=head1 EPIGRAPHS
+=head2 v5.32.0-RC0 - Franz Kafka
+
+Announced on 2020-05-30 by Sawyer X
+
+There are some things one can only achieve by a deliberate leap in the opposite direction.
+
+=head2 v5.31.11 - John F. Kennedy, National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy
+
+L<Announced on 2020-04-28 by Sawyer X|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2020/04/msg257385.html>
+
+Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind.
+
+=head2 v5.31.10 - Christina Rossetti, "Remember"
+
+L<Announced on 2020-03-20 by Sawyer X|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2020/03/msg257274.html>
+
+ Remember me when I am gone away,
+ Gone far away into the silent land;
+ When you can no more hold me by the hand,
+ Nor I half turn to go yet turning stay.
+ Remember me when no more day by day
+ You tell me of our future that you plann'd:
+ Only remember me; you understand
+ It will be late to counsel then or pray.
+ Yet if you should forget me for a while
+ And afterwards remember, do not grieve:
+ For if the darkness and corruption leave
+ A vestige of the thoughts that once I had,
+ Better by far you should forget and smile
+ Than that you should remember and be sad.
+
+=head2 v5.31.9 - Sten Nadolny, book The Discovery of Slowness
+
+L<Announced on 2020-02-20 by Renee Bäcker|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2020/02/msg257144.html>
+
+ „When people talk too fast the content becomes as superfluous as the speed.“
+
+=head2 v5.31.8 - Joe Perham, "Joe Perham's Guide to Hunting and Guide to Fishing in Maine"
+
+L<Announced on 2020-01-20 by Matthew Horsfall|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2020/01/msg256894.html>
+
+ Harry used to cut wood for the Brown company over in Stoneham Red
+ Rock Basin. And of course he was the best shot in camp. One day the
+ foreman told him to go get some meat.
+
+ "Take any gun you want."
+
+ Harry says "I'll take the .45-70."
+
+ Foreman said "That gun's only got one bullet."
+
+ Harry says "I only need one bullet."
+
+ Took the .45-70, went out, an hour later he was back with two Moose,
+ a dozen trout you see, and a fluffy partridge. Went back to work.
+
+ Well at supper that night foreman says "Harry, um, something's
+ bothering me here a little bit. How did you get all that food with
+ only one bullet. I'm a little confused about the... the partridge,
+ there ain't a mark on him."
+
+ "Well", Harry says, "I'll tell ya. I took that .45-70, went back into
+ the woods a piece there I come to this brook. And I just uh, got to
+ the other side when I happen to see two moose in the swamp off
+ there. I figured I could get both of 'em. So I took out my huntin'
+ knife and stuck it into the mud, hilt foremost, sharp edge on the
+ blade towards me of course. I took dead aim on that knife, fired,
+ split that bullet and killed those two moose. Well you know the
+ recoil knocked me back into the brook. When I come up out of the
+ water, my pants were so full of fish that it popped a button off my
+ fly and killed that bird."
+
+=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 v5.30.3 - Ben Aaronovitch, "Rivers of London"
+
+L<Announced on 2020-06-01 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2020/01/msg257498.html>
+
+Trewsbury Mead [...] According to the Ordnance Survey, this is where the
+Thames first rises 130 straight-line kilometres west of London. Just to
+the north is the site either of an Iron Age hill fort or a Roman
+encampment, the exact nature of which is awaiting an episode of Time
+Team. Apparently there is a soggy field, a stone to mark the spot and a
+chance, after a particularly wet winter, that you might see some water.
+
+=head2 v5.30.2 - Francesco Maria Piave, trans. Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, "La traviata", Act II, Scene 2
+
+L<Announced on 2020-03-14 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2020/03/msg257227.html>
+
+ FLORA, GASTON, DOCTOR, MARQUIS, CHORUS
+ (to Violetta)
+ Yes, you have suffered, but take heart!
+ Every one of us has shared your pain;
+ friends are around you to dry the tears
+ you have shed.
+
+ GERMONT
+ (I alone know the true devotion
+ this poor girl hides within her breast;
+ I know her faithful heart,
+ but I'm vowed so cruelly to silence.)
+
+ BARON
+ (softly to Alfredo)
+ Your deadly insult to this lady
+ offends us all, but such an outrage
+ shall not go unavenged!
+ I shall find a way to humble your pride!
+
+ ALFREDO
+ (Alas, what have I done? I feel terrible about it.
+ She will never forgive me.)
+
+ VIOLETTA
+ (coming to herself)
+ Alfredo, how should you understand
+ all the love that's in my heart?
+ How should you know that I have proved it,
+ even at the price of your contempt?
+
+ But the time will come when you will know,
+ when you'll admit how much I loved you.
+ God save you then from all remorse!
+ Even after death I shall still love you.
+
+=head2 v5.30.2-RC1 - Francesco Maria Piave, trans. Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, "La traviata", Act II, Scene 2
+
+L<Announced on 2020-02-29 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2020/02/msg257163.html>
+
+ ALFREDO
+ For me this woman lost
+ all she possessed.
+ I was blind, a wretched coward,
+ I accepted it all.
+ But it's time now for me to clear
+ myself from debt.
+ I call you all to witness here
+ that I've paid her back!
+
+ (Contemptuously, he throws his winnings at Violetta's feet.
+ She swoons in Flora's arms. Alfredo's father arrives suddenly.)
+
+ ALL
+ What you have done
+ is shameful!
+ To strike down
+ a tender heart that way!
+ You have insulted
+ a woman!
+ Get out of here!
+ We've no use for the likes of you!
+ Go!
+
+ GERMONT
+ (dignified in his anger)
+ A man who offends a woman, even in anger,
+ deserves nothing but scorn.
+ Where is my son? I no longer see him
+ in you, Alfredo.
+
+ ALFREDO
+ (What have I done? Yes, I despise myself!
+ Jealous madness, love deceived,
+ ravaged my soul, destroyed my reason.
+ How can I ever gain her pardon?
+ I would have left her, but I couldn't;
+ I came here to vent my anger,
+ But now I've done that, wretch that I am,
+ I feel nothing but deep remorse!)
+
+=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
+
+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
+
+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.
+
+ -- Derek Walcott
+
+=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/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.
+
+ -- Marcel Proust
+
+=head2 v5.29.10 - Maya Angelou, Alone
+
+L<Announced on 2019-04-20 by Sawyer X|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/04/msg254467.html>
+
+ Lying, thinking
+ Last night
+ How to find my soul a home
+ Where water is not thirsty
+ And bread loaf is not stone
+ I came up with one thing
+ And I don't believe I'm wrong
+ That nobody,
+ But nobody
+ Can make it out here alone.
+
+ Alone, all alone
+ Nobody, but nobody
+ Can make it out here alone.
+
+ There are some millionaires
+ With money they can't use
+ Their wives run round like banshees
+ Their children sing the blues
+ They've got expensive doctors
+ To cure their hearts of stone.
+ But nobody
+ No, nobody
+ Can make it out here alone.
+
+ Alone, all alone
+ Nobody, but nobody
+ Can make it out here alone.
+
+ Now if you listen closely
+ I'll tell you what I know
+ Storm clouds are gathering
+ The wind is gonna blow
+ The race of man is suffering
+ And I can hear the moan,
+ 'Cause nobody,
+ But nobody
+ Can make it out here alone.
+
+ Alone, all alone
+ Nobody, but nobody
+ Can make it out here alone.
+
+=head2 v5.29.9 - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Dancing Men
+
+L<Announced on 2019-03-21 by Zak Elep|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/03/msg253978.html>
+
+ What one man can invent, another can discover.
+
+=head2 v5.29.8 - Isaac Asimov, Foundation: “Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.”
+
+L<Announced on 2019-02-20 by Atoomic|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/02/msg253750.html>
+
+=head2 v5.29.7 - Edsger W. Dijkstra: "Programming Considered as a Human Activity", IFIP Congress, New York, 1965.
+
+L<Announced on 2019-01-20 by Abigail|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/01/msg253444.html>
+
+When I became acquainted with the notion of algorithmic languages I
+never challenged the then prevailing notion that the problems of
+language design and implementation were mostly a question of
+compromises: every new convenience for the user had to be paid for
+by the implementation, either in the form of increased trouble
+during translation, or during execution or during both. Well, we
+are most certainly not living in Heaven and I am not going to deny
+the possibility of a conflict between convenience and efficiency,
+but now I do protest when this conflict is presented as a complete
+summing up of the situation. I am of the opinion that is worth-while
+to investigate what extent the needs of Man and Machine go hand in
+hand and to see what techniques we can devise of the benefit of all
+of us. I trust that this investigation will bear fruits and if this
+talk made some of you share this fervent hope, it has achieved its aim.
+
=head2 v5.29.6 - Rudyard Kipling: "How the Camel Got His Hump"
L<Announced on 2018-12-18 by Abigail|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/12/msg253187.html>
Courage is the only antidote for danger.
+=head2 v5.28.3 - Ben Aaronovitch, "Rivers of London"
+
+L<Announced on 2020-06-01 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2020/01/msg257497.html>
+
+The north end of the London Borough of Camden is dominated by two hills,
+Hampstead on the west, Highgate on the east, with the Heath, one of the
+largest parks in London, slung between them like a green saddle. From
+these heights the land slopes down towards the River Thames and the
+floodplains that lurk below the built-up centre of London.
+
+=head2 v5.28.2 - Edward Lear, ed. Vivien Noakes, "The Complete Nonsense and Other Verse": The Jumblies
+
+L<Announced on 2019-04-19 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/04/msg254456.html>
+
+ They went to sea in a Sieve, they did,
+ In a Sieve they went to sea:
+ In spite of all their friends could say,
+ On a winter's morn, on a stormy day,
+ In a Sieve they went to sea!
+ And when the Sieve turned round and round,
+ And every one cried, 'You'll all be drowned!'
+ They called aloud, 'Our Sieve ain't big,
+ But we don't care a button! we don't care a fig!
+ In a Sieve we'll go to sea!'
+ Far and few, far and few,
+ Are the lands where the Jumblies live;
+ Their heads are green, and their hands are blue,
+ And they went to sea in a Sieve.
+
+=head2 v5.28.2-RC1 - Edward Lear, ed. Vivien Noakes, "The Complete Nonsense and Other Verse": The Quangle Wangle's Hat
+
+L<Announced on 2019-04-05 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/04/msg254218.html>
+
+ On the top of the Crumpetty Tree
+ The Quangle Wangle sat,
+ But his face you could not see,
+ On account of his Beaver Hat.
+ For his Hat was a hundred and two feet wide,
+ With ribbons and bibbons on every side,
+ And bells, and buttons, and loops, and lace,
+ So that nobody ever could see the face
+ Of the Quangle Wangle Quee.
+
=head2 v5.28.1 - Humphrey Burton, "Leonard Bernstein"
L<Announced on 2018-11-29 by Steve Hay|http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/11/msg252975.html>
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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