"The offing was barred by a bank of clouds, and the tranquil waterway leading to the uttermost ends of the earth flowed sombre under an overcast sky-seemed to lead into the heart of an immune darkness." (Conrad 158) So ends Conrad's heart of Darkness. Sidhartha Deb ends his book with an allusion, an implicit reference, to the end of Conrad's Heart of Darkness. "I turned left , knowing that if I kept going I would come to the river." (Deb 318) Deb points us again to the place that holds the heart of darkness, once described by Conrad, and that this place still remains in the twenty first century. We have failed to become a modernized utopia. A utopia where the river now flows to the heart of heal-able light.
Links of Interest to the Points of Response in An Outline of the Republic:
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