"Castaway" with Spoilers
The Urth list — 3 messages, 3 voices, 07 Feb 2003
https://urth.darkrealm.vip/thread/urth/3833

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Michael Andre-Driussi — 07 Feb 2003, 18:23

So we are all in agreement that the narrator is female?

=mantis=

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Dan'l Danehy-Oakes — 07 Feb 2003, 18:27
  follows, by subject match 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...)

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Fernando Q. Gouvea — 07 Feb 2003, 18:32
  follows, by subject match 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

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