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This sort of place titles a short story in which a laborer and a street-cleaner both get stomach poisoning after eating mushrooms by a tram stop. A short story collection subtitled for “seasons” in this sort of place is structured as five years of Marcovaldo’s life. In a book (15[1])titled for these places, (15[2])a man asks, “Why do you speak to me of the stones? It is only the arch that matters,” to which his companion replies, “Without stones there is no arch.” A book named for these places ends with the narrator outlining two ways to escape suffering in “the (*) inferno of the living.” The “hooded brothers” duplicate one of these places underground by posing corpses. These places are paired with “Memory,” “Desire,” and “Signs” in the chapter titles of a novel (10[1])in which they have (10[1])female names (10[3])like (10[2])Eusapia (10[3])and Diomira. (10[1])For 10 points, (10[1])Marco Polo tells Kublai Khan about what title places of an Italo Calvino novel? ■END■

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