Continuity: 8

Nijat mamedov

Translated from RUSSIAN by Esmira Serova

lost meaning

)dissolution(

dispersion of meaning on

the memory of river rocks is the result of many years’ efforts of running water
memory—alien rock = yaddaş—yad daşdır
yaddaş yaşdadır
yaddaş yaş dadır (1)

who is “you”?
lover? reader? god?

but also the “I” in absolute isolation, not understanding
itself,
experience of a child learning to write,
a drowsing trauma

“and gave back no words for that which happened” (2)

умереть / отбросить ум
влиться в Шум (3)

as a result of which not

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1 Word play: “memory” is “yaddaş”, “yad” is literally “alien (strange)”, “daş”— “rock”, “yaş” means “age” or “tear”, “dad”—“taste”: memory is an alien rock, memory is in the age, memory tastes like tears.

2 Paul Celan, Bremen Literary Prize Acceptance Speech, 1958

3 Russian: to die / to cast away the mind to join the Noise. Word play.