According to its author, a line of poetry about this phenomenon quotes from a translation by Henry Clarke Warren. In another poem by that author, a “dove descending breaks the air / With” this phenomenon “of incandescent terror.” That author included a line about this phenomenon between two quotations from St. Augustine’s Confessions: “To Carthage then I came” and “O Lord Thou pluckest me out.” After a two-line quotation from Julian of Norwich, the declaration that all will be well when this phenomenon “and the rose are one” closes “Little Gidding.” A section titled for this phenomenon includes the lines, “Twit twit twit / Jug jug jug jug jug jug,” and is directly followed by “Death by Water” and “What the Thunder Said.” For 10 points, the third section of T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land is a Buddha-inspired sermon about what phenomenon? ■END■
| 2025 ACF Nationals | 04/19/2025 | Y | 24 | 88% | 0% | 38% | 106.24 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cade Reinberger | RIT | Maryland | 34 | 10 |
| Albert Yingzhi Nyang | LSE | Yale | 52 | -5 |
| Noah Chin | Virginia Tech | Chicago B | 64 | 10 |
| Joel Miles | Minnesota | MIT | 64 | 10 |
| Thomas Tibbetts | UCF | Virginia | 65 | -5 |
| Jakob Myers | Indiana | Chicago A | 65 | 10 |
| Rachel Fanous | Michigan | Illinois B | 65 | -5 |
| Jim Fan | North Carolina A | WUSTL A | 65 | 10 |
| Rosa Xia | Cornell A | Toronto C | 82 | -5 |
| Mitch McCullar | Penn State | Georgia State | 82 | -5 |
| Sinecio Morales | Johns Hopkins | Texas | 87 | 10 |
| Charles Young | Columbia A | Toronto A | 88 | 10 |
| Andrew Wang | Illinois A | Waterloo A | 88 | 10 |
| Eshan Pant | NYU | Ottawa | 88 | 10 |
| Ryan Sun | UC Berkeley B | Waterloo B | 93 | 10 |
| Shourjo Ganguli | Ohio State | Columbia B | 93 | -5 |
| Kevin Wang | Georgia Tech | Toronto B | 99 | -5 |
| Andrew Zeng | Stanford | UC Berkeley A | 102 | -5 |
| Joy An | Harvard | Iowa State | 122 | 10 |
| Henry Bon | Winona State | North Carolina B | 122 | 10 |
| John John Groger | WUSTL B | Florida | 125 | 10 |
| Aum Mundhe | Rutgers | Northwestern | 125 | 10 |
| Tai Belke | British Columbia | Arizona State | 135 | -5 |
| Bryan Ugaz | Arizona State | British Columbia | 143 | 10 |
| Ben Wismath | Toronto C | Cornell A | 143 | 10 |
| Joseph Chambers | Virginia | UCF | 143 | 0 |
| Gavin Markoff | Vanderbilt | Cornell B | 143 | 0 |
| Sarod Nori | Cornell B | Vanderbilt | 143 | 10 |
| Derek Chen | Columbia B | Ohio State | 143 | 0 |
| Raymond Chen | Toronto B | Georgia Tech | 143 | 10 |
| William Orr | Yale | LSE | 143 | 0 |
| Arjun Kala | Illinois B | Michigan | 143 | 10 |
| Amogh Kulkarni | Georgia State | Penn State | 143 | 10 |
| Nathaniel Hull | UC Berkeley A | Stanford | 143 | 10 |