 This was the unbounded power of eloquence — of words — of burning noble words. There were no practical hints to interrupt the magic current of phrases, unless a kind of note at the foot of the last page, scrawled evidently much later, in an unsteady...  Youth: And Two Other Stories - Pagina 135di Joseph Conrad - 1903 - 381 pagineVisualizzazione completa - Informazioni su questo libro
 | Joseph Conrad - 1995 - 244 pagine
...appeal to every altruistic sentiment it blazed at you, luminous and terrifying, like a flash of lighting in a serene sky: "Exterminate all the brutes!" The curious part was that he had apparendy forgotten all about that valuable postscriptum, because, later on, when he in a sense came... | |
 | Christopher Lane - 1998 - 464 pagine
..."By the simple exercise of our will we can exert a power for good practically unbounded," etc. etc. From that point he soared and took me with him. The...lightning in a serene sky: "Exterminate all the brutes!" {Heart 50-51) The division within imperial ideology appears in Kurtz's report not simply as a disjunction... | |
 | Ursula Lord - 1998 - 382 pagine
...high-strung, I think ... The peroration was magnificent, though difficult to remember, you know ... This was the unbounded power of eloquence - of words...of lightning in a serene sky: "Exterminate all the bru tes! "(86-7) These, except the final four, are words with no idea behind them. The idea of colonialism,... | |
 | Christopher Lane - 1998 - 460 pagine
...Benevolence. It made me tingle with enthusiasm. This was the unbounded power of eloquence—of words—of burning noble words. There were no practical hints...lightning in a serene sky: "Exterminate all the brutes!" (Heart 50—51) The division within imperial ideology appears in Kurtz's report not simply as a disjunction... | |
 | Nicolas Tredell - 1999 - 198 pagine
...Customs, unwillingly electrified by its magniloquence and chilled by its final call to a holocaust: 'at the end of that moving appeal to every altruistic...lightning in a serene sky: "Exterminate all the brutes!"' (pp. 83-84). On meeting Kurtz, Marlow confronts a man impersonating imperialism's will to expand its... | |
 | Norma Claire Moruzzi - 2000 - 236 pagine
...populated and overpopulated by savages — an explanation of the madness which grasped and illuminated them like "a flash of lightning in a serene sky: 'Exterminate all the brutes.'" (The Origins, iSs)14 This paragraph is quite remarkable, both for its apparently unproblematic adoption... | |
 | Peter Edgerly Firchow - 2000 - 298 pagine
...vague and without practical use. The brief scrawled retraction, on the other hand, strikes him as being "luminous and terrifying like a flash of lightning in a serene sky" (HD 51). Horrible as it is, it seems to emerge from a far more fundamental and genuine part of Kurtz's... | |
 | John P. Anderson - 2005 - 180 pagine
...enthusiasm. This was the unbounded power of eloquence — of words — of burning noble words. 135 There were no practical hints to interrupt the magic...lightning in a serene sky: "Exterminate all the brutes!' When Kurtz is on his way back to Apollinian white man land, he forgets about the brutal postscript:... | |
 | Carola M. Kaplan, Peter Lancelot Mallios, Andrea White - 2005 - 358 pagine
...colonialist desire is ivory, and the psychotic footnote to Kurtz's Report ("Exterminate all the brutes !") "blazed at you, luminous and terrifying, like a flash of lightning in a serene sky"(118).5 Moreover, whereas the use of black and dark repeats the established connotations of the... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - 2006 - 222 pagine
...and so on. 'By the simple exercise of our will we can exert a power for good practically unbounded,'. From that point he soared and took me with him. The...lightning in a serene sky: 'Exterminate all the brutes! 1 The curious part was that he had apparently forgotten all about that valuable postscriptum, because,... | |
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