Quotation from Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

The manager's servant announces Kurtz's death; T. S. Eliot used the line as an epigraph to 'The Hollow Men'.

Citation: "Mistah Kurtz—he dead" — Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness, Part III (1902 Youth volume). (id heart-of-darkness-q8)

Portrait: Joseph Conrad-remastered to black and white, George Charles Beresford, Public domain.

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