| The real man remains elusive, a confessant who never quite confesses, an apostate convert to the anti-war school who remains loyal to an American commitment gone wrong. |
| How do we understand, not what is said between the confessor and confessant, but the dynamic that is produced between them? |
| In this case, the said confession was obtained during custodial investigation but the confessant was not assisted by counsel. |
| While this bond structures the confession as a dialogue, it also encourages, and sometimes manipulates, the intimacy, dependence, and abjection of the confessant. |
