Originally posted by Bandit LOAF
Dear God:~(
Give the kid a break, LOAF... Not everyone read
Heart of Darkness, especially us non-English Europeans...
I was lucky (mmmh, "lucky", I don't know... <G> ) to read it because I went to a bilingual school in France...
Originally posted by Mekt-Hakkikt
Er, care to explain, mpanty? "Heart of darkness", hmm, wasn't that also that jump'n'run game which took so long to get developed? A French game, IIRC...
Eh eh... no no no, Mekt!
Heart of Darkness
is also a game (arcade-action, if I recall), but
Heart of Darkness is a very famous novel by Joseph Conrad, the kind of novel you usually read in high school.
It is the story of an ivory trader, Kurtz, who went in the jungle to bring "civilization" to the primitive tribes, through the commerce of ivory namely.
I don't remember the story exactly, but there's an expedition aboard a steamboat (going up the jungle's river) to find Kurtz, and the character that tells the story (Marlow) is part of this expedition...
In essence, throughout the book, Conrad pictures the slow degradation of "civilized" man as they step deep into the heart of the jungle, degradation that takes places morally, as well as physically.
The character of Kurtz notablyamong all his other shady practices, allows himself to be worshipped as a god...
Obviously, the interpretation of the book goes well beyond that...
I did not particularly like it when I first read it... it was a bit too "dark" for me (no play on words here).
In any case, as LOAF mentioned, his quote comes from the book, and my "THE HORROR! THE HORROR!" is also a quite famous passage from Conrad's novel...
So there, mystery solved for Mekt!
Mekt, if you'd like to read the book, a online version can be found at:
http://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~csicseri/