Words of Wisdom -- Joseph Conrad

One of my favorite quotes, from "Heart of Darkness" written by Joseph Conrad.

"What was there after all? Joy, fear, sorrow, devotion, valor, rage--who can tell?-- but truth--truth stripped of its cloak of time. Let the fool gape and shudder--the man knows, and can look on without a wink."

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[dabarnstorma]

Nice try. But you COMPLETELY messed this up. You've reduced this quote to meaningless because you only said part of it. Without the preceeding sentences (Conrad basically wrote in paragraphs) this has no context. Marlow is talking about seeing the slaves on shore as he approaches them. Try this: "We are accostomed to look upon the shackled form of a conquered monster, but there--there you could see a thing monsterous and free." and so on.... Try again, please.

[heavenundertheearth]

dabarnstorma,

i wasn't trying, i know the quote is out of context, aside from take a quote and communicating something that is interesting to me, and perhaps others. i'm sure you don't me to tell me that pieces of literature are supposed to be understood soley as the author intended, and that someone can't take a sentence on its own as from a poem and interpret it as they please. i don't think i damage the novel a bit for using this quote in this video.

[heavenundertheearth]

oh, and Conrad basically wrote in NOVELS! haha

[NerdyHobbyistGamer]

I thought Joseph Conrad was Russian

[heavenundertheearth]

No, Polish. His parents were part of a resistance against Russian power, if i'm not mistaken.

[MrProton1972]

I thought Joseph is Stalin, not Conrad. Funny!

Eureka, there are Josephs...

[molesis]

@dabarnstorma I found it ironic that your fixation on the context of this passage overlooks the fact that Conrad's idea of timeless, non-cognitive truth is embedded in all of his writing, throughout his career. If anything, to myopically view this quotation in the single context of what Marlow sees in one scene in HoD is to render it more meaningless than otherwise. Try to read some more Conrad, please.

[mariakolber]

@heavenundertheearth no. you're not wrong. He was Pol. Great Pole. His real name was Józef Konrad

[burkburke]

@lovevintage92 No problem! He was born in poland and learned english while traveling but only became fluent in his twenties, he wrote all of his novels in english.

[lovevintage92]

@burkburke are you serious? wow someone seriously has to rewrite the biography in the back of the edition of Heart of Darkness i have. its good that you clarified though for anyone who is wonderingg. but are you sure?bc someone might have translated his works into english?

[burkburke]

@lovevintage92 no he didnt he wrote in english

[purleses]

the jews love to overwrite reality with their onslaught of distorted reality. The phony bible figures were all manufactured to overwrite real historical Egyptians such as Amenemhet=Abraham, Tuthmosis=Moses and Imhotep=Joseph. The jews manufactured the "ten commandments" story to overwrite the Code of Hammurabi. The jews manufactured the bogus WW2 holocaust stories to overwrite the real genocides of the native american indians, the congolese, armenians, ukrainians, Poles and Germans.

[Altern8tion]

lol I read this book for my Sophmore English 2 class