MDDM Ch. 30 Dolly

[Samuel Moyer]

Hi all, Trying to get caught up here...

> The sexual material, and much else, needn't be read as the Wicks voice
> at all. It may be P's account of Wicks' imagination, or then again it
> mayn't. Clearly the reader gets far more material to work with than Pit
> and Pliny ever hear.
>

Exactly, on my first time through I questioned how Rev. Wicks could be
telling this story in this home with children... but it is pretty clear that
he isn't saying out loud most of what we are reading... As I go through this
for a second time I am trying to pay closer attention to the way the story
is told... what is from the narrator (who is it anyway?), what Wicks is
thinking, what Wicks or others actually say... What Wicks might be making up
or what parts of the tale he might actually have witnessed, and so on... It
wouldn't be TRP if it was easy to do though.


> > At
> > the Cape, we have young ladies who are sexually aggressive, the sit on
> > Mason's lap,  we have Mason walking around with a hard-on, we have a
> > naked slave girl pimped by the  white woman of the house, the mother
> > also comes on to Charles.


One of the very first sexual references (I think) in the novel is when Wicks
complains of being old (I don't have my book handy - but it is very near the
beginning) and Tenebrae mentions that he didn't look so old this morning...
Wicks responds something like "That'd be my secret relation." and then
something about how he'd be careful to put it this way for the present
company (the children? or other adults too - as Wicks has something for
Tenebrae).  Struck me as funny - Now, someone tell me that is not a morning
hard-on reference.

Sam