Question
Christopher Pearse Cranch amusingly illustrated this literary image as a creature with long legs and a top hat strolling the countryside. For 10 points each:
[10m] Give this metaphor from an 1836 essay for pure, spiritual perception of the natural world. An author claims to be this image before stating “I am nothing; I see all.”
ANSWER: the “transparent eye-ball” [prompt on partial answers]
[10e] Emerson’s call for “solitude” in his essay “Nature” was a primary inspiration for this book, whose author “wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life.”
ANSWER: Walden (by Henry David Thoreau)
[10h] After suggesting “an occult relation between man and the vegetable,” Emerson claims that the world seems alternately happy and melancholy to us because Nature always does this. An exact six-word answer is required.
ANSWER: “Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.”
<Taylor Harvey, American Literature>
Summary
| 2023 Chicago Open | 08/05/2023 | Y | 9 | 17.78 | 100% | 78% | 0% |
Data
| BHSU | Teach Us to Outgrow Our Ladness | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Curse you, Periplus the Platypus! | Evans Hall destruction awaiters | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| The Plague (anime)" was redirected to: "Oran High School Host Club | Don't be Afraid, the Clown's Afraid Too | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Hang et al., Robert Browning | The anti-STOON-dahl cabal (the tall Keyal et al.) | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Quasicrystal Silence | I prefer really not to speak. If I speak I’m in big trouble | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Romanos IV Diogenes’ Macaroni Grill | remembrance of lost time | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Team Name Think Detail | The Catastrophic Implosion of Packet Sub | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| I would prefer not to | The Canadians | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| wave2: trimming membership codes 9655377758gp | In Search of Things Past | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |