HouseAuthors, please enter the Diary Room and record your vote for decapitation.

Kafka: As this first set of challenges has shown, Leo could be a great threat to my victory. I vote to decapitate him.

Molière: I vote to decapitate Leo Tolstoy. No hard feelings, my friend. It’s just that Charles’ antics amuse me so.

Rossetti: Charles Baudelaire, if you weren’t already sure of who I would be voting for.

Sor Juana: Mr. Baudelaire must go. Simple.

Tagore: The way Leo acted in the first debate was deplorable. He should go.

Woolf: Christina, Sor Juana, and I have all agreed to vote together. Therefore, my vote goes to Charles Baudelaire.

Xun: Charles makes me laugh, while Leo’s morbidity is fairly plain. Leo Tolstoy it is then.

FINAL VOTE COUNT:

• Leo Tolstoy: 4
• Charles Baudelaire: 3

HOUSEAUTHOR DECAPITATED: LEO TOLSTOY