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arrows at pennies in an adjoining wigwam or perhaps what would be more congenial, have an empty hogshead and let them practice by shouting , their dirty and undeserved titles, for each others' amusement; anything to keep them from thrusting their fulsome and nauseous nuisances on those who despise them and don't want their interference."

(under headline "The Myrtle Avenue and Jamaica Plank Road"

May 20.69

Websters Unabridged Dictionary (second edition)

p 1800

Street n. [Middle English - strete; Anglo-Saxon straet; Latin - strata, for strata via, a paved road; strata feminine of stratus, past participle of sternere, to strew scatter pave]

1. a paved way or road (obsolete)

2. a public road in a town or city; especially a paved thoroughfare with sidewalks and building along one or both sides.

3. such a road apart from its sidewalks; as don't play in the street

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4. the people living, working, etc. in the buildings along a given street; as the whole street contributed.

Journey to the end of night by Celine

New Directions paperbacks 1960 p 355

"There is point in struggling: waiting is enough, since everything in the end will have to turn out into the street. It's the street which counts in the long run. There's no escape. It lies in wait for us. We will have to make up our own minds, we will have to pass out into the street, not one or two or a few of us, but everybody. We hover about on the brink and make a great fuss but it will come to that."

Tropic of Capricorn Henry Miller p 303

"Because every street is becoming a Myrtle Avenue, because emptiness is filling the whole continent from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Because, after a certain time, you can't enter a single house