This essay lays out a dichotomy between internal, “public” evidence like “our habitual knowledge of the language” with external “private” evidence like “to what lady, while sitting on what lawn.” The third point in a numbered list within this essay claims that judging a poem “is like judging a pudding or a machine. One demands that it work.” Found in The Verbal Icon, this essay observes that it’s impossible to determine whether (*) Donne’s “Catch a Falling Star” influenced Eliot’s “Prufrock.” Often read alongside its authors’ essay on an “affective” counterpart, this foundational text of New Criticism asserts that “the design of the author is neither available nor desirable.” For 10 points, name this essay by William K. Wimsatt and Monroe Beardsley titled for the idea that the aims of the author are irrelevant to literary interpretation. ■END■
| 2025 Chicago Open | 2025-08-09 | Y | 11 | 64% | 9% | 36% | 92.43 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| John Lawrence | Will They Ever Finish Bruckner’s Ninth Boulevard? | No, explaining that your buzz came from watching an isekai is not "Proustian" | 52 | 15 |
| Mitch McCullar | Thamos, King of Egypt: The Sahara of the Mozart | The Met on Laserdisc. Bravo! | 72 | 10 |
| Jordan Brownstein | I worship the Pyramid (abandoned Soviet coal mining settlement on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard) | Floridovician | 76 | -5 |
| Matt Bollinger | BHSU B | Big is moving to Evanston! | 79 | 10 |
| Joy An | "real numbers are uncountable" factoid actually just statistical error. diagonal georg | Please sir, may I have some morb? | 87 | -5 |
| Auroni Gupta | BHSU X | 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 2k5, RNBQKBNR b Q - 99 66 | 92 | 10 |
| John Marvin | "Real quiz bowl" only consists of the ACF academic pyramidal scene and the late 2010s NAQT scene. | Mumbo Jumbo Will Labubu | 92 | 10 |
| Jason Cheng | Broken Socal Scene | Enjoying the Hole Experience | 99 | -5 |
| Omkar Marathe | Halifax Shipping Services | Do re mi fa serving negs | 116 | -5 |
| Mattias Ehatamm | Woke Michael Du be like "I'm a genders player" | It's not X, but... defenders | 124 | 10 |
| Sinecio Morales | Enjoying the Hole Experience | Broken Socal Scene | 136 | 0 |
| Tracy Mirkin | Floridovician | I worship the Pyramid (abandoned Soviet coal mining settlement on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard) | 136 | 10 |
| Stephen Walsh | Do re mi fa serving negs | Halifax Shipping Services | 136 | 0 |
| Michael Coates | One Microscopic Pog in His Chat-astrophic Plan | The True Dharma Eye of the Juan Soto School | 136 | 0 |
| JinAh Kim | The True Dharma Eye of the Juan Soto School | One Microscopic Pog in His Chat-astrophic Plan | 136 | 0 |