... would disappear, a tiny projectile would give a feeble screech - and nothing happened. Nothing could happen. There was a touch of insanity in the proceeding, a sense of lugubrious drollery in the sight; and it was not dissipated by somebody on board assuring me earnestly there was a camp of natives - he called them ... ! - hidden out of sight somewhere."" (p 20) We can see that Marlow is beginning to realize that what seems normal in Europe doesn't make sense in Africa and vice versa. He says that sometimes he felt as if he didn't belong "to a world of straight-forward facts-(p 20). He ....

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