...years, without so much as having seen him whose voice it was; you heard only a voice, and you followed. To give just one more example, anyone who witnessed...white smoke would disappear, a tiny projectile would give a feeble screech — and nothing happened. Nothing could happen. There was a touch of insanity...

...the low hull; the greasy, slimy swell swung her up lazily and let her down, swaying her thin masts. In the empty immensity of earth, sky, and water, there...white smoke would disappear, a tiny projectile would give a feeble screech - and nothing happened. Nothing could happen. There was a touch of insanity in...

...way deeper and deeper into the heart of darkness: the French ship firing pointlessly into the bush ("Pop, would go one of the six-inch guns; a small...white smoke would disappear, a tiny projectile would give a feeble screech — and nothing happened. Nothing could happen" [29]); the dying "workers" in...

...participant. Even then, he saw the fatuity of the "civilized" French man-of-war's shelling the bush: "Pop, would go one of the six-inch guns; a small flame...white smoke would disappear, a tiny projectile would give a feeble screech — and nothing happened" (62). 5. The Logic of the Humanities, trans. Clarence...

...thin masts. In the empry immensity of earth, sky and waler, there she was, incomprehensible, fiting into a continent. Pop, would go one of the six-inch...guns; a small flame would dart and vanish, a little while smoke would disappear, a tiny projectile would give a feeble screech - and nothing happened....

...bateau de guerre français est en train de lancer des obus dans la brousse. On ne voit rien du tout: „In the empty immensity of earth, sky, and water,...she was, incomprehensible, firing into a continent." (p. 61sv.). Tout aussi incompréhensibles sont les explosions sur une pente de rochers: „A horn tooted...

...was impressed with its superficiality. He wrote of a French man-o-war shelling at some target inland: "Pop, would go one of the six-inch guns; a small flame...white smoke would disappear, a tiny projectile would give a feeble screech - and nothing happened."21 True enough, perhaps, for that day or that month,...

...the low hull; the greasy, slimy swell swung her up lazily and let her down, swaying her thin masts. In the empty immensity of earth, sky, and water, there...firing into a continent. Pop, would go one of the eight-inch guns; a small flame would dart and vanish, a little white smoke would disappear, a tiny...

...Conrad's narrator, Marlow, describes this early in his journey, watching a French ship shelling the jungle: "In the empty immensity of earth, sky, and...she was, incomprehensible, firing into a continent" (Conrad 1989: 41). But within the shadows of such incomprehensible (and seemingly futile and pointless)...

...warship which is anchored off the coast and firing shells into the bush in an apparently blind manner. 'In the empty immensity of earth, sky and water, there...she was, incomprehensible, firing into a continent .... There was a touch of insanity in the proceeding.' The explanation is that 'the French have one...