Question
One of these events occurs after a couple studies “the wild pantheism of Fichte, the modified palingenesis of the Pythagoreans, and the doctrines of Identity as urged by Schelling.” For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this sort of event that the author of “Morella” called “unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world” in his essay “The Philosophy of Composition.”
ANSWER: the death of a beautiful woman [accept any answer that indicates that a woman, wife, or beauty is dying; prompt on answers that indicate only death by asking “of what sort of character?”]
[10e] Edgar Allan Poe’s Morella claims that death has even less horror for her than for one of these animals. Before dying, the title woman of “Ligeia” writes a poem about a “Conqueror” one of these animals.
ANSWER: worms [accept “The Conqueror Worm”]
[10h] In this Poe story, a painter exclaims “this is indeed Life itself!” after completing a “vignette… much in the style of the favorite heads of Sully” modeled on his wife, only to realize that she died while sitting for the piece.
ANSWER: “The Oval Portrait”
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Summary
| 2024 Chicago Open | 07/28/2024 | Y | 12 | 13.33 | 100% | 25% | 8% |
Data
| AMOGH QUIZ HACK? 英雄联盟 400 PPG 24 TUH | First Cause, First Cause, make me young! | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| LMM's LLM MLM | when you look this good, you don’t have to know anything | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Are You There, Chat? It's Me, Margaret | Lisan al-Quib | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Mindgoblin of Little Hobbes | NJTRANSit (and bobby, i guess) | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| it's the great pumpkinification objection, charlie brown | NJTRANSit (and anwen, I guess) | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Punished "Venom" BHSU | var merchants | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Lying on a Mattress at Lou’s Apartment in Pilsen, Chicago | Read slowly: A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A Read quickly: A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| SAYYID QUTB, DRIVING THE LONGEST CAR YOU’VE EVER SEEN THROUGH TAHRIR SQUARE | Les Missourables | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| sticking out your guyot for the ridge push; you're so seafloor spread, you're so fracture zone | The Dyatlov Passement incident | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| The Empire Bikes Back | A Nervy Liberal Nanny Hence | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| BHSU B | There are buzzable clues everywhere for those with eyes to see | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| genAI this, genAI that, have you found your 真爱 yet | We Need New Names | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |