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Johnston, seemingly aware of the criticism, claims that Larson’s personality was deliberately created to provoke. Johnston and Van Gregg were influenced by Joseph Conrad??s Heart of Darkness, Michael Herr’s Dispatches, and the pseudo-documentary recreation of the French war in Algeria, The Battle of Algiers, and they do not consider their protagonist a hero, even though some of his opinions and emotions coincide with theirs. Rather, Larson’s preoccupation with the attacks on the U.S., his superficial knowledge of Afghanistan and his frequently cavalier attitude towards collateral damage...
...can’t go up the river with Kurtz,” he says he was told, alluding to the grim postcolonial boat-ride of Joseph Conrad??s Heart of Darkness and the Vietnam nightmare of Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse...
Like the Art Squatters, Conrad??s initiative seeks to make student art more accessible to the Harvard community. His project, Democratizing the Gallery (DTG), gathers art from students and tutors in all Houses, both involved and uninvolved with VES, to display “democratically” in the basement of Eliot House...