Note to players: Description acceptable. The line “When you realize the difference between the container and the content, you will have knowledge” inspires attempts to decipher a book with this property in Idries Shah’s The Book of the Book. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name or describe this property of a section preceded by “The Wizard” in an Edward Seidensticker translation of one novel.
ANSWER: blank pages [accept descriptions of containing no text or being empty; accept mostly blank]
[10e] The blank chapter “Vanished into the Clouds” implies the death of this title prince of an 11th century “Tale” by Lady Murasaki.
ANSWER: Genji Hikaru [or Genji Hikaru or Hikaru Genji; accept The Tale of Genji; accept Genji Monogatari]
[10m] Despite Genji’s death, the novel does not end until a chapter titled for a “Floating Bridge of [these events].” One of these events in another novel involving the 12 Beauties of Jīnlíng is sometimes studied in Redology.
ANSWER: dreams [accept “The Floating Bridge of Dreams” or Dream of the Red Chamber]
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