FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS: sign a petition for Peace this easter

[Jeffersons Ghost]

For Whom the Bell Tolls is a 1940 novel by Ernest Hemingway. It tells of Robert Jordan, a guerrilla fighter from the United States, during the Spanish Civil War. As an explosives expert, he takes an assignment to blow up a bridge during a simultaneous attack on the city Segovia. Behind enemy lines, with the guerrilla band of Pablo, he meets María, a shattered emotional casuality of war. The splendor of love illuminates wisdom, as a fresh unwillingness to die clashes with the soldiers strong sense of duty. Hemingway shows a depth, only experience can provide, because in real life, newfound love and the promise of life often defeats the darkness of pride driven patriotism. Substantial sections of the novel present the thoughts of Robert Jordan, with flashbacks offering the brutality of war, actions of a mob and abuses of government.

This famous passage by John Donne (1573-1631) is prose and not a poem. The passage is literally called Meditation 17.

Nuc lento sonitu dicunt, morieris.
"Now this bell tolling softly for another, says to me, Thou must die."

...No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were. Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee...

on edit: turn up the sound...

http://www.afsc.org/iraq/movie.htm

[Jeffersons Ghost]

1. if all of you have seen the fast loading clip I'll drop it for a while

but I'll never drop the idea that just as every person's death diminishes each of us a bit, so does their sorrow and pain.

[babylonsister]

2. Rec'd and kick. It's time to wage peace now. Signed and e-mailed

to everyone. Thank you.
I sorely wish dimson would take the time to view this, to see the blood on his hands.

[Jeffersons Ghost]

3. i thought i might be messing up by regularly hiding that in threads,

instead of making it THE thread... If I've missed regular readers like you, babylonsister, I wonder who else I accidently hid it from.

[Change has come]

4. It's time to wage peace

Done and recommended.

:kick:

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

5. Great link and message! thanks!

[babylonsister]

6. Kick for peace, and pls. sign if you haven't! nt