AtD - Chapter 27 - Section 2 (337-343): Hook deployment

[Michel]

Thank you Monte (and another offlist correspondent) - really appreciated!


> In American vaudeville, the stage manager or impresario was said to 
> use a long staff with a crook at the end -- the "hook" -- to remove 
> performers unwilling to leave the stage, before the audience could 
> deploy fruit, shoes and rocks to do so.
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> http://thumbnails.illustrationsource.com/huge.102.514386.JPG
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> http://i1258.photobucket.com/albums/ii527/waywaw/vaudevillehook_zps7dda125c.gif
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> On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 11:52 AM, Michel <bulb at vheissu.net 
> <mailto:bulb at vheissu.net>> wrote:
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>     '[Con McVeety] ... lurking backstage, waiting for the fateful Hook
>     deployment )´ p. 342
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>     What does 'Hook' refer to? Makes no sense to, right now,
>     Pynchonwiki has nothing yet on it...
>
>     Michel.
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