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18044308

Anonymous Fri Apr 16 23:42:45 2021 No.18044308 [Reply] [Original]

In one word and with zero hyphens, tell me Joseph Conrad's nationality

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 16 23:46:27 2021 No.18044330 This is the dumbest post I've seen all week, what are you trying to say here?

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 16 23:47:28 2021 No.18044335 >>18044330 Re-read the OP and try again, thank you

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 16 23:52:30 2021 No.18044379 >>18044308 Irish

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 17 00:26:15 2021 No.18044581 >>18044308 Polish

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 17 00:28:25 2021 No.18044595 File: 63 KB, 478x700, 43B31DA7-58F8-4BDB-B27A-C8525329B25B.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Seaman A nationality that goes beyond nations

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 17 00:31:06 2021 No.18044614 >>18044581 It wasn't Poland when he was born there and it isn't Poland now

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 17 02:08:18 2021 No.18045137 >>18044330 Cope it's good

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 17 02:14:26 2021 No.18045176 >>18044614 His father was a Polish nationalist though

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 17 02:20:46 2021 No.18045207 Conrad is a good, white writer, thus he's American

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 17 03:50:52 2021 No.18045695 African

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 17 04:11:25 2021 No.18045785 >>18044308 spooked

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 17 04:18:32 2021 No.18045818 Should I pick up heart of darkness if I'm reading casually after work to relax? Or is it like e.g. Faulkner and I'll have to turn my weary wage-slave brain on?

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 17 04:24:11 2021 No.18045846 >>18045818 It can be both. If you try to think about it—you can. If you just want to focus on the comfy 'into the heart of Africa' bit—you can.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 17 04:35:00 2021 No.18045880 American

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 17 04:37:59 2021 No.18045895 >>18045818 It's a beautifully written book. I tried to power read it and it was not enjoyable. I slowed it down to normal speech speed and it's so good.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 17 08:44:30 2021 No.18046991 Congolese

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 17 08:47:48 2021 No.18046996 >>18044308 Slavic

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 17 08:48:03 2021 No.18046999 >>18044614 >It wasn't Poland when he was born there Pedantic hair-splitting. 'Nation' is not necessarily synonymous with 'state'.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 17 08:48:44 2021 No.18047002 Euromutt

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 17 08:51:07 2021 No.18047016 >>18044308 A foreign born English novelist

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 17 08:52:40 2021 No.18047023 File: 626 KB, 1200x1607, 1588902390891.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>18044308 Nomad

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 17 08:52:44 2021 No.18047025 File: 657 KB, 2048x1425, conrad.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>18044308 Take your pick.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 17 08:57:24 2021 No.18047053 >>18044308 British At the time he was alive, anything that couldn't forcibly keep the British out was, by their self-definition, British, and he has been ever since

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 17 09:40:30 2021 No.18047224 >>18045880 >>18046996 >>18046996 >>18047002 >>18047016 >>18047023 >>18047053 These are not nationalities.