A Crazy Form Of Immortality

From a 2002 conversation between Dick Gordon and Studs Terkel (thanks Dan Stockman):

My north star, my guide, is a poem by Bertolt Brecht. I'll offer brief passages from it. We think of Brecht and "Threepenny Opera" — well, he was a poet.

In this poem he says, "Who built the seven gates of Thebes? Who lugged those hunks of rock one place to the other?" When we get this in school — Caesar conquered Gaul, you know — was there not even a cook in the army? And when the Chinese Wall was built, where did the masons go for lunch? I was told in school, Sir Francis Drake conquered the Spanish Armada in 1588. And I thought, he did it by himself? So Brecht says, "When the Armada sank, we read that King…