Malte Dedenbach

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"Meine Bewertung fällt zwiegespalten aus. Inhaltlich überzeugt mich das Narrenschiff vollkommen. Die Geschichte der DDR spiegelt sich in den Träumen, Erwartungen und Enttäuschungen der Menschen, wobei die Ereignisse konsequent aus deren Perspektive un" Read more of this review »

Katia N is on page 360 of 492 of Anthology of Chinese Literature from Early Times to the Fourteenth Century: This imonologue has is not very different from Molly Bloom in Ulysses! Superb!

Outside my door
the dog barking
I know what it is
My lover’s here
Off with my stockings
down
parfumed stairs
My good-for-nothing lover
is drunk tonight
I help him into
my silk-curtained bed
Will he take off the silk gown?
O! O! not he
Milord is drunk let him be
Better that
than sleeping alone

By anonymous women poet (10th century).