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diff --git a/Porting/epigraphs.pod b/Porting/epigraphs.pod index 830a642d15..29900c9882 100644 --- a/Porting/epigraphs.pod +++ b/Porting/epigraphs.pod @@ -17,6 +17,42 @@ Consult your favorite dictionary for details. =head1 EPIGRAPHS +=head2 v5.29.5 - T. S. Eliot, "The Naming Of Cats" + +L<Announced on 2018-11-20 by Karen Etheridge|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/11/msg252839.html> + + The Naming of Cats is a difficult matter, + It isn't just one of your holiday games; + You may think at first I'm as mad as a hatter + When I tell you, a cat must have THREE DIFFERENT NAMES. + First of all, there's the name that the family use daily, + Such as Peter, Augustus, Alonzo or James, + Such as Victor or Jonathan, George or Bill Bailey-- + All of them sensible everyday names. + There are fancier names if you think they sound sweeter, + Some for the gentlemen, some for the dames: + Such as Plato, Admetus, Electra, Demeter-- + But all of them sensible everyday names. + But I tell you, a cat needs a name that's particular, + A name that's peculiar, and more dignified, + Else how can he keep up his tail perpendicular, + Or spread out his whiskers, or cherish his pride? + Of names of this kind, I can give you a quorum, + Such as Munkustrap, Quaxo, or Coricopat, + Such as Bombalurina, or else Jellylorum- + Names that never belong to more than one cat. + But above and beyond there's still one name left over, + And that is the name that you never will guess; + The name that no human research can discover-- + But THE CAT HIMSELF KNOWS, and will never confess. + When you notice a cat in profound meditation, + The reason, I tell you, is always the same: + His mind is engaged in a rapt contemplation + Of the thought, of the thought, of the thought of his name: + His ineffable effable + Effanineffable + Deep and inscrutable singular Name. + =head2 v5.29.4 - The Mountain Goats, "Oceanographer's Choice" L<Announced on 2018-10-20 by Aaron Crane|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/10/msg252575.html> |