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These objects title a dreamlike portrait inspired by Italian Renaissance busts of the artist’s wife Camille Falte. Several of these objects are “Floating Like Mollusks” in a print from an album depicting Flaubert’s (“floh-BAIR’s”) The Temptation of St. Anthony. The area around one of these objects dramatically lacks any shading in the piece Guardian Spirit of the Waters. (10[1])French (10[1])translations of (10[1])Edgar Allan Poe inspired a lithograph depicting a giant, (10[2])perfectly (10[1]-5[1])spherical one of these objects carrying (10[1])a small head; (10[2]-5[1])that lithograph is titled for how one of these objects “Like A Strange Balloon, Mounts (10[1])Towards Infinity.” In a colorful Symbolist painting, a giant with one of these objects (10[2])intrudes on a nereid sleeping on a flowery hill. (10[2])For 10 points, (10[1])name these body parts (10[1])imaginatively (10[2])depicted in the lithographs of Odilon Redon (10[1])■END■ (10[4])

ANSWER: eyes [or eyeballs; prompt on organs; prompt on body parts until read; reject “heads”] (The Symbolist painting is The Cyclops.)
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2024 ACF Nationals2024-04-21Y2496%0%8%99.83

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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Max BrodskyIllinoisBerkeley A5610
Nathan ZhangCornell AColumbia A5710
Jim FanNorth Carolina AMinnesota A5910
Halle FriedmanNYUGeorgia Tech6810
Mattias EhatammWaterlooStanford6810
Matthew LehmannWUSTL AIndiana6910
Jason HongBrownIowa State69-5
Jack ObermanSouth CarolinaMinnesota B7510
Joy AnHarvardBerkeley B7810
Ryan HumphreyTexasChicago B7810
Kevin ParkClaremont CollegesColumbia B78-5
Seth EbnerJohns HopkinsToronto A9310
Matt JacksonChicago APurdue10710
Andrew SalijNorthwesternMichigan10710
Cory SmithKentuckyChicago C11610
Caleb KendrickMarylandYale A11610
Jeremy CummingsWUSTL BYale B11910
Rosa XiaCornell BTruman State12310
Adrian WongOttawaFlorida12410
Aum MundheRutgersVirginia12410
Jaik HavlickArizona StateDuke13110
Guy IndoranteIowa StateBrown13210
Ivvone ZhouNorth Carolina BMcGill13210
Andrew HannaPennToronto B13210
Gavin MarkoffVanderbiltChicago D13210