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This is the first 1,000 characters of 1294 words (5.18 pages) in the essay titled Heart of Carkness HTML1DocumentEncodingutf-8 Mistah Kurtz, in Heart of Darkness, is one ofKorzeniowski s revenants: He rose, unsteady, long, pale, indistinct like a vapour exhaled by the earth, and swayed slightly, misty and silent before me (64). Kurtz originates in the misseds of time--after the brief attack by the natives, Marlow concludes that Kurtz is now missing-- vanished --and confesses, in his most intimate moment, that his sorrow at this thought had a startling extravagance of emotion. Seized with lonely desolation, he feels as if he had been robbed of a belief or had missed [his] destiny in life (48). This sense of lack helps us understand why Conrad s Marlow was anxious to deal with this shadow by myself alone --even though, he adds, to this day I don t know why I was so jealous of sharing with anyone the peculiar blackness of that experience (64). He is, so to speak, niggard of his narcissism: he cannot truly share experience, coming as it does out of his past, because, being known, it would no longer be his unique, individual, peculiar past, and he would then no longer be his present self. As an author unconsciously compelled now to write volume after volume (PR 18), he no doubt feels unconsciously compelled to protect his (self-)investment. Besides, as Marlow says of his fellow man upon his return from the depths of Congo-Conrad s Inner Station, I felt so sure they could not possibly know the things I knew (70)--and why? I had no clear perc... |
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Keywords: mistah kurtz, marlow, paradoxically, heart of darkness, compelled, conrad, luckily, narcissism, vanished, volume pr, self investment, intimate moment, share experience, nervous disorder, inner truth, fellow man, i don t know, extravagance, blackness, desolation