Wallstrait
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- The Wall Street Crash or Black Thursday refers to October 24, 1929, the day when the New York Stock Exchange crashed, leading eventually to the Great Depression. The crash followed a speculative boom which had taken hold in the late 1920s, which had led millions of Americans to invest heavily in the stock market.
- Wallstrait: well-straight: looks like a calque of a romance language. Cf. Greek orthodox
- Wallstrait: plumb, i.e., "straight (down) as a well (shaft)". Cf. Eveandadams. Possibly a fall down a well-straight, i.e., without any sort of swerve, implies that Finnigan (who is falling) has no free will, according to Epicurean doctrine.
