https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPzS91gGzLM
Authors that were yanked so the poll could meet the maximum 50 noms, but you are free to vote for them as write-ins.
Aphra benn: hello
Samuel richardson: hello
Charlotte brontë: hello...
Emily brontë: hello...
Anne brontë: hellooo..?
Lawrence sterne: hello
James joyce: hello there!
Ivy compton burnett: hello...
Em forster: never heard of it!
Honoré de balzac: oui...
Gustav flaubert: oui
Leo tolstoy: yes!
Thomas mann: mam
Katherine mansfield: [cough cough]
Paul theroux: have a nice day!
Kingsley amis: [cough]
Martin amis: [burp]
Thomas hardy: ooo-arrr!
Nikolai gogol: vas chi
Dh lawrence: never heard of it
Roddy doyle: ha ha ha!
Richard brautigan: how are you doing?
William s burroughs: wowwww!
Going with Kafka!
Poll Results
| Option | Votes |
| Edgar allen poe: aaaarrrggghhhh! | 1 |
| Vladimir nabokov: hello, little girl... | 1 |
| Herman melville: ahoy there! | 1 |
| Virginia woolf: I’m losing my mind! | 1 |
| Jean-paul sartre: let’s go to the dome, simone! | 1 |
| Franz kafka: what do you want from me?! | 0 |
| Graham greene: call me ’pinky’, lovely | 0 |
| Albert camus: the beach... the beach | 0 |
| Jack kerouac: me car’s broken down... | 0 |
| Doris lessing: I hate men! | 0 |
| Simone de beauvoir: c’est exact present | 0 |
| William golding: achtung busby! | 0 |
| Jg ballard: instrument binnacle | 0 |
| Milan kundera: I don’t do interviews | 0 |
| G¨¹nter grass: I’ve found snails! | 0 |
| Salman rushdie: names will live forever... | 0 |
| Gabriel garcia marquez: mi casa es su casa | 0 |
| Umberto eco: I don’t understand this either... | 0 |
| Brett easton ellis: aaaaarrrggghhh! | 0 |
| As byatt: nine tenths of the law, you know... | 0 |
| Iain banks: too orangey for crows! | 0 |
| Malcolm bradbury: stroke john steinbeck, stroke jd salinger | 0 |
| Kazuro ishiguro: ah so, old chap! | 0 |
| John updike: run rabbit, run rabbit, run, run, run... | 0 |
| Gore vidal: oh, it makes me mad! | 0 |
| Ford maddox ford: any colour, as long as it’s black! | 0 |
| Anaïs nin: the strand of pearls | 0 |
| William faulkner: tu connait william faulkner? | 0 |
| Anthony trollope: good-good-good-good evening! | 0 |
| Charles dickens: london is so beautiful this time of year... | 0 |
| Nathaniel hawthorne: the letter ’a’ | 0 |
| William makepeace thackeray: call me ’william makepeace thackeray’ | 0 |
| Cervantes: donkey | 0 |
| Sir walter scott: we’re all doomed! | 0 |
| Jane austen: here I am! | 0 |
| Mary wolstencraft: vindicated! | 0 |
| Henry fielding: tittle-tattle tittle-tattle... | 0 |
| Fyodor dostoevsky: here come the sleepers... | 0 |
| Mark twain: I can’t even spell ’mississippi’! | 0 |
| George eliot: george reads german | 0 |
| Evelyn waugh: whoooaarr! | 0 |
| Hermann hesse: oh es ist alle so häßlich | 0 |
| Ernest hemingway: I forgot the.... | 0 |
| F scott fitzgerald: baa bababa baa | 0 |
| Marcel proust: je me’en souviens plus | 0 |
| Edith wharton: well hello, mr james! | 0 |
| Joseph conrad: I’m a bloody boring writer... | 0 |
| Henry james: howdy miss wharton! | 0 |
| Emile zola: j’accuse | 0 |
| Daniel defoe: to christen the day! | 0 |
― Cunga, Wednesday, 14 April 2010 18:44 (fifteen years ago)