...turned out to be somewhat reminiscent of Captain Marlow's in Joseph Conrad's story "Heart of Darkness": "To him the meaning of an episode was not inside like...out a haze, in the likeness of one of these misty hales that sometimes are made visible by the spectral illumination of moonshine." G. Ramachandran was...

...creation," she asks, "if I were entirely contained here?" Finally, we recall that for Marlow, too, the "meaning of an episode was not inside like a kernel but outside, enveloping the tale." This epistemologically "outside" view of narrative "meaning" is reflected in Marlow's own cross-cultural...

...lies within the shcll of a cracked nut. But Marlow was not typical (if bis propensity to spin yarns be excepted), and to him the meaning of an episode was...outside, enveloping the tale which brought it out only äs a glow brings out a haze, in the likeness of one of thcse misty halos that somctimcs are made visible...

...lies within the shell of a cracked nut. But Marlow was not typical (if his propensity to spin yarns be excepted), and to him the meaning of an episode was...brought it out only as a glow brings out a haze.' Welles's foremost problem in adapting Heart of Darkness was to reverse Conrad's method and externalize...

...present. The narrator in Heart of Darkness describes Conrad's method when he says about Marlow that "to him the meaning of an episode was not inside like...which brought it out only as a glow brings out a haze" (Youth, 48). It is the external action of a story, the way both past and present events form patterns,...

...these two novels, it is the image of an inaccessible kernel that embodies this empty centre. To Marlow "the meaning of an episode was not inside like a kernel but 13 ["A furious gale attacks him like a personal enemy, tries to grasp his limbs, fastens upon his mind,...

...point. Conrad himself expressed this preoccupation when introducing Marlowe in The Heart of Darkness: 'To him the meaning of an episode was not inside like...glow brings out a haze, in the likeness of one of those misty halos that sometimes are made visible by the spectral illumination of moonshine.' The whole...

...lies within the shell of a cracked nut. But Marlow was not typical (if his propensity to spin yarns be excepted), and to him the meaning of an episode was...tale which brought it out only as a glow brings out haze, in the likeness of one of these misty halos that sometimes are made visible by the spectral illumination...

...the story was made even clearer in the manuscript, which included the two phrases here italicised: "the meaning of an episode was not inside like a kernel but outside in the unseen, enveloping the tale which could only bring it out as a glow brings out a haze."110 In...

...syntax might then work like a turning screw, " de plus en plus serre ' , around some empty kernel. For "the meaning of an episode was not inside like a kernel, but outside' (HD, p. 48). Might not some turn of speech in Conrad's prose be a trace of the attempt to circumscribe...