This author used Anaxagoras’ quip that the “descent to hell is the same from any place” as the epigram for a novel in which a professor starts putting dirt in his wife’s drawer so she won’t find his manuscript. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this author, who wrote about a history professor who founds a Party for Disappointed People while trying to finish his massive study Guilt and Innocence in Hitler’s Germany.
ANSWER: William Howard Gass
[10e] In his Cartesian Sonatas, Gass describes this thinker’s theory of monads as “globules of milky fat.” Voltaire mocked this thinker as Dr. Pangloss in Candide.
ANSWER: Gottfried Leibniz
[10m] Jethro Furber, a man with this profession, rails against the improbable luck of Bracket Omensetter in Gass’ debut novel. Hazel Motes pursues the daughter of a man with this profession who wimped out of burning his own eyes in Wise Blood.
ANSWER: preacher [or priest; the first novel is called Omensetter’s Luck.]
<Emmett Laurie, American Literature>