In a story from the collection Marcovaldo, the central character tries to teach his children about this entity, but is stopped by a neon sign with the word “GNAC” on it. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this entity described as “Soft” in the title of another story by the same author. In a story by that author, the narrator’s cousin, the Deaf One, extracts milk from the scales of this entity.
ANSWER: Moon [accept “The Distance of the Moon” or “Moon and GNAC” or “The Soft Moon”]
[10e] In addition to writing “The Distance of the Moon,” this author wrote about the moon illuminating a “carpet of leaves” in his novel If on a winter’s night, a traveler.
ANSWER: Italo Calvino
[10m] “The Distance of the Moon” is the opening story of this Calvino collection. This collection, which is paired with t zero in its “Complete” version, introduced the character Qfwfq.
ANSWER: Cosmicomics [or Le cosmicomiche]
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