Telling the code: Instructions for interpretation (Continued)
It (e) was one more formulation of the features of the persisting relationship between hearer and teller---e.g. "You are an agent [or state researcher] and I am a resident-parolee. Some things you might ask me involve informing on my fellow residents. Residents do not inform on their fellows. We call that snitching."... the features of that transituational role relationship were originally and continuously formulated through such utterances as, "You know I won't snitch."