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L O W L A N D S - L * 03 May 2006 * Volume 06
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From: "Mark Dreyer" <mrdreyer at lantic.net>
Subject: LL-L "Grammar" 2006.05.14 (06) [E/German]

Dear Jonny, Gaby, Piet, Andy, Michael, Ron, All:

Subject: LL-L "Grammar"

> Would you actually say that Hemingway wrote a book titled "For who the
> bell
> tolls"?

In all fairness to grammatical issues, I feel we aught to defer to the
original author of the expression, John Donne, who's  poem established the
phrase, '& therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls
for thee.' Devotions: XVIII. If he hadn't immortalised the line there, it
wouldn't have been established in the imagery of all who appreciate English.
Under the circumstances, 'for who the bell tolls' clashes a cacaphony in my
old ears.

A lot of Shakespeare is like that too. Great stuff, but if you rewrite -
bawdlerise - it for modern ears you kill it.
O.K. Hemingway, never shake thy gory locks at me!

Yrs
Mark

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