Question
Adrienne Rich’s poem “What Kind of Times Are These” ends by stating that it is “necessary” to perform this action. For 10 points each:
[10h] Paul Celan’s poem “Ein Blatt” replies to a poetic remark about what action? In “To Those Born After,” Bertolt Brecht wrote that performing this action is “almost a crime / Because it entails a silence about so many misdeeds!”
ANSWER: talking about trees [or conversation about trees; or “Ein Gespräch über Bäume”; accept answers that use word forms or close synonyms of talking or conversing; prompt on partial answers]
[10e] Under the Nazis, many poets turned to “talking about trees” by writing nature lyrics on the model of Romantic poets, like this author of the ode “Des Morgens,” hymns like “Der Ister,” and Hyperion.
ANSWER: Friedrich Hölderlin [or Johann Christian Friedrich Hölderlin]
[10m] Celan showed off his extensive tree knowledge during his much-scrutinized 1967 visit to this building, which is discussed in Anne Carson’s Economy of the Unlost. Elfriede Jelinek’s play Totenauberg puns on the location of this building in the Black Forest.
ANSWER: Martin Heidegger’s hut [or Die Hütte; or equivalents of Martin Heidegger’s chalet, cottage, or house; prompt on Todtnauberg; prompt on hut, chalet, cottage, or house]
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Summary
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Data
| sticking out your guyot for the ridge push; you're so seafloor spread, you're so fracture zone | A Nervy Liberal Nanny Hence | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Are You There, Chat? It's Me, Margaret | Lying on a Mattress at Lou’s Apartment in Pilsen, Chicago | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Berkeley Mafia and the Chicago Boy | First Cause, First Cause, make me young! | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Charlotte's Moderately Successful Team | Read slowly: A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A Read quickly: A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| LMM's LLM MLM | I’ll take a quiet 10 / A handshake of CO (Chicago Open) | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| AMOGH QUIZ HACK? 英雄联盟 400 PPG 24 TUH | Lisan al-Quib | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Mindgoblin of Little Hobbes | SAYYID QUTB, DRIVING THE LONGEST CAR YOU’VE EVER SEEN THROUGH TAHRIR SQUARE | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| The Dyatlov Passement incident | BHSU B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| The Empire Bikes Back | Punished "Venom" BHSU | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| The Jeam Team | Les Missourables | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| The Oldest Men in the World | Galvanized Square Steen and Eco-Friendly Wood Vermeer | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| There are buzzable clues everywhere for those with eyes to see | NJTRANSit (and bobby, i guess) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| var merchants | genAI this, genAI that, have you found your 真爱 yet | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| it's the great pumpkinification objection, charlie brown | We Need New Names | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| NJTRANSit (and anwen, I guess) | when you look this good, you don’t have to know anything | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |