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Question

Guadalupe Nettel’s short story “Ptosis” (“TOE-sis”) follows a photographer working in this city who becomes infatuated with an eyelid surgery patient. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this city where a photographer in another story reimagines a scene of a boy being propositioned in a park while translating a treatise by José Norberto Allende.

ANSWER: Paris

[10m] That Parisian photographer appears in this author’s story “Blow-Up.” This Argentine-French author described a narrator’s obsession with the title creature’s “golden eyes” while visiting the Jardin des Plantes (“zhar-DAHN day plant”) in the story “Axolotl.”

ANSWER: Julio Cortázar [or Julio Florencio Cortázar]

[10e] The narrator describes vomiting rabbits and jumping out of a window in another Cortázar story framed as one of these works “to a Young Lady in Paris.” These works make up epistolary literature.

ANSWER: letters [accept “Letter to a Young Lady in Paris”]

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California	Main	Y	4	22.50	100%	100%	25%
Canada	Main	Y	6	18.33	100%	67%	17%
Florida	Main	Y	12	13.33	92%	33%	8%
Great Lakes	Main	Y	3	20.00	100%	67%	33%
Overflow	Main	Y	1	20.00	100%	100%	0%
Pacific Northwest	Main	Y	10	12.00	100%	20%	0%
South Central	Main	Y	5	20.00	100%	100%	0%
UK	Main	Y	4	15.00	100%	50%	0%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	8	20.00	100%	63%	38%
Upstate NY	Main	Y	8	16.25	100%	50%	13%
2025 ACF Nationals	2025-08-09	Y	9	15.56	100%	56%	0%

Data


Berkeley A	Berkeley E	0	10	10	20
Stanford A	Berkeley B	10	10	10	30
Berkeley C	Stanford B	0	10	10	20
Berkeley D	Stanford C	0	10	10	20
Claremont Scripps	UCI	0	0	10	10
USC	UCLA B	0	10	10	20
UCSB	UCLA C	10	10	10	30
UCLA D	UCSD Vices and Virtues	0	10	10	20
UCSD What Hath God Wrought	Claremont Pitzer	0	0	10	10
UCLA A	UCSD Two Running Violet V Forms	0	10	10	20
Toronto F	Guelph B	0	0	10	10
Toronto H	McGill A	0	10	10	20
McMaster A	Carleton	0	10	10	20
McMaster B	Guelph A	0	0	0	0
McMaster C	Toronto C	0	0	10	10
Toronto E	Queen's B	0	0	10	10
Toronto A	McGill C	10	10	10	30
Toronto I	Toronto B	0	0	10	10
McGill B	Toronto D	0	0	10	10
Toronto J	Waterloo	0	0	10	10
Ottawa	Toronto K	0	10	10	20
Western Ontario	Toronto Metropolitan	0	0	10	10
FIU	UF B	10	10	10	30
UCF B	UCF A	0	10	10	20
UF A	UF E	0	0	10	10
WashU A	Missouri A	0	10	10	20
Chicago B	Purdue C	0	0	10	10
Chicago C	Michigan B	0	0	10	10
Chicago D	Louisville A	0	0	10	10
Louisville B	Notre Dame C	0	0	10	10
Notre Dame A	Michigan A	0	10	10	20
UIC	Michigan C	0	0	10	10
Notre Dame B	Indiana A	0	0	10	10
Kentucky	Purdue A	0	0	10	10
Illinois C	Purdue B	0	10	10	20
Macalester A	St. Thomas	0	10	10	20
Carleton	Macalester B	0	10	10	20
Minnesota A	Minnesota B	0	10	10	20
Nebraska	Minnesota C	0	10	10	20
Iowa State	Wisconsin	0	10	10	20
Alberta	British Columbia B	0	0	10	10
British Columbia C	British Columbia A	0	0	10	10
Washington A	British Columbia D	0	10	10	20
Washington B	Simon Fraser	0	10	10	20
Arizona State A	McGill D	10	10	10	30
Arizona State B	Northwestern C	0	10	10	20
Northwestern B	Northwestern A	0	0	10	10
Ohio	Rose State	0	10	10	20
Texas A	Texas B	10	10	10	30
Iowa	Tulsa	10	0	10	20
UCO	Alberta B	0	10	10	20
UTD A	UTD B	0	0	10	10
Notre Dame D	Illinois B	0	0	10	10
Alabama B	UAB A	10	0	10	20
Auburn A	Georgia Tech D	0	10	10	20
Auburn B	Sewanee A	0	0	10	10
Vanderbilt A	Bruin A	0	10	10	20
Georgia Tech A	Georgia Tech B	0	10	10	20
Georgia Tech C	Vanderbilt B	0	10	10	20
Huntsville A	Huntsville B	0	0	10	10
Mississippi State A	Alabama A	0	0	10	10
Cambridge C	Bristol B	0	10	10	20
Cambridge B	City St George's A	0	0	10	10
Sheffield B	Imperial A	0	0	10	10
LSE A	Imperial B	0	10	10	20
Manchester A	Durham B	0	10	10	20
Southampton A	Oxford A	0	10	10	20
Sheffield A	Durham A	0	10	10	20
Sheffield C	Imperial C	0	0	10	10
Southampton B	Oxford B	0	0	10	10