Question
An Ezra Pound parody hopes that “particles” of this concept that “do not now partake of water melons / Will at some future time partake of water melons.” For 10 points each:
[10h] Walt Whitman called himself an “American, one of the roughs,” and what sort of thing in a line of “Song of Myself” that uses this word’s German spelling? A later revision follows this word with “of Manhattan the son.”
ANSWER: kosmos [or cosmos]
[10e] Henry James Sr. said he was “not yet a ‘cosmos’ as that gentleman avowedly is” when asked why he didn’t make this noise. In “Song of Myself,” Whitman sounds this “barbaric” noise “over the roofs of the world.”
ANSWER: barbaric yawp [or word forms like yawping]
[10m] James’s quip is quoted in an R. W. B. Lewis book on the “American” version of this man. This man arises “early in the morning” in a Leaves of Grass sequence partly titled for him that precedes the Calamus poems.
ANSWER: Adam [accept The American Adam or “Children of Adam”]
<JB, American Literature>
Summary
| 2024 Chicago Open | 07/28/2024 | Y | 14 | 13.57 | 100% | 36% | 0% |
Data
| A Nervy Liberal Nanny Hence | The Dyatlov Passement incident | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| AMOGH QUIZ HACK? 英雄联盟 400 PPG 24 TUH | Lying on a Mattress at Lou’s Apartment in Pilsen, Chicago | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Berkeley Mafia and the Chicago Boy | when you look this good, you don’t have to know anything | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Are You There, Chat? It's Me, Margaret | Charlotte's Moderately Successful Team | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| SAYYID QUTB, DRIVING THE LONGEST CAR YOU’VE EVER SEEN THROUGH TAHRIR SQUARE | First Cause, First Cause, make me young! | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Les Missourables | genAI this, genAI that, have you found your 真爱 yet | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| The Jeam Team | Mindgoblin of Little Hobbes | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Lisan al-Quib | NJTRANSit (and bobby, i guess) | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| sticking out your guyot for the ridge push; you're so seafloor spread, you're so fracture zone | Punished "Venom" BHSU | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| The Oldest Men in the World | Read slowly: A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A Read quickly: A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| The Empire Bikes Back | LMM's LLM MLM | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| There are buzzable clues everywhere for those with eyes to see | Galvanized Square Steen and Eco-Friendly Wood Vermeer | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| BHSU B | We Need New Names | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| it's the great pumpkinification objection, charlie brown | I’ll take a quiet 10 / A handshake of CO (Chicago Open) | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |