A man in this essay describes a friend named Mr. Hyde who has a real-life encounter similar to Stevenson’s fictional Mr. Hyde. This essay claims that “the story of George Washington and the cherry tree has done more harm than any other moral tale” in literature. This essay mentions the lack of resemblance between Japanese art and real Japanese people as an example of how “no great artist ever sees things as they really are.” Much of this essay is taken up by a man reading an essay to his brother that he plans to submit to a (*) magazine run by the Tired Hedonists, which argues that “Life imitates art far more than Art imitates life.” This essay is formatted as a dialogue between the author’s sons Vivian and Cyril. For 10 points, name this essay by Oscar Wilde that claims the aim of art is “telling beautiful untrue things.” ■END■
| 2025 Chicago Open | 2025-08-09 | Y | 9 | 78% | 22% | 0% | 105.29 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aseem Keyal | Broken Socal Scene | The RAND Coöperation | 41 | 15 |
| Matt Bollinger | BHSU B | Will They Ever Finish Bruckner’s Ninth Boulevard? | 55 | 15 |
| Jordan Brownstein | I worship the Pyramid (abandoned Soviet coal mining settlement on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard) | Please sir, may I have some morb? | 101 | 10 |
| Justin Wytmar | Thamos, King of Egypt: The Sahara of the Mozart | The True Dharma Eye of the Juan Soto School | 112 | 10 |
| Auroni Gupta | BHSU X | "real numbers are uncountable" factoid actually just statistical error. diagonal georg | 129 | 10 |
| William Golden | Mumbo Jumbo Will Labubu | Floridovician | 149 | 10 |
| Benjamin Chapman | Woke Michael Du be like "I'm a genders player" | Do re mi fa serving negs | 150 | 0 |
| Azura Gollamudi | Do re mi fa serving negs | Woke Michael Du be like "I'm a genders player" | 150 | 0 |
| Sinecio Morales | Enjoying the Hole Experience | 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 2k5, RNBQKBNR b Q - 99 66 | 150 | 0 |
| Henry Atkins | No, explaining that your buzz came from watching an isekai is not "Proustian" | The Met on Laserdisc. Bravo! | 150 | 10 |
| Matt Lafer | The Met on Laserdisc. Bravo! | No, explaining that your buzz came from watching an isekai is not "Proustian" | 150 | 0 |