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to look at him. He filled her with terror and an almost unbearable feeling of pity. She had observed the change that had come over him. He would never understand what he had done; and even to her the whole thing remained incomprehensible (Conrad Nostromo 530).

This sense of the ultimate mystery of the meeting of Europeans and indigenous people, and of the terrible consequences of that encounter, pervade both novels. It seemed so simple when Gould and the American Hol

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