Quote Originally Posted by Slacker Mom
That's exactly how taciturn people operate. But he's not asking you for help, he's just stating facts. It's you who provides the meaning, the narrative, of what do those facts mean. Taciturn = statement of concrete external issues and wondering their meaning. Narrator = providing a concrete internalized frame of reference and pondering the abstract external facts about how it all applies, how to make the story work.
At face value, this would even suggest that taciturn = Te and narrator = Ti. But we know it's not the case.