Tracking Song and The Call of the Wild

Daniel D Jones · 17 Jun 2007, 01:01 · from 2007-June.txt.gz

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From: ddjones at riddlemaster.org (Daniel D Jones)
Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2007 21:01:17 -0400
Subject: (urth) Tracking Song and The Call of the Wild
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On Saturday 16 June 2007 19:48, Roy C. Lackey wrote:
> Nashhwonk left human footprints, and Cutthroat spoke of him as a man.
> Cutthroat said to him, "I don't hunt people. I thought we were after an
> animal." Cutthroat was ashamed of having hunted him, and he saw the body
> dismembered. If there was any telltale mark of a beast about Nashhwonk, I
> find no mention of it. Even his great size relative to the wolfmen seems to
> be in the same proportion as a human to a wolf.

That's another angle I'd never considered.  Is Nashwonk not a giant but merely 
an ordinary sized man, and the other characters in the story still roughly 
the same size as their animal counterparts?

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