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Jimmy Wait and the Dance of Death: Conrad's Nigger of the Narcissus
Author(s) -
Scrimgeour Cecil
Publication year - 1965
Publication title -
critical quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.111
H-Index - 17
eISSN - 1467-8705
pISSN - 0011-1562
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-8705.1965.tb00183.x
Subject(s) - dance , compassion , narcissus , beauty , socrates , art , literature , philosophy , art history , history , aesthetics , theology , horticulture , biology
Knowledge takes up no position, sets no store by form. It has compassion within the abyss—it is the abyss. So we reject it, firmly, and henceforth our concern shall be with beauty only. (G. Aschenbach, quoting Socrates’ words to Phaedrus, in Thomas Mann's Death in Venice. )