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A novel titled for one of these people ends as a writer stands by his boarded-up childhood home and remembers his mother’s story of J. S. Bach learning the secret of “beauty” from Buxtehude (“BOOKS-tuh-HOO-duh”). In a novella, a patriotic character with this profession is appalled that two young men asked to write numbers on a blackboard are illiterate. That hunchbacked character with this profession carries a claw-handled riding whip that he cracks while breaking the will of a gentleman from Rome. One of these people (10[1])titles a 2021 fictional biography of a Nobel-winning German writer by (10[1])Colm Tóibín (10[2]-5[1])(“CULL-um toh-BEAN”). In a novella (10[1]-5[1])set (10[1])in the coastal (10[1])town of Torre (10[1])di (10[1])Venere, (10[1])a man with this (-5[1])profession (10[1]-5[1])imitates the girl Silvestra (10[1])and tricks a waiter into kissing him on the cheek. For 10 points, name this profession of Cipolla (“chee-PO-lah”), who is (10[1])shot (10[1])by Mario (10[1])in a novella by Thomas (10[1])Mann. ■END■ (10[4]0[2])

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