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05-24-2005, 06:07 PM
After reading all the comments, by both "enlightened readers and some dullards as well, I feel that the most critical point is missed. THE book was written in the Victorian age, by a white man that actually ventured into the Belgium Congo. It is autobiographic in nature and has almost nothing, F-all, niks, zlich to do with the higher orders of psychology, the human psyche ext. It is a real exposure of how low "europeans", the white man ext. can delve. To over analyse an exposure of Belgium Congo, is like now claiming that the US soldiers torturing Iraqi prisoners never happened but was rather only a novel..., story written by the partivipants to impress their friends.<br>Get real!! Joseph Conrad was a real person who exposed real abuses. The book is not boring but rather an attempt to come to terms with the reality or savagery of the "civilised conquerer". The US in Iraq in 2004, and the Belgians in the Congo, 1904. History repeats itself. <br>