Everything acquired falls away from the soul. Anthology "45: parallel reality

Wise Thoughts

Great Russian poet, prose writer, playwright, artist, officer.

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The judgment of general opinion, erroneous everywhere, takes place, however, in our country on completely different grounds than in the rest of Europe; in England, for example, bankruptcy, an indelible dishonor, is reason enough for suicide. A depraved prank in Germany closes the doors of a good society forever (I'm not talking about France: there are more different general opinions in Paris alone than in the whole world) - but in our country? who does not do this!.. A coward is treated kindly everywhere, because he is a meek fellow, but mixed up in history! - O! he has no mercy: mothers say about him: *God knows what kind of person he is*, and fathers add: *Bastard! ..* (*Princess Ligovskaya*, 1836)

Judging the soul and mind of a woman by dancing a mazurka with her is like judging the opinion and feelings of a journalist by reading one of his articles. (*Princess Ligovskaya*, 1836)

Happiness is only where they love us, where they believe us.

So the moss-covered bottle is age-old

Such is the poet: a little thought flashes,
How he will shed with his pen
All soul; the sound of a loud lyre
The light enchants, and in silence
Sings, forgetting in a heavenly dream...

There for good - good, and blood - for blood, and hatred is immeasurable, like love. ("Ismail Bay")

Now regret! To the dead people are fair! But what is this regret? One tear of friendship is worth all the exclamations of the crowd! (* A strange man*, 1831)

Crowd gloomy and soon forgotten
We will pass over the world without noise or trace,
Not throwing for centuries a fruitful thought,
Nor the genius of the work begun.

The same empty person who is filled with himself.

Here, here passes through the soul
Darkness of passions and sensations,
And often a gigantic thought turns on
The spring of an ardent mind...
And if you defeat the enemy with skill,
You will force fate to fall at your feet with humility -
Then Napoleon himself
You will seem both pathetic and ridiculous. - (Kazarin about the game)
(*Masquerade*, 1835-1836)

You love a woman... you sacrifice her honor
Wealth, friendship and life, maybe;
You surrounded her with fun and flattery,
But why should she thank you?
You did it all out of passion
And pride, in part, -
To have it, you sacrificed everything,
Not for her happiness.
Yes, think about it coolly
And you will tell yourself that everything in the world is conditional. - (Kazarin to Arbenin)
(*Masquerade*, 1835-1836)

That's why you loved me: joys are forgotten, but never sorrows. ("Hero of our time")

Respect has limits, but love has none.

Moving away from the conditions of society and approaching nature, we involuntarily become children; everything acquired falls away from the soul, and it becomes again such as it once was, and, surely, will someday be again. (Part I "Bella") ("A Hero of Our Time", 1838-1839)

This is Asia for me! that people, that rivers - you can’t rely on anything! (Part I "Bella", staff captain Maxim Maksimych) ("Hero of Our Time", 1838-1839)

Die so die! little loss to the world; And yes, I'm pretty bored too. I am like a man who yawns at a ball, who does not go to bed just because his carriage is not yet there. But the carriage is ready ... goodbye! .. ("Hero of Our Time", 1838-1839)

A good tone reigns only where you will not hear anything superfluous, but alas! my friends! but how little you hear there. (*Princess Ligovskaya*, 1836)

"Neither satiety, nor hunger, and nothing else is good if you transgress the measure of nature"

“The doctor heals diseases, but nature heals”

Hippocrates (born around 460 BC) - ancient Greek physician

"All nature strives for self-preservation"

"The main inclination of man is directed to what corresponds to nature"

“Nature herself reminds us daily of how few, how little things she needs.”

"The earth never returns without a surplus what it received"

"There is nothing more inventive than nature"

Cicero Marcus Tullius - ancient Roman politician and philosopher

"Nature has always had more power than education"

Voltaire (1694-1778) - French writer, philosopher, historian

“Nature obeys only those who themselves obey it”

"Nature is conquered only by obeying its laws"

Bacon, Francis (1561 - 1626) - English philosopher

"Nature will always take its toll"

“Nature has both flour and chaff, both vile and charming”

"Mother nature is wise, but the son is brainless."

Shakespeare William (1564 - 1616) - English poet, playwright

“Nature has taken care of everything so much that everywhere you find something to learn”

“In nature, everything is wisely thought out and arranged, everyone should mind their own business, and in this wisdom is the highest justice of life”

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) - Italian artist (painter, sculptor, architect)

"Nature does not provide for marriage"

Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) - great commander and statesman, emperor of the French in 1804 - 1815.

"Know the nature native land you can either with your own eyes or with the help of a book "

Lomonosov Mikhail Vasilievich (1711-1765) - Russian naturalist, poet, historian

“Nature said to a woman: be beautiful if you can, wise if you want, but you must be prudent by all means”

Beaumarchais Pierre(1739-1799) - French playwright, publicist

“Like a great artist, nature knows how to achieve great effects with small means”

Heinrich Heine(1797 - 1856) - German poet, publicist, critic

"Nature is the creator of all creators"

“Nature has no organs of speech, but creates tongues and hearts through which it speaks and feels”

"Nature is the only book that contains deep content on all its pages"

“Nature is always right; but errors and errors come from people.”

“The plays of nature are always new, because each time there are new audiences”

“God forgives and people forgive. Nature never forgives

Goethe Johann Wolfgang (1749-1832) - German poet, thinker and naturalist

“Moving away from the conditions of society and approaching nature, we involuntarily become children: everything acquired falls away from the soul, and it becomes again the same as it once was and, surely, will someday be again”

Lermontov Mikhail Yurievich (1814-1841) - Russian poet

“Not what you think, nature:

Not a cast, not a soulless face -
It has a soul, it has freedom,
It has love, it has a language ... "

Tyutchev Fedor Ivanovich (1803 -1873) - Russian poet

“Great things are done by grandiose means. Nature alone does great things for free"

“All the aspirations and efforts of nature are completed by man; they aspire to it, they fall into it like into the ocean.

“In nature, nothing arises instantly and nothing appears in the light in a completely finished form”

Herzen Alexander Ivanovich (1812-1870) - Russian writer, publicist, philosopher

“Illness is nature's own remedy for the purpose of eliminating disorder in the organism; therefore, medicine comes only to the aid of the healing power of nature.

Schopenhauer Arthur (1788-1860) - German philosopher

“The great book of nature is open to everyone, and in this great book so far ... only the first pages have been read”

Pisarev Dmitry Ivanovich (1840 - 1868) - literary critic, publicist

“God is cunning, but not malicious. Nature hides her secrets by virtue of her height, not by tricks."

"The joy of seeing and understanding is the most beautiful gift of nature"

Einstein Albert (1879 - 1955) - theoretical physicist, one of the founders of modern theoretical physics ...

“Nature is never wrong; if she breeds a fool, then she wants it"

Shaw Henry (1818 - 1885) - American writer

“We cannot expect favors from nature; to take them from her is our task.”

Michurin Ivan Vladimirovich (1855 - 1935) - biologist, breeder

“There are no omens. Nature does not send messengers to us - for this she is too wise or too ruthless.

“Nature is by no means the mother who nurtured us. She is our creation."

“If nature is matter striving to become soul, then art is soul expressing itself in material things”

"The main purpose of nature, apparently, is to illustrate the lines of poets"

Wilde Oscar(1854-1900) - English philosopher, esthete, writer, poet of Irish origin.

"Humanity on Earth and the surrounding living and inanimate nature constitute something unified, living according to the general laws of nature"

“Man made a huge mistake when he thought that he could separate himself from nature and disregard its laws”

Vernadsky Vladimir Ivanovich (1863-1945) - Russian scientist, naturalist, founder of geochemistry, biogeochemistry, radiogeology, public figure.

“The first and undoubted duty of man is to participate in the struggle with nature for his life and the lives of other people”

Tolstoy Lev Nikolaevich (1828-1910) - Russian writer

“Contact with nature is the most the last word all progress, science, reason, common sense, taste and excellent manners"

Dostoevsky Fyodor Mikhailovich (1821-1881) - Russian writer

"Love for one's native country begins with love for nature"

“Understanding nature, humane, careful attitude towards it is one of the elements of morality, a particle of the worldview”

Paustovsky Konstantin Georgievich (1892-1968) - Russian writer.

“We all sooner or later come to the conclusion that if there is something natural and rational in nature, then we ourselves came up with it”

“Nature is monstrously unfair. Talent is evidence of this "

Huxley Aldous (1894-1963), English writer

“A man, not being clothed with beneficent nature, received from above the gift of tailoring”

"Person! Raise your eyes from the earth to the sky - what, worthy of amazement, is the order there!

"Wind is the breath of nature"

Kozma Prutkov -collective pseudonym of Alexei Tolstoy and brothers Alexei, Vladimir and Alexander Zhemchuzhnikov

Moving away from the conditions of society and approaching nature,

we unwittingly become children;

everything acquired falls from the soul,

and it becomes again such as it was once

and, of course, will someday again.

M. Yu. Lermontov

On November 11, 2014, the anthology "45: Parallel Reality" was signed for printing, which is published as part of the Forum of Creative Unions dedicated to the Year of Culture in Russia "Unity of Muses - Peoples Unity", with the support of the Ministry of Culture Russian Federation and taking into account the results of the international poetic Internet marathon .

We have already reported that the book includes selections of 54 poets living in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Armenia, Belgium, Germany, Canada, Lithuania, USA, France, Australia. Full list project participants can be seen on the spread title published today.

The circulation of the publication is 345 copies, the expected time of receipt from the AGRUS printing house (Stavropol) is December 1, 2014.

Well, the words of Mikhail Lermontov, taken out as an epigraph, are given on the title of the anthology along with a quote from Alexander Grin's novel “Running on the Waves”.

It seems that now is the time to bring the text of the preface to the new anthology-45.

Dust of all roads

By the time in February 1967 I looked into mailbox, I smelled of cosmic chill: they delivered the first issue of "Foreign Literature", entirely devoted to science fiction. It is clear that the issue was read from cover to cover, and the names of Robert Sheckley, William Tenn and Ray Bradbury forever entered into mental use. The idea of ​​a parallel reality immediately became simple and close. Just like the concept of mental reality. After all, a person never stays wholly and completely in only one point in space - he constantly mentally travels, being transported in time.

Perhaps that is why the custom of seating a writer or a poet on a geographic pole began to seem somewhat naive to me. Writers and readers alike roam the continents of the imagination. The Word allows them to see places they have never been, which perhaps they themselves have never been. Of course, in poetry there is always a “genius of place”, but, feeding the imagination, it acts as a root, an umbilical cord, and not an anchor. Poetic teleportation serves mutual understanding, rapprochement of the most distant - in the physical plane - souls, and the motto of the Forum of Creative Unions dedicated to the Year of Culture in Russia "Unity of bonds - unity of peoples", of course, echoes the main idea of ​​the anthology " 45: parallel real reality”, published following the results of the Internet marathon Secret pipes of the "45th parallel". The path to the implementation of the book project was long and difficult, many ideas had to be abandoned: for example, sacred number 45 was transformed first into 50, and then into a happy shifter 54. But, of course, even parallel reality cannot accommodate all strong poets.

We did not deprive the authors of geographical roots, but invited them to expand them, point to sub-latent, implicit roots, welcoming those “settlements” that do not exist, including tea Troy and Carthage, Solovets and Zurbagan. It is in this way that we illus- trate the concept of parallel reality, so-to-la-y-to meet the inhabitants of the most different corners mi-ra. Meet, chat and fuck each other.

Let's talk about this reality a little more. After the release of the film "The Matrix" and others like it, many and many people believed that with the help of computers it is possible to create illusory worlds, the inhabitants of which will not only consider themselves real people, but will also gain the ability to move from virtuality to reality and vice versa. New in this by and large, a little: after all, cavemen, depicting scenes of a successful hunt (virtual, speaking modern language), thereby trying to influence the outcome of the hunt that they faced in reality. In other words, the concept of virtual (or mental) reality is as old as the world.

I remember how delighted I was when I read in the Strugatsky brothers’ fairy tale “Monday Begins on Saturday” such a partly joking statement: “... there really is a world in which Anna Karenina, Don Quixote, Sherlock Holmes, Grigory Melekhov and even Captain Nemo live and act. This world has its own very curious properties and patterns, and the people who inhabit it are the more vivid, real and individual, the more talented, passionate and truthful the authors of the corresponding works describe them.

Here, however, we are only talking about described world of possibilities. If you force yourself to think thoroughly about such concepts as "invariant" and "infinity", then (based on the fact that infinity divided by infinity still remains infinity) you can imagine a certain invariant of an infinite set of options - as imaginary, virtual, and that objectively existing, which is "given to us in sensations." This will be "aleph, the center of all things." By being here is understood not only the indicative, but also all possible - that is, infinitely many - subjunctive variants of the universe. All parallel worlds, all depictions of virtual paths of life development, as well as any possible (and impossible) fantasy in general, are covered by the concept of "aleph". Only by assuming the existence of infinity can one explain the existence of what is given to us in sensations.

Art. Lem, in one of his “reviews of non-existent novels,” very colorfully showed the improbability, or rather, the tendency to zero, of the probability of the existence of an individual individual: after all, in order for his parents to meet, it took a very long chain of chances; and before that, the same chain of accidents preceded the acquaintance of the parents of both his parents, etc., etc. We can imagine the real existence of an infinite series parallel worlds, whose probability of being in exactly the form that they, each individually, is inherent in, is as unlikely as ours. Moreover, time in these worlds can move in any direction and at any speed: perhaps in each of the living lives "another person" who lives his life "counterclockwise". Since the past does not disappear anywhere, you can go through time in a different direction ...

In the best works of art, there is always a possibility of an exit, a breakthrough to the true reality, and not that flat, apparent, imaginary one, about which Eduard Bagritsky wrote like this: “a rough stool. The floor was killed by the sole.

Speaking about poetry (and about literature in general), one cannot avoid the question of its role in the life of society. Many authors believe that literature does not have any impact on society and public morality. But understanding this is by no means easy, especially in those countries where the writer has long been listed among the rulers of thoughts. A sad discovery, of course, especially for a writer, is the realization that "we have nothing to give." The only consolation is that, like any extreme, it cannot be completely true. Writers and poets do influence society, although they do not in any way lead it, they influence what they make to think and feel.

I did not set myself the task of analyzing in any detail the selections of authors participating in our anthology. I just want to say that the shifter 45, 54, gives a general idea of ​​​​the directions of modern Russian-language poetry, albeit far from complete. The indisputable fact is that poetry in Russian is alive and developing.

Returning to the beginning of my notes, I cannot help but recall the name of Ray Bradbury once again. In 1947, he wrote the story "Meadow", where, in a detailed metaphor, he presented the whole world in the form of a wasteland, on which scenery for a variety of films had accumulated over the years. The watchman describes the place like this:

“You have united Boston and Trinidad, made it so that Trinidad rests against Lisbon, and Lisbon leans on one side against Alexandria, you have linked Alexandria and Shanghai together, you have hammered Chattanooga and Oshkosh, Oslo and Sweetwater, Soissons and Beirut, Bombay and Port- Arthur. A bullet hits a man in New York, he swings, takes a step or two and falls in Athens. In Chicago, politicians take bribes, and in London they put someone in jail... Everything is close, everything is so close to each other. We live here so closely that peace is simply necessary, otherwise everything will go to hell! One fire is capable of destroying all of us, no matter who sets it up and why” (translated by Lev Zhdanov).

The world has become even closer since then, and it seems to me that Bradbury's metaphor is invisibly present in our anthology, it is scattered across the pages, uniting all authors and calling for moral responsibility for war crimes, for the struggle for world peace, against the revival of the ideology of the national superiority. In our parallel reality, everything is too intertwined to allow anyone to play with fire.

Actually, for this we have gathered under one cover, like at a round table: to look at each other, hear each other and understand. That is why so many cities, both real and virtual, decorate our pages.

Building a single parallel reality, we adhere to the spirit and letter of the motto of the Forum of Creative Unions: "Unity of muses - unity of peoples."

And finally, I want to recall the many times quoted, but no less true words of Yevgeny Vinokurov: “When there is poetry, some people may not notice it, but when it is not there, everyone starts to suffocate.”

Accent-45: Meanwhile, the editor-in-chief of the almanac-45 continues to receive responses to our projects. We publish some of them today - of course, with the permission of the senders of the letters.

Opinions of participants of the Internet marathon and anthology

How important is this - so representative - competition (more precisely, an Internet marathon) Secret pipes of the "45th parallel", and the release of an anthology in his footsteps. The reader is presented with a cross-section, a representative selection of modern Russian-language poetry, and the geographical aspect here is no less significant than the purely poetic one.

You, Sergey, are doing a great job - on the pages of your publication, a variety of authors, united by high level craftsmanship and indifferent attitude to the acute problems of our time. I am very glad to see among the winners the poets I already love,. Discovered something interesting. Almanac "45th Parallel" works not only for the present, but also for the future. Someday, at the beginning of the 22nd century, it will be used to study our difficult era...

Moscow - Appalachians

Dear Sergey!

Sincerely grateful!

And personally to the chairman of the jury, and the members of the jury!

I think the level of competition is convincingly high. Bound by "geographical boundaries", as I understood them, he did not present a more diverse selection of poems, as some colleagues did. The more expensive it is to be marked!

Koln

I am currently watching the pdf of the book. 45: parallel real reality” - what a great fellow you are! So beautifully made, with taste and love. And the authors are amazing. Everyone brings their own world. Dive in and don't want to get out...

Philadelphia

Dear Sergey and members of the jury!

With great interest and growing excitement, I followed the course of the competition, discovering more and more wonderful authors. Competing with them seemed to me extremely risky, almost hopeless, but the results made me incredibly happy. I sincerely thank you for giving me the honor to find my name among the names of talented poets living not only in Russia, but all over the world.

Nalchik

I have been friends with the 45th parallel for a long time: both geographically and literary. Several selections, two anthologies (it seems to me that there were more), two years of work as a member of the jury of the 45 caliber competition. Each project was unique for me and with its uniqueness reminded musical instrument: one - the violin, the other - the drum, the third - the impatient trembling of the guitar. This autumn it was the turn of the flutes. Pipes, as they should be due to their ancient origin, have a simple and accessible interface, but this does not mean that playing them is easier than ever. Our Internet marathon managed to collect a whole scattering of strong authors. I will not name everyone by name, I will only name my favorites:,. New collection - new world. And each of the worlds is wonderful. Allusions, hidden quotes - or deliberate simplicity? Public challenge - or gentle femininity? Honestly, I would like to reward everyone - but what am I talking about? The music has already rewarded. And I can only congratulate and rejoice for my neighbor.

Yalta

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Returned from a business trip. I opened the Internet, and there - the layout of an anthology with a very good, sincere, warm, penetrating preface.

Respect! You really have collected under one cover the most interesting poets of our days! All author's selections are excellent: each of them is a real monologue of a creative soul, I would even say - a one-man theater, in the very best sense of these words.

I will not list the names - it will be a long list, I can only say that many of them have grown to my heart. I was glad to see poems here, which I really appreciate and who wrote the preface to my new collection "Tatyana's Day", Tatyana Vinogradova, ... I think this parallel reality is not accidental either.
Thanks, Sergey! And separately - for the preface - thanks to George!

Good luck in all your affairs and endeavors! With respect and admiration,