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8:27pm July 27, 2013
soilrockslove: vega-ofthe-lyre: Questions from A Worker Who Reads by Bertolt Brecht (Anyone want to transcribe this for screen readers?) Edit: Who built Thebes of the seven gates? In the books you will find the name of kings. Did the kings haul up the lumps of rock? And Babylon, many times demolished. Who raised it up so many times? In what houses of gold-glittering Lima did the builders live? Where, the evening that the Wall of China was finished did the masons go? Great Rome is full of triumphal arches. Who erected them? Over whom did the Caesers triumph? Had Byzantium, much praised in song, only palaces for its inhabitants? Even in fabled Atlantis the night the ocean engulfed it the drowning still bawled for their slaves. The young Alexander conquered India.  Was he alone? Caeser beat the Gauls. Did he not even have a cook with him? Philip of Spain wept when his armada went down. Was he the only one to weep? Frederick the Second won the Seven Years’ War. Who else won it? Every page a victory. Who cooked the feast for the victors? Every ten years a great man. Who paid the bill? So many reports. So many questions. (transcribed by Warlocksexalways) The things I always wonder.

soilrockslove:

vega-ofthe-lyre:

Questions from A Worker Who Reads by Bertolt Brecht

(Anyone want to transcribe this for screen readers?)

Edit:

Who built Thebes of the seven gates?

In the books you will find the name of kings.

Did the kings haul up the lumps of rock?

And Babylon, many times demolished.

Who raised it up so many times? In what houses

of gold-glittering Lima did the builders live?

Where, the evening that the Wall of China was finished

did the masons go? Great Rome

is full of triumphal arches. Who erected them? Over whom

did the Caesers triumph? Had Byzantium, much praised in song,

only palaces for its inhabitants? Even in fabled Atlantis

the night the ocean engulfed it

the drowning still bawled for their slaves.

The young Alexander conquered India. 

Was he alone?

Caeser beat the Gauls.

Did he not even have a cook with him?

Philip of Spain wept when his armada

went down. Was he the only one to weep?

Frederick the Second won the Seven Years’ War. Who

else won it?

Every page a victory.

Who cooked the feast for the victors?

Every ten years a great man.

Who paid the bill?

So many reports.

So many questions.

(transcribed by Warlocksexalways)

The things I always wonder.

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