Packet 10: Tossup 4

In this novel, an ex-soldier confesses that he was unable to generate enough heat to save a sherpa from freezing in the Himalayas. A man in this novel is barely able to climb up a dangerous spot he dubs the “tower steps.” (10[1])In this novel’s “Prehistory,” a character tries to rationalize a vision that reminds him of Titian’s Perseus and Andromeda. This novel’s narrator believes he sees his cousin fly down to save him after he is (-5[1])pushed into a hole called Minn’s Cauldron. Actors like Peregrine Arbelow pay visits to this novel’s protagonist, whose attempt to win over the young man Titus ends in the latter’s drowning. The narrator of this 1978 Booker winner retires to the coast to write his memoirs, (-5[1])but instead kidnaps (-5[1])his childhood flame, Hartley. (10[2]-5[1])For 10 points, the theater director Charles Arrowby (10[2])narrates (10[2]-5[1])what novel by Iris Murdoch? (10[2])■END■ (10[12]0[3])

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