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This condition titles a collection whose second novella follows an alcoholic contacting a newly deceased ex-rival through a midget medium. A woman who takes up running out of her fear of this condition learns about the once-in-a-century Weaver Festival Phenomenon from Urara. A girl with this title condition emanates the smell of milk in a secret club that operates on "trust." A character who takes over four drugs in the hope of developing this condition believes it is the only thing that will save him from being tormented by the devil after he finds pages from The (*) Brothers Karamazov in his copy of Crime and Punishment. In Tanizaki's Quicksand, Mitsuko tests the faith of Kotaru and Sonoko by forcing them to experience this condition, which eludes the narrator of Akutagawa's "Cogwheels" and is induced by the medicine given to the girls Eguchi visits. For 10 points, name this condition affecting the virgins in a "house" of "beauties" created by Kawabata.
This condition titles a collection whose second novella follows an alcoholic contacting a newly deceased ex-rival through a midget medium.
sleeping [accept (non-)REM or (non-)rapid eye movement sleep or other clear-knowledge equivalents; prompt on any answers related to "altered consciousness"] (The first two clues are from Banana Yoshimoto's Asleep and Moonlight Shadow.)