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" The Tropical Belt Coal Company went into liquidation. The world of finance is a mysterious world in which, incredible as the fact may appear, evaporation precedes liquidation. First the capital evaporates, and then the company goes into liquidation. These... "
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by Joseph Conrad - 1921
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Victory

Joseph Conrad - 1921 - 440 pages
...Heyst — Axel \^ Heyst — from going away. The Tropical Belt Coal Company went into liquidation. The world of finance is a mysterious world in which,...Heyst, at which we "out there" used to laugh among our?'Ves — but not inimically. An inert body can do no 1 , a to any one, provokes no hostility, is...
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VICTORY

JOSEP CONRAD - 1921 - 534 pages
...prevented Heyst—Axel Heyst— from going away. The Tropical Belt Coal Company went into liquidation. The world of finance is a mysterious world in which,...Heyst, at which we "out there" used to laugh among ourselves—but not inimically. An inert body can do no harm to any one, provokes no hostility, is...
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The Works of Joseph Conrad: The shadow line

Joseph Conrad - 1923 - 444 pages
...prevented Heyst—Axel Heyst—from going away. The Tropical Belt Coal Company went into liquidation. The world of finance is a mysterious world in. which,...Heyst, at which we "out there" used to laugh among ourselves—but not inimically. An inert body can do no harm to any one, provokes 10 hostility, is...
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Victory

Joseph Conrad - Abused women - 1921 - 414 pages
...prevented Heyst — Axel Heyst — / from going away. The Tropical Belt Coal Company went into liquidation. The world of finance is a mysterious world in which,...liquidation. First the capital evaporates, and then the y company goes into liquidation. These are very unnatural physics, but they account for the persistent...
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Joseph Conrad and the Fictions of Skepticism

Mark Wollaeger - Literary Criticism - 1990 - 288 pages
...against Mrs. Verloc's head as if it had been a head of stone" (SA26o). Unlike the lighter tone of Victory ("The world of finance is a mysterious world in which,...fact may appear, evaporation precedes liquidation" — V$), the physics of comedy in this extended representation of catatonia works to grimmer effect...
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Victory

Joseph Conrad - Fiction - 1995 - 416 pages
...prevented Heyst - Axel Heyst from going away. The Tropical Belt Coal Company went into liquidation. The world of finance is a mysterious world in which,...incredible as the fact may appear, evaporation precedes liquidation.14 First the capital evaporates, and then the company goes into liquidation. These are...
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