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

[Chris Sweet]

doktor at primenet.com wrote:
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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 forgot that there are also London maps online. Do a search on Wapping
at www.streetmap.co.uk

-chris