From 6c4c496a61ca976ac60cfabb00e088d9cd35257a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Steve Hay Date: Sun, 5 Jan 2025 21:05:32 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Porting/epigraphs - Add epigraphs for 5.38.3-RC1/5.40.1-RC1 --- Porting/epigraphs.pod | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 26 insertions(+) diff --git a/Porting/epigraphs.pod b/Porting/epigraphs.pod index 0708836faa71..22ef4eadadaa 100644 --- a/Porting/epigraphs.pod +++ b/Porting/epigraphs.pod @@ -74,6 +74,20 @@ L + +Unlike Egypt, Mesopotamia was rarely ruled by just one king. Nor did +any single empire survive long within firm frontiers. Many tribes and +many kings held power at different times. The most important of these +were the Sumerians, the Babylonians and the Assyrians. For a long time +it was thought that the Egyptians were the first people to have +everything that goes to make up what we call a culture: towns and +tradesmen, noblemen and kings, temples and priests, administrators and +artists, writing and technical skills. Yet we now know that, in some +respects, the Sumerians were ahead of the Egyptians. + =head2 v5.40.0 - Neil Gaiman, Coraline L @@ -199,6 +213,18 @@ in a Civil War, they embarked on the construction of the Metropolitan Line knowing only one thing for certain - there was no way they were going to be able to run steam trains through it. +=head2 v5.38.3-RC1 - E. H. Gombrich, trans. Caroline Mustill, "A Little History of the World" + +L + +Because the Egyptians were so wise and so powerful their empire lasted +for a very long time. Longer than any empire the world has ever known: +nearly three thousand years. And they took just as much care as they +did with their corpses, when they preserved them from rotting away, in +preserving all their ancient traditions over the centuries. Their +priests made quite sure that no son did anything his father had not +done before him. To them, everything old was sacred. + =head2 v5.38.2 - Kim Stanley Robinson (Same epigraph as for v5.34.3 and v5.36.3, as it was a joint release.)