A character with this trait screams out “Water, master. Master, my master” before dying. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this trait possessed by the title character of Leopoldo Lugones’ “Yzur” In a Kafka short story, Red Peter has this trait.
ANSWER: being a monkey [accept being an ape; prompt on being an animal; prompt on answers like being able to talk] (The Kafka story is “Report to an Academy.”)
[10e] Leopoldo Lugones hailed from this country and was praised by fellow countryman Jorge Luis Borges for his pioneering of science fiction from this country.
ANSWER: Argentina [or Argentine Republic or República Argentina]
[10h] This other South American author served as Lugones’ official photographer during his travels through the jungles of Northern Argentina. In this author’s story “The Decapitated Chicken,” four idiot brothers kill their sister in the same way a servant kills a chicken.
ANSWER: Horacio Quiroga [or Horacio Silvestre Quiroga Forteza]
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