Key: A minor
Verse 1
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"This book deals with epiphenomenalism, which has to do with consciousness as a mere accessory
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of physiological processes whose presence or absence... makes no difference... whatever are you doing?"
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Aphra
Verse 2
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Benn: Hello
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Daniel Defoe: To christen the day!
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Samuel Richardson: Hello
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Lawrence Sterne: Hello
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Mary Wolstencraft: Vindicated!
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Jane Austen: Here I am!
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Sir Walter Scott: We're all doomed!
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Leo Tolstoy: Yes!
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Honore de Balzac: Oui...
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Edgar Allen
Poe: Aaaarrrggghhhh!
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Emily Bronte: Hello...
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Anne Bronte: Hellooo..?
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Nikolai Gogol: Vas chi
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Gustav Flaubert: Oui
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William Makepeace Thackeray: Call me
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Herman Melville: Ahoy there!
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Charles Dickens: London is
so beautiful this time of year...
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Anthony Trollope: good- good-
good- good evening!
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Fyodor Dostoevsky: Here
come the sleepers...
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Mark Twain: I can't even spell
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'Mississippi'!
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George Eliot: George reads German
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Emile Zola: J'accuse
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Thomas Hardy: Ooo- arrr!
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Joseph Conrad: I'm a bloody
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boring writer...
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Katherine
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Mansfield: (cough cough)
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DH Lawrence: Never heard of it
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EM Forster: Never heard of it!
Verse 3
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happy he alone who
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in all honesty can call today his own
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He who has life and strength enough to say 'Yesterday's
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dead & gone - I want to live today'
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James
Verse 4
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Virginia Woolf: I'm losing my mind!
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Marcel Proust: Je me'en souviens plus
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F Scott Fitzgerald:
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baa bababa baa
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Ernest Hemingway: I forgot the....
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alle so hasslich
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William Faulkner?
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Anais Nin: The strand of pearls
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Ford Mad dox Ford: Any colour,
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as long as it's black!
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Jean- Paul Sartre:Let's
go to the dome, Simone!
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Simone de
Beauvoir: see'est exact present
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Albert Camus: The
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beach... the beach
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Thomas Mann: Mam
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'pinky', lovely
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car's broken down...
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William S Burroughs: Wowwww!
Verse 5
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Happy the man, and happy he alone who in
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all honesty can call today his own
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He who has life and strength enough to say 'Yesterday's
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dead & gone - I want to live today'
Verse 6
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Kingsley Amis: (cough)
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Doris Lessing: I hate men!
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little girl...
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William Golding: Achtung Busby!
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Richard Brautigan: How
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are you doing?
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do interviews
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Ivy Compton Burnett: Hello...
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Paul Theroux: Have a nice day!
Gunter Grass: I've found snails!
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John Updike: Run rabbit, run rabbit,
run, run, run...
Steinbeck, stroke JD Salinger
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Brett Easton Ellis: Aaaaarrrgggh
Umberto Eco: I don't
Gabriel Garcia Marquez: Mi
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Salman Rushdie: Names
will live forever...
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