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 titles a modernismo collection by Rubén Darío? ■END■
Buzzes
Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
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Ariel Faeder | throw away your cards, rally in the streets | CLEVELAND, THIS IS FOR YOU! | 77 | 15 |
Henry Bon | I wish it were possible to freeze time so I would never have to watch you retire | UBC | 129 | -5 |
Joel Miles | Thompson et al. | Aw we're so sorry to hear that maman died today, she gets five big booms | 152 | 10 |
Russell Nip | UBC | I wish it were possible to freeze time so I would never have to watch you retire | 152 | 10 |