Comments on: The Yellow-toothed Woman and the Book Blockade http://filipinovoices.com/the-yellow-toothed-woman-and-the-book-blockade Powered By A Collective Voice Thu, 11 Mar 2010 17:58:19 +0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: John Allen delos Santos http://filipinovoices.com/the-yellow-toothed-woman-and-the-book-blockade/comment-page-1#comment-63598 John Allen delos Santos Sun, 31 May 2009 12:48:10 +0000 http://filipinovoices.com/?p=5231#comment-63598 you have to admit, it was fun though. Making a stand yet at the same time helping people. Hope there's another and another until the majority of our countrymen are bibliophiles. you have to admit, it was fun though. Making a stand yet at the same time helping people. Hope there’s another and another until the majority of our countrymen are bibliophiles.

]]> By: SoP http://filipinovoices.com/the-yellow-toothed-woman-and-the-book-blockade/comment-page-1#comment-63302 SoP Sat, 30 May 2009 06:07:01 +0000 http://filipinovoices.com/?p=5231#comment-63302 Whatever. What they could not use as cooking fuel they sold to Chinese junk shops. They used the money to buy food and rugby or shabu. So congratulations, you're little bourgeoise feel good charity helped the poor, though in not the ways your bourgeoise imagination would imagine. Whatever. What they could not use as cooking fuel they sold to Chinese junk shops. They used the money to buy food and rugby or shabu.

So congratulations, you’re little bourgeoise feel good charity helped the poor, though in not the ways your bourgeoise imagination would imagine.

]]> By: Bert http://filipinovoices.com/the-yellow-toothed-woman-and-the-book-blockade/comment-page-1#comment-63147 Bert Fri, 29 May 2009 13:26:44 +0000 http://filipinovoices.com/?p=5231#comment-63147 Phil, you mean the ooooooohs and the aaaaaaaaaah, lol. Phil, you mean the ooooooohs and the aaaaaaaaaah, lol.

]]> By: caffeine_sparks http://filipinovoices.com/the-yellow-toothed-woman-and-the-book-blockade/comment-page-1#comment-62948 caffeine_sparks Thu, 28 May 2009 16:19:25 +0000 http://filipinovoices.com/?p=5231#comment-62948 you sound suspiciously familiar *chin stroke* you sound suspiciously familiar *chin stroke*

]]> By: SoP http://filipinovoices.com/the-yellow-toothed-woman-and-the-book-blockade/comment-page-1#comment-62744 SoP Thu, 28 May 2009 00:56:09 +0000 http://filipinovoices.com/?p=5231#comment-62744 “I glanced over at the thinning crowd at the leftover books sitting on the cement. I imagined what sort of person I would have turned out to be had I not been born in a family that could send me to school, or afford me books to read.” You would have been a telemarketer by day and an abstract <a href="http://www.abelarde.com/wordpress/2008/03/03/art-appreciation-101-enema-painting-1/" rel="nofollow">enema painter</a> by night. “I glanced over at the thinning crowd at the leftover books sitting on the cement. I imagined what sort of person I would have turned out to be had I not been born in a family that could send me to school, or afford me books to read.”

You would have been a telemarketer by day and an abstract enema painter by night.

]]> By: SoP http://filipinovoices.com/the-yellow-toothed-woman-and-the-book-blockade/comment-page-1#comment-62742 SoP Thu, 28 May 2009 00:48:32 +0000 http://filipinovoices.com/?p=5231#comment-62742 The poor carted away the books to use them as fuel to make fire in their earthen stoves. The poor carted away the books to use them as fuel to make fire in their earthen stoves.

]]> By: Where to, next? : Manuel L. Quezon III: The Daily Dose http://filipinovoices.com/the-yellow-toothed-woman-and-the-book-blockade/comment-page-1#comment-62608 Where to, next? : Manuel L. Quezon III: The Daily Dose Wed, 27 May 2009 13:27:35 +0000 http://filipinovoices.com/?p=5231#comment-62608 [...] for anything smacking of the bourgeoisie. This was clearly expressed in stuart-santiago and by caffeine_sparks in Filipino Voices (though she clarifies, in response to this entry, that she most definitely does [...] [...] for anything smacking of the bourgeoisie. This was clearly expressed in stuart-santiago and by caffeine_sparks in Filipino Voices (though she clarifies, in response to this entry, that she most definitely does [...]

]]> By: Phil Manila http://filipinovoices.com/the-yellow-toothed-woman-and-the-book-blockade/comment-page-1#comment-62607 Phil Manila Wed, 27 May 2009 13:03:36 +0000 http://filipinovoices.com/?p=5231#comment-62607 'You’ll probably turn out into a Halili.' Hmmm. I suppose Halili could also read and write well. But she could have poor audio-visual faculties in the dark. :) ‘You’ll probably turn out into a Halili.’

Hmmm. I suppose Halili could also read and write well. But she could have poor audio-visual faculties in the dark. :)

]]> By: sparks http://filipinovoices.com/the-yellow-toothed-woman-and-the-book-blockade/comment-page-1#comment-62570 sparks Wed, 27 May 2009 09:11:14 +0000 http://filipinovoices.com/?p=5231#comment-62570 all sorts. the ones that went first were text books. all sorts. the ones that went first were text books.

]]> By: sparks http://filipinovoices.com/the-yellow-toothed-woman-and-the-book-blockade/comment-page-1#comment-62568 sparks Wed, 27 May 2009 09:09:39 +0000 http://filipinovoices.com/?p=5231#comment-62568 Nickie, *blush* :-) Nickie, *blush* :-)

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