Status Updates From State of War

Chapter 4. Anna goes into a flashback on her activist days. Seems like early Martial Law? Mention of Recto Avenue chaos reminds me of last September. So she was married to a Manolo before.

“Better not to call attention to yourself, better to live like the trees, better to be merely there like the plants, with no desire except to eat, sleep, and work, have a few thoughts, a few moments of happiness, not joy but happiness, better to exist without destiny, only to exist.“

TRUEEEEE

“As she danced, the drums intoned: four hundred years of action without achievement; of movement without distance.”

only 1/3 of the way in but can already feel this one shaping my sense of self and identity

ninotchka the woman u are