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...furious annoyance, he yawned. I rose. Then I noticed a small sketch in oils, on a panel, reprosenting a woman, draped and blindfolded, carrying a lighted..." It arrested me, and he stood by civilly, holding an empty half-pint champagne bottle (medical comforts) with the candle stuck in it. To my question...

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...confusing ambiguity is present elsewhere in the picture: "The background," Marlow reports, "was sombre — almost black. The movement of the woman was stately,...effect of the torch-light on the face was sinister." We note that the torch has the effect, not of illuminating the darkness, but only of making the lady's...

...representing a woman, draped and blindfolded, carrying a lighted torch. The background was sombre — almost black. The movement of the woman was stately,..."It arrested me, and he stood by civilly, holding an empty half-pint champagne bottle (medical comforts) with the candle stuck in it. To my question...

...is "arrested" by "a small sketch in oils" done by the mysterious Kurtz, a totemic-seeming image of "a woman, draped and blindfolded, carrying a lighted...woman was stately, and the effect of the torchlight on her face was sinister" (25). Evoking an image of Justice, the picture also disturbingly suggests the...

...when he was away from his trading post. As with everything about Kurtz, it is not a simple rendition: "a small sketch in oils, on a panel, representing...effect of the torchlight on the face was sinister" (79). Though she is inanimate, she is a character in her own right, a character conceived by another...