Choose right over what is easy

a_svirn a_svirn at yahoo.com
Thu May 12 21:37:46 UTC 2005


No: HPFGUIDX 128808


> Tonks:
> As the author of "For 
> Whom the Bell Tolls" said "never seek to know for whom the bell 
> tolls it tolls for thee".  Therefore do something.  Speak up, act to 
> stop it, do what you can even thought it is very difficult.  And I 
> think that it also means "do what is right even if it means losing 
> your own life".
> 

It was actually John Donne who said this, not Hemingway. And I think 
it means something else: it conveys the sense of (in?)significance of 
a single man's life during the major historical conflicts. 
a_svirn






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