"The horror! The horror!"
>>25468849Colonialism made for some kino books
I've read this one three times, it's kino every single time
Back when Pinguinos looked good.
what's the difference btn this and that story about that two volume history book about that british explorer who went to rescue his colleague in sudan via the congo, i forget the name
>>25468859the first chapter is really freaking goodi love how entirely foreboding and off it feels
>>25468891The first time I read it I was floored by the first chapter. I knew it was about taking a boat up the Congo River, so starting out on the Thames in the fog talking about the Romans and savage Britons was so eerie and awesome.
Mistah Kurtz - he dead
>>25468891conrad always does that in his first chapters.
>I had to keep guessing at the channel; I had to discern, mostly by inspiration, the signs of the hidden banks; I watched for sunken stones; I was learning to clap my teeth smartly before my heart flew out, when I shaved by a fluke some infernal sly old snag that would have ripped the life out of the tin-pot steamboat and drowned all the pilgrims; I had to keep a look-out for the signs of dead wood we could cut up in the night for next day's steaming.> When you have to attend to things of that sort, to the mere incidents of the surface, the reality - the reality, I tell you - fades.
