She hath more hair than wit, and more faults than hairs, and more
wealth than faults.”
She may be dumb and full of faults, but if she’s wealthy, Launce sees this woman as a good match. This humorous exchange shows that male or female, modern or ancient, people have always been goldiggers.
On this day, December 3, in 1857, Joseph Conrad was born in Berdichev, Imperial Russia (modern
Ukraine, then a part of Poland). While he settled in England and wrote in English, he always considered himself a Pole. Heart of Darkness, one of the most famous of his 20 novels (which explores colonialism and the attitudes regarding what constitutes a barbarian versus civilized society) is considered one of the best English novels of the 20th century, as is his novel Lord Jim, which chronicles a crew’s abandonment of its disabled ship. Conrad died in England in 1924 at age 66.
