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" The broadening waters flowed through a mob of wooded islands; you lost your way on that river as you would in a desert, and butted all day long against shoals, trying to find the channel, till you thought yourself bewitched and cut off forever from everything... "
Youth, and Two Other Stories: By Joseph Conrad ... - Page 93
by Joseph Conrad - 1903 - 339 pages
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Complete Works, Volume 16

Joseph Conrad - 1903 - 360 pages
...on, deserted, into the gloom of overshadowed distances. On silvery sandbanks hippos and alligators sunned themselves side by side. The broadening waters...and cut off for ever from everything you had known once—-g^mewhere—far away—in another existence perhaps./There were moments when one's past came...
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The Making of Literature

Rolfe Arnold Scott-James - Criticism - 1928 - 406 pages
...on, deserted, into the gloom of overshadowed distances. On silvery sandbanks hippos and alligators sunned themselves side by side. The broadening waters...day long against shoals, trying to find the channel, until you thought yourself bewitched and cut off for ever from everything you had known once — somewhere...
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The Living Age, Volume 226

1900 - 874 pages
...and alligators sunned themselves side by aide; the broadening waters flowed through a mob of wooaed islands. You lost your way on that river as you would...channel, till you thought yourself bewitched and cut off forever from everything you had known once — somewhere — far away — In another existence, perhaps....
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Blank Darkness: Africanist Discourse in French

Christopher L. Miller - Education - 1985 - 292 pages
...forest. The air was warm, thick, heavy, sluggish. There was no joy in the brilliance of sunshine. . . . The broadening waters flowed through a mob of wooded...and cut off for ever from everything you had known once—somewhere—far away—in another existence perhaps. There were moments when one's past came...
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Self, Sign, and Symbol

Mark Neuman, Michael Payne - Literary Criticism - 1987 - 196 pages
...sandbanks hippos and alligators sunned themselves side by side. The broadening waters flowed through a web of wooded islands; you lost your way on that river...channel, till you thought yourself bewitched and cut off forever from everything you had known once — somewhere — far away — in another existence perhaps....
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East Along the Equator: A Journey Up the Congo and Into Zaire

Helen Winternitz - Travel - 1987 - 290 pages
...deserted, into the gloom of the overshadowed distances. On silvery sandbanks, hippos and alligators sunned themselves side by side. The broadening waters...through a mob of wooded islands; you lost your way on the river as you would in a desert. This stillness of life did not in the least resemble a peace. It...
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Lacan, Discourse, and Social Change: A Psychoanalytic Cultural Criticism

Mark Bracher - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1993 - 224 pages
...ready to topple over the creek, to sweep every little man of us out of his little existence" (44-45). "You lost your way on that river as you would in a desert," Marlow reports, "and butted all day long against shoals, trying to find the channel, till you thought...
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One of Us: The Mastery of Joseph Conrad

Geoffrey Galt Harpham - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1996 - 232 pages
...back to the earliest beginnings of the world," it begins; On silvery sandbanks hippos and alligators sunned themselves side by side. The broadening waters...ever from everything you had known once — somewhere — tar away — in another existence perhaps. There were moments when one's past came back to one,...
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Heart of Darkness and Other Tales

Joseph Conrad - Fiction - 2002 - 280 pages
...on, deserted, into the gloom of overshadowed distances. On silvery sandbanks hippos and alligators sunned themselves side by side. The broadening waters...trying to find the channel, till you thought yourself bew itched and cut off for ever from everything you had known once— somewhere— far away— in another...
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William Sheppard: Congo's African American Livingstone

William E. Phipps - Biography & Autobiography - 2002 - 268 pages
...empty stream, a great silence, an impenetrable forest. The air was warm, thick, heavy, sluggish. . . . The broadening waters flowed through a mob of wooded...long against shoals, trying to find the channel." One perilous happening on the voyage was occasioned by a storm that caused big waves to break over...
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