The man who brings ant-infested faggots into his hut should not grumble when lizards begin to pay him a visit - Chinua Achebe

People from different parts of the world can respond to the same story if it says something to them about their own history and their own experience.

A Conrad student informed me in Scotland that Africa is merely a setting for the disintegration of the mind of Mr. Kurtz. Which is partly the point. Africa as setting and backdrop which eliminates the African as human factor. Africa as a metaphysical battlefield devoid of all recognizable humanity, into which the wandering European enters at his peril.

It always surprised him when he thought of it later that he did not sink under the load of despair.