In #119, we presented some initial facts about Martin DuBois. Here we continue.

In Chapter 21, when asked how he would like to die if something should go wrong with the mission, DuBois says “by nitrogen asphyxiation” which his research has shown “is among the least painful ways to die.” 21.012 He goes into great length about his plan with his characteristic meticulousness. However, at the end of that chapter, he dies in an explosion.

DuBois is mentioned in Chapters 23, 25, and finally in 27 where Grace realizes that DuBois’s request to have nitrogen on board (in case he needed to kill himself) turned out to save Grace’s life.

DuBois’s direct speech consists of 43 quoted passages, 623 tokens, and 264 unique words.

He is the only character to say the words ‘continuously’, ‘agreeable’, ‘condoms’, ‘unfit’, ‘amenable’, ‘fortunate’, ‘inform’, ‘birth’, ‘allowance’, ‘asphyxiation’, ‘prudent’, ‘reflex’, ‘birds’, ‘feather’, ‘pleasurable’, ‘lightheaded’, ‘subsection’, ‘exhale’, ‘includes’, ‘item’, ‘encounters’, or ‘examinations’ and the only person other than the narrator to use the words ‘classroom’, ‘shall’, ‘however’, ‘painful’, ‘suffocation’, ‘deemed’, ‘universal’, ‘unable’, ‘connector’, ‘opportunity’, ‘document’, ‘lack’, ‘counterpart’, ‘raised’, ‘congress’, ‘joining’, ‘wear’, ‘lungs’, ‘volume’, ‘sufficient’, ‘facilities’, ‘previous’, ‘learning’, ‘begun’, ‘buildup’, ‘simply’, ‘excess’, or ‘core’.