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... Victory - Page xvby Joseph Conrad - 1921Full view - About this book
| Sir John Collings Squire - English literature - 1921 - 742 pages
...care of her I don't know, but I saw the devoted Martin taking the trunks ashore with great care just before I landed myself. I would perhaps have tracked...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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