This essay’s author is compared to the boy from “The Emperor’s New Clothes” in a Cedric Watts essay countering it. F. R. Leavis’s description of an author’s “insistence upon inexpressible and incomprehensible mystery” is quoted in this essay’s description of a writer who induces “hypnotic stupor” in his readers. This essay references Marco Polo’s “spectacular” omission of the Great Wall of China in his travelogues and states the Congo River is portrayed as an antithesis to the Thames. The speaker of this essay recalls receiving a letter from a “young fellow from Yonkers” who was happy to learn about a tribe’s “customs and superstitions” after reading its author’s novel Things Fall Apart. For 10 points, “Racism in Conrad’s Heart of Darkness” is the subject of what Chinua Achebe essay? ■END■
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| Braden Booth | Missouri A | WashU B | 41 | 10 |
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| Shourjo Ganguli | OSU C | OSU D | 53 | 10 |
| Yihong Chen | Toronto C | Toronto H | 59 | 10 |
| Omkar Marathe | Columbia A | Lehigh B | 63 | 10 |
| Ryan Sun | Berkeley D | Stanford B | 64 | 10 |
| Michał Gerasimiuk | Stanford A | Berkeley E | 70 | 10 |
| Kunaal Chandrashekar | Toronto A | McGill B | 71 | 10 |
| Andrei Hui | Cambridge A | Edinburgh A | 71 | 10 |
| Eshan Pant | NYU A | Penn A | 72 | 10 |
| Nathaniel Hull | Berkeley B | Berkeley A | 74 | -5 |
| Yusuf Baig | McMaster A | Ottawa | 74 | -5 |
| Simon Zimmerman | OSU A | OSU B | 74 | 10 |
| Elle Lee | Virginia A | Clemson B | 74 | 10 |
| S. A. Shenoy | Georgia Tech B | Alabama B | 74 | 10 |
| Jack Lewis | Bruin A | Auburn B | 74 | 10 |
| Isaac Millians | USC | UCLA D | 77 | -5 |
| Ryan Gomes | Melbourne A | UF D | 77 | 10 |
| William Groger | Princeton A | Columbia C | 77 | 10 |
| Darren Kellis | Vanderbilt B | Georgia Tech A | 77 | -5 |
| Alex Thomas | Georgia Tech C | Vanderbilt A | 77 | -5 |
| Joey Sun | Toronto B | Toronto K | 79 | -5 |
| David Bass | Johns Hopkins A | VCU A | 79 | 10 |
| Daniel Bloom | Edinburgh B | Warwick B | 79 | 10 |
| Trey Lewis | South Carolina A | Tennessee A | 80 | 10 |
| Mattias Ehatamm | Maryland A | George Mason B | 80 | 10 |
| Albert Nyang | LSE A | Manchester A | 84 | 10 |
| Kevin Le | Carleton | Guelph B | 92 | 10 |
| Denis Liu | Stanford C | Berkeley C | 95 | -5 |
| Conner Yamnitz | WashU C | William Woods | 101 | -5 |
| James Xiao | Toronto E | McMaster C | 103 | -5 |
| Gabriel Avrahami | Georgetown B | George Washington A | 110 | 10 |
| Vinu Harihar | Berkeley F | UCSC | 111 | -5 |
| Jackson Crickard | Claremont Pitzer | UCLA B | 111 | -5 |
| Winston Zuo | UCSB | UCSD What Hath God Wrought | 111 | -5 |
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| Shiva Tegulla | UCF A | UF B | 111 | -5 |
| Jacob Evans | MSU B | CWRU C | 111 | -5 |
| Abigail Lee | Virginia Tech A | Roanoke | 111 | 10 |
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| Omer Korkmaz | Johns Hopkins B | Maryland B | 111 | -5 |
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| Michael Wu | Southampton A | Oxford A | 114 | 10 |
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| Alexandra Knight | Liberty A | Liberty C | 120 | -5 |
| Pranav Jothi | Georgia Tech A | Vanderbilt B | 120 | 10 |
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| Deeba Lealaz | Virginia B | Tennessee B | 127 | -5 |
| Vivian Malouf | Berkeley A | Berkeley B | 128 | 10 |
| Swapnil Garg | Berkeley C | Stanford C | 129 | 0 |
| Lorie Au Yeung | UCSC | Berkeley F | 129 | 0 |
| Krishay Garg | UCLA D | USC | 129 | 0 |
| March Delfin | UCSD Two Running Violet V Forms | UCLA C | 129 | 0 |
| Clio Selyuzhitsky | UCSD What Hath God Wrought | UCSB | 129 | 0 |
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| Kaiwen Xiao | UCLA B | Claremont Pitzer | 129 | 10 |
| Ishan Joshi | Toronto Metropolitan | Toronto F | 129 | 0 |
| Stefan Vlad | Ottawa | McMaster A | 129 | 0 |
| Cranmer McGinn | McMaster C | Toronto E | 129 | 0 |
| Ian Theysmeyer | Queen's A | Toronto I | 129 | 0 |
| Henry Siegler | Toronto D | Waterloo | 129 | 0 |
| Samuel Zheng | Toronto F | Toronto Metropolitan | 129 | 0 |
| Eva Mandelbaum | Guelph A | Western Ontario | 129 | 0 |
| June Miller | UF B | UCF A | 129 | 0 |
| Cole Hennessy | UCF B | UF E | 129 | 0 |
| Kathleen Perez | ERAU B | USF | 129 | 0 |
| Pallas Allen | USF | ERAU B | 129 | 0 |
| Simone Green | Kenyon B | Kenyon A | 129 | 0 |
| Henry Nonnemaker | CWRU C | MSU B | 129 | 0 |
| Erin Williams | James Madison | Clemson A | 129 | 0 |
| John McQueen | South Carolina B | Tusculum | 129 | 0 |
| Ilyas Choukri | Virginia Tech B | NC State | 129 | 0 |
| Malachi Ledford | Tusculum | South Carolina B | 129 | 0 |
| Conner Khan | NC State | Virginia Tech B | 129 | 0 |
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| Jarman Taylor | Johns Hopkins C | Penn B | 129 | 0 |
| Zachary Leblang | Penn B | Johns Hopkins C | 129 | 0 |
| Aidan Ross | George Washington B | George Mason C | 129 | 0 |
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| Sim Spurrier | Swarthmore A | Columbia B | 129 | 0 |
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| Alex Dzurick | William Woods | WashU C | 129 | 0 |
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| Madison Glaser | ESF | Rochester | 129 | 0 |
| Elijah O'Sick Johnson | Binghamton B | Syracuse | 129 | 0 |