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                    [Title] => An heirloom camera, a lost Beetle
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Before I knew him as a writer I knew him as a father, although sometimes the two can be intertwined and subsequently inseparable.

[DatePublished] => 2009-09-21 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 136244 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1431668 [AuthorName] => Juaniyo Arcellana [SectionName] => Arts and Culture [SectionUrl] => arts-and-culture [URL] => http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/5042/arts1thumb.jpg ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 436221 [Title] => Literary doppelgangers [Summary] =>

Bear with me on this follow-up to our last column, which reported the inadvertent misappropriation of buddy Tony Enriquez’s story “The Iguana” in the recently released The S.E.A. Write Anthology of ASEAN Short Stories & Poems: The 30th Anniversary, published by Silkroad Agency in Bangkok.

[DatePublished] => 2009-02-02 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134575 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804845 [AuthorName] => Alfred A. Yuson [SectionName] => Arts and Culture [SectionUrl] => arts-and-culture [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 336745 [Title] => In our time of workshop [Summary] => We forgot to pay tribute to the late mad poet Jun Lansang, a dark and frightening figure from our childhood that may as well have been "the black thing," or that anonymous roving specter that could be the wing of madness it(him?)self.
[DatePublished] => 2006-05-15 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133271 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1431668 [AuthorName] => Juaniyo Arcellana [SectionName] => Arts and Culture [SectionUrl] => arts-and-culture [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 333057 [Title] => At-Tariq & Nick [Summary] => My old friend the poet Jose Lansang Jr. is dead. Long live." So went the simple text message from Erwin E. Castillo, poet and novelist.

A couple of days later, on April 13, some of us of the UP Sixties received the following e-mail from Wilfredo Pascua Sanchez in Chicago:

"Dear Everyone, It’s chilling news. Erwin, please extend my sympathy to the Lansang family. All the best, Willie."
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