“Jabberwocky” - 2024 ESPN

Question

One of the epigraphs to Alejandra Pizarnik’s poem “Of the Silence” quotes a character’s summary of this poem as “Somebody killed something.” For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this poem. A Douglas Hofstadter essay on “Translations of” this poem ponders how French and German translations of it exemplify the problem of finding “the same node” in two “extremely nonisomorphic” networks.

ANSWER: “Jabberwocky”

[10e] Pizarnik borrows two epigraphs from Lewis Carroll in a collection titled for Extracting the Stone of this condition. Carroll also created a Hatter named for this condition in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.

ANSWER: madness [accept mad or Mad Hatter]

[10h] After Pizarnik’s suicide, this friend of hers wrote a poem in which Pizarnik enters “the garden where Alice was waiting for her.” The narrator of a short story by this author reads a novel in which two lovers part ways at a mountain cabin so that the man can kill her husband.

ANSWER: Julio Cortázar [or Julio Florencio Cortázar] (The short story is “The Continuity of Parks.”)

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Summary


2024 ESPN @ Brown	04/06/2024	Y	3	6.67	67%	0%	0%
2024 ESPN @ Cambridge	04/06/2024	Y	2	15.00	100%	0%	50%
2024 ESPN @ Chicago	03/23/2024	Y	6	15.00	100%	33%	17%
2024 ESPN @ Columbia	03/23/2024	Y	7	20.00	100%	71%	29%
2024 ESPN @ Duke	03/23/2024	Y	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2024 ESPN @ Online	06/01/2024	Y	3	16.67	100%	33%	33%
Northern California	Main	N	4	20.00	100%	75%	25%
Southern California	Main	N	7	12.86	86%	43%	0%
Eastern Canada (1)	Main	N	5	16.00	80%	60%	20%
Eastern Canada (2)	Main	N	9	16.67	89%	56%	22%
Florida	Main	N	4	17.50	100%	75%	0%
Great Lakes	Main	N	11	16.36	91%	55%	18%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main	N	9	17.78	100%	67%	11%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main	N	1	10.00	100%	0%	0%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main	N	9	20.00	89%	67%	44%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main	N	2	20.00	100%	100%	0%
Midwest	Main	N	9	18.89	100%	67%	22%
North	Main	N	4	15.00	100%	50%	0%
Northeast	Main	N	1	20.00	100%	100%	0%
Pacific	Main	N	8	17.50	100%	63%	13%
South Central	Main	N	6	18.33	100%	67%	17%
Southeast	Main	N	11	18.18	82%	73%	27%
Upstate NY	Main	N	5	20.00	100%	60%	40%

Data


Clark A	Triple Round Robin Lovers	0	10	0	10
Jason Lovers	Jeffrey and Dahmers	0	10	0	10
Clark B	Labour's Lost Lovers	0	0	0	0
Eugene o'Negging	A VK a Day Keeps the Doctor Away	0	10	10	20
You, Me and the Big G	Heat-Oppressed Brains	0	10	0	10
1.g4 Test Mixture	chamPAIN and cornHELL in Columbia	10	10	0	20
JJaryland	Let's Fighting Love	10	10	10	30
Naocissus and Geoldmond by Hermandrew Hesse	NJ TRANSit (and bobby i guess)	10	10	0	20
protobowling for soup	Parden the Interruption	0	10	0	10
JinAh and Jordan from Wikiquiz	Sandmännchen im Helikopter	10	10	0	20
boy's jitches (ft. DMA)	The Aum-Wein Drinchard by Amogh Tutuola	0	10	10	20
bruh	mnemonists	10	10	0	20
UNC Hunny	UNC A	0	10	0	10
UNC B	Duke	0	10	0	10
Riley et al.	Tunks et al.	0	10	0	10
The Present King of James is Bald	Williams et al.	0	10	10	20
World's Fair Wiggle Walk	Free-ish Agents	10	10	0	20
2 days into college and I'm 3 lectures behind	>:3	0	10	0	10
Charlotte Mewing to get that chiseled farmer’s bride jawline	Oh the Missouri	10	10	0	20
purdoobie brothers	Chicago A Minus Minus	0	10	0	10
Nobodaddy but you	Chicago B	0	10	0	10
BHSU	Michigan	10	10	0	20
malcolm in the middlemarch (Purdue 1)	Noli Me Tangerine	0	10	10	20