Question
In a foreword to Elizabeth Smart’s By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept, Brigid Brophy compared this author’s Little Poems in Prose to “a box of marvelous but unstrung beads.” For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this author of a prose poem in which a man has a fistfight with a beggar outside a bar to determine if the beggar is worthy of receiving his charity.
ANSWER: Charles Baudelaire [or Charles Pierre Baudelaire] (The prose poem is “Let’s Beat Up The Poor!”)
[10e] Keith Waldrop’s translation of Little Poems in Prose is named for this emotion, which Baudelaire juxtaposed with the “Ideal” in the title of the first section of Les Fleurs du Mal.
ANSWER: spleen [accept “Spleen and Ideal”; accept Paris Spleen]
[10h] The preface of Paris Spleen also pokes fun at an Arsène Houssaye prose poem about an encounter with a man of this profession. In a poem from Paris Spleen, the narrator drops a flowerpot on a “Shoddy” man with this profession.
ANSWER: glazier [or windowpane maker or vitrier; accept any answer describing someone who works with or sells glass; prompt on salesman or street vendor or equivalents; prompt on craftsman or artisan or equivalents]
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Summary
| 2023 Chicago Open | 08/05/2023 | Y | 4 | 12.50 | 100% | 25% | 0% |
Data
| Romanos IV Diogenes’ Macaroni Grill | Saint Peter Andre 3000 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| The anti-STOON-dahl cabal (the tall Keyal et al.) | Team Name Think Detail | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| BHSU | The Catastrophic Implosion of Packet Sub | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| The Plague (anime)" was redirected to: "Oran High School Host Club | Curse you, Periplus the Platypus! | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |