an indifferent glance

“Beyond the headland of Diamond Bay, lying black on a purple sea, great masses of clouds stood piled up and bathed in a mist of blood. A crimson crack like an open would zigzagged between them, with a piece of dark red sun showing at the bottom. Heyst cast an indifferent glance a the ill-omened chaos of the sky.”

—Joseph Conrad, Victory: An Island Tale, 1915.

An active volcano to steer by

“ ‘What do you think of smoke by day and a loom of fire at night? There’s a volcano in full blast near that island—enough to guide almost a blind man. What more do you want? An active volcano to steer by!’ ”

—Joseph Conrad, Victory: An Island Tale, 1915.

a tall ship

“And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by . . .”

—John Masefield, “Sea Fever”, 1902.

a piece of purple shadow

“The stretch of Diamond Bay was like a piece of purple shadow, lustrous and empty, while beyond the land, the open sea lay blue and opaque under the sun.”

—Joseph Conrad, Victory: An Island Tale, 1915.

a disc of iron

“Behind his back the sun, touching the water, was like a disc of iron cooled to a dull red glow, ready to start rolling round the circular steel plate of the sea. . . .”

—Joseph Conrad, Victory: An Island Tale, 1915.

The consequences of bad typography

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The eyes of Martin Ricardo

“The eyes of Martin Ricardo gleamed phosphorescent in the half-light of the room screened from the heat and glare of the tropics.”

—Joseph Conrad, Victory: An Island Tale, 1915.

his great beard

“Zangiacomo conducted. He wore a white mess-jacket, a black dress waistcoat, and white trousers. His longish, tousled hair and his great beard were purple-black. He was horrible.”

—Joseph Conrad, Victory: An Island Tale, 1915.

black diamonds

“There is, as every schoolboy knows in this scientific age, a very close chemcial relation between coal and diamonds. It is the reason, I believe, why some people allude to coal as ‘black diamonds.’ Both these commodities represent wealth; but coal is a much less portable form of property.”

—Joseph Conrad, Victory: An Island Tale, 1915.

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