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 v5.41.7 - Martha Wells 21 22L<Announced on 2024-12-20 by Max Maischein|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2024/12/msg269316.html> 23 24 Indah glared at me, but it was more wry than angry. "Is that what you think? 25 Because you keep insisting it's a mysterious ultra-hacker." 26 Okay, that one stung. "I didn't use the words 'mysteriious' or 'ultra.'" 27 Aylen watched like it was one of those human games where they threw 28 balls at each other. 29 30=head2 v5.41.6 - Jon Postel 31 32L<Announced on 2024-11-20 by Thibault Duponchelle|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2024/11/msg269167.html> 33 34 Be conservative in what you do, and liberal in what you accept. 35 36=head2 v5.41.5 - Great P.I. of the Universe, Under A Killing Moon 37 38L<Announced on 2024-10-20 by Richard Leach|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2024/10/msg268977.html> 39 40 PI: So, they've found it again, have they? I thought we'd taken care of it. 41 A: The forces of evil are persistent, Sir. 42 PI: I'm getting too old for this.... 43 PI: Who have we got lined up to deal with this problem? 44 A: Murphy, sir. 45 PI: Oh no! Not Murphy! 46 47=head2 v5.41.4 - Theodor Seuss Geisel 48 49L<Announced on 2024-09-20 by Thibault Duponchelle|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2024/09/msg268800.html> 50 51 Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment 52 until it becomes a memory. 53 54=head2 v5.41.3 - Jasper Fforde, The Constant Rabbit 55 56L<Announced on 2024-08-29 by Philippe Bruhat (BooK)|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2024/08/msg268756.html> 57 58 Somebody once said that the library is actually the dominant life 59 form on the planet. Humans simply exist as the reproductive means to 60 achieve more libraries. 61 62=head2 v5.41.2 - John Dryden 63 64L<Announced on 2024-07-20 by Karen Etheridge (Ether)|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2024/07/msg268542.html> 65 66 Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow; He who would search for 67 pearls must dive down below. 68 69=head2 v5.41.1 - Charles F. Kettering 70 71L<Announced on 2024-07-02 by Philippe Bruhat (BooK)|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2024/07/msg268328.html> 72 73 We find that in research a certain amount of intelligent ignorance 74 is essential to progress; for, if you know too much, you won't try 75 the thing. 76 77=head2 v5.40.1-RC1 - E. H. Gombrich, trans. Caroline Mustill, "A Little History of the World" 78 79L<Announced on 2025-01-05 by Steve Hay|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2025/01/msg269400.html> 80 81Unlike Egypt, Mesopotamia was rarely ruled by just one king. Nor did 82any single empire survive long within firm frontiers. Many tribes and 83many kings held power at different times. The most important of these 84were the Sumerians, the Babylonians and the Assyrians. For a long time 85it was thought that the Egyptians were the first people to have 86everything that goes to make up what we call a culture: towns and 87tradesmen, noblemen and kings, temples and priests, administrators and 88artists, writing and technical skills. Yet we now know that, in some 89respects, the Sumerians were ahead of the Egyptians. 90 91=head2 v5.40.0 - Neil Gaiman, Coraline 92 93L<Announced on 2024-06-09 by Graham Knop|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2024/06/msg268252.html> 94 95 “What’s your name,” Coraline asked the cat. “Look, I’m Coraline. Okay?” 96 “Cats don’t have names,” it said. 97 “No?” said Coraline. 98 “No,” said the cat. “Now you people have names. That’s because you 99 don’t know who you are. We know who we are, so we don’t need names.” 100 101=head2 v5.39.10 - Fernando Pessoa 102 103L<Announced on 2024-04-28 by Paul Evans|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2024/04/msg268159.html> 104 105 The value of things is not the time they last, but the intensity 106 with which they occur. That is why there are unforgettable moments 107 and unique people! 108 109=head2 v5.39.9 - Terry Pratchett, Sourcery 110 111L<Announced on 2024-03-20 by Paul Evans|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2024/03/msg268073.html> 112 113 "I meant," said Ipslore bitterly, "what is there in this world that 114 truly makes living worthwhile?" 115 Death thought about it. 116 CATS, he said eventually. CATS ARE NICE. 117 118=head2 v5.39.8 - Friedrich Schiller, "Ode to joy" 119 120L<Announced on 2024-02-23 by Renee Bäcker|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2024/02/msg267978.html> 121 122 Be embraced, all ye millions! 123 With a kiss for all the world! 124 Brothers, beyond the stars 125 Surely dwells a loving Father. 126 Do you kneel before Him, oh millions? 127 Do you feel the Creator's presence? 128 Seek Him beyond the stars! 129 He must dwell beyond the stars 130 131=head2 v5.39.7 - PJ Caldas 132 133L<Announced on 2024-01-20 by Max Maischein|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2024/01/msg267736.html> 134 135 On the screen the image of a frail-looking bigwig from Yale. 136 Between a mahogany desk and a wall filled with thick 137 books of all colors, he warns uus that the underpinnings 138 of the entire planet rely on the internet. 139 Food and water supply, electricity grid, defense systems... 140 "If the failure continues fo a few days, we go back to the 141 nineteen nineties. A couple extra weeks, and we are back to 142 the nineteenth century." 143 144=head2 v5.39.6 - Jasper Fforde 145 146L<Announced on 2023-12-30 by Philippe Bruhat (BooK)|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2023/12/msg267566.html> 147 148"Do I have to talk to insane people?" 149 150"You're a librarian now. I'm afraid it's mandatory." 151 152=head2 v5.39.5 - Epictetus 153 154L<Announced on 2023-11-20 by Karen Etheridge|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2023/11/msg267331.html> 155 156It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows. 157 158=head2 v5.39.4 - None 159 160L<Announced on 2023-10-25 by Graham Knop|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2023/10/msg267222.html> 161 162This release does not have an epigraph. 163 164=head2 v5.39.3 - Porter Robinson and Madeon, "Shelter" 165 166L<Announced on 2023-09-20 by Matthew Horsfall|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2023/09/msg267064.html> 167 168 I could never find the right way to tell you 169 Have you noticed I've been gone? 170 'Cause I left behind the home that you made me 171 But I will carry it along 172 173 And it's a long way forward, so trust in me 174 I'll give them shelter, like you've done for me 175 And I know, I'm not alone, you'll be watching over us 176 Until you're gone 177 178 When I'm older, I'll be silent beside you 179 I know words won't be enough 180 And they won't need to know the names or our faces 181 But they will carry on for us 182 183 And it's a long way forward, so trust in me 184 I'll give them shelter, like you've done for me 185 And I know, I'm not alone, you'll be watching over us 186 Until you're gone 187 188 Oh it's a long way forward, trust in me 189 I'll give them shelter, like you've done for me 190 And I know, I'm not alone, you'll be watching over us 191 Until 192 193=head2 v5.39.2 - U2, "The Fly" 194 195L<Announced on 2023-08-20 by Paul Evans|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2023/08/msg266915.html> 196 197 It's no secret that a conscience can sometimes be a pest 198 It's no secret ambition bites the nails of success 199 Every artist is a cannibal, every poet is a thief 200 All kill their inspiration and sing about the grief 201 202=head2 v5.39.1 - Ben Aaronovitch, "Whispers Under Ground" 203 204L<Announced on 2023-07-20 by Steve Hay|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2023/07/msg266737.html> 205 206The British have always been madly over-ambitious and from one angle it 207can seem like bravery, but from another it looks suspiciously like a 208lack of foresight. The London Underground was no exception and was 209built by a breed of entrepreneurs whose grasp was matched only by the 210size of their sideburns. While their equally gloriously bewhiskered 211counterparts across the Atlantic were busy blowing each other to pieces 212in a Civil War, they embarked on the construction of the Metropolitan 213Line knowing only one thing for certain - there was no way they were 214going to be able to run steam trains through it. 215 216=head2 v5.38.3-RC1 - E. H. Gombrich, trans. Caroline Mustill, "A Little History of the World" 217 218L<Announced on 2025-01-05 by Steve Hay|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2025/01/msg269399.html> 219 220Because the Egyptians were so wise and so powerful their empire lasted 221for a very long time. Longer than any empire the world has ever known: 222nearly three thousand years. And they took just as much care as they 223did with their corpses, when they preserved them from rotting away, in 224preserving all their ancient traditions over the centuries. Their 225priests made quite sure that no son did anything his father had not 226done before him. To them, everything old was sacred. 227 228=head2 v5.38.2 - Kim Stanley Robinson 229 230(Same epigraph as for v5.34.3 and v5.36.3, as it was a joint release.) 231 232L<Announced on 2023-11-29 by Paul Evans|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2023/11/msg267400.html> 233 234You can never properly predict the future as it really turns out. So 235you are doing something a little different when you write science 236fiction. You are trying to take a different perspective on now. 237 238=head2 v5.38.1 - Kim Stanley Robinson, Blue Mars 239 240L<Announced on 2023-11-25 by Paul Evans|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2023/11/msg267354.html> 241 242Michel had a curious expression on his face. “You’re a very accurate 243person, Sax.” “It’s just statistics,” Sax said defensively. “Every once 244in a while language allows you to say things precisely.” 245 246=head2 v5.38.0 - Miguel de Cervantes, "Don Quixote" 247 248L<Announced on 2023-07-02 by Ricardo Signes|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2023/07/msg266602.html> 249 250Take my advice and live for a long, long time. Because the maddest thing 251a man can do in this life is to let himself die. 252 253=head2 v5.38.0-RC2 - They Might Be Giants, "O Do Not Forsake Me" 254 255L<Announced on 2023-06-23 by Ricardo Signes|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2023/06/msg266559.html> 256 257 Oh, do not forsake me, my indolent friends 258 Oh, do not forsake me though you know I must spend 259 All my darkest hours talking like this 260 For I am one thousand years old 261 262=head2 v5.38.0-RC1 - Kurt Vonnegut, "Good Bless You, Mr. Rosewater" 263 264L<Announced on 2023-06-15 by Ricardo Signes|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2023/06/msg266521.html> 265 266Welcome to Earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's 267round and wet and crowded. On the outside, babies, you've got a hundred 268years here. There's only one rule that I know of, babies—"God damn it, 269you've got to be kind." 270 271=head2 v5.37.11 - Ben Aaronovitch, "Moon Over Soho" 272 273L<Announced on 2023-04-20 by Steve Hay|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2023/04/msg266242.html> 274 275My dad always said that a trumpet player likes to aim his weapon at the 276audience, but a sax man likes to cut a good profile and that they always 277have a favourite side. It being an article of faith with my dad that 278you don't even pick up a reed instrument unless you're vain about the 279shape your face makes when you're blowing down it. 280 281=head2 v5.37.10 - Lewis Carroll "The Walrus and the Carpenter" 282 283L<Announced on 2023-03-21 by Yves Orton|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2023/03/msg266078.html> 284 285 The time has come,' the Walrus said, 286 To talk of many things: 287 Of shoes - and ships - and sealing-wax - 288 Of cabbages - and kings - 289 And why the sea is boiling hot - 290 And whether pigs have wings.' 291 292=head2 v5.37.9 - Virginia Woolf 293 294L<Announced on 2023-02-20 by Karen Etheridge|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2023/02/msg265769.html> 295 296Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by 297heart and his friends can only read the title. 298 299=head2 v5.37.8 - Helmut Schmidt 300 301L<Announced on 2023-01-20 by Renee Baecker|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2023/01/msg265547.html> 302 303Honesty doesn't require saying everything you think. Honesty only 304requires that you don't say anything that you don't think. 305 306=head2 v5.37.7 - Terry Pratchett, "Hogfather" 307 308L<Announced on 2022-12-20 by Richard Leach|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2022/12/msg265263.html> 309 310TO THE HOGFATHER, ALL PORK PIES ARE AS ONE PORK PIE. 311EXCEPT THE ONE LIKE A TURNIP. 312 313=head2 v5.37.6 - N. K. Jemisin - The City We Became 314 315L<Announced on 2022-11-20 by Max Maischein|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2022/11/msg265080.html> 316 317Queens sighs with the air of someone who is used to not being 318understood. She takes out her phone and starts texting someone, 319her bottom lip poked out a little. 320 321Brooklyn's expression turns grim. To Broca she says, "You said 322becoming a city punches through other universes." 323So she's not stupid. Bronca inclined her head to the woman, in 324respect if not in approval. "Yes". 325 326"Okay, so." Brooklyn visibly braces herself. "So what 327happens to those universes that our city punches through?" 328 329 The City We Became - N.K. Jemisin 330 331=head2 v5.37.5 - Nori - The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power 332 333L<Announced on 2022-10-20 by Todd Rinaldo|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2022/10/msg264959.html> 334 335If we didn't do everything we weren't supposed to, we'd hardly do 336anything at all. 337 338=head2 v5.37.4 - C. F. Kettering 339 340L<Announced on 2022-09-20 by Karen Etheridge|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2022/09/msg264815.html> 341 342A problem well stated is a problem half solved. 343 344=head2 v5.37.3 - John Steinbeck, "East of Eden" 345 346L<Announced on 2022-08-20 by Neil B|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2022/08/msg264651.html> 347 348And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good. 349 350=head2 v5.37.2 - James Clear, "Atomic Habits" 351 352L<Announced on 2022-07-20 by Nicolas R.|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2022/07/msg264438.html> 353 354If you can get one percent better each day for one year, 355you'll end up thiry-seven times better by the time you are done 356 357=head2 v5.37.1 - Squirt, "Finding Nemo" 358 359L<Announced on 2022-06-20 by Matthew Horsfall|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2022/06/msg264107.html> 360 361Good afternoon! We're gonna have a great jump today! 362Okay, crank a hard cutback as you hit the wall. 363There's a screaming bottom curve, so watch out. 364Remember: Rip it! Roll it! And punch it! 365 366=head2 v5.37.0 - John Cage, "Lecture on Nothing" 367 368L<Announced on 2022-05-27 by Ricardo Signes|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2022/05/msg263786.html> 369 370I have nothing to say, and I am saying it. 371 372=head2 v5.36.2 - Kim Stanley Robinson, Green Mars 373 374L<Announced on 2023-11-25 by Paul Evans|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2023/11/msg267353.html> 375 376Any physical action, properly studied and practiced, could no doubt be 377accomplished with a reasonable amount of skill, if not flair. 378 379=head2 v5.36.1 - Louis Kentner, "Piano" 380 381L<Announced on 2023-04-23 by Steve Hay|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2023/04/msg266251.html> 382 383Pianists can be divided into the following three categories: those who 384practice a lot and admit it; those who practice a lot but deny it; and 385those who do not practice and, therefore, are no pianists. 386 387=head2 v5.36.1-RC3 - Karl Leimer & Walter Gieseking, trans. Frederick C. Rauser, "Rhythmics, Dynamics, Pedal and Other Problems of Piano Playing" 388 389L<Announced on 2023-04-16 by Steve Hay|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2023/04/msg266232.html> 390 391Generally, no clear opinions exist as to the usefulness of mental work 392in order to acquire a good technique. We do not seem to know exactly 393what it means or how to develop technique through "brain work." 394Technique, when playing an instrument, means controlling the fingers. 395Generally, it is used only in a limited sense regarding fluency, rapid 396execution of difficult passages and steady aim. 397In order to acquire a perfect technique through brain work, an exact 398impression of the note picture upon the mind is the first problem which 399we must solve. Thereafter we should busy ourselves with the study in 400question, as to fingering, touch, note value, etc., to achieve 401perfection along these lines in the broadest sense. This occurs 402quickest and completely through intensive concentration of all 403intellectual powers and is, therefore, strenuous brain work. 404 405=head2 v5.36.1-RC2 - Karl Leimer & Walter Gieseking, "The Shortest Way to Pianistic Perfection" 406 407L<Announced on 2023-04-11 by Steve Hay|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2023/04/msg266203.html> 408 409In order to attain a natural manner of playing the piano, that is to 410say, with the least possible strain and exertion, it is of the utmost 411importance to learn to exert the muscles consciously, and, what is of 412still greater importance, to relax them consciously. My manner of 413accomplishing this differs from that of many other pedagogues. I 414contrive to raise a feeling of relaxation from within, as it were. This 415is generally attempted by the aid of visible movements. All superfluous 416movements are injurious. The aim should be the very least possible 417strain of the muscles when playing the piano. 418 419=head2 v5.36.1-RC1 - Josef Lhevinne, "Basic Principles in Pianoforte Playing" 420 421L<Announced on 2023-04-10 by Steve Hay|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2023/04/msg266184.html> 422 423Avoid worry and distractions of any kind when you are practicing. Your 424mind must be every minute on what you are doing, or the value of your 425practice is lessened enormously. By intense concentration, love of your 426work and the spirit in which you approach it, you can do more in a half 427hour than in an hour spent purposelessly. Do not think you have been 428practicing, if you have played a single note with your mind on anything 429else. 430 431=head2 v5.36.0 - Alexandre Dumas, "The Three Musketeers" 432 433L<Announced on 2022-05-27 by Ricardo Signes|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2022/05/msg263783.html> 434 435“What!" cried he, in an accent of greater astonishment than before "your second 436witness is Monsieur Aramis?" 437 438"Doubtless! Are you not aware that we are never seen one without the others, 439and that we are called among the Musketeers and the Guards, at the court and in 440the city, Athos, Porthos, and Aramis, or the Three Inseparables?” 441 442=head2 v5.36.0-RC3 - The Three Amigos 443 444L<Announced on 2022-05-22 by Ricardo Signes|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2022/05/msg263750.html> 445 446 Lucky Day: I'll come back one day 447 Carmen: Why? 448 — The Three Amigos 449 450=head2 v5.36.0-RC1 - The Three Amigos 451 452L<Announced on 2022-05-20 by Ricardo Signes|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2022/05/msg263728.html> 453 454 Jefe: I have put many beautiful piñatas in the storeroom, each of them filled 455 with little surprises. 456 El Guapo: Many piñatas? 457 Jefe: Oh yes, many! 458 El Guapo: Would you say I have a plethora of piñatas? 459 Jefe: A what? 460 El Guapo: A plethora. 461 Jefe: Oh yes, you have a plethora. 462 463 — The Three Amigos 464 465=head2 v5.35.11 - Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre, "Fantômas" 466 467L<Announced on 2022-04-20 by Steve Hay|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2022/04/msg263644.html> 468 469"Fantômas." 470 "What did you say?" 471 "I said: Fantômas." 472 "And what does that mean?" 473 "Nothing. . . . Everything!" 474 "But what is it?" 475 "Nobody. . . . And yet, yes, it is somebody!" 476 "And what does the somebody do?" 477 "Spreads terror!" 478 479=head2 v5.35.10 - John Connolly, The Killing Kind 480 481L<Announced on 2022-03-20 by Sawyer X|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2022/03/msg263388.html> 482 483Tante Marie knew the nature of this world. She roamed through it, saw it 484for what it was, and understood her place in it, her responsibility to 485those who dwelt within it and beyond. Now, slowly, I too have begun to 486understand, to recognize a duty to the rest, to those whom I have never 487known as much as to those whom I have loved. The nature of humanity, its 488essence, is to feel another's pain as one's own, and to act to take that 489pain away. There is a nobility in compassion, a beauty in empathy, 490a grace in forgiveness. 491 492=head2 v5.35.9 - Sten Nadolny, The discovery of slowness 493 494L<Announced on 2022-02-20 by Renee Baecker|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2022/02/msg262928.html> 495 496"John's eyes and ears," Dr. Orme wrote to the captain, 497"retain every impression for a peculiarly long time. His apparent 498slowness of mind and his inertia are nothing but the result of 499exaggerated care taken by his brain in contemplating every kind 500of detail. His enormous patience..." He crossed out the last phrase. 501 502=head2 v5.35.8 - Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quijote 503 504L<Announced on 2022-01-20 by Nicolas R|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2022/01/msg262478.html> 505 506Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, 507his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind. 508 509=head2 v5.35.7 - Charles Dickens, Bleak House 510 511L<Announced on 2021-12-20 by Neil Bowers|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2021/12/msg262290.html> 512 513There were two classes of charitable people: 514one, the people who did a little and made a great deal of noise; 515the other, the people who did a great deal and made no noise at all. 516 517=head2 v5.35.6 - Hannu Rajaniemi, The Quantum Thief 518 519L<Announced on 2021-11-22 by Richard Leach|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2021/11/msg261958.html> 520 521"I have to say you were very clever. The chocolate tasted subtly wrong. 522He is in the dress, isn't he? His mind. You used the fabber to put it 523there. They had just finished the original: you melted it and made a 524copy." 525 526=head2 v5.35.5 - Frank Herbert, Heretics of Dune 527 528L<Announced on 2021-10-21 by Leon Timmermans|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2021/10/msg261779.html> 529 530Again, she sent the light beam along the mounded melange. Her attention was 531drawn to a strip of the wall above the spice. More words! Still in Chakobsa, 532written with a cutter in a fine flowing script, there was another message: 533 "A REVERENT MOTHER WILL READ MY WORDS" 534Something cold settled in Odrade's guts. She moved to her right with the light, 535plowing through an empire's ransom in melange. There was more to the message. 536 "I BEQUEATH TO YOU MY FEAR AND LONELINESS. TO YOU I GIVE THE CERTAINTY THAT 537THE BODY AND SOUL OF THE BENE GESSERIT WILL MEET THE SAME FATE AS ALL OTHER 538BODIES AND ALL OTHER SOULS". 539Another paragraph of the message beckoned to the right of this one. She plowed 540through the cloying melange and stopped to read. 541 "WHAT IS SURVIVAL IF YOU DO NOT SURVIVE AS A WHOLE? ASK THE BENE TLEILAX THAT! 542WHAT IF YOU NO LONGER HEAR THE MUSIC OF LIFE? MEMORIES ARE NOT ENOUGH UNLESS 543THEY CALL YOU TO NOBLE PURPOSE!" 544 545=head2 v5.35.4 - Tom Scharpling, "Comet", from Steven Universe 546 547L<Announced on 2021-09-20 by Matthew Horsfall|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2021/09/msg261577.html> 548 549 Some say I have no direction 550 That I'm a light-speed distraction 551 That's a knee-jerk reaction 552 553 Still, this is the final frontier 554 Everything is so clear 555 To my destiny I steer 556 557 This life in the stars is all I've ever known 558 Stars and stardust in infinite space is my only home 559 560 But the moment that I hit the stage 561 Thousands of voices are calling my name 562 And I know in my heart it's been worth it all of the while 563 564 And as my albums fly off of the shelves 565 Handing out autographed pics of myself 566 This life I chose isn't easy but sure is one heck of a ride 567 568 At the moment that I hit the stage 569 I hear the universe calling my name 570 And I know deep down in my heart I have nothing to fear 571 572 And as the solar wind blows through my hair, 573 Knowing I have so much more left to share 574 A wandering spirit who's tearing its way through the cold atmosphere 575 576 I'll fly like a comet 577 Soar like a comet 578 Crash like a comet 579 I'm just a comet 580 581=head2 v5.35.3 - Logan Pearsall Smith 582 583L<Announced on 2021-08-20 by Karen Etheridge|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2021/08/msg261393.html> 584 585The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves. 586 587=head2 v5.35.2 - Freeman Dyson 588 589L<Announced on 2021-07-23 by Neil Bowers|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2021/07/msg260926.html> 590 591There is a great satisfaction in building good tools for other people to use. 592 593=head2 v5.35.1 - Sam Schube 594 595L<Announced on 2021-06-20 by Max Maischein|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2021/06/msg260592.html> 596 597His first marriage ended. A new relationship with an old friend 598straightened him out. “I realized that I can't live like I was and be 599with Naomi,” he said. “I wanted to become a better man for her. At 600first. Then it was for myself too.” He started seeing a therapist. There 601were limits: He told her he wasn't interested in exploring the part of 602him that wanted to do stunts. “I know that needs looking at,” he said. 603“But I didn't want to break the machine.” 604 605It wasn't just about jeopardizing his livelihood, he explained. Doing 606stunts “was exciting. It's something that I did with my friends. And I 607was decent at it.” It wasn't so much about the stunts themselves, which 608were terrifying, as about how completing them made him feel. He loved, 609he said, “the exhilaration and relief, once you get on the other side of 610the stunt. Or when you come to. You wake up, you're like, ‘Oh, was that 611good?’ And they're like, ‘That was great.’ You got a good bit when 612there's seven people standing over you, snapping their fingers.” When we 613spoke, he still hadn't broached the topic in therapy. “I'll talk about 614it eventually,” he said. “It's not something I need to know this second.” 615 616=head2 v5.35.0 - Miguel de Unamuno 617 618L<Announced on 2021-05-20 by Ricardo Signes|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2021/05/msg260116.html> 619 620We should try to be the parents of our future rather than the offspring of our 621past. 622 623=head2 v5.34.2 - Kim Stanley Robinson, Red Mars 624 625L<Announced on 2023-11-25 by Paul Evans|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2023/11/msg267352.html> 626 627Each of us have a gift, you see, given us freely by the universe. And 628each of us with every breath gives something back 629 630=head2 v5.34.1 - Edward Lear, ed. Vivien Noakes, "The Complete Nonsense and Other Verse": Limericks published in "More Nonsense" 631 632L<Announced on 2022-03-13 by Steve Hay|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2022/03/msg263342.html> 633 634 There was a Young Lady whose nose, 635 Continually prospers and grows; 636 When it grew out of sight, she exclaimed in a fright, 637 'Oh! Farewell to the end of my nose!' 638 639=head2 v5.34.1-RC2 - Edward Lear, ed. Vivien Noakes, "The Complete Nonsense and Other Verse": Limericks for the 1846 and 1855 editions of "A Book of Nonsense" 640 641L<Announced on 2022-03-06 by Steve Hay|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2022/03/msg263261.html> 642 643 There was an Old Lady whose folly, 644 Induced her to sit in a holly; 645 Whereon by a thorn, her dress being torn, 646 She quickly became melancholy. 647 648=head2 v5.34.1-RC1 - Edward Lear, ed. Vivien Noakes, "The Complete Nonsense and Other Verse": Additional limericks for the 1861 edition of "A Book of Nonsense" 649 650L<Announced on 2022-02-27 by Steve Hay|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2022/02/msg263129.html> 651 652 There was an Old Person whose habits, 653 Induced him to feed upon Rabbits; 654 When he'd eaten eighteen, he turned perfectly green, 655 Upon which he relinquished those habits. 656 657=head2 v5.34.0 - Aberjhani 658 659L<Announced on 2021-05-20 by Sawyer X|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2021/05/msg260110.html> 660 661Our greatest power as nations and individuals is not the ability to employ assault weapons, suicide bombers, and drones to destroy each other. 662The greater more creative powers with which we may arm ourselves are grace and compassion sufficient enough to love and save each other. 663 664=head2 v5.34.0-RC2 - Nelson Mandela, The Long Walk to Freedom 665 666L<Announced on 2021-05-15 by Sawyer X|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2021/05/msg260066.html> 667 668No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite. 669 670=head2 v5.34.0-RC1 - Paul Tremblay, The Cabin at the End of the World 671 672L<Announced on 2021-05-04 by Sawyer X|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2021/05/msg260029.html> 673 674He’d irrationally hoped he could somehow put off indefinitely the future day on which she would recognize cruelty, ignorance, and injustice were the struts and pillars of the social order, as unavoidable and inevitable as the weather. 675 676=head2 v5.33.9 - Abraham Lincoln 677 678L<Announced on 2021-04-20 by toddr|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2021/04/msg259954.html> 679 680Seven minutes ago... we, your forefathers, were brought forth upon a most excellent adventure conceived by our new friends, Bill... and Ted. These two great gentlemen are dedicated to a proposition which was true in my time, just as it's true today. Be excellent to each other! 681 682=head2 v5.33.8 - David Bowie, "Heroes" 683 684L<Announced on 2021-03-20 by atoomic|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2021/03/msg259358.html> 685 686Tomorrow belongs to those who can hear it coming. 687 688=head2 v5.33.7 - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther 689 690L<Announced on 2021-02-20 by Renée Bäcker|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2021/02/msg259169.html> 691 692The human race is a monotonous affair. Most people spend the greatest part of 693their time working in order to live, and what little freedom remains so fills 694them with fear that they seek out any and every means to be rid of it. 695 696=head2 v5.33.6 - Edward R. Murrow 697 698L<Announced on 2021-01-20 by Richard Leach|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2021/01/msg258843.html> 699 700This instrument can teach, it can illuminate; yes, and it can even 701inspire. But it can do so only to the extent that humans are determined 702to use it to those ends. Otherwise it is merely wires and lights in a box. 703 704=head2 v5.33.5 - Max Weber, (from "Understanding Administration", by Wolfgang Seibel) 705 706L<Announced on 2020-12-20 by Max Maischein|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2020/12/msg258683.html> 707 708Authority is primarily: Administration 709 -- Max Weber 710 711=head2 v5.33.4 - George Eliot, "Adam Bede" 712 713L<Announced on 2020-11-20 by Tom Hukins|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2020/11/msg258597.html> 714 715It was more than two o'clock in the afternoon when Adam came in sight of 716the grey town on the hill-side and looked searchingly towards the green 717valley below, for the first glimpse of the old thatched roof near the 718ugly red mill. 719 720=head2 v5.33.3 - Ludwig van Beethoven, "Heiligenstadt Testament"; translated and quoted in: Maynard Solomon, "Beethoven" 721 722L<Announced on 2020-10-20 by Steve Hay|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2020/10/msg258502.html> 723 724Oh you men who think or say that I am malevolent, stubborn, or 725misanthropic, how greatly do you wrong me. You do not know the secret 726cause which makes me seem that way to you. From childhood on, my 727heart and soul have been full of the tender feeling of goodwill, and I 728was ever inclined to accomplish great things. But, think that for six 729years now I have been hopelessly afflicted, made worse by senseless 730physicians, from year to year deceived with hopes of improvement, 731finally compelled to face the prospect of a lasting malady (whose cure 732will take years or, perhaps, be impossible). Though born with a 733fiery, active temperament, even susceptible to the diversions of 734society, I was soon compelled to withdraw myself, to live life alone. 735[...] I endured this wretched existence--truly wretched for so 736susceptible a body, which can be thrown by a sudden change from the 737best condition to the very worst.--Patience, they say, is what I must 738now choose for my guide, and I have done so--I hope my determination 739will remain firm to endure until it pleases the inexorable Parcae to 740break the thread. [...] Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, 741not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience; this was 742what upheld me in time of misery. [...] Do not wholly forget me when I 743am dead; I deserve this from you, for during my lifetime I was 744thinking of you often and of ways to make you happy--please be so-- 745 746=head2 v5.33.2 - Elizabeth Warren 747 748L<Announced on 2020-09-20 by Sawyer X|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2020/09/msg258369.html> 749 750 What I've learned is that real change is very, very hard. But I've 751 also learned that change is possible - if you fight for it. 752 753=head2 v5.33.1 - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956 (1973) 754 755L<Announced on 2020-08-20 by Karen Etheridge|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2020/08/msg258282.html> 756 757 If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, 758 and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy 759 them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every 760 human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart? 761 762=head2 v5.33.0 - Confucius, "Confucius: The Analects" 763 764L<Announed on 2020-07-17 by Sawyer X|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2020/07/msg258033.html> 765 766 The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones. 767 768=head2 v5.32.1 - Mikhail Bulgakov, trans. Michael Glenny, "The Master and Margarita" 769 770L<Announced on 2021-01-23 by Steve Hay|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2021/01/msg258868.html> 771 772As the warning bells rang, inquisitive people were peeping into the star 773dressing room. Among them were jugglers in bright robes and turbans, a 774roller-skater in a knitted cardigan, a comedian with a powdered white 775face and a make-up man. The celebrated guest artiste amazed everyone 776with his unusually long, superbly cut tail coat and by wearing a black 777domino. Even more astounding were the black magician's two companions: 778a tall man in checks with an unsteady pince-nez and a fat black cat 779which walked into the dressing room on its hind legs and casually sat 780down on the divan, blinking in the light of the unshaded lamps round the 781make-up mirror. 782 783=head2 v5.32.1-RC1 - Mikhail Bulgakov, trans. Michael Glenny, "The Heart of a Dog" 784 785L<Announced on 2021-01-09 by Steve Hay|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2021/01/msg258762.html> 786 787Why bother to learn to read when you can smell meat a mile away? If you 788live in Moscow, though, and if you've got an ounce of brain in your head 789you can't help learning to read - and without going to night-school 790either. There are forty-thousand dogs in Moscow and I'll bet there's 791not one of them so stupid he can't spell out the word 'sausage'. 792 793=head2 v5.32.0 - Bob Dylan, "The Times They Are A Changing" 794 795L<Announced on 2020-06-20 by Sawyer X|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2020/06/msg257547.html> 796 797 Come gather 'round, people 798 Wherever you roam 799 And admit that the waters 800 Around you have grown 801 And accept it that soon 802 You'll be drenched to the bone 803 If your time to you is worth savin' 804 And you better start swimmin' 805 Or you'll sink like a stone 806 For the times they are a-changin' 807 808=head2 v5.32.0-RC1 - Coretta Scott King 809 810L<Announced on 2020-06-08 by Sawyer X|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2020/06/msg257521.html> 811 812 Struggle is a never ending process. Freedom is never really won, 813 you earn it and win it in every generation. 814 815=head2 v5.32.0-RC0 - Franz Kafka 816 817L<Announced on 2020-05-30 by Sawyer X|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2020/05/msg257486.html> 818 819 There are some things one can only achieve by a deliberate leap 820 in the opposite direction. 821 822=head2 v5.31.11 - John F. Kennedy, National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy 823 824L<Announced on 2020-04-28 by Sawyer X|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2020/04/msg257385.html> 825 826 Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind. 827 828=head2 v5.31.10 - Christina Rossetti, "Remember" 829 830L<Announced on 2020-03-20 by Sawyer X|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2020/03/msg257274.html> 831 832 Remember me when I am gone away, 833 Gone far away into the silent land; 834 When you can no more hold me by the hand, 835 Nor I half turn to go yet turning stay. 836 Remember me when no more day by day 837 You tell me of our future that you plann'd: 838 Only remember me; you understand 839 It will be late to counsel then or pray. 840 Yet if you should forget me for a while 841 And afterwards remember, do not grieve: 842 For if the darkness and corruption leave 843 A vestige of the thoughts that once I had, 844 Better by far you should forget and smile 845 Than that you should remember and be sad. 846 847=head2 v5.31.9 - Sten Nadolny, book The Discovery of Slowness 848 849L<Announced on 2020-02-20 by Renee Bäcker|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2020/02/msg257144.html> 850 851 „When people talk too fast the content becomes as superfluous as the speed.“ 852 853=head2 v5.31.8 - Joe Perham, "Joe Perham's Guide to Hunting and Guide to Fishing in Maine" 854 855L<Announced on 2020-01-20 by Matthew Horsfall|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2020/01/msg256894.html> 856 857 Harry used to cut wood for the Brown company over in Stoneham Red 858 Rock Basin. And of course he was the best shot in camp. One day the 859 foreman told him to go get some meat. 860 861 "Take any gun you want." 862 863 Harry says "I'll take the .45-70." 864 865 Foreman said "That gun's only got one bullet." 866 867 Harry says "I only need one bullet." 868 869 Took the .45-70, went out, an hour later he was back with two Moose, 870 a dozen trout you see, and a fluffy partridge. Went back to work. 871 872 Well at supper that night foreman says "Harry, um, something's 873 bothering me here a little bit. How did you get all that food with 874 only one bullet. I'm a little confused about the... the partridge, 875 there ain't a mark on him." 876 877 "Well", Harry says, "I'll tell ya. I took that .45-70, went back into 878 the woods a piece there I come to this brook. And I just uh, got to 879 the other side when I happen to see two moose in the swamp off 880 there. I figured I could get both of 'em. So I took out my huntin' 881 knife and stuck it into the mud, hilt foremost, sharp edge on the 882 blade towards me of course. I took dead aim on that knife, fired, 883 split that bullet and killed those two moose. Well you know the 884 recoil knocked me back into the brook. When I come up out of the 885 water, my pants were so full of fish that it popped a button off my 886 fly and killed that bird." 887 888=head2 v5.31.7 - Bernard Werber 889 890L<Announced on 2019-12-20 by Atoomic|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/12/msg256802.html> 891 892 Be quiet. Look at the stars and appreciate what you live. 893 894=head2 v5.31.6 - Neal Stephenson, "Quicksilver" 895 896L<Announced on 2019-11-20 by Chris 'BinGOs' Williams|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/11/msg256646.html> 897 898 Invocation 899 900 State your intentions, Muse. I know you're there. 901 Dead bards who pined for you have said 902 You're bright as flame, but fickle as the air. 903 My pen and I, submerged in liquid shade, 904 Much dark can spread, on days and over reams 905 But without you, no radiance can shed. 906 Why rustle in the dark, when fledged with fire? 907 Craze the night with flails of light. Reave 908 Your turbid shroud. Bestow what I require. 909 910 But you're not in the dark. I do believe 911 I swim, like squid, in clouds of my own make, 912 To you, offensive. To us both, opaque. 913 What's constituted so, only a pen 914 Can penetrate. I have one here; let's go. 915 916=head2 v5.31.5 - Edward Lear, ed. Vivien Noakes, "The Complete Nonsense and Other Verse": The Daddy Long-legs and the Fly 917 918L<Announced on 2019-10-20 by Steve Hay|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/10/msg256478.html> 919 920 'O Mr Daddy Long-legs,' 921 Said Mr Floppy Fly, 922 'It's true I never go to court, 923 And I will tell you why. 924 If I had six long legs like yours, 925 At once I'd go to court! 926 But oh! I can't, because my legs 927 Are so extremely short. 928 And I'm afraid the King and Queen 929 (One in red, and one in green) 930 Would say aloud, "You are not fit, 931 You Fly, to come to court a bit!"' 932 933=head2 v5.31.4 - Ann Leckie, "The Raven Tower" 934 935L<Announced on 2019-09-20 by Max Maischein|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/09/msg256254.html> 936 937 Stories can be risky for someone like me. What I say must be true, or it 938will be made true, and if it cannot be made true - if I don't have the 939power, or if what I have said is an impossibility - then I will pay the 940price. I might more or less safely say, "Once there was a man who rode 941home to attend his father's funeral and claim his inheritance, but 942matters were not as he expected them to be." I do not doubt that such a 943thing has happened more than once in all the time there have been 944fathers to die and sons to succeed them. But to go any further, I must 945supply more details - the specific actions of specific people, and their 946specific consequences - and there I might blunder, all unknowing, into 947untruth. It's safer for me to speak of what I know. Or to speak only in 948the safest of generalities. Or else to say plainly at the beginning, 949"Here is a story I have heard," placing the burden of truth or not on 950the teller whose words I am merely accurately reporting. 951 952 But what is the story that I am telling? Here is another story I have 953heard: 954Once there were two brothers, and one of them wanted what the other had. 955Bent all his will to obtain what the other had, no matter the cost. 956 Here is another story: Once there was a prisoner in a tower. 957 And another: 958Once someone risked their life out of duty and loyalty to a friend. 959 Ah, there's a story that I might tell, and truthfully. 960 961=head2 v5.31.3 - Samantha Harvey, "All Is Song" 962 963L<Announced on 2019-08-20 by Tom Hukins|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/08/msg256012.html> 964 965We are born from unity, we divide into isolation. We winnow ourselves 966out from the thing that first made sense of us and then expect to find 967meaning, yet a fraction makes no sense without the number of which 968it's a fractional part. We see loss, feel grief, give ourselves 969illness, we're cells that have over-divided and we call the division 970growth; the only real growth is in the return to unity, God, the 971unifying principle. 972 973Tired to his core, he turned the video off. The rain still poured as 974he went upstairs, and in bed as he tripped down into the deep open 975shaft of sleep he kept thinking that to divide by zero was to end up 976with infinity, as was to divide by God. To divide by God, to divide 977by God, over and over he thought it without sense; to divide by God; I 978must tell my students that the way to pass their exams is to divide by 979God. Then he must have slept, for it was morning. 980 981=head2 v5.31.2 - Edward Lear, ed. Vivien Noakes, "The Complete Nonsense and Other Verse": The Duck and the Kangaroo 982 983L<Announced on 2019-07-20 by Steve Hay|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/07/msg255639.html> 984 985 Said the Duck to the Kangaroo, 986 'Good gracious! how you hop! 987 Over the fields and the water too, 988 As if you never would stop! 989 My life is a bore in this nasty pond, 990 And I long to go out in the world beyond! 991 I wish I could hop like you!' 992 Said the Duck to the Kangaroo. 993 994=head2 v5.31.1 - Kurt Vonnegut, _A Man without a Country_ 995 996L<Announced on 2019-06-20 by Karen Etheridge|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/06/msg255243.html> 997 998On Tuesday, January 20, 2004, I sent Joel Bleifuss, my editor at I<In These 999Times>, this fax: 1000 1001 ON ORANGE ALERT HERE. 1002 ECONOMIC TERRORIST ATTACK 1003 EXPECTED AT 8 PM EST. KV 1004 1005Worried, he called, asking what was up. I said I would tell him when I had 1006more complete information on the bombs George Bush was set to deliver in his 1007State of the Union address. 1008 1009That night I got a call from my friend, the out-of-print-science-fiction 1010writer Kilgore Trout. He asked me, "Did you watch the State of the Union 1011address?" 1012 1013"Yes, and it certainly helped to remember what the great British socialist 1014playwright George Bernard Shaw said about this planet." 1015 1016"Which was?" 1017 1018"He said, 'I don't know if there are men on the moon, but if there are, they 1019must be using the earth as their lunatic asylum.' And he wasn't talking 1020about the germs or the elephants. He meant we the people." 1021 1022"Okay." 1023 1024"You don't think this is the Lunatic Asylum of the Universe?" 1025 1026"Kurt, I don't think I expressed an opinion one way of the other." 1027 1028"We are killing this planet as a life-support system with the poisons from 1029all the thermodynamic whoopee we're making with atomic energy and fossil 1030fuels, and everybody knows it, and practically nobody cares. This is how 1031crazy we are. I think the planet's immune system is trying to get rid of us 1032with AIDS and new strains of flu and tuberculosis, and so on. I think the 1033planet should get rid of us. We're really awful animals. I mean, that dumb 1034Barbra Streisand song, 'People who need people are the luckiest people in 1035the world' -- she's talking about cannibals. Lots to eat. Yes, the planet is 1036trying to get rid of us, but I think it's too late." 1037 1038And I said good-bye to my friend, hung up the phone, sat down and wrote this 1039epitaph: "The good Earth -- we could have saved it, but we were too damn 1040cheap and lazy." 1041 1042=head2 v5.31.0 - Fumiko Enchi, Masks 1043 1044L<Announced on 2019-05-24 by Sawyer X|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/05/msg254886.html> 1045 1046 The secrets inside her mind are like flowers in a garden at 1047 nighttime, filling the darkness with perfume. 1048 1049=head2 v5.30.3 - Ben Aaronovitch, "Rivers of London" 1050 1051L<Announced on 2020-06-01 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2020/01/msg257498.html> 1052 1053Trewsbury Mead [...] According to the Ordnance Survey, this is where the 1054Thames first rises 130 straight-line kilometres west of London. Just to 1055the north is the site either of an Iron Age hill fort or a Roman 1056encampment, the exact nature of which is awaiting an episode of Time 1057Team. Apparently there is a soggy field, a stone to mark the spot and a 1058chance, after a particularly wet winter, that you might see some water. 1059 1060=head2 v5.30.2 - Francesco Maria Piave, trans. Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, "La traviata", Act II, Scene 2 1061 1062L<Announced on 2020-03-14 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2020/03/msg257227.html> 1063 1064 FLORA, GASTON, DOCTOR, MARQUIS, CHORUS 1065 (to Violetta) 1066 Yes, you have suffered, but take heart! 1067 Every one of us has shared your pain; 1068 friends are around you to dry the tears 1069 you have shed. 1070 1071 GERMONT 1072 (I alone know the true devotion 1073 this poor girl hides within her breast; 1074 I know her faithful heart, 1075 but I'm vowed so cruelly to silence.) 1076 1077 BARON 1078 (softly to Alfredo) 1079 Your deadly insult to this lady 1080 offends us all, but such an outrage 1081 shall not go unavenged! 1082 I shall find a way to humble your pride! 1083 1084 ALFREDO 1085 (Alas, what have I done? I feel terrible about it. 1086 She will never forgive me.) 1087 1088 VIOLETTA 1089 (coming to herself) 1090 Alfredo, how should you understand 1091 all the love that's in my heart? 1092 How should you know that I have proved it, 1093 even at the price of your contempt? 1094 1095 But the time will come when you will know, 1096 when you'll admit how much I loved you. 1097 God save you then from all remorse! 1098 Even after death I shall still love you. 1099 1100=head2 v5.30.2-RC1 - Francesco Maria Piave, trans. Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, "La traviata", Act II, Scene 2 1101 1102L<Announced on 2020-02-29 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2020/02/msg257163.html> 1103 1104 ALFREDO 1105 For me this woman lost 1106 all she possessed. 1107 I was blind, a wretched coward, 1108 I accepted it all. 1109 But it's time now for me to clear 1110 myself from debt. 1111 I call you all to witness here 1112 that I've paid her back! 1113 1114 (Contemptuously, he throws his winnings at Violetta's feet. 1115 She swoons in Flora's arms. Alfredo's father arrives suddenly.) 1116 1117 ALL 1118 What you have done 1119 is shameful! 1120 To strike down 1121 a tender heart that way! 1122 You have insulted 1123 a woman! 1124 Get out of here! 1125 We've no use for the likes of you! 1126 Go! 1127 1128 GERMONT 1129 (dignified in his anger) 1130 A man who offends a woman, even in anger, 1131 deserves nothing but scorn. 1132 Where is my son? I no longer see him 1133 in you, Alfredo. 1134 1135 ALFREDO 1136 (What have I done? Yes, I despise myself! 1137 Jealous madness, love deceived, 1138 ravaged my soul, destroyed my reason. 1139 How can I ever gain her pardon? 1140 I would have left her, but I couldn't; 1141 I came here to vent my anger, 1142 But now I've done that, wretch that I am, 1143 I feel nothing but deep remorse!) 1144 1145=head2 v5.30.1 - Francesco Maria Piave, trans. Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, "La traviata", Act I: Brindisi 1146 1147L<Announced on 2019-11-10 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/11/msg256610.html> 1148 1149 VIOLETTA: 1150 With you I would share 1151 my days of happiness; 1152 everything is folly in this world 1153 that does not give us pleasure. 1154 Let us enjoy life, 1155 for the pleasures of love are swift and fleeting 1156 as a flower that lives and dies 1157 and can be enjoyed no more. 1158 Let's take our pleasure while its ardent, 1159 brilliant summons lures us on! 1160 1161=head2 v5.30.1-RC1 - Francesco Maria Piave, trans. Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, "La traviata", Act I: Brindisi 1162 1163L<Announced on 2019-10-27 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/10/msg256542.html> 1164 1165 ALFREDO: 1166 Let's drink from the joyous chalice 1167 where beauty flowers... 1168 Let the fleeting hour 1169 to pleasure's intoxication yield. 1170 Let's drink 1171 to love's sweet tremors -- 1172 to those eyes 1173 that pierce the heart. 1174 Let's drink to love -- to wine 1175 that warms our kisses. 1176 1177=head2 v5.30.0 - Morihei Ueshiba 1178 1179L<Announced on 2019-05-22 by Sawyer X|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/05/msg254844.html> 1180 1181 Life is growth. If we stop growing, technically and spiritually, we 1182 are as good as dead. 1183 1184=head2 v5.30.0-RC2 - Derek Walcott 1185 1186L<Announced on 2019-05-17 by Sawyer X|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/05/msg254824.html> 1187 1188 The truest writers are those who see language not as linguistic process but 1189 as a living element. 1190 1191 -- Derek Walcott 1192 1193=head2 v5.30.0-RC1 - Marcel Proust 1194 1195L<Announced on 2019-05-11 by Sawyer X|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/05/msg254748.html> 1196 1197 If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream 1198 less but to dream more, to dream all the time. 1199 1200 -- Marcel Proust 1201 1202=head2 v5.29.10 - Maya Angelou, Alone 1203 1204L<Announced on 2019-04-20 by Sawyer X|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/04/msg254467.html> 1205 1206 Lying, thinking 1207 Last night 1208 How to find my soul a home 1209 Where water is not thirsty 1210 And bread loaf is not stone 1211 I came up with one thing 1212 And I don't believe I'm wrong 1213 That nobody, 1214 But nobody 1215 Can make it out here alone. 1216 1217 Alone, all alone 1218 Nobody, but nobody 1219 Can make it out here alone. 1220 1221 There are some millionaires 1222 With money they can't use 1223 Their wives run round like banshees 1224 Their children sing the blues 1225 They've got expensive doctors 1226 To cure their hearts of stone. 1227 But nobody 1228 No, nobody 1229 Can make it out here alone. 1230 1231 Alone, all alone 1232 Nobody, but nobody 1233 Can make it out here alone. 1234 1235 Now if you listen closely 1236 I'll tell you what I know 1237 Storm clouds are gathering 1238 The wind is gonna blow 1239 The race of man is suffering 1240 And I can hear the moan, 1241 'Cause nobody, 1242 But nobody 1243 Can make it out here alone. 1244 1245 Alone, all alone 1246 Nobody, but nobody 1247 Can make it out here alone. 1248 1249=head2 v5.29.9 - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Dancing Men 1250 1251L<Announced on 2019-03-21 by Zak Elep|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/03/msg253978.html> 1252 1253 What one man can invent, another can discover. 1254 1255=head2 v5.29.8 - Isaac Asimov, Foundation: “Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.” 1256 1257L<Announced on 2019-02-20 by Atoomic|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/02/msg253750.html> 1258 1259=head2 v5.29.7 - Edsger W. Dijkstra: "Programming Considered as a Human Activity", IFIP Congress, New York, 1965 1260 1261L<Announced on 2019-01-20 by Abigail|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/01/msg253444.html> 1262 1263When I became acquainted with the notion of algorithmic languages I 1264never challenged the then prevailing notion that the problems of 1265language design and implementation were mostly a question of 1266compromises: every new convenience for the user had to be paid for 1267by the implementation, either in the form of increased trouble 1268during translation, or during execution or during both. Well, we 1269are most certainly not living in Heaven and I am not going to deny 1270the possibility of a conflict between convenience and efficiency, 1271but now I do protest when this conflict is presented as a complete 1272summing up of the situation. I am of the opinion that is worth-while 1273to investigate what extent the needs of Man and Machine go hand in 1274hand and to see what techniques we can devise of the benefit of all 1275of us. I trust that this investigation will bear fruits and if this 1276talk made some of you share this fervent hope, it has achieved its aim. 1277 1278=head2 v5.29.6 - Rudyard Kipling: "How the Camel Got His Hump" 1279 1280L<Announced on 2018-12-18 by Abigail|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/12/msg253187.html> 1281 1282 The Camel's hump is an ugly lump 1283 Which well you may see at the Zoo; 1284 But uglier yet is the hump we get 1285 From having little to do. 1286 1287 Kiddies and grown-ups too-oo-oo 1288 If we haven't enough to do-oo-oo, 1289 We get the hump - 1290 Cameelious hump - 1291 The hump that is black and blue! 1292 1293 We climb out of bed with a frouzly head 1294 And a snarly-yarly voice. 1295 We shiver and scowl and we grunt and we growl 1296 At our bath and our boots and our toys; 1297 1298 And there ought to be a corner for me 1299 (And I know there is one for you) 1300 When we get the hump - 1301 Cameelious hump - 1302 The hump that is black and blue! 1303 1304 The cure for this ill is to not sit still, 1305 Or frowst with a book by the fire; 1306 But to take a large hoe and a shovel also, 1307 And dig till you gentle perspire; 1308 1309 And then you will find that the sun and the wind, 1310 And the Djinn of the Garden too, 1311 Have lifted the hump - 1312 The horrible hump - 1313 The hump that is black and blue! 1314 1315 I get it as well as you-oo-oo - 1316 If I haven't enough to do-oo-oo! 1317 We all get hump - 1318 Cameelious hump - 1319 Kiddies and grown-ups too! 1320 1321 1322=head2 v5.29.5 - T. S. Eliot, "The Naming Of Cats" 1323 1324L<Announced on 2018-11-20 by Karen Etheridge|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/11/msg252839.html> 1325 1326 The Naming of Cats is a difficult matter, 1327 It isn't just one of your holiday games; 1328 You may think at first I'm as mad as a hatter 1329 When I tell you, a cat must have THREE DIFFERENT NAMES. 1330 First of all, there's the name that the family use daily, 1331 Such as Peter, Augustus, Alonzo or James, 1332 Such as Victor or Jonathan, George or Bill Bailey-- 1333 All of them sensible everyday names. 1334 There are fancier names if you think they sound sweeter, 1335 Some for the gentlemen, some for the dames: 1336 Such as Plato, Admetus, Electra, Demeter-- 1337 But all of them sensible everyday names. 1338 But I tell you, a cat needs a name that's particular, 1339 A name that's peculiar, and more dignified, 1340 Else how can he keep up his tail perpendicular, 1341 Or spread out his whiskers, or cherish his pride? 1342 Of names of this kind, I can give you a quorum, 1343 Such as Munkustrap, Quaxo, or Coricopat, 1344 Such as Bombalurina, or else Jellylorum- 1345 Names that never belong to more than one cat. 1346 But above and beyond there's still one name left over, 1347 And that is the name that you never will guess; 1348 The name that no human research can discover-- 1349 But THE CAT HIMSELF KNOWS, and will never confess. 1350 When you notice a cat in profound meditation, 1351 The reason, I tell you, is always the same: 1352 His mind is engaged in a rapt contemplation 1353 Of the thought, of the thought, of the thought of his name: 1354 His ineffable effable 1355 Effanineffable 1356 Deep and inscrutable singular Name. 1357 1358=head2 v5.29.4 - The Mountain Goats, "Oceanographer's Choice" 1359 1360L<Announced on 2018-10-20 by Aaron Crane|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/10/msg252575.html> 1361 1362 Well 1363 Guy in a skeleton costume 1364 Comes up to the guy in the Superman suit 1365 Runs through him with a broadsword 1366 I flipped the television off 1367 Bring all the bright lights up 1368 Turn the radio up loud 1369 I don't know why I'm so persuaded 1370 That if I think things through 1371 Long enough and hard enough 1372 I'll somehow get to you 1373 But then you came in and we locked eyes 1374 You kicked the ashtray over as we came toward each other 1375 Stubbed my cigarette out against the west wall 1376 Quickly lit another 1377 Look at that 1378 Would you look at that? 1379 We're throwing off sparks 1380 What will I do when I don't have you 1381 To hold onto in the dark? 1382 1383=head2 v5.29.3 - Mac Miller, "Senior Skip Day" 1384 1385L<Announced on 2018-09-20 by John 'genehack' Anderson|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/09/msg252255.html> 1386 1387 Enjoy the best things in your life 1388 ’Cause you ain’t gonna get to live it twice 1389 They say you waste time asleep 1390 But I’m just tryin’ to dream 1391 1392=head2 v5.29.2 - Rick Riordan, "The Lightning Thief" 1393 1394L<Announced on 2018-08-20 by Chris 'BinGOs' Williams|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/08/msg251918.html> 1395 1396 Look, I didn't want to be a half-blood. 1397 1398 If you're reading this because you think you might be one, 1399 my advice is: close this book right now. Believe whatever 1400 lie your mom or dad told you about your birth, and try 1401 to lead a normal life. 1402 1403 Being a half-blood is dangerous. It's scary. Most of the time, 1404 it gets you killed in painful, nasty ways. 1405 1406 If you're a normal kid, reading this because you think it's 1407 fiction, great. Read on. I envy you for being able to believe 1408 that none of this ever happened. 1409 1410 But if you recognize yourself in these pages - if you feel 1411 something stirring inside - stop reading immediately. 1412 You might be one of us. And once you know that, it's only a 1413 matter of time before they sense it too, and they'll come for you. 1414 1415=head2 v5.29.1 - Richard Curtis & Ben Elton, "Blackadder, Series 3, Episode 2: Ink and Incapability" 1416 1417L<Announced on 2018-07-20 by Steve Hay|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/07/msg251605.html> 1418 1419 Dr. Samuel Johnson: Here it is, sir: the very cornerstone of English 1420 scholarship. This book, sir, contains every word in our beloved 1421 language. 1422 1423 Prince Regent George: Hmm. 1424 1425 Edmund Blackadder: Every single one, sir? 1426 1427 Johnson: (confidently) Every single word, sir! 1428 1429 Blackadder: (to Prince) Oh, well, in that case, sir, I hope you will 1430 not object if I also offer the Doctor my most enthusiastic 1431 contrafribularities. 1432 1433 Johnson: What? 1434 1435 Blackadder: 'Contrafribularities,' sir? It is a common word down our 1436 way. 1437 1438 Johnson: Damn! (writes in the book) 1439 1440 Blackadder: Oh, I'm sorry, sir. I'm anaspeptic, phrasmotic, even 1441 compunctious to have caused you such pericombobulation. 1442 1443 Johnson: What? What? WHAT? 1444 1445=head2 v5.29.0 - Erle Stanley Gardner, The Case of the Grinning Gorilla 1446 1447L<Announced on 2018-06-26 by Sawyer X|http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/251297> 1448 1449 Courage is the only antidote for danger. 1450 1451=head2 v5.28.3 - Ben Aaronovitch, "Rivers of London" 1452 1453L<Announced on 2020-06-01 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2020/01/msg257497.html> 1454 1455The north end of the London Borough of Camden is dominated by two hills, 1456Hampstead on the west, Highgate on the east, with the Heath, one of the 1457largest parks in London, slung between them like a green saddle. From 1458these heights the land slopes down towards the River Thames and the 1459floodplains that lurk below the built-up centre of London. 1460 1461=head2 v5.28.2 - Edward Lear, ed. Vivien Noakes, "The Complete Nonsense and Other Verse": The Jumblies 1462 1463L<Announced on 2019-04-19 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/04/msg254456.html> 1464 1465 They went to sea in a Sieve, they did, 1466 In a Sieve they went to sea: 1467 In spite of all their friends could say, 1468 On a winter's morn, on a stormy day, 1469 In a Sieve they went to sea! 1470 And when the Sieve turned round and round, 1471 And every one cried, 'You'll all be drowned!' 1472 They called aloud, 'Our Sieve ain't big, 1473 But we don't care a button! we don't care a fig! 1474 In a Sieve we'll go to sea!' 1475 Far and few, far and few, 1476 Are the lands where the Jumblies live; 1477 Their heads are green, and their hands are blue, 1478 And they went to sea in a Sieve. 1479 1480=head2 v5.28.2-RC1 - Edward Lear, ed. Vivien Noakes, "The Complete Nonsense and Other Verse": The Quangle Wangle's Hat 1481 1482L<Announced on 2019-04-05 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/04/msg254218.html> 1483 1484 On the top of the Crumpetty Tree 1485 The Quangle Wangle sat, 1486 But his face you could not see, 1487 On account of his Beaver Hat. 1488 For his Hat was a hundred and two feet wide, 1489 With ribbons and bibbons on every side, 1490 And bells, and buttons, and loops, and lace, 1491 So that nobody ever could see the face 1492 Of the Quangle Wangle Quee. 1493 1494=head2 v5.28.1 - Humphrey Burton, "Leonard Bernstein" 1495 1496L<Announced on 2018-11-29 by Steve Hay|http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/11/msg252975.html> 1497 1498On August 25, 1983, Leonard Bernstein celebrated his sixty-fifth 1499birthday in his birthplace, Lawrence, Massachusetts. He had actually 1500lived in the town for only a few weeks as a newborn baby, and had last 1501visited it forty-nine years previously, in 1934, to get the name on his 1502birth certificate altered from Louis to Leonard. But the citizens of 1503Lawrence proposed to dedicate an outdoor theater to him in their 1504heritage park and to provide not one but two local orchestras--the 1505Merrimack Valley Philharmonic to play excerpts from his own compositions 1506and the Greater Boston Youth Symphony and Chorus to perform the "Ode to 1507Joy" and accompany Bernstein himself reading (for the only time in his 1508life) the text of A Lincoln Portrait. So Bernstein turned down birthday 1509invitations from Tanglewood and Central Park, New York, and the 1510Hollywood Bowl and drove through the cheering if slightly bewildered 1511crowds lining the streets of Lawrence in an open-topped 1928 Ford 1512roadster, looking as homespun as James Stewart in Frank Capra's classic, 1513It's a Wonderful Life. 1514 1515=head2 v5.28.0 - Martin Luther King, Jr., 1967 1516 1517L<Announced on 2018-06-22 by Sawyer X|http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/251240> 1518 1519 When we look at modern man we have to face the fact that modern man 1520 suffers from a kind of poverty of the spirit which stands in glaring 1521 contrast with his scientific and technological abundance. We've learned 1522 to fly the air as birds, we've learned to swim the seas as fish, yet we 1523 haven't learned to walk the earth as brothers and sisters. 1524 1525=head2 v5.28.0-RC4 - Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book 1526 1527L<Announced on 2018-06-19 by Sawyer X|http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/251212> 1528 1529 You're alive, Bod. That means you have infinite potential. You can do 1530 anything, make anything, dream anything. If you can change the world, 1531 the world will change. Potential. Once you're dead, it's gone. Over. 1532 You've made what you've made, dreamed your dream, written your name. 1533 You may be buried here, you may even walk. But that potential is 1534 finished. 1535 1536=head2 v5.28.0-RC3 - Anthony Horowitz, Magpie Murders 1537 1538L<Announced on 2018-06-18 by Sawyer X|http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/251204> 1539 1540 These had been his plans. But if there was one thing that life had 1541 taught him, it was the futility of making plans. Life had its own 1542 agenda. 1543 1544=head2 v5.28.0-RC2 - Oliver Sacks, The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat: And Other Clinical Tales 1545 1546L<Announced on 2018-06-06 by Sawyer X|http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/251122> 1547 1548 Had she not been of exceptional intelligence and literacy, with an 1549 imagination filled and sustained, so to speak, by the images of 1550 others, images conveyed by language, by the word, she might have 1551 remained almost as helpless as a baby. 1552 1553=head2 v5.28.0-RC1 - Anu Garg, A Word A Day 1554 1555L<Announced on 2018-05-21 by Sawyer X|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/05/msg250999.html> 1556 1557 One doesn't have to know the unit of pain (dol) to realize that the 1558 unit of joy is not the dollar, or any other currency for that matter. 1559 1560=head2 v5.27.11 - Tana French, In the Woods 1561 1562L<Announced on 2018-04-20 by Sawyer X|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/04/msg250571.html> 1563 1564 And then, too, I had learned early to assume something dark and 1565 lethal hidden at the heart of anything I loved. When I couldn't find 1566 it, I responded, bewildered and wary, in the only way I knew how: by 1567 planting it there myself. 1568 1569=head2 v5.27.10 - Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, p. 248 1570 1571L<Announced on 2018-03-20 by Todd Rinaldo|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/03/msg250042.html> 1572 1573 A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher 1574 a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, 1575 build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, 1576 cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, 1577 program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. 1578 Specialization is for insects. 1579 1580=head2 v5.27.9 - Agatha Christie, "The Mysterious Affair at Styles" 1581 1582L<Announced on 2018-02-20 by Renee Bäcker|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/02/msg249549.html> 1583 1584 Poirot was an extraordinary looking little man. He was hardly more 1585 than five feet, four inches, but carried himself with great dignity. 1586 His head was exactly the shape of an egg, and he always perched it 1587 a little on one side. His moustache was very stiff and military. 1588 The neatness of his attire was almost incredible. I believe a 1589 speck of dust would have caused him more pain than a bullet wound. 1590 Yet this quaint dandified little man who, I was sorry to see, now 1591 limped badly, had been in his time one of the most celebrated members 1592 of the Belgian police. As a detective, his flair had been extraordinary, 1593 and he had achieved triumphs by unravelling some of the most baffling 1594 cases of the day. 1595 He pointed out to me the little house inhabited by him and his fellow 1596 Belgians, and I promised to go and see him at an early date. Then he 1597 raised his hat with a flourish to Cynthia, and we drove away. 1598 "He's a dear little man," said Cynthia. "I'd no idea you knew him." 1599 "You've been entertaining a celebrity unawares," I replied. 1600 And, for the rest of the way home, I recited to them the various 1601 exploits and triumphs of Hercule Poirot. 1602 1603=head2 v5.27.8 - Jasper Fforde, "Shades of Grey" 1604 1605L<Announced on 2018-01-20 by Abigail|http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/248914> 1606 16072.4.16.55.021: Males are to wear dresscode #6 during inter-Collective 1608travel. Hats are encouraged, but not required. 1609 16109.3.88.32.025: The cucumber and tomato are both fruit; the avocado 1611is a nut. To assist with the dietary requirements of vegetarians, 1612on the first Tuesday of the month a chicken is officially a vegetable. 1613 16145.3.21.01.002: Once allocated, postcodes are permanent, and for life. 1615 16166.1.02.11.235: Artifacture from before the Something That Happened 1617may be collected, so long it does not appear on the Leapback list 1618or possess color above 23 percent saturation. 1619 16202.3.06.02.087: Unnecessary sharpening of pencils constitutes a waste 1621of public resources, and will be punished as appropriate. 1622 16232.1.01.05.002: All children are to attent school until the age of 1624sixteen or until they have learned everything, whichever be the sooner. 1625 16261.3.02.06.023: There shall be no staring at the sun, however good 1627the reason. 1628 16291.1.19.02.006: Team sports are mandatory in order to build character. 1630Character is there to give purpose to team sports. 1631 16322.3.03.01.006: Juggling shall not be practiced after 4:00 pm. 1633 1634 1635=head2 v5.27.7 - Terry Pratchett, "Hogfather" 1636 1637L<Announced on 2017-12-20 by Chris 'BinGOs' Williams|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/12/msg248274.html> 1638 1639 Death looked at the sacks. 1640 1641 It was a strange but demonstrable fact that the sacks of 1642 toys carried by the Hogfather, no matter what they 1643 really contained, always appeared to have sticking out 1644 of the top a teddy bear, a toy soldier in the kind of 1645 colorful uniform that would stand out in a disco, a 1646 drum and a red-and-white candy cane. The actual 1647 contents always turned out to be something a bit 1648 garish and costing $5.99. 1649 1650 Death had investigated one or two. There had been a 1651 Real Agatean Ninja, for example, with Fearsome 1652 Death Grip, and a Captain Carrot One-Man Night 1653 Watch with a complete wardrobe of toy weapons, each 1654 of which cost as much as the original wooden doll in 1655 the first place. 1656 1657 Mind you, the stuff for the girls was just as 1658 depressing. It seemed to be nearly all horses. Most of 1659 them were grinning. Horses, Death felt, shouldn't grin. 1660 1661 Any horse that was grinning was planning something. 1662 1663=head2 v5.27.6 - Ogden Nash, "Behold the Duck" 1664 1665L<Announced on 2017-11-20 by Karen Etheridge|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/11/msg247489.html> 1666 1667 Behold the duck, 1668 it does not cluck; 1669 a cluck it lacks, 1670 it quacks! 1671 1672 It is 'specially fond 1673 of puddles or ponds; 1674 when it dines or sups 1675 it bottoms ups. 1676 1677 1678=head2 v5.27.5 - Frank Birch, Dilly Knox & G. P. Mackeson, "Alice in I.D.25" 1679 1680L<Announced on 2017-10-20 by Steve Hay|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/10/msg246785.html> 1681 1682 'Can I do anything?' Alice suggested timidly, thinking that something 1683 dreadful must have happened. 1684 The Waterflap jumped as if it had been shot. 'What are you doing 1685 here?' it snapped. 'Take this at once into the Directional room,' and it 1686 thrust the paper which had caused all the fuss into her hands. 1687 'But where is the Directional room?' she inquired, bewildered. 1688 'Why, there of course,' howled the Waterflap, pointing to a door. 1689 'How could I possibly know that!' Alice exclaimed, angered by his 1690 rudeness. 1691 'Silly girl,' it hissed. 'Why, it's called the Directional room 1692 because it's in that direction,' and it pushed her roughly through the 1693 doorway. 1694 1695=head2 v5.27.4 - Richard Brautigan, "All Watched Over By Machines Of Loving Grace" 1696 1697L<Announced on 2017-09-20 by John SJ Anderson|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/09/msg246371.html> 1698 1699 I like to think (and 1700 the sooner the better!) 1701 of a cybernetic meadow 1702 where mammals and computers 1703 live together in mutually 1704 programming harmony 1705 like pure water 1706 touching clear sky. 1707 1708 I like to think 1709 (right now, please!) 1710 of a cybernetic forest 1711 filled with pines and electronics 1712 where deer stroll peacefully 1713 past computers 1714 as if they were flowers 1715 with spinning blossoms. 1716 1717 I like to think 1718 (it has to be!) 1719 of a cybernetic ecology 1720 where we are free of our labors 1721 and joined back to nature, 1722 returned to our mammal 1723 brothers and sisters, 1724 and all watched over 1725 by machines of loving grace. 1726 1727=head2 v5.27.3 - Rodgers and Hammerstein, "You'll Never Walk Alone" 1728 1729L<Announced on 2017-08-21 by Matthew Horsfall|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/08/msg245988.html> 1730 1731 When you walk through a storm 1732 Hold your head up high 1733 And don't be afraid of the dark 1734 1735 At the end of a storm 1736 There's a golden sky 1737 And the sweet silver song of a lark 1738 1739 Walk on through the wind 1740 Walk on through the rain 1741 Though your dreams be tossed and blown 1742 1743 Walk on, walk on 1744 With hope in your heart 1745 And you'll never walk alone 1746 1747 You'll never walk alone 1748 1749 Walk on, walk on 1750 With hope in your heart 1751 And you'll never walk alone 1752 1753 You'll never walk alone 1754 1755=head2 v5.27.2 - Lev Grossman, Codex 1756 1757L<Announced on 2017-07-20 by Aaron Crane|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/07/msg245585.html> 1758 1759 He went back for another stack of books: a three-volume English legal 1760 treatise; a travel guide to Tuscany from the '20s crammed with faded 1761 Italian wildflowers that fluttered out from between the pages like 1762 moths; a French edition of Turgeniev so decayed that it came apart in 1763 his hands; a register of London society from 1863. In a way it was 1764 idiotic. He was treating these books like they were holy relics. It 1765 wasn't like he would ever actually read them. But there was something 1766 magnetic about them, something that compelled respect, even the silly 1767 ones, like the Enlightenment treatise about how lightning was caused 1768 by bees. They were information, data, but not in the form he was used 1769 to dealing with it. They were non-digital, nonelectrical chunks of 1770 memory, not stamped out of silicon but laboriously crafted out of wood 1771 pulp and ink, leather and glue. Somebody had cared enough to write 1772 these things; somebody else had cared enough to buy them, possibly 1773 even read them, at the very least keep them safe for 150 years, 1774 sometimes longer, when they could have vanished at the touch of a 1775 spark. That made them worth something, didn't it, just by itself? 1776 Though most of them would have bored him rigid the second he cracked 1777 them open, which there wasn't much chance of. Maybe that was what he 1778 found so appealing: the sight of so many books that he'd never have to 1779 read, so much work he'd never have to do. 1780 1781=head2 v5.27.1 - Rona Munro, Doctor Who: Survival 1782 1783L<Announced on 2017-06-20 by Eric Herman|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/06/msg245055.html> 1784 1785 There are worlds out there where the sky is burning, 1786 where the sea's asleep and the rivers dream, 1787 people made of smoke and cities made of song. 1788 Somewhere there's danger, 1789 somewhere there's injustice 1790 and somewhere else the tea is getting cold. 1791 Come on, Ace, we've got work to do. 1792 1793=head2 v5.27.0 - Bertrand Russell, The Road to Happiness 1794 1795L<Announced on 2017-05-31 by Sawyer X|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/05/msg244580.html> 1796 1797 People who have theories as to how one should live tend to forget the 1798 limitations of nature. If your way of life involves constant 1799 restraint of impulse for the sake of some one supreme aim that you 1800 have set yourself, it is likely that the aim will become increasingly 1801 distasteful because of the efforts that it demands; impulse, denied 1802 its normal outlets, will find others, probably in spite; pleasure, if 1803 you allow yourself any at all, will be dissociated from the main 1804 current of your life, and will become Bacchic and frivolous. Such 1805 pleasure brings no happiness, but only a deeper despair. 1806 1807 -- Bertrand Russell, The Road to Happiness 1808 1809=head2 v5.26.3 - Humphrey Burton, "Leonard Bernstein" 1810 1811L<Announced on 2018-11-29 by Steve Hay|http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/11/msg252974.html> 1812 1813The origins of the name "Bernstein" are sometimes linked with the German 1814noun Bernstein, which means "amber"--a translucent yellowish fossilized 1815resin, used for ornaments and thought to possess magical properties. 1816Leonard Bernstein would later call himself "Lenny Amber" when he needed 1817a pseudonym for the popular piano transcriptions he published in his 1818mid-twenties, and his business affairs would be organized within a 1819company called Amberson Enterprises. There are several towns and 1820villages named Bernstein in Germany and Austria (where the pronunciation 1821is BernSTINE), but Bernstein's parents came from Jewish ghettos in 1822northwestern Ukraine, where the last syllable is usually pronounced 1823BernSHTAYN or STEEN. Sam insisted, however, on the mid-European style 1824employed by the earlier immigrants. 1825 1826=head2 v5.26.2 - Desmond Morris, "Catwatching: The Essential Guide to Cat Behaviour" 1827 1828L<Announced on 2018-04-14 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/04/msg250440.html> 1829 1830How does a cat use its whiskers? The usual answer is that the whiskers 1831are feelers that enable a cat to tell whether a gap is wide enough for 1832it to squeeze through, but the truth is more complicated and more 1833remarkable. In addition to their obvious role as feelers sensitive to 1834touch, the whiskers also operate as air-current detectors. As the cat 1835moves along in the dark it needs to manoeuvre past solid objects without 1836touching them. Each solid object it approaches causes slight eddies in 1837the air, minute disturbances in the currents of air movements, and the 1838cat's whiskers are so amazingly sensitive that they can read these air 1839changes and respond to the presence of solid obstacles even without 1840touching them. 1841 1842=head2 v5.26.2-RC1 - Desmond Morris, "Catwatching: The Essential Guide to Cat Behaviour" 1843 1844L<Announced on 2018-03-24 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/03/msg250103.html> 1845 1846Cats have a way of endearing themselves to their owners, not just by 1847their 'kittenoid' behaviour, which stimulates strong parental feelings, 1848but also by their sheer gracefulness. There is an elegance and a 1849composure about them that captivates the human eye. To the sensitive 1850human being it becomes a privilege to share a room with a cat, exchange 1851its glance, feel its greeting rub, or watch it gently luxuriate itself 1852into a snoozing ball on a soft cushion. 1853 1854=head2 v5.26.1 - Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" 1855 1856L<Announced on 2017-09-22 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/09/msg246408.html> 1857 1858 And soon I heard a roaring wind: 1859 It did not come anear; 1860 But with its sound it shook the sails, 1861 That were so thin and sere. 1862 1863 The upper air burst into life! 1864 And a hundred fire-flags sheen, 1865 To and fro they were hurried about! 1866 And to and fro, and in and out, 1867 The wan stars danced between. 1868 1869=head2 v5.26.1-RC1 - Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" 1870 1871L<Announced on 2017-09-10 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/09/msg246202.html> 1872 1873 At length did cross an Albatross, 1874 Thorough the fog it came; 1875 As if it had been a Christian soul, 1876 We hailed it in God's name. 1877 1878 It ate the food it ne'er had eat, 1879 And round and round it flew. 1880 The ice did split with a thunder-fit; 1881 The helmsman steered us through! 1882 1883 And a good south wind sprung up behind; 1884 The Albatross did follow, 1885 And every day, for food or play, 1886 Came to the mariner's hollo! 1887 1888 In mist or cloud, on mast or shroud, 1889 It perched for vespers nine; 1890 Whiles all the night, through fog-smoke white, 1891 Glimmered the white Moon-shine.' 1892 1893 'God save thee, ancient Mariner! 1894 From the fiends, that plague thee thus!— 1895 Why look'st thou so?'—With my cross-bow 1896 I shot the ALBATROSS. 1897 1898=head2 v5.26.0 - Nine Simone, Ain't Got No / I Got Life 1899 1900L<Announced on 2017-05-30 by Sawyer X|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/05/msg244573.html> 1901 1902 I've got the life 1903 And I'm gonna keep it 1904 I've got the life 1905 And nobody's gonna take it away 1906 I've got the life 1907 1908=head2 v5.26.0-RC2 - Richard Condon, The Manchurian Candidate 1909 1910L<Announced on 2017-05-23 by Sawyer X|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/05/msg244511.html> 1911 1912 Amateur psychiatric prognosis can be fascinating when there is 1913 absolutely nothing else to do. 1914 1915=head2 v5.26.0-RC1 - Thomas Paine, Common Sense 1916 1917L<Announced on 2017-05-11 by Sawyer X|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/05/msg244337.html> 1918 1919 A long habit of not thinking a thing WRONG, gives it a superficial 1920 appearance of being RIGHT, and raises at first a formidable outcry in 1921 defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more 1922 converts than reason. 1923 1924=head2 v5.25.12 - Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five 1925 1926L<Announced on 2017-04-20 by Sawyer X|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/04/msg244146.html> 1927 1928 I have told my sons that they are not under any circumstances to take 1929 part in massacres, and that the news of massacres of enemies is not 1930 to fill them with satisfaction or glee. 1931 1932 I have also told them not to work for companies which make massacre 1933 machinery, and to express contempt for people who think we need 1934 machinery like that. 1935 1936=head2 v5.25.11 - Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow 1937 1938L<Announced on 2017-03-20 by Sawyer X|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/03/msg243624.html> 1939 1940 Subjective confidence in a judgment is not a reasoned evaluation of 1941 the probability that this judgment is correct. Confidence is a 1942 feeling, which reflects the coherence of the information and the 1943 cognitive ease of processing it. It is wise to take admissions of 1944 uncertainty seriously, but declarations of high confidence mainly 1945 tell you that an individual has constructed a coherent story in his 1946 mind, not necessarily that the story is true. 1947 1948=head2 v5.25.10 - Erich Fried, 1968 1949 1950L<Announced on 2017-02-20 by Renee Bäcker|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/02/msg243173.html> 1951 1952 He who wants the world to remain as it is 1953 doesn't want it to remain. 1954 1955=head2 v5.25.9 - A. A. Milne, "Winnie-the-Pooh", 1926 1956 1957L<Announced on 2017-01-20 by Abigail|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/01/msg242405.html> 1958 1959 Pooh always liked a little something at eleven o'clock in the 1960 morning, and he was very glad to see Rabbit getting out the plates 1961 and mugs; and when Rabbit said, "Honey or condensed milk with 1962 your bread?" he was so excited that he said, "Both," and then, 1963 so as not to seem greedy, he added, "But don't bother about the 1964 bread, please." 1965 1966=head2 v5.25.8 - Langston Hughes, So long 1967 1968L<Announced on 2016-12-20 by Sawyer X|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/12/msg241739.html> 1969 1970 So long 1971 is in the song 1972 and it's in the way you're gone 1973 but it's like a foreign language 1974 in my mind 1975 and maybe was I blind 1976 I could not see 1977 and would not know 1978 you're gone so long 1979 so long. 1980 1981=head2 v5.25.7 - J.R.R. Tolkien, "The Silmarillion" 1982 1983L<Announced on 2016-11-20 by Chad 'Exodist' Granum|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/11/msg241120.html> 1984 1985 Of Beren and Lúthien 1986 1987 Among the tales of sorrow and of ruin that come down to us from the darkness of 1988 those days there are yet some in which amid weeping there is joy and under the 1989 shadow of death light that endures. And of these histories most fair still in 1990 the ears of the Elves is the tale of Beren and Lúthien. Of their lives was made 1991 the Lay of Leithian, Release from Bondage, which is the longest save one of the 1992 songs concerning the world of old; but here is told in fewer words and without 1993 song. 1994 1995=head2 v5.25.6 - Alan Warner, "The Sopranos" 1996 1997L<Announced on 2016-10-10 by Aaron Crane|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/10/msg240406.html> 1998 1999 I'm up on all the pop trivia, says the guy with the stud in his tongue. 2000 Are you? 2001 Yes. Do you know who the lead singer of Echo and the Bunnymen is? 2002 Let me guess, is he called Echo? 2003 Good guess but no, anyway when they played Glastonbury it was so 2004 muddy he had two roadies to hold up a binliner on each of his legs so 2005 they wouldn't get covered in mud. 2006 That's what being rich and famous is all about, having someone 2007 else hold up your binliners on each leg when you're wandering across 2008 a sea of shite. 2009 Do you know what Sammy Davis Junior said being black and famous in 2010 America meant? 2011 No. 2012 He said being black and famous in America meant he could be 2013 refused entry to exclusive clubs and restaurants that other people 2014 could only ever dream of going to. Do you know Michael Stipe likes to 2015 send his remote control toy cars onto stage while his support band are 2016 playing to freak them out? 2017 Who's Michael Stipe? 2018 You're not really a pop trivia person, are you, Kylah? 2019 No, I'm not, Stephen. 2020 2021=head2 v5.25.5 - Philip K. Dick, VALIS 2022 2023L<Announced on 2016-09-20 by Stevan Little|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/09/msg239887.html> 2024 2025 We hypostatize information into objects. Rearrangement of objects is 2026 change in the content of the information; the message has changed. 2027 This is a language which we have lost the ability to read. We ourselves 2028 are a part of this language; changes in us are changes in the content 2029 of the information. We ourselves are information-rich; information 2030 enters us, is processed and is then projected outward once more, now 2031 in an altered form. We are not aware that we are doing this, that in 2032 fact this is all we are doing 2033 2034=head2 v5.25.4 - Terry Pratchett, "Truckers" 2035 2036L<Announced on 2016-08-20 by Chris 'BinGOs' Williams|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/08/msg239191.html> 2037 2038 Concerning Nomes and Time 2039 2040 Nomes are small. On the whole, small creatures don't live for a long 2041 time. But perhaps they do live fast. 2042 2043 Let me explain. 2044 2045 One of the shortest-lived creatures on the planet Earth is the adult 2046 common mayfly. It lasts for one day. The longest-living things are 2047 bristlecone pine trees, at 4,700 years and still counting. 2048 2049 This may seem tough on the mayflies. But the important thing is not 2050 how long your life is, but how long it seems. 2051 2052 To a mayfly, a single hour may last as long as a century. Perhaps 2053 old mayflies sit around complaining about how life this minute isn't a 2054 patch on the good old minutes of long ago, when the world was 2055 young and the sun seemed so much brighter and larvae showed you a 2056 bit of respect. Whereas the trees, which are not famous to their 2057 quick reactions, may just have time to notice the way the sky keeps 2058 flickering before the dry rot and woodworm set in. 2059 2060 It's all a sort of relativity. The faster you live, the more time 2061 stretches out. To a nome, a year lasts as long as ten years does to a 2062 human. Remember it. Don't let it concern you. They don't. They don't 2063 even know. 2064 2065=head2 v5.25.3 - Edward Lear, ed. Vivien Noakes, "The Complete Nonsense and Other Verse": The Dong with a Luminous Nose 2066 2067L<Announced on 2016-07-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/07/msg238158.html> 2068 2069 When awful darkness and silence reign 2070 Over the great Gromboolian plain, 2071 Through the long, long wintry nights; - 2072 When the angry breakers roar 2073 As they beat on the rocky shore; - 2074 When Storm-clouds brood on the towering heights 2075 Of the Hills of the Chankly Bore: - 2076 2077 Then, through the vast and gloomy dark, 2078 There moves what seems a fiery spark, 2079 A lonely spark with silvery rays 2080 Piercing the coal-black night, - 2081 A Meteor strange and bright: - 2082 Hither and thither the vision strays, 2083 A single lurid light. 2084 2085 Slowly it wanders, - pauses, - creeps, - 2086 Anon it sparkles, - flashes and leaps; 2087 And ever as onward it gleaming goes 2088 A light on the Bong-tree stems it throws. 2089 And those who watch at that midnight hour 2090 From Hall or Terrace, or lofty Tower, 2091 Cry, as the wild light passes along, - 2092 'The Dong! - the Dong! 2093 The wandering Dong through the forest goes! 2094 The Dong! the Dong! 2095 The Dong with a luminous Nose!' 2096 2097=head2 v5.25.2 - Dan le Sac Vs Scroobius Pip "Waiting For The Beat To Kick In" 2098 2099L<Announced on 2016-06-20 by Matthew Horsfall|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/06/msg237274.html> 2100 2101 Waiting for the beat to kick in 2102 But it never does 2103 Waiting for my feet to grow wings 2104 That lift me above 2105 All of these tiresome things 2106 That we know and love 2107 Waiting for the beat to kick in 2108 But it never does 2109 2110=head2 v5.25.1 - Eli Pariser, "The Filter Bubble" 2111 2112L<Announced on 2016-05-20 by Sawyer X|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/05/msg236566.html> 2113 2114Imagine that you're a smart high school student on the low end of the social 2115totem pole. You're alienated from adult authority, but unlike many teenagers, 2116you're also alienated from the power structures of your peers -- an existence 2117that can feel lonely and peripheral. Systems and equations are intuitive, but 2118people aren't -- social signals are confusing and messy, difficult to interpret. 2119 2120Then you discover code. You may be powerless at the lunch table, but code 2121gives you power over an infinitely malleable world and opens the door to a 2122symbolic system that's perfectly clear and ordered. The jostling for position 2123and status fades away. The nagging parental voices disappear. There's just a 2124clean, white page for you to fill, an opportunity to build a better place, a 2125home, from the ground up. 2126 2127No wonder you're a geek. 2128 2129=head2 v5.25.0 - Robert Frost, "The Trial by Existence" 2130 2131L<Announced on 2016-05-09 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/05/msg236244.html> 2132 2133 Even the bravest that are slain 2134 Shall not dissemble their surprise 2135 On waking to find valor reign, 2136 Even as on earth, in paradise; 2137 And where they sought without the sword 2138 Wide fields of asphodel fore’er, 2139 To find that the utmost reward 2140 Of daring should be still to dare. 2141 2142=head2 v5.24.4 - Desmond Morris, "Catwatching: The Essential Guide to Cat Behaviour" 2143 2144L<Announced on 2018-04-14 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/04/msg250439.html> 2145 2146Cats hate doors. Doors simply do not register in the evolutionary story 2147of the cat family. They constantly block patrolling activities and 2148prevent cats from exploring their home range and then returning to their 2149central, secure base at will. Humans often do not understand that a cat 2150needs to make only a brief survey of its territory before returning with 2151all the necessary information about the activities of other cats in the 2152vicinity. It likes to make these tours of inspection at frequent 2153intervals, but does not want to stay outside for very long, unless there 2154has been some special and unexpected change in the condition of the 2155local feline population. 2156 2157=head2 v5.24.4-RC1 - Desmond Morris, "Catwatching: The Essential Guide to Cat Behaviour" 2158 2159L<Announced on 2018-03-24 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/03/msg250102.html> 2160 2161The domestic cat is a contradiction. No animal has developed such an 2162intimate relationship with mankind, while at the same time demanding and 2163getting such independence of movement and action. The dog may be man's 2164best friend, but it is rarely allowed out on its own to wander from 2165garden to garden or street to street. The obedient dog has to be taken 2166for a walk. The headstrong cat walks alone. 2167 2168=head2 v5.24.3 - Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" 2169 2170L<Announced on 2017-09-22 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/09/msg246407.html> 2171 2172 Oh sleep! it is a gentle thing, 2173 Beloved from pole to pole! 2174 To Mary Queen the praise be given! 2175 She sent the gentle sleep from Heaven, 2176 That slid into my soul. 2177 2178 The silly buckets on the deck, 2179 That had so long remained, 2180 I dreamt that they were filled with dew; 2181 And when I awoke, it rained. 2182 2183=head2 v5.24.3-RC1 - Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" 2184 2185L<Announced on 2017-09-10 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/09/msg246201.html> 2186 2187 'And now the STORM-BLAST came, and he 2188 Was tyrannous and strong: 2189 He struck with his o'ertaking wings, 2190 And chased us south along. 2191 2192 With sloping masts and dipping prow, 2193 As who pursued with yell and blow 2194 Still treads the shadow of his foe, 2195 And forward bends his head, 2196 The ship drove fast, loud roared the blast, 2197 And southward aye we fled. 2198 2199 And now there came both mist and snow, 2200 And it grew wondrous cold: 2201 And ice, mast-high, came floating by, 2202 As green as emerald. 2203 2204 And through the drifts the snowy clifts 2205 Did send a dismal sheen: 2206 Nor shapes of men nor beasts we ken— 2207 The ice was all between. 2208 2209 The ice was here, the ice was there, 2210 The ice was all around: 2211 It cracked and growled, and roared and howled, 2212 Like noises in a swound! 2213 2214=head2 v5.24.2 - Roald Dahl, "The Three Little Pigs" 2215 2216L<Announced on 2017-07-15 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/07/msg245527.html> 2217 2218 A short while later, through the wood, 2219 Came striding brave Miss Riding Hood. 2220 The Wolf stood there, his eyes ablaze 2221 And yellowish, like mayonnaise. 2222 His teeth were sharp, his gums were raw, 2223 And spit was dripping from his jaw. 2224 Once more the maiden's eyelid flickers. 2225 She draws the pistol from her knickers. 2226 Once more, she hits the vital spot, 2227 And kills him with a single shot. 2228 Pig, peeping through the window, stood 2229 And yelled, 'Well done, Miss Riding Hood!' 2230 2231 Ah, Piglet, you must never trust 2232 Young ladies from the upper crust. 2233 For now, Miss Riding Hood, one notes, 2234 Not only has two wolfskin coats, 2235 But when she goes from place to place, 2236 She has a PIGSKIN TRAVELLING CASE. 2237 2238=head2 v5.24.2-RC1 - Roald Dahl, "The Three Little Pigs" 2239 2240L<Announced on 2017-07-01 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/07/msg245292.html> 2241 2242 The animal I really dig 2243 Above all others is the pig. 2244 Pigs are noble. Pigs are clever, 2245 Pig are courteous. However, 2246 Now and then, to break this rule, 2247 One meets a pig who is a fool. 2248 What, for example, would you say 2249 If strolling through the woods one day, 2250 Right there in front of you you saw 2251 A pig who'd built his house of STRAW? 2252 The Wolf who saw it licked his lips, 2253 And said, 'That pig has had his chips.' 2254 2255=head2 v5.24.1 - Charles Dodgson [as "Lewis Carroll"], "The Hunting of the Snark", Fit 4: The Hunting 2256 2257L<Announced on 2017-01-14 by Steve Hay|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/01/msg242259.html> 2258 2259 The Bellman looked uffish, and wrinkled his brow. 2260 'If only you'd spoken before! 2261 It's excessively awkward to mention it now, 2262 With the Snark, so to speak, at the door! 2263 2264 'We should all of us grieve, as you well may believe, 2265 If you never were met with again - 2266 But surely, my man, when the voyage began, 2267 You might have suggested it then? 2268 2269 'It's excessively awkward to mention it now - 2270 As I think I've already remarked.' 2271 And the man they called 'Hi!' replied, with a sigh, 2272 'I informed you the day we embarked. 2273 2274 'You may charge me with murder - or want of sense - 2275 (We are all of us weak at times): 2276 But the slightest approach to a false pretence 2277 Was never among my crimes! 2278 2279 'I said it in Hebrew - I said it in Dutch - 2280 I said it in German and Greek: 2281 But I wholly forgot (and it vexes me much) 2282 That English is what you speak!' 2283 2284 ''Tis a pitiful tale,' said the Bellman, whose face 2285 Had grown longer at every word: 2286 'But, now that you've stated the whole of your case, 2287 More debate would be simply absurd. 2288 2289 'The rest of my speech' (he exclaimed to his men) 2290 'You shall hear when I've leisure to speak it. 2291 But the Snark is at hand, let me tell you again! 2292 'Tis your glorious duty to seek it! 2293 2294=head2 v5.24.1-RC5 - John Milton, ed. Gordon Campbell, "Paradise Regained", Book IV 2295 2296L<Announced on 2017-01-02 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/01/msg242016.html> 2297 2298 Thus passed the night so foul, till Morning fair 2299 Came forth with pilgrim steps, in amice grey; 2300 Who with her radiant finger stilled the roar 2301 Of thunder, chased the clouds, and laid the winds, 2302 And grisly spectres, which the fiend had raised 2303 To tempt the Son of God with terrors dire. 2304 And now the sun with more effectual beams 2305 Had cheered the face of earth, and dried the wet 2306 From drooping plant, or dropping tree; the birds, 2307 Who all things now behold more fresh and green, 2308 After a night of storm so ruinous, 2309 Cleared up their choicest notes in bush and spray, 2310 To gratulate the sweet return of morn. 2311 2312=head2 v5.24.1-RC4 - John Milton, ed. Gordon Campbell, "Paradise Lost", Book II 2313 2314L<Announced on 2016-10-12 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/10/msg240224.html> 2315 2316 Before the gates there sat 2317 On either side a formidable shape; 2318 The one seemed woman to the waste, and fair, 2319 But ended foul in many a scaly fold, 2320 Voluminous and vast -- a serpent armed 2321 With mortal sting; about her middle round 2322 A cry of hell hounds never ceasing barked 2323 With wide Cerberean mouths full loud, and rung 2324 A hideous peal; yet, when they list, would creep, 2325 If aught disturbed their noise, into her womb, 2326 And kennel there; yet there still barked and howled 2327 Within unseen. Far less abhorred than these 2328 Vexed Scylla, bathing in the sea that parts 2329 Calabria from the hoarse Trinacrian shore; 2330 Nor uglier follow the night-hag, when, called 2331 In secret, riding through the air she comes, 2332 Lured with the smell of infant blood, to dance 2333 With Lapland witches, while the labouring moon 2334 Eclipses at their charms. The other shape -- 2335 If shape it might be called that shape had none 2336 Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb; 2337 Or substance might be called that shadow seemed, 2338 For each seemed either -- black it stood as night, 2339 Fierce as ten Furies, terrible as hell, 2340 And shook a dreadful dart: what seemed his head 2341 The likeness of a kingly crown had on. 2342 Satan was now at hand, and from his seat 2343 The monster moving onward came as fast 2344 With horrid strides; hell trembled as he strode. 2345 2346=head2 v5.24.1-RC3 - Dante Alighieri, trans. Dorothy L. Sayers and Barbara Reynolds, "The Divine Comedy", Cantica III: Paradise, Canto XXIII 2347 2348L<Announced on 2016-08-11 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/08/msg238909.html> 2349 2350 A bird within the bower of her delight, 2351 Quiet upon the nest with her sweet brood 2352 Throughout the dark concealment of the night, 2353 2354 Anxious to look on them and gather food - 2355 No weary task for her, for as at play 2356 Blithely she toils to seek her fledglings' good - 2357 2358 Before the time, upon the topmost spray 2359 Eager awaits the sun and on the East 2360 Fixes her wakeful eye till break of day. 2361 2362=head2 v5.24.1-RC2 - Dante Alighieri, trans. Dorothy L. Sayers, "The Divine Comedy", Cantica II: Purgatory, Canto X 2363 2364L<Announced on 2016-07-25 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/07/msg238269.html> 2365 2366 When we had crossed the threshold of that gate 2367 Which the soul's evil loves put out of use, 2368 Because they make the crooked path seem straight, 2369 2370 I heard its closing clang ring clamorous, 2371 And had I then turned back my eyes to it 2372 How could my fault have found the least excuse? 2373 2374 We had to climb now through a rocky slit 2375 Which ran from side to side in many a swerve, 2376 As runs the wave in onset and retreat. 2377 2378 "Now here," the master said, "we must observe 2379 Some little caution, hugging now this wall, 2380 Now that, upon the far side of the curve." 2381 2382=head2 v5.24.1-RC1 - Dante Alighieri, trans. Dorothy L. Sayers, "The Divine Comedy", Cantica I: Hell, Canto XX 2383 2384L<Announced on 2016-07-17 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/07/msg238072.html> 2385 2386 New punishments behoves me sing in this 2387 Twentieth canto of my first canticle, 2388 Which tells of spirits sunk in the Abyss. 2389 2390 I now stood ready to observe the full 2391 Extent of the new chasm thus laid bare, 2392 Drenched as it was in tears most miserable. 2393 2394 Through the round vale I saw folk drawing near, 2395 Weeping and silent, and at such slow pace 2396 As Litany processions keep, up here. 2397 2398 And presently, when I had dropped my gaze 2399 Lower than the head, I saw them strangely wried 2400 'Twixt collar-bone and chin, so that the face 2401 2402 Of each was turned towards his own backside, 2403 And backwards must they needs creep with their feet, 2404 All power of looking forward being denied. 2405 2406=head2 v5.24.0 - Robert Frost, "The Black Cottage" 2407 2408L<Announced on 2016-05-09 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/05/msg236242.html> 2409 2410 As I sit here, and oftentimes, I wish 2411 I could be monarch of a desert land 2412 I could devote and dedicate forever 2413 To the truths we keep coming back and back to. 2414 So desert it would have to be, so walled 2415 By mountain ranges half in summer snow, 2416 No one would covet it or think it worth 2417 The pains of conquering to force change on. 2418 Scattered oases where men dwelt, but mostly 2419 Sand dunes held loosely in tamarisk 2420 Blown over and over themselves in idleness. 2421 Sand grains should sugar in the natal dew 2422 The babe born to the desert, the sand storm 2423 Retard mid-waste my cowering caravans— 2424 2425 “There are bees in this wall.” He struck the clapboards, 2426 Fierce heads looked out; small bodies pivoted. 2427 We rose to go. Sunset blazed on the windows. 2428 2429=head2 v5.24.0-RC5 - The Mountain Goats, "No Children" 2430 2431L<Announced on 2016-05-04 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/05/msg236198.html> 2432 2433 And I hope when you think of me years down the line 2434 You can't find one good thing to say 2435 And I'd hope that if I found the strength to walk out 2436 You'd stay the hell out of my way 2437 2438 I am drowning, there is no sign of land 2439 You are coming down with me, hand in unlovable hand 2440 2441=head2 v5.24.0-RC4 - The Joker in "The Killing Joke" 2442 2443L<Announced on 2016-05-02 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/05/msg236145.html> 2444 2445"See, there were these two guys in a lunatic asylum…" 2446 2447=head2 v5.24.0-RC3 - Jesse Vincent 2448 2449L<Announced on 2016-04-27 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/04/msg236066.html> 2450 2451The Great Pumpkin is a Santa-Claus like figure. He does bring toys like 2452Santa. But unlike Santa, who gives away toys because it's his job, he 2453gives away toys because it's the right thing to do. 2454 2455=head2 v5.24.0-RC2 - Joseph Heller, "Catch-22" 2456 2457L<Announced on 2016-04-23 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/04/msg235999.html> 2458 2459“How do you feel, Yossarian?” 2460 2461“Fine. No, I’m very frightened.” 2462 2463“That’s good,” said Major Danby. “It proves you’re still alive. It won’t 2464be fun.” 2465 2466Yossarian started out. “Yes it will.” 2467 2468“I mean it, Yossarian. You’ll have to keep on your toes every minute of 2469every day. They’ll bend heaven and earth to catch you.” 2470 2471“I’ll keep on my toes every minute.” 2472 2473“You’ll have to jump.” 2474 2475“I’ll jump.” 2476 2477“Jump!” Major Danby cried. 2478 2479Yossarian jumped. 2480 2481Nately’s [girl] was hiding just outside the door. The knife came down, 2482missing him by inches, and he took off. 2483 2484=head2 v5.24.0-RC1 - Robert Frost, "The Census-Taker" 2485 2486L<Announced on 2016-04-14 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/04/msg235807.html> 2487 2488 Nothing was left to do that I could see 2489 Unless to find that there was no one there 2490 And declare to the cliffs too far for echo, 2491 "The place is desert, and let whoso lurks 2492 In silence, if in this he is aggrieved, 2493 Break silence now or be forever silent. 2494 Let him say why it should not be declared so." 2495 The melancholy of having to count souls 2496 Where they grow fewer and fewer every year 2497 Is extreme where they shrink to none at all. 2498 It must be I want life to go on living. 2499 2500=head2 v5.23.9 - Tom Kitchin, "from nature to plate" 2501 2502L<Announced on 2016-03-20 by Abigail|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/03/msg235251.html> 2503 2504Spring 2505 2506Spring is the proper beginning of my kitchen and a season that I 2507look forward to with great anticipation. By the time spring arrives 2508I am desperate to welcome all the spring produce into my kitchen 2509and I long to work with fresh green vegetables again. As much as I 2510love root vegetables, such as celeriac and parsnips, and the heaver 2511meat and game dishes, I'm ready to leave those behind with winter 2512and begin a new adventure. 2513 2514Somehow spring always gives me a little bit of bounce in my feet 2515-- I feel like I want to kick off my shoes and dance around in my 2516kitchen. Not that I do, of course, but I feel lighter somehow. My 2517adrenalin kicks in with spring and so does the level of excitement, 2518as I think about all the produce that is about to come in. 2519 2520The moment spring arrives I'm eager to cook peas, broad beans, green 2521asparagus and other fresh vegetables! I want to create lighter, 2522brighter dishes and I can't wait to get my hands on the first greens 2523and the first morels, not to mention the first wild Scottish salmon. 2524Thanks to my network of trusted suppliers, I always get to first 2525produce of the season delivered to my restaurant as soon as it is 2526possible. I want my customers to experience and understand the 2527beauty of locally grown produce and to try things the minute they 2528are available so they can taste how incredibly fresh the ingredients 2529are. I also want them to understand the relationship between 2530seasonality and flavours. One of the most important things to 2531remember is to allow the seasons to inspire your dishes and help 2532you make natural matches. Wild spring herbs, such as sorrel, sweet 2533cicely and wild garlic, as well as spring salad leaves and green 2534lettuce served with wild salmon, wild sea trout, lamb or rabbit are 2535marriages made in heaven. 2536 2537 2538=head2 v5.23.8 - Patrick Rothfuss, "The Wise Man's Fear (The Kingkiller's Chronicle: Day Two)" 2539 2540L<Announced on 2016-02-20 by Sawyer X|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/02/msg234535.html> 2541 2542Denna, on the other hand, had never been trained. She knew nothing 2543of shortcuts. You'd think she'd be forced to wander the city, lost and 2544helpless, trapped in a twisting maze of mortared stone. 2545 2546But instead, she simply walked throught the walls. She didn't know 2547any better. Nobody had ever told her she couldn't. Because of this, 2548she moved through the city like some faerie creature. She walked roads 2549no one else could see, and it made her music wild and strange and 2550free. 2551 2552=head2 v5.23.7 - William Gibson, "Neuromancer" 2553 2554L<Announced on 2016-01-20 by Stevan Little|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/01/msg233856.html> 2555 2556A year here and he still dreamed of cyberspace, hope fading 2557nightly. All the speed he took, all the turns he'd taken and 2558the corners he cut in Night City, and he'd still see the matrix 2559in his dreams, bright lattices of logic unfolding across that 2560colourless void...The Sprawl was a long, strange way home now 2561over the Pacific, and he was no Console Man, no cyberspace 2562cowboy. Just another hustler, trying to make it through. But 2563the dreams came on in the Japanese night like livewire voodoo, 2564and he'd cry for it, cry in his sleep, and wake alone in the 2565dark, curled in his capsule in some coffin hotel, hands clawed 2566into the bedslab, temper foam bunched between his fingers, 2567trying to reach the console that wasn't there. 2568 2569=head2 v5.23.6 - 5.23 Episode VII 2570 2571L<Announced on 2015-12-21 by David Golden|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/12/msg233475.html> 2572 2573 A long time ago in microseconds, in a galaxy not very far away... 2574 2575 5.23 Episode VII 2576 THE FUZZ AWAKENS 2577 2578 It is a period of 2579 unrest as separatists 2580 announce their intentions 2581 to fork PERL and return the 2582 galaxy to speed and stability. 2583 2584 Chancellor Rik Hoolian struggles 2585 to hold together the remains of the 2586 once mighty Republic against a tide of 2587 incivility and the depredations of a new 2588 foe, the FUZZ RAIDERS. 2589 2590 Meanwhile, after 15 years of preparation and 2591 high expectations, Supreme Leader Toady prepares 2592 to unleash a devastating new weapon, PERL SIXDOTOH, 2593 that could splinter the Republic forever and usher in 2594 a new Empire of gradual typing.... 2595 2596=head2 v5.23.5 - utastro!nather (Ed Nather), "The Story of Mel", in net.jokes, May 21, 1983 2597 2598L<Announced on 2015-11-20 by Abigail|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/11/msg232758.html> 2599 2600After Mel had left the company for greener pa$ture$, the Big Boss asked 2601me to look at the code and see if I could find the test and reverse it. 2602Somewhat reluctantly, I agreed to look. Tracking Mel's code was a real 2603adventure. 2604 2605I have often felt that programming is an art form, whose real value can 2606only be appreciated by another versed in the same arcane art; there are 2607lovely gems and brilliant coups hidden from human view and admiration, 2608sometimes forever, by the very nature of the process. You can learn a 2609lot about an individual just by reading through his code, even in 2610hexadecimal. Mel was, I think, an unsung genius. 2611 2612Perhaps my greatest shock came when I found an innocent loop that had 2613no test in it. No test. None. Common sense said it had to be a closed 2614loop, where the program would circle, forever, endlessly. Program 2615control passed right through it, however, and safely out the other side. 2616It took me two weeks to figure it out. 2617 2618The RPC-4000 computer had a really modern facility called an index 2619register. It allowed the programmer to write a program loop that used 2620an indexed instruction inside; each time through, the number in the 2621index register was added to the address of that instruction, so it 2622would refer to the next datum in a series. He had only to increment 2623the index register each time through. Mel never used it. 2624 2625Instead, he would pull the instruction into a machine register, add one 2626to its address, and store it back. He would then execute the modified 2627instruction right from the register. The loop was written so this 2628additional execution time was taken into account -- just as this 2629instruction finished, the next one was right under the drum's read head, 2630ready to go. But the loop had no test in it. 2631 2632The vital clue came when I noticed the index register bit, the bit that 2633lay between the address and the operation code in the instruction word, 2634was turned on -- yet Mel never used the index register, leaving it zero 2635all the time. When the light went on it nearly blinded me. 2636 2637He had located the data he was working on near the top of memory -- the 2638largest locations the instructions could address -- so, after the last 2639datum was handled, incrementing the instruction address would make it 2640overflow. The carry would add one to the operation code, changing it to 2641the next one in the instruction set: a jump instruction. Sure enough, 2642the next program instruction was in address location zero, and the 2643program went happily on its way. 2644 2645=head2 v5.23.4 - Denis Diderot, trans. David Coward, "Jacques the Fatalist" 2646 2647L<Announced on 2015-10-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/10/msg232040.html> 2648 2649Well, everybody's got a dog. The prime minister is the king's dog. The 2650first secretary is the prime minister's dog. A wife is a husband's dog, 2651or a husband is a wife's dog. Favourite is Madame So-and-so's dog and 2652Thibaut is the man on the corner's dog. When my Master tells me to talk 2653when I'd prefer not to, which to be honest doesn't happen very often, 2654when he tells me to shut up when I feel like talking, which I find very 2655difficult, when he asks me to tell the story of my love-life and then 2656keeps interrupting, what am I if not his dog? Weak men are the dogs of 2657strong men. 2658 2659=head2 v5.23.3 - Oliver Wendell Holmes, "The Deacon’s Masterpiece or The Wonderful 'One-Hoss Shay': A Logical Story" 2660 2661L<Announced on 2015-09-20 by Peter Martini|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/09/msg231173.html> 2662 2663 Little of of all we value here 2664 Wakes on the morn of its hundredth year 2665 Without both feeling and looking queer. 2666 In fact, there’s nothing that keeps its youth, 2667 So far as I know, but a tree and truth. 2668 (This is a moral that runs at large; 2669 Take it. — You’re welcome. — No extra charge.) 2670 2671=head2 v5.23.2 - Blind Guardian, "Skalds and Shadows" 2672 2673L<Announced on 2015-08-20 by Matthew Horsfall|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/08/msg230298.html> 2674 2675 Would you believe in a night like this 2676 A night like this, when visions come true 2677 Would you believe in a tale like this 2678 A lay of bliss, praise in the old lore 2679 Come to the blazing fire and 2680 2681 See me in the shadows 2682 See me in the shadows 2683 Songs I will sing 2684 Of runes and rings 2685 Just hand me my harp 2686 This night turns into myth 2687 Nothing seems real 2688 You soon will feel 2689 The world we live in is another skald's 2690 Dream in the shadows 2691 Dream in the shadows 2692 2693 Do you believe there is sense in it 2694 Is it truth or myth? 2695 They´re one in my rhymes 2696 Nobody knows the meaning behind 2697 The weaver's line 2698 Well nobody else but the Norns can 2699 See through the blazing fires of time and 2700 All things will proceed as the 2701 Child of the hallowed 2702 Will speak to you now 2703 2704 See me in the shadows 2705 See me in the shadows 2706 Songs I will sing of tribes and kings 2707 The carrion bird and the hall of the slain 2708 Nothing seems real 2709 You soon will feel 2710 The world we live in is another skald´s 2711 Dream in the shadows 2712 Dream in the shadows 2713 2714 Do not fear for my reason 2715 There's nothing to hide 2716 How bitter your treason 2717 How bitter the lie 2718 Remember the runes and remember the light 2719 All I ever want is to be at your side 2720 We'll gladden the raven now I will 2721 Run through the blazing fires 2722 That's my choice 2723 Cause things shall proceed as foreseen 2724 2725=head2 v5.23.1 - Elizabeth Haydon, "The Assassin King" 2726 2727L<Announced on 2015-07-20 by Matthew Horsfall|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/07/msg229413.html> 2728 2729 I was born beneath this willow, 2730 Where my sire the earth did farm 2731 Had the green grass as my pillow 2732 The east wind as a blanket warm. 2733 2734 But away! away! called the wind from the west 2735 And in answer I did run 2736 Seeking glory and adventure 2737 Promised by the rising sun. 2738 2739 I found love beneath this willow, 2740 As true a love as life could hold, 2741 Pledged my heart and swore my fealty 2742 Sealed with a kiss and a band of gold. 2743 2744 But to arms! to arms! called the wind from the west 2745 In faithful answer I did run 2746 Marching forth for king and country 2747 In battles 'neath the midday sun. 2748 2749 Oft I dreamt of that fair willow 2750 As the seven seas I plied 2751 And the girl who I left waiting 2752 Longing to be at her side. 2753 2754 But about! about! called the wind from the west 2755 As once again my ship did run 2756 Down the coast, about the wide world 2757 Flying sails in the setting sun. 2758 2759 Now I lie beneath the willow 2760 Now at last no more to roam, 2761 My bride and earth so tightly hold me 2762 In their arms I'm finally home. 2763 2764 While away! away! calls the wind from the west 2765 Beyond the grave my spirit, free 2766 Will chase the sun into the morning 2767 Beyond the sky, beyond the sea. 2768 2769=head2 v5.23.0 - Bob Dylan, "Maggie's Farm" 2770 2771L<Announced on 2015-06-20 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/06/msg228807.html> 2772 2773 I ain't gonna work on Maggie's farm no more 2774 I ain't gonna work on Maggie's farm no more 2775 Well, I try my best 2776 To be just like I am 2777 But everybody wants you 2778 To be just like them 2779 They sing while you slave and I just get bored 2780 I ain't gonna work on Maggie's farm no more 2781 2782=head2 v5.22.4 - Roald Dahl, "Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf" 2783 2784L<Announced on 2017-07-15 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/07/msg245526.html> 2785 2786 Then Little Red Riding Hood said, 'But Grandma, 2787 what a lovely great big furry coat you have on.' 2788 'That's wrong!' cried Wolf. 'Have you forgot 2789 'To tell me what BIG TEETH I've got? 2790 'Ah well, no matter what you say, 2791 'I'm going to eat you anyway.' 2792 The small girl smiles. One eyelid flickers. 2793 She whips a pistol from her knickers. 2794 She aims it at the creature's head 2795 And bang bang bang, she shoots him dead. 2796 2797 A few weeks later, in the wood, 2798 I came across Miss Riding Hood. 2799 But what a change! No cloak of red, 2800 No silly hood upon her head. 2801 She said, 'Hello, and do please note 2802 'My lovely furry WOLFSKIN COAT.' 2803 2804=head2 v5.22.4-RC1 - Roald Dahl, "Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf" 2805 2806L<Announced on 2017-07-01 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/07/msg245293.html> 2807 2808 As soon as Wolf began to feel 2809 That he would like a decent meal, 2810 He went and knocked on Grandma's door. 2811 When Grandma opened it, she saw 2812 The sharp white teeth, the horrid grin, 2813 And Wolfie said, 'May I come in?' 2814 Poor Grandmamma was terrified, 2815 'He's going to eat me up!' she cried. 2816 And she was absolutely right. 2817 He ate her up in one big bite. 2818 2819=head2 v5.22.3 - Charles Dodgson [as "Lewis Carroll"], "Phantasmagoria", Canto 6: Discomfyture 2820 2821L<Announced on 2017-01-14 by Steve Hay|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/01/msg242258.html> 2822 2823 As one who strives a hill to climb, 2824 Who never climbed before: 2825 Who finds it, in a little time, 2826 Grow every moment less sublime, 2827 And votes the thing a bore: 2828 2829 Yet, having once begun to try, 2830 Dares not desert his quest, 2831 But, climbing, ever keeps his eye 2832 On one small hut against the sky 2833 Wherein he hopes to rest: 2834 2835 Who climbs till nerve and force are spent, 2836 With many a puff and pant: 2837 Who still, as rises the ascent, 2838 In language grows more violent, 2839 Although in breath more scant: 2840 2841 Who, climbing, gains at length the place 2842 That crowns the upward track: 2843 And, entering with unsteady pace, 2844 Receives a buffet in the face 2845 That lands him on his back: 2846 2847 And feels himself, like one in sleep, 2848 Glide swiftly down again, 2849 A helpless weight, from steep to steep, 2850 Till, with a headlong giddy sweep, 2851 He drops upon the plain - 2852 2853 So I, that had resolved to bring 2854 Conviction to a ghost, 2855 And found it quite a different thing 2856 From any human arguing, 2857 Yet dared not quit my post. 2858 2859=head2 v5.22.3-RC5 - John Milton, ed. Gordon Campbell, "Paradise Regained", Book II 2860 2861L<Announced on 2017-01-02 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/01/msg242017.html> 2862 2863 Thus wore out night; and now the herald lark 2864 Left his ground-nest, high towering to descry 2865 The Morn's approach, and greet her with his song; 2866 As lightly from his grassy couch up rose 2867 Our Saviour, and found all was but a dream; 2868 Fasting he went to sleep, and fasting waked. 2869 Up to a hill anon his steps he reared, 2870 From whose high top to ken the prospect round, 2871 If cottage were in view, sheep-cote, or herd; 2872 But cottage, herd, or sheep-cote, none he saw -- 2873 Only in a bottom saw a pleasant grove, 2874 With chant of tuneful birds resounding loud; 2875 Thither he bent his way, determined there 2876 To rest at noon, and entered soon the shade, 2877 High-roofed and walks beneath, and alleys brown, 2878 That opened in the midst a woody scene; 2879 Nature's own work it seemed (Nature taught Art), 2880 And, to a superstitious eye, the haunt 2881 Of wood-gods and wood-nymphs. 2882 2883=head2 v5.22.3-RC4 - John Milton, ed. Gordon Campbell, "Paradise Lost", Book II 2884 2885L<Announced on 2016-10-12 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/10/msg240223.html> 2886 2887 Far off from these, a slow and silent stream, 2888 Lethe, the river of oblivion, rolls 2889 Her watery labyrinth, whereof who drinks 2890 Forthwith his former state and being forgets -- 2891 Forgets both joy and grief, pleasure and pain. 2892 Beyond this flood a frozen continent 2893 Lies dark and wild, beat with perpetual storms 2894 Of Whirlwind and dire hail, which on firm land 2895 Thaws not, but gathers heap, and ruin seems 2896 Of ancient pile; all else deep snow and ice, 2897 A gulf profound as that Serbonian bog 2898 Betwixt Damiata and Mount Casius old, 2899 Where armies whole have sunk: the parching air 2900 Burns frore, and cold performs the effect of fire. 2901 Thither, by harpy-footed Furies haled, 2902 At certain revolutions all the damned 2903 Are brought; and feel by turns the bitter change 2904 Of fierce extremes, extremes by change more fierce, 2905 From beds of raging fire to starve in ice 2906 Their soft ethereal warmth, and there to pine 2907 Immovable, infixed, and frozen round 2908 Periods of time -- thence hurried back to fire. 2909 They ferry over this Lethean sound 2910 Both to and fro, their sorrow to augment, 2911 And wish and struggle, as they pass, to reach 2912 The tempting stream, with one small drop to lose 2913 In sweet forgetfulness all pain and woe, 2914 All in one moment, and so near the brink; 2915 But fate withstands, and, to oppose the attempt, 2916 Medusa with Gorgonian terror guards 2917 The ford, and of itself the water flies 2918 All taste of living wight, as once it fled 2919 The lip of Tantalus. 2920 2921=head2 v5.22.3-RC3 - Dante Alighieri, trans. Dorothy L. Sayers and Barbara Reynolds, "The Divine Comedy", Cantica III: Paradise, Canto IV 2922 2923L<Announced on 2016-08-11 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/08/msg238908.html> 2924 2925 Between two dishes, equally attractive 2926 And near to him, a free man, I suppose, 2927 Would starve to death before his teeth got active; 2928 2929 So would a lamb 'twixt two fierce wolfish foes, 2930 Fearing the fangs both ways, not stir a foot; 2931 So would a deerhound halt between two does; 2932 2933 So I can't blame myself for standing mute, 2934 Nor praise myself: for I must needs so do, 2935 Suspended 'twixt two doubts, alike acute. 2936 2937=head2 v5.22.3-RC2 - Dante Alighieri, trans. Dorothy L. Sayers, "The Divine Comedy", Cantica II: Purgatory, Canto I 2938 2939L<Announced on 2016-07-25 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/07/msg238270.html> 2940 2941 For better waters heading with the wind 2942 My ship of genius now shakes out her sail 2943 And leaves that ocean of despair behind; 2944 2945 For to the second realm I tune my tale, 2946 Where human spirits purge themselves, and train 2947 To leap up into joy celestial. 2948 2949 Now from the grave wake poetry again, 2950 O sacred Muses I have served so long! 2951 Now let Calliope uplift her strain 2952 2953 And lift my voice up on the mighty song 2954 That smote the miserable Magpies nine 2955 Out of all hope of pardon for their wrong! 2956 2957=head2 v5.22.3-RC1 - Dante Alighieri, trans. Dorothy L. Sayers, "The Divine Comedy", Cantica I: Hell, Canto XII 2958 2959L<Announced on 2016-07-17 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/07/msg238071.html> 2960 2961 The place we came to, to descend the brink from, 2962 Was sheer crag; and there was a Thing there - making, 2963 All told, a prospect any eye would shrink from. 2964 2965 Like the great landslide that rushed downward, shaking 2966 The bank of Adige on this side Trent, 2967 (Whether through faulty shoring or the earth's quaking) 2968 2969 So that the rock, down from the summit rent 2970 Far as the plain, lies strewn, and one might crawl 2971 From top to bottom by that unsure descent, 2972 2973 Such was the precipice; and there we spied, 2974 Topping the cleft that split the rocky wall, 2975 That which was wombed in the false heifer's side, 2976 2977 The infamy of Crete, stretched out a-sprawl; 2978 And seeing us, he gnawed himself, like one 2979 Inly devoured with spite and burning gall. 2980 2981=head2 v5.22.2 - Gaston Leroux, trans. Mireille Ribière, "The Phantom of the Opera" 2982 2983L<Announced on 2016-04-29 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/04/msg236120.html> 2984 2985A silence; and then: 'If, in just two minutes' time by my watch--and a 2986splendid watch it is--you have not turned the scorpion, mademoiselle, I 2987shall turn the grasshopper... and the grasshopper, remember, _leaps 2988straight up into the air!_' 2989The silence that ensued was terrifying, worse than any we had 2990experienced before. I knew that when Erik spoke with that quiet, 2991gentle, slightly weary voice, it meant that he had reached the end of 2992his tether: that he was capable of the most abominable crimes or the 2993most selfless devotion; that the slightest irritation might unleash a 2994storm. 2995Realizing that our fate was out of our hands, the Viscount fell to his 2996knees and prayed. As for me, I pressed both hands to my chest, for my 2997heart was pounding so fiercely that I thought it would burst. We were 2998intensely aware of the excruciating dilemma Christine Daaé faced in 2999those final seconds. We understood why she hesitated to turn the 3000scorpion. What if the scorpion, rather than the grasshopper, were to 3001set off the explosion? What if Erik was simply intent on destroying 3002everything, regardless? 3003At last he spoke: 'The two minutes are up,' he said in a soft, angelic 3004voice. 'Goodbye, mademoiselle. Off you go, little grasshopper!' 3005 3006=head2 v5.22.2-RC1 - Gaston Leroux, trans. Mireille Ribière, "The Phantom of the Opera" 3007 3008L<Announced on 2016-04-10 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/04/msg235732.html> 3009 3010This annual ball was quite a magnificent affair. It was given some time 3011before Shrovetide to celebrate the birthday of a famous illustrator 3012whose pencil had immortalized, in the style of Gavarni, the extravagant 3013carnival parade down La Courtille. As such, the ball was an altogether 3014merrier, noisier and more Bohemian occasion than was usual for a masked 3015ball. Many artists had arranged to meet there; they arrived with an 3016entourage of models and pupils, who, by midnight, had become quite 3017boisterous. 3018Raoul climbed the grand staircase at five minutes to midnight. He did 3019not linger to admire the many-coloured costumes on display all the way 3020up the marble steps of one of the most luxurious settings in the world; 3021nor did he allow himself to be drawn into the facetious conversation of 3022masked guests. He simply ignored all the jesting remarks, and shook off 3023the attentions of several all too merry couples. 3024Crossing the big crush-room and escaping from the dancers' farandole 3025that had encircled him awhile, he at last entered the salon mentioned by 3026Christine in her letter. The small room was crammed with people either 3027on their way to supper at the restaurant in the Rotunda or back from 3028raising a glass of champagne. 3029In the midst of the gay and lively hubbub, Raoul thought that, for their 3030mysterious assignation, Christine must have preferred this crowd to some 3031lonely corner. 3032He leaned against a door-jamb and waited. He did not have to wait long; 3033a black domino passed him and deftly touched his hand. He understood 3034that it was Christine and followed her. 3035'Is that you, Christine?' he murmured, barely moving his slips. 3036The black domino promptly looked back and raised her finger to her lips, 3037no doubt to caution him against uttering her name again. Raoul followed 3038on in silence. 3039 3040=head2 v5.22.1 - Wilhelm Müller, trans. Anon., "Courage" (No. 22 in Schubert's song-cycle, "Winterreise") 3041 3042L<Announced on 2015-12-13 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/12/msg233318.html> 3043 3044 If the snow flies in my face, 3045 Let me shake it off me! 3046 If my heart within me speaks, 3047 I'll sing bright and gaily! 3048 3049 Will not listen what it says, 3050 Have no ears for moaning. 3051 Do not feel what it complains,-- 3052 Only fools like groaning! 3053 3054 Jolly brave into the world, 3055 'Gainst all wind and weather,-- 3056 If there is no God on earth, 3057 Let 's be gods down nether! 3058 3059=head2 v5.22.1-RC4 - Wilhelm Müller, trans. Anon., "The Signpost" (No. 20 in Schubert's song-cycle, "Winterreise") 3060 3061L<Announced on 2015-12-08 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/12/msg233215.html> 3062 3063 Why do I shun all those highways 3064 Which the other wanderer seeks? 3065 Why do I find bridged by-ways 3066 Through snow-covered deep creeks? 3067 3068 For I have no crime committed, 3069 Why I should now run from men,-- 3070 What demented heart's desire 3071 Drives me to a desert glen? 3072 3073 Signposts on all highways stationed 3074 Point their signs toward the towns, 3075 Whilst I wonder 'yond moderation, 3076 Without rest, yet seeking rest! 3077 3078 One such signpost I see planted 3079 Of my question unconcerned, 3080 One road must my choice be granted, 3081 Whence no man has yet returned! 3082 3083=head2 v5.22.1-RC3 - Wilhelm Müller, trans. Anon., "Stormy Morning" (No. 18 in Schubert's song-cycle, "Winterreise") 3084 3085L<Announced on 2015-12-02 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/12/msg233032.html> 3086 3087 How the storm tore rents 3088 In heavens gray attired! 3089 The rags of cloud are flying 3090 Around, of combat tired. 3091 3092 And flames of fire lambent, 3093 Fly between them and part, 3094 That 's what I call a morning, 3095 A morning after my heart! 3096 3097 My heart sees in the heavens 3098 Its own picture unspoilt-- 3099 It's nothing but the Winter, 3100 The Winter, cold and wild. 3101 3102=head2 v5.22.1-RC2 - Wilhelm Müller, trans. Anon., "The Old Head" (No. 14 in Schubert's song-cycle, "Winterreise") 3103 3104L<Announced on 2015-11-15 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/11/msg232632.html> 3105 3106 The hoary frost has a white sheen 3107 Strewn all over my hair, 3108 So I thought I was an old man 3109 And thought life dealt me fair. 3110 3111 Yet soon was thawed my old white mane, 3112 And I have my black hair again. 3113 How I abhor my young fair years, 3114 How long to wait for death and biers? 3115 3116 From setting sun to morning's hue 3117 Many a head turns white. 3118 Who'll credit it? My hair did not 3119 In all this lifelong plight! 3120 3121=head2 v5.22.1-RC1 - Wilhelm Müller, trans. Anon., "Will-o'-the Wisp" (No. 9 in Schubert's song-cycle, "Winterreise") 3122 3123L<Announced on 2015-10-31 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/10/msg232321.html> 3124 3125 In the deepest rocky crevice 3126 A will-o'-the wisp lured me; 3127 How I could find my way from here, 3128 For me it's easy memory! 3129 3130 For I am used to straying ways, 3131 Every path to th'end a way, 3132 All our joys and all our suffering,-- 3133 To a will-o'-the wisp it 's all play! 3134 3135 Through the dried-up bed of torrents 3136 I quite calmly downward stroll; 3137 Every stream its sea will enter, 3138 Every suffering finds its goal! 3139 3140=head2 v5.22.0 - Gene Wolfe, The Citadel of the Autarch 3141 3142L<Announced on 2015-06-01 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/06/msg228300.html> 3143 3144“You are the advocate of the dead.” 3145 3146The old man nodded. “I am. People talk about being fair to this one and 3147that one, but nobody I ever heard talks about doing right by them. We 3148take everything they had, which is all right. And spit, most often, on 3149their opinions, which I suppose is all right too. But we ought to 3150remember now and then how much of what we have we got from them. I 3151figure while I’m still here I ought to put a word in for them.” 3152 3153=head2 v5.22.0-RC2 - T.S. Eliot, unpublished work 3154 3155L<Announced on 2015-05-21 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/05/msg228142.html> 3156 3157 And when thyself with silver foot shall pass 3158 Among the theories scattered on the grass 3159 Take up my good intentions with the rest 3160 3161=head2 v5.22.0-RC1 - Gene Wolfe, Citadel of the Autarch 3162 3163L<Announced on 2015-05-19 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/05/msg228059.html> 3164 3165There is no limit to stupidity. Space itself is said to be bounded by 3166its own curvature, but stupidity continues beyond infinity. 3167 3168=head2 v5.21.11 - Algernon Charles Swinburne, "Dolores (Notre-Dame des Sept Douleurs)" 3169 3170L<Announced on 2015-04-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/04/msg227472.html> 3171 3172 They shall pass and their places be taken, 3173 The gods and the priests that are pure. 3174 They shall pass, and shalt thou not be shaken? 3175 They shall perish, and shalt thou endure? 3176 Death laughs, breathing close and relentless 3177 In the nostrils and eyelids of lust, 3178 With a pinch in his fingers of scentless 3179 And delicate dust. 3180 3181 But the worm shall revive thee with kisses; 3182 Thou shalt change and transmute as a god, 3183 As the rod to a serpent that hisses, 3184 As the serpent again to a rod. 3185 Thy life shall not cease though thou doff it; 3186 Thou shalt live until evil be slain, 3187 And good shall die first, said thy prophet, 3188 Our Lady of Pain. 3189 3190=head2 v5.21.10 - Aldous Huxley, "The Devils of Loudun" 3191 3192L<Announced on 2015-03-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/03/msg226847.html> 3193 3194The fire burned on, the good fathers continued to sprinkle and intone. 3195Suddenly a flock of pigeons came swooping down from the church and 3196started to wheel around the roaring column of flame and smoke. The 3197crowd shouted, the archers waved their halberds at the birds, Lactance 3198and Tranquille splashed them on the wing with holy water. In vain. The 3199pigeons were not to be driven away. Round and round they flew, diving 3200through the smoke, singeing their feathers in the flames. Both parties 3201claimed a miracle. For the parson's enemies the birds, quite obviously, 3202were a troop of devils, come to fetch away his soul. For his friends, 3203they were emblems of the Holy Ghost and living proof of his innocence. 3204It never seems to have occurred to anyone that they were just pigeons, 3205obeying the laws of their own, their blessedly other-than-human nature. 3206 3207=head2 v5.21.9 - Emily Dickinson, "There is Another Sky" 3208 3209L<Announced on 2015-02-20 by Sawyer X|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/02/msg226002.html> 3210 3211 There is another sky, 3212 Ever serene and fair, 3213 And there is another sunshine, 3214 Though it be darkness there; 3215 Never mind faded forests, Austin, 3216 Never mind silent fields - 3217 Here is a little forest, 3218 Whose leaf is ever green; 3219 Here is a brighter garden, 3220 Where not a frost has been; 3221 In its unfading flowers 3222 I hear the bright bee hum: 3223 Prithee, my brother, 3224 Into my garden come! 3225 3226=head2 v5.21.8 - Bill Watterson, "Scientific Progress Goes 'Boink': A Calvin and Hobbes Collection" 3227 3228L<Announced on 2015-01-20 by Matthew Horsfall|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/01/msg224869.html> 3229 3230Calvin: OK Hobbes, press the button and duplicate me. 3231Hobbes: Are you sure this is such a good idea? 3232Calvin: 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? 3233Hobbes: I'd hate to be accused of inhibiting scientific progress... Here you go. 3234[Box]: *BOINK* 3235Hobbes: Scientific progress goes "BOINK"? 3236Calvin?: It worked! It worked! I'm a genius! 3237Cavlin??: No you're not, you liar! *I* invented this! 3238 3239=head2 v5.21.7 - Robert Heinlein, "The Number of the Beast" 3240 3241L<Announced on 2014-12-20 by Max Maischein|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/12/msg223774.html> 3242 3243"Zebadiah, Hilda and I salvaged and put everything into the basket. 3244Hilda started to put it into our wardrobe-and it was heavy. So 3245we looked. Packed as tight as when we left Oz. Six bananas-and 3246everything else. Cross my heart. No, go look." 3247"Hmmm- Jake, can you write equations for a picnic basket that 3248refills itself? Will it go on doing so?" 3249"Zeb, equations can be written to describe anything. The description 3250would be simpler for a basket that replenishes itself indefinitely 3251than for one that does it once and stops-I would have to describe 3252the discontinuity." 3253 3254=head2 v5.21.6 - Jeff Noon, "Vurt" 3255 3256L<Announced on 2014-11-20 by Chris 'BinGOs' Williams|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/11/msg222448.html> 3257 3258GAME CAT 3259 3260EXCHANGE MECHANISMS. Sometimes we lose precious 3261things. Friends and colleagues, fellow travellers in the 3262Vurt, sometimes we lose them; even lovers we sometimes 3263lose. And get bad things in exchange: aliens, objects, 3264snakes, and sometimes even death. Things we don't want. 3265This is part of the deal, part of the game deal; 3266all things, in all worlds, must be kept in balance. 3267Kittlings often ask, who decides on the swappings? Now then, 3268some say it's all accidental; that some poor Vurt thing 3269finds himself too close to a door, at too critical a time, 3270just when something real is being lost. Whoosh! Swap time! 3271Others say that some kind of overseer is working the 3272MECHANISMS OF EXCHANGE, deciding the fate of innocents. 3273The Cat can only tease at this, because of the big secrets 3274involved, and because of the levels between you, the reader, 3275and me, the Game Cat. Hey, listen; I've struggled to get 3276where I am today; why should I give you the easy route? 3277Get working, kittlings! Reach up higher. Work the Vurt. 3278 3279=head2 v5.21.5 - Friso Wiegersma (text), Jean Ferrat (music), Wim Sonneveld (performer), "Het Dorp" 3280 3281L<Announced on 2014-10-20 by Abigail|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/10/msg221399.html> 3282 3283 Het Dorp 3284 3285 Thuis heb ik nog een ansichtkaart 3286 waarop een kerk, een kar met paard, 3287 een slagerij J. van der Ven. 3288 Een kroeg, een juffrouw op de fiets 3289 het zegt u hoogstwaarschijnlijk niets, 3290 maar 't is waar ik geboren ben. 3291 Dit dorp, ik weet nog hoe het was, 3292 de boerenkind'ren in de klas, 3293 een kar die ratelt op de keien, 3294 het raadhuis met een pomp ervoor, 3295 een zandweg tussen koren door, 3296 het vee, de boerderijen. 3297 3298 En langs het tuinpad van m'n vader 3299 zag ik de hoge bomen staan. 3300 Ik was een kind en wist niet beter, 3301 dan dat dat nooit voorbij zou gaan. 3302 3303 Wat leefden ze eenvoudig toen 3304 in simp'le huizen tussen groen 3305 met boerenbloemen en een heg. 3306 Maar blijkbaar leefden ze verkeerd, 3307 het dorp is gemoderniseerd 3308 en nu zijn ze op de goeie weg. 3309 Want ziet, hoe rijk het leven is, 3310 ze zien de televisiequiz 3311 en wonen in betonnen dozen, 3312 met flink veel glas, dan kun je zien 3313 hoe of het bankstel staat bij Mien 3314 en d'r dressoir met plastic rozen. 3315 3316 En langs het tuinpad van m'n vader 3317 zag ik de hoge bomen staan. 3318 Ik was een kind en wist niet beter, 3319 dan dat dat nooit voorbij zou gaan. 3320 3321 De dorpsjeugd klit wat bij elkaar 3322 in minirok en beatle-haar 3323 en joelt wat mee met beat-muziek. 3324 Ik weet wel, het is hun goeie recht, 3325 de nieuwe tijd, net wat u zegt, 3326 maar het maakt me wat melancholiek. 3327 Ik heb hun vaders nog gekend 3328 ze kochten zoethout voor een cent 3329 ik zag hun moeders touwtjespringen. 3330 Dat dorp van toen, het is voorbij, 3331 dit is al wat er bleef voor mij: 3332 een ansicht en herinneringen. 3333 3334 Toen ik langs het tuinpad van m'n vader 3335 de hoge bomen nog zag staan. 3336 Ik was een kind, hoe kon ik weten 3337 dat dat voorgoed voorbij zou gaan. 3338 3339=head2 v5.21.4 - Edgar Allan Poe, "The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket" 3340 3341L<Announced on 2014-09-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/09/msg220267.html> 3342 3343To-day, being in latitude 83° 20', longitude 43° 5' W. (the sea being 3344of an extraordinarily dark colour), we again saw land from the 3345masthead, and, upon a closer scrutiny, found it to be one of a group 3346of very large islands. The shore was precipitous, and the interior 3347seemed to be well wooded, a circumstance which occasioned us great 3348joy. In about four hours from our first discovering the land we came 3349to anchor in ten fathoms, sandy bottom, a league from the coast, as a 3350high surf, with strong ripples here and there, rendered a nearer 3351approach of doubtful expediency. The two largest boats were now 3352ordered out, and a party, well armed (among whome were Peters and 3353myself), proceeded to look for an opening in the reef which appeared 3354to encircle the island. After searching about for some time, we 3355discovered an inlet, which we were entering, when we saw four large 3356canoes put off from the shore, filled with men who seemed to be well 3357armed. We waited for them to come up, and, as they moved with great 3358rapidity, they were soon within hail. Captain Guy now held up a white 3359handkerchief on the blade of an oar, when the strangers made a full 3360stop, and commenced a loud jabbering all at once, intermingled with 3361occasional shouts, in which we could distinguish the words Anamoo-moo! 3362and Lama-Lama! They continued this for at least half an hour, during 3363which we had a good opportunity of observing their appearance. 3364 3365=head2 v5.21.3 - Robert Service, "The Men that Don't Fit In" 3366 3367L<Announced on 2014-08-20 by Peter Martini|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/08/msg218826.html> 3368 3369 If they just went straight they might go far, 3370 They are strong and brave and true; 3371 But they're always tired of the things that are, 3372 And they want the strange and new. 3373 They say: "Could I find my proper groove, 3374 What a deep mark I would make!" 3375 So they chop and change, and each fresh move 3376 Is only a fresh mistake. 3377 3378=head2 v5.21.2 - Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, Charlie Duke, Final minutes of communication of the first manned moon landing, July 20, 1969 3379 3380L<Announced on 2014-07-20 by Abigail|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/07/msg217937.html> 3381 3382 Armstrong: Okay. Here's a...Looks like a good area here. 3383 Aldrin: I got the shadow out there. 3384 Aldrin: 250, down at 2 1/2, 19 forward. 3385 Aldrin: Altitude, velocity lights. 3386 Aldrin: 3 1/2 down, 220 feet, 13 forward. 3387 Aldrin: 11 forward. Coming down nicely. 3388 Armstrong: Gonna be right over that crater. 3389 Aldrin: 200 feet, 4 1/2 down. 3390 Aldrin: 5 1/2 down. 3391 Armstrong: I got a good spot [garbled]. 3392 Aldrin: 160 feet, 6 1/2 down. 3393 Aldrin: 5 1/2 down, 9 forward. You're looking good. 3394 Aldrin: 120 feet. 3395 Aldrin: 100 feet, 3 1/2 down, 9 forward. Five percent. Quantity light. 3396 Aldrin: Okay. 75 feet. And it's looking good. Down a half, 6 forward. 3397 Duke: 60 seconds. 3398 Aldrin: Light's on. 3399 Aldrin: 60 feet, down 2 1/2. 2 forward. 2 forward. That's good. 3400 Aldrin: 40 feet, down 2 1/2. Picking up some dust. 3401 Aldrin: 30 feet, 2 1/2 down. [Garbled] shadow. 3402 Aldrin: 4 forward. 4 forward. Drifting to the right a little. 20 feet, 3403 down a half. 3404 Duke: 30 seconds. 3405 Aldrin: Drifting forward just a little bit; that's good. 3406 Aldrin: Contact Light. 3407 Armstrong: Shutdown. 3408 Aldrin: Okay. Engine Stop. 3409 Aldrin: ACA out of Detent. 3410 Armstrong: Out of Detent. Auto. 3411 Aldrin: Mode Control, both Auto. Descent Engine Command Override, Off. 3412 Engine Arm, Off. 413 is in. 3413 Duke: We copy you down, Eagle. 3414 Armstrong: Engine arm is off. 3415 Armstrong: Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed. 3416 Duke: Roger, Twan...[correcting himself] Tranquility. We copy you on 3417 the ground. You got a bunch of guys about to turn blue. 3418 We're breathing again. Thanks a lot. 3419 Aldrin: Thank you. 3420 3421=head2 v5.21.1 - Robert Jordan, "The Crossroads of Twilights", Book 10 of "The Wheel of Time" 3422 3423L<Announced on 2014-06-20 by Matthew Horsfall|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/06/msg217030.html> 3424 3425 We rode on the winds of the rising storm, 3426 We ran to the sounds of the thunder. 3427 We danced among the lightning bolts, 3428 and tore the world asunder. 3429 3430 -- Anonymous fragment of a poem believed 3431 written near the end of the previous Age, 3432 known by some as the Third Age. 3433 Sometimes attributed to the Dragon 3434 Reborn. 3435 3436=head2 v5.21.0 - Friedrich von Schiller, "The Song of the Bell" 3437 3438L<Announced on 2014-05-27 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/05/msg215826.html> 3439 3440 Walled in fast within the earth 3441 Stands the form burnt out of clay. 3442 This must be the bell’s great birth! 3443 Fellows, lend a hand to-day. 3444 Sweat must trickle now 3445 From the burning brow, 3446 Till the work its master honour. 3447 Blessing comes from Heaven’s Donor. 3448 3449=head2 v5.20.3 - Elias Lönnrot, trans. Keith Bosley, "The Kalevala", Canto 42: Stealing the Sampo 3450 3451L<Announced on 2015-09-12 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/09/msg230945.html> 3452 3453 Steady old Väinämöinen 3454 uttered a word and spoke thus: 3455 'No lilting on the waters 3456 and no singing on the waves! 3457 Song keeps you lazy 3458 tales delay rowing. 3459 Precious day would pass and night 3460 would overtake us midway 3461 on these wide waters 3462 upon these vast waves.' 3463 3464 The wanton Lemminkäinen 3465 uttered a word and spoke thus: 3466 'The time will pass anyway 3467 the fair day will flee 3468 and the night will come panting 3469 and the twilight will steal in 3470 if you don't sing while you live 3471 nor hum in this world.' 3472 3473=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" 3474 3475L<Announced on 2015-08-29 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/08/msg230544.html> 3476 3477'I fled from Basra, sad and tearful, with no idea where I was going, 3478and I was reciting these lines: 3479 3480 The pain of parting makes me melt away, 3481 As lovers do when those they love are harsh. 3482 I wonder at the patience that I showed 3483 When I had lost my love, for that was wonderful. 3484 Beloved, do you know that since you left, 3485 I have remained confused in misery. 3486 3487I then heard a voice that said: "Damn you, have you no fear of 3488Almighty God that you hand over a girl to an unbelieving 'ifrit?" I 3489walked for a time amongst the palm-trees until I caught sight of a 3490person, whom I approached. When I asked him who he was he said: "I 3491am one of the jinn who were converted to Islam at the hands of 'Ali 3492ibn Abi Talib, may God ennoble him." "How can I get to my wife?" I 3493asked him, and he said: "Wretched fellow, you had a bird which you 3494allowed to fly away and now you want to fly after it." But he 3495added: "Follow this road with God's blessing all night until dawn 3496and then by the shore you will see a huge cave in which there is an 3497idol made of white stone. You must drink of the water that there is 3498coming out of the cave and smear your face with its mud. Stay there 3499and a barge will pass you as you stand opposite the statue. Various 3500different creatures will emerge, heads without bodies and bodies 3501without heads, and they will prostrate themselves in adoration to 3502the idol rather than to Almighty God. When you see that, embark on 3503the barge and cross to the other bank and walk along it until 3504sunset. On a high point you will see a castle built of bricks of 3505gold and silver. That is where your 'ifrit will be. I have now 3506told you about this, so goodbye." 3507 3508=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" 3509 3510L<Announced on 2015-08-22 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/08/msg230359.html> 3511 3512'On the night of the wedding the ape came to sit in front of me and 3513asked me what I intended to do. "Whatever you tell me," I replied, 3514and he said: "Take care not to covet the girl, or I shall come back 3515and burn you up and leave you as a lesson for those who can learn." 3516I agreed to this and when evening came I found the world full of 3517candles and torches burning in holders of gold and silver. There 3518were servants and serving girls, and everyone who saw me 3519congratulated me on my good fortune, as there was no girl on the 3520face of the earth more beautiful than my bride. 3521[...] 3522'Next morning I went out to the market, and people went in and asked 3523her how the night had been. "He never looked up at me," she told 3524them. Then, when it was afternoon, I went to my house, where the 3525ape was sitting by the door. "Tell me what you did," it said, and I 3526told it: "By God, I did not learn and do not know whether this was a 3527man or a girl." "That's what I want," it said. 3528[...] 3529'On the second night my bride was brought to me, after which the 3530servants left her and went away. She fell asleep, and, while she 3531was sleeping, I killed the cock, wrapped it in the cloth and put the 3532four poles from the couch over it. Suddenly there was a huge crash 3533like a peal of thunder and a fiery 'ifrit swooped on the girl. I 3534fainted at the sight and when I recovered I heard a voice saying: 3535"By the Lord of the Ka'ba, the girl has been carried off!" and there 3536was a sound like the rustling of wind and bitter weeping. At this I 3537shed tears, struck my head and was filled with regret when it was no 3538longer of any use, for to me the whole world was worth no more than 3539a bean. 3540 3541=head2 v5.20.2 - Jonathan "Jonti" Picking, L<"Magical Trevor"|http://weebls-stuff.com/toons/magical-trevor-episode-01-animated-music-video-mrweebl/> 3542 3543L<Announced on 2015-02-14 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/02/msg225777.html> 3544 3545 Everyone loves Magical Trevor, 3546 'Cos the tricks that he does are ever so clever; 3547 Look at him now, disappearin' the cow, 3548 Where is the cow hidden right now? 3549 3550 Taking a bow, it's Magical Trevor, 3551 Everybody's seen that the trick is clever; 3552 Look at him there with his leathery, leathery whip! 3553 It's made of magic, and with a little flip-- 3554 3555 Yeah, yeah, yeah, the cow is back, 3556 Yeah, yeah, yeah, the cow is back; 3557 Back, back, back from his magical journey, 3558 Yeah! 3559 3560 What did he see in the parallel dimension? 3561 He saw beans, lots of beans, lots of beans, lots of beans; 3562 Oh, beans, lots of beans, lots of beans, lots of beans, 3563 Yeah, yeah! 3564 3565=head2 v5.20.2-RC1 - Jonathan "Jonti" Picking, L<"Scampi"|http://weebls-stuff.com/toons/ive-seen-things-scampi-animated-music-video-mrweebl/> 3566 3567L<Announced on 2015-02-01 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/02/msg225273.html> 3568 3569 I've seen things, 3570 I've seen them with my eyes; 3571 I've seen things, 3572 They're often in disguise. 3573 3574 Like carrots, handbags, cheese, toilets, 3575 Russians, planets, hamsters, weddings, 3576 Poets, Stalin, Kuala Lumpur! 3577 Pygmies, budgies, Kuala Lumpur! 3578 3579 I've seen things, 3580 I've seen them with my eyes; 3581 I've seen things, 3582 They're often in disguise. 3583 3584 Like carrots, handbags, cheese... 3585 3586=head2 v5.20.1 - Lorenzo da Ponte, trans. Diana Reed, "Così fan tutte" 3587 3588L<Announced on 2014-09-14 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/09/msg219789.html> 3589 3590 DORABELLA (as if waking from a daze): Where are they? 3591 DON ALFONSO: They've gone. 3592 FIORDILIGI: Oh, the cruel bitterness of parting! 3593 3594 DON ALFONSO: 3595 Take heart, my dearest children. 3596 Look, in the distance, your lovers are waving to you. 3597 3598 FIORDILIGI: Bon voyage, my darling! 3599 DORABELLA: Bon voyage! 3600 3601 FIORDILIGI: 3602 O heavens! How swiftly the ship is sailing away! 3603 It is disappearing already! 3604 It is no longer in sight! 3605 Oh, may heaven grant it a prosperous voyage! 3606 3607 DORABELLA: May good luck attend it to the battlefield! 3608 DON ALFONSO: And may your sweethearts and my friends be safe! 3609 3610 FIORDILIGI, DORABELLA, DON ALFONSO: 3611 May the wind be gentle, 3612 may the sea be calm, 3613 and may the elements 3614 respond kindly 3615 to our wishes. 3616 3617=head2 v5.20.1-RC2 - Lorenzo da Ponte, trans. William Weaver, "Così fan tutte" 3618 3619L<Announced on 2014-09-07 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/09/msg219446.html> 3620 3621 GUGLIELMO: 3622 Oh God, I feel that this foot of mine 3623 is reluctant to come before her. 3624 3625 FERRANDO: 3626 My trembling lip 3627 can utter no word. 3628 3629 DON ALFONSO: 3630 The hero displays his manliness 3631 in the most terrible moments. 3632 3633 FIORDILIGI, DORABELLA: 3634 Now that we have heard the news, 3635 you have the lesser duty: 3636 Take heart, and plunge your swords 3637 into both our hearts. 3638 3639 FERRANDO, GUGLIELMO: 3640 My idol, blame fate 3641 that I must abandon you. 3642 3643 DORABELLA: Ah no, you shall not leave... 3644 FIORDILIGI: No, cruel one, you shall not go... 3645 DORABELLA: First I want to tear out my heart. 3646 FIORDILIGI: First I want to die at your feet. 3647 FERRANDO (softly to Don Alfonso): What do you say to that? 3648 GUGLIELMO (softly to Don Alfonso): You realise? 3649 DON ALFONSO (softly): Steady, friend, finem lauda. 3650 3651 ALL: 3652 Thus destiny defrauds 3653 the hopes of mortals. 3654 Ah, among so many misfortunes, 3655 who can ever love life? 3656 3657=head2 v5.20.1-RC1 - Lorenzo da Ponte, trans. William Weaver, "Così fan tutte" 3658 3659L<Announced on 2014-08-25 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/08/msg218975.html> 3660 3661 DON ALFONSO: 3662 I'd like to speak, but I haven't the heart: 3663 my lip stammers. 3664 My voice cannot emerge, 3665 but remains in my throat. 3666 What will you do? What shall I do? 3667 Oh what a great catastrophe! 3668 There can be nothing worse. 3669 I feel pity for you and for them. 3670 3671 FIORDILIGI: Heavens! For mercy's sake, Signor Alfonso, don't make us 3672 die. 3673 DON ALFONSO: My children, you must arm yourselves with constancy. 3674 DORABELLA: Ye Gods! What evil has occurred? What horrible event? Is my 3675 love dead, perhaps? 3676 FIORDILIGI: Is mine dead? 3677 DON ALFONSO: They are not dead, but they are not far from it. 3678 DORABELLA: Wounded? 3679 DON ALFONSO: No. 3680 FIORDILIGI: Ill? 3681 DON ALFONSO: Nor that. 3682 FIORDILIGI: What, then? 3683 DON ALFONSO: A royal command summons them to the field of battle. 3684 FIORDILIGI, DORABELLA: Alas, what do I hear? And they will leave? 3685 DON ALFONSO: Immediately. 3686 DORABELLA: And there is no way of preventing it? 3687 DON ALFONSO: There is none. 3688 FIORDILIGI: And not even a single farewell... 3689 DON ALFONSO: The unhappy men haven't the courage to see you; but if 3690 you wish it, they are ready... 3691 DORABELLA: Where are they? 3692 DON ALFONSO: Come in, friends. 3693 3694=head2 v5.20.0 - William Shakespeare, Sonnet 18 3695 3696L<Announced on 2014-05-27 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/05/msg215815.html> 3697 3698 But thy eternal summer shall not fade, 3699 Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st; 3700 Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade, 3701 When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st: 3702 So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, 3703 So long lives this, and this gives life to thee. 3704 3705=head2 v5.20.0-RC1 - Lindsey Buckingham, "Second Hand News" 3706 3707L<Announced on 2014-05-17 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/05/msg215479.html> 3708 3709 When times go bad 3710 when times go rough 3711 Won't you lay me down in tall grass 3712 And let me do my stuff 3713 3714=head2 v5.19.11 - Isidore-Lucien Ducasse [as "Comte de Lautréamont"], trans. Paul Knight, "Les Chants de Maldoror" 3715 3716L<Announced on 2014-04-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/04/msg214580.html> 3717 3718O rigorous mathematics, I have not forgotten you since your wise lessons, 3719sweeter than honey, filtered into my heart like a refreshing wave. 3720Instinctively, from the cradle, I had longed to drink from your source, older 3721than the sun, and I continue to tread the sacred sanctuary of your solemn 3722temple, I, the most faithful of your devotees. There was a vagueness in my 3723mind, something thick as smoke; but I managed to mount the steps which lead to 3724your altar, and you drove away this dark veil, as the wind blows the 3725draught-board. You replaced it with excessive coldness, consummate prudence and 3726implacable logic. With the aid of your fortifying milk, my intellect developed 3727rapidly and took on immense proportions amid the ravishing lucidity which you 3728bestow as a gift on all those who sincerely love you. Arithmetic! Algebra! 3729Geometry! Awe-inspiring trinity! Luminous triangle! He who has not known you 3730is a fool! 3731 3732=head2 v5.19.10 - John Chadwick, "The Decipherment of Linear B" 3733 3734L<Announced on 2014-03-20 by Aaron Crane|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/03/msg213851.html> 3735 3736The urge to discover secrets is deeply ingrained in human nature; even 3737the least curious mind is roused by the promise of sharing knowledge 3738withheld from others. Some are fortunate enough to find a job which 3739consists in the solution of mysteries, whether it be the physicist who 3740tracks down a hitherto unknown nuclear particle or the policeman who 3741detects a criminal. But most of us are driven to sublimate this urge 3742by the solving of artificial puzzles devised for our entertainment. 3743 3744=head2 v5.19.9 - R. A. MacAvoy, "Tea with the Black Dragon" 3745 3746L<Announced on 2014-02-20 by Tony Cook|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/02/msg213047.html> 3747 3748Old hands. The smell of rain--the smell of Ch'an. Quiet words in 3749rough Cantonese. "I am not to be your master. Your master has to be 3750stronger than you are--has to tell you you are a fool and make you 3751know it. And make you feel content in being a fool. How could I do 3752that for you? I'm old. You are too strong for me; you are full of 3753chi." The old man has paused then, huddled against the wind while 3754clouds thickened above them. 3755 3756"I will tell you this, Long," he continued, "Before you find yourself 3757you will lose your chi. Also you will leave behind you all pride of 3758body, pride of mind. You will be reduced. Like me." The old man 3759closed his eyes, and rain began to beat against his gray, crew-cut 3760hair. He pulled his coat closer. Suddenly his eyes snapped open and 3761he looked Long in the face. 3762 3763"You must leave China. Go across the ocean. There you will meet your 3764master." He set down his teacup with a palsied hand. His voice rose, 3765grew fierce. 3766 3767"I tell you this, most honored and impressive visitor. You are a 3768fool, yes, but you will find the very thing you seek. You will find 3769truth!" 3770 3771=head2 v5.19.8 - Joseph Heller, "Catch-22" 3772 3773L<Announced on 2014-01-20 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/01/msg211729.html> 3774 3775“I used to get a big kick out of saving people’s lives. Now I wonder what the 3776hell’s the point, since they all have to die anyway.” 3777 3778“Oh, there’s a point, all right,” Dunbar assured him. 3779 3780“Is there? What is the point?” 3781 3782“The point is to keep them from dying for as long as you can.” 3783 3784“Yeah, but what’s the point, since they all have to die anyway?” 3785 3786“The trick is not to think about that.” 3787 3788“Never mind the trick. What the hell’s the point?” 3789 3790Dunbar pondered in silence for a few moments. “Who the hell knows?” 3791 3792=head2 v5.19.7 - Kurt Vonnegut, "Slaughterhouse-Five" 3793 3794L<Announced on 2013-12-20 by Abigail|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/12/msg210882.html> 3795 3796And somewhere in there was springtime. The corpse mines were closed 3797down. The soldiers all left to fight the Russians. In the suburbs, 3798the women and children dug rifle pits. Billy and the rest of his group 3799were locked up in the stable in the suburbs. And then, one morning, 3800they got up to discover that the door was unlocked. World War Two in 3801Europe was over. 3802 3803Billy and the rest wandered out onto the shady street. The trees were 3804leafing out. There was nothing going on out there, no traffic of any 3805kind. There was only one vehicle, an abandoned wagon drawn by two 3806horses. The wagon was green and coffin-shaped. 3807 3808Birds were talking. 3809 3810One bird said to Billy Pilgrim, "Pee-tee-weet?" 3811 3812=head2 v5.19.6 - Monty Python's Flying Circus, "Spam" 3813 3814L<Announced on 2013-11-20 by Chris 'BinGOs' Williams|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/11/msg210043.html> 3815 3816 Interior: cheap cafe. All the customers are Vikings. Mr and Mrs Bun enter downwards (on wires). 3817 3818 Mr. Bun: Morning. 3819 Waitress: Morning. 3820 Mr. Bun: What have you got, then? 3821 Waitress: Well there's egg and bacon; egg, sausage and bacon; egg and spam; egg, bacon and spam; 3822 egg, bacon, sausage and spam; spam, bacon, sausage and spam; spam, egg, spam, spam, bacon and spam; 3823 spam, spam, spam, egg and spam; spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, baked beans, spam, spam, spam and spam; 3824 or lobster thermidor aux crevettes, with a mornay sauce garnished with truffle pate, brandy and a fried 3825 egg on top and spam 3826 Mrs. Bun: Have you got anything without spam in it? 3827 Waitress: Well, there's spam, egg, sausage and spam. That's not got MUCH spam in it. 3828 Mrs. Bun: I don't want ANY spam. 3829 Mr. Bun: Why can't she have egg, bacon, spam and sausage? 3830 Mrs. Bun: That's got spam in it! 3831 Mr. Bun: Not as much as spam, egg, sausage and spam. 3832 Mrs. Bun: Look, could I have egg, bacon, spam and sausage, without the spam. 3833 Waitress: Uuuuuuggggh! 3834 Mrs. Bun: What d'you mean, uugggh! I don't like spam. 3835 Vikings: (singing) Spam, spam, spam, spam, spam ... spam, spam, spam, spam ... lovely spam, wonderful spam ... 3836 3837 (Brief shot of a Viking ship) 3838 3839 Waitress: Shut up. Shut up! Shut up! You can't have egg, bacon, spam and sausage without the spam. 3840 Mrs. Bun: Why not? 3841 Waitress: No, it wouldn't be egg, bacon, spam and sausage, would it? 3842 Mrs. Bun: I don't like spam! 3843 3844=head2 v5.19.5 - Charles Baudelaire, trans. James McGowan, "The Flowers of Evil", 51. The Cat 3845 3846L<Announced on 2013-10-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/10/msg208752.html> 3847 3848 I 3849 3850 A cat is strolling through my mind 3851 Acting as though he owned the place, 3852 A lovely cat -- strong, charming, sweet. 3853 When he meows, one scarcely hears, 3854 3855 So tender and discreet his tone; 3856 But whether he should growl or purr 3857 His voice is always rich and deep. 3858 That is the secret of his charm. 3859 3860 This purling voice that filters down 3861 Into my darkest depths of soul 3862 Fulfils me like a balanced verse, 3863 Delights me as a potion would. 3864 3865 It puts to sleep the cruellest ills 3866 And keeps a rein on ecstasies -- 3867 Without the need for any words 3868 It can pronounce the longest phrase. 3869 3870 Oh no, there is no bow that draws 3871 Across my heart, fine instrument, 3872 And makes to sing so royally 3873 The strongest and the purest chord, 3874 3875 More than your voice, mysterious cat, 3876 Exotic cat, seraphic cat, 3877 In whom all is, angelically, 3878 As subtle as harmonious. 3879 3880 II 3881 3882 From his soft fur, golden and brown, 3883 Goes out so sweet a scent, one night 3884 I might have been embalmed in it 3885 By giving him one little pet. 3886 3887 He is my household's guardian soul; 3888 He judges, he presides, inspires 3889 All matters in hos royal realm; 3890 Might he be fairy? or a god? 3891 3892 When my eyes, to this cat I love 3893 Drawn as by a magnet's force, 3894 Turn tamely back from that appeal, 3895 And when I look within myself, 3896 3897 I notice with astonishment 3898 The fire of his opal eyes, 3899 Clear beacons glowing, living jewels, 3900 Taking my measure, steadily. 3901 3902=head2 v5.19.4 - Washington Irving, "The Widow and Her Son" 3903 3904L<Announced on 2013-09-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/09/msg207969.html> 3905 3906There is something in sickness that breaks down the pride of manhood; 3907that softens the heart and brings it back to the feelings of infancy. 3908Who that has languished, even in advanced life, in sickness and 3909despondency — who that has pined on a weary bed in the neglect and 3910loneliness of a foreign land — but has thought on the mother "that 3911looked on his childhood," that smoothed his pillow and administered to 3912his helplessness. — Oh! there is an enduring tenderness in the love 3913of a mother to her son that transcends all other affections of the 3914heart. It is neither to be chilled by selfishness — nor daunted by 3915danger — nor weakened by worthlessness — nor stifled by ingratitude. 3916She will sacrifice every comfort to his convenience — she will 3917surrender every pleasure to his enjoyment — she will glory in his fame 3918and exult in his prosperity. And if misfortune overtake him he will 3919be the dearer to her from misfortune — and if disgrace settle upon his 3920name, she will still love and cherish him in spite of his disgrace — 3921and if all the world beside cast him off, she will be all the world to 3922him. 3923 3924=head2 v5.19.3 - Andrew Hodges, "Alan Turing: The Enigma" 3925 3926L<Announced on 2013-08-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/08/msg206318.html> 3927 3928E.M. Forster, outdoing the King's heresy with grand bravura, had 3929written in 1938 that if he were faced with the choice between 3930betraying his country and betraying his friends, he hoped he would 3931have the courage to betray his country. He would always put the 3932personal above the political. But for Alan Turing, unlike Forster, or 3933Wittgenstein, or G.H. Hardy, it was more than a theoretical question. 3934For him not only had the personal become the political, but the 3935political was the personal. He had chosen and promised for himself in 3936working for the government. The choice for him therefore was that 3937between betraying one part of himself and betraying another part. And 3938however much he wavered between these alternatives, there was a solid 3939logic to the mind of security, one that could not be expected to take 3940an interest in notions of freedom and development. He had no rights 3941to such things, as he would have had to admit. He might have 3942outwitted the Home Guard, but when it came to questions that mattered, 3943there was no doubt that he had placed himself under military law. 3944There was a war on; there was always a war on now. 3945 3946=head2 v5.19.2 - Fred Brooks, "The Mythical Man-Month" 3947 3948L<Announced on 2013-07-22 by Aristotle Pagaltzis|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/07/msg204905.html> 3949 3950The magic of myth and legend has come true in our time. One types the 3951correct incantation on a keyboard, and a display screen comes to life, 3952showing things that never were nor could be. [...] Not all is delight, 3953however [...] One must perform perfectly. The computer resembles the 3954magic of legend in this respect, too. If one character, one pause, of 3955the incantation is not strictly in proper form, the magic doesn't work. 3956 3957=head2 v5.19.1 - William Shakespeare, "A Midsummer Night's Dream" 3958 3959L<Announced on 2013-06-21 by David Golden|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/06/msg203449.html> 3960 3961 Over hill, over dale, 3962 Thorough bush, thorough briar, 3963 Over park, over pale, 3964 Thorough flood, thorough fire, 3965 I do wander everywhere, 3966 Swifter than the moon's sphere; 3967 And I serve the fairy queen, 3968 To dew her orbs upon the green. 3969 The cowslips tall her pensioners be; 3970 In their gold coats, spots you see; 3971 Those be rubies, fairy favours, 3972 In their freckles live our savours. 3973 I must go seek some dew-drops here, 3974 And hang a perl in every cowslip's ear. 3975 Farewell, thou lob of spirits, I'll be gone; 3976 My queen and all her elves come here anon! 3977 3978=head2 v5.19.0 - Batman, of the Joker, in "The Dark Knight Returns" 3979 3980L<Announced on 2013-05-20 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/05/msg201980.html> 3981 3982 From the beginning, I knew… 3983 …that there was nothing wrong with you… 3984 …that I can't fix… 3985 …with my hands… 3986 3987=head2 v5.18.4 - Robert W. Chambers, Cassilda's Song in "The King in Yellow," Act I, Scene 2 3988 3989L<Announced on 2014-10-01 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/10/msg220770.html> 3990 3991 Along the shore the cloud waves break, 3992 The twin suns sink beneath the lake, 3993 The shadows lengthen 3994 In Carcosa. 3995 3996 Strange is the night where black stars rise, 3997 And strange moons circle through the skies 3998 But stranger still is 3999 Lost Carcosa. 4000 4001 Songs that the Hyades shall sing, 4002 Where flap the tatters of the King, 4003 Must die unheard in 4004 Dim Carcosa. 4005 4006 Song of my soul, my voice is dead; 4007 Die thou, unsung, as tears unshed 4008 Shall dry and die in 4009 Lost Carcosa. 4010 4011=head2 v5.18.3 - (no epigraph) 4012 4013(no epigraph) 4014 4015=head2 v5.18.3-RC2 - Robert W. Chambers, "The King in Yellow", Act I, Scene 2 4016 4017L<Announced on 2014-09-27 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/09/msg220613.html> 4018 4019"Ah! I see it now!" I shrieked. "You have seized the throne and the 4020empire. Woe! woe to you who are crowned with the crown of the King in 4021Yellow!" 4022 4023=head2 v5.18.3-RC1 - Robert W. Chambers, "The King in Yellow", Act I, Scene 2 4024 4025L<Announced on 2014-09-17 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/09/msg220072.html> 4026 4027 CAMILLA: You, sir, should unmask. 4028 4029 STRANGER: Indeed? 4030 4031 CASSILDA: Indeed it's time. We all have laid aside disguise but you. 4032 4033 STRANGER: I wear no mask. 4034 4035 CAMILLA: (Terrified, aside to Cassilda.) No mask? No mask! 4036 4037=head2 v5.18.2 - Miss Manners 4038 4039L<Announced on 2014-01-06 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/01/msg211224.html> 4040 4041One of the major mistakes people make is that they think manners are 4042only the expression of happy ideas. There's a whole range of behavior 4043that can be expressed in a mannerly way. That's what civilization is all 4044about – doing it in a mannerly and not an antagonistic way. One of the 4045places we went wrong was the naturalistic Rousseauean movement of the 4046Sixties in which people said, "Why can't you just say what's on your 4047mind?" In civilization there have to be some restraints. If we followed 4048every impulse, we'd be killing one another. 4049 4050=head2 v5.18.1 - Chuck Moore 4051 4052L<Announced on 2013-08-12 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/08/msg205897.html> 4053 4054The operating system is another concept that is curious. Operating 4055systems are dauntingly complex and totally unnecessary. It’s a brilliant 4056thing that Bill Gates has done in selling the world on the notion of 4057operating systems. It’s probably the greatest con game the world has 4058ever seen. 4059 4060An operating system does absolutely nothing for you. As long as you had 4061something — a subroutine called disk driver, a subroutine called some 4062kind of communication support, in the modern world, it doesn’t do 4063anything else. In fact, Windows spends a lot of time with overlays and 4064disk management all stuff like that which are irrelevant. You’ve got 4065gigabyte disks; you’ve got megabyte RAMs. The world has changed in a way 4066that renders the operating system unnecessary. 4067 4068=head2 v5.18.1-RC1 - Chuck Moore 4069 4070L<Announced on 2013-08-02 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/08/msg205445.html> 4071 4072Compilers are probably the worst code ever written. They are written by 4073someone who has never written a compiler before and will never do so 4074again. The more elaborate the language, the more complex, bug-ridden, 4075and unusable is the compiler. But a simple compiler for a simple 4076language is an essential tool—if only for documentation. 4077 4078=head2 v5.18.0 - Yevgeny Zamyatin 4079 4080L<Announced on 2013-05-18 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/05/msg201940.html> 4081 4082It is an error to divide people into the living and the dead: there are people 4083who are dead-alive, and people who are alive-alive. The dead-alive also write, 4084walk, speak, act. But they make no mistakes; only machines make no mistakes, 4085and they produce only dead things. The alive-alive are constantly in error, in 4086search, in questions, in torment. 4087 4088=head2 v5.18.0-RC4 - Joseph Heller, "Catch-22" 4089 4090L<Announced on 2013-05-16 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/05/msg201889.html> 4091 4092Clevinger was dead. That was the basic flaw in his philosophy. 4093 4094=head2 v5.18.0-RC3 - Tom Waits, "The Ocean Doesn't Want Me" 4095 4096L<Announced on 2013-05-14 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/05/msg201823.html> 4097 4098 I'd love to go drowning 4099 And to stay and to stay 4100 But the ocean doesn't want me today 4101 I'll go in up to here 4102 It can't possibly hurt 4103 All they will find is my beer 4104 And my shirt 4105 4106=head2 v5.18.0-RC2 - Tom Waits, "Earth Died Screaming" 4107 4108L<Announced on 2013-05-12 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/05/msg201723.html> 4109 4110 And the great day of wrath has come 4111 And here's mud in your big red eye 4112 The poker's in the fire 4113 And the locusts take the sky 4114 And the earth died screaming 4115 While I lay dreaming of you 4116 4117=head2 v5.18.0-RC1 - Tom Waits, "What's He Building in There?" 4118 4119L<Announced on 2013-05-11 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/05/msg201651.html> 4120 4121 What's he building in there? 4122 4123 We have a right to know… 4124 4125=head2 v5.17.11 - Nigel Tufnel in "This is Spın̈al Tap" 4126 4127L<Announced on 2013-04-20 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/04/msg201056.html> 4128 4129It's very special because, if you can see, the numbers all go to… 4130eleven! Look, right across the board: eleven, eleven, eleven, eleven! 4131 4132=head2 v5.17.10 - Vernor Vinge, "A Fire Upon The Deep" 4133 4134L<Announced on 2013-03-23 by Max Maischein|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/03/msg200504.html> 4135 4136The archive informed the automation. Data structures were built, recipes 4137followed. A local network was built, faster than anything on Straum, but surely 4138safe. Nodes were added, modified by other recipes. The archive was a friendly 4139place, with hierarchies of translation keys that led them along. Straum itself 4140would be famous for this. 4141 4142Six months passed. A year. 4143 4144The omniscient view. Not self-aware really. Self-awareness is much over-rated. 4145Most automation works far better as a part of a whole, and even if human- 4146powerful, it does not need to self-know. 4147 4148=head2 v5.17.9 - Douglas Adams, "The Hitch-Hikers Guide to the Galaxy" 4149 4150L<Announced on 2013-02-20 by Chris 'BinGOs' Williams|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/02/msg199115.html> 4151 4152Vogon poetry is of course, the third worst in the universe. 4153The second worst is that of the Azgoths of Kria. During a 4154recitation by their poet master Grunthos the Flatulent of 4155his poem 'Ode To A Small Lump of Green Putty I Found In My 4156Armpit One Midsummer Morning' four of his audience died 4157of internal haemorrhaging and the president of the 4158Mid-Galactic Arts Nobbling Council survived by gnawing one 4159of his own legs off. Grunthos is reported to have been 4160'disappointed' by the poem's reception, and was about to 4161embark on a reading of his twelve-book epic entitled 4162'My Favourite Bathtime Gurgles' when his own major intestine, 4163in a desperate attempt to save life and civilisation, 4164leapt straight up through his neck and throttled his brain. 4165 4166The very worst poetry of all perished along with its creator 4167Paula Nancy Millstone Jennings of Greenbridge, Essex, England, 4168in the destruction of the planet Earth. 4169 4170=head2 v5.17.8 - Iain Pears, "An Instance of the Fingerpost" 4171 4172L<Announced on 2013-01-20 by Aaron Crane|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/01/msg197571.html> 4173 4174I must here declare myself as someone who does not for a moment subscribe to 4175the general view that a willingness to perform oneself is detrimental to the 4176dignity of experimental philosophy. There is, after all, a clear distinction 4177between labour carried out for financial reward, and that done for the 4178improvement of mankind: to put it another way, Lower as a philosopher was 4179fully my equal even if he fell away when he became the practising physician. 4180I think ridiculous of certain professors of anatomy, who find it beneath 4181them to pick up the knife themselves, but merely comment while hired hands 4182do the cutting. Sylvius would never have dreamt of sitting on a dais reading 4183from an authority while others cut — when he taught, the knife was 4184in his hand and the blood spattered his coat. Boyle also did not scruple to 4185perform his own experiments and, on one occasion in my presence, even showed 4186himself willing to anatomise a rat with his very own hands. Nor was he less 4187a gentleman when he had finished. Indeed, in my opinion, his stature was all 4188the greater, for in Boyle wealth, humility and curiosity mingled, and the 4189world is richer for it. 4190 4191=head2 v5.17.7 - R. Scott Bakker, "The Darkness That Comes Before" 4192 4193L<Announced on 2012-12-18 by Dave Rolsky|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/12/msg196707.html> 4194 4195No thought. 4196 4197The boy extinguished. Only a place. 4198 4199This place. 4200 4201Motionless, 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. 4202 4203A place without breath or sound. A place of sight alone. A place without before or after . . . almost. 4204 4205For 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. 4206 4207The 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 . . . 4208 4209And 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. 4210 4211The slap of pommel against palm triggered the collapse of place into little boy. The pale stench of his body. Breath, sound, and lurching thoughts. 4212 4213I have been legion . . . 4214 4215In 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. 4216 4217Now I understand. 4218 4219=head2 v5.17.6 - Kurt Vonnegut, "The Sirens of Titan" 4220 4221L<Announced on 2012-11-20 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/11/msg195659.html> 4222 4223Beatrice, looking like a gypsy queen, smoldered at the foot of a statue 4224of a young physical student. At first glance, the laboratory-gowned 4225scientist seemed to be a perfect servant of nothing but truth. At first 4226glance, one was convinced that nothing but truth could please him as he 4227beamed at his test tube. At first glance, one thought that he was as 4228much above the beastly concerns of mankind as the harmoniums in the 4229caves of Mercury. There, at first glance, was a young man without 4230vanity, without lust — and one accepted at its face value the title Salo 4231had engraved on the statue, "Discovery of Atomic Power." 4232 4233=head2 v5.17.5 - Charles Stross, "Singularity Sky" 4234 4235L<Announced on 2012-10-20 by Florian Ragwitz|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/10/msg194349.html> 4236 4237Neither of them noticed the pair of polka-dotted knickers hiding 4238behind the ventilation duct overhead, listening patiently and 4239recording everything. 4240 4241=head2 v5.17.4 - Roald Dahl, "Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf" 4242 4243L<Announced on 2012-09-19 by Florian Ragwitz|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/09/msg192635.html> 4244 4245 The small girl smiles. One eyelid flickers. 4246 She whips a pistol from her knickers. 4247 She aims it at the creature's head, 4248 And bang bang bang, she shoots him dead. 4249 4250 A few weeks later, in the wood, 4251 I came across Miss Riding Hood. 4252 But what a change! No cloak of red, 4253 No silly hood upon her head. 4254 She said, "Hello, and do please note 4255 My lovely furry wolfskin coat." 4256 4257=head2 v5.17.3 - Kris Ta-belle, "Smoked Perl Onion Soup" 4258 4259L<Announced on 2012-08-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/08/msg190775.html> 4260 4261Preparation: 4262 4263Cut 16 Perl Onions into quarters and put them in a grill smoker rack 4264or a perforated pan over a BBQ using hickory wood chips or Special 4265Blend Smoker Bisquettes. Smoke them for an hour and remove once they 4266look golden brown. 4267Let them cool and put them in the fridge (or freezer) until you are 4268ready to create the soup. 4269 4270Ingredients: 4271 4272 16 diced, pre-smoked, Perl Onions 4273 3 tbsp butter 4274 1/4 cup olive oil 4275 2 small garlic cloves, finely minced 4276 1 tsp salt 4277 1 tsp sugar 4278 black pepper to taste 4279 1 cup red wine 4280 1/4 cup all purpose flour 4281 6 cups of beef or vegetable stock 4282 1 cup of thick cream (milk can be used as a substitute) 4283 4284Method: 4285 4286 Melt the butter in a pan and then add olive oil. 4287 Heat and add the onions to caramelize over a medium-high heat for up 4288 to half an hour. 4289 Add the garlic, turn down the heat and cook for a further 5 minutes. 4290 Add the salt, pepper and sugar. 4291 Now add the red wine and reduce to a jam like consistency. 4292 Add the flour, stir well and add the stock a cup at a time. 4293 Simmer for 30 minutes, add the cream and heat to almost boiling. 4294 4295Enjoy. 4296 4297=head2 v5.17.2 - Terry Pratchet, "The Colour of Magic" 4298 4299L<Announced on 2012-07-21 by TonyC|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/07/msg189828.html> 4300 4301‘I knew it,’ said Rincewind. ‘We're in a strong magical field.’ 4302 4303Twoflower and Hrun looked around the little hollow where they had made 4304their noonday halt. Then they looked at each other. 4305 4306The horses were quietly cropping the rich grass by the stream. Yellow 4307butterflies skittered among the bushes. There was a smell of thyme 4308and a buzzing of bees. The wild pigs on the spit sizzled gently. 4309 4310Hrun shrugged and went back to oiling his biceps. They gleamed. 4311 4312‘Looks alright to me,’ he said. 4313 4314‘Try tossing a coin,’ said Rincewind. 4315 4316‘What?’ 4317 4318‘Go on. Toss a coin.’ 4319 4320‘Hokay,’ said Hrun. 'If that gives you any pleasure.’ He reached into 4321his pouch and withdrew a handful of loose change plundered from a 4322dozen realms. With some care he selected a Zchloty leaden 4323quarter-iotum and balanced it on a purple thumbnail. 4324 4325‘You call,’ he said. ‘Heads or—’ he inspected the obverse with 4326an air of intense concentration, ‘some sort of a fish with legs.’ 4327 4328‘When it's in the air,’ said Rincewind. Hrun grinned and flicked his thumb. 4329 4330The iotum rose, spinning. 4331 4332‘Edge,’ said Rincewind, without looking at it. 4333 4334=head2 v5.17.1 - Rand Miller, "Myst: The Book of Ti'ana" 4335 4336L<Announced on 2012-06-20 by doy|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/06/msg188354.html> 4337 4338On their return from Ko'ah, Aitrus had shown her the Book, patiently 4339taking her through page after page, and showing her how such an Age was 4340"made." She had seen at once the differences between this archaic form 4341and the ordinary written speech of the D'ni, noting how it was not 4342merely more elaborate but more specific: a language of precise yet 4343subtle descriptive power. Yet seeing was one thing, believing another. 4344Given all the evidence, her rational mind still fought against accepting 4345it. 4346 4347=head2 v5.17.0 - Charles Stross, "Singularity Sky" 4348 4349L<Announced on 2012-05-26 by Zefram|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/05/msg187214.html> 4350 4351`Welcome, comrades!' Burya opened his arms toward the soldier. 4352`Yes it is true! With help from our allies of the Festival, the iron 4353hand of the reactionary junta is about to be overthrown for all time! 4354The new economy is being born; the marginal cost of production has 4355been abolished, and from now on, if any item is produced once, it can 4356be replicated infinitely. From each according to his imagination, 4357to each according to his needs! Join us or better still, bring your 4358fellow soldiers and workers to join us!' 4359 4360There was a sharp bang from the roof of the Corn Exchange, right at the 4361climax of his impromptu speech; heads turned in alarm. Something had 4362broken inside the spork factory and a stream of rainbow-hued plastic 4363implements fountained toward the sky and clattered to the cobblestones 4364on every side, like a harbinger of the postindustrial society to come. 4365Workers and peasants alike stared in open-mouthed bewilderment at this 4366astounding display of productivity, then bent to scrabble in the muck 4367for the brightly colored sporks of revolution. A volley of shots rang 4368out and Burya Rubenstein raised his hands, grinning wildly, to accept 4369the salute of the soldiers from the Skull Hill garrison. 4370 4371=head2 v5.16.3 - Devo, "Freedom of Choice" 4372 4373L<Announced on 2013-03-11 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/03/msg200009.html> 4374 4375 A victim of collision on the open sea 4376 Nobody ever said that life was free 4377 Sink, swim, go down with the ship 4378 But use your freedom of choice 4379 4380=head2 v5.16.2 - Stanislaw Lem, "The Cyberiad", Trurl's Machine 4381 4382L<Announced on 2012-11-01 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/11/msg194915.html> 4383 4384Once upon a time Trurl the constructor built an eight-story thinking 4385machine. When it was finished, he gave it a coat of white paint, 4386trimmed the edges in lavender, stepped back, squinted, then added a 4387little curlicue on the front and, where one might imagine the forehead 4388to be, a few pale orange polkadots. Extremely pleased with himself, 4389he whistled an air and, as is always done on such occasions, asked it 4390the ritual question of how much is two plus two. 4391 4392The machine stirred. Its tubes began to glow, its coils warmed up, 4393current coursed through all its circuits like a waterfall, 4394transformers hummed and throbbed, there was a clanging, and a 4395chugging, and such an ungodly racket that Trurl began to think of 4396adding a special mentation muffler. Meanwhile the machine labored on, 4397as if it had been given the most difficult problem in the Universe to 4398solve; the ground shook, the sand slid underfoot from the vibration, 4399valves popped like champagne corks, the relays nearly gave way under 4400the strain. At last, when Trurl had grown extremely impatient, the 4401machine ground to a halt and said in a voice like thunder: SEVEN! 4402 4403=head2 v5.16.1 - Emerald Rose, "Never Split The Party" 4404 4405L<Announced on 2012-08-08 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/08/msg190413.html> 4406 4407 Don't you know? You never split the party 4408 Clerics in the back to keep those fighters hale and hearty 4409 The wizard in the middle, where he can shed some light 4410 And you never let that damn thief out of sight… 4411 4412=head2 v5.16.1-RC1 - Tom Moldvay, Foreward to the "Dungeons & Dragons Basic Rulebook" 4413 4414L<Announced on 2012-08-03 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/08/msg190264.html> 4415 4416I was busy rescuing the captured maiden when the dragon showed up. 4417Fifty feed of scaled terror glared down at us with smoldering red eyes. 4418Tendrils of smoke drifted out from between fangs larger than daggers. 4419The dragon blocked the only exit from the cave. 4420 4421⋮ 4422 4423I unwrapped the sword which the mysterious cleric had given me. The 4424sword was golden-tinted steel. Its hilt was set with a rainbow 4425collection of precious gems. I shouted my battle cry and charged 4426 4427My charge caught the dragon by surprise. Its titanic jaws snapped shut 4428inches from my face. I swung the golden sword with both arms. The 4429swordblade bit into the dragon's neck and continued through to the other 4430side. With an earth-shaking crash, the dragon dropped dead at my feet. 4431The magic sword had saved my life and ended the reign of the 4432dragon-tyrant. The countryside was freed and I could return as a hero. 4433 4434=head2 v5.16.0 - W.H. Auden, "September 1, 1939" 4435 4436L<Announced on 2012-05-20 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/05/msg186903.html> 4437 4438 All I have is a voice 4439 To undo the folded lie, 4440 The romantic lie in the brain 4441 Of the sensual man-in-the-street 4442 And the lie of Authority 4443 Whose buildings grope the sky: 4444 There is no such thing as the State 4445 And no one exists alone; 4446 Hunger allows no choice 4447 To the citizen or the police; 4448 We must love one another or die. 4449 4450=head2 v5.15.9 - Bob Dylan, "Blowin' In The Wind" 4451 4452L<Announced on 2012-03-20 by Abigail|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/03/msg184824.html> 4453 4454 How many roads must a man walk down 4455 Before you call him a man? 4456 Yes, 'n' how many seas must a white dove sail 4457 Before she sleeps in the sand? 4458 Yes, 'n' how many times must the cannonballs fly 4459 Before they're forever banned? 4460 The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind 4461 The answer is blowin' in the wind 4462 4463 How many years can a mountain exist 4464 Before it's washed to the sea? 4465 Yes, 'n' how many years can some people exist 4466 Before they're allowed to be free? 4467 Yes, 'n' how many times can a man turn his head 4468 Pretending he just doesn't see? 4469 The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind 4470 The answer is blowin' in the wind 4471 4472 How many times must a man look up 4473 Before he can see the sky? 4474 Yes, 'n' how many ears must one man have 4475 Before he can hear people cry? 4476 Yes, 'n' how many deaths will it take till he knows 4477 That too many people have died? 4478 The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind 4479 The answer is blowin' in the wind 4480 4481=head2 v5.15.8 - The KLF, "The Manual-How To Have A Number One The Easy Way" 4482 4483L<Announced on 2012-02-20 by Max Maischein|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/02/msg183919.html> 4484 4485 "Doctor Who, hey Doctor Who 4486 Doctor Who, in the Tardis 4487 Doctor Who, hey Doctor Who 4488 Doctor Who, Doc, Doctor Who 4489 Doctor Who, Doc, Doctor Who" 4490 4491Gibberish of course, but every lad in the country under a certain 4492age related instinctively to what it was about. The ones slightly 4493older needed a couple of pints inside them to clear away the mind 4494debris left by the passing years before it made sense. As for 4495girls and our chorus, we think they must have seen it as pure crap. 4496A fact that must have limited to zero our chances of staying at The 4497Top for more than one week. 4498 4499Stock, Aitkin and Waterman, however, are kings of writing chorus 4500lyrics that go straight to the emotional heart of the 7" single 4501buying girls in this country. Their most successful records will kick 4502into the chorus with a line which encapsulates the entire emotional 4503meaning of the song. This will obviously be used as the title. As 4504soon as Rick Astley hit the first line of the chorus on his debut 4505single it was all over - the Number One position was guaranteed: 4506 4507 "I'm never going to give you up" 4508 4509=head2 v5.15.7 - Penelope Lively, "The Voyage of QV66" 4510 4511L<Announced on 2012-01-20 by Chris 'BinGOs' Williams|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/01/msg182230.html> 4512 4513"Laboratories," announced Henry. "Kindly don't touch anything." 4514 4515He led us into a long low brick shed. Outside there was a 4516notice on a piece of board, crudely printed in red paint, 4517which said GRATE SIENCE DISCOVERYS DONE HERE SSSH! BRING YOUR 4518OWN BUKKIT NO PINCHING ANYWUN ELSE'S EXPERRYMENTS CANTEEN OPEN 4519ALL DAY CHIMPS ONLY. 4520 4521There were a lot of large black monkeys inside, all intently 4522busy on what they were doing. Some of them were pouring stuff 4523out of bottles into buckets and carefully stirring the ensuing 4524mixture; others were at work with glass tubes and jars, blowing 4525and measuring and mixing; others were crouched over long benches 4526with tools and heaps of bits and pieces of metal, cutting and 4527bending and constructing. There was a great deal of noise and 4528chatter. Every now and then one of them would give a whoop of 4529excitement and all the others would gather round and jump up and 4530down cheering and applauding. 4531 4532"Chimps," said Henry. "They're awfully clever." 4533 4534=head2 v5.15.6 - Ursula K. Leguin, "A Wizard of Earthsea" 4535 4536L<Announced on 2011-12-20 by Dave Rolsky|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/12/msg180962.html> 4537 4538Ged had thought that as the prentice of a great mage he would enter at once 4539into the mystery and mastery of power. He would understand the language of the 4540beasts and the speech of the leaves of the forest, he thought, and sway the 4541winds with his word, and learn to change himself into any shape he 4542wished. Maybe he and his master would run together as stags, or fly to Re Albi 4543over the mountain on the wings of eagles. 4544 4545But it was not so at all. They wandered, first down into the Vale and then 4546gradually south and westward around the mountain, given lodging in little 4547villages or spending the night out in the wilderness, like poor 4548journeyman-sorcerers, or tinkers, or beggars. They entered no mysterious 4549domain. Nothing happened. The mage's oaken staff that Ged had watched at first 4550with eager dread was nothing but a stout staff to walk with. Three days went 4551by and four days went by and still Ogion had not spoken a single charm in 4552Ged's hearing, and had not taught him a single name or rune or spell. 4553 4554=head2 v5.15.5 - Nikolai Gogol, trans. Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, "The Diary of a Madman" 4555 4556L<Announced on 2011-11-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/11/msg179588.html> 4557 4558This day - is a day of the greatest solemnity! Spain has a king. He has 4559been found. I am that king. Only this very day did I learn of it. I 4560confess, it came to me suddenly in a flash of lightning. I don't understand 4561how I could have thought and imagined that I was a titular councillor. How 4562could such a wild notion enter my head? It's a good thing no one thought of 4563putting me in an insane asylum. Now everything is laid open before me. Now 4564I see everything as on the palm of my hand. And before, I don't understand, 4565before everything around me was in some sort of fog. And all this happens, I 4566think, because people imagine that the human brain is in the head. Not at 4567all: it is brought by a wind from the direction of the Caspian Sea. First 4568off, I announced to Mavra who I am. When she heard that the king of Spain 4569was standing before her, she clasped her hands and nearly died of fright. 4570The stupid woman had never seen a king of Spain before. However, I 4571endeavoured to calm her down and assured her in gracious words of my 4572benevolence and that I was not at all angry that she sometimes polished my 4573boots poorly. They're benighted folk. It's impossible to tell them about 4574lofty matters. She got frightened because she's convinced that all kings of 4575Spain are like Philip II. But I explained to her that there was no 4576resemblance between me and Philip II, and that I didn't have a single 4577Capuchin . . . I didn't go to the office . . . To hell with it! No friends, 4578you won't lure me there now; I'm not going to copy your vile papers! 4579 4580=head2 v5.15.4 - Steve Jobs 4581 4582L<Announced on 2011-10-20 by Florian Ragwitz|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/10/msg178412.html> 4583 4584A lot of people in our industry haven't had very diverse experiences. So they 4585don't have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions 4586without a broad perspective on the problem. The broader one's understanding of 4587the human experience, the better design we will have. 4588 4589=head2 v5.15.3 - Oscar Wilde, From the preface to "The Picture of Dorian Gray" 4590 4591L<Announced on 2011-09-20 by Stevan Little|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/09/msg177427.html> 4592 4593All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath 4594the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol 4595do so at their peril. 4596 4597It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors. 4598Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the 4599work is new, complex, and vital. When critics disagree, the 4600artist is in accord with himself. 4601 4602We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as 4603he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless 4604thing is that one admires it intensely. 4605 4606All art is quite useless. 4607 4608=head2 v5.15.2 - Rainer Maria Rilke, trans., C. F. MacIntyre, "Duino", The First Elegy 4609 4610L<Announced on 2011-08-20 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/08/msg176067.html> 4611 4612 True, it is strange to live no more on earth, 4613 no longer follow the folkways scarecely learned; 4614 not to give roses and other especially auspicious 4615 things the significance of a human future; 4616 to be no more what one was in infinitely anxious hands, 4617 and to put aside even one's name, like a broken plaything. 4618 Strange, to wish wishes no longer. Strange, to see 4619 all that was related fluttering so loosely in space. 4620 And being dead is hard, full of catching-up, 4621 so that finally one feels a little eternity.– 4622 But the living all make the mistake of too sharp discrimination. 4623 Often angels (it's said) don't know if they move 4624 among the quick or the dead. The eternal current 4625 hurtles all ages along with it forever 4626 through both realms and drowns their voices in both. 4627 4628=head2 v5.15.1 - Greg Egan, "Permutation City" 4629 4630L<Announced on 2011-07-20 by Zefram|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/07/msg175014.html> 4631 4632Carter held out a hand towards the middle of the room. `See that 4633fountain?' A ten-metre-wide marble wedding cake, topped with a 4634winged cherub wrestling a serpent, duly appeared. Water cascaded 4635down from a gushing wound in the cherub's neck. Carter said, `It's 4636being computed by redundancies in the sketch of the city. I can 4637extract the results, because I know exactly where to look for them -- 4638but nobody else would have a hope in hell of picking them out.' 4639 4640Peer walked up to the fountain. Even as he approached, he noticed 4641that the spray was intangible; when he dipped his hand in the water 4642around the base he felt nothing, and the motion he made with his 4643fingers left the foaming surface unchanged. They were spying on 4644the calculations, not interacting with them; the fountain was a 4645closed system. 4646 4647Carter said, `In your case, of course, nobody will need to know 4648the results. Except you -- and you'll know them because you'll 4649/be/ them.' 4650 4651=head2 v5.15.0 - Neil Gaiman, "The Graveyard Book" 4652 4653L<Announced on 2011-06-20 by David Golden|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/06/msg173748.html> 4654 4655If you dare nothing, then when the day is over, nothing is all you will have gained. 4656 4657=head2 v5.14.4 - Arthur C. Clarke, "The Nine Billion Names of God" 4658 4659L<Announced on 2013-03-11 by Dave Mitchell|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/03/msg199988.html> 4660 4661He began to sing, but gave it up after a while. This vast arena of 4662mountains, gleaming like whitely hooded ghosts on every side, did not 4663encourage such ebullience. Presently George glanced at his watch. 4664 4665'Should be there in an hour,' he called back over his shoulder to 4666Chuck. Then he added, in an afterthought: 'Wonder if the computer's 4667finished its run. It was due about now.' 4668 4669Chuck didn't reply, so George swung round in his saddle. He could just 4670see Chuck's face, a white oval turned towards the sky. 4671 4672'Look,' whispered Chuck, and George lifted his eyes to heaven. (There 4673is always a last time for everything.) 4674 4675Overhead, without any fuss, the stars were going out. 4676 4677=head2 v5.14.3 - William Shakespeare, "As You Like It" 4678 4679L<Announced on 2012-10-12 by Dominic Hargreaves|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/10/msg194057.html> 4680 4681 The poor world is almost six thousand years old, and in all 4682 this time there was not any man died in his own person, 4683 videlicit, in a love-cause. Troilus had his brains dashed 4684 out with a Grecian club; yet he did what he could to die 4685 before, and he is one of the patterns of love. Leander, he 4686 would have lived many a fair year, though Hero had turned 4687 nun, if it had not been for a hot midsummer night; for, good 4688 youth, he went but forth to wash him in the Hellespont and 4689 being taken with the cramp was drowned and the foolish 4690 coroners of that age found it was 'Hero of Sestos.' But these 4691 are all lies: men have died from time to time and worms have 4692 eaten them, but not for love. 4693 4694=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 >> 4695 4696L<Announced on 2011-09-26 by Florian Ragwitz|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/09/msg177618.html> 4697 4698It's not so much that people don't value the programs after they have them--they 4699do value them. But they're not the sort of thing that would ever catch on if 4700they had to overcome the marketing barrier. (I don't yet know if perl will 4701catch on at all--I'm worried enough about it that I specifically included an 4702awk-to-perl translator just to help it catch on.) Maybe it's all just an 4703inferiority complex. Or maybe I don't like to be mercenary. 4704 4705So I guess I'd say that the reason some software comes free is that the 4706mechanism for selling it is missing, either from the work environment, or from 4707the heart of the programmer. 4708 4709=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 >> 4710 4711L<Announced on 2011-06-16 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/06/msg173650.html> 4712 4713At this point I'm no longer working for a company that makes me sign 4714my life away, but by now I'm in the habit. Besides, I still harbor 4715the deep-down suspicion that nobody would pay money for what I write, 4716since most of it just helps you do something better that you could 4717already do some other way. How much money would you personally pay 4718to upgrade from readnews to rn? How much money would you pay for 4719the patch program? As for warp, it's a mere game. And anything you 4720can do with perl you can eventually do with an amazing and totally 4721unreadable conglomeration of awk, sed, sh and C. 4722 4723=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 >> 4724 4725L<Announced on 2011-05-14 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/05/msg172326.html> 4726 4727At the start of any project, I'm programming primarily to please 4728myself. (The two chief virtues in a programmer are laziness and 4729impatience.) After a while somebody looks over my shoulder and says, 4730"That's neat. It'd be neater if it did such-and-so." So the thing 4731gets neater. Pretty soon (a year or two) I have an rn, a warp, a patch, 4732or a perl. One of these years I'll have a metaconfig. 4733 4734I then say to myself, "I don't want my life's work to die when this 4735computer is scrapped, so I should let some other people use this. If I 4736ask my company to sell this, it'll never see the light of day, and nobody 4737would pay much for it anyway. If I sell it myself, I'll be in trouble with 4738my company, to whom I signed my life away when I was hired. If I give it 4739away, I can pretend it was worthless in the first place, so my company 4740won't care. In any event, it's easier to ask forgiveness than permission." 4741 4742So a freely distributable program is born. 4743 4744=head2 v5.14.0-RC3 - American Airlines Gate Agent, last call 4745 4746L<Announced on 2011-05-11 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/05/msg172282.html> 4747 4748This is the last call for flight 1697 with service to Chicago and 4749continuing service to San Francisco. All passengers should already be 4750aboard. If you aren't aboard at this time, you will be denied boarding 4751and your bags will be offloaded. 4752 4753=head2 v5.14.0-RC2 - Greg Grandin, "Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City" 4754 4755L<Announced on 2011-05-04 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/05/msg171879.html> 4756 4757Over the course of nearly two decades, Ford would spend tens of millions 4758of dollars founding not one but, after the plantation was defastated 4759by leaf blight, two American towns, complete with central squares, 4760sidewalks, indoor plumbing, hospitals, manicured lawns, movie theaters, 4761swimming pools, golf courses, and, of course, Model Ts and As rolling 4762down their paved streets. 4763 4764Back in America, newspapers kept up their drumbeat celebration, only 4765obliquely referencing reports that things were not progressing as the 4766company had hoped. But there was one note of skepticism. In late 1928, 4767the Washington Post ran an editorial that read in its entirety: "Ford will 4768govern a rubber plantation in Brazil larger than North Carolina. This is 4769the first time he has applied quantity production methods to trouble" 4770 4771=head2 v5.14.0-RC1 - Bill Bryson, "In a Sunburned Country" 4772 4773L<Announced on 2011-04-20 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/04/msg171253.html> 4774 4775But then Australia is such a difficult country to keep track of. On 4776my first visit, some years ago, I passed the time on the long flight 4777reading a history of Australian politics in the twentieth century, 4778wherein I encountered the startling fact that in 1967 the prime minister, 4779Harold Holt, was strolling along a beach in Victoria when he plunged into 4780the surf and vanished. No trace of the poor man was ever seen again. 4781This seemed doubly astounding to me—first that Australia could 4782just I<lose> a prime minister (I mean, come on) and second that news of 4783this had never reached me. 4784 4785=head2 v5.13.11 - Walt Whitman, L<"Leaves of Grass"|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leaves_of_Grass> 4786 4787L<Announced on 2011-03-20 by Florian Ragwitz|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/03/msg170206.html> 4788 4789 When the full-grown poet came, 4790 Out spake pleased Nature (the round impassive globe, with all its 4791 shows of day and night,) saying, He is mine; 4792 But out spake too the Soul of man, proud, jealous and unreconciled, 4793 Nay he is mine alone; 4794 --Then the full-grown poet stood between the two, and took each 4795 by the hand; 4796 And to-day and ever so stands, as blender, uniter, tightly 4797 holding hands, 4798 Which he will never release until he reconciles the two, 4799 And wholly and joyously blends them. 4800 4801=head2 v5.13.10 - Egill Skalla-Grímsson, L<"Egils saga Skalla-Grímssonar"|http://www.heimskringla.no/wiki/Egils_saga_Skalla-Gr%C3%ADmssonar> 4802 4803L<Announced on 2011-02-20 by Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/02/msg169340.html> 4804 4805 Skalat maðr rúnar rísta, 4806 nema ráða vel kunni. 4807 Þat verðr mörgum manni, 4808 es of myrkvan staf villisk. 4809 Sák á telgðu talkni 4810 tíu launstafi ristna. 4811 Þat hefr lauka lindi 4812 langs ofrtrega fengit. 4813 4814=head2 v5.13.9 - John F Kennedy, L<Inaugural Address January 20, 1961|http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/John_F._Kennedy%27s_Inaugural_Address> 4815 4816L<Announced on 2011-01-20 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/01/msg168335.html> 4817 4818In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been 4819granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I 4820do not shrink from this responsibility -- I welcome it. I do not believe 4821that any of us would exchange places with any other people or any other 4822generation. The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this 4823endeavor will light our country and all who serve it. And the glow from 4824that fire can truly light the world. 4825 4826And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you; 4827ask what you can do for your country. 4828 4829My fellow citizens of the world, ask not what America will do for you, 4830but what together we can do for the freedom of man. 4831 4832Finally, whether you are citizens of America or citizens of the world, 4833ask of us here the same high standards of strength and sacrifice which 4834we ask of you. With a good conscience our only sure reward, with history 4835the final judge of our deeds, let us go forth to lead the land we love, 4836asking His blessing and His help, but knowing that here on earth God's 4837work must truly be our own. 4838 4839=head2 v5.13.8 - Roger Williams, L<"The Fifth Gift"|http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2005/8/19/21304/8493> 4840 4841L<Announced on 2010-12-19 by Zefram|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/12/msg167271.html> 4842 4843The aliens called the box a "matter generator," but we'd be more inclined 4844to call it a matter duplicator. By connecting switches and potentiometers 4845between the copper posts it was possible to make the box mark off two 4846cubic rectangular areas of volume. Make a certain contact, and these 4847areas would be isolated within perfectly reflective fields. They could 4848be expanded or contracted by altering resistances between other posts. 4849As I worked out the user interface I built a little control panel for 4850the device. It was actually a clever way for the aliens to do things; 4851instead of trying to build controls we could use, they built us an 4852interface we could attach to controls that made sense to us. It could 4853also be automated. 4854 4855Once you had made the contact that established the shielded volumes, 4856if you made another certain contact the contents of the first volume 4857were copied to the second. The machine copied metal, plastic, steel, 4858and diamond with equal ease. Copies of copies of copies of copies were 4859indistinguishable from the originals at any magnification, even using 4860techniques like X-ray crystallography. 4861 4862=head2 v5.13.7 - Andy Wachowski and Lana Wachowski, "The Matrix" 4863 4864L<Announced on 2010-11-20 by Chris 'BinGOs' Williams|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/11/msg166162.html> 4865 4866[Neo sees a black cat walk by them, and then a similar black cat walk by them just like the first one] 4867 4868 Neo: Whoa. Deja vu. 4869 4870[Everyone freezes right in their tracks] 4871 4872 Trinity: What did you just say? 4873 Neo: Nothing. Just had a little deja vu. 4874 Trinity: What did you see? 4875 Cypher: What happened? 4876 Neo: A black cat went past us, and then another that looked just 4877 like it. 4878 Trinity: How much like it? Was it the same cat? 4879 Neo: It might have been. I'm not sure. 4880 Morpheus: Switch! Apoc! 4881 Neo: What is it? 4882 Trinity: A deja vu is usually a glitch in the Matrix. It happens when 4883 they change something. 4884 4885=head2 v5.13.6 - Haruki Murakami, "Kafka on the Shore" 4886 4887L<Announced on 2010-10-20 by Tatsuhiko Miyagawa|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/10/msg165183.html> 4888 4889The boy called Crow softly rests a hand on my shoulder, and with that 4890he storm vanishes. 4891 4892"From now on -- no matter what -- you've got to be the world's toughest 4893fifteen-year-old. That's the only way you're going to survive. And in order 4894to do that, you've got to figure out what it means to be tough. You following 4895me?" 4896 4897I keep my eyes closed and don't reply. I just want to sink off into sleep 4898like this, his hand on my shoulder. I hear the faint flutter of wings. 4899 4900"You're going to be the world's toughest fifteen-year-old," Crow whispers 4901as I try to fall asleep. Like he was carving the words in a deep blue tattoo 4902on my heart. 4903 4904(Translated from Japanese by Philip Gabriel) 4905 4906=head2 v5.13.5 - Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, "The Room in the Dragon Volant" 4907 4908L<Announced on 2010-09-19 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/09/msg164238.html> 4909 4910Candle in hand I stepped in. I do not know whether the quality of 4911air, long undisturbed, is peculiar; to me it has always seemed so, and 4912the damp smell of the old masonry hung in this atmosphere. My candle 4913faintly lighted the bare stone wall that enclosed the stair, the foot 4914of which I could not see. Down I went, and a few turns brought me to 4915the stone floor. Here was another door, of the simple, old, oak kind, 4916deep sunk in the thickness of the wall. The large end of the key 4917fitted this. The lock was stiff; I set the candle down upon the 4918stair, and applied both hands; it turned with difficulty, and as it 4919revolved, uttered a shriek that alarmed me for my secret. 4920 4921For some minutes I did not move. In a little time, however, I took 4922courage, and opened the door. The night-air floating in puffed out 4923the candle. There was a thicket of holly and underwood, as dense as a 4924jungle, close about the door. I should have been in pitch-darkness, 4925were it not that through the topmost leaves there twinkled, here and 4926there, a glimmer of moonshine. 4927 4928Softly, lest any one should have opened his window at the sound of the 4929rusty bolt, I struggled through this till I gained a view of the open 4930grounds. Here I found that the brushwood spread a good way up the 4931park, uniting with the wood that approached the little temple I have 4932described. 4933 4934=head2 v5.13.4 - Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" 4935 4936L<Announced on 2010-08-20 by Florian Ragwitz|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/08/msg163150.html> 4937 4938`How the creatures order one about, and make one repeat lessons!' thought Alice; 4939`I might as well be at school at once.' However, she got up, and began to repeat 4940it, but her head was so full of the Lobster Quadrille, that she hardly knew what 4941she was saying, and the words came very queer indeed:-- 4942 4943 "'Tis the voice of the Lobster; I heard him declare, 4944 "You have baked me too brown, I must sugar my hair." 4945 As a duck with its eyelids, so he with his nose 4946 Trims his belt and his buttons, and turns out his toes.' 4947 4948 4949`That's different from what I used to say when I was a child,' said the Gryphon. 4950 4951`Well, I never heard it before,' said the Mock Turtle; `but it sounds uncommon 4952nonsense.' 4953 4954Alice said nothing; she had sat down with her face in her hands, wondering if 4955anything would ever happen in a natural way again. 4956 4957`I should like to have it explained,' said the Mock Turtle. 4958 4959`She can't explain it,' said the Gryphon hastily. `Go on with the next verse.' 4960 4961`But about his toes?' the Mock Turtle persisted. `How could he turn them out 4962with his nose, you know?' 4963 4964`It's the first position in dancing.' Alice said; but was dreadfully puzzled by 4965the whole thing, and longed to change the subject. 4966 4967=head2 v5.13.3 - Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, "Good Omens" 4968 4969L<Announced on 2010-07-20 by David Golden|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/07/msg162230.html> 4970 4971Look at Crowley, doing 110 mph on the M40 heading towards 4972Oxfordshire. Even the most resolutely casual observer would 4973notice a number of strange things about him. The clenched teeth, 4974for example, or the dull red glow coming from behind his 4975sunglasses. And the car. The car was a definite hint. 4976 4977Crowley had started the journey in his Bentley, and he was 4978dammned if he wasn't going to finish it in the Bentley as well. 4979Not that even the kind of car buff who owns his own pair of 4980motoring goggles would have been able to tell it was a vintage 4981Bentley. Not any more. They wouldn't have been able to tell 4982that it was a Bentley. They would only offer fifty-fifty that it 4983had ever even been a car. 4984 4985There was no paint left on it, for a start. It might still have 4986been black, where it wasn't a rusty, smudged reddish-brown, but 4987this was a dull charcoal black. It traveled in its own ball of 4988flame, like a space capsule making a particularly difficult 4989re-entry. 4990 4991There was a thin skin of crusted, melted rubber left around the 4992metal wheel rims, but seeing that the wheel rims were still 4993somhow riding an inch above the road surface this didn't seem to 4994make an awful lot of difference to the suspension. 4995 4996It should have fallen apart miles back. 4997 4998=head2 v5.13.2 - Iain M Banks, "Use of Weapons" 4999 5000L<Announced on 2010-06-22 by Matt S Trout|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/06/msg161112.html> 5001 5002We deal in the moral equivalent of black holes, where the normal laws - 5003the rules of right and wrong that people imagine apply everywhere else 5004in the universe - break down; beyond those metaphysical event-horizons, 5005there exist ... special circumstances. 5006 5007=head2 v5.13.1 - Miguel de Unamuno, "The Sepulchre of Don Quixote" 5008 5009L<Announced on 2010-05-20 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/05/msg160275.html> 5010 5011And if anyone shall come to you and say that he knows how to construct 5012bridges and that perhaps a time will come when you will wish to avail 5013yourself of his science in order to cross over a river, out with him! Out 5014with the engineer! Rivers will be crossed by wading or swimming them, even 5015if half the crusaders drown themselves. Let the engineer go off and build 5016bridges somewhere else, where they are badly wanted. For those who go in 5017quest of the sepulchre, faith is bridge enough. 5018 5019=head2 v5.13.0 - Jules Verne, "A Journey to the Centre of the Earth" 5020 5021L<Announced on 2010-04-20 by LE<0xe9>on Brocard|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/04/msg159275.html> 5022 5023The heat still remained at quite a supportable degree. With an 5024involuntary shudder, I reflected on what the heat must have been 5025when the volcano of Sneffels was pouring its smoke, flames, and 5026streams of boiling lava -- all of which must have come up by the 5027road we were now following. I could imagine the torrents of hot 5028seething stone darting on, bubbling up with accompaniments of 5029smoke, steam, and sulphurous stench! 5030 5031"Only to think of the consequences," I mused, "if the old 5032volcano were once more to set to work." 5033 5034=head2 v5.12.5 - William Shakespeare, "Measure for Measure" 5035 5036L<Announced on 2012-11-10 by Dominic Hargreaves|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/11/msg195171.html> 5037 5038 Music oft hath such a charm 5039 To make bad good, and good provoke to harm. 5040 5041=head2 v5.12.4 - William Schwenck Gilbert, "Trial By Jury" 5042 5043L<Announced on 2011-06-20 by Leon Brocard|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/06/msg173725.html> 5044 5045 You cannot eat breakfast all day, 5046 Nor is it the act of a sinner, 5047 When breakfast is taken away, 5048 To turn his attention to dinner; 5049 And it's not in the range of belief, 5050 To look upon him as a glutton, 5051 Who, when he is tired of beef, 5052 Determines to tackle the mutton. 5053 Ah! But this I am willing to say, 5054 If it will appease her sorrow, 5055 I'll marry this lady today, 5056 And I'll marry the other tomorrow! 5057 5058=head2 v5.12.4-RC2 - James Russell Lowell, "Eleanor makes macaroons" 5059 5060L<Announced on 2011-06-15 by Leon Brocard|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/06/msg173609.html> 5061 5062 Now for sugar, -- nay, our plan 5063 Tolerates no work of man. 5064 Hurry, then, ye golden bees; 5065 Fetch your clearest honey, please, 5066 Garnered on a Yorkshire moor, 5067 While the last larks sing and soar, 5068 From the heather-blossoms sweet 5069 Where sea-breeze and sunshine meet, 5070 And the Augusts mask as Junes, -- 5071 Eleanor makes macaroons! 5072 5073=head2 v5.12.4-RC1 - Ogden Nash, "The Clean Plater" 5074 5075L<Announced on 2011-06-08 by Leon Brocard|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/06/msg173352.html> 5076 5077 Pheasant is pleasant, of course, 5078 And terrapin, too, is tasty, 5079 Lobster I freely endorse, 5080 In pate or patty or pasty. 5081 But there's nothing the matter with butter, 5082 And nothing the matter with jam, 5083 And the warmest greetings I utter 5084 To the ham and the yam and the clam. 5085 For they're food, 5086 All food, 5087 And I think very fondly of food. 5088 Through I'm broody at times 5089 When bothered by rhymes, 5090 I brood 5091 On food. 5092 5093=head2 v5.12.3 - Howard W. Campbell, Jr., "Reflections on Not Participating in Current Events" 5094 5095L<Announced on 2011-01-21 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/01/msg168368.html> 5096 5097 I saw a huge steam roller, 5098 It blotted out the sun. 5099 The people all lay down, lay down; 5100 They did not try to run. 5101 My love and I, we looked amazed 5102 Upon the gory mystery. 5103 'Lie down, lie down!' the people cried. 5104 'The great machine is history!' 5105 My love and I, we ran away, 5106 The engine did not find us. 5107 We ran up to a mountain top, 5108 Left history far behind us. 5109 Perhaps we should have stayed and died, 5110 But somehow we don't think so. 5111 We went to see where history'd been, 5112 And my, the dead did stink so. 5113 5114=head2 v5.12.2 - William Gibson, "Pattern Recognition" 5115 5116L<Announced on 2010-09-06 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/09/msg163852.html> 5117 5118CPUs. Cayce Pollard Units. That's what Damien calls the clothing 5119she wears. CPUs are either black, white, or gray, and ideally 5120seem to have come into this world without human intervention. 5121 5122What people take for relentless minimalism is a side effect 5123of too much exposure to the reactor-cores of fashion. This 5124has resulted in a remorseless paring-down of what she can and 5125will wear. She is, literally, allergic to fashion. She can 5126only tolerate things that could have been worn, to a general 5127lack of comment, during any year between 1945 and 2000. She's a 5128design-free zone, a one-woman school of and whose very austerity 5129periodically threatens to spawn its own cult. 5130 5131=head2 v5.12.2-RC1 - William Gibson, "Pattern Recognition" 5132 5133L<Announced on 2010-08-31 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/08/msg163670.html> 5134 5135The front page opens, familiar as a friend's living room. A frame-grab 5136from #48 serves as backdrop, dim and almost monochrome, no characters in 5137view. This is one of the sequences that generate comparisons with 5138Tarkovsky. She only knows Tarkovsky from stills, really, though she did 5139once fall asleep during a screening of The Stalker, going under on an 5140endless pan, the camera aimed straight down, in close-up, at a puddle on 5141a ruined mosaic floor. But she is not one of those who think that much 5142will be gained by analysis of the maker's imagined influences. The cult 5143of the footage is rife with subcults, claiming every possible influence. 5144Truffaut, Peckinpah -- The Peckinpah people, among the least likely, are 5145still waiting for the guns to be drawn. 5146 5147=head2 v5.12.1 - Kurt Vonnegut, "Cat's Cradle" 5148 5149L<Announced on 2010-05-16 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/05/msg160109.html> 5150 5151"Now suppose," chortled Dr. Breed, enjoying himself, "that there were 5152many possible ways in which water could crystallize, could freeze. 5153Suppose that the sort of ice we skate upon and put into highballs -- 5154what we might call ice-one -- is only one of several types of ice. 5155Suppose water always froze as ice-one on Earth because it had never 5156had a seed to teach it how to form ice-two, ice-three, ice-four 5157...? And suppose," he rapped on his desk with his old hand again, 5158"that there were one form, which we will call ice-nine -- a crystal as 5159hard as this desk -- with a melting point of, let us say, one-hundred 5160degrees Fahrenheit, or, better still, a melting point of one-hundred- 5161and-thirty degrees." 5162 5163=head2 v5.12.1-RC2 - Kurt Vonnegut, "Cat's Cradle" 5164 5165L<Announced on 2010-05-13 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/05/msg160066.html> 5166 5167San Lorenzo was fifty miles long and twenty miles wide, I learned from 5168the supplement to the New York Sunday Times. Its population was four 5169hundred, fifty thousand souls, "...all fiercely dedicated to the ideals 5170of the Free World." 5171 5172Its highest point, Mount McCabe, was eleven thousand feet above sea 5173level. Its capital was Bolivar, "...a strikingly modern city built on a 5174harbor capable of sheltering the entire United States Navy." The principal 5175exports were sugar, coffee, bananas, indigo, and handcrafted novelties. 5176 5177=head2 v5.12.1-RC1 - Kurt Vonnegut, "Cat's Cradle" 5178 5179L<Announced on 2010-05-09 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/05/msg159971.html> 5180 5181Which brings me to the Bokononist concept of a wampeter. A wampeter is 5182the pivot of a karass. No karass is without a wampeter, Bokonon tells us, 5183just as no wheel is without a hub. Anything can be a wampeter: a tree, 5184a rock, an animal, an idea, a book, a melody, the Holy Grail. Whatever 5185it is, the members of its karass revolve about it in the majestic chaos 5186of a spiral nebula. The orbits of the members of a karass about their 5187common wampeter are spiritual orbits, naturally. It is souls and not 5188bodies that revolve. As Bokonon invites us to sing: 5189 5190 Around and around and around we spin, 5191 With feet of lead and wings of tin . . . 5192 5193=head2 v5.12.0 - Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" 5194 5195L<Announced on 2010-04-12 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/04/msg158820.html> 5196 5197'Please would you tell me,' said Alice, a little timidly, for she was 5198not quite sure whether it was good manners for her to speak first, 'why 5199your cat grins like that?' 5200 5201'It's a Cheshire cat,' said the Duchess, 'and that's why. Pig!' 5202 5203She said the last word with such sudden violence that Alice quite 5204jumped; but she saw in another moment that it was addressed to the baby, 5205and not to her, so she took courage, and went on again:-- 5206 5207'I didn't know that Cheshire cats always grinned; in fact, I didn't know 5208that cats COULD grin.' 5209 5210'They all can,' said the Duchess; 'and most of 'em do.' 5211 5212=head2 v5.12.0-RC5 - Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" 5213 5214L<Announced on 2010-04-09 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/04/msg158720.html> 5215 5216'Not QUITE right, I'm afraid,' said Alice, timidly; 'some of the words 5217have got altered.' 5218 5219'It is wrong from beginning to end,' said the Caterpillar decidedly, and 5220there was silence for some minutes. 5221 5222=head2 v5.12.0-RC4 - Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" 5223 5224L<Announced on 2010-04-06 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/04/msg158567.html> 5225 5226'It was much pleasanter at home,' thought poor Alice, 'when one wasn't 5227always growing larger and smaller, and being ordered about by mice and 5228rabbits. I almost wish I hadn't gone down that rabbit-hole--and yet--and 5229yet--it's rather curious, you know, this sort of life! I do wonder what 5230can have happened to me! When I used to read fairy-tales, I fancied that 5231kind of thing never happened, and now here I am in the middle of one! 5232 5233=head2 v5.12.0-RC3 - Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" 5234 5235L<Announced on 2010-04-02 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/04/msg158346.html> 5236 5237At last the Mouse, who seemed to be a person of authority among them, 5238called out, 'Sit down, all of you, and listen to me! I'LL soon make you 5239dry enough!' They all sat down at once, in a large ring, with the Mouse 5240in the middle. Alice kept her eyes anxiously fixed on it, for she felt 5241sure she would catch a bad cold if she did not get dry very soon. 5242 5243'Ahem!' said the Mouse with an important air, 'are you all ready? This 5244is the driest thing I know. Silence all round, if you please! "William 5245the Conqueror, whose cause was favoured by the pope, was soon submitted 5246to by the English, who wanted leaders, and had been of late much 5247accustomed to usurpation and conquest. Edwin and Morcar, the earls of 5248Mercia and Northumbria --"' 5249 5250=head2 v5.12.0-RC2 - no announcement 5251 5252Available on CPAN since 2010-04-01. 5253 5254=head2 v5.12.0-RC1 - Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" 5255 5256L<Announced on 2010-03-29 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/03/msg158060.html> 5257 5258So she was considering in her own mind (as well as she could, for the 5259hot day made her feel very sleepy and stupid), whether the pleasure of 5260making a daisy-chain would be worth the trouble of getting up and 5261picking the daisies, when suddenly a White Rabbit with pink eyes ran 5262close by her. 5263 5264There was nothing so VERY remarkable in that; nor did Alice think it so 5265VERY much out of the way to hear the Rabbit say to itself, 'Oh dear! Oh 5266dear! I shall be late!' (when she thought it over afterwards, it 5267occurred to her that she ought to have wondered at this, but at the time 5268it all seemed quite natural); but when the Rabbit actually TOOK A WATCH 5269OUT OF ITS WAISTCOAT-POCKET, and looked at it, and then hurried on, 5270Alice started to her feet, for it flashed across her mind that she had 5271never before seen a rabbit with either a waistcoat-pocket, or a watch to 5272take out of it, and burning with curiosity, she ran across the field 5273after it, and fortunately was just in time to see it pop down a large 5274rabbit-hole under the hedge. 5275 5276In another moment down went Alice after it, never once considering how 5277in the world she was to get out again. 5278 5279=head2 v5.12.0-RC0 - no epigraph 5280 5281L<Announced on 2020-03-21 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/03/msg157761.html> 5282 5283=head2 v5.11.5 - Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "Christabel" 5284 5285L<Announced on 2010-02-21 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/02/msg156957.html> 5286 5287 A little child, a limber elf, 5288 Singing, dancing to itself, 5289 A fairy thing with red round cheeks, 5290 That always finds, and never seeks, 5291 Makes such a vision to the sight 5292 As fills a father's eyes with light; 5293 And pleasures flow in so thick and fast 5294 Upon his heart, that he at last 5295 Must needs express his love's excess 5296 With words of unmeant bitterness. 5297 Perhaps 'tis pretty to force together 5298 Thoughts so all unlike each other; 5299 To mutter and mock a broken charm, 5300 To dally with wrong that does no harm. 5301 Perhaps 'tis tender too and pretty 5302 At each wild word to feel within 5303 A sweet recoil of love and pity. 5304 And what, if in a world of sin 5305 (O sorrow and shame should this be true!) 5306 Such giddiness of heart and brain 5307 Comes seldom save from rage and pain, 5308 So talks as it's most used to do. 5309 5310=head2 v5.11.4 - Fyodor Dostoevsky, "Crime and Punishment" 5311 5312L<Announced on 2010-01-20 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/01/msg155848.html> 5313 5314And you don't suppose that I went into it headlong like a fool? I went 5315into it like a wise man, and that was just my destruction. And you 5316mustn't suppose that I didn't know, for instance, that if I began to 5317question myself whether I had the right to gain power -- I certainly 5318hadn't the right -- or that if I asked myself whether a human being is a 5319louse it proved that it wasn't so for me, though it might be for a man 5320who would go straight to his goal without asking questions.... If I 5321worried myself all those days, wondering whether Napoleon would have 5322done it or not, I felt clearly of course that I wasn't Napoleon. 5323 5324=head2 v5.11.3 - Mark Twain, "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" 5325 5326L<Announced on 2009-12-20 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2009/12/msg154838.html> 5327 5328"Say -- I'm going in a swimming, I am. Don't you wish you could? But of 5329course you'd druther work -- wouldn't you? Course you would!" 5330 5331Tom contemplated the boy a bit, and said: "What do you call work?" 5332 5333"Why ain't that work?" 5334 5335Tom resumed his whitewashing, and answered carelessly: "Well, maybe it 5336is, and maybe it aint. All I know, is, it suits Tom Sawyer." 5337 5338"Oh come, now, you don't mean to let on that you like it?" 5339 5340The brush continued to move. "Like it? Well I don't see why I oughtn't 5341to like it. Does a boy get a chance to whitewash a fence every day?" 5342 5343That put the thing in a new light. Ben stopped nibbling his apple. Tom 5344swept his brush daintily back and forth -- stepped back to note the effect 5345-- added a touch here and there-criticised the effect again -- Ben 5346watching every move and getting more and more interested, more and more 5347absorbed. Presently he said: "Say, Tom, let me whitewash a little." 5348 5349=head2 v5.11.2 - Michael Marshall Smith, "Only Forward" 5350 5351L<Announced on 2009-11-20 by Léon Brocard|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2009/11/msg153646.html> 5352 5353The streets were pretty quiet, which was nice. They're always quiet here 5354at that time: you have to be wearing a black jacket to be out on the 5355streets between seven and nine in the evening, and not many people in 5356the area have black jackets. It's just one of those things. I currently 5357live in Colour Neighbourhood, which is for people who are heavily into 5358colour. All the streets and buildings are set for instant colourmatch: 5359as you walk down the road they change hue to offset whatever you're 5360wearing. When the streets are busy it's kind of intense, and anyone 5361prone to epileptic seizures isn't allowed to live in the Neighbourhood, 5362however much they're into colour. 5363 5364=head2 v5.11.1 - Joseph Heller, "Catch-22" 5365 5366L<Announced on 2009-10-20 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2009/10/msg152360.html> 5367 5368Milo had been caught red-handed in the act of plundering his countrymen, 5369and, as a result, his stock had never been higher. He proved good as his 5370word when a rawboned major from Minnesota curled his lip in rebellious 5371disavowal and demanded his share of the syndicate Milo kept saying 5372everybody owned. Milo met the challenge by writing the words "A Share" 5373on the nearest scrap of paper and handing it away with a virtuous disdain 5374that won the envy and admiration of almost everyone who knew him. His 5375glory was at a peak, and Colonel Cathcart, who knew and admired his 5376war record, was astonished by the deferential humility with which Milo 5377presented himself at Group Headquarters and made his fantastic appeal 5378for more hazardous assignment. 5379 5380=head2 v5.11.0 - Mikhail Bulgakov, "The Master and Margarita" 5381 5382L<Announced on 2009-10-02 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2009/10/msg151376.html> 5383 5384Whispers of an "evil power" were heard in lines at dairy shops, in 5385streetcars, stores, arguments, kitchens, suburban and long-distance 5386trains, at stations large and small, in dachas and on beaches. Needless 5387to say, truly mature and cultured people did not tell these stories 5388about an evil power's visit to the capital. In fact, they even made fun 5389of them and tried to talk sense into those who told them. Nevertheless, 5390facts are facts, as they say, and cannot simply be dismissed without 5391explanation: somebody had visited the capital. The charred cinders of 5392Griboyedov alone, and many other things besides, confirmed it. Cultured 5393people shared the point of view of the investigating team: it was the 5394work of a gang of hypnotists and ventriloquists magnificently skilled in 5395their art. 5396 5397=head2 v5.10.1 - Right Hon. James Hacker MP, "The Complete Yes Minister: The Diaries of a Cabinet Minister" 5398 5399L<Announced on 2009-08-23 by Dave Mitchell|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2009/08/msg150172.html> 5400 5401'Briefly, sir, I am the Permanent Under-Secretary of State, known as 5402the Permanent Secretary. Woolley here is your Principal Private 5403Secretary. I, too, have a Principal Private Secretary, and he is the 5404Principal Private Secretary to the Permanent Secretary. Directly 5405responsible to me are ten Deputy Secretaries, eighty-seven Under 5406Secretaries and two hundred and nineteen Assistant Secretaries. 5407Directly responsible to the Principal Private Secretaries are plain 5408Private Secretaries. The Prime Minister will be appointing two 5409Parliamentary Under-Secretaries and you will be appointing your own 5410Parliamentary Private Secretary.' 5411 5412'Can they all type?' I joked. 5413 5414'None of us can type, Minister,' replied Sir Humphrey smoothly. 'Mrs 5415McKay types - she is your Secretary.' 5416 5417I couldn't tell whether or not he was joking. 'What a pity,' I said. 5418'We could have opened an agency.' 5419 5420Sir Humphrey and Bernard laughed. 'Very droll, sir,' said Sir 5421Humphrey. 'Most amusing, sir,' said Bernard. Were they genuinely 5422amused at my wit, or just being rather patronising? 'I suppose they 5423all say that, do they?' I ventured. 5424 5425Sir Humphrey reassured me on that. 'Certainly not, Minister,' he 5426replied. 'Not quite all.' 5427 5428=head2 v5.10.1-RC2 - no epigraph 5429 5430L<Announced on 2009-08-18 by Dave Mitchell|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2009/08/msg150015.html> 5431 5432=head2 v5.10.1-RC1 - no epigraph 5433 5434L<Announced on 2009-08-06 by Dave Mitchell|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2009/08/msg149498.html> 5435 5436=head2 v5.10.0 - Laurence Sterne, "Tristram Shandy" 5437 5438L<Announced on 2007-12-18 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2007/12/msg131636.html> 5439 5440He would often declare, in speaking his thoughts upon the subject, that 5441he did not conceive how the greatest family in England could stand it 5442out against an uninterrupted succession of six or seven short 5443noses.--And for the contrary reason, he would generally add, That it 5444must be one of the greatest problems in civil life, where the same 5445number of long and jolly noses, following one another in a direct line, 5446did not raise and hoist it up into the best vacancies in the kingdom. 5447 5448=head2 v5.10.0-RC2 - no epigraph 5449 5450L<Announced on 2007-11-25 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2007/11/msg130978.html> 5451 5452=head2 v5.10.0-RC1 - no epigraph 5453 5454L<Announced on 2007-11-17 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2007/11/msg130653.html> 5455 5456=head2 v5.9.5 - no announcement 5457 5458L<Pre-announced on 2007-07-07 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2007/07/msg126358.html>, 5459available on CPAN with same date, but never actually announced. 5460 5461=head2 v5.9.4 - no epigraph 5462 5463L<Announced on 2006-08-15 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2006/08/msg115782.html> 5464 5465=head2 v5.9.3 - no epigraph 5466 5467L<Announced on 2006-01-28 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2006/01/msg109086.html> 5468 5469=head2 v5.9.2 - Thomas Pynchon, "V" 5470 5471L<Announced on 2005-04-01 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2005/04/msg99421.html> 5472 5473This word flip was weird. Every recording date of McClintic's he'd 5474gotten into the habit of talking electricity with the audio men and 5475technicians of the studio. McClintic once couldn't have cared less 5476about electricity, but now it seemed if that was helping him reach a 5477bigger audience, some digging, some who would never dig, but all 5478paying and those royalties keeping the Triumph in gas and McClintic 5479in J. Press suits, then McClintic ought to be grateful to 5480electricity, ought maybe to learn a little more about it. So he'd 5481picked up some here and there, and one day last summer he got around 5482to talking stochastic music and digital computers with one 5483technician. Out of the conversation had come Set/Reset, which was 5484getting to be a signature for the group. He had found out from this 5485sound man about a two-triode circuit called a flip-flop, which when 5486it turned on could be one of two ways, depending on which tube was 5487conducting and which was cut off: set or reset, flip or flop. 5488 5489"And that," the man said, "can be yes or no, or one or zero. And 5490that is what you might call one of the basic units, or specialized 5491`cells' in a big `electronic brain.' " 5492 5493"Crazy," said McClintic, having lost him back there someplace. But 5494one thing that did occur to him was if a computer's brain could go 5495flip or flop, why so could a musician's. As long as you were flop, 5496everything was cool. But where did the trigger-pulse come from to 5497make you flip? 5498 5499=head2 v5.9.1 - Tom Stoppard, "Arcadia" 5500 5501L<Announced on 2004-03-16 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/03/msg89722.html> 5502 5503Aren't you supposed to have a pony? 5504 5505=head2 v5.9.0 - Doris Lessing, "Martha Quest" 5506 5507L<Announced on 2003-10-27 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/10/msg84147.html> 5508 5509What of October, that ambiguous month 5510 5511=head2 v5.8.9 - Right Hon. James Hacker MP, "The Complete Yes Minister: The Diaries of a Cabinet Minister" 5512 5513L<Announced on 2008-12-14 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2008/12/msg142571.html> 5514 5515Frank and I, unlike the civil servants, were still puzzled that such a 5516proposal as the Europass could even be seriously under consideration by 5517the FCO. We can both see clearly that it is wonderful ammunition for the 5518anti-Europeans. I asked Humphrey if the Foreign Office doesn't realise 5519how damaging this would be to the European ideal? 5520 5521'I'm sure they do, Minister, he said. That's why they support it.' 5522 5523This was even more puzzling, since I'd always been under the impression 5524that the FO is pro-Europe. 'Is it or isn't it?' I asked Humphrey. 5525 5526'Yes and no,' he replied of course, 'if you'll pardon the 5527expression. The Foreign Office is pro-Europe because it is really 5528anti-Europe. In fact the Civil Service was united in its desire to make 5529sure the Common Market didn't work. That's why we went into it.' 5530 5531This sounded like a riddle to me. I asked him to explain further. And 5532basically his argument was as follows: Britain has had the same foreign 5533policy objective for at least the last five hundred years - to create a 5534disunited Europe. In that cause we have fought with the Dutch against 5535the Spanish, with the Germans against the French, with the French and 5536Italians against the Germans, and with the French against the Italians 5537and Germans. [The Dutch rebellion against Phillip II of Spain, the 5538Napoleonic Wars, the First World War, and the Second World War - Ed.] 5539 5540In other words, divide and rule. And the Foreign Office can see no 5541reason to change when it has worked so well until now. 5542 5543I was aware of this, naturally, but I regarded it as ancient history. 5544Humphrey thinks that it is, in fact, current policy. It was necessary 5545for us to break up the EEC, he explained, so we had to get inside. We 5546had previously tried to break it up from the outside, but that didn't 5547work. [A reference to our futile and short-lived involvement in EFTA, 5548the European Free Trade Association, founded in 1960 and which the UK 5549left in 1972 - Ed.] Now that we're in, we are able to make a complete 5550pig's breakfast out of it. We've now set the Germans against the French, 5551the French against the Italians, the Italians against the Dutch... and 5552the Foreign office is terribly happy. It's just like old time. 5553 5554I was staggered by all of this. I thought that the all of us who are 5555publicly pro-European believed in the European ideal. I said this to Sir 5556Humphrey, and he simply chuckled. 5557 5558So I asked him: if we don't believe in the European Ideal, why are we 5559pushing to increase the membership? 5560 5561'Same reason,' came the reply. 'It's just like the United Nations. The 5562more members it has, the more arguments you can stir up, and the more 5563futile and impotent it becomes.' 5564 5565This all strikes me as the most appalling cynicism, and I said so. 5566 5567Sir Humphrey agreed completely. 'Yes Minister. We call it 5568diplomacy. It's what made Britain great, you know.' 5569 5570=head2 v5.8.9-RC2 - Right Hon. James Hacker MP, "The Complete Yes Minister: The Diaries of a Cabinet Minister" 5571 5572L<Announced on 2008-12-06 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2008/12/msg142422.html> 5573 5574There was silence in the office. I didn't know what we were going to do 5575about the four hundred new people supervising our economy drive or the 5576four hundred new people for the Bureaucratic Watchdog Office, or 5577anything! I simply sat and waited and hoped that my head would stop 5578thumping and that some idea would be suggested by someone sometime soon. 5579 5580Sir Humphrey obliged. 'Minister... if we were to end the economy drive 5581and close the Bureaucratic Watchdog Office we could issue an immediate 5582press announcement that you had axed eight hundred jobs.' He had 5583obviously thought this out carefully in advance, for at this moment he 5584produced a slim folder from under his arm. 'If you'd like to approve 5585this draft...' 5586 5587I couldn't believe the impertinence of the suggestion. Axed eight 5588hundred jobs? 'But no one was ever doing these jobs,' I pointed out 5589incredulously. 'No one's been appointed yet.' 5590 5591'Even greater economy,' he replied instantly. 'We've saved eight hundred 5592redundancy payments as well.' 5593 5594'But...' I attempted to explain '... that's just phony. It's dishonest, 5595it's juggling with figures, it's pulling the wool over people's eyes.' 5596 5597'A government press release, in fact.' said Humphrey. 5598 5599=head2 v5.8.9-RC1 - Right Hon. James Hacker MP, "The Complete Yes Minister: The Diaries of a Cabinet Minister" 5600 5601L<Announced on 2008-11-10 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2008/11/msg141515.html> 5602 5603A jumbo jet touched down, with BURANDAN AIRWAYS written on the side. I 5604was hugely impressed. British Airways are having to pawn their Concordes, 5605and here is this little tiny African state with its own airline, jumbo 5606jets and all. 5607 5608I asked Bernard how many planes Burandan Airways had. 'None,' he said. 5609 5610I told him not to be silly and use his eyes. 'No Minister, it belongs to 5611Freddie Laker,' he said. 'They chartered it last week and repainted it 5612specially.' Apparently most of the Have-Nots (I mean, LDCs) do this - at 5613the opening of the UN General Assembly the runways of Kennedy Airport are 5614jam-packed with phoney flag-carriers. 'In fact,' said Bernard with a sly 5615grin, 'there was one 747 that belonged to nine different African airlines 5616in a month. They called it the mumbo-jumbo.' 5617 5618While we watched nothing much happening on the TV except the mumbo-jumbo 5619taxiing around Prestwick and the Queen looking a bit chilly, Bernard gave 5620me the next day's schedule and explained that I was booked on the night 5621sleeper from King's Cross to Edinburgh because I had to vote in a 5622three-line whip at the House tonight and would have to miss the last 5623plane. Then the commentator, in that special hushed BBC voice used for any 5624occasion with which Royalty is connected, announced reverentially that we 5625were about to catch our first glimpse of President Selim. 5626 5627And out of the plane stepped Charlie. My old friend Charlie Umtali. We 5628were at LSE together. Not Selim Mohammed at all, but Charlie. 5629 5630Bernard asked me if I were sure. Silly question. How could you forget a 5631name like Charlie Umtali? 5632 5633I sent Bernard for Sir Humphrey, who was delighted to hear that we now 5634know something about our official visitor. 5635 5636Bernard's official brief said nothing. Amazing! Amazing how little the FCO 5637has been able to find out. Perhaps they were hoping it would all be on the 5638car radio. All the brief says is that Colonel Selim Mohammed had converted 5639to Islam some years ago, they didn't know his original name, and therefore 5640knew little of his background. 5641 5642I was able to tell Humphrey and Bernard /all/ about his background. 5643Charlie was a red-hot political economist, I informed them. Got the top 5644first. Wiped the floor with everyone. 5645 5646Bernard seemed relieved. 'Well that's all right then.' 5647 5648'Why?' I enquired. 5649 5650'I think Bernard means,' said Sir Humphrey helpfully, 'that he'll know how 5651to behave if he was at an English University. Even if it was the LSE.' I 5652never know whether or not Humphrey is insulting me intentionally. 5653 5654Humphrey was concerned about Charlie's political colour. 'When you said 5655that he was red-hot, were you speaking politically?' 5656 5657In a way I was. 'The thing about Charlie is that you never quite know 5658where you are with him. He's the sort of chap who follows you into a 5659revolving door and comes out in front.' 5660 5661'No deeply held convictions?' asked Sir Humphrey. 5662 5663'No. The only thing Charlie was committed too was Charlie.' 5664 5665'Ah, I see. A politician, Minister.' 5666 5667=head2 v5.8.8 - Joe Raposo, "Bein' Green" 5668 5669L<Announced on 2006-01-31 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2006/01/msg109190.html> 5670 5671 It's not that easy bein' green 5672 Having to spend each day the color of the leaves 5673 When I think it could be nicer being red or yellow or gold 5674 Or something much more colorful like that 5675 5676 It's not easy bein' green 5677 It seems you blend in with so many other ordinary things 5678 And people tend to pass you over 'cause you're 5679 Not standing out like flashy sparkles in the water 5680 Or stars in the sky 5681 5682 But green's the color of Spring 5683 And green can be cool and friendly-like 5684 And green can be big like an ocean 5685 Or important like a mountain 5686 Or tall like a tree 5687 5688 When green is all there is to be 5689 It could make you wonder why, but why wonder why? 5690 Wonder I am green and it'll do fine, it's beautiful 5691 And I think it's what I want to be 5692 5693=head2 v5.8.8-RC1 - Cosgrove Hall Productions, "Dangermouse" 5694 5695L<Announced on 2006-01-20 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2006/01/msg108833.html> 5696 5697 Greenback: And the world is mine, all mine. Muhahahahaha. See to it! 5698 5699 Stiletto: Si, Barone. Subito, Barone. 5700 5701=head2 v5.8.7 - Sergei Prokofiev, "Peter and the Wolf" 5702 5703L<Announced on 2005-05-31 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2005/05/msg101088.html> 5704 5705And now, imagine the triumphant procession: Peter at the head; after him the 5706hunters leading the wolf; and winding up the procession, grandfather and the 5707cat. 5708 5709Grandfather shook his head discontentedly: "Well, and if Peter hadn't caught 5710the wolf? What then?" 5711 5712=head2 v5.8.7-RC1 - Sergei Prokofiev, "Peter and the Wolf" 5713 5714L<Announced on 2005-05-20 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2005/05/msg100711.html> 5715 5716And now this is how things stood: The cat was sitting on one branch. The 5717bird on another, not too close to the cat. And the wolf walked round and 5718round the tree, looking at them with greedy eyes. 5719 5720In the meantime, Peter, without the slightest fear, stood behind the 5721gate, watching all that was going on. He ran home,got a strong rope and 5722climbed up the high stone wall. 5723 5724One of the branches of the tree, around which the wolf was walking, 5725stretched out over the wall. 5726 5727Grabbing hold of the branch, Peter lightly climbed over on to the tree. 5728Peter said to the bird: "Fly down and circle round the wolf's head, only 5729take care that he doesn't catch you!". 5730 5731The bird almost touched the wolf's head with its wings, while the wolf 5732snapped angrily at him from this side and that. 5733 5734How that bird teased the wolf, how that wolf wanted to catch him! But 5735the bird was clever and the wolf simply couldn't do anything about it. 5736 5737=head2 v5.8.6 - A. A. Milne, "The House at Pooh Corner" 5738 5739L<Announced on 2004-11-27 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/11/msg96304.html> 5740 5741"Hallo, Pooh," said Piglet, giving a jump of surprise. "I knew it was 5742you." 5743 5744"So did I,", said Pooh. "What are you doing?" 5745 5746"I'm planting a haycorn, Pooh, so that it can grow up into an oak-tree, 5747and have lots of haycorns just outside the front door instead of having 5748to walk miles and miles, do you see, Pooh?" 5749 5750"Supposing it doesn't?" said Pooh. 5751 5752"It will, because Christopher Robin says it will, so that's why I'm 5753planting it." 5754 5755"Well," aid Pooh, "if I plant a honeycomb outside my house, then it will 5756grow up into a beehive." 5757 5758Piglet wasn't quite sure about this. 5759 5760"Or a /piece/ of a honeycomb," said Pooh, "so as not to waste too much. 5761Only then I might only get a piece of a beehive, and it might be the 5762wrong piece, where the bees were buzzing and not hunnying. Bother" 5763 5764Piglet agreed that that would be rather bothering. 5765 5766"Besides, Pooh, it's a very difficult thing, planting unless you know 5767how to do it," he said; and he put the acorn in the hole he had made, 5768and covered it up with earth, and jumped on it. 5769 5770=head2 v5.8.6-RC1 - A. A. Milne, "Winnie the Pooh" 5771 5772L<Announced on 2004-11-11 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/11/msg95786.html> 5773 5774"Hallo!" said Piglet, "whare are /you/ doing?" 5775 5776"Hunting," said Pooh. 5777 5778"Hunting what?" 5779 5780"Tracking something," said Winnie-the-Pooh very mysteriously. 5781 5782"Tracking what?" said Piglet, coming closer. 5783 5784"That's just what I ask myself, I ask myself, What?" 5785 5786"What do you think you'll answer?" 5787 5788"I shall have to wait until I catch up with it," said Winnie-the-Pooh. 5789"Now, look there." He pointed to the ground in front of him. "What do 5790you see there?" 5791 5792"Track," said Piglet. "Paw-marks." He gave a little squeak of 5793excitement. "Oh, Pooh!" Do you think it's a--a--a Woozle?" 5794 5795=head2 v5.8.5 - wikipedia, "Yew" 5796 5797L<Announced on 2004-07-19 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/07/msg93189.html> 5798 5799Yews are relatively slow growing trees, widely used in landscaping and 5800ornamental horticulture. They have flat, dark-green needles, reddish 5801bark, and bear seeds with red arils, which are eaten by thrushes, 5802waxwings and other birds, dispersing the hard seeds undamaged in their 5803droppings. Yew wood is reddish brown (with white sapwood), and very 5804hard. It was traditionally used to make bows, especially the English 5805longbow. 5806 5807In England, the Common Yew (Taxus baccata, also known as English Yew) is 5808often found in churchyards. It is sometimes suggested that these are 5809placed there as a symbol of long life or trees of death, and some are 5810likely to be over 3,000 years old. It is also suggested that yew trees 5811may have a pre-Christian association with old pagan holy sites, and the 5812Christian church found it expedient to use and take over existing sites. 5813Another explanation is that the poisonous berries and foliage discourage 5814farmers and drovers from letting their animals wander into the burial 5815grounds. The yew tree is a frequent symbol in the Christian poetry of 5816T.S. Eliot, especially his Four Quartets. 5817 5818=head2 v5.8.5-RC2 - wikipedia, "Beech" 5819 5820L<Announced on 2004-07-09 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/07/msg92934.html> 5821 5822Beeches are trees of the Genus Fagus, family Fagaceae, including about 5823ten species in Europe, Asia, and North America. The leaves are entire or 5824sparsely toothed. The fruit is a small, sharply-angled nut, borne in 5825pairs in spiny husks. The beech most commonly grown as an ornamental or 5826shade tree is the European beech (Fagus sylvatica). 5827 5828The southern beeches belong to a different but related genus, 5829Nothofagus. They are found in Australia, New Zealand, New Guinea, New 5830Caledonia and South America. 5831 5832=head2 v5.8.5-RC1 - wikipedia, "Pedunculate Oak" (abridged) 5833 5834L<Announced on 2004-07-07 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/07/msg92840.html> 5835 5836The Pedunculate Oak is called the Common Oak in Britain, and is also 5837often called the English Oak in other English speaking countries It is a 5838large deciduous tree to 25-35m tall (exceptionally to 40m), with lobed 5839and sessile (stalk-less) leaves. Flowering takes place in early to mid 5840spring, and their fruit, called "acorns", ripen by autumn of the same 5841year. The acorns are pedunculate (having a peduncle or acorn-stalk) and 5842may occur singly, or several acorns may occur on a stalk. 5843 5844It forms a long-lived tree, with a large widespreading head of rugged 5845branches. While it may naturally live to an age of a few centuries, many 5846of the oldest trees are pollarded or coppiced, both pruning techniques 5847that extend the tree's potential lifespan, if not its health. 5848 5849Within its native range it is valued for its importance to insects and 5850other wildlife. Numerous insects live on the leaves, buds, and in the 5851acorns. The acorns form a valuable food resource for several small 5852mammals and some birds, notably Jays Garrulus glandarius. 5853 5854It is planted for forestry, and produces a long-lasting and durable 5855heartwood, much in demand for interior and furniture work. 5856 5857=head2 v5.8.4 - T. S. Eliot, "The Old Gumbie Cat" 5858 5859L<Announced on 2004-04-22 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/04/msg90984.html> 5860 5861 I have a Gumbie Cat in mind, her name is Jennyanydots; 5862 The curtain-cord she likes to wind, and tie it into sailor-knots. 5863 She sits upon the window-sill, or anything that's smooth and flat: 5864 She sits and sits and sits and sits -- and that's what makes a Gumbie Cat! 5865 5866 But when the day's hustle and bustle is done, 5867 Then the Gumbie Cat's work is but hardly begun. 5868 She thinks that the cockroaches just need employment 5869 To prevent them from idle and wanton destroyment. 5870 So she's formed, from that a lot of disorderly louts, 5871 A troop of well-disciplined helpful boy-scouts, 5872 With a purpose in life and a good deed to do-- 5873 And she's even created a Beetles' Tattoo. 5874 5875 So for Old Gumbie Cats let us now give three cheers -- 5876 On whom well-ordered households depend, it appears. 5877 5878 5879=head2 v5.8.4-RC2 - T. S. Eliot, "Macavity: The Mystery Cat" 5880 5881L<Announced on 2004-04-16 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/04/msg90796.html> 5882 5883 Macavity's a Mystery Cat: he's called the Hidden Paw -- 5884 For he's the master criminal who can defy the Law. 5885 He's the bafflement of Scotland Yard, the Flying Squad's despair: 5886 For when they reach the scene of crime -- /Macavity's not there/! 5887 5888 Macavity, Macavity, there's no one like Macavity, 5889 He's broken every human law, he breaks the law of gravity. 5890 His powers of levitation would make a fakir stare, 5891 And when you reach the scene of crime -- /Macavity's not there/! 5892 You may seek him in the basement, you may look up in the air -- 5893 But I tell you once and once again, /Macavity's not there/! 5894 5895=head2 v5.8.4-RC1 - T. S. Eliot, "Skimbleshanks: The Railway Cat" 5896 5897L<Announced on 2004-04-05 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/04/msg90422.html> 5898 5899 There's a whisper down the line at 11.39 5900 When the Night Mail's ready to depart, 5901 Saying 'Skimble where is Skimble has he gone to hunt the thimble? 5902 We must find him of the train can't start.' 5903 All the guards and all the porters and the stationmaster's daughters 5904 They are searching high and low, 5905 Saying 'Skimble where is Skimble for unless he's very nimble 5906 Then the Night Mail just can't go' 5907 At 11.42 then the signal's overdue 5908 And the passengers are frantic to a man-- 5909 Then Skimble will appear and he'll saunter to the rear: 5910 He's been busy in the luggage van! 5911 He gives one flash of his glass-green eyes 5912 And the signal goes 'All Clear!' 5913 And we're off at last of the northern part 5914 Of the Northern Hemisphere! 5915 5916=head2 v5.8.3 - Arthur William Edgar O'Shaugnessy, "Ode" 5917 5918L<Announced on 2004-01-14 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/01/msg87317.html> 5919 5920 We are the music makers, 5921 And we are the dreamers of dreams, 5922 Wandering by lonely sea-breakers, 5923 And sitting by desolate streams; -- 5924 World-losers and world-forsakers, 5925 On whom the pale moon gleams: 5926 Yet we are the movers and shakers 5927 Of the world for ever, it seems. 5928 5929=head2 v5.8.3-RC1 - Irving Berlin, "Let's Face the Music and Dance" 5930 5931L<Announced on 2004-01-07 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/01/msg86969.html> 5932 5933 There may be trouble ahead, 5934 But while there's music and moonlight, 5935 And love and romance, 5936 Let's face the music and dance. 5937 5938 Before the fiddlers have fled, 5939 Before they ask us to pay the bill, 5940 And while we still have that chance, 5941 Let's face the music and dance. 5942 5943 Soon, we'll be without the moon, 5944 Humming a different tune, and then, 5945 5946 There may be teardrops to shed, 5947 So while there's music and moonlight, 5948 And love and romance, 5949 Let's face the music and dance. 5950 5951=head2 v5.8.2 - Walt Whitman, "Passage to India" 5952 5953L<Announced on 2003-11-05 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/11/msg84822.html> 5954 5955 Passage, immediate passage! the blood burns in my veins! 5956 Away O soul! hoist instantly the anchor! 5957 Cut the hawsers - hall out - shake out every sail! 5958 Have we not stood here like trees in the ground long enough? 5959 Have we not grovel'd here long enough, eating and drinking like mere brutes? 5960 Have we not darken'd and dazed ourselves with books long enough? 5961 5962 Sail forth - steer for the deep waters only, 5963 Reckless O soul, exploring, I with the and thou with me, 5964 For we are bound where mariner has not yet dared to go, 5965 And we will risk the ship, ourselves and all. 5966 5967 O my brave soul! 5968 O farther farther sail! 5969 O daring job, but safe! are they not all the seas of God? 5970 O farther, farther, farther sail! 5971 5972=head2 v5.8.2-RC2 - Eric Idle and John Du Prez, "Accountancy Shanty" 5973 5974L<Announced on 2003-11-03 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/11/msg84645.html> 5975 5976 It's fun to charter an accountant 5977 And sail the wide accountan-cy, 5978 To find, explore the funds offshore 5979 And skirt the shoals of bankruptcy. 5980 5981=head2 v5.8.2-RC1 - Edward Lear, "The Jumblies" 5982 5983L<Announced on 2003-10-27 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/10/msg84194.html> 5984 5985 They went to sea in a Sieve, they did, 5986 In a Sieve they went to sea: 5987 In spite of all their friends could say, 5988 On a winter's morn, on a stormy day, 5989 In a Sieve they went to sea! 5990 And when the Sieve turned round and round, 5991 And everyone cried, "You'll all be drowned!" 5992 They cried aloud, "Our Sieve ain't big, 5993 But we don't care a button, we don't care a fig! 5994 In a Sieve we'll go to sea!" 5995 5996 Far and few, far and few, 5997 Are the lands where the Jumblies live; 5998 Their heads are green, and their hands are blue, 5999 And they went to sea in a Sieve. 6000 6001=head2 v5.8.1 - epigraph same as v5.7.1 6002 6003L<Announced on 2003-09-25 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/09/msg82678.html> 6004 6005=head2 v5.8.1-RC5 - Terry Pratchett, "Lords and Ladies" 6006 6007L<Announced on 2003-09-22 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/09/msg82476.html> 6008 6009No matter what she did with her hair it took about 6010three minutes for it to tangle itself up again, 6011like a garden hosepipe in a shed [Footnote: Which, 6012no matter how carefully coiled, will always uncoil 6013overnight and tie the lawnmower to the bicycles]. 6014 6015=head2 v5.8.1-RC4 - Terry Pratchett, "Interesting Times" 6016 6017L<Announced on 2003-08-01 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/08/msg79184.html> 6018 6019Grand Viziers were /always/ scheming megalomaniacs. 6020It was probably in the job description: "Are you a 6021devious, plotting, unreliable madman? Ah, good, 6022then you can be my most trusted minister." 6023 6024=head2 v5.8.1-RC3 - Terry Pratchett, "Interesting Times" 6025 6026L<Announced on 2003-07-30 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/07/msg79048.html> 6027 6028Lord Hong had a mind like a knife, although possibly 6029a knife with a curved blade. 6030 6031=head2 v5.8.1-RC2 - Terry Pratchett, "Interesting Times" 6032 6033L<Announced on 2003-07-11 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/07/msg78102.html> 6034 6035Many an ancient lord's last words had been, "You can't kill 6036me because I've got magic aaargh." 6037 6038=head2 v5.8.1-RC1 - Terry Pratchett, "Interesting Times" 6039 6040L<Announced on 2003-07-10 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/07/msg78009.html> 6041 6042Cohen was familiar with city gates. He'd broken down a number 6043in his time, by battering ram, siege gun, and on one occasion 6044with his head. 6045 6046But the gates of Hunghung were pretty damn good gates. They 6047weren't like the gates of Ankh-Morpork, which were usually wide 6048open to attract the spending customer and whose concession to 6049defense was the sign "Thank You For Not Attacking Our City. 6050Bonum Diem." These things were big and made of metal and there 6051was a guardhouse and a squad of unhelpful men in black armor. 6052 6053=head2 v5.8.0 - Terry Pratchett, "Reaper Man" 6054 6055L<Announced on 2002-07-18 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2002/07/msg63720.html> 6056 6057There was the faint sound of footsteps. 6058"Chap with a whip got as far as the big sharp spikes last week," 6059said the low priest. 6060There was a sound like the flushing of a very old dry lavatory. 6061The footsteps stopped. The High Priest smiled to himself. 6062"Right," he said. "See your two pebbles and raise you two pebbles." 6063The low priest threw down his cards. "Double Onion," he said. 6064The High Priest looked down suspiciously. 6065The low priest consulted a scrap of paper. "That's three hundred 6066thousand, nine hundred and sixty-four pebbles you owe me," he said. 6067There was the sound of footsteps. The priests exchanged glances. 6068"Haven't had one for poisoned-dart alley for quite some time," 6069said the High Priest. 6070"Five says he makes it", said the low priest. "You're on." 6071There was a faint clatter of metal points on stone. 6072"It's a shame to take your pebbles." 6073There were footsteps again. 6074 6075=head2 v5.8.0-RC3 - no epigraph 6076 6077L<Announced on 2002-07-13 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2002/07/msg63234.html> 6078 6079=head2 v5.8.0-RC2 - no epigraph 6080 6081L<Announced on 2002-06-21 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2002/06/msg62013.html> 6082 6083=head2 v5.8.0-RC1 - no epigraph 6084 6085L<Announced on 2002-06-01 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2002/06/msg60317.html> 6086 6087=head2 v5.7.3 - Terry Pratchett, "Reaper Man" 6088 6089L<Announced on 2002-03-04 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2002/03/msg53652.html> 6090 6091Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. 6092No matter how fast light travels it finds the darkness has always 6093got there first, and is waiting for it. 6094 6095=head2 v5.7.2 - Terry Pratchett, "Small Gods" 6096 6097L<Announced on 2001-07-13 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2001/07/msg40370.html> 6098 6099His philosophy was a mixture of three famous schools -- 6100the Cynics, the Stoics and the Epicureans -- and summed up 6101all three of them in his famous phrase, "You can't trust any 6102bugger further than you can throw him, and there's nothing 6103you can do about it, so let's have a drink." 6104 6105=head2 v5.7.1 - Terry Pratchett, "The Colour of Magic" 6106 6107L<Announced on 2001-04-09 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2001/04/msg33851.html> 6108 6109"What happens next?" asked Twoflower. 6110 6111Hrun screwed a finger in his ear and inspected it absently. 6112 6113"Oh,", he said, "I expect in a minute the door will be 6114flung back and I'll be dragged off to some sort of temple 6115arena where I'll fight maybe a couple of giant spiders 6116and an eight-foot slave from the jungles of Klatch and then 6117I'll rescue some kind of a princess from the altar and then 6118I'll kill off a few guards or whatever and then this girl 6119will show me the secret passage out of the place and we'll 6120liberate a couple of horses and escape with the treasure." 6121Hrun leaned his head back on his hands and looked at the 6122ceiling, whistling tunelessly. 6123 6124"All that?" said Twoflower. 6125 6126"Usually." 6127 6128=head2 v5.7.0 - Terry Pratchett, "Moving Pictures" 6129 6130L<Announced on 2000-09-02 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2000/09/msg17730.html> 6131 6132The Librarian had seen many weird things in his time, 6133but that had to be the 57th strangest. 6134[footnote: he had a tidy mind] 6135 6136=head2 v5.6.2 - Laurence Sterne, "Tristram Shandy" 6137 6138L<Announced on 2003-11-15 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/11/msg85222.html> 6139 6140When great or unexpected events fall out upon the stage of this 6141sublunary word--the mind of man, which is an inquisitive kind of 6142a substance, naturally takes a flight, behind the scenes, to see 6143what is the cause and first spring of them--The search was not 6144long in this instance. 6145 6146=head2 v5.6.2-RC1 - Laurence Sterne, "Tristram Shandy" 6147 6148L<Announced on 2003-11-08 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/11/msg84953.html> 6149 6150"Pray, my dear", quoth my mother, "have you not forgot to wind up the clock?" 6151 6152=head2 v5.6.1 - J R R Tolkien, "The Hobbit", Riddles in the Dark 6153 6154L<Announced on 2001-04-08 by Gurusamy Sarathy|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2001/04/msg33823.html> 6155 6156`What have I got in my pocket?' he said aloud. He was talking to 6157himself, but Gollum thought it was a riddle, and he was frightfully 6158upset. 6159 6160`Not fair! not fair!' he hissed. `It isn't fair, my precious, is it, 6161to ask us what it's got in its nassty little pocketses?' 6162 6163Bilbo seeing what had happened and having nothing better to ask 6164stuck to his question, `What have I got in my pocket?' he said 6165louder. 6166 6167`S-s-s-s-s,' hissed Gollum. `It must give us three guesseses, 6168my precious, three guesseses.' 6169 6170=head2 v5.6.1-foolish - no epigraph 6171 6172L<Announced on 2001-04-01 by Gurusamy Sarathy|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2001/04/msg33421.html> 6173 6174=head2 v5.6.1-TRIAL3 - I can't find the announcement 6175 6176No announcement available. 6177 6178=head2 v5.6.1-TRIAL2 - no epigraph 6179 6180L<Announced on 2001-01-31 by Gurusamy Sarathy|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2001/01/msg29934.html> 6181 6182=head2 v5.6.1-TRIAL1 - no epigraph 6183 6184L<Announced on 2000-12-18 by Gurusamy Sarathy|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2000/12/msg27738.html> 6185 6186=head2 v5.6.0 - J R R Tolkien, "The Hobbit", The Last Stage 6187 6188L<Announced on 2000-03-23 by Gurusamy Sarathy|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2000/03/msg10341.html> 6189 6190 The dragon is withered, 6191 His bones are now crumbled; 6192 His armour is shivered, 6193 His splendour is humbled! 6194 Though sword shall be rusted, 6195 And throne and crown perish 6196 With strength that men trusted 6197 And wealth that they cherish, 6198 Here grass is still growing, 6199 And leaves are a yet swinging, 6200 The white water flowing, 6201 And elves are yet singing 6202 Come! Tra-la-la-lally! 6203 Come back to the valley. 6204 6205=head2 v5.6.0-RC3 - no epigraph 6206 6207L<Announced on 2000-03-22 by Gurusamy Sarathy|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2000/03/msg10140.html> 6208 6209=head2 v5.005_05-RC1 - no epigraph 6210 6211L<Announced on 2009-02-16 by LE<0xe9>on Brocard|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2009/02/msg144227.html> 6212 6213=head2 v5.005_04 - no epigraph 6214 6215L<Announced on 2004-03-01 by LE<0xe9>on Brocard|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/03/msg89047.html> 6216 6217=head2 v5.005_04-RC2 - Rudyard Kipling, "The Jungle Book" 6218 6219L<Announced on 2004-02-19 by LE<0xe9>on Brocard|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/02/msg88672.html> 6220 6221The monkeys called the place their city, and pretended to despise 6222the Jungle-People because they lived in the forest. And yet they 6223never knew what the buildings were made for nor how to use 6224them. They would sit in circles on the hall of the king's council 6225chamber, and scratch for fleas and pretend to be men; or they would 6226run in and out of the roofless houses and collect pieces of plaster 6227and old bricks in a corner, and forget where they had hidden them, 6228and fight and cry in scuffling crowds, and then break off to play up 6229and down the terraces of the king's garden, where they would shake 6230the rose trees and the oranges in sport to see the fruit and flowers 6231fall. 6232 6233=head2 v5.005_04-RC1 - Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" 6234 6235L<Announced on 2004-02-05 by LE<0xe9>on Brocard|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/02/msg88312.html> 6236 6237Either the well was very deep, or she fell very slowly, for she had 6238plenty of time as she went down to look about her and to wonder what was 6239going to happen next. First, she tried to look down and make out what 6240she was coming to, but it was too dark to see anything; then she looked 6241at the sides of the well, and noticed that they were filled with 6242cupboards and book-shelves; here and there she saw maps and pictures 6243hung upon pegs. She took down a jar from one of the shelves as she 6244passed; it was labelled 'ORANGE MARMALADE', but to her great 6245disappointment it was empty: she did not like to drop the jar for fear 6246of killing somebody, so managed to put it into one of the cupboards as 6247she fell past it. 6248 6249=head2 v1.0_16 - Johan Vromans, extemporarily 6250 6251L<Announced on 2003-12-18 by Richard Clamp|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/12/msg86423.html> 6252 6253 't was 16 years ago today 6254 Larry taught us a new game 6255 of lazyness, impatience, and hubris 6256 Happy birthday, Perl! 6257 6258=head1 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 6259 6260This document was originally compiled based on a list of epigraphs 6261on L<Perl Monks|http://perlmonks.org> titled 6262L<Recent Perl Release Announcement|http://perlmonks.org/?node_id=372406> 6263by ysth. 6264 6265=cut 6266 6267# vim:tw=72: 6268