The Story Cure by Dinty W. Moore

Author:Dinty W. Moore
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Potter/TenSpeed/Harmony
Published: 2017-05-02T04:00:00+00:00

Conrad’s description of the physical world surrounding the aging sternwheeler as it idled mid-river is not only visually rich—“The living trees, lashed together by the creepers…”—but it invokes in us a sense of claustrophobia, allows us to feel how the jungle along the banks seemed to be closing in on Marlow and his crew, and how the stillness began quickly to seem sinister.

Finally, here is what follows, as morning comes and Conrad’s narrator wakes to an unsettling surprise:

When the sun rose there was a white fog, very warm and clammy, and more blinding than the night. It did not shift or drive; it was just there, standing all round you like something solid. At eight or nine, perhaps, it lifted as a shutter lifts. We had a glimpse of the towering multitude of trees, of the immense matted jungle, with the blazing little ball of the sun hanging over it—all perfectly still—and then the white shutter came down again, smoothly, as if sliding in greased grooves. I ordered the chain, which we had begun to heave in, to be paid out again. Before it stopped running with a muffled rattle, a cry, a very loud cry, as of infinite desolation, soared slowly in the opaque air. It ceased. A complaining clamor, modulated in savage discords, filled our ears. The sheer unexpectedness of it made my hair stir under my cap. I don’t know how it struck the others: to me it seemed as though the mist itself had screamed, so suddenly, and apparently from all sides at once, did this tumultuous and mournful uproar arise.6

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