Sinister: The Divine Comedy - Books/Films

[Mark Iles]

>The Divine Comedy are an obvious one in the books/band name thing.  Not only
>is the name borrowed, but large chunks of the lyrics are taken from literary
>types - "Bernice Bobs Her Hair" is an F Scott Fitzgerald short story
>shortened further, "Lucy" is a Wordsworth poem set to music and so on.  This
>is either theft or genius.  I go for the latter.

There's also Woman Of The World which is about Holly Golightly from
Breakfast At Tiffany's. It's based on the film rather than the book, but...
well, it's kind of a link. And When the Lights Go Out All Over Europe is
another film one (lots of French films mentioned such as Jules et Jim and
Claire's Knee) - anyone know where the bit of French dialogue is from? And
there's one where he lists lots of authors - obviously a book influence
there. And becoming more like Alfie is again more the film than the play.
Any others?


                                Mark


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Genetic Epidemiology Laboratory,
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St James's University Hospital,
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Leeds,                                  "Libraries gave us power"
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U.K.
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