A famous quote from this novel is spoken in a "tone of scathing contempt" by a "manager's boy.
In the essay "On the Morning After the Sixties," Joan Didion recalls her "real joy" upon discovering that the most important sentence of this novel is a postscript. A famous quote from this novel is spoken in a "tone of scathing contempt" by a "manager's boy." In this novel, a "cipher" written in the margins of a copy of "An Inquiry into Some Points of Seamanship" is eventually revealed to be Cyrillic. In the last paragraph of this novel, a character sits "in the pose of a meditating Buddha." In the first chapter, that character notes, "this has also been one of the (*) dark places of this earth" while looking at the Thames. The protagonist of this novel sees a painting of a blindfolded woman with a torch while he waits for his boat to be repaired at the Central Station. In this novel, "All Europe" is said to have contributed to the making of a character who advocates the extermination of "all the brutes." For 10 points, name this novel in which Kurtz speaks of "the horror, the horror," before dying.
In the essay "On the Morning After the Sixties," Joan Didion recalls her "real joy" upon discovering that the most important sentence of this novel is a postscript.
Heart of Darkness