=head1 DESCRIPTION
Many Perl release announcements included an I<epigraph>, a short excerpt
-from a literary or other creative work, chosen by the pumpking or
-release manager. This file assembles the known list of epigraph for
-posterity.
+from a literary or other creative work, chosen by the pumpking or release
+manager. This file assembles the known list of epigraph for posterity,
+and also links to the release announcements in mailing list archives.
I<Note>: these have also been referred to as <epigrams>, but the
definition of I<epigraph> is closer to the way they have been used.
=head2 v5.13.8 - Roger Williams, L<"The Fifth Gift"|http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2005/8/19/21304/8493>
+L<Announced on 2010-12-19 by Zefram|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/12/msg167271.html>
+
The aliens called the box a "matter generator," but we'd be more inclined
to call it a matter duplicator. By connecting switches and potentiometers
between the copper posts it was possible to make the box mark off two
=head2 v5.13.7 - Andy Wachowski and Lana Wachowski, 'The Matrix'
+L<Announced on 2010-11-20 by Chris 'BinGOs' Williams|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/11/msg166162.html>
+
[Neo sees a black cat walk by them, and then a similar black cat walk by them just like the first one]
Neo: Whoa. Deja vu.
=head2 v5.13.6 - Haruki Murakami, "Kafka on the Shore"
+L<Announced on 2010-10-20 by Tatsuhiko Miyagawa|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/10/msg165183.html>
+
The boy called Crow softly rests a hand on my shoulder, and with that
he storm vanishes.
=head2 v5.13.5 - Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, "The Room in the Dragon Volant"
+L<Announced on 2010-09-19 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/09/msg164238.html>
+
Candle in hand I stepped in. I do not know whether the quality of
air, long undisturbed, is peculiar; to me it has always seemed so, and
the damp smell of the old masonry hung in this atmosphere. My candle
park, uniting with the wood that approached the little temple I have
described.
+=head2 v5.12.2 - William Gibson, "Pattern Recognition"
+
+L<Announced on 2919-09-06 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/09/msg163852.html>
+
+CPUs. Cayce Pollard Units. That's what Damien calls the clothing
+she wears. CPUs are either black, white, or gray, and ideally
+seem to have come into this world without human intervention.
+
+What people take for relentless minimalism is a side effect
+of too much exposure to the reactor-cores of fashion. This
+has resulted in a remorseless paring-down of what she can and
+will wear. She is, literally, allergic to fashion. She can
+only tolerate things that could have been worn, to a general
+lack of comment, during any year between 1945 and 2000. She's a
+design-free zone, a one-woman school of and whose very austerity
+periodically threatens to spawn its own cult.
+
+=head2 v5.12.2-RC1 - William Gibson, "Pattern Recognition"
+
+L<Announced on 2010-08-31 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/08/msg163670.html>
+
+The front page opens, familiar as a friend's living room. A frame-grab
+from #48 serves as backdrop, dim and almost monochrome, no characters in
+view. This is one of the sequences that generate comparisons with
+Tarkovsky. She only knows Tarkovsky from stills, really, though she did
+once fall asleep during a screening of The Stalker, going under on an
+endless pan, the camera aimed straight down, in close-up, at a puddle on
+a ruined mosaic floor. But she is not one of those who think that much
+will be gained by analysis of the maker's imagined influences. The cult
+of the footage is rife with subcults, claiming every possible influence.
+Truffaut, Peckinpah -- The Peckinpah people, among the least likely, are
+still waiting for the guns to be drawn.
+
=head2 v5.13.4 - Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
+L<Announced on 2010-08-20 by Florian Ragwitz|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/08/msg163150.html>
+
`How the creatures order one about, and make one repeat lessons!' thought Alice;
`I might as well be at school at once.' However, she got up, and began to repeat
it, but her head was so full of the Lobster Quadrille, that she hardly knew what
=head2 v5.13.3 - Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, "Good Omens"
+L<Announced on 2010-07-20 by David Golden|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/07/msg162230.html>
+
Look at Crowley, doing 110 mph on the M40 heading towards
Oxfordshire. Even the most resolutely casual observer would
notice a number of strange things about him. The clenched teeth,
=head2 v5.13.2 - Iain M Banks, "Use of Weapons"
+L<Announced on 2010-06-22 by Matt S Trout|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/06/msg161112.html>
+
We deal in the moral equivalent of black holes, where the normal laws -
the rules of right and wrong that people imagine apply everywhere else
in the universe - break down; beyond those metaphysical event-horizons,
=head2 v5.13.1 - Miguel de Unamuno, "The Sepulchre of Don Quixote"
+L<Announced on 2010-05-20 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/05/msg160275.html>
+
And if anyone shall come to you and say that he knows how to construct
bridges and that perhaps a time will come when you will wish to avail
yourself of his science in order to cross over a river, out with him! Out
bridges somewhere else, where they are badly wanted. For those who go in
quest of the sepulchre, faith is bridge enough.
-=head2 v5.13.0 - Jules Verne, "A Journey to the Centre of the Earth"
-
-The heat still remained at quite a supportable degree. With an
-involuntary shudder, I reflected on what the heat must have been
-when the volcano of Sneffels was pouring its smoke, flames, and
-streams of boiling lava -- all of which must have come up by the
-road we were now following. I could imagine the torrents of hot
-seething stone darting on, bubbling up with accompaniments of
-smoke, steam, and sulphurous stench!
-
-"Only to think of the consequences," I mused, "if the old
-volcano were once more to set to work."
-
=head2 v5.12.1 - Kurt Vonnegut, "Cat's Cradle"
+L<Announced on 2010-05-16 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/05/msg160109.html>
+
"Now suppose," chortled Dr. Breed, enjoying himself, "that there were
many possible ways in which water could crystallize, could freeze.
Suppose that the sort of ice we skate upon and put into highballs --
=head2 v5.12.1-RC2 - Kurt Vonnegut, "Cat's Cradle"
+L<Announced on 2010-05-13 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/05/msg160066.html>
+
San Lorenzo was fifty miles long and twenty miles wide, I learned from
the supplement to the New York Sunday Times. Its population was four
hundred, fifty thousand souls, "...all fiercely dedicated to the ideals
harbor capable of sheltering the entire United States Navy." The principal
exports were sugar, coffee, bananas, indigo, and handcrafted novelties.
-=head2 v5.12.1-RC2 - Kurt Vonnegut, "Cat's Cradle"
+=head2 v5.12.1-RC1 - Kurt Vonnegut, "Cat's Cradle"
+
+L<Announced on 2010-05-09 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/05/msg159971.html>
Which brings me to the Bokononist concept of a wampeter. A wampeter is
the pivot of a karass. No karass is without a wampeter, Bokonon tells us,
Around and around and around we spin,
With feet of lead and wings of tin . . .
+=head2 v5.13.0 - Jules Verne, "A Journey to the Centre of the Earth"
+
+L<Announced on 2010-04-20 by LE<0xe9>on Brocard|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/04/msg159275.html>
+
+The heat still remained at quite a supportable degree. With an
+involuntary shudder, I reflected on what the heat must have been
+when the volcano of Sneffels was pouring its smoke, flames, and
+streams of boiling lava -- all of which must have come up by the
+road we were now following. I could imagine the torrents of hot
+seething stone darting on, bubbling up with accompaniments of
+smoke, steam, and sulphurous stench!
+
+"Only to think of the consequences," I mused, "if the old
+volcano were once more to set to work."
+
=head2 v5.12.0 - Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
+L<Announced on 2010-04-12 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/04/msg158820.html>
+
'Please would you tell me,' said Alice, a little timidly, for she was
not quite sure whether it was good manners for her to speak first, 'why
your cat grins like that?'
=head2 v5.12.0-RC5 - Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
+L<Announced on 2010-04-09 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/04/msg158720.html>
+
'Not QUITE right, I'm afraid,' said Alice, timidly; 'some of the words
have got altered.'
=head2 v5.12.0-RC4 - Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
+L<Announced on 2010-04-06 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/04/msg158567.html>
+
'It was much pleasanter at home,' thought poor Alice, 'when one wasn't
always growing larger and smaller, and being ordered about by mice and
rabbits. I almost wish I hadn't gone down that rabbit-hole--and yet--and
=head2 v5.12.0-RC3 - Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
+L<Announced on 2010-04-02 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/04/msg158346.html>
+
At last the Mouse, who seemed to be a person of authority among them,
called out, 'Sit down, all of you, and listen to me! I'LL soon make you
dry enough!' They all sat down at once, in a large ring, with the Mouse
accustomed to usurpation and conquest. Edwin and Morcar, the earls of
Mercia and Northumbria --"'
-=head2 v5.12.0-RC2 - no epigraph
+=head2 v5.12.0-RC2 - no announcement
-Z<>
+Available on CPAN since 2010-04-01.
=head2 v5.12.0-RC1 - Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
+L<Announced on 2010-03-29 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/03/msg158060.html>
+
So she was considering in her own mind (as well as she could, for the
hot day made her feel very sleepy and stupid), whether the pleasure of
making a daisy-chain would be worth the trouble of getting up and
=head2 v5.12.0-RC0 - no epigraph
-Z<>
+L<Announced on 2020-03-21 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/03/msg157761.html>
=head2 v5.11.5 - Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "Christabel"
+L<Announced on 2010-02-21 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/02/msg156957.html>
+
A little child, a limber elf,
Singing, dancing to itself,
A fairy thing with red round cheeks,
=head2 v5.11.4 - Fyodor Dostoevsky, "Crime and Punishment"
+L<Announced on 2010-01-20 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/01/msg155848.html>
+
And you don't suppose that I went into it headlong like a fool? I went
into it like a wise man, and that was just my destruction. And you
mustn't suppose that I didn't know, for instance, that if I began to
=head2 v5.11.3 - Mark Twain, "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer"
+L<Announced on 2009-12-20 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2009/12/msg154838.html>
+
"Say -- I'm going in a swimming, I am. Don't you wish you could? But of
course you'd druther work -- wouldn't you? Course you would!"
watching every move and getting more and more interested, more and more
absorbed. Presently he said: "Say, Tom, let me whitewash a little."
-
=head2 v5.11.2 - Michael Marshall Smith, "Only Forward"
+L<Announced on 2009-11-20 by |http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2009/11/msg153646.html>
+
The streets were pretty quiet, which was nice. They're always quiet here
at that time: you have to be wearing a black jacket to be out on the
streets between seven and nine in the evening, and not many people in
=head2 v5.11.1 - Joseph Heller, "Catch-22"
+L<Announced on 2009-10-20 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2009/10/msg152360.html>
+
Milo had been caught red-handed in the act of plundering his countrymen,
and, as a result, his stock had never been higher. He proved good as his
word when a rawboned major from Minnesota curled his lip in rebellious
=head2 v5.11.0 - Mikhail Bulgakov, "The Master and Margarita"
+L<Announced on 2009-10-02 by Jesse Vincent|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2009/10/msg151376.html>
+
Whispers of an "evil power" were heard in lines at dairy shops, in
streetcars, stores, arguments, kitchens, suburban and long-distance
trains, at stations large and small, in dachas and on beaches. Needless
work of a gang of hypnotists and ventriloquists magnificently skilled in
their art.
-
=head2 v5.10.1 - Right Hon. James Hacker MP, "The Complete Yes Minister: The Diaries of a Cabinet Minister"
+L<Announced on 2009-09-23 by Dave Mitchell|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2009/08/msg150172.html>
+
'Briefly, sir, I am the Permanent Under-Secretary of State, known as
the Permanent Secretary. Woolley here is your Principal Private
Secretary. I, too, have a Principal Private Secretary, and he is the
=head2 v5.10.1-RC2 - no epigraph
-Z<>
+L<Announced on 2009-08-18 by Dave Mitchell|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2009/08/msg150015.html>
=head2 v5.10.1-RC1 - no epigraph
-Z<>
-
-=head2 v5.10.0 - Laurence Sterne, "Tristram Shandy"
-
-He would often declare, in speaking his thoughts upon the subject, that
-he did not conceive how the greatest family in England could stand it
-out against an uninterrupted succession of six or seven short
-noses.--And for the contrary reason, he would generally add, That it
-must be one of the greatest problems in civil life, where the same
-number of long and jolly noses, following one another in a direct line,
-did not raise and hoist it up into the best vacancies in the kingdom.
-
-=head2 v5.10.0-RC2 - no epigraph
-
-Z<>
-
-=head2 v5.10.0-RC1 - no epigraph
-
-Z<>
-
-=head2 v5.9.5 - no epigraph
-
-Z<>
+L<Announced on 2009-08-06 by Dave Mitchell|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2009/08/msg149498.html>
-=head2 v5.9.4 - no epigraph
-
-Z<>
-
-=head2 v5.9.3 - no epigraph
-
-Z<>
-
-=head2 v5.9.2 - Thomas Pynchon, "V"
-
-This word flip was weird. Every recording date of McClintic's he'd
-gotten into the habit of talking electricity with the audio men and
-technicians of the studio. McClintic once couldn't have cared less
-about electricity, but now it seemed if that was helping him reach a
-bigger audience, some digging, some who would never dig, but all
-paying and those royalties keeping the Triumph in gas and McClintic
-in J. Press suits, then McClintic ought to be grateful to
-electricity, ought maybe to learn a little more about it. So he'd
-picked up some here and there, and one day last summer he got around
-to talking stochastic music and digital computers with one
-technician. Out of the conversation had come Set/Reset, which was
-getting to be a signature for the group. He had found out from this
-sound man about a two-triode circuit called a flip-flop, which when
-it turned on could be one of two ways, depending on which tube was
-conducting and which was cut off: set or reset, flip or flop.
-
-"And that," the man said, "can be yes or no, or one or zero. And
-that is what you might call one of the basic units, or specialized
-`cells' in a big `electronic brain.' "
-
-"Crazy," said McClintic, having lost him back there someplace. But
-one thing that did occur to him was if a computer's brain could go
-flip or flop, why so could a musician's. As long as you were flop,
-everything was cool. But where did the trigger-pulse come from to
-make you flip?
-
-=head2 v5.9.1 - Tom Stoppard, "Arcadia"
-
-Aren't you supposed to have a pony?
-
-=head2 v5.9.0 - Doris Lessing, "Martha Quest"
+=head2 5.005_05-RC1 - no epigraph
-What of October, that ambiguous month
+L<Announced on 2009-02-16 by LE<0xe9>on Brocard|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2009/02/msg144227.html>
=head2 v5.8.9 - Right Hon. James Hacker MP, "The Complete Yes Minister: The Diaries of a Cabinet Minister"
+L<Announced on 2008-12-14 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2008/12/msg142571.html>
+
Frank and I, unlike the civil servants, were still puzzled that such a
proposal as the Europass could even be seriously under consideration by
the FCO. We can both see clearly that it is wonderful ammunition for the
=head2 v5.8.9-RC2 - Right Hon. James Hacker MP, "The Complete Yes Minister: The Diaries of a Cabinet Minister"
+L<Announced on 2008-12-06 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2008/11/msg142422.html>
+
There was silence in the office. I didn't know what we were going to do
about the four hundred new people supervising our economy drive or the
four hundred new people for the Bureaucratic Watchdog Office, or
=head2 v5.8.9-RC1 - Right Hon. James Hacker MP, "The Complete Yes Minister: The Diaries of a Cabinet Minister"
+L<Announced on 2008-11-10 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2008/11/msg141515.html>
+
A jumbo jet touched down, with BURANDAN AIRWAYS written on the side. I
was hugely impressed. British Airways are having to pawn their Concordes,
and here is this little tiny African state with its own airline, jumbo
'Ah, I see. A politician, Minister.'
+=head2 v5.10.0 - Laurence Sterne, "Tristram Shandy"
+
+L<Announced on 2007-12-18 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2007/12/msg131636.html>
+
+He would often declare, in speaking his thoughts upon the subject, that
+he did not conceive how the greatest family in England could stand it
+out against an uninterrupted succession of six or seven short
+noses.--And for the contrary reason, he would generally add, That it
+must be one of the greatest problems in civil life, where the same
+number of long and jolly noses, following one another in a direct line,
+did not raise and hoist it up into the best vacancies in the kingdom.
+
+=head2 v5.10.0-RC2 - no epigraph
+
+L<Announced on 2007-11-25 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2007/11/msg130978.html>
+
+=head2 v5.10.0-RC1 - no epigraph
+
+L<Announced on 2007-11-17 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2007/11/msg130653.html>
+
+=head2 v5.9.5 - no announcement
+
+L<Pre-announced on 2007-07-07 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2007/07/msg126358.html>,
+available on CPAN with same date, but never actually announced.
+
+=head2 v5.9.4 - no epigraph
+
+L<Announced on 2006-08-15 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2006/08/msg115782.html>
+
=head2 v5.8.8 - Joe Raposo, "Bein' Green"
+L<Announced on 2006-02-01 by Nicholas Clark|http://groups.google.com/group/perl.perl5.porters/msg/28caf52e41ebe723>
+
It's not that easy bein' green
Having to spend each day the color of the leaves
When I think it could be nicer being red or yellow or gold
Wonder I am green and it'll do fine, it's beautiful
And I think it's what I want to be
+=head2 v5.9.3 - no epigraph
+
+L<Announced on 2006-01-28 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2006/01/msg109086.html>
+
=head2 v5.8.8-RC1 - Cosgrove Hall Productions, "Dangermouse"
- Greenback: And the world is mine, all mine. Muhahahahaha. See to it!
+L<Announced on 2006-01-20 by Nicholas Clark|http://groups.google.com/group/perl.perl5.porters/msg/d231fc554af8cc51>
+
+Greenback: And the world is mine, all mine. Muhahahahaha. See to it!
- Stiletto: Si, Barone. Subito, Barone.
+Stiletto: Si, Barone. Subito, Barone.
=head2 v5.8.7 - Sergei Prokofiev, "Peter and the Wolf"
+L<Announced on 2005-05-31 by Nicholas Clark|http://groups.google.com/group/perl.perl5.porters/msg/9a545704a0062f16>
+
And now, imagine the triumphant procession: Peter at the head; after him the
hunters leading the wolf; and winding up the procession, grandfather and the
cat.
=head2 v5.8.7-RC1 - Sergei Prokofiev, "Peter and the Wolf"
+L<Announced on 2005-05-20 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2005/05/msg100711.html>
+
And now this is how things stood: The cat was sitting on one branch. The
bird on another, not too close to the cat. And the wolf walked round and
round the tree, looking at them with greedy eyes.
How that bird teased the wolf, how that wolf wanted to catch him! But
the bird was clever and the wolf simply couldn't do anything about it.
+=head2 v5.9.2 - Thomas Pynchon, "V"
+
+L<Announced on 2005-04-01 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=20050401150702.2b4a70d5@grubert.mandrakesoft.com>
+
+This word flip was weird. Every recording date of McClintic's he'd
+gotten into the habit of talking electricity with the audio men and
+technicians of the studio. McClintic once couldn't have cared less
+about electricity, but now it seemed if that was helping him reach a
+bigger audience, some digging, some who would never dig, but all
+paying and those royalties keeping the Triumph in gas and McClintic
+in J. Press suits, then McClintic ought to be grateful to
+electricity, ought maybe to learn a little more about it. So he'd
+picked up some here and there, and one day last summer he got around
+to talking stochastic music and digital computers with one
+technician. Out of the conversation had come Set/Reset, which was
+getting to be a signature for the group. He had found out from this
+sound man about a two-triode circuit called a flip-flop, which when
+it turned on could be one of two ways, depending on which tube was
+conducting and which was cut off: set or reset, flip or flop.
+
+"And that," the man said, "can be yes or no, or one or zero. And
+that is what you might call one of the basic units, or specialized
+`cells' in a big `electronic brain.' "
+
+"Crazy," said McClintic, having lost him back there someplace. But
+one thing that did occur to him was if a computer's brain could go
+flip or flop, why so could a musician's. As long as you were flop,
+everything was cool. But where did the trigger-pulse come from to
+make you flip?
+
=head2 v5.8.6 - A. A. Milne, "The House at Pooh Corner"
+L<Announced on 2004-11-28 by Nicholas Clark|http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=20041128000836.GA304@Bagpuss.unfortu.net>
+
"Hallo, Pooh," said Piglet, giving a jump of surprise. "I knew it was
you."
=head2 v5.8.6-RC1 - A. A. Milne, "Winnie the Pooh"
+L<Announced on 2004-11-11 by Nicholas Clark|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2004/11/msg95786.html>
+
"Hallo!" said Piglet, "whare are /you/ doing?"
"Hunting," said Pooh.
=head2 v5.8.5 - wikipedia, "Yew"
+L<Announced on 2004-07-19 by Nicholas Clark|http://groups.google.com/group/perl.perl5.porters/msg/68340e2e4c39222c>
+
Yews are relatively slow growing trees, widely used in landscaping and
ornamental horticulture. They have flat, dark-green needles, reddish
bark, and bear seeds with red arils, which are eaten by thrushes,
=head2 v5.8.5-RC2 - wikipedia, "Beech"
+L<Announced on 2004-07-09 by Nicholas Clark|http://groups.google.com/group/perl.perl5.porters/msg/f92175725af7a5ad>
+
Beeches are trees of the Genus Fagus, family Fagaceae, including about
ten species in Europe, Asia, and North America. The leaves are entire or
sparsely toothed. The fruit is a small, sharply-angled nut, borne in
=head2 v5.8.5-RC1 - wikipedia, "Pedunculate Oak" (abridged)
+Announced on 2004-07-07 by Nicholas Clark
+
The Pedunculate Oak is called the Common Oak in Britain, and is also
often called the English Oak in other English speaking countries It is a
large deciduous tree to 25-35m tall (exceptionally to 40m), with lobed
=head2 v5.8.4 - T. S. Eliot, "The Old Gumbie Cat"
+L<Announced on 2004-04-22 by Nicholas Clark|http://groups.google.com/group/perl.perl5.porters/msg/c7333acf03ef4015>
+
I have a Gumbie Cat in mind, her name is Jennyanydots;
The curtain-cord she likes to wind, and tie it into sailor-knots.
She sits upon the window-sill, or anything that's smooth and flat:
=head2 v5.8.4-RC2 - T. S. Eliot, "Macavity: The Mystery Cat"
+L<Announced on 2004-04-16 by Nicholas Clark|http://groups.google.com/group/perl.perl5.porters/msg/84f6fdd73cc56a1b>
+
Macavity's a Mystery Cat: he's called the Hidden Paw --
For he's the master criminal who can defy the Law.
He's the bafflement of Scotland Yard, the Flying Squad's despair:
=head2 v5.8.4-RC1 - T. S. Eliot, "Skimbleshanks: The Railway Cat"
+L<Announced on 2004-04-05 by Nicholas Clark|http://groups.google.com/group/perl.perl5.porters/msg/e500353440769ebf>
+
There's a whisper down the line at 11.39
When the Night Mail's ready to depart,
Saying 'Skimble where is Skimble has he gone to hunt the thimble?
And we're off at last of the northern part
Of the Northern Hemisphere!
+=head2 v5.9.1 - Tom Stoppard, "Arcadia"
+
+L<Announced on 2004-03-16 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://groups.google.com/group/perl.perl5.porters/msg/8587d77c565f2d43>
+
+Aren't you supposed to have a pony?
+
+=head2 5.005_04 - no epigraph
+
+L<Announced on 2004-03-01 by LE<0xe9>on Brocard|http://groups.google.com/group/perl.perl5.porters/msg/6c240ad0b189cb47>
+
+=head2 5.005_04-RC2 - Rudyard Kipling, "The Jungle Book"
+
+L<Announced on 2004-02-19 by LE<0xe9>on Brocard|http://groups.google.com/group/perl.perl5.porters/msg/83e5421124a7b49d>
+
+The monkeys called the place their city, and pretended to despise
+the Jungle-People because they lived in the forest. And yet they
+never knew what the buildings were made for nor how to use
+them. They would sit in circles on the hall of the king's council
+chamber, and scratch for fleas and pretend to be men; or they would
+run in and out of the roofless houses and collect pieces of plaster
+and old bricks in a corner, and forget where they had hidden them,
+and fight and cry in scuffling crowds, and then break off to play up
+and down the terraces of the king's garden, where they would shake
+the rose trees and the oranges in sport to see the fruit and flowers
+fall.
+
+=head2 5.005_04-RC1 - Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
+
+L<Announced on 2004-02-05 by LE<0xe9>on Brocard|http://groups.google.com/group/perl.perl5.porters/msg/6aaeb6ec699bd116>
+
+Either the well was very deep, or she fell very slowly, for she had
+plenty of time as she went down to look about her and to wonder what was
+going to happen next. First, she tried to look down and make out what
+she was coming to, but it was too dark to see anything; then she looked
+at the sides of the well, and noticed that they were filled with
+cupboards and book-shelves; here and there she saw maps and pictures
+hung upon pegs. She took down a jar from one of the shelves as she
+passed; it was labelled 'ORANGE MARMALADE', but to her great
+disappointment it was empty: she did not like to drop the jar for fear
+of killing somebody, so managed to put it into one of the cupboards as
+she fell past it.
+
=head2 v5.8.3 - Arthur William Edgar O'Shaugnessy, "Ode"
+L<Announced on 2004-01-14 by Nicholas Clark|http://groups.google.com/group/perl.perl5.porters/msg/968fb8d71e23af69>
+
We are the music makers,
And we are the dreamers of dreams,
Wandering by lonely sea-breakers,
=head2 v5.8.3-RC1 - Irving Berlin, "Let's Face the Music and Dance"
+L<Announced on 2004-01-07 by Nicholas Clark|http://groups.google.com/group/perl.perl5.porters/msg/5ced50bebcd11c96>
+
There may be trouble ahead,
But while there's music and moonlight,
And love and romance,
And love and romance,
Let's face the music and dance.
+=head2 v1.0_16 - Johan Vromans, extemporarily
+
+L<Announced on 2003-12-18 by Richard Clamp|http://groups.google.com/group/perl.perl5.porters/msg/9281dc6194d15940>
+
+=head2 v5.6.2 - Sterne, "Tristram Shandy"
+
+L<Announced on 2003-11-15 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://groups.google.com/group/perl.perl5.porters/msg/deb8cb9ad918716f>
+
+When great or unexpected events fall out upon the stage of this
+sublunary word--the mind of man, which is an inquisitive kind of
+a substance, naturally takes a flight, behind the scenes, to see
+what is the cause and first spring of them--The search was not
+long in this instance.
+
+=head2 v5.6.2-RC1 - Sterne, "Tristram Shandy"
+
+L<Announced on 2003-11-15 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://groups.google.com/group/perl.perl5.porters/msg/e3d4acc7a8dd3ce5>
+
+"Pray, my dear", quoth my mother, "have you not forgot to wind up the clock?"
+
=head2 v5.8.2 - Walt Whitman, "Passage to India"
+L<Announced on 2003-11-06 by Nicholas Clark|http://groups.google.com/group/perl.perl5.porters/msg/4714574f93967673>
+
Passage, immediate passage! the blood burns in my veins!
Away O soul! hoist instantly the anchor!
Cut the hawsers - hall out - shake out every sail!
=head2 v5.8.2-RC2 - Eric Idle/John Du Prez, "Accountancy Shanty"
+L<Announced on 2003-11-03 by Nicholas Clark|http://groups.google.com/group/perl.perl5.porters/msg/7669de5804b792f6>
+
It's fun to charter an accountant
And sail the wide accountan-cy,
To find, explore the funds offshore
=head2 v5.8.2-RC1 - Edward Lear, "The Jumblies"
+L<Announced on 2003-10-28 by Nicholas Clark|http://groups.google.com/group/perl.perl5.porters/msg/83680ef3bbf7378d>
+
They went to sea in a Sieve, they did,
In a Sieve they went to sea:
In spite of all their friends could say,
Their heads are green, and their hands are blue,
And they went to sea in a Sieve.
-=head2 v5.8.1 - Terry Pratchett, "The Color of Magic"
+=head2 v5.9.0 - Doris Lessing, "Martha Quest"
+
+L<Announced on 2003-10-27 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://groups.google.com/group/perl.perl5.porters/msg/63a8c34385de82a1>
+
+What of October, that ambiguous month
+
+=head2 v5.8.1 - epigraph same as v5.7.1
+
+L<Announced on 2003-09-25 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/09/msg82678.html>
+
+=head2 v5.8.1-RC5 - Terry Pratchett, "Lords and Ladies"
+
+L<Announced on 2003-09-22 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/09/msg82476.html>
+
+No matter what she did with her hair it took about
+three minutes for it to tangle itself up again,
+like a garden hosepipe in a shed [Footnote: Which,
+no matter how carefully coiled, will always uncoil
+overnight and tie the lawnmower to the bicycles].
+
+=head2 v5.8.1-RC4 - Terry Pratchett, "Interesting Times"
+
+L<Announced on 2003-08-01 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/08/msg79184.html>
+
+Grand Viziers were /always/ scheming megalomaniacs.
+It was probably in the job description: "Are you a
+devious, plotting, unreliable madman? Ah, good,
+then you can be my most trusted minister."
+
+=head2 v5.8.1-RC3 - Terry Pratchett, "Interesting Times"
+
+L<Announced on 2003-07-30 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/07/msg79048.html>
+
+Lord Hong had a mind like a knife, although possibly
+a knife with a curved blade.
+
+=head2 v5.8.1-RC2 - Terry Pratchett, "Interesting Times"
+
+L<Announced on 2003-07-11 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/07/msg78102.html>
+
+Many an ancient lord's last words had been, "You can't kill
+me because I've got magic aaargh."
+
+=head2 v5.8.1-RC1 - Terry Pratchett, "Interesting Times"
+
+L<Announced on 2003-07-10 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/07/msg78009.html>
+
+Cohen was familiar with city gates. He'd broken down a number
+in his time, by battering ram, siege gun, and on one occasion
+with his head.
+
+But the gates of Hunghung were pretty damn good gates. They
+weren't like the gates of Ankh-Morpork, which were usually wide
+open to attract the spending customer and whose concession to
+defense was the sign "Thank You For Not Attacking Our City.
+Bonum Diem." These things were big and made of metal and there
+was a guardhouse and a squad of unhelpful men in black armor.
+
+=head2 v5.6.2 - Sterne, "Tristram Shandy"
+
+L<Announced on 2003-11-15 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://groups.google.com/group/perl.perl5.porters/msg/deb8cb9ad918716f>
+
+When great or unexpected events fall out upon the stage of this
+sublunary word--the mind of man, which is an inquisitive kind of
+a substance, naturally takes a flight, behind the scenes, to see
+what is the cause and first spring of them--The search was not
+long in this instance.
+
+=head2 v5.6.2-RC1 - Sterne, "Tristram Shandy"
+
+L<Announced on 2003-11-08 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://groups.google.com/group/perl.perl5.porters/msg/e3d4acc7a8dd3ce5>
+
+"Pray, my dear", quoth my mother, "have you not forgot to wind up the clock?"
+
+=head2 v5.8.0 - Terry Pratchett, "Reaper Man"
+
+L<Announced on 2002-07-18 by Rafael Garcia-Suarez|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2002/07/msg63720.html>
+
+There was the faint sound of footsteps.
+"Chap with a whip got as far as the big sharp spikes last week,"
+said the low priest.
+There was a sound like the flushing of a very old dry lavatory.
+The footsteps stopped. The High Priest smiled to himself.
+"Right," he said. "See your two pebbles and raise you two pebbles."
+The low priest threw down his cards. "Double Onion," he said.
+The High Priest looked down suspiciously.
+The low priest consulted a scrap of paper. "That's three hundred
+thousand, nine hundred and sixty-four pebbles you owe me," he said.
+There was the sound of footsteps. The priests exchanged glances.
+"Haven't had one for poisoned-dart alley for quite some time,"
+said the High Priest.
+"Five says he makes it", said the low priest. "You're on."
+There was a faint clatter of metal points on stone.
+"It's a shame to take your pebbles."
+There were footsteps again.
+
+=head2 v5.8.0-RC3 - no epigraph
+
+L<Announced on 2002-07-13 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2002/07/msg63234.html>
+
+=head2 v5.8.0-RC2 - no epigraph
+
+L<Announced on 2002-06-21 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2002/06/msg62013.html>
+
+=head2 v5.8.0-RC1 - no epigraph
+
+L<Announced on 2002-06-01 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2002/06/msg60317.html>
+
+=head2 v5.7.3 - Terry Pratchett, "Reaper Man"
+
+L<Announced on 2002-03-04 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2002/03/msg53652.html>
+
+Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong.
+No matter how fast light travels it finds the darkness has always
+got there first, and is waiting for it.
+
+=head2 v5.7.2 - Terry Pratchett, "Small Gods"
+
+L<Announced on 2001-07-13 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2001/07/msg40370.html>
+
+His philosophy was a mixture of three famous schools --
+the Cynics, the Stoics and the Epicureans -- and summed up
+all three of them in his famous phrase, "You can't trust any
+bugger further than you can throw him, and there's nothing
+you can do about it, so let's have a drink."
+
+=head2 v5.7.1 - Terry Pratchett, "The Colour of Magic"
+
+L<Announced on 2001-07-13 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2001/04/msg33851.html>
"What happens next?" asked Twoflower.
"Usually."
-=head2 v5.8.1-RC5 - Terry Pratchett, "Lords and Ladies"
+=head2 v5.6.1 - J R R Tolkien, "The Hobbit", Riddles in the Dark
-No matter what she did with her hair it took about
-three minutes for it to tangle itself up again,
-like a garden hosepipe in a shed [Footnote: Which,
-no matter how carefully coiled, will always uncoil
-overnight and tie the lawnmower to the bicycles].
+L<Announced on 2001-04-08 by Gurusamy Sarathy|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2001/04/msg33823.html>
-=head2 v5.6.2 - Sterne, "Tristram Shandy"
+`What have I got in my pocket?' he said aloud. He was talking to
+himself, but Gollum thought it was a riddle, and he was frightfully
+upset.
-When great or unexpected events fall out upon the stage of this
-sublunary word--the mind of man, which is an inquisitive kind of
-a substance, naturally takes a flight, behind the scenes, to see
-what is the cause and first spring of them--The search was not
-long in this instance.
+`Not fair! not fair!' he hissed. `It isn't fair, my precious, is it,
+to ask us what it's got in its nassty little pocketses?'
-=head2 v5.6.2-RC1 - Sterne, "Tristram Shandy"
+Bilbo seeing what had happened and having nothing better to ask
+stuck to his question, `What have I got in my pocket?' he said
+louder.
-"Pray, my dear", quoth my mother, "have you not forgot to wind up the clock?"
+`S-s-s-s-s,' hissed Gollum. `It must give us three guesseses,
+my precious, three guesseses.'
-=head2 5.005_05-RC1 - no epigraph
+=head2 v5.6.1-foolish - no epigraph
-Z<>
+L<Announced on 2001-08-04 by Gurusamy Sarathy|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2001/04/msg33421.html>
-=head2 5.005_04 - no epigraph
+=head2 v5.6.1-TRIAL3 - I can't find the announcement
-Z<>
+=head2 v5.6.1-TRIAL2 - no epigraph
-=head2 5.005_04-RC2 - Rudyard Kipling, "The Jungle Book"
+L<Announced on 2001-01-31 by Gurusamy Sarathy|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2001/01/msg29934.html>
-The monkeys called the place their city, and pretended to despise
-the Jungle-People because they lived in the forest. And yet they
-never knew what the buildings were made for nor how to use
-them. They would sit in circles on the hall of the king's council
-chamber, and scratch for fleas and pretend to be men; or they would
-run in and out of the roofless houses and collect pieces of plaster
-and old bricks in a corner, and forget where they had hidden them,
-and fight and cry in scuffling crowds, and then break off to play up
-and down the terraces of the king's garden, where they would shake
-the rose trees and the oranges in sport to see the fruit and flowers
-fall.
+=head2 v5.6.1-TRIAL1 - no epigraph
-=head2 5.005_04-RC1 - Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
+L<Announced on 2000-12-18 by Gurusamy Sarathy|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2000/12/msg27738.html>
-Either the well was very deep, or she fell very slowly, for she had
-plenty of time as she went down to look about her and to wonder what was
-going to happen next. First, she tried to look down and make out what
-she was coming to, but it was too dark to see anything; then she looked
-at the sides of the well, and noticed that they were filled with
-cupboards and book-shelves; here and there she saw maps and pictures
-hung upon pegs. She took down a jar from one of the shelves as she
-passed; it was labelled 'ORANGE MARMALADE', but to her great
-disappointment it was empty: she did not like to drop the jar for fear
-of killing somebody, so managed to put it into one of the cupboards as
-she fell past it.
+=head2 v5.7.0 - Terry Pratchett, "Moving Pictures"
+
+L<Announced on 2000-09-02 by Jarkko Hietaniemi|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2000/09/msg17730.html>
+
+The Librarian had seen many weird things in his time,
+but that had to be the 57th strangest.
+[footnote: he had a tidy mind]
+
+=head2 v5.6.0 - J R R Tolkien, "The Hobbit", The Last Stage
+
+L<Announced on 2000-03-23 by Gurusamy Sarathy|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2000/03/msg10341.html>
+
+ The dragon is withered,
+ His bones are now crumbled;
+ His armour is shivered,
+ His splendour is humbled!
+ Though sword shall be rusted,
+ And throne and crown perish
+ With strength that men trusted
+ And wealth that they cherish,
+ Here grass is still growing,
+ And leaves are a yet swinging,
+ The white water flowing,
+ And elves are yet singing
+ Come! Tra-la-la-lally!
+ Come back to the valley.
+
+
+=head2 v5.6.0-RC3 - no epigraph
+
+L<Announced on 2000-03-22 by Gurusamy Sarathy|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2000/03/msg10140.html>
=head1 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
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