We’re down to sixteen literary badasses, and the choices are getting more brutal each week.
This week we’ll be narrowing down the Sweet Sixteen to the Elite Eight, with two polls per day. Like always, I’m holding the results until Friday, because I am pure evil, with a side of unicorn.
Today you’ll be deciding between Scout Finch and Pippi Longstocking in the YA Literary Fiction category, and Elizabeth Bennett is going against Antigone in the Adult Literary Fiction category. Who will win? I’ll know tomorrow, but the rest of you have to wait until Friday. Mwahahahah.
16 replies on “Middlemarch Madness II: Voting Day 9”
Vote Lizzie! Smart, classy, good sense of humor, willing to grow and change her opinions as warranted without ever compromising her sense of right and wrong. She’s a winner!
ANTIGONE REPRESENT Y’HURR
(it amuses me to imagine ancient Greek playwrights rapping. I leave you with that thought.)
out’ en toisin et, oute toisin metoikos, ou zósin, ou thanousin.
I think some rap could be made of that.
I am not exaggerating when I say “that’s hot.”
Be told – an Ancient Greek degree brings all the boys and girls to the yard.
In my experience, this is completely true. I got my now-husband’s attention by singing karaoke, but I got his heart (and his pants) by quoting dirty Latin love poetry to him.
My ex-boyfriend was “Eos rhododactylos” for a while. We liked the implications.
I’m still mad at Antigone for beating Marjane. Â What is up with that, y’all??? Â And also – Elizabeth Bennett is kinda freakin’ awesome!
And I voted for Pippi because I think Scout is just ok.
I was Marjane over Antigone, but now I have to support Greek awesomeness. Such is the downfall of simple plurality.
I think I may rue the moment I thought this was easy.
I’ll vote for anyone who isn’t Elizabeth Bennet. She was self-righteous and irritating, and I’m confused about why her character is considered appealing to anyone.
Wait. Do I also have to consider Elizabeth Bennet in ‘Pride and Prejudice and Zombies’…? I didn’t hate her quite so much in that book!
THANK YOU!
I feel the same way about her.
For shame, I only know this Antigone by name.
First choice was easy as pie as well, of course. I am proud of my Pippi.
Antigone in a nutshell: “You may be the king, and my future father-in-law, but you are wrong and I am right. And when you condemn me to death by live burial just for doing what is right, I will scorn your sentence and hang myself. Like a boss.“
Well. Well, well Antigone.
Also, one’s siblings are more important than one’s children. Because one can always have more children, but siblings are a finite resource.