Hermit. This was the latest of the more or less witty labels applied to Heyst during his aimless pilgrimage in this section of the tropical belt, where the inane clacking of Schomberg's tongue vexed our ears. But apparently Heyst was not a hermit by temperament.... Victory - Page 31by Joseph Conrad - 1921 - 922 pagesFull view - About this book
| JOSEP CONRAD - 1921 - 534 pages
...at the Tesmans. I don't know. No one knows. But this reappearance shows that his detachment from /he world was not complete. And incompleteness of any...trouble. Axel Heyst ought not to have cared for his letters—or whatever it was that brought him out after something more than a year and a half in Samburan.... | |
| Joseph Conrad - 1923 - 446 pages
...into the long grass and vanished — all but the top of his white cork helmet, which seemed to swim in a green sea. Then that too disappeared, as if it had...incompleteness of any sort leads to trouble. Axel Heyst °ught not to have cared for his letters — or whatever it was that brought him out after something... | |
| Joseph Conrad - 1923 - 444 pages
..."Oh, a certain Swede,"—with a sinister emphasis, as if he were saying "a certain brigand."—"Well known here. He's turned hermit from shame. That's...trouble. Axel Heyst ought not to have cared for his letters—or whatever it was that brought him out after something more than a year and a half in Samburan.... | |
| Joseph Conrad - 1925 - 442 pages
...devil does when he's found out." Hermit. This was the latest of the more or less witty labels_ap_plied to Heyst during his aimless pilgrimage in this section...use. He had not the hermit's vocation! That was the J trouble, it seems. Be this as it may, he suddenly reappeared in the world, broad chest, bald forehead,... | |
| Christopher Lane - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 348 pages
...Malay Archipelago. His decision to "drift" (129) is characteristically partial; as Davidson remarks, "his detachment from the world was not complete. And incompleteness of any sort leads to trouble" (79; my emphasis). In Victory's spatio-psychic topography, Heyst is a literal emigre and a figurative... | |
| Joseph Conrad - 1921 - 432 pages
...clacking of Schomberg's tongue vexed our ears. But apparently Heyst was not a hermit by tempera-• ment. The sight of his kind was not invincibly odious to...his detachment from the world was not complete. And incom-x,/ pleteness of any sort leads to trouble. Axel Heyst ought not to have cared for his letters... | |
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