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From: opus@drutx.UUCP (ShanklandJA)
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Subject: Re: Quote Question - (nf)
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Date: Thu, 28-Jun-84 11:38:19 EDT
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    > Who wrote the following lines:
	    > ``No man is an island''

	    > ``Ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee''

John Donne.  They're both from the same poem.  But I think it's
"Never send to know for whom the bell tolls..."

Now, in the same poem, Donne says:

    If a clod be washed away to sea,
    Europe is the less.

Can that be paraphrased as, "Even clumsy people should not be left
to drown?"

Growing ever more confused....

Jim Shankland
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