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Seeing the Animal: Colonial Space and Movement in Joseph Conrad's Lord Jim

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From: Novel
Date: 20040701
Author:Krishnan, Sanjay

But there are degrees of feeling-the muffled, the faint, the just sufficient, the barely intelligent, as we may say; and the acute, the intense, the complete, in a word-the power to be finely aware and richly responsible. It is those moved in the latter fashion who "get most" out of all that happ ens to them ... We care, our curiosity and our sympathy care, comparatively little for what happens to the stupid, the coarse, and the blind; care for it, and for the effects of it, at the most as helping to precipitate what happens to the more deeply wondering, to the really sentient.

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