The protagonist calls the place where he eats the "Red Lion," and he attaches a candy wrapper to the head of a figure he constructs out of stones, the "Dwarf."
One character in this novel gives a drunken rant about how a Chinese delicacy is made by burying a tin box and allowing the maggots inside to eat each other. A character in this novel gives a lecture on "dying into heaven," which is connected with "black lightning" throughout the book. The protagonist of this novel was an actor in a theater company run by Pete, and he threatens to crash his car after Mary refuses to sleep with him. Mary later marries a character described as extremely tall and thin, Nathaniel, who the protagonist tries to kill by knocking him off his customary perch on a ship's starboard rail. The protagonist calls the place where he eats the "Red Lion," and he attaches a candy wrapper to the head of a figure he constructs out of stones, the "Dwarf." The title character realizes he is mad when he finds that the surrounding world resembles the contours of his teeth, and at the end of this novel the title character's corpse is revealed to still have its seaboots on despite him supposedly removing them in the first pages. For 10 points, name this novel in which attempts to survive on a barren rock are hallucinated by a drowning sailor, a work by William Golding.
One character in this novel gives a drunken rant about how a Chinese delicacy is made by burying a tin box and allowing the maggots inside to eat each other.
Pincher Martin [or The Two Deaths of Christopher Martin]