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Post by Wolfgang on Oct 9, 2004 13:04:03 GMT -5
Anyone else think this Joseph Conrad short story takes forever to get from the mouth of the snake to its tail?
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Post by 7thWoman on Oct 14, 2004 11:31:53 GMT -5
It's been about 8 years since I read it (and my 12th grade English teacher, who made us buy our own copy so she could grade us on the quantity of marginalia we used to deface a perfectly good book, never gave me back my book). The Senioritus I had that year didn't help my memory for this sort of thing either.
As I recall Conrad sort of rambled a lot, and used a lot of symbolism that everybody thought they understood but didn't. It was still a really good story, I mean, how can you go wrong with corrupt ivory dealers (it was ivory right?), all that talk about restraint, and "the horror"? Oops, did I just give away the ending?
I like how things got more and more messed up the farther along the river he went, until he was finally in the heart of it all, or was that only in Apocalypse Now? I really need to read that book again.
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Post by FloridaPerson on Oct 16, 2004 17:48:06 GMT -5
We read Heart of Darkness in AP english. After we finished, we were supposed to meet up at someone's place and watch Apocalypse Now. Either it never happened, or no one invited me. Both are equally probable.
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