running - 2025 NAFTA at Toronto

Packet 1: Bonus 12

In a short story titled for this action, the title character arrives just in time to prevent his friend Selinuntius’ execution by the tyrant Dionysius. For 10 points each:

[10e] Name this title action that Melos is told to perform in that story. A Haruki Murakami memoir about this action is titled in reference to a Raymond Carver story.

ANSWER: running [accept “Run, Melos!” or “Hashire Merosu!”; accept What I Talk About When I Talk About Running or Hashiru Koto ni Tsuite Kataru Toki ni Boku no Kataru Koto]

[10m] This author of “Run, Melos!” wrote about the aristocratic siblings Naoji and Kazuko in The Setting Sun. This author’s best known novel follows Oba, whose failed attempt at double suicide by drowning mirrors his own life.

ANSWER: Osamu Dazai [or Shuji Tsushima] (The novel is No Longer Human.)

[10h] Ryu Murakami’s collection Run! Takahashi focuses on a character with this profession. Haruki Murakami admired the “deeply thoughtful” and “cerebral” butt of a person with this profession named Shane.

ANSWER: baseball player [accept outfielder or shortstop; prompt on professional athlete] (The Haruki Murakami poem is “Outfielders’ Butts” from the story “Yakult Swallows Poetry Collection.”)

<TC, World Literature> | NAFTA-Packet-1

Heard	PPB	E %	M %	H %
41	17.07	90%	56%	24%

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Conversion

Team	Opponent	Part 1	Part 2	Total	Parts
Guelph Cloze	You Don't Have the Cards	10	0	10	E
I fear not the man who has reviewed 10000 cards once, but I fear the man who has reviewed one card 10000 times	William of Baskerville attempts to investigate John P. Robarts, gets turned away for not having a student card	10	0	10	E
Licence to Bill	The lion does not concern itself with negging teammates out of their own categories	10	0	10	E
Licence to C. Wright Mill	Strange Case of Dr. Joker and Mr. Pennywise	10	10	20	EM

Summary

Tournament	Edition	Match	Heard	PPB	E %	M %	H %
2026 NAFTA at Stanford	01/17/2026	✓	4	17.50	100%	75%	0%
2026 NAFTA at UBC	01/17/2026	✓	2	5.00	50%	0%	0%
2025 NAFTA Online	02/14/2026	✓	4	17.50	100%	50%	25%
2026 NAFTA at Vanderbilt	02/14/2026	✓	3	13.33	67%	67%	0%
2025 NAFTA at Toronto	09/13/2025	✓	4	12.50	100%	25%	0%
2025 NAFTA at Maryland	09/27/2025	✓	5	22.00	100%	80%	40%
2025 NAFTA at Harvard	10/04/2025	✓	3	16.67	67%	67%	33%
2025 NAFTA at Oxford	10/11/2025	✓	3	20.00	100%	67%	33%
2025 NAFTA at Chicago	11/08/2025	✓	6	25.00	100%	83%	67%
2025 NAFTA at Columbia	11/08/2025	✓	5	16.00	100%	40%	20%
2025 NAFTA at Richmond	12/20/2025	✓	2	5.00	50%	0%	0%