Youth, and Two Other Stories: By Joseph Conrad ..., Volumen26Doubleday, Page & Company, 1903 - 339 páginas Heart of darkness: The narrator, Marlowe, journeys on business deep into the heart of Africa. There he encounters Kurtz, an idealist apparently crazed and depraved by his power over the natives, and the meeting prompts Marlowe to reflect on the darkness at the heart of all men. |
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... stream flashed in sunshine , fell into a layer of white crawling smoke , and vanished on the black surface of coal . Steam ascended mingling with the smoke . We poured salt water as into a barrel without a bottom . It was our fate to ...
... stream flashed in sunshine , fell into a layer of white crawling smoke , and vanished on the black surface of coal . Steam ascended mingling with the smoke . We poured salt water as into a barrel without a bottom . It was our fate to ...
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... streaming with water and very crestfallen . The captain had sur- rendered the wheel , and apart , elbow on rail and chin in hand , gazed at the sea wistfully . We asked ourselves , What next ? I thought , Now , this is something like ...
... streaming with water and very crestfallen . The captain had sur- rendered the wheel , and apart , elbow on rail and chin in hand , gazed at the sea wistfully . We asked ourselves , What next ? I thought , Now , this is something like ...
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... it ? He wanted to take a length of old stream - cable and a kedge - anchor with him in the long - boat . We said , ' Ay , ay , sir , ' deferentially , and on the quiet let the things slip overboard . The heavy 30 YOUTH.
... it ? He wanted to take a length of old stream - cable and a kedge - anchor with him in the long - boat . We said , ' Ay , ay , sir , ' deferentially , and on the quiet let the things slip overboard . The heavy 30 YOUTH.
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... stream not in the vivid flush of a short day that comes and departs for ever , but in the august light of abiding memories . And indeed nothing is easier for a man who has , as the phrase goes , " followed the sea " with reverence and ...
... stream not in the vivid flush of a short day that comes and departs for ever , but in the august light of abiding memories . And indeed nothing is easier for a man who has , as the phrase goes , " followed the sea " with reverence and ...
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... streams of death in life , whose banks were rotting into mud , whose waters , thickened into slime , invaded the con- torted mangroves , that seemed to writhe at us in the extremity of an impotent despair , Nowhere did we stop long ...
... streams of death in life , whose banks were rotting into mud , whose waters , thickened into slime , invaded the con- torted mangroves , that seemed to writhe at us in the extremity of an impotent despair , Nowhere did we stop long ...
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Página 162 - Marlow ceased, and sat apart, indistinct and silent, in the pose of a meditating Buddha. Nobody moved for a time. "We have lost the first of the ebb," said the Director suddenly. I raised my head. The offing was barred by a black bank of clouds, and the tranquil waterway leading to the uttermost ends of the earth flowed sombre under an overcast sky— seemed to lead into the heart of an immense darkness.
Página 150 - I was within a hair's breadth of the last opportunity for pronouncement, and I found with humiliation that probably I would have nothing to say. This is the reason why I affirm that Kurtz was a remarkable man. He had something to say. He said it.
Página 37 - ... And I see a bay, a wide bay, smooth as glass and polished like ice, shimmering in the dark. A red light burns far off upon the gloom of the land, and the night is soft and warm. We drag at the oars with aching arms, and suddenly a puff of wind, a puff faint and tepid and laden with strange...
Página 97 - Who's that grunting? You wonder I didn't go ashore for a howl and a dance? Well, no - I didn't. Fine sentiments, you say? Fine sentiments, be hanged! I had no time. I had to mess about with white-lead and strips of woolen blanket helping to put bandages on those leaky steam-pipes - I tell you.
Página 93 - The broadening waters flowed through a mob of wooded islands; you lost your way on that river as you would in a desert, and butted all day long against shoals, trying to find the channel, till you thought yourself bewitched and cut off forever from everything you had known once— somewhere— far away— in another existence perhaps.
Página 82 - You know I hate, detest, and can't bear a lie, not because I am straighter than the rest of us, but simply because it appals me. There is a taint of death, a flavour of mortality in lies — which is exactly what I hate and detest in the world — what I want to forget.
Página 147 - The brown current ran swiftly out of the heart of darkness, bearing us down towards the sea with twice the speed of our upward progress; and Kurtz's life was running swiftly, too, ebbing, ebbing out of his heart into the sea of inexorable time. The manager was very placid, he had no vital anxieties now, he took us both in with a comprehensive and satisfied glance: the 'affair' had come off as well as could be wished. I saw the time approaching when I would be left alone of the party of 'unsound method.
Página 4 - You fellows know there are those voyages that seem ordered for the illustration of life, that might stand for a symbol of existence. You fight, work, sweat, nearly kill yourself, sometimes do kill yourself, trying to accomplish something— and you can't. Not from any fault of yours. You simply can do nothing, neither great nor little— not a thing in the world— not even marry an old maid, or get a wretched 6oo-ton cargo of coal to its port of destination.
Página 82 - Yet somehow it didn't bring any image with it — no more than if I had been told an angel or a fiend was in there. I believed it in the same way one of you might believe there are inhabitants in the planet Mars. I knew once a Scotch sailmaker who was certain, dead sure, there were people in Mars. If you asked him for some idea how they looked and behaved, he would get shy and mutter something about 'walking on all-fours.
Página 39 - Oh, my goodness! I say. . . . This is the Celestial from Singapore on her return trip. I'll arrange with your captain in the morning, . . . and, ... I say, . . . did you hear me just now?" " 'I should think the whole bay heard you.' "'I thought you were a shore-boat. Now, look here— this infernal lazy scoundrel of a caretaker has gone to sleep again— curse him. The light is out, and I nearly ran foul of the end of this damned jetty. This is the third time he plays me this trick.