Question

The narrator looks “like one of those flies that buzz around blindly on the window pane” while trying to find this object via an “informal trail.” The narrator sees this object save Beggar Man and his dog from death a few days before Manager moves her and Rosa (-5[1])to an alcove far away from this object. (15[1])This object agrees to provide his “special nourishment” when the narrator offers to destroy (-5[1])Pollution in a building she believes contains stairs to the (*) underworld. The narrator has a one-sided conversation with this title object in Mr. McBain’s barn in which she promises to destroy the Cootings Machine. (10[1])The narrator enlists the help of this title anthropomorphized object to cure the illness of Josie, for whom she cares as an Artificial Friend. For 10 points, name this large object that appears in the title of a Kazuo Ishiguro novel narrated by Klara. ■END■ (10[3])

ANSWER: the Sun [reject “Klara and the Sun” because that is not the object]
<Literature - British Literature - Long Fiction>
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Adrian WongThe Only Existing Manuscript from A Clockwork OrangeShe Dicer On My Argonaute Till I RNA Interfere47-5
Raymond ChenShe Dicer On My Argonaute Till I RNA InterfereThe Only Existing Manuscript from A Clockwork Orange5515
Ishan JoshiRyan Wesley Routh's 10 000 NATO-trained Afghan QuizbowlersModerator Can't Neg me While in Alpha69-5
Sky LiSimpson Agonistes: The Crisis of Donutas rational as the square root of two power bottoms10310
Henry AtkinsCommunism is Soviet power plus the yassification of the whole countryI'd prefer to have the team name be Christensen et al. than anything that Erik cooks up 14810
Caleb OttTensei Shitara Flashcard Data KenYou cannot go to Aarhus to see his peat-brown head / With eyes like ripening fruit14810
Joey SunModerator Can't Neg me While in AlphaRyan Wesley Routh's 10 000 NATO-trained Afghan Quizbowlers14810

Summary

2024 ARGOS @ McMaster11/17/2024Y5100%20%40%120.40
2024 ARGOS @ Chicago11/23/2024Y6100%33%33%106.00
2024 ARGOS @ Columbia11/23/2024Y3100%33%0%112.00