According to this work, the major defect of human material is that "it does not like to be considered merely as human material." One chapter of this work calls man the enemy of historical necessity, because he persists in embracing hope and faith. Its final chapter shows how the fate of the Baltic nations teaches us the failings of what the author calls the "new faith." This work's third chapter is about seven different variations of the practice of disguising one's heterodoxy by feigning orthodoxy, which is known as ketman. It opens with a discussion of Murti-Bing pills, a plot device in the novel Insatiability by Stanisław Witkiewicz. This work's central chapters portray figures who gave in to the Communist state, described as the Moralist, the Disappointed Lover, the Slave of History, and the Troubadour, or Alpha, Beta, Gamma, and Delta. For 10 points, name this nonfiction work by Czesław Miłosz.ANSWER: The Captive Mind [or Zniewolony umysł]18. A minor character in this novel has a name which is a pun on the phrase nihil obstat. That character works for a company which builds a desert in the middle of Ohio. In this novel, a character orders nine steaks at a restaurant as part of his plan to become so fat that he takes up the entire universe. At the end of this novel, an animal dubbed Ugolino the Significant appears on a television show hosted by Reverend Sykes. That animal also goes by the name of Vlad the Impaler. Stonecipheco is working on developing a pineal-gland-based additive for their baby food products, and another company in this novel is the publishing house Frequent and Vigorous, where the main character works as a switchboard operator. For 10 points, name this novel in which Lenore Beadsman searches for her missing great-grandmother, the first novel by David Foster Wallace.ANSWER: The Broom of the System19. This play contains the Wildean line "I had no idea that poets nowadays were interested in literature," spoken by a character who calls Wilde an "Irish Gomorrahist." That character has had a methodical education, resulting
According to this work, the major defect of human material is that "it does not like to be considered merely as human material." One chapter of this work calls man the enemy of historical necessity, because he persists in embracing hope and faith. Its final chapter shows how the fate of the Baltic nations teaches us the failings of what the author calls the "new faith." This work's third chapter is about seven different variations of the practice of disguising one's heterodoxy by feigning orthodoxy, which is known as ketman. It opens with a discussion of Murti-Bing pills, a plot device in the novel Insatiability by Stanisław Witkiewicz. This work's central chapters portray figures who gave in to the Communist state, described as the Moralist, the Disappointed Lover, the Slave of History, and the Troubadour, or Alpha, Beta, Gamma, and Delta. For 10 points, name this nonfiction work by Czesław Miłosz.ANSWER: The Captive Mind [or Zniewolony umysł]18. A minor character in this novel has a name which is a pun on the phrase nihil obstat. That character works for a company which builds a desert in the middle of Ohio. In this novel, a character orders nine steaks at a restaurant as part of his plan to become so fat that he takes up the entire universe. At the end of this novel, an animal dubbed Ugolino the Significant appears on a television show hosted by Reverend Sykes. That animal also goes by the name of Vlad the Impaler. Stonecipheco is working on developing a pineal-gland-based additive for their baby food products, and another company in this novel is the publishing house Frequent and Vigorous, where the main character works as a switchboard operator. For 10 points, name this novel in which Lenore Beadsman searches for her missing great-grandmother, the first novel by David Foster Wallace.ANSWER: The Broom of the System19. This play contains the Wildean line "I had no idea that poets nowadays were interested in literature," spoken by a character who calls Wilde an "Irish Gomorrahist." That character has had a methodical education, resulting in an intimate familiarity with aardvarks, abaci, and abstract art, although politically he hasn't gotten past anarchism. The repetition of the line "I have put the newspapers and telegrams on the sideboard, sir" demonstrates the protagonist's fading memory. One character in this play creates a poem by pulling words from Shakespeare's Sonnet 18 out of a hat. One scene in this play is spoken entirely in limericks, and another scene is a parody of the catechism chapter of Ulysses. This play, set in Zurich, consists of the reminiscences of Henry Carr. For 10 points, name this Tom Stoppard play whose characters include Vladimir Lenin, Tristan Tzara, and James Joyce.
According to this work, the major defect of human material is that "it does not like to be considered merely as human material."
Travesties