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Why in the name of all the gnawing devils of hunger they didn't go for us... I would just as soon have expected restraint from a hyena prowling amongst the corpses of a battlefield.Read in Books4Free →
Restraint and the Cannibal Crew
From Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Marlow marvels at the inexplicable restraint of his starving cannibal crew, contrasting it with Kurtz's total lack of restraint — a key moral inversion.
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Of Kurtz: 'There was nothing either above or below him... He had kicked himself loose of the earth.'
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