In the empty immensity of earth, sky, and 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 white smoke would disappear, a tiny projectile would give... Youth: And Two Other Stories - Pagina 70di Joseph Conrad - 1903 - 381 pagineVisualizzazione completa - Informazioni su questo libro
| Nancy Dew Taylor - 1994 - 290 pagine
...African coast, especially when they encounter a man-of-war "shelling the bush": "In the empty immensity of earth, sky, and water, there she was, incomprehensible, firing into a continent. ... In a few days the Eldorado Expedition went into the patient wilderness, that closed upon it as... | |
| Joseph Conrad - 1995 - 228 pagine
...greasy, slimy swell swung her up lazily and let her down, swaying her thin masts. In the empty immensity of earth, sky, and water, there she was, incomprehensible,...firing into a continent. Pop, would go one of the eight-inch guns; a small flame would dart and vanish, a little white smoke would disappear, a tiny... | |
| Geoffrey Galt Harpham - 1996 - 232 pagine
...thereabouts," Marlow comments about a French gunboat off the coast of Africa; "In the empty immensity of earth, sky, and water, there she was, incomprehensible, firing into a continent" (HD 17). He also, however, notes the more effective forms of imperial violence, cruelty, corruption,... | |
| Annegreth Horatschek - 1998 - 872 pagine
...des afrikanischen Kontinents aus Marlows Perspektive europäische Wertmaßstäbe ad absurdum fuhrt "There was a touch of insanity in the proceeding, a sense of lugubrious drollery in the sight [...]" (28) -, ermöglicht das Geräusch der Brandung es ihm momentweise, das der Welt Afrikas in keiner... | |
| Ursula Lord - 1998 - 382 pagine
...away. Once, I remember, we came upon a man-of-war anchored off the coast ... In the empty immensity of earth, sky, and water, there she was, incomprehensible, firing into a continent ... Nothing could happen. There was a touch of insanity in the proceeding, a sense of lugubrious drollery... | |
| J. Bowyer Bell - 496 pagine
...the coast. There wasn't even a shed there, and she was shelling the bush . . . In the empty immensity of earth, sky. and water, there she was, incomprehensible,...could happen. There was a touch of insanity in the proceedings . . . and it was not dissipated by somebody on board assuring me earnestly there was a... | |
| Jonathan Schell - 2000 - 484 pagine
...following description of a French naval vessel firing into the African jungle: In the empty immensity of earth, sky, and water, there she was, incomprehensible,...white smoke would disappear, a tiny projectile would 2. Joachim Fest, Hitler (New York: Harvest, 1973), p. 515. xiv give a feeble screech — and nothing... | |
| Nicolas Tredell - 1999 - 198 pagine
...greasy, slimy swell swung her up lazily and let her down, swaying her thin masts. In the empty immensity of earth, sky, and water, there she was, incomprehensible,...firing into a continent. Pop, would go one of the eight-inch guns; a small flame would dart and vanish, a little white smoke would disappear, a tiny... | |
| Margot Norris - 2000 - 328 pagine
...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... | |
| Norma Claire Moruzzi - 2000 - 236 pagine
...greasy, slimy swell swung her up lazily and let her down swaying her thin masts. In the empty immensity of earth, sky, and water, there she was, incomprehensible, firing into a continent. JOSEPH CONRAD, Heart of Darkness (New York: Penguin Books, 1994), 19-20 This chapter is primarily an... | |
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