Question
This character concludes that it would have been better if a black butterfly in his house had been born blue after he regrets killing it with a towel. A conversation between this character and his lover is composed solely of punctuation in the chapter “The Old Dialogue Between Adam and Eve.” When this character is astonished to encounter an old schoolmate who is now a beggar, the schoolmate steals his watch during an embrace. This character’s father sends him to university in Portugal for stealing money to buy his girlfriend jewelry. This character obsesses over creating a poultice to alleviate melancholy. A friend introduces the philosophy of Humanitism to this lover of Virgilia, who dedicates a book “to the worm who gnawed the cold flesh of my corpse” and befriends Quincas Borba. For 10 points, name this protagonist of some “Posthumous Memoirs” by Machado de Assis. ■END■
Buzzes
Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
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Matt Bollinger | Georgia Tech A | Chicago A | 50 | 10 |