Question

In a novel titled for this place, an intern steals and burns his teacher’s prized butterfly and ridicules his colleague with the motto “today everybody’s on the way out.” In another novel, a man who goes to this place in search of the “Grand Cause” is vilified in a speech about how fathers are “evil itself” by a boy called Number One. In a novel titled for this place by Shūsaku Endō, a medical student is asked to perform vivisections on American POWs. (10[1])A novel titled for this place in English ends by noting “glory, as anyone knows, (10[1])is bitter stuff” as a man drinks drugged tea. In that novel titled for this place, a boy who spies (10[1])on his mother through (-5[1])a peephole (10[2])loses (10[2])his (10[1])admiration (10[2])for a man who serves as second (-5[1])mate aboard the Rakuyo. (10[1])For 10 points, the (10[1])title of a Yukio Mishima novel notes that Ryuji “fell from (10[1])grace with” (10[1])what (10[1])place? (10[4]0[1])■END■ (10[2])

ANSWER: the sea [or ocean; or umi; accept The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea; accept The Sea and Poison or Umi to dokuyaku]
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Summary

2024 ACF Nationals2024-04-21Y2295%0%9%135.43

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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Andrew KelleyKentuckyBerkeley B8210
Urbas EkkaMinnesota BWUSTL A9710
Mattias EhatammWaterlooBerkeley A11710
Gavin MarkoffVanderbiltPenn121-5
Justin HawkinsIndianaIowa State12310
Joel MilesMinnesota AMcGill12310
Will OrrYale BNorthwestern12410
Hayden PratherFloridaNorth Carolina A12410
Jacob Hardin-BernhardtNYURutgers12510
Michael HundingIllinoisChicago C12610
Matt JacksonChicago AArizona State12610
Adrian WongOttawaBrown133-5
Sky LiToronto AVirginia13710
Khushi UmarwadiaSouth CarolinaYale A14110
Andrew ZengStanfordPurdue15210
Jack RadoColumbia BChicago D15410
Seth EbnerJohns HopkinsDuke15510
Henry CafaroChicago BHarvard15610
Ben WismathToronto BNorth Carolina B15610
Caleb KendrickMarylandTruman State15610
Jisoo YooTexasWUSTL B15610
Jason HongBrownOttawa1560
Rosa XiaCornell BGeorgia Tech15710
Andrew HannaPennVanderbilt15710