Question
In this novel’s seventeenth chapter, the protagonist has an imagined conversation with the worms that chew up manuscripts he is researching. After reading the Panegyric of Saint Monica, a character in this novel recalls the line “Life is lost, the battle still is won!” from a sonnet he failed to write in seminary school. In Helen Caldwell’s translation, this novel’s protagonist compares his lover’s eyes to a tidal “undertow.” This novel’s protagonist earns a (*) derogatory nickname after critiquing a poet’s verses on the train. After attending a performance of Othello, the narrator of this novel sends his family to Switzerland because he thinks his son resembles his drowned friend Escobar. This novel’s title character moves to the suburbs after the death of his wife Capitú, whom he suspects had an affair. For 10 points, the “taciturn” Bento Santiago narrates what novel by Machado de Assis? ■END■
Summary
2024 ARGOS @ Stanford | 02/22/2025 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 67% | 132.00 |
2024 ARGOS Online | 03/22/2025 | N | 3 | 33% | 0% | 67% | 126.00 |
2024 ARGOS @ Brandeis | 03/22/2025 | N | 2 | 50% | 0% | 0% | 107.00 |
2024 ARGOS @ McMaster | 11/17/2024 | Y | 5 | 40% | 0% | 20% | 137.50 |
2024 ARGOS @ Chicago | 11/23/2024 | Y | 6 | 67% | 0% | 0% | 110.50 |
2024 ARGOS @ Columbia | 11/23/2024 | Y | 3 | 33% | 0% | 67% | 111.00 |
2024 ARGOS @ Christ's College | 12/14/2024 | Y | 2 | 50% | 0% | 0% | 130.00 |
Buzzes
Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
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Will Alston | Walston et. al. | just one more half-dot bro | 20 | -5 |
Eve Fleisig | Berkeley | Where are the ACF Nationals recordings? | 89 | -5 |
Matt Bollinger | BHSU ReFantazio | WashU | 93 | 10 |
Shahar Schwartz | Cry of the Common Loon | number of tang poems = 75 times number of lines in a shi = 100 times number of lines in a haiku | 94 | -5 |
Tim Morrison | Stanford+ | A is for Amy Robsart who fell down the stairs | 107 | 10 |
Liam Starnes | That Feeling When Knee Surgery Is in Five Days | Music to Help You Stop Smoking | 109 | 10 |
Hazel Depreist-Sullivan | NJ TRANSit (and anwen | jeff mcneil #1 morningside heights fan club | 109 | -5 |
Mattias Ehatamm | You cannot go to Aarhus to see his peat-brown head / With eyes like ripening fruit | Tensei Shitara Flashcard Data Ken | 109 | -5 |
Zaid Asif | 12 Litres of Green Tea | Cope is the thing with feathers | 111 | 10 |
Michael Hundiing | Who is the Colleen Hoover of the Zulus? | Clown Senpais | 113 | 10 |
Tejas Raje | BHSU Rebirth | The Love Song of J Alfred PrufRock and Roll All Nite (and Party Every Day) | 127 | 10 |
Joseph Krol | Cien Años de Quizboledad | Defying Suavity | 130 | 10 |
Raymond Chen | She Dicer On My Argonaute Till I RNA Interfere | The Only Existing Manuscript from A Clockwork Orange | 130 | 10 |
Stephen Liu | Where are the ACF Nationals recordings? | Berkeley | 144 | 10 |
Sinecio Morales | hawk two of | Clown Squad | 145 | 0 |
Patrick Quion | Northeast by Northwestern | Notre Dame | 145 | 0 |
Stephen Heritage | Notre Dame | Northeast by Northwestern | 145 | 0 |
Antoni Kluzowski | Grzegorz Brzęczyszczykiewicz | Limp Francekit | 145 | 0 |
Isaac Kirk-Davidoff | jeff mcneil #1 morningside heights fan club | NJ TRANSit (and anwen | 145 | 0 |
Eshan Pant | just one more half-dot bro | Walston et. al. | 145 | 0 |
Kane Nguyen | I'd prefer to have the team name be Christensen et al. than anything that Erik cooks up | Communism is Soviet power plus the yassification of the whole country | 145 | 0 |
Ishan Joshi | Ryan Wesley Routh's 10 000 NATO-trained Afghan Quizbowlers | Moderator Can't Neg me While in Alpha | 145 | 0 |
Tony Chen | Simpson Agonistes: The Crisis of Donut | as rational as the square root of two power bottoms | 145 | 10 |
Henry Atkins | Communism is Soviet power plus the yassification of the whole country | I'd prefer to have the team name be Christensen et al. than anything that Erik cooks up | 145 | 0 |
Vincent Du | number of tang poems = 75 times number of lines in a shi = 100 times number of lines in a haiku | Cry of the Common Loon | 145 | 10 |