GRGR(3) 50.31 Love Pointsman

[Paul Mackin]

Keith Woodward wrote:

>  I suspect that P., in some of the passages that seem to be
> directed out of the text are directed at an audience, but one of my profs
> suggested in the past that it might not be a universal audience, that it
> seems to exclude, for example, women.

Do you mean women might be an example of a portion of the audience  which the
accusations, taunts, kiddings,  fondlings, whatever they are,  are expressly
not meant for? If so, did the prof elaborate?

Are some readers BEYOND being implicated in P's fantasies?

What are these excluded readers supposed to be doing while the favored ones are
being scolded or titillated?

Did you ever notice (or its it true) that in certain controlled  narrations,
such as racial  jokes,  that the listener is automatically and involuntarity
implicated? (this is a slightly different point)

                                                                            P.