...had made that last stride, he had stepped over the edge, while I ^ had been permitted to draw back my hesitating foot. And perhaps in this is the whole...cry — much better. It was an affirmation, a moral vie- v tory paid for by innumerable defeats, by abominable terrors, by abominable satisfactions. But...

...had made that last stride, he had stepped over the edge, while I had been permitted to draw back my hesitating foot. And perhaps in this is the whole...have been a word of careless contempt. Better his cry—much better. It was an affirmation, a moral victory paid for by innumerable defeats, by abominable...

...had made that last stride, he had stepped over the edge, while I had been permitted to draw back my hesitating foot. And perhaps in this is the whole difference; perhaps all • the wjsd"™, g "^ q11 truth, and all sincerity, are j'usTT rmnprftssftd into that inappreciable moment...

...life itself must attain the perfection of its form, in death. WH JOHNSTON. LONDON, ENGLAND. '0"Perhaps all the wisdom, and all truth and all sincerity, are...which we step over the threshold of the invisible . Conrad, in Heart of Darkness. This passage, and that which precedes it, with the last words of Kurtz—...

...had made that last stride, he had stepped over the edge, while I had been permitted to draw back my hesitating foot. And perhaps in this is the whole...threshold of the invisible. Perhaps! I like to think my summing up would not have been a word of careless contempt. Better his cry — much better. It was...

...stepped over the edge, while I had been permitted to draw back my hesitating foot. . . . perhaps ... all truth, and all sincerity, are just compressed...which we step over the threshold of the invisible. Throughout, descriptive data are balanced by suggestions of absence, disappearance, and vacancy: "Cape...

...man. After all, this was the expression of some sort of belief; it had candour, it had conviction. ... I like to think my summing-up would not have been...much better. It was an affirmation, a moral victory. . . . (72). According to Marlow, then, Kurtz has finally managed to pronounce judgment on the darkness...

...had made that last stride, he had stepped over the edge, while / had been permitted to draw back my hesitating foot. And perhaps in this is the whole...which we step over the threshold of the invisible. (285; my emphases) Marlow's shift to "we" echoes his earlier suggestion that he and Kurtz had been...

...had made that last stride, he had stepped over the edge, while I had been permitted to draw back my hesitating foot. And perhaps in this is the whole difference; perhaps all wisdom, and all truth, and all sincerity, are just compressed into that inappreciable moment of time...

...stride," Marlow says of Kurtz; "he had stepped over the edge, while I had been permitted to draw back my hesitating foot. And perhaps in this is the whole...which we step over the threshold of the invisible" (HD69). If affective relations are experienced as most dangerously transgressive deep upriver, the...