• dalekcaan@lemm.ee
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    4 months 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.