 I did not betray Mr. Kurtz— it was ordered I should never betray him— it was written I should be loyal to the nightmare of my choice. I was anxious to deal with this shadow by myself alone— and to this day I don't know why I was so jealous of sharing...  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Page 5631899Full view - About this book
 | Jacques Berthoud - 1978 - 204 pages
...must be prevented from rejoining his tribesmen. Without betraying this absence to the sleeping guards ('it was written I should be loyal to the nightmare of my choice'), Marlow slips ashore by himself. 'I was anxious to deal with this shadow by myself alone', he explains,... | |
 | Murray Cox - 1988 - 326 pages
...of words heard in dreams, of phrases spoken in nightmares / was anxious to deal with this shadow hy myself alone — and to this day I don't know why I was so jealous of sharing with any one the peculiar blackness of that experience... I had — for my sins. I suppose — to go through the ordeal... | |
 | Richard Ambrosini - 1991 - 274 pages
...over and over again how the nightmares are brought about by his choice not to dismiss Kurtz's memory: I did not betray Mr. Kurtz - it was ordered I should...written I should be loyal to the nightmare of my choice ( 141 ) . . . It is strange how I accepted this unforeseen partnership, this choice of nightmares forced... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - 1995 - 244 pages
...an ulster and sleeping on a chair on deck within three feet of me. The yells had not awakened him; he snored very slightly; I left him to his slumbers...I don't know why I was so jealous of sharing with anyone the peculiar blackness of that experience. 'As soon as I got on the bank I saw a trail - a broad... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - 1995 - 244 pages
...on a chair on deck within three feet of me. The yells had not awakened him; he snored very slighdy, I left him to his slumbers and leaped ashore. I did...I don't know why I was so jealous of sharing with anyone the peculiar blackness of that experience. 'As soon as I got on the bank I saw a trail - a broad... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - 1995 - 228 pages
...an ulster and sleeping on a chair on deck within three feet of me. The yells had not awakened him; he snored very slightly; I left him to his slumbers...with this shadow by myself alone, - and to this day I 104 don't know why I was so jealous of sharing with any one the peculiar blackness of that experience.... | |
 | Nicolas Tredell - 1999 - 198 pages
...desires. Of his faithfulness to Kurtz, Marlow speaks as if this had been predestined, 'it was ordered 1 should never betray him - it was written I should be loyal to the nightmare of my choice' (p. 104), and he does not apply to himself the stern judgement he had made on the intrepid Russian... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - 2010 - 132 pages
...an ulster and sleeping on a chair on deck within three feet of me. The yells had not awakened him; he snored very slightly; I left him to his slumbers...know why I was so jealous of sharing with any one the peculiar blackness of that experience. "As soon as I got on the bank I saw a trail - a broad trail... | |
 | Joseph Hillis Miller - 2001 - 300 pages
...an attestation. "I have remained loyal to Kurtz," says Marlow, "to the last, and even beyond" (88). "I did not betray Mr. Kurtz — it was ordered I should...written I should be loyal to the nightmare of my choice" (81). Who did the "ordering" or the "writing" here is not said explicitly. Presumably Marlow means... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - 2002 - 280 pages
...an ulster and sleeping on a chair on deck within three feet of me. The yells had not awakened him; he snored very slightly; I left him to his slumbers...know why I was so jealous of sharing with any one the peculiar blackness of that experience. "As soon as I got on the bank I saw a trail — a broad trail... | |
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