Tracking Song and The Call of the Wild

Tim Walters · 14 Jun 2007, 22:38 · from 2007-June.txt.gz

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From: walters at doubtfulpalace.com (Tim Walters)
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 15:38:58 -0700 (PDT)
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."

_Before Adam_ uses the same trope, IIRC.

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