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Who built the Thebes of the seven gates? In the books you will find the names of… — Bertolt Brecht

Poem · Political literature

Who built the Thebes of the seven gates? In the books you will find the names of kings. Did the kings haul up the lumps of rock?... Where, the evening that the wall of China was finished Did the masons go?

In the original German

Wer baute das siebentorige Theben? In den Büchern stehen die Namen von Königen. Haben die Könige die Felsbrocken herbeigeschleppt?... Wohin gingen an dem Abend, wo die chinesische Mauer fertig war, Die Maurer?

Bertolt Brecht
Questions from a Worker Who Reads · 1936
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Brecht, Bertolt. "Fragen eines lesenden Arbeiters [Questions of a Reading Worker]." Das Wort, 1936.

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