GRGR(4)

[Spangenthal, Robert E.]

>21) "You . . ." (50.31) You? Suddenly we switch to direct address to
>    the reader? Why?


The narration switches briefly to first-person on the previous page at   
49.31.

The prior scene appears to be narrated by Pointsman, and directed at an   
"abreaction" patient at the Hospital of St. Veronica of the True Image   
for Colonic and Respiratory Diseases.

The section at 50.31, occurring at the St. Veronica Bus station is   
directed at the reader (I think). I don't know who the narrator is   
(omniscient third-person?).

TRP sets up a parallel discourse, the point of which is to make the   
reader aware of the external systems at work. The narrator compares the   
reader, preying on children at the bus station, with Pointsman's pursuit   
of the dog in the previous section. Or are we really the prey rather than   
the predator?