...talking about himself, his narrative being, like other work (such as riveting together a steamboat), a " 'chance to find yourself. Your own reality — for...mere show, and never can tell what it really means.' " Marlow does want somehow to "tell" what it "really means," and this attempt to capture meaning necessarily...

...is in the work—the chance to find yourself. Your own reality —for yourself ', not others—what no other man can ever know. They can only see the...mere show, and never can tell what it really means. A woman had to know that: simply know it, that was all. He did not need praise from her, he rarely...

...faire embodied in the work of repairing the steamer: "I don't like work — no man does — but I like what is in the work — the chance to find yourself. Your own reality" (44). The chief accountant and the manager of the Central Station are similarly presented as surviving...

...better," he says. "She had given me a chance to come out a bit— to find out what I could do. ... I like what is in the work— the chance to find yourself....mere show, and never can tell what it really means" (29). Like his work on the steamer, Marlow's address before an auditor (or "friend") allows him to...

...Conrad's view of work in Heart of Darkness: "I don't like work— no man does — but I like what is in work — the chance to find yourself. Your own reality — for yourself, not for others — what no man can ever know." Work keeps us busy, it gives us structure, it defines us as functioning, contributing,...

...about and think of all the fine things that can be done. I don't like work - no man does - but I like what is in the work, - the chance to find yourself....over the mud. You see I rather chummed with the few mechanics there were in that station, whom the other pilgrims naturally despised - on account of their...

...about and think of all the fine things that can be done. I don't like work - no man does - but I like what is in the work, - the chance to find yourself....over the mud. You see I rather chummed with the few mechanics there were in that station, whom the other pilgrims naturally despised - on account of their...

...story; and, as a wealthy gentleman of leisure, he lacks Marlow's opportunity to ground his being in work: "the chance to find yourself. Your own reality - for yourself, not for others" (44). Having missed his own marriage, Dowell also elides his wife's death (merely describing her as...

...from external sources. These are Marlow's thoughts: "I don't like work, - no man does - but I like what is in the work, - the chance to find yourself....mere show, and never can tell what it really means" (59-60). Significantly, this passage marks a watershed in Marlow's conception of work. Work had initially...

...Conrad: In Conrad's Heart of Darkness Marlow says: "I don't like work, — no man does — but I like what is in the work, — the chance to find yourself....not for others — what no other man can ever know" (p. 41). page 144 flame-kindling grownup: In Erikson's Identity: Youth and Crisis he writes: "Again...