Condensed Classics

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I love this.

Heart of Darkness -

Mr. Marlow
I'm the good side of mankind, upstanding and respectable.

Mr. Kurtz
I'm the bad side of mankind, once honorable, now mired in depravity.

The Jungle
I'm the heart of mankind, home to sinister darkness and corruption.

(Mr. Kurtz dies. Mr. Marlow is reborn.)

THE END

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Liana, I've seen this site before, though not that particular Conrad one... lol, excellent. I love that book...and that does just about sum it up! Did you know T.S.Eliot wanted to use a quote from Heart of Darkness as a frontspiece to his Waste Land, but Ezra Pound thought it not erudte enough, so he ended up with the quote from Petronius' 'Satyricon': 'Yes, and I myself with my own eyes even saw the Sybil hanging in a cage; and when the boys cried at her: "Sybil, Sybil what do you want?" "I would that I were dead," she caused to answer.'
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