[graemep]

Thea article says the title is a reference to Hemingway, but Hemingway's use of it was a reference to John Donne. The latter is far more familiar to me. Its no more relevant to the game though.

[jaccola]

Indeed, the same meditation that originated the phrase ‘no man is an island’.

Though, of course, the better version is “Ask not for whom the timer ticks. It ticks for thee”