(urth) Short Story 65: Tracking Son

[Marc Aramini]

Also, the mineral Kluy flowers underground are a bit mysterious -
decoration for Cutthroat's approach or actually useful for some purpose?
They are only found on the wet street.


On Sun, Jun 8, 2014 at 2:50 PM, Gwern Branwen <gwern at gwern.net> wrote:

> An impressive overview as expected, but one point felt under-addressed.
>
> On Sun, Jun 8, 2014 at 2:20 PM, Marc Aramini <marcaramini at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> “A pivotal story for me is one in which I feel I have succeeded in doing
> >> well something I have never really done well before – fairy material in
> >> “Thag”, a certain religious viewpoint in “Westwind”, the use of second
> and
> >> third person in “The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories”, the
> >> progression from realism to fantasy in “The Eyeflash Miracles”, even the
> >> primitive inventions no one ever actually invented (and which no one now
> >> notices) in “Tracking Song”. Just as “Tracking Song” is about uninvented
> >> inventions of the stone age, “Straw” is about (partly of course)
> uninvented
> >> inventions of the middle ages.
>
> Wolfe seems to think that the 'uninvented inventions' are a major
> theme of the story, but you hardly mention them. What are they? Just
> the endieva wand & club-bows? And how is 'Tracking Song' *about* them?
>
> --
> gwern
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