An excerpt from Mark Dintenfass' lecture on Heart of Darkness...
"In short, for Conrad, 'truth' in fiction is not philosophical; it is rather, like the truth in painting and music, an appeal to beauty and mystery and pain, an appeal to our capacity for delight and wonder and loneliness and fellowship-- an appeal, in other words, to the fullness of all our multitudinous experience."
Rewind to my very first journal entry...
"I was excited because I've come to conclusion that it's the darkest of artistic mediums that are the most interesting; they attract more question, theory, and mystery. How could one resist?"
Nice to know that Conrad is among the many who cannot.
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