CONNECT THE QUOTATIONS

Heart of Darkness

CONNECT THE DOTS. CONNECT THE IDEAS.

“EACH STATION WOULD BE LIKE A BEACON ON THE

ROAD TOWARDS BETTER THINGS, A CENTRE FOR TRADE OF COURSE,

BUT ALSO FOR HUMANIZING, IMPROVING, INSTRUCTING.”

“Instead of rivets there came an invasion, an infliction, a

visitation.Five such installments came, with

their absurd air of disorderly flight with the loot of

innumerable outfit shops and provision stores. . . It was an inextricable mess of things

decent in themselves but that human folly made look like the

spoils of thieving.”

ELDORADO EXPLORING EXPEDITION

“Sordid buccaneersReckless without hardihood

Greedy without audacityCruel without courage

No foresight or serious intentionNo understanding of equipment as being “wanted for the

work of the world”

- Conrad’s observations

ELDORADO EXPLORING EXPEDITION

“To tear treasure out of the bowels of the land was their desire, with no more moral purpose at the back of it than there is in

burglars breaking into a safe.”(Connect to pg. 6)

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“The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who

have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty

thing when you look into it too much.”

ELDORADO EXPLORING EXPEDITION

“There is a taint of death, a flavour of mortality in lies --

which is exactly what Ihate and detest in the world.”

LIES

“WE LIVE AS WE DREAM -- ALONE.”

“IT WAS WRITTEN THAT I SHOULD BE LOYAL TO THE NIGHTMARE OF MY CHOICE.”

“I don’t like work -- no man does -- but I like what is in the

work, -- the chance to find yourself.”

WORK

THE BOOK

AN INQUIRY INTO SOME POINTS OF SEAMANSHIP

BY TOWER, TOWSON

“The matter looked dreary reading enough, with illustrative diagrams and repulsive tables of figures, and the copy was sixty years old. I

handled this amazing antiquity with the greatest possible tenderness, lest it should dissolve in my hands. . . . Not a very enthralling book, but at the

first glance you could see there a singleness of intention,

an honest concern for the right way of going to work,

which made these humble pages, thought out so many years ago, luminous with another than a

professional light.. …something unmistakably real . . .

It was an extravagant mystery.”

THE BOOK

Singleness of intentionHonest concern for the right way of going

about workLuminous with purpose other than

professionalUnmistakably real

An extravagant mystery

(connect to theme #1 on list)

THE BOOK & WORK