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1 I Group 1 We are the hollow men We are the stuffed men Leaning together Headpiece filled with straw. Alas! Our dried voices, when We whisper together Are quiet and meaningless As wind in dry grass Or rats feet over broken glass In our dry cellar Shape without form, shade without colour, Paralysed force, gesture without motion; Heart of Darkness Excerpt 1 "In some inland post feel the savagery, the utter savagery, had closed round him--all that mysterious life of the wilderness that stirs in the forest, in the jungles, in the hearts of wild men. There's no initiation either into such mysteries. He has to live in the midst of the incomprehensible, which is detestable. And it has a fascination, too, which goes to work upon him. The fascination of the abomination--you know. Imagine the growing regrets, the longing to escape, the powerless disgust, the surrender, the hate." Those who have crossed With direct eyes, to death s other Kingdom Remember us if at all not as lost Violent souls, but only As the hollow men The stuffed men.

2 II Group 2 Eyes I dare not meet in dreams In death s dream kingdom These do not appear: There, the eyes are Sunlight on a broken column There, is a tree swinging And voices are In the wind s singing More distant and more solemn Than a fading star. Let me be no nearer In death s dream kingdom Let me also wear Such deliberate disguises Rat s coat, crowskin, crossed staves In a field Behaving as the wind behaves No nearer Heart of Darkness Excerpt 2 "In and out of rivers, streams of death in life, whose banks were rotting into mud, whose waters, thickened with slime, invaded the contorted mangroves, that seemed to writhe at us in the extremity of an impotent despair. Nowhere did we stop long enough to get a particularlised impression, but the general sense of vague and oppressive wonder grew upon me. It was like a weary pilgrimage amongst hints for nightmares." Not that final meeting In the twilight kingdom

3 III Group 3 This is the dead land This is cactus land Here the stone images Are raised, here they receive The supplication of a dead man s hand Under the twinkle of a fading star. Is it like this In death s other kingdom Waking alone At the hour when we are Trembling with tenderness Lips that would kiss Form prayers to broken stone. Heart of Darkness Excerpt 3 "Everything belonged to him--but that was a trifle. The thing to know was what he belonged to, how many powers of darkness claimed him for their own. That was the reflection that made you creepy all over. It was impossible--not good for one either--trying to imagine. He had taken a high seat amongst the devils of the land- -I mean literally. You can't understand--how could you?"

4 IV Group 4 The eyes are not here There are no eyes here In this valley of dying stars In this hollow valley This broken jaw of our lost kingdoms Heart of Darkness Excerpt 4 In this last of meeting places We grope together And avoid speech Gathered on this beach of the tumid river "It was very simple, and at the end of that moving appeal to every altruistic sentiment it blazed at you, luminous and terrifying like a flash of lightning in a serene sky: 'Exterminate all the brutes!'" Sightless, unless The eyes reappear As the perpetual star Multifoliate rose Of death s twilight kingdom The hope only Of empty men.

5 V Group 5 Here we go round the prickly pear Prickly pear prickly pear Here we go round the prickly pear At five o clock in the morning. Heart of Darkness Excerpt 5 Between the idea And the reality Between the motion And the act Falls the Shadow For Thine is the Kingdom Between the conception And the creation Between the emotion And the response Falls the Shadow "Whether he knew of this deficiency himself I can't say. I think the knowledge came to him at last--only at the very last. But the wilderness found him out early, and had taken vengeance for the fantastic invasion. I think it had whispered to him things about himself which he did not know, things of which he had no conception till he took counsel with this great solitude--and the whisper had proved irresistibly fascinating. It echoed loudly within him because he was hollow at the core."

6 V Continued Group 6 Life is very long Between the desire And the spasm Between the potency And the existence Between the essence And the descent Falls the Shadow For Thine is the Kingdom Heart of Darkness Excerpt 6 "Never see him! I saw him clearly then. I shall see this eloquent phantom as long as I live, and I shall see her too, a tragic and familiar shade, resembling in this gesture another one, tragic also, and bedecked with powerless charms, stretching bare brown arms over the glitter of the infernal stream, the stream of darkness." For Thine is Life is For Thine is the This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper.