>>24694508
It's kind of a 4th wall break. Why would the most educated man in the book deliver those speeches in that manner to a party of criminals and illiterates only to hear himself called crazy for the umpteenth time? It's clever, not subtle. The kind of book Mccarthy foregrounds it to be hides some very blatant things he has been doing since the start.

The first draft of the book (pic related) was quite unapologetically a metafiction