X-Git-Url: https://perl5.git.perl.org/perl5.git/blobdiff_plain/e26216a593e250efb78a1fe042e64bacb6ed117d..9ac7fdd19a5856277cae70d1cf2f0734f7fe9530:/Porting/epigraphs.pod diff --git a/Porting/epigraphs.pod b/Porting/epigraphs.pod index 5130070..c7eabf7 100644 --- a/Porting/epigraphs.pod +++ b/Porting/epigraphs.pod @@ -17,6 +17,228 @@ Consult your favorite dictionary for details. =head1 EPIGRAPHS +=head2 v5.31.0 - Fumiko Enchi, Masks + +Announced on 2019-05-22 by Sawyer X + + The secrets inside her mind are like flowers in a garden at + nighttime, filling the darkness with perfume. + +=head2 v5.30.0 - Morihei Ueshiba + +Announced on 2019-05-22 by Sawyer X + + 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 + + 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 + + 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 + + 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 + + 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 + +=head2 v5.29.7 - Edsger W. Dijkstra: "Programming Considered as a Human Activity", IFIP Congress, New York, 1965. + +L + +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 + + The Camel's hump is an ugly lump + Which well you may see at the Zoo; + But uglier yet is the hump we get + From having little to do. + + Kiddies and grown-ups too-oo-oo + If we haven't enough to do-oo-oo, + We get the hump - + Cameelious hump - + The hump that is black and blue! + + We climb out of bed with a frouzly head + And a snarly-yarly voice. + We shiver and scowl and we grunt and we growl + At our bath and our boots and our toys; + + And there ought to be a corner for me + (And I know there is one for you) + When we get the hump - + Cameelious hump - + The hump that is black and blue! + + The cure for this ill is to not sit still, + Or frowst with a book by the fire; + But to take a large hoe and a shovel also, + And dig till you gentle perspire; + + And then you will find that the sun and the wind, + And the Djinn of the Garden too, + Have lifted the hump - + The horrible hump - + The hump that is black and blue! + + I get it as well as you-oo-oo - + If I haven't enough to do-oo-oo! + We all get hump - + Cameelious hump - + Kiddies and grown-ups too! + + +=head2 v5.29.5 - T. S. Eliot, "The Naming Of Cats" + +L + + The Naming of Cats is a difficult matter, + It isn't just one of your holiday games; + You may think at first I'm as mad as a hatter + When I tell you, a cat must have THREE DIFFERENT NAMES. + First of all, there's the name that the family use daily, + Such as Peter, Augustus, Alonzo or James, + Such as Victor or Jonathan, George or Bill Bailey-- + All of them sensible everyday names. + There are fancier names if you think they sound sweeter, + Some for the gentlemen, some for the dames: + Such as Plato, Admetus, Electra, Demeter-- + But all of them sensible everyday names. + But I tell you, a cat needs a name that's particular, + A name that's peculiar, and more dignified, + Else how can he keep up his tail perpendicular, + Or spread out his whiskers, or cherish his pride? + Of names of this kind, I can give you a quorum, + Such as Munkustrap, Quaxo, or Coricopat, + Such as Bombalurina, or else Jellylorum- + Names that never belong to more than one cat. + But above and beyond there's still one name left over, + And that is the name that you never will guess; + The name that no human research can discover-- + But THE CAT HIMSELF KNOWS, and will never confess. + When you notice a cat in profound meditation, + The reason, I tell you, is always the same: + His mind is engaged in a rapt contemplation + Of the thought, of the thought, of the thought of his name: + His ineffable effable + Effanineffable + Deep and inscrutable singular Name. + +=head2 v5.29.4 - The Mountain Goats, "Oceanographer's Choice" + +L + + Well + Guy in a skeleton costume + Comes up to the guy in the Superman suit + Runs through him with a broadsword + I flipped the television off + Bring all the bright lights up + Turn the radio up loud + I don't know why I'm so persuaded + That if I think things through + Long enough and hard enough + I'll somehow get to you + But then you came in and we locked eyes + You kicked the ashtray over as we came toward each other + Stubbed my cigarette out against the west wall + Quickly lit another + Look at that + Would you look at that? + We're throwing off sparks + What will I do when I don't have you + To hold onto in the dark? + +=head2 v5.29.3 - Mac Miller, "Senior Skip Day" + +L + + Enjoy the best things in your life + ’Cause you ain’t gonna get to live it twice + They say you waste time asleep + But I’m just tryin’ to dream + =head2 v5.29.2 - Rick Riordan, "The Lightning Thief" L @@ -76,6 +298,60 @@ L + + 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 + + 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 + +On August 25, 1983, Leonard Bernstein celebrated his sixty-fifth +birthday in his birthplace, Lawrence, Massachusetts. He had actually +lived in the town for only a few weeks as a newborn baby, and had last +visited it forty-nine years previously, in 1934, to get the name on his +birth certificate altered from Louis to Leonard. But the citizens of +Lawrence proposed to dedicate an outdoor theater to him in their +heritage park and to provide not one but two local orchestras--the +Merrimack Valley Philharmonic to play excerpts from his own compositions +and the Greater Boston Youth Symphony and Chorus to perform the "Ode to +Joy" and accompany Bernstein himself reading (for the only time in his +life) the text of A Lincoln Portrait. So Bernstein turned down birthday +invitations from Tanglewood and Central Park, New York, and the +Hollywood Bowl and drove through the cheering if slightly bewildered +crowds lining the streets of Lawrence in an open-topped 1928 Ford +roadster, looking as homespun as James Stewart in Frank Capra's classic, +It's a Wonderful Life. + =head2 v5.28.0 - Martin Luther King, Jr., 1967 L @@ -370,6 +646,23 @@ L + +The origins of the name "Bernstein" are sometimes linked with the German +noun Bernstein, which means "amber"--a translucent yellowish fossilized +resin, used for ornaments and thought to possess magical properties. +Leonard Bernstein would later call himself "Lenny Amber" when he needed +a pseudonym for the popular piano transcriptions he published in his +mid-twenties, and his business affairs would be organized within a +company called Amberson Enterprises. There are several towns and +villages named Bernstein in Germany and Austria (where the pronunciation +is BernSTINE), but Bernstein's parents came from Jewish ghettos in +northwestern Ukraine, where the last syllable is usually pronounced +BernSHTAYN or STEEN. Sam insisted, however, on the mid-European style +employed by the earlier immigrants. + =head2 v5.26.2 - Desmond Morris, "Catwatching: The Essential Guide to Cat Behaviour" L