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" There was nothing either above or below him, and I knew it. He had kicked himself loose of the earth. Confound the man! he had kicked the very earth to pieces. "
Youth: And Two Other Stories - Page 164
by Joseph Conrad - 1903 - 381 pages
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Youth and Two Other Stories

Joseph Conrad - 1924 - 366 pages
...had a very lively sense of that danger, too — but in this, that I had to deal with a being to whom I could not appeal in the name of anything high or...himself loose of the earth. Confound the man! he had kicked'the very earth to pieces. He was alone, and I before him did not know whether I stood on the...
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Youth: And Two Other Stories

Joseph Conrad - 1903 - 398 pages
...had a very lively sense of that danger too — but in this, that I had to deal with a being to whom I could not appeal in the name of anything high or...nothing either above or below him, and I knew it. He had locked Hm&elf loose of the earth. Confound the man ! he had kicked the very earth to pieces. He was...
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Youth, and Two Other Stories: By Joseph Conrad ..., Volume 26

Joseph Conrad - 1903 - 360 pages
...of that danger, too — but in this, that I had to deal with a being to whom I could not appeal hi the name of anything high or low. I had, even like...nothing either above or below him, and I knew it. CHe had kicked himself loose of the earth. Confound the man! he had kicked-the very earth to pieces....
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Complete Works, Volume 16

Joseph Conrad - 1903 - 360 pages
...lively sense of that danger, too — but in this, that I had to deal with a being_to whom I could pot appeal in the name of anything high or low. I had, even like the niggers, to invoke him himself 8 " his own exalted and in _ degradation. There was nothing either above or below -. /him, and I knew...
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Story-writing: Lessons from the Masters

Frances Melville Perry - 1926 - 270 pages
...impious indulger of the desire of the jungle to deify, as "a tree swayed by the wind — no restraint; he had kicked himself loose of the earth. Confound the man. He had kicked the very earth to pieces." In the same story we have the unnamed Russian already quoted, whose need was to move onwards with the...
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Conrad in the Nineteenth Century

Ian Watt - 1981 - 400 pages
...internal or external restraint; but Marlow's worst doubts are set at rest when this "being to whom I could not appeal in the name of anything high or low" (144) makes a final judgment which is "the expression of some sort of belief" (151); and without some...
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Heart of Darkness and The Secret Sharer

Joseph Conrad - 2004 - 205 pages
...had a very lively sense of that danger, too — but in this, that I had to deal with a being to whom I could not appeal in the name of anything high or...He was alone, and I before him did not know whether 1 stood on the ground or floated in the air. I've been telling you what we said — repeating the phrases...
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Reading with a Difference: Gender, Race, and Cultural Identity

Arthur F. Marotti - 1993 - 404 pages
...had a very lively sense of that danger too — but in this, that I had to deal with a being to whom I could not appeal in the name of anything high or...himself — his own exalted and incredible degradation" (67). The real terror of this situation, as Marlow presents it, thus turns out to be Marlow's loss...
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Lacan, Discourse, and Social Change: A Psychoanalytic Cultural Criticism

Mark Bracher - 1993 - 224 pages
...had a very lively sense of that danger too — but in this, that I had to deal with a being to whom I could not appeal in the name of anything high or...himself — his own exalted and incredible degradation.' The real terror of this situation, as Marlow presents it, thus turns out to be Marlow's loss of his...
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Dialogue and Literature: Apostrophe, Auditors, and the Collapse of Romantic ...

Michael Macovski - 1994 - 244 pages
...rhetorical standards have any force in this novella. As he says, "... I had to deal with a being to whom I could not appeal in the name of anything high or...knew it. He had kicked himself loose of the earth" (67). In the absence of any common standards to "invoke" or "appeal to," societal judgment erodes....
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