Funny where HP turns up!

[justcarol67]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Geoff" <gbannister10 at ...> wrote:
>
Carol earlier:
> > Carol, who always associates mandragora (mandrake) with John Donne
> 
Geoff responded:
<snip>
> John Donne immediately makes me think of "no man is an island" and "never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee".
> 
> But mandragora?
> 
> Can you, O wisest of Carols enlighten me please?
> :-)
>
Carol again:
How can I resist such a lovely compliment, O most gentlemanly of Geoffs? It's not mandragora per se but mandrake (its other name) that I associate with Donne:

Go and catch a falling star,
Get with child a mandrake root,
Tell me where all past years are,
Or who cleft the devil's foot . . . .

The whole "Song," as you may recall, is about the supposed impossibility of finding a woman who's both beautiful and faithful to her lover.

Carol, who likes Donne despite his (apparent) misogyny