Tuesday, August 26, 2008

Murky

"and the stretch of the river abreast of the clearing glittering in a still and dazzling splendor, with a murky and overshadowed bend above and below" (Conrad, 54).

The allusion to darkness forebodes that the immediate future may not be what it seems. Conrad is once again using darkness to poison its surroundings, and to spread almost as if it were a disease.

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