Journey to Armenia by Osip Mandelstam

Author:Osip Mandelstam [Osip Mandelstam]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781910749401
Publisher: Notting Hill Editions
Published: 2016-04-09T04:00:00+00:00

A piece of Alagez lived right there with me in the hotel. For some reason, a heavy specimen of the black volcanic glasslike mineral called ‘obsidian’ lay on the window sill. A fifty-pound calling card left behind by some geological expedition.

The approaches to Alagez are not fatiguing, and it is no trouble at all on horseback, in spite of its fourteen thousand feet above sea level. The lava is contained in earthen blisters, along which one rides easily.

From the window of my fifth-floor room in the Erevan hotel, I had formed a completely wrong notion of Alagez. I thought it was a monolithic ridge. Actually, it is a system of folds and develops gradually – proportionately to the rise, the accordion of diorite rock uncoiled itself like an alpine waltz.

And a spacious day it was that fell to my lot!

Even now, as I think back on it, my heart skips a beat. I got tangled up in it as in a long shirt extracted from one of the suitcases of my ancestor Jacob.

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