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This essay’s author is compared to the boy from “The Emperor’s New Clothes” in a Cedric Watts essay countering it. F. R. Leavis’s description of an author’s “insistence upon inexpressible and incomprehensible mystery” is quoted in this essay’s description of a writer who induces “hypnotic stupor” in his readers. This essay references Marco Polo’s “spectacular” omission of the Great Wall of China in his travelogues and states the Congo River is portrayed as an antithesis to the Thames. The speaker of this essay recalls receiving a letter from a “young fellow from Yonkers” who was happy to learn about a tribe’s “customs and superstitions” after reading its author’s novel Things Fall Apart. For 10 points, “Racism in Conrad’s Heart of Darkness” is the subject of what Chinua Achebe essay? ■END■
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