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Kurtz’s Black Mistress: black woman in the jungle who wears many ornaments
A Clean-Shaved Man, Kurtz’s “Cousin,” a Journalist: three people who visit Marlow in Europe to get Kurtz’s papers
Kurtz’s Intended: Kurtz’s fiancée in Europe
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Marlow looks at the Russian, whose “improbable, inexplicable, and altogether bewildering” existence fascinates him. He wonders how he had survived in the jungle. Marlow imagines he will disappear before his eyes. The Russian tells Marlow to...
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