User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-1451563-20180913002703/@comment-24894325-20190110213741

Game-fanatic, this quote (again found by SOTO) is given in extended format to provide enough context to show that this time there is not even a hint of a joke: "The Doctor swallowed the last of the bread, and pushed his plate away from him. There was no point in doing that, seeing as there weren't any waiters around, but he obviously felt it was important to maintain a sense of etiquette.

'Can I ask you something personal?' he said.

I.M. Foreman nodded. 'I warn you, though. If it's anything to do with how I got this body, the details are going to be messy. You've never been a woman, have you?'

'I'm not sure I've ever even been a man. That's not what I was going to ask.'

'Go on.'

He leaned forward across the plates, and across the bottled universe that lay in the grass between them. His eyes were glinting again. Sure to be a bad sign.

'Are you still a believer?' he asked."

- Interference - Book 1 (published 1999)