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Heart of Darkness
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  • Perhaps that evening had been a particularly bad one in the Heart of Darkness.†  (source)
  • July 17: Started reading Heart of Darkness.†  (source)
  • By then, I was lodged in the heart of darkness, so thoroughly bent to the shape of marriage I could hardly see any other way to stand.†  (source)
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  • In Heart of Darkness (1899), the narrator, Marlow, travels up the Congo River and observes the near-total disintegration of the European psyche in Kurtz, who has been in-country so long that he has become unrecognizable.†  (source)
    Heart of Darkness = Joseph Conrad's depiction of "the horror" of a human psyche (1899)
  • You're a mute-assed, stone-cold killer from the heart of darkness with a heart to match, aren't you, Private Poundcake?†  (source)
  • Reading everything from Heart of Darkness to my favorite issue of Silver Surfer, the one where Galactus swallows the universe, over and over.†  (source)
  • Mike, Ira, and Harlon—these three boys back from their Pacific Heart of Darkness—now embraced death.†  (source)
  • In the heart of darkness, I have found illumination!†  (source)
  • Once, I badly miscalculated my jump to the throne, and instead of landing to the side of the diamond-shaped hole, on solid plank, I jumped clean into the heart of darkness.†  (source)
  • This is the heart of darkness right here.†  (source)
  • Bumba had dropped off the face of the earth into the silent heart of darkness.†  (source)
  • Daenerys Targaryen stepped into the hot heart of darkness and stopped at the lip of a deep pit.†  (source)
  • Since then I've sometimes been overcome with a passion to return into that "heart of darkness" across the Mason-Dixon line, but then I remind myself that the true darkness lies within my own mind, and the idea loses itself in the gloom.†  (source)
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