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diff --git a/Porting/epigraphs.pod b/Porting/epigraphs.pod index 89272ff9fc..517765453c 100644 --- a/Porting/epigraphs.pod +++ b/Porting/epigraphs.pod @@ -17,9 +17,26 @@ Consult your favorite dictionary for details. =head1 EPIGRAPHS +=head2 v5.21.10 - Aldous Huxley, "The Devils of Loudun" + +L<Announced on 2015-03-20 by Steve Hay|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/03/msg226847.html> + +The fire burned on, the good fathers continued to sprinkle and intone. +Suddenly a flock of pigeons came swooping down from the church and +started to wheel around the roaring column of flame and smoke. The +crowd shouted, the archers waved their halberds at the birds, Lactance +and Tranquille splashed them on the wing with holy water. In vain. The +pigeons were not to be driven away. Round and round they flew, diving +through the smoke, singeing their feathers in the flames. Both parties +claimed a miracle. For the parson's enemies the birds, quite obviously, +were a troop of devils, come to fetch away his soul. For his friends, +they were emblems of the Holy Ghost and living proof of his innocence. +It never seems to have occurred to anyone that they were just pigeons, +obeying the laws of their own, their blessedly other-than-human nature. + =head2 v5.21.9 - Emily Dickinson, "There is Another Sky" -L<Announced on 2015-02-20 by Sawyer X|http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/226002> +L<Announced on 2015-02-20 by Sawyer X|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/02/msg226002.html> There is another sky, Ever serene and fair, |