[Matt Q]

Susan and David,

Many thanks both!

David,

After have the parts of him that give the wolf sustenance have been digested, the rest of him is shat back out into the world, and then he claims to have been reborn. So, there's a suggestion that he's that which has (re)emerged into the world, and the rest of him has been consumed/digested/absorbed by the wolf-thing. If we take this literally, we wouldn't expect him to be made of flesh or skin or bones. I guess you might expect bone fragments in carnivore faeces, but not bones per se, or flesh or skin. And besides, this is a wolf-thing. A carnivore, for sure, but not necessarily a member of the natural world. More metaphorically, I was thinking that it's a transformation of sorts.

On "wullluf", it could well have been a typo or I might have thought it looked good at the time. I needed a false title for the thread to hide the real ones from search engines, so it probably only got a few seconds thought.

best,

Matt