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My friend, Larry Ypil, was dreaming of two weeks of no writing. As soon as he said this, I recalled immediately John Updike’s “A Month of Sundays.” I read this novel ages ago. Much of the story…
And so we remember how welcome rain is after being so long without it. The world was becoming so warm it became almost impossible for us to sleep unless we turned on the air-conditioning. Not that I…
I love machines. I love machines mainly because they are consistent. Because they are consistent they are easier to understand. It might be because of this that I find the more complex the machines, the lovelier they…
I wish President-Elect Rodrigo Duterte well. The last thing I wish for is that this country becomes ungovernable. It would be a waste if we went from hereon into a period of instability. And yet, the forces…
One has to keep an open mind when one looks at the politics of the moment. One has to learn to look at the situation from the Modernist’s position of disinterest. Which position requires one to look…
It is the measure of how low we have come in the political discourse when would-be leaders declare how bad they are and then accuse everyone else, especially their opponents, of being hypocrites. It would seem innocuous.…
And so it seems that the social networks have significant effect on the outcome of elections. This was the main premise of a conversation I had with friends who were, of course, more knowledgeable than I on…
Sunday Kinutil is being retired and from hereon Kinutil may be read still on the Wednesday edition of this paper. This particular essay happily celebrates this honorable ending of what was for this writer difficult though fulfilling…
Kinutil Time now to revisit a rewording of an old Chinese proverb that he who seeks power by riding the back of a tiger always ends up inside. It is an adage for dangerous times, a moral…
Kinutil One has to suspend disbelief to grasp it entirely but it is there in front of us. And we would see it much more clearly if ever we spent the day of the elections in a…
Kinutil All these remind me of lines from a song in Pink Floyd’s album, “Dark Side of the Moon”: Us and Them And after all we’re only ordinary men Me, and you God only knows it’s not…
Take nothing seriously. What you see in the social networks has the value of literature. They suggest reality but one must understand: They have as much value as fantasy. Otherwise, we end up feeling distraught when, in…
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