True, he had made that last stride, he had stepped over the edge, while I had been permitted to draw back my hesitating foot. And perhaps in this is the whole difference; perhaps all the wisdom, and all truth, and all sincerity, are just compressed into... Youth: And Two Other Stories - Էջ 172Joseph Conrad - 1903 - 381 էջԱմբողջությամբ դիտվող - Այս գրքի մասին
| Joseph Conrad - 1903 - 360 էջ
...had stepped over the edge, while I had been permitted to draw back my hesitating foot. And perhaps in this is the whole difference; perhaps all the wisdom,...have been a word of careless contempt. Better his cry—much better. It was an affirmation, a moral victory paid for by innumerable defeats, by abominable... | |
| Joseph Conrad - 1903 - 360 էջ
...difference; perhaps all • the wjsd"™, g "^ q11 truth, and all sincerity, are j'usTT rmnprftssftd into that inappreciable moment of time in which we...have been a word of careless contempt. Better his cry—much better. It was an affirmation, a moral victory paid for_ by innumerable 'defeats, bv abominn,V>1p... | |
| Frances Melville Perry - 1926 - 270 էջ
...according to his interpreter, this Beelzebub of the wilderness gained, after a fashion, a victory. "It was an affirmation, a moral victory paid for by innumerable defeats, by abominable terrors, abominable satisfactions. But it was a victory." Conrad characterizes this impious indulger of the... | |
| Paul Carus - 1927 - 666 էջ
...life itself must attain the perfection of its form, in death. WH JOHNSTON. LONDON, ENGLAND. '0"Perhaps all the wisdom, and all truth and all sincerity, are...which we step over the threshold of the invisible . Conrad, in Heart of Darkness. This passage, and that which precedes it, with the last words of Kurtz—... | |
| 1900 - 874 էջ
...had stepped over the edge, while I had been permitted to draw back my hesitating foot. And perhaps in this is the whole difference; perhaps all the wisdom,...threshold of the invisible. Perhaps! I like to think my summing up would not have been a word of careless contempt. Better his cry — much better. It was... | |
| Lloyd Schwartz, Sybil P. Estess - 1983 - 374 էջ
...stepped over the edge, while I had been permitted to draw back my hesitating foot. . . . perhaps ... all truth, and all sincerity, are just compressed...which we step over the threshold of the invisible. Throughout, descriptive data are balanced by suggestions of absence, disappearance, and vacancy: "Cape... | |
| Michael Macovski - 1994 - 244 էջ
...man. After all, this was the expression of some sort of belief; it had candour, it had conviction. ... I like to think my summing-up would not have been...much better. It was an affirmation, a moral victory. . . . (72). According to Marlow, then, Kurtz has finally managed to pronounce judgment on the darkness... | |
| Alan Warren Friedman - 1995 - 360 էջ
...had stepped over the edge, while / had been permitted to draw back my hesitating foot. And perhaps in this is the whole difference; perhaps all the wisdom,...which we step over the threshold of the invisible. (285; my emphases) Marlow's shift to "we" echoes his earlier suggestion that he and Kurtz had been... | |
| Geoffrey Galt Harpham - 1996 - 232 էջ
...had stepped over the edge, while I had been permitted to draw back my hesitating foot. And perhaps in this is the whole difference; perhaps all the wisdom,...which we step over the threshold of the invisible" (HD69). If affective relations are experienced as most dangerously transgressive deep upriver, the... | |
| Ray Monk - 1996 - 728 էջ
...Russell's description of mystic illumination in Our Knowledge of the External World, goes on: And perhaps in this is the whole difference; perhaps all the wisdom, and all the truth, and all sincerity, are just compressed into that inappreciable moment of time in which we... | |
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