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 is narrated by the same character who narrates the story “Youth” and a novel partly set in Patusan. In a (10[1])novella by this author of “The Secret Sharer,” the narrator sits aboard the Nellie and recounts the time when he searched for Kurtz (10[1])in the Congo. For 10 points, Charles (10[1])Marlow narrates what (10[1])author’s novels Lord Jim and Heart of Darkness? ■END■