ATDTDA 720

[János Székely]

Vaci ut (I spare the accents) simply means the Road (leading) to Vac, a town
north of Budapest.

The most probable etymology for Angyalfold is "Engelsfeld", a plot which
used to be the vineyard of a 18th c. Tyrolean immigrant called Stefan Engl
or Engel.

The Britannica article on Kassak misses the point. Apart from being a fine
Constructivist painter, he was the single most important (almost
prophet-like) figure of Hungarian avantgarde poetry. Angyalfold, though, is
a rather non-avantgarde novel. Lajos is Hung. for Louis, a very common name.

Janos

2008/2/1, Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com>:
>
> 720 6 Yevno Azeff, infiltrating revolutionary organizations for
> the Okhrana, led those organizations into violent acts...
>
> http://preview.tinyurl.com/25y2s5 is a contemporary account
> (from 1909)
>
> but the CIA library also has an article on it,
> looks like it was declassified in 1993...
> http://preview.tinyurl.com/25ywv4
> (oboy, I've gotta pop some more questions to
> that CIA search engine!)
>
> The hero, to my mind, (shaped by the
> CIA's story, entitled "The Sherlock Holmes of the Revolution")
> was a newspaper man named Burtzev.
>
> Burtzev was editor of the revolutionary organ "Byloe" ("The Post" -
> rather a sedate name as revolutionary papers go, but anyway...)
> who did a Woodward-Bernstein on Azeff, up to and
> including a Deep Throat-type informant from the
> Okhrana who confirmed his suspicions.
>
> Burtzev himself was deeply involved in revolutionary politics,
> so, not exactly of the William Allen White school...
>
> Burtzev's work was why Azeff's name would be
> familiar to Ratty, Cyprian and Yashmeen, and even
> to well-read Americans (the P-listers of that time?)
>
> Azeff himself brings to mind the FBI informer in the 1993 WTC affair,
> who kept tapes of his bosses egging him on; as well as
> Nixon's Cointelpro and Brock Vond's Rex 84.
>
> --- if Yashmeen doesn't see the future, why was she
> involved in the conclave (with all those sheer-smocked
> seers?) -- One possible answer: if she had the ability to teleport,
> could her talents be used to shift the historical track
> away from danger?  I'm not enough of a TWIT to know for sure...
>
> 720 25 This is a flashback, I realized...
> episode of cabin fever  // Darazsfeszek, Dobos torte,
> and Rigo Jacsi are all pastry, and with excess coffee as
> well, their food could be contributing to their jitters.
> The Cohen was there as well...
>
> Not much luck with the street name or with Angel's field,
> except that Vaci Ut is a street, and Angel's Field is
> a district in Budapest that has its own flag.
> http://www.atlasgeo.net/fotw/flags/hu-bp-13.html
>
> Pynchonwiki sez it's a working-class neighborhood
> in the northern part of the city.
>
> There's a Hungarian print artist whose name
> was Lajos Kassak (close to Lajos Halasz, hmmmm,
> the "local sensitive" asleep in the bathtub for 3 days)
> http://www.lajos-kassak.com/
> and it looks like we may have missed a chance
> to buy a print of his entitled "Angel's Field"
> http://preview.tinyurl.com/32ly97
> (search engine found it but currently a dead link,
> however Google still has a cache of it...
> a bit pricey for me, though)
>
> Britannica teaser on Kassak sez "1st working-class
> Hungarian writer...Socialist"
> http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9044810/Lajos-Kassak
>
> and here are some Dadaist picture-poems by him
> presented at the Budapest autumn festival 1997
> (same year as that Fritz Lang bio was published)
>
> anyway, that looks like paydirt to me...
> probably missed 720 other references on 720 tho
>
>
>
> "I say, how jolly." - Ratty McHugh (720 14)
>
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