by P. Stickel https://padlet.com/18stickelp/olbzmmic0d2 en-us 2015-10-22 12:45:37 UTC 2017-05-17 10:26:48 UTC hello@padlet.com "A bell sounds between the explosions, gongs, and metal clappers warning everyone--Gas--Gas--Gaas" (Remarque 32). 18stickelp https://padlet.com/18stickelp/olbzmmic0d2/wish/76933698 2015-10-22 13:20:29 UTC https://padlet.com/18stickelp/olbzmmic0d2/wish/76933698 "Perchance, he for whom this bell tolls may be so ill... "(Meditation 17). 18henebrye https://padlet.com/18stickelp/olbzmmic0d2/wish/76934310 2015-10-22 13:22:07 UTC https://padlet.com/18stickelp/olbzmmic0d2/wish/76934310 "She wouldn't hear that any more than the bell" (Remarque 122). 18stickelp https://padlet.com/18stickelp/olbzmmic0d2/wish/76935412 2015-10-22 13:24:43 UTC https://padlet.com/18stickelp/olbzmmic0d2/wish/76935412 "And when she buries a man, that action concerns me: 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 ... "(Meditation 17). 18henebrye https://padlet.com/18stickelp/olbzmmic0d2/wish/76935685 2015-10-22 13:25:29 UTC https://padlet.com/18stickelp/olbzmmic0d2/wish/76935685  "...as that he knows not it tolls for him" (Meditation 17). 18stickelp https://padlet.com/18stickelp/olbzmmic0d2/wish/76935860 2015-10-22 13:26:00 UTC https://padlet.com/18stickelp/olbzmmic0d2/wish/76935860 "I tell her he was shot through the heart and died instantaneously. She looks at me, she doubts me: "You lie. I know better. I have felt how terribly he died. I have heard his voice at night, I have felt his anguish--tell the truth, I want to know it, I must know it" (Remarque 85). 18henebrye https://padlet.com/18stickelp/olbzmmic0d2/wish/76936816 2015-10-22 13:28:38 UTC https://padlet.com/18stickelp/olbzmmic0d2/wish/76936816 "I strike madly home, and feel only how the body suddenly convulses, then becomes limp, and collapses. When I recover myself, my hand is sticky and wet.... Then I notice my bloody hand and suddenly feel nauseated...  I must show him that I want to help him, I stroke his forehead"(Remarque 102-104). 18stickelp https://padlet.com/18stickelp/olbzmmic0d2/wish/76937801 2015-10-22 13:31:34 UTC https://padlet.com/18stickelp/olbzmmic0d2/wish/76937801 "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." (Meditation 17). 18henebrye https://padlet.com/18stickelp/olbzmmic0d2/wish/76939497 2015-10-22 13:36:03 UTC https://padlet.com/18stickelp/olbzmmic0d2/wish/76939497 "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"(Meditation 17). 18stickelp https://padlet.com/18stickelp/olbzmmic0d2/wish/76939566 2015-10-22 13:36:12 UTC https://padlet.com/18stickelp/olbzmmic0d2/wish/76939566 "The hours are a torture; we do not know what to talk about, so we speak of my mother's illness. It is now definitely cancer, she is already in the hospital and will be operated on shortly. The doctors hope she will recover, but we have never heard of cancer being cured" (Remarque 92). 18henebrye https://padlet.com/18stickelp/olbzmmic0d2/wish/76940809 2015-10-22 13:38:40 UTC https://padlet.com/18stickelp/olbzmmic0d2/wish/76940809  "Where would the world be if one brought every man to book?" (Remarque 7). 18stickelp https://padlet.com/18stickelp/olbzmmic0d2/wish/76942333 2015-10-22 13:42:13 UTC https://padlet.com/18stickelp/olbzmmic0d2/wish/76942333 "While they continued to write and talk, we saw the wounded and dying. While they taught that duty to one's country is the greatest thing, we already knew that death-throes are stronger. But for all that we were no mutineers, no deserters, no cowards--they were very free with all these expressions. We loved our country as much as they... "(Remarque 7). 18henebrye https://padlet.com/18stickelp/olbzmmic0d2/wish/76942344 2015-10-22 13:42:14 UTC https://padlet.com/18stickelp/olbzmmic0d2/wish/76942344 "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 ... " (Meditation 17). 18henebrye https://padlet.com/18stickelp/olbzmmic0d2/wish/76943368 2015-10-22 13:44:57 UTC https://padlet.com/18stickelp/olbzmmic0d2/wish/76943368  "God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice; but God's hand is in every translation, and his hand shall bind up all our scattered leaves again for that library where every book shall lie open to one another" (Meditation 17). 18stickelp https://padlet.com/18stickelp/olbzmmic0d2/wish/76943548 2015-10-22 13:45:26 UTC https://padlet.com/18stickelp/olbzmmic0d2/wish/76943548  "The church is catholic, universal, so are all her actions; all that she does belongs to all"(Meditation 17). 18henebrye https://padlet.com/18stickelp/olbzmmic0d2/wish/77435160 2015-10-26 12:36:48 UTC https://padlet.com/18stickelp/olbzmmic0d2/wish/77435160 "Our families and our teachers will be shocked when we go home, but here it is the universal language" (Remarque 5). 18henebrye https://padlet.com/18stickelp/olbzmmic0d2/wish/77435509 2015-10-26 12:38:27 UTC https://padlet.com/18stickelp/olbzmmic0d2/wish/77435509 "But each word I translate pierces me like a shot in the chest;--like a stab in the chest."(Remarque 107). 18stickelp https://padlet.com/18stickelp/olbzmmic0d2/wish/77435746 2015-10-26 12:39:25 UTC https://padlet.com/18stickelp/olbzmmic0d2/wish/77435746 "One chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language; and every chapter must be so translated" (Meditation 17). 18stickelp https://padlet.com/18stickelp/olbzmmic0d2/wish/77435908 2015-10-26 12:40:02 UTC https://padlet.com/18stickelp/olbzmmic0d2/wish/77435908 "If by this consideration of another's danger I take mine own into contemplation, and so secure myself, by making my recourse to my God, who is our only security" (Meditation 17). 18stickelp https://padlet.com/18stickelp/olbzmmic0d2/wish/77436927 2015-10-26 12:43:27 UTC https://padlet.com/18stickelp/olbzmmic0d2/wish/77436927 "But immediately the wave floods over me anew, a mingled sense of shame, of remorse, and yet at the same time of security" (Remarque 101). 18stickelp https://padlet.com/18stickelp/olbzmmic0d2/wish/77437275 2015-10-26 12:44:45 UTC https://padlet.com/18stickelp/olbzmmic0d2/wish/77437275 Works Cited 18stickelp https://padlet.com/18stickelp/olbzmmic0d2/wish/77596423 2015-10-26 21:40:50 UTC https://padlet.com/18stickelp/olbzmmic0d2/wish/77596423