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/^t/Lust for power, its roots, consequences and different aspects have always been a fine topic for writers throughout the centuries. Very rarely, however, it has been presented as a virtue or, at least, as an equivocal notion. More frequently, the desire to exercise some kind of power is pictured as an evil activity. So does Joseph Conrad in The Heart of Darkness, the depravity presented here is regarded as the ultimate one. It is unthinkable, and if the "darkness" is to stand for all evil of the world, the "heart" of it, is probably Kurtz's colony. There is not much worse left to be done by man; at least, according to Conrad and his time. The responsible is man and his lust for power which brings him to insanity.