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Short but extraordinary, not one word wasted.

>> No.23330287

It was dull ESL trash, not a single page was engaging but it acted like it was a deeply moving emotional odyssey

>> No.23330342

A Pole wrote it. My ancestor :)

>> No.23330576

>>23330262
Best part is the beginning when he's talking about the romans coming to Britain

>> No.23330900

>>23330287
Le edgy, sophisticated, contrarian.
Many such cases.

>> No.23331652

>>23330262
Who screamed real loud on the river?

>> No.23331657

>>23330262
Conrad is always good

>> No.23331696

>>23330262
I 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.

>> No.23331737

>>23330262
I 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.