...we may appreciate more fully that first narrator's early misgivings about Marlow's way of talking: "we knew we were fated, before the ebb began to run,...hear about one of Marlow's inconclusive experiences" (51). For syntactic conclusion or completion seems necessary to the apprehension that words can point...

...stories that he hears. There is almost an audible groan when, in Heart of Darkness, the narrator says, 'we knew we were fated, before the ebb began to run, to hear about one of Marlow's inconclusive experiences.'51 Similarly there is a certain sense of goodnatured weariness when the narrator of Lord...