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
| César Augusto Rossatto, Ricky Lee Allen, Marc Pruyn - 2006 - 276 pagine
...Marlowe says the report was missing something: Tliere was no practical hint to intemipt the magic cunent of phrases, unless a kind of note at the foot of the...lightning in a serene sky: "Exterminate all the brutes!" (2003, 1-2) Meanwhile, at home, we are exterminating the brutes in a different, but no less effective,... | |
| Wayne Morrison - 2006 - 428 pagine
...method. It was very simple, and at the end of that moving appeal to every altruistic sentiment it bla/cd at you, luminous and terrifying, like a flash of lightning in a serene sky: 'Exterminate all (he brutes'.' ( Joseph Conrad, references to the 1988 edition: 5(1-1) It is an ambivalent feature of... | |
| Chris Hedges - 2009 - 227 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!' "15 As Conrad knew, the vision of an enlightened West that spread civilization to a savage world is... | |
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