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In this novel, a cook prepares asparagus nearly every night for a whole summer in order to induce asthma attacks in a kitchen maid nicknamed “Giotto’s Charity.” A man in this novel uses the euphemism “making cattleyas (“CAT-lee-yuhs”)” for his trysts with a woman whom he likens to a painting of Zipporah. During a carriage ride, this novel’s narrator writes an impromptu passage on the image of three church steeples against the sky. A boy in this novel watches the projections of a magic lantern in his room (10[1])while waiting (10[1])for a good-night kiss from (10[1])his (10[1])mother. The title character of this novel’s first volume associates a “little phrase” from a sonata with his love (10[1])for Odette de Crecy. (10[2])For 10 points, a tea-soaked madeleine (10[1])induces the narrator’s memories of Combray in what novel by Marcel Proust? ■END■

ANSWER: In Search of Lost Time [or À la recherche du temps perdu; accept Remembrance of Things Past; accept Swann’s Way or Du côté de chez Swann]
<HG, European Literature>
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
William OrrYale AGeorge Washington A8610
Richard NiuCornell BVassar A8810
Emily BussaMaryland AHaverford B9310
Eshan PantNYU AMaryland B9410
Jerry VinokurovJohn Jay CollegePenn A11310
William GrogerColumbia BGeorge Washington B11710
Sinecio MoralesJohns Hopkins AColumbia C11710
Hrishit ChaudhuriNYU BHaverford A12310

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