This bestial apparition and a certain enormous buck nigger encountered in Haiti only a couple of months afterwards, have fixed my conception of blind, furious, unreasoning rage, as manifested in the human animal, to the end of my days. Of the nigger I... The Complete Works of Joseph Conrad - Page xvby Joseph Conrad - 1921Full view - About this book
| Sir John Collings Squire - English literature - 1921 - 742 pages
...an air of immense commiseration, " The poor man has left a young daughter." Who was to take care of her I don't know, but I saw the devoted Martin taking...afterwards. Of Pedro never. The impression was less permanent. I got away from him too quickly. It seems to me but natural that those three buried in a... | |
| Joseph Conrad - Abused women - 1921 - 426 pages
...give to Ricardo. The reader need not be told that I have oot forgotten him, though. My contact *ith the faithful Pedro was much shorter and my observation...too quickly. It seems to me but natural that those thret buried in a corner of my memory should suddenly get out into the light of the world — so natural... | |
| JOSEP CONRAD - 1921 - 534 pages
...immensely surprised of course I didn't stop to think it out. I took the nearest short cut—through the wall. This bestial apparition and a certain enormous...memory should suddenly get out into the light of the world—so natural that I offer no excuse for their existence. They were there, they had to come out;... | |
| Joseph Conrad - 1923 - 444 pages
...immensely surprised of course I didn't stop to think it out. I took the nearest short cut—through the wall. This bestial apparition and a certain enormous...memory should suddenly get out into the light of the world—so natural that I offer no excuse for their existence. They were there, they had to come out;... | |
| Luella Bussey Cook - English language - 1927 - 528 pages
...bestial apparition and a certain enormous nigger encountered in Haiti only a couple of months afterward have fixed my conception of blind, furious, unreasoning...my days. Of the nigger I used to dream for years. It seems to me but natural that these three characters, buried in a corner of my memory, should suddenly... | |
| H. Cotton Minchin - English literature - 1928 - 270 pages
...immensely surprised, of course I didn't stop to think it out. I took the nearest short cut—through the wall. This bestial apparition and a certain enormous...afterwards. Of Pedro never. The impression was less permanent. I got away from him too quickly. Since this Note is mostly concerned with personal contacts... | |
| Sir John Collings Squire - English literature - 1920 - 742 pages
...immensely surprised, of course I didn't stop to think it out. I took the nearest short cut—through the wall. This bestial apparition and a certain enormous...afterwards. Of Pedro never. The impression was less permanent. I got away from him too quickly. It seems to me but natural that those three buried in a... | |
| Robert D. Hamner - Literary Criticism - 1990 - 294 pages
...first encounter with a black man is very revealing: A certain enormous buck nigger encountered in Haiti fixed my conception of blind, furious, unreasoning...Of the nigger I used to dream for years afterwards. Certainly, Conrad had a problem with niggers. His inordinate love of that word itself should be of... | |
| Margaret Laurence - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 340 pages
...account of his encounter with a black person: "A certain enormous buck nigger encountered in Haiti fixed my conception of blind, furious, unreasoning...Of the nigger I used to dream for years afterwards" (Achebe "Image" 13). Conrad's shocking statement demonstrates his vast distance from Laurence's humane... | |
| Joseph Conrad, Mara Kalnins - Fiction - 2004 - 404 pages
...immensely surprised of course I didn't stop to think it out. I took the nearest short cut—through the wall. This bestial apparition and a certain enormous...impression was less vivid. I got away from him too quickly. come out; and this is a sufficient excuse for a writer of tales who had taken to his trade without... | |
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