Marlow, Conrad’s less-than-reliable narrator in Heart of Darkness, had been brought to the site by Kurtz’s “admirer,” the ship’s-log-reading Russian harlequin. Those rebellious heads looked very subdued to me on their sticks.” Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness (1898) / Surrounding Kurtz’s compound, much to the “horror” of Marlow, is a stockade impaling native heads. There had been enemies, criminals, workers – and these were – rebels. Rebels! What would be the next definition I was to hear.
“ I had no idea of the conditions, he said: these heads were the heads of rebels.
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