Question
A Jan Lechoń poem on this author’s death notes how “Your father in his sleepless exile calls / You in your country’s language.” For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this British author. The first epigraph to T. S. Eliot’s “The Hollow Men” is “Mistah Kurtz—he dead,” a reference to this author’s Heart of Darkness.
ANSWER: Joseph Conrad [or Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski; accept “On the death of Joseph Conrad”]
[10m] The line “Before us is ‘The Heart of Darkness’” ends this author’s long poem The Treatise on Morality. This editor of The Book of Luminous Things wrote a book that discusses four intellectuals with the aliases Alpha, Beta, Gamma, and Delta.
ANSWER: Czesław Miłosz (The book is The Captive Mind.)
[10h] Conrad is called to “Come back from Kent ... from Westminster!” in a Marian Piechal poem titled for this place. Another poem titled for this place advises you to “keep [this place] always in your mind” and claims it “gave you the marvelous journey.”
ANSWER: Ithaca [or Ithaka] (The poem is “Ithaka” by Constantine Cavafy.)
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Summary
| 2023 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley | Premiere | Y | 1 | 30.00 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Carleton University | Premiere | Y | 3 | 20.00 | 100% | 33% | 67% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Duke | Emory, Duke, Yale | Y | 3 | 13.33 | 100% | 0% | 33% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Emory | Emory, Duke, Yale | Y | 4 | 17.50 | 100% | 25% | 50% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Imperial | Imperial | Y | 5 | 12.00 | 100% | 0% | 20% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Maryland | Maryland, Online | Y | 3 | 13.33 | 100% | 0% | 33% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Ohio State | Ohio State, Texas | Y | 3 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2023 ARCADIA Online | Maryland, Online | Y | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 0% | 67% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at RIT | Premiere | Y | 1 | 30.00 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Texas | Ohio State, Texas | Y | 3 | 13.33 | 100% | 0% | 33% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at WUSTL | Premiere | Y | 3 | 13.33 | 100% | 0% | 33% |
Data
| Michigan A | OSU B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Kenyon A | Kenyon B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Michigan B | Ohio State A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |