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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Conrad, Joseph

Conrad, Joseph
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
Lord Jim: Chapters 13 - 19

Chapter Thirteen.

Marlow continues describing his interview with the Frenchman. As the
Frenchman sighs, saying how quickly time passes, Marlow has a vision, and sees
the Frenchman as if with new eyes. He sees the old man as "raw material" out
of which great men are made; but time had passed the old man by, and he had an
honorable, but obscure, position aboard a French warship. As Marlow tells the
Frenchman what he had learned, the old man meditates, and then begins a
discussion of fear and bravery. He tells Marlow that all men ...

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