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Description acceptable. A verse written with a planchette suggests that this object is lying under an “old pine” after its disappearance causes its owner to lose his wits. A man on a boat realizes the significance of this object after having a vision of his son in a crimson robe, walking barefoot in the snow and singing about Greensickness Peak. In the first chapter, a priest and a monk carry this object to the fairy Disenchantment’s (10[1])palace (10[1])in the Land of Illusion through an arch inscribed with the words “Truth becomes fiction (10[1])when the fiction’s true.” After a goddess (10[1])neglects (10[1])to use it to repair (10[1])the sky, (10[1])this object and its (10[1])beloved Crimson (-5[1])Pearl Flower are born into the human world, (10[1])where it shows up in a newborn boy’s (10[1])mouth. (10[3]-5[1])For 10 points, Jiǎ (10[1])Bǎoyù (10[2]-5[1])is an incarnation (10[3])of what object (10[1])that alternately titles Cáo Xuěqín’s (“tsao shway-cheen’s”) Dream of the Red Chamber? (10[2])■END■ (10[3])

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