'He' and 'She'

I have been trying to maintain a little anonymity in Finish This. I want the writing to stand or fall on its own merit, irrespective of my gender, age, location etc. Blogs are usually full of personal opinion and comment, by stating who I am, I immediately prejudice the visitors interpretation of the writing. If the author of Finish This is at first unknown then their (my) contribution to the post is of equal importance within the collaboration. Hence 4thra (I'm in the 4th year of trying to finish this degree and the first two letters of my name are 'ra', ingenious aren't I?). Anyone remotely interested in these things would not have far to look, my profile would give them the link to Start This where I'm trying to be truthful and to my e-mail address which features my full name.

The lines between the fictionality of the 'he' and 'she' protagonists and the truth of my own and Mr. Huth's real lives are becoming quite blurred. I have always felt that posts on One Million Footnotes are inspired by real events in Geof Huth's life. For a start the comments are seasonal, the current (Nov/Dec) entries feature a lot of 'cold' and 'Christmas' content. Then there was the 'shadow' of post 330., where my line stealing was sprung. Now, with post 337., there is a double layer of character and meaning; there is the 'she' in Geof's life who wants him to speak and there is the me-'she' who also would like him to speak to her through her blog. It could have also been a fictional sentence.