Airis Damon"Joseph Conrad's sublime novel Heart of Darkness can be read as an allegory of humanity's struggle with complexity, most especially the seeming chaos of nature meeting industrial uniformity. Conrad beautifully describes nature's complexity as the jungle “rioting.” Rioting is an excellently astute term for humanity's general perception of complexity using both Webster's definitions of “a random or disorderly profusion” and “a violent public disorder.”"
Mistah Kurtz -- he dead. (I)
“The great wall of vegetation, an exuberant and entangled mass of trunks, branches, leaves, boughs, festoons, motionless in the moonlight, was like a rioting invasion of soundless life, a rolling wave of plants, piled up, crested, ready to topple over the creek, to sweep every little man of us out of his little existence.” Joseph Conrad,
Gary Pedersen