Random notes from THE LAST REPUBLIC

"Butchers! Butchers! Butchers! They burned him! They burned him alive! And they shot the twin sisters! They shot them in the head! Butchers have triumphed! Say good bye to democracy and decency! The sea will be red with blood!"
--- Rex Mundi Victoria in the novel "The Last Republic"

"Tears for my broken land! Tears to the valiant dead! Tears for my bleeding land! Nostalgia for the good old days! Good Lord, save us! We're about to surrender to despair! Death to traitors and tyrants! Save us, save us, oh Lord!"
- Doña Esperanza in the novel "The Last Republic" (a work in progress by this blogger)

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1) Sanaysay na nagwagi ng Ikatlong Gantimpala sa Gawad Surian sa Sanaysay-Gantimpalang Collantes 2008: "Multilinggwalismo: Salbabida ng Wikang Filipino at Mga Dayalekto, Bagong Kahingian ng Globalisadong Mundo"

www.geocities.com/propilipino/wifili.pdf

2) Piyesa ng Sabayang Pagbigkas na ginamit ng Colegio San Agustin-Makati at Nangka High School-Marikina

"Manipesto ng Taong Dalawanlibo't Walo: Wika Mo, Wikang Filipino, Wika ng Mundo, Mahalaga!"

www.geocities.com/propilipino/sabayan.pdf

"Kill the queen! The republic must be saved from her tyranny. Shoot, stab, strangle, burn, crucify her! Just kill her by all means and at all cost! Kill her and you would be blessed. I bestow plenary indulgence to all those joining the crusade to kill the evil queen." --- Archbishop Salvador dela Patria, in the novel "The Last Republic"

Twenty-three years of faith, hope, love, victory, defeat, tears, laughter, nostalgia, sanity, madness, poverty, reflection, confusion, grumbling, thanksgiving...Every day is a miracle, thank God I'm STAYIN' ALIVE DESPITE THE TIMES!"

Queen Gahum: "General, arrest all republicans! Arrest all of them! Build new prisons if necessary. They should all be jailed."
General Problem: "Dearest queen of mine, savior of our beloved republic, bastion of democracy and bulwark of justice, they're republicans like us! Why should we arrest them?"
Queen Gahum: "Just arrest them stupid! I'm the republic! They oppose me and thus they oppose the republic! The republic must be saved at all cost. Arrest them, shoot them, kill them, I don't care. All I care if for them to disappear! I am the republic! I am the republic! My word is the only law!"
- from "The Last Republic" (a novel)

"Indeed you're innocent, Yoda. You're a good man. You're a holy man, a saint. You help the poor. You abhor cheating. You oppose corruption. You condemn war. You fight for democracy. You defend the last republic. You love the country. You love the people. But you're imprisoned for precisely the same reasons. Haven't you heard that the Democratic Council of Metallic Marionettes under the supreme leadership of the democratic Queen Gahum has just decided that all good are no good at all? Simply put, it's now a crime to be good, more specifically to be a saint. And since you're such, you must be imprisoned. Other bad people might be contaminated by your conscience and that is certainly subversive. It subverts our beloved democracy. Thus you will be jailed. And jailed you will be until you renounce everything good."
- Generalito Diablo, Supreme Head of the Democratic Council of Metallic Marionettes in "The Last Republic" (a novel)

"They shot him! They shot him! Queen Gahum's metallic marionettes shot him! They shot him dead! They shot him! They shot him! And you will be shot too! You will be shot too! You will be shot too! And she will be shot too! And she will be shot too! And all will be shot! All will be shot! The ocean will be red and all will be dead! All will be dead! All will be dead! And there will be peace! And there will be peace! The peace of the grave! The peace of the grave!"
- Idiota Sapientiae, the Prophet of Doom in "The Last Republic" (a novel)

"Everywhere: hunger, chaos and poverty, there is. But plenty of hope we have. Sing our songs, the winds do. Hear our cries, the heavens do. Remains with us, the good Force. Overcome, we will..." - Yoda in "The Last Republic" (a novel)

"Our people starve. Millions are jobless. Prices are soaring. Crime and lawlessness rule. A myriad lives in the streets. But who cares? The economy's moving and everyone feels progress."
- Queen Gahum, in "The Last Republic" (a novel)