Fairy Tales and Conrad

Essay A: Fairy Tales
(1) What is the flash of recognition?
Authough both Conrad's Heart of Darkness and the fairy tale (which can in fact be understood as the conventional reading of this scene, and therefore remaining within the book itself) are allegories, there are also important differences. The main critique of the fairy tale is that it hypothesizes these moments of understanding -- of a brief moment when the return of the fairy tale, of the moral, is recognized. There is a moment, in the fairy tale, the so-called result, the outcome, when good again triumphs, or the moral again reappears. It is this iteritive loop, this rise and fall, that seems to mark the rythm of progress -- the recognition of error, the steps in life. It is evident that the flash never occurs in Conrad, as Marlow is allowed to draw back his foot. Authough Conrad seems to write in anticipation of the flash, which occurs at the moment of death. Why?
What are the consequences of this?
(2) The intimacy and non-presence of truth
For Conrad, the flash can never arrive -- there is no cyclic process where truth is ever obtained, there is no distance, and there is no mourning and there is no wisdom -- not even the wisdom of defeat. Anti-Oedipus. Yet -- everything seems to be in anticipation of the flash, and everything is still arranged as if the flash could, somehow, arrive -- or did arrive. This flash is not the flash of comprehension, but perhaps it is the flash of a certain recognition.
What is the difference between the Benjaminian and the Conradian thinking of the flash?
(3) Mutations, Singularity