"I saw on that face the expression of strange pride, of mental power, of avarice, of blood-thirstiness, of cunning, of excessive terror, of an intense and hopeless despair. Did he live his life through every detail of desire, temptation, and surrender duringthat supreme moment of complete knowledge?"
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"...impalpable greyness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamour, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat, in a sickly atmosphere of tepid scepticism, without much belief in your own right, and still less in that of your adversary"(91-92).
"'At first old Van Shuyten ould tell me to go to the devil,'"
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Pg. 47 "...the evil spirit inside the boiler would get angry through the greatness of his thirst, and take a terrible vengeance"
"... and he had filed teeth too, the poor devil..."
"The wastes of his weary brain were haunted by shadowy images now-images of wealth and fame revolving obsequiously round his unextinguishable gift of noble and lofty expression"(pg 89).
It's a reference the sin of greed and how those who pursue the sin of greed go to the wasteland that is hell in Dante's Inferno.
Pg. 62 "He had taken a high seat amongst the devils of the land-I mean literally."
"... seemed to beckon with a dishonouring flourish before death, to the hidden evil, to the profound darkness of its heart."
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Pg. 63 "He began with the argument that we whites, from the point of development we had arrived at, "must necessarily appear to them [savages] in the nature of supernatural beings-we approach them with the might as of a deity," and so on, and so on."
"'Clear this poor devil out of the country, and don't bother sending more of that sort."
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"...this wandering and tormented thing, that seemed released from one grave only to sink forever into another."
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Pg. 83 "A black figure stood up, strode on long black legs, waving long black arms, across the glow. It had horns-antelope horns, I think-on its head. Some sorcerer, some witch-man, no doubt: it looked fiend-like enough."
"I saw him extend his short flipper of an arm for a semicircular gesture that took in the forest, the creek, the mud, the river, -seemed to beckon with a dishonoring flourish before the sunlit face of the land a treacherous appeal to the lurking death, to the hidden evil, to the profound darkness of its heart." pg-39
"The brown current ran swiftly out of a heart of darkness"(pg 88).
"...the familiar, vague sounds exchanged on every waking day of life. But what of that? They had behind them, to my mind the terrific suggestiveness of words heard in dreams, of phrases spoken in nightmares. Soul! If anybody ever struggled with a soul, I am the man"(pg 87).
Pg. 93 "horned shapes"
Later on the page
"the meanness, the torment, the tempestuous anguish of his soul."
"I take it, no fool ever made a bargain for his would with the devil: the fool is too much of a fool, or the devil too much of a devil- I don't know which." pg-59
"...this suspicion of thier not being inhuman. It would come slowly to one. They howled, and leaped, and spun, and made horrid faces; but what thrilled you was just the thought of their humanity - like yours - the thought of your remote kinship with this wild and passionate roar."
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Pg. 94 "by Jove!"
"At first old Van Shuyten would tell me to go to the devil."Pg-65
"...splashing thumping, fierce tiver-demob beating the water with its terrible tail and breathing black smoke into the air"(pg 87).
"But his soul was mad. I saw the inconceivable mystery of a soul that knew no restraint, no faith, and no fear, yet struggling blindly with itself." pg-82
"The knitting old woman with the cat obtruded herself upon me as a most improper person." Pg-80
"The knitting old woman with the cat obtruded herself upon my memory as a most improper person to be at the other end of such an affair"(pg 85).
"After all, for a seaman, to scrape the bottom of the thing that's supposed to float all the time under his care is the unpardonable sin.
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