The bell tolls again ...

... Papa’s Gift to the Fire-in-the-Belly Crowd. (Hat tip, Paul Davis.)

... they hated Robert Jordan, mostly for what Peter Carroll, author of “The Odyssey of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade,” called his “extreme individualism.” Jordan was no ideologue. “Nobody owned his mind, nor his faculties for seeing and hearing,” Hemingway wrote. When Jordan dreams of Marx, it is Groucho, not Karl; he fantasizes about taking Maria to see “A Night at the Opera” in Madrid once the fighting stops.

That's another reason why some of us like him.