Sunrise2020 wrote: ↑October 17th, 2021, 11:49 pm
I’m glad you reminded me of the “Singapore Girl”, they’re among the most stylish flight attendants
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I find Conrad’s novels interesting enough to discover the whole breadth of his work. Even if some books are a bit less captivating than other.
Great that you’ve another book ready to go! Please let me know when it has been posted.
You're very tolerant, and I thank you very much!
I have just uploaded section 31:
https://librivox.org/uploads/craigdav1/rescue_31_conrad_128kb.mp3 (40:19)
You'll find I've now uploaded all of "Heart of Darkness" (it's quite a short, if gruelling, novella, about 4 hours listening time) at
viewtopic.php?f=28&t=89530&p=1958996#p1958996
I'm certainly not expecting you to drop everything to listen to it in a hurry just because I've suddenly uploaded 4 hours worth of files. It can certainly wait until we've finished "The Rescue". For what it's worth, it's probably Joseph Conrad's most famous work because, I suspect (a) it's short, so fits easily on a school or university curriculum (b) it's about a very powerful subject (c) it's written very well, and very tightly, and (d) it was brilliantly, if very loosely, adapted into a very famous film ("Apocalypse Now").
Actually, I should probably add (e) and Conrad actually took that steamboat voyage himself up the Congo, only eight or nine years before he wrote the story, and many of the elements of the story are directly based on his own, lived experience there.