... - 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 realizes that ... to the doctor's earlier comments. The wilderness - the darkness - grows on him. He feels annoyed at his white companion, the personification of a weak and greedy colonial, and at the same time he feels that the native drums that are heard sometimes might have "as profound a meaning as the sound of bells ...

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