"I let him run on. This papier-mâché Mephistopheles, and it seems to me that if I tried I could poke my forefinger through him, and would find nothing inside but a little loose dirt, maybe." (23)
Mephistopheles is a name given to a representation of the devil. Papier-mâché is pieces of paper stuck together by a paste to make a hollow structure. Marlow is using papier-mache as a metaphor for the brick maker and the other men he meets at the Central Station. These people have no interior, but evil thoughts of imperialism.
~"Mephistopheles" Faust. 2008. August 26, 2008. <http://www.faust.com/index.php/legend/mephistopheles/>
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