Short but extraordinary, not one word wasted.
It was dull ESL trash, not a single page was engaging but it acted like it was a deeply moving emotional odyssey
A Pole wrote it. My ancestor :)
>>23330262Best part is the beginning when he's talking about the romans coming to Britain
>>23330287Le edgy, sophisticated, contrarian.Many such cases.
>>23330262Who screamed real loud on the river?
>>23330262Conrad is always good
>>23330262I read it ages ago, in school, so don't remember much of it other than feeling vaguely impressed. I've since read a bunch of other Conrad though, and it was nice to see Marlowe reappear in Lord Jim. Conrad stories make the world feel really - I don't know - massive. The big infinite night, with little individual fates criss-crossing each other, and flaring into and out of existence.Incidentally, Eliot using 'Mistah Kurtz - he dead' at the top of The Hollow Men is the only good epigraph I know of.
>>23330262I should probably re-read Heart of Darkness so I could have a better take on it than a brainlet "I had to read this in high school" take.
