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An anonymous 9th-century Buddhist poet who left many of their poems in these places is referred to as the "Cold" one of these places. In one novel, a Taoist monk at one of these places explains that a character's "tragedy" is returning to "a normal life among normal people." This is the first title place in an ancient classic that describes 550 of these places alongside a list of mythological (*) beasts. In a novel titled for one of these (10[1])places, the narrator "I" starts an ephemeral relationship with "She" (0[1])and begins (10[1])searching (0[1])for one of these (10[1])places after learning that his cancer diagnosis was misdiagnosed. The "sound" of one of these title places disturbs (10[1])Shingo Ogata in a Kawabata novel. For 10 points, Gao Xingjian wrote a novel titled for a "Soul" one of what type of (10[1])geographical features? (10[1])■END■ (10[1])

ANSWER: mountains [accept Hanshan or Cold Mountain; accept Soul Mountain; accept Classic of Mountains and Seas or Shanhai jing; prompt on monastery by asking "what kind of place is that monastery located in?"]
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