 Did he live his life again in every detail of desire, temptation, and surrender during that supreme moment of complete knowledge? He cried in a whisper at some image, at some vision — he cried out twice, a cry that was no more than a breath — " 'The...  Youth: And Two Other Stories - Pagina 170di Joseph Conrad - 1903 - 381 pagineVisualizzazione completa - Informazioni su questo libro
 | B. C. Southam - 1996 - 292 pagine
...desire, temptation, and surrender during that supreme moment of complete knowledge? He cried in a whisper at some image, at some vision, - he cried out twice,...no more than a breath - "The horror! The horror!"' However, Pound questioned this: 'I doubt if Conrad is weighty enough to stand the citation' (possibly... | |
 | Paul Morrison - 1996 - 188 pagine
...desire, temptation, and surrender during that supreme moment of complete knowledge? He cried in a whisper at some image, at some vision, — he cried out twice,...that was no more than a breath — "The horror! the horror!"111 "Little Gidding" characterizes this as "the rending pain of reenactment / Of all that you... | |
 | R. L. Brett - 1997 - 280 pagine
...desire, temptation, and surrender during that supreme moment of complete knowledge? He cried in a whisper at some image, at some vision - he cried out twice,...was no more than a breath 'The horror! The horror!' Here Eliot looks into what Yeats called 'the foul rag-and-bone shop' of his soul. The experience he... | |
 | Herman L. Sinaiko - 1998 - 358 pagine
...desire, temptation, and surrender during that supreme moment of complete knowledge? He cried in a whisper at some image, at some vision — he cried out twice,...more than a breath; — The horror! The horror!'" After a bout of sickness during which Marlow himself approaches the edge without seeing anything but... | |
 | Louis Lohr Martz - 1998 - 260 pagine
...desire, temptation, and surrender during that supreme moment of complete knowledge? He cried in a whisper at some image, at some vision, — he cried out twice,...that was no more than a breath — "The horror! the horror!"7 7. Ibid., 4. The passage leads well into the opening lines, with their fear of revelation,... | |
 | Lyndall Gordon - 1999 - 760 pagine
...desire, temptation, and surrender during the supreme moment of complete knowledge? He cried in a whisper at some image, at some vision, - he cried out twice,...was no more than a breath 'The horror! the horror! n Here is the heart of Eliot's aboulie in the autumn of 1921: a horrified glimpse of innate depravity... | |
 | Lyndall Gordon - 2000 - 760 pagine
...desire, temptation, and surrender during the supreme moment of complete knowledge? He cried in a whisper at some image, at some vision, - he cried out twice,...cry that was no more than a breath 'The horror! the horror!'f Here is the heart of Eliot's aboulie in the autumn of 1921: a horrified glimpse of innate... | |
 | Gustav Jahoda - 1999 - 322 pagine
...civilization and taken part in 'unspeakahle rites'. Before the mysterious Kurtz died. 'He cried in a whisper at some image. at some vision - he cried out twice, a cry that was no more than a hreath - "The horror! The horror!" (Conrad [1902] 1994, p. 100). The use of these epithets was no douIx... | |
 | Steven C. Caton - 2023 - 324 pagine
...Kurtz's moment of truth in Heart of Darkness: "He cried in a whisper at some image, at some vision—he cried out twice, a cry that was no more than a breath: The horror! The horror!'" 25 Perhaps no other images coming out of the Gulf War echoed this scene of massacre in the movie more... | |
 | Peter Edgerly Firchow - 2000 - 298 pagine
...desire, temptation, and surrender during that supreme moment of complete knowledge? He cried in a whisper at some image, at some vision — he cried out twice,...was no more than a breath: The horror! The horror!'" (HD 68).26 No booming voice here and no grand eloquence, just a momentary vision in candlelight and... | |
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