+=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 v5.13.10 - Egill Skalla-Grímsson, L<Egils saga Skalla-Grímssonar|http://www.heimskringla.no/wiki/Egils_saga_Skalla-Gr%C3%ADmssonar>
+
+L<Annonced 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
=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.
=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.
=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
=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
=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 --
=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
accustomed to usurpation and conquest. Edwin and Morcar, the earls of
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!"
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>
- Stiletto: Si, Barone. Subito, Barone.
+Greenback: And the world is mine, all mine. Muhahahahaha. See to it!
+
+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.
+
+`S-s-s-s-s,' hissed Gollum. `It must give us three guesseses,
+my precious, three guesseses.'
+
+=head2 v5.6.1-foolish - no epigraph
+
+L<Announced on 2001-08-04 by Gurusamy Sarathy|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2001/04/msg33421.html>
+
+=head2 v5.6.1-TRIAL3 - I can't find the announcement
-Z<>
+No announcement available.
-=head2 5.005_04 - no epigraph
+=head2 v5.6.1-TRIAL2 - no epigraph
-Z<>
+L<Announced on 2001-01-31 by Gurusamy Sarathy|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2001/01/msg29934.html>
-=head2 5.005_04-RC2 - Rudyard Kipling, "The Jungle Book"
+=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