Heart of Darkness

What a Conrad treat! I am listening to it again immediately, since I found so much spiritual benefit from it. We learn where the true heart of darkness really is. Even Marlow, who tells the story, found that he was longing to listen to the Voice, Kurtz, who set himself up like a god among the people. This impulse to be worshiped, and attraction to people that seem to have the Voice, leads men to drink the Kool-Aid too many times.

Nicholas Nickelby

Delightful Dickens... Would love to talk to my grandfather, Christopher Spencer, about this book. He had an old set of Dickens volumes that I remember seeing in the corner of his living room in Cliffside Park, New Jersey. He and Grandma were born in Liverpool and came to America in the early 20th century. He was a proofreader for a newspaper in New Jersey, and a gentle loving man. He is missed. I hope to see him again in heaven.

Anyway, he was a quiet lover of Dickens...