![]() It become a place of darkness." The little chap's seemingly commendable "passion for maps" and "dreams" of glorious exploration have become the grown man's colonizing lust transformed into imperialistic nightmare. looked particularly inviting on a map (but they all look that) I would put my finger on it and say, When I grow up I will go there." Fortunate enough to have been born in nineteenth-century England, the grown man has lived out the little chap's dreams of exploration "in every sort of latitude all over the two hemispheres." But, as Marlow ruefully confesses, the hankerings of nineteenth-century European explorers must be tempered by the recognition that, what was once virgin territory inviting European possession has, at least since his boyhood, "ceased to be a blank space of delightful mystery - a white patch for a boy to dream gloriously over. At that time there were many blank spaces on the earth, and when I saw one that. I would look for hours at South America, or Africa, or Australia, and lose myself in all the glories of exploration. ![]() ![]() ![]() Near the beginning of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, Marlow confides to his listeners that "when I was a little chap I had a passion for maps. ![]()
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