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A character created by this author titles a painting in which a seated, bare-chested woman wears a large hat and robe of the same red color and mossy decalcomania texture as the surrounding landscape. For a Maecenas Press printing of a book by this author, a melting clock table was illustrated in one of twelve heliogravures by Salvador Dali. One reptile’s body serves as a ship on which six similar figures sit in a painting and sculpture titled for a poem by this author (15[1])and created by (*) Leonora Carrington. This author dropped the chapter “The Wasp in a Wig” on the advice of an illustrator who drew a duchess based on Quentin Matsys’s Ugly Duchess, per an annotated edition by Martin Gardner. This author created a character (10[1])who wears a horseshoe-shaped (10[1])headband now named for her in illustrations (10[1])by John Tenniel. For 10 points, name this author of Alice’s Adventures (10[1])in Wonderland. ■END■

ANSWER: Lewis Carroll [or Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (The first line refers to Max Ernst’s Alice in 1941; the Carrington artworks are both titled How Doth the Little Crocodile.)
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Henry AtkinsCommunism is Soviet power plus the yassification of the whole countryRyan Wesley Routh's 10 000 NATO-trained Afghan Quizbowlers8315
Mattias EhatammYou cannot go to Aarhus to see his peat-brown head / With eyes like ripening fruitShe Dicer On My Argonaute Till I RNA Interfere12610
Caleb OttTensei Shitara Flashcard Data KenSimpson Agonistes: The Crisis of Donut13010
Kunaal Chandrashekaras rational as the square root of two power bottomsThe Only Existing Manuscript from A Clockwork Orange13710
Asha BasuI'd prefer to have the team name be Christensen et al. than anything that Erik cooks upModerator Can't Neg me While in Alpha14910

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