...by a French gunboat. Jim's failure and shame are the theme of the book. ' I tell you [says Marlow] I ought to know the right kind of looks. I would have...and gone to sleep with both eyes — and, by Jove 1 it wouldn't have been safe. There are depths of horror in that thought. He looked as genuine as a...

...by a French gunboat. Jim's failure and shame are the theme of the book. ‘I tell you [says Marlow] I ought to know the right kind of looks. I would have...strength of a single glance, and gone to sleep with both eyes—and, by Jove! it wouldn't have been safe. There are depths of horror in that thought. He looked...

...was heavy, and I have glowed all day long and gone to bed feeling less lonely in the world by virtue of that hearty thump. Don't I remember the little...deck to that youngster on the strength of a single glance^~and gone to steep with both eyes — and, by Jove! it wouldn't have been safe. There are depths...

...was heavy, and I have glowed all day long and gone to bed feeling less lonely in the world by virtue of that hearty thump. Don't I remember the little...and gone to sleep with both eyes — and, by Jove! i't_wf>ii1Hn't, have been safe. There are depths of horror in that, thought. He looked as genuine as...

...entering the port, walking along the quay toward the harbor office, Marlow is struck by Jim's looks: "I tell you I ought to know the right kind of looks....safe. There are depths of horror in that thought" (28). Jim's appearance immediately places him in "the forefront of his kind" (57) as regards a capacity...

...stable opposition. Jim is the locus of that anxiety, for though he appears to be an exemplary sailor ("I would have trusted the deck to that youngster on the strength of a single glance"), his jump from the Patna betrays that image. In a classic crisis of radical skepticism, "depths of horror"...

...quality - rather than using him "to make [us] see." The most damning consideration Marlow makes is: "I would have trusted the deck to that youngster on...safe. There are depths of horror in that thought" (45). Thus, Marlow's first encounter with Jim brings his own projections to the surface. The crime...

...was heavy, and I have glowed all day long and gone to bed feeling less lonely in the world by virtue of that hearty thump. Don't I remember the little...strength of a single glance, and gone to sleep with bodi eyes - and, by Jove! it wouldn't have been safe. He looked as genuine as a new sovereign, but...

...enthroned in a fixed standard of conduct" (44). Marlow repeatedly asserts that Jim is "one of us" (38): "I would have trusted the deck to that youngster on...both eyes - and, by Jove! it wouldn't have been safe" (40). "The depths of horror in that thought" (40) do not arise because the mariners' code can be and...

...liked his appearance; I knew his appearance; he came from the right place; he was one of us'" (74). '"I tell you I ought to know the right kind of looks....safe. There are depths of horror in that thought'" (76). Marlow's desire '"for the impossible — for the laying of what is the most obstinate ghost of...