Part 2
Of the Manager: 'Perhaps there was nothing within him.'
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From Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
A recurring image: Kurtz and the Europeans are 'hollow at the core,' a theme that influenced T.S. Eliot's 'The Hollow Men.'
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'I had then, as you remember, just returned to London... he was hollow at the core.' Kurtz as the supreme example of European hollowness.
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