In the empty immensity of earth, sky, and water, there she was, incomprehensible, firing into a continent. Pop, would go one of the six-inch guns; a small flame would dart and vanish, a little white smoke would disappear, a tiny projectile would give... Youth: And Two Other Stories - Página 70por Joseph Conrad - 1903 - 381 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| 1899 - 1284 páginas
...and vanish, a little white smoke would disappear, a tiny projectile would give a feeble screech — and nothing happened. Nothing could happen. There...lonely ship were dying of fever at the rate of three a-day) and went on. We called at some more places with farcical names, where the merry dance of death... | |
| Ford Madox Ford - 1924 - 298 páginas
...dart and vanish, a little white smoke would disappear, a tiny projectile give a feeble screech — and nothing happened. Nothing could happen. There was a touch of insanity in the proceeding. . . . It was not that Conrad was markedly humanitarian; it was that he disliked waste of human effort... | |
| Joseph Conrad - 1903 - 360 páginas
...and vanish, a little white smoke would disappear, a tiny projectile would give a feeble screech— and nothing happened. Nothing could happen. There...on board assuring me earnestly there was a camp of natives—he called them enemies!— hidden out of sight somewhere. "We gave her her letters (I heard... | |
| Norman Sherry - 1971 - 484 páginas
...comment that the touch of insanity 'was not dissipated by somebody on board assuring me earnestly that there was a camp of natives — he called them enemies! — hidden out of sight somewhere' (p. 62) was initially in the manuscript: 'which was not dissipated by somebody telling me there was... | |
| Jacques Berthoud - 1978 - 204 páginas
...dart and vanish, a little white smoke would disappear, a tiny projectile would give a feeble screech - and nothing happened. Nothing could happen. There...called them enemies! - hidden out of sight somewhere. 'Heart of Darkness', pp. 61-2 Why Marlow feels there is a touch of insanity about these proceedings... | |
| Ian Watt - 1981 - 400 páginas
...and vanish, a little white smoke would disappear, a tiny projectile would give a feeble screech — and nothing happened. Nothing could happen. There...called them enemies! — hidden out of sight somewhere (61-62). The symbolic force of this episode, as of many others in Marlow's narrative, partly depends... | |
| Joseph Conrad - 2004 - 205 páginas
...and vanish, a little white smoke would disappear, a tiny projectile would give a feeble screech — and nothing happened. Nothing could happen. There...it was not dissipated by somebody on board assuring rne earnestly there was a camp of natives — he called them enemies! — hidden out of sight somewhere.... | |
| John Lewis Gaddis - 1982 - 452 páginas
...and vanish, a little white smoke would disappear, a tiny projectile would give a feeble screech — and nothing happened. Nothing could happen There was...insanity in the proceeding, a sense of lugubrious drollen in the sight: and it was not dissipated by somebody on board assuring me earnestly there was... | |
| Michael Adas - 1989 - 452 páginas
...and vanish, a little white smoke would disappear, a tiny projectile would give a feeble screech — and nothing happened. Nothing could happen. There was a touch of insanity in the proceeding. "32 On his journey into the interior, Marlowe comes upon a steam boiler "wallowing in the grass" and... | |
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