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Identify the AUTHOR of the following passage: The morning was one peculiar to that coast. Everything was mute and calm; everything grey. The sea, though undulated into long roods of swells, seemed fixed, and was sleeked at the surface like waved lead that has cooled and set in the smelter’s mould. The sky seemed a grey mantle. Flights of troubled grey fowl, kith and kin with flights of troubled grey vapours among which they were mixed, skimmed low and fitfully over the waters, as swallows over meadows before storms. Shadows present, foreshadowing deeper shadows to come.

Identify the AUTHOR of the following passage: Where identity has suffered under the tribunal of an ‘unclaimed experience’, the ruin has survived as a manifestation of this process, and this unexpected survival underpins the ruin’s radical spectrality. […] In the temporal present, the ruin, in its fleshy and complex materiality, mediates between [appearance and disappearance] simultaneously through its attempt to house and give place to what is essentially an unhomely event.

Identify the CHARACTER depicted in the following passage: The small white-haired boy shambled into the back of the hall and stood peering forward at the stranger. He had on the bottoms to a pair of blue pajamas drawn up as high as they would go, the string tied over his chest and then again, harness-like, around his neck to keep them on. His eyes were slightly sunken beneath his forehead and his cheekbones were lower than they should have been. He stood there, dim and ancient, like a child who had been a child for centuries.

Identify the AUTHOR of the following passage: “Mam? After you . . .” I can’t bring myself to say it, so, I talk around it. Richie moans. “After, where you going to go?” Richie stops and lists. He’s staring up at the window, his face like a shattered plate; Casper barks off in the distance, a series of high yips. Richie rubs is neck. Mam looks at me and startles like a horse: for her, this means her eyelips jump.

Identify the CHARACTER depicted in the following passage: His face was like the face of a sleep-walker who wakes and sees some horror of his dreams take shape before him. After a moment he muttered, “Wait here, deaf,” and turned and went quickly out of the hall. He was barefooted and in his pajamas. He came back almost at once, plugging something into his ear. He had thrust on the black-rimmed glasses and he was sticking a metal box into the waist-band of his pajamas. This was joined by a cord to the plug in his ear. For an instant the boy had the thought that his head ran by electricity.

Identify the CHARACTER represented in the following passage: “I must say, John, I never expected to find you all so nervous,” _____ said. “I deplore fear in these matters.” She tapped her foot irritably. “You know perfectly well, John, that those who have passed beyond expect to see us happy and smiling; they want to know that we are thinking of them lovingly. The spirits dwelling in this house may be actually suffering because they are aware that you are afraid of them.” 

Identify the AUTHOR of the following passage: By this time the cable of the San Dominick had been cut; and the fag-end, in lashing out, whipped away the canvas shroud about the beak, suddenly revealing, as the bleached hull swung round towards the open ocean, death for the figurehead, in a human skeleton; chalky comment on the chalked words below, “Follow your leader.”

Identify the AUTHOR of the following passage: Insofar as the ruin creates the necessary spatial and temporal conditions for the past to be articulated, then precisely through that gesture the same past prohibits articulation. The tension,  surrounded by an aura of hauntings and spectrality, instils a threshold in the viewer: as much we  attempt to commune with this immediate environment, so there is a sense in being watched by the  environment.

Identify the AUTHOR of the following passage: He was a slaver of souls in the twentieth century. He was a killer and a liar and a thief, but that didn’t matter to me. […] My domination of him came from a personal conflict we were having. I didn’t want to be another one of his slaves. I was foolish enough to believe that I could take his money and keep my freedom.

Identify the CHARACTER represented in the following passage: “Come here,” Michael says. His blood thuds thickly under my ear, the skin of his arm like tepid water. The road winds through fields and wood, all the way south to the Gulf, and the light that cuts through the windows flutters all around. Where the road meets the Gulf, it skirts the beach for miles. I wish it ran straight over the water, […] wish it was an endless concrete plank that ran out over the stormy blue water of the world to circle the globe, so I could lie like this forever, feeling the fine hair on his arm, my kids silenced, not even there, his fingers on my arm drawing circles and lines that I decipher, him writing his name on me, claiming me.