Packet 6: Tossup 14

This character’s brother wonders “Why do people in films kiss sideways” and asks the riddle “What did one wall say to the other wall?” (10[3])This character is alluded (10[1])to in the title of a Gordon Lish story (10[1])in which two overbearing parents (10[1])address this character’s creator. This character spells out that her archivist father was “S-L-A-I-N,” which the narrator echoes to reference her parting words, “I hope you return… (-5[1])with all your faculties (10[2])intact.” (10[2])Two years after seeing this character practice in a church choir, the protagonist receives (10[1])a florid letter from her along with a broken wristwatch. (10[1])The narrator of a story spends a rainy (-5[1])afternoon with this title character in a Devon tearoom and writes her a story about the traumatized Sergeant X. For 10 points, (10[1])an entry (10[1])in J. D. Salinger’s Nine Stories (10[2])addresses what girl (10[1])“with love (-5[1])and (10[2])squalor”? ■END■ (10[2])

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