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		<title>On Umberto Eco, Dan Brown, Signs and Symbols</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 00:03:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Ian Lomongo</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Brown&#8217;s devices are rather stilted&#8230; contrived&#8230; Although I laughed at that scene when Brown was thinking of some woman in the past and then the police driver who fetched him asks: &#8220;Did you mount her?&#8221; The Eiffel, of course&#8230; harharhar!
One particular scene that I loved (not for any &#8220;high&#8221;/literary reasons but for the seeming naturalness [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Still on Dan Brown&#8217;s Recuperation of the Sacred Feminine</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 19:41:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Ian Lomongo</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Cultural symbols have some kind of consistency. And rightly or wrongly (I mean, one could always present arguments that would show the inappropriateness of a symbol or sets of symbols), the associations have been formed and set through the millenia. One cannot simply do away with a symbol that has been passed and accepted by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On Deliberately Ignoring Something Because of the Hype</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 18:49:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Ian Lomongo</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I loved the Matrix and Moulin Rouge, despite their being hyped. On the other hand, I did watch Lord of the Rings 1 &#38; 2, but stayed away from 3. Tried reading book 1, but just managed a few paragraphs, and then stopped&#8230; (Well, perhaps someday&#8230;)
Did &#8220;The Unbearable Lightness of Being&#8221; have that much hype? [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Does It Matter! (On the Da Vinci Code, Foucault&#8217;s Pendulum &#038; Other Matters)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 21:09:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Ian Lomongo</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Read &#8220;The Da Vinci Code&#8221; in 2005, after deliberately ignoring it for quite some time because of the hype. And then saw the movie later.
Well, the wealth of information (esp. regarding symbols) is generally sound. But it doesn&#8217;t hold a candle to the erudition of Umberto Eco&#8217;s &#8220;Foucalt&#8217;s Pendulum.&#8221; (I have yet to understand the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Because I Cannot Sleep by Rumi</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2009 22:43:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Ian Lomongo</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[A poem by Rumi:
Because I Cannot Sleep
Because I cannot sleep
I make music at night.
I am troubled by the one whose face has the color of spring flowers.
I have neither sleep nor patience,
neither a good reputation nor disgrace.
A thousand robes of wisdom are gone.
All my good manners have run a thousand miles away.
The heart and the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Let Me Go</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2009 21:25:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Ian Lomongo</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Let Me Go.
(To all the girls I&#8217;ve loved before, will have loved in the future, have been presently loving)
by Michael Ian Lomongo
Let me go.
Letlet&#8230;
Mimi&#8230;
Let me go.
Letty&#8230;
Amy&#8230;
Mi amiga&#8230;
Let me go.
Mei-li&#8230; Gong-li&#8230; Agogo&#8230;
Let me go.
Amigas, dejadme que me vaya.
Michelle&#8230; Mabel&#8230;
Let me go.
Son les mots qui vont tres bien ensemble,
Tres bien ensemble:
Let me go.
Yeah.
Let me be.
Words of wisdom:
Let [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dulaang UP&#8217;s Production of Frank Wedekind&#8217;s &#8220;Lulu&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2009 22:01:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Ian Lomongo</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Dulaang UP&#8217;s Production of Frank Wedekind&#8217;s &#8220;Lulu&#8221;
LULU is a story of a person who has no qualms about the body and its sexual needs. Lulu, who is the alluring woman in the English version and the captivating transsexual in Filipino, is a being able to explore and express her desires without compromise or guilt. Adored [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Non Sequitur (A Reflection on Wong Kar Wai&#8217;s &#8220;2046&#8243; and &#8220;In the Mood for Love&#8221;)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 22:35:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Ian Lomongo</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;2046.&#8221;
If you fell in love with Mr. Chow (Tony Leung) and Mrs. Chan (Maggie Cheung) &#8212; who, along with Zhang Ziyi, was in Zhang Yimou&#8217;s &#8220;Hero&#8221; &#8212; in Wong Kar Wai&#8217;s &#8220;In the Mood for Love,&#8221; you shouldn&#8217;t miss this wonderful masterpiece of a sequel!
If you haven&#8217;t seen &#8220;In the Mood for Love,&#8221; you&#8217;d still [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kundi Sa&#8217;yong Sinapupunan (Menos Tu Vientre) by Miguel Hernandez</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 21:11:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Ian Lomongo</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Menos Tu Vientre by Miguel Hernandez
(translation by Ian Lomongo)
Kundi sa&#8217;yong sinapupunan,
lahat ay pawang kaguluhan.
Kundi sa&#8217;yong sinapupunan,
bukas na dagling lumilisan,
baog at &#8216;di-mabanaagang
kupas na kahapon ang tanan.
Kundi sa&#8217;yong sinapupunan,
lahat-lahat &#8216;di mawarian.
Kundi sa&#8217;yong sinapupunan,
lahat kawalang-katiyakan,
lahat doon sa kalayuan,
abong walang sandaigdigan.
Kundi sa&#8217;yong sinapupunan,
lahat pusikit na karimlan.
Kundi sa&#8217;yong sinapupunan,
(na) kaliwanagan, kaibuturan.
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		<title>Ganap</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2009 23:33:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Ian Lomongo</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Ganap.
(ni Miguel Juanjo (a.k.a. Wang-Ho) Tiamson Lomongo)
&#8220;Kailan kaya sasapit ang araw ng pagiging ganap
Ng lahat ng ating mga pinapangarap?&#8221;
Araw-araw, patuloy ang paghahanap,
Patuloy&#8230; maging ang pagpapanggap,
Patuloy ang pag-aapuhap,
Patuloy ang pagganap
Sa tungkulin, kahit walang kahina-hinagap
Sa katotohanang pinapangarap magagap,
Malanghap&#8230; Malasap!
Ano nga ba&#8217;ng nagaganap sa mga nagsisipagganap
Sa mga pagtatanghal na&#8217;ting kinakaharap?
Ay! Masalimuot na prosesong may kung anu-anong sangkap!
Mapa-dula man [...]]]></description>
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