 In light of this opinion, the story is considered crude.The story won the Friedebert Tuglas Short Story Award nevertheless.Sauter's poem, "Lauakõne Eesti Vabariigi aastapäeva puhul kainestusmaja paraskile liiga pikalt istuma jäänud olles" ("A Short After-Dinner Speech on the Occasion of the Anniversary of the Republic of Estonia, Having Remained Sitting on the Privy Seat at the Sobering Centre for Too Long"), from 1998 is also considered controversial.