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A multitude of stars coming out into the clear night peopled the emptiness of the sky. They glittered, as if alive above the sea; they surrounded the running ship on all sides: more intense than the eyes of a staring crowd, and as inscrutable as the souls of men. -Joseph Conrad, The Nigger of the Narcissus. Happy Birthday, Marlowe (sea sub narrator of Youth, Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, Chance), and to perhaps my favorite writer in English as a secondary language, which he once described as being like throwing mud at a blank wall ... but what a sculptor in mud ....
Posted on: Tue, 03 Dec 2013 21:28:12 +0000

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