Re: ICT comments

• From: thefool75 <no_reply_at_yahoogroups.com>
• Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 04:54:41 -0000
• Message-ID: <b72teh+42nv_at_...>

Yeah, but how many other novels begin with a "vacation" in Bath-
-actually maybe a fair amount, that was the only reason to go to 
Bath--but how many began that way?  As for Finnish composers, 
I was going to point out that Avro Part is part of the concert 
repertoire--but wait, he was Estonian; ok, I'm getting tired...

--- In quizbowl_at_yahoogroups.com, "Adam Kemezis" <
kemezis_at_y...> wrote:
> I think I'm sort of agreeing with Nathan on this one, but I think 
> there's a couple of situations we have to distinguish, and 
they're 
> really pretty different.
> 
> One is:
> "...set in Bath..."
> 
> This is simply not an exclusive clue, there's no good reason it 
should 
> show up more often for "Northanger Abbey" than for 
"Persuasion" or 
> "Pickwick Papers," and there's presumably any number of 
alternatives I 
> haven't thought of off the top of my head. I don't actually know 
the 
> plot of "Northanger Abbey" and it's quite possible that more of it 
> takes place in Bath than the other two, but you can see what 
sort of 
> clue I'm getting at. There are some things where the quiz bowl 
canon 
> somehow takes certain bits of information as exclusive when 
in the rest 
> of the world they aren't. Of course people then start buzzing on 
these 
> clues, and the thing then becomes self-perpetuating. Such 
questions are 
> legitimate but poorly written.
>