EDITORIAL
Por / By Enrique Rob Lunski Ph.D.
President GET . e360 . ABClatino
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For whom the Bell Tolls?
This phrase that was immortalized in the novel (1940) by Ernest Hemingway recounting a love story during the Spanish Civil War, was also brought to the big screen in 1943 with Ingrid Bergman and Gary Grant.
The title, in fact, comes from Meditation XVII
of Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions, a
work belonging to the metaphysical poet
John Donne, and dating from 1624.
Curiously, it tells us about something that the
pandemic vividly reminds us: we are not
isolated beings, humanity is one, and we are all saved together, or we all perish together. Is it so difficult to act as if the other is me?
''No man is an island, complete in himself, each man is a piece of the continent, a main part. If a clod of earth is swept away by the sea, all Europe is diminished, as if it were a promontory, as well as your friend's house or
your own: the death of any man
diminishes me, because I am
part of humanity, and therefore
never ask for whom the bell tolls,
they toll for you.''