"The point was in his being a gifted creature, and that of all his gifts the one that stood out preeminently, that carried with it a sense of real presence, was his ability to talk, his words—the gift of expression, the bewildering, the illuminating, the most exalted and the most contemptible, the pulsating stream of light, or the deceitful flow from the heart of an impenetrable darkness" (Conrad 124).
At this point in the novel, Marlow and the natives are being attacked on their trek to the central station, where Kurtz is. Since they are being shot at and one man has already been hit, Marlow is assuming that Kurtz is dead as well. Marlow is disappointed at this fact (which we discover later is false) because he has been looking forward to meeting and talking with Kurtz ever since he set foot on the expedition into the heart of darkness. A bit obsessed with Kurtz, Marlow believes that Kurtz's words can illuminate even the darkest shadows from the middle of the forest, which he says are impenetrable.
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