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Description acceptable. David Foster Wallace’s essay “E Unibus Pluram” praises the “complicated ironies” of a lengthy passage about this location. For 10 points each:
[10h] In a 1985 novel, the protagonist and his colleague, a professor of pop culture who seeks to specialize in “Elvis Studies,” visit what tourist destination, which “no one sees” despite extensively documenting it?
ANSWER: the most photographed barn in America [accept descriptions of a barn that is photographed; accept the barn from White Noise; prompt on barn]
[10e] “E Unibus Pluram” traces this medium’s influence on U.S. fiction. Jack Gladney’s kids are addicted to this medium in Don DeLillo’s novel White Noise, whose title refers to the visual static produced by it.
ANSWER: television [or TV]
[10m] This author featured zombie-like, TV-obsessed “Thanatoids” in his novel Vineland. After returning from a Tupperware party, one of this author’s protagonists stares at a TV upon hearing she will execute Pierce Inverarity’s will.
ANSWER: Thomas Pynchon [or Thomas Ruggles Pynchon Jr.] (The second novel is The Crying of Lot 49.)
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