In order to concretize visuals with microscopic accuracy and to present the 'whole' truth, Conrad attempted energetically to shun the temptation to use the God-like authorial privelege where the author presides over his self-created world of fiction. To resolve the problem of the author as an omniscient observor Conrad invented surrogates for himself.
The 'Heart of Darkness', undoubtedly, begins with the god-like eye of the 'outside narrator' ,who takes the reader abroad the 'Nellie', a cruising yawl,which swung to her anchor without a flutter of sails and was at rest". The sea-search of the Thames stretched before ...
... us like the beginning of an interminable waterway. In the offing, the sea and the sky were welded together, without a joint and in the luminious space, the tamed sails of the barges drifting up with the tide seemed to stand still in red clusters of cannas sharply peaked with gleams of varnished spirits. A haze rested on the low shores that ran out to sea in vanishing flatness. The air was dark above Gravesend and further back still seemed condensed into a mournful gloom, brooding motionless over the biggest and the greatest town on earth...
Part of the Dream Weave Walk 1999-2007