This essay’s author is compared to the boy from “The Emperor’s New Clothes” in a Cedric Watts essay countering it. (10[1])F. R. Leavis’s description of an author’s “insistence upon inexpressible and incomprehensible mystery” is quoted in this essay’s description of a writer (10[1])who induces “hypnotic stupor” in his readers. (-5[1])This essay references Marco Polo’s (10[1])“spectacular” omission of the Great Wall (10[1])of China in his (10[1])travelogues (10[1])and states the Congo River is (10[1])portrayed (10[2])as (10[1])an antithesis (10[4]-5[2])to the Thames. (10[2]-5[3])The speaker (10[2]-5[1])of (10[2])this essay recalls receiving (10[1])a letter from a “young fellow from Yonkers” (10[1])who was happy (-5[1])to learn about a tribe’s “customs (-5[1])and superstitions” (-5[1])after reading its author’s novel Things Fall (10[1])Apart. (10[2]-5[12])For 10 (10[1]-5[1])points, (10[3]-5[1])“Racism (-5[1])in (10[1])Conrad’s (-5[1])Heart of Darkness” (10[1]-5[1])is the subject of what Chinua Achebe (-5[2])essay? (10[1])■END■ (10[7]0[49])