In "The Hollow Men," T.S. Eliot quotes this author's statement that "Life is very long," which is spoken by Captain Lingard to Peter Willems in his story, An Outcast of the Islands. The title character of another of his novels allows Doramin to shoot him after the death of Dain Waris. In one of his stories, a captain near the Gulf of Siam allows Leggatt to escape after seeing him swim away from th
In "The Hollow Men," T.S. Eliot quotes this author's statement that "Life is very long," which is spoken by Captain Lingard to Peter Willems in his story, An Outcast of the Islands. The title character of another of his novels allows Doramin to shoot him after the death of Dain Waris. In one of his stories, a captain near the Gulf of Siam allows Leggatt to escape after seeing him swim away from the Sephora. This author of (*) "The Secret Sharer" wrote a more famous novella about Kurtz, who is praised as a god in the Belgian Congo and yells "The horror! The horror!" to Charles Marlowe. For ten points, name this author of Lord Jim and Heart of Darkness.
In "The Hollow Men," T.S. Eliot quotes this author's statement that "Life is very long," which is spoken by Captain Lingard to Peter Willems in his story, An Outcast of the Islands.
Joseph Conrad [or Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski]