A character in this novel finds that he can “describe and define and desire those [metaphysical] rivers,” but his lover easily swims in them. Two lovers fall “into hydromuries, into savage ambonies” (15[1])after “amalat[ing] the noeme” in Gregory Rabassa’s translation of a sexual episode in this novel. (-5[2])A group of characters in this novel debate Mondrian while refusing to tell a mother that her baby (15[1])(*) Rocamadour (10[2])has just (10[1])died (10[3]-5[1])from a fever (10[1])in the same room. (10[1])A character in this (10[1])novel is convinced he will be killed by his “double” Traveler after returning to South America. Fragments attributed to Morelli appear (10[1])in this (10[1])novel’s “expendable (10[2])chapters,” (10[8])which (10[1])can be skipped (10[2])according to its (10[1])Table of (10[2])Instructions. (10[1])For 10 points, (10[1])the reader (10[1]-5[2])can jump through chapters (10[2])non-linearly in what novel (0[1])by Julio Cortazar? ■END■ (10[2]0[2])