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Dear Téo,

I can barely contain myself, every bit of this precious book shows itself to be better than the previous one, page after page, I am enjoying reading through it so very much!

Your writing reminds me of one of my all-time favorite American writers, Thomas Wolfe.  I sense in your writing that you have more to offer and you are having to restrain yourself, for instance: the tale of the little bar. That story is just pulsating with how much more you left unwritten, I now understand what you said that it is easier to be a great scientist than to write a book.  I believe it because in one of the courses I took at the UW my professor said: "whoa there! Slow down, stretch it, don't put it all in your first book!" Are you acquainted with any of Thomas Wolfe's books? One, "You can't go home again", brilliant piece of meticulous writing, I read it before coming to the US to live and remember touching the handrail going downstairs in the subway and recalling how Wolfe’s description of it gave even the idea of what rusting iron smelled like. Fantastic!

Just allow me to thank you for this tender little book, I am enchanted by the cover, so singela! It fills me with “saudades” of some ineffable time I cannot quite place.

Jurema Butler

Independence, OR-USA

June 9, 2012.
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