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LECTURE NOTES, 4/30/09
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JOSEPH CONRAD!
Born in the Ukraine, 1857
He wanted to write some poems with me last night.
Twisting winds like on a spindle, a stiff ring finger that won't bend at the joint anymore. She is wearing a dress today, not that it's every day, but one day we will be able to speak to the animals. That's the humor, what is my professor reciting these incantations of countries in their alphabetical order, of the British Empire that the sun never sets on, and th ...more
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JOSEPH CONRAD!
Born in the Ukraine, 1857
He wanted to write some poems with me last night.
Twisting winds like on a spindle, a stiff ring finger that won't bend at the joint anymore. She is wearing a dress today, not that it's every day, but one day we will be able to speak to the animals. That's the humor, what is my professor reciting these incantations of countries in their alphabetical order, of the British Empire that the sun never sets on, and th ...more
Apr 20, 2010
Jen
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For me this book was slow and a little hard to get through although it's not actually that long. It is certainly very indicting of colonialism/imperialism. As to whether or not it's racist, the jury is still out on that for me. I think in a way it is but in another way not necessarily. A lot of ideas regarding the "natives" in Africa are floated throughout the book and it's unclear to me as to where the author really stood. I think in the end he believed in the "let sleeping dogs lie" theory. I'
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How is it that more than ten of my friends rated this 4 stars or more? Did you really read it? Or just watch Apocalypse Now? And how did they get that movie out of this book? Someone else said, "this is the longest short book I've ever read" and I quite agree. Not even Kenneth Branaugh could save it for me.
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Probably would have liked it better if I had not misread my syllabus which caused me to have to read it and write a paper on it within a few hours. I felt so stressed and rushed reading it I could not enjoy it. I will probably reread someday in the future though.
Mar 12, 2007
superawesomekt
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it was amazing
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Aug 10, 2013
Becca
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really liked it
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