After all, I still can't write a better White one. He's talking about his fun - "he threw a pineapple into the sky", and I'm talking about my whining - "hundreds of painful days". V. Mayakovsky. "I myself" Probably, everyone who passed through the Soviet school will always remember the following lines from Mayakovsky's poem "Vladimir Ilyich Lenin":. Unit! Who needs it?! Voice units thinner than a squeak. Who will hear it? - Unless the wife! And then if not at the bazaar, and close. (...) Party - million-fingered hand, compressed version to one smashing fist. Unit-nonsense, one-zero (...) Party - this my shoulders... These lines of Mayakovsky's clearly echo a fragment of Andrey Bely's novel Petersburg, in which the "human" part of the story is written in Russian. page 20 an insignificant unit is also contrasted with a unit with many zeros: "In unity (...) there is no horror; the unit itself is nothing; exactly-one!.. But one plus thirty zeros is formed in the ugliness of a pentallion (...) Yes,- as a human unit, that is, this skinny stick, Nikolai Apollonovich lived in space until now, making a run from eternal times - "Nikolai Apollonovich was a stick in Adam's costume; he was ashamed of his thinness and never went to the bathhouse with anyone - - in eternal times! "(Bely A. Petersburg, Moscow, 1981, p. 327). On Mayakovsky and Bely, see first of all: Trenin V. V., Khardzhiev N. I. Poeticheskaya kul'tura Mayakovsky [Poetic Culture of Mayakovsky], Moscow, 1970, pp. 55-59; Gasparov M. L. Ritm i sintaktis: proiskhozhdenie "lesenka" Mayakovsky [Rhythm and Syntax: the origin of the "ladder" of Mayakovsky]. Problemy strukturnoy lingvistiki, Moscow, 1979, pp. 160-162; Ivanov V. V. Sun. On the impact of the" aesthetic experiment " by Andrey Bely (V. Khlebnikov, V. Mayakovsky, M. Tsvetaeva, B. Pasternak) / / Andrey Bely: Problems of Creativity, Moscow, 1988, pp. 345-358; Janecek G. Belyi and Maiakovski / / Russian Literature and American Critics. Ann Arbor, 1984. P. 129-137; ... Read more