Save the Date for Bookends: Heart of Darkness
Added 2023-01-01 18:55:32 +0000 UTCThe AoD book club kicks off with Heart of Darkness via Zoom, January 29th at 3pm Central Time. Get your copy and watch this space for more details. We'll share the Zoom link in a post on the day.
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See the full Bookends schedule at artofdarkpod.com/book-club.
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It stars Boris Karloff and Eartha Kitt and was adapted for the screen by the guy who wrote REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE
Brad Kelly
2023-01-22 15:52:49 +0000 UTCSo, in 1958 there was a TV version of HEART OF DARKNESS as part of Playhouse 90 (a series of "made for tv movies" to which Rod Serling contributed). https://archive.org/details/heart-of-darkness-roddy-mc-dowall-and-boris-karloff
Brad Kelly
2023-01-22 15:52:12 +0000 UTCBefore HoD, Conrad wrote a short story called "An Outpost of Progress" that is also set in the Congo and inspired by his (mis)adventures there. https://www.online-literature.com/conrad/184/ Key passage from the above, for thinking about HoD: "Contact with pure unmitigated savagery, with primitive nature and primitive man, brings sudden and profound trouble into the heart. To the sentiment of being alone of one's kind, to the clear perception of the loneliness of one's thoughts, of one's sensations—to the negation of the habitual, which is safe, there is added the affirmation of the unusual, which is dangerous; a suggestion of things vague, uncontrollable, and repulsive, whose discomposing intrusion excites the imagination and tries the civilized nerves of the foolish and the wise alike."
Brad Kelly
2023-01-18 11:36:41 +0000 UTC
