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" 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 disregarded in the pursuit of its incomprehensible... "
Victory: An Island Tale - Page 188
by Joseph Conrad - 1915 - 444 pages
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Victory

Joseph Conrad - 1921 - 440 pages
...rain. At that season of the year there were no serious thunderstorms. "No risk at all—none whatever!" Ricardo dismissed these assurances of safety with...crossed that region about the 8th of every month, regularly—nowhere near the island, though. Rigid, his voice hoarse, his heart thumping, his mind...
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VICTORY

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...
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The Works of Joseph Conrad: The shadow line

Joseph Conrad - 1923 - 444 pages
...rain. At that season of the year there were no serious thunderstorms. "No risk at all—none whatever!" Ricardo dismissed these assurances of safety with...crossed that region about the 8th of every month, regularly—nowhere near the island, though. Rigid, his voice hoarse, his heart thumping, his mind...
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Victory

Joseph Conrad - 1921 - 442 pages
...At that season of the year there were no serious thunderstorms. "No risk at all — none whatever!" Ricardo dismissed these assurances of safety with...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,...
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The Origins of Totalitarianism

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....
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The Ruling Passion: British Colonial Allegory and the Paradox of Homosexual ...

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...
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Solitude Versus Solidarity in the Novels of Joseph Conrad: Political and ...

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...
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Speaking Through the Mask: Hannah Arendt and the Politics of Social Identity

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...
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Social Change in Melanesia: Development and History

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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