Call of the Dark
Posted by lordpinoy on May 9, 2006
I have tried to break the spell — the heavy mute spell of the wilderness — that seemed to draw him to its pitiless breast by the awakening of forgotten and brutal instincts, by the memory of gratified and monstrous passions. This alone, I was convinced, had driven him out to the edge of the forest, to the bush, towards the gleam of fires, the throb of drums, the drone of weird incantations; this alone had beguiled his unlawful soul beyond the bounds of permitted aspirations
Marlowe
——– From “The Heart of Darkness” by Joseph Conrad
