M&D questions/observations - up to p.82

[doktor at primenet.com]

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Max asks:

>1.  What about the frequent references to "Wapping?"  First noticed on p.
>52:  "...the Hautboy-player having been one night absorb'd into that Other
>World of which Wapping is the anteroom..."  Is this some sort of euphemism
>for death?

I'm sure some UK Pynheads could help us on this one, but I think Wapping is
(or has?) a big railroad terminus in the vicinity of London...?  I recall a
Wodehouse novel in which Bertie Wooster tries to tell a joke about a deaf
person being asked about the train to Wapping.

Andrew?

--Jimmy