Memphis: Church Site by Dump (Location Key)

After Goodyhay and his congregation are forced to abandon the first building site for their church in The Mansion they travel to a second site somewhere nearby. Getting there they leave the "lush Delta" behind and enter a "region of desolation," defined by its "eroded barren clay hills" (303), ending up at "the uttermost of desolation . . . a dump, a jumbled plain of rusted automobile bodies and boilers and gin machinery and brick and concrete rubble" (304). Here Goodyhay again puts down "the stakes" and marks out the "rectangular" walls of his chapel with "string tautened rigid between them" (304).