Question
One of these people is referenced by the name of a seven-year-old who is burned in a plane crash in the third part of Annie Dillard’s Holy the Firm. For 10 points each:
[10m] What people are the subject of the surviving works in the “AB language” dialect, such as the Katherine Group texts and a “wisse” manual? This is the specific term for the vocation of the author of Revelations of Divine Love.
ANSWER: anchoresses [or anchorites; or ancrene; accept Ancrene Wisse; prompt on hermits or mystics] (Dillard’s character is named Julie Norwich.)
[10e] The anchoress Julian of Norwich inspired Dillard’s image of a god the “size of a hazelnut” caught by one of these animals. Pangur Bán, the subject of an Irish monk’s ode, and Christopher Smart’s Jeoffry were these animals.
ANSWER: cats [prompt on pets]
[10h] This 20th-century British poet also vanished from society for religious reasons. Before burning all her works, she wrote about Min, who works on electronic music for Orestes and toys with a smelly opera singer, in her novel The Bloater.
ANSWER: Rosemary Tonks
<JB, British Literature>
Summary
2024 Chicago Open | 07/28/2024 | Y | 15 | 12.00 | 73% | 47% | 0% |
Data
The Dyatlov Passement incident | A Nervy Liberal Nanny Hence | 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 | 0 | 10 |
Berkeley Mafia and the Chicago Boy | when you look this good, you don’t have to know anything | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
Charlotte's Moderately Successful Team | Are You There, Chat? It's Me, Margaret | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
First Cause, First Cause, make me young! | SAYYID QUTB, DRIVING THE LONGEST CAR YOU’VE EVER SEEN THROUGH TAHRIR SQUARE | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
Les Missourables | genAI this, genAI that, have you found your 真爱 yet | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Mindgoblin of Little Hobbes | The Jeam Team | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
NJTRANSit (and bobby, i guess) | Lisan al-Quib | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
sticking out your guyot for the ridge push; you're so seafloor spread, you're so fracture zone | Punished "Venom" BHSU | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
Read slowly: A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A Read quickly: A | The Oldest Men in the World | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
LMM's LLM MLM | The Empire Bikes Back | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
There are buzzable clues everywhere for those with eyes to see | Galvanized Square Steen and Eco-Friendly Wood Vermeer | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
BHSU B | We Need New Names | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
it's the great pumpkinification objection, charlie brown | I’ll take a quiet 10 / A handshake of CO (Chicago Open) | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
var merchants | NJTRANSit (and anwen, I guess) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |