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In a novel by this author, the narrator attends the “Feast of Calabashes” with his servant Kory-Kory. A sequel to that novel by this author follows the narrator as he works alongside Doctor Long Ghost. A character in a novel by this author describes “pausing before coffin warehouses” (10[1])whenever he feels a “damp, drizzly (10[2])November in [his] soul” (10[1])in the chapter “Loomings.” That narrator of a novel by this author sleeps at a hotel owned by Peter Coffin called the Spouter Inn. The novel Omoo is a sequel to this author’s novel about Polynesian life, Typee. The narrator of a novel by this author meets a man who sells shrunken heads and is heavily tattooed, (10[1])the Rokovoko-native Queequeg. (10[1])In a novel by this author, the narrator serves on the Pequod under the command of Captain Ahab. For 10 points, name this author of Moby-Dick. ■END■

ANSWER: Herman Melville
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William OrrYale AColumbia B4710
Eshan PantNYU AColumbia A5310
Alex MoonPenn APrinceton A5310
Aiden DartleyRutgers ACornell C5710
Jupiter DingPrinceton BNYU B11410
Lukas KoutsoukosYale BHaverford11710

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