By Joseph Conrad
Published: 1902
Episode: Walkabout, Numbers
Reference: Tell me something.. How come any time there's a hike into the heart of darkness, you sign up?" Jack to Kate. Walkabout.
"One minute you're happy go lucky good time Hurley, the next you're Colonel bloody Kurtz." Charlie to Hurley. Numbers.
Outline
It details an incident earlier in Marlow's life, a visit up what we can assume is the Congo River (although the name of the country Marlow is visiting is never specified in the text) to investigate the work of Kurtz, a Belgian trader in ivory in the Congo Free State..
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