...cannot be without some standards of verification. Marlow recognizes that a man left to himself never 'understands quite his own artful dodges to escape from the grim shadow of self-knowledge' (p. 80). His participation is therefore more than a device for avoiding the unreality or tedium of...

...concedes that "I did not know so much more about myself (221), and also makes the wider judgment that "no man ever understands quite his own artful dodges...to escape from the grim shadow of self-knowledge" (80). Conrad's austere scepticism would probably have echoed Marlow's denials that complete self-knowledge...

...believed himself. I didn't know what he was playing up to—if he was playing up to anything at all—and I suspect he did not know either; for it is my belief no man ever understands quite his own artful dodge to escape from the grim shadow of self-knowledge." At moments the delusion becomes so outrageous...

...knows the universe and does not know himself. Jean de la Fontaine (1621-1695) French poet, fabulist No man ever understands quite his own artful dodges...to escape from the grim shadow of self-knowledge. Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) English novelist In other living creatures the ignorance of themselves is...

...and also expresses the reader's predicament: "I didn't know how much of it he believed himself ... and I suspect he did not know either; for it is my...to escape from the grim shadow of self-knowledge" (80). Thus all men, not just Russians, think paralogically, and possess, especially when threatened,...

...'belief (so memorably articulated by Marlow with regard to Jim's traumatising jump from the Patna) that 'no man ever understands quite his own artful dodges...to escape from the grim shadow of self-knowledge' (Lard Jim, 80). Thus, even as he invites 'the discriminating reader' to decode 'II Conde', our respect...

...that the information and interpretations that Jim supplies are, through no fault of his own, suspect: "It is my belief no man ever understands quite his...to escape from the grim shadow of self-knowledge" (65). The third and most important is the necessarily fragmented nature of the views one man can have...

...Marlow remarks, "I didn't know what he was playing up to—if he was playing up to anything at all—and I suspect he did not know either; for it is my belief...to escape from the grim shadow of self-knowledge" (LJ, 49). Marlow's compulsive interest in Jim is implied testimony that he has done his fair share...

...coward. Marlow, to whom Jim tells his story and who is the novel's narrator, says a propos of Jim: 'no man ever understands quite his own artful dodges...to escape from the grim shadow of self-knowledge' (Conrad 1989: 102). But what kind of knowledge is self-knowledge? And what does it mean to say that...

...answer. Marlow wants to give Jim the benefit of the doubt and the all-powerful word "grace" is used: I had no intention, for the sake of barren truth,...dodges to escape from the grim shadow of selfknowledge. Marlow begins to shift the ground from morality and duty to psychology and self-knowledge. Jim tries...