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

[davemarc]

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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
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Maybe death, but maybe disappearance, too.  My impression is that Wapping
might've been a place where hapless souls were crimped or shanghaied into
service on maritime expeditions.  This kind of thing comes up in plays by
Eugene O'Neill.  From the Gelb bio:  Crimping "involved a conscious, if
somewhat muddled sailor; he was obliged to sign over his future pay to the
boardinghouse operator before his gear was released to him.  Shanghaiing
consisted of putting a thoroughly drunk--or knocked out--sailor aboard an
undermanned vessel, in return for payment from the ship's master and
whatever cash the sailor could be robbed of."  Or something to that effect.
 Comments?

davemarc