MisK.

[IEDSRI@aol.com]

 > I was thinking about the Ninth Wave today, and decided to listen to the
baktabak interview
 > disc for The Dreaming and HOL. What I realised I'd forgotten about was
that TNW isn't 
 > about a woman (i.e. kate) but a man who spends a night in the water. 

This is incorrect.  Kate has never said that the protagonist of The Ninth
Wave is male.  In nearly every case she has gone out of her way to refer to
the character either as "someone," or "the body in the water, as the head
travels on," or in the third-person plural, thus evading the issue; in at
least one case, caught up in the telling of her story,  she switched to
"she/her" in mid-synopsis.
  

In the Baktabak interview (track 2, the Hounds of Love interview) she did not
say that the character was male.  (It should go without saying that the
situation is not autobiographical.)  The *interviewer* suggested that Kate
might have been inspired by an American news story about a male pilot who had
crashed and been trapped under the ice -- but Kate replied emphatically that
she had not heard the story before, and that it had nothing to do with her
music.  

-- Andrew Marvick (IED)
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