Nostromo's final paragraphs show society (represented by Linda) bonding itself forever to the People despite betrayal, death and incomprehension, with an "undying passion" that signifies the ongoing reign of the dream-ideal. To the cynical Dr Monygham it is an "enviable" triumph because in the eyes of the ideal the People are ever innocent, and it is a "sinister" triumph because the illusion foretells ever more human tragedy. In "Gian' Battista," the book's last line of dialogue, I hear a second meaning of "Giant Baptism," i.e., the endless birth of the dream, of naming, and thus of conquest. Our final point of view is Monygham's, conveying the deep pessimism of the novel's argument.