Thursday, June 1, 2017

Heart of Darkness

I must admit I have never read any of Joseph Conrad's books, but I think of him of these terms, human condition, existential loneliness, colonialism, racism, imperialism, pessimism, de-humanized, good and evil, light and darkness, Nietzsche…
It took me 20 years to gather my courage to watch Francis Coppola's Apocalypse Now. But I will never brave enough to read Joseph Conrad's Hearts of Darkness. I know T. E. Lawrence, Bertrand Russell, Alfred Hitchcock, William Faulkner, Bob Dylan… and just about almost everybody love him, but I just simply can't.

How things linked: Hearts of Darkness, 1899—Apocalypse Now, 1979—The End by Jim Morrison, 1967—Paris, 1971—Paris, 1977—me

scene from Francis Coppola's Apocalypse Now
Jim Morrison's tomb in Paris

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