Youth, and Two Other Stories: By Joseph Conrad ..., Հատոր 26Doubleday, Page & Company, 1903 - 339 էջ Heart of darkness: The narrator, Marlowe, journeys on business deep into the heart of Africa. There he encounters Kurtz, an idealist apparently crazed and depraved by his power over the natives, and the meeting prompts Marlowe to reflect on the darkness at the heart of all men. |
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... Darkness " is quite as authentic in fundamentals as " Youth . " It is , obviously , written in another mood . I won't charac- terize the mood precisely , but anybody can see that it is anything but the mood of wistful regret , of ...
... Darkness " is quite as authentic in fundamentals as " Youth . " It is , obviously , written in another mood . I won't charac- terize the mood precisely , but anybody can see that it is anything but the mood of wistful regret , of ...
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... " The End of the Tether " again . No more need be said . It accords best with my feelings to part from Captain Whalley in affection- ate silence . 1917 . J. C. CONTENTS YOUTH : A NARRATIVE · • HEART OF DARKNESS xii AUTHOR'S NOTE.
... " The End of the Tether " again . No more need be said . It accords best with my feelings to part from Captain Whalley in affection- ate silence . 1917 . J. C. CONTENTS YOUTH : A NARRATIVE · • HEART OF DARKNESS xii AUTHOR'S NOTE.
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... darkness with their lights burn- ing bright , a great plashing of propellers , rattling of winches , and a lot of ... dark , ' Stop her , sir . ' A bell jingled . Another voice cried warningly , ' We are going right into that barque ...
... darkness with their lights burn- ing bright , a great plashing of propellers , rattling of winches , and a lot of ... dark , ' Stop her , sir . ' A bell jingled . Another voice cried warningly , ' We are going right into that barque ...
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... dark we could not see each other's faces within a foot - you understand . 66 ' After that thump the ship kept quiet for a while , and the thing , whatever it was , struck my leg again . This time I caught it — and it was a saucepan . At ...
... dark we could not see each other's faces within a foot - you understand . 66 ' After that thump the ship kept quiet for a while , and the thing , whatever it was , struck my leg again . This time I caught it — and it was a saucepan . At ...
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... dark stolid souls . Ah ! Well ! we stumbled , we crept , we fell , we barked our shins on the wreckage , we hauled . The masts stood , but we did not know how much they might be charred down below . It was nearly calm , but a long swell ...
... dark stolid souls . Ah ! Well ! we stumbled , we crept , we fell , we barked our shins on the wreckage , we hauled . The masts stood , but we did not know how much they might be charred down below . It was nearly calm , but a long swell ...
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Էջ 162 - Marlow ceased, and sat apart, indistinct and silent, in the pose of a meditating Buddha. Nobody moved for a time. "We have lost the first of the ebb," said the Director suddenly. I raised my head. The offing was barred by a black bank of clouds, and the tranquil waterway leading to the uttermost ends of the earth flowed sombre under an overcast sky— seemed to lead into the heart of an immense darkness.
Էջ 150 - I was within a hair's breadth of the last opportunity for pronouncement, and I found with humiliation that probably I would have nothing to say. This is the reason why I affirm that Kurtz was a remarkable man. He had something to say. He said it.
Էջ 37 - ... And I see a bay, a wide bay, smooth as glass and polished like ice, shimmering in the dark. A red light burns far off upon the gloom of the land, and the night is soft and warm. We drag at the oars with aching arms, and suddenly a puff of wind, a puff faint and tepid and laden with strange...
Էջ 97 - Who's that grunting? You wonder I didn't go ashore for a howl and a dance? Well, no - I didn't. Fine sentiments, you say? Fine sentiments, be hanged! I had no time. I had to mess about with white-lead and strips of woolen blanket helping to put bandages on those leaky steam-pipes - I tell you.
Էջ 93 - The broadening waters flowed through a mob of wooded islands; you lost your way on that river as you would in a desert, and butted all day long against shoals, trying to find the channel, till you thought yourself bewitched and cut off forever from everything you had known once— somewhere— far away— in another existence perhaps.
Էջ 82 - You know I hate, detest, and can't bear a lie, not because I am straighter than the rest of us, but simply because it appals me. There is a taint of death, a flavour of mortality in lies — which is exactly what I hate and detest in the world — what I want to forget.
Էջ 147 - The brown current ran swiftly out of the heart of darkness, bearing us down towards the sea with twice the speed of our upward progress; and Kurtz's life was running swiftly, too, ebbing, ebbing out of his heart into the sea of inexorable time. The manager was very placid, he had no vital anxieties now, he took us both in with a comprehensive and satisfied glance: the 'affair' had come off as well as could be wished. I saw the time approaching when I would be left alone of the party of 'unsound method.
Էջ 4 - You fellows know there are those voyages that seem ordered for the illustration of life, that might stand for a symbol of existence. You fight, work, sweat, nearly kill yourself, sometimes do kill yourself, trying to accomplish something— and you can't. Not from any fault of yours. You simply can do nothing, neither great nor little— not a thing in the world— not even marry an old maid, or get a wretched 6oo-ton cargo of coal to its port of destination.
Էջ 82 - Yet somehow it didn't bring any image with it — no more than if I had been told an angel or a fiend was in there. I believed it in the same way one of you might believe there are inhabitants in the planet Mars. I knew once a Scotch sailmaker who was certain, dead sure, there were people in Mars. If you asked him for some idea how they looked and behaved, he would get shy and mutter something about 'walking on all-fours.
Էջ 39 - Oh, my goodness! I say. . . . This is the Celestial from Singapore on her return trip. I'll arrange with your captain in the morning, . . . and, ... I say, . . . did you hear me just now?" " 'I should think the whole bay heard you.' "'I thought you were a shore-boat. Now, look here— this infernal lazy scoundrel of a caretaker has gone to sleep again— curse him. The light is out, and I nearly ran foul of the end of this damned jetty. This is the third time he plays me this trick.