Question

A poem titled for this condition notes, “It began with a certain disgust and ended… in a panicked rout of perfumes,” and ends with the prediction, “now is the time of the assassins.” In a prose poem titled for this condition, the addressee is told not to be “the martyred slave of time” and to reach this state via “poetry or virtue.” A poem titled for this state notes, “I miss Europe with its ancient parapets!” and was heavily inspired by Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. A poem from the collection Paris Spleen is titled for a command to “Be” in this state. The speaker recalls, “I no longer felt myself guided by haulers” in a poem titled (10[1])for this condition (10[1])that a 16-year-old poet sent to Paul Verlaine. For 10 points, a poem by Arthur Rimbaud is titled for a “boat” in what condition? ■END■ (10[1]0[3])

ANSWER: drunkenness [or ivre or ivresse; or intoxication or inebriation; accept “Morning of Drunkenness” or “Matinee d’Ivresse”; accept “Be Drunk” or “Get Drunk” or “Be Inebriated” or “Enivrez-vous”; accept “The Drunken Boat” or “Le Bateau Ivre”] (The poem in the first sentence is “Morning of Drunkenness” by Rimbaud. “Be Drunk” is by Charles Baudelaire.)
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Nikhil NairBUHarvard A11810
Yrwin BatanMIT ABrandeis B12110
Khugan ChanUMass BostonTufts A1460
Mason YuBrown AHarvard B14610
John ChaTufts AUMass Boston1460
Kayla DrajpuchBrandeis ADartmouth A1460

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