Tracking Song and vizcacha, and misc.

Matthew Groves · 17 Jun 2007, 19:09 · from 2007-June.txt.gz

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From: matthewalangroves at gmail.com (Matthew Groves)
Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2007 14:09:11 -0500
Subject: (urth) Tracking Song and vizcacha, and misc.
Message-ID: <39ed084f0706171209q542096d9hdd1d1e849927acee at mail.gmail.com>

vizcacha wrote:
> Thanks, Matthew. It's "Lebling," by the way, not "Liebling."

Woops, sorry about that. Take "Liebling" as a sign of my affection. What
sort of thing is a vizcacha, by the way?

> The epigraph has multiple meanings.

Well, that wouldn't be a first. So there is another layer there, or several
layers in one, as you observe. And you thing this all takes place on an
asteroid? That would not be a first either. Can you expand on that at all?
It is obviously extremely small, but do asteroids have moons?

On another matter: If all the tribes carry weapons keyed to their "totemic"
animals, then what are we to make of Mantru's horned staff? I though perhaps
he might be a minotaur, particularly because he lives in a "labyrinth." But
in that case it seems like Mantru should be a lot bigger. And the
description of the staff gives it insect qualities: it has "a pair of
slender and nearly parallel horns," it's metallic, and the horns are
"gracefully curved antennae." But what about the "geometric designs
interspersed with faces" on the shaft and the fine script on the antennae
that is "of a form I felt certain I had never seen before."

Still the correspondence among the words "Min," "Mantru," "Minotaur," and
"King Minos" is suggestive, and the epigraph from the Aeneid points in that
general direction also. And what would this say about the *winged man* at
the end!!! The winged man who is catching the *sun*!!! Any thoughts?

The winged man is from a bird tribe;
The winged man is a cherub, or an archangel;
The winged man is Great Raven;
The winged man is Icarus;

...

Wolfe is a tricky bastard.

Matt G.
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