Stéphane Mallarmé - 2024 ARCADIA

Question

In The Number and The Siren, Quentin Meillassoux argues that the “unique number” in a poem by this author is 707, which he also found to be the number of words in that poem. For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this poet, who described the “eternal circumstances / from the depths of a shipwreck” in his typographically unorthodox poem “A Throw of the Dice Will Never Abolish Chance.”

ANSWER: Stéphane Mallarmé

[10e] Mallarmé used multiples of seven lines in his sonnets memorializing other French poets, such as his sonnet on the tomb of this author of Les Fleurs du Mal.

ANSWER: Charles Baudelaire

[10h] The speaker alludes to the Pleiades as a “septet of scintillations” in a Mallarmé sonnet beginning “her pure fingernails...,” also known as his “Sonnet in” this sound, because six of its lines end in this sound.

ANSWER: “-yx” (“eeks”) [accept “X” (“eks” or “ks”)]

<HG, European Literature>

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Summary


2024 ARCADIA at BU	2024-12-06	Y	8	11.25	88%	13%	13%
2024 ARCADIA at Duke	2024-12-06	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Missouri S&T	2024-12-06	Y	1	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2024 ARCADIA Online	2025-05-17	Y	5	24.00	100%	100%	40%
2024 ARCADIA at Penn State	2024-12-06	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Florida Tech	2024-12-06	Y	4	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley	2024-12-06	Y	2	25.00	100%	100%	50%
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%	20%	20%
2024 ARCADIA at Illinois	2024-11-09	Y	4	20.00	100%	75%	25%
2024 ARCADIA at Warwick	2024-12-06	Y	5	14.00	100%	20%	20%
2024 ARCADIA at Claremont	2024-11-02	Y	3	26.67	100%	100%	67%

Data


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