...up the river becomes, in these circumstances, regressive: '"Going up the river was like travelling back to the earliest beginnings of the world, when...rioted on the earth and the big trees were kings' " (35). Regressive time, which takes us to a time before temporality, is also empty time, and empty...

...even as they attempt to use that incapacity to get beyond it. "Going up the river was like travelling back to the earliest beginnings of the world, when...rioted on the earth and the big trees were kings", he reports; "We were wanderers on a prehistoric earth, on an earth that wore the aspect of an unknown...

...in those countries long civilized. (Darwin 1959(1845): 280) Going up the river was like travelling back to the earliest beginnings of the world, when vegetation rioted on Earth and the big trees were kings. An empty stream, a great silence, an impenetrable forest. (Conrad...

...Darkness (1902), which represents what becomes a sustained metaphorical reference in Naipaul's text: Going up that river was like traveling back to the...stream, a great silence, an impenetrable forest. The perplexity of the text lies in its constant engagement with cliche - the mystery, the violence, the...

...Darkness through the documentary's use of Orson Welles reading from this novel as dramatic voiceover: "Going up that river was like traveling back to the...vegetation rioted on the earth and the big trees were kings ..." (Hearts; Conrad 1910, 102). However, as Herman Rapaport points out quite pertinently, the French...

...1980: 1) Crichton echoes Marlow's words in Heart of Darkness: 'Going up that river was like travelling back to the earliest beginnings of the world, when...on the earth and the big trees were kings. An empty steam, a great silence, an impenetrable forest' (Conrad 1969: 536). The colonial anthropologist, traveller...

...river, as indeed were many other sojourners there. "Going up that river," he wrote, "was like travelling back to the earliest beginnings of the world, when...rioted on the earth and the big trees were Kings. "** Conrad also had to confront the reality of the present. There was the disgusting spectacle of the...

...tranquil slumber in the heat. "Going up that river was like traveling back to the earliest beginning of the world, when vegetation rioted on the earth and the big trees were kings. " — Joseph Conrad, in bis novel Heart of Darkness CONGO RIVER The word zaire is a traditional African...

...municipal, agricultural, and industrial supplies, water quality, and protection of aquatic ecosystems. Going up that river was like traveling back to the...empty stream, a great silence, an impenetrable forest. *)oseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness* e issues: What are tr. All communities need an adequate supply of...

...and its world represented by Africa is depicted metaphorically by the river that Marlow traverses: "Going up that river was like traveling back to the...rioted on the earth and the big trees were kings" (Conrad, 1989: 66). 7 Spencer's theories provided the ideological justification for the imperialism...