Clifford Siskin argues that the satire of the second ``Supposition'' is directed at all those people who discussed the book at social gatherings (or subscribed to the volume and received a copy), but never read it. Carolyn Steedman describes the ``Suppositions'' as ``intentionally offensive, and wonderfully so'', and shows how Hands manages to suggest the limitedness of _her_ superiors' worldview and critical powers. <sep>, Pronoun: her