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ALEJANDRO G. ABADILLA: Memorabilia & Pagpupugay--E. SAN JUAN, Jr.

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MEMORABILIA & PAGPUPUGAY KAY ALEJANDRO G. ABADILLA ni E. SAN JUAN, Jr. Sa di ko matiyak na aksidente o sugal ng pagkakataon, nagkatagpo kami ni AGA marahil sa pamamagitan ni Roger Mangahas nang siya ay nagtuturo pa sa University of the East. Noo’y abala si Roger sa pamamatnugot ng antolohiyang Manlilikha at iba pang proyektong pampanitikan. Kababalik ko pa lamang mula sa pagtatapos sa Harvard University noong Hunyo 1965; at noo’y nagtuturo sa University of the Philippines, at minsan isang linggo sa Centro Escolar University. Kontribyutor din ako sa Free Press sa Filipino ni Ben Medina Jr at Graphic Weekly. Kaya ang mga pook ng aming mga talakayan ay sa Mendiola, Legarda (kasama na sina Florentino Dauz atbp. sa dating Philippine College of Commerce ni Dr. Nemesio Prudenta), sa Morayta, Quiapo, Sta Cruz, at mga restoran sa Soler at Florentino Torres sa Avenida Rizal. Sa puso’t budhi ng binatang awtor nakakintal ang milyung sosyo-pulitikal ng magusot na Maynila. Nasa sukd...

SISA'S VENGEANCE: Celebrating JOSE RIZAL'S 150 Birthday Anniversary

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SISA’S VENGEANCE: RIZAL & THE MOTHER OF ALL INSURGENCIES By E. SAN JUAN, Jr. Liberty is a woman who grants her favors only to the brave. Enslaved peoples have to sufffer much to win her, and those who abuse her lose her….Les femmes de mon pays me plaisent beaucoup, je ne mk’en sois la cause, mais je trouve chez-elles un je ne sois quoi qui me charme et me fait rever [The women of my country please me very much. I do not know why, but I find in them I know not what charms me and makes me dream.] --Jose Rizal, Epistolario Rizalino; Diary, Madrid, 32 March 1884 Religious misery is at once the expression of real misery and a protest against that real misery. Religion is the sign of the hard-pressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, the spirit of unspiritual conditions. It is the opium of the people…. After the earthly family is discovered to be the secret of the holy family, the former must then itself be criticized in theory and revolutionized in practice. –Karl...