I should've looked at the headlines more closely (wait, I could not, I was posting from the column's front page). Someone did pick up on the link with Donne's devotion already; and probably there are others who have before me also.

I hope you'll read my own review, as Donne's reaction to the bell and Breslin's narrator's reaction to the siren -- beyond their common link with the human condition -- come from completely different worldviews, and this shapes how they react to human suffering and to their own pasts.

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