Part 1, Central Station
The accountant first mentions Kurtz: 'a first-class agent... a very remarkable person.'
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From Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Kurtz is built up through rumor before he appears: a genius, a universal genius, a voice, the best agent, a poet, painter, musician, and emissary of pity, science, and progress.
Part 2
'All Europe contributed to the making of Kurtz' — his cosmopolitan European pedigree, ironic given his savagery.
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Kurtz's report for the International Society for the Suppression of Savage Customs, ending with the scrawled postscript: 'Exterminate all the brutes!'
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