connect the quotations heart of darkness. connect the dots. connect the ideas
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“EACH STATION WOULD BE LIKE A BEACON ON THE ROAD TOWARDS BETTER THINGS, A CENTRE FOR TRADE OF COURSE, BUT ALSO FOR HUMANIZING, IMPROVING, INSTRUCTING.”TRANSCRIPT
CONNECT THE QUOTATIONS
Heart of Darkness
CONNECT THE DOTS. CONNECT THE IDEAS.
“EACH STATION WOULD BE LIKE A BEACON ON THE
ROAD TOWARDS BETTER THINGS, A CENTRE FOR TRADE OF COURSE,
BUT ALSO FOR HUMANIZING, IMPROVING, INSTRUCTING.”
“Instead of rivets there came an invasion, an infliction, a
visitation.Five such installments came, with
their absurd air of disorderly flight with the loot of
innumerable outfit shops and provision stores. . . It was an inextricable mess of things
decent in themselves but that human folly made look like the
spoils of thieving.”
ELDORADO EXPLORING EXPEDITION
“Sordid buccaneersReckless without hardihood
Greedy without audacityCruel without courage
No foresight or serious intentionNo understanding of equipment as being “wanted for the
work of the world”
- Conrad’s observations
ELDORADO EXPLORING EXPEDITION
“To tear treasure out of the bowels of the land was their desire, with no more moral purpose at the back of it than there is in
burglars breaking into a safe.”(Connect to pg. 6)
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“The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the 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.”
ELDORADO EXPLORING EXPEDITION
“There is a taint of death, a flavour of mortality in lies --
which is exactly what Ihate and detest in the world.”
LIES
“WE LIVE AS WE DREAM -- ALONE.”
“IT WAS WRITTEN THAT I SHOULD BE LOYAL TO THE NIGHTMARE OF MY CHOICE.”
“I don’t like work -- no man does -- but I like what is in the
work, -- the chance to find yourself.”
WORK
THE BOOK
AN INQUIRY INTO SOME POINTS OF SEAMANSHIP
BY TOWER, TOWSON
“The matter looked dreary reading enough, with illustrative diagrams and repulsive tables of figures, and the copy was sixty years old. I
handled this amazing antiquity with the greatest possible tenderness, lest it should dissolve in my hands. . . . Not a very enthralling book, but at the
first glance you could see there a singleness of intention,
an honest concern for the right way of going to work,
which made these humble pages, thought out so many years ago, luminous with another than a
professional light.. …something unmistakably real . . .
It was an extravagant mystery.”
THE BOOK
Singleness of intentionHonest concern for the right way of going
about workLuminous with purpose other than
professionalUnmistakably real
An extravagant mystery
(connect to theme #1 on list)
THE BOOK & WORK