...aloofness of her fragile presence." There is Kurtz, grim phantom from the "heart of a conquering darkness." "He lived then before me; he lived as much as he had ever lived insatiable of splendid appearances, of frightful realities, a shadow, darker than the shadows of the...

...aloofness of her fragile presence." There is Kurtz, grim phantom from the "heart of a conquering darkness." "He lived then before me; he lived as much as he had ever lived insatiable of splendid appearances, of frightful realities, a shadow, darker than the shadows of the...

...aloofness of her fragile presence." There is Kurtz, grim phantom from the "heart of a conquering darkness." "He lived then before me; he lived as much as he had ever lived insatiable of splendid appearances, of frightful realities, a shadow, darker than the shadows of the...

...well-kept alley in a cemetery, I had a vision of him on the stretcher, opening-hisimouth jyoraciously. as if to devour all the earth with all its ~mankind'...lived then before me; he lived as much as he had ever lived—a shadow insatiable of spTenatd~apT5eaTaTIC5s', of frightful realities; g, shadow darker than...

...street as still and decorous as a well-kept sepulcher, I had a vision of him on the stretcher, opening his mouth voraciously, as if to devour all the earth...frightful realities; a shadow darker than the shadow of night, and draped nobly In the folds of a gorgeous eloquence. The vision seemed to enter the house...

...voice is expressed as a destruction of everything else, when Marlow remembers him speaking, ' "opening his mouth voraciously, as if to devour all the earth with all its mankind" ' (p. 116). In the isolation Kurtz's view involves the world becomes more and more monolithic and abstract,...

...satisfaction of an unspeakable oral desire before language: "I had a vision of him on the stretcher, opening his mouth voraciously, as if to devour all the earth with all its mankind." Yet this "as if" is no metaphor, as the row of human skulls adorning Kurtz's jungle house implies....

...still and decorous as a well-kepi alley in a cemetery, I had a vision of him on the stretcher, opening his mouth voraciously, as if to devour all the earth...appearances, of frightful realities; a shadow darker lhan the shadow of the night, and draped nobly in the folds of a gorgeous eloquence. The vision seemed...

...different ways. In the end, Marlow has only been able to pursue a shadow, "the shade of Mr. Kurtz" (50): "a shadow darker than the shadow of the night, and...draped nobly in the folds of a gorgeous eloquence" (75). The heart of darkness is "Nowhere," and it cannot be reached. Kurtz fades away before it is possible...

...arrives in front of the Intended's house, he recalls, "I had a vision of him on the stretcher, opening his mouth voraciously, as if to devour all the earth...before me; he lived as much as he had ever lived." The tension within the narrative becomes uncanny, throbbing like veins in the head. The vision "seemed...