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" I've said to the Earth that bore me: 'I am I and you are a shadow.' And, by Jove, it is so! But it appears that such words cannot be uttered with impunity. Here I am on a Shadow inhabited by Shades. How helpless a man is against the Shades! How is one... "
Victory - Page 350
by Joseph Conrad - 1924 - 412 pages
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VICTORY

JOSEP CONRAD - 1921 - 534 pages
...funny," she said thoughtfully. "Bad? I suppose it is. I don't know that it is. But do you? Do you?.You talk as if you didn't believe in it." She gazed at..."What's the matter, dear?" she whispered timidly. "I am sorry," she murmured. "And so am I," he confessed quickly. "And the bitterest of this humiliation...
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Go Down, Moses

Nancy Dew Taylor - 1994 - 290 pages
...to refine everything away. I've said to the Earth that bore me: "I am I and you are a shadow." . . . But it appears that such words cannot be uttered with...against them? I have lost all belief in realities . . .'" (350). Cf. the notes at 136.22-26 and 186.18. 148.21/144.7-8 Ah'm snakebit now and pizen cant...
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The Gorgon's Head: A Study in Tragedy and Despair

William R. Brashear - Literary Criticism - 2008 - 182 pages
...uttered with impunity. Here I am on a Shadow inhabited by Shades. How helpless a man is against Shadows! How is one to intimidate, persuade, resist, assert...belief in realities. . . . Lena give me your hand." The treatment of Heyst then might be taken as a criticism on Conrad's part of the subjective state...
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