Question
This person chastises a later author for forgetting his mortality in three dialogues from the book Secretum. The Waste Land quotes this author’s lines “to Carthage then I came” and “thou pluckest me out.” This writer’s claim, “men wonder at the heights of mountains, and the mighty waves of the sea...but they consider themselves not” provided Petrarch an epiphany during his ascent of Mont Ventoux. The protagonist of a book by this author reads in a garden with his friend (*) Alypius after he requests to “make me chaste, but not yet.” This author’s mother Monica arranges a marriage for him in a book that recounts him stealing pears. In that work, a child’s voice chanting “take up and read!” prompts this author’s conversion to Catholicism. For 10 points, name this 5th-century author of the Confessions. ■END■
Summary
2024 ARCADIA at Claremont | 2024-11-02 | Y | 3 | 100% | 67% | 0% | 76.00 |
2024 ARCADIA at Illinois | 2024-11-09 | Y | 4 | 100% | 25% | 25% | 98.75 |
2024 ARCADIA at Waterloo | 2024-11-09 | Y | 7 | 100% | 0% | 57% | 128.29 |
2024 ARCADIA at Penn State | 2024-12-06 | Y | 2 | 100% | 50% | 0% | 71.50 |
2024 ARCADIA at Florida Tech | 2024-12-06 | Y | 4 | 100% | 25% | 0% | 99.75 |
2024 ARCADIA at BU | 2024-12-06 | Y | 7 | 100% | 0% | 29% | 113.29 |
2024 ARCADIA at GT | 2024-12-06 | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 25% | 116.50 |
2024 ARCADIA at Warwick | 2024-12-06 | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 97.00 |
2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley | 2024-12-06 | Y | 2 | 100% | 50% | 50% | 83.00 |
2024 ARCADIA at Duke | 2024-12-06 | Y | 3 | 100% | 33% | 0% | 75.00 |
2024 ARCADIA at Missouri S&T | 2024-12-06 | Y | 2 | 100% | 50% | 50% | 84.00 |
2024 ARCADIA Online | 2025-05-17 | Y | 5 | 100% | 20% | 40% | 83.80 |
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