About that last line, 神社の娘でも紹介するぜ. Can shrine maidens (or the leader of a Shinto shrine) perform marriage ceremonies? Maybe Marisa is implicitly saying to Flandre that, "I'll introduce you to Reimu so that she can get the two of us married"?
--Leviathean 12:30, 22 May 2005 (PDT)
Well, I have no idea... but I just read And Then There Were None today and wanted to mention a few things...
-In the version of the book I possess (2003, I believe), the island is called Soldier Island. I used google to attempt to find an answer and found that the site http://www.rethinkingschools.org/archive/20_01/agat201.shtml had covered the issue. Although I didn't read the site thoroughly, I believe it was a matter of political correctness. Anyway, mostly wanted to note this in case others find themself with the same confusion; I'll imagine the current translation has picked the correct version, or at least the same one as ZUN. I can't read any Japanese though.
Okay, spoilers for the book now (and I'm hoping these weren't results of any changes as well):
-The one who kills most of the others and who planned the entire thing is wrapped in the scarlet curtains when found 'dead' (faked). Taking things perhaps a bit too far, continuing the killings after faking his death is almost like being undead and vampires are regarded as undead creatures.
-The 'last' to die does hang herself, in accordance with the rhyme.
-The real last to die (whos death had earlier been faked) died by shooting himself (he died by the bullet, and then there were none).
-As far as I can tell, the line with the hanging actually is the original, but the 'last' does actually temporarilly convince herself that the last gets married; paranoia and perhaps at that point mental instability were taking effect. The front of the book credits the poem to one named Frank Green in 1869 with the lines "One little soldier boy left all alone; He went and hanged himself". I actually hadn't ever heard of the rhyme before, oh, and I wouldn't go trusting my edition about that "soldier" bit.
So... yeah. I guess I just had some things to say which don't actually need to have anything done about them. Apologies if anyone feels I've wasted their time.
--Clyceer 17:28, 7 March 2006 (PST)