 The wilderness had patted him on the head, and, behold, it was like a ball an ivory ball; it had caressed him, and - lo! - he had withered; it had taken him, loved him, embraced him, got into his veins, consumed his flesh, and sealed his soul to its own...  Youth: And Two Other Stories - Page 132by Joseph Conrad - 1903 - 381 pagesFull view - About this book
 | August J. Nigro - 2000 - 204 pages
..."that had taken him, loved him, embraced him, got into his veins, consumed his flesh and sealed his soul to its own by the inconceivable ceremonies of some devilish initiation" (64). By virtue of this new sealing or bonding, one evoked in the image of a savage union culminating... | |
 | Joseph Hillis Miller - 2001 - 300 pages
...withered; it had taken him, loved him, embraced him, got into his veins, consumed his flesh, and sealed his soul to its own by the inconceivable ceremonies of...devilish initiation. He was its spoiled and pampered favourite" (64). The Africans at Kurtz's Inner Station vanish "without any perceptible movement of... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - 2002 - 280 pages
...withered; it had taken him, loved him, embraced him, got into his veins, consumed his flesh, and sealed his soul to its own by the inconceivable ceremonies of...devilish initiation. He was its spoiled and pampered favourite. Ivory? I should think so. Heaps of it, stacks of it. The old mud shanty was bursting with... | |
 | Garry Gillard - 2003 - 156 pages
...withered; it had taken him, loved him, embraced him, got into his veins, consumed his flesh, and sealed his soul to its own by the inconceivable ceremonies of some devilish initiation. (84) Fetishisation is here taken up to and past the point that Marx (and Lukacs) suggested is the outcome... | |
 | Gene M. Moore - 2004 - 288 pages
...lo!, he had withered; it had taken him, and got into his veins, consumed his flesh, and sealed his soul to its own by the inconceivable ceremonies of some devilish initiation. (Conrad 84) In order for Conrad to describe the intangible but real world of the spirit associated... | |
 | John P. Anderson - 2005 - 180 pages
...withered; it had taken him, loved him, embraced him, got into his veins, consumed his flesh, and sealed his soul to its own by the inconceivable ceremonies of...devilish initiation. He was its spoiled and pampered favourite. 131 Kurtz is surrounded by his ivory, the object of his maniacal Dionysian efforts: Ivory?... | |
 | Carola M. Kaplan, Peter Lancelot Mallios, Andrea White - 2005 - 358 pages
...withered; it had taken him, loved him, embraced him, got into his veins, consumed his flesh, and sealed his soul to its own by the inconceivable ceremonies of...devilish initiation. He was its spoiled and pampered favourite" (64). 5. This theme emerges in some of Conrad's other fictions, including the short stories... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - 2006 - 222 pages
...withered; it had taken him, loved him, embraced him, got into his veins, consumed his flesh, and sealed his soul to its own by the inconceivable ceremonies of...below the ground in the whole country. 'Mostly fossil, 1 the manager had remarked disparagingly. It was no more fossil than I am; but they call it fossil... | |
 | Konstanze Kutzbach, Monika Mueller - 2007 - 311 pages
...elided, or, on one occasion, inverted, so that it is Africa which "consumed his flesh, and sealed his soul to its own by the inconceivable ceremonies of some devilish initiation" (Conrad [1899] 1990, 205). Cannibalism is resistant to language, it can barely be spoken, for it takes... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - 1928 - 352 pages
...it had taken him, loved him» embraced him, got into his veins, consumed his flesh, and sealed his soul to its own by the inconceivable ceremonies of...devilish initiation. He was its spoiled and pampered favourite. Ivory? I should think so. Heaps of it, stacks of it. The old mud shanty was bursting with... | |
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