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| author | Aaron Crane <arc@cpan.org> | 2017-07-20 20:38:09 +0100 |
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| committer | Steve Hay <steve.m.hay@googlemail.com> | 2017-09-08 21:05:26 +0100 |
| commit | 87874740e58dfa989d1263bda88e687094294dd9 (patch) | |
| tree | 790440296856b3ad22d291b759fbe7049703ce72 | |
| parent | fdd1094f035f0091e4ad91a610875c28fbb8c9a7 (diff) | |
| download | perl-87874740e58dfa989d1263bda88e687094294dd9.tar.gz | |
Add epigraph for 5.27.2
(cherry picked from commit 17335434157774f03e762d9b48f74af2d8526158)
| -rw-r--r-- | Porting/epigraphs.pod | 26 |
1 files changed, 26 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Porting/epigraphs.pod b/Porting/epigraphs.pod index 5650bcb18a..27caa5098e 100644 --- a/Porting/epigraphs.pod +++ b/Porting/epigraphs.pod @@ -17,6 +17,32 @@ Consult your favorite dictionary for details. =head1 EPIGRAPHS +=head2 v5.27.2 - Lev Grossman, Codex + +L<Announced on 2017-07-20 by Aaron Crane|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/07/msg245585.html> + + He went back for another stack of books: a three-volume English legal + treatise; a travel guide to Tuscany from the '20s crammed with faded + Italian wildflowers that fluttered out from between the pages like + moths; a French edition of Turgeniev so decayed that it came apart in + his hands; a register of London society from 1863. In a way it was + idiotic. He was treating these books like they were holy relics. It + wasn't like he would ever actually read them. But there was something + magnetic about them, something that compelled respect, even the silly + ones, like the Enlightenment treatise about how lightning was caused + by bees. They were information, data, but not in the form he was used + to dealing with it. They were non-digital, nonelectrical chunks of + memory, not stamped out of silicon but laboriously crafted out of wood + pulp and ink, leather and glue. Somebody had cared enough to write + these things; somebody else had cared enough to buy them, possibly + even read them, at the very least keep them safe for 150 years, + sometimes longer, when they could have vanished at the touch of a + spark. That made them worth something, didn't it, just by itself? + Though most of them would have bored him rigid the second he cracked + them open, which there wasn't much chance of. Maybe that was what he + found so appealing: the sight of so many books that he'd never have to + read, so much work he'd never have to do. + =head2 v5.27.1 - Rona Munro, Doctor Who: Survival L<Announced on 2017-06-20 by Eric Herman|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/06/msg245055.html> |