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Hello, we are trying something new here at the History of Literature Podcast, a resurrection, you might say, a reclaiming, a resurfacing of an old episode from the archives, or part of an old episode that is I'm playing the hits people

taking suggestions and playing the hits. Today we travel back seven years to a conversation I had with Mike Palindrome, the president of the Literature

Supporters Club about Joseph Conrad's Classic Novella, Heart of Darkness.

This was recommended by a listener who said that this was the episode that got her hooked on the

podcast.

I wanted to find something I liked as much as the two of you liked the Heart of Darkness, she said.

Well, thank you for that. I've been thinking about that lately as we head into October.

Find a man who loves you the way Jack Wilson loves the month of October.

Good advice. Anyway, a few things before we begin, one is there are some spoilers inside for the novella.

So if you'd like to read the book first, please do that.

It's one you can read in a single sitting,

as Mike and I discuss.

Another point before we begin,

we also discuss Francis Ford Coppola's 1979

film Apocalypse Now, which was inspired

by Heart of Darkness, and set in the Vietnam War.

And we discussed the follow-up documentary, Hearts of Darkness, which Eleanor Coppola produced

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