From: Steve Hay Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2011 01:03:23 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Add the 5.15.5 release epigraph to epigraphs.pod X-Git-Tag: if-0.0602~45 X-Git-Url: https://perl5.git.perl.org/perl5.git/commitdiff_plain/d0fc77277215f4f8ae50316f2c5e3a87bac0955c Add the 5.15.5 release epigraph to epigraphs.pod --- diff --git a/Porting/epigraphs.pod b/Porting/epigraphs.pod index 2b19990..e360cdf 100644 --- a/Porting/epigraphs.pod +++ b/Porting/epigraphs.pod @@ -17,6 +17,36 @@ Consult your favorite dictionary for details. =head1 EPIGRAPHS +=head2 v5.15.5 - Nikolai Gogol, The Diary of a Madman + +L + +This day - is a day of the greatest solemnity! Spain has a king. He has +been found. I am that king. Only this very day did I learn of it. I +confess, it came to me suddenly in a flash of lightning. I don't understand +how I could have thought and imagined that I was a titular councillor. How +could such a wild notion enter my head? It's a good thing no one thought of +putting me in an insane asylum. Now everything is laid open before me. Now +I see everything as on the palm of my hand. And before, I don't understand, +before everything around me was in some sort of fog. And all this happens, I +think, because people imagine that the human brain is in the head. Not at +all: it is brought by a wind from the direction of the Caspian Sea. First +off, I announced to Mavra who I am. When she heard that the king of Spain +was standing before her, she clasped her hands and nearly died of fright. +The stupid woman had never seen a king of Spain before. However, I +endeavoured to calm her down and assured her in gracious words of my +benevolence and that I was not at all angry that she sometimes polished my +boots poorly. They're benighted folk. It's impossible to tell them about +lofty matters. She got frightened because she's convinced that all kings of +Spain are like Philip II. But I explained to her that there was no +resemblance between me and Philip II, and that I didn't have a single +Capuchin . . . I didn't go to the office . . . To hell with it! No friends, +you won't lure me there now; I'm not going to copy your vile papers! + + -- Nikolai Gogol, The Diary of a Madman, + trans. Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky + =head2 v5.15.4 - Steve Jobs L