"All mankind is of one author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language; and every chapter must be so translated...As therefore the bell that rings to a sermon, calls not upon the preacher only, but upon the congregation to come: so this bell calls us all: but how much more me, who am brought so near the door by this sickness....No man is an island, entire of itself...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, 1600
If Donne could have been with us at the Bakery, here is what he would have written to the prompt; island.
Some ideas just don't go away! Thanks, Donny for this link!
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Does this apply to birth as well? I understand the loss, but also revel at Miss Margaret.
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