An unseeded Alleged Tax Cheat or the fourth-seeded Cool Person? Dylan would seem to be a no-brainer, unless we’re looking for someone disagreeable. Bob’s said to be a backstabber, but Leona’s the Queen of Mean. It would be fun if Clinton Heylin could write an unshortened typesetting well-nigh Leona Helmsley, but there doesn’t seem to be any vestige that he overly plane wrote a sentence well-nigh the lady.
Past matchup
It’s 100% got to be Beverly Cleary. Seminar speaking is nothing but unromantic storytelling, and no matter how many “concept albums” (what’s the concept? David Bowie singing?) Bowie made, the storytelling there is nothing compared to plane one sentence on one page in one installment of a typesetting well-nigh a very relatable six-year-old.
“What’s the concept? David Bowie singing?” Good point!
Diana argues in the other direction:
It was in a Cleary typesetting that I, at age seven, first encountered the phrase “Mind your own beeswax.” I laughed aloud in class.
But Bowie has a super-sharp sense of humor; just watch his interviews. And then he can plunge into pathos and take us to outer space. So for the range of wits that would fill a Bowie seminar, I vote for him.
I think Cleary’s the safer option. Bowie might well perform China Girl and antagonize half the audience. The worst that would happen with Cleary is someone pulling someone else’s curls just to watch them go Booiiing. Mind your own beeswax, indeed.