| Joseph Conrad - 1924 - 366 páginas
...had a very lively sense of that danger, too — but in this, that I had to deal with a being to whom I could not appeal in the name of anything high or...himself loose of the earth. Confound the man! he had kicked'the very earth to pieces. He was alone, and I before him did not know whether I stood on the... | |
| Joseph Conrad - 1903 - 398 páginas
...had a very lively sense of that danger too — but in this, that I had to deal with a being to whom I could not appeal in the name of anything high or...nothing either above or below him, and I knew it. He had locked Hm&elf loose of the earth. Confound the man ! he had kicked the very earth to pieces. He was... | |
| Joseph Conrad - 1903 - 360 páginas
...of that danger, too — but in this, that I had to deal with a being to whom I could not appeal hi the name of anything high or low. I had, even like...nothing either above or below him, and I knew it. CHe had kicked himself loose of the earth. Confound the man! he had kicked-the very earth to pieces.... | |
| Joseph Conrad - 1903 - 360 páginas
...lively sense of that danger, too — but in this, that I had to deal with a being_to whom I could pot appeal in the name of anything high or low. I had, even like the niggers, to invoke him himself 8 " his own exalted and in _ degradation. There was nothing either above or below -. /him, and I knew... | |
| Frances Melville Perry - 1926 - 270 páginas
...impious indulger of the desire of the jungle to deify, as "a tree swayed by the wind — no restraint; he had kicked himself loose of the earth. Confound the man. He had kicked the very earth to pieces." In the same story we have the unnamed Russian already quoted, whose need was to move onwards with the... | |
| Ian Watt - 1981 - 400 páginas
...internal or external restraint; but Marlow's worst doubts are set at rest when this "being to whom I could not appeal in the name of anything high or low" (144) makes a final judgment which is "the expression of some sort of belief" (151); and without some... | |
| Joseph Conrad - 2004 - 205 páginas
...had a very lively sense of that danger, too — but in this, that I had to deal with a being to whom I could not appeal in the name of anything high or...He was alone, and I before him did not know whether 1 stood on the ground or floated in the air. I've been telling you what we said — repeating the phrases... | |
| Arthur F. Marotti - 1993 - 404 páginas
...had a very lively sense of that danger too — but in this, that I had to deal with a being to whom I could not appeal in the name of anything high or...himself — his own exalted and incredible degradation" (67). The real terror of this situation, as Marlow presents it, thus turns out to be Marlow's loss... | |
| Mark Bracher - 1993 - 224 páginas
...had a very lively sense of that danger too — but in this, that I had to deal with a being to whom I could not appeal in the name of anything high or...himself — his own exalted and incredible degradation.' The real terror of this situation, as Marlow presents it, thus turns out to be Marlow's loss of his... | |
| Michael Macovski - 1994 - 244 páginas
...rhetorical standards have any force in this novella. As he says, "... I had to deal with a being to whom I could not appeal in the name of anything high or...knew it. He had kicked himself loose of the earth" (67). In the absence of any common standards to "invoke" or "appeal to," societal judgment erodes.... | |
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