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"Reading had become his insatiable vice."
- Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel García Márquez "'One must always be careful of books,' said Tessa, 'and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.'" - Clockwork Angel, Cassandra Clare "...and I wrote the first faint line, faint, without substance, pure nonsense, pure wisdom of someone who knows nothing, and suddenly I saw the heavens unfastened and open, planets, palpitating plantations, shadow perforated, riddled with arrows, fire and flowers, the winding night, the universe." - "Poetry," Pablo Neruda "Paraw (Philippine Spanish: parao) are various double outrigger sail boats in the Philippines. It is a general term (similar to the term bangka) and thus can refer to a range of ship types, from small fishing canoes to large merchant lashed-lug plank boats (balangay or baloto) with two outriggers (katig) propelled by sails (usually a large crab-claw sail opposite a smaller triangular foresail)."
It started with a birthday present from my friend, Elora. The book was called "The Lost City of the Monkey God" by Douglas Preston and it was a memoir of his travels into La Mosquitia - a region in Honduras said to contain La Ciudad Blanca - a legendary city. It was thrilling to be able to read about a real expedition like one could only dream about as a kid, but what was more thrilling for me was the end of the novel, when events take a turn for the worse for Preston and his crew. |
AuthorAlessandra Tatoy knows that the power of words is stronger than anything, coming from a country whose fight for independence was sparked by the works of an author sentenced to death of his words. You can find her articles, poetry, short stories, and other musings here. Archives
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