 What more can I want? If you ask them who is brave who is true - who is just - who is it they would trust with their lives? - they would say, Tuan Jim. And yet they can never know the real, real truth ..." 'That's what he said to me on my last day with...  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Page 3151900Full view - About this book
 | Joseph Conrad - Fiction - 1993 - 308 pages
...these people who would do anything for me, can never be made to understand? Never! If you disbelieve me I could not call them up. It seems hard, somehow....they would say, Tuan Jim. And yet they can never know die real, real truth ..." 'That's what he said to me on my last day with him. I did not let a murmur... | |
 | Gail Fincham, Myrtle Hooper - History - 1996 - 252 pages
...achievement in Patusan, it cannot supersede that other measure of truth that he has brought with him: ". . . If you ask them who is brave- who is true- who is...Jim. And yet they can never know the real, real truth ..." (305). So we have involutions of contradictory truths: "the deep hidden truthfulness" of Patusan... | |
 | Ursula Lord - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 382 pages
...than his merit that has become the basis for his leadership. Yet Jim feels trapped within this enigma: "If you ask them who is brave - who is true - who...Jim. And yet they can never know the real, real truth ... " (230). Even in this, his last interview with Marlow, the criterion of truth to which Jim refers... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - Fiction - 2000 - 460 pages
...boot busied in squashing thoroughly a tiny bit of dried mud (we were strolling on the riverbank) — 'Because I have not forgotten why I came here. Not...they would trust with their lives? — they would say.Tuan Jim. And yet they can never know the real, real truth ...' "That's what he said to me on my... | |
 | Daniel R. Schwarz - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 212 pages
...and believes that his accomplishments are apocryphal. (Doesn't he say at the height of his triumph: "If you ask them who is brave — who is true —...And yet they can never know the real, real, truth" [ 1 85, emphasis added]?) Because Jim does not believe in his own redemption, words cannot be part... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - Fiction - 2005 - 512 pages
...these people who would do anything for me, can never be made to understand? Never! If you disbelieve me I could not call them up. It seems hard, somehow....escape me: I felt he was going to say more, and come nearer to the root of the matter. The sun, whose concentrated glare dwarfs the earth into a restless... | |
 | John Anderson - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 200 pages
...thing can be forgotten, then I think I have a right to dismiss it from my mind. Ask any man here" . . . What more can I want? If you ask them who is brave—...Jim. And yet they can never know the real, real truth . Note the rite of asking them, finding out from others if Jim is approved. Just then Conrad has the... | |
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