heart of darkness
Sep. 15th, 2003 11:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elvendolli had a really hard time starting the book. i took issue with the tone - with books of/"by" sailors having an overly eloquent tone, wordy sentences - in my head, sailors are commoners or are down to earth, and neither subset would talk like that.
a bit over halfway through, it grew on me. my disappointment with faust (part 1) and demian was that they alluded to characters possessing greater/higher knowledge, but, at least to me, were unable to show that, vs. telling. heart of darkness showed me.
it also gave me a glimpse into the lustre of power.
i never understood it before.
to me, 'life is what you make of it', but sometimes, it takes a whole lot of effort to construct the circumstances that allow you to make a particual situation/feeling you're craving.
with this, i saw that wielding power allows you ease to create what you will; with power, less effort goes into the construction because there is less vulnerability, less at stake, less, proportionally, to be lost by taking a liberty.
also, i'm glad i skipped yoga.
i'm going to write my one pager on jekyll and hyde tomorrow at lunch, i'm a little too braindead for it now, but, once i finish up here and wash dishes, i'll have a decent night of sleep.
a bit over halfway through, it grew on me. my disappointment with faust (part 1) and demian was that they alluded to characters possessing greater/higher knowledge, but, at least to me, were unable to show that, vs. telling. heart of darkness showed me.
it also gave me a glimpse into the lustre of power.
i never understood it before.
to me, 'life is what you make of it', but sometimes, it takes a whole lot of effort to construct the circumstances that allow you to make a particual situation/feeling you're craving.
with this, i saw that wielding power allows you ease to create what you will; with power, less effort goes into the construction because there is less vulnerability, less at stake, less, proportionally, to be lost by taking a liberty.
also, i'm glad i skipped yoga.
i'm going to write my one pager on jekyll and hyde tomorrow at lunch, i'm a little too braindead for it now, but, once i finish up here and wash dishes, i'll have a decent night of sleep.
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Date: 2003-09-16 04:03 pm (UTC)apocalypse now is not only inspired by heart of darkness, but basically IS a "modern" adaptation thereof ! the characters' names are all the same and everything... it's just set in vietnam, which makes it even more horrifying, if thats even possible...
i <3 h.o.d.
Date: 2003-09-16 04:01 pm (UTC)i LOVE heart of darkness
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i had an amazing professor (who also would recite t.s. elliot's the wasteland and beowulf off the top of his head) teach it
he had us watch apocalypse now + hearts of darkness (the documentary that coppola's wife filmed that was later edited into a really interesting film. highly recommend it if you just read the book) + there is also a made-for-teevee movie with (gasp!) john malkovitch + tim roth in it which is really good also
http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0110002/
that's the one.
the apocalypse now that was recently released (redux) isn't as true to the novel, but its still really interesting....