...the via negativa. For Marlow, going up the river is a "weary pilgrimage" that "was like travelling back to the earliest beginnings of the world, when...vegetation rioted on the earth and the big trees were king" (48). Like Lear, Marlow comes to realize that reality is ultimately "truth stripped of the cloak...

...Rutagarama, and William Weber 563 LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS 567 INDEX Preface William Weber and Amy Vedder Going up that river was like traveling back to the...empty stream, a great silence, an impenetrable forest. — Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness NEARLY ONE HUNDRED YEARS after Conrad's first florid descriptions...

...wilderness himself, however, Marlow finds it to be less passive than he may have originally believed: Going up that river was like traveling back to the...trees were kings. An empty stream, a great silence, and impenetrable forest.. .. And this stillness of life did not in the least resemble a peace. // was...

...the creek when we came to the bank below Kurtz's station. "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 60 stream, a great silence, an impenetrable forest. The air was warm, thick, heavy, sluggish. There...

...have resembled those that Conrad wrote about in his novel: Going up that river was like travelling back to the earliest beginnings of the world, when...forest. The air was warm, thick, heavy, sluggish. . . . The broadening waters flowed through a mob of wooded islands; you lost your way on that river...

...unknown land of the Celts. Later, Marlow, speaking for the author, told of his experience on the Congo. "Going up that river was like traveling back to the...stream, a great silence, an impenetrable forest." Umsaskis Lake is still quiet, still uninhabited, still a thoroughfare for passersby in canoes, still...

...passengers. There are memorable descriptions of the scenery: 'Going up that river was like travelling back to the earliest beginnings of the world, when...rioted on the earth and the big trees were kings. On silvery sandbanks, hippos and alligators sunned themselves side by side.' Has Conrad's imagination...

...have, it seems, an innate longing to reach for the "beginning," or at least to better understand it. "Going up that river was like traveling back to the earliest beginnings of the world," said the fictitious explorer Marlow in Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness. Visual observers go "up that...

...They do not freely come to you. Joseph Conrad said it better: 'Going up that river was like travelling back to the earliest beginnings of the world, when...vegetation rioted on the earth and the big trees were kings ...' Orchids are not as easy to love as, say, roses or daisies. OK, so someone gave you an orchid as...

...culture of Africa that they discovered. " 'Going up that river,' " says Marlow, " 'was like travelling back to the earliest beginnings of the world, when...rioted on the earth and the big trees were kings.' " He concludes with doubt: " 'truth is hidden — luckily, luckily. But I felt it all the same; I felt...