George Bush was set to deliver in his
+State of the Union address.
+
+That night I got a call from my friend, the out-of-print-science-fiction
+writer Kilgore Trout. He asked me, "Did you watch the State of the Union
+address?"
+
+"Yes, and it certainly helped to remember what the great British socialist
+playwright George Bernard Shaw said about this planet."
+
+"Which was?"
+
+"He said, 'I don't know if there are men on the moon, but if there are, they
+must be using the earth as their lunatic asylum.' And he wasn't talking
+about the germs or the elephants. He meant we the people."
+
+"Okay."
+
+"You don't think this is the Lunatic Asylum of the Universe?"
+
+"Kurt, I don't think I expressed an opinion one way of the other."
+
+"We are killing this planet as a life-support system with the poisons from
+all the thermodynamic whoopee we're making with atomic energy and fossil
+fuels, and everybody knows it, and practically nobody cares. This is how
+crazy we are. I think the planet's immune system is trying to get rid of us
+with AIDS and new strains of flu and tuberculosis, and so on. I think the
+planet should get rid of us. We're really awful animals. I mean, that dumb
+Barbra Streisand song, 'People who need people are the luckiest people in
+the world' -- she's talking about cannibals. Lots to eat. Yes, the planet is
+trying to get rid of us, but I think it's too late."
+
+And I said good-bye to my friend, hung up the phone, sat down and wrote this
+epitaph: "The good Earth -- we could have saved it, but we were too damn
+cheap and lazy."
+
+=head2 v5.31.0 - Fumiko Enchi, Masks
+
+L<Announced on 2019-05-24 by Sawyer X|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/05/msg254886.html>
+
+ The secrets inside her mind are like flowers in a garden at
+ nighttime, filling the darkness with perfume.
+
+=head2 v5.30.1 - Francesco Maria Piave, trans. Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, "La traviata", Act I: Brindisi
+
+L<Announced on 2019-11-10 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/11/msg256610.html>
+
+ VIOLETTA:
+ With you I would share
+ my days of happiness;
+ everything is folly in this world
+ that does not give us pleasure.
+ Let us enjoy life,
+ for the pleasures of love are swift and fleeting
+ as a flower that lives and dies
+ and can be enjoyed no more.
+ Let's take our pleasure while its ardent,
+ brilliant summons lures us on!
+
+=head2 v5.30.1-RC1 - Francesco Maria Piave, trans. Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, "La traviata", Act I: Brindisi
+
+L<Announced on 2019-10-27 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/10/msg256542.html>
+
+ ALFREDO:
+ Let's drink from the joyous chalice
+ where beauty flowers...
+ Let the fleeting hour
+ to pleasure's intoxication yield.
+ Let's drink
+ to love's sweet tremors --
+ to those eyes
+ that pierce the heart.
+ Let's drink to love -- to wine
+ that warms our kisses.
+
=head2 v5.30.0 - Morihei Ueshiba
-Announced on 2019-05-22 by Sawyer X
+L<Announced on 2019-05-22 by Sawyer X|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/05/msg254844.html>
Life is growth. If we stop growing, technically and spiritually, we
are as good as dead.
=head2 v5.30.0-RC2 - Derek Walcott
-Announced on 2019-05-17 by Sawyer X
+L<Announced on 2019-05-17 by Sawyer X|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/05/msg254824.html>
The truest writers are those who see language not as linguistic process but
as a living element.
=head2 v5.30.0-RC1 - Marcel Proust
-L<Announced on 2019-05-11 by Sawyer X|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/05/msg254750.html>
+L<Announced on 2019-05-11 by Sawyer X|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/05/msg254748.html>
If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream
less but to dream more, to dream all the time.
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>
+=head2 v5.20.2 - Jonathan "Jonti" Picking, L<"Magical Trevor"|http://weebls-stuff.com/toons/magical-trevor-episode-01-animated-music-video-mrweebl/>
L<Announced on 2015-02-14 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/02/msg225777.html>
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>
+=head2 v5.20.2-RC1 - Jonathan "Jonti" Picking, L<"Scampi"|http://weebls-stuff.com/toons/ive-seen-things-scampi-animated-music-video-mrweebl/>
L<Announced on 2015-02-01 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/02/msg225273.html>
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