...walking, breathing, incarnate proof of the efficacy of prayer. I was a little fascinated by it—and then, could I have argued with him ? You don't argue...The germ of corruption has entered into his soul." have preferred to be killed outright—that is, to have his soul despatched to another world, rather...

...true escape because it is solitude, and a self that is divided. The novel's epigram is from Conrad: "I only know that he who forms a tie is lost. The germ of corruption has entered into his soul." Maurice Castle's soul is corrupted because a tie of gratitude exists between him and a Communist friend....

...taken as a roman a clef (Escape, p. 228). Two sentences of Joseph Conrad's are quoted in the epigraph: "I only know that he who forms a tie is lost. The germ of corruption has entered into his soul." That is the problem with the human factor; it cannot be predicted or controlled as precisely as some...

...Victory (1915), voiced in Graham Greene's epigraph to The Human Factor (1978), from opposite sides, viz., "He who forms a tie is lost. The germ of corruption has entered into his soul." The person who's trapped and betrayed by his virtues recurs often in Greene. Maurice Castle of The...

...and became a double agent leaking secrets to the Communists. But such a love entails fear and hate. "I only know that he who forms a tie is lost. The germ of corruption has entered his soul" (Joseph Conrad) figures as an epigraph to the novel. "Love was a total risk. Literature had...

...his father requires abstention from all object relations rather than a specific taboo against one: "I only know that he who forms a tie is lost. The germ of corruption has already entered his soul" (215). In presenting this analogy between Victory 's account of intimacy...

...Joseph Conrad's Axel Heyst — a man who wished to live alone — for the epigraph to The Human Factor: "I only know that he who forms a tie is lost. The germ of corruption has entered into his soul."" In The Man from St. Petersburg, Follett takes as an epigraph a statement by Graham Greene: "One can't...

...is even less in me than I make out, because the very scorn is falling away from me year after year. I have never been so amused as by that episode in...soul." Heyst's tone was light, with the flavour of playf ulness which seasoned all his speeches and seemed to be of the very essence of his thoughts....

...incomplete and frustrated relationships; but Heyst entirely repudiates them. "We perish'd, each alone." One gets attached in a way to people one has done...The germ of corruption has entered into his soul. (Victory, pp. 199-200) The world went by appearance and called us friends, as far as I can remember....

...solution. Pity they didn't give him the drop. One can forget the dead in time, but never the living. 'He who forms a tie is lost, the germ of corruption has entered his soul.' Conrad." Then Graham became businesslike again as though quoting Conrad had embarrassed...