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  Sunday Pages: "Heart of Darkness" A novel by Joseph Conrad Greg Olear May 17 Dear Reader, Friday night, I finally caught the bad cold that’s been making its way through my house for the last two weeks. So I hope you’ll forgive me re-running the below piece, which I think is one of the best “Sunday Pages” dispatches, and one that was written too late to include in  The Age of Unreality . Every piece at PREVAIL is free to read and always will be. No paywalls, ever. Your generous support keeps it that way. Thank you! February 9, 2025 According to the critic Harold Bloom, who would know,  Heart of Darkness , Joseph Conrad’s 1899 novel, is the single most analyzed piece of literature in college English departments the world over. He attributes this to the book’s “unique propensity for ambiguity.” While it is certainly true that Conrad has a flair for the ambiguous, I think the reason is less lofty than Bloom pretends. Having taught creative writing as an adjunct, and thus pr...

  OPEN SECRETS reported that DARK MONEY that conceals DONORS has flooded  MAINE....STICK TO ISSUES.....NOT ATTACK ADS or DISINFORMATION!  $50 billion. That’s how much Trump’s illegal, unnecessary war with Iran has cost us in less than three months.   Think about all the things we could do with $50 billion dollars: affordable healthcare? Lower prescription drug prices? Safe and affordable housing?    What about childcare you can actually afford? I’ve got a plan for free universal childcare for Maine’s working families ( you can read more about it here ) — and $50 billion is enough to fund that plan for the next 142 years.   Look, a lot of people in Maine right now are struggling to get by, and many working parents are paying  more for childcare than rent . That’s insane.    And on top of that, the workers we put our trust in to care for children every single day aren’t paid nearly enough to care for their own families.    Our po...

  SHARED FOR INFORMATION AND EDUCATION.... TRUMP and REPUBLICANS can't win legitimate elections and are forced to employ  numerous tactics to rig the elections and DISENFRACHISE BLACK VOTERS.... it's called RACISM! NAME CALLING and IRRATIONAL ATTACKS  ignore the BIG BEAUTIFUL DISASTER  that DESTROYED HEALTHCARE for  MILLIONS, gave TAX CUTS to the  WEALTHY,  SLASHED FOOD PROGRAMS  that FEED HUNGRY KIDS, the ELDERLY  and the DISABLED!   THE BUDGET defines the MORAL DEPRAVITY of its authors! SO MANY FEDERAL EMPLOYEES HAVE BEEN ELIMINATED THAT GOVERNMENT  NO LONGER WORKS! Hi, it’s Admiral Nancy Lacore, the Democrat running for Congress in SC-01. Donald Trump is panicking about our race. The other night, he went on a tirade on Truth Social, commanding the GOP to gerrymander our state and stop “Radical Left Democrats” from “destroying our country.” Why?   Because Trump knows that our momentum here in SC-01 is picking up – a...