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Pre-ordered Bunô by Sir Emman Barrameda published by Savage Mind: Arts, Books, Cinema 🐷🐷🐷

Pre-ordered Bunô by Sir Emman Barrameda published by Savage Mind: Arts, Books, Cinema. ✨️

(Probably my last book purchase this month)

Hindi lang si Aling Sima ang nangongontrata ng mga parte ng baboy sa buong Kurig. Marami-rami sila. Bawat nag-aalaga ng baboy ay may kani-kaniyang kontratista. Suwerte lang siya at baboy ni Mang Indo ang inilalako niya. Mas tinatangkilik siya ng mga kabarangay dahil mas tiwala sila na lumaki ang baboy nito sa mabuting kamay ng matanda. Kapag sinabi ni Mang Indo na kwarenta kilos ang magiging timbang ng kakatayin niyang baboy sa araw ng pagbubuno, hindi ito magkukulang at hindi rin sosobra sa dineklarang guhit sa timbangan. Kwarenta kilos talaga. Kaya hindi namomroblema si Aling Sima kapag tapado na ang kaniyang listahan. Hindi siya nag-aabono at lahat ng nakiparte ay nakukuha kung ano ang para sa kanila. Dito naman hinahangaan ni Mang Indo ang ginang. Hindi katulad ng ibang nangongontrata na walang isang salita sa kanilang mga customer.

KABANATA V
Parte-Parte
Bunô

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Katulad sa nobela, ang libro ay baboy na rin na bukas sa pagpapalista ni Aling Sima. Bukas na po ang preselling ng aking unang nobela, Bunô. I-Pm lamang ang page ng Savage Mind: Arts, Books, Cinema o buksan ang link sa comment section. Mabalos!

In one story from the province of Catanduanes, Ku£akog’s wife, Tilmang, is given the task of crossing the sea to Tabaco to grab the flame from a volcano. Ku£akog helps with this quest by having his wife use his erect c**k as a bridge between Catanduanes and Tabaco. A bridge for a piece of flame, the same flame needed to cook the seafood they eat to survive. Akin to the flame that Aswang and Gugurang fought over, this flame eventually causes Tilmang’s death when she falls from Ku£akog’s c**k to the sea, never to be seen again. The human wife needed to cross towards another life in order for them to live.

I tell these stories about Ku£akog to show the depth and precursors of our osipon, such as those written by Emmanuel T. Barrameda. In Barrameda’s story in this folio—“Bangkera (The Boatwoman),” translated from Filipino by Eric Abalajon—women who desire to be pregnant throw eggs at the rock formation imaginatively named Ku£akog’s P***s. Similar rituals are practiced at Obando in Bulacan, as well as at Tigaon in Camarines Sur, where married couples who want to conceive a child show their devotion through a dance performed in front of Saint Claire the Pure. In Barrameda’s story, these superstitions are stripped of their Catholic vestments and returned to their local origins.

We can think of osipon as wombs within wombs, fruits that would bear other fruits. When we place each story on the opposite side of another story, like those of Ku£akog birthing the story of “Bangkera,” we sharpen the connection between all our stories from ancient times, to where our stories are now.

Kristian S. Cordero
The Omega of Our Osipon
Translated by Bennard Cariño Fajardo

https://aaww.org/osipon-bangkera-the-boatwoman/

Dibuho ni Rustom Pujado
Salin ni Eric Abalajon

Through Delfin, we are reminded that history is not only written in pages but are also carried quietly on the backs of those who were traumatized by events larger than themselves. His character symbolizes the lingering wounds of PTSD brought about by the revolution. Wounds that echo the silent suffering of many Filipinos who lived through the horrors of Martial Law. Kasama brings to the spotlight how these wounds from the past continue to shape lives in the present, and how it continues to affect the lives of those who are still surviving its horrors everyday. They are walking through life and with them, an open wound, that never scabs. It happens to survivors because their nervous system cannot distinguish between then and now.

-Mera Melitante

Mababasa ang buong artikulo sa link sa ibaba:

https://medium.com//pedxingotso-review-in-emman-barramedas-kasama-revolution-ptsd-is-real-adbe4321a504


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