Well I would try my utmost to go there because now I'm desperate to know what that sound was. I wonder what the sound designers of modern entertainment would do with it? It is a strange first contact story, (before they were named), in how limited the impact of it is, the first act is basically just discovering the village, but I suppose humanity in the wilderness is what we know him for. The other thing that struck me about this story is our hero's "relationships" with Ngurn, who is eager for him to die to shrink his head, and Balatta, who he unwillingly sleeps with and then actively avoids in order to survive. Since zebra2 already mentioned the possible Jung connection, how do we unpack why the author chose those as the only 2 relationships he elaborates on? Also Vngngn? What kind of response might we have?