This is a text about flying from Japan to Scandinavia. What I said, when I mentioned Vladivostok and Yakutsk and Kamchatka, was this: The names pop up on the route map amongst huge areas of empty space. I also speak about SIberia, but I don't say that, for instance, Kamchatka is in Siberia.
As for Siberia being synonymous with cold, well, I'm sorry to tell you that in the popular imagination -- and with good reason -- it is synonymous with cold. Play word association with people inside and outside of Siberia and I'm sure "cold" will be within their first few responses. With good reason! Do you know the temperature range tomorrow in Novosibirsk? It's between minus 28 and minus 35 degrees! That's cold!
I'm sorry you think Mandelstam is stereotypical -- have you read him?
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Date: 2010-01-25 04:25 pm (UTC)As for Siberia being synonymous with cold, well, I'm sorry to tell you that in the popular imagination -- and with good reason -- it is synonymous with cold. Play word association with people inside and outside of Siberia and I'm sure "cold" will be within their first few responses. With good reason! Do you know the temperature range tomorrow in Novosibirsk? It's between minus 28 and minus 35 degrees! That's cold!
I'm sorry you think Mandelstam is stereotypical -- have you read him?