 The earth seemed unearthly. We are accustomed to look upon the shackled form of a conquered monster, but there - there you could look at a thing monstrous and free. It was unearthly, and the men were - No, they were not inhuman. Well, you know, that was...  Youth: And Two Other Stories - Pagina 109di Joseph Conrad - 1903 - 381 pagineVisualizzazione completa - Informazioni su questo libro
 | Ronald M. Radano, Philip V. Bohlman - 2000 - 728 pagine
...of the then Congo Free State in what has been called a "work of art," says the following: The earth seemed unearthly. We are accustomed to look upon the...that was the worst of it — this suspicion of their not being inhuman. It would come slowly to one. They howled and leaped, and spun, and made horrid faces;... | |
 | Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka - 2005 - 912 pagine
...uncanny realm - "out there there ..." Marlow goes on to describe this sense as follows, "The earth seemed unearthly. We are accustomed to look upon the...that was the worst of it - this suspicion of their not being human" (62). In this quote, once again, we have the repetitive "there." What Marlow calls... | |
 | Adam Lively - 2000 - 306 pagine
...accorded any humanity, it is in that they represent this dark, primitive core of the European psyche: No, they were not inhuman. Well, you know, that was the worst of it - this suspicion of their not being inhuman. It would come slowly to one. They howled and leaped, and spun, and made horrid faces;... | |
 | African Literature Association. Meeting - 2000 - 484 pagine
...really human? And he answers the question with the most sophisticated ambivalence of double negatives: No they were not inhuman. Well, you know, that was the worst of it — this suspicion of their not being inhuman.1 Perhaps this is a good point for me to anticipate the kind of objection some people... | |
 | Norma Claire Moruzzi - 2000 - 236 pagine
...that are gone leaving hardly a sign — and no memories. The earth seemed unearthly, . . . and the men No, they were not inhuman. Well, you know, that was the worst of it — this suspicion of their not being inhuman. It would come slowly to one. They howled and leaped, and spun, and made horrid faces;... | |
 | Chinua Achebe - 2000 - 142 pagine
...actor/narrator who could be greatly troubled by the mere thought of his Africans being human, like himself: "Well, you know, that was the worst of it — this suspicion of their not being inhuman."11 A more deadly deployment of a mere sixteen words it would be hard to imagine.... | |
 | John Thieme - 2002 - 210 pagine
...above, which is central to the case mounted against Conrad as a racist, makes this explicit: The earth seemed unearthly. We are accustomed to look upon the...that was the worst of it — this suspicion of their not being inhuman. It would come slowly to one. They howled and leaped, and spun, and made horrid faces;... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - 2010 - 132 pagine
...night of first ages, of those ages that are gone, leaving hardly a sign - and no memories. "The earth seemed unearthly. We are accustomed to look upon the...that was the worst of it - this suspicion of their not being inhuman. It would come slowly to one. They howled and leaped, and spun, and made horrid faces;... | |
 | John Thieme - 2002 - 210 pagine
...above, which is central to the case mounted against Conrad as a racist, makes this explicit: The earth seemed unearthly. We are accustomed to look upon the...that was the worst of it — this suspicion of their not being inhuman. It would come slowly to one. They howled and leaped, and spun, and made horrid faces;... | |
 | Michèle Barrett, Duncan Barrett - 2001 - 268 pagine
...can accept the tiniest identification with them. The passage is significant enough to quote in full: It was unearthly, and the men were -. No, they were...that was the worst of it - this suspicion of their not being inhuman. It would come slowly to one. They howled and leaped, and spun, and made horrid faces;... | |
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