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An essay about one of these places that describes the sky as a “vast lapis lazuli dome” was written by Frank Conroy for a brochure. A man referred to as “Captain Video” is often seen in one of these places in a work that ends after the narrator is put into a trance by the hypnotist Nigel Ellery. While he’s in one of these places named for Gunnar Myrdal, Alfred deliriously talks to his “turd” in Jonathan Franzen’s The Corrections. (10[1])Greeks like “Mr. Dermatitis” run one of these places in an essay whose author bemoans the “pampering” he had to endure. In one of (10[1])many footnotes, that essay’s author dubs one of these places (10[2])Nadir instead of Zenith. For 10 points, the essay “A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again” (10[1])recounts David (10[1])Foster Wallace’s week-long trip in what kind of seagoing (10[1])vessel? ■END■ (10[4]0[1])

ANSWER: cruise ship [prompt on passenger ship or boat or ocean liner] (Wallace refers to that Conroy advertisement-essay often in “A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again.”)
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