Re: MisK.

[armajiro@ccsi.com (Arumajiro Services)]

In article <342751C1.394E@ibm.net>, Jack <noone04@ibm.net> wrote:
>IEDSRI@aol.com wrote:
>> 
>>  > 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.
>> 
>> 
>listening to the interview, the interviewer says "It's all about a man
>drowning . . ." before he asks the news story question. That and her
>talking about war films as inspiration had led me to believe it to be
>about a man, but I guess she never does really say which it is. Thanks
>for straightening me out IED. I'm always eager for deeper understanding.

In the Morning Fog she sings "... begin to bleed..."  I always
interpeted that to mean the onset of menstruation.