Late last August I received a Viber message stating (although it was phrased as a question) that I was to host something: “Ikaw ang host nito, ha?” “Host” actually meant emcee. “Nito” referred to the planned fundraising for Jose “Pete” Lacaba. The “nito” was no longer a surprise. The planning had been an endless exchange...
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Farewell to Marra PL. Lanot, Nick Joaquin’s ‘babaylan in a kimono and Levi’s’
The writer Marra PL. Lanot, recently departed, and her friend, National Artist for Literature Nick Joaquin, long passed, can be said to have belonged to a mutual admiration society in which they admitted their imperfections, with each staunchly defending the other’s humanity before the world. Such was his esteem for her that he wrote the...