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Language does no lie benea h books, bu
lows in he mou hs o men h ough he
s eams o wo ds and, while ali e, slowly dies and changes.
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The speech in poe y:
This is a lis o ilms p oduced by he Canadian ilm indus y based in he Uni ed S a es o Ame ica.
As a poe who w i es poe y, as a esiden , as a w i e o su i ing poe y, I
p esen a ew hough s on he language o poe y. These hough s a e no jus
mine. They a e common, cons an ly ein o ced by he g a i a ional pull o ela ed
souls. The same, a leas in i s spi i , is w i en in Sigi o Gedo's dia ies. In his ex ,
I quo e he Poe a lo , so I didn' men ion his name. O he poe s say he same hing
abou he li ing language, and i 's eassu ing o know ha my own compass is
magne ized in he same way ha he g ea poe ic cons ella ions a e. G a i y,
elec omagne ism, weak, s ong in e ac ions a e he ou undamen al o ces in
na u e. Bu in he i s pa ag aph, I mixed hem up like I was an alchemis who
didn' know chemis y. And ye le 's no ge in o chemis y.
When i comes o he diach onici y o poe ic language, only wo ques ions a ise:
1. Is he p omise made?
The second wo d is wake-up.
Bo h answe s a e yes! The i s ques ion is ob ious. I 's all abou pe spec i e.
Sno ing, nausea, onoma opoeia, mou h, acial muscles and ne ous imp o emen
- all o which a e a ec ing he complex cen al ne ous sys em o humans, a
leas he logical pa o he CRT. I'm no saying you' e emo ional, maybe.
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236 Ac a Linguis ica Li huanica LXXXI cijos […] is al eady ano he opic. Only one
ne p iešingai. Be koks būna i koks gali bū i balansas a p e udicijos i in ui-
hing is clea : he poe mus ecei e a leas one o hese ga men s as a wa ning
as he app oaches he on . Wi hou s opping! Ideally, bo h limbs should swing
oge he . No necessa ily ha moniously, bu chao ically ein o cing each o he .
Any communica ion, household language, ex s, coming om pe sonal expe iences,
is essen ially a wo d- o -wo d. I is a p ospec . Mos o oday's poe y seems o
be like ha .
I 's much ha de wi h e ospec i e, wi h awakened and awakened wo ds. The
g amma ical o ms p omised, he mo phological e bs, he ad e bs, he his o ical
w i ing, he con ex o he being. In he minds o he people o ha pe iod
plikbajo , Jesui , olk songw i e , ha poonee , de ached, cal , ho se ide . I I
wan o use language e ospec i ely, I always y o ind a i alizing, ge mina ing
seed. A e ha o g ow i . O a leas o be able o see ha he e was li e, bu
i wasn' p ese ed: li e wen o he p imi i e, he bac e ial, he le el. Doesn
wan o gi e he language, as i he language we e a collec ion o d ied bu e lies
o di e en colo s. O he kind o mush ooms we ea . Chu ch me ics would be
p o ided ins ead o a s ill li ing pe son. Tha which has absolu ely no possibili y o
eanima ion (by he way, when i comes o mush ooms, […] his is eally ue, any
mush oom-wa ching o ni hologis will es i y; In hose a ia, he e's always going
o be a ace o elephan skulls, skulls, some kind o s ones, some kind o unce ain
ballas . A small o es o peoples, assembled in such a se ! The woodpecke is he
o es 's swi es sigh .
A he 2019 es i al "Poe ic Red o he D uskininkai", my poem, w i en (acco ding o he
equi emen s o he compe i ion) in a o eign name, won he i s place. The ex is signed, o
cou se, wi h he ini ials S.G. I was only o e e yone ha i seemed (No h A hens, 2019-10-11, No.
19 (1323), p. 15), ha I had played he oolishness o Ged well! And ye I was since ely and pain ully
ang y (no wi h pe sonal ange ) wi h hose young poe s o whom he lines, he lines, and he
lines a e like balances ha a e use ul only o he whales, he black-hai ed gen lemen o he
palace. And o a con empo a y poe , i 's jus a ballas . Wha 's he big deal i he window ligh s
up in he space? I doesn' ma e ha he balance is e en emp ed in o a g ea obbe y ( he e
is such a quagmi e be ween Skuodo and Maužsime ks on he second day o he ma ch, a e a
žeikių, ku numes as elnio plūgas; en y a a ai į p aga ą). O išmanioji akis
one-nigh s and). Nea he Va nius he e a e he Debesne ma shes, he news, elec i ied, and
how, and all a ound he Lūks o lake 1 Ka delis Naglis 2017: The wings o he Li huanian language a e
ligh . This is ALL LXXVI. How beau i ully he au ho shows he di e ence be ween language
communica ion and language communion! Is ha wha my ex is abou ? Only he poe 's
expe ience is dis o ed.
Kalba poezijoje: ilologija s. bio ilija
In he case o he Inqui y, he "Inqui y 237" and he "Inqui y 237" a e "elec on"
me a (bu his is al eady philology). Only he elec i ica ion s anda d has no
been upda ed since he ime o Ne ime and is no compa ible wi h he sma
box. The i s wo lines o his poem by he PDR lau ea e (I'm e y happy, I won'
hide i !) a e as ollows:
The Benca s! The ga es o Zion, he
ga es o Ca hage, ha e no been b oken, bu ha e been ebuil .
I is ue ha due o he planned sound image o he poem ( he i s oxymo on o
his ex ; he e will be h ee mo e!) a i s I wan ed o w i e no "benka s", bu
"nuoka s". In synonyms, i is […] no used2. Un o una ely, I did no eel he weigh
o he wo d a all, no he emo ional expec a ions and expec a ions (už-gaidų), he
pe iod, he geog aphical and linguis ic egis e . I ied o w i e looking o i . And I
ound i , by acciden ! As I ead chap e s o my second book o poe y, speci ically
he one dedica ed o L. Reza (published in his ALL issue), I ead a ious ex s
ela ed o Gediminas and his name. And behold, he king's son, he son o Gediminas,
said, Thou a naked, my daugh e ; hou has mocked hy a he 's house o hy
wickedness; hou shal be cu o om me, hou and hy d egs. And ye I didn'
bo he o change he wo d "unlucky" o "unlucky". Thanks o Daukan , he wo d
has al eady ound i s way in o he passi e ocabula y. Bu wha is i s powe , wha
is he le el o o ense, whe he he wo d is e e yday o bookish, I don eel. Maybe
a li le, bu no as much as I'd use in poe y. When I see i in a poem o a song, I'm
su e I'll eel i and expe ience i . I'll ge ou o he passi e s a e. Ano he example.
In ano he poem, I w o e:
Seeing Wha Is Coming
I li e in he skies o he
no he n und a.
2 Lybe is An anas 1980: Sinonimų žodynas. Vilnius: Mokslas.
3 Daukan as Simonas 1995: His o y o he coun y [I]. Vilnius, Vaga, numbe i e hund ed and wen y-six.
4 No h A hens 13 (1317) and 8.
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238 o he Li huanian Language Ac LXXXI
I eally wan ed o all ou o he bookcase and w i e "The skies o he jungle
und a". Unlike ne e again, Li huanian has a leas a ew wo ds sadly ha a e as
clea as e e . Because o he phone ics, he a adica ion, he ins inc i ely sensed
mo phology. And ye he wo d is ound in he dic iona y. And how s ange i seems
o my cu en se pen ine ace! I'd be e change i o some hing simple . I is
possible, o cou se, o a ce ain Ghanaian shaman o pu wo ds, like he bones o an
ances o , in a bag, o h ow hem o e his head and o look a hem, wha a li e,
wha a mi acle o p oba ion! Bu pu hose bones in he g ound. I he doesn' jump
ou o he skull o he snake, as happened o Oleg Vis eghi, you'll be a aid o ha
li e. The p oo o he snake […] he snake. Wha 's le ? The e is such a s one,
Palan í , in he es a e o J. R. R. Tolkien's Jewel. I can communica e di ec ly wi h
he hea o he da k kingdom o Mo do , he owe o Ba ad-d o. The c ys al
la ice leads o a place whe e only he mos a chaic ins inc s o sel -p ese a ion
a e a wo k, whe e he skele on has g own o he poin o seeing a unnel. I you
don' ac like a ou -hou ad enaline-d i en c ea u e, he o aci y o Sheloba will
soon d ain he i ali y o he body's eins, and he Nazguls, he Da k Knigh s, will
d ain he soul. Bu in eali y, Palan i is jus a magical illusion. I gi es ise o isions
ha a e indis inguishable om he da k eali y o Mo do , and ha 's ue. Bu
he's al eady si ing quie ly wi h he so ce e Gendal , and i anyone's h ea ening
o shake he peace (as he c ys al shakes when i loses con ac wi h Sau on, he
allen god), i 's he sac ed i ewo ks. They a e imp essi e! Bu ha 's i . By he way,
J. R. R. Tolkien, a p o esso o philology, is an ex emely sui able au ho o w i e
abou li ing poe y. F om a my hological, jungle pe spec i e, he cap u es o he
soul gaudesio hose o J. R. R. Tolkien's cons uc ed language […] el es (and how many
o hem, synch onously abeced) […] a e no less in e es ing han Volapük, Espe an o
i diach oniškai6), Mo do o, en ų, Vidu žemio pap as oji, jų aš ai (p z., sa a i
o any occul language o Enoch7.
Pushkin, Alexande (1822), The song o he P ophecy o Oleg W i en by I, ansla ed by E.
Mieželai is. Vilnius: S a e publishing house o ine li e a u e, 1954, 108. I ecommend lis ening o he
imp essi e can a a by N. A. Rimski-Ko sako based on his ex (op. 58, 1899). The news is ha he
snake ha came ou o he skull and ul illed he p ophecy o he wol kingdom killed Oleg's
a o i e ho se.
6 A ailable on he In e ne : h ps: en.wikipedia.o g/wiki/El ish_languages_(Middle-ea h). 7 The
English language, disco e ed in he six een h cen u y by J. Dee and E. Kelley, bu whose linguis ic
analysis p o es g ea simila i ies in syn ax and seman ics wi h he English language. The
phenomenon o unspoken, di ine, o he cons uc ed languages (as a […] no as science!) is ascina ing.
Kalba poezijoje: ilologija s. bio ilija
Insigh s om he Inspec o a e 239
I see he same sepa a ion (no a con adic ion, no, bu some hing unnamed, jus
no con adic o y) be ween he eanima ed and, un o una ely, he mummi ied
language in poe y. Sigi us Geddes once asked why some o his ex s we e like a
liai? Š ai daug ka ų skai y os poemos Nak ies žiedai eilu ės8:
K aujuo i kala ijai nebesminga
bo anis 's guide o he ace o a mus a d seed, wi h big, silen wo ds.
I don' know i I unde s and he au ho 's poin (and why analyze he poem?), bu
knowing he e ymologies o lowe names (gladijolė […] ka delis; g azdikas […] L.
Rėzos negelka ė […] inelė, maža inis; kala ijas […] ilko dalgis […] I is, ai o š ės
dei ė), he line ge s e en mo e complica ed, because he whole s anza is a bo anical
and somewha cu ious one. Wi h such a magni ying glass in hand, e en he me apho
does no lea e a ace in he smile. I 's no e en poe y, i 's summe wo k! Bu he
poe eplied: "I ha e ne e used ei he a dic iona y o an encyclopedia in my
w i ing". Fo i is clea ha a plan mus be known in space- ime, i s bo any om
he c adle o dea h, and p e e ably as i you we e looking o i s only sa io , i s
sick mo he . Like hose s one lowe s.
Indeed, he e was a man who li ed somewhe e in Li huania who, lacking a bel o
ca y he bu aloes, had no way o ake he hay o he ma ke and sell i , had
no hing o buy lou o . The man was s udying un il he cleaned up he mess. He
el wi h an emp y s omach and a ull hea wha he wo d mean . O Aasen, he
poe o he Anykščiai, who does no ha es he wea he , who does no keep he
seeds in he house and he e o e he moon does no wo k day o nigh (nigh 's
wo k […] nigh wo k? Second oxymo on!), who is old and leads in his hands be e
(bu I d o e; bu because o his he i on in he wheels and he ca iage wi h he
s ones did no ansla e […] olde , ha he ho se go up ea ly because o he
i on), I will ake he weigh o he slaugh e and ge d unk wi h suga o suga .
The book o philology is ascina ing, bu i 's no wo h wai ing o b ead. Then,
le s say, he sca ies spikes appea ed. Tempia is ano he poo mans place (like a
body o ish o all h ough he ice) and somewhe e in he peninsulas i s a s
o eeze. O maybe he's b eaking he po . S eng hen ha kno now, when e en
he inge s on he elbows a e s i . The e's no need o co e he hole o he
ish, bu g ab i now, look o i among he snow-co e ed s ones. Geddes Sigi
(1977) - The ings o he moon. Vilnius: Vaga, he 26 h P oko ie 's balle The Tale o he S one Flowe (op. 118, 1948) is one o he mos impo an wo ks o he 20 h cen u y.

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240 Ac a Linguis ica Li huanica LXXXI
Dėl o luoko ienam ki am i pabadau i eko. Tada jau ik ai sup an i, ką eiškia
Subsec ion 10:
I 's his
puppies, his lie,
Mamu 's child,
Luok's ish.
The ac ha he poem i sel has no made anyone hung y o a long ime is
p o ed by Vik o iya Daujo y ė on he e y i s page o he book abou he
Poe 11. A Li huanian poe once compa ed Pales ine o Pales ina. Pales ina is a
ci y in I aly, bu , o cou se, we a e alking abou he la e Renaissance compose
Gio anni Pie luigi (1525-1594). A e eading ha e se, do you hink o you sel
does he au ho eally eel he di e ence be ween he musical cul u es o
Venice, Flo ence and Rome? The Flemish, he B i ish, he Ge mans, he
Hunga ians, he Renaissance? Wha a e he musical specula ions (musica
ese a a, A chicembalo), he mode nisms (C. Gesualdo)? And his ins umen al
music o he Renaissance is he whole uni e se! I don' know i I'm eeling i , bu
i 's de ini ely no clea om he ex . I don' hink I'd like ha hyme. And
whoe e chooses ha wo d (logos) is he one who chooses he e m. O cou se,
he c ea o didn' ha e o make hose people su e , he had o make he whole
line go by. You don' pu a c oss on e e y p oblem. How can you no quo e om he Song o Solomon abou he pu chase o he bi hplace?
Yes, and he e I am, walking h ough he Cal a y o he Shadow, no seeing ha
long ago he aged, he aged and he mille e u ns o he a he , he
g and a he , he g andchild en cu sing he whi es: […]Va gas o hose who ha e
allen om me![…] The e is li e a u e, empa hy and a che ypal expe iences ha
he mind would speak. Consciousness ( he hi d oxymo on, along wi h au ology).
Le 's ag ee13:
Geddes Sigi (1966), who was bo n in Pes . Vilnius: Vaga, 24 yea s old "Vic o ia"
is a 2010 ilm abou a agic lo e a ai . Vilnius: LRS publishing house. G. S.
12 Geda Sigi as 1991: Sep ynių asa ų giesmės. Vilnius: Vaga, 96.
Lewis, "Va na a e he Moon" (Tex on he Bookle ) Vilnius: Vaga is loca ed.
Kalba poezijoje: ilologija s. bio ilija
Insigh s and Insigh s 241
Wha do I mean by ha ? Tha i 's all condi ional? Is i ha he ue e ses mus be
ma ked by an inspi a ion ha anscends ou wisdom and abili ies? Fa he s we e
known housands o yea s ago.
Va ia ions o his idea play in he minds o many poe s. I hink i 's ob ious. And he
plays no as a philological monody, bu as an a che ypal expe ience polyphony. I is
possible, o cou se, o pu on he mask o he O e lo ds, o play a cha ac e
om a play, some hing om a Beijing ope a o a Commedia della e. Bu o a
ue a is , he mask is no jus a combina ion o he a che ypes o he pe son
(ego, pe sona, shadow, animus anima, sel ), bu also a lo o imp essions om
misunde s andings, se lemen s and expe iences, pe haps om books ead,
ha ha e come o mind. I is p ecisely his expe ience ha allows a man
(chemically and ha moniously di e en om a woman) o eel he pain o
Paskenduole, and a woman (physically and heologically di e en om a man) o expe ience he c isis o Liud Vasa io. Tha 's wha masks a e o .
I p e ended o be a p ies , a cen au , a s ee , Jesus Ch is , he g ea es
Li huanian poe , all people and bi ds. Cha on, he demiu ge, playing wi h he Bal ic
c icke s. A eal collec i e consciousness! And he wo s , bu no he ca echism,
in o he wo ds, hu , i someone else, who li ed a long ime ago, hu . And you'll
p olong he joy o li ing, i he e is one. And i was maybe jus joy o be, bu i
was. E en i he didn' ha e eyes o see, and he did i h ough he eyes o some
ec ui . Language inlays, ins alla ions, i ewo ks a e un! They ha e li e in hem,
bu i comes om he obse e . They don' allow you o ins all you own acuum
cleane . They a e acqui ed only h ough con ac wi h a li ing pe son ( au ology, I
ag ee). The las ime I ead he poem, i says:
E e y hing dies, bu God does no
die, I was in his ee h g inding.
Gu ie ez is he au ho o In oduc ion o Analy ical Psychology. Vilnius: Vilnius Uni e si y
publishing house. In 1985 Geda Sigi as was he mo he o Mamu . Vilnius: 42 Vaga S ee
Geddes Sigi us, Sep uagin : The se en songs o summe . Vilnius: Vaga, 63. This is he i s ime I ha e isi ed his ci y.
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C ush o h ee, o h ee, o a h ee-cen ime e
hole in you eye.
Kaip iešpa ies ynuogyne – – –
I ga e you h ee.
I 's easie o me o be an
asce ic, a Capuchin wi h a b oken hea .
I'm on my own.
To bu n wi h li e o h ee pa s o he people o he na u al i e. M. P.
Muso gsky, N. V. Gogol, E. A. Poe, and G. Be esne icius we e among hose who w o e
his book. And we, he non-na u al people o i e, can only in ensely dump, spa k a
spa k and li e […] only o one, bu o one ull. In a day a e a day. And ha 's
enough! When I had o go o he coun yside ( he wo d says i 's […] he no h side;
bu i can be like he sun, like he win e hea ; he ou h oxymo on!) o go o he
coun yside o Senessalia and u n my iend's u nace, so ha he adia o s
would no explode in he cold, he blessing was co e ed, when ha body ba ely
abo e ze o deg ees was si ing in he coun yside ( he ea h e u ned om
below, al hough he ou side o he ci y was no wa me han he i s ). And, well,
some unpleasan aes he ic o m o li e suddenly appea ed in he ga den. I 's a bi
o a s uggle. I o igina ed whe e he au umn o o he mosses was added. The e's
no i ewo ks he e, bu he e's a bunch o hem! E en i you li e o one day, bu
ha one, he p omised one, pa ien ly kep he one. So we who li e o ou sel es
don' need o be God's oo hpicks. All you ha e o do is s ay a he oo o he
moun ain. And you des oy ha ibe, ha 's cle e . I'm washing on he deck as i
I'm p aying, as i I'm ea ing he unconscious.
In he end, one (ali e, and e y much so!) poe lea ned no o be a aid o be in he ceme e y a
nigh only a e he had slep un il dawn ( he e was nowhe e o go!) in Sha nel, clinging o he
g a e o V. Mače nio. And he e is one c i ic, ecen ly in i ed o he commemo a ion o he
same monumen o V. Mače nij in Telšiai, who did no ecei e he eadings. The ho el in Telšiai
u ned ou o be oo bad. Bu ha didn' s op he i s one, bu ied on he nigh o he 17 h,
S anke ičius Rim ydas 2018: Lea ning o coun . Th ee o hem. I 's called Sigi ui Gedai. I 's he
Valhalla. Vilnius: Li huanian W i e s' Union publishing house, 99.
Kalba poezijoje: ilologija s. bio ilija
Insigh Insigh s 243 sel - epo ed, sel - epo ed and sel - epo ed. Well, I
ead ha one.
pe sid asinusį (Seman iniai yšiai):
Be ha as i may, smile o he hea ens.
The cheekbones a e c acked.
I'm wea ing a plaid shi .
The lag is a ached.
C i ics, good philologis s, he message is ha i 's jus li e a u e. Pa abolic
hype bole, me apho ical allego y, me onymic onoma opoeia, e lib inic
pe soni ica ion, he syn hesis o heses and an i heses. Wha e e you wan .
And i seems o me, h ough poe y seeking ai h and li e, ha i is as i is
w i en. Some imes. Tha 's he way i 's go o be. A leas some imes. I ha e o!
The sky is ull o poems
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The yea is 1810.
The Li huanian and P ussian gods lo e he Lu he an
pas o Ludwig Ma yn, bap ize him Jedemin and gi e
him en husiasm o collec Li huanian songs
Blasieni, o he di ec connec ion ha has
aken place h ough he wi h he Poe s, who
a e al eady in e e ni y, wi h he C usade s
and hei ch onicles, wi h P. Ruigi, J. B e kun,
F. Ku šaičius and wi h all he inspi ing,
gaudžian ia, ne e again unnecessa y
P ussia!
§ 1
1.1.
Fa away om Ven es ho n, owa ds Rasy ė, was
Pe kūnkal ės island. J. Basana ičius, "F om he dep hs o li e and he de il", 1898
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250 o he Li huanian Language Ac LXXXI
The P ussian and Li huanian ibes mou ned he g ea g ie . The Li huanians did
no help hei b o he s in spi i and language du ing he G ea P ussian
Up ising. The on is Š i land […] š i ijie is; om S y ia. Fo example, he
co ona ion o Mindaugas (1253) was ca ied ou by he knigh And ius on
S i land. P ecen o ius is he child ens eache o he pa ish P o es an
chu ch school. The one who sings be o e he o he s in he ce emony expands
he space so ha e e yone sings in he audience (La in p æcan o ).
Kleinli a , he e m "Li le Li huania", was i s used by Simon G unau
(G una o) in he P ussian land ch onicle o 1517-1526 m. 1 guilde 15 g ains […]
such a p ice is men ioned by L. Rėzaimi (in he manusc ip 1817 Liud ikas 1965:
12-23) į lie u ių li e a ū os bičiulius už Donelaičio Me ų p enume a ą (Rė-
Li huanian olk songs II, p epa ed by A. Jo aišas. Vilnius, 334; Sp indis Adol as
1951: Li e a u e and a , Augus 5). The add ess is D . L. Rėza, Ka aliaučius,
Mone ų g.
Deli e ed on 18 Oc obe 2019
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Vilniaus uni e si e as
Ins i u e o compu e science
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day ollowing ha o i s publica ion in he O icial Jou nal o he Eu opean Union.