Wednesday, September 08, 2004
My next Conrad topic
After finishing Heart of Darkness (again), I've been trying to decide what to start on next. I toyed with the idea of fisking the Joyce Carol Oates intro of my Penguin edition. But on second reading the political correctness was pretty perfunctory, just enough to keep the sistahs from the Women's Studies dept. off her back. Then I was thinking of a biographical study of Conrad himself. But I've decided instead to read Nostromo. I think this is the perfect choice, it's set in Latin America which is convenient because this might be the basis for a course I could some day be teaching to the children of rich Colombians.
Trivia question: In which sci-fi movie is one of the space ships named Nostromo?
Trivia question: In which sci-fi movie is one of the space ships named Nostromo?
papijoe 4:08 PM
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