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While honeymooning, a man in this novel claims he’ll die of embarrassment if his wife requests that Oscar Wilde autograph her glove. In Edith Grossman’s translation, a man in this novel is described as savoring the smell of his “urine that had been purified by lukewarm asparagus” at a Silver Jubilee meal. A couple in this novel almost divorce after having a prolonged argument about whether there was soap in their bathroom. An opera-lover who inspects the corpse of his former chess partner is reminded (10[1])of one of this novel’s (10[1])title concepts after detecting the smell of bitter almonds in its opening sentence. (-5[1])An elderly man in this novel dies while climbing a ladder to retrieve his (-5[1])multilingual parrot. (10[1])For 10 points, Dr. Juvenal Urbino treats the title disease in what novel by Gabriel García Márquez? ■END■ (10[2]0[1])

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