Notes on Life & Letters - Joseph Conrad

their detachment and silence. But of the white crews of British ships and almost exclusively British in blood and d ...

of mankind. Who can tell how a tradition comes into the world? We are children of the earth. ...

plucky cockleshells on and on beyond the successive provocations of your unreadable horizons.” Ah, but the charm ...

state-room while the captain was asleep there. But look, now, at the fantasy of the man! After going t ...

And now for the point of view. It was given to me by a short, black-bearded A.B. of the crew, who on se ...

Afterwards, with the course of years, risk became a part of his daily work; he would have missed it f ...

compound of these three, something perhaps smaller than either, but something much more definite for the si ...

engaging ruffians. This gave me some food for thought. Was it, then, in that guise that the ...

And work will overcome all evil, except ignorance, which is the condition of humanity and, like the a ...

national industry. Never was the need greater and the call to the services more urgent than to-day. ...

stout hearts, the same fidelity to an exacting tradition created by simple toilers who in their time knew ...

was entangled under the boat. As it was impossible to right her, we set-to to split her side open w ...

The chief engineer commends also the ship steward for the manner in which he made the little food they ...

upon the mind a half-unconscious sense of its inner significance. We have all heard of the well-kno ...

afloat and ashore, nursed dumbly a mysterious sense of its greatness. It sheltered magnificently their vagab ...

eminently. When the great opportunity came to them to link arms in response to a supreme call t ...

known, is the worst kind of anger) to drive British seamen, armed or unarmed, from the seas. Firm in ...

existence has been passed in familiar contact with salt water, and I was aware, theoretically, that water ...

Come along.” A lot of officers closed round me, rushed me into a hut: two of them began to button m ...

in a block of suspended marble. Even while looking over at the aeroplane’s shadow running prettily over ...