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Spare and direct?

Posted by Rube on May 21, 2004

In Reply to: Heart of darkenss. posted by Smokey Stover on May 20, 2004

Are you guys reading the same Joseph Conrad that I read?

"And they sat there in the close yet
silent communion of betel-nut chewers, moving their jaws slowly, expectorating decorously into the wide-mouthed brass vessel they passed to one another, and listening to the awful din of the
battling elements outside."

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