Question
A Brian Dillon book about this literary form asks the reader to “imagine a form of writing so hard” that “to define its very name should be something like: an effort, an attempt, a trial.” For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this literary form, whose name comes from a French word for “to attempt.” Early examples of this form in English include Francis Bacon’s “Of Ambition” and Joseph Addison’s “A Vision of Justice.”
ANSWER: essays (The Brian Dillon book is Essayism.)
[10h] Dillon’s book Essayism opens with an allusion to this Virginia Woolf essay, in which the author attempts to free the title creature from its position in a windowpane but ends up finding it “useless to do anything.”
ANSWER: “The Death of the Moth”
[10m] Dillon also devotes a section of Essayism to this emotion, which is called the “rust of the soul” in a book-length treatise on its “Anatomy” by Robert Burton.
ANSWER: melancholy [or The Anatomy of Melancholy]
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Summary
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2024 Penn Bowl Harvard | 10/26/2024 | Y | 2 | 25.00 | 100% | 100% | 50% |
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2024 Penn Bowl Playtest | 10/12/2024 | Y | 4 | 22.50 | 75% | 100% | 50% |
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Data
Berkeley A | Berkeley B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
Michigan A | Carnegie Mellon | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
Pittsburgh | Michigan B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
WUSTL | Illinois B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
Notre Dame A | Indiana B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
Illinois A | Minnesota | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
Indiana A | Northwestern A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
Chicago A | Notre Dame B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
Chicago B | Notre Dame C | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
UF A | UF C | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
UCF | UF B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Yale A | Harvard B | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
MIT | Harvard A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
Columbia | JHU A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
NYU A | Princeton | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
We jopping | Oh you like geography? Name every Forrest. | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
Khalil v Carbolic Shisha Ball Co | Statler and Waldorfesque Former Penn Bowl Editors | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
Why the Kremlin Hates Bananas | TOAD | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
bruh | Ill-Advised Buzz | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
Houston | TAMU | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
Four Times I Have Despised My Soul | 3HK1MM | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
LSE | Limp Chriskit | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
Sorted | Oxford School for Quizness | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
The Crying of Team 49 | Say it | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
Gressenheller A | See it | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
Stanford | Berkeley C | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
UNC C | RIT A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
UNC A | UNC B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
Virginia Tech A | Duke A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |