By the simple exercise of our will we can exert a power for good practically unbounded,' etc. etc. From that point he soared and took me with him. The peroration was magnificent, though difficult to remember, you know. It gave me the notion of an exotic... Youth, a Narrative, and Two Other Stories - Side 118af Joseph Conrad - 1928 - 339 siderBegrænset visning - Om denne bog
| Joseph Conrad - 1903 - 410 sider
...evidently much later, in an unsteady handy maj be regarded as the exposition of a method. It . was Tery simple, and at the end of that moving appeal to every...was that he had apparently forgotten all about that valaable postscriptum, because, later on, when he in a sensecame to himself, he repeatedly entreated... | |
| Joseph Conrad - 1903 - 398 sider
...a method. It was very simple, and at the *id of that moving appeal to every altruistic sentiment At blazed at you, luminous and terrifying, like a flash...^Exterminate all the brutes ! ' The curious part was 1 that he had apparently forgotten all about that valuable postscriptum, because, later on, when he... | |
| Joseph Conrad - 1903 - 368 sider
...scrawled evidently much later, in an unsteady Jjand, may be regarded as the exposition of a method. I It was very simple, and at the end of that moving...of lightning in a serene sky: 'Exterminate all the brutesTj The curious part was that he had apparently forgotten all about that valuable postscriptum,... | |
| Joseph Conrad - 1903 - 360 sider
...was very simple, and at the end of that * moving appeal to every altruistic sentiment it blazed at I* you, luminous and terrifying, like a flash of lightning in a serene sky: 'Ejyt,PTminfite all thpi brutes!' Thecurii? ous part was that he had apparently forgotten all about... | |
| 1900 - 874 sider
...appear to them (savages) in the nature of supernatural beings — we approach them with the might as of deity, and so on, and so on. 'By the simple exercise...he had apparently forgotten all about that valuable postcriptum, because, later on, when he In a sense came to himself, he repeatedly entreated me to take... | |
| Hannah Arendt - 1973 - 580 sider
...populated and overpopulated by savages — an explanation of the madness which grasped and illuminated them like "a flash of lightning in a serene sky: 'Exterminate all the brutes.' " 1 This answer resulted in the most terrible massacres in recent history, the Boers' extermination... | |
| Joel Kovel - 1984 - 368 sider
...unsteady hand, may be regarded as the exposition of a method. It was very simple, and at the end of the moving appeal to every altruistic sentiment, it blazed...lightning in a serene sky: 'Exterminate all the brutes!' "51 And he and many others made a fair start, in the row of sacrificed native heads impaled in front... | |
| Patrick Brantlinger - 1988 - 326 sider
...tingle with enthusiasm. This was the unbounded power of eloquence [ie, the unbounded will-to-style]. There were no practical hints to interrupt the magic...lightning in a serene sky: "Exterminate all the brutes!" (50-51) Viewed one way, Conrad's anti-imperialist story clearly condemns Kurtz's murderous, imperialist... | |
| Robert D. Hamner - 1990 - 294 sider
...notion of an exotic Immensity ruled by an august Benevolence. It made me tingle with enthusiasm. . . It was very simple, and at the end of that moving...he repeatedly entreated me to take good care of "my pamphlet."6 In this context of parody it is possible, I think, to register a foreboding about the ultimate... | |
| Rob Nixon - 1992 - 240 sider
...populated and overpopulated by savages—an explanation of the madness which grasped and illuminated them like "a flash of lightning in a serene sky: 'Exterminate all the brutes'." 19 Yet Arendt is also content to mobilize Kurtz in defining the motives and character of a diametrically... | |
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