A barometer from a story titled for this quality appears in Ezra Pound’s Canto VII and is the main example of a “notation” meant to signal “we are real” in Roland Barthes’s (“bart’s”) “The Reality Effect.” For 10 points each:
[10m] Give this title quality of a woman who lives in a leaky room with a coconut-wood holy water basin in a story collected with “Saint Julian the Hospitaller” and “Herodias.”
ANSWER: simplicity [or being simple; accept “A Simple Heart,” “Un coeur simple,” or “A Simple Soul”]
[10h] In Gustave Flaubert’s “A Simple Heart,” Félicité draws condescending laughter by asking to see a house in this city on a world map. She pictures her nephew Victor walking around this city in “clouds of tobacco.”
ANSWER: Havana [or La Habana; or La Havane]
[10e] Félicité’s simplicity contrasts with the bêtise (“beh-TEEZ”) of this class that Flaubert satirized in “The Dictionary of Received Ideas.” Flaubert declared the “beginning of all virtue” to be the “hatred” of this social class of Homais in Madame Bovary.
ANSWER: bourgeoisie [or bourgeois]
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