“Like a Kernel”

Sunday, August 18, 2024

“Like a Kernel”

Filed under: General — Tags: Destiny — m759 @ 1:40 pm

“The yarns of seamen have a direct simplicity,
the whole meaning of which lies within the shell
of a cracked nut. But Marlow was not typical
(if his propensity to spin yarns be excepted),
and to him the meaning of an episode was
not inside like a kernel but outside,
enveloping the tale which brought it out only
as a glow brings out a haze, in the likeness of
one of these misty halos that sometimes
are made visible by the spectral illumination of
moonshine.”

— Joseph Conrad in Heart of Darkness

“By groping toward the light we are made to realize
how deep the darkness is around us.”

— Arthur Koestler, The Call Girls: A Tragi-Comedy,
Random House, 1973, page 118

From an obituary of Alain Delon, who reportedly died today . . .

"He starred in the 1976 French best picture winner, 'Mr. Klein,' as a wartime German art dealer threatened by being mistaken for a Jewish man with the same name."

— Anita Gates in The New York Times

See as well Felix Christian Klein in this journal.

And then there is being mistaken for a fictional archaeologist
with the same name.

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Sunday, August 18, 2024

“Like a Kernel”

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