...fiction. In the opening pages of Heart of Darkness is found perhaps the best known of these formulations: "But Marlow was not typical (if his propensity to...outside, enveloping the tale which brought it out only as a glow brings out a haze, in the likeness of one of these misty halos that, sometimes, are...

...how the stories of Marlow, the narrator of most of the novella, differ from those of other sailors: "The yarns of seamen have a direct simplicity, the...lies within the shell of a cracked nut . . . [But to Marlow,] the meaning of an episode was not inside like a kernel but outside, enveloping the tale...

...circular and ultimately meaningless. The outermost narrator says of Marlow's tales in general that "the meaning of an episode was not inside like a kernel...outside, enveloping the tale which brought it out only as a glow brings out a haze, in the likeness of one of these misty halos that sometimes are made...

...simplicity, the whole meaning of which lies within the shell of a cracked nut . . . [But to Marlow,] the meaning of an episode was not inside like a kernel...outside, enveloping the tale which brought it out only as a glow brings out a haze." Heart of Darkness does not reveal its meaning in digestible morsels,...

...longer than physics and psychology would ever allow us to understand. Life beckons. Always. From Conrad: "The meaning of an episode was not inside like a kernel...outside, enveloping the tale which brought it out only as a glow brings out a haze." So I sit here in a kind of purple haze, glowing with life and the...

...comparable to the contrast drawn by the narrator of Heart of Darkness between the 'yarns of seamen' which have a 'direct simplicity, the whole meaning of which lies within the shell of a cracked nut' and the narrative technique of Marlow for whom, 'the meaning of an episode was not inside like a kernel...

...citation of the famous passage in Heart of Darkness in which Marlow asserts that his tale's meaning is not "inside like a kernel but outside, enveloping the tale which brought it out only as a glow brings out a haze" (quoted in Naipaul, 227). Dangling here in the guise of a conclusion,...

...spaces, is enacted in Marlow's tale.38 The narrator describes Marlow's narrative as carrying its meaning "not inside like a kernel, but outside, enveloping the tale which brought it out only as a glow brings out a haze, in the likeness of one of these misty halos that sometimes are made...

...S. 14 6 = "Heart of Darkness", S. 27 7 = "Heart of Darkness", S. 26 but he was a wanderer, too ... but Marlow was not typical (if his propensity to spin yarns be excepted)."10 Uns wird also schon zu Beginn nahegelegt, unserem sich selbst als absolut ehrlich darstellenden...