Colonialism and sexual choice

[Otto Sell]

Great post, Doug

just this:

"They grabbed what they could get for the sake of what was to be got. It was
just robbery with violence, aggrevated murder on a great scale, and men
going at it blind - as is very proper for those who tackle a darkness. The
conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who
have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not
a pretty thing when you look into it too much. What redeems it is the idea
only. An idea at the back of it; not a sentimental pretence but an idea; and
an unselfish belief in the idea - something you can set up, and bow down
before, and offer a sacrifice to . . ."
(Josef Conrad: Heart of Darkness)

Are there Dutch or Belgian p-listers who remember Jef Geeraerts "Black
Venus" - just to mention a negative example of colonial and post-colonial
writing.

Otto