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“The earth seemed unearthly. We are accustomed to look upon the shackled form of a conquered monster, but there—there you could look at a thing monstrous and free. It was unearthly, and the men were… No, they were not inhuman. Well, you know, that was the worst of it—this suspicion of their not being inhuman. […] Mr. de Barral’s bitterness at his hemmed-in freedom is not the only thing that has been standing in the way of Flora’s marital happiness. She has been foolish. There are more secrets here for Marlow to learn and more suppositions for him to make. He knows from the Fynes that Miss de Barral and Captain […] When Marlow first encounters Flora de Barral, he is walking along a quarry and she is on a precipice above. He calls out to her. It turns out she was trying to kill herself, or at least thinking about it, and eventually Marlow realizes the crisis is being caused not merely by the hardship she’s […] Chance is Conrad’s last novel to feature Marlow and a great showcase for Marlow’s particular passion: finding out the secret fulcrum behind an otherwise unexplained psychological situation. For Marlow these things are mysteries; for many other people they are not. “I am like a puzzle-headed chief-mate we had once in the dear old Samarcand when […] |
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