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Never keep a book nerd away from her life's passion or it's going to get ugly. To wit, part of Robin Hemley's series at McSweeney's called "Dispatches From Manila" has become the main talking point among Filipino book-lovers as he recounts the subtle art of getting a slice of duties from cultural artifacts (ie. books) by our country's Customs officials.
Everybody from Manolo Quezon to Paolo Chikiamco and Conchitina Cruz has offered their own take on the issue, and the comments on their posts are by turns righteously indignant, anecdotal, professorial, and foaming in the mouth. Charles Tan goes on to debunk recurring fallacies within the discussion. Copies of the Florence Agreement are whipped out. The indefatigable Kenneth Yu takes it upon himself to get the side of Finance Undersecretary Estela Sales.
Fans of Twilight, the book series caught in the proverbial eye of the storm, also chimes in with generally levelheaded responses, belying the reputation of rabid protectiveness that they, fairly or unfairly, have garnered so far.
With the annual Komikon gearing up for their 5th installment, the local comic book scene promises bereft graphic novel addicts enough entertainment to last them for the rest of summer. The event blog has provided details for activities such as so-called "comic tiangges" and character-creation contests. Head on over at the UP Bahay ng Alumni, UP Diliman Campus in Quezon City on May 16. All fans can drop by from 10 am to 8pm.
Check out the various reports from the Free Comic Book Day previously mentioned in this blog, courtesy of Gerry Alanguilan. Check out Azrael Colladilla's photos from the event as well.
There will be a moratorium on Adam David essays on this blog for at least two installments because we have been linking to him relentlessly since our inception. But can we really be blamed? The target of his verbal parries this time is writer Sarge Lacuesta who writes for the Far Eastern Economic Review on Wabi-sabi and how it serendipitously limns his essence as a writer, in much the same way motorcycle maintenance has limned Robert Pirsig's.
David takes exception to "Waxing Poetic on Shoddy Workmanship" by way of exotifying a notoriously difficult-to-translate Japanese aesthetic, which has made "no-label quality goods" such as MUJI and Uniqlo thrive. Ironically, in the same country that subsumes Louis Vuitton bags like they're oxygen.
Zen scholar Daisetz T. Suzuki has called wabi-sabi, "an active aesthetical appreciation of poverty." A stretch from Lacuesta's proposal of a 'Wa-Sabi' aesthetic that values "the ineffable." He may be reaching for another literary concept entirely, the Mono no aware--but shhh, let's not give people more Japanese terms to mangle.
Finally, we shall all be getting our Shakespeare in the same manner that we get our Diet Coke, if companies like The Book Drop vending machine has anything to say about it. Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment was given the honor being the first book printed on demand at the British-based Blackwells. The printing clocked in at nine minutes, but the inability to finish the Russian classic would last much longer.
Lit Filter is watching the literary web (yes, you). Watch out for it twice a week in POC.
Everybody from Manolo Quezon to Paolo Chikiamco and Conchitina Cruz has offered their own take on the issue, and the comments on their posts are by turns righteously indignant, anecdotal, professorial, and foaming in the mouth. Charles Tan goes on to debunk recurring fallacies within the discussion. Copies of the Florence Agreement are whipped out. The indefatigable Kenneth Yu takes it upon himself to get the side of Finance Undersecretary Estela Sales.
Fans of Twilight, the book series caught in the proverbial eye of the storm, also chimes in with generally levelheaded responses, belying the reputation of rabid protectiveness that they, fairly or unfairly, have garnered so far.
With the annual Komikon gearing up for their 5th installment, the local comic book scene promises bereft graphic novel addicts enough entertainment to last them for the rest of summer. The event blog has provided details for activities such as so-called "comic tiangges" and character-creation contests. Head on over at the UP Bahay ng Alumni, UP Diliman Campus in Quezon City on May 16. All fans can drop by from 10 am to 8pm.
Check out the various reports from the Free Comic Book Day previously mentioned in this blog, courtesy of Gerry Alanguilan. Check out Azrael Colladilla's photos from the event as well.
There will be a moratorium on Adam David essays on this blog for at least two installments because we have been linking to him relentlessly since our inception. But can we really be blamed? The target of his verbal parries this time is writer Sarge Lacuesta who writes for the Far Eastern Economic Review on Wabi-sabi and how it serendipitously limns his essence as a writer, in much the same way motorcycle maintenance has limned Robert Pirsig's.
David takes exception to "Waxing Poetic on Shoddy Workmanship" by way of exotifying a notoriously difficult-to-translate Japanese aesthetic, which has made "no-label quality goods" such as MUJI and Uniqlo thrive. Ironically, in the same country that subsumes Louis Vuitton bags like they're oxygen.
Zen scholar Daisetz T. Suzuki has called wabi-sabi, "an active aesthetical appreciation of poverty." A stretch from Lacuesta's proposal of a 'Wa-Sabi' aesthetic that values "the ineffable." He may be reaching for another literary concept entirely, the Mono no aware--but shhh, let's not give people more Japanese terms to mangle.
Finally, we shall all be getting our Shakespeare in the same manner that we get our Diet Coke, if companies like The Book Drop vending machine has anything to say about it. Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment was given the honor being the first book printed on demand at the British-based Blackwells. The printing clocked in at nine minutes, but the inability to finish the Russian classic would last much longer.
Lit Filter is watching the literary web (yes, you). Watch out for it twice a week in POC.
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