Tracking Song and The Call of the Wild

Matthew Groves · 17 Jun 2007, 05:14 · from 2007-June.txt.gz

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From: matthewalangroves at gmail.com (Matthew Groves)
Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2007 00:14:13 -0500
Subject: (urth) Tracking Song and The Call of the Wild
Message-ID: <39ed084f0706162214v4ec9307exaa00f2a637ea5d98 at mail.gmail.com>

> 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?

I don't think so. There are several giants in the story, and I'm
convinced they all correspond to large animals. Nashhwonk is a moose (the
chair is his antlers), Mimmunka is some kind of large cat ("feminine"
appearance, high cheekbones, big green eyes, soft-looking hand, cruelly
hooked weapon), Ketin is a lion (big eyes, mane).  The tall, winged man at
the end is obviously some kind of bird, whatever else he may represent.
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