Heart of Darkness
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EnglishVoice Age
Senior (55+)Accents
North American (General)Transcript
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going up that river was like traveling back to the earliest beginnings of the world when vegetation rioted on the earth and big trees were kings and empty stream, a great silence and Impenetrable forest. The reaches open before us and closed behind, as if the forest had stepped leisurely across the water to bar the way for a return. We penetrated deeper and deeper into the heart of darkness. It was very quiet there at night. Sometimes the roll of drums behind the curtain of trees would run up the river and remain sustained faintly. Whether it meant war, peace or prayer, we could not tell. We were cut off from the comprehension of our surroundings. We glided past like phantoms, wondering and secretly appalled. We could not understand because we were too far and could not remember because we were traveling in the night of first ages of those ages that are gone, leaving hardly a sign and no memories