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author | Chris 'BinGOs' Williams <chris@bingosnet.co.uk> | 2016-08-20 21:52:01 +0100 |
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committer | Steve Hay <steve.m.hay@googlemail.com> | 2016-08-22 08:32:23 +0100 |
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Update epigraphs for v5.25.4
(cherry picked from commit e93570ad3149ce820ad5c54924b7059ce1aef8d5)
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diff --git a/Porting/epigraphs.pod b/Porting/epigraphs.pod index fc7a18da3f..b7c7b36985 100644 --- a/Porting/epigraphs.pod +++ b/Porting/epigraphs.pod @@ -17,6 +17,37 @@ Consult your favorite dictionary for details. =head1 EPIGRAPHS +=head2 v5.25.4 - Terry Pratchett, "Truckers" + +L<Announced on 2016-08-20 by Chris 'BinGOs' Williams|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/08/msg239191.html> + + Concerning Nomes and Time + + Nomes are small. On the whole, small creatures don't live for a long + time. But perhaps they do live fast. + + Let me explain. + + One of the shortest-lived creatures on the planet Earth is the adult + common mayfly. It lasts for one day. The longest-living things are + bristlecone pine trees, at 4,700 years and still counting. + + This may seem tough on the mayflies. But the important thing is not + how long your life is, but how long it seems. + + To a mayfly, a single hour may last as long as a century. Perhaps + old mayflies sit around complaining about how life this minute isn't a + patch on the good old minutes of long ago, when the world was + young and the sun seemed so much brighter and larvae showed you a + bit of respect. Whereas the trees, which are not famous to their + quick reactions, may just have time to notice the way the sky keeps + flickering before the dry rot and woodworm set in. + + It's all a sort of relativity. The faster you live, the more time + stretches out. To a nome, a year lasts as long as ten years does to a + human. Remember it. Don't let it concern you. They don't. They don't + even know. + =head2 v5.25.3 - Edward Lear, ed. Vivien Noakes, "The Complete Nonsense and Other Verse": The Dong with a Luminous Nose L<Announced on 2016-07-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/07/msg238158.html> |