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The narrator of this novel sees his companion covered in golden scales and then swarming flies after consuming a sugar cube laced with LSD. This novel’s final image features an airplane taking the remnants of a man to “the leg stances of a million passengers” as his friend anoints an object with semen. A man in this novel masturbates while watching an event that is then shown in slow-motion on an Ampex machine. After killing a chemical engineer, the narrator of this novel sleeps (-5[1])with the engineer’s wife (-5[1])Helen Remington, (-5[1])which does not faze (10[1])his promiscuous wife Catherine. This novel begins and ends with Vaughan orchestrating (10[1])a bloody incident near a London Airport that (10[1])wounds his obsession, the actress Elizabeth (10[1])Taylor. (10[2])For 10 points, what (10[1])J. G. (10[1])Ballard (10[2])novel concerns (10[2])a group of people (10[2])sexually (10[1])aroused (10[4])by (10[1])automobile (10[1])collisions? (10[1])■END■ (10[2])

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2023 ACF Nationals04/22/2023Y24100%0%13%127.54

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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Arthur Delot-VilainYale AGeorgia Tech A83-5
Ethan AshbrookMinnesota AColumbia A87-5
Kevin YeUC Berkeley BHouston A89-5
Justin ChenNYU AVanderbilt A9310
Ian ChowToronto ANorth Carolina A10510
Geoffrey ChenCornell ABrown A11310
Caleb KendrickMaryland AOhio State A11910
Nicholas TunksMinnesota BImperial A12010
Mitch McCullarIllinois AMcGill A12010
Justin HawkinsIndiana AChicago C12410
Tracy MirkinFlorida ADuke A12610
Seth EbnerJohns Hopkins APurdue A12710
Tim MorrisonStanford AChicago A12710
Vedul PalavajjhalaWUSTL BPenn A12910
Ryan SunUC Berkeley ACornell B12910
Amogh KulkarniChicago BWUSTL A13310
Ani PerumallaPenn State ASouth Carolina A13310
Jisoo YooTexas AMIT A13410
Kevin ParkClaremont ARutgers A13510
Gio MazzeoVirginia AYale B13510
S. A. ShenoyGeorgia Tech BIowa State A13510
Tiffany ZhouFlorida BColumbia B13510
Todd MaslykMichigan ARutgers B13610
Mazin OmerHarvard ANorthwestern A13710
Arya KarthikGeorgia Tech AYale A13810
Noah SheidlowerColumbia AMinnesota A13910
John BroussardHouston AUC Berkeley B13910