Re: [Paddlewise] Glacier Bay, Alaska (long post)

Thanks for the literary correction.


Bob


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    From: JHYoung000_at_aol.com <JHYoung000_at_aol.com>


    To: revkayak_at_mtaonline.net <revkayak_at_mtaonline.net>


    Date: Friday, August 23, 2002 5:50 AM


    Subject: Re: [Paddlewise] Glacier Bay, Alaska (long post)


    


    


    What a charming "travelogue"! Thanks so much for posting it--I've been to
southeast Alaska also, though not to Glacier Bay, and your tale recalled many
wonderful memories for me. 


    


    Let me make a gentle correction though. When Hemingway used the phrase
about the bell tolling, he was quoting from John Donne, a 17th century British
poet: 


    "any mans death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankinde; And
therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee." In
Donne's world view, all of us should be stirred by the loss or misfortune of
any of us, so the bell's tolling, meaning someone's death, is for all of us.
SO, it's maybe more appropriate than you knew, as you applied it to the
"tolling" of the bell buoy. 


    


    Thanks again for a good read! 


    --JJ 








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