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October 3, 2013

"To Make You See"

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"My task which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel — it is, before all, to make you see. That — and no more, and it is everything. If I succeed, you shall find there according to your deserts: encouragement, consolation, fear, charm — all you demand; and, perhaps, also that glimpse of truth for which you have forgotten to ask." - - Joseph Conrad, Preface to The Nigger of the 'Narcissus'

Posted by gerardvanderleun at October 3, 2013 4:48 PM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.

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I still think his best work is The African-American of the Narcissus.

Posted by: B Lewis at October 3, 2013 6:04 PM

I still think his best work is The African-American of the Narcissus.

Posted by: B Lewis at October 3, 2013 6:04 PM

No, it is the N word of the Narcissus. And that phrase was written by a man whose third language was English, which he taught himself using newspapers and maps. But what a writer!

Posted by: Jewel at October 4, 2013 8:18 AM

I always feel like an emotional flake when I look at pictures like this. I respond immediately.

Posted by: Grace at October 5, 2013 9:48 AM

i must add a link to thia blog, from mine, if you dont mind, please reply, mwah

Posted by: Stanley Belsheim at October 30, 2013 8:56 AM

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