"They were in cipher! Yes, it looked like cipher. Fancy a man lugging with him a book of that description into this nowhere and studying it-and making notes-in cipher at that!" (34)
Cipher is the same thing as a code, but the concepts are distinct in cryptography. Marlow is surprised to find a code written in the book he finds. This find makes him eager to find out about the intelligence that lays ahead.
~"cipher." Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1). Random House, Inc. 27 Aug. 2008. <Dictionary.comhttp://dictionary.reference.com/browse/cipher>.
1 comment:
why have a book written in code within this narrative? what could Conrad be driving at?
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