...awake. I listened, I listened on the watch for the sentence, for the word, that would give me the clue to the faint uneasiness inspired by this narrative...seemed to shape itself without human lips in the heavy night air of the river" (28). Constructing himself in Kurtz's image, Marlow fulfills the colonial imperative...

...awake. I listened, I listened on the watch for the sentence, for the word, that would give me the clue to the faint uneasiness inspired by this narrative...behind me. I did! And there was nothing behind me! There was nothing but that wretched, old, mangled steamboat I was leaning against, while he talked...

...awake. I listened, I listened on the watch for the sentence, for the word, that would give me the clue to the faint uneasiness inspired by this narrative...pleased about the powers that were behind me. I did! And mere was nothing behind me! There was nothing but that wretched, old, mangled steamboat I was leaning...

...listened, I listened on the watch for the sentence, for the word, that would give me the clue to die faint uneasiness inspired by this narrative that seemed...lips in the heavy night-air of the river. '. . . Yes - 1 let him run on,' Marlow began again, 'and think what he pleased about the powers that were behind...

...voice.... I listened, 1 listened on the watch for the sentence, for the word, that would give me the clue to the faint uneasiness inspired by this narrative...without human lips in the heavy night-air of the river" 1HD, 173). The disincarnation of Marlow's narrative results in the loss of a person to whom a direct...

...awake. I listened, I listened on the watch for the sentence, for the word, that would give me the clue to the faint uneasiness inspired by this narrative...without human lips in the heavy night-air of the river" (58). The narrator listens for, and Marlow searches for, the word that will disclose meaning. The metaphoric...

...awake. I listened. I listened on the watch for the sentence, for the word, that would give me the clue to the faint uneasiness inspired by this narrative...without human lips in the heavy night-air of the river. (HD, p. 83) If there is a "clue" to the "uneasiness' in question, of course, it is perhaps inseparable...

...Marlow's plot: 'I listened on the watch for the sentence, for the word, that would give me the clue to the faint uneasiness inspired by this narrative...without human lips in the heavy night-air of the river' (HD 83). In his attempt to reconstruct Kurtz's falnila. Marlow depends on Kurtz's own plotting of it....

...become so pitch dark that we listeners could hardly see one another. For a long time already [Marlow] , sitting apart, had been no more to us than a voice....without human lips in the heavy night-air of the river. (Conrad 1942, 38) In describing Marlow's style of storytelling, Conrad also suggests some of the elements...

...awake. I listened, I listened on the watch for the sentence, for the word, that would give me the clue to the faint uneasiness inspired by this narrative...behind me. I did! And there was nothing behind me! There was nothing but that wretched, old, mangled steamboat I was leaning against, while he talked...