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author | Ricardo Signes <rjbs@cpan.org> | 2011-08-21 07:43:21 -0400 |
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committer | Ricardo Signes <rjbs@cpan.org> | 2011-08-21 07:43:21 -0400 |
commit | bfb65171e6748bad522798afe77a9a94904fa680 (patch) | |
tree | 8d32657beb541fc33c0f54e04e9d304b0afb1a4b /Porting/epigraphs.pod | |
parent | e9510e8f3503e2751d40cb2d756edb51cc36df08 (diff) | |
download | perl-bfb65171e6748bad522798afe77a9a94904fa680.tar.gz |
add the 5.15.2 epigraph
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diff --git a/Porting/epigraphs.pod b/Porting/epigraphs.pod index a4f39acdb1..224435bd96 100644 --- a/Porting/epigraphs.pod +++ b/Porting/epigraphs.pod @@ -17,6 +17,30 @@ Consult your favorite dictionary for details. =head1 EPIGRAPHS +=head2 v5.15.2 - Rainer Maria Rilke, The Third Duina Elegy + +L<Announced on 2011-08-20 by Ricardo +Signes|http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2011-08/msg00694.html> + +True, it is strange to live no more on earth, +no longer follow the folkways scarecely learned; +not to give roses and other especially auspicious +things the significance of a human future; +to be no more what one was in infinitely anxious hands, +and to put aside even one's name, like a broken plaything. +Strange, to wish wishes no longer. Strange, to see +all that was related fluttering so loosely in space. +And being dead is hard, full of catching-up, +so that finally one feels a little eternity.– +But the living all make the mistake of too sharp discrimination. +Often angels (it's said) don't know if they move +among the quick or the dead. The eternal current +hurtles all ages along with it forever +through both realms and drowns their voices in both. + + -- Rainer Maria Rilke, Duino, The First Elegy + trans., C. F. MacIntyre + =head2 v5.15.1 - Greg Egan, "Permutation City" L<Announced on 2011-07-20 by Zefram|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/07/msg175014.html> |