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diff --git a/Porting/epigraphs.pod b/Porting/epigraphs.pod index 39157b2866..cc3872eaa1 100644 --- a/Porting/epigraphs.pod +++ b/Porting/epigraphs.pod @@ -17,6 +17,29 @@ Consult your favorite dictionary for details. =head1 EPIGRAPHS +=head2 v5.16.2 - Stanislaw Lem, The Cyberiad, Trurl's Machine + +L<Announced on 2012-11-01 by Ricardo Signes|http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2012-11/msg00017.html> + +Once upon a time Trurl the constructor built an eight-story thinking +machine. When it was finished, he gave it a coat of white paint, +trimmed the edges in lavender, stepped back, squinted, then added a +little curlicue on the front and, where one might imagine the forehead +to be, a few pale orange polkadots. Extremely pleased with himself, +he whistled an air and, as is always done on suh occasions, asked it +the ritual question of how much is two plus two. + +The machine stirred. Its tubes began to glow, its coils warmed up, +current coursed through all its circuits like a waterfall, +transformers hummed and throbbed, there was a clanging, and a +chugging, and such an ungodly racket that Trurl began to think of +adding a special mentation muffler. Meanwhile the machine labored on, +as if it had been given the most difficult problem in the Universe to +solve; the ground shook, the sand slid underfoot from the vibration, +valves popped like champagne corks, the relays nearly gave way under +the strain. At last, when Trurl had grown extremely impatient, the +machine ground to a halt and said in a voice like thunder: SEVEN! + =head2 v5.17.5 - Charles Stross, "Singularity Sky" L<Announced on 2012-10-20 by Florian Ragwitz|http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2012-10/msg01007.html> |