Friday, June 11, 2004
'No man is an Island, entire of it self; every man 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 thy friends or of thine own were; any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.'
(John Donne, from 'Devotions upon Emergent Occasions: Meditation XVII' (1624))
(John Donne, from 'Devotions upon Emergent Occasions: Meditation XVII' (1624))