Friday, January 7, 2011

An excerpt from Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness"

I'm trying to read this novella all today and if I get it done, I'll post some thoughts on it later. The following is an excerpt that especially interested me that I just read...


"You know I hate, detest, and can't bear a lie, not because I am straighter than the rest of us, but simply because it appals (appalls) me. There is a taint of death, a flavour of mortality in lies--which is exactly what I hate and detest in the world--what I want to forget."

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