...day (p. 95). The journey up-river is a return to the primeval in geographical and ethical time: 48 Going up that river was like travelling back to the...rioted on the earth and the big trees were kings. . .We were wanderers on prehistoric earth, on an earth that wore the aspect of an unknown planet. ....

...Station, he imagines he is hearing an "ichthyosaurus . . . taking a bath" (86); later he recalls that "going up that river was like travelling back to the...rioted on the earth and the big trees were kings" (92-93). The primeval world which Marlow encounters is a very far cry from that of noble savages: "We...

...[etc.] Conrad's "The Heart of Darkness," Chapter 2, paragraph 4 Going up that river was like traveling back to the earliest beginnings of the world, when...rioted on the earth and the big trees were kings. . . . [etc.] Page 187 ay ay strangle your heart o israfel winged with loneliness Poe's "Israfel" In...

...way of approaching truth. Space symbolizes time; the story's adventures foster understanding. "Cloing up that river was like travelling back to the earliest beginnings of the world ..." (34). "We were travelling in the night of first ages ..." (36). The "mythological" narrative (of...

...clearly as can be, just short of using Irigaray's terminology, as a passage to the maternal origin: "Going up that river was like travelling back to the...of the world, when vegetation rioted on the earth. ... An empty stream, a great silence, an impenetrable forest. The air was warm, thick, heavy, sluggish"...

...for readers toward repression. First Marlow describes the sense of irrepressible life: "Going up the river was like travelling back to the earliest beginnings...rioted on the earth and the big trees were kings" (48). Next, the sense of the heterogeneity between this force and the habitual sense of reality constructed...

...at Kurtz's station in the jungle, he is "transported into some lightless region of subtle horrors." "Going up that river was like travelling back to the earliest beginnings of the world," and it is also like traveling deep into one's own mind, a locus associated appropriately with dreams:...

...messianic time.37 The journey up the river becomes, in these circumstances, regressive: '"Going up the river was like travelling back to the earliest beginnings...rioted on the earth and the big trees were kings' " (35). Regressive time, which takes us to a time before temporality, is also empty time, and empty...

...of the authorial narrator, a fear of regression to the primitive which echoes Marlow's narrative in Heart of Darkness: "Going up that river was like travelling back to the earliest beginnings of the world". A similar atavistic preoccupation underlies the authorial narrator's attitude towards the anarchists....

...character of solemnity, absent in those countries long civilized. (Darwin 1959(1845): 280) Going up the river was like travelling back to the earliest beginnings of the world, when vegetation rioted on Earth and the big trees were kings. An empty stream, a great silence, an impenetrable forest. (Conrad...