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" In the empty immensity of earth, sky, and water, there she was, incomprehensible, firing into a continent. Pop, would go one of the six-inch guns; a small flame would dart and vanish, a little white smoke would disappear, a tiny projectile would give... "
Ashes Taken for Fire: Aesthetic Modernism And the Critique of Identity - Página 6
por Kevin Bell - 2007 - 252 páginas
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Dragonwars: Armed Struggle and the Conventions of Modern War

J. Bowyer Bell - 496 páginas
...and water, there she was, incomprehensible, firing into a continent. Pop would go one of the six-inch guns: a small flame would dart and vanish, a little...would disappear, a tiny projectile would give a feeble screech — and nothing happened. Nothing could happen. There was a touch of insanity in the proceedings...
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Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness

Nicolas Tredell - 1999 - 198 páginas
...water, there she was, incomprehensible, firing into a continent. Pop, would go one of the eight-inch guns; a small flame would dart and vanish, a little...would disappear, a tiny projectile would give a feeble screech - and nothing happened. Nothing could happen. There was a touch of insanity in the proceeding,...
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The Fate of the Earth and The Abolition: And, The Abolition

Jonathan Schell - 2000 - 484 páginas
...water, there she was, incomprehensible, firing into a continent. Pop, would go one of the six-inch guns; a small flame would dart and vanish, a little...white smoke would disappear, a tiny projectile would 2. Joachim Fest, Hitler (New York: Harvest, 1973), p. 515. xiv give a feeble screech — and nothing...
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Writing War in the Twentieth Century

Margot Norris - 2000 - 328 páginas
...invisible and unresponsive jungle ("There wasn't even a shed there, and she was shelling the bush. . . . Nothing happened. Nothing could happen. There was a touch of insanity in the proceeding" [Conrad, 28]). At his first Company station, all manner of vague dynamitings and unclear construction...
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The Unfinished Twentieth Century

Jonathan Schell - 2001 - 140 páginas
...water, there she was, incomprehensible, firing into a continent. Pop, would go one of the six-inch guns; a small flame would dart and vanish, a little...would disappear, a tiny projectile would give a feeble screech — and nothing happened. Nothing could happen. There was a touch of insanity in the proceeding,...
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Heart of darkness

Joseph Conrad - 2010 - 132 páginas
...water, there she was, incomprehensible, firing into a continent. Pop, would go one of the six-inch guns; a small flame would dart and vanish, a little...would disappear, a tiny projectile would give a feeble screech - and nothing happened. Nothing could happen. There was a touch of insanity in the proceeding,...
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Others

Joseph Hillis Miller - 2001 - 300 páginas
...heart of darkness: the French ship firing pointlessly into the bush ("Pop, would go one of the six-inch guns; a small flame would dart and vanish, a little...would disappear, a tiny projectile would give a feeble screech — and nothing happened. Nothing could happen" [29]); the dying "workers" in the grove of...
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Heart of Darkness and Other Tales

Joseph Conrad - 2002 - 280 páginas
...water, there she was, incomprehensible, firing into a continent. Pop, would go one of the eight-inch guns; a small flame would dart and vanish, a little...would disappear, a tiny projectile would give a feeble screech — and nothing happened. Nothing could happen. There was a touch of insanity in the proceeding,...
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Throwing Fire: Projectile Technology Through History

Alfred W. Crosby - 2002 - 226 páginas
...superficiality. He wrote of a French man-o-war shelling at some target inland: "Pop, would go one of the six-inch guns; a small flame would dart and vanish, a little...would disappear, a tiny projectile would give a feeble screech - and nothing happened."21 True enough, perhaps, for that day or that month, but in terms of...
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The Use of Force: Military Power and International Politics

Robert J. Art, Kenneth Neal Waltz - 2004 - 500 páginas
...water, there she was, incomprehensible, firing into a continent. Pop, would go one of the six-inch guns; a small flame would dart and vanish, a little...would disappear, a tiny projectile would give a feeble screech — and nothing happened. Nothing could happen. There was a touch of insanity in the proceeding,...
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