Droll thing life is-that mysterious arrangement of merciless logic for a futile purpose. The most you can hope from it is some knowledge of yourself-that comes too late-a crop of inextinguishable regrets.' - from Heart of Darkness There is probably nobody who may explain modernism as simple and striking as W.B. Yeats did with his line 'Things fall apart. The center cannot hold.' In Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad suggests that this is exactly the natural conclusion when man is allowed to behav