Dictator by Philip Terry Chatto & Windus translated here from the German

translated here from the German and collected for the first time

mindful and life-affirming book

The Dutch word for melancholy

O tu che m’ ami – set thy love in order

But the poems celebrate joy and tenderness

Dictator by Philip Terry Chatto & Windus translated here from the GermanDictator recreates Gilgamesh using the 1,500 word vocabulary of Globish, put together by Jean Paul Nerrire. Globish is a business language, appropriate to translate cuneiform which emerged from the need to record business transactions. Nerrire considered it the world dialect of the third millenium; likewise Akkadian, the language of Gilgamesh, was the lingua franca of communications in the Near East. This link between script, language and business is