Question
This character dies amid his fixation on creating his namesake “poultice” as a panacea and ultimately assesses his life as slightly positive because he didn’t have any children. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this character who, after his death, dedicates his memoirs to “the worm who first gnawed on the cold flesh of my corpse.”
ANSWER: Bras Cubas [accept The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas]
[10e] The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas, through its absurd central narrator, served as a parody and criticism of the society, culture, and philosophies of this home country of Machado de Assis.
ANSWER: Brazil [or Federative Republic of Brazil or República Federativa do Brasil]
[10h] In The Posthumous Memoirs, recurring Machado de Assis character Quincas Borba expounds upon this philosophical system, which describes the belief in a figure for whom “the same man is distributed in all men.”
ANSWER: Humanitism [accept Humanitas]
<JF, World and Other Literature>
Summary
| 2023 ARCADIA at Duke | Emory, Duke, Yale | Y | 4 | 5.00 | 50% | 0% | 0% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Emory | Emory, Duke, Yale | Y | 4 | 10.00 | 75% | 25% | 0% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Imperial | Imperial | Y | 5 | 14.00 | 80% | 40% | 20% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Maryland | Maryland, Online | Y | 3 | 10.00 | 67% | 33% | 0% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Ohio State | Ohio State, Texas | Y | 3 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2023 ARCADIA Online | Maryland, Online | Y | 3 | 13.33 | 100% | 33% | 0% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Texas | Ohio State, Texas | Y | 3 | 3.33 | 33% | 0% | 0% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley | Premiere | N | 1 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Carleton University | Premiere | N | 3 | 13.33 | 67% | 33% | 33% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at RIT | Premiere | N | 1 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at WUSTL | Premiere | N | 3 | 10.00 | 67% | 33% | 0% |
Data
| James Madison A | Duke | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| James Madison B | South Carolina B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| North Carolina A | NC State | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| North Carolina B | South Carolina A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Emory A | Georgia A | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Georgia B | Tennessee A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Georgia Tech C | Georgia Tech A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Georgia Tech B | Georgia Tech D | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Cambridge A | Durham | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Cambridge B | Warwick | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Imperial A | Oxford | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Edinburgh | Imperial B | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| George Washington B | George Washington A | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Maryland B | Georgetown | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Maryland A | Johns Hopkins | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Kenyon A | Kenyon B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Ohio State A | Michigan B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Michigan A | OSU B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Zen and the Art of Buzzing | Arizona State | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Ganon Evans Fan Club | Boston College | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Farrellmagnetism | MSU A and Friend | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| HCC | Texas C | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| tag magnet: taylor's version | Texas A | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Texas B | TAMU | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Bristol | Birmingham | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |