Manila International Book Fair 2006: Aug. 30 - Sept. 3
Filed under: Lit
It’s not too late to catch it. Ongoing from last Wednesday, Aug. 30 up to Sunday, Sept. 3. Publishers and booksellers in all their “buy me, buy me, buy us!” finery at the World Trade Center Manila, Sen. Gil Puyat (Buendia), and Roxas Boulevard. You can get more details from the fair’s website. Their List of Exhibitors is particularly useful. Have fun.
“Isang araw, kasabay ng dilim at bagyo:” Alay sa mga makakapal at di makaintinde. Layas, tuko.
Filed under: Lit
BABALA SA TUKO
Noon nabosesan ka na namin.
Ngayon narito ka na naman para magsinungaling.
Binulgar ng Garci Tape ang iyong krimen –
Batas ng Diyos, batas ng tao dadapurakin,
Taong-gobyerno gagamitin,
Pondo ng bayan lulustayin,
Boto ni FPJ dadambungin,
Basta pagka-Pangulo tuloy-tuloy maangkin.
Dahil nabulgar na, ikaw mismo ang umamin,
Sa TV, nag-astang biktima, nagsori ang salarin.
Ay! pabalat-bungang paumanhin,
Binola-bolang pagsisinungaling,
Panis na pisbol kung baga ang hain
Sa bayang akala mo’y madaling linlangin.
Hanggang ngayon pinekeng totoo,
Inilalako pa rin, pero
Hindi mo na mabibilog ang aming ulo.
Pondo sa abono, pondo ng OFW,
Kurakot sa jueteng, pagbusal sa testigo,
Suhol sa konggresista, pati na sa obispo,
Pagkulong, pagpaslang sa tapat na tao,
Nakatalang lahat ang mga krimen mo.
Hayan, kinalawang tuloy ang bakal na sikmura mo,
Ang pagsisinungaling kasi may bagsik ng asido,
Kinakain ang bituka ng Pangulong
Pumipeke sa totoo.
Sa plasa, sa mall, sa mga barangay at baryo,
Pinagbabaga ang bayan ng mga kasinungalingan mo.
Isang araw, kasabay ng dilim at bagyo,
Sasabog na bulkan ang poot ng tao,
Kumukulong apoy at putik lalamon sa trono
Ng nagsasatukong pekeng Pangulo.
Bienvenido Lumbera
“For forty years my act consisted of one joke. And then she died.” - Gracie: A Love Story
Filed under: Lit
Just started on it, picked it up off the “old unread stuff” shelf (read: the pathetic beatup old shelf in the room with a bodega-ish ambience), cleaned it up a bit, flipped through the blurb, and thought “Hah this thing’s great. Why didn’t I finish it before? Oh. Right. School. And stuffs.” Brought it to my room and started with it. Again.
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Tortuous defined
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“… The regressive movement of the critical investigation has demonstrated the intelligibility of practical structures and the dialectical relation which interconnects the various forms of active multiplicities. But, on the one hand, we are still at the level of synchronic totalisation and we have not yet considered the diachronic depth of practical temporalisation; and on the other hand, the regressive movement has ended with a question: that is to say, it has to be completed by a synthetic progression whose aim will be to rise up to the double synchronic and diachronic movement by which History constantly totalises itself…”
Jean-Paul Sartre: Critique of Dialectical Reason
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Proyektong Gutenberg ng Pilipinas
Filed under: Lit
Interesting. I hope they get a lot of vounteers.
Project Gutenberg of the Philippines
Bookhunting agenda
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If you can’t stand the soulless, pretentious, fastfood-like aura of the mainstream trashbins masquerading as “Book Stores,” or just find the prices there ridiculous, you might be interested in this.
I stumbled on an Inquirer article listing a few places to look for good secondhand finds. Some of those listed I’m already aware of, others were, well, revelations.
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