Friday, January 29, 2010

nostromo – the book by joseph conrad

On page 471 he has a good description of a man:
“What he lacked was the polished callousness of men of the world, the callousness from which springs an easy tolerance for oneself and others; the tolerance wide as poles asunder from true sympathy and human compassion. This want of callousness accounted for his sardonic turn of mind and his biting speeches."
 
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