...invisible and unresponsive jungle ("There wasn't even a shed there, and she was shelling the bush. . . . Nothing happened. Nothing could happen. There was a touch of insanity in the proceeding" [Conrad, 28]). At his first Company station, all manner of vague dynamitings and unclear construction...

...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...proceeding, a sense of lugubrious drollery in the sight. Nor did Conrad fail to take note of those indispensable props of the gigantic, insane, state-sponsored...

...continent. Pop, would go one of the six-inch guns; a small flame would dart and vanish, a little while smoke would disappear, a tiny projectile would give...a touch of insanity in the proceeding, a sense of lugubtious drollery in the sight; and it was not dissipaled by somebody on board assuting me eamestly...

...heart of darkness: the French ship firing pointlessly into the bush ("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" [29]); the dying "workers" in the grove of death; the starched and scented accountant, keeping perfect...

...superficiality. He wrote of a French man-o-war shelling at some target inland: "Pop, would go one of the six-inch guns; a small flame would dart and vanish, a little...projectile would give a feeble screech - and nothing happened."21 True enough, perhaps, for that day or that month, but in terms of years a lot did happen....

...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...proceeding, a sense of lugubrious drollery in the sight. Nor did Conrad fail to take note of those indispensable props of the gigantic, insane, state-sponsored...

...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...screech — and nothing happened. Nothing could happen. (40— 1) But the basis upon which this implicit critique of colonialism proceeds, argue marxists,...

...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...of lugubrious drollery in the sight; and it was not 74 The French are dying from the fever, shells returned by the jungle. The European activities look...

...the mountains of Afghanistan ultimately might have all the effect of Conrad's impotent man-of-war: "a small flame would dart and vanish, a little white...would give a feeble screech — and nothing happened" ( YOS 62). Modern media, propaganda, and war: The first signs of this conjunction can be located in...

...of a man-of-war off the African coast, 'firing into a continent. Pop, would go one of the six-inch guns; a small flame would dart and vanish, a little...feeble screech - and nothing happened. Nothing could happen.'76 Nothing happens. The deaths in the shelled village remain conspicuously absent, marked only...