{"id":419,"date":"2008-10-21T15:24:19","date_gmt":"2008-10-21T20:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/?p=419"},"modified":"2008-10-21T15:24:19","modified_gmt":"2008-10-21T20:24:19","slug":"heart-of-zzzzzzz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/?p=419","title":{"rendered":"Heart of–zzzzzzz"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Just read Conrad’s Heart of Darkness. I guess everyone else read it in school, but I rarely read anything I was supposed to back then.<\/p>\n

I almost always find that most famous books are famous because they’re really good. I’m talking about famous books that have lasted through decades or centuries. Dickens comes to mind.<\/p>\n

In this case, I don’t get it. The story is short, but I kept wishing it were really long. That’s because if it were really long, I would have stopped reading it once I realized that it wasn’t getting better or going anywhere interesting.<\/p>\n

Instead, I kept thinking, “oh, hey, I’m almost finished, so let’s just push on through.”<\/p>\n

I’m not saying that Conrad can’t write. Let’s face it, the man can turn a phrase, and he can describe a scene powerfully. But where’s the story? And all the dread (“the horror, the horror”) is heavily talked around, but without any solid item to support it. We’re supposed to take the dread on faith.<\/p>\n

But I have no faith. I need the writer to take me down the path. At the very least, to give me enough to imagine what the path looks like.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Just read Conrad’s Heart of Darkness. I guess everyone else read it in school, but I rarely read anything I was supposed to back then. I almost always find that most famous books are famous because they’re really good. I’m talking about famous books that have lasted through decades or centuries. Dickens comes to mind. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-languagelit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}