Packet F: Tossup 4

This author observed there is “just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another” in an essay of epigrams. Another epigram by this author from that essay, “Thoughts on Various Subjects, Moral and Diverting,” (10[1])provides the title of John Kennedy Toole’s A Confederacy of Dunces. (10[2])This (10[1])author published a mocking elegy for (-5[1])an astrologer whose (-5[1])death he predicted (10[1])under the pseudonym (-5[1])Isaac Bickerstaff. (10[8]-5[3])A (10[2])digression in which (10[1])a bee (-5[1])destroys a spider’s (10[1])web interrupts (10[1])this (10[1])author’s (-5[1])depiction of (-5[1])the Quarrel of the Ancients (10[1])and the Moderns (10[3]-5[2])as a literal conflict (10[2]-5[1])in (10[1])an introduction (10[1])to another work. (-5[1])That work is this author’s “The Battle of the Books,” (10[1])which was published (10[3])with (10[2])A Tale of a Tub. (10[6]-5[1])For (10[1])10 (10[1])points, (10[3])name (10[2])this (10[1])Irish (10[3])author (10[1])who satirically (10[1])argued (10[1])for (10[3])eating (10[1])infants (10[5]-5[1])in (10[2])“A (10[1])Modest (10[3])Proposal.” (10[2]) (10[11]0[4])■END■

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