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Pastimes : Metaphysics and Spiritual Practices
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To: Yorikke who wrote (435)1/31/1998 5:55:00 PM
From: Carol  Read Replies (1) of 650
 
..its like the Mowat thing.....If Farley told more tale than truth then I am sad for him; but it does not decrease the enjoyment I felt in reading the books..

Mowat recalled, "I was sitting on a hill in northern Manitoba, and people were slaughtering wolves all around, and I just got good goddamned mad. I decided I was going to write this book."

"It was a deliberately contrived peice of propaganda. I was deliberately nonscientific"

Even Mowat, himself, admits that the book was not really based on scientific study, but more on a gut reaction to the carnage he observed around him.

Not since Little Red Riding Hood has there ever been a story written that would influence the attitudes of so many toward these animals. Maybe, some would say, with just as little factual content.

Mowat didn't really care what scientists had to say. The redefinition of the wolf's nature was as much the reflection of human phsychological and spiritual need as it was the fruit of scientific investigation.

Mowat is credited with unshackling the wolf from the old legends. He did more than anyone else to change the public attitude. He brought the wolf out into the open and we can never go back from there.

So why not just enjoy what he wrote, whether fact or fiction, it served the purpose for which it was written.

0:-)

Carol
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