 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...  Youth: And Two Other Stories - Side 161af Joseph Conrad - 1903 - 381 siderFuld visning - Om denne bog
 | 1899 - 1284 sider
...chair on deck within three feet of me. The yells had not awakened him, and he snored very slightly. I left him to his slumbers and leaped ashore. I did...I don't know why I was so jealous of sharing with any one the dismal blackness of this experience. "As soon as I got on the bank I saw a trail — a... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - 1921 - 440 sider
...a chair on deck within three feet of me. The yells had not awakened him ; he snored very slightly ; I left him to his slumbers and leaped ashore. I did...I don't know why I was so jealous of sharing with any one the peculiar blackness of that experience. " As soon as I got on the bank I saw a trail —... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - 1903 - 368 sider
...on a chair on deck within three feet of me. The yells had not awakened him; he snored very slightly; I left him to his slumbers and leaped ashore. I did...I don't know why I was so jealous of sharing with any one the peculiar blackness of that experience. " As soon as I got on the bank I saw a trail —... | |
 | Ethan Allen Cross - 1928 - 524 sider
...a chair on deck within three feet of me. The yells had not awakened him ; he snored very slightly ; I left him to his slumbers and leaped ashore. I did...this shadow by myself alone — and to this day I don 't know why I was so jealous of sharing with anyone the peculiar blackness of that experience.... | |
 | 1900 - 874 sider
...chair on deck within three feet of me. The yells bad not awakened him and he snored very slightly. I left him to his slumbers and leaped ashore. I did...I don't know why I was so jealous of sharing with any one the dismal blackness of this experience. "As soon as I got on the bank I saw u trail — a... | |
 | Jacques Berthoud - 1978 - 204 sider
...must be prevented from rejoining his tribesmen. Without betraying this absence to the sleeping guards ('it was written I should be loyal to the nightmare of my choice'), Marlow slips ashore by himself. 'I was anxious to deal with this shadow by myself alone', he explains,... | |
 | Murray Cox - 1988 - 326 sider
...of words heard in dreams, of phrases spoken in nightmares / was anxious to deal with this shadow hy 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... I had — for my sins. I suppose — to go through... | |
 | Richard Ambrosini - 1991 - 274 sider
...over and over again how the nightmares are brought about by his choice not to dismiss Kurtz's memory: I did not betray Mr. Kurtz - it was ordered I should...written I should be loyal to the nightmare of my choice ( 141 ) . . . It is strange how I accepted this unforeseen partnership, this choice of nightmares forced... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - 1995 - 228 sider
...on a chair on deck within three feet of me. The yells had not awakened him; he snored very slightly; I left him to his slumbers and leaped ashore. I did...with this shadow by myself alone, - and to this day I 104 don't know why I was so jealous of sharing with any one the peculiar blackness of that experience.... | |
 | Nicolas Tredell - 1999 - 198 sider
...desires. Of his faithfulness to Kurtz, Marlow speaks as if this had been predestined, 'it was ordered 1 should never betray him - it was written I should be loyal to the nightmare of my choice' (p. 104), and he does not apply to himself the stern judgement he had made on the intrepid Russian... | |
| |
