(urth) Tracking Song and The Call of the Wild

[Dave Lebling]

Buck's dreams in CotW are easily explained. Jack London was a believer 
in racial memory (and a lot of other tosh as well). He wrote a whole 
novel in which the protagonist (an imprisoned radical) escapes into 
dreams/visions/astral projections of the past, including a session in 
prehistoric times, which corresponds nicely to Buck's dream. It was 
called "Star Rover."

Dave Lebling, aka vizcacha

Roy C. Lackey wrote:
> There
> is another point of correspondence Matthew G. didn't mention, Buck's
> "dreams". He had impossible dreams (impossible unless you grant some sort of
> collective, ancestral, Jungian archetype) of lying near a fire where some
> caveman-type fretted in the night