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A man in this story exclaims, “change this minute!” as he feels beams and rafters pile on top of him. This story’s narrator consults the book Medicinal...something or other and a history book that repeats the words “Benevolence,” “Righteousness,” and “Morality.” The story “One Day” and this story popularized a style of vernacular writing after they appeared in the magazine New Youth. In this story, the protagonist’s elder brother deals with reports of a famine from (*) Wolf Cub Village. The narrator (10[1])runs from a crowd with “green faces and protruding fangs” in this story, (10[1])which ends with a plea to “save the children...” In this story, the narrator is convinced by the phrase “EAT PEOPLE!” that everyone he knows (10[1])is a cannibal. For 10 points, a Nikolai Gogol story inspired what short story about a mentally ill man (10[1])by Lu Xun? ■END■ (10[1])

ANSWER: Diary of a Madman” [or “A Madman’s Diary”; or Kuángrén Rìjì]
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