Question

The narrator of a dramatic monologue about a “lazy laughing languid” character places gold coins into this substance. This substance was the “first gold” according to the sonnet “Body’s Beauty,” which describes it surrounding Adam’s heart. An author trying to recover a manuscript supposedly found that this substance had filled Elizabeth Siddal’s coffin after her death, an event later linked to a poem that describes seven stars in this substance. Lacking money, (*) Laura trades a “tear more rare than pearl” and this substance for fruit in “Goblin Market.” This substance is made into a constellation (10[1])at the end (10[1])of a poem (-5[1])in which a Sylph is sliced in half trying to protect it from the Baron. For 10 points, name this physical feature that is cut to signify Belinda’s violation in Alexander Pope's “The Rape of the Lock.” (10[1])■END■

ANSWER: golden hair [or a lock of hair; or a woman’s hair; prompt on locks before “Lock”] (The first sentence refers to Dante Gabriel Rossetti's “Jenny.” Rossetti also opened Siddal's coffin, and wrote “the stars in her hair were seven” in “The Blessed Damozel.”)
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Caroline Maonats is supposed to mean you all have gone softOlmo (Bonus) Bagelry9410
Forrest WeintraubColumbia BUG Championship Players (and Mazin)9710
Rahul KeyalWatching Arthur Delot-Vilain at Chicago Open Made Me Like French People Againmeet the new weird, same as the old weird100-5
Halle Friedmanmeet the new weird, same as the old weirdWatching Arthur Delot-Vilain at Chicago Open Made Me Like French People Again13710

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2023 BHSU @ Northwestern02/25/2023Y6100%17%17%96.50
2023 BHSU @ Maryland03/11/2023Y3100%33%0%89.00
2023 BHSU @ Berkeley03/18/2023Y3100%33%0%69.33
2023 BHSU @ Yale04/08/2023Y3100%0%33%109.33
2023 BHSU @ Waterloo04/15/2023Y3100%0%67%122.67