"'True, by this time it was not a blank space any more. It had got filled since my boyhood with rivers and lakes and names. It has ceased to be a blank space full of delightful mystery--a white patch for a boy to dream gloriously over. It had become a place of darkness" (Conrad 71).
Darkness is associated with many different objects throughout this particular section of Heart of Darkness. Light and darkness are oppposite, as they pertian to different things. Light can be considered to be white, and darkness can be considered to be black. In the quote above, the speaker describes his favorite place on the map- a blank space, being white. This blank space brings the boy happiness because he can imagine anything he wants to be there. When the narrator says that it had become a place of darkness, the reader can infer that the blank space has been filled, and that it is no longer a "delightful mystery."
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