...worsted round his neck — Why ? Where did he get it ? Was it a badge — an ornament — a charm — a propitiatory act? Was there any idea at all connected...brother phantom rested its forehead, as if overcome with a great weariness ; and all about others were scattered in every pose of contorted collapse, as...

...worsted round his neck — Why? Where did he get it? Was it a badge — an ornament — a charm — a propitiatory act? Was there any idea at all connected...'brother phantom rested its forehead, as if overcome with a great weariness ; and all about others were scattered in every pose of contorted collapse, as...

...worsted round his neck — Why? Where did he get it? Was it a badge — an ornament— a charm — a propitiatory act? Was there any idea at all connected...intolerable and appalling manner: his brother phantom rested .jts forehead, as if overcome with a great weariness ; and all about others were scattered in every...

...worstedJound his neck — Why? Where did he get it? Was it a badge — an ornament — a charm — a propitiatory act? Was there any idea at all connected...same tree two more bundles of acute angles sat with then- legs drawn up. One, with his chin propped on his knees, stared at nothing, in an intolerable...

...worsted round his neck — Why ? Where did he get it ? Was it a badge — an ornament — a charm — a propitiatory act ? Was there any idea at all connected...brother phantom rested its forehead, as if overcome with a great weariness ; and all about others were scattered in every pose of contorted collapse, as...

...worsted round his neck — Why? Where did he get it? Was it a badge — an ornament — a charm — a propitiatory act? Was there any idea at all connected...brother phantom rested its forehead, as if overcome with a great weariness; and all about others were scattered in every pose of contorted collapse, as...

...worsted round his neck — Why? Where did he get it? Was it a badge — an ornament — a charm — a propitiatory act? Was there any idea at all connected...same tree two more bundles of acute angles sat with then- legs drawn up. One, with his chin propped on his knees, stared at nothing, in an intolerable...

...angles. P. 77. Conrad ventures (Youth, p. 76) this rather striking use of form for objects exhibiting it: Near the same tree two more bundles of acute angles sat with their legs drawn up. P. 82. The first postulate of Description with each of us should be, Whatever I can see, that is, analyze...

...belief, leads him to wonder: "Why? Where did he get it? Was it a badge — an ornament — a charm — a propitiatory act? Was there any idea at all connected...neck, this bit of white thread from beyond the seas." The bit of white thread is an eloquent example of how effectively Conrad animates objects with the...

...could see from afar the white of their eyeballs glistening" (13-14). Or those who work for the whites: "It looked startling round his black neck, this bit of white thread from beyond the seas" (18). Danger is black, too, even to the point of comedy: a Danish captain gets killed because of two...