Chapter 3 crew turned great writers

Conrad, who made the sea his home, never wrote anything until he was thirty-seven.One day he took up his pen because he was out at sea without a boat. In the autumn of 1889, a captain who was originally from Poland but had served on a British merchant ship for eleven years temporarily lived in a London apartment because he had no ship to go to sea.One morning, after breakfast, with nothing to do, he spread out a paper at his desk and began to write about a man he had met on a voyage a year earlier to Borneo and Celebes carrying rubber and sugar cane. story.This novel is the famous "Amer's Folly", and the captain is Conrad who later wrote immortal works such as "Heart of Darkness" and "The Boy and the Typhoon".

Conrad later recalled: Before writing that novel, I never wrote anything but letters, and I wrote very few letters.As a crew member, there must be many legendary encounters, but he said: I have never recorded the events, impressions or anecdotes in my life with a pen.In fact, he had been a hardworking and competent crew member in the past, so he had the opportunity to be promoted to captain.He is a man who loves the ocean. But this man who has always regarded the sea as his home, at the age of thirty-seven, sat at the table because he had no boat to go to sea, and turned into a writer who works with words.What is even more surprising is that he did not write in Polish, his native language, but in a foreign language, namely English.Conrad's legendary transformation is not only a miracle that people talk about in the history of literature, but also a miracle of personal life transformation.

Conrad's story teaches us a truth about human nature: Individuals can change.Although not everyone can, like Conrad, abandon the life he was familiar with, suddenly switch to another completely different industry, and achieve unexpected success.However, it is an indisputable fact that everyone can change to some extent with the growth of age, the change of environment or the requirements of society. There is no way out, there is no way out, there is no way out, and there is another village in the dark, the story of Conrad also tells us that life has unpredictable possibilities.