Wai Chee Dimock, teaching Yale's course Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Faulkner, devotes this lecture to For Whom the Bell Tolls. She opens with the Spanish Civil War as the novel's historical backdrop, then turns to Robert Capa's photographs to contrast low tech and high tech warfare. Her central concept is the involuntary foreigner: Robert Jordan, the American protagonist, and the Spanish guerrillas alike become aliens within their own conflict, cut off by print illiteracy and technological illiteracy from the modern world closing in around them. Dimock traces a sevenfold permutation of this condition through the novel's characters and closes by linking their tenuous claim on Spain, soon to fall to the Fascists, to a broader argument about modernity's relationship to technology and belonging. The lecture moves through Donne's original phrase, the guerrillas' linguistic isolation, and Jordan's uncertain place in their community.