i h8 darkness

in this section Marlow finally reaches the central station up the river. this trip, to my predictions, was against the current being that it flows out of Africa towards the ocean, which in turn makes the trip proceed at an extremely slow pace which puts emphasis on the things he saw on the way. unexpectedly, by the time he arrived his steamboat had been sunk which just seems like a bunch of bad luck.

soon after he realizes that his boat was mostly underwater Marlow sees a grass hut burning which leads him into finding the "brickmaker" by which he engages into a long conversation mostly about a man named Kurtz. Mr. Kurtz intrigues me as a character. he is claimed to actually be a "prodigy" ,by the "brickmaker", of art, specifically in paintings. Marlow seems as a celebrity would (not exactly a loved celebrity though to some people), yet mysterious, which is what compels the interests of the many people. Marlow seems skeptical towards Kurtz from the way he doesnt care about the cruelness he indirectly treats the African salves with. but now Marlow has seemed to change from the beginning of the trip; now he is used to the treatment of the Africans as compared to the beginning where he has never seen anything like it and was essentially innocent. he almost is becoming blind to it, which could be symbolic to the "darkness".

It was very tedious to read this second half of chapter one because it was 98% details.