The secretary of an American-born author has a lesbian affair with the secretary of this author in Cynthia Ozick’s story “Dictation.” In a story by this author, a nearby explosion launches the narrator in a parabolic arc before he is helped by the ship Sommerville, which causes another fire. The protagonist of a story by this author rescues his “second self,” a man who had strangled a crewmate during a storm. This author’s novel Chance (10[1])is narrated by the same character who narrates the story “Youth” and a novel partly set in Patusan. (10[2])In a novella by this author of “The Secret Sharer,” the narrator sits aboard the Nellie and recounts the time when he searched for Kurtz in the Congo. For 10 points, Charles Marlow narrates what author’s novels Lord Jim and Heart of Darkness? ■END■