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This place is contrasted with a “world inhabited by civilized Cartesian phantoms” in a book’s opening paragraph. A collection set in this place, meant to be worthy of a “world, chiseled out of stone,” features the author bidding “Farewell” to his girlfriend Maria. A story’s narrator says, “I am not a Count of Monte Cristo” upon recognizing a doctor from this place based on how he spells “naphthenate (10[1])(“NAFF-thuh-nate”)” in (10[1])a letter about faulty varnish. (10[1])Autobiographical stories about Tadek set in this place (10[1])are quoted in (10[1])the chapter “Beta, the Disappointed Lover” (10[2])from The Captive Mind. (10[2])To teach Italian to Jean, (-5[1])a man (10[1])in this place (10[3])recites Inferno’s “Canto of Ulysses” from memory. (-5[2])A man trades goods stolen (10[1])in this place for bread in “Cerium,” a story in The Periodic (10[2])Table. (10[1])For 10 (10[1])points, (10[2])Primo Levi’s memoir If This (10[1])is a Man depicts the horrors of what place? ■END■ (10[3])

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