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In a novel titled for this place, an intern steals and burns his teacher’s prized butterfly and ridicules his colleague with the motto “today everybody’s on the way out.” In another novel, a man who goes to this place in search of the “Grand Cause” is vilified in a speech about how fathers are “evil itself” by a boy called Number One. In a novel titled for this place by Shūsaku Endō, a medical student is asked to perform vivisections on American POWs. (10[1])A novel titled for this place in English ends by noting “glory, as anyone knows, (10[1])is bitter stuff” as a man drinks drugged tea. In that novel titled for this place, a boy who spies (10[1])on his mother through (-5[1])a peephole (10[2])loses (10[2])his (10[1])admiration (10[2])for a man who serves as second (-5[1])mate aboard the Rakuyo. (10[1])For 10 points, the (10[1])title of a Yukio Mishima novel notes that Ryuji “fell from (10[1])grace with” (10[1])what (10[1])place? (10[4]0[1])■END■ (10[2])

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