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A short story opens by describing the appearance and eating habits of three practitioners of this activity: a coward, a faded novelty, and a man hiding an illness. In a novel, when a man says that the other participants in this activity are his best friends, a woman flirtatiously reading his palm asks, “You kill your friends?” and he replies, “Always.” While simulating this activity, a dishwasher fatally stabs a waiter by accident in the story “The Capital of the World.” In a non-fiction book on this activity, an author introduced his “iceberg theory” (-5[1])of writing. (10[1]-5[2])A man (-5[1])skillfully (10[1]-5[1])performs (10[2]-5[1])this (10[1])activity with (-5[1])a swollen face after Robert Cohn beats him (-5[1])up (-5[2])in a novel (-5[2])by (10[2]-5[1])that author, who profiled (-5[1])this activity in the book Death in the Afternoon. (10[2])For 10 (10[1])points, in The Sun Also Rises, Pedro Romero performs what activity in an arena (10[1])in (10[1])Pamplona? ■END■ (10[12])

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