The Great Lie: A Weekend Contest
Skidmore Professor Flagg Taylor has so graciously offered up two copies of his new book The Great Lie (which Peter highly recommends here, and Professor Taylor discusses here) for Ricochet's weekend contest.
The Prompt:
Your submission may address either of the following prompts:
- What fictional character or historical figure reveals the most about the totalitarian temptation and/or the possibility of overcoming it?
- You are the Director of the new Museum of Totalitarianism. You have to write the copy for a new brochure that will be mailed out announcing the museum's opening. How do you convince people to spend an afternoon visiting the museum?
The Rules:
The contest is open to all Members and College Contributors. In 500 words or less, address the prompt in a post on the Member Feed or College Feed. Be sure to indicate (either in the title or in the first line of the post) that your post is a submission in Ricochet's weekend contest. Submissions must be posted by 11:59pm ET on Sunday, September 25. You may submit multiple entries for consideration.
The Judges:
A panel of four judges will determine the first and second place submissions. Originality, quality of discussion prompted by your submission (as evidenced by the comments), writing style, and whether or not your submission addressed the prompt will all be taken into account.
The Prize:
Authors of the first and second place submissions, as deemed by the judges, will win a signed copy of The Great Lie. Winners will be announced Monday.
Best of luck!
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Jan '11
Re: The Great Lie: A Weekend Contest
For totalitarian temptation and/or the possibility of overcoming it, I nominate Colonel Walter E. Kurtz
The metaphor is even more contemporaneous now.
Sep '10
Re: The Great Lie: A Weekend Contest
Since the submission may be 500 words, I assume we're allowed to use multiple posts to constitute one entry?
Jul '10
Re: The Great Lie: A Weekend Contest
Homework? Y'all have now conspired to give Us homework? The tuition is so low I never expected....
Jun '10
Re: The Great Lie: A Weekend Contest
We probably should be rewarded with two loaves of coarse rye bread, a kilo of horse meat, and two liters of vodka.
Jul '10
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I don't think Diane is asking for comments on this thread kitty. I think she's soliciting posts in the member feed.
Aug '10
Re: The Great Lie: A Weekend Contest
Darn it. I got the book in the UPS today and the suspect should be Elizabeth Warren contemporaneously. And responding to Etoiledunord boobieprize, consider the horse butchers in Le Marais and some bottles of Bordeaux.-Rousseau.
as for the invitation, the food will be exquisite, the wine beyond compare, the servants young and beautiful and those who are absent will remain thus.
Edited on September 24, 2011 at 3:42amOct '10
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Add some cheese, tomatoes. The whole thing will work out to something like the old story on how to make stone soup. Recall that ?
Re: The Great Lie: A Weekend Contest
Palaeo is right. Submit your responses not as comments to this thread, but as unique posts on the Member Feed.
Sep '10
Re: The Great Lie: A Weekend Contest
Palaeologus
I don't think Diane is asking for comments on this thread kitty. I think she's soliciting posts in the member feed. · Sep 23 at 6:35pm
Just to be clear, I was asking procedural questions here so as not to clutter the Member Feed, sort of a virtual FAQ as it were.
Apr '11
Re: The Great Lie: A Weekend Contest
For the sake of the winners, I hope you are more punctilious in fulfilling your promises than that Robinson guy has been with his contest for a mnemonic for battleground states.