Re: MisK.

["Ronald W. Garrison" <rwgarr@intrex.net>]

IEDSRI@aol.com wrote:
> 
>  > 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.
>
...FWIW: Yes, I'm familiar with that interview too, and always thought
the notion of the interviewer was silly--that there was no apparent
connection at all (Heck, the song starts out referring to *skating*
along the ice--nothing like a plane crash.)

--Ron 
> -- Andrew Marvick (IED)
>     S                R                I

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