Herbert - 2024 ACF Nationals

Question

A book by an author with this surname ends with servants covering mirrors so that Abraham Anslo’s soul can wander to “unimaginable worlds.” For 10 points each:

[10e] Give this surname of the Polish author of Still Life with Bridle. He claimed to be a descendent of the English poet George, who included pattern poems like “Easter Wings” in The Temple.

ANSWER: Herbert [accept George Herbert; accept Zbigniew Herbert]

[10m] This novel ends by interpolating the last sentence of Herbert’s Still Life with Bridle. However, the narrator credits it to Thomas Browne, whose works are cited throughout this novel set in Suffolk.

ANSWER: The Rings of Saturn [or Die Ringe des Saturn: Eine englische Wallfahrt] (by W. G. Sebald)

[10h] This thinker’s bed titles a piece in Still Life with Bridle about his legal battles. In Olga Tokarczuk’s (“toh-KAR-chook’s”) Flights, this thinker’s friend Philip reflects on his arguments while dissecting his own amputated leg.

ANSWER: Baruch Spinoza [or Benedictus de Spinoza; or Baruch Espinosa; or Bento de Spinosa]

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Summary


2024 ACF Nationals	2024-04-21	Y	24	8.75	58%	29%	0%

Data


Berkeley A	NYU	10	10	20
Chicago C	Berkeley B	0	0	0
Toronto A	Brown	10	0	10
Chicago A	Columbia A	10	10	20
Columbia B	Duke	0	0	0
Cornell A	Chicago B	10	10	20
Florida	Toronto B	0	0	0
Illinois	Yale A	10	10	20
Indiana	Minnesota A	10	10	20
Michigan	Iowa State	0	0	0
Kentucky	Chicago D	10	0	10
Maryland	Johns Hopkins	10	10	20
McGill	Cornell B	0	0	0
North Carolina B	Minnesota B	0	0	0
Waterloo	North Carolina A	10	10	20
Northwestern	Georgia Tech	10	0	10
Arizona State	Penn	0	0	0
Purdue	WUSTL A	10	0	10
Rutgers	Yale B	0	0	0
Stanford	Texas	10	0	10
Harvard	Truman State	0	0	0
South Carolina	Vanderbilt	10	0	10
Virginia	Ottawa	0	0	0
Claremont Colleges	WUSTL B	10	0	10