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In the “Second Manuscript” of a story titled for this place, the protagonist clumsily repeats, “A good book is the best friend there is,” boring an elderly gentleman. In that fragmentary story titled for this place, the bridegroom Raban dreads his imminent marriage to Betty during a rainy tram ride. The narrator of a story titled for this place complains, “the parson sits at home” while he is expected to perform miracles upon seeing worms in a “rose-red” wound, and later (10[1])hears a school choir sing as town elders have him stripped naked and laid into a bed. As an adjective, (10[2])this place titles a surreal story in which (10[1])a brutish (10[1])groom (10[1])who assaults the servant (10[1])girl Rosa (10[1])lends the narrator (10[1])two horses that teleport him through a blizzard (10[1])to a sick (10[1])child’s home. (10[3])For 10 points, a Franz Kafka story concerns a “Doctor” (10[1])who practices in (10[1])what (10[2])place? (10[1])■END■ (10[4]0[3])

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