"A haze rested on the low shores that ran out to sea in vanishing flatness. The air was dark above Gravesend, and farther back still seemed condensed into a mournful gloom brooding motionless over the biggest, and the greater, town on earth. The Director of Companies was our Captain and our host. We affectionately watched his back as he stood in the bows looking to seaward. On the whole river there was nothing that looked half so nautical. He resembled a pilot, which to a seaman is trustworthiness personified. It was difficult to realise his work was not out there in the luminous estuary, but behind him, within the brooding gloom."
(from the first page of Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness")
You have captured it beautifully and brilliantly. Thank you.
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This makes me think of the Russian sub that sank in 2000.
murky depths...
"A haze rested on the low shores that ran out to sea in vanishing flatness. The air was dark above Gravesend, and farther back still seemed condensed into a mournful gloom brooding motionless over the biggest, and the greater, town on earth. The Director of Companies was our Captain and our host. We affectionately watched his back as he stood in the bows looking to seaward. On the whole river there was nothing that looked half so nautical. He resembled a pilot, which to a seaman is trustworthiness personified. It was difficult to realise his work was not out there in the luminous estuary, but behind him, within the brooding gloom."
(from the first page of Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness")
You have captured it beautifully and brilliantly. Thank you.
this is my favorite. - leah
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