... make men morally hollow, and create a permanent nightmare in the soul. The fears Conrad expresses find an echo in T.S. Eliot's poetry, especially in his poem The Hollow Men with the epigraph 'Mistah Kurtz – he dead' – a direct quotation from Conrad's novella. His was an impenetrable darkness. I looked at him as you peer down at a man who is lying at ... ...

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