“I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable greyness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamour, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat.”
Joseph Conrad (1857-1924), Marlow, in Heart of Darkness (1902).
(thanks, Jenn)
