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    Noli Me Tangere Chapter 9 English Translation

    Chapter 9: Local Affairs Ibarra had not been mistaken about the occupant of the victoria, for it was indeed Padre Damaso, and he was on his way to the house which the youth had just left. “Where are you going?” asked the friar of Maria Clara and Aunt Isabel, who were about to enter a […]

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    Noli Me Tangere Chapter 8 English Translation

    Chapter 8: Recollections Ibarra’s carriage was passing through a part of the busiest district in Manila, the same which the night before had made him feel sad, but which by daylight caused him to smile in spite of himself. The movement in every part, so many carriages coming and going at full speed, the carromatas […]

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    Noli Me Tangere Chapter 7 English Translation

    Chapter 7: An Idyl on an Azotea The Song of Songs, which is Solomon’s. That morning Aunt Isabel and Maria Clara went early to mass, the latter elegantly dressed and wearing a rosary of blue beads, which partly served as a bracelet for her, and the former with her spectacles in order to read her […]

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    Demystifying the Heneral Luna Phenomenon – A Movie Review

    I woke up to a most singular occurrence, Tuesday last week. Heneral Luna, an indie historical film which had opened quietly the week before, had begun trending in Twitter at 4 a.m. Like the brash and vitriolic general of the same name, it had refused to fade calmly into obscurity and continued to pop in […]

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    Bayan Ko TV Series Review

    I saw one episode of this series on GMA News TV and was impressed. So even if this two disc set seemed a bit expensive at roughly Php400 each, I bought them anyway. I support anything Filipino made that’s better than the usual evening cookie cutter drama fare. Its fictional but faithful account of what […]

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    The Noli Project

    Access the Noli Me Tangere index of chapter summaries in English here.

    The El Fili Project

    Access the El Filibusterismo index of chapter summaries in English here.

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