Cutthroat "identity" from "TRACKING SONG"

Jeff Wilson · 21 Apr 2010, 07:13 · from 2010-April.txt.gz

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From: jwilson at io.com (Jeff Wilson)
Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2010 02:13:09 -0500
Subject: (urth) Cutthroat "identity" from "TRACKING SONG"
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On 4/20/2010 2:58 PM, Tony Ellis wrote:
> Sean Ako wrote:
>
>> I believe Cutthroat is an anthropologist; a scientist studying the biologically engineered beast/humans of the
>> planet.? Is it more than coincidental that he happens to fall off the Great Sleigh with a tape recorder, shaver,
>> pocketknife and firestarter? Sounds more like he's ready to do fieldwork. As to his amnesia, who can say
>> that it isn't their protocol for any fieldwork that they do (to encourage objective and honest observations/actions.)
>
> Yes, I suggested much the same thing a while back:
> http://lists.urth.net/pipermail/urth-urth.net/2007-June/007862.html
>
> It's occurred to me since then that The Lost Pilgrim, collected in
> Innocents Aboard, has a similar premise: an amnesiac scholar, thrust
> into an alien and barbarous world. It certainly wouldn't be the first
> time Wolfe revisited an old idea.

I suppose this could lead back to John V. Marsch, though he presumably 
became a scholar only after losing his memory.

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