полив

[serialcondition.livejournal.com]

what does "полив" mean in the following context:


полив -- байстрюк великого и могучего -- один он утеха и отдохновение
...
полив есть полиассоциативное семантико-фонетическое явление, порождающие квазилогику. Полив -- экстаз языка.

the tone of the article is mock-heroic
but I cannot figure this word out

thanks, t.

Comments

[serialcondition.livejournal.com]

Yes he does

it's not his writing though
it's an article ABOUT M-P

[wolk-off.livejournal.com]

Then the author triesto be more of a saint than the Pope, you know, i.e. to sound more complex than the object of his, er, study. Generally speaking, the sentences you provide are just a bunch of nonsense -- or at least this all can be said in much simpler words.

BTW there is also one more slang meaning of полив - it is from the musicians' slang; поливать means "to play somebody's axe or horn really fast," so полив is "an episode of a really fast playing on somebody's axe or horn."

[serialcondition.livejournal.com]

> Generally speaking, the sentences you provide are just a bunch of nonsense -- or at least this all can be said in much simpler words.

Yes it can be said in simpler words. But it captured the carnivalesque spirit of M.P. and straight faced criticism fails miserably at that. Actually the article was quite brilliant for a number of reasons and one of very few that actually understood Erofeev, in my opinion -- this isn't the forum for that discussion though

> there is also one more slang meaning of полив - it is from the musicians' slang

is this known only in a musical community?

t.

[wolk-off.livejournal.com]

I do not doubt the [possibly really high] qualities of the article. I say that, taken outside the context, the sentences you provided made little sense besides their grammatical form. It is clear that you have to read the whole to appreciate it, and that this is no place for discussing that [invisible to us] whole.

As of the word полив/поливать as "producing a lot of fast notes," yes, many people outside the musical commmunity would use that as well, since the appreciation of certain types of music employing полив or even поливалово a lot - like heavy metal rock - is not restricted to the musical community only.

[oryx_and_crake]

It might be a riddle but quite a solvable one, definitely not nonsense, and the allusion to Turgenev's "poem in prose" just jumps at you. I am pretty sure I guessed right.