...water, there she was, incomprehensible, firing into a continent. Pop, would go one of the six-inch guns; a small flame would dart and vanish, a little white smoke would disappear, a tiny projectile give a feeble screech — and nothing happened. Nothing could happen. There was a touch of insanity...

...water, there she was, incomprehensible, firing into a continent. Pop, wonld go one of the sis-inch gons: a small flame would dart and vanish, a little white...insanity in the proceeding, a sense of lugubrious drollen in the sight: and it was not dissipated by somebody on board assuring me earnestly there was...

...water, there she was, incomprehensible, firing into a continent. Pop, would go one of the six-inch guns; a small flame would dart and vanish, a little...happen. There was a touch of insanity in the proceeding. "32 On his journey into the interior, Marlowe comes upon a steam boiler "wallowing in the grass" and...

...slimy swell there she was, incomprehensible, firing into a continent. Pop, would go one of the six-inch guns; a small flame would dart and vanish, a little...screech — and nothing happened. Nothing could happen" (41). European military-phallic power is ludicrously impotent here, in the realm ruled by the power...

...setting is unnatural; the sounds which accompany its sight, ludicrous: "Pop, would go one of the six-inch guns; a small flame would dart and vanish, a little...would give a feeble screech - and nothing happened." A remark Marlow hears aboard the steamer, made by somebody "assuring me earnestly there was a camp...

...coast: "There she was, incomprehensible, firing into a continent. Pop, would go one of the six-inch guns; a small flame would dart and vanish, a little...happen. There was a touch of insanity in the proceeding" (28). Another instance is found in the effort to construct a railway: "A heavy and dull detonation...

...fatuity of the "civilized" French manof-war's shelling the bush: "Pop, would go one of the six-inch guns; a small flame would dart and vanish, a little...would give a feeble screech — and nothing happened." Soon, more than Marlow's Calvinistic belief in the redemptive powers of purposeful labor was offended....

...des afrikanischen Kontinents aus Marlows Perspektive europäische Wertmaßstäbe ad absurdum fuhrt "There was a touch of insanity in the proceeding, a sense of lugubrious drollery in the sight [...]" (28) -, ermöglicht das Geräusch der Brandung es ihm momentweise, das der Welt Afrikas in keiner...

...and water, there she was, incomprehensible, firing into a continent. Pop would go one of the six-inch guns: a small flame would dart and vanish, a little...could happen. There was a touch of insanity in the proceedings . . . and it was not dissipated by somebody on board assuring me earnestly there was a...

...water, there she was, incomprehensible, firing into a continent. Pop, would go one of the six-inch guns; a small flame would dart and vanish, a little...white smoke would disappear, a tiny projectile would 2. Joachim Fest, Hitler (New York: Harvest, 1973), p. 515. xiv give a feeble screech — and nothing...