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Non potevano esservi stati altri due cuori così aperti, altri gusti così simili, altri sentimenti così all'unisono, altri volti così amati. Adesso erano due estranei; no, peggio che estranei, poiché non avrebbero più potuto conoscersi: separati per sempre.
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― Persuasion
― Persuasion
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he main point is that Conrad realistically described the terrible things done by Belgians in the Congo. Hochschild certainly wishes this was Conrad’s purpose. He repeats an old theory that Kurtz was based on the EIC officer Léon Rom whom Conrad “may have met” in 1890 and “almost certainly” read about in 1898. Visitors noted that Rom’s garden was decorated with polished skulls buried in the ground, the garden gnomes of the Congo then. But Kurtz’s compound has no skulls buried in the ground but ra
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― King Hochschild’s Hoax: An absurdly deceptive book on Congolese rubber production is better described as historical fiction.
― King Hochschild’s Hoax: An absurdly deceptive book on Congolese rubber production is better described as historical fiction.
