contiguous draft of "Point Man"

contiguous draft of "Point Man"

This one is kind of all over the place—I built up an involved thread
of language nerdery that I just drop on the floor after using it to
introduce my interlocutor's comment. I'm tempted to keep it like this,
but—I should probably cut the detailed pronoun discussion, huh? (It
could be deposited into a different post.)