Question
The author’s acquaintance with Fulcanelli may have inspired a manifesto’s claim that this process, like surrealism, allows “man’s imagination to take a stunning revenge on all things.” For 10 points each:
[10h] Identify this process that structures Ithell Colquhoun’s (“EYE-thull kuh-HOON’s”) surrealist novel The Goose of Hermogenes, which takes its chapter titles from Basil Valentine’s The Twelve Keys.
ANSWER: making the philosopher’s stone [or descriptions of making gold; or magnum opus; or great work; or chrysopoeia; prompt on transmutation; prompt on alchemy; prompt on hermeticism]
[10e] This author abandoned alchemical-hermeticism to pen an earnest “Ode to Charles Fourier” after writing the tarot-inspired novel Arcane 17. He also wrote the surrealist manifestos and the novel Nadja.
ANSWER: André Breton [or André Robert Breton]
[10m] This memoir by August Strindberg details his efforts to make gold from iron sulfate while holed up in Paris’s Hôtel Orfila. Like the Occult Diary, it covers his mental breakdown of the 1890s.
ANSWER: Inferno
<TH/JB, European Literature>
Summary
| 2024 Chicago Open | 07/28/2024 | Y | 10 | 12.00 | 80% | 20% | 20% |
Data
| A Nervy Liberal Nanny Hence | SAYYID QUTB, DRIVING THE LONGEST CAR YOU’VE EVER SEEN THROUGH TAHRIR SQUARE | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Are You There, Chat? It's Me, Margaret | The Empire Bikes Back | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Charlotte's Moderately Successful Team | Galvanized Square Steen and Eco-Friendly Wood Vermeer | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| I’ll take a quiet 10 / A handshake of CO (Chicago Open) | Lying on a Mattress at Lou’s Apartment in Pilsen, Chicago | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| LMM's LLM MLM | genAI this, genAI that, have you found your 真爱 yet | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| NJTRANSit (and anwen, I guess) | Berkeley Mafia and the Chicago Boy | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| NJTRANSit (and bobby, i guess) | AMOGH QUIZ HACK? 英雄联盟 400 PPG 24 TUH | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Punished "Venom" BHSU | The Jeam Team | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| The Dyatlov Passement incident | First Cause, First Cause, make me young! | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| BHSU B | The Oldest Men in the World | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |