{"id":211,"date":"1200-08-20T06:57:58","date_gmt":"1200-08-20T06:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesorinreview.org\/?p=211"},"modified":"2025-08-20T07:13:48","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T06:13:48","slug":"%d0%b8-%d1%8d%d1%82%d0%be-%d0%b1%d1%83%d0%b4%d0%b5%d1%82-%d0%b2%d0%b5%d1%87%d0%bd%d0%be-%d0%bd%d0%b0%d1%87%d0%b8%d0%bd%d0%b0%d1%82%d1%8c%d1%81%d1%8f","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesorinreview.org\/?p=211","title":{"rendered":"\u0418 \u044d\u0442\u043e \u0431\u0443\u0434\u0435\u0442 \u0432\u0435\u0447\u043d\u043e \u043d\u0430\u0447\u0438\u043d\u0430\u0442\u044c\u0441\u044f"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Dear Schwester,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here is how my drunken mind reads that poem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is definitely about world-time. Specifically, Mandelstam is trying to grasp the aspect of the world-time that Heidegger so well expresses in his famous book as “clearing,” the idea that nothing can come to be and manifest itself to the world unless there is a void, space, or clearing to do so. It is an ancient idea that we can find, among other places, in Kabbalah with god withdrawing itself to make space for the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mandelstam builds the poem in, so, reading it backwards from its culmination, I get:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u043d\u0430\u0447\u0438\u043d\u0430\u0442\u044c\u0441\u044f<\/em>: something that is about to be, but not here yet<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u0434\u043e\u0433\u0430\u0434\u043a\u0430<\/em>: anticipation of that “something” which is about to be<\/p>\n\n\n\n

o\u0434\u0443\u0448\u0435\u0432\u043b\u044f\u044e\u0449\u0435\u0433\u043e \u043d\u0435\u0434\u043e\u0441\u0442\u0430\u0442\u043a\u0430<\/em>: the absence of something, the void, the clearing that makes that “something” possible. Without that clearing everything is “filled up” and cannot move or change, therefore is unanimated, “\u043d\u0435\u043e\u0434\u0443\u0448\u0435\u0432\u043b\u0451\u043d\u043d\u043e”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u0415\u0435 \u0432\u043b\u0435\u0447\u0435\u0442 \u0441\u0442\u0435\u0441\u043d\u0435\u043d\u043d\u0430\u044f \u0441\u0432\u043e\u0431\u043e\u0434\u0430<\/em>: the force that makes something to fill in the void, like the force that makes water under pressure to fill in a cavity, or the force that makes gas to expand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u043e\u043f\u0435\u0440\u0435\u0436\u0430\u044f, \u0431\u044b\u0441\u0442\u0440\u0443\u044e, \u043f\u043e\u0433\u043e\u0434\u043a\u0430<\/em>: the movement created by that force and its velocity<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u043d\u0435\u0440\u0430\u0432\u043d\u043e\u043c\u0435\u0440\u043d\u043e\u0439<\/em>: the rhythmic character of that movement, the rhythmic cycle of filling in the clearings<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u043d\u0435\u0432\u043e\u043b\u044c\u043d\u043e \u043f\u0440\u0438\u043f\u0430\u0434\u0430\u044f<\/em>: stepping into the voids, filling them in<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u041a \u043f\u0443\u0441\u0442\u043e\u0439 \u0437\u0435\u043c\u043b\u0435<\/em>: the voids<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The image of a driven and uneven gait of a group of people is a breathtaking expression of this kind of yin-yang world-time.
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