Little Knell

 Pick a subject, any subject and someone has written a fact-filled blog on it.

1. (This isn't numbered, but I wanna keep the thoughts straight)

WTH is a "Knell"?

It's complicated. Were you Dying, or did you just die, or are they dragging your dead body to the graveyard?
(and, are you richer than god so people would notice)

The part that isn't clear to me is what the sounds of the bells actually are.
Bonnng (from a big-ass bell) 
or "Tinkle" from teeny handhelds.
and they get even more detailed, the first bell is a code: for a woman or a man.

The second bell is your funeral while you're being marched to the services at the cathedral.
The third bell is you on the way to the graveyard, to ward off the evil.
Even THEY got tired of remembering all that, so now the second bell (you're dead) is the only one left.

OK explain why the Bell tolls for thee? (It's a Hemmingway thing, nvm)

Where did...
What the...
O, OK, if you say so.(?)

I was under the impression, having never read the book nor seen the movie, 

that the last line was an admonishment to get involved , not shirk your duty, but that was long ago during a biggie war.

Not Rock Hudson; That was a way different movie

When the witch died, the song says "Ding dong the witch is dead," what were the writers thinking?

I've got more research to do and if this is still here, it's unfinished.
But it's prolly dead.

Oh, the guy "Poe" wrote a whole poem on "bells" and if you are in some schools they teach it as an example, but Poe has been buried by most politically correct schools, he wasn't socially acceptable anymore.

They never said that in my school, just made you read it aloud and went on about how it sounded.

Full-on unadulterated Dickens bores me to tears, and I can imagine why....
Imagine they stuck "all my children" or "As the world Turns" into one single gargantuan movie, and then later put in commercials.
Dickens wrote serials (aka "soaps") for magazines.
It seems to me (without anyone or anything to back me up) that he'd want to embellish each episode with characters and subplots.
Having said that,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqQGQ-xgiBk
And (and) all those foreign accents just before the LOUD comet commercial.
(I WANT TO BUY YOUR HOUSE!!)
And I would not think for a second that YouTube hasn't stuck in commercials every five minutes.
Nell and Knell are totally different, except Nell dies, so it's related, sort of.