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- W112156929 abstract "One of the familiar ironies of Conrad's title for The Secret Agent is that it refers to an agent who does not act. Verloc is a double (or false) agent in a metaphysical as well as a political sense. Instead of secretly performing actions of subversion or espionage, he is secretly inactive, devoted to his unhygienic idleness with 'a sort of inert fanaticism, or perhaps rather with a fanatical inertness.'1 When reproached by Mr. Vladimir, he can defend himself only by claiming to have prevented things from happening (25), whereas the Russian diplomat wants 'activity' (22). In Conrad's descrip tions both of the natural world and of human beings, lack of activity frequently connotes the sinister and the threatening. In Heart of Darkness the jungle suggests 'the stillness of an implacable force brooding over an inscrutable intention,' while the African woman who is Kurtz's mistress is associated closely with this enigmatic lack of motion by the description of her as 'like the wilderness itself, with an air of brooding over an inscru table purpose.'2 Action, on the other hand, often figures as a form of defence or consolation. At the Central Station, Marlow finds that hard work is the only way to 'keep ... hold on the redeeming facts of life' (75). Similarly, Charles Gould in Nostromo turns to the mine and to action, action which we are told is 'consolatory ... the enemy of thought and the friend of flattering illusions.'3 These are only a few examples of the" @default.
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- W112156929 title "SECRET AGENTS AND SECRET OBJECTS: ACTION, PASSIVITY, AND GENDER IN CHANCE" @default.
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