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Seeing and not seeing
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Seeing and not seeing

More and more now I recoil from seeing troubling things. Because once seen, they stick in the mind’s eye and often they are shocking or sad and there’s nothing one can do about them. Often, it is the sight of accident victims or the victims of violence. Or even day-to-day things one could just dismiss...

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The everyday absurdity of ‘accidents’ on the road

Last March 3, a 22-wheeler trailer truck spun out of control and hit the island in front of Miriam College on Katipunan Avenue in Quezon City at 2:58 a.m., spilling its load of tons of sacks of chicken-feed additives and causing unusually heavy traffic up to around 10 a.m.   According to reports, nobody was killed...