Still, ultimately ACF I suppose more than anything else does not refer to difficulty but rather to true pyramid style academic questions. It would be difficult to write a tossup with Jefferson as the answer in most QB formats without giving away the answer immediately, but in ACF you could begin, His probably platonic love affair with the portraitist Maria Cosway led to his famed My Head and my Heart letter although Faun Brodie in her biography argued that it was actually his heart which won out. And that would be a legit ACF tossup opener. I intend to think in terms of more gettable tossups on packets that I write in the future. I respect and appreciate NAQT, theyre professionally run and a class act. But for the sake of gettability their academic (at least at the sectional level) appears to either be trashy academic, 20th century or heavy on the Americanain other words, I like everything about the organization except for the questions. I dont fault them for that however, theyre producing a commodity which is in demand and Im glad that theyre around as a much better alternative to CBI. Note to Matt Schmeller, I read Borges long before O.Henry and Im sure thats true of many othershes probably the most instant recognizable Latin American author to most I suppose (besides maybe Gabriel Garcia Marquez?). Good post though. To Matt Weiner, Id like to see the literature list which includes Evenings on a Farm Near Didankaall the qb lists that Ive seen so far never go into depth and wouldnt suit more than a novice player. Evenings on a Farm is worthwhile knowledge, it played a similar role in Gogols development to that of Sportsmans Sketches in Turgenevs. My three cents, Nathan
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