Geronimo Cristobal

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  • Jacinto’s ‘Mutya’ in Liwanag at Dilim

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    Emilio Jacinto (Emilio Dizon Jacinto)—also known in the Katipunan as Pinkian and Dimas-Ilaw—wrote Liwanag at Dilim out of the same revolutionary world that made him, in Nicanor G. Tiongson’s phrase, the “Brains of the Katipunan”: a Tondo-born essayist and poet (15 December 1875–6 April 1899) who joined the Katipunan in 1893, served as Bonifacio’s counsellor,…

  • Conversations in the Countryside

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    Countryside is the name of a rundown restaurant along Katipunan Extension in Quezon City. This place has since been demolished and replaced by a stripmall more befitting of the gentrified environs outside Ateneo campus. I mention this hole-in-the wall in relation to Professor Oscar Campomanes, as a testament to the impossible circumstances that gave birth…