Difference between revisions of "Wallstrait"
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* strait: difficulty, crisis; narrow sea-passage | * strait: difficulty, crisis; narrow sea-passage | ||
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| + | * The first line of the song "Finnegan's Wake": ''Tim Finnegan lived on '''Walkin Street'''...'' | ||
Revision as of 12:25, 25 July 2006
- Wall Street, New York → supposedly built by Irish navvies (like Tim Finnegan)
- The Wall Street Crash or Black Thursday refers to 24 October 1929, the day when the New York Stock Exchange crashed, leading eventually to the Great Depression. The crash followed a speculative boom that had taken hold in the late 1920s, and which had led millions of Americans to invest heavily in the stock market.
- well-straight: looks like a calque of a Romance language. Cf. Greek orthodox
- straight as a wall: plumb, i.e., "straight (down) as a well (shaft)". Cf. Eve and Adam's. Possibly a fall down a well-straight, i.e., without any sort of swerve, implies that Finnegan (who is falling) has no free will, according to Epicurean doctrine.
- nr "Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall..."
- strait: difficulty, crisis; narrow sea-passage
- The first line of the song "Finnegan's Wake": Tim Finnegan lived on Walkin Street...
