ZK translation: the pit of finance

[Mark Kohut]

A visual image of the pit with a Pynchon fave. (John Garfield)

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On Fri, Nov 10, 2017 at 7:46 AM, ish mailian <ishmailian at gmail.com> wrote:

> Lower Broadway, the financial district,  where the ticker-tapes are held,
> is known as the canyon, or canyon of heroes.
>
> The narrow streets about Wall Street have been called the Pit or the Pits,
> the latter carries a negative connotation, the former is, as Paul says,
> simply how one feels walking and working down there.
>
> The Pit or Pits should not be confused with the trading pit or pits where,
> for example, on the Knife or NYFE (NY Futures Exchange), traders lose their
> voices crying lots.
>
> Melville knew these places and in Bartleby the Scrivener : A Story of Wall
> Street, the lawyer/narrator describes his chambers thus:
>
>
> My chambers were up stairs at No. – Wall-street. At one end they looked
> upon the white wall of the interior of a spacious sky-light shaft,
> penetrating the building from top to bottom. This view might have been
> considered rather tame than otherwise, deficient in what landscape painters
> call “life.” But if so, the view from the other end of my chambers offered,
> at least, a contrast, if nothing more. In that direction my windows
> commanded an unobstructed view of a lofty brick wall, black by age and
> everlasting shade; which wall required no spy-glass to bring out its
> lurking beauties, but for the benefit of all near-sighted spectators, was
> pushed up to within ten feet of my window panes. Owing to the great height
> of the surrounding buildings, and my chambers being on the second floor,
> the interval between this wall and mine not a little resembled a huge
> square cistern.
>
>
>
> On Thu, Nov 9, 2017 at 12:49 PM, Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> when you're going down streets surrounded by high buildings, it seems
>> like you're in a deep hole or pit
>>
>> On Thu, Nov 9, 2017 at 12:38 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> "NP" seems such a quaint concept these days...
>>>
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>>> On Thu, Nov 9, 2017 at 10:55 AM, Mike Jing <
>>> gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> P178.7-13   The taxi stopped on a near empty street just below the pit
>>>> of finance and Stak angled his body out the door and jiggled a hand behind
>>>> him in an ironic farewell. We watched him enter a loft building where he
>>>> would spend the next two hours in a room choked with dust and stink,
>>>> learning the principles of jujitsu, a method of artful self-defense
>>>> predating the current practice of judo.
>>>>
>>>> It obviously refers to the financial district on Wall Street. In what
>>>> sense is the word "pit" used here?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
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