Land in a swamp, march through the woods, and in some inland post feel the savagery, the utter savagery, had closed round him— all that mysterious life of the wilderness that stirs in the forest, in the jungles, in the hearts of wild men. Youth: And Two Other Stories - Side 56af Joseph Conrad - 1903 - 381 siderFuld visning - Om denne bog
| Joseph Conrad - 1903 - 394 sider
...inland post feel the savagery, the utter savagery, had closed round him, — all that mysterious life of the wilderness that stirs in the forest, in the...it has a fascination, too, that goes to work upon liim. The fascination of the abomination — you know. Imagine the growing regrets, the longing to... | |
| Joseph Conrad - 1903 - 398 sider
...closed round him, — all that mysterious life of the wilderness that stirs in the forest, in the X jungles, in the hearts of wild men. There's no initiation...either into such mysteries. He has to live in the of the incomprehensible, which is also detestable. An<f it has a fascination, too, that goes to work... | |
| Joseph Conrad, Georges Jean-Aubry - 1927 - 384 sider
...inland post feel the savagery, the utter savagery, had closed round him, — all that mysterious life of the wilderness that stirs in the forest, in the jungles, in the hearts of wild men. ("HEART OF DARKNESS.") THERE is no document which gives us the exact date of Conrad's return to Europe,... | |
| Charles Child Walcutt - 380 sider
...inland post feel the savagery, the utter savagery, had closed round him — all that mysterious life of the wilderness that stirs in the forest, in the...There's no initiation either into such mysteries. . . ." (Chapter 1.) Beginning with this philosophical drift, the story quickly takes on perspectives... | |
| George Levine - 1981 - 368 sider
...man," experiencing "cold, fog, tempests, disease, exile, and death," and "all that mysterious life of the wilderness that stirs in the forest, in the jungles, in the hearts of wild men."51 Huxley's colonists faced a land in which "native grasses and woods" fought against "the drought... | |
| Paul Rabinow, William M. Sullivan - 1987 - 408 sider
...inland post feel the savagery, the utter savagery had closed around him,—all that mysterious life of the wilderness that stirs in the forest, in the...that goes to work upon him. The fascination of the abomination—you know, imagine the growing regrets, the longing to escape, the powerless disgust,... | |
| Tzvetan Todorov - 1990 - 150 sider
...The Roman encounters the same savagery, the same mystery; what he confronts is beyond comprehension. "He has to live in the midst of the incomprehensible,...has a fascination, too, that goes to work upon him" (6). The tale that follows, illustrating the general case, is thus a tale of apprenticeship in the... | |
| Marianne DeKoven - 1991 - 268 sider
...overtly to his Congo memory, as he evokes as setting for his Roman conqueror all that mysterious life of the wilderness that stirs in the forest, in the...There's no initiation either into such mysteries. He [Marlow's hypothetical Roman] has to live in the midst of the incomprehensible, which is also detestable.... | |
| William Beers - 1992 - 228 sider
...beings must have said to himself, at one time or another: "Anything but this!" Joseph Conrad, Victory There's no initiation either into such mysteries....incomprehensible, which is also detestable. And it has its fascination, too, that goes to work upon him. The fascination of the abomination — you know,... | |
| Lorna A. Rhodes - 1991 - 216 sider
...properly simply because one is entering a wilderness. —ADMIRAL SCOTT in Terra Nova (Tally 1981:20) There's no initiation either into such mysteries....detestable. And it has a fascination, too, that goes to work on him. —JOSEPH CONRAD (1910) / can't commute to a jungle, but I can come here. —SAM WISHINSKI... | |
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