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Page v
... Rounded as it is in form , using the word form in its simplest sense - printed form -it remains yet a fragment from its very nature and also from necessity . It could never have become anything else . And even as a fragment it is but V.
... Rounded as it is in form , using the word form in its simplest sense - printed form -it remains yet a fragment from its very nature and also from necessity . It could never have become anything else . And even as a fragment it is but V.
Page xi
... sen- tence one to writer A and sentence two to B , maul at least one of our memories . With the nature of those crimes one is only too well acquainted . Besides , though one may never read comments one desires to get xi Preface.
... sen- tence one to writer A and sentence two to B , maul at least one of our memories . With the nature of those crimes one is only too well acquainted . Besides , though one may never read comments one desires to get xi Preface.
Page xii
Joseph Conrad, Ford Madox Ford. though one may never read comments one desires to get them over . It is indeed agreeable to hear a storm rage in the distance and rumble eventually away . Let me , however , since my Collabo- rator wishes ...
Joseph Conrad, Ford Madox Ford. though one may never read comments one desires to get them over . It is indeed agreeable to hear a storm rage in the distance and rumble eventually away . Let me , however , since my Collabo- rator wishes ...
Page xiv
... never since re- captured . And if there were admirable- nesses that did not seem to me to fit in with the given scene I could at least , at the end of the reading , say with perfect sincerity : " Wonderful ! How you do things ! " before ...
... never since re- captured . And if there were admirable- nesses that did not seem to me to fit in with the given scene I could at least , at the end of the reading , say with perfect sincerity : " Wonderful ! How you do things ! " before ...
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... never go there yet , yesterday , late in the evening , I stood upon its summit and you came walking from a place below . It is always midday there : the seven pillars of the Forum stand on high , their capitals linked together , and ...
... never go there yet , yesterday , late in the evening , I stood upon its summit and you came walking from a place below . It is always midday there : the seven pillars of the Forum stand on high , their capitals linked together , and ...
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Page viii - THE MIRROR OF THE SEA THE SECRET AGENT A SET OF SIX UNDER WESTERN EYES A PERSONAL RECORD...
Page 104 - Ramon s great spectacles, the piercing eyes in the mahogany face, while the tap, tap, tap of a cane on the flags went on behind the inner door; the click of the latch; the stream of light. The door, petulantly thrust inwards, struck against some barrels. I remember the rattling of the bolts on that door, and the tall figure that appeared there, snuff-box in hand. In that land of white clothes that precise, ancient, Castilian in black was something to remember.
Page 101 - I suppose our recollections agree. Mine, in their simplest form, are: First Part, yours; Second Part, mainly yours, with a little by me on points of seamanship and suchlike small matters; Third Part, about 60% mine with important touches by you; Fourth Part, mine, with here and there an important sentence by you; Fifth Part practically all yours, including the famous sentence at which we both exclaimed: 'This is Genius...
Page 101 - Conrad's recollections — except for the generosity of his two 'importants' — tally well enough with those of the writer if conception alone is concerned. When it comes however to the writing the truth is that Parts One, Two, Three and Five are a singular mosaic of passages written alternately by one or other of the collaborators.
Page 105 - ... ruffles. The other hand paused in the act of conveying a pinch of snuff to the nostrils of the hooked nose that had, on the skin stretched tight over the bridge, the polish of old ivory; the elbow pressing the black cocked hat against the side; the legs, one bent, the other bowing a little back — this was the attitude of Seraphina's father. Having imperiously thrust the door of the inner room open, he remained immovable, with no intention of entering, and called in a harsh, aged voice: "Senor...
Page 104 - What are these days to me? But that far-off day of my romance when from between the blue and white bales in Don Ramon's darkened store room, at Kingston, I saw the door open before the figure of an old man with the tired, long, white face, that day I am not likely to forget. I remember the chilly smell of the typical West Indian store, the indescribable smell of damp gloom, of locos, of pimento, of olive oil, of new sugar, of...