" I gave him Townson's book. He made as though he would kiss me" (Conrad, 49).
John Townson was a army officer and settler in the early nineteenth century. (Edit) Conrad is using him as an allusion because he symbolises the invasive nature of human kind. We constant need to conquer and expand ourselves, which means nature and natural laws are forgotten.
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