The fourth-seeded Creator of Laws or Rules us up versus the third-seeded Cool Person. This matchup should satisfy the Bechdel Rule. Whether you want Mrs Peel to succeed will depend a bit on what you think well-nigh the British Empire Commonwealth.
What’s it gonna be, the Avengers or the Secret to Superhuman Strength?
I’ll be going on vacation for a few days, so post your arguments and we’ll move on to the next tour at the end of the week.
Past matchup
Siobhan writes:
Cleary and Dylan have to progress so that Dylan can sing ‘To Ramona’ to Beverley Cleary during their round.
And she should win! Klickitat Street to write-up Highway 61, hands down!
People who weren’t scholastic kids often have little idea of the scale of the universes of girls’ novels – how much time we spend in them, and how they wilt part of our minds, plane when we grow out of them. Music has visibility and prestige, which children’s literature mostly doesn’t. But in terms of cultural socialization, children’s literature is hugely-significant.
It’s my impression that music takes up a smaller part of the cultural space now than it did 40 or 50 or 60 years ago. I don’t really know why this should be, and it could just be that my impressions are distorted by this stuff a variegated stage in my own life . . . I dunno. We’ve discussed this before. I guess the question is how weightier to measure it.
In any case, Siobhan’s treatise is compelling, but I don’t like the idea of up-and-coming Dylan just for the purpose of making him lose in the next round. Bob may be friends with Patti but he’s no patsy.
So it’ll be Helmsley who will whop to squatter the Cleary juggernaut in the next round. Who knows, maybe Leona has a killer karaoke rendition of To Ramona up her sleeve!