sufjan stevens in a literature class

kurtz, there is no line.

‘I think [the wilderness] has whispered to him things about himself which he did not know, things of which he had no conception till he took counsel with this great solitude – and the whisper had proved irresistibly fascinating. It echoed loudly within him because he was hollow at the core...’

‘There was nothing exactly profitable in these heads being there. They only showed that Mr Kurtz lacked restraint in the gratification of his various lusts, that there was something wanting in him – some small matter which, when the pressing need arose, would not be found under his magnificent eloquence’

there is a conflict in the human heart between rational and irrational, between good and evil, and good does not always triumph.