Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 15:50:23 -0500
Your novel, Primal Tears, was indeed VERY moving. I have been reading sci-fi- alternative universes/ fiction for 35 years now - with just a bit of sci fact to temper and I cried like a baby when I was finished with Sage and Sarah.. I was raised in Colombia, a third world country, and understand how out of touch we are in the USA, where desires for what's not needed drive and real needs get swept under the dirt floor of your tin shanty. Loved your book and what you are doing for us! I returned the book to the library without jotting down the sites for the preservation of the Bononbos. Please, if you can, reply with the websites. Keep writing; your knowledge of bio/eng is a great mix and very welcome in this fundamentalist, know nothing, follow the cow bell, war on the OTHERS, world in which we find ourselves trying to live and make peace in.
juanita
Thanks again for the great read!
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Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2008 19:16:21 -0500
Kelpie,
I just finished Primal Tears. Good story. I most appreciated the way you worked science and spirituality into the story. A note for future reference: dilated pupils are large pupils with a relatively narrow ring of iris; small pupils are called contracted and have a relatively wide ring of iris (reference to Sanene's eyes, while she acted out the part of the snake, page 165.
Gene
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Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2007 01:08:08 EDT
Subject: Book Report(s) etc.
Dear Kelpie et al,
I've just finished reading one of your books (haven't you written more YET?) and appreciated it thoroughly. I don't think that merely "enjoying" such a serious and thought provoking story is even proper. Maybe " Primal Tears" will start a new trend in Science Fiction and you will extend the path that Ursula Le Guinn explored a bit some years ago. I surely hope so. My Better Half (of 53 years) and our No. 2 Daughter will read "Primal Tears" next.
I'm uncertain as to how much of the literally "Pre Historic" religious info and "History" in your book is from research and how much of it may be your original and imaginative though truthful thought. It may well be worth footnotes and references in future editions.
Sincerely, VTY etc., Phil
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Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2007 19:44:07 -0500
Dear Ms. Wilson,
My wife and I read your book Primal Tears, and have become fans of yours, and are sharing it with friends and relatives.
I greatly appreciated your article on Sea Shepherd---we had already read about it in a magazine photo article a few months ago and were much impressed. Perhaps your fine article brought us more up to date. Perhaps it should have had a place or contact to which we could send a donation---specifically, the bucks that I formerly sent to Greenpeace! Please let me know.
Sincerely,
Hank
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Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2006 12:13:23 EST
Subject: Frogs and Chimps
Dear Kelpie,
I just finished Primal Tears which I enjoyed at many levels.
I may have missed a chapter when Sage learns to speak. Do you go into that and how it differs from homo sapiens. With my interest in language development in humans and non humans I recalled in Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein" the monster learns to speak by 18 months.
At some point during reading your novel I tried to remember a novella some years back by an English writer about a woman, bored with her husband, who falls in love with a human sized frog and has to hide him in her car when she drives through town. Do you know that story or who wrote it? I can't remember the author. Interesting that you just posted frogs' insensitivity to rising temperature.
Fred
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3/1/2006
Kelpie,
"Primal Tears" was a great read. Thank you for writing it.
Diane
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Date: Sun, 07 Jan 2007
Subject: With great appreciation
Dear Kelpie,
I have just read your exquisite and profound Primal Tears, and I want to thank you and honor you and sing your praises. I absolutely loved it.
If there is ever any way I can be of help, it would be a joy.
With great appreciation and respect,
John
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Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2007 22:39:59 -0800 (PST)
Subject: your ideas!
amazing!
For months I have been imagining a bonobo-human cross.
Don't know that I got the idea from you.
Googled "bonobo-human cross" recently and got nothing.
Don't remember ever hearing about your book until last evening when I read about Primal Tears at truthout.org. And now I'm even more intrigued by the possibility of such a cross.
Watch out Kansas, watch out monkey trial!
Best wishes, yours, Cosmos
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Subject: Your book, "Primal Tears"
Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:20:47 -0600
A few months ago, I emailed you about the review of "Primal Tears" I read on the Truthout website. Now, I have just finished reading the book, and I just had to drop you a note telling you how much I enjoyed it. The only thing I didn't like was having to turn the last page! I wanted it to go on and on.
Thank you so much for the wonderful characters and story.
Sincerely,
Robert
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