Question

After this character and his killer both call this character’s sister “the sea,” this character says, “I am asking you to kill me…asking you for life,” to which his killer replies, “Silence!...Heroes hate words!” Julio Cortázar wrote a verse drama about this character’s death, The Kings. This (15[1])young antagonist is killed while wearing a ritual mask in Mary Renault’s The King Must Die. In a story, this character uses 14 to mean “infinite” and “deliver[s]” men “from evil” in a place with “no locked doors.” This (*) mythological character asks, “What will my redeemer be like?...will (10[1])he be like me?” (10[1])in that story, which ends with a hero saying that this character (10[1])“scarcely defended (10[1])himself.” (10[1])This character, who narrates the Borges story “The House of Asterion,” periodically receives 14 tributes as sacrifices and is killed after a princess gives a spool of thread to Theseus. For 10 points, name this inhabitant of the Labyrinth. ■END■

ANSWER: the Minotaur [accept Asterion until read; accept el Minotauro]
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Tanis Nielsenpurdoobie brothersOh the Missouri4615
Mitch McCullarNobodaddy but youBHSU9410
Young Fenimore LeeCharlotte Mewing to get that chiseled farmer’s bride jawlineChicago A Minus Minus9810
LouNoli Me Tangerine>:311010
Henry CafaroChicago B2 days into college and I'm 3 lectures behind11210
Yashwanth BajjiMichiganmalcolm in the middlemarch (Purdue 1)11310

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