Round 11: Tossup 20

A butterfly rests on one of these objects as a cloud covers the sun in an anecdote related by the young protagonist’s uncle to end a 1957 novel. In another novel, one of these objects “topples forward” and causes sparks to rain on a man in “engendering gusts” like a “thin (10[1])nimbus of fire.” While borrowing tools to dispose of one of these man-made objects, a man returns with false teeth and a woman holding a graphophone. (10[1])The creator of one of these objects lists “animal magnetism” among thirteen reasons why he made it “on the bevel” (10[1])and wears a cement (10[1])cast after breaking his leg. A fire and a river crossing nearly destroy one of these objects (10[2])amid a trek by characters like Jewel, Cash, and Vardaman. For 10 points, what sort of man-made object (10[1])is transported by the Bundren (-5[1])family (-5[1])in As I Lay Dying? ■END■ (10[1]0[4])

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