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- From: pmoloney@unix1.tcd.ie (Paul Moloney)
- Subject: Re: TP speaks!
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- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 18:25:27 GMT
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- pmoloney@maths.tcd.ie (Paul Moloney) writes:
- >tpratchett@cix.compulink.co.uk (Terry Pratchett) writes:
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- >>3) 'What can the harvest hope for, if not for the care of the reaper man?' As
- >>far as I know, I made this phrase up. In my head. But the _metre_ sounds
- >>familiar.
-
- >Actually, it sounds like the phrase that ends "...for whom the bells toll.",
- >but I can't for the life of me remember where the phrase comes from,
- >and what the beginning of it is.
-
- The phrase he is looking for is "Do not ask for whom the bell tolls for
- it tolls for thee" (I think).
- I'm not sure who wrote it but I think it may have been John Donne.
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- Nuala
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- D
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- as for why it reminds him of it
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