Question

In a story partly titled for this adjective, a character who likens her body to laminated metal stands beside a lamp while smoking cigarettes with the narrator. In that Gabriel García Márquez story, a woman obsessively writes a phrase containing this adjective to get a man she meets in a dream to recall her. While visiting a Lahore mosque, a Scottish professor offers the title objects to a blind beggar in a story partly titled for this adjective from (*) Shakespeare’s Memory. A collection named for this adjective includes the stories “The Veil of Queen Mab” and one in which a monarch forces a poor poet to play a music box, titled “The Bourgeois King.” This adjective, which partly titles a Borges story about replicating stones, names a collection that includes short stories along with poems like “Symphony in Gray Major.” For 10 points, what color (10[1])titles a modernismo collection by Rubén (10[1])Darío? (10[1])■END■

ANSWER: blue [or azul; accept “Blue Tigers” or “Tigres azules”; accept “Eyes of a Blue Dog” or “Ojos de perro azul”]
<Literature - World Literature - Misc Literature>
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Buzzes

PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Will AlstonWalston et. al.just one more half-dot bro14410
Hazel Depreist-SullivanNJ TRANSit (and anwen i guess)jeff mcneil #1 morningside heights fan club15010
Ryan RosenbergCope is the thing with feathers12 Litres of Green Tea15110

Summary

2024 ARGOS @ McMaster11/17/2024Y5100%20%0%133.00
2024 ARGOS @ Chicago11/23/2024Y683%0%17%143.20
2024 ARGOS @ Columbia11/23/2024Y3100%0%0%148.33