Three men known as the Bachelors fly around this location searching for love, sending down a shower of hats wherever they go. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this location, which is primarily depicted in dialogue between Hans Vollman and Roger Bevins III. In a 2017 novel, a man appears in this location to visit his young son Willie.
ANSWER: the Bardo [prompt on the afterlife; prompt on Oak Hill Cemetery; prompt on cemetery or graveyard or churchyard or burial site; reject “heaven” or “purgatory” or any other specific visions of the afterlife]
[10m] This man visits the Bardo in a George Saunders novel. This historical figure is described as a “bronzed, lank man” in a Vachel Lindsay poem titled “[this man] Walks at Midnight.”
ANSWER: Abraham Lincoln [or Abraham; accept Lincoln in the Bardo; accept “Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight”]
[10e] In a Saunders short story, Samuel kills a teenager for stealing candy at an amusement park themed on this conflict. This conflict is central to the Ambrose Bierce essay “What I Saw of Shiloh.”
ANSWER: American Civil War [or United States Civil War] (The Saunders story is “CivilWarLand is in Bad Decline.”)
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