 Her ensign dropped limp like a rag; the muzzles of the long eight-inch guns stuck out all over the low hull; the greasy, slimy swell swung her up lazily and let her down, swaying her thin masts. In the empty immensity of earth, sky, and water, there she...  Youth: And Two Other Stories - Side 70af Joseph Conrad - 1903 - 381 siderFuld visning - Om denne bog
 | Ford Madox Ford - 1924 - 298 sider
...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 give a feeble screech — and nothing happened. Nothing could happen. There was a touch of insanity... | |
 | John Lewis Gaddis - 1982 - 452 sider
...water, there she was, incomprehensible, firing into a continent. Pop, wonld go one of the sis-inch gons: a small flame would dart and vanish, a little white...insanity in the proceeding, a sense of lugubrious drollen in the sight: and it was not dissipated by somebody on board assuring me earnestly there was... | |
 | Michael Adas - 1989 - 452 sider
...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...happen. There was a touch of insanity in the proceeding. "32 On his journey into the interior, Marlowe comes upon a steam boiler "wallowing in the grass" and... | |
 | Marianne DeKoven - 1991 - 268 sider
...slimy swell 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...screech — and nothing happened. Nothing could happen" (41). European military-phallic power is ludicrously impotent here, in the realm ruled by the power... | |
 | Richard Ambrosini - 1991 - 274 sider
...setting is unnatural; the sounds which accompany its sight, ludicrous: "Pop, would go one of the six-inch guns; a small flame would dart and vanish, a little...would give a feeble screech - and nothing happened." A remark Marlow hears aboard the steamer, made by somebody "assuring me earnestly there was a camp... | |
 | Mark Bracher - 1993 - 224 sider
...coast: "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...happen. There was a touch of insanity in the proceeding" (28). Another instance is found in the effort to construct a railway: "A heavy and dull detonation... | |
 | John Richetti, John Bender, Deirdre David, Michael Seidel - 1994 - 1094 sider
...fatuity of the "civilized" French manof-war's shelling the bush: "Pop, would go one of the six-inch guns; a small flame would dart and vanish, a little...would give a feeble screech — and nothing happened." Soon, more than Marlow's Calvinistic belief in the redemptive powers of purposeful labor was offended.... | |
 | Annegreth Horatschek - 1998 - 872 sider
...des afrikanischen Kontinents aus Marlows Perspektive europäische Wertmaßstäbe ad absurdum fuhrt "There was a touch of insanity in the proceeding, a sense of lugubrious drollery in the sight [...]" (28) -, ermöglicht das Geräusch der Brandung es ihm momentweise, das der Welt Afrikas in keiner... | |
 | J. Bowyer Bell - 496 sider
...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...could happen. There was a touch of insanity in the proceedings . . . and it was not dissipated by somebody on board assuring me earnestly there was a... | |
 | Jonathan Schell - 2000 - 484 sider
...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 2. Joachim Fest, Hitler (New York: Harvest, 1973), p. 515. xiv give a feeble screech — and nothing... | |
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