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Osip Mandelstam ends his 1913 this direction. “I’m a man made of body to “understanding” in a mysterious way; in a shared field, made of shared experi- the crossings, I laid down on the wire and generations, or to the Sun above and a soil essay On the Addressee by pointing to a and I don’t understand the spirit if it’s the root at the base of the obscure “art of ences, and that testifying for a plasticity, looked at the sky and I saw a bird above that sustains our feet, upon crossing the simple fact: “If we had no friends, we not a body of spirit. I suspect an aerial producing images” (Einbildungskraft) we flexibility, floatability and a capacity of me; I could see that bird pretty high up threshold to sharing fields. would not write them letters, and we and ineffable «spirit».” To finish the argu- carry within when representing things, adaptation from one being to the other, and saw the eyes were red, and I thought 11. It was the account of a simple man would not take pleasure in the psycho- ment he gave me an example. “In an old without having them in us. The hypoth- but that we build cellular memory during of the myth of Prometheus there. But the that revealed to me, many years ago, the logical freshness and novelty peculiar to film about a submarine, Gene Hackman, esis Kieckers advanced was that noos had a lifetime, which is why many old people bird was sickened and was looking at me importance of what an addressee is. That this occupation.” However, his essay is the commander, is closed in a tiny cabin, derived from the verb neo, “to swim”. In can’t change. To maintain the flux of life, as if I was invading his territory, which man was Dersu Uzala, the Nanai hunter neither about letters nor friends, at least smoking a cigar. When the main charac- a study published in 1908, where he con- and share in it without possession with I was. So, at some point I thought, the who, at the beginning of the twentieth not those found in “our” generation. His ter walks in dazed by the smoke, showing sidered the Indo-Germanic *snous, and all beings, is the first task Mother Earth Gods, the god of the wind, the god of century, became a guide for the explorer essay is about poetry and the unknowable him his discomfort, Hackman responds from it neo, he presumed that the word has left to us, as well as perhaps the last.