This must be a real horrorshow film if you're so keen on my viddying it. - Anthony Burgess

Well before James Joyce, Conrad was forging a vocabulary for the contemporary soul. This book grants us another opportunity to brood over a notable literary martyrdom. [review in the London Independent newspaper of Joseph Conrad: A Biography by Jeffrey Meyers]

So we got hold of him and cracked him with a few good horrorshow tolchocks, but he still went on singing.

...the dark brought out the prostitutes, Malay divorcees mostly, quietly moving from light to light, gaudy and graceful, like other of night’s creatures.