Question
Katherine Rundell’s 2022 biography Super-Infinite credits this poet with at least 340 neologisms, including “bystander,” “fecundate,” and “imbrothelled.” For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this author and prefix enthusiast who wrote of “dull sublunary lovers’ love” in a poem that states “thy firmness makes my circle just, / And makes me end where I begun.”
ANSWER: John Donne (The poem is “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning.”)
[10h] Donne invented the word “unperplex” in this poem to describe the purifying feeling of losing oneself in another person. In this poem, “the eye-beams” of two lovers twist together before their souls exit their bodies and mingle.
ANSWER: “The Ecstasy”
[10m] An infirm Donne used the word “vermiculation” to describe being eaten by worms in what this biographer called Donne’s “own funeral sermon.” In another book by this author, Piscator, Venator, and Auceps debate recreation.
ANSWER: Izaak Walton (The sermon is Death’s Duel; the book is The Compleat Angler.)
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Summary
| 2023 Chicago Open | 08/05/2023 | Y | 9 | 17.78 | 100% | 78% | 0% |
Data
| BHSU | In Search of Things Past | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Evans Hall destruction awaiters | Teach Us to Outgrow Our Ladness | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Curse you, Periplus the Platypus! | Hang et al., Robert Browning | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| remembrance of lost time | I would prefer not to | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Quasicrystal Silence | Team Name Think Detail | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| The anti-STOON-dahl cabal (the tall Keyal et al.) | [moderator voice] yes that is so tenpointscore! is your team feeling bonuspilled? | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| The Canadians | Don't be Afraid, the Clown's Afraid Too | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Romanos IV Diogenes’ Macaroni Grill | The Catastrophic Implosion of Packet Sub | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Saint Peter Andre 3000 | wave2: trimming membership codes 9655377758gp | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |