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[János Székely]

Well, another popular version says downtown middle-class ladies sneaked to
the local midwives to keep their abortions in secret ("making angels" was
period slang for abortion).

Janos


2008/2/1, kelber at mindsprin4g.com <kelber at mindspring.com>:
>
> The book Temptation, by Hungarian American John Pen (the pen name for
> another Janos Szekely) is partially set in the Angel-Grounds, which is
> described a desperately poor (but working class) neighborhood on the
> outskirts of Buda-Pest.  One character explains that it's called that to
> commemorate the souls of all of the babies that were aborted because their
> mothers couldn't afford to have children.  Abortion due to necessity is one
> of the recurring plot points in the book.
>
> Laura
>
> -----Original Message-----
> >From: János Székely <miksaapja at gmail.com>
>
> >
> >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.
> >
>
> >
> >2008/2/1, Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com>:
>
> >> 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.
>
>
>
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