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100 Years of Graphic

100 Years of Graphic

THE FIRST FREEDOM DAY

By 4 p.m. the clouds had dispersed and the sun shone over Manila Bay. This looked like a good omen on the historic birth...
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The Making of the U-Belt

U-Belt means Manila’s collegiate zone, an area extending from Calle Arlegui in Quiapo to Governor Forbes in Sampaloc, bounded in the west by Quezon...
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LOOKING BACK AT THE FUTURE OF PHILIPPINE WRITING

Written by National Artist for Literature Bienvenido Lumbera. First published in Philippine Graphic, January 1968. ONLY the very naive or the very cynical would try...
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Any day in one’s life

Questions and reflections in a "writing experiment" dealing with language, time, memory, birth, mortality and other human concerns. Only a writing experiment. Choose at...
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THE SECRET (PRESENT AND FUTURE) OF SEASCAPES

Now and in the foreseeable future, all that the Filipino doing literature should aim for is to create in the context of the multicultural...
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Literature

THE STORY-TELLING SPECIES

Reflections on "narrative—the only art that exists in all human cultures." Human supremacy may be the product of technology, but technology is, in turn, the...
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Literature

PARCH

Between usa wildernessof no-treesdevoid of riversbare as the GobiHere windshowl turned loosefrom all directionsThey bury medeep quick as they leapupon mefilling my throat to...
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“The Pramoedya Affair”: More on the controversial Magsaysay Award

(Editor's note: In response to an article by Linda Bolido entitled "The controversial Magsaysay award" published in our August 28, 1995 issue, Filipino novelist...
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WEARING BLACK ON ST. VALENTINE’S DAY

jet-blackmy get-up today, from the upperto the underwear:black shirt, the color of mourningon this loveliest of mornings.black denims, the hue of rue.black shoes and...
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Literature

Waterdragon: A Tale of the Maranao Weaver-Woman

For her gnarled fingers, it was never a questionof mere ornamentation,but of a secret syllabary,a language of ancient strengththat burned beyond tongues.Frome where her...
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