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In an essay about this short story, George Saunders compares its awkward narrator to Dwight Schrute to explain the skaz tradition. This story ends by observing that “such things happen in this world; rarely, but they (20[1])do.” (20[2])In this story, a man writes a letter accusing Madame Podtochina of cursing him because he won’t marry her daughter. (20[1])In this (20[1])story, (20[1])a man (20[1])wanders around St. Isaac’s (20[2])(*) Bridge trying to dispose of this story’s (10[1])title (10[2])object, (10[7])which he later learns has become a state (10[1])councilor. (10[4])The (10[1])barber (10[1])Ivan Yakovlevich (10[3])finds this story’s title object (10[1])in a loaf of bread, before Major Kovalyov tries to reattach it to (10[1])his face. For 10 points, name this Nikolai Gogol short story about a missing body part. (10[1])■END■ (10[4])

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