Franck Binard – PhD, Ottawa Ontario
“Heart of Darkness” is a must have in any basic English lit library. Having grown up in a French education system, which I followed by a techno-scientific formation, I passed by this small book several time, but our paths never really crossed. Actually, that’s not completely true. The movie “Apocalypse Now” does carry a lot of the darkness, feelings, and themes that are in the book. However, the movie is (obviously) a different work of art brought forth using a different medium.
This story is really the quiet evening narration of a story by one man, Marlow, to four others, told on the deck of a small vessel floating down the Thames. It is also the description of the impulses that make a man (I say man, because this is something that I have never witnessed in women) want to lose his very humanity, shed his coat of civilization, and return to the primitive that lives inside all of us. What I read was the story of one man’s search for true honesty, true to the extent that it doesn’t come from a construction of human ideals, but rather from something that exists independently of humans, even when we (and we do) make every conceivable efforts to bury it in a grave of shame and morality. But this man is neither Kurtz, nor Marlow. In fact this man doesn’t even appear in the book at all. This man is Conrad himself.”
Christian Démoré – Moncton New Brunswick
“Although my reading this year has been abominably patchy (other than EPPP prep materials and research articles), this book connected a few concepts I already had bouncing around in my head. People make poor decisions. We don’t have all the information available or either through willfull ignorance or cognitive bias about probability in particular. Those of us who choose to learn about it can make a difference in our own lives. Black Swan borrows from cognitive science, history and economics to teach us about these traps.”
Christian is a resident in forensic psychology working at a multi-level psychiatric facility within the federal correctional system. He knows more murderers than you know baristas.
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Franck Binard – PhD, Ottawa Ontario
Christian Démoré – Moncton New Brunswick
Christian is a resident in forensic psychology working at a multi-level psychiatric facility within the federal correctional system. He knows more murderers than you know baristas.
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