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*29 so far the reading tends to be in the metaphorics of the story, Jim's sense of advenuture and Marlie saying "before the end is told"
 
*29 so far the reading tends to be in the metaphorics of the story, Jim's sense of advenuture and Marlie saying "before the end is told"
 
*31 Patna captain keeps getting compared to objects, objectified
 
*31 Patna captain keeps getting compared to objects, objectified
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*49 significant objects in the figurative patterning of the novel too, people being compared to their luggage on 61 or Brierly's pocketwatch as an indicator of his forethought in his suicide here
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==Theme tracking==
 
==Theme tracking==
 
===Shakespeare allusions===
 
===Shakespeare allusions===
 
*44 "there's some sort of method in his raving" (doctor to Marlow abt Patna engineer, Hamlet)
 
*44 "there's some sort of method in his raving" (doctor to Marlow abt Patna engineer, Hamlet)
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*64 Jim paraphrases "the readiness is all" (Hamlet)

Revision as of 20:17, 24 February 2017

General notes

  • published serially in Blackwood's 1899-1900
  • 6: why the short précis of the story?
  • 7: repeating that he was generally liked -- why? This plural locus of character evaluation?
  • 29 so far the reading tends to be in the metaphorics of the story, Jim's sense of advenuture and Marlie saying "before the end is told"
  • 31 Patna captain keeps getting compared to objects, objectified
  • 49 significant objects in the figurative patterning of the novel too, people being compared to their luggage on 61 or Brierly's pocketwatch as an indicator of his forethought in his suicide here

Theme tracking

Shakespeare allusions

  • 44 "there's some sort of method in his raving" (doctor to Marlow abt Patna engineer, Hamlet)
  • 64 Jim paraphrases "the readiness is all" (Hamlet)