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From: Douglas Alan <nessus@mit.edu>
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 1997 13:11:45 -0400
Subject: Re: love-hounds-digest Digest V13 #249
To: love-hounds@gryphon.com
In-Reply-To: Your message of Wed, 24 Sep 1997 09:45:26 -0700. <199709241645.JAA13183@churchill.gryphon.com>
Sender: nessus@space.mit.edu
> [IEDSRI@aol.com wrote:] 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 fact Kate has clearly said that the protagonist is female. She
says it right in the song "Jig of Life":
She said, "C'mon and let me live, girl!"
|>oug
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