Question
This place’s name opens a chant that Joy Harjo calls one of the world’s most complex poems, the last of John Bierhorst’s Four Masterworks of American Indian Literature. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this place invoked with he-rain, she-rain, and pollen in the “Night Chant.” In a novel titled for this place, a veteran smears ash on himself and joins runners singing about it after the death of his grandfather.
ANSWER: house made of dawn [or Tségihi; or house of dawn; or dawn-house; prompt on house]
[10e] Washington Matthews’s rendition of the Night Chant uses this action to translate hózhó naashá. A woman performs this three-word action “like the night” in a Lord Byron poem.
ANSWER: walking in beauty [accept “She Walks in Beauty”]
[10h] Kenneth Roemer cites the scene from N. Scott Momaday’s House Made of Dawn in which Ben sings the Night Chant as a “ceremony” of this concept. In Manifest Manners, Chippewa poet Gerald Vizenor coined this neologism for the active “continuance of native stories.”
ANSWER: survivance
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Summary
| 2024 Chicago Open | 07/28/2024 | Y | 15 | 12.67 | 93% | 27% | 7% |
Data
| A Nervy Liberal Nanny Hence | We Need New Names | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Are You There, Chat? It's Me, Margaret | AMOGH QUIZ HACK? 英雄联盟 400 PPG 24 TUH | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| var merchants | Berkeley Mafia and the Chicago Boy | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Lisan al-Quib | Galvanized Square Steen and Eco-Friendly Wood Vermeer | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| BHSU B | I’ll take a quiet 10 / A handshake of CO (Chicago Open) | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Mindgoblin of Little Hobbes | Les Missourables | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| genAI this, genAI that, have you found your 真爱 yet | NJTRANSit (and anwen, I guess) | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| NJTRANSit (and bobby, i guess) | Lying on a Mattress at Lou’s Apartment in Pilsen, Chicago | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Punished "Venom" BHSU | The Dyatlov Passement incident | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| SAYYID QUTB, DRIVING THE LONGEST CAR YOU’VE EVER SEEN THROUGH TAHRIR SQUARE | when you look this good, you don’t have to know anything | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| sticking out your guyot for the ridge push; you're so seafloor spread, you're so fracture zone | The Empire Bikes Back | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| First Cause, First Cause, make me young! | The Jeam Team | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Charlotte's Moderately Successful Team | The Oldest Men in the World | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| There are buzzable clues everywhere for those with eyes to see | Read slowly: A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A Read quickly: A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| LMM's LLM MLM | it's the great pumpkinification objection, charlie brown | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |