MDDM Ch. 40 Trinity Church

[Otto]

399.4 "Trinity Church, at the head of Wall-Street"

Interestingly this church is mentioned by William Gaddis in "JR" too:

Scene 14 (75.7-89.19)
Massapequa to Manhattan
Amy takes pupils on field trip to New York; Bast, also going in to town,
reluctantly assists; J R and the Hyde boy compare portfolios on train
ride; children visit Wall Street, where they are met by Dave Davidoff,
and taken to Crawley & Bro., where they purchase one share of Diamond
Cable.
http://www.williamgaddis.org/jr/jrscenes.html

I only got the German text (yet) but Gaddis' novel tells more about the
church & the area than the websites about it. Does "Wall-Street" really mean
the Northern Defence Line of the original Dutch settlement? It's oldest
America, the place bought from the Indians by the earliest Dutch settlers.

  Mason observes the development of some American consciousness,
  "(...) -- something styling itself "America," coming into being, ripening,
  like a Tree-ful of Cherries in a good summer, almost as one stands and
  watches, -- something no one in London, however place'd in the Web
  of Privilege, however up-to-the-minute, seems to know much about.
  What is happening?" (405.27-31)

Otto

----- Original Message -----
From: jbor <jbor at bigpond.com>
To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Sunday, March 10, 2002 9:41 PM
Subject: MDDM Ch. 40 Summary, Notes, Questions
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> 398.4 "Trinity Church, at the head of Wall-Street"
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> "The original Trinity Church finished construction in 1698 and appeared
> modest in design. Unfortunately, this first church was destroyed in 1776
by
> a massive fire stemming from an American Revolution battle."
>
> http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/medny/trinity1.html
>