Lauren’s Reviews > Heart of Darkness & Other Stories > Status Update

if I was an annotating kind of girl I would be highlighting this left right and centre !

‘The brown current ran swiftly out of the heart of darkness, bearing us down towards the sea with twice the speed of our upward progress; and Kurtz’s life was running swiftly too, ebbing, ebbing out of his heart in the sea of inexorable time.’

reminding me of Hemingway & Melville but I think that’s literally just because of the subject matter (man on boat)