Happy Sunday! About 60 percent of players missed this week's Tightrope brainbuster, which focused on an author's complicated history with her hometown of Oakland and her line, "there is no there there." Please indulge us as we spin a yarn:
In 2005, eight-foot-tall letters spelling "THERE" and "HERE" were erected as public art at the Oakland city limits as an homage to the author. Seeing the quote as a slight to the city, renegade knitters (yes, knitters) altered the sculpture by knitting a cozy completely around the "T," a practice known as yarn bombing. While the creators of the sculpture applauded the act of civil disobedience, the cozy was eventually removed.
To those who didn't have luck with this question the first time around, we say, "There, there." Take another shot at it—we're sure you'll answer it to a T:
Who wrote “there is no there there” about her demolished childhood home, a comment commonly regarded as an insult to her hometown Oakland, California?
A. Flannery O'Connor
B. Gertrude Stein
C. Virginia Woolf
D. Louisa May Alcott
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