Note to players: Description acceptable. In this essay, a “gray shade” is imagined lamenting the narrator's dissoluteness with lines like “the degenerate fellow might as well have been a fiddler!” Its narrator asserts that the words “I'll try, Sir!” would be “the best and fittest of all mottoes” for General Miller, after earlier (15[1])praising the ability to “recollect good dinners” exhibited by (15[1])a man who otherwise had “no soul, no heart, no mind, nothing [...] but instincts.” This essay describes how moonlight helps turn (10[1])a room into a “neutral (10[1])territory” where the (*) “Actual and the (10[1])Imaginary may (10[1])meet.” This essay's narrator (10[1])finds a (10[1])package of (10[2])manuscripts (10[3])by Jonathan Pue (10[1]-5[2])that also (10[1])contains a cloth (-5[1])that (10[1])burns his (10[1])breast. The narrator describes working in the port of Salem (10[1])in, for 10 points, (10[1])what essay (10[1])that leads into Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel (10[1])about (10[1])Hester Prynne? ■END■ (10[1]0[1])