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[email fragment] John Donne RULESSZZZ!!! I got through half of Africa with his collected poems in my pack. Several of his last poems have been pretty helpful [...] And every time I end a letter with "Yours, etc." I'm specifically quoting his letters.

I keep meaning to read his "Devotions on emergent occasions" (whence cometh the line "for whom the bell tolls" etc.), which get the high recommend by Philip Yancey in Soul Survivor.

And, when I get to London again, to go to St. Paul's and see his tomb there -- he got up off his death bed and wrapped himself in a winding sheet to pose for the statue.