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" Their bearing, which was simply the bearing of commonplace individuals going about their business in the assurance of perfect safety, was offensive to me like the outrageous flauntings of folly in the face of a danger it is unable to comprehend. "
Youth and Two Other Stories - Página 152
por Joseph Conrad - 1924 - 339 páginas
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Youth: And Two Other Stories

Joseph Conrad - 1903 - 410 páginas
...an irritating pretense, because I felt so sure they could not possibly know the things I knew. Their bearing, which was simply the bearing of commonplace...perfect safety, was offensive to me like the outrageous flauntin gs of folly in the face of a danger it is unable to comprehend. I had no particular desire...
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The Short Story: A Technical and Literary Study

Ethan Allen Cross - 1928 - 524 páginas
...an irritating pretense, because I felt so sure they could not possibly know the things I knew. Their bearing, which was simply the bearing of commonplace...difficulty in restraining myself from laughing in [438] their faces, so full of stupid importance. I dare say I was not very well at that time. I tottered...
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The Living Age, Volumen226

1900 - 874 páginas
...irritating pretense, because I felt so sure they could not possibly know the things I knew; and their bearing, which was simply the bearing of commonplace...perfect safety, was offensive to me like the outrageous fiauntlngs of folly In the face of a danger It is unable to comprehend. I had no particular desire...
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Conrad's Western World

Norman Sherry - 1971 - 484 páginas
...civilisation, the recognition of which makes him, on his return to the sepulchral city, irritated by 'the bearing of commonplace individuals going about...their business in the assurance of perfect safety' (p. 152). 'Here you all are', he says to his audience, 'each moored with two good addresses, like a...
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Conrad in the Nineteenth Century

Ian Watt - 1981 - 400 páginas
...behind that the ordinary behaviour of the inhabitants of the sepulchral city seem as "offensive" as "the outrageous flauntings of folly in the face of a danger it is unable to comprehend." Marlow's feverish disorientation, it should be remembered, is actually a fairly normal reaction to...
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Heart of Darkness

Joseph Conrad - 1990 - 84 páginas
...an irritating pretense, because I felt so sure they could not possibly know the things I knew. Their bearing, which was simply the bearing of commonplace...in the face of a danger it is unable to comprehend. 1 had no particular desire to enlighten them, but I had some difficulty in restraining myself from...
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Joseph Conrad and the Fictions of Skepticism

Mark Wollaeger - 1990 - 288 páginas
...pretence, because I felt so sure they could not possibly know the things I knew. Their bearing . . . was offensive to me like the outrageous flauntings...comprehend. I had no particular desire to enlighten them" (HD 152). Remarking that he was "not very well at that time," Marlow licenses us to imagine that an...
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Joseph Conrad and the Anthropological Dilemma: "bewildered Traveller"

John Wylie Griffith - 1995 - 262 páginas
...an irritating pretence, because I felt so sure they could not possibly know the things I knew. Their bearing, which was simply the bearing of commonplace...in the face of a danger it is unable to comprehend' (HD 70). Civilization, culture, and community are conventions that bound and insulate the bourgeois...
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Heart of Darkness, With, The Congo Diary

Joseph Conrad - 1995 - 228 páginas
...an irritating pretence, because I felt so sure they could not possibly know the things I knew. Their bearing, which was simply the bearing of commonplace...flauntings of folly in the face of a danger it is unable to comprehend."4 I had no particular desire to enlighten them, but I had some difficulty in restraining...
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Under Postcolonial Eyes: Joseph Conrad After Empire

Gail Fincham, Myrtle Hooper - 1996 - 252 páginas
...a society's practices becomes available for thought. Marlow later finds an "irritating pretence" in "the bearing of commonplace individuals going about...their business in the assurance of perfect safety" and calls them "offensive to me like the outrageous tlauntings of folly in the face of a danger it...
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