Picking up the idea of "Blackout Poetry" that I "borrowed" from American artist/writer Austin Kleon, I am making a "Blackout Novel" of Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness". For background to this whole project idea you can read my blog entries at:
http://petergknight.wordpress.com/2011/12/18/stealing-from-austin-kleon/
and
http://petergknight.wordpress.com/2014/01/10/and-idea-a-blackout-book/

To begin with I'm just doing alternate pages because my ink is bleeding through each page that I ink up! In due course I'll go back and do the intervening pages in another copy and insert them in the right places. Whether they add up to a summary, a counterpoint, or nothing at all relevant to the original we shall see!

Page numbers refer to my Penguin Modern Classics edition.

The wind, the tide, the river
interminable before us.

The motionless Earth
looking to seaward
was holding our hearts.

The memories of the sea
are like jewels.

What dreams appear
in the dark places of the earth.

Imagine a ship
with a civilized man
lost in exile, in doubt.
And think of the savagery
in the hearts of men.

And the abomination - the hate.

that river
was the farthest point
of my experience

Then I got a passion for maps
and all the glories of
blank spaces on the earth

I would go there.
The blank spaces.

I got my chance
and left

Afterwards bones.

And black, rotting calamity

Mad terror

I was

I wasn't

I should

I am

I am not

- I don't know -