The city of Brussels itself reminds Marlow of a "whited sepulchre-(p 14) which in the Bible, in Matthew's Gospel, is described as a pure and white fazade hiding death and decay. ... Pop, would go one of the six-inch guns; a small flame would dart and vanish, a little white smoke would disappear, a tiny projectile would give a feeble screech - and nothing happened. ... He appears to be the only white person who is affected by the scene of men and women dying in the streets and in the grove of death. ... Initially Marlow was impressed by the African coast and its seductive hold over him, bu...

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