 Antonia could not possibly have ever loved a being so impalpable as himself), the solitude appeared like a great void, and the silence of the gulf like a tense, thin cord to which he hung suspended by both hands, without fear, without surprise, without...  Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard - Page 425by Joseph Conrad - 1904 - 480 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Ian Watt, Ian P. Watt - Literary Criticism - 1988 - 124 pages
...individuality 'had merged into the world of cloud and water, of natural forces and forms of nature' where 'the solitude appeared like a great void, and the...without surprise, without any sort of emotion whatever', the metaphor of the cord of silence takes us inside Decoud's isolated delirium. The physical basis... | |
 | Mark Wollaeger - Literary Criticism - 1990 - 288 pages
...the hide merchant from Esmeralda stranded in Sulaco by the revolution. To Decoud, in his last hours, "the solitude appeared like a great void, and the...thin cord to which he hung suspended by both hands" ^498). The cord clearly recalls Hirsch, who is tortured by strappado before being shot by Sotillo,... | |
 | Con Coroneos - Literature, Modern - 2002 - 218 pages
...actually appears to he that of the San Tome mine. stranded on the Great Isabel, to commit suicide: 'the solitude appeared like a great void, and the...thin cord to which he hung suspended by both hands' (p. 414l. And yet what is actually encountered in the representation of that facade is a great roat... | |
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