The pirates Captain Skurry and Captain Sly appear in this novel, which also describes an aphrodisiac made from the "Sacred Eggplant."
During a lengthy, opium-induced slumber, the protagonist of this novel dreams of visiting Mount Parnassus on a flying chair. A character in this novel has to walk to town behind a flatulent horse after being unable to come up with a rhyme for "month." Three brothers in this novel are revealed to be descendants of a missionary who was allowed to sleep with all of a village's women before being burnt alive for spitting on a muskrat idol. The pirates Captain Skurry and Captain Sly appear in this novel, which also describes an aphrodisiac made from the "Sacred Eggplant." After being thrown overboard the Poseidon with his valet, the protagonist of this novel saves an African slave he calls Dirkpecker. At the end of this novel, the protagonist consummates his marriage with the syphilitic prostitute Joan Toast, and his tutor Henry Burlingame III leaves to live among the Indians. The main character is commissioned to write an epic Marylandiad, but pens the title satire instead. For 10 points, name this novel about Ebenezer Cooke by John Barth.
During a lengthy, opium-induced slumber, the protagonist of this novel dreams of visiting Mount Parnassus on a flying chair.
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