Youth: And Two Other StoriesMcClure, Phillips & Company, 1903 - 381 sider |
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Side 20
... light . Weeks slipped by . She crawled on , do or die , and people at home began to think of posting us as overdue . 66 One Saturday evening , I being off duty , the men asked me to give them an extra bucket of water or so— for washing ...
... light . Weeks slipped by . She crawled on , do or die , and people at home began to think of posting us as overdue . 66 One Saturday evening , I being off duty , the men asked me to give them an extra bucket of water or so— for washing ...
Side 23
... light and slow : a pestiferous cloud defiling the splendor of sea and sky . " All this time of course we saw no fire . The cargo smoldered at the bottom somewhere . Once Mahon , as we were working side by side , said to me with a queer ...
... light and slow : a pestiferous cloud defiling the splendor of sea and sky . " All this time of course we saw no fire . The cargo smoldered at the bottom somewhere . Once Mahon , as we were working side by side , said to me with a queer ...
Side 32
... light of a glowworm . I saw it first , and told Mahon . Then the game's up , ' he said . ' We had better stop this towing , or she will burst out suddenly fore and aft before we can clear out . ' We set up a yell ; 6 A rang bells to ...
... light of a glowworm . I saw it first , and told Mahon . Then the game's up , ' he said . ' We had better stop this towing , or she will burst out suddenly fore and aft before we can clear out . ' We set up a yell ; 6 A rang bells to ...
Side 33
... light , with the two vessels side by side and heaving gently in its center . Captain Beard had been sitting on the gratings still and mute for hours , but now he rose slowly and advanced in front of us , to the mizzen - shrouds ...
... light , with the two vessels side by side and heaving gently in its center . Captain Beard had been sitting on the gratings still and mute for hours , but now he rose slowly and advanced in front of us , to the mizzen - shrouds ...
Side 34
... light on the wide earth , leaping audaciously to the sky , presently to be quenched by time , more cruel , more pitiless , more bitter than the sea - and like the flames of the burning ship surrounded by an impenetrable night . " The ...
... light on the wide earth , leaping audaciously to the sky , presently to be quenched by time , more cruel , more pitiless , more bitter than the sea - and like the flames of the burning ship surrounded by an impenetrable night . " The ...
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asked bank Bankok Batu Beru beard began berth binnacle boats bridge cabin Captain Whalley chap cheroot coast course cried dark dead deck devil door earth engineer eyes face feeling feet fellow fool glance gone hand head heard heart HEART OF DARKNESS ivory Judea keep knew Kurtz lascar leaning light live looked Mahon Malay Martini-Henry Massy Massy's mate murmured never niggers night once Pangu patent slip pilgrims port prau remember Ringdove river round sampan savage seemed Serang shadow ship shore side silence skipper smoke Sofala somber sort soul sound stared steamboat steamer Sterne stood straight stream suddenly talk tell thing thought tion took trees Tuan turned uncon unsound method Van Wyk voice waiting walked watch Whal Whalley's whisper word
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Side 172 - True, he had made that last stride, he had stepped over the edge, while I had been permitted to draw back my hesitating foot. And perhaps in this is the whole difference; perhaps all the wisdom, and all truth, and all sincerity, are just compressed into that inappreciable moment of time in which we step over the threshold of the invisible.
Side 46 - And then I saw the men of the East — they were looking at me. The whole length of the jetty was full of people. I saw brown, bronze, yellow faces, the black eyes, the glitter, the colour of an Eastern crowd. And all these beings stared without a murmur, without a sigh, without a movement.
Side 171 - Droll thing life is — that mysterious arrangement of merciless logic for a futile purpose. The most you can hope from it is some knowledge of yourself — that comes too late — a crop of unextinguishable regrets.
Side 58 - It was the farthest point of navigation and the culminating point of my experience. It seemed somehow to throw a kind of light on everything about me — and into my thoughts. It was sombre enough, too — and pitiful — not extraordinary in any way — not very clear either. No, not very clear. And yet it seemed to throw a kind of light.
Side 109 - Yes, it was ugly enough; but if you were man enough you would admit to yourself that there was in you just the faintest trace of a response to the terrible frankness of that noise, a dim suspicion of there being a meaning in it which you— you so remote from the night of first ages— could comprehend.
Side 41 - I remember my youth and the feeling that will never come back any more— the feeling that I could last for ever, outlast the sea, the earth, and all men; the deceitful feeling that lures us on to joys, to perils, to love, to vain effort— to death...
Side 154 - She was savage and superb, wild-eyed and magnificent; there was something ominous and stately in her deliberate progress. And in the hush that had fallen suddenly upon the whole sorrowful land, the immense wilderness, the colossal body of the fecund and mysterious life seemed to look at her, pensive, as though it had been looking at the image of its own tenebrous and passionate soul.
Side 94 - It had become so pitch dark that we listeners could hardly see one another. For a long time already he, sitting apart, had been no more to us than a voice. There was not a word from anybody. The others might have been asleep, but I was awake. I listened, I listened on the watch for the sentence, for the word, that would give me the clew to the faint uneasiness inspired by this narrative that seemed to shape itself without human lips in the heavy nightair of the river. "... Yes — I let him run on,"...
Side 120 - No fear can stand up to hunger, no patience can wear it out, disgust simply does not exist where hunger is; and as to superstition, beliefs, and what you may call principles, they are less than chaff in a breeze.
Side 105 - Kurtz's station. -"Going up that river was like traveling back to the earliest beginnings of the world, when vegetation rioted on the earth and the big trees were kings.