Heart of Darkness Connect the dots Connect the ideas Each station would be like a beacon on the road towards better things a centre for trade of course but also for humanizing improving instructing ID: 513429
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connect the quotations
Heart of DarknessSlide2
Connect the dots. Connect the ideas.Slide3
“Each station would be like a beacon on the road towards better things, a centre for trade of course, but also for humanizing, improving, instructing.”Slide4
“Instead of rivets there came an invasion, an infliction, a visitation.Five such installments came, with their absurd air of disorderly flight with the loot of innumerable outfit shops and provision stores. . . It was an inextricable mess of things decent in themselves but that human folly made look like the spoils of thieving.”Eldorado Exploring ExpeditionSlide5
“Sordid buccaneersReckless without hardihoodGreedy without audacityCruel without courageNo foresight or serious intentionNo understanding of equipment as being “wanted for the work of the world” - Conrad’s observationsEldorado Exploring ExpeditionSlide6
“To tear treasure out of the bowels of the land was their desire, with no more moral purpose at the back of it than there is in burglars breaking into a safe.”(Connect to pg. 6)↓“The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much.”Eldorado Exploring ExpeditionSlide7
“There is a taint of death, a flavour of mortality in lies -- which is exactly what Ihate and detest in the world.”liesSlide8
“We live as we dream -- alone.”Slide9
“It was written that I should be loyal to the nightmare of my choice.”Slide10
“I don’t like work -- no man does -- but I like what is in the work, -- the chance to find yourself.”WORKSlide11
The BookAn Inquiry into some points of seamanship by Tower, TowsonSlide12
“The matter looked dreary reading enough, with illustrative diagrams and repulsive tables of figures, and the copy was sixty years old. I handled this amazing antiquity with the greatest possible tenderness, lest it should dissolve in my hands. . . . Not a very enthralling book, but at the first glance you could see there a singleness of intention, an honest concern for the right way of going to work, which made these humble pages, thought out so many years ago, luminous with another than a professional light.. …something unmistakably real . . .
It was an
extravagant mystery
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The BookSlide13
Singleness of intentionHonest concern for the right way of going about workLuminous with purpose other than professionalUnmistakably realAn extravagant mystery(connect to theme #1 on list)The book & WORK