by Joseph Conrad
““No, I don’t like work. I had rather laze about and think of all the fine things that can be done. I don’t like work — no man does — but I like what is in the work — the chance to find yourself. Your own reality — for yourself, not for others — what no other man can ever know. They can only see the mere show, and never can tell what it really means.”
“No, I don’t like work. I had rather laze about and think of all the fine things that can be done. I don’t like work — no man does — but I like what is in the work — the chance to find yourself. Your own reality — for yourself, not for others — what no other man can ever know. They can only see the mere show, and never can tell what it really means.”
I started this novella after watching Apocalypse Now. This is my second time reading Conrad.
“Some knowledge of yourself is the only reward life offers.” I can’t remember anymore if Conrad said that or if he had Marlowe say it. Half of my b...
