After 2nd HOD lecture

I hope everyone wasn't lost today during lecture and that everyone was taking down notes as Ms Chua went through the first two-three pages or so of Heart of Darkness. Things might not make sense at this point, but the pieces will eventually fit together in an 'aha' moment somewhere halfway to three-quarters into the text (as I had experienced when I first read it), so persevere with it.

The novel is not easy. It's short, but the language of the novel is dense and for good reason, to create a contemplative ambivalent mood, perhaps. It might actually help to create a short chronology of the text as you read it. After all, exploration is an idea in the text, and like the narrator of the story who is our guide, our pilot, leading us through this journey, we are making sense of what we encounter amidst disorientation.

Ms Chua will be finishing up the last page of the section or so, and I will be taking over with the next few pages. Please get another copy of the text so you can annotate.