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In a story by this author, one character is “drowned in a tide of green and blue and bronze feathers” after trying to strike a man with an alembic. That story’s narrator dances atop an image of Christ with an inhuman, soul-sucking woman who has “black lilies in her hair.” As explained in a “Reader’s Guide” by Neil Mann, this author characterized God as the “Thirteenth Cone” in a work that presents a wheel on which four “faculties” and 28 “incarnations” are related to phases of the moon. A character in this author's story (*) “Rosa Alchemica” titles a poem in which a woman remarks, “My wretched dragon is perplexed.” The second essay in Axel’s Castle discusses this author's mystical tract A Vision, (10[1])which borrows from (10[1])the (10[1])automatic writing of his wife George Hyde-Lees and posits “double gyres.” (10[2])For 10 points, name this author (10[1])of “Michael Robartes and the Dancer” (10[2])and a poem (10[1])beginning, “Turning and turning in the widening gyre.” ■END■

ANSWER: William Butler Yeats (The unnamed poem in the giveaway is “The Second Coming.”)
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Andrew HartBHSU[moderator voice] yes that is so tenpointscore! is your team feeling bonuspilled?12110
Will NedigerThe Plague (anime)" was redirected to: "Oran High School Host ClubRomanos IV Diogenes’ Macaroni Grill12410
Will AlstonCurse you, Periplus the Platypus!The anti-STOON-dahl cabal (the tall Keyal et al.)12510
Ali HamzehI prefer really not to speak. If I speak I’m in big troubleDon't be Afraid, the Clown's Afraid Too13610
Matt BollingerTeam Name Think DetailI would prefer not to13610
Steven YuanEvans Hall destruction awaitersSaint Peter Andre 300014210
Charles HangHang et al., Robert BrowningIn Search of Things Past14810
Eric Bobrowwave2: trimming membership codes 9655377758gpTeach Us to Outgrow Our Ladness14810
Nick JensenThe Catastrophic Implosion of Packet SubQuasicrystal Silence15110

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2023 Chicago Open08/05/2023Y9100%0%0%136.78