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

[Paul Mackin]

> 
> 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? 
> 

>>>>>>>>Gets mentioned as early as p. 15

Mason: "You'd appreciate Wapping High Street, then . . ." 

. . . for the past year or more, it has been his practice to attend the
Friday Hangings at that melancholy place . . .

				P.