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Every age is fed on illusions, lest men should renounce life early and the human race come to an end.
-- Joseph Conrad

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #JosephConrad #Illusions

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Sunset #Florida

Der Wahnsinn begann mit einem Befehl. „Terminate with extreme prejudice.“ Die Mission: einen amerikanischen Offizier zu liquidieren, weil er sich der Logik des Krieges in Vietnam entzogen hat. Ausgestiegen. Oder aufgestiegen? In einen Zustand, in dem Vernunft nicht mehr messbar ist. „Apocalypse Now“ ist kein Antikriegsfilm. Er ist ein Dokument des imperialen Wahns. Er glaubt nicht an Erlösung. Auch nicht an Erkenntnis. (ARD, Wh)

Der Wahnsinn begann mit einem Befehl. „Terminate with extreme prejudice.“ Die Mission: einen amerikanischen Offizier zu liquidieren, weil er sich der Logik des Krieges in Vietnam entzogen hat. Ausgestiegen. Oder aufgestiegen? In einen Zustand, in dem Vernunft nicht mehr messbar ist. „Apocalypse Now“ ist kein Antikriegsfilm. Er ist ein Dokument des imperialen Wahns. Er glaubt nicht an Erlösung. Auch nicht an Erkenntnis. (ARD, Wh)

Der Wahnsinn begann mit einem Befehl. „Terminate with extreme prejudice.“ Die Mission: einen amerikanischen Offizier zu liquidieren, weil er sich der Logik des Krieges in Vietnam entzogen hat. Ausgestiegen. Oder aufgestiegen? In einen Zustand, in dem Vernunft nicht mehr messbar ist. „Apocalypse Now“ ist kein Antikriegsfilm. Er ist ein Dokument des imperialen Wahns. Er glaubt nicht an Erlösung. Auch nicht an Erkenntnis. (ARD, Wh)

Der Wahnsinn begann mit einem Befehl. „Terminate with extreme prejudice.“ Die Mission: einen amerikanischen Offizier zu liquidieren, weil er sich der Logik des Krieges in Vietnam entzogen hat. Ausgestiegen. Oder aufgestiegen? In einen Zustand, in dem Vernunft nicht mehr messbar ist. „Apocalypse Now“ ist kein Antikriegsfilm. Er ist ein Dokument des imperialen Wahns. Er glaubt nicht an Erlösung. Auch nicht an Erkenntnis. (ARD, Wh)

Der Wahnsinn begann mit einem Befehl. „Terminate with extreme prejudice.“ Die Mission: einen amerikanischen Offizier zu liquidieren, weil er sich der Logik des Krieges in Vietnam entzogen hat. Ausgestiegen. Oder aufgestiegen? In einen Zustand, in dem Vernunft nicht mehr messbar ist. „Apocalypse Now“ ist kein Antikriegsfilm. Er ist ein Dokument des imperialen Wahns. Er glaubt nicht an Erlösung. Auch nicht an Erkenntnis. (ARD, Wh)

A quotation from Joseph Conrad

“No,” interrupted the doctor. “There is no peace and no rest in the development of material interests. They have their law, and their justice. But it is founded on expediency, and is inhuman; it is without rectitude, without the continuity and the force that can be found only in moral principle.”

Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) Polish-English novelist [b. Teodor Josef Konrad Korzeniowski]
Nostromo, Part 3 “The Lighthouse,” ch. 10 (1904)

More about this quote: wist.info/conrad-joseph/81693/

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A quotation from Joseph Conrad

“No,” interrupted the doctor. “There is no peace and no rest in the development of material interests. They have their law, and their justice. But it is founded on expediency, and is inhuman; it is without rectitude, without the continuity and the force that can be found only in moral principle.”

Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) Polish-English novelist [b. Teodor Josef Konrad Korzeniowski]
Nostromo, Part 3 “The Lighthouse,” ch. 10 (1904)

More about this quote: wist.info/conrad-joseph/81693/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #josephconrad #nostromo #amorality #bigbusiness #businessinterests #expediency #materialthings #money #property #wealth

A quotation from Joseph Conrad

“No,” interrupted the doctor. “There is no peace and no rest in the development of material interests. They have their law, and their justice. But it is founded on expediency, and is inhuman; it is without rectitude, without the continuity and the force that can be found only in moral principle.”

Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) Polish-English novelist [b. Teodor Josef Konrad Korzeniowski]
Nostromo, Part 3 “The Lighthouse,” ch. 10 (1904)

More about this quote: wist.info/conrad-joseph/81693/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #josephconrad #nostromo #amorality #bigbusiness #businessinterests #expediency #materialthings #money #property #wealth

A quotation from Joseph Conrad

“No,” interrupted the doctor. “There is no peace and no rest in the development of material interests. They have their law, and their justice. But it is founded on expediency, and is inhuman; it is without rectitude, without the continuity and the force that can be found only in moral principle.”

Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) Polish-English novelist [b. Teodor Josef Konrad Korzeniowski]
Nostromo, Part 3 “The Lighthouse,” ch. 10 (1904)

More about this quote: wist.info/conrad-joseph/81693/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #josephconrad #nostromo #amorality #bigbusiness #businessinterests #expediency #materialthings #money #property #wealth

I don't like work – no man does – but I like what is in the work, – the chance to find yourself. #JosephConrad #HeartOfDarkness 1902

@Spencro

Oh, I will have to read those James and Conrad pastiches by Max Beerbohm. Thank you for your review (subtle and insightful, as ever). I'll order the book from Topping & Company.

The Arnold Bennett piece will be a special bonus. I spent a large part of my younger life in the Stoke area; memories.

#MaxBeerbohm #JosephConrad #HenryJames #ArnoldBennett

"The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness." 10 Joseph Conrad Quotes

https://topicaltens.blogspot.com/2025/12/3-december-joseph-conrad-quotes.html

#BirthAnniversary #Quotes #JosephConrad

Francis Ford Coppola – „Apocalypse Now – Final Cut“ (1979)

Der Wahnsinn begann mit einem Befehl. „Terminate with extreme prejudice.“ Die Mission: einen amerikanischen Offizier zu liquidieren, weil er sich der Logik des Krieges in Vietnam entzogen hat. Ausgestiegen. Oder aufgestiegen? In einen Zustand, in dem Vernunft nicht mehr messbar ist. „Apocalypse Now“ ist kein Antikriegsfilm. Er ist ein Dokument des imperialen Wahns. Er glaubt nicht an Erlösung. Auch nicht an Erkenntnis. (ARD, Wh)

An Outcast of the Islands of Lost Souls

#LoveABookASong
#JosephConrad
#Blondie
#HashTagGames

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7gqErYW0K0

@mms

So gracious of you to admit to it!!

An unnecessary fear.

As with every novel, when reading a Mann novel one just has to suspend disbelief and follow it through. Once you accept that, you are fine.

The Magic Mountain, Doctor Faustus, Lotte in Weimar, each of these perfòrms absolute literary magic, and you will enjoy the journey.

These are "late Thomas Mann" books. They define our era. The earlier works: masterful but historical, no need to worry about them.

But these three books: they are alive now, burning hot.

(As is every single Conrad novel.)

#JosephConrad #ThomasMann #TheMagicMountain #DoktotFaustus #LotteInWeimar

@mms

"The Shadow Line" (1917) in my view is the second-greatest book ever written. (The first, of course, being The Magic Mountain, published just 7 years later but distinctly in a different era. Conrad is "transition to modernism", Mann is modernism.)

#JosephConrad #TheShadowLine #ThomasMann #TheMagicMountain

@mms

German as the language of mathematics.

It allows for long composite words, which still have some concrete, tangible meaning. Its sentences can be complex yet they remain intuitive. And the mature writer can throw in concrete everyday notions, slang, to give added meaning to an abstract concept.

van der Waerden is a master of all of these.

(I live, work and write in English, and I love English and its writers with all my heart. Interestingly, my favourite English novelist is Joseph Conrad, whose native language was Polish.

#language #SecondLanguage #mathematics #VanDerWaerden #JosephConrad #German

Francis Ford Coppola – “Apocalypse Now – Final Cut” (1979)

Der Wahnsinn begann mit einem Befehl. „Terminate with extreme prejudice.“ Die Mission: einen amerikanischen Offizier zu liquidieren, weil er sich der Logik des Krieges in Vietnam entzogen hat. Ausgestiegen. Oder aufgestiegen? In einen Zustand, in dem Vernunft nicht mehr messbar ist. „Apocalypse Now“ ist kein Antikriegsfilm. Er ist ein Dokument des imperialen Wahns. Er glaubt nicht an Erlösung. Auch nicht an Erkenntnis. (ARD)

Every age is fed on illusions, lest men should renounce life early and the human race come to an end.
-- Joseph Conrad

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #JosephConrad #Illusions

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Sunset #Kayaks #Everglades #Florida

Joseph Conrad Forsees Aaron Swartz and the AI Bandits

https://janusworx.com/reading/joseph-conrad-forsees-aaron-swartz-and-ai-bandits/

#mjbWrites #Books #Reading #AI #AaronSwartz #HeartOfDarkness #JosephConrad

𝑳e 𝑭ilm 𝑽intage 𝑫u 𝑱eudi 𝑺oir

𝐀𝐩𝐨𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐲𝐩𝐬𝐞 𝐍𝐨𝐰
Film Américain réalisé par Francis Ford Coppola en 1979.

Avec #MartinSheen #FredericForrest #HarrisonFord #CynthiaWood #LaurenceFishburne #MarlonBrando #RobertDuvall et #DennisHopper

#ApocalypseNow #FrancisFordCoppola #HeartOfDarkness #JosephConrad
#cinegenres #vidéothèqueidéale #cinema #culte #classic

𝐄n 𝐒avoir 𝐏lus:
https://cinegenres.com/film-du-jour/

𝑳e 𝑭ilm 𝑽intage 𝑫u 𝑱eudi 𝑺oir

𝐋𝐞𝐬 𝐃𝐮𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐬 (The Duellists)
Film Britannique réalisé par Ridley Scott en 1977
Avec Harvey Keitel , Keith Carradine Cristina Raines Albert Finney et Edward Fox

#LesDuellistes #TheDuellists #HarveyKeitel #KeithCarradine #CristinaRaine #AlbertFinney #EdwardFox #JosephConrad #LeFilmVintageDuJeudiSoir #RidleyScott
#cinegenres #VideothequeIdéale #cinema #culte #vintage

𝐄n 𝐒avoir 𝐏lus:
https://cinegenres.com/film-du-jour/

“An impenitent & unashamed dandy” – from Joseph Conrad’s Letters to R.B. Cunninghame Graham, ed. C.T. Watts (Cambridge University Press, 2011), quoting George Bernard Shaw

7/18

#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #20thcentury #Victorian #Edwardian #Conrad #JosephConrad #Shaw

Chris Hedges: The New Dark Age
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/05/18/chris-hedges-the-new-dark-age/
The Nazis are scapegoats for a Western heritage of mass slaughter, as if genocides in the Americas, Africa and India are mere historical footnotes. In fact, genocide is the currency of Western domination. By Chris Hedges in Cairo, Egypt ScheerPost It…
#Politics #Analysis #Bangladesh #Cambodia #Colonialism #Commentary #Egypt #Gaza #Genocide #History #HumanRights #India #IndigenousPeople #Israel #Libya #MiddleEast #Palestine #Racism #Rwanda #WarCrimes #BenjaminNetanyahu #Cairo #ChrisHedges #GeorgWilhelmFriedrichHegel #JosephConrad #KarlMarx #KingLeopoldIi #LouisAugusteBlanqui #Raffah

Been listening to #ColumMcCann perform his novel #Twist.

And I hear in interviews that he sees it relating to #JosephConrad's #TheHeartOfDarkness.

And I find that I've somehow missed that The Heart of Darkness is set in the horror of the #BelgianCongo genocides.

So next to listen to Conrad's book.

#ApocolypseNow #LeopoldII

Y'all I speak French very well, even if I have a Joseph Conrad level accent. But I had a difficult moment tonight over the word découvrir. Apparently that means you can ask questions. To me, it just meant find out, when used as a command in French. Cue more you know star,I guess. But this actually caused some friction tonight.
#French #English #expat #language #linguistics #France #josephconrad #immigrant #migrant #communication

📰 Rui Lopes publicou um ensaio no @Publico sobre a literatura de ficção de espionagem, em particular sobre "O Agente Secreto" (1907), de Joseph Conrad, e o impulso que este livro deu ao género literário na viragem para o século XX.

👉 https://www.publico.pt/2025/03/30/culturaipsilon/noticia/vidocq-lecoq-verloc-remoque-agente-secreto-origens-ficcao-espionagem-2127302

#Histodons #HistoryAndLiterature #HistóriaELiteratura #Espionagem #SpyStories #JosephConrad #HistoryInThePublicSphere #HistóriaNaEsferaPública #Vidocq #Literatura

Every age is fed on illusions, lest men should renounce life early and the human race come to an end.
-- Joseph Conrad

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #JosephConrad #Illusions

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #ChacoCanyon #Sunset #NewMexico

🚨 new book alert! 🚨 4 new books on #Modernism
Facing the uncertainty of Modernism, the treatment of #spectrality & #ghosts in works by #JosephConrad, #EMForster, #MaryButts, & #ElizabethBowen is analysed by Stephen Ross: "There is hope in these ghosts, not resignation"

#ModernistLiterature

J'aime bien lire des nouvelles. Si les anglophones (#NadineGordimer, #LuciaBerlin, #GracePaley, #RaymondCarver, #JosephConrad évidemment...) sont omniprésents dans ma bibliothèque, j'y ai récemment ajouté la Russe Dina Rubina ("Zoom avant", Phébus, 2006, trad Yves Gauthier) dont le récit d'un tournage de film improbable à Tachkent est un véritable bijou d'auto-dérision, d'humour noir et de désillusion. La couverture du livre (Poumeyrol, 1978) renvoie à la nouvelle sur Venise.
#VendrediLecture

J'aime bien lire des nouvelles. Si les anglophones (#NadineGordimer, #LuciaBerlin, #GracePaley, #RaymondCarver, #JosephConrad évidemment...) sont omniprésents dans ma bibliothèque, j'y ai récemment ajouté la Russe Dina Rubina ("Zoom avant", Phébus, 2006, trad Yves Gauthier) dont le récit d'un tournage de film improbable à Tachkent est un véritable bijou d'auto-dérision, d'humour noir et de désillusion. La couverture du livre (Poumeyrol, 1978) renvoie à la nouvelle sur Venise.
#VendrediLecture

J'aime bien lire des nouvelles. Si les anglophones (#NadineGordimer, #LuciaBerlin, #GracePaley, #RaymondCarver, #JosephConrad évidemment...) sont omniprésents dans ma bibliothèque, j'y ai récemment ajouté la Russe Dina Rubina ("Zoom avant", Phébus, 2006, trad Yves Gauthier) dont le récit d'un tournage de film improbable à Tachkent est un véritable bijou d'auto-dérision, d'humour noir et de désillusion. La couverture du livre (Poumeyrol, 1978) renvoie à la nouvelle sur Venise.
#VendrediLecture

Se cumple el #centenario de la muerte de #JosephConrad, el autor de "El corazón de las tinieblas", migrante y crítico de un imperio. Me tocó decir algo sobre su obra.
#literatura #libros #libroverso #escritores #novelistas #novela
https://www.jornada.com.mx/2024/08/03/cultura/a02n1cul

100 years ago today, #JosephConrad died. The Polish-British author of classics such as #HeartofDarkness has his own shelf in our reading room at SUB Göttingen - but you can order many other texts by & on #Conrad via the online catalogue!

#EnglishLiterature #LiteraryStudies

Joseph Conrad’s The Secret Agent from 1907 is an important milestone in the development of the spy novel. It's the beginning of the pessimistic, sordid, cynical school of spy fiction. A study in the psychology of espionage, and of betrayal.

My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2019/10/joseph-conrads-secret-agent.html

#spies #spynovel #spies #spynovels #vintagethriller #vintagethrillers #spythriller #spythrillers #JosephConrad

#Cine #Cinema #Movies #Films #Películas #Cinemastodon #MastoFilms #ObrasMaestrasDelCine #ApocalypseNow #FordCoppola #JosephConrad #ElCorazónDeLasTinieblas

Solo queda recomendar la novela El corazón de las tinieblas que Joseph Conrad escribió tras presenciar los horrores perpetrados en el Congo bajo el reinado de Leopoldo II de Bélgica.
Esta es la dramatización de Orson Welles, que intentó llevar el libro a la pantalla y acabó desistiendo por problemas de presupuesto
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=201xgXsJMuA

#Cine #Cinema #Movies #Films #Películas #Cinemastodon #MastoFilms #ObrasMaestrasDelCine #ApocalypseNow #FordCoppola #JosephConrad #ElCorazónDeLasTinieblas

🎬 Si Apocalypse Now también es tu película favorita, tal vez te guste este hilo con imágenes inéditas de la bajada a los infiernos que supuso su rodaje.
He editado los vídeos, por partes relacionadas, del documental de Eleanor Coppola Corazones en tinieblas: Apocalipsis de un director (1991), rodado en 16 mm.