No fear can stand up to hunger, no patience can wear it out, disgust simply does not exist where hunger is; and as to superstition, beliefs, and what you may call principles, they are less than chaff in a breeze. Youth: And Two Other Stories - Էջ 120Joseph Conrad - 1903 - 381 էջԱմբողջությամբ դիտվող - Այս գրքի մասին
| Joseph Conrad - 1995 - 244 էջ
...honour? No fear can stand up to hunger, no patience can wear it out, disgust simply does not exist where hunger is; and as to superstition, beliefs,...they are less than chaff in a breeze. Don't you know die devilry of lingering starvation, its exasperating torment, its black dioughts, its sombre and brooding... | |
| Ursula Lord - 1998 - 382 էջ
...explanations: "No fear can stand up to hunger, no patience can wear it out, disgust simply does not exist where hunger is; and as to superstition, beliefs,...call principles, they are less than chaff in a breeze ... But there was the fact facing me - the fact dazzling to be seen, like the foam on the depths of... | |
| Elspeth Probyn - 2000 - 198 էջ
...Hunger, and how one deals with it, constitutes, for Marlow, the very limits that define us as human: 'Don't you know the devilry of lingering starvation,...its exasperating torment, its black thoughts, its sombre and brooding ferocity?' Above all else 'It takes a man all his inborn strength to fight hunger... | |
| Giles Gunn - 2001 - 272 էջ
...patience can wear it out, disgust simply does not exist where hunger is; and as to superstition, belief, and what you may call principles, they are less than...its exasperating torment, its black thoughts, its sombre and brooding ferocity? Well, I do. It takes a man all his inborn strength to fight hunger properly.... | |
| Susan L. Mizruchi - 2001 - 300 էջ
...patience can wear it out, disgust simply does not exist where hunger is; and as to superstition, belief, and what you may call principles, they are less than...its exasperating torment, its black thoughts, its sombre and brooding ferocity? Well, I do. It takes a man all his inborn strength to fight hunger properly.... | |
| Giles Gunn - 2001 - 258 էջ
...know the devilry of lingering starvation, its exasperating torment, its black thoughts, its sombre and brooding ferocity? Well, I do. It takes a man...properly. It's really easier to face bereavement, dishonour, and the perdition of one's soul—than this kind of prolonged hunger. Sad, but true. And... | |
| Joseph Conrad - 2002 - 280 էջ
...honour? No fear can stand up to hunger, no patience can wear it out, disgust simply does not exist where hunger is; and as to superstition, beliefs,...its exasperating torment, its black thoughts, its sombre and brooding ferocity? Well, I do. It takes a man all his inborn strength to fight hunger properly.... | |
| Susanne Skubal - 2002 - 182 էջ
...lives. He remarks about their restraint, which becomes one of several key words in the text, saying: "It takes a man all his inborn strength to fight hunger properly. Restraint — I would just as soon have expected restraint from a hyena prowling amongst the corpses... | |
| Howard Edson - 2003 - 300 էջ
...Bradley No fear can stand up to hunger, no patience can wear it out, disgust simply does not exist where hunger is; and as to superstition, beliefs,...principles, they are less than chaff in a breeze. Joseph Conrad; Heart of Darkness 1902 My Memories and Beliefs? I am my beliefs: All of the above categories... | |
| John P. Anderson - 2005 - 180 էջ
...honour? No fear can stand up to hunger, no patience can wear it out, disgust simply does not exist where hunger is; and as to superstition, beliefs,...principles, they are less than chaff in a breeze. 121 Don't you know the devilry of lingering starvation, its exasperating torment, its black thoughts,... | |
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