Henry Miller - 2024 ARCADIA

Question

According to an essay, this author writes from a place where you can “keep up an attitude of the completest indifference” and be in “the final, unsurpassable stage of irresponsibility.” For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this author whom George Orwell praised in his essay “Inside the Whale.” This author’s lover, Anaïs Nin, helped edit his autobiographical novel that faced obscenity trials in the US.

ANSWER: Henry Miller [or Henry Valentine Miller]

[10e] This author argues that Orwell’s whale does not exist in the essay “Outside the Whale.” This author was issued a fatwa for writing The Satanic Verses.

ANSWER: Salman Rushdie [or Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie]

[10h] This Mexican-American poet wrote “we too are immense and calling out” in the poem “The Whale & the Waltz Inside of It,” part of the collection Bright Dead Things. This current US Poet Laureate wrote The Carrying.

ANSWER: Ada Limón

<CM, American Literature>

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Summary


2024 ARCADIA at BU	2024-12-06	Y	6	16.67	100%	33%	33%
2024 ARCADIA at Duke	2024-12-06	Y	3	20.00	100%	33%	67%
2024 ARCADIA at Missouri S&T	2024-12-06	Y	2	25.00	100%	50%	100%
2024 ARCADIA Online	2025-05-17	Y	5	22.00	100%	60%	60%
2024 ARCADIA at Penn State	2024-12-06	Y	2	15.00	100%	0%	50%
2024 ARCADIA at Florida Tech	2024-12-06	Y	4	15.00	100%	25%	25%
2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley	2024-12-06	Y	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Waterloo	2024-11-09	Y	6	18.33	100%	50%	33%
2024 ARCADIA at GT	2024-12-06	Y	5	14.00	100%	0%	40%
2024 ARCADIA at Illinois	2024-11-09	Y	4	17.50	100%	50%	25%
2024 ARCADIA at Warwick	2024-12-06	Y	5	18.00	100%	60%	20%
2024 ARCADIA at Claremont	2024-11-02	Y	3	26.67	100%	67%	100%

Data


Tufts A	Boston College B	0	10	10	20
South Carolina	North Carolina B	0	10	10	20
Virginia Tech A	North Carolina A	10	10	0	20
Virginia Tech B	Virginia Tech C	0	10	10	20
Missouri	Truman	0	10	10	20
Squidward Community College	WashU	10	10	10	30
ASU->Stanford->ASU pipeline	Toyota Tundra Turbos — Twisting Truths - Tackling Trivia - Taming Titans	0	10	10	20
Paddington in Peru (2024)	In the Mood for Buzz	10	10	10	30
Old and Young	Madmen and Specialists	10	10	10	30
she limp on my waltz till i feel pathetique	The cult of SGA	10	10	0	20
bingy academy	Social credit go vroom	0	10	0	10
Pitt	Penn State	0	10	10	20
RIT	Maryland	0	10	0	10
UCF B	USF	0	10	0	10
UF A	UF B	0	10	0	10
UCF A	UF C	10	10	10	30
Valencia	Florida Tech	0	10	0	10
Berkeley Past	Berkeley B	0	10	0	10
Stanford	Berkeley A	0	10	0	10
Carleton A	McMaster ApocolocyntosisBidii	0	10	0	10
Ottawa Absolomabsolomabsolom	Toronto Chestnut Rice and Kamehameha	10	10	0	20
Toronto A	McGill A	10	10	10	30
Waterloo Aspidistra	Toronto B	10	10	10	30
Toronto Metropolitan A	Waterloo Basic	0	10	0	10
Waterloo Cloze	Toronto Disband the Club 2k24	0	10	0	10
Georgia Tech C	Georgia Tech A	0	10	0	10
Lambert	Georgia Tech D	0	10	10	20
Innovation Academy A	Georgia Tech B	0	10	10	20
Johns Creek	Milton	0	10	0	10
Mississippi State	Innovation Academy B	0	10	0	10
Chicago A	Chicago B	10	10	0	20
Illinois Blue	Illinois Orange	10	10	10	30
SIUE	Notre Dame	0	10	0	10
Purdue B	Purdue A	0	10	0	10
Imperial B	Bristol	0	10	0	10
Cambridge A	Imperial A	10	10	0	20
LSE B	Cambridge B	0	10	0	10
LSE A	Warwick A	10	10	10	30
Warwick B	Warwick C	10	10	0	20
Anderson et al.	ALCU	10	10	10	30
U[C]SD	Claremont	0	10	10	20
SGV Ventures	Jason et al.	10	10	10	30
Harvard	Bowdoin B	10	10	10	30
Clark House	Bowdoin C	0	10	0	10
BU	Tufts B	0	10	0	10
Amherst	Yale	10	10	0	20
Clark Wilson	Bowdoin A	0	10	0	10