Great Expectations has a main character who is, as a boy and adolescent, basically hopelessly confused by life and other people, and generally knows it. Since this was a major component of the way I felt as a kid/adolescent, I rather identified with it.

Wait, you don't think we'll get those things, or that we will? Seems like we will to me... although Dag's method of "let's tell Farmers about our rituals in the hope it won't get completely garbled," while appealing to my open-source "information wants to be free!" tendencies, also seems somewhat... idealistic.