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My world on the web Menu Index On This Day Hypothesis Contributions Presentations Publications Responses Reply Bookmark Like Read Watch Listen Micro.Blog Creations Blog Newsletter Audio Photo Video Read For Whom the Bell Tolls For Whom the Bell Tolls is a novel by Ernest Hemingway published in 1940. It tells the story of Robert Jordan, a young American volunteer attached to a Republican Republican faction (Spanish Civil War)”) guerrilla unit during the Spanish Civil War . As a dynamiter, he is assigned to blow up a bridge during an attack on the city of Segovia . It was published just after the end of the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939), whose general lines were well known at the time. It assumes the reader knows that the war was between the government of the Second Spanish Republic , which many foreigners went to Spain to help and which was supported by the Communist Soviet Union , and the Nationalist faction Nationalist faction (Spanish Civil War)”), which was supported by Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy Fascist Italy (1922–1943)”). In 1940, the year the book was published, the United States had not yet entered World War II , which began on September 1, 1939, with Nazi Germany’s invasion of Poland . [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For Whom the Bell Tolls I decided to read For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway after my grandfather said that he was interested in the audiobook when I was helping him search for books to listen to. There are many authors I feel I know about, but have not actually read. I was not exactly sure what to expect with this novel. I did not really do any pre-reading. I found that it was one of those novels that percolates long afterwards. It would be easy to summarise it as a novel about blowing up a bridge”, which it literally is. However, that takes away from the real point, the thoughts of a soldier in preparing to blow a bridge, ‘grace under fire’. Turn off the thinking now, old timer, old comrade. You’re a bridge-blower now. Not a thinker. Man, I’m hungry, he thought. I hope Pablo eats well. As Mark Cirino touches on: Mark Cirino: So Hemingway once said, The worst thing that a soldier can have is imagination, but it’s the most important thing that a writer must have.” Source: Podcast #922: For Whom the Bell Tolls by Brett & Kate McKay Overall, Cirino provides a good discussion of the book on the Art of Manliness podcast . For Cirino, the novel represents Hemingway’s concerted effort to present a picture of humanity from both sides, observing life through the good things and bad. For example, he does not hide from violence perpetuated by either side of the conflict. This focus on humanity is framed from the beginning through the reference to John Donne’s poem: 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 bell tolls; It tolls for thee. Source: No Man Is an Island by John Donne The story revolves around Robert Jordan, a character with many similarities to Hemingway. He is cramming life and love into three days. It uses free indirect style to cycle the god’s eye view through the mind of the protagonist. After reading the novel and recently reading All Quiet on the Western Front I was left wondering if it is easier to know history as a series of dates, numbers and characters, but harder to appreciate what it all actually means in the moment? Continue reading ? For Whom the Bell Tolls (Ernest Hemingway)” Author Aaron Davis Posted on 8:05 am May 7, 2024 May 10, 2024 Kind Read Tags Book , Ernest Hemingway , Literature , Spanish Civil War , War Leave a response on ? For Whom the Bell Tolls (Ernest Hemingway) Bookmarked Copying all Pocket highlights with a bookmarklet ( philnewton.net ) I do not use Highlights with Pocket as I was not sure how they would fit with my workflow. However, after finding this bookmarklet from Phil Newton, I am thinking that maybe I could. to_clipboard = "#+TITLE: " + document.getElementsByTagName(’h1’)[0].innerHTML + "\n\n"; all_highlights = document.getElementsByClassName(’highlight’); for (highlight in all_highlights) { highlight_text = all_highlights[highlight].innerHTML; if (typeof highlight_text !== ’undefined’ && highlight_text.trim() != ’’) { to_clipboard += "#+begin_quote\n"; to_clipboard += highlight_text.trim() + "\n"; to_clipboard += "#+end_quote\n\n"; } } to_clipboard += "*Source*: " + document.getElementById(’reader.external-link.view-original’).href; navigator.clipboard.writeText(to_clipboard); I worked with CoPilot to change the structure to how I wanted it: javascript:(function(){ for(i in o="",h=document.getElementsByClassName("highlight"),h){ t=h[i].innerHTML, "undefined"!=typeof t&&""!=t.trim()&&(o+=" "+t.trim().replace(/\n/g, "\n ")+"\n\n"); } var url = document.getElementById("reader.external-link.view-original").href; url = url.replace("?utm_source=pocket_saves", ""); o+="Source: ["+document.getElementsByTagName("h1")[0].innerHTML+"]("+url+")" +document.getElementsByClassName("css-1ba1zfw")[0].innerText; navigator.clipboard.writeText(o); })() It was an interesting process where I tried some things and was corrected. This was much quicker than learning it from scratch. Author Aaron Davis Posted on 9:10 am May 5, 2024 May 5, 2024 Kind Bookmark Tags Phil Newton , Pocket Leave a response on ? Copying all Pocket highlights with a bookmarklet Watched This video is being promoted as OpenAI’s first officially commissioned Sora collaboration with a musician as well as a filmmaker. Beyond the uncanny nature of the video , I found it strangely off putting the speed in which everything moved. It was interesting to compare this with something like Michel Gondry’s work with The Chemical Brothers. Author Aaron Davis Posted on 8:23 am May 5, 2024 Kind Watch Tags Artificial Intelligence , Sora , Washed Out Leave a response on ? Washed Out – The Hardest Part (Official Video) Checked into A recent staff seminar day ended with a presentation by Dr. Adam Fraser. Here are my notes. Dr. Adam Fraser. is involved in work around topic of wellbeing. Dr Adam Fraser is a peak performance researcher who helps people strive to achieve better performance in everything they do. In his time he has worked with elite athletes and sporting teams, special forces soldiers and business leaders. Source: About Research Based Wellbeing Keynote Speaker — Dr Adam Fraser In regards to education, he has developed The Flourish Movement program: The Flourish Movement program, which began in 2016, is an internationally award-winning program, designed with and for school leaders. Driven by data and grounded in research, Flourish offers practical strategies aimed at helping school leaders develop sustainable leadership practices by improving both their effectiveness and overall wellbeing. Source: The Flourish Movement™ The focus of the program is to: Build recovery Prevent burnout Manage emotions Improve leadership and culture Through his work he has found that he gets different results based on methodology. In particular, his work often focuses on action research. For example, rather than getting participants to complete a single survey capturing a single point in time, he gets them to complete a ten day survey. With a lot of change occurring at the moment, his particular focus was on disruption and how we can be manage this. After reflecting on what we thought were our biggest challenges at the moment (missing functionality? clean data?) he shared end-of-life research which suggests that at the end of their life, we regret not being more courageous. Associated with this, the things that we are proud of (excluding raising children) is often based on the hardest thing we’ve done. Extending on from the ‘hardest thing’,...