“ To keep the eyes so long on one thing was too much for human patience. ”
Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness (1899). copy citation
| Author | Joseph Conrad |
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| Source | Heart of Darkness |
| Topic | patience eyes |
| Date | 1899 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/219/219-h/219-h.htm |
Context
“It was like watching the last flickers of a life. But still we crawled. Sometimes I would pick out a tree a little way ahead to measure our progress towards Kurtz by, but I lost it invariably before we got abreast. To keep the eyes so long on one thing was too much for human patience. The manager displayed a beautiful resignation. I fretted and fumed and took to arguing with myself whether or no I would talk openly with Kurtz; but before I could come to any conclusion it occurred to me that my speech or my silence, indeed any action of mine, would be a mere futility.”
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