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[dubdobdee]

8.

i: Who named his daughter after Great Aunt Betsey?
ii: Who was called the Tee’d Ball by the young advocates?
iii: Where were Middle Eastern differences settled “with one accord”?
iv: Which “King” lost his life in the battle across the river from San Antonio?
v: Whose cardiectomy remnant was interred beneath an example of Chlorophora excelsa?
vi: Which leading Covenanter was hung, drawn and quartered for complicity in an archiepiscopal murder?
vii: Who witnessed the suicide of the kaffir king and Christian minister in the Rooirand cave?
viii: Which hairy little man with pink lips and a wall eye came out of the sun?
ix: Who received an apparently well-deserved caprine nickname?
x: Who underwent a nocturnal mammary transformation?

INCOMPLETE: we need x!

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[sbp.livejournal.com]

x) after a judicial amount of googling, I reckon this is DAVID KEPESH, protagonist of Philip Roth's 1972 novella "The Breast".

'The Breast–a comic, convincing first-person account of how “a massive hormonal influx” turned a thirty-eight-year-old New York English professor into a six-foot-long, 155-pound “mammary gland disconnected from any human form”'

http://greilmarcus.net/2014/07/30/mammary-lane-philip-roths-the-dying-animal-2001/