In this short episode, I stress the major themes of “Tracking Song” My writeup may be found here: http://lists.urth.net/pipermail/urth-…, and the Gene Wolfe Literary Podcast has a far more thorough breakdown here in the episodes beginning with episode 96. https://www.claytemplemedia.com/the-g…
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