JAMES
COCTEAU
BORGES
KAFKA / SCHULZ
NAKATA
100
A few days after Christmas Eve, he entertains his guests by reading the governess' diary.
Who is Douglas?
100
In this part of the film, a teacher writes on a blackboard.
What are the opening credits / introduction?
100
A secret society of the brightest minds, gathered for a grand-scale writing project under the direction of Ezra Buckley.
What is Orbis Tertius?
100
It is described here: "At first glance it looks like a flat star-shaped spool for thread, and indeed it does seem to have thread wound upon it; to be sure, they are only old, broken-off bits of thread, knotted and tangled together, of the most varied sorts and colors."
What is Odradek
100
This aspect of the video changes each time it is viewed.
What is the final scene (of Sadako climbing out of the well)
200
It means "an action which makes a bad situation worse." In this case, a ghost story involving innocent children, and two of them at that!
What is "a Turn of the Screw"
200
They are the five magical items/things belonging to the Beast.
What are the mirror, the rose, the key, the glove, and the horse?
200
It is referred to here: "Such was the first intrusion of this fantastic world into the world of reality.”
What is the compass with the Tlonian alphabet on it.
200
It is described in this passage: "Rose coloured, in many different shadings, dark in the depths, brighter on the edges, delicately grained"
What is the boy's wound?
200
At the public showcase of Shizuko Yamamura's mind reading abilities, something goes terribly wrong. This person is responsible.
Who is Sadako Yamamura?
300
He is the "He" in the Governess' quotation: “What I was doing was what he had earnestly hoped and directly asked of me, and that I could, after all, do it proved even a greater joy than I had expected.”
Who is the Uncle / her employer?
300
When the beast is embarrassed by Belle's having seen him slurping water out of the pond with his mouth, she offers this solution.
What is to drinking out of her hand?
300
Because all books on Tlon were written by the same author, this concept does not exist.
What is plagiarism?
300
The literary device at play here “At that time my father was definitely dead. He had been dying a number of times, always with some reservations that forced us to revise our attitude towards the facts of death.”
What is ironic juxtaposition?
300
This power which Ryuji possesses, is shared by his son Yochi.
What is ESP?
400
He is referred to in the following quotations: "_____ was much too free.” and later "[___ was] too free with my boy.”
Who is Quint?
400
This person, revealed in the magic mirror, is why Belle asks to leave the castle.
Who is Belle's Father?
400
He receives the apparent eleventh volume of an encyclopedia devoted to Tlön in the mail.
Who is Herbert Ashe?
400
One interpretation of the story that is fueled by this line: "One doesn’t know the sorts of things one has stored in one’s own house,” she [the maidservant, Rosa] said, and we both laughed.”
What is "it was all a nightmare" / the story is "stored in one's own house," i.e. the doctor's mind.
400
In the end of the film, the man in the video with the towel on his head is pointing at this.
What is the copy of the tape?
500
Turn of the Screw was originally published alongside this other Henry James novel.
What is Covering End.
500
The name of the Actor playing Avenant / the Beast. (hint: he also stars in Cocteau's film Orphee).
Who is Jean Marais
500
The world of Tlön is based on the idealism of this 18th century philosopher.
Who is Charles Berkeley?
500
The title of Bruno Schulz' lost manuscript
What is "The Messiah"?
500
Since his parents are divorced and have different last names, Yochi can only share a surname with one of them. It's this parent.
Who is his mother, Reiko Asakawa.
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