THE ROLE OF ENGLISH SENTENCES IN ILOKANO FICTION?

No  natural equivalent in the language? What is translation? How do you translate the sentences, even the quotations before the text of fiction?

Will the author explain the presence of the said sentences in Ilokano fiction?

To reflect the mind-set? To reflect the speech pattern of the native speakers?
Maybe, in a conversation between two speakers of a language, the other person has to articulate in the alien tongue to emphasize a point?

In the Ilokano fiction, there is no indication the author was talking to a peer? That is in some part. The narrator was talking to himself in a kind of stream-of conciousness and what the other person says is practically his own. The story happens in the realm of the imagination

These are small things, of course, in judging the entirety of the Ilokano fiction. But, all things being equal, these small things play a role in rating one over the other.

Putting premium on the visible plot of the story, the concern of the author which is expressed in the theme, a sort  of awakening, from the so-called "darkness" to light. The subject story is also from darkness to light thing but the light is actually the actual light. The light in the other story is in the mind of the principal character. One has to make a choice.

QUOTES FOR FICTION WRITING CONTEST

"No poet, no artist, has his (or her) complete meaning alone."--T.S. Elliot

"To incriminate the poet with ideas and feelings is just as absurd as the behavior of the medieval public that beat up the actor who played Judas."--Roman Jakobson, "Modern Russian Poetry"

Reading of entries according to theme, language, structure:

Ni Martin
Atap nga Orkidia
Earthbound
Anniniwan ti Rehas
Dagiti Suni
Segregasion
Iti Naminsan Adda...

Ladawan
Angkuan
Ni Lakay Primo...
Gita
Yapyap

For the record:

Who was the poet/writer who said that every death (human) diminishes him? What did he mean "diminishes"? Take your pick and think of so many violent deaths in the Middleast, particularly, Syria, Iraq, Yemen and other Muslim countries. Think of suicide bombers who kill people.

But these two deaths in Laoag, a city in Northern Philippines, saddens me greatly, because it is close to home, along our street. And it occurred in one family that has just built a handsome 4-story home, the tallest along that route. One died of cancer of the lung, a woman who was a childhook acquantance who had five children with his husband of so many years, who tried but failed in the bar examinations, and never attempted again. Two of the children are nurses who work in Britain who may not live in the Philippines but come to visit now and then. They were with their mother when she died at dawn two days ago.

Earlier, the sister of her husband died in the same house. She was one of two twins who had doctorates in a university in Baguio, the country's summer capital.

Women doing their laundry in the Padsan River in Laoag

The other twin died last year of a lingering illness. They never married.

Blood pressure reminder: 134/87 for people at age 60 and above.
When the blogger was younger, the BP was 120/80   

QUOTE OF THE DAY

In spite of illness, in spite of even of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in small ways.

 

DAILY DECISION

Friday, March 13

We are what we think the first hour of the day.
Upon waking up in the morning, if you are a praying person, you thank the unseen Spirit for last night's blessings of sleep whether it was restful or you tossed in bed. Beseech Him for new blessings of a fine new day. Ask Him for protection and guidance as you go about performing daily ritual of life.

You are given a new 24 hours each day at your disposal. How do you handle that length of time and profit from it? Do you have a to-do-list of activities and follow it, not just to accomplish your day but to raise your your level, aconomically and mentally? Can you follow the list? Are there distractions in such a way that you have to make adjustments as the day runs its course? Will a comment or something that you read in a book or newspaper or heard in a radio or television broadcast, destroy your day--the waking hours--and nothing is accomplished for that period?  Have you decided that nothing inside or outside of you can disturb a good day even is it is raining?
Take your pick.
One choice will bring you to eternal damnation.

The blogger thinking of Plato and other writings:

To live and do things deliberately, not hesitantly,
to see that the sun here in Menifee, even the ancient moon,
is the same
as that in the old country.

Quote of the Day:

There is nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn't abolish danger or death. It simply made danger and death worthwhile. --Author unidentified

18 ENTRIES IN THE ALEX VICENTE YADAO LITERARY FOUNDATION SHORT STORY CONTEST

1. Ti Dung-aw ni Rizal     Sarita ni Leila Gabatin      2. Ladawan (Anagram in English by Patty Ho)    Sarita ni Lutong Makaw     3. Earthbound  Sarita ni Ora Pro Nobis  4. Iti Naminsan, Adda ayat.... Sarita ni Electron Volt   5. Eskandalo iti Katedral   Sarita ni Omar    6. Dagiti Suni  Sarita ni Isuni Inus    7. Ni Ivy ken dagiti Empecobre Girls    Sarita ni Sam M. Guel  8. Atap nga Orkidia   Sarita ni Liwani  9. Gita  Sarita ni Ar-Armendo Act      10. Angkuan Naunawan, iti Negosio ti Rebolusion  Sarita ni Angkuan Naunawan  11. Segregasion   Cali K. Asan    12. Nangisit ken Nalabbasit ti Maris dagiti Tugot Sarita ni Danilo S. de Guzman   13. Anniniwan ti Rehas  Sarita ni Laoang Laan T. Bantay   Anagram originally written in French with English Translation.  14.Yapyap   Sarita ni Utashi Patihquero    15. Ni Martin  Sarita ni Paz P. A. Rack  16. Ti Sagut ni Tatang      Sarita ni Princesa Barba             17. Ti Pinakbet  Sarita ni  Gabriela De Beauvoir    18. Ni Lakay Primo, ni Arnaldo, ken dagiti Tugot iti Pungto ti Bullalayaw    Sarita ni Inocenz, Jr.


Some of the rules/criteria that the blogger will use in judging the short stories:

1. Language

2. Topic

3. Structure of the story

QUOTE FOR TODAY

"Freedom is not the right to live as we please, but the right to find out how we ought to live in order to fulfill our potential."- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Marina Bay Sands Casino, Singapore

QUOTES FROM THREE WISE MEN OF DIVERSE RELIGIONS

"We must learn to live together as brothers or we will perish together as fools." Martin Luther King, Jr.(Christian)



Baguio City, the summer capital of the Philippines.

" The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong."-- Mahatma Gandhi (Buddhist)

"It is very easy to defeat someone. But it is very hard to win someone."--Dr. Abdul Kaalam (Muslim)

The weather is getting warmer as it descends into spring--there is spring sale at the mall in Temecula-- but there is snowstorm, snow, rains in the Northeast and part of the South. Cars and freight cars stranded in the interstate.

SELF-INFLICTED GUNSHOT WOUND?

Did the Philippine actor try to commit suicide?
Was he depressed because his father, a senator, has been detained at a detention center because of of corruption charges on the misuse of his (senator) of his pork barrel?
The incident happened two or three days ago at the posh residence of the actor, according to the Philippine Daily Inquirer. Jolo Revilla is the incumbent vice-governor of Cavite province south of Manila. The paper said the actor was rushed to the Asian Hospital and Medical Center in Muntinglupa City. Revilla sustained a gun shot wound that went through his upper right chest.

A REMEMBERED REMEMBERING: THE MARBLE SOUNDS

Moving at right angle
Inside of me
In the square of nowhere:
The flowering dream
Entangled in the clouds
Around a ball of fire
In the extreme weather
In the new, faraway country
Of dreams.

 

 

"Organization for writers palliate the the writer's loneliness but I doubt if they improve his writing."--Ernest Hemingway, 1954 Nobel Prize winner.