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Heart of Darkness
Part 1:
Light vs. Dark
Chapter 12 (Symbol?)
Chapter 13 (Political)
Sand-banks, marshes, forests, savages, -precious little to eat fit for a civilized man,
nothing but Thames water to drink. No Falernian
wine here, no going ashore. Here and there a
military camp lost in a wilderness, like a needle in
a bundle of hay -- cold, fog, tempests, disease,
exile, and death -- death skulking in the air, in the
water, in the bush. (4)
Chapter 12 (Symbol?)
over the rank grass, over the mud, upon the wall
of matted vegetation standing higher than the wall
of a temple, over the great river I could see
through a sombre gap glittering, glittering, as it
flowed broadly by without a murmur. (23)
Chapter 13 (Political)