# The Canocentric Exegesis of Wolfe's `Tracking Song'

*The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 03 Mar 1998*

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### Dan Rabin
*03 Mar 1998, 20:04*

This theory of David Lebling's is quite intriguing!

Here are a couple more resonances:

1.  The `lost dog finding its way home' motif resonates with the perception
of death among some Christians as `going home to one's Maker'.

2.  The winged beings as beyond-humans resonate with Wolfe's own
Hierogrammates, shaped by humans according to human ideals (`united,
compassionate, just') never actually achieved by the human race itself.

I can't quite draw an exact analogy, but I'm always willing to believe that
Wolfe often works impressionistically rather than with exacting exactness.
I think he's willing to deviate slightly from his clever constructs in
order to deliver a haunting image or a well-timed surprise.

  -- Dan Rabin

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