The protagonist of this novel recalls seeing a map in a shop window that revives his childhood fantasies about the "blank spaces" on the map.
The protagonist of this novel recalls seeing a map in a shop window that revives his childhood fantasies about the "blank spaces" on the map. After receiving his contract from the city that reminds him of a "whited sepulchre," the narrator travels to the Central Station. One character creates a painting of a blindfolded woman holding a torch, and he scribbles "Exterminate all the brutes!" in a pamphlet. After waiting months for a steamship to be repaired, a Russian trader leads the protagonist to a character whose fiancÃ©e is referred to only as his "Intended." For 10 points, "the horror, the horror!" are the last words of the ivory trader Kurtz in what novel about Marlow by Joseph Conrad?
The protagonist of this novel recalls seeing a map in a shop window that revives his childhood fantasies about the "blank spaces" on the map.
Heart of Darkness