Bertolt Brecht: Reading Horace / They Drive by Night


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Truck driver on U.S. Highway Route no. 11 near Wytheville, Virginia: photo by John Vachon, March 1943




 
Even the Flood
Did not last forever.
In time
The black waters withdrew.
Yes, but how few
Survived to confirm that fact!


 

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A truck with a sleeper car accommodation on U.S. Highway Route no. 11 near Wytheville, Virginia: photo by John Vachon, March 1943




Selbst die Sintflut
Dauerte nicht ewig.
Einmal verrannen
Die schwarzen Gewässer.
Freilich, wie wenige
Dauerten länger!





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Truck driver on U.S. Highway Route no. 11 near Wytheville, Virginia: photo by John Vachon, March 1943

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Butch Ryan driving a Brown truck on U.S. highway near Charlottesville, Virginia: photo by John Vachon, March 1943

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 Earl Callam, truck driver, en route to Atlanta: photo by John Vachon, March 1943

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Earl Callam, truck driver, en route to Atlanta: photo by John Vachon, March 1943

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Cajun truck driver, Lafayette, Louisiana: photo by John Vachon, March 1943

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New York to Baltimore driver stopping for dinner at a truckers' diner on U.S. Highway 40. New Castle (vicinity), Delaware: photo by John Vachon, February 1943

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 Gas station at night, Dubuque, Iowa: photo by John Vachon, April 1940

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An "open all night" gas station in Durham, North Carolina: photo by Jack Delano, May 1940

Bertolt Brecht: Beim Lesen des Horaz/Reading Horace from Buckower Elegien/Buckow Elegies, July/August 1953: English version by TC

Photos from Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection, Library of Congress

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