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The protagonist of a novel by this author compares the habits of a “neurasthenic” (“NEW-russ-THEE-nick”) relative to a “miserable” water lily that perpetually floats back and forth across a river. A book by this author opens with the narrator trying to watch a bee fertilizing an orchid, only to catch sight of a sexual encounter in a tailor’s shop. In Fun Home, Alison Bechdel (“BECK-dell”) theorizes that this author inspired her father’s love (10[1])of lilacs. (10[2])In a novel by this author, (10[1])two lovers use the phrase “to do a cattleya (10[1])(“CAT-lee-yuh”)” as a (10[1])euphemism for sex after one (10[1])rearranges the other’s corsage. The narrator of a novel by this author becomes obsessed with the pink (10[1])hawthorn blossoms that line the path to the house (10[1])of a man (10[2])who associates his relationship with a “little phrase” in a sonata. (10[1])For 10 points, (10[1]-5[1])Within (10[1])a Budding Grove is a volume (10[1])in what author’s novel In Search of Lost (10[2])Time? (10[4])■END■ (10[3])

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