[Not a summary of] ILUSTRADO *editted the death date*

These are just my notes. Pero you need to read the whole thing to understand what my notes mean. :)) So I guess, reviewer lang to. :>

ILUSTRADO

PROLOGUE

• Death: February 15, 2002

• Birth: , at Mother of Perpetual Help Hospital, Bacolod, Negros Occ.

• Weight at birth: 8 lbs., 2 oz.

• His body was found floating in the Hudson River by a Chinese fisherman.

• There was no evidence of foul play, so they assumed it was a suicide.

• His WORKS:

o Columnist for the Manila Times

o The Bridges Ablaze (TBA)

o Autoplagiarist , 1994(memoir)

o Lupang Pula, 1968 (1st novel)

 Manuel Samson, farmer joins the communist Huk rebellion of 1946 to 1954

o The Enlightened (true 1st novel)

 About his grandfather’s role in the 1896 Philippine Revolution and the subsequent war against American invaders

o It’s Hard to Love a Feminist, Jan. 1969

o Why Would A Loving God Make Us Fart?, Oct 1969

o Short stories for Strike, Brother and the Humdrum Conundrum

o Matador for the New Yorker, Mar. 1973

 Not disliked

 U.S. as the matador and the Philippines as the brave but doomed bull, Pitoy Gigante

o Freelance assignments for Manila Times and International Herald Tribune

o Europa Quartet (Jour, Night Vida, Amore)

o War & Piss (The Manila Times, 1978)

o My Philippine Islands (travel guide)

o Phili-Where?, 1982

 Gateway to Asia to incontinent despot

 Banned by Marcos regime

o Dahil Sa’Yo/Because Of You, 1987

 Literary swan song

 Banned because of Marcos dictaatorship

o Tao (43,950 word essay)

o Filipiniana

o Scholarly Plunder (All around the world with Antonio Pigafetta)

o Manila Noir (crime novel about Antonio Astig, an investigator)

o Bloody Sea (500 pages about the Phils. Of the 1950s)

 Limahong (Chinese) vs. Juan de Salcedo (Spanish)

o Kaputol (Siblings) Trilogy (about Dulce, their tomboyish leader)

o All the News the Papers Are Afraid to Print (rumoured homo/womanizer)

o 1991 TV commercial (Silver Swan soy sauce, the educated choice)

o Interview in the Paris Review

o 1976 essay, Socrates Dissatisfied

o The Real Macoy

• Hints in a note:

o Dingdond Changco, Jr. (industrialist)

o Marcel Avellaneda (literary critic)

o Nuredin Bansamoro (1st muslim leader of opposition)

o Rev. Martin (charismatic preacher)

o Dulcinea

• Lives of Crispin:

o Upbringing as the son of a sugar plantation owner

o Sentimental education in Europe

o Meditteranean evenings spent womanizing with Porfirio Rubirosa or drinking zivania with Lawrence Durrell

o Meteoric fame from his scoops as a reporter

o Training with communist guerrillas in the jungles of Luzon

o Argument with the Marcoses during dinner at Malacanang

• Cinco Bravos: group of influential artists Salvador founded

• 1973, girlfriends: Anita Ilyich and a Belarusian ballerina

• He wrote in purple ink.

• Gossips:

o He gave Avellaneda a scar on his face during a duel with butterfly knives

o He drunkenly vomited in the seafood chowder bowl at a George Plimpton garden party in East Hampton

o He danced a naked Moonlit Tango at Yaddo with Germaine Greer or Virgie Moreno or a dummy

o He insulted conductor Georg Solti after a performance at the Palais Garnier

• 1972: He left Manila for New York

• He went back to the Philippines (2002) for the Dingdong Changco, Sr. Memorial National Literary Lifetime Recognition Prize (DCSMNLLR Prize), which is given at the end of a writer’s career, at the CCP

o That was the 2nd to the last time Miguel saw Crispin

• Furio Almondo, PALS VP, was there

• Philippine Sun published his name in the obituaries by mistake

• Noblesse Oblige

CHAPTER 1

• 4 weeks after his death, Lena (Crispin’s sister) called Miguel to divest his life’s possessions

• 4 months after, Miguel was unable to sleep at night

• 8 months after, he started to write Crispin’s biography, EIGHT LIVES LIVED

• 9 months after, Nov. 15, 2002 (page 18), he received an email from crispin1037@elsalvador.gob.sv from Crispin’s daughter about Crispin leaving 3 black boxes for Miguel to a lawyer, Clupea Rubra

• Miguel was riding a plane to the Philippines

• Nov. 19, 2002: 2 explosions at McKinley Plaza Mall, Makati

• Balikbayan: splay-toed and open-hearted

• Man beside him was a construction man, probably.

• Grapes, Miguel’s grandpa, and Granma adopted/took care of their 6 grandchildren after their parents died. They were Canadianized because of Martial Law

• Miguel’s Agenda:

o Visit Crispin’s childhood home

o Interview his sister and aunt

o Investigate on the hints/names

o Sift through the ashes of the bridges that he burned

o Resemble his many lives

o “Everything changes, nothing ends.”

• Miguel’s 21st birthday gift: Oyster Perpetual Date Just ($200 for the most real fake Rolex)

• Madison has borderline personality disorder

• Grapes has Freudian narcissism

• 02/14/02: Burley Raconteur: Marcel Avellaneda’s blog bashing Salvador on how he acted during the CCP awarding

• Madison and Miguel reference fictional characters during discussions

• Swanee: Salvador family estate

• Manila Noir: Antonio Astig runs after Dominador

• Mortimer J. Gladstone, Crispin’s Bostonian tutor

• Yataro, Salvador family’s Japanese gardener

• The Enlightened: Cristobal (Don Cristobal Narciso Patricio Salvador or CRISTO) goes to Manila and leaves Yciar who has a secret to tell.

• The Phil. Gazette: 2 more suicide bombings at Mindanao

• Trial of the Century: The Changcos, a rich Tsinoy couple, made their maid drink Clorox because the maid let their son drown in the bathtub while she was texting

o Wigberto Lakandula: security guard and boyfriend of the maid

o His revenge to the Changcos: killed 3 of the Chihuahuas

o He became a celebrity because he was handsome

• Crispin and Miguel shared jokes:

• Erning Isip from AMA College asked for the autograph

• Independence – Madison and Miguel decided to get their own place in Brooklyn

• Last time Grapes and Migs talked: fight at Holiday Inn coz of magazine work and his short stories. They want him to enter politics like the Grapes and his father instead

• Autoplagiarist: Tito Odyseo’s farm before and after the war

• In Manila, there’s an El Ohim prayer rally with Rev. Martin

• Manila Noir: Antonio catches Dominador

• There’s a fire near NAIA when they were about to land.

CHAPTER 2

• Miguel did a profile on him for his class with Lis Harris before

• They became close after

• Erning Isip: They saw a prostitute who happens to be his classmate

• Granma talks to Migs on the phone during Xmas season, asking him to go back

• Manila Noir: Dominador fights back with a switch blade

• Bombo Radyo: 2 more blasts at the duty-free near NAIA

• Migs stayed at a cheap pension near Manila airport

• Migs dreamt about almost dying

• The Enlightened: Cristo thinks while looking at the sea

• Migs is Crispin’s only friend

• Lena called Migs to tell him to send home Crispin’s significant stuff, take what he wants and donate the rest.

• He saw a receipt for a large package that Crispin sent near the 100 Islands in the before he died

• Migs saw a policeman stealing from street children at the back of the pension the night before

• Migs saw special-ops while he was in a cab.

• Erning Isip: went to US >> Cheeseburger, apple pie

• The Enlightened: Cristo’s dad, mom and sister were killed, mutilated and abused

• Manila Noir: Dominador was caught by the police

• Gorio: equestrian-booted and capped chauffeur of Crispin

• Migs goes to Swanee

• The Enlightened: Cristo arrives at New Year,1895. People talking secretly: Aniceto Lacson, Juan Araneta, Martin Claparols

• Swanee: center of 5 sugar plantations, Kissimmee, Mamie, Clementine, Susanna, sold by Gobernadorcillo Bernardino delos Santos on Jan. 1890

• Madison wants to move to Africa

• Migs worked as Crispin’s research assistant so that he could stay

• Migs and his mom was born in Bacolod, too, like Crispin

• Bacolod is where Crispin’s 2 lives began: (1) birth and (2) independence (1975), wherein Junior, his dad, and Crispin had a fight coz of marital indiscretions, so Crispin left

CHAPTER 3

• 12/02/02: The Burley Raconteur (Avellaneda’s blog): scandal and alarm at the speech of Pres. Estregan, which cancelled the president’s Unanimity walk

• GLOO: GLorious OppOsition lead by Nuredin Bansamoro

• Crispin’s childhood was filled with politics

• Crispin was the golden child and said to be the future nation

• Crispin was the reconciliation child for his parents because Junior spent more time with his family after Leonora, his mom, threatened to leave with the children

• 1st memories of Crispin: as a performing monkey

• Junior beat up Narcisito

• Migs with to Vancouver with his siblings: Jesu (the eldest and was cool), Claire (next eldest and acted as a mother), Mario (with whom he wrestled), Charlotte (Was a hadful), Jerald (the youngest and closest)

• Yayas: Sula (cared so much but left to marry

• They went back to the Phils. after EDSA Revolution

• Noblesse Oblige: Efren Del Pais, farmer, gave up his land for CARP laws

• Kapatid from Kaputol: Gardener told Dulce about the balete. You’ll get trapped in it.

• Marcelo, Grape’s other son, died of rectal cancer

• During his funeral, Migs’ regard for Grapes started to dismantle

• Migs’ first time to touch a dead person

• Erning Isip: he painted a Porsche (porch) pink

• Crispin learned Nipponggo from Yataro, who will eventually save his life

• INTERVIEW WITH LENA:

o She didn’t visit him at NY but wrote letters to him weekly

o She’s peeved by his memoirs because of the bad comments on the Church, connection of family with Respeto Reyes, his father abusing them, infidelity of father, mother being pitiful.

o Narcisito had mental problems

o Sadie Baxter from Topeka, Kansas, was Crispin’s girlfriend at that time

 She corrupted Crispin because he was too young and was probably after their money. She was the reason that Crispin didn’t do anything for Dulcinea. She died after bicycling in Monaco.

o Mutya Dimatahimik affair: broke up the Cinco Bravos

o She believes that Crispin didn’t kill himself

o Corruption in Crispin’s heart:

 Junior didn’t let him see his mom before she died

 Junior told him she was mad at him

o Junior felt betrayed because of Autoplagiarist

o Father beat up Narcisito because of it

o Naricisito hanged himself

o Crispin visited Lena during Feb 2002

o Crispin went with her to help Shirley Nuñez teach children in Antique where Crispin paid for the children to see he sea but he eventually stormed off and left when Lena told him about the stuff he left behind.

o Leonora’s (mom) best friend: Miss Florentina

• Madison Liebling: Environmental science student

• The Enlightened: Cristo emphatizes for Jose Rizal. His wife is Maria Clara and they have 3 sons. Long for change.

• Migs lived in Iligan with his family

• Charlotte left so Grapes disowned her and Granma had an emotional breakdown.

• Granma suspected Grapes of infidelity

• Jesu tried to fix the family but turned steely

• Claire escaped and married in California

• Their 7-story mansion was built in Iligan

• Grapes became quick to anger

• Migs’ new best friends: Ping-J and JP

• His girlfriends: Darlene then Leanne

• 1993: they moved to Manila because of Grapes’ political job

• Dec. 25, 1941 of Lena’s diary: Japanese occupation starts and they talk about Santa Claus

• QC Nights of Kaputol: Dulce and Jacob are chased by dwendes

• Migs’ dad tried to save Bobby Pimplicio, a presidential candidate. That’s why he died?

• Lena’s adopted son: Moses

• Crispin’s daughter: Dulcinea

• Migs met Anais but broke up after 3 months. Anais was actually pregnant.

CHAPTER 4

• Crispin’s photo album: there’s a picture of 3y/o girl with hazel eyes and amber hair

• QC Nights from Kaputol: Dulce and Jacob were chased into a dark shed where Gardener kept his tools

• Grapes couldn’t believe Migs will have a baby

• First contact with Crispin: “One Stone for Two Birds” during 3rd year in Ateneo. It’s about Miguel, the protagonist, gets accused of killing a man

• Migs takes a taxi and they stop in front of a familiar house. The driver pees.

• Vita Nova: new sexy artist. >> Mr. Sexy Sexy

• Wigberto Lakandula takes the Changco family with 2 maids and their 6y/o son as hostage at Binondo, also killing 2 employees.

• Erning Isip: when back to the Phils. Had tomach virus. Wants imported instead of local aneshetic.

• Migs stays at Hotel Happy International Inn

• Dead bodies or a bomb? are found by 2 policemen

• While playing chess before, Crispin talked about having a child

• Autoplagiarist: Before the Japanese took over, (Jan. 16, 1942) final horseback cavalry charge in US military history

• Markus, old pal, invites Migs to Club Coup d’Etat

• Manila Noir: Antonio get stabbed at his high. Dominador’s goons see him but gets defeated. He needs to save Mutya from Dominador.

• 12/03/02: Burley Raconteur: Vita Nova’s sex tape rumor, Rev. Martin being the most powerful man in the Phils. and present world responsibility.

• The Enlightened: Nov 6: Spaniards signed an Act of Capitulation. Coronel de Castro y Cisneros surrendered. Cristo did nothing for the revolution. Martin tried to kill himself.

• Migs thinks about his failures or sacrifices

• Autoplagiarist: Japanese take over. Guard almost kills Junior but is saved by Yatao, also a Kempeitai intelligence offices

• Erning Isip meets Rocky and plays hide and seek

• Migs admits watching porno to Madison. Their relationship started to get rocky.

• QC Nights from Kaputol: he dwendes fade away coz of darkness

• Channel Surf

o San Miguel Beermen vs. Lupas Land Mallers

o Joy to the World ad for firecrackers

o Jellyfish attack causes Mindanao blackout

o Changco hostage taking

o Ped-eg ed

o Rice terraces

o Arrest of Rev. Martin (embezzlement in the El Ohim)

o Top 50 Elvis impersonators at Araneta

o Construction in Shanghai

o Chief Justice Santos talks about faith

o F! Racing

o Bombing at Gen. Santos (Bansamoro says no martial law)

o Block and White

o Antiwar program at Queen’s Park

o Beatitudes from Portuguese nun

o Weather channel says there will be a strong storm

o Hospital patients at Taiwan/People’s Rep. Of China

o Rally for Rev. Martin

o Paul Watson flagship remained docked at Manila

o Soldiers for Military Reform receive amnesty for kidnap for ransom victims

o Angeles and Olongapo, 11 yrs. After Pinatubo eruption

o Lakbay-TV channel: Mindanao and tinikling

o Chief UN Weapons Inspector Hans Blix vs. Saddam Hussein

o Digital channel with Eraserheads

• Last time Migs spoke with Crispin:

o Last story: Junior bought a tiger out of jealousy and scared it. He told the story to Gigi, his girlfriend at that time, and he cried for the first time. Revolution isn’t parricide, but deicide.

• Migs returned to Madison. There was smoke?

CHAPTER 5

• The Enlightened: Cristo leads a fight vs. Captain Peter Murray, his nemesis, or the Americans. Ricardo is worried about innocent people.

• Migs’ relationship with Anais was going well.

• Migs had to visit Jesu at London and left, so Anais cheated on him

• Migs left her and his daughter.

• Autoplagiarist: Tito Jason was surprisingly gone at New Year’s

• Migs goes to Club Coup d’Etat

• People there: Tals, Mitch, Edward, Angela, E.V., Pip, Ra, Chucho, Rob, Tricia, Markus

• Migs and Madison used to get high

• Erning’s cousin, Bobby, was accused of rape

• Migs and Madison fight over money, work and dreams

• 12/04/02 Burley Rconteur: Nov. 19 bombings at McKinley Plaza Mall weren’t accidents. Administration vs. Lupas Landcorp

• 2nd Phil. Republic by Japanese – Junior’s career thrived

• Leonora and kids had to lived with him near Malate Church for safety

• 1943: Artemio “The Viper/El Vibora” Ricarte, who was a general vs. Spanish and Americans. He was banned and smuggles back from HongKong in 1903 but was betrayed by Gen. Pio “Boy Gen.” Del Pilar and was imprisoned then released on 1910. He was deported to Hongkong and lived in Yokohama, Japan. Japanese brought him back to convince Filipinos to cooperate with them instead of the US.

• He came to Junior to form Makapili, an antiguerilla group

• Markus, E.V., Edward, Mitch, Migs get high at the CR

• Mitch talks about how he and Mel find a head of a cop near their swimming pool while they’re high

• They suspect Bansamoro to be behind the bombings

• Migs meets his old friend Sara who tells him something, which makes him to go home.

• He gets a nightmare after getting high in his hotel room

• He also reads about Archbishop Joachim of Nizhny-Novgorod, crucified upside down in 1920

• Migs rides a taxi to a book launching

• Bombo News: flooding, Rev. Martin at Camp Crame, his bail denied, environmentalists protest at a factory, SWAT teams prepare a battering tam to save the Changcos Bata Reyes wins 8 Ball Championship

• Migs searched Crispin’s books, etc. For clues of his daughter

• A convoy passes with a Wang Wang and Migs recognized one of the BMWs with a dent and bobblehead(Grapes?)

• Migs remembers Sara telling him Anais got married and is moving to a new city. Their daughter wants to see him first.

• Migs is worried and doesn’t know what to tell her.

• Autoplagiarist: 3 Japanese were about to tape/kill his mother when Crispin told them a haiku Yatao taught him, saving them all

• Book launching: And Then The Locusts Came: The Socio-Political Relevance of Medrama in Philippine Literature in English at UP’s Balay Kalinaw

• Migs talks with Furio Almondo and Rita Rajah (Muslim)

• They are disappointed/mad at Crispin

• Country doesn’t care about writers

• A woman came between Crispin and Avellaneda

• 1981: Mutya Dimatahimik was stabbed outside newspaper office

• Avellaneda had a child with Mutya

• They claim that Crispin killed himself

• Migs meets Sadie Gonzales, who grew up with Crispin’s books coz of her parents

• Migs gets attracted to her

• She invites him to dinner at home

CHAPTER 6

• Autoplagiarist: Salvador family returns to Manila. Japanese are gone. Tito Jason returns from guerrillas. He fought with the Huks vs. Bourgeoisie of Americans. He was shot by government forces.

• Erning’s cousin, Bobby, is accused of importing pirated adult DVDs

• Gonzales residence at Dasmariñas village

• Sadie shows him his room and poetry

• The Enlightened: Cristo returns but his kids don’t recognize him

• Migs’ 2-year relationship with Madison starts to end

• Manila Banzai Blues: 1955, Bebot and wife, Dolores, went to an event. Dolores remembers her hardships during Japanese era.

• Crispin lived in Barrio Gotico at Barcelona

• 2 vital relationships Crispin met at a picnic: (a) Gigi Mitterand: has a fiancé, Raoul, an Extremadurian count, and (b) Max Oscurio: gay?

• Vida from Europa Quartet: Sadie has an affair with Pipo. Hey fight and he leaves.

• Migs has a dinner with Dr. Effy and Raqel Gonzales with their son, Toofy, Sadie, and Spooky Lolo

• Migs’ parents (mom from Assumption like Raqel) went in a plance and saved Bobbly “Bob Hope” Pimplicio. The engine was abotaged?

• Manoleto Gonzales, Effy’ cousin, has a wife, who’s also Dingdong Chanco, Jr.’s 2nd cousin

• Raqy and Effy have a fight

• Year after Tito Marcelo died, fighting began over the fortune of Grapes

• Grapes sold zipper company, YKK Phils, to Dingdong Changco III. It became TKK Phils.

• Grapes’ children sued him but he won every suit.

• They stopped talking to each other. Some received pre-inheritance for making up with him.

• Sadie drops Migs off at his hotel.

• Sadie cries about how her parents acted and gets mad at Migs.

• Migs overhears a couple talking about news

• They say everything, including the jellyfish incident, was staged. PhilFirst is backing up Estregan.

• PhilFirst is the largest employer and they drive our economy.

• Migs has a nightmare about being on a talkshow. Madison was there. Crispin was busy writing his life.

• On an interview of Crispin when Junior died: Junior Salvador’s skill: making nothing out of something. Junior’s traits came ou of Crispin, which he both fought and used to understand his father more.

• Erning and Bobby work for WalMart. Robber escapes through entrance.

• Mutya lost her teeth and almost her baby girl when she tried stopping tanks.

• Accept you weaknesses and be proud of fixing them.

• Wise men are those who’ve made all the mistakes.

• When Crispin was young, he only wrote to impress and to be remembered.

• Live in the crux of the present.

• Write to explain the world to yourself and to others.

• Look forward only to what’s in front of you.

• Write justly.

• Don’t make things new, make them whole.

CHAPTER 7

• Erning marries Rocky and surprises her on 1st anniversary by not giving her anything.

• Migs ended the relationship with Madison

• Madison dated the goth landlord who’s an aspiring African Wildlife documentary filmmaker.

• Sadie won’t answer Migs’ calls.

• Marcel Avellaneda agrees to meet at the Metropolitan Theater.

• Bobby Fischer vs. USA for his game Yugoslavia after 9/11.

• Crispin’s relationship with Oscurio grows deeper while he had an affair with Mitterand

• Amore from Europa Quartet: Narrator is jealous and angry with Pipo. Pipo loves Sadie. Sadie left Pipo. Narrator loves Sadie. Narrator used to love Max. Pipo loves Max? Pipo is love forever.

• Paul Watson Ship with 4 world wardens and 2 security guards.

• Street kids ask for food. 1 warden brings coke to them. Street kids bug him.

• Migs has a nightmare: he dies after reading/screwing up everything

• Rocky separates with Ering. Rocky Bastos keeps Boy. Erning keeps Tiny. Erning has a stroke and teaches pigs to swim to eat.

• Migs discovers a photo by Sadie Baxter: Crispin crucified (March /94, Pampanga)

• Also a close up pic: Crispin’s face looking up, pupils rolled back

• Migs wakes up. He wet the bed.

• Autoplagiarist: New Ilustrados. Max and Crispin were arrested.

• INTERVIEW WITH MISS FLORENTINA:

o “Undying Faith, Fidelity & Commitment”: Rev Martin, Sen. Bansamoro and Grapes

o “We’ll get you get!”: Environment groups get arrested outside the PhilFirst

o Aearance of virtue > vitue itself

o Lakadula releases the maids of Changcos

o Dulcinea is free

o Miss Florentina is 95 years old

o Lena stayed as daddy’s little girl

o Crispin wanter to be a photographer, but became a writer because of her

o Crispin visited her before the CCP incident. She told him to find Dulcinea

o Photography is about the passing of time

o Dulcinea lives near the Lingayen Gulf, one of the 100 Islands

o Migs’ parents died at 100 Islands. There’s a memorial of them there.

o Look at the Spoliarium. A woman with a red cloak in there looks like Dulcinea

o When you are waiting too long, you don’t realize that you just need to change perspective.

o Crispin lived abroad to be a better man.

• Ay Naku! From Kaputol: Kap, the Kapre, teacher Dulce how to fly.

• 1960s: Oscurio fell out with Salvador coz of Maoism vs. Trotskyism

• New girlfriend: Petra Chingson (political science student and acitivist)

• Crispin cut ties with parents

• His stories took on a decided bias coz of Petra

• Crispin and Avellaneda won acclaim for the best reportage of elctions.

• “The Real Macoy” = Marcos > Macapagal

• 1966: Crispin as the communist sympathizer

• Dec 1966: Cinco Bravos was formed with Salvador, Avellaneda and Dimatahimik, Miggy Jones-MAtute and Danilo de Borja

• Jan 1967: Petra was killed. Salvador moved in with Avellaneda and Dimatahimik

• Migs reviews the Spoliarium

• 1988 Paris Review Interview: activism, revolution, violence/death must be done. Action-reaction. I’m a traitor to my class but faithful to a broad humanity.

• In a bus radio: Lakandula sill controls the hostages

• Erning: Boy Bastos’ sperm

• Bansamoro met with Estregan! Bansamoro bribes Estregan?

• Email from Migs to siblings (Dec. 7, 02): rants on Grapes = he dragged Granma on politics; once a man of promise, now a man of compromise; can’t cry for Grapes, only sympathize, can’t fix things for the sake of peace

• My Phil. Islands: Star Apple/Balimbing/Carambola is the unofficial fruit of the country

• 1988 Paris Review Interview: Regret = writing against Respeto Reyes

• Migs meets with Avellaneda but he never showed up (what Crispin did to him)

CHAPTER 8

• Crucifictions: 3 truths: (1) known, (2) never be known, and (#) concerns only the writer

· Boy Bastos saw Papa blowing yaya’s “floaters”

· While Migs was eating at “Beery Good”, a cop tells him something bad’s gonna happen tonight

· People are mad at the environmental group

· Ay Naku! From Kaputol: Dulce (15 y/o now) tries to fly again

· A cop gives a ticket to the taxi driver of Migs. He gets bribed unjustly.

· 3 farmers were said to have killed Petra

· Dec. 7, 1967: Salvador went to Mt. Banahaw, met Ka Arsenio who became his mentor and best friend

· Dec. 7, /02: Date with Sadie at Club Coup d’Etat

· Swinging Blaze: Crispin’s signature concoction

· Boy Bastos’ daughter, Girly, plays luksong tinik

· Sadie and Migs get high at the boy’s bathroom

· Gabby, Chucho, Rico come inside

· Rico was Grapes’ assistant after college

· Rico once gave all his money to a guy Grapes rejected help

· Vita Nova was at the club, too.

· Migs didn’t want to dance. He was a bad dancer.

· Effy didn’t like Migs.

· Albon Alcantara, photographer and friend of Migs. They avoided him because Sadie only escaped from her house to go there.

· They kiss behind the pillar.

· Sadie wants to go to New York with Migs but he is concerned about her education. Sadie gets pissed and goes to the CR.

· Albon invites Migs at his club

· Ka Arsenio od the Communist Party of the Phils.) taught Crispin:

o Hwo to care for and fire his Kalashnikov

o Which plants were edible

o How to navigate with the stars

o Where to place the butterfly knife

o How to leap through a window with the Flying Panther technique

· Crispin taught Ka Arsenio how to read and write

· Ka Helen – only woman among them

· They got ambushed

· Crispin kills/shoots a soldier

· Albon’s Band: Cool Kids of Death

· There was a blackout

· Radyo Veritas: Rev. Martin disappeared

· One Stone For Two Birds: Miguel sees a dead man and is arrested

· Migs and Sadie get stuck in traffic. They have sex. –ish.

· Girly who’s from Assumption College, someone from I.S. Manila, someone from St. Scholastica = lizard

· Radyo Veritas: Rev. Martin takes control of Lakandula hostage taking

· Salvador leaves Ka Arsenio to die

· The car dies and they’re stranded. Sadie calls her driver

· Sadie tells Migs to leave Dulcinea alone if he only wants the manuscript

· The PhilFirst factory is aflame

· Ay Naku! From Kaputol: dulce is taken to the mental hospital

· At the rally, Rev. Martin has a fight with Lakandula

· The rallyists start to riot

· Is this the revolution that Crispin wanted?

· A 10y/o girl and her toddler brother float in an ice cream cart

· Poor little rich boy – own side (oppression, indifference)

· Rich little poor boy – others’ side (treason, betrayal)

· Religion is taught to revere the family

· Education is taught to value majority over few

· Patience is also inaction

· Migs tries to save the children

· Migs’ body plunges into empty darkness on his last step.

CHAPTER 9

· Migs saves the children, brings them to the police

· Manila Noir: Mutya makes love with Antonio but he still wants to catch Dominador. Sometimes courage can be cowardice. The bravest thing to do is to let go.

· Ay Naku! From Kaputol: Dulce, at the hospital, talks to imaginary Millicent.

· Dec. 8, /02: A morning for democracy as crowds mass Edsa 5

· Bansamoro’s bullet saved the country

· Changcos were shot dead. Son is alive in the freezer

· Faulty wiring blamed for the PhilFirst explosion

· Girly: Politics = President fucks working class, Gov’t does nothing but sleep, Nobody pays attention to the People, Future swims in shit. Girly Arayko becomes the president.

· Lakadula is still not caught

· Migs reconciles with Grapes and Granma

· Compromise is when nobody is unhappy

CHAPTER 10

· Migs takes a plane to Dulcinea’s place = comma-shaped jewel protected by 7 islands == LA ISLA DULCINEA

· CONCLUSIONS (liberated by them): (a) Rev. Martin punished by Estregan, Bansamoro will run for VP for Estregan, Lakandula sightings

· Migs remembers Pinatubo eruption at 1991

· Crispin was crucified for Easter

· CONCLUSIONS: (b) Dingdong Changco, Jr. is arrested, Estregan declared state of emergency, Rev. Martin as Estregan’s spiritual adviser, Bansamoro arrested for treason, etc., Lakandula receuve presidential pardon (hero) + he will run for Congress, replacing Respeto Reyes

· We can’t go back to reverse our mistakes (father – daughter)

· CONCLUSIONS: (c) Vita Nova reveals sex tape, Estregan is the mastermind of bombings and he killed Lakandula, Bansamoro will declare martial law and avoid elections, Rev. Martin prayer rally at Camp Crame to support Bansamoro, Catholic Church supports Estregan over Vita Nova

· Migs arrives, ride a trike. Trike is gone with backpack

· CONCLUSIONS: transform memory to fiction, fiction to memory

· Migs rides a boat to La Isla Dulcinea

· A house was on the island (paradise)

· A picture of girl with hazel eyes at her 1^st communion, Marcel Avellaneda and Mutya Dimatahimik behind her

· He saw 3 black cardboard boxes which happen to be empty

· That which was missing only outlined what was not

· Look back at small things that made it worthwhile

EPILOGUE

· Crispin (at Februaury) received mail about the drowning or death of Miguel Syjuco

· They weren’t really close. Interviews never happnened, 2 cheeseburger lunches, consultations, unwritten profile, classes

· Short stories Migs wrote:

o Grandparents raising a grandchild

o Failing relationship with a girlfriend

o Protagonist working out the permutations

o His first encounter with his unknown child

· Crispin was an angry man doomed to failure, a failure of a man doomed to anger

· Crispin burned the TBA manuscript near the Hudson. TBA is a list of shame, chronicling ancient sins

· Crispin began writing Migs’ memorial

· He was found floating in the brackish overrun of the Pasig River

LEGEND:

§ Present

§ Myguel Syjuco’s past

§ Cripin’s past

§ Autoplagiarist

§ Manila Noir

§ Kaputol Trilogy

§ Jokes

§ The Enlightened

§ Others (interviews, etc.)

§ Europa Quartet

§ Conclusions at the end