Tracking Song and The Call of the Wild

Matthew Groves · 10 Jun 2007, 19:02 · from 2007-June.txt.gz

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From: matthewalangroves at gmail.com (Matthew Groves)
Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2007 14:02:02 -0500
Subject: (urth) Tracking Song and The Call of the Wild
Message-ID: <39ed084f0706101202s6511124ft820eb5cf4686137d at mail.gmail.com>

R.C.L. wrote:

>I have not read _The Call of the Wild_

It's online (if you can bear to read it on the screen), it's a quick read
(straight, no puzzles), and it's very illuminating. It's easy to see why
Wolfe responded to it, with its image of dogs as "ill-tamed wolves."

_White Fang_ is also online, as is _The Sea-Wolf_. Apparently London (whose
nickname was "Wolf") was nearly as obsessed with wolves as Wolfe.

http://en.wikisource.org/w/index.php?title=The_Call_of_the_Wild_%28London%29&oldid=386076

I am tempted to expound upon the correspondences between "Tracking Song" and
_The Call of the Wild_ (beginning with their titles), but I don't want to be
a bore. I will say that the first chapter is suggestive as to the
significance of Cutthroat's "birthmark," the last chapter as to his
murderous nickname, and in the penultimate chapter, I think we find which
sled is the Great Sleigh, and what it represents.

Matt G.
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