This man wrote that “The heart is full” and “the world is void,” in a hymn entitled “Longing for Death.” For 10 points, name this German poet who wrote Hymns to the Night.

Novalis

his man opened a hymn with the question, “Before all the wondrous shows of the widespread space around him, what living, sentient thing loves not the all-joyous light?” A more characteristic hymn by this man opens with the questions, (*) “Must the morning always return?

Novalis

This son of a salt mine inspector falls in love with a twelve year old girl who loses her hair when she suffers from a fatal cancer in a novel by Penelope Fitzgerald.

Novalis

In one work by this author, a frame story set in the frozen world of Arcturus details the defeat of an evil scribe by Sophie, Eros, and Fable. That story is told by a man the protagonist sees a picture of himself with in an unfinished book written by a hermit, and the protagonist of that work falls in love with a girl whose face he dreams in a blue flower, Mathilde

Novalis

He wrote, “Afar lies the world, sunk in a deep grave; waste and lonely is its place” to address the melancholy created in him by the death of his fiancée (*) Sophie von Kuhn.

Novalis

Name this author of the novel Heinrich von Ofterdingen. A poem from a six-part collection by this author asks “Will the despotism of the Earth never cease?”

Novalis

This poet who promoted “magical idealism” wrote much of his work while director of the Saxony salt mines. A 13th-century Minnesinger (“MIN-uh-zing-er”) goes spelunking and searches for a blue flower in a fragmentary novel by this author.

Novalis

Karl Popper’s epigraph to The Logic of Scientific Discovery is the quotation “Theories are nets: Only he who casts will catch” by this German romantic philosopher, a “magical realist” whose other works include Fichte Studies.

Novalis

Name this German philosopher who called for a renewal of European cosmopolitanism after Martin Luther's schism in "Christianity or Europe." His notes for an encyclopedia, Das Allgemeine Brouillon, describe his "magical idealism."

Novalis

He has the words “be my guardian spirit” engraved on a ring that he gives to his (*) fiance. A novel about this real-life character begins with his friend Jacob Dietmahler visiting his house on washing day.

Novalis

This poet of “Aubade” wrote a poem describing how “man hands on misery to man,” and advising the reader to not “have any kids yourself.” For 10 points, name this librarian and poet, who wrote “This Be the Verse.”

Philip Larkin

his poet described death as “The anaesthetic from which none come round” in a poem parodying a medieval French form.

Philip Larkin

This author used a line from Robert Louis Stevenson’s poem “Requiem” to title a poem about people who (*) “half the time were soppy-stern” or “at one another’s throats.”

Philip Larkin

This author loudly says “Here endeth” in a poem about “A serious house on serious earth.”

Philip Larkin

This author noted, “time has transfigured them into untruth,” in a poem about an (*) “earl and countess” who “lie in stone” that concludes “what will survive of us is love.” This poet’s collection High Windows includes a poem describing a misery that “deepens like a coastal shelf.”

Philip Larkin

The speaker stands "plain as a wardrobe" as dawn arrives and postmen begin to go "from house to house" in a late-period poem by this author that opens, "I work (*) all day, and get half-drunk at night." Another poem by this author of "Sad Steps" describes a period "between the end of the Chatterley ban / And the Beatles' first LP.

Philip Larkin

Name this British poet who described a place “not worth stopping for” in “Church Going.” Another poem by this author describes figures who “fill you with the faults they had / And add some extra, just for you.”

Philip Larkin

In one work, this poet describes a crowd whose “thick tongues blort” and whose “eyes squeeze grief”. This poet of “Faith Healing” describes the waning influence of the Church in another poem in which the speaker says “Here endeth” too loudly.

Philip Larkin

The speaker of a poem by this author declares “oh hell, only the young can be alone freely” after receiving an invitation to a “crowd of craps” from a man named (*) Warlock-Williams.

Philip Larkin

This poet of "Toads" described "everyone young going down the long slide to happiness, endlessly," in a poem that begins by imagining a girl "taking pills or wearing a diaphragm."

Philip Larkin

The poems of this movement were the subject of the essay “Black Orpheus.” For 10 points, name this movement that included the Senegalese poet Léopold Senghor

Negritude

An essay about this movement asks what you were “hoping for” when “you removed the gag… keeping these [mouths] shut.” A founder of this movement wrote Discourse on Colonialism: Aimé Césaire

Negritude

The phrase (*) “at the end of daybreak” recurs throughout a long poem from this movement that mentions a statue of Empress Josephine. In a play from this movement, a slave renames himself “X” and rebels against Prospero in a postcolonial reimagining of The Tempest.

Negritude

The poem “Hiccups” is part of this movement, as is a poem in which a soldier entreats “Let me remember my dead!” before joining his comrades to defend a city.

Negritude

Leading members of this movement met at the Clamart (“klah-MAR”) apartment of a group of three sisters. A member of this movement imagined “firm-fleshed ripe fruit sombre raptures / of ... wine” in a poem about a “naked woman” included in his collection (*) Shadow Songs.

Negritude

One author that was part of it abhorred the “attitude of the hyperassimilated” in “Blanchi,” a work from his collection Pigments.

Negritude

A poem from this literary movement repeats the lines “Talk about calamity / Talk about disasters / I’ll tell you” before relating how the speaker’s mother tried to make him more cultured.

Negritude

It includes a poem that several times calls a town “inert” and repeats the line (*) “At the end of daybreak.” A collection by a member of this movement has a name translating as Shackles.

Negritude

Gisele Pineau's writings are associated with a Caribbean offshoot of this literary movement, whose founder described his return to the Antilles in a Notebook of a Return to the Native Land.

Negritude

Name this literary movement co-founded by Leon Damas, which included works like “Midnight Elegy.” Another of its founders produced Notebook of a Return to the Native Land.

Negritude

This author created a character who consoles another by telling them that they could’ve been “head president, head king, or even head doctor.” A play by this author ends as nonsensical letters are scribbled on a blackboard by a deaf-mute character. Two couples shout “it’s not that way, it’s over here!” as the (*) lights goout to conclude an “anti-play” by this author.

Ionesco

In a play by this writer, a man declares that he does not "like the months of the year" after he is asked to imitate February. A character created by this writer tells the story of a calf who eats too much glass and has to give birth.

Ionesco

Unlike the Logician, Jean, and Daisy, Bérenger refuses to turn into one of the title creatures of a play by this author. For 10 points, name this playwright of The Bald Soprano and Rhinoceros.

Ionesco

Two plays by this author, which share the record for the longest-running continuous performance at one theater, have been shown since 1957 at the Huchette ("hoo-SHETT") Theater.

Ionesco

In this man’s first play, a maid claims to be Sherlock Holmes, a clock is seen chiming seventeen, and a fireman causes consternation by asking about the title character, who is described as ‘still styling her hair the same way’.

Ionesco

In another work by this man, a poet murders a detective while another man is force-fed stale bread, while in another, mushrooms spring up throughout an apartment thanks to an (*) expanding corpse.

Ionesco

This playwright, who followed (+) Jack, or Obedience with The Future is in Eggs, created a character who impresses her teacher by naming all four seasons, but the teacher is upset that she can add and multiply but not subtract; that teacher ignores her toothache and (*) stabs her to death.

Ionesco

In another of his works, a man drowns people after offering to show them “a picture of the colonel,” and in yet another, Jean declares, “Humanism is dead.

Ionesco

An old (*) couple commits suicide by defenestrating themselves one of his plays, and in another of his plays the Fire Chief solves the great doorbell debate.

Ionesco

In one of this author’s plays, a character scratches his head “like Stan Laurel” when asked to “imitate the month of February” by a woman he calls Semiramis. At the end of one of this author’s plays, the line “it’s not that way, it’s over here!” is repeated by the cast at increasing speeds after the stage goes dark.

Ionesco

This author imagined the life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s (*) dog in Flush, and wrote a novella whose title character writes The Oak Tree, lives from the Elizabethan era to 1928, and changes from a man to a woman.

Virginia Woolf

This author imagined the exploitative theater owner (*) Nick Greene in an essay that analyzes the sentence“Chloe liked Olivia” and advocates androgyny. Judith Shakespeare is doomed by a lack of education in an essay by this author that argues that women need the title Room of One's Own to write.

Virginia Woolf

An obnoxious philosophy student created by this author named Charles Tansley repeats the phrase “Women can’t write, women can’t paint.”

Virginia Woolf

The narrator of a story by this author critiques Nature’s “old game of self-preservation” while thinking on the philosophy behind the Table of Precedency in Whitaker’s Almanac. In the collection Two Stories, another author’s story “Three Jews” was paired with that story by this author, which ends with someone complaining about “a snail on our wall.”

Virginia Woolf

. In Suppose a Sentence, Brian Dillon analyzes a 181-word-long sentence by this author about the “undiscovered countries” disclosed when “the lights of health go down.”

Virginia Woolf

An experimental story by this author alternates focus between the comments of four passing couples and the struggles of a snail to inch past a leaf in a flower bed. For 10 points, name this modernist author of the stories “The Legacy” and “Kew Gardens,” better known for creating Septimus Smith and Lily Briscoe.

Virginia Woolf

A woman says this author’s name three times as part of a joke she heard at a party, which substitutes this author’s name into a nursery rhyme. At the end of a play, a woman replies “I am” when asked a question about this author by her husband George.

Virginia Woolf

In an interview, a playwright recalled seeing this author’s name written in soap scum on a mirror in a saloon off (*) Greenwich (“GREN-itch”) Avenue.

Virginia Woolf

Michael Cunningham’s novel The Hours profiles a character created by this author whose “most exquisite moment” at Bourton was her kiss with (*) Sally Seton.

Virginia Woolf

This author of (*) “Kew Gardens” described a famous character of hers “On Bond Street” in one story. An essay by this author examines the sentence “Chloe liked Olivia” and describes a theater manager that causes Judith Shakespeare to commit suicide. For 10 points, name this author of “A Room of One’s Own.”

Virginia Woolf

The engoma type of this instrument is sometimes used in a therapeutic (#) ceremony called Zebola in the Congo region. The Malinke people play one of these instruments that is goblet-shaped and tuned by thin ropes called the (*) djembe [jem-bay].

drums

The tar is a version of this instrument with a single head played without any tools.

drums

A five-movement orchestral work by a composer from this country uses an arch form with its third movement “Elegia” acting as the keystone.

Hungary

Another composer from this country used micropolyphony in his pieces Atmospheres and Lux Aeterna, both of which feature in 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Hungary

A composer from this country used his style of (*) “night music” in the opening of a work that also contains a “Game of Pairs” movement. That work, a Concerto for Orchestra, was written by a composer from this country who also wrote the opera Duke Bluebeard’s Castle.

Hungary

This composer quoted the folk tune “Grandfather’s Dance” in the eleventh movement of his piano suite Papillons. “Of Foreign Lands and Peoples” is the first of his Scenes from Childhood. For 10 points, name this German composer of Carnaval and the “Rhenish” symphony.

Robert Schumann

This composer’s piano work “Estrella” was inspired by his ex-fiancée Ernestine von Fricken. That work is part of a series by this composer that includes the characters (*) Florestan and Eusebius.

Robert Schumann

This composer set music to one (#) poem for each letter of the alphabet in his song collection Myrtles. A “wine song” is played during the scherzo of this man’s third symphony.

Robert Schumann

In 2022, the clear (#) “doughnut” rings on this building’s ceiling were replaced by 18 reflectors resembling flower petals, painted magenta to match Peter Hall’s seat upholstery. Engineer Ove Arup [oh-VAY ARE-up] used conic sections to model this building’s roof, whose tiling was inspired by Japanese ceramics.

Sydney Opera House

This building’s “Spherical Solution” was allegedly inspired by an architect (*) peeling an orange. A proscenium theater in this building is named for Joan Sutherland.

Sydney Opera House

This composer of Symphonia Domestica and the biographical Hero’s Life wrote a tone poem which begins with a rising “C G C” in the trumpets representing sunrise and was used in the film 2001: A Space Odyssey. For 10 points, name this German composer of Also sprach Zarathustra.

Richard Strauss

In a work by (#) this composer, a clock chime cues the finale fugue that weaves together the themes of the Child, Mother, and Father. An expansive E-flat major arpeggio in horns and strings opens another work by this composer that later uses a sinister theme of parallel fifths played by tubas to represent Doktor Dehring.

Richard Strauss

Two identical versions of these objects make up Felix Gonzalez-Torres’ Perfect Lovers. An (#) artist created a “Disintegration” of an earlier painting that prominently features these objects, including an orange one at the bottom left covered in ants.

Clocks

Fine gold and silver detailing characterize a “Banarasi” product made of this material from the (#) city of Varanasi. The “peace” or ahimsa form of this material is produced by delaying the boiling step of its production.

Silk

It’s not ink or paper, but this material was used in a work that depicts a boat nearly crashing on the Rainbow Bridge titled (*) Along the River During the Qingming (“ching-ming”) Festival.

Silk

A technique named for this material was used to print nearly identical images for series like the Marilyn Diptych and Campbell’s Soup Cans by Andy Warhol

silk

Haydn's C major (#) concerto for this instrument was rediscovered in 1961. Luigi Boccherini played this instrument, as did Hanuš Wihan (“HA-noosh WE-han”), who played a cadenza on this instrument in a B minor concerto by Dvořak.

Cello

An ascending [read slowly] G D B opens a suite composed for this instrument; that suite for this instrument begins with a prelude consisting mostly of (*) arpeggiated chords.

Cello

Six suites for this instrument by Johann Sebastian Bach were famously recorded by Pablo Casals.

Cello

In a painting by this artist housed in the San Luigi dei Francesi, an angel visits a man in orange robes as he is hunched over writing.

Caravaggio

An elderly Abra stands next to Judith as she beheads Holofernes in a painting allegedly by this artist. Two paintings by this artist depicting an “Inspiration” and a “Martyrdom” are in the (*) Contarelli Chapel.

Caravaggio

This artist employed the tenebrist style in a painting in which Jesus reveals himself to Luke and Cleopas during the Supper at Emmaus.

Caravaggio

In one of this man's (#) works Michele kills Luigi and hides his body to show Giorgetta, and in another work Simone, conspires with the title figure to inherit Buoso's money.

Puccini

Besides Il tabarro and Gianni Schicchi, he included the aria "Non piangere, Liù" in a work about a Chinese princess who beheads most suitors, and this man wrote arias such as "O mio babbino caro" and "Nessun dorma"

Puccini

in one of his operas Rodolfo loves the dying seamstress Mimi, and in another, Ciao Ciao San kills herself after meeting Pinkerton's American wife. For 10 points, identify this composer of La Boheme

Puccini

Three walls of an exhibit hall in this country were decorated with a motif including a femme fatale in three-quarter profile representing Lasciviousness and depictions of Typhon and his daughters by an artist who later taught the painter of Portrait of Wally.

Austria

The magazine Ver Sacrum was produced by an art movement from this country, also the birthplace of an artist who depicted himself staring into space while his mistress, a (*) composer's widow, sleeps next to him

Austria

Egon Schiele and Bride of the Wind painter Oskar Kokoschka were from this country. An artist from this country painted multiple portraits of Adele Bloch-Bauer that, like his The Kiss, make heavy use of gold leaf.

Austria

The Spanish drama Don Alvaro o la fuerza del sino served as the basis for this composer's opera "The Force of Destiny." One of this man's operas contains a chorus calling thought to fly "on wings of gold" and is titled in Italian as "Va, pensiero.

Verdi

This composer’s (*) “Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves” appears in his opera Nabucco, and in another opera by this man the title character exclaims “La maledizione!” after hearing another character whistle an aria about “fickle women.”

Verdi

The Duke of Mantua sings “La Donna e Mobile” in an opera by this composer whose title character fears a curse. For 10 points, name this Italian who penned an opera about a jester in Rigoletto.

Verdi

This work contains five themes, (#) none of which end with a clear cadence, according to David Schiff, whose analysis of this work also asserts that Ravel imitated a section of its “Ritornello” theme in his Piano Concerto in G.

Rhapsody In Blue

This works finale opens with a four-bar “leggiero” section, after which the pianist switches hands and a section marked “agitato e misterioso” begins. It was premiered by the Palais Royale Orchestra at the Aeolian Hall under the direction of Paul (*) Whiteman.

Rhapsody In Blue

This composition was orchestrated by Ferde Grofé, though its most famous passage was improvised by Ross Gorman. Opening with a trill followed by a 17-note clarinet glissando, this is, for 10 points, which train-ride-inspired composition

Rhapsody In Blue

This athlete often referred to Mike Vanderjagt [“van-der-YAHT”] as the “idiot kicker” after he accused their coach of being too mild-mannered. This athlete’s career is often contrasted with the Chargers quarterback drafted one pick after him who is regarded as the “greatest bust in NFL history;” that quarterback was Ryan Leaf.

Peyton Manning

This author included a satirical list of arguments advocating slavery in one work, while in another he endorsed the idea of a female head of state. (#) In another work, this man popularized the idea that climate has a material affect on the temperaments of the people who live in it, leading him to the conclusion that Middle Europeans were the ideal people.

Montesquieu

This lake contains Grand Island, and it borders the 12-acre Glensheen Historic Estate. County Road 12, often nicknamed the Gunflint Trail, was built (#) to lead travelers to this lake.

Lake Superior

The Gooseberry Falls State Park, near the city of Two Harbors, borders this lake.

Lake Superior

The Ontonagon River flows into, while the (*) St. Mary’s River drains this lake, whose largest island is Isle Royale.

Lake Superior

This character foils a mother's plan to remove her blindfold and make (#) her son's body strong as iron by instructing the son to cover up his privates.

Krishna

This character essentially demands that his half-sister Subhadra be kidnapped and married. This character threatens Bhishma with a carriage-wheel, very nearly breaking his vow never to raise a weapon.

Krishna

An appendix known as the Harivamsa relates the infancy of this god, who is relocated, along with his fairer-skinned brother (*) Balarama, from the womb of Devaki to that of Rohini. This god, who steals butter and consorts with the gopi girl Radha, serves as the charioteer for a Pandava prince whom he reminds of his warrior duty.

Krishna

Many Buddhists believe that the first day of this holiday is the birthday of the Maitreya, although the seventh day is more generally held to be the birthday of all mankind.

Chinese New Year

The kitchen god is often “bribed” with sweet offerings during the days leading up to it, during which great house-cleanings are also undertaken to sweep away bad luck.

Chinese New Year

n modern times, the (*) CCTV Gala is broadcast four hours before the beginning of this holiday, after families observe the annual reunion dinner.

Chinese New Year

In a story about this concept, a goddess helps weave 300 rolls of cloth within a month. One character was rewarded for exemplifying this concept by animals spontaneously dragging his plow.

Filial Piety

A text named for this concept asserts that not damaging one's body, hair, and skin exemplifies it. A “classic” of this concept is a dialogue between (*) Zengzi and his teacher.

Filial Piety

A Donald Justice poem describes a painting created by (#) a person living in one of these locations that shows children playing with leopards and houses at unexpected angles.

Insane Asylums

Gary Oldman starred as Emmet Foley in the 1989 movie Chattahoochee, which examines conditions at one of these locations. Etienne-Jean Georget commissioned Theodore Gericault to create a series of paintings of residents of one of these places, Saltpetriere

Insane Asylums

The Peter Weiss play Marat/Sade depicts a performance at one of these places directed by Marquis de Sade. The word ‘bedlam’ is derived from the name of one of the earliest of these locations.

Insane Asylums

This number partly identifies a logical law from the book Foundations of Arithmetic which creates a "course-of-values" for functions. The failure of that "Basic Law" of this number by Gottlob Frege inspired Russell's paradox.

5

As initially proposed by Philippa Foot, this is the number (#) of people who would be saved if the switch is flipped in the "trolley problem." A famous set of this many arguments includes an argument from degree, an argument for a (*) "first cause," and a teleological argument.

5

This many "Ways" of proving God's existence were proposed by Thomas Aquinas. Plato's Timaeus defines aether as the classical element of this number.

5

The Herfindahl Index calculates how well this condition is being met in an industry.

Competiton

Prices and allocations must satisfy rationality and feasibility in Walrasian equilibrium, which is also called this kind of equilibrium. One type of this phenomenon involves a multitude of firms whose products are not perfect substitutes, which is known as this phenomenon's (*) monopolistic variety.

Competition

Another form of this state contains price-taking firms that are free to enter and exit the market. Antitrust laws promote, for 10 points, what economic state whose "perfect" form is characterized by many identical sellers who lower their price to marginal cost to attract buyers?

Competition

Bhima fought on this deity's behalf after he challenged Jarasandha to a duel. This deity lifted the Govardhana hill to protect a village from a destructive thunderstorm.

Krishna

After defeating his evil uncle Kamsa, this deity reinstated Ugrasena as the king of the Yadavas. A human pyramid was used to steal (*) butter by this deity, the eighth child born to Devaki and Vasudeva.

This word names a (#) field of linguistics that relates the “cooperative principles” to maxims of “quantity” and “quality”. This word names a philosophical maxim that relates the “third grade of clearness of apprehension” to effects of a conception. H.P. Grice’s work on implicature underlines a linguistic subfield known by this name, which studies the role of context in producing meaning.

Pragmatism

Neo-” precedes the name of this school of philosophy in a style of thought pioneered by Richard Rorty, which built upon a school of thought that focused on the (*) “cash value” of ideas.“

Pragmatism

A new name for some old ways of thinking” is the subtitle of a book of this name by William James. For 10 points, Charles Sanders Peirce and John Dewey pioneered what “practical” school of philosophy?

Pragmatism

A liturgy that syncretizes this god (#) with Helios was translated by Albert Dietrich and contains a magical invocation for achieving immortality. It’s not Orpheus, but temples to this deity often contain a lion-headed depiction of the time god Aion.

Mithras

Worshippers of this god called themselves “those joined by the handshake.” This god is often accompanied by two figures who hold torches pointing up and down. Worshippers of this deity often re-enacted this god’s banquet with (*) Sol.

Mithras

Worshippers of this god called themselves “those joined by the handshake.” This god is often accompanied by two figures who hold torches pointing up and down. Worshippers of this deity often re-enacted this god’s banquet with (*) Sol.

Mithras

Augmented Dickey-Fuller unit root tests (#) are commonly used to examine persistence in this economic statistic in Europe, such as in a June 2020 working paper by Jordi Gali which proposes policies to alleviate "insider-outsider" markets. Olivier Blanchard and Larry Summers explained such persistence in this statistic via hysteresis.

Unemployment

Leading New Keynesian theories hold that volatility in this non-monetary statistic is limited by nominal price rigidity, which is a form of (*) stickiness. It's plotted against the vacancy rate on a Beveridge Curve.

Unemployment

Keeping this statistic near its "natural rate" and as low as sustainably possible is part of the "dual mandate" of the Federal Reserve. Cyclical, structural, and frictional changes drive most fluctuations in, for 10 points, what statistic that measures the jobless rate?

Unemployment

William Wrede (#) (“READ”) argued that this book contains a recurring “Messianic Secret” motif to justify early Christian theological beliefs.

Mark

This text originally ended with the discovery of Jesus’s empty tomb, thus including none of Jesus’s post-resurrection appearances. Because this text’s author is credited with establishing the Church of Alexandria, he is considered the founder of the Coptic Church.

Mark

Due to its ending and other peculiarities, many scholars believe this text is the earliest of the synoptic gospels. For 10 points, name this book of the New Testament,

Mark

The Yasuni-ITT initiative was proposed to protect a region in this country. Almost all balsa wood in the world comes from this country, including the wood in Kon-Tiki.

Ecuador

. This country’s largest island is Isabela, which lies on a hotspot near the edge of the Nazca Plate. This country contains Mount Cotopaxi, and its Mount (*) Chimborazo is the (#) farthest point on Earth’s surface from its center

Ecuador

Isaac H. Bonsall took a photo of several soldiers from this conflict standing (#) in front of Lulah Falls. The duo McPherson & Oliver took a widely circulated photo of the "scourged back" of a man named Gordon during this conflict.

American Civil War

A photographer of this conflict likely moved bodies into more dramatic poses to make better photographs, including one showing the "home" of a sharpshooter. A man best known for documenting this conflict (*) took credit for the works of field journalists Egbert Guy Fox and Timothy O'Sullivan.

American Civil War

A 1985 book (#) by Kenneth E. Hagin is titled for "How God Taught Me About [This Quality]." In a parable from Luke, a "fool" with this quality proclaims, "I have no place to store my crops." It's not youth, but a man with this quality asks Jesus about how to acquire eternal life, but goes away "sorrowful."

Wealth

Kenneth Copeland argued that this quality could be increased "a hundredfold" by contributing (*) "first fruits" to the church. Matthew 19:24 ("Chapter 19, Verse 24") compares the difficulty of a person with this quality "[entering] the kingdom of God" to "a camel to go through the eye of a needle."

Wealth

Kenneth Copeland argued that this quality could be increased "a hundredfold" by contributing (*) "first fruits" to the church. Matthew 19:24 ("Chapter 19, Verse 24") compares the difficulty of a person with this quality "[entering] the kingdom of God" to "a camel to go through the eye of a needle."

Alma