Two characters bet on everything from the outcome of the Arsenal-Real Madrid semifinal match to whether Balzac will make Lucien commit suicide at the end of Les Illusions perdues in a story from this collection.
A story in this collection ends with a gunfight on a handwritten page, in which the combatants take cover behind the l's and strafe past the v's, u's, m's, and n's. Two characters bet on everything from the outcome of the Arsenal-Real Madrid semifinal match to whether Balzac will make Lucien commit suicide at the end of Les Illusions perdues in a story from this collection. An incoming herd of rhinoceri prompts Zahn to appoint as commander of the "New Ones" the last (*) surviving example of the title animals, in a story from this collection. Mrs. Vhd Vhd gets stuck after climbing a ladder to follow her deaf lover on a milk-gathering expedition on an astronomical object in this collection's first story. Most stories in this collection, including "The Dinosaurs" and "The Distance of the Moon," are narrated by an omnipresent being who observes key events in the history of the universe. For 10 points, name this collection, which like its follow-up t zero is narrated by Qfwfq, written by Italo Calvino.
A story in this collection ends with a gunfight on a handwritten page, in which the combatants take cover behind the l's and strafe past the v's, u's, m's, and n's.
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