Sep 10, 2007 16:39
16 yrs ago
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About Kurtz's eloquence
English
Science
History
HEART OF DARKNESS
31:35 timestamp. I can hear ((adjectival insistencies)) here.
LAURENCE DAVIES: There is a great deal about eloquence in this story. Kurtz is famous for his eloquence . Marlow is notorious--
MELVYN BRAGG: Notorious
LAURENCE DAVIES: yes, for his own 31:35 ((adjectival insistencies)), one ((could)) (()) called it. And yet the most eloquent moment is this succinct, ‘The horror! The horror!’, which you can take as everything from the reaction of a man who’s facing death and who sees his career as a sham, right through to a horror of being in a vast universe where it’s very hard to find any meaning. There is a great emphasis on scale in this work, on the time scale, on the geographical scale.
You can listen to the programme here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_2007...
LAURENCE DAVIES: There is a great deal about eloquence in this story. Kurtz is famous for his eloquence . Marlow is notorious--
MELVYN BRAGG: Notorious
LAURENCE DAVIES: yes, for his own 31:35 ((adjectival insistencies)), one ((could)) (()) called it. And yet the most eloquent moment is this succinct, ‘The horror! The horror!’, which you can take as everything from the reaction of a man who’s facing death and who sees his career as a sham, right through to a horror of being in a vast universe where it’s very hard to find any meaning. There is a great emphasis on scale in this work, on the time scale, on the geographical scale.
You can listen to the programme here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_2007...
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adjectival insistence, as one critic has called it
This is what I hear
"...yes, for his own adjectival insistence, as one critic has called it."
"...yes, for his own adjectival insistence, as one critic has called it."
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