3 perlepigraphs - list of Perl release epigraphs
7 Many Perl release announcements included an I<epigraph>, a short excerpt
8 from a literary or other creative work, chosen by the pumpking or
9 release manager. This file assembles the known list of epigraph for
12 I<Note>: these have also been referred to as <epigrams>, but the
13 definition of I<epigraph> is closer to the way they have been used.
14 Consult your favorite dictionary for details.
18 =head2 v5.13.1 - Miguel de Unamuno, "The Sepulchre of Don Quixote"
20 And if anyone shall come to you and say that he knows how to construct
21 bridges and that perhaps a time will come when you will wish to avail
22 yourself of his science in order to cross over a river, out with him! Out
23 with the engineer! Rivers will be crossed by wading or swimming them, even
24 if half the crusaders drown themselves. Let the engineer go off and build
25 bridges somewhere else, where they are badly wanted. For those who go in
26 quest of the sepulchre, faith is bridge enough.
28 =head2 v5.13.0 - Jules Verne, "A Journey to the Centre of the Earth"
30 The heat still remained at quite a supportable degree. With an
31 involuntary shudder, I reflected on what the heat must have been
32 when the volcano of Sneffels was pouring its smoke, flames, and
33 streams of boiling lava -- all of which must have come up by the
34 road we were now following. I could imagine the torrents of hot
35 seething stone darting on, bubbling up with accompaniments of
36 smoke, steam, and sulphurous stench!
38 "Only to think of the consequences," I mused, "if the old
39 volcano were once more to set to work."
41 =head2 v5.12.1 - Kurt Vonnegut, "Cat's Cradle"
43 "Now suppose," chortled Dr. Breed, enjoying himself, "that there were
44 many possible ways in which water could crystallize, could freeze.
45 Suppose that the sort of ice we skate upon and put into highballs—
46 what we might call ice-one—is only one of several types of ice.
47 Suppose water always froze as ice-one on Earth because it had never
48 had a seed to teach it how to form ice-two, ice-three, ice-four
49 ...? And suppose," he rapped on his desk with his old hand again,
50 "that there were one form, which we will call ice-nine—a crystal as
51 hard as this desk—with a melting point of, let us say, one-hundred
52 degrees Fahrenheit, or, better still, a melting point of one-hundred-
55 =head2 v5.12.1-RC2 - Kurt Vonnegut, "Cat's Cradle"
57 San Lorenzo was fifty miles long and twenty miles wide, I learned from
58 the supplement to the New York Sunday Times. Its population was four
59 hundred, fifty thousand souls, "...all fiercely dedicated to the ideals
62 Its highest point, Mount McCabe, was eleven thousand feet above sea
63 level. Its capital was Bolivar, "...a strikingly modern city built on a
64 harbor capable of sheltering the entire United States Navy." The principal
65 exports were sugar, coffee, bananas, indigo, and handcrafted novelties.
67 =head2 v5.12.1-RC2 - Kurt Vonnegut, "Cat's Cradle"
69 Which brings me to the Bokononist concept of a wampeter. A wampeter is
70 the pivot of a karass. No karass is without a wampeter, Bokonon tells us,
71 just as no wheel is without a hub. Anything can be a wampeter: a tree,
72 a rock, an animal, an idea, a book, a melody, the Holy Grail. Whatever
73 it is, the members of its karass revolve about it in the majestic chaos
74 of a spiral nebula. The orbits of the members of a karass about their
75 common wampeter are spiritual orbits, naturally. It is souls and not
76 bodies that revolve. As Bokonon invites us to sing:
78 Around and around and around we spin,
79 With feet of lead and wings of tin . . .
81 =head2 v5.12.0 - Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
83 'Please would you tell me,' said Alice, a little timidly, for she was
84 not quite sure whether it was good manners for her to speak first, 'why
85 your cat grins like that?'
87 'It's a Cheshire cat,' said the Duchess, 'and that's why. Pig!'
89 She said the last word with such sudden violence that Alice quite
90 jumped; but she saw in another moment that it was addressed to the baby,
91 and not to her, so she took courage, and went on again:--
93 'I didn't know that Cheshire cats always grinned; in fact, I didn't know
94 that cats COULD grin.'
96 'They all can,' said the Duchess; 'and most of 'em do.'
98 =head2 v5.12.0-RC5 - Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
100 'Not QUITE right, I'm afraid,' said Alice, timidly; 'some of the words
103 'It is wrong from beginning to end,' said the Caterpillar decidedly, and
104 there was silence for some minutes.
106 =head2 v5.12.0-RC4 - Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
108 'It was much pleasanter at home,' thought poor Alice, 'when one wasn't
109 always growing larger and smaller, and being ordered about by mice and
110 rabbits. I almost wish I hadn't gone down that rabbit-hole--and yet--and
111 yet--it's rather curious, you know, this sort of life! I do wonder what
112 can have happened to me! When I used to read fairy-tales, I fancied that
113 kind of thing never happened, and now here I am in the middle of one!
115 =head2 v5.12.0-RC3 - Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
117 At last the Mouse, who seemed to be a person of authority among them,
118 called out, 'Sit down, all of you, and listen to me! I'LL soon make you
119 dry enough!' They all sat down at once, in a large ring, with the Mouse
120 in the middle. Alice kept her eyes anxiously fixed on it, for she felt
121 sure she would catch a bad cold if she did not get dry very soon.
123 'Ahem!' said the Mouse with an important air, 'are you all ready? This
124 is the driest thing I know. Silence all round, if you please! "William
125 the Conqueror, whose cause was favoured by the pope, was soon submitted
126 to by the English, who wanted leaders, and had been of late much
127 accustomed to usurpation and conquest. Edwin and Morcar, the earls of
128 Mercia and Northumbria—"'
130 =head2 v5.12.0-RC2 - no epigraph
134 =head2 v5.12.0-RC1 - Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
136 So she was considering in her own mind (as well as she could, for the
137 hot day made her feel very sleepy and stupid), whether the pleasure of
138 making a daisy-chain would be worth the trouble of getting up and
139 picking the daisies, when suddenly a White Rabbit with pink eyes ran
142 There was nothing so VERY remarkable in that; nor did Alice think it so
143 VERY much out of the way to hear the Rabbit say to itself, 'Oh dear! Oh
144 dear! I shall be late!' (when she thought it over afterwards, it
145 occurred to her that she ought to have wondered at this, but at the time
146 it all seemed quite natural); but when the Rabbit actually TOOK A WATCH
147 OUT OF ITS WAISTCOAT-POCKET, and looked at it, and then hurried on,
148 Alice started to her feet, for it flashed across her mind that she had
149 never before seen a rabbit with either a waistcoat-pocket, or a watch to
150 take out of it, and burning with curiosity, she ran across the field
151 after it, and fortunately was just in time to see it pop down a large
152 rabbit-hole under the hedge.
154 In another moment down went Alice after it, never once considering how
155 in the world she was to get out again.
157 =head2 v5.12.0-RC0 - no epigraph
161 =head2 v5.11.5 - Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "Christabel"
163 A little child, a limber elf,
164 Singing, dancing to itself,
165 A fairy thing with red round cheeks,
166 That always finds, and never seeks,
167 Makes such a vision to the sight
168 As fills a father's eyes with light;
169 And pleasures flow in so thick and fast
170 Upon his heart, that he at last
171 Must needs express his love's excess
172 With words of unmeant bitterness.
173 Perhaps 'tis pretty to force together
174 Thoughts so all unlike each other;
175 To mutter and mock a broken charm,
176 To dally with wrong that does no harm.
177 Perhaps 'tis tender too and pretty
178 At each wild word to feel within
179 A sweet recoil of love and pity.
180 And what, if in a world of sin
181 (O sorrow and shame should this be true!)
182 Such giddiness of heart and brain
183 Comes seldom save from rage and pain,
184 So talks as it's most used to do.
186 =head2 v5.11.4 - Fyodor Dostoevsky, "Crime and Punishment"
188 And you don't suppose that I went into it headlong like a fool? I went
189 into it like a wise man, and that was just my destruction. And you
190 mustn't suppose that I didn't know, for instance, that if I began to
191 question myself whether I had the right to gain power -- I certainly
192 hadn't the right -- or that if I asked myself whether a human being is a
193 louse it proved that it wasn't so for me, though it might be for a man
194 who would go straight to his goal without asking questions.... If I
195 worried myself all those days, wondering whether Napoleon would have
196 done it or not, I felt clearly of course that I wasn't Napoleon.
198 =head2 v5.11.3 - Mark Twain, "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer"
200 "Say -- I'm going in a swimming, I am. Don't you wish you could? But of
201 course you'd druther work—wouldn't you? Course you would!"
203 Tom contemplated the boy a bit, and said: "What do you call work?"
205 "Why ain't that work?"
207 Tom resumed his whitewashing, and answered carelessly: "Well, maybe it
208 is, and maybe it aint. All I know, is, it suits Tom Sawyer."
210 "Oh come, now, you don't mean to let on that you like it?"
212 The brush continued to move. "Like it? Well I don't see why I oughtn't
213 to like it. Does a boy get a chance to whitewash a fence every day?"
215 That put the thing in a new light. Ben stopped nibbling his apple. Tom
216 swept his brush daintily back and forth -- stepped back to note the effect
217 -- added a touch here and there-criticised the effect again -- Ben
218 watching every move and getting more and more interested, more and more
219 absorbed. Presently he said: "Say, Tom, let me whitewash a little."
222 =head2 v5.11.2 - Michael Marshall Smith, "Only Forward"
224 The streets were pretty quiet, which was nice. They're always quiet here
225 at that time: you have to be wearing a black jacket to be out on the
226 streets between seven and nine in the evening, and not many people in
227 the area have black jackets. It's just one of those things. I currently
228 live in Colour Neighbourhood, which is for people who are heavily into
229 colour. All the streets and buildings are set for instant colourmatch:
230 as you walk down the road they change hue to offset whatever you're
231 wearing. When the streets are busy it's kind of intense, and anyone
232 prone to epileptic seizures isn't allowed to live in the Neighbourhood,
233 however much they're into colour.
235 =head2 v5.11.1 - Joseph Heller, "Catch-22"
237 Milo had been caught red-handed in the act of plundering his countrymen,
238 and, as a result, his stock had never been higher. He proved good as his
239 word when a rawboned major from Minnesota curled his lip in rebellious
240 disavowal and demanded his share of the syndicate Milo kept saying
241 everybody owned. Milo met the challenge by writing the words "A Share"
242 on the nearest scrap of paper and handing it away with a virtuous disdain
243 that won the envy and admiration of almost everyone who knew him. His
244 glory was at a peak, and Colonel Cathcart, who knew and admired his
245 war record, was astonished by the deferential humility with which Mil
246 presented himself at Group Headquarters and made his fantastic appeal
247 for more hazardous assignment.
249 =head2 v5.11.0 - Mikhail Bulgakov, "The Master and Margarita"
251 Whispers of an "evil power" were heard in lines at dairy shops, in
252 streetcars, stores, arguments, kitchens, suburban and long-distance
253 trains, at stations large and small, in dachas and on beaches. Needless
254 to say, truly mature and cultured people did not tell these stories
255 about an evil power's visit to the capital. In fact, they even made fun
256 of them and tried to talk sense into those who told them. Nevertheless,
257 facts are facts, as they say, and cannot simply be dismissed without
258 explanation: somebody had visited the capital. The charred cinders of
259 Griboyedov alone, and many other things besides, confirmed it. Cultured
260 people shared the point of view of the investigating team: it was the
261 work of a gang of hypnotists and ventriloquists magnificently skilled in
265 =head2 v5.10.1 - Right Hon. James Hacker MP, "The Complete Yes Minister: The Diaries of a Cabinet Minister"
267 'Briefly, sir, I am the Permanent Under-Secretary of State, known as
268 the Permanent Secretary. Woolley here is your Principal Private
269 Secretary. I, too, have a Principal Private Secretary, and he is the
270 Principal Private Secretary to the Permanent Secretary. Directly
271 responsible to me are ten Deputy Secretaries, eighty-seven Under
272 Secretaries and two hundred and nineteen Assistant Secretaries.
273 Directly responsible to the Principal Private Secretaries are plain
274 Private Secretaries. The Prime Minister will be appointing two
275 Parliamentary Under-Secretaries and you will be appointing your own
276 Parliamentary Private Secretary.'
278 'Can they all type?' I joked.
280 'None of us can type, Minister,' replied Sir Humphrey smoothly. 'Mrs
281 McKay types - she is your Secretary.'
283 I couldn't tell whether or not he was joking. 'What a pity,' I said.
284 'We could have opened an agency.'
286 Sir Humphrey and Bernard laughed. 'Very droll, sir,' said Sir
287 Humphrey. 'Most amusing, sir,' said Bernard. Were they genuinely
288 amused at my wit, or just being rather patronising? 'I suppose they
289 all say that, do they?' I ventured.
291 Sir Humphrey reassured me on that. 'Certainly not, Minister,' he
292 replied. 'Not quite all.'
294 =head2 v5.10.1-RC2 - no epigraph
298 =head2 v5.10.1-RC1 - no epigraph
302 =head2 v5.10.0 - Laurence Sterne, "Tristram Shandy"
304 He would often declare, in speaking his thoughts upon the subject, that
305 he did not conceive how the greatest family in England could stand it
306 out against an uninterrupted succession of six or seven short
307 noses.--And for the contrary reason, he would generally add, That it
308 must be one of the greatest problems in civil life, where the same
309 number of long and jolly noses, following one another in a direct line,
310 did not raise and hoist it up into the best vacancies in the kingdom.
312 =head2 v5.10.0-RC2 - no epigraph
316 =head2 v5.10.0-RC1 - no epigraph
320 =head2 v5.9.5 - no epigraph
324 =head2 v5.9.4 - no epigraph
328 =head2 v5.9.3 - no epigraph
332 =head2 v5.9.2 - Thomas Pynchon, "V"
334 This word flip was weird. Every recording date of McClintic's he'd
335 gotten into the habit of talking electricity with the audio men and
336 technicians of the studio. McClintic once couldn't have cared less
337 about electricity, but now it seemed if that was helping him reach a
338 bigger audience, some digging, some who would never dig, but all
339 paying and those royalties keeping the Triumph in gas and McClintic
340 in J. Press suits, then McClintic ought to be grateful to
341 electricity, ought maybe to learn a little more about it. So he'd
342 picked up some here and there, and one day last summer he got around
343 to talking stochastic music and digital computers with one
344 technician. Out of the conversation had come Set/Reset, which was
345 getting to be a signature for the group. He had found out from this
346 sound man about a two-triode circuit called a flip-flop, which when
347 it turned on could be one of two ways, depending on which tube was
348 conducting and which was cut off: set or reset, flip or flop.
350 "And that," the man said, "can be yes or no, or one or zero. And
351 that is what you might call one of the basic units, or specialized
352 `cells' in a big `electronic brain.' "
354 "Crazy," said McClintic, having lost him back there someplace. But
355 one thing that did occur to him was if a computer's brain could go
356 flip or flop, why so could a musician's. As long as you were flop,
357 everything was cool. But where did the trigger-pulse come from to
360 =head2 v5.9.1 - Tom Stoppard, "Arcadia"
362 Aren't you supposed to have a pony?
364 =head2 v5.9.0 - Doris Lessing, "Martha Quest"
366 What of October, that ambiguous month
368 =head2 v5.8.9 - Right Hon. James Hacker MP, "The Complete Yes Minister: The Diaries of a Cabinet Minister"
370 Frank and I, unlike the civil servants, were still puzzled that such a
371 proposal as the Europass could even be seriously under consideration by
372 the FCO. We can both see clearly that it is wonderful ammunition for the
373 anti-Europeans. I asked Humphrey if the Foreign Office doesn't realise
374 how damaging this would be to the European ideal?
376 'I'm sure they do, Minister, he said. That's why they support it.'
378 This was even more puzzling, since I'd always been under the impression
379 that the FO is pro-Europe. 'Is it or isn't it?' I asked Humphrey.
381 'Yes and no,' he replied of course, 'if you'll pardon the
382 expression. The Foreign Office is pro-Europe because it is really
383 anti-Europe. In fact the Civil Service was united in its desire to make
384 sure the Common Market didn't work. That's why we went into it.'
386 This sounded like a riddle to me. I asked him to explain further. And
387 basically his argument was as follows: Britain has had the same foreign
388 policy objective for at least the last five hundred years - to create a
389 disunited Europe. In that cause we have fought with the Dutch against
390 the Spanish, with the Germans against the French, with the French and
391 Italians against the Germans, and with the French against the Italians
392 and Germans. [The Dutch rebellion against Phillip II of Spain, the
393 Napoleonic Wars, the First World War, and the Second World War - Ed.]
395 In other words, divide and rule. And the Foreign Office can see no
396 reason to change when it has worked so well until now.
398 I was aware of this, naturally, but I regarded it as ancient history.
399 Humphrey thinks that it is, in fact, current policy. It was necessary
400 for us to break up the EEC, he explained, so we had to get inside. We
401 had previously tried to break it up from the outside, but that didn't
402 work. [A reference to our futile and short-lived involvement in EFTA,
403 the European Free Trade Association, founded in 1960 and which the UK
404 left in 1972 - Ed.] Now that we're in, we are able to make a complete
405 pig's breakfast out of it. We've now set the Germans against the French,
406 the French against the Italians, the Italians against the Dutch... and
407 the Foreign office is terribly happy. It's just like old time.
409 I was staggered by all of this. I thought that the all of us who are
410 publicly pro-European believed in the European ideal. I said this to Sir
411 Humphrey, and he simply chuckled.
413 So I asked him: if we don't believe in the European Ideal, why are we
414 pushing to increase the membership?
416 'Same reason,' came the reply. 'It's just like the United Nations. The
417 more members it has, the more arguments you can stir up, and the more
418 futile and impotent it becomes.'
420 This all strikes me as the most appalling cynicism, and I said so.
422 Sir Humphrey agreed completely. 'Yes Minister. We call it
423 diplomacy. It's what made Britain great, you know.'
425 =head2 v5.8.9-RC2 - Right Hon. James Hacker MP, "The Complete Yes Minister: The Diaries of a Cabinet Minister"
427 There was silence in the office. I didn't know what we were going to do
428 about the four hundred new people supervising our economy drive or the
429 four hundred new people for the Bureaucratic Watchdog Office, or
430 anything! I simply sat and waited and hoped that my head would stop
431 thumping and that some idea would be suggested by someone sometime soon.
433 Sir Humphrey obliged. 'Minister... if we were to end the economy drive
434 and close the Bureaucratic Watchdog Office we could issue an immediate
435 press announcement that you had axed eight hundred jobs.' He had
436 obviously thought this out carefully in advance, for at this moment he
437 produced a slim folder from under his arm. 'If you'd like to approve
440 I couldn't believe the impertinence of the suggestion. Axed eight
441 hundred jobs? 'But no one was ever doing these jobs,' I pointed out
442 incredulously. 'No one's been appointed yet.'
444 'Even greater economy,' he replied instantly. 'We've saved eight hundred
445 redundancy payments as well.'
447 'But...' I attempted to explain '... that's just phony. It's dishonest,
448 it's juggling with figures, it's pulling the wool over people's eyes.'
450 'A government press release, in fact.' said Humphrey.
452 =head2 v5.8.9-RC1 - Right Hon. James Hacker MP, "The Complete Yes Minister: The Diaries of a Cabinet Minister"
454 A jumbo jet touched down, with BURANDAN AIRWAYS written on the side. I
455 was hugely impressed. British Airways are having to pawn their Concordes,
456 and here is this little tiny African state with its own airline, jumbo
459 I asked Bernard how many planes Burandan Airways had. 'None,' he said.
461 I told him not to be silly and use his eyes. 'No Minister, it belongs to
462 Freddie Laker,' he said. 'They chartered it last week and repainted it
463 specially.' Apparently most of the Have-Nots (I mean, LDCs) do this - at
464 the opening of the UN General Assembly the runways of Kennedy Airport are
465 jam-packed with phoney flag-carriers. 'In fact,' said Bernard with a sly
466 grin, 'there was one 747 that belonged to nine different African airlines
467 in a month. They called it the mumbo-jumbo.'
469 While we watched nothing much happening on the TV except the mumbo-jumbo
470 taxiing around Prestwick and the Queen looking a bit chilly, Bernard gave
471 me the next day's schedule and explained that I was booked on the night
472 sleeper from King's Cross to Edinburgh because I had to vote in a
473 three-line whip at the House tonight and would have to miss the last
474 plane. Then the commentator, in that special hushed BBC voice used for any
475 occasion with which Royalty is connected, announced reverentially that we
476 were about to catch our first glimpse of President Selim.
478 And out of the plane stepped Charlie. My old friend Charlie Umtali. We
479 were at LSE together. Not Selim Mohammed at all, but Charlie.
481 Bernard asked me if I were sure. Silly question. How could you forget a
482 name like Charlie Umtali?
484 I sent Bernard for Sir Humphrey, who was delighted to hear that we now
485 know something about our official visitor.
487 Bernard's official brief said nothing. Amazing! Amazing how little the FCO
488 has been able to find out. Perhaps they were hoping it would all be on the
489 car radio. All the brief says is that Colonel Selim Mohammed had converted
490 to Islam some years ago, they didn't know his original name, and therefore
491 knew little of his background.
493 I was able to tell Humphrey and Bernard /all/ about his background.
494 Charlie was a red-hot political economist, I informed them. Got the top
495 first. Wiped the floor with everyone.
497 Bernard seemed relieved. 'Well that's all right then.'
501 'I think Bernard means,' said Sir Humphrey helpfully, 'that he'll know how
502 to behave if he was at an English University. Even if it was the LSE.' I
503 never know whether or not Humphrey is insulting me intentionally.
505 Humphrey was concerned about Charlie's political colour. 'When you said
506 that he was red-hot, were you speaking politically?'
508 In a way I was. 'The thing about Charlie is that you never quite know
509 where you are with him. He's the sort of chap who follows you into a
510 revolving door and comes out in front.'
512 'No deeply held convictions?' asked Sir Humphrey.
514 'No. The only thing Charlie was committed too was Charlie.'
516 'Ah, I see. A politician, Minister.'
518 =head2 v5.8.8 - Joe Raposo, "Bein' Green"
520 It's not that easy bein' green
521 Having to spend each day the color of the leaves
522 When I think it could be nicer being red or yellow or gold
523 Or something much more colorful like that
525 It's not easy bein' green
526 It seems you blend in with so many other ordinary things
527 And people tend to pass you over 'cause you're
528 Not standing out like flashy sparkles in the water
531 But green's the color of Spring
532 And green can be cool and friendly-like
533 And green can be big like an ocean
534 Or important like a mountain
537 When green is all there is to be
538 It could make you wonder why, but why wonder why?
539 Wonder I am green and it'll do fine, it's beautiful
540 And I think it's what I want to be
542 =head2 v5.8.8-RC1 - Cosgrove Hall Productions, "Dangermouse"
544 Greenback: And the world is mine, all mine. Muhahahahaha. See to it!
546 Stiletto: Si, Barone. Subito, Barone.
548 =head2 v5.8.7 - Sergei Prokofiev, "Peter and the Wolf"
550 And now, imagine the triumphant procession: Peter at the head; after him the
551 hunters leading the wolf; and winding up the procession, grandfather and the
554 Grandfather shook his head discontentedly: "Well, and if Peter hadn't caught
555 the wolf? What then?"
557 =head2 v5.8.7-RC1 - Sergei Prokofiev, "Peter and the Wolf"
559 And now this is how things stood: The cat was sitting on one branch. The
560 bird on another, not too close to the cat. And the wolf walked round and
561 round the tree, looking at them with greedy eyes.
563 In the meantime, Peter, without the slightest fear, stood behind the
564 gate, watching all that was going on. He ran home,got a strong rope and
565 climbed up the high stone wall.
567 One of the branches of the tree, around which the wolf was walking,
568 stretched out over the wall.
570 Grabbing hold of the branch, Peter lightly climbed over on to the tree.
571 Peter said to the bird: "Fly down and circle round the wolf's head, only
572 take care that he doesn't catch you!".
574 The bird almost touched the wolf's head with its wings, while the wolf
575 snapped angrily at him from this side and that.
577 How that bird teased the wolf, how that wolf wanted to catch him! But
578 the bird was clever and the wolf simply couldn't do anything about it.
580 =head2 v5.8.6 - A. A. Milne, "The House at Pooh Corner"
582 "Hallo, Pooh," said Piglet, giving a jump of surprise. "I knew it was
585 "So did I,", said Pooh. "What are you doing?"
587 "I'm planting a haycorn, Pooh, so that it can grow up into an oak-tree,
588 and have lots of haycorns just outside the front door instead of having
589 to walk miles and miles, do you see, Pooh?"
591 "Supposing it doesn't?" said Pooh.
593 "It will, because Christopher Robin says it will, so that's why I'm
596 "Well," aid Pooh, "if I plant a honeycomb outside my house, then it will
597 grow up into a beehive."
599 Piglet wasn't quite sure about this.
601 "Or a /piece/ of a honeycomb," said Pooh, "so as not to waste too much.
602 Only then I might only get a piece of a beehive, and it might be the
603 wrong piece, where the bees were buzzing and not hunnying. Bother"
605 Piglet agreed that that would be rather bothering.
607 "Besides, Pooh, it's a very difficult thing, planting unless you know
608 how to do it," he said; and he put the acorn in the hole he had made,
609 and covered it up with earth, and jumped on it.
611 =head2 v5.8.6-RC1 - A. A. Milne, "Winnie the Pooh"
613 "Hallo!" said Piglet, "whare are /you/ doing?"
615 "Hunting," said Pooh.
619 "Tracking something," said Winnie-the-Pooh very mysteriously.
621 "Tracking what?" said Piglet, coming closer.
623 "That's just what I ask myself, I ask myself, What?"
625 "What do you think you'll answer?"
627 "I shall have to wait until I catch up with it," said Winnie-the-Pooh.
628 "Now, look there." He pointed to the ground in front of him. "What do
631 "Track," said Piglet. "Paw-marks." He gave a little squeak of
632 excitement. "Oh, Pooh!" Do you think it's a--a--a Woozle?"
634 =head2 v5.8.5 - wikipedia, "Yew"
636 Yews are relatively slow growing trees, widely used in landscaping and
637 ornamental horticulture. They have flat, dark-green needles, reddish
638 bark, and bear seeds with red arils, which are eaten by thrushes,
639 waxwings and other birds, dispersing the hard seeds undamaged in their
640 droppings. Yew wood is reddish brown (with white sapwood), and very
641 hard. It was traditionally used to make bows, especially the English
644 In England, the Common Yew (Taxus baccata, also known as English Yew) is
645 often found in churchyards. It is sometimes suggested that these are
646 placed there as a symbol of long life or trees of death, and some are
647 likely to be over 3,000 years old. It is also suggested that yew trees
648 may have a pre-Christian association with old pagan holy sites, and the
649 Christian church found it expedient to use and take over existing sites.
650 Another explanation is that the poisonous berries and foliage discourage
651 farmers and drovers from letting their animals wander into the burial
652 grounds. The yew tree is a frequent symbol in the Christian poetry of
653 T.S. Eliot, especially his Four Quartets.
655 =head2 v5.8.5-RC2 - wikipedia, "Beech"
657 Beeches are trees of the Genus Fagus, family Fagaceae, including about
658 ten species in Europe, Asia, and North America. The leaves are entire or
659 sparsely toothed. The fruit is a small, sharply-angled nut, borne in
660 pairs in spiny husks. The beech most commonly grown as an ornamental or
661 shade tree is the European beech (Fagus sylvatica).
663 The southern beeches belong to a different but related genus,
664 Nothofagus. They are found in Australia, New Zealand, New Guinea, New
665 Caledonia and South America.
667 =head2 v5.8.5-RC1 - wikipedia, "Pedunculate Oak" (abridged)
669 The Pedunculate Oak is called the Common Oak in Britain, and is also
670 often called the English Oak in other English speaking countries It is a
671 large deciduous tree to 25-35m tall (exceptionally to 40m), with lobed
672 and sessile (stalk-less) leaves. Flowering takes place in early to mid
673 spring, and their fruit, called "acorns", ripen by autumn of the same
674 year. The acorns are pedunculate (having a peduncle or acorn-stalk) and
675 may occur singly, or several acorns may occur on a stalk.
677 It forms a long-lived tree, with a large widespreading head of rugged
678 branches. While it may naturally live to an age of a few centuries, many
679 of the oldest trees are pollarded or coppiced, both pruning techniques
680 that extend the tree's potential lifespan, if not its health.
682 Within its native range it is valued for its importance to insects and
683 other wildlife. Numerous insects live on the leaves, buds, and in the
684 acorns. The acorns form a valuable food resource for several small
685 mammals and some birds, notably Jays Garrulus glandarius.
687 It is planted for forestry, and produces a long-lasting and durable
688 heartwood, much in demand for interior and furniture work.
690 =head2 v5.8.4 - T. S. Eliot, "The Old Gumbie Cat"
692 I have a Gumbie Cat in mind, her name is Jennyanydots;
693 The curtain-cord she likes to wind, and tie it into sailor-knots.
694 She sits upon the window-sill, or anything that's smooth and flat:
695 She sits and sits and sits and sits -- and that's what makes a Gumbie Cat!
697 But when the day's hustle and bustle is done,
698 Then the Gumbie Cat's work is but hardly begun.
699 She thinks that the cockroaches just need employment
700 To prevent them from idle and wanton destroyment.
701 So she's formed, from that a lot of disorderly louts,
702 A troop of well-disciplined helpful boy-scouts,
703 With a purpose in life and a good deed to do--
704 And she's even created a Beetles' Tattoo.
706 So for Old Gumbie Cats let us now give three cheers --
707 On whom well-ordered households depend, it appears.
710 =head2 v5.8.4-RC2 - T. S. Eliot, "Macavity: The Mystery Cat"
712 Macavity's a Mystery Cat: he's called the Hidden Paw --
713 For he's the master criminal who can defy the Law.
714 He's the bafflement of Scotland Yard, the Flying Squad's despair:
715 For when they reach the scene of crime -- /Macavity's not there/!
717 Macavity, Macavity, there's no one like Macavity,
718 He's broken every human law, he breaks the law of gravity.
719 His powers of levitation would make a fakir stare,
720 And when you reach the scene of crime -- /Macavity's not there/!
721 You may seek him in the basement, you may look up in the air --
722 But I tell you once and once again, /Macavity's not there/!
724 =head2 v5.8.4-RC1 - T. S. Eliot, "Skimbleshanks: The Railway Cat"
726 There's a whisper down the line at 11.39
727 When the Night Mail's ready to depart,
728 Saying 'Skimble where is Skimble has he gone to hunt the thimble?
729 We must find him of the train can't start.'
730 All the guards and all the porters and the stationmaster's daughters
731 They are searching high and low,
732 Saying 'Skimble where is Skimble for unless he's very nimble
733 Then the Night Mail just can't go'
734 At 11.42 then the signal's overdue
735 And the passengers are frantic to a man--
736 Then Skimble will appear and he'll saunter to the rear:
737 He's been busy in the luggage van!
738 He gives one flash of his glass-green eyes
739 And the the signal goes 'All Clear!'
740 And we're off at last of the northern part
741 Of the Northern Hemisphere!
743 =head2 v5.8.3 - Arthur William Edgar O'Shaugnessy, "Ode"
745 We are the music makers,
746 And we are the dreamers of dreams,
747 Wandering by lonely sea-breakers,
748 And sitting by desolate streams; --
749 World-losers and world-forsakers,
750 On whom the pale moon gleams:
751 Yet we are the movers and shakers
752 Of the world for ever, it seems.
754 =head2 v5.8.3-RC1 - Irving Berlin, "Let's Face the Music and Dance"
756 There may be trouble ahead,
757 But while there's music and moonlight,
758 And love and romance,
759 Let's face the music and dance.
761 Before the fiddlers have fled,
762 Before they ask us to pay the bill,
763 And while we still have that chance,
764 Let's face the music and dance.
766 Soon, we'll be without the moon,
767 Humming a different tune, and then,
769 There may be teardrops to shed,
770 So while there's music and moonlight,
771 And love and romance,
772 Let's face the music and dance.
774 =head2 v5.8.2 - Walt Whitman, "Passage to India"
776 Passage, immediate passage! the blood burns in my veins!
777 Away O soul! hoist instantly the anchor!
778 Cut the hawsers - hall out - shake out every sail!
779 Have we not stood here like trees in the ground long enough?
780 Have we not grovel'd here long enough, eating and drinking like mere brutes?
781 Have we not darken'd and dazed ourselves with books long enough?
783 Sail forth - steer for the deep waters only,
784 Reckless O soul, exploring, I with the and thou with me,
785 For we are bound where mariner has not yet dared to go,
786 And we will risk the ship, ourselves and all.
789 O farther farther sail!
790 O daring job, but safe! are they not all the seas of God?
791 O farther, farther, farther sail!
793 =head2 v5.8.2-RC2 - Eric Idle/John Du Prez, "Accountancy Shanty"
795 It's fun to charter an accountant
796 And sail the wide accountan-cy,
797 To find, explore the funds offshore
798 And skirt the shoals of bankruptcy.
800 =head2 v5.8.2-RC1 - Edward Lear, "The Jumblies"
802 They went to sea in a Sieve, they did,
803 In a Sieve they went to sea:
804 In spite of all their friends could say,
805 On a winter's morn, on a stormy day,
806 In a Sieve they went to sea!
807 And when the Sieve turned round and round,
808 And everyone cried, "You'll all be drowned!"
809 They cried aloud, "Our Sieve ain't big,
810 But we don't care a button, we don't care a fig!
811 In a Sieve we'll go to sea!"
813 Far and few, far and few,
814 Are the lands where the Jumblies live;
815 Their heads are green, and their hands are blue,
816 And they went to sea in a Sieve.
818 =head2 v5.8.1 - Terry Pratchett, "The Color of Magic"
820 "What happens next?" asked Twoflower.
822 Hrun screwed a finger in his ear and inspected it absently.
824 "Oh,", he said, "I expect in a minute the door will be
825 flung back and I'll be dragged off to some sort of temple
826 arena where I'll fight maybe a couple of giant spiders
827 and an eight-foot slave from the jungles of Klatch and then
828 I'll rescue some kind of a princess from the altar and then
829 I'll kill off a few guards or whatever and then this girl
830 will show me the secret passage out of the place and we'll
831 liberate a couple of horses and escape with the treasure."
832 Hrun leaned his head back on his hands and looked at the
833 ceiling, whistling tunelessly.
835 "All that?" said Twoflower.
839 =head2 v5.8.1-RC5 - Terry Pratchett, "Lords and Ladies"
841 No matter what she did with her hair it took about
842 three minutes for it to tangle itself up again,
843 like a garden hosepipe in a shed [Footnote: Which,
844 no matter how carefully coiled, will always uncoil
845 overnight and tie the lawnmower to the bicycles].
847 =head2 v5.6.2 - Sterne, "Tristram Shandy"
849 When great or unexpected events fall out upon the stage of this
850 sublunary word--the mind of man, which is an inquisitive kind of
851 a substance, naturally takes a flight, behind the scenes, to see
852 what is the cause and first spring of them--The search was not
853 long in this instance.
855 =head2 v5.6.2-RC1 - Sterne, "Tristram Shandy"
857 "Pray, my dear", quoth my mother, "have you not forgot to wind up the clock?"
859 =head2 5.005_05-RC1 - no epigraph
863 =head2 5.005_04 - no epigraph
867 =head2 5.005_04-RC2 - Rudyard Kipling, "The Jungle Book"
869 The monkeys called the place their city, and pretended to despise
870 the Jungle-People because they lived in the forest. And yet they
871 never knew what the buildings were made for nor how to use
872 them. They would sit in circles on the hall of the king's council
873 chamber, and scratch for fleas and pretend to be men; or they would
874 run in and out of the roofless houses and collect pieces of plaster
875 and old bricks in a corner, and forget where they had hidden them,
876 and fight and cry in scuffling crowds, and then break off to play up
877 and down the terraces of the king's garden, where they would shake
878 the rose trees and the oranges in sport to see the fruit and flowers
881 =head2 5.005_04-RC1 - Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
883 Either the well was very deep, or she fell very slowly, for she had
884 plenty of time as she went down to look about her and to wonder what was
885 going to happen next. First, she tried to look down and make out what
886 she was coming to, but it was too dark to see anything; then she looked
887 at the sides of the well, and noticed that they were filled with
888 cupboards and book-shelves; here and there she saw maps and pictures
889 hung upon pegs. She took down a jar from one of the shelves as she
890 passed; it was labelled 'ORANGE MARMALADE', but to her great
891 disappointment it was empty: she did not like to drop the jar for fear
892 of killing somebody, so managed to put it into one of the cupboards as
895 =head1 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
897 This document was originally compiled based on a list of epigraphs
898 on L<Perl Monks|http://perlmonks.org> titled
899 L<Recent Perl Release Announcement|http://perlmonks.org/?node_id=372406>