Derb: Is that better or worse than being purposelessly obtuse? Never mind. Look back at the context. Professor George is saying “what’s really going on here” is that Mr. Schiavo has decided that his wife’s life is not worth living as a way of pulling our attention away from what he regards as a distraction–the question of what Mrs. Schiavo’s intentions were or would be. He does not present himself as unveiling a “revelation” or “the Rosetta Stone,” and I doubt anyone but you has taken him to be doing that.