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author | David Golden <dagolden@cpan.org> | 2010-07-20 06:45:31 -0400 |
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committer | David Golden <dagolden@cpan.org> | 2010-07-20 06:45:31 -0400 |
commit | 0feeb912bcb85b6426abb5f3335278438af3e855 (patch) | |
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Add 5.13.3 epigraph
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diff --git a/Porting/epigraphs.pod b/Porting/epigraphs.pod index 7cb020dbe8..5e67a8825d 100644 --- a/Porting/epigraphs.pod +++ b/Porting/epigraphs.pod @@ -15,6 +15,35 @@ Consult your favorite dictionary for details. =head1 EPIGRAPHS +=head2 v5.13.3 - Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, "Good Omens" + +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, +for example, or the dull red glow coming from behind his +sunglasses. And the car. The car was a definite hint. + +Crowley had started the journey in his Bentley, and he was +dammned if he wasn't going to finish it in the Bentley as well. +Not that even the kind of car buff who owns his own pair of +motoring goggles would have been able to tell it was a vintage +Bentley. Not any more. They wouldn't have been able to tell +that it was a Bentley. They would only offer fifty-fifty that it +had ever even been a car. + +There was no paint left on it, for a start. It might still have +been black, where it wasn't a rusty, smudged reddish-brown, but +this was a dull charcoal black. It traveled in its own ball of +flame, like a space capsule making a particularly difficult +re-entry. + +There was a thin skin of crusted, melted rubber left around the +metal wheel rims, but seeing that the wheel rims were still +somhow riding an inch above the road surface this didn't seem to +make an awful lot of difference to the suspension. + +It should have fallen apart miles back. + =head2 v5.13.2 - Iain M Banks, "Use of Weapons" We deal in the moral equivalent of black holes, where the normal laws - |