20 - Heart Of Darkness (with Bec Petraitis and Alasdair Tremblay-Birchall)
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Charles Marlowe's Nelly
The novel opens on a ship called the Nelly on the mouth of the Thames River outside of London. A man named Charles Marlowe speculates what it would have been like when England was a dark place in the world, quote. The conquest of the earth "is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much," he writes. He says Romans grabbed what they could get for the sake of what was good to be got.
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