
A Dialogue Among Clever People
ONCE some guests were gathered in a rich man’s home, and it happened that a serious conversation about life arose. They talked about persons absent...
ONCE some guests were gathered in a rich man’s home, and it happened that a serious conversation about life arose. They talked about persons absent...
ONE evening in August 1941, I came out of a late movie to a silent, cold night. I shivered a little as I stood for...
When the world first began there was no land, but only the sea and the sky, and between them was a kite (a bird something...
This story is a myth from the Mandaya tribe of Mindanao, Philippines. In the very early days before there were any people on the earth,...
In the beginning there were four beings (Melu, Fiuweigh, Diwata, and Saweigh), and they lived on an island no larger than a hat. On this...
In the very beginning there lived a being so large that he cannot be compared with any known thing. His name was Melu, and when...
In the beginning there lived one man and one woman, Toglai and Toglibon. Their first children were a boy and a girl. When they were...
In the beginning there were no people on the earth. Lumawig, the Great Spirit, came down from the sky and cut many reeds. He divided...
This is the ancient Filipino account of the creation. Thousands of years ago there was no land nor sun nor moon nor stars, and the...
Matters of big moment at stake, and the struggle of a character in a painful effort to decide which course to follow—these make the essence...
The cry awoke Balintawak And the echoes answered back… “Freedom”! All the four winds listened long To the shrieking of that song…. “Freedom”! I heard...
I vialed the universe And laughed at the concentrated Gods. But the Genie escaped with His halo of riddles. I pondered anew and unslept. Thoughts...