the death of a beautiful woman - 2024 Chicago Open

Question

One of these events occurs after a couple studies “the wild pantheism of Fichte, the modified palingenesis of the Pythagoreans, and the doctrines of Identity as urged by Schelling.” For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this sort of event that the author of “Morella” called “unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world” in his essay “The Philosophy of Composition.”

ANSWER: the death of a beautiful woman [accept any answer that indicates that a woman, wife, or beauty is dying; prompt on answers that indicate only death by asking “of what sort of character?”]

[10e] Edgar Allan Poe’s Morella claims that death has even less horror for her than for one of these animals. Before dying, the title woman of “Ligeia” writes a poem about a “Conqueror” one of these animals.

ANSWER: worms [accept “The Conqueror Worm”]

[10h] In this Poe story, a painter exclaims “this is indeed Life itself!” after completing a “vignette… much in the style of the favorite heads of Sully” modeled on his wife, only to realize that she died while sitting for the piece.

ANSWER: “The Oval Portrait”

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Summary


2024 Chicago Open	07/28/2024	Y	12	13.33	100%	25%	8%

Data


AMOGH QUIZ HACK? 英雄联盟 400 PPG 24 TUH	First Cause, First Cause, make me young!	10	10	0	20
LMM's LLM MLM	when you look this good, you don’t have to know anything	10	10	0	20
Are You There, Chat? It's Me, Margaret	Lisan al-Quib	0	10	0	10
Mindgoblin of Little Hobbes	NJTRANSit (and bobby, i guess)	0	10	0	10
it's the great pumpkinification objection, charlie brown	NJTRANSit (and anwen, I guess)	0	10	0	10
Punished "Venom" BHSU	var merchants	0	10	0	10
Lying on a Mattress at Lou’s Apartment in Pilsen, Chicago	Read slowly: A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A Read quickly: A	0	10	0	10
SAYYID QUTB, DRIVING THE LONGEST CAR YOU’VE EVER SEEN THROUGH TAHRIR SQUARE	Les Missourables	0	10	0	10
sticking out your guyot for the ridge push; you're so seafloor spread, you're so fracture zone	The Dyatlov Passement incident	0	10	0	10
The Empire Bikes Back	A Nervy Liberal Nanny Hence	0	10	0	10
BHSU B	There are buzzable clues everywhere for those with eyes to see	10	10	10	30
genAI this, genAI that, have you found your 真爱 yet	We Need New Names	0	10	0	10