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THE TAR HEEL
TUESDAY, JULY 7, 1953
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The Tar Heel, published Tuesday and Friday during the first Sum
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Carolina where it is published by the students.
STAFF Al Shortt, Pete Adams, Tom Parramore, Rolfe Neill.
Conrad In Review
THE CLOCK
John Gibson
Norman Jarrard
On the back of Joseph Con
rad's The Secret Agent (Anchor
; Book, 75 cents) there is a quo
tation from F. R. Leavis's The
Great Tradition in which Leavis
says that The Secret Agent is an
unquestionable classic of the
first order.
. Thus the ostensible reason for
reprinting The Secret Agent
would be that it is a very fine
novel. The real reason, however,
is more likely the one revealed
by the title.
A novel about secret agents,
social revolutionaries, anarchists,
a"d so forth, is very timely in
view of present interest in such
people. Conrad's story, as a mat
ter fact, is based upon an actual
happening in the 1880s (novel
published in 1907), as Conrad
to Is us in his preface, with a
, few of the 'characters traceable
to real people.
It is the story of an attempt
to blow up the Greenwich Ob
servatory. Mr. Vladimir, First
Secretary of the Embassy of an
unknown European power choos
es that way of stirring up trou
ble it is "an act of destructive
ferocity so absurd as to be in-c-mprehensible,
inexplicable, al
nost unthinkable." Adolf . Ver
loc, the secret agent, is ordered
to do the actual blowing-up.
Conrad's aim seems to be to
show how this act led to a do
mestic tragedy in L which Verloc,
like Iago; is foiled in the end
from an unexpected direction
by his wife. All of the charac
ters are given full characteriza
tions albeit sometimes in a rath
er toq workmanlike manner.
Conrad seems to be at fault
here. Possibly the only sympa
thetic treatment is given to Ste
vie, the half-wit brother of Ver
loc's wife Winnie and .he may
be a symbol.
Conrad takes pains to show
that the other characters aren't
what , they seem or to make fun
of them in other ways.
There is Karl Yundt, "the fa
mous terrorist (who) had never
in his life raised personally, as
much as his little finger against
the social edifice."
Verloc, the famous secret
agent, never does anything ex
travagant, is lazy, and has got
ten "out of condition" by getting
fat
The famous Chief Inspector
Heat owes his reputation to un
official" information he obtains
from Verloc.
Of course, Conrad says that he
chose to use the ironic method
"in the earnest belief that ironic
treatment alone would enable
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The campus chimes (with sil
vered tones.)
Strike quarter to the hou,
Fifteen minutes left to us
According to the tower.
me to say all I felt I would have
to say in scorn as Veil as in pi
ty." t
But he overdoes it, surely.
Part of this is an overuse of par
adox. For example, it is said of
tiie "Professor" that "the la
mentable inferiority of the
whole physique was made ludi
crous by the supremely self-confident
bearing of the individual."
At another place we read that
"the mind and the instincts of
a burglar are of the same kind
as the mind and the instincts of
a police officer" A character '
says, "You revolutionists are the
slaves of the social convention."
It even affects style. We read
of things like "ferocious discre
tion" and "eager indecision."
The irony of several scenes, such
as Winnie"s talk with Verloc
about Stevie, and Ossipon's
meeting with Winnie, is so lack
ing in subtlety that it is panful
to read.
There are good points to the
novel but they are certainly less
obvious than what seem to be
the bad ones. The picture of the
Xexplosive-making Professor ap
proaches satire and is interest
ing as such. The caricatured
Home Secretary who asks his
callers to "avoid details" and to
, "be lucid" is a good job. How-.
ever, Conrad implies that he
tried to avoid caricature in
characterization.
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26. Pay, as
money
28. Empty car
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29. Inspired
with
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vote .
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43. Melody
44. Shun
45. Booth
46. Finishes
47. Goddess of
volcanoes
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4. Postscript
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6. Land
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8. Furnish
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13. Raised desk
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18. Weight
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wood
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The clock upon ' the restaurant
wall
Reads twenty till eleven.
My wrist watch, on the other
hand,
Gives us twenty seven.
The P. O. clock says fourteen tp
And that is federal time,
Which every loyal soul should
take
As a temporal paradigm
My Best To You, says Jimmy
Capps, -
We've still got thirteen min
utes, So here's a pair of keyboard boys
Who'll play a couple spinets.
The gal I'm with, the cautious
kind,
Eas brought along a clock,
"When we get back", she says
to me,
I'd just as soon not knock."
She'd set it by the time piece
In alderman's front hall,
And if Big Ben is working right,
There's still some time to stall.
Of course' you know the ending,
And my little one's sad fate.
For with all our careful check
ing, My baby got in late.
For Alderman has got a clock
(The one there by the sill)
That, no matter what the others
say,
It reads later still.
By some strange secret process,
Perhaps atomic power.
That thing beats all the other
clocks,
In racing for the hour.
Some day I'm going to test that
; clock,
And at ten return my date,
And yet I'll bet my next week's
check,
She'll still be seconds late.
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