1.) “…Perhaps you will think it passing strange this regret for a savage…no more account than a grain of sand in a black Sahara…” (Conrad 65)
The Sahara desert is the world’s largest non-polar desert; it stretches 3000 miles over Northern Africa, and is covered in sand. To compare someone to a single grain of sand is pretty much stating that they are unaccountable for. Conrad is stating that the ‘savage’ is not accountable for, and not even worth thinking of, he’s just another grain of sand to walk all over.
The Sahara desert is the world’s largest non-polar desert; it stretches 3000 miles over Northern Africa, and is covered in sand. To compare someone to a single grain of sand is pretty much stating that they are unaccountable for. Conrad is stating that the ‘savage’ is not accountable for, and not even worth thinking of, he’s just another grain of sand to walk all over.
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