(urth) Short Story ID?

[Matthew King]

On Jun 2, 2006, at 10:26 AM, Jesper Svedberg wrote:

> Michael Straight skrev:
>> I'm trying to remember the name of one of Wolfe's older short  
>> stories.
>> It's told from two points of view - one, some sort of archeologist  
>> type
>> character writing a report and seeing the action of the story from a
>> scientific point of view, the other, from the native alien's point of
>> view who sees the action as magical/mythical.  I think maybe the  
>> alien
>> point of view is in italics throughout.
>>
>> I'm pretty sure it's not in Endangered Species, Island of Doctor  
>> Death
>> and Other Stories and Other Stories, or any of the collections after
>> IODDAOSAOS.
>>
>> I'd been calling it "Thag" in my head, but just realized that  
>> "Thag" is
>> a totally different story.
>
> This might be "Trip, Trap", found in _Storeys from the Old Hotel_. I
> haven't got the collection with me at the moment, but I seem to  
> remember
> it being told alternately from the rational viewpoint of the visiting
> human and the magical viewpoint of the native alien.
>
>

That is definitely Trip, Trap from _Storeys_.   IIRC, that is also  
the story Wolfe is referring to when he says Damon Knight grew him  
from a bean.