# "Castaway" with Spoilers *The Urth list — 3 messages, 3 voices, 07 Feb 2003* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### Michael Andre-Driussi *07 Feb 2003, 18:23* So we are all in agreement that the narrator is female? =mantis= --- ### Dan'l Danehy-Oakes *07 Feb 2003, 18:27 · follows Michael Andre-Driussi* Mantis asked: > So we are all in agreement that the narrator is female? Huh?!? Sputter!?! You know, the question of what sex (or age, or race, or any other physical characteristic) of the narrator never came up in my mind. Not once. In two readings less than two days apart ... So, uh, any particular reason for thinking this? (I don't think the "I love you" is intended that way...) --- ### Fernando Q. Gouvea *07 Feb 2003, 18:32 · follows Dan'l Danehy-Oakes* > On Fri, 7 Feb 2003, Dan'l Danehy-Oakes wrote: > Mantis asked: >> So we are all in agreement that the narrator is female? > Huh?!? Sputter!?! I must say I had the same reaction as Mantis, that the narrator was female. Perhaps this is why the castaway would tend to open up to the narrator while resisting his official debriefers. Fernando ============================================================================ Fernando Q. Gouvea Dept. of Mathematics Editor, FOCUS and MAA Online Colby College http://www.maa.org Waterville, ME 04901 fqgouvea at colby.edu It's a small world, but I wouldn't want to have to paint it. -- Steven Wright ---