There was nothing either above or below him, and I knew it. He had kicked himself loose of the earth. Confound the man! he had kicked the very earth to pieces. He was alone, and I before him did not know whether I stood on the ground or floated in the... Youth: And Two Other Stories - 第 164 頁Joseph Conrad 著 - 1903 - 381 頁完整檢視 - 關於此書
| Joseph Conrad - 1903 - 410 頁
...incredible degradation. There was nothing either above or below him, and I knew it. He had kicked himself loose of the earth. Confound the man ! he had kicked...what we said — repeating the phrases we pronounced, i — but what's the good ? They were common everyday words, — the familiar, vague sounds exchanged... | |
| Joseph Conrad - 1903 - 360 頁
...the man! he had HckfH* th p very earthrtojneces. He was alone, and I before him did not know wEether I stood on the ground or floated in the air. I've been telling you what we said—repeating the phrases we pronounced—but what's the good? They were common everyday words—the... | |
| Frances Melville Perry - 1926 - 270 頁
...desire of the jungle to deify, as "a tree swayed by the wind — no restraint; he had kicked himself loose of the earth. Confound the man. He had kicked the very earth to pieces." In the same story we have the unnamed Russian already quoted, whose need was to move onwards with the... | |
| 1900 - 874 頁
...incredible degradation. There was nothing either above or below him, and I knew It. He had kicked himself loose of the earth, confound the man! He had kicked...telling you what we said— repeating the phrases we pronounced—but what's the good? They were common, every-day words, the familiar, vague sounds exchanged... | |
| Joseph Conrad - 2004 - 205 頁
...incredible degradation. There was nothing either above or below him, and I knew it. He had kicked himself loose of the earth. Confound the man! he had kicked...He was alone, and I before him did not know whether 1 stood on the ground or floated in the air. I've been telling you what we said — repeating the phrases... | |
| David Galef - 1993 - 252 頁
...toward Kurtz, one even senses admiration in the original sense of the word, having to do with a miracle: "He was alone, and I before him did not know whether I stood on the ground or floated in the air" (144). For most of the confrontation, however, Marlow is presented with the "shade of the original... | |
| Richard Ambrosini - 1991 - 274 頁
...incomprehensible mystery."2 In The Great Tradition, Leavis springs at Marlow's comments, "I've been . . . repeating the phrases we pronounced - but what's the good? They were common everyday words" (144), with a sort of saturnine elan: "What's the good, indeed? If he cannot through the concrete presentment... | |
| Tony E. Jackson - 1994 - 236 頁
...name of anything high or low . . . There was nothing either above or below him — and I knew it ... He was alone — and I before him did not know whether I stood on the ground or floated in the air. (65) At this most intense moment, Kurtz remains a being, but Marlow cannot certainly refer to him as... | |
| Ursula Lord - 1998 - 382 頁
...incredible degradation. There was nothing either above or below him, and I knew it. He had kicked himself loose of the earth. Confound the man! he had kicked the very earth to pieces" (107). Kurtz enacts a final stand of radical individuality in defiance of the deadly conformity required... | |
| Jonathan Schell - 2000 - 484 頁
...further comments, 'There was nothing either above or below him, and I knew it. He had kicked himself loose of the earth. Confound the man! he had kicked the very earth to pieces." This foreboding of annihilation was no incidental feature of the work; it returns several times, always... | |
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