The Divine Comedy - 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 Ng?" 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! Honor 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 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...