 | 1899 - 1284 Seiten
...one of you might believe there are inhabitants in the planet Mars. I knew once a Scotch sailmaker who was certain, dead sure, there were people in Mars....would get shy and mutter something about 'walking on all -fours.' If you as much as smiled, he would — though a man of sixty — offer to fight you. I... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - 1903 - 404 Seiten
...one of you might believe there are inhabitants in the planet Mars. I knew once a Scotch sailmaker who was certain, dead sure, there were people in Mars....would not have gone so far as to fight for Kurtz, but I went for him near enough to a lie. You know I hate, detest, and can't bear a lie, not because I am... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - 1903 - 410 Seiten
...one of you might believe there are inhabitants in the planet Mars. I knew once a Scotch sailmaker who was certain, dead sure, there were people in Mars. If you asked him for some idea how tlrey looked and behaved, he would get shy and mutter somethimg about ' walking on all-fours.' If you... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - 1921 - 440 Seiten
...one of you might believe there are inhabitants in the planet Mars. I knew once a Scotch sailmaker who was certain, dead sure, there were people in Mars....would not have gone so far as to fight for Kurtz, but I went for him near enough to a lie. You know I hate, detest, and can't bear a lie, not because I am... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - 1903 - 360 Seiten
...believe there are inhabitants in the planet Mars. I knew once a Scotch saihnaker who 82 HEART OF DARKNESS was certain, dead sure, there were people in Mars....would not have gone so far as to fight for Kurtz, but I went for him near enough to a lie. You know I hate, detest, and can't bear a lie, not because I am... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - 2004 - 205 Seiten
...one of you might believe there are inhabitants in the planet Mars. 1 knew once a Scotch sailmaker who was certain, dead sure, there were people in Mars....would not have gone so far as to fight for Kurtz, but I went for him near enough to lie. You know I hate, detest, and can't bear a lie, not because I am... | |
 | Marianne DeKoven - 1991 - 268 Seiten
...suggests that the woman cannot see the truth her torch presumably illumines. Marlow informs us that "I would not have gone so far as to fight for Kurtz, but I went for him near enough to a lie" (57). In going near enough to Kurtz, Marlow goes near enough to... | |
 | Leon Harold Craig - 1996 - 482 Seiten
...hating lies, the account Conrad has Marlow give of his own distaste for lying is worth considering here: "I would not have gone so far as to fight for Kurtz, but I went for him near enough to a lie. You know I hate, detest, and can't bear a lie, not because I am... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - 1995 - 244 Seiten
...one of you might believe there are inhabitants in the planet Mars. I knew once a Scotch sailmaker who was certain, dead sure, there were people in Mars....would not have gone so far as to fight for Kurtz, but I went for him near enough to a lie. You know I hate, detest, and can't bear a lie, not because I am... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - 1995 - 228 Seiten
...one of you might believe there are inhabitants in the planet Mars. I knew once a Scotch sailmaker who was certain, dead sure, there were people in Mars....would not have gone so far as to fight for Kurtz, but I went for him near enough to a lie. You know I hate, detest, and can't bear a lie, not because I am... | |
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Yet somehow it didn't bring any image with it — no more than if I had been told an angel or a fiend was in there. I believed it in the same way one of you might believe there are inhabitants in the planet Mars. I knew once a Scotch sailmaker who was... 
