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I find the prose in this mesmerizing. I couldn't take an endless litany of atrocities, but Conrad keeps it short and I find nothing in it gratuitous. It's a gut-punch, but everything can't be hugs and puppies. I'm more to the end of the spectrum that says literature just is and not that it does or should have an end other than itself; just the same, I think the evocation of evil serves a purpose and I find it easier to take in a fictional representation than the daily horrors visited on us in the news media.
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