 | 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... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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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