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To-morrow
Joseph Conrad
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Harry would be one-and-thirty next July, he declared. Proper age to get married with a nice, sensible girl that could appreciate a good home. He was a very high-spirited boy. High-spirited husbands were the easiest to manage. These mean, soft chaps, that you would think butter wouldn't melt in their mouths, were the ones to make a woman thoroughly miserable. And there was nothing like a home—a fireside—a good roof: no turning out of your warm bed in all sorts of weather. "Eh, my dear?"
Captain Hagberd had been one of those sailors that pursue their calling within sight of land. One of the many children of a bankrupt farmer, he had been apprenticed hurriedly to a coasting skipper, and had remained on the . . . Read More
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He rebelled against her authority in his great joy of having got rid at last of that 'something wrong'. It was as if all the hopeful madness of the world had broken out to bring terror upon her heart, with the voice of that old man shouting of his trust in an everlasting to-morrow.
I love delusional characters. Edgar Allan Poe writes the best ones, but Conrad’s attempt isn’t half bad. His character has created a fictional hope, a false hope; it’s the only way he can get through life. Captain Hagbeard- great name by the way- lost his son at sea, though he keeps telling himself
This was such an unexpectedly gorgeous short story from the
Heart of Darkness
author.
Focusing on an old sailor desperate to find his missing son, we see his preparations and plans for his ultimate return, with the old sailor always claiming this will happen “to-morrow”. This is a seemingly delus