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Gulf between teaching fundamentals and experiencing them.
(From Lloyds List)
Byline: Richard Woodman
Quarterpoints
ALTHOUGH he was only master of the Otago for a short period, I think that his sea-time in sail and especially his service as chief mate aboard the smart, fast and well-known immigrant ship Torrenswould qualify Joseph Conrad as a demonstrably competent practical seafarer.
He was also a famously intellectual and gifted novelist whose admirers suggest that his gloomy world-view foresaw disaster for Western civilisation, a prescience borne out in the cataclysm of the First World War.
Conrad's Weltanschauung is usually distinguished as cosmic-nihilism, which is an apt philosophy for a chap regularly taking stellar sights in the southern ocean.
Conrad wrote that humanity was 'condemned ultimately to perish'[which was] not worth troubling about. If you take it to heart it becomes an unendurable tragedy. If you believe in improvement you must weep ...'
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