...below.18 Conrad often depicts this sense of alienation in spatial terms, as when Marlow imagines that There was nothing either above or below him — and...knew it. He had kicked himself loose of the earth' (HD 65). This image is the culmination of the fears that travelling to the far corners of the world...

...death, which he could dispense arbitrarily, as whim dictated: 7 I had to deal with a being to whom I could not appeal in the name of anything high or low. There was nothing either above or below him, and I knew it. He had kicked himself loose of the earth....

...encounter in Africa to be remarkable men. Marlow feels that, in Kurtz, he has "to deal with a being to whom I could not appeal in the name of anything high or low" (144). Wolfe, too, does not know how to cope with Friston's outbursts. In each of the stories the principal...

...amongst the devils of the land I mean literally." Marlow says: "I had to deal with a being to whom I could not appeal in the name of anything high or...Confound the man! he had kicked the very earth to pieces" (107). Kurtz enacts a final stand of radical individuality in defiance of the deadly conformity required...

...the face of the earth. After his climactic meeting with Kurtz in the jungle, Marlow further comments, 'There was nothing either above or below him, and...the man! he had kicked the very earth to pieces." This foreboding of annihilation was no incidental feature of the work; it returns several times, always...

...meaning early in the tale are absent in Kurtz's radical case. Thus Marlow is quite literal when he says, 'I could not appeal in the name of anything high or low' (p. 107), since Conrad finally drains Kurtz of all distinguishing, differential, nameable qualities,...

...of Kurtz is of a being who has no moral or ethical ground: 'that I had to deal with a being to whom I could not appeal in the name of anything high or low ... There was nothing either above him or below him ... He had kicked himself loose of the earth' (Ibid.,...

...the face of the earth. After his climactic meeting with Kurtz in the jungle, Marlow further comments, "There was nothing either above or below him, and...the man! he had kicked the very earth to pieces." This foreboding of annihilation was no incidental feature of the work; it returns several times, always...

...the face of the earth. After his climactic meeting with Kurtz in the jungle, Marlow further comments, "There was nothing either above or below him, and...the man! he had kicked the very earth to pieces." This foreboding of annihilation was no incidental feature of the work; it returns several times, always...

...self who places himself outside pre-existing categories and enfolds the darkness. Marlow says of him: 'There was nothing either above or below him, and I knew it. He had kicked himself loose of the earth.'29 The security chief Haider calmly tells Sinclair: 'The people here have gone beyond God. Way...