=head2 v5.13.0 - Jules Verne, "A Journey to the Centre of the Earth"
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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
"Only to think of the consequences," I mused, "if the old
volcano were once more to set to work."
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=head2 v5.12.1 - Kurt Vonnegut, "Cat's Cradle"
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"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—
degrees Fahrenheit, or, better still, a melting point of one-hundred-
and-thirty degrees."
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=head2 v5.12.1-RC2 - Kurt Vonnegut, "Cat's Cradle"
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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.
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=head2 v5.12.1-RC2 - Kurt Vonnegut, "Cat's Cradle"
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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,
just as no wheel is without a hub. Anything can be a wampeter: a tree,
Around and around and around we spin,
With feet of lead and wings of tin . . .
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=head2 v5.12.0 - Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
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'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?'
'They all can,' said the Duchess; 'and most of 'em do.'
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=head2 v5.12.0-RC5 - Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
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'Not QUITE right, I'm afraid,' said Alice, timidly; 'some of the words
have got altered.'
'It is wrong from beginning to end,' said the Caterpillar decidedly, and
there was silence for some minutes.
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=head2 v5.12.0-RC4 - Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
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'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
can have happened to me! When I used to read fairy-tales, I fancied that
kind of thing never happened, and now here I am in the middle of one!
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=head2 v5.12.0-RC3 - Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
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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—"'
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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
In another moment down went Alice after it, never once considering how
in the world she was to get out again.
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-=head2 v5.11.5 - Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "Christabel"
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A little child, a limber elf,
Singing, dancing to itself,
Comes seldom save from rage and pain,
So talks as it's most used to do.
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=head2 v5.11.4 - Fyodor Dostoevsky, "Crime and Punishment"
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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
worried myself all those days, wondering whether Napoleon would have
done it or not, I felt clearly of course that I wasn't Napoleon.
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=head2 v5.11.3 - Mark Twain, "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer"
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"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."
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=head2 v5.11.2 - Michael Marshall Smith, "Only Forward"
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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
prone to epileptic seizures isn't allowed to live in the Neighbourhood,
however much they're into colour.
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=head2 v5.11.1 - Joseph Heller, "Catch-22"
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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
presented himself at Group Headquarters and made his fantastic appeal
for more hazardous assignment.
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=head2 v5.11.0 - Mikhail Bulgakov, "The Master and Margarita"
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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.
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=head2 v5.10.1 - Right Hon. James Hacker MP, "The Complete Yes Minister: The Diaries of a Cabinet Minister"
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'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
Sir Humphrey reassured me on that. 'Certainly not, Minister,' he
replied. 'Not quite all.'
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-=head2 v5.10.0 - Laurence Sterne, "Tristram Shandy"
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+=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
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.
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-=head2 v5.9.2 - Thomas Pynchon, "V"
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+=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
everything was cool. But where did the trigger-pulse come from to
make you flip?
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=head2 v5.9.1 - Tom Stoppard, "Arcadia"
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Aren't you supposed to have a pony?
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=head2 v5.9.0 - Doris Lessing, "Martha Quest"
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What of October, that ambiguous month
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=head2 v5.8.9 - Right Hon. James Hacker MP, "The Complete Yes Minister: The Diaries of a Cabinet Minister"
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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
Sir Humphrey agreed completely. 'Yes Minister. We call it
diplomacy. It's what made Britain great, you know.'
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=head2 v5.8.9-RC2 - Right Hon. James Hacker MP, "The Complete Yes Minister: The Diaries of a Cabinet Minister"
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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
'A government press release, in fact.' said Humphrey.
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=head2 v5.8.9-RC1 - Right Hon. James Hacker MP, "The Complete Yes Minister: The Diaries of a Cabinet Minister"
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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.'
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=head2 v5.8.8 - Joe Raposo, "Bein' Green"
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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
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=head2 v5.8.8-RC1 - Cosgrove Hall Productions, "Dangermouse"
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Greenback: And the world is mine, all mine. Muhahahahaha. See to it!
Stiletto: Si, Barone. Subito, Barone.
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=head2 v5.8.7 - Sergei Prokofiev, "Peter and the Wolf"
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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.
Grandfather shook his head discontentedly: "Well, and if Peter hadn't caught
the wolf? What then?"
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=head2 v5.8.7-RC1 - Sergei Prokofiev, "Peter and the Wolf"
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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.
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=head2 v5.8.6 - A. A. Milne, "The House at Pooh Corner"
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"Hallo, Pooh," said Piglet, giving a jump of surprise. "I knew it was
you."
how to do it," he said; and he put the acorn in the hole he had made,
and covered it up with earth, and jumped on it.
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=head2 v5.8.6-RC1 - A. A. Milne, "Winnie the Pooh"
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"Hallo!" said Piglet, "whare are /you/ doing?"
"Hunting," said Pooh.
"Track," said Piglet. "Paw-marks." He gave a little squeak of
excitement. "Oh, Pooh!" Do you think it's a--a--a Woozle?"
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=head2 v5.8.5 - wikipedia, "Yew"
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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,
grounds. The yew tree is a frequent symbol in the Christian poetry of
T.S. Eliot, especially his Four Quartets.
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=head2 v5.8.5-RC2 - wikipedia, "Beech"
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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
Nothofagus. They are found in Australia, New Zealand, New Guinea, New
Caledonia and South America.
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=head2 v5.8.5-RC1 - wikipedia, "Pedunculate Oak" (abridged)
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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
It is planted for forestry, and produces a long-lasting and durable
heartwood, much in demand for interior and furniture work.
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=head2 v5.8.4 - T. S. Eliot, "The Old Gumbie Cat"
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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:
With a purpose in life and a good deed to do--
And she's even created a Beetles' Tattoo.
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So for Old Gumbie Cats let us now give three cheers --
On whom well-ordered households depend, it appears.
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=head2 v5.8.4-RC2 - T. S. Eliot, "Macavity: The Mystery Cat"
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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:
You may seek him in the basement, you may look up in the air --
But I tell you once and once again, /Macavity's not there/!
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=head2 v5.8.4-RC1 - T. S. Eliot, "Skimbleshanks: The Railway Cat"
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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!
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=head2 v5.8.3 - Arthur William Edgar O'Shaugnessy, "Ode"
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We are the music makers,
And we are the dreamers of dreams,
Wandering by lonely sea-breakers,
Yet we are the movers and shakers
Of the world for ever, it seems.
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=head2 v5.8.3-RC1 - Irving Berlin, "Let's Face the Music and Dance"
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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.
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=head2 v5.8.2 - Walt Whitman, "Passage to India"
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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!
Have we not grovel'd here long enough, eating and drinking like mere brutes?
Have we not darken'd and dazed ourselves with books long enough?
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Sail forth - steer for the deep waters only,
Reckless O soul, exploring, I with the and thou with me,
For we are bound where mariner has not yet dared to go,
O daring job, but safe! are they not all the seas of God?
O farther, farther, farther sail!
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=head2 v5.8.2-RC2 - Eric Idle/John Du Prez, "Accountancy Shanty"
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It's fun to charter an accountant
And sail the wide accountan-cy,
To find, explore the funds offshore
And skirt the shoals of bankruptcy.
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=head2 v5.8.2-RC1 - Edward Lear, "The Jumblies"
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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.
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=head2 v5.8.1 - Terry Pratchett, "The Color of Magic"
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"What happens next?" asked Twoflower.
Hrun screwed a finger in his ear and inspected it absently.
"Usually."
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=head2 v5.8.1-RC5 - Terry Pratchett, "Lords and Ladies"
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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].
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=head2 v5.6.2 - Sterne, "Tristram Shandy"
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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.
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=head2 v5.6.2-RC1 - Sterne, "Tristram Shandy"
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"Pray, my dear", quoth my mother, "have you not forgot to wind up the clock?"
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-=head2 5.005_04-RC2 - Rudyard Kipling, "The Jungle Book"
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+=head2 5.005_04-RC2 - Rudyard Kipling, "The Jungle Book"
The monkeys called the place their city, and pretended to despise
the Jungle-People because they lived in the forest. And yet they
the rose trees and the oranges in sport to see the fruit and flowers
fall.
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=head2 5.005_04-RC1 - Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
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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
of killing somebody, so managed to put it into one of the cupboards as
she fell past it.
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=head1 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
This document was originally compiled based on a list of epigraphs
by ysth.
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