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Finally Read Heart, after so many years in waiting. Fine. …now reading the other stories in the book.

In lectures “The Making of Modern Ukraine” Yale professor Timothy Snyder cited Arendt’s ORIGINS of TOTALITARIANISM as a long riff on HEART OF DARKNESS, putting it into perspective.

Conrad was born in Berdychiv, (northern Ukraine) between the Austrian, Polish-Lithuanian commonwealth, and Russian empires. He directly experienced colonialism — and racist rationales of craven opportunists & god complexes.