MDDM Ch. 66 Wicks?

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      "Thing about out here," cackles Thomas Cresap, when they go to pay him
    a visit, "is it's perfect. It's 'at damn U-topia's what it is, and
    nobody'll own to it. No King, no Governor, nought but the Sheriff, whose
    Delight is to leave you alone, for as long as you do not actively seek
    his attention, which he calls 'fuckin' with him.' As long as you don't
    'fuck' with him, he don't 'fuck' with you. Somethin', hah? ... "
                                                            (638.13)

I think it's very difficult to conceive, or to support the argument, that
Wicks relates this episode verbatim - as it appears on the page - to the
gathered kids and adults in the drawing room.

The text itself would take much longer than one evening to relate, there are
many episodes and insights related which Wicks would not have been privy to,
attitudes which are revealed through the dialectical cast of the narrative
are at odds with Wicks's fixed prejudices, and there are certain episodes
and interruptions, such as Eliza Fields' tale, which Wicks explicitly isn't
the agent of. In my opinion Wicks is a minor character in the novel at most.

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