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  "thread": {
    "id": 4856,
    "subject": "Tracking Song and Other Stories",
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    "first": "2007-06-19T10:39:02+00:00",
    "last": "2007-06-19T10:39:02+00:00"
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    {
      "message_id": "<39ed084f0706190339q12387806t9fa7fe96770b88df@mail.gmail.com>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Matthew Groves",
        "address": "matthewalangroves at gmail.com"
      },
      "date": "2007-06-19T10:39:02+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Tracking Song and Other Stories",
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          "text": "Roy asks:"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "Will you elaborate on how the\nmoose-man's fate relates to the rest of Wolfe's story?"
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          "text": "I now understand this story less than ever.  As you observe, it seems to\nbe the primary feature of Tracking Song that it is woven of many disparate\nstrands.  This is true of Wolfe in general, but especially, it seems to me,\nthe stories in _The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories and Other\nStories_, which leads me to speculate that this collection's title is a wink\nacknowledging this multiplicity of sources.  So far, in relation to Tracking\nSong, these have been identified, or at least suggested:\n\nGenesis\nthe Icarus legend\nthe Great Raven legends of Western North American Indians\nThe Iliad of Homer (The Odyssey must be there too)\nThe Aeneid of Virgil  Jack London, _The Call of the Wild_ and _White Fang_\n\nI know next to nothing about most of these.  And if the winged man at the\nend is a raven, then I suspect Norse myth must be involved too, another\nsubject about which I know nothing.  Rather than groping in darkness (where\nWolfe's protagonists so often find themselves) I am hoping someone will show\nme the light of day (perhaps even Great Raven himself).\n\nMatt G."
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