Originally Posted by
wens
I had to read Heart of Darkness my senior year of hs and didn't enjoy it much at all. For some reason i picked it up and started reading it again for kicks and giggles in college, and really enjoyed it. Not sure why i enjoyed it so much more the second time around, maybe i just got bogged down by all the detail the first go round?
I was thinking about "Heart of Darkness" when I read about Black Friday shoppers using pepper spray to get to their "deals". Civilisation is perhaps only a veneer.