To: RosieCotton; Lil'freeper; 2Jedismom; LSAggie; Overtaxed; JenB; HairOfTheDog; g'nad; ecurbh; ...
Okay, literature question time...
The phrase for whom the bell tolls is from John Donne's "No Man Is an Island."
But is it not also from "Macbeth?" Doesn't Lady Macbeth say that to Macbeth when she's about to go murder Duncan?
I can't seem to Google up a clear reference.
To: Corin Stormhands
I ~think~ that quote doesn't exactly appear, but Macbeth does speak of a bell tolling in Act 2 Scene 1, as he prepares to murder Duncan.
A bell rings
I go, and it is done; the bell invites me.
Hear it not, Duncan; for it is a knell
That summons thee to heaven or to hell.
2,510 posted on
10/10/2006 1:48:56 PM PDT by
ecurbh
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To: Corin Stormhands; ecurbh
Okay, literature question time... I see I'm no longer needed here...
2,519 posted on
10/10/2006 5:08:24 PM PDT by
g'nad
To: Corin Stormhands
But is it not also from . . I always think of this place as a conversation, and speaking the name of "The Scottish Play", is bad luck, so "break a leg"! Maybe why you almost had your email accident -- bad luck in advance!
2,525 posted on
10/10/2006 7:04:59 PM PDT by
Lucius Cornelius Sulla
(These days you are either nervous and uncomfortable or you are braindead!)
To: Corin Stormhands
The MacBeths really existed, according to Isaac Asimov (yeah, so he didn't write sci-fi
exclusively)
Says Ike, Mrs. MacBeth's given name was Gruoch. Such a thing could have a negative effect upon one's psyche.
2,576 posted on
10/11/2006 3:16:11 PM PDT by
ExGeeEye
(146 days (counting up))
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