GRGR(3) 50.31 Love Pointsman Style

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rj wrote:
> 
> But isn't Spectro's task to make them forget about the terror of the
> blast. Why have they lost *all* their "old behaviour and attitudes"? I
> don't get the impression that Spectro is churning out zombies. What I do
> think is going on is that there are so many, the wards are so crowded,
> that some are released prematurely still in a mindless daze and that
> these are the ones Pointy is preying on at the bus station. 

(50.13) 'And those who do let go at last: out of each catharsis rise new
children, painless,oless for one pulse of the Between . . . tablet
erased'

This seems to me to be both a description of those who have successfully
gone through the catharsis of treatment and the same children on whom
Pointsman preys.  'How Pointsman lusts after them, pretty children.'

Yet when I look down at the first of the 'you' paragraphs I see a
description of a girl who is arRIving at the bus station. So she is
neither one cured nor one released prematurely. She may indeed be a
little girl. These may be different children than the children arising
out of catharsis, and Doug may have been right after all. But, then this
may not be Pointsman, and David may be right. Shit. First I had a hold
of the elephant's tail, but now I think I've got the trunk.