/lit/ - Literature

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>>20326375
This book QUITE LITERALLY spoonfeeds you in the beginning, and tells you what it's going to be about. There is almost no excuse for not understanding this book. The narrator for the rest of the book says this about the river Thames in the first chapter:

> Imagine the feelings of a commander of a fine—what d’ye call ‘em?—trireme in the Mediterranean, ordered suddenly to the north; run overland across the Gauls in a hurry;
> Imagine him here—the very end of the world, a sea the colour of lead, a sky the colour of smoke, a kind of ship about as rigid as a concertina— and going up this river with stores, or orders, or what you like. Sand banks, marshes, forests, savages,—precious little to eat fit for a civilized man,
>Here and there a military camp lost in a wilderness, like a needle in a bundle of hay—cold, fog, tempests, disease, exile, and death—death skulking in the air, in the water, in the bush. They must have been dying like flies here.
>Land in a swamp, march through the woods, and in some inland post feel the savagery, the utter savagery, had closed round him— all that mysterious life of the wilderness that stirs in the forest, in the jungles, in the hearts of wild men.
>And it has a fascination, too, that goes to work upon him. The fascination of the abomination—you know, imagine the growing regrets, the longing to escape, the powerless disgust, the surrender, the hate.

This is the "horror" referred to. Conrad builds up the oppressive atmosphere of the jungle and you only realise the effect it's had on you when he brings it full circle with those words.

Specifically to >>20328985. The point of Kurtz was to see this happen to a truly great man, the best of us, otherwise the reader would get the impression it was Kurtz that was weak and not the "abomination" of the jungle that was all powerful.

>>18693690
drink plenty of milk

>>14769135
fugg
i did that and it was hard to explain
the more you wait the harder it becomes
stay strong brother

>all this armchair buddhist discussion recently
>none of the posters mastered the jhanas, experienced stream entry, cessation
embarrassing

What little episode/passage from an artist's biography/notebook/letter made you think
>omg he is literally me

>>14173841

I'm in

>tfw just read 15 pages
Whew bros was a toughie. Gonna fap and play some vidya now ama