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Glenn Diaz
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" REREAD (7/30/2020) - 4.5 STARS~ ROUNDED UP TO 5
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"(Glenn Diaz's Yñiga talks a lot about astrology and guessing other people's sun signs. I've never related more in my life.)
In this book, Glenn Diaz served as the readers' guide to the forest that was his central character Yñiga's life and psyche. Wit" Read more of this review » |
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""Isn't it comforting to know, he said, that we are part of something so colossal and unending?"
Glenn Diaz effortlessly, as usual, jumps between multiple interweaved timelines that cut across time and space. He does this to the effect of putting matte" Read more of this review » |
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"who in philippine literature but glenn diaz has mustered the courage to deal with images of global capitalism and modernity at the level of content? the quiet ones is sui generis in this regard (to my knowledge, at least) and stands as a compelling l"
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“Here, then, happiness is obviously a form of strength, a subversion even, a modus of survival, even if at times it appears superficial and misplaced.
Besides, for all of boxing's brutality, there is lyricism in its rhythm, too, something that dreamy, romantic Filipinos perhaps recognize. It is almost too facile to ascribe too much significance in this metaphor, but this incongruous combination of lyrical violence is default in Manila, where beauty is scarce, and which flourishes side by side with the hideous. There is pride in that stubborn independence, I think, whether it is on the canvas of a boxing ring or history. How did that killer song end again?
The record shows
I took the blows
and did it my way.”
― The Quiet Ones
Besides, for all of boxing's brutality, there is lyricism in its rhythm, too, something that dreamy, romantic Filipinos perhaps recognize. It is almost too facile to ascribe too much significance in this metaphor, but this incongruous combination of lyrical violence is default in Manila, where beauty is scarce, and which flourishes side by side with the hideous. There is pride in that stubborn independence, I think, whether it is on the canvas of a boxing ring or history. How did that killer song end again?
The record shows
I took the blows
and did it my way.”
― The Quiet Ones
“At hearing the news, he unsuccessfully tried to stop himself from being happy. He wondered how it happened that his average grades and middling job experience were somehow deemed weightier than genuine life skills--Renato's naked ambition, Angela's people skills, Vincent's quick thinking, Imaculada's grit--only because he articulated them better, just because he had the English nouns and verbs, the necessary tongue and lip placements, to say, 'I have made these myself. Listen.”
― The Quiet Ones
― The Quiet Ones
