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Titled after a book by Joseph Conrad
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Joseph Conrad
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What the World Needs now is Love.
We couldn't understand because we were too far... and could not remember because we were traveling in the night of first ages, those ages that had gone, leaving hardly a sign... and no memories.
[Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness]
the Sassi in Matera, Basilicata, Italy
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Ci si chiude alle spalle il cancellato dell'infanzia, e si entra in un giardino di incanti. Persino la penombra qui brilla di promesse. A ogni svolta il sentiero ha le sue sensazioni.
"Facing it, always facing it, that's the way to get through. Face it."
Quote - Joseph Conrad
Enjoy your Wednesday ;-))
This is a copy of Joseph Conrads " Youth and Gaspar Ruiz" the writing you see is my late Fathers as this was one of his school books. The book is full of his notes, tiny in places and dated 1943.
Flea market book reading on a rainy day - this collection of three Joseph Conrad novellas is just awesome! This is especially true for the third novella, "Freya of the Seven Isles", a breathtaking love and triangle story that ends extremely unhappily, as the booted-out third in this story turns out to represent absolute, abysmal evil itself.
This morally depraved Lieutenant Heemskirk inevitably reminded me of a morally depraved country that is currently waging a criminal war against a neighboring country and committing crimes there on an incomparably greater scale.
Russia has unfortunately become the epitome of absolute, abysmal evil; Putin and Kyril I, who run the country politically and religiously, are clearly spawns of hell.
Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness (1899) begins with the story being narrated by Charles Marlow aboard a boat (The Nellie) anchored on the River Thames at Tilbury.
The story was adapted for the 1979 film Apocalypse Now.
LR3957 © Joe O'Malley 2020
A final shot from my solo trip Saturday night to the derelict Gray Dunn Biscuit Company Factory in Glasgow. I took this at about half past midnight after a very enjoyable 2hrs spent exploring this vast zombie warren in the dark. This central 'courtyard' is a great space. A huge wing of the building was demolished about a year ago but this section was retained- why? I would like to think it was for something visionary but probably not.
Title another quote from Conrad's 'Heart of Darkness'
La barca dormiva.
Il mare si stendeva lontano,
immenso e caliginoso,
come l’immagine della vita,
con la superficie scintillante
e le profondità senza luce.
(Joseph Conrad)
We saw her a couple of weeks ago at the Wooden Boat Festival, and now again here!
The view from Green Patch!
While watching, a Zodiac came ashore for a few new passengers..
What a sight!
Just mentioned to Phil, while at Green Patch, how nice it is to get a few new Contacts from appearing in explore..
explore Number 341 on 21-02-19
James Craig is a three-masted, iron-hulled barque restored and sailed by the Sydney Heritage Fleet, Sydney, Australia.
History
Built in 1874 in Sunderland, England, by Bartram, Haswell, & Co., she was originally named Clan Macleod. She was employed carrying cargo around the world and rounded Cape Horn 23 times in 26 years. In 1900 she was acquired by Mr J J Craig, renamed James Craig in 1905 and began to operate between New Zealand and Australia until 1911.
Restoration
Restoration of James Craig began in 1972, when volunteers from the Lady Hopetoun and Port Jackson Marine Steam Museum (now the Sydney Heritage Fleet) refloated her and towed her to Hobart for initial repairs. Brought back to Sydney under tow in 1981, her hull was placed on a submersible pontoon to allow work on the hull restoration to proceed. Over twenty-five years, the vessel was restored, repaired by both paid craftspeople and volunteers and relaunched in 1997. In 2001 restoration work was completed and she now goes to sea again. A DVD on her restoration has been produced and available from the Sydney Heritage Fleet.
From en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Craig_(barque)
What goes on behind the scenes of wikimedia and how much communication on forums and feedback happens!!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart_of_Darkness
right: Conrad Joseph: "Serce ciemności", Wydawnictwo Literackie, Kraków 2017, tłum. Jacek Dukaj, pp. 132-133.
The tug Gwendolyn guides the Charles W. Morgan past the Joseph Conrad enroute to the shipyard at Mystic Seaport.
Exposição sobre a Cultura Negra e a Escravidão no Museu Oscar Niemeyer, Curitiba-PR, janeiro de 2006.
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Oscar Niemeyer Museum, Curitiba, Brasil, January 2006. Exhibit about black culture and slavery in Brazil (abolished in 1888)
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"I looked at him, lost in astonishment. There he was before me, in motley, as though he had absconded from a troupe of mimes, enthusiastic, fabulous. His very existence was improbable, inexplicable, and altogether bewildering. He was an insoluble problem. It was inconceivable how he had existed, how he had succeeded in getting so far, how he had managed to remain-- why he did not instantly disappear. `I went a little farther,' he said, `then still a little farther--till I had gone so far that I don't know how I'll ever get back".
(JOSEPH CONRAD, Heart of Darkness)
It seems to me I am trying to tell you a dream--making a vain attempt, because no relation of a dream can convey the dream-sensation, that commingling of absurdity, surprise, and bewilderment in a tremor of struggling revolt, that notion of being captured by the incredible which is of the very essence of dreams...”
Krysta reading on the train home from Nottingham to London.
Shot with a Nikon D40 and a Nikkor AFS DX 18-55mm F/3.5-5.6G II lens, and processed in GIMP and Photoscape.
1843
The Otago was a three masted iron barque that was built at Glasgow, Scotland, in 1869. The vessel measured 147′ x 26′ x 14′ and was 367 tons register. In 1872 the barque was transferred from Glasgow to Adelaide, South Australia.
The Otago’s chief claim to fame is that the vessel was the only command of the famous novelist Joseph Conrad. On 4 December 1889 Captain John Snadden had died in the Gulf of Siam and the Otago was forced to put in at Bangkok where the first mate was placed in command. Conrad captained the vessel to Singapore, Sydney, Melbourne, Mauritius and finally back to Adelaide.
At the end of its sailing career in 1903 the Otago was purchased by Huddart Parker and Co. and subsequently converted to a coal lighter. The vessel arrived at Hobart in July 1905 to replace the condemned hulk Frederica. In January 1931 the Otago was sold to local ship-breaker Henry Dodge and towed to its present location. The hulk was partially dismantled for scrap metal in 1937 and more completely in 1957.
Parts of the vessel were souvenired over the years with the ships wheel at the Headquarters of the Honourable Company of Master Mariners located on the HQS “Wellington” on the Thames in London, and a section of the stern going to Los Angeles. The timber structure of the companion hatchway was retained in Hobart and may be seen at the Maritime Museum of Tasmania.
The remains of the Otago may be seen on the eastern shore of the Derwent River in what is now known as Otago Bay. The bow of the vessel rests on the shoreline with the stern lying in approximately two metres of water. The iron hull has been cut back to the waterline and the bow and stern have disappeared entirely. The remains can easily viewed from the shore as the interior of the hull and the surrounding area contain a quantity of debris that make closer examination hazardous. The Otago lie close to the remains of the steamship Westralian that was also abandoned and cut down in the 1930s.
Mystic Seaport or Mystic Seaport: The Museum of America and the Sea is in Mystic, Connecticut. It is a recreated 19th-century seafaring village. It has more than 60 original buildings and many wooden sailing vessels.
It is the largest maritime museum in the United States.
The veteran training ship Joseph Conrad sailed under three flags before mooring permanently at Mystic Seaport Museum in 1947.
Built in Copenhagen in 1882 and named Georg Stage, the ship trained boys for the Danish merchant service. From her launching until her sale in 1934, more than 4,000 cadets sailed in her for six-month training courses in the Baltic and North seas.
She was named Joseph Conrad after her sale in 1934.
mystic, connecticut
1974
the joseph conrad
mystic seaport museum
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Me by her
Ci mancava solo LIFE in IED....
"...quando la felicità bussa alla porta le devi sempre offrire una poltrona comoda....."
... there's a chill in the air and it is getting to be late in the fall and you've got the river to yourself and you get to watching the water running free over the scoured stones and the leaves of the aspens quaking in the afternoon sun and you hold it all there tight in your mind in defiance of a vast indifferent universe ...
Just imagination … smiles …
I tried to imagine what a ship's flag from, say, one of Joseph Conrad's books set in South America might look like.
For values I used as a reference Charles' photo, which is wonderful …
Thanks for looking … :-)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart_of_Darkness
right: Conrad Joseph: "Serce ciemności", Wydawnictwo Literackie, Kraków 2017, tłum. Jacek Dukaj, pp. 132-133.
I don’t know whether this is a listed building or not but it is set in beautiful Kent countryside and has a plaque with the date 1854 on the end of the cottage. I am guessing but I think it is a holiday rental now.
Joseph Conrad the Polish born Russian writer, who served for 5 years in the French Merchant service and 10 years in the British merchant service was regarded as one of the greatest novelists to write in the English language, lived near here for some years until his death in 1924. There are memorials to him in Bishopsbourne.
His house Oswald’s cottage is listed. I don’t think I have the 2 mixed up!
MY THANKS TO ALL WHO VISIT AND COMMENT IT IS APPRECIATED
I remember my youth and the feeling that will never come back any more, the feeling that I could last for ever, outlast the sea, the earth, and all men; the deceitful feeling that lures us on to joys, to perils, to love, to vain effort - to death; the triumphant conviction of strength, the heat of life in the handful of dust, the glow in the heart that with every year grows dim, grows cold, grows small, and expires - and expires, too soon, too soon- before life itself.
Words by Joseph Conrad
My Father As a Young Man
Missed greatly, never forgotten.
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