#i could also be very scathing about conrad & the casement trial if i weren’t specifically talking about conrad as a novelist
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On the subject of being a Joseph Conrad hater, perhaps the most vicious thing I can say about him as a writer (one of the more damning things I can imagine saying about anyone as a writer) is that Heart of Darkness amounts to a more artful expression of Leopold II’s excuses on the rare occasions anyone could induce him to admit that anything untoward might be happening in the Congo at all
#‘the african climate has a deleterious effect on some of the soldiers’ or something to that effect#man really went and wrote a novella to avoid having to deal with his own cognitive dissonance.#most fundamental and definitional way to fail as a writer imho: to be too much a coward to look the truth in the eye#anyway don’t half ass your hate people. go for the jugular. be properly scathing.#lit tag#my posts#i could also be very scathing about conrad & the casement trial if i weren’t specifically talking about conrad as a novelist
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