 | Marianna Torgovnick - 1990 - 350 pagine
...be considered a pictorial rendering of Conrad's words, "The mind of man is capable of everything — because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future." Certainly the "African" figures on the right of Picasso's painting were meant to express something... | |
 | Sy Safransky - 1990 - 174 pagine
...acceptance of the inconsistent and incongruous. — Theodore Rubin The mind of man is capable of anything, because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future. — Joseph Conrad My sacred world was autistic; that is to say, I had no wish to share it with others,... | |
 | Richard Ambrosini - 1991 - 274 pagine
...image to explain the kinship he felt toward the natives ("The mind of man is capable of anything - because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future" [Y, 96]). In Lord Jim, Marlow's experiences on his last night in Patusan enable him to perceive how... | |
 | Leon Surette - 1994 - 342 pagine
...truth before which the man of character must stand firm: "The mind of man is capable of anything - because everything is in it, all the past as well...was there after all? Joy, fear, sorrow, devotion, valour, rage - who can tell? - but truth - truth stripped of its cloak of time. Let the fool gape and... | |
 | Christopher Butler - 1994 - 352 pagine
...anthropologists of his time and Freud and lung all agree that The mind of man is capable of anything — because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future' (HD 52l.- Marlow's story of an encounter with an alien civilization, like Freud's, is directed towards... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - 1995 - 228 pagine
...from the night of first ages - could comprehend. And why not? The mind of man is capable of anything - because everything is in it, all the past as well...was there after all? Joy, fear, sorrow, devotion, valour, rage - who can tell? - but truth - truth stripped of its cloak of time. Let the fool gape and... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - 1995 - 244 pagine
...from the night of first ages - could comprehend. And why not? The mind of man is capable of anything - because everything is in it, all the past as well...was there after all? Joy, fear, sorrow, devotion, valour, rage - who can tell? - but truth - truth stripped of its cloak of time. Let the fool gape and... | |
 | Tony E. Jackson - 1994 - 236 pagine
...Darwinian terms, of his felt kinship with the Africans, "The mind of man is capable of anything — because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future" (38). Similarly, the wilderness whispers to Kurtz "things about himself which he did not know, things... | |
 | John Wylie Griffith - 1995 - 262 pagine
...of Mankind, 5 vols. (London: Longman, 1851-7), »i- 181. " Ibid. iii. 187. capable of anything — because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future' (HD 38). The 'remote kinship' (HD 38) that Marlow invoked corresponded to the anthropological idea... | |
 | Norman E. Whitten, Arlene Torres - 1998 - 536 pagine
...the night of first ages — could comprehend. And why not? The mind of man is capable of anything— because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future. We will meet up again with these sentiments when we tum to the ethnography of contemporary southwest... | |
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And why not? The mind of man is capable of anything - because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future. 
