to boldly go where no man has gone before

These most wonderful daring words - of course - are about Star Trek but this post is not.

I simply chose them as the title because I like them.

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As with most hard books I have not actually read Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness word for word
but simply have scanned it for the parts I really like.


In the case of Heart of Darkness I bought the book when I became aware of its
connection to the movie Apocalypse Now - a movie that I love but rarely watch
because it gets so dark in the end.  But it is a beautiful darkness and is made even
more beautiful by Martin Sheen and even more so by the genius of Marlon Brando.

Because I am in the middle of the move of my life I confess to not having turned to
the book to write this post - although I have it here beside me and it has a great picture
on the front -but rather to google without whom I am nothing.

According to Wikipedia Heart of Darkness is a heavily symbolic story within a story -
and the term that most catches my attention is 'unfathomable darkness'  - perfect for a
wannabe abstract painter who heavily indentifies with the despondency - if not the
unobtainable talent - of Jackson Pollock.


Here are some phrases - not complete quotes - from Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness that I
lifted from google:

~buried in a vast grave of unspeakable secrets

~the unseen presence of victorious corruption, the darkness of an unpenetrable night

~that seemed to draw him to its pitiless breast by the awakening of forgotten brutal instincts

~the horror!  the horror!

~the offing was barred by a black bank of clouds, and the tranquil waterway leading to the
uttermost ends of the earth flowed somber under an overcast sky - seemed to lead into the
heart of an immense darkness

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Don't have time to read the book?

Rent the movie - directed brilliantly by Francis Ford Coppola.