(urth) “Tracking Song” (and other stories)

[Dan'l Danehy-Oakes]

FWIW, I read it (as I do a number of Wolfe's pieces) as a darkening
of the Bible story. Yes, it replays Cain and Abel with humans in the
role of God -- but that's the point; humans _can't_ take God's role and
have it work out well. The humans in the story are no more God than
is Typhon/Pas, and their efforts are no better motivated, and will have
no better outcome, than his.

On 6/8/07, Roy C. Lackey <rclackey at stic.net> wrote:
> I wrote:
> >I don't remember what I may have said about this story in the past, but I
> >read it again, along with Borski's comments. It's hard to argue against his
> >interpretation of a bastardized rehash of the Fall,
>
> Looking at that again, that's a misrepresentation of his theory, which is
> not so much about the Fall as it is about the Cain and Abel story. Just to
> clarify.
>
> -Roy
>
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