Tracking Song and The Call of the Wild

Dave Lebling · 14 Jun 2007, 22:29 · from 2007-June.txt.gz

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From: dlebling at hyraxes.com (Dave Lebling)
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 18:29:18 -0400
Subject: (urth) Tracking Song and The Call of the Wild
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Buck's dreams in CotW are easily explained. Jack London was a believer 
in racial memory (and a lot of other tosh as well). He wrote a whole 
novel in which the protagonist (an imprisoned radical) escapes into 
dreams/visions/astral projections of the past, including a session in 
prehistoric times, which corresponds nicely to Buck's dream. It was 
called "Star Rover."

Dave Lebling, aka vizcacha

Roy C. Lackey wrote:
> There
> is another point of correspondence Matthew G. didn't mention, Buck's
> "dreams". He had impossible dreams (impossible unless you grant some sort of
> collective, ancestral, Jungian archetype) of lying near a fire where some
> caveman-type fretted in the night

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