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In this novel, two identical white dresses with ornamental red buttons and no fastenings are worn by a woman who bloodies her hands breaking open the door of a bathroom that the protagonist had locked her in. This novel summarizes a nine-volume monograph on “extensors” and “symmetriads” by a victim of the “Eruption of the 106” and also excerpts the account of a life-sized model of a garden and a giant baby from the “Minor Apocrypha.” (-5[1])Bill Johnston’s 2011 translation of this novel restores the name “Harey” for a 19-year-old woman who gave herself a lethal injection 10 years before this novel opens. In this novel, Snaut and Dr. Sartorius (10[1])try to use an X-ray encoding (10[1])of an EEG readout (-5[1])to contact an entity that uses the protagonist’s memories to create a (10[2])replica of his deceased (10[1])lover. (10[1]-5[1])For 10 points, (10[2])Kris Kelvin (-5[1])visits the title (10[1])sentient (10[1])planet in what novel by Stanisław (10[1])(“stah-NEECE-waff”) Lem? (10[3])■END■ (10[6])

ANSWER: Solaris
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2023 ACF Nationals04/22/2023Y2195%0%19%142.45

Buzzes

PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Enoch YuenImperial AIowa State A75-5
Wenying WuToronto ASouth Carolina A10910
Nicholas TunksMinnesota BCornell B11510
Connor BlakeChicago CMichigan A119-5
Ethan AshbrookMinnesota APenn A13110
Ned TagtmeierChicago ARutgers A13110
Tim MorrisonStanford AGeorgia Tech B13510
Ani PerumallaPenn State AIllinois A136-5
Nathan ZhangCornell AUC Berkeley A13610
Tanis NielsenClaremont ABrown A13910
Clark SmithOhio State ARutgers B13910
Hari ParameswaranGeorgia Tech ADuke A141-5
Caleb KendrickMaryland AHouston A14410
Vittal BhatNorth Carolina AJohns Hopkins A14510
June YinWUSTL BYale A15110
Matthew LehmannWUSTL AIndiana A15210
Mazin OmerHarvard AVanderbilt A15210
Mitch McCullarIllinois APenn State A15210
Karsten RynearsonYale BColumbia B15310
Mateo Javier AcostaFlorida BMIT A15310
Tracy MirkinFlorida APurdue A15310
Noah SheidlowerColumbia AMcGill A15310
Ashish SubramanianDuke AGeorgia Tech A15310
Todd MaslykMichigan AChicago C15310