 ... dart and vanish, a little white smoke would disappear, a tiny projectile would give a feeble screech — and nothing happened. Nothing could happen. There was a touch of insanity in the proceeding, a sense of lugubrious drollery in the sight; and...  Heart of Darkness and The Secret Sharer - Pagina 20door Joseph Conrad - 2004 - 208 pagina’sGedeeltelijke weergave - Over dit boek
 | 1899 - 1284 pagina’s
...sense of lugubrious drollery in the sight ; and it was not dissipated by somebody on board assuring me earnestly there was a camp of natives — he called...lonely ship were dying of fever at the rate of three a-day) and went on. We called at some more places with farcical names, where the merry dance of death... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - 1903 - 360 pagina’s
...and it was not dissipated by somebody on board assuring me earnestly there was a camp of natives—he called them enemies!— hidden out of sight somewhere....farcical names, where the merry dance of death and v trade goes on in a still and earthy atmosphere as of an * ^overheated catacomb; all along the formless... | |
 | Norman Sherry - 1971 - 484 pagina’s
...comment that the touch of insanity 'was not dissipated by somebody on board assuring me earnestly that there was a camp of natives — he called them enemies! — hidden out of sight somewhere' (p. 62) was initially in the manuscript: 'which was not dissipated by somebody telling me there was... | |
 | Jacques Berthoud - 1978 - 204 pagina’s
...sense of lugubrious drollery in the sight; and it was not dissipated by somebody on board assuring me earnestly there was a camp of natives - he called them enemies! - hidden out of sight somewhere. 'Heart of Darkness', pp. 61-2 Why Marlow feels there is a touch of insanity about these proceedings... | |
 | Ian Watt - 1981 - 400 pagina’s
...sense of lugubrious drollery in the sight; and it was not dissipated by somebody on board assuring me earnestly there was a camp of natives — he called them enemies! — hidden out of sight somewhere (61-62). The symbolic force of this episode, as of many others in Marlow's narrative, partly depends... | |
 | John Lewis Gaddis - 1982 - 452 pagina’s
...sense of lugubrious drollen in the sight: and it was not dissipated by somebody on board assuring me earnestly there was a camp of natives — he called them enemies — hidden out of sight somewhere.4i 1t was all a remarkable departure from the injunctions to do just enough, but no more... | |
 | Douglas Tallack - 1987 - 236 pagina’s
...continent" ' he tells us that the absurdity ' "was not dissipated by somebody on board assuring me earnestly there was a camp of natives - he called them enemies! - hidden out of sight somewhere" ' (p. 41). Soon afterwards on land when he encounters Africans in chains, he is prompted to make a... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - 1990 - 84 pagina’s
...sense of lugubrious drollery in the sight; and it was not dissipated by somebody on board assuring me earnestly there was a camp of natives — he called...rate of three a day) and went on. We called at some rnore places with farcical names, where the merry dance of death and trade goes on in a still and earthly... | |
 | Raoul Granqvist - 1993 - 216 pagina’s
...lugubrious drollery in the sight; and it was not dissipated by somebody on board assuring me earnestly that there was a camp of natives — he called them enemies! — hidden out of sight somewhere.12 The Islamic Architecture and Art in SubSaharan Africa: A Problem of Identity Karin Àdahl... | |
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