Are we likely to be seen on our way?" "No, unless by native craft," said Schomberg. Ricardo nodded, satisfied. Both these white men looked on native life as a mere play of shadows. A play of shadows the dominant race could walk through unaffected and... Victory: An Island Tale - Page 188by Joseph Conrad - 1915 - 415 pagesFull view - About this book
| JOSEP CONRAD - 1921 - 534 pages
...that may bring awkwardness later on. A ship's boat with three white men in her, knocking about ont of sight of land, is bound to make talk. Are we likely...crossed that region about the 8th of every month, regularly—nowhere near the island, though. Rigid, his voice hoarse, his heart thumping, his mind... | |
| Joseph Conrad - 1923 - 444 pages
...shower of rain. At that season of the year there were no serious thunderstorms. "No risk at all—none whatever!" Ricardo dismissed these assurances of safety...crossed that region about the 8th of every month, regularly—nowhere near the island, though. Rigid, his voice hoarse, his heart thumping, his mind... | |
| Joseph Conrad - 1921 - 442 pages
...heart began to thump as he saw himself nearing his vengeance. His speech was thick but pereuasive. "No risk at all — none whatever!" Ricardo dismissed...disregarded in the pursuit of its incomprehensible amis and needs. No. Native craft did not count, of course. It was an empty, solitary part of the sea,... | |
| Hannah Arendt - Political Science - 1973 - 580 pages
...ghostlike events a seeming guarantee against all consequences because anyhow it looked to these men like a "mere play of shadows. A play of shadows, the dominant...the pursuit of its incomprehensible aims and needs." The world of native savages was a perfect setting for men who had escaped the reality of civilization.... | |
| Christopher Lane - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 348 pages
...that it reduces the "indigenous" population to a shadow: "Both these white men [Schomberg and Ricardo] looked on native life as a mere play of shadows. A...the pursuit of its incomprehensible aims and needs" (188). Since the cultural double of "native life" seems little threat to this community, we must ask... | |
| Ursula Lord - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 382 pages
...ghostlike events a seeming guarantee against all consequences because anyhow it looked to these men like a 'mere play of shadows. A play of shadows, the dominant...the pursuit of its incomprehensible aims and needs.' The world of native savages was a perfect setting for men who had escaped the reality of civilization."184... | |
| Norma Claire Moruzzi - Philosophy - 2000 - 236 pages
...ghostlike events a seeming guarantee against all consequences because anyhow it looked to these men like a "mere play of shadows. A play of shadows, the dominant...the pursuit of its incomprehensible aims and needs." (The Origins, i po)20 These adventurers — superfluous, vicious, anonymous — still claimed a European... | |
| Paul Sillitoe - Social Science - 2000 - 288 pages
...contemporary steel sculpture on the wall of the Rural Development Bank of Papua New Guinea at Waigani. Both these white men looked on native life as a mere...the dominant race could walk through unaffected and disregard in the pursuit of its incomprehensible aims and needs ... a barrier against the march of... | |
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