GRGR(6): End of the advent service

[David Morris]

Gary Thompson:
>Don't know who "you" [snip of pertinent text] To me
>this says the "him" has to be the baby, and
>personally I'd argue for the generalized *you* which
>reaches through Jessica and Roger to the reader or
>others potentially in this situation (opposition to
>the reductionism of "the War").

Sure, "you" is the reader, and "him" is the baby.  That's the clear part.
But by making the "you" mean Roger, J. has hit on a very good alternate
understanding, and it fits very well: Roger IS a baby, all full of need for
Jessica.  Jessica HAS (and will even more so later on) turned away from that
baby, that chance to be define apart from the War and enter another realm,
and "settles" into her War identity (and thus settles for the nutria).