Less Than One by Joseph Brodsky

Author:Joseph Brodsky [Brodsky, Joseph]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
ISBN: 9780241962008
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Published: 2011-10-02T16:00:00+00:00

Whereupon, however, having already marked by means of these nightingales (inevitable attributes of the standard lyric love poem) the nature of the scene and the space at any point of which this scene could have taken place but didn’t, she subjects to doubt the quality of her own eyesight and, consequently, her whole interpretation of space:

Probably I see poorly, being in a pit,

Probably you see better, being above …

Still audible here is a pang—self-reproach for the imprecision of her glance? of the heart’s churning? of the word in her letter? But her probable aberration and his seraphic keensightedness are equated by a line that is staggering precisely for its banality—yet another instance of her “wail of women in all times”:

Nothing ever worked out between us.

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