1=encoding utf8 2 3=head1 NAME 4 5perlepigraphs - list of Perl release epigraphs 6 7=head1 DESCRIPTION 8 9Many Perl release announcements included an I<epigraph>, a short excerpt 10from a literary or other creative work, chosen by the pumpking or release 11manager. This file assembles the known list of epigraph for posterity, 12and also links to the release announcements in mailing list archives. 13 14I<Note>: these have also been referred to as I<epigrams>, but the 15definition of I<epigraph> is closer to the way they have been used. 16Consult your favorite dictionary for details. 17 18=head1 EPIGRAPHS 19 20=head2 v5.31.11 - John F. Kennedy, National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy 21 22L<Announced on 2020-04-28 by Sawyer X|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2020/04/msg257385.html> 23 24Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind. 25 26=head2 v5.31.10 - Christina Rossetti, "Remember" 27 28L<Announced on 2020-03-20 by Sawyer X|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2020/03/msg257274.html> 29 30 Remember me when I am gone away, 31 Gone far away into the silent land; 32 When you can no more hold me by the hand, 33 Nor I half turn to go yet turning stay. 34 Remember me when no more day by day 35 You tell me of our future that you plann'd: 36 Only remember me; you understand 37 It will be late to counsel then or pray. 38 Yet if you should forget me for a while 39 And afterwards remember, do not grieve: 40 For if the darkness and corruption leave 41 A vestige of the thoughts that once I had, 42 Better by far you should forget and smile 43 Than that you should remember and be sad. 44 45=head2 v5.31.9 - Sten Nadolny, book The Discovery of Slowness 46 47L<Announced on 2020-02-20 by Renee Bäcker|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2020/02/msg257144.html> 48 49 „When people talk too fast the content becomes as superfluous as the speed.“ 50 51=head2 v5.31.8 - Joe Perham, "Joe Perham's Guide to Hunting and Guide to Fishing in Maine" 52 53L<Announced on 2020-01-20 by Matthew Horsfall|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2020/01/msg256894.html> 54 55 Harry used to cut wood for the Brown company over in Stoneham Red 56 Rock Basin. And of course he was the best shot in camp. One day the 57 foreman told him to go get some meat. 58 59 "Take any gun you want." 60 61 Harry says "I'll take the .45-70." 62 63 Foreman said "That gun's only got one bullet." 64 65 Harry says "I only need one bullet." 66 67 Took the .45-70, went out, an hour later he was back with two Moose, 68 a dozen trout you see, and a fluffy partridge. Went back to work. 69 70 Well at supper that night foreman says "Harry, um, something's 71 bothering me here a little bit. How did you get all that food with 72 only one bullet. I'm a little confused about the... the partridge, 73 there ain't a mark on him." 74 75 "Well", Harry says, "I'll tell ya. I took that .45-70, went back into 76 the woods a piece there I come to this brook. And I just uh, got to 77 the other side when I happen to see two moose in the swamp off 78 there. I figured I could get both of 'em. So I took out my huntin' 79 knife and stuck it into the mud, hilt foremost, sharp edge on the 80 blade towards me of course. I took dead aim on that knife, fired, 81 split that bullet and killed those two moose. Well you know the 82 recoil knocked me back into the brook. When I come up out of the 83 water, my pants were so full of fish that it popped a button off my 84 fly and killed that bird." 85 86=head2 v5.31.7 - Bernard Werber 87 88L<Announced on 2019-12-20 by Atoomic|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/12/msg256802.html> 89 90 Be quiet. Look at the stars and appreciate what you live. 91 92=head2 v5.31.6 - Neal Stephenson, "Quicksilver" 93 94L<Announced on 2019-11-20 by Chris 'BinGOs' Williams|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/11/msg256646.html> 95 96 Invocation 97 98 State your intentions, Muse. I know you're there. 99 Dead bards who pined for you have said 100 You're bright as flame, but fickle as the air. 101 My pen and I, submerged in liquid shade, 102 Much dark can spread, on days and over reams 103 But without you, no radiance can shed. 104 Why rustle in the dark, when fledged with fire? 105 Craze the night with flails of light. Reave 106 Your turbid shroud. Bestow what I require. 107 108 But you're not in the dark. I do believe 109 I swim, like squid, in clouds of my own make, 110 To you, offensive. To us both, opaque. 111 What's constituted so, only a pen 112 Can penetrate. I have one here; let's go. 113 114=head2 v5.31.5 - Edward Lear, ed. Vivien Noakes, "The Complete Nonsense and Other Verse": The Daddy Long-legs and the Fly 115 116L<Announced on 2019-10-20 by Steve Hay|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/10/msg256478.html> 117 118 'O Mr Daddy Long-legs,' 119 Said Mr Floppy Fly, 120 'It's true I never go to court, 121 And I will tell you why. 122 If I had six long legs like yours, 123 At once I'd go to court! 124 But oh! I can't, because my legs 125 Are so extremely short. 126 And I'm afraid the King and Queen 127 (One in red, and one in green) 128 Would say aloud, "You are not fit, 129 You Fly, to come to court a bit!"' 130 131=head2 v5.31.4 - Ann Leckie, "The Raven Tower" 132 133L<Announced on 2019-09-20 by Max Maischein|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/09/msg256254.html> 134 135 Stories can be risky for someone like me. What I say must be true, or it 136will be made true, and if it cannot be made true - if I don't have the 137power, or if what I have said is an impossibility - then I will pay the 138price. I might more or less safely say, "Once there was a man who rode 139home to attend his father's funeral and claim his inheritance, but 140matters were not as he expected them to be." I do not doubt that such a 141thing has happened more than once in all the time there have been 142fathers to die and sons to succeed them. But to go any further, I must 143supply more details - the specific actions of specific people, and their 144specific consequences - and there I might blunder, all unknowing, into 145untruth. It's safer for me to speak of what I know. Or to speak only in 146the safest of generalities. Or else to say plainly at the beginning, 147"Here is a story I have heard," placing the burden of truth or not on 148the teller whose words I am merely accurately reporting. 149 150 But what is the story that I am telling? Here is another story I have 151heard: 152Once there were two brothers, and one of them wanted what the other had. 153Bent all his will to obtain what the other had, no matter the cost. 154 Here is another story: Once there was a prisoner in a tower. 155 And another: 156Once someone risked their life out of duty and loyalty to a friend. 157 Ah, there's a story that I might tell, and truthfully. 158 159=head2 v5.31.3 - Samantha Harvey, "All Is Song" 160 161L<Announced on 2019-08-20 by Tom Hukins|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/08/msg256012.html> 162 163We are born from unity, we divide into isolation. We winnow ourselves 164out from the thing that first made sense of us and then expect to find 165meaning, yet a fraction makes no sense without the number of which 166it's a fractional part. We see loss, feel grief, give ourselves 167illness, we're cells that have over-divided and we call the division 168growth; the only real growth is in the return to unity, God, the 169unifying principle. 170 171Tired to his core, he turned the video off. The rain still poured as 172he went upstairs, and in bed as he tripped down into the deep open 173shaft of sleep he kept thinking that to divide by zero was to end up 174with infinity, as was to divide by God. To divide by God, to divide 175by God, over and over he thought it without sense; to divide by God; I 176must tell my students that the way to pass their exams is to divide by 177God. Then he must have slept, for it was morning. 178 179=head2 v5.31.2 - Edward Lear, ed. Vivien Noakes, "The Complete Nonsense and Other Verse": The Duck and the Kangaroo 180 181L<Announced on 2019-07-20 by Steve Hay|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/07/msg255639.html> 182 183 Said the Duck to the Kangaroo, 184 'Good gracious! how you hop! 185 Over the fields and the water too, 186 As if you never would stop! 187 My life is a bore in this nasty pond, 188 And I long to go out in the world beyond! 189 I wish I could hop like you!' 190 Said the Duck to the Kangaroo. 191 192=head2 v5.31.1 - Kurt Vonnegut, _A Man without a Country_ 193 194L<Announced on 2019-06-20 by Karen Etheridge|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/06/msg255243.html> 195 196On Tuesday, January 20, 2004, I sent Joel Bleifuss, my editor at _In These 197Times_, this fax: 198 199 ON ORANGE ALERT HERE. 200 ECONOMIC TERRORIST ATTACK 201 EXPECTED AT 8 PM EST. KV 202 203Worried, he called, asking what was up. I said I would tell him when I had 204more complete information on the bombs George Bush was set to deliver in his 205State of the Union address. 206 207That night I got a call from my friend, the out-of-print-science-fiction 208writer Kilgore Trout. He asked me, "Did you watch the State of the Union 209address?" 210 211"Yes, and it certainly helped to remember what the great British socialist 212playwright George Bernard Shaw said about this planet." 213 214"Which was?" 215 216"He said, 'I don't know if there are men on the moon, but if there are, they 217must be using the earth as their lunatic asylum.' And he wasn't talking 218about the germs or the elephants. He meant we the people." 219 220"Okay." 221 222"You don't think this is the Lunatic Asylum of the Universe?" 223 224"Kurt, I don't think I expressed an opinion one way of the other." 225 226"We are killing this planet as a life-support system with the poisons from 227all the thermodynamic whoopee we're making with atomic energy and fossil 228fuels, and everybody knows it, and practically nobody cares. This is how 229crazy we are. I think the planet's immune system is trying to get rid of us 230with AIDS and new strains of flu and tuberculosis, and so on. I think the 231planet should get rid of us. We're really awful animals. I mean, that dumb 232Barbra Streisand song, 'People who need people are the luckiest people in 233the world' -- she's talking about cannibals. Lots to eat. Yes, the planet is 234trying to get rid of us, but I think it's too late." 235 236And I said good-bye to my friend, hung up the phone, sat down and wrote this 237epitaph: "The good Earth -- we could have saved it, but we were too damn 238cheap and lazy." 239 240=head2 v5.31.0 - Fumiko Enchi, Masks 241 242L<Announced on 2019-05-24 by Sawyer X|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/05/msg254886.html> 243 244 The secrets inside her mind are like flowers in a garden at 245 nighttime, filling the darkness with perfume. 246 247=head2 v5.30.2 - Francesco Maria Piave, trans. Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, "La traviata", Act II, Scene 2 248 249L<Announced on 2020-03-14 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2020/03/msg257227.html> 250 251 FLORA, GASTON, DOCTOR, MARQUIS, CHORUS 252 (to Violetta) 253 Yes, you have suffered, but take heart! 254 Every one of us has shared your pain; 255 friends are around you to dry the tears 256 you have shed. 257 258 GERMONT 259 (I alone know the true devotion 260 this poor girl hides within her breast; 261 I know her faithful heart, 262 but I'm vowed so cruelly to silence.) 263 264 BARON 265 (softly to Alfredo) 266 Your deadly insult to this lady 267 offends us all, but such an outrage 268 shall not go unavenged! 269 I shall find a way to humble your pride! 270 271 ALFREDO 272 (Alas, what have I done? I feel terrible about it. 273 She will never forgive me.) 274 275 VIOLETTA 276 (coming to herself) 277 Alfredo, how should you understand 278 all the love that's in my heart? 279 How should you know that I have proved it, 280 even at the price of your contempt? 281 282 But the time will come when you will know, 283 when you'll admit how much I loved you. 284 God save you then from all remorse! 285 Even after death I shall still love you. 286 287=head2 v5.30.2-RC1 - Francesco Maria Piave, trans. Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, "La traviata", Act II, Scene 2 288 289L<Announced on 2020-02-29 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2020/02/msg257163.html> 290 291 ALFREDO 292 For me this woman lost 293 all she possessed. 294 I was blind, a wretched coward, 295 I accepted it all. 296 But it's time now for me to clear 297 myself from debt. 298 I call you all to witness here 299 that I've paid her back! 300 301 (Contemptuously, he throws his winnings at Violetta's feet. 302 She swoons in Flora's arms. Alfredo's father arrives suddenly.) 303 304 ALL 305 What you have done 306 is shameful! 307 To strike down 308 a tender heart that way! 309 You have insulted 310 a woman! 311 Get out of here! 312 We've no use for the likes of you! 313 Go! 314 315 GERMONT 316 (dignified in his anger) 317 A man who offends a woman, even in anger, 318 deserves nothing but scorn. 319 Where is my son? I no longer see him 320 in you, Alfredo. 321 322 ALFREDO 323 (What have I done? Yes, I despise myself! 324 Jealous madness, love deceived, 325 ravaged my soul, destroyed my reason. 326 How can I ever gain her pardon? 327 I would have left her, but I couldn't; 328 I came here to vent my anger, 329 But now I've done that, wretch that I am, 330 I feel nothing but deep remorse!) 331 332=head2 v5.30.1 - Francesco Maria Piave, trans. Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, "La traviata", Act I: Brindisi 333 334L<Announced on 2019-11-10 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/11/msg256610.html> 335 336 VIOLETTA: 337 With you I would share 338 my days of happiness; 339 everything is folly in this world 340 that does not give us pleasure. 341 Let us enjoy life, 342 for the pleasures of love are swift and fleeting 343 as a flower that lives and dies 344 and can be enjoyed no more. 345 Let's take our pleasure while its ardent, 346 brilliant summons lures us on! 347 348=head2 v5.30.1-RC1 - Francesco Maria Piave, trans. Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, "La traviata", Act I: Brindisi 349 350L<Announced on 2019-10-27 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/10/msg256542.html> 351 352 ALFREDO: 353 Let's drink from the joyous chalice 354 where beauty flowers... 355 Let the fleeting hour 356 to pleasure's intoxication yield. 357 Let's drink 358 to love's sweet tremors -- 359 to those eyes 360 that pierce the heart. 361 Let's drink to love -- to wine 362 that warms our kisses. 363 364=head2 v5.30.0 - Morihei Ueshiba 365 366L<Announced on 2019-05-22 by Sawyer X|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/05/msg254844.html> 367 368 Life is growth. If we stop growing, technically and spiritually, we 369 are as good as dead. 370 371=head2 v5.30.0-RC2 - Derek Walcott 372 373L<Announced on 2019-05-17 by Sawyer X|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/05/msg254824.html> 374 375 The truest writers are those who see language not as linguistic process but 376 as a living element. 377 378 -- Derek Walcott 379 380=head2 v5.30.0-RC1 - Marcel Proust 381 382L<Announced on 2019-05-11 by Sawyer X|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/05/msg254748.html> 383 384 If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream 385 less but to dream more, to dream all the time. 386 387 -- Marcel Proust 388 389=head2 v5.29.10 - Maya Angelou, Alone 390 391L<Announced on 2019-04-20 by Sawyer X|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/04/msg254467.html> 392 393 Lying, thinking 394 Last night 395 How to find my soul a home 396 Where water is not thirsty 397 And bread loaf is not stone 398 I came up with one thing 399 And I don't believe I'm wrong 400 That nobody, 401 But nobody 402 Can make it out here alone. 403 404 Alone, all alone 405 Nobody, but nobody 406 Can make it out here alone. 407 408 There are some millionaires 409 With money they can't use 410 Their wives run round like banshees 411 Their children sing the blues 412 They've got expensive doctors 413 To cure their hearts of stone. 414 But nobody 415 No, nobody 416 Can make it out here alone. 417 418 Alone, all alone 419 Nobody, but nobody 420 Can make it out here alone. 421 422 Now if you listen closely 423 I'll tell you what I know 424 Storm clouds are gathering 425 The wind is gonna blow 426 The race of man is suffering 427 And I can hear the moan, 428 'Cause nobody, 429 But nobody 430 Can make it out here alone. 431 432 Alone, all alone 433 Nobody, but nobody 434 Can make it out here alone. 435 436=head2 v5.29.9 - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Dancing Men 437 438L<Announced on 2019-03-21 by Zak Elep|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/03/msg253978.html> 439 440 What one man can invent, another can discover. 441 442=head2 v5.29.8 - Isaac Asimov, Foundation: “Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.” 443 444L<Announced on 2019-02-20 by Atoomic|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/02/msg253750.html> 445 446=head2 v5.29.7 - Edsger W. Dijkstra: "Programming Considered as a Human Activity", IFIP Congress, New York, 1965. 447 448L<Announced on 2019-01-20 by Abigail|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/01/msg253444.html> 449 450When I became acquainted with the notion of algorithmic languages I 451never challenged the then prevailing notion that the problems of 452language design and implementation were mostly a question of 453compromises: every new convenience for the user had to be paid for 454by the implementation, either in the form of increased trouble 455during translation, or during execution or during both. Well, we 456are most certainly not living in Heaven and I am not going to deny 457the possibility of a conflict between convenience and efficiency, 458but now I do protest when this conflict is presented as a complete 459summing up of the situation. I am of the opinion that is worth-while 460to investigate what extent the needs of Man and Machine go hand in 461hand and to see what techniques we can devise of the benefit of all 462of us. I trust that this investigation will bear fruits and if this 463talk made some of you share this fervent hope, it has achieved its aim. 464 465=head2 v5.29.6 - Rudyard Kipling: "How the Camel Got His Hump" 466 467L<Announced on 2018-12-18 by Abigail|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/12/msg253187.html> 468 469 The Camel's hump is an ugly lump 470 Which well you may see at the Zoo; 471 But uglier yet is the hump we get 472 From having little to do. 473 474 Kiddies and grown-ups too-oo-oo 475 If we haven't enough to do-oo-oo, 476 We get the hump - 477 Cameelious hump - 478 The hump that is black and blue! 479 480 We climb out of bed with a frouzly head 481 And a snarly-yarly voice. 482 We shiver and scowl and we grunt and we growl 483 At our bath and our boots and our toys; 484 485 And there ought to be a corner for me 486 (And I know there is one for you) 487 When we get the hump - 488 Cameelious hump - 489 The hump that is black and blue! 490 491 The cure for this ill is to not sit still, 492 Or frowst with a book by the fire; 493 But to take a large hoe and a shovel also, 494 And dig till you gentle perspire; 495 496 And then you will find that the sun and the wind, 497 And the Djinn of the Garden too, 498 Have lifted the hump - 499 The horrible hump - 500 The hump that is black and blue! 501 502 I get it as well as you-oo-oo - 503 If I haven't enough to do-oo-oo! 504 We all get hump - 505 Cameelious hump - 506 Kiddies and grown-ups too! 507 508 509=head2 v5.29.5 - T. S. Eliot, "The Naming Of Cats" 510 511L<Announced on 2018-11-20 by Karen Etheridge|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/11/msg252839.html> 512 513 The Naming of Cats is a difficult matter, 514 It isn't just one of your holiday games; 515 You may think at first I'm as mad as a hatter 516 When I tell you, a cat must have THREE DIFFERENT NAMES. 517 First of all, there's the name that the family use daily, 518 Such as Peter, Augustus, Alonzo or James, 519 Such as Victor or Jonathan, George or Bill Bailey-- 520 All of them sensible everyday names. 521 There are fancier names if you think they sound sweeter, 522 Some for the gentlemen, some for the dames: 523 Such as Plato, Admetus, Electra, Demeter-- 524 But all of them sensible everyday names. 525 But I tell you, a cat needs a name that's particular, 526 A name that's peculiar, and more dignified, 527 Else how can he keep up his tail perpendicular, 528 Or spread out his whiskers, or cherish his pride? 529 Of names of this kind, I can give you a quorum, 530 Such as Munkustrap, Quaxo, or Coricopat, 531 Such as Bombalurina, or else Jellylorum- 532 Names that never belong to more than one cat. 533 But above and beyond there's still one name left over, 534 And that is the name that you never will guess; 535 The name that no human research can discover-- 536 But THE CAT HIMSELF KNOWS, and will never confess. 537 When you notice a cat in profound meditation, 538 The reason, I tell you, is always the same: 539 His mind is engaged in a rapt contemplation 540 Of the thought, of the thought, of the thought of his name: 541 His ineffable effable 542 Effanineffable 543 Deep and inscrutable singular Name. 544 545=head2 v5.29.4 - The Mountain Goats, "Oceanographer's Choice" 546 547L<Announced on 2018-10-20 by Aaron Crane|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/10/msg252575.html> 548 549 Well 550 Guy in a skeleton costume 551 Comes up to the guy in the Superman suit 552 Runs through him with a broadsword 553 I flipped the television off 554 Bring all the bright lights up 555 Turn the radio up loud 556 I don't know why I'm so persuaded 557 That if I think things through 558 Long enough and hard enough 559 I'll somehow get to you 560 But then you came in and we locked eyes 561 You kicked the ashtray over as we came toward each other 562 Stubbed my cigarette out against the west wall 563 Quickly lit another 564 Look at that 565 Would you look at that? 566 We're throwing off sparks 567 What will I do when I don't have you 568 To hold onto in the dark? 569 570=head2 v5.29.3 - Mac Miller, "Senior Skip Day" 571 572L<Announced on 2018-09-20 by John 'genehack' Anderson|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/09/msg252255.html> 573 574 Enjoy the best things in your life 575 ’Cause you ain’t gonna get to live it twice 576 They say you waste time asleep 577 But I’m just tryin’ to dream 578 579=head2 v5.29.2 - Rick Riordan, "The Lightning Thief" 580 581L<Announced on 2018-08-20 by Chris 'BinGOs' Williams|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/08/msg251918.html> 582 583 Look, I didn't want to be a half-blood. 584 585 If you're reading this because you think you might be one, 586 my advice is: close this book right now. Believe whatever 587 lie your mom or dad told you about your birth, and try 588 to lead a normal life. 589 590 Being a half-blood is dangerous. It's scary. Most of the time, 591 it gets you killed in painful, nasty ways. 592 593 If you're a normal kid, reading this because you think it's 594 fiction, great. Read on. I envy you for being able to believe 595 that none of this ever happened. 596 597 But if you recognize yourself in these pages - if you feel 598 something stirring inside - stop reading immediately. 599 You might be one of us. And once you know that, it's only a 600 matter of time before they sense it too, and they'll come for you. 601 602=head2 v5.29.1 - Richard Curtis & Ben Elton, "Blackadder, Series 3, Episode 2: Ink and Incapability" 603 604L<Announced on 2018-07-20 by Steve Hay|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/07/msg251605.html> 605 606 Dr. Samuel Johnson: Here it is, sir: the very cornerstone of English 607 scholarship. This book, sir, contains every word in our beloved 608 language. 609 610 Prince Regent George: Hmm. 611 612 Edmund Blackadder: Every single one, sir? 613 614 Johnson: (confidently) Every single word, sir! 615 616 Blackadder: (to Prince) Oh, well, in that case, sir, I hope you will 617 not object if I also offer the Doctor my most enthusiastic 618 contrafribularities. 619 620 Johnson: What? 621 622 Blackadder: 'Contrafribularities,' sir? It is a common word down our 623 way. 624 625 Johnson: Damn! (writes in the book) 626 627 Blackadder: Oh, I'm sorry, sir. I'm anaspeptic, phrasmotic, even 628 compunctious to have caused you such pericombobulation. 629 630 Johnson: What? What? WHAT? 631 632=head2 v5.29.0 - Erle Stanley Gardner, The Case of the Grinning Gorilla 633 634L<Announced on 2018-06-26 by Sawyer X|http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/251297> 635 636 Courage is the only antidote for danger. 637 638=head2 v5.28.2 - Edward Lear, ed. Vivien Noakes, "The Complete Nonsense and Other Verse": The Jumblies 639 640L<Announced on 2019-04-19 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/04/msg254456.html> 641 642 They went to sea in a Sieve, they did, 643 In a Sieve they went to sea: 644 In spite of all their friends could say, 645 On a winter's morn, on a stormy day, 646 In a Sieve they went to sea! 647 And when the Sieve turned round and round, 648 And every one cried, 'You'll all be drowned!' 649 They called aloud, 'Our Sieve ain't big, 650 But we don't care a button! we don't care a fig! 651 In a Sieve we'll go to sea!' 652 Far and few, far and few, 653 Are the lands where the Jumblies live; 654 Their heads are green, and their hands are blue, 655 And they went to sea in a Sieve. 656 657=head2 v5.28.2-RC1 - Edward Lear, ed. Vivien Noakes, "The Complete Nonsense and Other Verse": The Quangle Wangle's Hat 658 659L<Announced on 2019-04-05 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/04/msg254218.html> 660 661 On the top of the Crumpetty Tree 662 The Quangle Wangle sat, 663 But his face you could not see, 664 On account of his Beaver Hat. 665 For his Hat was a hundred and two feet wide, 666 With ribbons and bibbons on every side, 667 And bells, and buttons, and loops, and lace, 668 So that nobody ever could see the face 669 Of the Quangle Wangle Quee. 670 671=head2 v5.28.1 - Humphrey Burton, "Leonard Bernstein" 672 673L<Announced on 2018-11-29 by Steve Hay|http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/11/msg252975.html> 674 675On August 25, 1983, Leonard Bernstein celebrated his sixty-fifth 676birthday in his birthplace, Lawrence, Massachusetts. He had actually 677lived in the town for only a few weeks as a newborn baby, and had last 678visited it forty-nine years previously, in 1934, to get the name on his 679birth certificate altered from Louis to Leonard. But the citizens of 680Lawrence proposed to dedicate an outdoor theater to him in their 681heritage park and to provide not one but two local orchestras--the 682Merrimack Valley Philharmonic to play excerpts from his own compositions 683and the Greater Boston Youth Symphony and Chorus to perform the "Ode to 684Joy" and accompany Bernstein himself reading (for the only time in his 685life) the text of A Lincoln Portrait. So Bernstein turned down birthday 686invitations from Tanglewood and Central Park, New York, and the 687Hollywood Bowl and drove through the cheering if slightly bewildered 688crowds lining the streets of Lawrence in an open-topped 1928 Ford 689roadster, looking as homespun as James Stewart in Frank Capra's classic, 690It's a Wonderful Life. 691 692=head2 v5.28.0 - Martin Luther King, Jr., 1967 693 694L<Announced on 2018-06-22 by Sawyer X|http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/251240> 695 696 When we look at modern man we have to face the fact that modern man 697 suffers from a kind of poverty of the spirit which stands in glaring 698 contrast with his scientific and technological abundance. We've learned 699 to fly the air as birds, we've learned to swim the seas as fish, yet we 700 haven't learned to walk the earth as brothers and sisters. 701 702=head2 v5.28.0-RC4 - Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book 703 704L<Announced on 2018-06-19 by Sawyer X|http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/251212> 705 706 You're alive, Bod. That means you have infinite potential. You can do 707 anything, make anything, dream anything. If you can change the world, 708 the world will change. Potential. Once you're dead, it's gone. Over. 709 You've made what you've made, dreamed your dream, written your name. 710 You may be buried here, you may even walk. But that potential is 711 finished. 712 713=head2 v5.28.0-RC3 - Anthony Horowitz, Magpie Murders 714 715L<Announced on 2018-06-18 by Sawyer X|http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/251204> 716 717 These had been his plans. But if there was one thing that life had 718 taught him, it was the futility of making plans. Life had its own 719 agenda. 720 721=head2 v5.28.0-RC2 - Oliver Sacks, The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat: And Other Clinical Tales 722 723L<Announced on 2018-06-06 by Sawyer X|http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/251122> 724 725 Had she not been of exceptional intelligence and literacy, with an 726 imagination filled and sustained, so to speak, by the images of 727 others, images conveyed by language, by the word, she might have 728 remained almost as helpless as a baby. 729 730=head2 v5.28.0-RC1 - Anu Garg, A Word A Day 731 732L<Announced on 2018-05-21 by Sawyer X|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/05/msg250999.html> 733 734 One doesn't have to know the unit of pain (dol) to realize that the 735 unit of joy is not the dollar, or any other currency for that matter. 736 737=head2 v5.27.11 - Tana French, In the Woods 738 739L<Announced on 2018-04-20 by Sawyer X|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/04/msg250571.html> 740 741 And then, too, I had learned early to assume something dark and 742 lethal hidden at the heart of anything I loved. When I couldn't find 743 it, I responded, bewildered and wary, in the only way I knew how: by 744 planting it there myself. 745 746=head2 v5.27.10 - Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, p. 248 747 748L<Announced on 2018-03-20 by Todd Rinaldo|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/03/msg250042.html> 749 750 A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher 751 a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, 752 build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, 753 cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, 754 program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. 755 Specialization is for insects. 756 757=head2 v5.27.9 - Agatha Christie, "The Mysterious Affair at Styles" 758 759L<Announced on 2018-02-20 by Renee Bäcker|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/02/msg249549.html> 760 761 Poirot was an extraordinary looking little man. He was hardly more 762 than five feet, four inches, but carried himself with great dignity. 763 His head was exactly the shape of an egg, and he always perched it 764 a little on one side. His moustache was very stiff and military. 765 The neatness of his attire was almost incredible. I believe a 766 speck of dust would have caused him more pain than a bullet wound. 767 Yet this quaint dandified little man who, I was sorry to see, now 768 limped badly, had been in his time one of the most celebrated members 769 of the Belgian police. As a detective, his flair had been extraordinary, 770 and he had achieved triumphs by unravelling some of the most baffling 771 cases of the day. 772 He pointed out to me the little house inhabited by him and his fellow 773 Belgians, and I promised to go and see him at an early date. Then he 774 raised his hat with a flourish to Cynthia, and we drove away. 775 "He's a dear little man," said Cynthia. "I'd no idea you knew him." 776 "You've been entertaining a celebrity unawares," I replied. 777 And, for the rest of the way home, I recited to them the various 778 exploits and triumphs of Hercule Poirot. 779 780=head2 v5.27.8 - Jasper Fforde, "Shades of Grey" 781 782L<Announced on 2018-01-20 by Abigail|http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/248914> 783 7842.4.16.55.021: Males are to wear dresscode #6 during inter-Collective 785travel. Hats are encouraged, but not required. 786 7879.3.88.32.025: The cucumber and tomato are both fruit; the avocado 788is a nut. To assist with the dietary requirements of vegetarians, 789on the first Tuesday of the month a chicken is officially a vegetable. 790 7915.3.21.01.002: Once allocated, postcodes are permanent, and for life. 792 7936.1.02.11.235: Artifacture from before the Something That Happened 794may be collected, so long it does not appear on the Leapback list 795or possess color above 23 percent saturation. 796 7972.3.06.02.087: Unnecessary sharpening of pencils constitutes a waste 798of public resources, and will be punished as appropriate. 799 8002.1.01.05.002: All children are to attent school until the age of 801sixteen or until they have learned everything, whichever be the sooner. 802 8031.3.02.06.023: There shall be no staring at the sun, however good 804the reason. 805 8061.1.19.02.006: Team sports are mandatory in order to build character. 807Character is there to give purpose to team sports. 808 8092.3.03.01.006: Juggling shall not be practiced after 4:00 pm. 810 811 812=head2 v5.27.7 - Terry Pratchett, "Hogfather" 813 814L<Announced on 2017-12-20 by Chris 'BinGOs' Williams|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/12/msg248274.html> 815 816 Death looked at the sacks. 817 818 It was a strange but demonstrable fact that the sacks of 819 toys carried by the Hogfather, no matter what they 820 really contained, always appeared to have sticking out 821 of the top a teddy bear, a toy soldier in the kind of 822 colorful uniform that would stand out in a disco, a 823 drum and a red-and-white candy cane. The actual 824 contents always turned out to be something a bit 825 garish and costing $5.99. 826 827 Death had investigated one or two. There had been a 828 Real Agatean Ninja, for example, with Fearsome 829 Death Grip, and a Captain Carrot One-Man Night 830 Watch with a complete wardrobe of toy weapons, each 831 of which cost as much as the original wooden doll in 832 the first place. 833 834 Mind you, the stuff for the girls was just as 835 depressing. It seemed to be nearly all horses. Most of 836 them were grinning. Horses, Death felt, shouldn't grin. 837 838 Any horse that was grinning was planning something. 839 840=head2 v5.27.6 - Ogden Nash, "Behold the Duck" 841 842L<Announced on 2017-11-20 by Karen Etheridge|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/11/msg247489.html> 843 844 Behold the duck, 845 it does not cluck; 846 a cluck it lacks, 847 it quacks! 848 849 It is 'specially fond 850 of puddles or ponds; 851 when it dines or sups 852 it bottoms ups. 853 854 855=head2 v5.27.5 - Frank Birch, Dilly Knox & G. P. Mackeson, "Alice in I.D.25" 856 857L<Announced on 2017-10-20 by Steve Hay|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/10/msg246785.html> 858 859 'Can I do anything?' Alice suggested timidly, thinking that something 860 dreadful must have happened. 861 The Waterflap jumped as if it had been shot. 'What are you doing 862 here?' it snapped. 'Take this at once into the Directional room,' and it 863 thrust the paper which had caused all the fuss into her hands. 864 'But where is the Directional room?' she inquired, bewildered. 865 'Why, there of course,' howled the Waterflap, pointing to a door. 866 'How could I possibly know that!' Alice exclaimed, angered by his 867 rudeness. 868 'Silly girl,' it hissed. 'Why, it's called the Directional room 869 because it's in that direction,' and it pushed her roughly through the 870 doorway. 871 872=head2 v5.27.4 - Richard Brautigan, "All Watched Over By Machines Of Loving Grace" 873 874L<Announced on 2017-09-20 by John SJ Anderson|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/09/msg246371.html> 875 876 I like to think (and 877 the sooner the better!) 878 of a cybernetic meadow 879 where mammals and computers 880 live together in mutually 881 programming harmony 882 like pure water 883 touching clear sky. 884 885 I like to think 886 (right now, please!) 887 of a cybernetic forest 888 filled with pines and electronics 889 where deer stroll peacefully 890 past computers 891 as if they were flowers 892 with spinning blossoms. 893 894 I like to think 895 (it has to be!) 896 of a cybernetic ecology 897 where we are free of our labors 898 and joined back to nature, 899 returned to our mammal 900 brothers and sisters, 901 and all watched over 902 by machines of loving grace. 903 904=head2 v5.27.3 - Rodgers and Hammerstein, "You'll Never Walk Alone" 905 906L<Announced on 2017-08-21 by Matthew Horsfall|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/08/msg245988.html> 907 908 When you walk through a storm 909 Hold your head up high 910 And don't be afraid of the dark 911 912 At the end of a storm 913 There's a golden sky 914 And the sweet silver song of a lark 915 916 Walk on through the wind 917 Walk on through the rain 918 Though your dreams be tossed and blown 919 920 Walk on, walk on 921 With hope in your heart 922 And you'll never walk alone 923 924 You'll never walk alone 925 926 Walk on, walk on 927 With hope in your heart 928 And you'll never walk alone 929 930 You'll never walk alone 931 932=head2 v5.27.2 - Lev Grossman, Codex 933 934L<Announced on 2017-07-20 by Aaron Crane|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/07/msg245585.html> 935 936 He went back for another stack of books: a three-volume English legal 937 treatise; a travel guide to Tuscany from the '20s crammed with faded 938 Italian wildflowers that fluttered out from between the pages like 939 moths; a French edition of Turgeniev so decayed that it came apart in 940 his hands; a register of London society from 1863. In a way it was 941 idiotic. He was treating these books like they were holy relics. It 942 wasn't like he would ever actually read them. But there was something 943 magnetic about them, something that compelled respect, even the silly 944 ones, like the Enlightenment treatise about how lightning was caused 945 by bees. They were information, data, but not in the form he was used 946 to dealing with it. They were non-digital, nonelectrical chunks of 947 memory, not stamped out of silicon but laboriously crafted out of wood 948 pulp and ink, leather and glue. Somebody had cared enough to write 949 these things; somebody else had cared enough to buy them, possibly 950 even read them, at the very least keep them safe for 150 years, 951 sometimes longer, when they could have vanished at the touch of a 952 spark. That made them worth something, didn't it, just by itself? 953 Though most of them would have bored him rigid the second he cracked 954 them open, which there wasn't much chance of. Maybe that was what he 955 found so appealing: the sight of so many books that he'd never have to 956 read, so much work he'd never have to do. 957 958=head2 v5.27.1 - Rona Munro, Doctor Who: Survival 959 960L<Announced on 2017-06-20 by Eric Herman|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/06/msg245055.html> 961 962 There are worlds out there where the sky is burning, 963 where the sea's asleep and the rivers dream, 964 people made of smoke and cities made of song. 965 Somewhere there's danger, 966 somewhere there's injustice 967 and somewhere else the tea is getting cold. 968 Come on, Ace, we've got work to do. 969 970=head2 v5.27.0 - Bertrand Russell, The Road to Happiness 971 972L<Announced on 2017-05-31 by Sawyer X|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/05/msg244580.html> 973 974 People who have theories as to how one should live tend to forget the 975 limitations of nature. If your way of life involves constant 976 restraint of impulse for the sake of some one supreme aim that you 977 have set yourself, it is likely that the aim will become increasingly 978 distasteful because of the efforts that it demands; impulse, denied 979 its normal outlets, will find others, probably in spite; pleasure, if 980 you allow yourself any at all, will be dissociated from the main 981 current of your life, and will become Bacchic and frivolous. Such 982 pleasure brings no happiness, but only a deeper despair. 983 984 -- Bertrand Russell, The Road to Happiness 985 986=head2 v5.26.3 - Humphrey Burton, "Leonard Bernstein" 987 988L<Announced on 2018-11-29 by Steve Hay|http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/11/msg252974.html> 989 990The origins of the name "Bernstein" are sometimes linked with the German 991noun Bernstein, which means "amber"--a translucent yellowish fossilized 992resin, used for ornaments and thought to possess magical properties. 993Leonard Bernstein would later call himself "Lenny Amber" when he needed 994a pseudonym for the popular piano transcriptions he published in his 995mid-twenties, and his business affairs would be organized within a 996company called Amberson Enterprises. There are several towns and 997villages named Bernstein in Germany and Austria (where the pronunciation 998is BernSTINE), but Bernstein's parents came from Jewish ghettos in 999northwestern Ukraine, where the last syllable is usually pronounced 1000BernSHTAYN or STEEN. Sam insisted, however, on the mid-European style 1001employed by the earlier immigrants. 1002 1003=head2 v5.26.2 - Desmond Morris, "Catwatching: The Essential Guide to Cat Behaviour" 1004 1005L<Announced on 2018-04-14 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/04/msg250440.html> 1006 1007How does a cat use its whiskers? The usual answer is that the whiskers 1008are feelers that enable a cat to tell whether a gap is wide enough for 1009it to squeeze through, but the truth is more complicated and more 1010remarkable. In addition to their obvious role as feelers sensitive to 1011touch, the whiskers also operate as air-current detectors. As the cat 1012moves along in the dark it needs to manoeuvre past solid objects without 1013touching them. Each solid object it approaches causes slight eddies in 1014the air, minute disturbances in the currents of air movements, and the 1015cat's whiskers are so amazingly sensitive that they can read these air 1016changes and respond to the presence of solid obstacles even without 1017touching them. 1018 1019=head2 v5.26.2-RC1 - Desmond Morris, "Catwatching: The Essential Guide to Cat Behaviour" 1020 1021L<Announced on 2018-03-24 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/03/msg250103.html> 1022 1023Cats have a way of endearing themselves to their owners, not just by 1024their 'kittenoid' behaviour, which stimulates strong parental feelings, 1025but also by their sheer gracefulness. There is an elegance and a 1026composure about them that captivates the human eye. To the sensitive 1027human being it becomes a privilege to share a room with a cat, exchange 1028its glance, feel its greeting rub, or watch it gently luxuriate itself 1029into a snoozing ball on a soft cushion. 1030 1031=head2 v5.26.1 - Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" 1032 1033L<Announced on 2017-09-22 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/09/msg246408.html> 1034 1035 And soon I heard a roaring wind: 1036 It did not come anear; 1037 But with its sound it shook the sails, 1038 That were so thin and sere. 1039 1040 The upper air burst into life! 1041 And a hundred fire-flags sheen, 1042 To and fro they were hurried about! 1043 And to and fro, and in and out, 1044 The wan stars danced between. 1045 1046=head2 v5.26.1-RC1 - Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" 1047 1048L<Announced on 2017-09-10 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/09/msg246202.html> 1049 1050 At length did cross an Albatross, 1051 Thorough the fog it came; 1052 As if it had been a Christian soul, 1053 We hailed it in God's name. 1054 1055 It ate the food it ne'er had eat, 1056 And round and round it flew. 1057 The ice did split with a thunder-fit; 1058 The helmsman steered us through! 1059 1060 And a good south wind sprung up behind; 1061 The Albatross did follow, 1062 And every day, for food or play, 1063 Came to the mariner's hollo! 1064 1065 In mist or cloud, on mast or shroud, 1066 It perched for vespers nine; 1067 Whiles all the night, through fog-smoke white, 1068 Glimmered the white Moon-shine.' 1069 1070 'God save thee, ancient Mariner! 1071 From the fiends, that plague thee thus!— 1072 Why look'st thou so?'—With my cross-bow 1073 I shot the ALBATROSS. 1074 1075=head2 v5.26.0 - Nine Simone, Ain't Got No / I Got Life 1076 1077L<Announced on 2017-05-30 by Sawyer X|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/05/msg244573.html> 1078 1079 I've got the life 1080 And I'm gonna keep it 1081 I've got the life 1082 And nobody's gonna take it away 1083 I've got the life 1084 1085=head2 v5.26.0-RC2 - Richard Condon, The Manchurian Candidate 1086 1087L<Announced on 2017-05-23 by Sawyer X|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/05/msg244511.html> 1088 1089 Amateur psychiatric prognosis can be fascinating when there is 1090 absolutely nothing else to do. 1091 1092=head2 v5.26.0-RC1 - Thomas Paine, Common Sense 1093 1094L<Announced on 2017-05-11 by Sawyer X|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/05/msg244337.html> 1095 1096 A long habit of not thinking a thing WRONG, gives it a superficial 1097 appearance of being RIGHT, and raises at first a formidable outcry in 1098 defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more 1099 converts than reason. 1100 1101=head2 v5.25.12 - Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five 1102 1103L<Announced on 2017-04-20 by Sawyer X|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/04/msg244146.html> 1104 1105 I have told my sons that they are not under any circumstances to take 1106 part in massacres, and that the news of massacres of enemies is not 1107 to fill them with satisfaction or glee. 1108 1109 I have also told them not to work for companies which make massacre 1110 machinery, and to express contempt for people who think we need 1111 machinery like that. 1112 1113=head2 v5.25.11 - Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow 1114 1115L<Announced on 2017-03-20 by Sawyer X|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/03/msg243624.html> 1116 1117 Subjective confidence in a judgment is not a reasoned evaluation of 1118 the probability that this judgment is correct. Confidence is a 1119 feeling, which reflects the coherence of the information and the 1120 cognitive ease of processing it. It is wise to take admissions of 1121 uncertainty seriously, but declarations of high confidence mainly 1122 tell you that an individual has constructed a coherent story in his 1123 mind, not necessarily that the story is true. 1124 1125=head2 v5.25.10 - Erich Fried, 1968 1126 1127L<Announced on 2017-02-20 by Renee Bäcker|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/02/msg243173.html> 1128 1129 He who wants the world to remain as it is 1130 doesn't want it to remain. 1131 1132=head2 v5.25.9 - A. A. Milne, "Winnie-the-Pooh", 1926 1133 1134L<Announced on 2017-01-20 by Abigail|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/01/msg242405.html> 1135 1136 Pooh always liked a little something at eleven o'clock in the 1137 morning, and he was very glad to see Rabbit getting out the plates 1138 and mugs; and when Rabbit said, "Honey or condensed milk with 1139 your bread?" he was so excited that he said, "Both," and then, 1140 so as not to seem greedy, he added, "But don't bother about the 1141 bread, please." 1142 1143=head2 v5.25.8 - Langston Hughes, So long 1144 1145L<Announced on 2016-12-20 by Sawyer X|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/12/msg241739.html> 1146 1147 So long 1148 is in the song 1149 and it's in the way you're gone 1150 but it's like a foreign language 1151 in my mind 1152 and maybe was I blind 1153 I could not see 1154 and would not know 1155 you're gone so long 1156 so long. 1157 1158=head2 v5.25.7 - J.R.R. Tolkien, "The Silmarillion" 1159 1160L<Announced on 2016-11-20 by Chad 'Exodist' Granum|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/11/msg241120.html> 1161 1162 Of Beren and Lúthien 1163 1164 Among the tales of sorrow and of ruin that come down to us from the darkness of 1165 those days there are yet some in which amid weeping there is joy and under the 1166 shadow of death light that endures. And of these histories most fair still in 1167 the ears of the Elves is the tale of Beren and Lúthien. Of their lives was made 1168 the Lay of Leithian, Release from Bondage, which is the longest save one of the 1169 songs concerning the world of old; but here is told in fewer words and without 1170 song. 1171 1172=head2 v5.25.6 - Alan Warner, "The Sopranos" 1173 1174L<Announced on 2016-10-10 by Aaron Crane|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/10/msg240406.html> 1175 1176 I'm up on all the pop trivia, says the guy with the stud in his tongue. 1177 Are you? 1178 Yes. Do you know who the lead singer of Echo and the Bunnymen is? 1179 Let me guess, is he called Echo? 1180 Good guess but no, anyway when they played Glastonbury it was so 1181 muddy he had two roadies to hold up a binliner on each of his legs so 1182 they wouldn't get covered in mud. 1183 That's what being rich and famous is all about, having someone 1184 else hold up your binliners on each leg when you're wandering across 1185 a sea of shite. 1186 Do you know what Sammy Davis Junior said being black and famous in 1187 America meant? 1188 No. 1189 He said being black and famous in America meant he could be 1190 refused entry to exclusive clubs and restaurants that other people 1191 could only ever dream of going to. Do you know Michael Stipe likes to 1192 send his remote control toy cars onto stage while his support band are 1193 playing to freak them out? 1194 Who's Michael Stipe? 1195 You're not really a pop trivia person, are you, Kylah? 1196 No, I'm not, Stephen. 1197 1198=head2 v5.25.5 - Philip K. Dick, VALIS 1199 1200L<Announced on 2016-09-20 by Stevan Little|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/09/msg239887.html> 1201 1202 We hypostatize information into objects. Rearrangement of objects is 1203 change in the content of the information; the message has changed. 1204 This is a language which we have lost the ability to read. We ourselves 1205 are a part of this language; changes in us are changes in the content 1206 of the information. We ourselves are information-rich; information 1207 enters us, is processed and is then projected outward once more, now 1208 in an altered form. We are not aware that we are doing this, that in 1209 fact this is all we are doing 1210 1211=head2 v5.25.4 - Terry Pratchett, "Truckers" 1212 1213L<Announced on 2016-08-20 by Chris 'BinGOs' Williams|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/08/msg239191.html> 1214 1215 Concerning Nomes and Time 1216 1217 Nomes are small. On the whole, small creatures don't live for a long 1218 time. But perhaps they do live fast. 1219 1220 Let me explain. 1221 1222 One of the shortest-lived creatures on the planet Earth is the adult 1223 common mayfly. It lasts for one day. The longest-living things are 1224 bristlecone pine trees, at 4,700 years and still counting. 1225 1226 This may seem tough on the mayflies. But the important thing is not 1227 how long your life is, but how long it seems. 1228 1229 To a mayfly, a single hour may last as long as a century. Perhaps 1230 old mayflies sit around complaining about how life this minute isn't a 1231 patch on the good old minutes of long ago, when the world was 1232 young and the sun seemed so much brighter and larvae showed you a 1233 bit of respect. Whereas the trees, which are not famous to their 1234 quick reactions, may just have time to notice the way the sky keeps 1235 flickering before the dry rot and woodworm set in. 1236 1237 It's all a sort of relativity. The faster you live, the more time 1238 stretches out. To a nome, a year lasts as long as ten years does to a 1239 human. Remember it. Don't let it concern you. They don't. They don't 1240 even know. 1241 1242=head2 v5.25.3 - Edward Lear, ed. Vivien Noakes, "The Complete Nonsense and Other Verse": The Dong with a Luminous Nose 1243 1244L<Announced on 2016-07-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/07/msg238158.html> 1245 1246 When awful darkness and silence reign 1247 Over the great Gromboolian plain, 1248 Through the long, long wintry nights; - 1249 When the angry breakers roar 1250 As they beat on the rocky shore; - 1251 When Storm-clouds brood on the towering heights 1252 Of the Hills of the Chankly Bore: - 1253 1254 Then, through the vast and gloomy dark, 1255 There moves what seems a fiery spark, 1256 A lonely spark with silvery rays 1257 Piercing the coal-black night, - 1258 A Meteor strange and bright: - 1259 Hither and thither the vision strays, 1260 A single lurid light. 1261 1262 Slowly it wanders, - pauses, - creeps, - 1263 Anon it sparkles, - flashes and leaps; 1264 And ever as onward it gleaming goes 1265 A light on the Bong-tree stems it throws. 1266 And those who watch at that midnight hour 1267 From Hall or Terrace, or lofty Tower, 1268 Cry, as the wild light passes along, - 1269 'The Dong! - the Dong! 1270 The wandering Dong through the forest goes! 1271 The Dong! the Dong! 1272 The Dong with a luminous Nose!' 1273 1274=head2 v5.25.2 - Dan le Sac Vs Scroobius Pip "Waiting For The Beat To Kick In" 1275 1276L<Announced on 2016-06-20 by Matthew Horsfall|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/06/msg237274.html> 1277 1278 Waiting for the beat to kick in 1279 But it never does 1280 Waiting for my feet to grow wings 1281 That lift me above 1282 All of these tiresome things 1283 That we know and love 1284 Waiting for the beat to kick in 1285 But it never does 1286 1287=head2 v5.25.1 - Eli Pariser, "The Filter Bubble" 1288 1289L<Announced on 2016-05-20 by Sawyer X|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/05/msg236566.html> 1290 1291Imagine that you're a smart high school student on the low end of the social 1292totem pole. You're alienated from adult authority, but unlike many teenagers, 1293you're also alienated from the power structures of your peers -- an existence 1294that can feel lonely and peripheral. Systems and equations are intuitive, but 1295people aren't -- social signals are confusing and messy, difficult to interpret. 1296 1297Then you discover code. You may be powerless at the lunch table, but code 1298gives you power over an infinitely malleable world and opens the door to a 1299symbolic system that's perfectly clear and ordered. The jostling for position 1300and status fades away. The nagging parental voices disappear. There's just a 1301clean, white page for you to fill, an opportunity to build a better place, a 1302home, from the ground up. 1303 1304No wonder you're a geek. 1305 1306=head2 v5.25.0 - Robert Frost, "The Trial by Existence" 1307 1308L<Announced on 2016-05-09 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/05/msg236244.html> 1309 1310 Even the bravest that are slain 1311 Shall not dissemble their surprise 1312 On waking to find valor reign, 1313 Even as on earth, in paradise; 1314 And where they sought without the sword 1315 Wide fields of asphodel fore’er, 1316 To find that the utmost reward 1317 Of daring should be still to dare. 1318 1319=head2 v5.24.4 - Desmond Morris, "Catwatching: The Essential Guide to Cat Behaviour" 1320 1321L<Announced on 2018-04-14 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/04/msg250439.html> 1322 1323Cats hate doors. Doors simply do not register in the evolutionary story 1324of the cat family. They constantly block patrolling activities and 1325prevent cats from exploring their home range and then returning to their 1326central, secure base at will. Humans often do not understand that a cat 1327needs to make only a brief survey of its territory before returning with 1328all the necessary information about the activities of other cats in the 1329vicinity. It likes to make these tours of inspection at frequent 1330intervals, but does not want to stay outside for very long, unless there 1331has been some special and unexpected change in the condition of the 1332local feline population. 1333 1334=head2 v5.24.4-RC1 - Desmond Morris, "Catwatching: The Essential Guide to Cat Behaviour" 1335 1336L<Announced on 2018-03-24 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/03/msg250102.html> 1337 1338The domestic cat is a contradiction. No animal has developed such an 1339intimate relationship with mankind, while at the same time demanding and 1340getting such independence of movement and action. The dog may be man's 1341best friend, but it is rarely allowed out on its own to wander from 1342garden to garden or street to street. The obedient dog has to be taken 1343for a walk. The headstrong cat walks alone. 1344 1345=head2 v5.24.3 - Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" 1346 1347L<Announced on 2017-09-22 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/09/msg246407.html> 1348 1349 Oh sleep! it is a gentle thing, 1350 Beloved from pole to pole! 1351 To Mary Queen the praise be given! 1352 She sent the gentle sleep from Heaven, 1353 That slid into my soul. 1354 1355 The silly buckets on the deck, 1356 That had so long remained, 1357 I dreamt that they were filled with dew; 1358 And when I awoke, it rained. 1359 1360=head2 v5.24.3-RC1 - Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" 1361 1362L<Announced on 2017-09-10 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/09/msg246201.html> 1363 1364 'And now the STORM-BLAST came, and he 1365 Was tyrannous and strong: 1366 He struck with his o'ertaking wings, 1367 And chased us south along. 1368 1369 With sloping masts and dipping prow, 1370 As who pursued with yell and blow 1371 Still treads the shadow of his foe, 1372 And forward bends his head, 1373 The ship drove fast, loud roared the blast, 1374 And southward aye we fled. 1375 1376 And now there came both mist and snow, 1377 And it grew wondrous cold: 1378 And ice, mast-high, came floating by, 1379 As green as emerald. 1380 1381 And through the drifts the snowy clifts 1382 Did send a dismal sheen: 1383 Nor shapes of men nor beasts we ken— 1384 The ice was all between. 1385 1386 The ice was here, the ice was there, 1387 The ice was all around: 1388 It cracked and growled, and roared and howled, 1389 Like noises in a swound! 1390 1391=head2 v5.24.2 - Roald Dahl, "The Three Little Pigs" 1392 1393L<Announced on 2017-07-15 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/07/msg245527.html> 1394 1395 A short while later, through the wood, 1396 Came striding brave Miss Riding Hood. 1397 The Wolf stood there, his eyes ablaze 1398 And yellowish, like mayonnaise. 1399 His teeth were sharp, his gums were raw, 1400 And spit was dripping from his jaw. 1401 Once more the maiden's eyelid flickers. 1402 She draws the pistol from her knickers. 1403 Once more, she hits the vital spot, 1404 And kills him with a single shot. 1405 Pig, peeping through the window, stood 1406 And yelled, 'Well done, Miss Riding Hood!' 1407 1408 Ah, Piglet, you must never trust 1409 Young ladies from the upper crust. 1410 For now, Miss Riding Hood, one notes, 1411 Not only has two wolfskin coats, 1412 But when she goes from place to place, 1413 She has a PIGSKIN TRAVELLING CASE. 1414 1415=head2 v5.24.2-RC1 - Roald Dahl, "The Three Little Pigs" 1416 1417L<Announced on 2017-07-01 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/07/msg245292.html> 1418 1419 The animal I really dig 1420 Above all others is the pig. 1421 Pigs are noble. Pigs are clever, 1422 Pig are courteous. However, 1423 Now and then, to break this rule, 1424 One meets a pig who is a fool. 1425 What, for example, would you say 1426 If strolling through the woods one day, 1427 Right there in front of you you saw 1428 A pig who'd built his house of STRAW? 1429 The Wolf who saw it licked his lips, 1430 And said, 'That pig has had his chips.' 1431 1432=head2 v5.24.1 - Charles Dodgson [as "Lewis Carroll"], "The Hunting of the Snark", Fit 4: The Hunting 1433 1434L<Announced on 2017-01-14 by Steve Hay|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/01/msg242259.html> 1435 1436 The Bellman looked uffish, and wrinkled his brow. 1437 'If only you'd spoken before! 1438 It's excessively awkward to mention it now, 1439 With the Snark, so to speak, at the door! 1440 1441 'We should all of us grieve, as you well may believe, 1442 If you never were met with again - 1443 But surely, my man, when the voyage began, 1444 You might have suggested it then? 1445 1446 'It's excessively awkward to mention it now - 1447 As I think I've already remarked.' 1448 And the man they called 'Hi!' replied, with a sigh, 1449 'I informed you the day we embarked. 1450 1451 'You may charge me with murder - or want of sense - 1452 (We are all of us weak at times): 1453 But the slightest approach to a false pretence 1454 Was never among my crimes! 1455 1456 'I said it in Hebrew - I said it in Dutch - 1457 I said it in German and Greek: 1458 But I wholly forgot (and it vexes me much) 1459 That English is what you speak!' 1460 1461 ''Tis a pitiful tale,' said the Bellman, whose face 1462 Had grown longer at every word: 1463 'But, now that you've stated the whole of your case, 1464 More debate would be simply absurd. 1465 1466 'The rest of my speech' (he exclaimed to his men) 1467 'You shall hear when I've leisure to speak it. 1468 But the Snark is at hand, let me tell you again! 1469 'Tis your glorious duty to seek it! 1470 1471=head2 v5.24.1-RC5 - John Milton, ed. Gordon Campbell, "Paradise Regained", Book IV 1472 1473L<Announced on 2017-01-02 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/01/msg242016.html> 1474 1475 Thus passed the night so foul, till Morning fair 1476 Came forth with pilgrim steps, in amice grey; 1477 Who with her radiant finger stilled the roar 1478 Of thunder, chased the clouds, and laid the winds, 1479 And grisly spectres, which the fiend had raised 1480 To tempt the Son of God with terrors dire. 1481 And now the sun with more effectual beams 1482 Had cheered the face of earth, and dried the wet 1483 From drooping plant, or dropping tree; the birds, 1484 Who all things now behold more fresh and green, 1485 After a night of storm so ruinous, 1486 Cleared up their choicest notes in bush and spray, 1487 To gratulate the sweet return of morn. 1488 1489=head2 v5.24.1-RC4 - John Milton, ed. Gordon Campbell, "Paradise Lost", Book II 1490 1491L<Announced on 2016-10-12 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/10/msg240224.html> 1492 1493 Before the gates there sat 1494 On either side a formidable shape; 1495 The one seemed woman to the waste, and fair, 1496 But ended foul in many a scaly fold, 1497 Voluminous and vast -- a serpent armed 1498 With mortal sting; about her middle round 1499 A cry of hell hounds never ceasing barked 1500 With wide Cerberean mouths full loud, and rung 1501 A hideous peal; yet, when they list, would creep, 1502 If aught disturbed their noise, into her womb, 1503 And kennel there; yet there still barked and howled 1504 Within unseen. Far less abhorred than these 1505 Vexed Scylla, bathing in the sea that parts 1506 Calabria from the hoarse Trinacrian shore; 1507 Nor uglier follow the night-hag, when, called 1508 In secret, riding through the air she comes, 1509 Lured with the smell of infant blood, to dance 1510 With Lapland witches, while the labouring moon 1511 Eclipses at their charms. The other shape -- 1512 If shape it might be called that shape had none 1513 Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb; 1514 Or substance might be called that shadow seemed, 1515 For each seemed either -- black it stood as night, 1516 Fierce as ten Furies, terrible as hell, 1517 And shook a dreadful dart: what seemed his head 1518 The likeness of a kingly crown had on. 1519 Satan was now at hand, and from his seat 1520 The monster moving onward came as fast 1521 With horrid strides; hell trembled as he strode. 1522 1523=head2 v5.24.1-RC3 - Dante Alighieri, trans. Dorothy L. Sayers and Barbara Reynolds, "The Divine Comedy", Cantica III: Paradise, Canto XXIII 1524 1525L<Announced on 2016-08-11 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/08/msg238909.html> 1526 1527 A bird within the bower of her delight, 1528 Quiet upon the nest with her sweet brood 1529 Throughout the dark concealment of the night, 1530 1531 Anxious to look on them and gather food - 1532 No weary task for her, for as at play 1533 Blithely she toils to seek her fledglings' good - 1534 1535 Before the time, upon the topmost spray 1536 Eager awaits the sun and on the East 1537 Fixes her wakeful eye till break of day. 1538 1539=head2 v5.24.1-RC2 - Dante Alighieri, trans. Dorothy L. Sayers, "The Divine Comedy", Cantica II: Purgatory, Canto X 1540 1541L<Announced on 2016-07-25 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/07/msg238269.html> 1542 1543 When we had crossed the threshold of that gate 1544 Which the soul's evil loves put out of use, 1545 Because they make the crooked path seem straight, 1546 1547 I heard its closing clang ring clamorous, 1548 And had I then turned back my eyes to it 1549 How could my fault have found the least excuse? 1550 1551 We had to climb now through a rocky slit 1552 Which ran from side to side in many a swerve, 1553 As runs the wave in onset and retreat. 1554 1555 "Now here," the master said, "we must observe 1556 Some little caution, hugging now this wall, 1557 Now that, upon the far side of the curve." 1558 1559=head2 v5.24.1-RC1 - Dante Alighieri, trans. Dorothy L. Sayers, "The Divine Comedy", Cantica I: Hell, Canto XX 1560 1561L<Announced on 2016-07-17 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/07/msg238072.html> 1562 1563 New punishments behoves me sing in this 1564 Twentieth canto of my first canticle, 1565 Which tells of spirits sunk in the Abyss. 1566 1567 I now stood ready to observe the full 1568 Extent of the new chasm thus laid bare, 1569 Drenched as it was in tears most miserable. 1570 1571 Through the round vale I saw folk drawing near, 1572 Weeping and silent, and at such slow pace 1573 As Litany processions keep, up here. 1574 1575 And presently, when I had dropped my gaze 1576 Lower than the head, I saw them strangely wried 1577 'Twixt collar-bone and chin, so that the face 1578 1579 Of each was turned towards his own backside, 1580 And backwards must they needs creep with their feet, 1581 All power of looking forward being denied. 1582 1583=head2 v5.24.0 - Robert Frost, "The Black Cottage" 1584 1585L<Announced on 2016-05-09 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/05/msg236242.html> 1586 1587 As I sit here, and oftentimes, I wish 1588 I could be monarch of a desert land 1589 I could devote and dedicate forever 1590 To the truths we keep coming back and back to. 1591 So desert it would have to be, so walled 1592 By mountain ranges half in summer snow, 1593 No one would covet it or think it worth 1594 The pains of conquering to force change on. 1595 Scattered oases where men dwelt, but mostly 1596 Sand dunes held loosely in tamarisk 1597 Blown over and over themselves in idleness. 1598 Sand grains should sugar in the natal dew 1599 The babe born to the desert, the sand storm 1600 Retard mid-waste my cowering caravans— 1601 1602 “There are bees in this wall.” He struck the clapboards, 1603 Fierce heads looked out; small bodies pivoted. 1604 We rose to go. Sunset blazed on the windows. 1605 1606=head2 v5.24.0-RC5 - The Mountain Goats, "No Children" 1607 1608L<Announced on 2016-05-04 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/05/msg236198.html> 1609 1610 And I hope when you think of me years down the line 1611 You can't find one good thing to say 1612 And I'd hope that if I found the strength to walk out 1613 You'd stay the hell out of my way 1614 1615 I am drowning, there is no sign of land 1616 You are coming down with me, hand in unlovable hand 1617 1618=head2 v5.24.0-RC4 - The Joker in "The Killing Joke" 1619 1620L<Announced on 2016-05-02 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/05/msg236145.html> 1621 1622"See, there were these two guys in a lunatic asylum…" 1623 1624=head2 v5.24.0-RC3 - Jesse Vincent 1625 1626L<Announced on 2016-04-27 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/04/msg236066.html> 1627 1628The Great Pumpkin is a Santa-Claus like figure. He does bring toys like 1629Santa. But unlike Santa, who gives away toys because it's his job, he 1630gives away toys because it's the right thing to do. 1631 1632=head2 v5.24.0-RC2 - Joseph Heller, "Catch-22" 1633 1634L<Announced on 2016-04-23 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/04/msg235999.html> 1635 1636“How do you feel, Yossarian?” 1637 1638“Fine. No, I’m very frightened.” 1639 1640“That’s good,” said Major Danby. “It proves you’re still alive. It won’t 1641be fun.” 1642 1643Yossarian started out. “Yes it will.” 1644 1645“I mean it, Yossarian. You’ll have to keep on your toes every minute of 1646every day. They’ll bend heaven and earth to catch you.” 1647 1648“I’ll keep on my toes every minute.” 1649 1650“You’ll have to jump.” 1651 1652“I’ll jump.” 1653 1654“Jump!” Major Danby cried. 1655 1656Yossarian jumped. 1657 1658Nately’s [girl] was hiding just outside the door. The knife came down, 1659missing him by inches, and he took off. 1660 1661=head2 v5.24.0-RC1 - Robert Frost, "The Census-Taker" 1662 1663L<Announced on 2016-04-14 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/04/msg235807.html> 1664 1665 Nothing was left to do that I could see 1666 Unless to find that there was no one there 1667 And declare to the cliffs too far for echo, 1668 "The place is desert, and let whoso lurks 1669 In silence, if in this he is aggrieved, 1670 Break silence now or be forever silent. 1671 Let him say why it should not be declared so." 1672 The melancholy of having to count souls 1673 Where they grow fewer and fewer every year 1674 Is extreme where they shrink to none at all. 1675 It must be I want life to go on living. 1676 1677=head2 v5.23.9 - Tom Kitchin, "from nature to plate" 1678 1679L<Announced on 2016-03-20 by Abigail|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/03/msg235251.html> 1680 1681Spring 1682 1683Spring is the proper beginning of my kitchen and a season that I 1684look forward to with great anticipation. By the time spring arrives 1685I am desperate to welcome all the spring produce into my kitchen 1686and I long to work with fresh green vegetables again. As much as I 1687love root vegetables, such as celeriac and parsnips, and the heaver 1688meat and game dishes, I'm ready to leave those behind with winter 1689and begin a new adventure. 1690 1691Somehow spring always gives me a little bit of bounce in my feet 1692-- I feel like I want to kick off my shoes and dance around in my 1693kitchen. Not that I do, of course, but I feel lighter somehow. My 1694adrenalin kicks in with spring and so does the level of excitement, 1695as I think about all the produce that is about to come in. 1696 1697The moment spring arrives I'm eager to cook peas, broad beans, green 1698asparagus and other fresh vegetables! I want to create lighter, 1699brighter dishes and I can't wait to get my hands on the first greens 1700and the first morels, not to mention the first wild Scottish salmon. 1701Thanks to my network of trusted suppliers, I always get to first 1702produce of the season delivered to my restaurant as soon as it is 1703possible. I want my customers to experience and understand the 1704beauty of locally grown produce and to try things the minute they 1705are available so they can taste how incredibly fresh the ingredients 1706are. I also want them to understand the relationship between 1707seasonality and flavours. One of the most important things to 1708remember is to allow the seasons to inspire your dishes and help 1709you make natural matches. Wild spring herbs, such as sorrel, sweet 1710cicely and wild garlic, as well as spring salad leaves and green 1711lettuce served with wild salmon, wild sea trout, lamb or rabbit are 1712marriages made in heaven. 1713 1714 1715=head2 v5.23.8 - Patrick Rothfuss, "The Wise Man's Fear (The Kingkiller's Chronicle: Day Two)" 1716 1717L<Announced on 2016-02-20 by Sawyer X|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/02/msg234535.html> 1718 1719Denna, on the other hand, had never been trained. She knew nothing 1720of shortcuts. You'd think she'd be forced to wander the city, lost and 1721helpless, trapped in a twisting maze of mortared stone. 1722 1723But instead, she simply walked throught the walls. She didn't know 1724any better. Nobody had ever told her she couldn't. Because of this, 1725she moved through the city like some faerie creature. She walked roads 1726no one else could see, and it made her music wild and strange and 1727free. 1728 1729=head2 v5.23.7 - William Gibson, "Neuromancer" 1730 1731L<Announced on 2016-01-20 by Stevan Little|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/01/msg233856.html> 1732 1733A year here and he still dreamed of cyberspace, hope fading 1734nightly. All the speed he took, all the turns he'd taken and 1735the corners he cut in Night City, and he'd still see the matrix 1736in his dreams, bright lattices of logic unfolding across that 1737colourless void...The Sprawl was a long, strange way home now 1738over the Pacific, and he was no Console Man, no cyberspace 1739cowboy. Just another hustler, trying to make it through. But 1740the dreams came on in the Japanese night like livewire voodoo, 1741and he'd cry for it, cry in his sleep, and wake alone in the 1742dark, curled in his capsule in some coffin hotel, hands clawed 1743into the bedslab, temper foam bunched between his fingers, 1744trying to reach the console that wasn't there. 1745 1746=head2 v5.23.6 - 5.23 Episode VII 1747 1748L<Announced on 2015-12-21 by David Golden|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/12/msg233475.html> 1749 1750 A long time ago in microseconds, in a galaxy not very far away... 1751 1752 5.23 Episode VII 1753 THE FUZZ AWAKENS 1754 1755 It is a period of 1756 unrest as separatists 1757 announce their intentions 1758 to fork PERL and return the 1759 galaxy to speed and stability. 1760 1761 Chancellor Rik Hoolian struggles 1762 to hold together the remains of the 1763 once mighty Republic against a tide of 1764 incivility and the depredations of a new 1765 foe, the FUZZ RAIDERS. 1766 1767 Meanwhile, after 15 years of preparation and 1768 high expectations, Supreme Leader Toady prepares 1769 to unleash a devastating new weapon, PERL SIXDOTOH, 1770 that could splinter the Republic forever and usher in 1771 a new Empire of gradual typing.... 1772 1773=head2 v5.23.5 - utastro!nather (Ed Nather), "The Story of Mel", in net.jokes, May 21, 1983. 1774 1775L<Announced on 2015-11-20 by Abigail|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/11/msg232758.html> 1776 1777After Mel had left the company for greener pa$ture$, the Big Boss asked 1778me to look at the code and see if I could find the test and reverse it. 1779Somewhat reluctantly, I agreed to look. Tracking Mel's code was a real 1780adventure. 1781 1782I have often felt that programming is an art form, whose real value can 1783only be appreciated by another versed in the same arcane art; there are 1784lovely gems and brilliant coups hidden from human view and admiration, 1785sometimes forever, by the very nature of the process. You can learn a 1786lot about an individual just by reading through his code, even in 1787hexadecimal. Mel was, I think, an unsung genius. 1788 1789Perhaps my greatest shock came when I found an innocent loop that had 1790no test in it. No test. None. Common sense said it had to be a closed 1791loop, where the program would circle, forever, endlessly. Program 1792control passed right through it, however, and safely out the other side. 1793It took me two weeks to figure it out. 1794 1795The RPC-4000 computer had a really modern facility called an index 1796register. It allowed the programmer to write a program loop that used 1797an indexed instruction inside; each time through, the number in the 1798index register was added to the address of that instruction, so it 1799would refer to the next datum in a series. He had only to increment 1800the index register each time through. Mel never used it. 1801 1802Instead, he would pull the instruction into a machine register, add one 1803to its address, and store it back. He would then execute the modified 1804instruction right from the register. The loop was written so this 1805additional execution time was taken into account -- just as this 1806instruction finished, the next one was right under the drum's read head, 1807ready to go. But the loop had no test in it. 1808 1809The vital clue came when I noticed the index register bit, the bit that 1810lay between the address and the operation code in the instruction word, 1811was turned on -- yet Mel never used the index register, leaving it zero 1812all the time. When the light went on it nearly blinded me. 1813 1814He had located the data he was working on near the top of memory -- the 1815largest locations the instructions could address -- so, after the last 1816datum was handled, incrementing the instruction address would make it 1817overflow. The carry would add one to the operation code, changing it to 1818the next one in the instruction set: a jump instruction. Sure enough, 1819the next program instruction was in address location zero, and the 1820program went happily on its way. 1821 1822=head2 v5.23.4 - Denis Diderot, trans. David Coward, "Jacques the Fatalist" 1823 1824L<Announced on 2015-10-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/10/msg232040.html> 1825 1826Well, everybody's got a dog. The prime minister is the king's dog. The 1827first secretary is the prime minister's dog. A wife is a husband's dog, 1828or a husband is a wife's dog. Favourite is Madame So-and-so's dog and 1829Thibaut is the man on the corner's dog. When my Master tells me to talk 1830when I'd prefer not to, which to be honest doesn't happen very often, 1831when he tells me to shut up when I feel like talking, which I find very 1832difficult, when he asks me to tell the story of my love-life and then 1833keeps interrupting, what am I if not his dog? Weak men are the dogs of 1834strong men. 1835 1836=head2 v5.23.3 - Oliver Wendell Holmes, "The Deacon’s Masterpiece or The Wonderful 'One-Hoss Shay': A Logical Story" 1837 1838L<Announced on 2015-09-20 by Peter Martini|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/09/msg231173.html> 1839 1840 Little of of all we value here 1841 Wakes on the morn of its hundredth year 1842 Without both feeling and looking queer. 1843 In fact, there’s nothing that keeps its youth, 1844 So far as I know, but a tree and truth. 1845 (This is a moral that runs at large; 1846 Take it. — You’re welcome. — No extra charge.) 1847 1848=head2 v5.23.2 - Blind Guardian, "Skalds and Shadows" 1849 1850L<Announced on 2015-08-20 by Matthew Horsfall|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/08/msg230298.html> 1851 1852 Would you believe in a night like this 1853 A night like this, when visions come true 1854 Would you believe in a tale like this 1855 A lay of bliss, praise in the old lore 1856 Come to the blazing fire and 1857 1858 See me in the shadows 1859 See me in the shadows 1860 Songs I will sing 1861 Of runes and rings 1862 Just hand me my harp 1863 This night turns into myth 1864 Nothing seems real 1865 You soon will feel 1866 The world we live in is another skald's 1867 Dream in the shadows 1868 Dream in the shadows 1869 1870 Do you believe there is sense in it 1871 Is it truth or myth? 1872 They´re one in my rhymes 1873 Nobody knows the meaning behind 1874 The weaver's line 1875 Well nobody else but the Norns can 1876 See through the blazing fires of time and 1877 All things will proceed as the 1878 Child of the hallowed 1879 Will speak to you now 1880 1881 See me in the shadows 1882 See me in the shadows 1883 Songs I will sing of tribes and kings 1884 The carrion bird and the hall of the slain 1885 Nothing seems real 1886 You soon will feel 1887 The world we live in is another skald´s 1888 Dream in the shadows 1889 Dream in the shadows 1890 1891 Do not fear for my reason 1892 There's nothing to hide 1893 How bitter your treason 1894 How bitter the lie 1895 Remember the runes and remember the light 1896 All I ever want is to be at your side 1897 We'll gladden the raven now I will 1898 Run through the blazing fires 1899 That's my choice 1900 Cause things shall proceed as foreseen 1901 1902=head2 v5.23.1 - Elizabeth Haydon, "The Assassin King" 1903 1904L<Announced on 2015-07-20 by Matthew Horsfall|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/07/msg229413.html> 1905 1906 I was born beneath this willow, 1907 Where my sire the earth did farm 1908 Had the green grass as my pillow 1909 The east wind as a blanket warm. 1910 1911 But away! away! called the wind from the west 1912 And in answer I did run 1913 Seeking glory and adventure 1914 Promised by the rising sun. 1915 1916 I found love beneath this willow, 1917 As true a love as life could hold, 1918 Pledged my heart and swore my fealty 1919 Sealed with a kiss and a band of gold. 1920 1921 But to arms! to arms! called the wind from the west 1922 In faithful answer I did run 1923 Marching forth for king and country 1924 In battles 'neath the midday sun. 1925 1926 Oft I dreamt of that fair willow 1927 As the seven seas I plied 1928 And the girl who I left waiting 1929 Longing to be at her side. 1930 1931 But about! about! called the wind from the west 1932 As once again my ship did run 1933 Down the coast, about the wide world 1934 Flying sails in the setting sun. 1935 1936 Now I lie beneath the willow 1937 Now at last no more to roam, 1938 My bride and earth so tightly hold me 1939 In their arms I'm finally home. 1940 1941 While away! away! calls the wind from the west 1942 Beyond the grave my spirit, free 1943 Will chase the sun into the morning 1944 Beyond the sky, beyond the sea. 1945 1946=head2 v5.23.0 - Bob Dylan, "Maggie's Farm" 1947 1948L<Announced on 2015-06-20 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/06/msg228807.html> 1949 1950 I ain't gonna work on Maggie's farm no more 1951 I ain't gonna work on Maggie's farm no more 1952 Well, I try my best 1953 To be just like I am 1954 But everybody wants you 1955 To be just like them 1956 They sing while you slave and I just get bored 1957 I ain't gonna work on Maggie's farm no more 1958 1959=head2 v5.22.4 - Roald Dahl, "Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf" 1960 1961L<Announced on 2017-07-15 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/07/msg245526.html> 1962 1963 Then Little Red Riding Hood said, 'But Grandma, 1964 what a lovely great big furry coat you have on.' 1965 'That's wrong!' cried Wolf. 'Have you forgot 1966 'To tell me what BIG TEETH I've got? 1967 'Ah well, no matter what you say, 1968 'I'm going to eat you anyway.' 1969 The small girl smiles. One eyelid flickers. 1970 She whips a pistol from her knickers. 1971 She aims it at the creature's head 1972 And bang bang bang, she shoots him dead. 1973 1974 A few weeks later, in the wood, 1975 I came across Miss Riding Hood. 1976 But what a change! No cloak of red, 1977 No silly hood upon her head. 1978 She said, 'Hello, and do please note 1979 'My lovely furry WOLFSKIN COAT.' 1980 1981=head2 v5.22.4-RC1 - Roald Dahl, "Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf" 1982 1983L<Announced on 2017-07-01 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/07/msg245293.html> 1984 1985 As soon as Wolf began to feel 1986 That he would like a decent meal, 1987 He went and knocked on Grandma's door. 1988 When Grandma opened it, she saw 1989 The sharp white teeth, the horrid grin, 1990 And Wolfie said, 'May I come in?' 1991 Poor Grandmamma was terrified, 1992 'He's going to eat me up!' she cried. 1993 And she was absolutely right. 1994 He ate her up in one big bite. 1995 1996=head2 v5.22.3 - Charles Dodgson [as "Lewis Carroll"], "Phantasmagoria", Canto 6: Discomfyture 1997 1998L<Announced on 2017-01-14 by Steve Hay|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/01/msg242258.html> 1999 2000 As one who strives a hill to climb, 2001 Who never climbed before: 2002 Who finds it, in a little time, 2003 Grow every moment less sublime, 2004 And votes the thing a bore: 2005 2006 Yet, having once begun to try, 2007 Dares not desert his quest, 2008 But, climbing, ever keeps his eye 2009 On one small hut against the sky 2010 Wherein he hopes to rest: 2011 2012 Who climbs till nerve and force are spent, 2013 With many a puff and pant: 2014 Who still, as rises the ascent, 2015 In language grows more violent, 2016 Although in breath more scant: 2017 2018 Who, climbing, gains at length the place 2019 That crowns the upward track: 2020 And, entering with unsteady pace, 2021 Receives a buffet in the face 2022 That lands him on his back: 2023 2024 And feels himself, like one in sleep, 2025 Glide swiftly down again, 2026 A helpless weight, from steep to steep, 2027 Till, with a headlong giddy sweep, 2028 He drops upon the plain - 2029 2030 So I, that had resolved to bring 2031 Conviction to a ghost, 2032 And found it quite a different thing 2033 From any human arguing, 2034 Yet dared not quit my post. 2035 2036=head2 v5.22.3-RC5 - John Milton, ed. Gordon Campbell, "Paradise Regained", Book II 2037 2038L<Announced on 2017-01-02 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/01/msg242017.html> 2039 2040 Thus wore out night; and now the herald lark 2041 Left his ground-nest, high towering to descry 2042 The Morn's approach, and greet her with his song; 2043 As lightly from his grassy couch up rose 2044 Our Saviour, and found all was but a dream; 2045 Fasting he went to sleep, and fasting waked. 2046 Up to a hill anon his steps he reared, 2047 From whose high top to ken the prospect round, 2048 If cottage were in view, sheep-cote, or herd; 2049 But cottage, herd, or sheep-cote, none he saw -- 2050 Only in a bottom saw a pleasant grove, 2051 With chant of tuneful birds resounding loud; 2052 Thither he bent his way, determined there 2053 To rest at noon, and entered soon the shade, 2054 High-roofed and walks beneath, and alleys brown, 2055 That opened in the midst a woody scene; 2056 Nature's own work it seemed (Nature taught Art), 2057 And, to a superstitious eye, the haunt 2058 Of wood-gods and wood-nymphs. 2059 2060=head2 v5.22.3-RC4 - John Milton, ed. Gordon Campbell, "Paradise Lost", Book II 2061 2062L<Announced on 2016-10-12 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/10/msg240223.html> 2063 2064 Far off from these, a slow and silent stream, 2065 Lethe, the river of oblivion, rolls 2066 Her watery labyrinth, whereof who drinks 2067 Forthwith his former state and being forgets -- 2068 Forgets both joy and grief, pleasure and pain. 2069 Beyond this flood a frozen continent 2070 Lies dark and wild, beat with perpetual storms 2071 Of Whirlwind and dire hail, which on firm land 2072 Thaws not, but gathers heap, and ruin seems 2073 Of ancient pile; all else deep snow and ice, 2074 A gulf profound as that Serbonian bog 2075 Betwixt Damiata and Mount Casius old, 2076 Where armies whole have sunk: the parching air 2077 Burns frore, and cold performs the effect of fire. 2078 Thither, by harpy-footed Furies haled, 2079 At certain revolutions all the damned 2080 Are brought; and feel by turns the bitter change 2081 Of fierce extremes, extremes by change more fierce, 2082 From beds of raging fire to starve in ice 2083 Their soft ethereal warmth, and there to pine 2084 Immovable, infixed, and frozen round 2085 Periods of time -- thence hurried back to fire. 2086 They ferry over this Lethean sound 2087 Both to and fro, their sorrow to augment, 2088 And wish and struggle, as they pass, to reach 2089 The tempting stream, with one small drop to lose 2090 In sweet forgetfulness all pain and woe, 2091 All in one moment, and so near the brink; 2092 But fate withstands, and, to oppose the attempt, 2093 Medusa with Gorgonian terror guards 2094 The ford, and of itself the water flies 2095 All taste of living wight, as once it fled 2096 The lip of Tantalus. 2097 2098=head2 v5.22.3-RC3 - Dante Alighieri, trans. Dorothy L. Sayers and Barbara Reynolds, "The Divine Comedy", Cantica III: Paradise, Canto IV 2099 2100L<Announced on 2016-08-11 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/08/msg238908.html> 2101 2102 Between two dishes, equally attractive 2103 And near to him, a free man, I suppose, 2104 Would starve to death before his teeth got active; 2105 2106 So would a lamb 'twixt two fierce wolfish foes, 2107 Fearing the fangs both ways, not stir a foot; 2108 So would a deerhound halt between two does; 2109 2110 So I can't blame myself for standing mute, 2111 Nor praise myself: for I must needs so do, 2112 Suspended 'twixt two doubts, alike acute. 2113 2114=head2 v5.22.3-RC2 - Dante Alighieri, trans. Dorothy L. Sayers, "The Divine Comedy", Cantica II: Purgatory, Canto I 2115 2116L<Announced on 2016-07-25 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/07/msg238270.html> 2117 2118 For better waters heading with the wind 2119 My ship of genius now shakes out her sail 2120 And leaves that ocean of despair behind; 2121 2122 For to the second realm I tune my tale, 2123 Where human spirits purge themselves, and train 2124 To leap up into joy celestial. 2125 2126 Now from the grave wake poetry again, 2127 O sacred Muses I have served so long! 2128 Now let Calliope uplift her strain 2129 2130 And lift my voice up on the mighty song 2131 That smote the miserable Magpies nine 2132 Out of all hope of pardon for their wrong! 2133 2134=head2 v5.22.3-RC1 - Dante Alighieri, trans. Dorothy L. Sayers, "The Divine Comedy", Cantica I: Hell, Canto XII 2135 2136L<Announced on 2016-07-17 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/07/msg238071.html> 2137 2138 The place we came to, to descend the brink from, 2139 Was sheer crag; and there was a Thing there - making, 2140 All told, a prospect any eye would shrink from. 2141 2142 Like the great landslide that rushed downward, shaking 2143 The bank of Adige on this side Trent, 2144 (Whether through faulty shoring or the earth's quaking) 2145 2146 So that the rock, down from the summit rent 2147 Far as the plain, lies strewn, and one might crawl 2148 From top to bottom by that unsure descent, 2149 2150 Such was the precipice; and there we spied, 2151 Topping the cleft that split the rocky wall, 2152 That which was wombed in the false heifer's side, 2153 2154 The infamy of Crete, stretched out a-sprawl; 2155 And seeing us, he gnawed himself, like one 2156 Inly devoured with spite and burning gall. 2157 2158=head2 v5.22.2 - Gaston Leroux, trans. Mireille Ribière, "The Phantom of the Opera" 2159 2160L<Announced on 2016-04-29 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/04/msg236120.html> 2161 2162A silence; and then: 'If, in just two minutes' time by my watch--and a 2163splendid watch it is--you have not turned the scorpion, mademoiselle, I 2164shall turn the grasshopper... and the grasshopper, remember, _leaps 2165straight up into the air!_' 2166The silence that ensued was terrifying, worse than any we had 2167experienced before. I knew that when Erik spoke with that quiet, 2168gentle, slightly weary voice, it meant that he had reached the end of 2169his tether: that he was capable of the most abominable crimes or the 2170most selfless devotion; that the slightest irritation might unleash a 2171storm. 2172Realizing that our fate was out of our hands, the Viscount fell to his 2173knees and prayed. As for me, I pressed both hands to my chest, for my 2174heart was pounding so fiercely that I thought it would burst. We were 2175intensely aware of the excruciating dilemma Christine Daaé faced in 2176those final seconds. We understood why she hesitated to turn the 2177scorpion. What if the scorpion, rather than the grasshopper, were to 2178set off the explosion? What if Erik was simply intent on destroying 2179everything, regardless? 2180At last he spoke: 'The two minutes are up,' he said in a soft, angelic 2181voice. 'Goodbye, mademoiselle. Off you go, little grasshopper!' 2182 2183=head2 v5.22.2-RC1 - Gaston Leroux, trans. Mireille Ribière, "The Phantom of the Opera" 2184 2185L<Announced on 2016-04-10 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/04/msg235732.html> 2186 2187This annual ball was quite a magnificent affair. It was given some time 2188before Shrovetide to celebrate the birthday of a famous illustrator 2189whose pencil had immortalized, in the style of Gavarni, the extravagant 2190carnival parade down La Courtille. As such, the ball was an altogether 2191merrier, noisier and more Bohemian occasion than was usual for a masked 2192ball. Many artists had arranged to meet there; they arrived with an 2193entourage of models and pupils, who, by midnight, had become quite 2194boisterous. 2195Raoul climbed the grand staircase at five minutes to midnight. He did 2196not linger to admire the many-coloured costumes on display all the way 2197up the marble steps of one of the most luxurious settings in the world; 2198nor did he allow himself to be drawn into the facetious conversation of 2199masked guests. He simply ignored all the jesting remarks, and shook off 2200the attentions of several all too merry couples. 2201Crossing the big crush-room and escaping from the dancers' farandole 2202that had encircled him awhile, he at last entered the salon mentioned by 2203Christine in her letter. The small room was crammed with people either 2204on their way to supper at the restaurant in the Rotunda or back from 2205raising a glass of champagne. 2206In the midst of the gay and lively hubbub, Raoul thought that, for their 2207mysterious assignation, Christine must have preferred this crowd to some 2208lonely corner. 2209He leaned against a door-jamb and waited. He did not have to wait long; 2210a black domino passed him and deftly touched his hand. He understood 2211that it was Christine and followed her. 2212'Is that you, Christine?' he murmured, barely moving his slips. 2213The black domino promptly looked back and raised her finger to her lips, 2214no doubt to caution him against uttering her name again. Raoul followed 2215on in silence. 2216 2217=head2 v5.22.1 - Wilhelm Müller, trans. Anon., "Courage" (No. 22 in Schubert's song-cycle, "Winterreise") 2218 2219L<Announced on 2015-12-13 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/12/msg233318.html> 2220 2221 If the snow flies in my face, 2222 Let me shake it off me! 2223 If my heart within me speaks, 2224 I'll sing bright and gaily! 2225 2226 Will not listen what it says, 2227 Have no ears for moaning. 2228 Do not feel what it complains,-- 2229 Only fools like groaning! 2230 2231 Jolly brave into the world, 2232 'Gainst all wind and weather,-- 2233 If there is no God on earth, 2234 Let 's be gods down nether! 2235 2236=head2 v5.22.1-RC4 - Wilhelm Müller, trans. Anon., "The Signpost" (No. 20 in Schubert's song-cycle, "Winterreise") 2237 2238L<Announced on 2015-12-08 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/12/msg233215.html> 2239 2240 Why do I shun all those highways 2241 Which the other wanderer seeks? 2242 Why do I find bridged by-ways 2243 Through snow-covered deep creeks? 2244 2245 For I have no crime committed, 2246 Why I should now run from men,-- 2247 What demented heart's desire 2248 Drives me to a desert glen? 2249 2250 Signposts on all highways stationed 2251 Point their signs toward the towns, 2252 Whilst I wonder 'yond moderation, 2253 Without rest, yet seeking rest! 2254 2255 One such signpost I see planted 2256 Of my question unconcerned, 2257 One road must my choice be granted, 2258 Whence no man has yet returned! 2259 2260=head2 v5.22.1-RC3 - Wilhelm Müller, trans. Anon., "Stormy Morning" (No. 18 in Schubert's song-cycle, "Winterreise") 2261 2262L<Announced on 2015-12-02 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/12/msg233032.html> 2263 2264 How the storm tore rents 2265 In heavens gray attired! 2266 The rags of cloud are flying 2267 Around, of combat tired. 2268 2269 And flames of fire lambent, 2270 Fly between them and part, 2271 That 's what I call a morning, 2272 A morning after my heart! 2273 2274 My heart sees in the heavens 2275 Its own picture unspoilt-- 2276 It's nothing but the Winter, 2277 The Winter, cold and wild. 2278 2279=head2 v5.22.1-RC2 - Wilhelm Müller, trans. Anon., "The Old Head" (No. 14 in Schubert's song-cycle, "Winterreise") 2280 2281L<Announced on 2015-11-15 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/11/msg232632.html> 2282 2283 The hoary frost has a white sheen 2284 Strewn all over my hair, 2285 So I thought I was an old man 2286 And thought life dealt me fair. 2287 2288 Yet soon was thawed my old white mane, 2289 And I have my black hair again. 2290 How I abhor my young fair years, 2291 How long to wait for death and biers? 2292 2293 From setting sun to morning's hue 2294 Many a head turns white. 2295 Who'll credit it? My hair did not 2296 In all this lifelong plight! 2297 2298=head2 v5.22.1-RC1 - Wilhelm Müller, trans. Anon., "Will-o'-the Wisp" (No. 9 in Schubert's song-cycle, "Winterreise") 2299 2300L<Announced on 2015-10-31 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/10/msg232321.html> 2301 2302 In the deepest rocky crevice 2303 A will-o'-the wisp lured me; 2304 How I could find my way from here, 2305 For me it's easy memory! 2306 2307 For I am used to straying ways, 2308 Every path to th'end a way, 2309 All our joys and all our suffering,-- 2310 To a will-o'-the wisp it 's all play! 2311 2312 Through the dried-up bed of torrents 2313 I quite calmly downward stroll; 2314 Every stream its sea will enter, 2315 Every suffering finds its goal! 2316 2317=head2 v5.22.0 - Gene Wolfe, The Citadel of the Autarch 2318 2319L<Announced on 2015-06-01 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/06/msg228300.html> 2320 2321“You are the advocate of the dead.” 2322 2323The old man nodded. “I am. People talk about being fair to this one and 2324that one, but nobody I ever heard talks about doing right by them. We 2325take everything they had, which is all right. And spit, most often, on 2326their opinions, which I suppose is all right too. But we ought to 2327remember now and then how much of what we have we got from them. I 2328figure while I’m still here I ought to put a word in for them.” 2329 2330=head2 v5.22.0-RC2 - T.S. Eliot, unpublished work 2331 2332L<Announced on 2015-05-21 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/05/msg228142.html> 2333 2334 And when thyself with silver foot shall pass 2335 Among the theories scattered on the grass 2336 Take up my good intentions with the rest 2337 2338=head2 v5.22.0-RC1 - Gene Wolfe, Citadel of the Autarch 2339 2340L<Announced on 2015-05-19 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/05/msg228059.html> 2341 2342There is no limit to stupidity. Space itself is said to be bounded by 2343its own curvature, but stupidity continues beyond infinity. 2344 2345=head2 v5.21.11 - Algernon Charles Swinburne, "Dolores (Notre-Dame des Sept Douleurs)" 2346 2347L<Announced on 2015-04-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/04/msg227472.html> 2348 2349 They shall pass and their places be taken, 2350 The gods and the priests that are pure. 2351 They shall pass, and shalt thou not be shaken? 2352 They shall perish, and shalt thou endure? 2353 Death laughs, breathing close and relentless 2354 In the nostrils and eyelids of lust, 2355 With a pinch in his fingers of scentless 2356 And delicate dust. 2357 2358 But the worm shall revive thee with kisses; 2359 Thou shalt change and transmute as a god, 2360 As the rod to a serpent that hisses, 2361 As the serpent again to a rod. 2362 Thy life shall not cease though thou doff it; 2363 Thou shalt live until evil be slain, 2364 And good shall die first, said thy prophet, 2365 Our Lady of Pain. 2366 2367=head2 v5.21.10 - Aldous Huxley, "The Devils of Loudun" 2368 2369L<Announced on 2015-03-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/03/msg226847.html> 2370 2371The fire burned on, the good fathers continued to sprinkle and intone. 2372Suddenly a flock of pigeons came swooping down from the church and 2373started to wheel around the roaring column of flame and smoke. The 2374crowd shouted, the archers waved their halberds at the birds, Lactance 2375and Tranquille splashed them on the wing with holy water. In vain. The 2376pigeons were not to be driven away. Round and round they flew, diving 2377through the smoke, singeing their feathers in the flames. Both parties 2378claimed a miracle. For the parson's enemies the birds, quite obviously, 2379were a troop of devils, come to fetch away his soul. For his friends, 2380they were emblems of the Holy Ghost and living proof of his innocence. 2381It never seems to have occurred to anyone that they were just pigeons, 2382obeying the laws of their own, their blessedly other-than-human nature. 2383 2384=head2 v5.21.9 - Emily Dickinson, "There is Another Sky" 2385 2386L<Announced on 2015-02-20 by Sawyer X|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/02/msg226002.html> 2387 2388 There is another sky, 2389 Ever serene and fair, 2390 And there is another sunshine, 2391 Though it be darkness there; 2392 Never mind faded forests, Austin, 2393 Never mind silent fields - 2394 Here is a little forest, 2395 Whose leaf is ever green; 2396 Here is a brighter garden, 2397 Where not a frost has been; 2398 In its unfading flowers 2399 I hear the bright bee hum: 2400 Prithee, my brother, 2401 Into my garden come! 2402 2403=head2 v5.21.8 - Bill Watterson, "Scientific Progress Goes 'Boink': A Calvin and Hobbes Collection" 2404 2405L<Announced on 2015-01-20 by Matthew Horsfall|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/01/msg224869.html> 2406 2407Calvin: OK Hobbes, press the button and duplicate me. 2408Hobbes: Are you sure this is such a good idea? 2409Calvin: Brother! You doubting Thomases get in the way of more scientific advances with your stupid ethical questions! This is a *BRILLIANT* idea! Hit the button, will ya? 2410Hobbes: I'd hate to be accused of inhibiting scientific progress... Here you go. 2411[Box]: *BOINK* 2412Hobbes: Scientific progress goes "BOINK"? 2413Calvin?: It worked! It worked! I'm a genius! 2414Cavlin??: No you're not, you liar! *I* invented this! 2415 2416=head2 v5.21.7 - Robert Heinlein, "The Number of the Beast" 2417 2418L<Announced on 2014-12-20 by Max Maischein|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/12/msg223774.html> 2419 2420"Zebadiah, Hilda and I salvaged and put everything into the basket. 2421Hilda started to put it into our wardrobe-and it was heavy. So 2422we looked. Packed as tight as when we left Oz. Six bananas-and 2423everything else. Cross my heart. No, go look." 2424"Hmmm- Jake, can you write equations for a picnic basket that 2425refills itself? Will it go on doing so?" 2426"Zeb, equations can be written to describe anything. The description 2427would be simpler for a basket that replenishes itself indefinitely 2428than for one that does it once and stops-I would have to describe 2429the discontinuity." 2430 2431=head2 v5.21.6 - Jeff Noon, "Vurt" 2432 2433L<Announced on 2014-11-20 by Chris 'BinGOs' Williams|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/11/msg222448.html> 2434 2435GAME CAT 2436 2437EXCHANGE MECHANISMS. Sometimes we lose precious 2438things. Friends and colleagues, fellow travellers in the 2439Vurt, sometimes we lose them; even lovers we sometimes 2440lose. And get bad things in exchange: aliens, objects, 2441snakes, and sometimes even death. Things we don't want. 2442This is part of the deal, part of the game deal; 2443all things, in all worlds, must be kept in balance. 2444Kittlings often ask, who decides on the swappings? Now then, 2445some say it's all accidental; that some poor Vurt thing 2446finds himself too close to a door, at too critical a time, 2447just when something real is being lost. Whoosh! Swap time! 2448Others say that some kind of overseer is working the 2449MECHANISMS OF EXCHANGE, deciding the fate of innocents. 2450The Cat can only tease at this, because of the big secrets 2451involved, and because of the levels between you, the reader, 2452and me, the Game Cat. Hey, listen; I've struggled to get 2453where I am today; why should I give you the easy route? 2454Get working, kittlings! Reach up higher. Work the Vurt. 2455 2456=head2 v5.21.5 - Friso Wiegersma (text), Jean Ferrat (music), Wim Sonneveld (performer), "Het Dorp" 2457 2458L<Announced on 2014-10-20 by Abigail|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/10/msg221399.html> 2459 2460 Het Dorp 2461 2462 Thuis heb ik nog een ansichtkaart 2463 waarop een kerk, een kar met paard, 2464 een slagerij J. van der Ven. 2465 Een kroeg, een juffrouw op de fiets 2466 het zegt u hoogstwaarschijnlijk niets, 2467 maar 't is waar ik geboren ben. 2468 Dit dorp, ik weet nog hoe het was, 2469 de boerenkind'ren in de klas, 2470 een kar die ratelt op de keien, 2471 het raadhuis met een pomp ervoor, 2472 een zandweg tussen koren door, 2473 het vee, de boerderijen. 2474 2475 En langs het tuinpad van m'n vader 2476 zag ik de hoge bomen staan. 2477 Ik was een kind en wist niet beter, 2478 dan dat dat nooit voorbij zou gaan. 2479 2480 Wat leefden ze eenvoudig toen 2481 in simp'le huizen tussen groen 2482 met boerenbloemen en een heg. 2483 Maar blijkbaar leefden ze verkeerd, 2484 het dorp is gemoderniseerd 2485 en nu zijn ze op de goeie weg. 2486 Want ziet, hoe rijk het leven is, 2487 ze zien de televisiequiz 2488 en wonen in betonnen dozen, 2489 met flink veel glas, dan kun je zien 2490 hoe of het bankstel staat bij Mien 2491 en d'r dressoir met plastic rozen. 2492 2493 En langs het tuinpad van m'n vader 2494 zag ik de hoge bomen staan. 2495 Ik was een kind en wist niet beter, 2496 dan dat dat nooit voorbij zou gaan. 2497 2498 De dorpsjeugd klit wat bij elkaar 2499 in minirok en beatle-haar 2500 en joelt wat mee met beat-muziek. 2501 Ik weet wel, het is hun goeie recht, 2502 de nieuwe tijd, net wat u zegt, 2503 maar het maakt me wat melancholiek. 2504 Ik heb hun vaders nog gekend 2505 ze kochten zoethout voor een cent 2506 ik zag hun moeders touwtjespringen. 2507 Dat dorp van toen, het is voorbij, 2508 dit is al wat er bleef voor mij: 2509 een ansicht en herinneringen. 2510 2511 Toen ik langs het tuinpad van m'n vader 2512 de hoge bomen nog zag staan. 2513 Ik was een kind, hoe kon ik weten 2514 dat dat voorgoed voorbij zou gaan. 2515 2516=head2 v5.21.4 - Edgar Allan Poe, "The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket" 2517 2518L<Announced on 2014-09-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/09/msg220267.html> 2519 2520To-day, being in latitude 83° 20', longitude 43° 5' W. (the sea being 2521of an extraordinarily dark colour), we again saw land from the 2522masthead, and, upon a closer scrutiny, found it to be one of a group 2523of very large islands. The shore was precipitous, and the interior 2524seemed to be well wooded, a circumstance which occasioned us great 2525joy. In about four hours from our first discovering the land we came 2526to anchor in ten fathoms, sandy bottom, a league from the coast, as a 2527high surf, with strong ripples here and there, rendered a nearer 2528approach of doubtful expediency. The two largest boats were now 2529ordered out, and a party, well armed (among whome were Peters and 2530myself), proceeded to look for an opening in the reef which appeared 2531to encircle the island. After searching about for some time, we 2532discovered an inlet, which we were entering, when we saw four large 2533canoes put off from the shore, filled with men who seemed to be well 2534armed. We waited for them to come up, and, as they moved with great 2535rapidity, they were soon within hail. Captain Guy now held up a white 2536handkerchief on the blade of an oar, when the strangers made a full 2537stop, and commenced a loud jabbering all at once, intermingled with 2538occasional shouts, in which we could distinguish the words Anamoo-moo! 2539and Lama-Lama! They continued this for at least half an hour, during 2540which we had a good opportunity of observing their appearance. 2541 2542=head2 v5.21.3 - Robert Service, "The Men that Don't Fit In" 2543 2544L<Announced on 2014-08-20 by Peter Martini|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/08/msg218826.html> 2545 2546 If they just went straight they might go far, 2547 They are strong and brave and true; 2548 But they're always tired of the things that are, 2549 And they want the strange and new. 2550 They say: "Could I find my proper groove, 2551 What a deep mark I would make!" 2552 So they chop and change, and each fresh move 2553 Is only a fresh mistake. 2554 2555=head2 v5.21.2 - Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, Charlie Duke, Final minutes of communication of the first manned moon landing, July 20, 1969 2556 2557L<Announced on 2014-07-20 by Abigail|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/07/msg217937.html> 2558 2559 Armstrong: Okay. Here's a...Looks like a good area here. 2560 Aldrin: I got the shadow out there. 2561 Aldrin: 250, down at 2 1/2, 19 forward. 2562 Aldrin: Altitude, velocity lights. 2563 Aldrin: 3 1/2 down, 220 feet, 13 forward. 2564 Aldrin: 11 forward. Coming down nicely. 2565 Armstrong: Gonna be right over that crater. 2566 Aldrin: 200 feet, 4 1/2 down. 2567 Aldrin: 5 1/2 down. 2568 Armstrong: I got a good spot [garbled]. 2569 Aldrin: 160 feet, 6 1/2 down. 2570 Aldrin: 5 1/2 down, 9 forward. You're looking good. 2571 Aldrin: 120 feet. 2572 Aldrin: 100 feet, 3 1/2 down, 9 forward. Five percent. Quantity light. 2573 Aldrin: Okay. 75 feet. And it's looking good. Down a half, 6 forward. 2574 Duke: 60 seconds. 2575 Aldrin: Light's on. 2576 Aldrin: 60 feet, down 2 1/2. 2 forward. 2 forward. That's good. 2577 Aldrin: 40 feet, down 2 1/2. Picking up some dust. 2578 Aldrin: 30 feet, 2 1/2 down. [Garbled] shadow. 2579 Aldrin: 4 forward. 4 forward. Drifting to the right a little. 20 feet, 2580 down a half. 2581 Duke: 30 seconds. 2582 Aldrin: Drifting forward just a little bit; that's good. 2583 Aldrin: Contact Light. 2584 Armstrong: Shutdown. 2585 Aldrin: Okay. Engine Stop. 2586 Aldrin: ACA out of Detent. 2587 Armstrong: Out of Detent. Auto. 2588 Aldrin: Mode Control, both Auto. Descent Engine Command Override, Off. 2589 Engine Arm, Off. 413 is in. 2590 Duke: We copy you down, Eagle. 2591 Armstrong: Engine arm is off. 2592 Armstrong: Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed. 2593 Duke: Roger, Twan...[correcting himself] Tranquility. We copy you on 2594 the ground. You got a bunch of guys about to turn blue. 2595 We're breathing again. Thanks a lot. 2596 Aldrin: Thank you. 2597 2598=head2 v5.21.1 - Robert Jordan, "The Crossroads of Twilights", Book 10 of "The Wheel of Time" 2599 2600L<Announced on 2014-06-20 by Matthew Horsfall|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/06/msg217030.html> 2601 2602 We rode on the winds of the rising storm, 2603 We ran to the sounds of the thunder. 2604 We danced among the lightning bolts, 2605 and tore the world asunder. 2606 2607 -- Anonymous fragment of a poem believed 2608 written near the end of the previous Age, 2609 known by some as the Third Age. 2610 Sometimes attributed to the Dragon 2611 Reborn. 2612 2613=head2 v5.21.0 - Friedrich von Schiller, "The Song of the Bell" 2614 2615L<Announced on 2014-05-27 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/05/msg215826.html> 2616 2617 Walled in fast within the earth 2618 Stands the form burnt out of clay. 2619 This must be the bell’s great birth! 2620 Fellows, lend a hand to-day. 2621 Sweat must trickle now 2622 From the burning brow, 2623 Till the work its master honour. 2624 Blessing comes from Heaven’s Donor. 2625 2626=head2 v5.20.3 - Elias Lönnrot, trans. Keith Bosley, "The Kalevala", Canto 42: Stealing the Sampo 2627 2628L<Announced on 2015-09-12 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/09/msg230945.html> 2629 2630 Steady old Väinämöinen 2631 uttered a word and spoke thus: 2632 'No lilting on the waters 2633 and no singing on the waves! 2634 Song keeps you lazy 2635 tales delay rowing. 2636 Precious day would pass and night 2637 would overtake us midway 2638 on these wide waters 2639 upon these vast waves.' 2640 2641 The wanton Lemminkäinen 2642 uttered a word and spoke thus: 2643 'The time will pass anyway 2644 the fair day will flee 2645 and the night will come panting 2646 and the twilight will steal in 2647 if you don't sing while you live 2648 nor hum in this world.' 2649 2650=head2 v5.20.3-RC2 - Anon., trans. Malcolm C. Lyons, "The Story of Abu Muhammad the Idle and the Marvels He Encountered with the Ape As Well As the Marvels of the Seas and Islands", from "Tales of the Marvellous and News of the Strange" 2651 2652L<Announced on 2015-08-29 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/08/msg230544.html> 2653 2654'I fled from Basra, sad and tearful, with no idea where I was going, 2655and I was reciting these lines: 2656 2657 The pain of parting makes me melt away, 2658 As lovers do when those they love are harsh. 2659 I wonder at the patience that I showed 2660 When I had lost my love, for that was wonderful. 2661 Beloved, do you know that since you left, 2662 I have remained confused in misery. 2663 2664I then heard a voice that said: "Damn you, have you no fear of 2665Almighty God that you hand over a girl to an unbelieving 'ifrit?" I 2666walked for a time amongst the palm-trees until I caught sight of a 2667person, whom I approached. When I asked him who he was he said: "I 2668am one of the jinn who were converted to Islam at the hands of 'Ali 2669ibn Abi Talib, may God ennoble him." "How can I get to my wife?" I 2670asked him, and he said: "Wretched fellow, you had a bird which you 2671allowed to fly away and now you want to fly after it." But he 2672added: "Follow this road with God's blessing all night until dawn 2673and then by the shore you will see a huge cave in which there is an 2674idol made of white stone. You must drink of the water that there is 2675coming out of the cave and smear your face with its mud. Stay there 2676and a barge will pass you as you stand opposite the statue. Various 2677different creatures will emerge, heads without bodies and bodies 2678without heads, and they will prostrate themselves in adoration to 2679the idol rather than to Almighty God. When you see that, embark on 2680the barge and cross to the other bank and walk along it until 2681sunset. On a high point you will see a castle built of bricks of 2682gold and silver. That is where your 'ifrit will be. I have now 2683told you about this, so goodbye." 2684 2685=head2 v5.20.3-RC1 - Anon., trans. Malcolm C. Lyons, "The Story of Abu Muhammad the Idle and the Marvels He Encountered with the Ape As Well As the Marvels of the Seas and Islands", from "Tales of the Marvellous and News of the Strange" 2686 2687L<Announced on 2015-08-22 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/08/msg230359.html> 2688 2689'On the night of the wedding the ape came to sit in front of me and 2690asked me what I intended to do. "Whatever you tell me," I replied, 2691and he said: "Take care not to covet the girl, or I shall come back 2692and burn you up and leave you as a lesson for those who can learn." 2693I agreed to this and when evening came I found the world full of 2694candles and torches burning in holders of gold and silver. There 2695were servants and serving girls, and everyone who saw me 2696congratulated me on my good fortune, as there was no girl on the 2697face of the earth more beautiful than my bride. 2698[...] 2699'Next morning I went out to the market, and people went in and asked 2700her how the night had been. "He never looked up at me," she told 2701them. Then, when it was afternoon, I went to my house, where the 2702ape was sitting by the door. "Tell me what you did," it said, and I 2703told it: "By God, I did not learn and do not know whether this was a 2704man or a girl." "That's what I want," it said. 2705[...] 2706'On the second night my bride was brought to me, after which the 2707servants left her and went away. She fell asleep, and, while she 2708was sleeping, I killed the cock, wrapped it in the cloth and put the 2709four poles from the couch over it. Suddenly there was a huge crash 2710like a peal of thunder and a fiery 'ifrit swooped on the girl. I 2711fainted at the sight and when I recovered I heard a voice saying: 2712"By the Lord of the Ka'ba, the girl has been carried off!" and there 2713was a sound like the rustling of wind and bitter weeping. At this I 2714shed tears, struck my head and was filled with regret when it was no 2715longer of any use, for to me the whole world was worth no more than 2716a bean. 2717 2718=head2 v5.20.2 - Jonathan "Jonti" Picking, L<"Magical Trevor"|http://weebls-stuff.com/toons/magical-trevor-episode-01-animated-music-video-mrweebl/> 2719 2720L<Announced on 2015-02-14 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/02/msg225777.html> 2721 2722 Everyone loves Magical Trevor, 2723 'Cos the tricks that he does are ever so clever; 2724 Look at him now, disappearin' the cow, 2725 Where is the cow hidden right now? 2726 2727 Taking a bow, it's Magical Trevor, 2728 Everybody's seen that the trick is clever; 2729 Look at him there with his leathery, leathery whip! 2730 It's made of magic, and with a little flip-- 2731 2732 Yeah, yeah, yeah, the cow is back, 2733 Yeah, yeah, yeah, the cow is back; 2734 Back, back, back from his magical journey, 2735 Yeah! 2736 2737 What did he see in the parallel dimension? 2738 He saw beans, lots of beans, lots of beans, lots of beans; 2739 Oh, beans, lots of beans, lots of beans, lots of beans, 2740 Yeah, yeah! 2741 2742=head2 v5.20.2-RC1 - Jonathan "Jonti" Picking, L<"Scampi"|http://weebls-stuff.com/toons/ive-seen-things-scampi-animated-music-video-mrweebl/> 2743 2744L<Announced on 2015-02-01 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/02/msg225273.html> 2745 2746 I've seen things, 2747 I've seen them with my eyes; 2748 I've seen things, 2749 They're often in disguise. 2750 2751 Like carrots, handbags, cheese, toilets, 2752 Russians, planets, hamsters, weddings, 2753 Poets, Stalin, Kuala Lumpur! 2754 Pygmies, budgies, Kuala Lumpur! 2755 2756 I've seen things, 2757 I've seen them with my eyes; 2758 I've seen things, 2759 They're often in disguise. 2760 2761 Like carrots, handbags, cheese... 2762 2763=head2 v5.20.1 - Lorenzo da Ponte, trans. Diana Reed, "Così fan tutte" 2764 2765L<Announced on 2014-09-14 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/09/msg219789.html> 2766 2767 DORABELLA (as if waking from a daze): Where are they? 2768 DON ALFONSO: They've gone. 2769 FIORDILIGI: Oh, the cruel bitterness of parting! 2770 2771 DON ALFONSO: 2772 Take heart, my dearest children. 2773 Look, in the distance, your lovers are waving to you. 2774 2775 FIORDILIGI: Bon voyage, my darling! 2776 DORABELLA: Bon voyage! 2777 2778 FIORDILIGI: 2779 O heavens! How swiftly the ship is sailing away! 2780 It is disappearing already! 2781 It is no longer in sight! 2782 Oh, may heaven grant it a prosperous voyage! 2783 2784 DORABELLA: May good luck attend it to the battlefield! 2785 DON ALFONSO: And may your sweethearts and my friends be safe! 2786 2787 FIORDILIGI, DORABELLA, DON ALFONSO: 2788 May the wind be gentle, 2789 may the sea be calm, 2790 and may the elements 2791 respond kindly 2792 to our wishes. 2793 2794=head2 v5.20.1-RC2 - Lorenzo da Ponte, trans. William Weaver, "Così fan tutte" 2795 2796L<Announced on 2014-09-07 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/09/msg219446.html> 2797 2798 GUGLIELMO: 2799 Oh God, I feel that this foot of mine 2800 is reluctant to come before her. 2801 2802 FERRANDO: 2803 My trembling lip 2804 can utter no word. 2805 2806 DON ALFONSO: 2807 The hero displays his manliness 2808 in the most terrible moments. 2809 2810 FIORDILIGI, DORABELLA: 2811 Now that we have heard the news, 2812 you have the lesser duty: 2813 Take heart, and plunge your swords 2814 into both our hearts. 2815 2816 FERRANDO, GUGLIELMO: 2817 My idol, blame fate 2818 that I must abandon you. 2819 2820 DORABELLA: Ah no, you shall not leave... 2821 FIORDILIGI: No, cruel one, you shall not go... 2822 DORABELLA: First I want to tear out my heart. 2823 FIORDILIGI: First I want to die at your feet. 2824 FERRANDO (softly to Don Alfonso): What do you say to that? 2825 GUGLIELMO (softly to Don Alfonso): You realise? 2826 DON ALFONSO (softly): Steady, friend, finem lauda. 2827 2828 ALL: 2829 Thus destiny defrauds 2830 the hopes of mortals. 2831 Ah, among so many misfortunes, 2832 who can ever love life? 2833 2834=head2 v5.20.1-RC1 - Lorenzo da Ponte, trans. William Weaver, "Così fan tutte" 2835 2836L<Announced on 2014-08-25 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/08/msg218975.html> 2837 2838 DON ALFONSO: 2839 I'd like to speak, but I haven't the heart: 2840 my lip stammers. 2841 My voice cannot emerge, 2842 but remains in my throat. 2843 What will you do? What shall I do? 2844 Oh what a great catastrophe! 2845 There can be nothing worse. 2846 I feel pity for you and for them. 2847 2848 FIORDILIGI: Heavens! For mercy's sake, Signor Alfonso, don't make us 2849 die. 2850 DON ALFONSO: My children, you must arm yourselves with constancy. 2851 DORABELLA: Ye Gods! What evil has occurred? What horrible event? Is my 2852 love dead, perhaps? 2853 FIORDILIGI: Is mine dead? 2854 DON ALFONSO: They are not dead, but they are not far from it. 2855 DORABELLA: Wounded? 2856 DON ALFONSO: No. 2857 FIORDILIGI: Ill? 2858 DON ALFONSO: Nor that. 2859 FIORDILIGI: What, then? 2860 DON ALFONSO: A royal command summons them to the field of battle. 2861 FIORDILIGI, DORABELLA: Alas, what do I hear? And they will leave? 2862 DON ALFONSO: Immediately. 2863 DORABELLA: And there is no way of preventing it? 2864 DON ALFONSO: There is none. 2865 FIORDILIGI: And not even a single farewell... 2866 DON ALFONSO: The unhappy men haven't the courage to see you; but if 2867 you wish it, they are ready... 2868 DORABELLA: Where are they? 2869 DON ALFONSO: Come in, friends. 2870 2871=head2 v5.20.0 - William Shakespeare, Sonnet 18 2872 2873L<Announced on 2014-05-27 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/05/msg215815.html> 2874 2875 But thy eternal summer shall not fade, 2876 Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st; 2877 Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade, 2878 When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st: 2879 So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, 2880 So long lives this, and this gives life to thee. 2881 2882=head2 v5.20.0-RC1 - Lindsey Buckingham, "Second Hand News" 2883 2884L<Announced on 2014-05-17 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/05/msg215479.html> 2885 2886 When times go bad 2887 when times go rough 2888 Won't you lay me down in tall grass 2889 And let me do my stuff 2890 2891=head2 v5.19.11 - Isidore-Lucien Ducasse [as "Comte de Lautréamont"], trans. Paul Knight, "Les Chants de Maldoror" 2892 2893L<Announced on 2014-04-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/04/msg214580.html> 2894 2895O rigorous mathematics, I have not forgotten you since your wise lessons, 2896sweeter than honey, filtered into my heart like a refreshing wave. 2897Instinctively, from the cradle, I had longed to drink from your source, older 2898than the sun, and I continue to tread the sacred sanctuary of your solemn 2899temple, I, the most faithful of your devotees. There was a vagueness in my 2900mind, something thick as smoke; but I managed to mount the steps which lead to 2901your altar, and you drove away this dark veil, as the wind blows the 2902draught-board. You replaced it with excessive coldness, consummate prudence and 2903implacable logic. With the aid of your fortifying milk, my intellect developed 2904rapidly and took on immense proportions amid the ravishing lucidity which you 2905bestow as a gift on all those who sincerely love you. Arithmetic! Algebra! 2906Geometry! Awe-inspiring trinity! Luminous triangle! He who has not known you 2907is a fool! 2908 2909=head2 v5.19.10 - John Chadwick, "The Decipherment of Linear B" 2910 2911L<Announced on 2014-03-20 by Aaron Crane|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/03/msg213851.html> 2912 2913The urge to discover secrets is deeply ingrained in human nature; even 2914the least curious mind is roused by the promise of sharing knowledge 2915withheld from others. Some are fortunate enough to find a job which 2916consists in the solution of mysteries, whether it be the physicist who 2917tracks down a hitherto unknown nuclear particle or the policeman who 2918detects a criminal. But most of us are driven to sublimate this urge 2919by the solving of artificial puzzles devised for our entertainment. 2920 2921=head2 v5.19.9 - R. A. MacAvoy, "Tea with the Black Dragon" 2922 2923L<Announced on 2014-02-20 by Tony Cook|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/02/msg213047.html> 2924 2925Old hands. The smell of rain--the smell of Ch'an. Quiet words in 2926rough Cantonese. "I am not to be your master. Your master has to be 2927stronger than you are--has to tell you you are a fool and make you 2928know it. And make you feel content in being a fool. How could I do 2929that for you? I'm old. You are too strong for me; you are full of 2930chi." The old man has paused then, huddled against the wind while 2931clouds thickened above them. 2932 2933"I will tell you this, Long," he continued, "Before you find yourself 2934you will lose your chi. Also you will leave behind you all pride of 2935body, pride of mind. You will be reduced. Like me." The old man 2936closed his eyes, and rain began to beat against his gray, crew-cut 2937hair. He pulled his coat closer. Suddenly his eyes snapped open and 2938he looked Long in the face. 2939 2940"You must leave China. Go across the ocean. There you will meet your 2941master." He set down his teacup with a palsied hand. His voice rose, 2942grew fierce. 2943 2944"I tell you this, most honored and impressive visitor. You are a 2945fool, yes, but you will find the very thing you seek. You will find 2946truth!" 2947 2948=head2 v5.19.8 - Joseph Heller, "Catch-22" 2949 2950L<Announced on 2014-01-20 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/01/msg211729.html> 2951 2952“I used to get a big kick out of saving people’s lives. Now I wonder what the 2953hell’s the point, since they all have to die anyway.” 2954 2955“Oh, there’s a point, all right,” Dunbar assured him. 2956 2957“Is there? What is the point?” 2958 2959“The point is to keep them from dying for as long as you can.” 2960 2961“Yeah, but what’s the point, since they all have to die anyway?” 2962 2963“The trick is not to think about that.” 2964 2965“Never mind the trick. What the hell’s the point?” 2966 2967Dunbar pondered in silence for a few moments. “Who the hell knows?” 2968 2969=head2 v5.19.7 - Kurt Vonnegut, "Slaughterhouse-Five" 2970 2971L<Announced on 2013-12-20 by Abigail|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/12/msg210882.html> 2972 2973And somewhere in there was springtime. The corpse mines were closed 2974down. The soldiers all left to fight the Russians. In the suburbs, 2975the women and children dug rifle pits. Billy and the rest of his group 2976were locked up in the stable in the suburbs. And then, one morning, 2977they got up to discover that the door was unlocked. World War Two in 2978Europe was over. 2979 2980Billy and the rest wandered out onto the shady street. The trees were 2981leafing out. There was nothing going on out there, no traffic of any 2982kind. There was only one vehicle, an abandoned wagon drawn by two 2983horses. The wagon was green and coffin-shaped. 2984 2985Birds were talking. 2986 2987One bird said to Billy Pilgrim, "Pee-tee-weet?" 2988 2989=head2 v5.19.6 - Monty Python's Flying Circus, "Spam" 2990 2991L<Announced on 2013-11-20 by Chris 'BinGOs' Williams|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/11/msg210043.html> 2992 2993 Interior: cheap cafe. All the customers are Vikings. Mr and Mrs Bun enter downwards (on wires). 2994 2995 Mr. Bun: Morning. 2996 Waitress: Morning. 2997 Mr. Bun: What have you got, then? 2998 Waitress: Well there's egg and bacon; egg, sausage and bacon; egg and spam; egg, bacon and spam; 2999 egg, bacon, sausage and spam; spam, bacon, sausage and spam; spam, egg, spam, spam, bacon and spam; 3000 spam, spam, spam, egg and spam; spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, baked beans, spam, spam, spam and spam; 3001 or lobster thermidor aux crevettes, with a mornay sauce garnished with truffle pate, brandy and a fried 3002 egg on top and spam 3003 Mrs. Bun: Have you got anything without spam in it? 3004 Waitress: Well, there's spam, egg, sausage and spam. That's not got MUCH spam in it. 3005 Mrs. Bun: I don't want ANY spam. 3006 Mr. Bun: Why can't she have egg, bacon, spam and sausage? 3007 Mrs. Bun: That's got spam in it! 3008 Mr. Bun: Not as much as spam, egg, sausage and spam. 3009 Mrs. Bun: Look, could I have egg, bacon, spam and sausage, without the spam. 3010 Waitress: Uuuuuuggggh! 3011 Mrs. Bun: What d'you mean, uugggh! I don't like spam. 3012 Vikings: (singing) Spam, spam, spam, spam, spam ... spam, spam, spam, spam ... lovely spam, wonderful spam ... 3013 3014 (Brief shot of a Viking ship) 3015 3016 Waitress: Shut up. Shut up! Shut up! You can't have egg, bacon, spam and sausage without the spam. 3017 Mrs. Bun: Why not? 3018 Waitress: No, it wouldn't be egg, bacon, spam and sausage, would it? 3019 Mrs. Bun: I don't like spam! 3020 3021=head2 v5.19.5 - Charles Baudelaire, trans. James McGowan, "The Flowers of Evil", 51. The Cat 3022 3023L<Announced on 2013-10-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/10/msg208752.html> 3024 3025 I 3026 3027 A cat is strolling through my mind 3028 Acting as though he owned the place, 3029 A lovely cat -- strong, charming, sweet. 3030 When he meows, one scarcely hears, 3031 3032 So tender and discreet his tone; 3033 But whether he should growl or purr 3034 His voice is always rich and deep. 3035 That is the secret of his charm. 3036 3037 This purling voice that filters down 3038 Into my darkest depths of soul 3039 Fulfils me like a balanced verse, 3040 Delights me as a potion would. 3041 3042 It puts to sleep the cruellest ills 3043 And keeps a rein on ecstasies -- 3044 Without the need for any words 3045 It can pronounce the longest phrase. 3046 3047 Oh no, there is no bow that draws 3048 Across my heart, fine instrument, 3049 And makes to sing so royally 3050 The strongest and the purest chord, 3051 3052 More than your voice, mysterious cat, 3053 Exotic cat, seraphic cat, 3054 In whom all is, angelically, 3055 As subtle as harmonious. 3056 3057 II 3058 3059 From his soft fur, golden and brown, 3060 Goes out so sweet a scent, one night 3061 I might have been embalmed in it 3062 By giving him one little pet. 3063 3064 He is my household's guardian soul; 3065 He judges, he presides, inspires 3066 All matters in hos royal realm; 3067 Might he be fairy? or a god? 3068 3069 When my eyes, to this cat I love 3070 Drawn as by a magnet's force, 3071 Turn tamely back from that appeal, 3072 And when I look within myself, 3073 3074 I notice with astonishment 3075 The fire of his opal eyes, 3076 Clear beacons glowing, living jewels, 3077 Taking my measure, steadily. 3078 3079=head2 v5.19.4 - Washington Irving, "The Widow and Her Son" 3080 3081L<Announced on 2013-09-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/09/msg207969.html> 3082 3083There is something in sickness that breaks down the pride of manhood; 3084that softens the heart and brings it back to the feelings of infancy. 3085Who that has languished, even in advanced life, in sickness and 3086despondency — who that has pined on a weary bed in the neglect and 3087loneliness of a foreign land — but has thought on the mother "that 3088looked on his childhood," that smoothed his pillow and administered to 3089his helplessness. — Oh! there is an enduring tenderness in the love 3090of a mother to her son that transcends all other affections of the 3091heart. It is neither to be chilled by selfishness — nor daunted by 3092danger — nor weakened by worthlessness — nor stifled by ingratitude. 3093She will sacrifice every comfort to his convenience — she will 3094surrender every pleasure to his enjoyment — she will glory in his fame 3095and exult in his prosperity. And if misfortune overtake him he will 3096be the dearer to her from misfortune — and if disgrace settle upon his 3097name, she will still love and cherish him in spite of his disgrace — 3098and if all the world beside cast him off, she will be all the world to 3099him. 3100 3101=head2 v5.19.3 - Andrew Hodges, "Alan Turing: The Enigma" 3102 3103L<Announced on 2013-08-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/08/msg206318.html> 3104 3105E.M. Forster, outdoing the King's heresy with grand bravura, had 3106written in 1938 that if he were faced with the choice between 3107betraying his country and betraying his friends, he hoped he would 3108have the courage to betray his country. He would always put the 3109personal above the political. But for Alan Turing, unlike Forster, or 3110Wittgenstein, or G.H. Hardy, it was more than a theoretical question. 3111For him not only had the personal become the political, but the 3112political was the personal. He had chosen and promised for himself in 3113working for the government. The choice for him therefore was that 3114between betraying one part of himself and betraying another part. And 3115however much he wavered between these alternatives, there was a solid 3116logic to the mind of security, one that could not be expected to take 3117an interest in notions of freedom and development. He had no rights 3118to such things, as he would have had to admit. He might have 3119outwitted the Home Guard, but when it came to questions that mattered, 3120there was no doubt that he had placed himself under military law. 3121There was a war on; there was always a war on now. 3122 3123=head2 v5.19.2 - Fred Brooks, "The Mythical Man-Month" 3124 3125L<Announced on 2013-07-22 by Aristotle Pagaltzis|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/07/msg204905.html> 3126 3127The magic of myth and legend has come true in our time. One types the 3128correct incantation on a keyboard, and a display screen comes to life, 3129showing things that never were nor could be. [...] Not all is delight, 3130however [...] One must perform perfectly. The computer resembles the 3131magic of legend in this respect, too. If one character, one pause, of 3132the incantation is not strictly in proper form, the magic doesn't work. 3133 3134=head2 v5.19.1 - William Shakespeare, "A Midsummer Night's Dream" 3135 3136L<Announced on 2013-06-21 by David Golden|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/06/msg203449.html> 3137 3138 Over hill, over dale, 3139 Thorough bush, thorough briar, 3140 Over park, over pale, 3141 Thorough flood, thorough fire, 3142 I do wander everywhere, 3143 Swifter than the moon's sphere; 3144 And I serve the fairy queen, 3145 To dew her orbs upon the green. 3146 The cowslips tall her pensioners be; 3147 In their gold coats, spots you see; 3148 Those be rubies, fairy favours, 3149 In their freckles live our savours. 3150 I must go seek some dew-drops here, 3151 And hang a perl in every cowslip's ear. 3152 Farewell, thou lob of spirits, I'll be gone; 3153 My queen and all her elves come here anon! 3154 3155=head2 v5.19.0 - Batman, of the Joker, in "The Dark Knight Returns" 3156 3157L<Announced on 2013-05-20 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/05/msg201980.html> 3158 3159 From the beginning, I knew… 3160 …that there was nothing wrong with you… 3161 …that I can't fix… 3162 …with my hands… 3163 3164=head2 v5.18.4 - Robert W. Chambers, Cassilda's Song in "The King in Yellow," Act I, Scene 2 3165 3166L<Announced on 2014-10-01 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/10/msg220770.html> 3167 3168 Along the shore the cloud waves break, 3169 The twin suns sink beneath the lake, 3170 The shadows lengthen 3171 In Carcosa. 3172 3173 Strange is the night where black stars rise, 3174 And strange moons circle through the skies 3175 But stranger still is 3176 Lost Carcosa. 3177 3178 Songs that the Hyades shall sing, 3179 Where flap the tatters of the King, 3180 Must die unheard in 3181 Dim Carcosa. 3182 3183 Song of my soul, my voice is dead; 3184 Die thou, unsung, as tears unshed 3185 Shall dry and die in 3186 Lost Carcosa. 3187 3188=head2 v5.18.3 - (no epigraph) 3189 3190(no epigraph) 3191 3192=head2 v5.18.3-RC2 - Robert W. Chambers, "The King in Yellow", Act I, Scene 2 3193 3194L<Announced on 2014-09-27 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/09/msg220613.html> 3195 3196"Ah! I see it now!" I shrieked. "You have seized the throne and the 3197empire. Woe! woe to you who are crowned with the crown of the King in 3198Yellow!" 3199 3200=head2 v5.18.3-RC1 - Robert W. Chambers, "The King in Yellow", Act I, Scene 2 3201 3202L<Announced on 2014-09-17 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/09/msg220072.html> 3203 3204 CAMILLA: You, sir, should unmask. 3205 3206 STRANGER: Indeed? 3207 3208 CASSILDA: Indeed it's time. We all have laid aside disguise but you. 3209 3210 STRANGER: I wear no mask. 3211 3212 CAMILLA: (Terrified, aside to Cassilda.) No mask? No mask! 3213 3214=head2 v5.18.2 - Miss Manners 3215 3216L<Announced on 2014-01-06 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/01/msg211224.html> 3217 3218One of the major mistakes people make is that they think manners are 3219only the expression of happy ideas. There's a whole range of behavior 3220that can be expressed in a mannerly way. That's what civilization is all 3221about – doing it in a mannerly and not an antagonistic way. One of the 3222places we went wrong was the naturalistic Rousseauean movement of the 3223Sixties in which people said, "Why can't you just say what's on your 3224mind?" In civilization there have to be some restraints. If we followed 3225every impulse, we'd be killing one another. 3226 3227=head2 v5.18.1 - Chuck Moore 3228 3229L<Announced on 2013-08-12 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/08/msg205897.html> 3230 3231The operating system is another concept that is curious. Operating 3232systems are dauntingly complex and totally unnecessary. It’s a brilliant 3233thing that Bill Gates has done in selling the world on the notion of 3234operating systems. It’s probably the greatest con game the world has 3235ever seen. 3236 3237An operating system does absolutely nothing for you. As long as you had 3238something — a subroutine called disk driver, a subroutine called some 3239kind of communication support, in the modern world, it doesn’t do 3240anything else. In fact, Windows spends a lot of time with overlays and 3241disk management all stuff like that which are irrelevant. You’ve got 3242gigabyte disks; you’ve got megabyte RAMs. The world has changed in a way 3243that renders the operating system unnecessary. 3244 3245=head2 v5.18.1-RC1 - Chuck Moore 3246 3247L<Announced on 2013-08-02 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/08/msg205445.html> 3248 3249Compilers are probably the worst code ever written. They are written by 3250someone who has never written a compiler before and will never do so 3251again. The more elaborate the language, the more complex, bug-ridden, 3252and unusable is the compiler. But a simple compiler for a simple 3253language is an essential tool—if only for documentation. 3254 3255=head2 v5.18.0 - Yevgeny Zamyatin 3256 3257L<Announced on 2013-05-18 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/05/msg201940.html> 3258 3259It is an error to divide people into the living and the dead: there are people 3260who are dead-alive, and people who are alive-alive. The dead-alive also write, 3261walk, speak, act. But they make no mistakes; only machines make no mistakes, 3262and they produce only dead things. The alive-alive are constantly in error, in 3263search, in questions, in torment. 3264 3265=head2 v5.18.0-RC4 - Joseph Heller, "Catch-22" 3266 3267L<Announced on 2013-05-16 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/05/msg201889.html> 3268 3269Clevinger was dead. That was the basic flaw in his philosophy. 3270 3271=head2 v5.18.0-RC3 - Tom Waits, "The Ocean Doesn't Want Me" 3272 3273L<Announced on 2013-05-14 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/05/msg201823.html> 3274 3275 I'd love to go drowning 3276 And to stay and to stay 3277 But the ocean doesn't want me today 3278 I'll go in up to here 3279 It can't possibly hurt 3280 All they will find is my beer 3281 And my shirt 3282 3283=head2 v5.18.0-RC2 - Tom Waits, "Earth Died Screaming" 3284 3285L<Announced on 2013-05-12 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/05/msg201723.html> 3286 3287 And the great day of wrath has come 3288 And here's mud in your big red eye 3289 The poker's in the fire 3290 And the locusts take the sky 3291 And the earth died screaming 3292 While I lay dreaming of you 3293 3294=head2 v5.18.0-RC1 - Tom Waits, "What's He Building in There?" 3295 3296L<Announced on 2013-05-11 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/05/msg201651.html> 3297 3298 What's he building in there? 3299 3300 We have a right to know… 3301 3302=head2 v5.17.11 - Nigel Tufnel in "This is Spın̈al Tap" 3303 3304L<Announced on 2013-04-20 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/04/msg201056.html> 3305 3306It's very special because, if you can see, the numbers all go to… 3307eleven! Look, right across the board: eleven, eleven, eleven, eleven! 3308 3309=head2 v5.17.10 - Vernor Vinge, "A Fire Upon The Deep" 3310 3311L<Announced on 2013-03-23 by Max Maischein|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/03/msg200504.html> 3312 3313The archive informed the automation. Data structures were built, recipes 3314followed. A local network was built, faster than anything on Straum, but surely 3315safe. Nodes were added, modified by other recipes. The archive was a friendly 3316place, with hierarchies of translation keys that led them along. Straum itself 3317would be famous for this. 3318 3319Six months passed. A year. 3320 3321The omniscient view. Not self-aware really. Self-awareness is much over-rated. 3322Most automation works far better as a part of a whole, and even if human- 3323powerful, it does not need to self-know. 3324 3325=head2 v5.17.9 - Douglas Adams, "The Hitch-Hikers Guide to the Galaxy" 3326 3327L<Announced on 2013-02-20 by Chris 'BinGOs' Williams|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/02/msg199115.html> 3328 3329Vogon poetry is of course, the third worst in the universe. 3330The second worst is that of the Azgoths of Kria. During a 3331recitation by their poet master Grunthos the Flatulent of 3332his poem 'Ode To A Small Lump of Green Putty I Found In My 3333Armpit One Midsummer Morning' four of his audience died 3334of internal haemorrhaging and the president of the 3335Mid-Galactic Arts Nobbling Council survived by gnawing one 3336of his own legs off. Grunthos is reported to have been 3337'disappointed' by the poem's reception, and was about to 3338embark on a reading of his twelve-book epic entitled 3339'My Favourite Bathtime Gurgles' when his own major intestine, 3340in a desperate attempt to save life and civilisation, 3341leapt straight up through his neck and throttled his brain. 3342 3343The very worst poetry of all perished along with its creator 3344Paula Nancy Millstone Jennings of Greenbridge, Essex, England, 3345in the destruction of the planet Earth. 3346 3347=head2 v5.17.8 - Iain Pears, "An Instance of the Fingerpost" 3348 3349L<Announced on 2013-01-20 by Aaron Crane|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/01/msg197571.html> 3350 3351I must here declare myself as someone who does not for a moment subscribe to 3352the general view that a willingness to perform oneself is detrimental to the 3353dignity of experimental philosophy. There is, after all, a clear distinction 3354between labour carried out for financial reward, and that done for the 3355improvement of mankind: to put it another way, Lower as a philosopher was 3356fully my equal even if he fell away when he became the practising physician. 3357I think ridiculous of certain professors of anatomy, who find it beneath 3358them to pick up the knife themselves, but merely comment while hired hands 3359do the cutting. Sylvius would never have dreamt of sitting on a dais reading 3360from an authority while others cut — when he taught, the knife was 3361in his hand and the blood spattered his coat. Boyle also did not scruple to 3362perform his own experiments and, on one occasion in my presence, even showed 3363himself willing to anatomise a rat with his very own hands. Nor was he less 3364a gentleman when he had finished. Indeed, in my opinion, his stature was all 3365the greater, for in Boyle wealth, humility and curiosity mingled, and the 3366world is richer for it. 3367 3368=head2 v5.17.7 - R. Scott Bakker, "The Darkness That Comes Before" 3369 3370L<Announced on 2012-12-18 by Dave Rolsky|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/12/msg196707.html> 3371 3372No thought. 3373 3374The boy extinguished. Only a place. 3375 3376This place. 3377 3378Motionless, the Pragma sat facing him, the bare soles of his feet flat against each other, his dark frock scored by the shadows of deep folds, his eyes as empty as the child they watched. 3379 3380A place without breath or sound. A place of sight alone. A place without before or after . . . almost. 3381 3382For the first lances of sunlight careered over the glacier, as ponderous as great tree limbs in the wind. Shadows hardened and light gleamed across the Pragma’s ancient skull. 3383 3384The old man’s left hand forsook his right sleeve, bearing a watery knife. And like a rope in water, his arm pitched outward, fingertips trailing across the blade as the knife swung languidly into the air, the sun skating and the dark shrine plunging across its mirror back . . . 3385 3386And the place where Kellhus had once existed extended an open hand—the blond hairs like luminous filaments against tanned skin—and grasped the knife from stunned space. 3387 3388The slap of pommel against palm triggered the collapse of place into little boy. The pale stench of his body. Breath, sound, and lurching thoughts. 3389 3390I have been legion . . . 3391 3392In his periphery, he could see the spike of the sun ease from the mountain. He felt drunk with exhaustion. In the recoil of his trance, it seemed all he could hear were the twigs arching and bobbing in the wind, pulled by leaves like a million sails no bigger than his hand. Cause everywhere, but amid countless minute happenings—diffuse, useless. 3393 3394Now I understand. 3395 3396=head2 v5.17.6 - Kurt Vonnegut, "The Sirens of Titan" 3397 3398L<Announced on 2012-11-20 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/11/msg195659.html> 3399 3400Beatrice, looking like a gypsy queen, smoldered at the foot of a statue 3401of a young physical student. At first glance, the laboratory-gowned 3402scientist seemed to be a perfect servant of nothing but truth. At first 3403glance, one was convinced that nothing but truth could please him as he 3404beamed at his test tube. At first glance, one thought that he was as 3405much above the beastly concerns of mankind as the harmoniums in the 3406caves of Mercury. There, at first glance, was a young man without 3407vanity, without lust — and one accepted at its face value the title Salo 3408had engraved on the statue, "Discovery of Atomic Power." 3409 3410=head2 v5.17.5 - Charles Stross, "Singularity Sky" 3411 3412L<Announced on 2012-10-20 by Florian Ragwitz|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/10/msg194349.html> 3413 3414Neither of them noticed the pair of polka-dotted knickers hiding 3415behind the ventilation duct overhead, listening patiently and 3416recording everything. 3417 3418=head2 v5.17.4 - Roald Dahl, "Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf" 3419 3420L<Announced on 2012-09-19 by Florian Ragwitz|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/09/msg192635.html> 3421 3422 The small girl smiles. One eyelid flickers. 3423 She whips a pistol from her knickers. 3424 She aims it at the creature's head, 3425 And bang bang bang, she shoots him dead. 3426 3427 A few weeks later, in the wood, 3428 I came across Miss Riding Hood. 3429 But what a change! No cloak of red, 3430 No silly hood upon her head. 3431 She said, "Hello, and do please note 3432 My lovely furry wolfskin coat." 3433 3434=head2 v5.17.3 - Kris Ta-belle, "Smoked Perl Onion Soup" 3435 3436L<Announced on 2012-08-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/08/msg190775.html> 3437 3438Preparation: 3439 3440Cut 16 Perl Onions into quarters and put them in a grill smoker rack 3441or a perforated pan over a BBQ using hickory wood chips or Special 3442Blend Smoker Bisquettes. Smoke them for an hour and remove once they 3443look golden brown. 3444Let them cool and put them in the fridge (or freezer) until you are 3445ready to create the soup. 3446 3447Ingredients: 3448 3449 16 diced, pre-smoked, Perl Onions 3450 3 tbsp butter 3451 1/4 cup olive oil 3452 2 small garlic cloves, finely minced 3453 1 tsp salt 3454 1 tsp sugar 3455 black pepper to taste 3456 1 cup red wine 3457 1/4 cup all purpose flour 3458 6 cups of beef or vegetable stock 3459 1 cup of thick cream (milk can be used as a substitute) 3460 3461Method: 3462 3463 Melt the butter in a pan and then add olive oil. 3464 Heat and add the onions to caramelize over a medium-high heat for up 3465 to half an hour. 3466 Add the garlic, turn down the heat and cook for a further 5 minutes. 3467 Add the salt, pepper and sugar. 3468 Now add the red wine and reduce to a jam like consistency. 3469 Add the flour, stir well and add the stock a cup at a time. 3470 Simmer for 30 minutes, add the cream and heat to almost boiling. 3471 3472Enjoy. 3473 3474=head2 v5.17.2 - Terry Pratchet, "The Colour of Magic" 3475 3476L<Announced on 2012-07-21 by TonyC|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/07/msg189828.html> 3477 3478‘I knew it,’ said Rincewind. ‘We're in a strong magical field.’ 3479 3480Twoflower and Hrun looked around the little hollow where they had made 3481their noonday halt. Then they looked at each other. 3482 3483The horses were quietly cropping the rich grass by the stream. Yellow 3484butterflies skittered among the bushes. There was a smell of thyme 3485and a buzzing of bees. The wild pigs on the spit sizzled gently. 3486 3487Hrun shrugged and went back to oiling his biceps. They gleamed. 3488 3489‘Looks alright to me,’ he said. 3490 3491‘Try tossing a coin,’ said Rincewind. 3492 3493‘What?’ 3494 3495‘Go on. Toss a coin.’ 3496 3497‘Hokay,’ said Hrun. 'If that gives you any pleasure.’ He reached into 3498his pouch and withdrew a handful of loose change plundered from a 3499dozen realms. With some care he selected a Zchloty leaden 3500quarter-iotum and balanced it on a purple thumbnail. 3501 3502‘You call,’ he said. ‘Heads or—’ he inspected the obverse with 3503an air of intense concentration, ‘some sort of a fish with legs.’ 3504 3505‘When it's in the air,’ said Rincewind. Hrun grinned and flicked his thumb. 3506 3507The iotum rose, spinning. 3508 3509‘Edge,’ said Rincewind, without looking at it. 3510 3511=head2 v5.17.1 - Rand Miller, "Myst: The Book of Ti'ana" 3512 3513L<Announced on 2012-06-20 by doy|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/06/msg188354.html> 3514 3515On their return from Ko'ah, Aitrus had shown her the Book, patiently 3516taking her through page after page, and showing her how such an Age was 3517"made." She had seen at once the differences between this archaic form 3518and the ordinary written speech of the D'ni, noting how it was not 3519merely more elaborate but more specific: a language of precise yet 3520subtle descriptive power. Yet seeing was one thing, believing another. 3521Given all the evidence, her rational mind still fought against accepting 3522it. 3523 3524=head2 v5.17.0 - Charles Stross, "Singularity Sky" 3525 3526L<Announced on 2012-05-26 by Zefram|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/05/msg187214.html> 3527 3528`Welcome, comrades!' Burya opened his arms toward the soldier. 3529`Yes it is true! With help from our allies of the Festival, the iron 3530hand of the reactionary junta is about to be overthrown for all time! 3531The new economy is being born; the marginal cost of production has 3532been abolished, and from now on, if any item is produced once, it can 3533be replicated infinitely. From each according to his imagination, 3534to each according to his needs! Join us or better still, bring your 3535fellow soldiers and workers to join us!' 3536 3537There was a sharp bang from the roof of the Corn Exchange, right at the 3538climax of his impromptu speech; heads turned in alarm. Something had 3539broken inside the spork factory and a stream of rainbow-hued plastic 3540implements fountained toward the sky and clattered to the cobblestones 3541on every side, like a harbinger of the postindustrial society to come. 3542Workers and peasants alike stared in open-mouthed bewilderment at this 3543astounding display of productivity, then bent to scrabble in the muck 3544for the brightly colored sporks of revolution. A volley of shots rang 3545out and Burya Rubenstein raised his hands, grinning wildly, to accept 3546the salute of the soldiers from the Skull Hill garrison. 3547 3548=head2 v5.16.3 - Devo, "Freedom of Choice" 3549 3550L<Announced on 2013-03-11 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/03/msg200009.html> 3551 3552 A victim of collision on the open sea 3553 Nobody ever said that life was free 3554 Sink, swim, go down with the ship 3555 But use your freedom of choice 3556 3557=head2 v5.16.2 - Stanislaw Lem, "The Cyberiad", Trurl's Machine 3558 3559L<Announced on 2012-11-01 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/11/msg194915.html> 3560 3561Once upon a time Trurl the constructor built an eight-story thinking 3562machine. When it was finished, he gave it a coat of white paint, 3563trimmed the edges in lavender, stepped back, squinted, then added a 3564little curlicue on the front and, where one might imagine the forehead 3565to be, a few pale orange polkadots. Extremely pleased with himself, 3566he whistled an air and, as is always done on such occasions, asked it 3567the ritual question of how much is two plus two. 3568 3569The machine stirred. Its tubes began to glow, its coils warmed up, 3570current coursed through all its circuits like a waterfall, 3571transformers hummed and throbbed, there was a clanging, and a 3572chugging, and such an ungodly racket that Trurl began to think of 3573adding a special mentation muffler. Meanwhile the machine labored on, 3574as if it had been given the most difficult problem in the Universe to 3575solve; the ground shook, the sand slid underfoot from the vibration, 3576valves popped like champagne corks, the relays nearly gave way under 3577the strain. At last, when Trurl had grown extremely impatient, the 3578machine ground to a halt and said in a voice like thunder: SEVEN! 3579 3580=head2 v5.16.1 - Emerald Rose, "Never Split The Party" 3581 3582L<Announced on 2012-08-08 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/08/msg190413.html> 3583 3584 Don't you know? You never split the party 3585 Clerics in the back to keep those fighters hale and hearty 3586 The wizard in the middle, where he can shed some light 3587 And you never let that damn thief out of sight… 3588 3589=head2 v5.16.1-RC1 - Tom Moldvay, Foreward to the "Dungeons & Dragons Basic Rulebook" 3590 3591L<Announced on 2012-08-03 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/08/msg190264.html> 3592 3593I was busy rescuing the captured maiden when the dragon showed up. 3594Fifty feed of scaled terror glared down at us with smoldering red eyes. 3595Tendrils of smoke drifted out from between fangs larger than daggers. 3596The dragon blocked the only exit from the cave. 3597 3598⋮ 3599 3600I unwrapped the sword which the mysterious cleric had given me. The 3601sword was golden-tinted steel. Its hilt was set with a rainbow 3602collection of precious gems. I shouted my battle cry and charged 3603 3604My charge caught the dragon by surprise. Its titanic jaws snapped shut 3605inches from my face. I swung the golden sword with both arms. The 3606swordblade bit into the dragon's neck and continued through to the other 3607side. With an earth-shaking crash, the dragon dropped dead at my feet. 3608The magic sword had saved my life and ended the reign of the 3609dragon-tyrant. The countryside was freed and I could return as a hero. 3610 3611=head2 v5.16.0 - W.H. Auden, "September 1, 1939" 3612 3613L<Announced on 2012-05-20 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/05/msg186903.html> 3614 3615 All I have is a voice 3616 To undo the folded lie, 3617 The romantic lie in the brain 3618 Of the sensual man-in-the-street 3619 And the lie of Authority 3620 Whose buildings grope the sky: 3621 There is no such thing as the State 3622 And no one exists alone; 3623 Hunger allows no choice 3624 To the citizen or the police; 3625 We must love one another or die. 3626 3627=head2 v5.15.9 - Bob Dylan, "Blowin' In The Wind" 3628 3629L<Announced on 2012-03-20 by Abigail|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/03/msg184824.html> 3630 3631 How many roads must a man walk down 3632 Before you call him a man? 3633 Yes, 'n' how many seas must a white dove sail 3634 Before she sleeps in the sand? 3635 Yes, 'n' how many times must the cannonballs fly 3636 Before they're forever banned? 3637 The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind 3638 The answer is blowin' in the wind 3639 3640 How many years can a mountain exist 3641 Before it's washed to the sea? 3642 Yes, 'n' how many years can some people exist 3643 Before they're allowed to be free? 3644 Yes, 'n' how many times can a man turn his head 3645 Pretending he just doesn't see? 3646 The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind 3647 The answer is blowin' in the wind 3648 3649 How many times must a man look up 3650 Before he can see the sky? 3651 Yes, 'n' how many ears must one man have 3652 Before he can hear people cry? 3653 Yes, 'n' how many deaths will it take till he knows 3654 That too many people have died? 3655 The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind 3656 The answer is blowin' in the wind 3657 3658=head2 v5.15.8 - The KLF, "The Manual-How To Have A Number One The Easy Way" 3659 3660L<Announced on 2012-02-20 by Max Maischein|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/02/msg183919.html> 3661 3662 "Doctor Who, hey Doctor Who 3663 Doctor Who, in the Tardis 3664 Doctor Who, hey Doctor Who 3665 Doctor Who, Doc, Doctor Who 3666 Doctor Who, Doc, Doctor Who" 3667 3668Gibberish of course, but every lad in the country under a certain 3669age related instinctively to what it was about. The ones slightly 3670older needed a couple of pints inside them to clear away the mind 3671debris left by the passing years before it made sense. As for 3672girls and our chorus, we think they must have seen it as pure crap. 3673A fact that must have limited to zero our chances of staying at The 3674Top for more than one week. 3675 3676Stock, Aitkin and Waterman, however, are kings of writing chorus 3677lyrics that go straight to the emotional heart of the 7" single 3678buying girls in this country. Their most successful records will kick 3679into the chorus with a line which encapsulates the entire emotional 3680meaning of the song. This will obviously be used as the title. As 3681soon as Rick Astley hit the first line of the chorus on his debut 3682single it was all over - the Number One position was guaranteed: 3683 3684 "I'm never going to give you up" 3685 3686=head2 v5.15.7 - Penelope Lively, "The Voyage of QV66" 3687 3688L<Announced on 2012-01-20 by Chris 'BinGOs' Williams|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/01/msg182230.html> 3689 3690"Laboratories," announced Henry. "Kindly don't touch anything." 3691 3692He led us into a long low brick shed. Outside there was a 3693notice on a piece of board, crudely printed in red paint, 3694which said GRATE SIENCE DISCOVERYS DONE HERE SSSH! BRING YOUR 3695OWN BUKKIT NO PINCHING ANYWUN ELSE'S EXPERRYMENTS CANTEEN OPEN 3696ALL DAY CHIMPS ONLY. 3697 3698There were a lot of large black monkeys inside, all intently 3699busy on what they were doing. Some of them were pouring stuff 3700out of bottles into buckets and carefully stirring the ensuing 3701mixture; others were at work with glass tubes and jars, blowing 3702and measuring and mixing; others were crouched over long benches 3703with tools and heaps of bits and pieces of metal, cutting and 3704bending and constructing. There was a great deal of noise and 3705chatter. Every now and then one of them would give a whoop of 3706excitement and all the others would gather round and jump up and 3707down cheering and applauding. 3708 3709"Chimps," said Henry. "They're awfully clever." 3710 3711=head2 v5.15.6 - Ursula K. Leguin, "A Wizard of Earthsea" 3712 3713L<Announced on 2011-12-20 by Dave Rolsky|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/12/msg180962.html> 3714 3715Ged had thought that as the prentice of a great mage he would enter at once 3716into the mystery and mastery of power. He would understand the language of the 3717beasts and the speech of the leaves of the forest, he thought, and sway the 3718winds with his word, and learn to change himself into any shape he 3719wished. Maybe he and his master would run together as stags, or fly to Re Albi 3720over the mountain on the wings of eagles. 3721 3722But it was not so at all. They wandered, first down into the Vale and then 3723gradually south and westward around the mountain, given lodging in little 3724villages or spending the night out in the wilderness, like poor 3725journeyman-sorcerers, or tinkers, or beggars. They entered no mysterious 3726domain. Nothing happened. The mage's oaken staff that Ged had watched at first 3727with eager dread was nothing but a stout staff to walk with. Three days went 3728by and four days went by and still Ogion had not spoken a single charm in 3729Ged's hearing, and had not taught him a single name or rune or spell. 3730 3731=head2 v5.15.5 - Nikolai Gogol, trans. Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, "The Diary of a Madman" 3732 3733L<Announced on 2011-11-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/11/msg179588.html> 3734 3735This day - is a day of the greatest solemnity! Spain has a king. He has 3736been found. I am that king. Only this very day did I learn of it. I 3737confess, it came to me suddenly in a flash of lightning. I don't understand 3738how I could have thought and imagined that I was a titular councillor. How 3739could such a wild notion enter my head? It's a good thing no one thought of 3740putting me in an insane asylum. Now everything is laid open before me. Now 3741I see everything as on the palm of my hand. And before, I don't understand, 3742before everything around me was in some sort of fog. And all this happens, I 3743think, because people imagine that the human brain is in the head. Not at 3744all: it is brought by a wind from the direction of the Caspian Sea. First 3745off, I announced to Mavra who I am. When she heard that the king of Spain 3746was standing before her, she clasped her hands and nearly died of fright. 3747The stupid woman had never seen a king of Spain before. However, I 3748endeavoured to calm her down and assured her in gracious words of my 3749benevolence and that I was not at all angry that she sometimes polished my 3750boots poorly. They're benighted folk. It's impossible to tell them about 3751lofty matters. She got frightened because she's convinced that all kings of 3752Spain are like Philip II. But I explained to her that there was no 3753resemblance between me and Philip II, and that I didn't have a single 3754Capuchin . . . I didn't go to the office . . . To hell with it! No friends, 3755you won't lure me there now; I'm not going to copy your vile papers! 3756 3757=head2 v5.15.4 - Steve Jobs 3758 3759L<Announced on 2011-10-20 by Florian Ragwitz|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/10/msg178412.html> 3760 3761A lot of people in our industry haven't had very diverse experiences. So they 3762don't have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions 3763without a broad perspective on the problem. The broader one's understanding of 3764the human experience, the better design we will have. 3765 3766=head2 v5.15.3 - Oscar Wilde, From the preface to "The Picture of Dorian Gray" 3767 3768L<Announced on 2011-09-20 by Stevan Little|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/09/msg177427.html> 3769 3770All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath 3771the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol 3772do so at their peril. 3773 3774It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors. 3775Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the 3776work is new, complex, and vital. When critics disagree, the 3777artist is in accord with himself. 3778 3779We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as 3780he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless 3781thing is that one admires it intensely. 3782 3783All art is quite useless. 3784 3785=head2 v5.15.2 - Rainer Maria Rilke, trans., C. F. MacIntyre, "Duino", The First Elegy 3786 3787L<Announced on 2011-08-20 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/08/msg176067.html> 3788 3789 True, it is strange to live no more on earth, 3790 no longer follow the folkways scarecely learned; 3791 not to give roses and other especially auspicious 3792 things the significance of a human future; 3793 to be no more what one was in infinitely anxious hands, 3794 and to put aside even one's name, like a broken plaything. 3795 Strange, to wish wishes no longer. Strange, to see 3796 all that was related fluttering so loosely in space. 3797 And being dead is hard, full of catching-up, 3798 so that finally one feels a little eternity.– 3799 But the living all make the mistake of too sharp discrimination. 3800 Often angels (it's said) don't know if they move 3801 among the quick or the dead. The eternal current 3802 hurtles all ages along with it forever 3803 through both realms and drowns their voices in both. 3804 3805=head2 v5.15.1 - Greg Egan, "Permutation City" 3806 3807L<Announced on 2011-07-20 by Zefram|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/07/msg175014.html> 3808 3809Carter held out a hand towards the middle of the room. `See that 3810fountain?' A ten-metre-wide marble wedding cake, topped with a 3811winged cherub wrestling a serpent, duly appeared. Water cascaded 3812down from a gushing wound in the cherub's neck. Carter said, `It's 3813being computed by redundancies in the sketch of the city. I can 3814extract the results, because I know exactly where to look for them -- 3815but nobody else would have a hope in hell of picking them out.' 3816 3817Peer walked up to the fountain. Even as he approached, he noticed 3818that the spray was intangible; when he dipped his hand in the water 3819around the base he felt nothing, and the motion he made with his 3820fingers left the foaming surface unchanged. They were spying on 3821the calculations, not interacting with them; the fountain was a 3822closed system. 3823 3824Carter said, `In your case, of course, nobody will need to know 3825the results. Except you -- and you'll know them because you'll 3826/be/ them.' 3827 3828=head2 v5.15.0 - Neil Gaiman, "The Graveyard Book" 3829 3830L<Announced on 2011-06-20 by David Golden|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/06/msg173748.html> 3831 3832If you dare nothing, then when the day is over, nothing is all you will have gained. 3833 3834=head2 v5.14.4 - Arthur C. Clarke, "The Nine Billion Names of God" 3835 3836L<Announced on 2013-03-11 by Dave Mitchell|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/03/msg199988.html> 3837 3838He began to sing, but gave it up after a while. This vast arena of 3839mountains, gleaming like whitely hooded ghosts on every side, did not 3840encourage such ebullience. Presently George glanced at his watch. 3841 3842'Should be there in an hour,' he called back over his shoulder to 3843Chuck. Then he added, in an afterthought: 'Wonder if the computer's 3844finished its run. It was due about now.' 3845 3846Chuck didn't reply, so George swung round in his saddle. He could just 3847see Chuck's face, a white oval turned towards the sky. 3848 3849'Look,' whispered Chuck, and George lifted his eyes to heaven. (There 3850is always a last time for everything.) 3851 3852Overhead, without any fuss, the stars were going out. 3853 3854=head2 v5.14.3 - William Shakespeare, "As You Like It" 3855 3856L<Announced on 2012-10-12 by Dominic Hargreaves|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/10/msg194057.html> 3857 3858 The poor world is almost six thousand years old, and in all 3859 this time there was not any man died in his own person, 3860 videlicit, in a love-cause. Troilus had his brains dashed 3861 out with a Grecian club; yet he did what he could to die 3862 before, and he is one of the patterns of love. Leander, he 3863 would have lived many a fair year, though Hero had turned 3864 nun, if it had not been for a hot midsummer night; for, good 3865 youth, he went but forth to wash him in the Hellespont and 3866 being taken with the cramp was drowned and the foolish 3867 coroners of that age found it was 'Hero of Sestos.' But these 3868 are all lies: men have died from time to time and worms have 3869 eaten them, but not for love. 3870 3871=head2 v5.14.2 - L<< Larry Wall, January 12, 1988 <992@devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV> |http://groups.google.com/group/comp.sources.d/msg/5d17fa68c250b9b2 >> 3872 3873L<Announced on 2011-09-26 by Florian Ragwitz|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/09/msg177618.html> 3874 3875It's not so much that people don't value the programs after they have them--they 3876do value them. But they're not the sort of thing that would ever catch on if 3877they had to overcome the marketing barrier. (I don't yet know if perl will 3878catch on at all--I'm worried enough about it that I specifically included an 3879awk-to-perl translator just to help it catch on.) Maybe it's all just an 3880inferiority complex. Or maybe I don't like to be mercenary. 3881 3882So I guess I'd say that the reason some software comes free is that the 3883mechanism for selling it is missing, either from the work environment, or from 3884the heart of the programmer. 3885 3886=head2 v5.14.1 - L<< Larry Wall, January 12, 1988 <992@devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV> |http://groups.google.com/group/comp.sources.d/msg/5d17fa68c250b9b2 >> 3887 3888L<Announced on 2011-06-16 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/06/msg173650.html> 3889 3890At this point I'm no longer working for a company that makes me sign 3891my life away, but by now I'm in the habit. Besides, I still harbor 3892the deep-down suspicion that nobody would pay money for what I write, 3893since most of it just helps you do something better that you could 3894already do some other way. How much money would you personally pay 3895to upgrade from readnews to rn? How much money would you pay for 3896the patch program? As for warp, it's a mere game. And anything you 3897can do with perl you can eventually do with an amazing and totally 3898unreadable conglomeration of awk, sed, sh and C. 3899 3900=head2 v5.14.0 - L<< Larry Wall, January 12, 1988 <992@devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV> |http://groups.google.com/group/comp.sources.d/msg/5d17fa68c250b9b2 >> 3901 3902L<Announced on 2011-05-14 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/05/msg172326.html> 3903 3904At the start of any project, I'm programming primarily to please 3905myself. (The two chief virtues in a programmer are laziness and 3906impatience.) After a while somebody looks over my shoulder and says, 3907"That's neat. It'd be neater if it did such-and-so." So the thing 3908gets neater. Pretty soon (a year or two) I have an rn, a warp, a patch, 3909or a perl. One of these years I'll have a metaconfig. 3910 3911I then say to myself, "I don't want my life's work to die when this 3912computer is scrapped, so I should let some other people use this. If I 3913ask my company to sell this, it'll never see the light of day, and nobody 3914would pay much for it anyway. If I sell it myself, I'll be in trouble with 3915my company, to whom I signed my life away when I was hired. If I give it 3916away, I can pretend it was worthless in the first place, so my company 3917won't care. In any event, it's easier to ask forgiveness than permission." 3918 3919So a freely distributable program is born. 3920 3921=head2 v5.14.0-RC3 - American Airlines Gate Agent, last call 3922 3923L<Announced on 2011-05-11 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/05/msg172282.html> 3924 3925This is the last call for flight 1697 with service to Chicago and 3926continuing service to San Francisco. All passengers should already be 3927aboard. If you aren't aboard at this time, you will be denied boarding 3928and your bags will be offloaded. 3929 3930=head2 v5.14.0-RC2 - Greg Grandin, "Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City" 3931 3932L<Announced on 2011-05-04 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/05/msg171879.html> 3933 3934Over the course of nearly two decades, Ford would spend tens of millions 3935of dollars founding not one but, after the plantation was defastated 3936by leaf blight, two American towns, complete with central squares, 3937sidewalks, indoor plumbing, hospitals, manicured lawns, movie theaters, 3938swimming pools, golf courses, and, of course, Model Ts and As rolling 3939down their paved streets. 3940 3941Back in America, newspapers kept up their drumbeat celebration, only 3942obliquely referencing reports that things were not progressing as the 3943company had hoped. But there was one note of skepticism. In late 1928, 3944the Washington Post ran an editorial that read in its entirety: "Ford will 3945govern a rubber plantation in Brazil larger than North Carolina. This is 3946the first time he has applied quantity production methods to trouble" 3947 3948=head2 v5.14.0-RC1 - Bill Bryson, "In a Sunburned Country" 3949 3950L<Announced on 2011-04-20 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/04/msg171253.html> 3951 3952But then Australia is such a difficult country to keep track of. On 3953my first visit, some years ago, I passed the time on the long flight 3954reading a history of Australian politics in the twentieth century, 3955wherein I encountered the startling fact that in 1967 the prime minister, 3956Harold Holt, was strolling along a beach in Victoria when he plunged into 3957the surf and vanished. No trace of the poor man was ever seen again. 3958This seemed doubly astounding to me—first that Australia could 3959just I<lose> a prime minister (I mean, come on) and second that news of 3960this had never reached me. 3961 3962=head2 v5.13.11 - Walt Whitman, L<"Leaves of Grass"|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leaves_of_Grass> 3963 3964L<Announced on 2011-03-20 by Florian Ragwitz|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/03/msg170206.html> 3965 3966 When the full-grown poet came, 3967 Out spake pleased Nature (the round impassive globe, with all its 3968 shows of day and night,) saying, He is mine; 3969 But out spake too the Soul of man, proud, jealous and unreconciled, 3970 Nay he is mine alone; 3971 --Then the full-grown poet stood between the two, and took each 3972 by the hand; 3973 And to-day and ever so stands, as blender, uniter, tightly 3974 holding hands, 3975 Which he will never release until he reconciles the two, 3976 And wholly and joyously blends them. 3977 3978=head2 v5.13.10 - Egill Skalla-Grímsson, L<"Egils saga Skalla-Grímssonar"|http://www.heimskringla.no/wiki/Egils_saga_Skalla-Gr%C3%ADmssonar> 3979 3980L<Announced on 2011-02-20 by Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/02/msg169340.html> 3981 3982 Skalat maðr rúnar rísta, 3983 nema ráða vel kunni. 3984 Þat verðr mörgum manni, 3985 es of myrkvan staf villisk. 3986 Sák á telgðu talkni 3987 tíu launstafi ristna. 3988 Þat hefr lauka lindi 3989 langs ofrtrega fengit. 3990 3991=head2 v5.13.9 - John F Kennedy, L<Inaugural Address January 20, 1961|http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/John_F._Kennedy%27s_Inaugural_Address> 3992 3993L<Announced on 2011-01-20 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/01/msg168335.html> 3994 3995In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been 3996granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I 3997do not shrink from this responsibility -- I welcome it. I do not believe 3998that any of us would exchange places with any other people or any other 3999generation. The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this 4000endeavor will light our country and all who serve it. And the glow from 4001that fire can truly light the world. 4002 4003And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you; 4004ask what you can do for your country. 4005 4006My fellow citizens of the world, ask not what America will do for you, 4007but what together we can do for the freedom of man. 4008 4009Finally, whether you are citizens of America or citizens of the world, 4010ask of us here the same high standards of strength and sacrifice which 4011we ask of you. With a good conscience our only sure reward, with history 4012the final judge of our deeds, let us go forth to lead the land we love, 4013asking His blessing and His help, but knowing that here on earth God's 4014work must truly be our own. 4015 4016=head2 v5.13.8 - Roger Williams, L<"The Fifth Gift"|http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2005/8/19/21304/8493> 4017 4018L<Announced on 2010-12-19 by Zefram|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/12/msg167271.html> 4019 4020The aliens called the box a "matter generator," but we'd be more inclined 4021to call it a matter duplicator. By connecting switches and potentiometers 4022between the copper posts it was possible to make the box mark off two 4023cubic rectangular areas of volume. Make a certain contact, and these 4024areas would be isolated within perfectly reflective fields. They could 4025be expanded or contracted by altering resistances between other posts. 4026As I worked out the user interface I built a little control panel for 4027the device. It was actually a clever way for the aliens to do things; 4028instead of trying to build controls we could use, they built us an 4029interface we could attach to controls that made sense to us. It could 4030also be automated. 4031 4032Once you had made the contact that established the shielded volumes, 4033if you made another certain contact the contents of the first volume 4034were copied to the second. The machine copied metal, plastic, steel, 4035and diamond with equal ease. Copies of copies of copies of copies were 4036indistinguishable from the originals at any magnification, even using 4037techniques like X-ray crystallography. 4038 4039=head2 v5.13.7 - Andy Wachowski and Lana Wachowski, "The Matrix" 4040 4041L<Announced on 2010-11-20 by Chris 'BinGOs' Williams|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/11/msg166162.html> 4042 4043[Neo sees a black cat walk by them, and then a similar black cat walk by them just like the first one] 4044 4045 Neo: Whoa. Deja vu. 4046 4047[Everyone freezes right in their tracks] 4048 4049 Trinity: What did you just say? 4050 Neo: Nothing. Just had a little deja vu. 4051 Trinity: What did you see? 4052 Cypher: What happened? 4053 Neo: A black cat went past us, and then another that looked just 4054 like it. 4055 Trinity: How much like it? Was it the same cat? 4056 Neo: It might have been. I'm not sure. 4057 Morpheus: Switch! Apoc! 4058 Neo: What is it? 4059 Trinity: A deja vu is usually a glitch in the Matrix. It happens when 4060 they change something. 4061 4062=head2 v5.13.6 - Haruki Murakami, "Kafka on the Shore" 4063 4064L<Announced on 2010-10-20 by Tatsuhiko Miyagawa|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/10/msg165183.html> 4065 4066The boy called Crow softly rests a hand on my shoulder, and with that 4067he storm vanishes. 4068 4069"From now on -- no matter what -- you've got to be the world's toughest 4070fifteen-year-old. That's the only way you're going to survive. And in order 4071to do that, you've got to figure out what it means to be tough. You following 4072me?" 4073 4074I keep my eyes closed and don't reply. I just want to sink off into sleep 4075like this, his hand on my shoulder. I hear the faint flutter of wings. 4076 4077"You're going to be the world's toughest fifteen-year-old," Crow whispers 4078as I try to fall asleep. Like he was carving the words in a deep blue tattoo 4079on my heart. 4080 4081(Translated from Japanese by Philip Gabriel) 4082 4083=head2 v5.13.5 - Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, "The Room in the Dragon Volant" 4084 4085L<Announced on 2010-09-19 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/09/msg164238.html> 4086 4087Candle in hand I stepped in. I do not know whether the quality of 4088air, long undisturbed, is peculiar; to me it has always seemed so, and 4089the damp smell of the old masonry hung in this atmosphere. My candle 4090faintly lighted the bare stone wall that enclosed the stair, the foot 4091of which I could not see. Down I went, and a few turns brought me to 4092the stone floor. Here was another door, of the simple, old, oak kind, 4093deep sunk in the thickness of the wall. The large end of the key 4094fitted this. The lock was stiff; I set the candle down upon the 4095stair, and applied both hands; it turned with difficulty, and as it 4096revolved, uttered a shriek that alarmed me for my secret. 4097 4098For some minutes I did not move. In a little time, however, I took 4099courage, and opened the door. The night-air floating in puffed out 4100the candle. There was a thicket of holly and underwood, as dense as a 4101jungle, close about the door. I should have been in pitch-darkness, 4102were it not that through the topmost leaves there twinkled, here and 4103there, a glimmer of moonshine. 4104 4105Softly, lest any one should have opened his window at the sound of the 4106rusty bolt, I struggled through this till I gained a view of the open 4107grounds. Here I found that the brushwood spread a good way up the 4108park, uniting with the wood that approached the little temple I have 4109described. 4110 4111=head2 v5.13.4 - Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" 4112 4113L<Announced on 2010-08-20 by Florian Ragwitz|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/08/msg163150.html> 4114 4115`How the creatures order one about, and make one repeat lessons!' thought Alice; 4116`I might as well be at school at once.' However, she got up, and began to repeat 4117it, but her head was so full of the Lobster Quadrille, that she hardly knew what 4118she was saying, and the words came very queer indeed:-- 4119 4120 "'Tis the voice of the Lobster; I heard him declare, 4121 "You have baked me too brown, I must sugar my hair." 4122 As a duck with its eyelids, so he with his nose 4123 Trims his belt and his buttons, and turns out his toes.' 4124 4125 4126`That's different from what I used to say when I was a child,' said the Gryphon. 4127 4128`Well, I never heard it before,' said the Mock Turtle; `but it sounds uncommon 4129nonsense.' 4130 4131Alice said nothing; she had sat down with her face in her hands, wondering if 4132anything would ever happen in a natural way again. 4133 4134`I should like to have it explained,' said the Mock Turtle. 4135 4136`She can't explain it,' said the Gryphon hastily. `Go on with the next verse.' 4137 4138`But about his toes?' the Mock Turtle persisted. `How could he turn them out 4139with his nose, you know?' 4140 4141`It's the first position in dancing.' Alice said; but was dreadfully puzzled by 4142the whole thing, and longed to change the subject. 4143 4144=head2 v5.13.3 - Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, "Good Omens" 4145 4146L<Announced on 2010-07-20 by David Golden|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/07/msg162230.html> 4147 4148Look at Crowley, doing 110 mph on the M40 heading towards 4149Oxfordshire. Even the most resolutely casual observer would 4150notice a number of strange things about him. The clenched teeth, 4151for example, or the dull red glow coming from behind his 4152sunglasses. And the car. The car was a definite hint. 4153 4154Crowley had started the journey in his Bentley, and he was 4155dammned if he wasn't going to finish it in the Bentley as well. 4156Not that even the kind of car buff who owns his own pair of 4157motoring goggles would have been able to tell it was a vintage 4158Bentley. Not any more. They wouldn't have been able to tell 4159that it was a Bentley. They would only offer fifty-fifty that it 4160had ever even been a car. 4161 4162There was no paint left on it, for a start. It might still have 4163been black, where it wasn't a rusty, smudged reddish-brown, but 4164this was a dull charcoal black. It traveled in its own ball of 4165flame, like a space capsule making a particularly difficult 4166re-entry. 4167 4168There was a thin skin of crusted, melted rubber left around the 4169metal wheel rims, but seeing that the wheel rims were still 4170somhow riding an inch above the road surface this didn't seem to 4171make an awful lot of difference to the suspension. 4172 4173It should have fallen apart miles back. 4174 4175=head2 v5.13.2 - Iain M Banks, "Use of Weapons" 4176 4177L<Announced on 2010-06-22 by Matt S Trout|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/06/msg161112.html> 4178 4179We deal in the moral equivalent of black holes, where the normal laws - 4180the rules of right and wrong that people imagine apply everywhere else 4181in the universe - break down; beyond those metaphysical event-horizons, 4182there exist ... special circumstances. 4183 4184=head2 v5.13.1 - Miguel de Unamuno, "The Sepulchre of Don Quixote" 4185 4186L<Announced on 2010-05-20 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/05/msg160275.html> 4187 4188And if anyone shall come to you and say that he knows how to construct 4189bridges and that perhaps a time will come when you will wish to avail 4190yourself of his science in order to cross over a river, out with him! Out 4191with the engineer! Rivers will be crossed by wading or swimming them, even 4192if half the crusaders drown themselves. Let the engineer go off and build 4193bridges somewhere else, where they are badly wanted. For those who go in 4194quest of the sepulchre, faith is bridge enough. 4195 4196=head2 v5.13.0 - Jules Verne, "A Journey to the Centre of the Earth" 4197 4198L<Announced on 2010-04-20 by LE<0xe9>on Brocard|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/04/msg159275.html> 4199 4200The heat still remained at quite a supportable degree. With an 4201involuntary shudder, I reflected on what the heat must have been 4202when the volcano of Sneffels was pouring its smoke, flames, and 4203streams of boiling lava -- all of which must have come up by the 4204road we were now following. I could imagine the torrents of hot 4205seething stone darting on, bubbling up with accompaniments of 4206smoke, steam, and sulphurous stench! 4207 4208"Only to think of the consequences," I mused, "if the old 4209volcano were once more to set to work." 4210 4211=head2 v5.12.5 - William Shakespeare, "Measure for Measure" 4212 4213L<Announced on 2012-11-10 by Dominic Hargreaves|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/11/msg195171.html> 4214 4215 Music oft hath such a charm 4216 To make bad good, and good provoke to harm. 4217 4218=head2 v5.12.4 - William Schwenck Gilbert, "Trial By Jury" 4219 4220L<Announced on 2011-06-20 by Leon Brocard|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/06/msg173725.html> 4221 4222 You cannot eat breakfast all day, 4223 Nor is it the act of a sinner, 4224 When breakfast is taken away, 4225 To turn his attention to dinner; 4226 And it's not in the range of belief, 4227 To look upon him as a glutton, 4228 Who, when he is tired of beef, 4229 Determines to tackle the mutton. 4230 Ah! But this I am willing to say, 4231 If it will appease her sorrow, 4232 I'll marry this lady today, 4233 And I'll marry the other tomorrow! 4234 4235=head2 v5.12.4-RC2 - James Russell Lowell, "Eleanor makes macaroons" 4236 4237L<Announced on 2011-06-15 by Leon Brocard|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/06/msg173609.html> 4238 4239 Now for sugar, -- nay, our plan 4240 Tolerates no work of man. 4241 Hurry, then, ye golden bees; 4242 Fetch your clearest honey, please, 4243 Garnered on a Yorkshire moor, 4244 While the last larks sing and soar, 4245 From the heather-blossoms sweet 4246 Where sea-breeze and sunshine meet, 4247 And the Augusts mask as Junes, -- 4248 Eleanor makes macaroons! 4249 4250=head2 v5.12.4-RC1 - Ogden Nash, "The Clean Plater" 4251 4252L<Announced on 2011-06-08 by Leon Brocard|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/06/msg173352.html> 4253 4254 Pheasant is pleasant, of course, 4255 And terrapin, too, is tasty, 4256 Lobster I freely endorse, 4257 In pate or patty or pasty. 4258 But there's nothing the matter with butter, 4259 And nothing the matter with jam, 4260 And the warmest greetings I utter 4261 To the ham and the yam and the clam. 4262 For they're food, 4263 All food, 4264 And I think very fondly of food. 4265 Through I'm broody at times 4266 When bothered by rhymes, 4267 I brood 4268 On food. 4269 4270=head2 v5.12.3 - Howard W. Campbell, Jr., "Reflections on Not Participating in Current Events" 4271 4272L<Announced on 2011-01-21 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/01/msg168368.html> 4273 4274 I saw a huge steam roller, 4275 It blotted out the sun. 4276 The people all lay down, lay down; 4277 They did not try to run. 4278 My love and I, we looked amazed 4279 Upon the gory mystery. 4280 'Lie down, lie down!' the people cried. 4281 'The great machine is history!' 4282 My love and I, we ran away, 4283 The engine did not find us. 4284 We ran up to a mountain top, 4285 Left history far behind us. 4286 Perhaps we should have stayed and died, 4287 But somehow we don't think so. 4288 We went to see where history'd been, 4289 And my, the dead did stink so. 4290 4291=head2 v5.12.2 - William Gibson, "Pattern Recognition" 4292 4293L<Announced on 2010-09-06 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/09/msg163852.html> 4294 4295CPUs. Cayce Pollard Units. That's what Damien calls the clothing 4296she wears. CPUs are either black, white, or gray, and ideally 4297seem to have come into this world without human intervention. 4298 4299What people take for relentless minimalism is a side effect 4300of too much exposure to the reactor-cores of fashion. This 4301has resulted in a remorseless paring-down of what she can and 4302will wear. She is, literally, allergic to fashion. She can 4303only tolerate things that could have been worn, to a general 4304lack of comment, during any year between 1945 and 2000. She's a 4305design-free zone, a one-woman school of and whose very austerity 4306periodically threatens to spawn its own cult. 4307 4308=head2 v5.12.2-RC1 - William Gibson, "Pattern Recognition" 4309 4310L<Announced on 2010-08-31 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/08/msg163670.html> 4311 4312The front page opens, familiar as a friend's living room. A frame-grab 4313from #48 serves as backdrop, dim and almost monochrome, no characters in 4314view. This is one of the sequences that generate comparisons with 4315Tarkovsky. She only knows Tarkovsky from stills, really, though she did 4316once fall asleep during a screening of The Stalker, going under on an 4317endless pan, the camera aimed straight down, in close-up, at a puddle on 4318a ruined mosaic floor. But she is not one of those who think that much 4319will be gained by analysis of the maker's imagined influences. The cult 4320of the footage is rife with subcults, claiming every possible influence. 4321Truffaut, Peckinpah -- The Peckinpah people, among the least likely, are 4322still waiting for the guns to be drawn. 4323 4324=head2 v5.12.1 - Kurt Vonnegut, "Cat's Cradle" 4325 4326L<Announced on 2010-05-16 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/05/msg160109.html> 4327 4328"Now suppose," chortled Dr. Breed, enjoying himself, "that there were 4329many possible ways in which water could crystallize, could freeze. 4330Suppose that the sort of ice we skate upon and put into highballs -- 4331what we might call ice-one -- is only one of several types of ice. 4332Suppose water always froze as ice-one on Earth because it had never 4333had a seed to teach it how to form ice-two, ice-three, ice-four 4334...? And suppose," he rapped on his desk with his old hand again, 4335"that there were one form, which we will call ice-nine -- a crystal as 4336hard as this desk -- with a melting point of, let us say, one-hundred 4337degrees Fahrenheit, or, better still, a melting point of one-hundred- 4338and-thirty degrees." 4339 4340=head2 v5.12.1-RC2 - Kurt Vonnegut, "Cat's Cradle" 4341 4342L<Announced on 2010-05-13 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/05/msg160066.html> 4343 4344San Lorenzo was fifty miles long and twenty miles wide, I learned from 4345the supplement to the New York Sunday Times. Its population was four 4346hundred, fifty thousand souls, "...all fiercely dedicated to the ideals 4347of the Free World." 4348 4349Its highest point, Mount McCabe, was eleven thousand feet above sea 4350level. Its capital was Bolivar, "...a strikingly modern city built on a 4351harbor capable of sheltering the entire United States Navy." The principal 4352exports were sugar, coffee, bananas, indigo, and handcrafted novelties. 4353 4354=head2 v5.12.1-RC1 - Kurt Vonnegut, "Cat's Cradle" 4355 4356L<Announced on 2010-05-09 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/05/msg159971.html> 4357 4358Which brings me to the Bokononist concept of a wampeter. A wampeter is 4359the pivot of a karass. No karass is without a wampeter, Bokonon tells us, 4360just as no wheel is without a hub. Anything can be a wampeter: a tree, 4361a rock, an animal, an idea, a book, a melody, the Holy Grail. Whatever 4362it is, the members of its karass revolve about it in the majestic chaos 4363of a spiral nebula. The orbits of the members of a karass about their 4364common wampeter are spiritual orbits, naturally. It is souls and not 4365bodies that revolve. As Bokonon invites us to sing: 4366 4367 Around and around and around we spin, 4368 With feet of lead and wings of tin . . . 4369 4370=head2 v5.12.0 - Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" 4371 4372L<Announced on 2010-04-12 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/04/msg158820.html> 4373 4374'Please would you tell me,' said Alice, a little timidly, for she was 4375not quite sure whether it was good manners for her to speak first, 'why 4376your cat grins like that?' 4377 4378'It's a Cheshire cat,' said the Duchess, 'and that's why. Pig!' 4379 4380She said the last word with such sudden violence that Alice quite 4381jumped; but she saw in another moment that it was addressed to the baby, 4382and not to her, so she took courage, and went on again:-- 4383 4384'I didn't know that Cheshire cats always grinned; in fact, I didn't know 4385that cats COULD grin.' 4386 4387'They all can,' said the Duchess; 'and most of 'em do.' 4388 4389=head2 v5.12.0-RC5 - Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" 4390 4391L<Announced on 2010-04-09 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/04/msg158720.html> 4392 4393'Not QUITE right, I'm afraid,' said Alice, timidly; 'some of the words 4394have got altered.' 4395 4396'It is wrong from beginning to end,' said the Caterpillar decidedly, and 4397there was silence for some minutes. 4398 4399=head2 v5.12.0-RC4 - Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" 4400 4401L<Announced on 2010-04-06 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/04/msg158567.html> 4402 4403'It was much pleasanter at home,' thought poor Alice, 'when one wasn't 4404always growing larger and smaller, and being ordered about by mice and 4405rabbits. I almost wish I hadn't gone down that rabbit-hole--and yet--and 4406yet--it's rather curious, you know, this sort of life! I do wonder what 4407can have happened to me! When I used to read fairy-tales, I fancied that 4408kind of thing never happened, and now here I am in the middle of one! 4409 4410=head2 v5.12.0-RC3 - Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" 4411 4412L<Announced on 2010-04-02 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/04/msg158346.html> 4413 4414At last the Mouse, who seemed to be a person of authority among them, 4415called out, 'Sit down, all of you, and listen to me! I'LL soon make you 4416dry enough!' They all sat down at once, in a large ring, with the Mouse 4417in the middle. Alice kept her eyes anxiously fixed on it, for she felt 4418sure she would catch a bad cold if she did not get dry very soon. 4419 4420'Ahem!' said the Mouse with an important air, 'are you all ready? This 4421is the driest thing I know. Silence all round, if you please! "William 4422the Conqueror, whose cause was favoured by the pope, was soon submitted 4423to by the English, who wanted leaders, and had been of late much 4424accustomed to usurpation and conquest. Edwin and Morcar, the earls of 4425Mercia and Northumbria --"' 4426 4427=head2 v5.12.0-RC2 - no announcement 4428 4429Available on CPAN since 2010-04-01. 4430 4431=head2 v5.12.0-RC1 - Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" 4432 4433L<Announced on 2010-03-29 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/03/msg158060.html> 4434 4435So she was considering in her own mind (as well as she could, for the 4436hot day made her feel very sleepy and stupid), whether the pleasure of 4437making a daisy-chain would be worth the trouble of getting up and 4438picking the daisies, when suddenly a White Rabbit with pink eyes ran 4439close by her. 4440 4441There was nothing so VERY remarkable in that; nor did Alice think it so 4442VERY much out of the way to hear the Rabbit say to itself, 'Oh dear! Oh 4443dear! I shall be late!' (when she thought it over afterwards, it 4444occurred to her that she ought to have wondered at this, but at the time 4445it all seemed quite natural); but when the Rabbit actually TOOK A WATCH 4446OUT OF ITS WAISTCOAT-POCKET, and looked at it, and then hurried on, 4447Alice started to her feet, for it flashed across her mind that she had 4448never before seen a rabbit with either a waistcoat-pocket, or a watch to 4449take out of it, and burning with curiosity, she ran across the field 4450after it, and fortunately was just in time to see it pop down a large 4451rabbit-hole under the hedge. 4452 4453In another moment down went Alice after it, never once considering how 4454in the world she was to get out again. 4455 4456=head2 v5.12.0-RC0 - no epigraph 4457 4458L<Announced on 2020-03-21 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/03/msg157761.html> 4459 4460=head2 v5.11.5 - Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "Christabel" 4461 4462L<Announced on 2010-02-21 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/02/msg156957.html> 4463 4464 A little child, a limber elf, 4465 Singing, dancing to itself, 4466 A fairy thing with red round cheeks, 4467 That always finds, and never seeks, 4468 Makes such a vision to the sight 4469 As fills a father's eyes with light; 4470 And pleasures flow in so thick and fast 4471 Upon his heart, that he at last 4472 Must needs express his love's excess 4473 With words of unmeant bitterness. 4474 Perhaps 'tis pretty to force together 4475 Thoughts so all unlike each other; 4476 To mutter and mock a broken charm, 4477 To dally with wrong that does no harm. 4478 Perhaps 'tis tender too and pretty 4479 At each wild word to feel within 4480 A sweet recoil of love and pity. 4481 And what, if in a world of sin 4482 (O sorrow and shame should this be true!) 4483 Such giddiness of heart and brain 4484 Comes seldom save from rage and pain, 4485 So talks as it's most used to do. 4486 4487=head2 v5.11.4 - Fyodor Dostoevsky, "Crime and Punishment" 4488 4489L<Announced on 2010-01-20 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/01/msg155848.html> 4490 4491And you don't suppose that I went into it headlong like a fool? I went 4492into it like a wise man, and that was just my destruction. And you 4493mustn't suppose that I didn't know, for instance, that if I began to 4494question myself whether I had the right to gain power -- I certainly 4495hadn't the right -- or that if I asked myself whether a human being is a 4496louse it proved that it wasn't so for me, though it might be for a man 4497who would go straight to his goal without asking questions.... If I 4498worried myself all those days, wondering whether Napoleon would have 4499done it or not, I felt clearly of course that I wasn't Napoleon. 4500 4501=head2 v5.11.3 - Mark Twain, "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" 4502 4503L<Announced on 2009-12-20 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2009/12/msg154838.html> 4504 4505"Say -- I'm going in a swimming, I am. Don't you wish you could? But of 4506course you'd druther work -- wouldn't you? Course you would!" 4507 4508Tom contemplated the boy a bit, and said: "What do you call work?" 4509 4510"Why ain't that work?" 4511 4512Tom resumed his whitewashing, and answered carelessly: "Well, maybe it 4513is, and maybe it aint. All I know, is, it suits Tom Sawyer." 4514 4515"Oh come, now, you don't mean to let on that you like it?" 4516 4517The brush continued to move. "Like it? Well I don't see why I oughtn't 4518to like it. Does a boy get a chance to whitewash a fence every day?" 4519 4520That put the thing in a new light. Ben stopped nibbling his apple. Tom 4521swept his brush daintily back and forth -- stepped back to note the effect 4522-- added a touch here and there-criticised the effect again -- Ben 4523watching every move and getting more and more interested, more and more 4524absorbed. Presently he said: "Say, Tom, let me whitewash a little." 4525 4526=head2 v5.11.2 - Michael Marshall Smith, "Only Forward" 4527 4528L<Announced on 2009-11-20 by Léon Brocard|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2009/11/msg153646.html> 4529 4530The streets were pretty quiet, which was nice. They're always quiet here 4531at that time: you have to be wearing a black jacket to be out on the 4532streets between seven and nine in the evening, and not many people in 4533the area have black jackets. It's just one of those things. I currently 4534live in Colour Neighbourhood, which is for people who are heavily into 4535colour. All the streets and buildings are set for instant colourmatch: 4536as you walk down the road they change hue to offset whatever you're 4537wearing. When the streets are busy it's kind of intense, and anyone 4538prone to epileptic seizures isn't allowed to live in the Neighbourhood, 4539however much they're into colour. 4540 4541=head2 v5.11.1 - Joseph Heller, "Catch-22" 4542 4543L<Announced on 2009-10-20 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2009/10/msg152360.html> 4544 4545Milo had been caught red-handed in the act of plundering his countrymen, 4546and, as a result, his stock had never been higher. He proved good as his 4547word when a rawboned major from Minnesota curled his lip in rebellious 4548disavowal and demanded his share of the syndicate Milo kept saying 4549everybody owned. Milo met the challenge by writing the words "A Share" 4550on the nearest scrap of paper and handing it away with a virtuous disdain 4551that won the envy and admiration of almost everyone who knew him. His 4552glory was at a peak, and Colonel Cathcart, who knew and admired his 4553war record, was astonished by the deferential humility with which Milo 4554presented himself at Group Headquarters and made his fantastic appeal 4555for more hazardous assignment. 4556 4557=head2 v5.11.0 - Mikhail Bulgakov, "The Master and Margarita" 4558 4559L<Announced on 2009-10-02 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2009/10/msg151376.html> 4560 4561Whispers of an "evil power" were heard in lines at dairy shops, in 4562streetcars, stores, arguments, kitchens, suburban and long-distance 4563trains, at stations large and small, in dachas and on beaches. Needless 4564to say, truly mature and cultured people did not tell these stories 4565about an evil power's visit to the capital. In fact, they even made fun 4566of them and tried to talk sense into those who told them. Nevertheless, 4567facts are facts, as they say, and cannot simply be dismissed without 4568explanation: somebody had visited the capital. The charred cinders of 4569Griboyedov alone, and many other things besides, confirmed it. Cultured 4570people shared the point of view of the investigating team: it was the 4571work of a gang of hypnotists and ventriloquists magnificently skilled in 4572their art. 4573 4574=head2 v5.10.1 - Right Hon. James Hacker MP, "The Complete Yes Minister: The Diaries of a Cabinet Minister" 4575 4576L<Announced on 2009-08-23 by Dave Mitchell|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2009/08/msg150172.html> 4577 4578'Briefly, sir, I am the Permanent Under-Secretary of State, known as 4579the Permanent Secretary. Woolley here is your Principal Private 4580Secretary. I, too, have a Principal Private Secretary, and he is the 4581Principal Private Secretary to the Permanent Secretary. Directly 4582responsible to me are ten Deputy Secretaries, eighty-seven Under 4583Secretaries and two hundred and nineteen Assistant Secretaries. 4584Directly responsible to the Principal Private Secretaries are plain 4585Private Secretaries. The Prime Minister will be appointing two 4586Parliamentary Under-Secretaries and you will be appointing your own 4587Parliamentary Private Secretary.' 4588 4589'Can they all type?' I joked. 4590 4591'None of us can type, Minister,' replied Sir Humphrey smoothly. 'Mrs 4592McKay types - she is your Secretary.' 4593 4594I couldn't tell whether or not he was joking. 'What a pity,' I said. 4595'We could have opened an agency.' 4596 4597Sir Humphrey and Bernard laughed. 'Very droll, sir,' said Sir 4598Humphrey. 'Most amusing, sir,' said Bernard. Were they genuinely 4599amused at my wit, or just being rather patronising? 'I suppose they 4600all say that, do they?' I ventured. 4601 4602Sir Humphrey reassured me on that. 'Certainly not, Minister,' he 4603replied. 'Not quite all.' 4604 4605=head2 v5.10.1-RC2 - no epigraph 4606 4607L<Announced on 2009-08-18 by Dave Mitchell|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2009/08/msg150015.html> 4608 4609=head2 v5.10.1-RC1 - no epigraph 4610 4611L<Announced on 2009-08-06 by Dave Mitchell|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2009/08/msg149498.html> 4612 4613=head2 v5.10.0 - Laurence Sterne, "Tristram Shandy" 4614 4615L<Announced on 2007-12-18 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2007/12/msg131636.html> 4616 4617He would often declare, in speaking his thoughts upon the subject, that 4618he did not conceive how the greatest family in England could stand it 4619out against an uninterrupted succession of six or seven short 4620noses.--And for the contrary reason, he would generally add, That it 4621must be one of the greatest problems in civil life, where the same 4622number of long and jolly noses, following one another in a direct line, 4623did not raise and hoist it up into the best vacancies in the kingdom. 4624 4625=head2 v5.10.0-RC2 - no epigraph 4626 4627L<Announced on 2007-11-25 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2007/11/msg130978.html> 4628 4629=head2 v5.10.0-RC1 - no epigraph 4630 4631L<Announced on 2007-11-17 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2007/11/msg130653.html> 4632 4633=head2 v5.9.5 - no announcement 4634 4635L<Pre-announced on 2007-07-07 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2007/07/msg126358.html>, 4636available on CPAN with same date, but never actually announced. 4637 4638=head2 v5.9.4 - no epigraph 4639 4640L<Announced on 2006-08-15 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2006/08/msg115782.html> 4641 4642=head2 v5.9.3 - no epigraph 4643 4644L<Announced on 2006-01-28 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2006/01/msg109086.html> 4645 4646=head2 v5.9.2 - Thomas Pynchon, "V" 4647 4648L<Announced on 2005-04-01 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2005/04/msg99421.html> 4649 4650This word flip was weird. Every recording date of McClintic's he'd 4651gotten into the habit of talking electricity with the audio men and 4652technicians of the studio. McClintic once couldn't have cared less 4653about electricity, but now it seemed if that was helping him reach a 4654bigger audience, some digging, some who would never dig, but all 4655paying and those royalties keeping the Triumph in gas and McClintic 4656in J. Press suits, then McClintic ought to be grateful to 4657electricity, ought maybe to learn a little more about it. So he'd 4658picked up some here and there, and one day last summer he got around 4659to talking stochastic music and digital computers with one 4660technician. Out of the conversation had come Set/Reset, which was 4661getting to be a signature for the group. He had found out from this 4662sound man about a two-triode circuit called a flip-flop, which when 4663it turned on could be one of two ways, depending on which tube was 4664conducting and which was cut off: set or reset, flip or flop. 4665 4666"And that," the man said, "can be yes or no, or one or zero. And 4667that is what you might call one of the basic units, or specialized 4668`cells' in a big `electronic brain.' " 4669 4670"Crazy," said McClintic, having lost him back there someplace. But 4671one thing that did occur to him was if a computer's brain could go 4672flip or flop, why so could a musician's. As long as you were flop, 4673everything was cool. But where did the trigger-pulse come from to 4674make you flip? 4675 4676=head2 v5.9.1 - Tom Stoppard, "Arcadia" 4677 4678L<Announced on 2004-03-16 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/03/msg89722.html> 4679 4680Aren't you supposed to have a pony? 4681 4682=head2 v5.9.0 - Doris Lessing, "Martha Quest" 4683 4684L<Announced on 2003-10-27 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/10/msg84147.html> 4685 4686What of October, that ambiguous month 4687 4688=head2 v5.8.9 - Right Hon. James Hacker MP, "The Complete Yes Minister: The Diaries of a Cabinet Minister" 4689 4690L<Announced on 2008-12-14 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2008/12/msg142571.html> 4691 4692Frank and I, unlike the civil servants, were still puzzled that such a 4693proposal as the Europass could even be seriously under consideration by 4694the FCO. We can both see clearly that it is wonderful ammunition for the 4695anti-Europeans. I asked Humphrey if the Foreign Office doesn't realise 4696how damaging this would be to the European ideal? 4697 4698'I'm sure they do, Minister, he said. That's why they support it.' 4699 4700This was even more puzzling, since I'd always been under the impression 4701that the FO is pro-Europe. 'Is it or isn't it?' I asked Humphrey. 4702 4703'Yes and no,' he replied of course, 'if you'll pardon the 4704expression. The Foreign Office is pro-Europe because it is really 4705anti-Europe. In fact the Civil Service was united in its desire to make 4706sure the Common Market didn't work. That's why we went into it.' 4707 4708This sounded like a riddle to me. I asked him to explain further. And 4709basically his argument was as follows: Britain has had the same foreign 4710policy objective for at least the last five hundred years - to create a 4711disunited Europe. In that cause we have fought with the Dutch against 4712the Spanish, with the Germans against the French, with the French and 4713Italians against the Germans, and with the French against the Italians 4714and Germans. [The Dutch rebellion against Phillip II of Spain, the 4715Napoleonic Wars, the First World War, and the Second World War - Ed.] 4716 4717In other words, divide and rule. And the Foreign Office can see no 4718reason to change when it has worked so well until now. 4719 4720I was aware of this, naturally, but I regarded it as ancient history. 4721Humphrey thinks that it is, in fact, current policy. It was necessary 4722for us to break up the EEC, he explained, so we had to get inside. We 4723had previously tried to break it up from the outside, but that didn't 4724work. [A reference to our futile and short-lived involvement in EFTA, 4725the European Free Trade Association, founded in 1960 and which the UK 4726left in 1972 - Ed.] Now that we're in, we are able to make a complete 4727pig's breakfast out of it. We've now set the Germans against the French, 4728the French against the Italians, the Italians against the Dutch... and 4729the Foreign office is terribly happy. It's just like old time. 4730 4731I was staggered by all of this. I thought that the all of us who are 4732publicly pro-European believed in the European ideal. I said this to Sir 4733Humphrey, and he simply chuckled. 4734 4735So I asked him: if we don't believe in the European Ideal, why are we 4736pushing to increase the membership? 4737 4738'Same reason,' came the reply. 'It's just like the United Nations. The 4739more members it has, the more arguments you can stir up, and the more 4740futile and impotent it becomes.' 4741 4742This all strikes me as the most appalling cynicism, and I said so. 4743 4744Sir Humphrey agreed completely. 'Yes Minister. We call it 4745diplomacy. It's what made Britain great, you know.' 4746 4747=head2 v5.8.9-RC2 - Right Hon. James Hacker MP, "The Complete Yes Minister: The Diaries of a Cabinet Minister" 4748 4749L<Announced on 2008-12-06 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2008/12/msg142422.html> 4750 4751There was silence in the office. I didn't know what we were going to do 4752about the four hundred new people supervising our economy drive or the 4753four hundred new people for the Bureaucratic Watchdog Office, or 4754anything! I simply sat and waited and hoped that my head would stop 4755thumping and that some idea would be suggested by someone sometime soon. 4756 4757Sir Humphrey obliged. 'Minister... if we were to end the economy drive 4758and close the Bureaucratic Watchdog Office we could issue an immediate 4759press announcement that you had axed eight hundred jobs.' He had 4760obviously thought this out carefully in advance, for at this moment he 4761produced a slim folder from under his arm. 'If you'd like to approve 4762this draft...' 4763 4764I couldn't believe the impertinence of the suggestion. Axed eight 4765hundred jobs? 'But no one was ever doing these jobs,' I pointed out 4766incredulously. 'No one's been appointed yet.' 4767 4768'Even greater economy,' he replied instantly. 'We've saved eight hundred 4769redundancy payments as well.' 4770 4771'But...' I attempted to explain '... that's just phony. It's dishonest, 4772it's juggling with figures, it's pulling the wool over people's eyes.' 4773 4774'A government press release, in fact.' said Humphrey. 4775 4776=head2 v5.8.9-RC1 - Right Hon. James Hacker MP, "The Complete Yes Minister: The Diaries of a Cabinet Minister" 4777 4778L<Announced on 2008-11-10 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2008/11/msg141515.html> 4779 4780A jumbo jet touched down, with BURANDAN AIRWAYS written on the side. I 4781was hugely impressed. British Airways are having to pawn their Concordes, 4782and here is this little tiny African state with its own airline, jumbo 4783jets and all. 4784 4785I asked Bernard how many planes Burandan Airways had. 'None,' he said. 4786 4787I told him not to be silly and use his eyes. 'No Minister, it belongs to 4788Freddie Laker,' he said. 'They chartered it last week and repainted it 4789specially.' Apparently most of the Have-Nots (I mean, LDCs) do this - at 4790the opening of the UN General Assembly the runways of Kennedy Airport are 4791jam-packed with phoney flag-carriers. 'In fact,' said Bernard with a sly 4792grin, 'there was one 747 that belonged to nine different African airlines 4793in a month. They called it the mumbo-jumbo.' 4794 4795While we watched nothing much happening on the TV except the mumbo-jumbo 4796taxiing around Prestwick and the Queen looking a bit chilly, Bernard gave 4797me the next day's schedule and explained that I was booked on the night 4798sleeper from King's Cross to Edinburgh because I had to vote in a 4799three-line whip at the House tonight and would have to miss the last 4800plane. Then the commentator, in that special hushed BBC voice used for any 4801occasion with which Royalty is connected, announced reverentially that we 4802were about to catch our first glimpse of President Selim. 4803 4804And out of the plane stepped Charlie. My old friend Charlie Umtali. We 4805were at LSE together. Not Selim Mohammed at all, but Charlie. 4806 4807Bernard asked me if I were sure. Silly question. How could you forget a 4808name like Charlie Umtali? 4809 4810I sent Bernard for Sir Humphrey, who was delighted to hear that we now 4811know something about our official visitor. 4812 4813Bernard's official brief said nothing. Amazing! Amazing how little the FCO 4814has been able to find out. Perhaps they were hoping it would all be on the 4815car radio. All the brief says is that Colonel Selim Mohammed had converted 4816to Islam some years ago, they didn't know his original name, and therefore 4817knew little of his background. 4818 4819I was able to tell Humphrey and Bernard /all/ about his background. 4820Charlie was a red-hot political economist, I informed them. Got the top 4821first. Wiped the floor with everyone. 4822 4823Bernard seemed relieved. 'Well that's all right then.' 4824 4825'Why?' I enquired. 4826 4827'I think Bernard means,' said Sir Humphrey helpfully, 'that he'll know how 4828to behave if he was at an English University. Even if it was the LSE.' I 4829never know whether or not Humphrey is insulting me intentionally. 4830 4831Humphrey was concerned about Charlie's political colour. 'When you said 4832that he was red-hot, were you speaking politically?' 4833 4834In a way I was. 'The thing about Charlie is that you never quite know 4835where you are with him. He's the sort of chap who follows you into a 4836revolving door and comes out in front.' 4837 4838'No deeply held convictions?' asked Sir Humphrey. 4839 4840'No. The only thing Charlie was committed too was Charlie.' 4841 4842'Ah, I see. A politician, Minister.' 4843 4844=head2 v5.8.8 - Joe Raposo, "Bein' Green" 4845 4846L<Announced on 2006-01-31 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2006/01/msg109190.html> 4847 4848 It's not that easy bein' green 4849 Having to spend each day the color of the leaves 4850 When I think it could be nicer being red or yellow or gold 4851 Or something much more colorful like that 4852 4853 It's not easy bein' green 4854 It seems you blend in with so many other ordinary things 4855 And people tend to pass you over 'cause you're 4856 Not standing out like flashy sparkles in the water 4857 Or stars in the sky 4858 4859 But green's the color of Spring 4860 And green can be cool and friendly-like 4861 And green can be big like an ocean 4862 Or important like a mountain 4863 Or tall like a tree 4864 4865 When green is all there is to be 4866 It could make you wonder why, but why wonder why? 4867 Wonder I am green and it'll do fine, it's beautiful 4868 And I think it's what I want to be 4869 4870=head2 v5.8.8-RC1 - Cosgrove Hall Productions, "Dangermouse" 4871 4872L<Announced on 2006-01-20 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2006/01/msg108833.html> 4873 4874 Greenback: And the world is mine, all mine. Muhahahahaha. See to it! 4875 4876 Stiletto: Si, Barone. Subito, Barone. 4877 4878=head2 v5.8.7 - Sergei Prokofiev, "Peter and the Wolf" 4879 4880L<Announced on 2005-05-31 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2005/05/msg101088.html> 4881 4882And now, imagine the triumphant procession: Peter at the head; after him the 4883hunters leading the wolf; and winding up the procession, grandfather and the 4884cat. 4885 4886Grandfather shook his head discontentedly: "Well, and if Peter hadn't caught 4887the wolf? What then?" 4888 4889=head2 v5.8.7-RC1 - Sergei Prokofiev, "Peter and the Wolf" 4890 4891L<Announced on 2005-05-20 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2005/05/msg100711.html> 4892 4893And now this is how things stood: The cat was sitting on one branch. The 4894bird on another, not too close to the cat. And the wolf walked round and 4895round the tree, looking at them with greedy eyes. 4896 4897In the meantime, Peter, without the slightest fear, stood behind the 4898gate, watching all that was going on. He ran home,got a strong rope and 4899climbed up the high stone wall. 4900 4901One of the branches of the tree, around which the wolf was walking, 4902stretched out over the wall. 4903 4904Grabbing hold of the branch, Peter lightly climbed over on to the tree. 4905Peter said to the bird: "Fly down and circle round the wolf's head, only 4906take care that he doesn't catch you!". 4907 4908The bird almost touched the wolf's head with its wings, while the wolf 4909snapped angrily at him from this side and that. 4910 4911How that bird teased the wolf, how that wolf wanted to catch him! But 4912the bird was clever and the wolf simply couldn't do anything about it. 4913 4914=head2 v5.8.6 - A. A. Milne, "The House at Pooh Corner" 4915 4916L<Announced on 2004-11-27 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/11/msg96304.html> 4917 4918"Hallo, Pooh," said Piglet, giving a jump of surprise. "I knew it was 4919you." 4920 4921"So did I,", said Pooh. "What are you doing?" 4922 4923"I'm planting a haycorn, Pooh, so that it can grow up into an oak-tree, 4924and have lots of haycorns just outside the front door instead of having 4925to walk miles and miles, do you see, Pooh?" 4926 4927"Supposing it doesn't?" said Pooh. 4928 4929"It will, because Christopher Robin says it will, so that's why I'm 4930planting it." 4931 4932"Well," aid Pooh, "if I plant a honeycomb outside my house, then it will 4933grow up into a beehive." 4934 4935Piglet wasn't quite sure about this. 4936 4937"Or a /piece/ of a honeycomb," said Pooh, "so as not to waste too much. 4938Only then I might only get a piece of a beehive, and it might be the 4939wrong piece, where the bees were buzzing and not hunnying. Bother" 4940 4941Piglet agreed that that would be rather bothering. 4942 4943"Besides, Pooh, it's a very difficult thing, planting unless you know 4944how to do it," he said; and he put the acorn in the hole he had made, 4945and covered it up with earth, and jumped on it. 4946 4947=head2 v5.8.6-RC1 - A. A. Milne, "Winnie the Pooh" 4948 4949L<Announced on 2004-11-11 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/11/msg95786.html> 4950 4951"Hallo!" said Piglet, "whare are /you/ doing?" 4952 4953"Hunting," said Pooh. 4954 4955"Hunting what?" 4956 4957"Tracking something," said Winnie-the-Pooh very mysteriously. 4958 4959"Tracking what?" said Piglet, coming closer. 4960 4961"That's just what I ask myself, I ask myself, What?" 4962 4963"What do you think you'll answer?" 4964 4965"I shall have to wait until I catch up with it," said Winnie-the-Pooh. 4966"Now, look there." He pointed to the ground in front of him. "What do 4967you see there?" 4968 4969"Track," said Piglet. "Paw-marks." He gave a little squeak of 4970excitement. "Oh, Pooh!" Do you think it's a--a--a Woozle?" 4971 4972=head2 v5.8.5 - wikipedia, "Yew" 4973 4974L<Announced on 2004-07-19 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/07/msg93189.html> 4975 4976Yews are relatively slow growing trees, widely used in landscaping and 4977ornamental horticulture. They have flat, dark-green needles, reddish 4978bark, and bear seeds with red arils, which are eaten by thrushes, 4979waxwings and other birds, dispersing the hard seeds undamaged in their 4980droppings. Yew wood is reddish brown (with white sapwood), and very 4981hard. It was traditionally used to make bows, especially the English 4982longbow. 4983 4984In England, the Common Yew (Taxus baccata, also known as English Yew) is 4985often found in churchyards. It is sometimes suggested that these are 4986placed there as a symbol of long life or trees of death, and some are 4987likely to be over 3,000 years old. It is also suggested that yew trees 4988may have a pre-Christian association with old pagan holy sites, and the 4989Christian church found it expedient to use and take over existing sites. 4990Another explanation is that the poisonous berries and foliage discourage 4991farmers and drovers from letting their animals wander into the burial 4992grounds. The yew tree is a frequent symbol in the Christian poetry of 4993T.S. Eliot, especially his Four Quartets. 4994 4995=head2 v5.8.5-RC2 - wikipedia, "Beech" 4996 4997L<Announced on 2004-07-09 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/07/msg92934.html> 4998 4999Beeches are trees of the Genus Fagus, family Fagaceae, including about 5000ten species in Europe, Asia, and North America. The leaves are entire or 5001sparsely toothed. The fruit is a small, sharply-angled nut, borne in 5002pairs in spiny husks. The beech most commonly grown as an ornamental or 5003shade tree is the European beech (Fagus sylvatica). 5004 5005The southern beeches belong to a different but related genus, 5006Nothofagus. They are found in Australia, New Zealand, New Guinea, New 5007Caledonia and South America. 5008 5009=head2 v5.8.5-RC1 - wikipedia, "Pedunculate Oak" (abridged) 5010 5011L<Announced on 2004-07-07 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/07/msg92840.html> 5012 5013The Pedunculate Oak is called the Common Oak in Britain, and is also 5014often called the English Oak in other English speaking countries It is a 5015large deciduous tree to 25-35m tall (exceptionally to 40m), with lobed 5016and sessile (stalk-less) leaves. Flowering takes place in early to mid 5017spring, and their fruit, called "acorns", ripen by autumn of the same 5018year. The acorns are pedunculate (having a peduncle or acorn-stalk) and 5019may occur singly, or several acorns may occur on a stalk. 5020 5021It forms a long-lived tree, with a large widespreading head of rugged 5022branches. While it may naturally live to an age of a few centuries, many 5023of the oldest trees are pollarded or coppiced, both pruning techniques 5024that extend the tree's potential lifespan, if not its health. 5025 5026Within its native range it is valued for its importance to insects and 5027other wildlife. Numerous insects live on the leaves, buds, and in the 5028acorns. The acorns form a valuable food resource for several small 5029mammals and some birds, notably Jays Garrulus glandarius. 5030 5031It is planted for forestry, and produces a long-lasting and durable 5032heartwood, much in demand for interior and furniture work. 5033 5034=head2 v5.8.4 - T. S. Eliot, "The Old Gumbie Cat" 5035 5036L<Announced on 2004-04-22 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/04/msg90984.html> 5037 5038 I have a Gumbie Cat in mind, her name is Jennyanydots; 5039 The curtain-cord she likes to wind, and tie it into sailor-knots. 5040 She sits upon the window-sill, or anything that's smooth and flat: 5041 She sits and sits and sits and sits -- and that's what makes a Gumbie Cat! 5042 5043 But when the day's hustle and bustle is done, 5044 Then the Gumbie Cat's work is but hardly begun. 5045 She thinks that the cockroaches just need employment 5046 To prevent them from idle and wanton destroyment. 5047 So she's formed, from that a lot of disorderly louts, 5048 A troop of well-disciplined helpful boy-scouts, 5049 With a purpose in life and a good deed to do-- 5050 And she's even created a Beetles' Tattoo. 5051 5052 So for Old Gumbie Cats let us now give three cheers -- 5053 On whom well-ordered households depend, it appears. 5054 5055 5056=head2 v5.8.4-RC2 - T. S. Eliot, "Macavity: The Mystery Cat" 5057 5058L<Announced on 2004-04-16 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/04/msg90796.html> 5059 5060 Macavity's a Mystery Cat: he's called the Hidden Paw -- 5061 For he's the master criminal who can defy the Law. 5062 He's the bafflement of Scotland Yard, the Flying Squad's despair: 5063 For when they reach the scene of crime -- /Macavity's not there/! 5064 5065 Macavity, Macavity, there's no one like Macavity, 5066 He's broken every human law, he breaks the law of gravity. 5067 His powers of levitation would make a fakir stare, 5068 And when you reach the scene of crime -- /Macavity's not there/! 5069 You may seek him in the basement, you may look up in the air -- 5070 But I tell you once and once again, /Macavity's not there/! 5071 5072=head2 v5.8.4-RC1 - T. S. Eliot, "Skimbleshanks: The Railway Cat" 5073 5074L<Announced on 2004-04-05 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/04/msg90422.html> 5075 5076 There's a whisper down the line at 11.39 5077 When the Night Mail's ready to depart, 5078 Saying 'Skimble where is Skimble has he gone to hunt the thimble? 5079 We must find him of the train can't start.' 5080 All the guards and all the porters and the stationmaster's daughters 5081 They are searching high and low, 5082 Saying 'Skimble where is Skimble for unless he's very nimble 5083 Then the Night Mail just can't go' 5084 At 11.42 then the signal's overdue 5085 And the passengers are frantic to a man-- 5086 Then Skimble will appear and he'll saunter to the rear: 5087 He's been busy in the luggage van! 5088 He gives one flash of his glass-green eyes 5089 And the signal goes 'All Clear!' 5090 And we're off at last of the northern part 5091 Of the Northern Hemisphere! 5092 5093=head2 v5.8.3 - Arthur William Edgar O'Shaugnessy, "Ode" 5094 5095L<Announced on 2004-01-14 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/01/msg87317.html> 5096 5097 We are the music makers, 5098 And we are the dreamers of dreams, 5099 Wandering by lonely sea-breakers, 5100 And sitting by desolate streams; -- 5101 World-losers and world-forsakers, 5102 On whom the pale moon gleams: 5103 Yet we are the movers and shakers 5104 Of the world for ever, it seems. 5105 5106=head2 v5.8.3-RC1 - Irving Berlin, "Let's Face the Music and Dance" 5107 5108L<Announced on 2004-01-07 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/01/msg86969.html> 5109 5110 There may be trouble ahead, 5111 But while there's music and moonlight, 5112 And love and romance, 5113 Let's face the music and dance. 5114 5115 Before the fiddlers have fled, 5116 Before they ask us to pay the bill, 5117 And while we still have that chance, 5118 Let's face the music and dance. 5119 5120 Soon, we'll be without the moon, 5121 Humming a different tune, and then, 5122 5123 There may be teardrops to shed, 5124 So while there's music and moonlight, 5125 And love and romance, 5126 Let's face the music and dance. 5127 5128=head2 v5.8.2 - Walt Whitman, "Passage to India" 5129 5130L<Announced on 2003-11-05 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/11/msg84822.html> 5131 5132 Passage, immediate passage! the blood burns in my veins! 5133 Away O soul! hoist instantly the anchor! 5134 Cut the hawsers - hall out - shake out every sail! 5135 Have we not stood here like trees in the ground long enough? 5136 Have we not grovel'd here long enough, eating and drinking like mere brutes? 5137 Have we not darken'd and dazed ourselves with books long enough? 5138 5139 Sail forth - steer for the deep waters only, 5140 Reckless O soul, exploring, I with the and thou with me, 5141 For we are bound where mariner has not yet dared to go, 5142 And we will risk the ship, ourselves and all. 5143 5144 O my brave soul! 5145 O farther farther sail! 5146 O daring job, but safe! are they not all the seas of God? 5147 O farther, farther, farther sail! 5148 5149=head2 v5.8.2-RC2 - Eric Idle and John Du Prez, "Accountancy Shanty" 5150 5151L<Announced on 2003-11-03 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/11/msg84645.html> 5152 5153 It's fun to charter an accountant 5154 And sail the wide accountan-cy, 5155 To find, explore the funds offshore 5156 And skirt the shoals of bankruptcy. 5157 5158=head2 v5.8.2-RC1 - Edward Lear, "The Jumblies" 5159 5160L<Announced on 2003-10-27 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/10/msg84194.html> 5161 5162 They went to sea in a Sieve, they did, 5163 In a Sieve they went to sea: 5164 In spite of all their friends could say, 5165 On a winter's morn, on a stormy day, 5166 In a Sieve they went to sea! 5167 And when the Sieve turned round and round, 5168 And everyone cried, "You'll all be drowned!" 5169 They cried aloud, "Our Sieve ain't big, 5170 But we don't care a button, we don't care a fig! 5171 In a Sieve we'll go to sea!" 5172 5173 Far and few, far and few, 5174 Are the lands where the Jumblies live; 5175 Their heads are green, and their hands are blue, 5176 And they went to sea in a Sieve. 5177 5178=head2 v5.8.1 - epigraph same as v5.7.1 5179 5180L<Announced on 2003-09-25 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/09/msg82678.html> 5181 5182=head2 v5.8.1-RC5 - Terry Pratchett, "Lords and Ladies" 5183 5184L<Announced on 2003-09-22 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/09/msg82476.html> 5185 5186No matter what she did with her hair it took about 5187three minutes for it to tangle itself up again, 5188like a garden hosepipe in a shed [Footnote: Which, 5189no matter how carefully coiled, will always uncoil 5190overnight and tie the lawnmower to the bicycles]. 5191 5192=head2 v5.8.1-RC4 - Terry Pratchett, "Interesting Times" 5193 5194L<Announced on 2003-08-01 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/08/msg79184.html> 5195 5196Grand Viziers were /always/ scheming megalomaniacs. 5197It was probably in the job description: "Are you a 5198devious, plotting, unreliable madman? Ah, good, 5199then you can be my most trusted minister." 5200 5201=head2 v5.8.1-RC3 - Terry Pratchett, "Interesting Times" 5202 5203L<Announced on 2003-07-30 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/07/msg79048.html> 5204 5205Lord Hong had a mind like a knife, although possibly 5206a knife with a curved blade. 5207 5208=head2 v5.8.1-RC2 - Terry Pratchett, "Interesting Times" 5209 5210L<Announced on 2003-07-11 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/07/msg78102.html> 5211 5212Many an ancient lord's last words had been, "You can't kill 5213me because I've got magic aaargh." 5214 5215=head2 v5.8.1-RC1 - Terry Pratchett, "Interesting Times" 5216 5217L<Announced on 2003-07-10 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/07/msg78009.html> 5218 5219Cohen was familiar with city gates. He'd broken down a number 5220in his time, by battering ram, siege gun, and on one occasion 5221with his head. 5222 5223But the gates of Hunghung were pretty damn good gates. They 5224weren't like the gates of Ankh-Morpork, which were usually wide 5225open to attract the spending customer and whose concession to 5226defense was the sign "Thank You For Not Attacking Our City. 5227Bonum Diem." These things were big and made of metal and there 5228was a guardhouse and a squad of unhelpful men in black armor. 5229 5230=head2 v5.8.0 - Terry Pratchett, "Reaper Man" 5231 5232L<Announced on 2002-07-18 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2002/07/msg63720.html> 5233 5234There was the faint sound of footsteps. 5235"Chap with a whip got as far as the big sharp spikes last week," 5236said the low priest. 5237There was a sound like the flushing of a very old dry lavatory. 5238The footsteps stopped. The High Priest smiled to himself. 5239"Right," he said. "See your two pebbles and raise you two pebbles." 5240The low priest threw down his cards. "Double Onion," he said. 5241The High Priest looked down suspiciously. 5242The low priest consulted a scrap of paper. "That's three hundred 5243thousand, nine hundred and sixty-four pebbles you owe me," he said. 5244There was the sound of footsteps. The priests exchanged glances. 5245"Haven't had one for poisoned-dart alley for quite some time," 5246said the High Priest. 5247"Five says he makes it", said the low priest. "You're on." 5248There was a faint clatter of metal points on stone. 5249"It's a shame to take your pebbles." 5250There were footsteps again. 5251 5252=head2 v5.8.0-RC3 - no epigraph 5253 5254L<Announced on 2002-07-13 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2002/07/msg63234.html> 5255 5256=head2 v5.8.0-RC2 - no epigraph 5257 5258L<Announced on 2002-06-21 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2002/06/msg62013.html> 5259 5260=head2 v5.8.0-RC1 - no epigraph 5261 5262L<Announced on 2002-06-01 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2002/06/msg60317.html> 5263 5264=head2 v5.7.3 - Terry Pratchett, "Reaper Man" 5265 5266L<Announced on 2002-03-04 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2002/03/msg53652.html> 5267 5268Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. 5269No matter how fast light travels it finds the darkness has always 5270got there first, and is waiting for it. 5271 5272=head2 v5.7.2 - Terry Pratchett, "Small Gods" 5273 5274L<Announced on 2001-07-13 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2001/07/msg40370.html> 5275 5276His philosophy was a mixture of three famous schools -- 5277the Cynics, the Stoics and the Epicureans -- and summed up 5278all three of them in his famous phrase, "You can't trust any 5279bugger further than you can throw him, and there's nothing 5280you can do about it, so let's have a drink." 5281 5282=head2 v5.7.1 - Terry Pratchett, "The Colour of Magic" 5283 5284L<Announced on 2001-04-09 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2001/04/msg33851.html> 5285 5286"What happens next?" asked Twoflower. 5287 5288Hrun screwed a finger in his ear and inspected it absently. 5289 5290"Oh,", he said, "I expect in a minute the door will be 5291flung back and I'll be dragged off to some sort of temple 5292arena where I'll fight maybe a couple of giant spiders 5293and an eight-foot slave from the jungles of Klatch and then 5294I'll rescue some kind of a princess from the altar and then 5295I'll kill off a few guards or whatever and then this girl 5296will show me the secret passage out of the place and we'll 5297liberate a couple of horses and escape with the treasure." 5298Hrun leaned his head back on his hands and looked at the 5299ceiling, whistling tunelessly. 5300 5301"All that?" said Twoflower. 5302 5303"Usually." 5304 5305=head2 v5.7.0 - Terry Pratchett, "Moving Pictures" 5306 5307L<Announced on 2000-09-02 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2000/09/msg17730.html> 5308 5309The Librarian had seen many weird things in his time, 5310but that had to be the 57th strangest. 5311[footnote: he had a tidy mind] 5312 5313=head2 v5.6.2 - Laurence Sterne, "Tristram Shandy" 5314 5315L<Announced on 2003-11-15 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/11/msg85222.html> 5316 5317When great or unexpected events fall out upon the stage of this 5318sublunary word--the mind of man, which is an inquisitive kind of 5319a substance, naturally takes a flight, behind the scenes, to see 5320what is the cause and first spring of them--The search was not 5321long in this instance. 5322 5323=head2 v5.6.2-RC1 - Laurence Sterne, "Tristram Shandy" 5324 5325L<Announced on 2003-11-08 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/11/msg84953.html> 5326 5327"Pray, my dear", quoth my mother, "have you not forgot to wind up the clock?" 5328 5329=head2 v5.6.1 - J R R Tolkien, "The Hobbit", Riddles in the Dark 5330 5331L<Announced on 2001-04-08 by Gurusamy Sarathy|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2001/04/msg33823.html> 5332 5333`What have I got in my pocket?' he said aloud. He was talking to 5334himself, but Gollum thought it was a riddle, and he was frightfully 5335upset. 5336 5337`Not fair! not fair!' he hissed. `It isn't fair, my precious, is it, 5338to ask us what it's got in its nassty little pocketses?' 5339 5340Bilbo seeing what had happened and having nothing better to ask 5341stuck to his question, `What have I got in my pocket?' he said 5342louder. 5343 5344`S-s-s-s-s,' hissed Gollum. `It must give us three guesseses, 5345my precious, three guesseses.' 5346 5347=head2 v5.6.1-foolish - no epigraph 5348 5349L<Announced on 2001-04-01 by Gurusamy Sarathy|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2001/04/msg33421.html> 5350 5351=head2 v5.6.1-TRIAL3 - I can't find the announcement 5352 5353No announcement available. 5354 5355=head2 v5.6.1-TRIAL2 - no epigraph 5356 5357L<Announced on 2001-01-31 by Gurusamy Sarathy|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2001/01/msg29934.html> 5358 5359=head2 v5.6.1-TRIAL1 - no epigraph 5360 5361L<Announced on 2000-12-18 by Gurusamy Sarathy|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2000/12/msg27738.html> 5362 5363=head2 v5.6.0 - J R R Tolkien, "The Hobbit", The Last Stage 5364 5365L<Announced on 2000-03-23 by Gurusamy Sarathy|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2000/03/msg10341.html> 5366 5367 The dragon is withered, 5368 His bones are now crumbled; 5369 His armour is shivered, 5370 His splendour is humbled! 5371 Though sword shall be rusted, 5372 And throne and crown perish 5373 With strength that men trusted 5374 And wealth that they cherish, 5375 Here grass is still growing, 5376 And leaves are a yet swinging, 5377 The white water flowing, 5378 And elves are yet singing 5379 Come! Tra-la-la-lally! 5380 Come back to the valley. 5381 5382=head2 v5.6.0-RC3 - no epigraph 5383 5384L<Announced on 2000-03-22 by Gurusamy Sarathy|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2000/03/msg10140.html> 5385 5386=head2 v5.005_05-RC1 - no epigraph 5387 5388L<Announced on 2009-02-16 by LE<0xe9>on Brocard|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2009/02/msg144227.html> 5389 5390=head2 v5.005_04 - no epigraph 5391 5392L<Announced on 2004-03-01 by LE<0xe9>on Brocard|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/03/msg89047.html> 5393 5394=head2 v5.005_04-RC2 - Rudyard Kipling, "The Jungle Book" 5395 5396L<Announced on 2004-02-19 by LE<0xe9>on Brocard|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/02/msg88672.html> 5397 5398The monkeys called the place their city, and pretended to despise 5399the Jungle-People because they lived in the forest. And yet they 5400never knew what the buildings were made for nor how to use 5401them. They would sit in circles on the hall of the king's council 5402chamber, and scratch for fleas and pretend to be men; or they would 5403run in and out of the roofless houses and collect pieces of plaster 5404and old bricks in a corner, and forget where they had hidden them, 5405and fight and cry in scuffling crowds, and then break off to play up 5406and down the terraces of the king's garden, where they would shake 5407the rose trees and the oranges in sport to see the fruit and flowers 5408fall. 5409 5410=head2 v5.005_04-RC1 - Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" 5411 5412L<Announced on 2004-02-05 by LE<0xe9>on Brocard|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/02/msg88312.html> 5413 5414Either the well was very deep, or she fell very slowly, for she had 5415plenty of time as she went down to look about her and to wonder what was 5416going to happen next. First, she tried to look down and make out what 5417she was coming to, but it was too dark to see anything; then she looked 5418at the sides of the well, and noticed that they were filled with 5419cupboards and book-shelves; here and there she saw maps and pictures 5420hung upon pegs. She took down a jar from one of the shelves as she 5421passed; it was labelled 'ORANGE MARMALADE', but to her great 5422disappointment it was empty: she did not like to drop the jar for fear 5423of killing somebody, so managed to put it into one of the cupboards as 5424she fell past it. 5425 5426=head2 v1.0_16 - Johan Vromans, extemporarily 5427 5428L<Announced on 2003-12-18 by Richard Clamp|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/12/msg86423.html> 5429 5430 't was 16 years ago today 5431 Larry taught us a new game 5432 of lazyness, impatience, and hubris 5433 Happy birthday, Perl! 5434 5435=head1 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 5436 5437This document was originally compiled based on a list of epigraphs 5438on L<Perl Monks|http://perlmonks.org> titled 5439L<Recent Perl Release Announcement|http://perlmonks.org/?node_id=372406> 5440by ysth. 5441 5442=cut 5443 5444# vim:tw=72: 5445