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created: 2021-11-25T23:53:33 (UTC +01:00)
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source: https://www.marxists.org/archive/brecht/works/1935/questions.htm
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# Questions From a Worker Who Reads, Bertolt Brecht 1935
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Bertolt Brecht 1935
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### Questions From a Worker Who Reads
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Who built Thebes of the 7 gates ?
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In the books you will read the names of kings.
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Did the kings haul up the lumps of rock ?
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And Babylon, many times demolished,
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Who raised it up so many times ?
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In what houses of gold glittering Lima did its builders live ?
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Where, the evening that the Great Wall of China was finished, did the masons go?
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Great Rome is full of triumphal arches.
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Who erected them ?
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Over whom did the Caesars triumph ?
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Had Byzantium, much praised in song, only palaces for its inhabitants ?
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Even in fabled Atlantis, the night that the ocean engulfed it,
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The drowning still cried out for their slaves.
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The young Alexander conquered India.
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Was he alone ?
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Caesar defeated the Gauls.
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Did he not even have a cook with him ?
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Philip of Spain wept when his armada went down.
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Was he the only one to weep ?
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Frederick the 2nd won the 7 Years War.
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Who else won it ?
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Every page a victory.
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Who cooked the feast for the victors ?
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Every 10 years a great man.
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Who paid the bill ?
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So many reports.
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So many questions.
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