Packet N: Tossup 8

At the end of a novel set in this city, the Latin phrase “Placetne, magistra?” is used by Lord Peter Wimsey to propose to Harriet Vane. (10[1])After a (10[1])failed suicide attempt (-5[1])in this city, a man (-5[1])claims that “Death cancels all engagements.” (10[2]-5[1])News of two black owls is received as an omen by the Duke of Dorset, (-5[1])who leads a mass suicide in this city out of love for Zuleika (10[1])Dobson. (10[2])Another novel (10[1]-5[1])ends in this city (10[1])as the Bollinger Club is heard outside (10[1])Paul Pennyfeather’s window. (10[1])After (10[1])a luncheon (10[1])in this city, The Waste Land is recited through a megaphone by Anthony Blanche. In that novel, (10[1])this city is where Charles Ryder meets a character who carries (10[1])the teddy bear (-5[1])Aloysius (10[2]-5[1])(“al-uh-WISH-us”). For 10 points, (-5[2])the opening sections (-5[1])of Evelyn (-5[1])Waugh’s novels Decline and Fall and Brideshead (-5[1])Revisited are set in what university city? (10[1]) (10[16]0[10])■END■

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