tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post783934932051870360..comments2024-03-26T23:41:10.319+00:00Comments on Authors Electric: Dances With Jackals - Umberto TosiKatherine Robertshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17196712319655603442noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-52534586189989085942018-09-03T22:10:20.205+01:002018-09-03T22:10:20.205+01:00Many thanks, to you, Dipika, Griselda, and Julia. ...Many thanks, to you, Dipika, Griselda, and Julia. Regarding the Guardian article, I shared your skepticism about the boy in the she-wolf's den. Rodriguez's story seems to have been consistently told, and written about by many sources, and I respect the Guardian - although it's possible that Rodriguez assimilated myths into his accounts. On the other hand, how did the child survive? Why was he discovered amid wolves? Plus, it's not uncommon for a brooding mother to take in another baby critter into her litter by mistake. Cuckoos, for example, deliberately lay their eggs in other birds' nests to be raised by unwitting step-parents, and it has seemed to work for them. Kittens have been nursed by bitches along with their pups... etc. Who knows? Anyway, as Mark Twain said, "Never let the truth get in the way of a good story." :DUmberto Tosihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04939504157464234443noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-83084437885694766482018-09-03T20:53:39.841+01:002018-09-03T20:53:39.841+01:00Deeply interesting, wide ranging and imaginative. ...Deeply interesting, wide ranging and imaginative. Thank you<br />julia joneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09773900100240758504noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-394699699373392582018-09-03T17:46:39.599+01:002018-09-03T17:46:39.599+01:00A wonderful depiction of where stories start. I c...A wonderful depiction of where stories start. I can just see that determined boy, his own unshakeable vision of the dog he was never going to get (except that he did... so it worked!), the sly entrance of the god Anubis into the scene, inspiring those TV script writers without their even being aware of it - all leading up to what sounds like a real page-turner of a book. I look forward to its appearance.<br /><br />What I find harder to believe is the story of Marcos Rodriguez Pantoja, the boy 'raised by wolves'. Reading the Guardian article, it's clear that this is an extraordinary account of an abandoned child who managed to survive in the wild, at the cost of a socialised childhood that would have enabled him to survive in human society. But a 7 year-old boy curling up with a lot of wolf cubs with no fear at all? Hmm.Griselda Heppelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09207965148074302337noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-19321347222078449722018-09-03T00:52:04.568+01:002018-09-03T00:52:04.568+01:00Lovely evocative article, as always. Hope we will ...Lovely evocative article, as always. Hope we will get to read "My Dog's Name" soon?Dipika Mukherjeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17734481154069467025noreply@blogger.com