AtD (37) p.1042 'movie-themes, emigres, Le Street, Vertex Club'

[Mark Kohut]

P. 1042

" Erno Rapee movie-theme book" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erno_Rapee...

..Another emigre from Eastern Europe........remember Bela Somebody from Lugos?(who became Bela Lugosi of course......what is the connection
between Pynchon focussing so much story out of there and then emigres turning up later, in music, Hollywood, etc.?(we can remember how much of early Hollywood was built by such immigrants.) 

Chester Le Street. Chester of the street. [and: "le" and "the", both being articles, bear as little significance as possible, and so are "unsubstantial" and virtually invisible--from "Finnegans Wake" commentary]  Cf. Compare all the human things that happen on "the streets" in AtD. Cf. street fairs all over the world? Remember when Kit and Dally "do it in the street"? Streets are where anarchists play? (writer\
named seed says 'the street' is threatening in early--thru GR--TRP?)

["the ghost bikes are like a quiet and respectful aspect of the old Reclaim the Streets initiatives - except they proceed from the premise that the streets do not need to be reclaimed by confrontation, that they are already ours." Geoff Dyer, Guardian, May 16.  Real life happens there, usually.] 

["Such a vision of the street
As the street hardly understands;" ----T.S. Eliot]

Vertex Club: The vertex is the intersection of two lines of an angle, the zero point on a graph/grid. Recalls the V-Note in V..(which leads me to THIS thought about "V.", the symbol:
Is a major part of its symbolic meaning the way the lines diverge? As History diverged from a 'good zero point'?....I think this cause it would seem that the V-Note and the Vertex Club would be positive places in Pynchon's associations. Where the lines start, so to speak?)