M&D - Chapter 11 pp 109-110

[Monte Davis]

Are you reading this passage on p. 110 as unreliable because the paragraph
ends with Wicks drifting off and being recalled by "Uncle, Uncle"?

"The year after Rebekah’s death was treacherous ground for Mason, who was
as apt to cross impulsively by Ferry into the Bosom of Wapping, and another
night of joyless low debauchery, as to attend Routs in Chelsea, where
nothing was available betwixt Eye-Flirtation, and the Pox. In
lower-situated imitations of the Hellfire Club, he hurtl’d carelessly along
some of Lust’s less-frequented footpaths, ever further, he did not escape
noting, from Pleasure.."

If so, what makes anything after mid-106 more reliable? If it's reliable,
whether from Wicks or Pynchon, what do you make of something so at variance
with almost everything else we learn of Mason-as-widower?
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