The Booklovers Lyrics by Divine Comedy, The

The Booklovers Lyrics

    "this book deals with epiphenomenalism, which has to do with consciousness as a mere accessory of physiological processes whose presence or absence... makes no difference... whatever are yo
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    Aphra benn: hello
    Cervantes: donkey
    Daniel defoe: to christen the day!
    Samuel richardson: hello
    Henry fielding: tittle-tattle tittle-tattle...
    Lawrence sterne: hello
    Mary wolstencraft: vindicated!
    Jane austen: here i am!
    Sir walter scott: we're all doomed!
    Leo tolstoy: yes!
    Honoré de balzac: oui...
    Edgar allen poe: aaaarrrggghhhh!
    Charlotte brontë: hello...
    Emily brontë: hello...
    Anne brontë: hellooo..?
    Nikolai gogol: vas chi
    Gustav flaubert: oui
    William makepeace thackeray: call me 'william makepeace thackeray'
    Nathaniel hawthorne: the letter 'a'
    Herman melville: ahoy there!
    Charles dickens: london is so beautiful this time of year...
    Anthony trollope: good-good-good-good evening!
    Fyodor dostoevsky: here come the sleepers...
    Mark twain: i can't even spell 'mississippi'!
    George eliot: george reads german
    Emile zola: j'accuse
    Henry james: howdy miss wharton!
    Thomas hardy: ooo-arrr!
    Joseph conrad: i'm a bloody boring writer...
    Katherine mansfield: [cough cough]
    Edith wharton: well hello, mr james!
    Dh lawrence: never heard of it
    Em forster: never heard of it!

    Happy the man, and happy he alone who in all honesty can call today his own;
    He who has life and strength enough to say 'yesterday's dead & gone - i want to live today'

    James joyce: hello there!
    Virginia woolf: i'm losing my mind!
    Marcel proust: je me'en souviens plus
    F scott fitzgerald: baa bababa baa
    Ernest hemingway: i forgot the....
    Hermann hesse: oh es ist alle so häßlich
    Evelyn waugh: whoooaarr!
    William faulkner: tu connait william faulkner?
    Anaïs nin: the strand of pearls
    Ford maddox ford: any colour, as long as it's black!
    Jean-paul sartre: let's go to the dome, simone!
    Simone de beauvoir: c'est exact present
    Albert camus: the beach... the beach
    Franz kafka: what do you want from me?!
    Thomas mann: mam
    Graham greene: call me 'pinky', lovely
    Jack kerouac: me car's broken down...
    William s burroughs: wowwww!

    Happy the man, and happy he alone who in all honesty can call today his own;
    He who has life and strength enough to say 'yesterday's dead & gone - i want to live today'

    Kingsley amis: [cough]
    Doris lessing: i hate men!
    Vladimir nabokov: hello, little girl...
    William golding: achtung busby!
    Jg ballard: instrument binnacle
    Richard brautigan: how are you doing?
    Milan kundera: i don't do interviews
    Ivy compton burnett: hello...
    Paul theroux: have a nice day!
    G¨¹nter grass: i've found snails!
    Gore vidal: oh, it makes me mad!
    John updike: run rabbit, run rabbit, run, run, run...
    Kazuro ishiguro: ah so, old chap!
    Malcolm bradbury: stroke john steinbeck, stroke jd salinger
    Iain banks: too orangey for crows!
    As byatt: nine tenths of the law, you know...
    Martin amis: [burp]
    Brett easton ellis: aaaaarrrggghhh!
    Umberto eco: i don't understand this either...
    Gabriel garcia marquez: mi casa es su casa
    Roddy doyle: ha ha ha!
    Salman rushdie: names will live forever...

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