Heart of Darkness - Marlow's Journey

Heart of Darkness - Marlow's Journey

Inner Station

"And as I looked at the map of it in a shop-window, it fascinated me like a snake would a bird - a silly little bird." (p.7)

"This is the reason I affirm that Kurtz was a remarkable man. He had something to say. He said it." (p.92)

"Often far away there I thought of those two, guarding the doors of Darkness, knitting black wool as for a warm pall, one introducing, introducing continuously to the unknown, the other scrutinizing the cheery and foolish faces with unconcerned old eyes." (p.11)

Calliper

"I tried to break the spell - the heavy, mute spell of the wilderness - that seemed to draw him to its pitiless breasts by the awakening of the forgotten and brutal instincts, by the memory of gratified and monstrous passions." (p.86)

"My Intended, my ivory, my stations, my career, my ideas - there were the subjects for the occasional of elevated sentiments." (p.89)

"The conquest of the Earth, which often means taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much." (p.6)

" 'Ever any madness in your family?' he asked, in a matter-of-fact tone." (p.12)

"It appeared, however, I was also one of the Workers, with a capital - you know. Something, like an emissary of light, something like a lower sort of apostle." (p.13)

Central Station

"The earth seemed unearthly. We are used to loop upon the shackled form of a conquered monster, bu there - there you could look at a monstrous thing." (p.45)

Mouth of the Congo river

"It was paddled by black fellows. You could see from afar the white of their eyeballs glistening. They shouted, sang; their bodies streamed with perspiration; they had faces like grotesque masks - these chaps." (p.15)

"I supposed it did not occur to him that Mr.Kurtz was no idol of mine." (p.76)

rivets

Sources:

" 'It is funny what some people will do for a few francs a month. I wonder what becomes of that kind when it goes up country?' " (p.16)

Map: openstreetmap.org

Images: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steamboat

http://www.umgasmagazine.com/swedish-kafferep/

https://oldmapcompany.com/product/world-map-1800-2

https://www.vectorstock.com/royalty-free-vectors/spear-vectors

http://www.historyofphrenology.org.uk/overview.htm

Company Station

"On my asking who Mr.Kurtz was, he said he was a first class agent." (p.22)

"They were dying slowly - it was very clear. They were not enemies, they were not criminals, they were nothing earthly now - nothing but black shadow of disease and starvation, lying confusedly in the greenish gloom." (p.19)

"When near the buildings I met a white man, in such an unexpected elegance of get-up that in the first moment I took him for a vision." (p.20)