In Chick Mallison's fantasy about Miss Habersham's circuitous journey through the three counties that lie on three sides of Yoknapatawpha, "Okatoba" seems to lie along Yoknapatawpha's western border (184).
"Okatoba County" is a hard place to pin down. According to "Hand upon the Waters," it is "just across" the river that forms the southern border of Yoknapatawpha in some of the fictions, and Mottstown is its county seat (78) - though elsewhere that county is named Grenier, and in Intruder in the Dust Mottstown is the seat of "Mott County" (184). In the fantasy that Chick Mallison has in Intruder about Miss Habersham driving through the three counties that lie on three sides of Yoknapatawpha, "Okatoba" seems to lie along Yoknapatawpha's western border (184).
These "heiresses to European thrones" appear only inside a quasi-Homeric or mock-heroic simile when the narrator compares Willy Ingrum, who moves to Jefferson from Beat Four, marries "a town girl," and becomes the "town marshal," to the "petty Germanic princelings [who] come down out of their Brandenburg hills to marry the heiresses to European thrones" (133). It's not clear if Faulkner is thinking of specific members of European royalty.
