Youth: And Two Other StoriesGrosset & Dunlap, 1903 - 381 páginas |
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... Kurtz , ' I continued severely , ' is General Manager , you won't have the opportunity . ' “ He blew the candle out suddenly , and we went out- side . The moon had risen . Black figures strolled about listlessly , pouring water on the ...
... Kurtz , ' I continued severely , ' is General Manager , you won't have the opportunity . ' “ He blew the candle out suddenly , and we went out- side . The moon had risen . Black figures strolled about listlessly , pouring water on the ...
Página 92
... Kurtz long before I can have that pleasure . I wouldn't like him to get a false idea of my disposition . 66 • · I let him run on , this papier - maché Mephistopheles , and it seemed to me that if I tried I could poke my fore- finger ...
... Kurtz long before I can have that pleasure . I wouldn't like him to get a false idea of my disposition . 66 • · I let him run on , this papier - maché Mephistopheles , and it seemed to me that if I tried I could poke my fore- finger ...
Página 93
... Kurtz was in there . I had heard enough about it too - God knows ! 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 be- lieved it in the same way one of you might ...
... Kurtz was in there . I had heard enough about it too - God knows ! 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 be- lieved it in the same way one of you might ...
Página 95
... Kurtz was a ' universal genius , ' but even a genius would find it easier to work with ' adequate tools - intelligent men . ' He did not make bricks — why , there was a physical impossibility in the way — as I was well aware ; and if he ...
... Kurtz was a ' universal genius , ' but even a genius would find it easier to work with ' adequate tools - intelligent men . ' He did not make bricks — why , there was a physical impossibility in the way — as I was well aware ; and if he ...
Página 96
... Kurtz wanted , if he had only known it . Now letters went to the coast every week . . ' My dear sir , ' he cried , I write from dictation . ' I demanded rivets . There was a way for an intelligent man . He changed his manner ; became ...
... Kurtz wanted , if he had only known it . Now letters went to the coast every week . . ' My dear sir , ' he cried , I write from dictation . ' I demanded rivets . There was a way for an intelligent man . He changed his manner ; became ...
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asked bank Bankok Batu Beru beard began berth binnacle boats bridge cabin Captain Whalley chap cheroot coast course cried dark dead deck devil earth engineer eyes face feeling feet fellow fool glance gone hand head heard heart HEART OF DARKNESS ivory Judea keep knew Kurtz lascar leaning light live looked Mahon Malay Martini-Henry Massy Massy's mate murmured never niggers night once Pangu patent slip pilgrims port prau remember Ringdove river round sampan seemed Serang shadow ship shore side sight silence skipper smoke Sofala somber sort soul sound stared steamboat steamer Sterne stood straight stream suddenly talk tell thing thought tion took trees Tuan turned unsound method Van Wyk voice waiting walked watch Whal Whalley's whisper word
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Página 70 - 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 161 - 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 133 - 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 58 - 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 56 - ... to build, apparently by the hundred, in a month or two, if we may believe what we read.
Página 76 - 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 132 - 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 149 - 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 94 - 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 105 - 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.