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Cesar Aquino

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‘Occult’

The word alienates if not scares people, particularly the fundamentalists among us. The feeling is Bible-based, the good book being the source of the...

From work-in-progress

“Do you know physics, sir?”“Hell, no. Do you?”“Does he.”“Why?”“Quantum Cuentos.”“Oh, that. Don’t be deceived — just alliteration.”Quantum Cuentos, a volume of sudden fiction he...

Seeing the dawn

At the final split moment Rizal makes a heroic effort to twist, spin, turn around and see the sun, the firing squad, the guns,...

Plain H2O? (second part)

 (continued from Oct. 12 edition)‘Water, thou hast no taste, no color, no odor; canst not be defined, art relished while ever mysterious.’Poetry talking. Science,...

Plain H2O?

In a lifetime of indifference to math, the equations and formula that nonetheless stuck with a planet’s gravitational strength on my mind’s tabula rasa...

Winning the Nick Joaquin literary award in Philippines Graphic

Riding airplanes gives me the willies. No, stronger — terrifies me is more like it, though I try not to show it. Was...

Not just a football thing

Germany winning the World Cup last July, repeat, kinda tripped us, for the very simple reason that, illiterate as we are in football, we...

A football thing

When, some three weeks ago Germany defeated Brazil and Argentina in the Finals of the World Cup, I could not help feeling kinda discomfited....

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