Under the cover of darkness (part two): Jonathan Wooding takes a further look at Joseph Conrad

‘No magical interventions, no triumphant conclusions, just a still small voice.’

by Jonathan Wooding 8th November 2024

Quakers who know the scriptures may well remember what happened when Job, from the land of Uz, took it upon himself to rage against the raging elements and question the probity of God’s ways: ‘the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said: Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge? Gird up now thy loins like a man; for I will demand of thee, and answer thou me.’