In the beginning of section 2, there is a quote that goes "When you have to attend to things of that sort, to the mere incidents of the surface, the reality- the reality , I tell you- fades. The inner truth is hidden- luckily, luckily."
This theme of avoiding reality comes up many times in this section. It ties a little bit into the conversation with the aunt, and the "beautiful world of women" because they supposedly can not face "men's reality". However this begins to get tied in with the idea of the darkness- one must retreat from the reality or else he will be consumed by the darkness and will be driven wild and crazy like the darkness itself. In class we also talked a little about Kurtz's reality- how he claims ownership of everything when in fact the darkness owns him. If one doesn't retreat to his or her own false world- the beautiful world that women see, or something similar- the darkness will own him.
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