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If there’s one thing I admit that’s surprised me in recent memory, it’s the multitude that greeted Neil Gaiman when he visited our shores last year. Until then, it really hadn’t occurred to me that – gasp – Filipinos actually did read.
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This Week’s Winner

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In a week’s time, the incoming correspondence is likely to rise to over half a handstretch high. Bills, receipts, promo materials, memos, newsletters from the village association, thank-you letters, invites to premiere screenings and book launchings, brochures on furniture exhibit-sales… Plus an occasional, suddenly revived correspondence, from a poet in Finland or a critic in Wollongong, Australia.
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"Tragedy begets text." Yes. Exactly how I felt, deluged and besieged by text as I have been, perhaps like everyone else among you who’s linked to the obstreperous Net.
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"Tragedy begets text." Yes. Exactly how I felt, deluged and besieged by text as I have been, perhaps like everyone else among you who’s linked to the obstreperous Net.
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