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<p>R.C.L. wrote:</p>
<p>>I have not read _The Call of the Wild_</p>
<p>It's online (if you can bear to read it on the screen), it's a quick read (straight, no puzzles), and it's very illuminating. It's easy to see why Wolfe responded to it, with its image of dogs as "ill-tamed wolves."
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<p>_White Fang_ is also online, as is _The Sea-Wolf_. Apparently London (whose nickname was "Wolf") was nearly as obsessed with wolves as Wolfe.</p>
<p><a href="http://en.wikisource.org/w/index.php?title=The_Call_of_the_Wild_%28London%29&oldid=386076">http://en.wikisource.org/w/index.php?title=The_Call_of_the_Wild_%28London%29&oldid=386076</a></p>
<p>I am tempted to expound upon the correspondences between "Tracking Song" and _The Call of the Wild_ (beginning with their titles), but I don't want to be a bore. I will say that the first chapter is suggestive as to the significance of Cutthroat's "birthmark," the last chapter as to his murderous nickname, and in the penultimate chapter, I think we find which sled is the Great Sleigh, and what it represents.
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<p>Matt G.</p></div>