Re: Submission for rec-music-gaffa

[orion@wpi.wpi.edu (Kenneth G Descoteaux)]

In article <9002281928.AA10864@rutgers.edu> root@IUVAX.CS.INDIANA.EDU (Boss Tweed) writes:
>
>Jenn asks something about KaTe referring to a female character in
>The Ninth Wave.
>
>Somewhere I have a short "interview" with KaTe that I got off Gaffa, um,
>a little under a year ago, in which KaTe gives a _brief_ description of
>what each separate song in the suite is about...I'm fairly positive she
>refers to a woman.
>
>If the article isn't in the archives, I'm sure I could dig it up on floppy
>and re-post it.
>
>|Jeffrey C. Burka                | "On the outskirts of nowhere           |
>|jburka@silver.ucs.indiana.edu   |  on the ringroad to somewhere,         |
>|jburka@amber.ucs.indiana.edu    |  on the verge of indecision..." --Fish |

No-one's going crazy yet guys.  I was surprised by the reference to a male
character also and even checked back. Since I'm relatively new, I have been
pawing through the archives and had just found that article a few weeks ago
:^)

It's on gaffa.mit.edu down with the KaTe stuff in the directory called
'kate-says' the file in question is 'kate-on-hounds-of-love'
The main character is confirmed to be a woman by KaTe's own words. 
It's very interesting and I recommend it to anyone who hasn't read it yet ...
actually all the stuff (that I've read so far) in 'kate-says' is interesting.

Now how did they screw up the release like that?
Certainly the tale of a woman's trials by water would be more emotionally
involving. (I hope that doesn't sound sexist ... It isn't meant to.)
The lyrics aren't ambiguous at all.
Maybe whoever wrote it up only listen to "Hello Earth" and assumed by the
references to 'sailors' that the character was male ? (That would be sexist)
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