Re-Checking for the Key (A Note on Gandlevskij and Chodasevič)

In this note the poems of Vladislav Khodasevich “Pereshagni, pereskochi…” (“Step over, jump over…”) and of Sergei Gandlevskii “‘Ili – ili’ – ‘I – I’ ne byvaet” (“‘Either – or’ – ‘both – and’ do not happen…”) are compared.