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Goodbye, "Heart of Darkness" (or, "Yokels Abroad")

Sunday, July 29th, 2007

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!I’ll probably get another B+ for this. Teacher loves this novel, Conrad’s Heart of Darkness. This student disagrees. ‘-) And for you “English-y types” from the last post, thanks for your feedback. I try to clarify things here. More homework [...]

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For "English-y" Types Only: Is "Heart of Darkness" Insipid?

Saturday, July 28th, 2007

[Update 2 AUG 07: A much better follow-up post on HOD here.l A little light summer reading: Joseph Conrad's "classic" Heart of Darkness. Skip it unless you want to defend its merit. I loved it in my 20s, but now it seems such a joke. Anybody want to show me what I'm missing? Here's my [...]

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