Question
The bullied boy Giovanni looks at this thing from the base of a weather station before visiting its depths with his friend Campanella in a 1927 novel. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this thing that a protagonist feels “wrap the night earth in its naked embrace” and fill him with tears. In that novel, the protagonist feels this thing’s presence “with a roar” amid the screams of a woman holding a body.
ANSWER: the Milky Way [accept Amanogawa or Heavenly River; prompt on the galaxy or the stars; accept BUT DO NOT REVEAL Milky Way Railroad; prompt on BUT DO NOT REVEAL Night on the Galactic Railroad]
[10e] Shimamura feels the Milky Way flow inside him in the final lines of this Japanese author’s novel Snow Country.
ANSWER: Yasunari Kawabata [or Kawabata Yasunari]
[10m] In the aforementioned Kenji Miyazawa novel, the main action begins as Giovanni magically enters one of these places from atop a hill. Shimamura sees Yoko caring for Yukio in one of these places at the start of Snow Country.
ANSWER: trains [or locomotives; accept steam trains or magic trains; accept train cars]
<Morrison, Long Fiction>
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