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astrophel • a pearl scavenged from the toxic sludge • « botanical, celestial, erotic » • hedgehog chronicler • the thing is to dazzle linktr.ee/isabellastreffen
![layer for the helmets.
on Freizeichen freesign: Celan had thought at some point of using this word as overall title of the volume.
"Eingeschossen" | "Inserted into"
July 19, 1969, Paris, rue d'Ulm. Celan sent this poem and "Chalk-crocus" (p. 388) to Franz Wurm in Prague (PC/FW, #162) in his letter referring to the moon landing of July 20, comparing it to his own "landing" in his new apart-ment on avenue Émile Zola: "I migrated [übersiedelte] drop by drop, braindrop by braindrop, one of these days I will indeed land in the new apartment and start the prospecting [zu schürfen beginnen]." The poem draws for some of its images on an article on the return flight of the command module, which was eingeschossen, "inserted," into the orbit of the command spacecraft.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:mmedg6l5pnn2hkvv3spdkwjc/bafkreigt5aoo5tlx3svkkpioxqokgbfj55cmvt65msznvhbmakxgjjpe2u)
![Ungrund | unground: an older German word for the more usual Abgrund, "abyss." Here it may play on the opposition of cosmic space (where the moon landing takes place) and the ground, with a rhyme on his well-known image from the Meridian speech, where Lenz wants to walk on his head so as to have the abyss beneath him. Another possible direction to explore is the term Un-grund in the mystical teachings of Jacob Boehme, as explicated by Nicolas Berdiaev in his "Etude I. The Teaching About the Ungrund and Freedom": "The mysterious teaching of Boehme about the Ungrund, about the abyss, without foundation, dark and irrational, prior to being, is an attempt to pro-vide and [sic] answer to the basic question of all questions, the question con-cerning the origin of the world and of the arising of evil. The whole teaching of Boehme about the Ungrund is so interwoven with the teaching concerning freedom, that it is impossible to separate them, for this is all part and parcel of the same teaching. And I am inclined to interpret the Ungrund, as a pri-mordial meonic freedom, indeterminate even by God" (www.berdyaev.com /berdiaev/berd_lib/1930_349.html#q).
If this mystical direction is correct, then the "Smaragdbahn" | "emerald-trajectory" of the second line could refer back to the Tabula Smaragdina, the Emerald Tablet, a core mystical and alchemical treatise supposedly composed and handed down by the mythical Hermes Trismegistus, and now believed to date back to the sixth to eighth century C.E. Celan, we know, had an abiding interest in alchemy.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:mmedg6l5pnn2hkvv3spdkwjc/bafkreibz7sxed6bcnmmtjowxqykfst7zfx7tojwflafx2gpwqb5wapqyke)
