HOD

Wow! Yet another late blog. Here's a summary:

Charles Marlow, an Old man on a fishing boat and/or boat of some sort is out on the Thames river with his friends. He is an odd fellow but when he talks, you listen. He begins a speech, which his friends brace themselves for i should hope, and rants about roman times and how the river was very different and wars where faught there and a bunch of sentimental stuff that's gonna have to do with the ending of the book i should have no doubt. He then tells of how he saw a bird and it reminded him that he should go trade on a steamboat(nice connection!?!?!?!). He then goes to look for a job and, what-a-ya-know someone died! That and his auntie was sleeping with someone who knew someone so he got a job in a steamboat heading to africa and he meets with his manager and a bunch of this crew mates and they mostly talk about Kurtz, a very mysterious but successful man whom they are going to rescue from the heart of the congo (DANGEROUS!). It's just wild and it should get even better.

I did like this section. I like how marlow is speaking yet it stilll sounds like a narrorated story, because essentially it is, i just find that to be a cool way to write a book. I didn't think the vocab was that hard, it just made lots of sence that made the pictures in my head jump out more. Example: "Brought from all the recesses of the coast in all the legality of time contracts, lost in uncongenial surroundings, fed on unfamiliar food, they sickened, became inefficient, and were then allowed to crawl away and rest" (14) Conrad could have just said "they were unfamiliar with the place and got sick and didn't work well" but...he didn't cause he is a MASTER! The buildup of kurtz is cool too. Will he live up to the hype? We'll see.