A character in this novel finds that he can “describe and define and desire those [metaphysical] rivers,” but his lover easily swims in them. Two lovers fall “into hydromuries, into savage ambonies” after “amalat[ing] the noeme” in Gregory Rabassa’s translation of a sexual episode in this novel. A group of characters in this novel debate Mondrian while refusing to tell a mother that her baby (*) Rocamadour has just died from a fever in the same room. A character in this novel is convinced he will be killed by his “double” Traveler after returning to South America. Fragments attributed to Morelli appear in this novel’s “expendable chapters,” (10[1])which can be skipped according to its Table of Instructions. For 10 points, the reader can jump through chapters non-linearly in what novel by Julio Cortazar? ■END■