Vocabulary from Part II of Heart of Darkness
This assignment is due at the end of the period.
45. Can you imagine such impudence!
46. The half-caste, who, as far as I could see, had conducted a difficult trip with great prudence and pluck, was invariably alluded to as 'that scoundrel.'
47. Same as above
48. The manager was switching his leg with a slender twig: his sagacious relative lifted his head.
49. The word ivory would ring in the air for a while--and on we went again into the silence, along empty reaches, round the still bends, between the high walls of our winding way, reverberating in hollow claps the ponderous beat of the stern-wheel.
50. Let the fool gape and shudder--the man knows, and can look on without a wink.
51. Let the fool gape and shudder--the man knows, and can look on without a wink.
52. He was there below me, and, upon my word, to look at him was as edifying as seeing a dog in a parody of breeches and a feather hat, walking on his hind-legs.
53. They still belonged to the beginnings of time--had no inherited experience to teach them as it were), and of course, as long as there was a piece of paper written over in accordance with some farcical law or other made down the river, it didn't enter anybody's head to trouble how they would live.
54. You can't breathe dead hippo waking, sleeping, and eating, and at the same time keep your precarious grip on existence.
55. There were either no villages, or the people were hostile, or the director, who like the rest of us fed out of tins, with an occasional old he-goat thrown in, didn't want to stop the steamer for some more or less recondite reason.
56. Yes; I looked at them as you would on any human being, with a curiosity of their impulses, motives, capacities, weaknesses, when brought to the test of an inexorable physical necessity.
57. It's really easier to face bereavement, dishonour, and the perdition of one's soul--than this kind of prolonged hunger.
58. He steered with no end of a swagger while you were by; but if he lost sight of you, he became instantly the prey of an abject funk, and would let that cripple of a steamboat get the upper hand of him in a minute.
59. I am, upon the whole, proud of my fortitude.
60. It was eloquent, vibrating with eloquence, but too high-strung, I think.
61. The peroration was magnificent, though difficult to remember, you know.
62. It was very simple, and at the end of that moving appeal to every altruistic sentiment it blazed at you, luminous and terrifying, like a flash of lightning in a serene sky: 'Exterminate all the brutes!'
63. He had the power to charm or frighten rudimentary souls into an aggravated witch-dance in his honour; he could also fill the small souls of the pilgrims with bitter misgivings: he had one devoted friend at least, and he had conquered one soul in the world that was neither rudimentary nor tainted with self-seeking.
64. Upon this they forgot Kurtz, and began to howl at me with indignant protests.