" That character walks around strapped to explosives, and is known only as The Professor.
Near the end of this work, one character claims, "Everybody is mediocre. Madness and despair! Give me that for a lever, and I'll move the world." That character walks around strapped to explosives, and is known only as The Professor. Other minor characters include the "Doctor" Ossipon and the "Apostle" Michaelis, who is arrested by Inspector Heat for a crime he did not plot. The actual plotter had been already stabbed by his wife, who was upset over his use of her brother in a failed plot to blow up Greenwich Observatory. The half-wit Stevie gets lost in the fog and blows himself up trying to carry out the orders of Mr. Verloc, FTP, the title spy of this Joseph Conrad story.
Near the end of this work, one character claims, "Everybody is mediocre.
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