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Edmond Dantès (“don-TESS”) imagines Dumas writing billions of variants of The Count of Monte Cristo in a collection by this author, titled for a story contained in the moment when a hunter fires an arrow (15[1])at a lion. This author created a unicellular narrator who evolves into a camel and a primordial (15[1])sea in a story titled for their love interest, “Priscilla.” Two characters bet atoms on events that will happen (15[1])in the far future in a story by this author. In a story by this author of (*) t zero, characters climb a ladder to farm milk from the moon, where Captain (10[1])Vhd Vhd’s (“vood-vood’s”) wife becomes (10[1])trapped with the recurring narrator Qfwfq (“KOOF-kuh”). This author named the 55 title constructs after women in a novel framed as a conversation between Kublai Khan and Marco Polo. For 10 points, name this author of Cosmicomics and Invisible Cities. ■END■

ANSWER: Italo Calvino [or Italo Giovanni Calvino Mameli]
<CH, European Literature>
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