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[–] itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] abbotsbury@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

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

[–] LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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@lemm.ee 16 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] ettyblatant@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

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