Kepler’s Blood
- wrote it when he was 17 with all information
stories he heard:
- died in the west (
- everyone said he was a painter (paintings at wall / landscapes)
- aunt: fallen off a sliff
- uncle: indians rescued him
book:
- part western part science fiction
- unbelievable points – everything happens by chance
- had been often rejected
story:
- John Kepler (35) leaves wife, son for 6 months (Utah & Arizona)
- falls off cliff rescued by indians
- they seem isolated, primitive – doesn’t know them
- BUT: don’t have Indian features (blue eyes, hair on chests)
- calls them “the Humans”
the Humans:
lived on the Moon
carried by a spirit cloud to the Earth (Forrest of First Things)
meet “the Others” – get help/knowledege (plants animals)
live in harmony
Wild Men from other Side of the World killed them (bearded ones) with thunder and lighting sticks
Humans and Others split – travel westwards – wild men follow
Discover “Flat World” – “Land In The Sky” – “Land of Little Water” (wild men refused to live there)
- first doesnt understand language – learns few words – can pronounce their words – better hearing
- words sound like remnants (Überreste) of english words (coincidence – tests)
- THEORY:
- Indians are “the Others” – that place looks like moon
- populations becomes fewer – a dream: dead man will rescue them (deliverance)
story starts to tumble
kepler wants to stay there
has lots of sex (296/7)
keplers son is born
new chapter:
- son is 18 – searches his father in utah
- finds Humans’ settlement (coincident) & recognizes his father
- Kepler pretends not to understand him kills him next night (knife)
- Jacomin (favorite son) only witness – searches killer
- meets Silent Thought (old medicine man – left tribe long time ago)
- leanrs twelve transformations (297/20)
- J dreams: revenge father’s dead, then happiness will return to tribe
- J goes into the East (wild men)
- calls himself jack Moon – superb worker – spends all time searching
- kidnapps Kepler Jr.’s son to the land of humans (son bcomes devoted to jacomin)
- everyone is dead – calls by Numa (New man)
- leanrs 13th transformation – woman – sex with numa (16 years)
- twins born -> populate the land
Kepler searches his son (realize why happend ( killed father))
goes to same place where he killed his father
its full moon – kills a coyote (fear) – doesn’t know its his son