Chicago Open 2008: The End Comes…Beyond the Omega Point  EDITORS PACKET 2  
Chicago Open 2008: The End Comes…Beyond the Omega Point  EDITORS PACKET 2  (Ryan Westbrook, Matt Keller, Steven Canning)  Tossups  One chapter in this book is devoted to a "dish of dunderfunk," a delicacy which was reportedly stolen away from the cook Old Coffee. Another chapter is devoted to an event called the "Massacre of the Beards," which the author says would have made anyone but a Tartar or a barber weep. A few characters pretend to eat a specimen of cancer, which is really just pudding, but it manages to fool Cadwallader Cuticle, a surgeon with a glass eye who takes joy in cutting off limbs of patients. Lemsford is a poet who tries to find a hiding place for his box of manuscripts, but it's always discovered by Quoin. The jovial Mad Jack and the alcoholic Captain Claret join the heroic Jack Chase, who manages to save the title narrator after he falls off the U.S.S. Neversink and is nearly speared, mistaken for a whale. FTP, name this 1850 novel by Herman Melville with lots of flogging, named for the color of the narrator's coat.
Chicago Open 2008: The End Comes…Beyond the Omega Point  EDITORS PACKET 2  
{White-Jacket}, or The World in a Man-of-War