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For whom the bell tolls

My art for MM was inspired by a song "For Whom the Bell Tolls" of american band Metallica.

This song is a commentary on the futility of war and the lyrics are based on the Ernest Hemingway novel of the same name.

Hemingway's book is based on a John Doone poem from 1623...

 

"No man is an island, entire of itself; 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 friend's 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 bells tolls...

 

... it tolls for thee"

 

www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0N6ZAXMs74

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