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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