Dark 3-11

A: PG8: sand-banks, marshes, forests, savages; here and there a military camp lost in a wilderness, like a needle in a bundle of hay; the utter savagery; wilderness that stirs in the forest, in the jugles; it was just robbery with violence, aggravated murder on a great scale, and men going at it blind-as is very proper for those who tackle a darkness
PG11: it fascinated me as a snake would a bird- a little silly little bird

I: the author seems to infer that there are more savages in the forest than the civilized city where the "utter savagery" and "robbery" is normal in the city. It seems to that there are contradictions and exhibits this queer feeling where the city supposed to be darkness and wicked where jungle is nature and pure!