Tracking Song and vizcacha

Dave Lebling · 17 Jun 2007, 18:19 · from 2007-June.txt.gz

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From: dlebling at hyraxes.com (Dave Lebling)
Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2007 14:19:22 -0400
Subject: (urth) Tracking Song and vizcacha
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Thanks, Matthew. It's "Lebling," by the way, not "Liebling." I think the 
archives have various lacunae; my original post on this topic isn't 
there, just responses from alga and others. A little earlier in that 
archive is a post about problems with the database or the host, which 
may explain it.

The epigraph has multiple meanings. The simplest is that Cutthroat, like 
the Trojans, is an exile; he was expelled from the Great Sleigh, they 
were expelled from Troy. On another level, remember that the Romans, the 
descendants of Aeneas, were fostered by a she-wolf, as was Cutthroat by 
wolves. Third, consider the human-like animal people who have been 
approaching humanity for "seven years" and may now have reached it in 
the person of Cutthroat. Fourth, consider the destroyed Troy reborn as 
Rome, then a destroyed or at least diminished humanity (on the asteroid 
or even universally) reborn from the animals.

Dave Lebling, aka vizcacha

Matthew Groves wrote:
> Actually, here is proof that Dave Liebling was the first to speculate on
> Cutthroat's dog nature (though I can't find the original post for some
> reason):
>
> http://www.urth.net/urth/archives/v0007/0574.shtml
>
> Very interesting: he speculates that the Great Sleigh sleigh is, at one
> level of representation, the car (!!!) in which Cutthroat was riding 
> before
> he was left behind.  He also compares the bouillon cubes to a domestic 
> dog's
> kibble.  I like it a lot!
>
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