...sometimes when you have not a moment to spare to yourself; but it came in the shape of an unrestful and noisy dream, remembered with wonder amongst the...water, and silence. And this stillness of life did [ 105 ] not in the least resemble a peace. It was the stillness of an implacable force brooding over...

...overshadowed distances. On silvery sandbanks hippos and alligators sunned themselves side by side. . . . And this stillness of life did not in the least resemble...of an implacable force brooding over an inscrutable intention.1 An "implacable force" — thus the tropical setting takes on personality — broods over...

...sometimes when you have not a moment to spare to yourself ; but it came in the shape of an unrestful and noisy dream, remembered with wonder amongst the...this strange world of plants, and water, and silence. It is tempting to go on from one example to another. But the reader, if he is interested, can do that...

...noisy dream, remembered with wonder among the overwhelming realities of this strange world of plants, water and silence. And this stillness of life did...looked at you with a vengeful aspect I got used to it afterward; I did not see it any more; I had no time. I had to keep guessing at the channel; I had to...

...waters flowed through a mob of wooded islands; you lost your way on the river as you would in a desert. This stillness of life did not in the least resemble...intention. It looked at you with a vengeful aspect. The forest was inscrutable as ever, if not vengeful. D With every day, the spy was making me more edgy....

...repetition of two sentences, one about silence and the other about frenzy. An example of the former is "It was the stillness of an implacable force brooding over an inscrutable intention" and of the latter, "The steamer toiled along slowly on the edge of a black and incomprehensible frenzy."...

...sometimes when you have not a moment to spare to yourself; but it came in the shape of an unrestful and noisy dream, remembered with wonder amongst the...implacable force" brooding over an inscrutable intention. (93) This last sentence has been singled out as the flattest and most superfluous instance of Conradian...

...their intimidated peoples. Repeatedly Marlow has told his four listeners that this silence in the Congo "was the stillness of an implacable force brooding...intention. It looked at you with a vengeful aspect." But he adds, "I got used to it afterwards. I did not see it any more" (36). Has he forgotten, or suppressed,...

...existence perhaps" (48) Then, the breaking through of this ego-alien force in the feeling of being watched: "And this stillness of life did not in the least resemble...intention. It looked at you with a vengeful aspect. ... I felt often its mysterious stillness watching me at my monkey tricks just as it watches you fellows"...

...empty stream, a great silence, an impenetrable forest. The air was warm, thick, heavy, sluggish. . . . And this stillness of life did not in the least resemble...inscrutable intention. It looked at you with a vengeful aspect.24 It seems most useful, therefore, to think of subjective time as a complex product of individual...