...discursive formation, for example, that Kurtz can be reimagined and be performed for the interlocutors: "He lived then before me, he lived as much as he had...draped nobly in the folds of a gorgeous eloquence" (72). But Kurtz cannot live before the interlocutors the same way he lives for Marlow. The narrator's...

...Indeed, Marlow's more nightmarish version of this is his image of Kurtz on his stretcher, "opening his mouth voraciously, as if to devour all the earth with all its mankind' (HD, p. 155, italics mine). This Marlow — now back in Europe — is no longer a baffled intelligence...

...Hugh Clifford the administrator reasserts that he is, still, 'one of us'. 4 After Heart of Darkness He lived then before me; he lived as much as he had...draped nobly in the folds of a gorgeous eloquence. (HD 155) Perhaps it doesn't matter what we say about Conrad; it is enough that he is discussed. (V....

...word of our common fate" (HD 71), he suddenly has once again "a vision of him on the stretcher opening his mouth voraciously as if to devour all the earth...before me, he lived as much as he had ever lived." And as Marlow waits in the drawing room for the Intended to receive him, he hears again "the whispered...

...inform Kurtz's betrothed of the fact, he reports, "I had a vision of him on the stretcher, opening his mouth voraciously, as if to devour all the earth with all its mankind." The technical means for destroying the species lay far in the future, but the psychological and moral...

...inform Kurtz's betrothed of the fact, he reports, "I had a vision of him on the stretcher, opening his mouth voraciously, as if to devour all the earth with all its mankind." The technical means for destroying the species lay far in the future, but the psychological and moral...

...the steamer, Marlow says: "I had a vision of him on the stretcher, opening his mouth voraciously ... a shadow insatiable of splendid appearances, of frightful...draped nobly in the folds of a gorgeous eloquence." Clear enough, Marlow knows: sees through Kurtz into the nasty business of empire. Or is it best to...

...eloquence, his capacity for creating a "splendid appearance" through his words. Marlow describes him as "a shadow insatiable of splendid appearances, of frightful...realities, a shadow darker than the shadow of the night draped nobly in the folds of a gorgeous eloquence" (Conrad 1989, 116). In Kurtz's case, the nothingness...

...inform Kurtz's betrothed of the fact, he reports, "I had a vision of him on the stretcher, opening his mouth voraciously, as if to devour all the earth with all its mankind." The technical means for destroying the species lay far in the future, but the psychological and moral...

...Marlow's determination to assert intimacy with Kurtz: his declaration that Kurtz is present in his absence ("'He lived then before me; he lived as much as he had ever lived . . .'" [HD, 7z]) and his distancing of the "Intended" by depicting her as a repository for light,...