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There was nothing for it but go below with shovels and try to right her, and there
we were in that vast hold, gloomy like a cavern, the tallow dips stuck and
flickering on the beams, the gale howling above, the ship tossing about like mad
on her ...
There was nothing for it but go below with shovels and try to right her, and there
we were in that vast hold, gloomy like a cavern, the tallow dips stuck and
flickering on the beams, the gale howling above, the ship tossing about like mad
on her ...
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... water pouring over her deck. There was no rest for her and no rest for us. She
tossed, she pitched, she stood on her head, she sat on her tail, she rolled, she
groaned, and we had to hold on while on deck and cling to our bunks when
below, ...
... water pouring over her deck. There was no rest for her and no rest for us. She
tossed, she pitched, she stood on her head, she sat on her tail, she rolled, she
groaned, and we had to hold on while on deck and cling to our bunks when
below, ...
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The coal-dust suspended in the air of the hold had glowed dull-red at the moment
of the explosion. In the twinkling of an eye, in an infinitesimal fraction of a second
since the first tilt of the bench, I was sprawling full length on the cargo. I picked ...
The coal-dust suspended in the air of the hold had glowed dull-red at the moment
of the explosion. In the twinkling of an eye, in an infinitesimal fraction of a second
since the first tilt of the bench, I was sprawling full length on the cargo. I picked ...
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... a straight back, an ascetic aspect, and, with his arms dropped, the palms of
hands outwards, resembled an idol. The Director, satisfied the anchor had good
hold, made his way aft and sat down amongst us. We exchanged a few words
lazily.
... a straight back, an ascetic aspect, and, with his arms dropped, the palms of
hands outwards, resembled an idol. The Director, satisfied the anchor had good
hold, made his way aft and sat down amongst us. We exchanged a few words
lazily.
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... me I had been represented to the wife of the high dignitary, and goodness
knows to how many more people besides, as an exceptional and gifted creature
— a piece of good fortune for the Company — a man you don't get hold of every
day.
... me I had been represented to the wife of the high dignitary, and goodness
knows to how many more people besides, as an exceptional and gifted creature
— a piece of good fortune for the Company — a man you don't get hold of every
day.
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appeared asked bank began believe better boats body bridge called Captain Whalley clear close coast course dark dead deck don't door earth engineer eyes face feeling feet fellow felt fire give glance gone hand head hear heard heart heavy hold hundred idea keep kind knew Kurtz land leave light live looked lost manager Massy matter mean mind moved never night once passed perhaps remained remember rest river round seemed seen Serang ship shore side sight silence smoke Sofala sort sound stand station steamer stepped Sterne stood stopped straight stream suddenly talk tell thing thought took trees turned voice waiting walked watch whole
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Página 68 - 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 a feeble screech — and nothing happened.
Página 159 - I did not betray Mr. Kurtz— it was ordered I should never betray him— it was written I should be loyal to the nightmare of my choice. I was anxious to deal with this shadow by myself alone— and to this day I don't know why I was so jealous of sharing with any one the peculiar blackness of that experience.
Página 131 - You can't understand. How could you? — with solid pavement under your feet, surrounded by kind neighbours ready to cheer you or to fall on you, stepping delicately between the butcher and the policeman, in the holy terror of scandal and gallows and lunatic asylums...
Página 56 - It was the farthest point of navigation and the culminating point of my experience. It seemed somehow to throw a kind of light on everything about me — and into my thoughts. It was sombre enough, too — and pitiful — not extraordinary in any way — not very clear either. No, not very clear. And yet it seemed to throw a kind of light.
Página 54 - ... to build, apparently by the hundred, in a month or two, if we may believe what we read.
Página 74 - I began to distinguish the gleam of the eyes under the trees. Then, glancing down, I saw a face near my hand. The black bones reclined at full length with one shoulder against the tree, and slowly the eyelids rose and the sunken eyes looked up at me, enormous and vacant, a kind of blind, white flicker in the depths of the orbs, which died out slowly.
Página 130 - The wilderness had patted him on the head, and, behold, it was like a ball an ivory ball; it had caressed him, and - lo! - he had withered; it had taken him, loved him, embraced him, got into his veins, consumed his flesh, and sealed his soul to its own by the inconceivable ceremonies of some devilish initiation.
Página 147 - They only showed that Mr. Kurtz lacked restraint in the gratification of his various lusts, that there was something wanting in him — some small matter which, when. [ 148 ] the pressing need arose, could not be found under his magnificent eloquence.
Página 92 - Of course in this you fellows see more than I could then. You see me, whom you know. . . ." It had become so pitch dark that we listeners could hardly see one another. For a long time already he, sitting apart, had been no more to us than a voice. There was not a word from anybody. The others might have been asleep, but I was awake. I listened, I listened on the watch for the sentence, for the word, that would give me the clew to the faint uneasiness inspired by this narrative that seemed to shape...
Página 103 - Going up that river was like traveling back to the earliest beginnings of the world, when vegetation rioted on the earth and the big trees were kings.
Información bibliográfica
| Título | Youth: And Two Other Stories |
| Autor | Joseph Conrad |
| Editor | Doubleday, Page, 1903 |
| Procedencia del original | Universidad de Michigan |
| Digitalizado | 7 Feb. 2007 |
| Largo | 379 páginas |
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