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[re-re-read] ramble but more and more do I see the world Hagedorn paints here as a marvel. I do think more and more that Dogeaters might be contender for the great Philippine novel. I do understand the flippancy in that statement, but in this novel I find playfulness in language and an outlook only our polluted air encourage: morality melted, saints filth actors divine.

Of course Dogeater anagrams derogate.

ms. deirdre recommended this is kinda crazy I love this so much tangina lupet ahsha

gorabels ka na nga sa kumbento - JHEMLET, PHRINZ OF JHENMARK

“Katutubong Kaakuhan” is so fucking juicy and blunt in its criticism of Virgilio Almario’s nativist philosophy I want to blast it in the greenhills cinema like a Pacquiao—- like damn they went for where it hurts !

I FUCKING LOVE YOU RIZAL LIB!

goodreads was supposed to be a 2025 out but sometimes you dive into a book so good you gotta log it.

nurse help he’s gotten a hold of an nyrb book

In a lecture on poetry, Kenneth Koch strongly advocates that your Voice “can never be shaken off no matter the influence.”

Chapter 8 of this book depicts a macro-scaled case study of this hypothesis. In the adoption of English, and the integration of craft honed by Americans, writers such as Arguilla and Villa Garcia still make the Filipino sing through. Detriment or not, your identity will penetrate all words.

diy bruteforcing my expansion of phil vocab

hell is other people

THIS WRITING IS INCREDIBLE (the last time i said this about a book that had a close-up face as its cover was A Little Life and I hope this is not a sign of things to come)

here we goooooooooooooooo

Hi bella i can see what you mean now this is really cooking now

My opinion of this book has changed 180 degrees. This is excellent

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Thought May Day Eve was the best Nick Joaquin then he just hits you with Guardia De Honor and you can never recover. Literal mindfuck what he did in that.