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ettyblatant ,
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"ask not for whom the bone bones. it bones for thee."
-bender

LemmyKnowsBest ,

For Whom the Bell Tolls is a novel by Ernest Hemingway published in 1940. It tells the story of Robert Jordan, a young American volunteer attached to a Republican guerrilla unit during the Spanish Civil War. As a dynamiter, he is assigned to blow up a bridge during an attack on the city of Segovia.

~wikipedia

dalekcaan ,

True, but in this case I think the meme is referencing the poem by John Donne (which the Hemingway novel is named after):

No man is an island,
Entire of itself.
Each 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 thine own
Or of thine friend's were.
Each man's death diminishes me,
For I am involved in mankind.
Therefore, send not to know
For whom the bell tolls,
It tolls for thee.

itslilith ,
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I tried reading that book and holy hell, is he weird about writing (about) women

abbotsbury ,
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You don't like reading about so-and-so's mujer every chapter?

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