In A Single Man, Kenny and George bond at night over this title activity of a story in which the "country-crossing" ex-lover of Shirley Adams returns to a sold house.
Failure at this activity causes such shame for a half-Scottish, half-Greek character that he goes to jail for trying to kill a "golden boy" in Melbourne. A professor proves he wasn't bluffing about "being silly" by agreeing to do this with a student during a drunken "Platonic dialogue" at the Starboard Side gay bar. A free verse poem by Countee Cullen describes this action as "ever a ceaseless vigil keeping / Over the treasures beneath." This central activity of a 2013 Christos Tsiolkas novel excites a (*) gatecrashing character enough to smack the rear of a bronze Aphrodite statue in a story that ends with him crying over the autumnal constellation Andromeda. In A Single Man, Kenny and George bond at night over this title activity of a story in which the "country-crossing" ex-lover of Shirley Adams returns to a sold house. For 10 points, name this activity that carries Neddy Merrill through the lawn-linking "Lucinda River" in a John Cheever story.
Failure at this activity causes such shame for a half-Scottish, half-Greek character that he goes to jail for trying to kill a "golden boy" in Melbourne.
swimming [accept any related answers about various ways of traversing water]