 | Con Coroneos - 2002 - 218 pàgines
...aggravated murder on a great scale, and men going at it blind — as is very proper for those tackling a darkness. The conquest of the earth, which mostly...not a pretty thing when you look into it too much. What redeems it is the idea only. An idea at the back of it; not a sentimental pretence but an idea;... | |
 | Timothy Bewes - 2002 - 356 pàgines
...epigraph — on the first page of Culture and Imperialism, with a quotation from Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness: The conquest of the earth, which mostly...not a pretty thing when you look into it too much. What redeems it is the idea only. An idea at the back of it; not a sentimental pretence but an idea;... | |
 | Cesare Casarino - 2002 - 358 pàgines
...simultaneous denunciation and idealization that returns in Heart of Darkness when Marlow reflects that: The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the...not a pretty thing when you look into it too much. What redeems it is the idea only. An idea at the back of it; not a sentimental pretence but an idea;... | |
 | Hwa Yol Jung - 2002 - 468 pàgines
...is an ironic, even terrifying enactment of this thesis, that — as his narrator Marlow puts it — "the conquest of the earth, which mostly means the...not a pretty thing when you look into it too much. What redeems it is the idea only. An idea at the back of it, not a sentimental pretence but an idea;... | |
 | A. J. Prats - 2002 - 348 pàgines
...p. 200. "THE CONQUEST of the earth," notes the narrator Marlow in Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, which mostly means the taking it away from those who...not a pretty thing when you look into it too much. What redeems it is the idea only. An idea at the back of it; not a sentimental pretence but an idea;... | |
 | Peter Miller, Laura Westra - 2002 - 366 pàgines
...the next half century. Is a Just Integrity Possible? The conquest of the Earth, which mostly means taking it away from those who have a different complexion...thing when you look into it too much (Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness). ebullient optimism of growth-bound globalists, the material excesses of northern... | |
 | Abdirahman A. Hussein - 2004 - 354 pàgines
...When I grow up 1 will go there. The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking away of it from those who have a different complexion or slightly...not a pretty thing when you look into it too much. What redeems it is the idea only. An idea at the back of it; not a sentimental preference but an idea;... | |
 | John Salinsky - 2002 - 304 pàgines
...conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much. What redeems it is the idea only. So what is the 'idea'? Marlow seems to be making a concession towards... | |
 | David A. Westbrook - 2004 - 364 pàgines
...was just robbery with violence, aggravated murder on a great scale, and men going at it blind—as is very proper for those who tackle a darkness. The...not a pretty thing when you look into it too much. What redeems it is the idea only. An idea at the back of it; not a sentimental pretence but an idea;... | |
 | Barbara Harlow, Mia Carter - 2003 - 852 pàgines
...a voice." But as Marlow says, " 'What saves us is efficiency — the devotion to efficiency. . . . The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the...not a pretty thing when you look into it too much. What redeems it is the idea only' " (35-36). The Scramble for Africa attempts to "look into it," to... | |
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The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much. What redeems it is the idea only. 
