The clergyman Clarence Wilmot leaves his family and takes solace in performing this action in the first part of John Updike’s novel In the Beauty of the Lilies. After losing his family in a plane crash, a professor takes extensive notes while doing this action in order to write a book on Hector Mann in The Book of Illusions by Paul (-5[1])Auster. (15[1])After returning from this action, the protagonist of a novel declares an end to his “vertical search.” In that novel titled (15[1])for a person who does this action, he finds meaning after the death of the pious, paraplegic character (*) Lonnie and his marriage to a manic-depressive he proposed (10[1])to during Mardi Gras. (10[3])A character who flirts with secretaries (10[1])and does this action on the weekends quits his job at a New Orleans brokerage firm to marry his cousin, Kate Cutrer. For 10 points, name this (10[1])action performed by Binx Bolling (10[1])according to the title of a book by Walker Percy. ■END■