4th Century Abandoned Wife

I'm listening-to-reading a very interesting book entitled Paper:

Paging Through History (by Mark Kurlansky), and there was a quotation from a 4th century Chinese letter which caught my ear. So I went Googling and found a little bit more of it (the book only quoted the final line).

 "I obeyed your command and came to Dunhuang and did not observe my mother's bidding nor that of my brothers. Surely the gods were angry with me on the day when I did your bidding! I would rather be a dog's or a pig's wife than yours!"

I am going to need to write a song around this, for sure.

News as it happens.