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Sunday, April 26, 2015

THE SOCIALLY-SUPERIOR ANIMAL


"Ti kadagsenan a krimen ket isu ti panagulimek."--Carlos Fuentes


Reminder to the architect who unwittingly slips into the domain of wasps and bees and got stung and bruised and bloodied. Not because the insects were angry but because he entered their territoy:

"When two creatures meet, the one that is able to intimidate his opponent is recognized as socially superior, so that a social decision does not always depend on a fight; an encounter in some circumstances may be enough. "--Hediger.

Also a friendly reminder to onion-skinned native writers.

Note to the Madrid-based Ilokano writer Delia Caguioa Guran--she has an anthology of Ilokano poetry-- who commented on FB something like a word of praise for the blogger's poem, "Dagiti Litania ti Namnama ken Pannakapaaymi/ The Litany of our Hopes and Frustrations":

Why are they afraid to confront the issue of the unfinished house? Apay a kasda la ampo a sumgar iti uray la nga no madakamat wenno maipasagid (terminoda daytoy) daytoy a parikut?

The image of the organization has been tarnished because of the patta that still stands today by the sea (from a certain vantage point, that part looks like Waikiki Beach in Honolulu). A reminder of the "corruption and cheating" allegedly committed by some writers, according to JB, also a writer and architect of the failed project.

Apay nga arsagidda  a maibutaktak daytoy maipagarup a saan a nasayaat nga aramid? Idi 2005, impakaammo toy numo  iti dua a bangolan a mannurat ti maipapan iti di natuloy a balay.  In fact one of them, PB, wrote to the then president of the organization, a lawyer, about this perceived anomaly but it appears that his letter was ignored. (By the board that was supposed to tackle the issue which the writer PB termed "dugol?")

Touche!