In a partially autobiographical “sketch,” the middle-aged John Marr compares his life in this profession to his retirement on the prairie. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this profession of Daniel Orme, the title character of a story likely meant to accompany an “inside narrative” about a member of this profession who is sentenced to be hanged after killing John Claggart.
ANSWER: sailors
[10e] This author of John Marr and Other Sailors wrote about the title “handsome sailor” in his unfinished novella Billy Budd.
ANSWER: Herman Melville
[10h] Melville included epigraphs mostly taken from The Faerie Queene at the start of this collection of ten “sketches” about the Galápagos Islands, narrated by an anonymous sailor.
ANSWER: “The Encantadas” [or “The Enchanted Isles”]
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