Here the sweep's unfeeling sanctimonious parents have clothed him in the clothes of death and taught him to sing the notes of woe. ... Unlike the nurse of Innocence, she does not encourage the children to enjoy the pleasures of their youth, but seeks to shatter their joy with the sour comment: Your spring and your day are wasted in play, And your winter and night in disguise. ...
Marlow and his crew come across a hut with stacked firewood, together with a note saying that the wood is for them but that they should approach cautiously. ... Kurtz disappears in the night, and Marlow goes out in search of him, finding him crawling on all fours toward the native camp. ...
BIOGRAPHY According to Life Magazine and several other sources, Thomas Edison was "the most influential figure of the millennium." Contrary to what is sometimes assumed, Thomas Edison was not born into poverty in a backwoods mid-western village. He was born, on Feb. 11, 1847, to middle-class parents in the bustling port of Milan, Ohio: a community that, next to Odessa, Russia, was the largest wheat shipping center in the world. In 1854, his family moved to Port Huron, Michigan, which was also an up and coming shipping center. Not long after young Tom - who was called "Al" in his earliest...
