Tracking Song and The Call of the Wild

Andy Robertson · 15 Jun 2007, 07:36 · from 2007-June.txt.gz

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From: andywrobertson at clara.co.uk (Andy Robertson)
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 08:36:39 +0100
Subject: (urth) Tracking Song and The Call of the Wild
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Does anyone ever suspect that GW might not know what he is writing or (to be 
more precise) exactly how each bit of each story fits in to the overall 
pattern he is trying to weave? 

That writing might sometimes be a purely instinctive thing, grasping at 
vague mad visions?? 

That GW might sometimes be as surprised by what happens and as ignorant of 
the "real" meaning of it as you or I? 

 - hartshorn

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