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

[Chris Sweet]

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> Max asks:
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> >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
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> 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.
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> Andrew?
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> --Jimmy


I picked up a really nice ordnance survey of London a few years back.
According to that Wapping is a little to the East of the main section
of London, seated right along the Thames. Actually, its just to the
east of The Tower. Theres a Wapping Lane, Wapping Wall, and a Wapping
High Street. Its within a half mile of the St. George In The East
and Shadwell sections of London.

-chris