Castaway with Spoilers

James Jordan · 08 Feb 2003, 19:53 · from urth-v0302.mbox · original

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From: James Jordan <jbjordan4 at cox.net>
Subject: RE: (urth) Castaway with Spoilers
Date: Sat, 08 Feb 2003 13:53:26 -0600
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I took the narrator as female, because of the "games the other guys play"=20
passage. And I agree that it works thematically. Also it "felt" as if the=20
narrator was especially interested in the "woman" on the planet, which=20
seems in a way more appropriate for a women. (E.g. "What was this other=20
woman like?") Also, the fact that the man was so interested in talking with=20
the narrator, after years of talking only to another "woman," indicated to=20
me that the narrator was female. He was used to talking to a woman.
         The "I love you" was said by the stranded man to the old woman,=20
over and over, and seemed to comfort her.
         I speculate that Atrothers is an alpha privitive before the word=20
"troth," and would mean "unmarried ones" -- another image of sterility.
         Obert means "otter."
         Yarmouth is a river's name:

For example, the river Yar was first mentioned by the ancient Greek=20
geographer Ptolemy, in the second century A.D. The word is believed to stem=20
from an old, pre-English, Celtic word "gar," meaning something like "shout"=20
or "cry," and probably referring to the loud sounds made by rushing water=20
at the Yar's mouth, when tides were changing.

- English River Names, as reviewed (scroll down a ways) at:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/cm/member-reviews/-/A2CRUETJKX1WA5/1/r=
ef%3Dcm%5Fcr%5Fauth/103-6356536-1614238

         Interesting that both of the man's companions had water names.=20
First the Otter died, and then the River died.

Anyway, what I found.

Nutria


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